We’re talking a Boston radio LEGEND! Dale Dorman’s career in Boston started at WRKO, having come from San Francisco’s ‘Big 610′ KFRC. After WRKO, he was the morning guy for a time at Fairbanks Communications’ WVBF – in it’s subdued top 40 incarnation as F-105. By 1981, Dorman was firmly entrenched as Kiss-108’s afternoon guy, a position he held until 2004 – where he was considered by many to be the oldest Top 40 deejay left in America!
Enough about that. Dale can be heard now at WODS “Oldies 103”. We can think of no other best suited to play the music that he knows all so well…
I’ve always enjoyed Uncle Dale as he came to be known. I first heard him when I visited Boston in the late ’60s on WRKO. His humor is priceless and he still knows how to get it done.
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F-105? Who on earth greenlighted THAT logo?
Uh The Man Behind The Creation Of WVBF Mr. Fairbanks!
Dale is just that good. He could play any type of music on the radio.
I got the extreme pleasure to intern for Dale in 84-85. What a blast. He is just as funny off air as on air.
At the time I was making very little cash and Dale would frequently buy me lunch, dinner etc. He was a very generous man. I will always cherish the months that I got be his intern!
I had the pleasure of being the Board Op for Dale when he first arrived at WRKO.
WHEN I GROWING UP ME AND MY MOM LEASTON TO DALE DOORMEN ON THE RADIO EVERY DAY WHEN I CAME HOME FROM EATHER FROM HIGH SCHOOL OR FROM NURSERY SCHOOL IN THE LATE 70’S WE HE HEARD GREAT HITS LIKE CAR WASH OR HAVING MY BABY WITH THAT WAS MY BRITH SONG PAUL ANKA OR PEATER FAMTON OR FLEETWOOD MACK OR SATURDAY NIGHT FEAVER SOUNDTRACK. OR BACK THEN HE WAS ALSO ON CHANNEL 56 DOING THE KIDS TV LINE UP BACK IN THE LATE 1980 HE DID ALL THE SOUND FOR THE SHOW AND KNOW THE SONG TO THE CHANNEL 56 KIDS THE LINE UP SHOW HERE IN BOSTON THE KIDS CHOICES IS CHANNEL 56. AND ONE DAY A MY MOM WANTED DALE DOORMEN KISS 108 FM TO THROW ME A GRAD PARTY FOR MY LAST DAY OF HIGH SCHOOL SO HE CAME OVER TO MY SCHOOL WITH CHANNEL 5 TV CAMERA WE DID A LIVE BASKETBALL GAME IN THE MORNING CARDEL CUSHING SCHOOL. AND AT THE AND OF THE GAME WE HAD. A BIG COOKOUT PUT ON FOR US BY THE HARD ROCK CAFE IN BOSTON AND MY MOM GOT ARLUOWSMITH AND PLAY SOME OF THER GREAST HITS AND DEF LAPPARD AND SAME THING IT’S IN A GUATER SEAT AND A REAGLUAGER SEAT. AND IT’S WAS A GREAT DAY FOR BOTH PROGAMS AND GREAT DAY FOR SANIT COLETTA DAY SCHOOL. & FOR CARDARNDL CUSHUNG SCHOOL. BAFSCK THEN. GOD SPEED YOU DALE DOORMEN GO UP NOW INTO RADIO & ROCK & ROLL HEAVEN. TO ME YOU WILL ALLAWAYS BE MY FVERT RADID GUY AND YOU ARE GOING TO BE MISS GOD SPEED YOU ON YOUR WAY INTO ROCK & ROLL HEAVEN MAY YOU LEASTON TO YOUR MUISC BECUS YOU MADE KISS 108 FM BACK IN THE LATE 1970 & THE EARLY 1980’S GO WITH GOD AND I KNOW WILL BE IN RADID & BROADCASTERS HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2016 OR NOT 2016 MABY 2017 OF NEXT YEAR. AND THER SHOULD PLAY YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE BECUAS YOU LIGHT UP EVERYONES LIFE ON EVERY STAGE OF LIFE ON THE RADID OR JUST WALKING IN THE STREET’S OF BEANTOWN BOSTON MASS. YOUR AT THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS EVENT’S AT BOSTON. SO GO WITH ROCK & ROLL GOD SPEED YOU ARE NOW LAD TO REAST AND MAY YOU DREAM AND I KNOW THAT GOD WILL HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE FOR YOU IN THE ROCK & ROLL HEAVEN.