Barney Keep - KEX/Portland - Retirement aircheck and Obituary
March 22, 2026
Click picture to ENLARGE Barney Keep retires - (18:31) By George P. Edmonston Jr. To younger generations of Portlanders today, the name Barney Keep means nothing. But for their parents and grandparents, for anyone who listened to radio station KEX from the 1940s to the '70s, mention Keep's name and eyes will light up, faces will break out in a huge grin. For his faithful listeners, and that included just about everyone in Oregon and anywhere in the Northwest able to pick up the 50,000-watt...
Ronald DeHart Audio: Lan Roberts Showcase
November 28, 2018
Lan Roberts was a phenomenal trailblazer in Seattle's AM radio heyday of the '60s and '70's. He had the voices, humor and promotional antics that every PD was after. For many, his voice was synonymous with KJR, where he worked two gigs totaling about 10 years. But he also logged two stints at KOL (the station which actually brought him to Seattle in 1961). His on-again, off-again relationship with Pat O'Day also found him on the air at Hawaii's KORL before his later on-air years...
Robert O. Smith, Animation & Voice - Surreal Estates Commercial
March 9, 2025
Check out more audio with Robert O. Smith: Rubberdough - Robert O. Smith Sam Lawson's Audio Vault: Robert O. Smith, KJR 1967 Ron DeHart's Voice Masters Audio -- Robert O, Terry McManus, Lan Roberts
August 1962 - Portland's Most Obnoxious DeeJay
March 18, 2026
Oregon Daily Journal - August 8, 1962 ‘Fenwick’ Wins By Whisker An equal number of ballots was cast for KPOJ’s ‘Fenwick’ and “all KISN DJ’s.” Because my contest was limited to finding the “most objectionable deejay” (singular), the first prize of a package of steel phonograph needles and scroll goes to the indomitable Fenwick.Only one vote behind Fenwick were two KEX disc jockeys—Jack Par and Barney Keep, who tied for second place. Fenwick beat them by a crystal set catwhisker. Runners-up were: Bill Wade, KPOJ...
