Vale Don Lunn

Ray

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Sep 7, 2006, 5:18:06 AM9/7/06

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On 774 ABC 7pm news it was announced that "the daddio of the radio" Don Lunn
has passed away.
They said he was at 3UZ and sport 927.
I pass sympathies' to his family.

radiohead

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Sep 7, 2006, 5:36:59 AM9/7/06

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3AW's Niightline will speak about Don at around 8.15pm tonight. Paul
Konik will join them on the phone and no doubt pay tribute to Don.

P

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Sep 7, 2006, 5:39:55 AM9/7/06

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> On 774 ABC 7pm news it was announced that "the daddio of the radio" Don
> Lunn has passed away.
> They said he was at 3UZ and sport 927.

Are you sure they didn't say 3KZ? Don was probably the last of the "'50s
style" DJs to still be strutting his stuff in paid employment, which as far
as I can recall would have been well into the 1990s.

ExEngineer

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Sep 7, 2006, 6:27:10 AM9/7/06

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"Ray" <sendnos...@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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Yes, me too. I knew and met Don. Too young to be Silent Key.

Ex-Engineer

Paul Nicholson

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Sep 7, 2006, 6:44:13 AM9/7/06

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I remember Don Lunn as "Professor Funn" on the Greater 3UZ. He might have
appeared on "Six O'clock Rock" on 3KZ in the 1980s? Don did some work on 3AK
about five years ago. I recall his real name was Doug Lunn.
There are few remaining people from the "Golden Years" of radio and others
are fast disappearing from the "Don't Touch That Dial" era.

Paul in Melbourne

PS: If prior to 1958 was the "Golden Years" of radio and c1958 to c1980 the
"Don't Touch That Dial" era what will we be calling the era post 1980?

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Seagull

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Sep 7, 2006, 6:51:52 AM9/7/06

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Hey. The Greater 3UZ wasn't exactly my cup of tea when he was there.

But he was a great man. And a true pro.

I can remember going over to the new Chadstone Shopping Centre in the
era sometimes holding up our transistor radios to our ears. And there
was Donno in the 3UZ garden centre studio doing his weekend thing as
good as anyone could.

He did it to perfection.

I preferred 3KZ and 3DB at the time, and used to record tracks I liked
on real to real tapes. But occasionally I'd tape from The Greater ...
and what sticks with me now is whenever I hear Matt Monro's "The Music
Played" is Don Lunn's voice coming over the top at the finish with ...
"beautiful" ... which it simply was.

Don Lunn was unique. I will never forget him.

Rex Widerstrom

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Sep 7, 2006, 10:25:44 AM9/7/06

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Is this the same Don Lunn who worked in NZ in, I think, the late 80s / early
90s as "Don Fun"?

If so, I too met him and worked with him on 2ZB in Wellington and yes he was
a true pro. His love of the medium really came thru, and he really turned
Wellington radio on its head. Till then it was somewhat formal and stilted,
Don brought all sorts of antics to his show. I can still recall when he
introduced (obviously) fake callers - character voices etc - and it caused a
minor scandal that these "weren't real people" *gasp*

He left the industry and brought a conference centre / resort in the country
near Wellington and that's the last I heard of him. I seem to recall a much
younger, beautiful blonde wife, but those years are a bit of a blur. One of
us had one, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't me lol

If indeed it's the same character, my sympathies also to his family.
Wellington radio has since returned to stilted homogenous corporate waffle,
but I doubt there's a listener who was around at the time who wouldn't
recall the name Don Fun and look back on that time as, yes, the good (great)
old days.

Rex Widerstrom

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DontTouchThatDial

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Sep 7, 2006, 6:49:07 PM9/7/06

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As radio legend Bob Rogers wrote in his Foreword to "DTTD"

"...and a young player on Melbourne radio in the 1960s who, for my
money, was
the best disc jockey we've produced. He was certainly the most
energetic
and stylish performer of his time".

High praise and well deserved for the ol' Daddio of the Radio.

RIP Don, and when you get to the other side, remember: "Oop oop pah doo
and away we go!"

Sincerely,
MAC
www.waynemac.com

Mobbs

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Sep 7, 2006, 8:02:24 PM9/7/06

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I remember working with the radio god Don Lunn back in the 80s at 3KZ

I was doing dawns and one Sat night as i hit the studios i noticed some 'new
guy' had taken over 6 oclock rock. I looked again and nearly shat myself.. it
was the Professor Fun , Don Lunn.

I didnt know whether to say hi, get an autograph or what ..
anyways.. within 15 minutes we were both on the air together singing 'King of
the Road' over the top of the song on air.

I still remember sneaking a radio into school so i could tune into Don Lunn,
and to work alongside him was a dream.

A sad day for us radio heads today.

Mobbs

BearCave

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Sep 7, 2006, 9:28:30 PM9/7/06

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Mobbs wrote:

> I was doing dawns and one Sat night as i hit the studios i noticed some 'new
> guy' had taken over 6 oclock rock. I looked again and nearly shat myself.. it
> was the Professor Fun , Don Lunn.

If my memory is correct, it was Don Lunn who presented the final
six-hour shift of music on 1179 3KZ, before the Pete and Liz breakfast
duo of those times counted down the seconds to New Years Day 1990,
taking 3KZ to 104.3 KZFM.