an American comedy team who wrote and recorded four gold albums on the Dore Records label in the 1970s: "Hanging In There" (1971), "Losing Their Heads" (1972), "Right Off" (1973), and "The Weird Kingdom" (1974). The vignette "Ajax Liquor Store" (1971) was nominated for a Grammy Award. "Emperor" Bob Hudson (born Robert Howard Holmes on October 7, 1929 in Erie, Pennsylvania) got his start in radio while serving in the US Air Force in Anchorage, Alaska. He began his civilian career in radio during the mid-fifties first in Erie, Pennsylvania, Cleveland, Ohio, Indianapolis, Indiana, and San Francisco before settling in the Los Angeles area. He was consistently ranked among the top 10 DJs in Southern California from 1957 until his retirement in 1988. Hudson worked at a variety of LA radio stations, including KFWB, KBLA, KEZY and KGBS, and came to prominence when he replaced Bob Eubanks as morning man on KRLA in 1963. In 1966, Billboard ranked Hudson #1 in his morning drive time slot. Ron Landry (b. October 24, 1934) worked at several radio stations in Virginia before becoming the morning host on WDRC in Hartford and then WBZ in Boston. Landry also was a disc jockey while he served in the Army.
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