Johnny Jano (Janot)

[bilb...@my-dejanews.com]

Does anyone here remember radio personality name Johnny Jano?

What ever happen to him ? the last time I remember he was working at a radio
station in Beaumont, Texas.

Thanks

B. Bilbeaux

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[kikers]

Johnny died a while back. We used to listen to his show (Sundays,
KLVI?) all the time. I think the show continued on with another
personality.

-Aaron Kiker
Spring, TX

[Bob McBride]

Johnny died of a heart attack about 10 years ago or so. I did not know him
personally but felt like he was one of the family. He came from around the same
area as I did, Eunice-Crowley, and almost every sentiment he ever expressed I
identified with. I still have tapes of some of his stuff, "I'm proud to be a
cajun", "A Closer Walk with Thee"(in french) which he did with his wife Joyce,
and others. I still miss him to this day and although I still listen to KLVI on
the internet on Sundays the program is not a good as it was when he was on. I
still enjoy the program in any case.

bilb...@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> Does anyone here remember radio personality name Johnny Jano?
>
> What ever happen to him ? the last time I remember he was working at a radio
> station in Beaumont, Texas.
>
> Thanks
>
> B. Bilbeaux
>
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--
Bob McBride Corpus Christi, TX
http://www.qsl.net/~kk5jc/
http://members.tripod.com/~txbob/

[Paul L. Landry]

Johnny passes away about 15 years ago.

[Alice Bradshaw]

YES! He was on KLVI out of Beaumont!
He was sooooooo great! Miss him still.
The way they have people in at KBON reminds me a lot of his show.
Anyone welcome, pass by, eat, talk just pass a
you real good time...
Salut,
Alice

[milton...@my-dejanews.com]

In article <4855-369...@newsd-133.iap.bryant.webtv.net>,

Hi Alice,

Thanks for remembering Johnny.

I met Johnny (Jano) Janot back in the late 1950s, we worked together in
broadcasting in Lake Charles.

Johnny Janot was born in Eunice, Louisiana in 1933. Johnny started his
broadcast career at K E U N in Eunice. In 1956 he got a job at K P A C Radio
in Port Arthur, Texas. In 1957 he return to Louisiana when K P L C Radio in
Lake Charles called him over. In the 1950s radio stations had what was called
"block formatting" and Johnny Janot play early rock & roll and rock-a-billy
at KPLC Radio.

In 1958 he moved on to K N O E Radio in Monroe playing top 40 rock & roll.

Then in 1960, Johnny returned to Lake Charles after getting married to a
former co-worker and female disc jockey Lee Parsley. This would be Johnny’s
first marriage, and the third of Lee’s many marriages.

Johnny’s return to Lake Charles was the introduction of Top 40 (Rock and Roll)
to radio station K L O U, where both Johnny and Lee Janot worked as Disc
Jockeys. They were a very popular couple about town, they were Mr & Mrs Radio
in Lake Charles during the 1960s.

During these years at K L O U, Johnny was also in management at the station.
Every Sunday evening he held a weekly record hop at the old Pelican Skateland.
And on Friday and Saturday Johnny would play dances thru-out Southwest
Louisiana.

In the 1950s Johnny Janot was also a Rock-A-Billy singer and performer,
Johnny loved writing and recording. He recorded for J. D. Miller at Excello
Records in Crowley, and with Eddie Shuler at Goldband Records in Lake
Charles. During his musical career he recorded more than 20 albums and
singles.

In or about 1970, Johnny and Lee Janot divorced, he left radio and left Lake
Charles and moved to Beaumont, Texas.

Johnny was in the pursuit of a new career as a cajun/country music singer. In
Beaumont he teamed up with Cajun fiddler Manson Manuel and they formed a band
and played the clubs and honky tonks of Southeast Texas. Johnny even opened
his own club on Hwy 90,on Beaumont's westside, during this period Johnny also
proformed at Gilley’s in Houston and made several appearances on Mickey
Gilley television show in Houston. Johnny friendship with Mickey Gilley when
back many years to Lake Charles where Mickey Gilley once lived and owned a
night club.

In the late 1970s Johnny got into radio again, this time as advertising
representative at K L V I Radio. And in 1978 he started the Sunday morning
radio show called "Cajun Bandstand". With the powerful signal of K L V I
Radio, Johnny Janot was Sunday morning ritual through out bayous South
Louisiana, the plains of Southeast Texas and to pineywood near Lufkin. Johnny
was being heard from Baton Rouge to Brenham playing Cajun music and serving
up "Dark Roast" Community Coffee to friends and listeners who would drop in
to visit and chat. Cajun Music was the music closest to his heart.

On Monday January 16th,1984 at the age of 50, Johnny Janot suffered a massive
heart attack and died a few day later at St Elizabeth’s hospital in Beaumont,
Texas.

Johnny second wife Joyce and their two children still reside in the
Beaumont/Vidor, Texas area of Southeast Texas. As for this parents as of this
writing I am uncertain if are still living. Johnny has only one half brother
and he may still be living in the Eunice area.

And He Was Proud To Be A Cajun.

Now fifteen years after his death, thats the way I remember my good friend
Johnny Janot. And we miss he so.

Milton Allen Graves

[Alice Bradshaw]

Hi Milton,
I really really appreciate you sending that about Johnny. I still
recall finding him on KLVI...man, I used to hold my baby boy and dance
around my kitchen. And my little boy, he'd just melt.
And then later with my granbabies.
We all loved him. <smile> My dgtr. while on her honeymoon few years back
bought me his tape " I'm Proud To Be A Cajun".
So I still dance with Johnny...Alice
<nip

YES! He was on KLVI out of Beaumont!
He was sooooooo great! Miss him still.
The way they have people in at KBON reminds me a lot of his show. Anyone
welcome, pass by, eat, talk just pass

you a real good time...

Salut,
Alice
Hi Alice,
Thanks for remembering Johnny.

<nipin 1978 he started the Sunday morning radio show called "Cajun

Bandstand". With the powerful signal of K L V I Radio, Johnny Janot was
Sunday morning ritual through out bayous South Louisiana, the plains of
Southeast Texas and to pineywood near Lufkin. Johnny was being heard
from Baton Rouge to Brenham playing Cajun music and serving up "Dark
Roast" Community Coffee to friends and listeners who would drop in to
visit and chat. Cajun Music was the music closest to his heart.
On Monday January 16th,1984 at the age of 50, Johnny Janot suffered a
massive heart attack and died a few day later at St Elizabeth's hospital
in Beaumont, Texas.
Johnny second wife Joyce and their two children still reside in the

Beaumont/Vidor, Texas area of Southeast Texas. As for this <nip

[Bob McBride]

Thanks for your great writeup on Johnny. I miss him to this day and felt a
kindred spirtit since we were from the same area.

Bob McBride
<milton...@my-dejanews.com> wrote in message
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>In article <4855-369...@newsd-133.iap.bryant.webtv.net>,
> A-mae-...@webtv.net (Alice Bradshaw) wrote:

>> YES! He was on KLVI out of Beaumont!
>> He was sooooooo great! Miss him still.
>> The way they have people in at KBON reminds me a lot of his show.

>> Anyone welcome, pass by, eat, talk just pass a
>> you real good time...

>> Salut,
>> Alice
>>
>
>
>Hi Alice,
>
>Thanks for remembering Johnny.
>
>

>representative at K L V I Radio. And in 1978 he started the Sunday morning

>radio show called "Cajun Bandstand". With the powerful signal of K L V I
>Radio, Johnny Janot was Sunday morning ritual through out bayous South
>Louisiana, the plains of Southeast Texas and to pineywood near Lufkin.
Johnny
>was being heard from Baton Rouge to Brenham playing Cajun music and serving
>up "Dark Roast" Community Coffee to friends and listeners who would drop in
>to visit and chat. Cajun Music was the music closest to his heart.
>
>On Monday January 16th,1984 at the age of 50, Johnny Janot suffered a
massive

>heart attack and died a few day later at St Elizabeths hospital in

Beaumont,
>Texas.
>
>Johnny second wife Joyce and their two children still reside in the

>Beaumont/Vidor, Texas area of Southeast Texas. As for this parents as of
this
>writing I am uncertain if are still living. Johnny has only one half
brother
>and he may still be living in the Eunice area.
>

>And He Was Proud To Be A Cajun.
>
>Now fifteen years after his death, thats the way I remember my good friend
>Johnny Janot. And we miss he so.
>
>
>
>Milton Allen Graves
>
>

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On Sunday, December 13, 1998 2:00:00 AM UTC-6, bilb...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> Does anyone here remember radio personality name Johnny Jano?
>
> What ever happen to him ? the last time I remember he was working at a radio
> station in Beaumont, Texas.
>
> Thanks
>
> B. Bilbeaux
>

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Johnny Jano died 4 months after his 50th birthday.
on January 20 he had a heart attack in beaumont, tx and died 3 days later.

[dash8...@gmail.com]

I remember Johnny Jano well from KLOU Radio in Lake Charles where he was the paramount DJ. As a youth, his station was the best, playing all sorts of good Cajun music, R & B music, and rock n' roll and all the popular songs of the times. I remember his wife Lee too, she was very pretty. Johnny was surrounded by music constantly---that was his life and I appreciate him sharing it with so many teens of the 60's. Jack Ware