FYI: Veteran San Diego Radio Personality Takes Life!
The Central Scrutinizer
as well, I'm sending it over here.....
On 21 Mar 2003 05:23:09 -0000, Secret Squirrel
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>http://www.sdreader.com/ed/calendar/blurt/
>
>"Linda McInnes took her own life...February 27.... Friends said that she was despondent over the
>current state of radio. Linda was 50 years old."
>
>That's how the website laradio.com described the passing of one of San Diego's first female FM rock
>jocks. She started at KPRI in 1973 and the next year began a seven-year career at KGB. From 1981 to
>'85 she worked at L.A.'s KLOS, and from 1985 to 2000 she worked in the Bay Area.
>
>"There were three great West Coast lady FM DJs," said KPBS-FM financial reporter Gabriel Wisdom, who
>used to work with McInnes at KGB. "In L.A. it was 'the Burner' Mary Turner. In San Francisco it was
>Raechel Donahue. And in San Diego it was Linda McInnes. They were the big three on the West Coast."
>He recalls Linda came out to San Diego with her former husband Jim McInnes. "They both came here from
>Madison, Wisconsin." The two divorced in 1976.
>
>"Linda lost her gig at KFOG a few years ago, and like many of us from the 'boomer generation,' she
>found herself on the outside of the business she loved and helped to create," wrote Jim McInnes, who
>himself was fired from KGB last year, after 28 years in SD radio.
>
>"She wasn't the first female FM jock in San Diego," said Wisdom. "There was someone at KPRI before
>her. I forgot her name. But Linda was certainly the first successful female FM DJ." He said her local
>success got her a job in L.A. "She was very natural. People just felt like they knew her."
>
>Wisdom said McInnes inspired a song on the original Homegrown album, the annual collection of local
>artists put out by KGB in the 1970s. "The song said, 'Linda's so sexy on the radio.' Let's say that
>song made her more aware of her popularity. She was different after that."
>
>[My note: Song was from the 1975 Homegrown Album Track: Carey Fox-O.B. Bop, Great Song!!]
>
>Wisdom lamented her suicide. "Our minds can play tricks on us. The truth was that Linda couldn't see
>that she had enormous talent and could have continued in radio. It was a shame she didn't understand
>the depth of her talent."
>
>-- Ken Leighton
>
>RIP Linda!!
scott.th...@gmail.com
> >-- Ken Leighton
> >
> >RIP Linda!!
On You Tube we can hear the groovy tune OB Bop where Linda's name is mentioned.
I liked the song when it first came out and still have the LP.
Rest peacefully, dear Linda.
http://youtu.be/-DoDE0CwOcM