Skip Weshner

Skip Weshner (1927-1995) was a disc jockey on stations in New York and Los Angeles from the mid 1950's until the mid 1980's. In particular, he hosted a popular show on KRHM-FM in Los Angeles. He hosted "Accent On Sound" on WBAI (FM) and later WNCN (FM) in New York City from about 1959 through about 1964. This was the first "folk music" show heard in New York City. Skip lived at 18 Jones Street in Greenwich Village. His show was often broadcast from his home studio, built by WNCN Chief Engineer, Martin Gersten. The Clancy Boys were frequent guests. The show was sponsored regularly by Rudy Bozak and Joe Grado. Blind musician José Feliciano was probably first heard on New York FM radio on Skip's show. During the first session, Feliciano accidentally fell down the stairs of Skip's duplex apartment.

Skip often broadcast from the Bitter End and the Cafe Feenjon on Bleecker Street. At the New York Hi-Fi Show at the New Yorker Hotel, ca. 1963, Skip's live broadcast included the then relatively unknown Bob Dylan. Skip is also remembered for inviting artists such as Gordon Lightfoot and John Denver to his show.

Skip was married to Lynne Taylor (d. 1979) of The Rooftop Singers. After the group's hit single "Walk Right In" in early 1963, Skip and Lynne moved to California.

External links

* [http://www.skipweshner.com/Additional%20information.htm Biographical Data]
* [http://skipweshner.com/tapelist.htm List of tapes of Weshner's shows]