Dan Ingram

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Dan Ingram
Born
Daniel Trombley Ingram

(1934-09-07)September 7, 1934
Oceanside, New York, U.S.[1]
DiedJune 24, 2018(2018-06-24) (aged 83)
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.
Occupations
  • Radio disc jockey
  • voice over artist
Years active1958–2003
Spouses
  • Kathleen Snediker (died in car accident in 1962)
  • Anita Strand (divorced)
  • Jeannie Weigel (divorced)
  • Maureen Donnelly[2]
Children5 sons, 4 daughters, 2 stepdaughters[2]

Daniel Trombley Ingram (September 7, 1934 – June 24, 2018)[3] was an American Top 40 radio disc jockey with a 50-year career on radio stations such as WABC and WCBS-FM in New York City.

Career

"Big Dan" started broadcasting at WHCH

WNRC, New Rochelle; and WALK-FM, Patchogue
, all in New York State.

Ingram was one of the most highly regarded DJs from his era. He was noted for his quick wit and ability to convey a humorous or satiric idea with fast pacing and an economy of words, a skill that rendered him uniquely suited to, and successful within, modern personality-driven music radio. He was among the most frequently emulated radio personalities, cited as an influence or inspiration by numerous current broadcasters. One of Ingram's unique skills was his ability to "talk up" to the lyrics of a record, meaning speaking over the musical introduction and finishing exactly at the point when the lyrics started.

Ingram was well known for playing doctored versions of popular songs. The Paul McCartney and Wings lyrics "My Love Does it Good" from "My Love" became "My Glove Does it Good". The stuttering title refrain of Elton John's "Bennie and the Jets" went from three or four repetitions to countless. In the same vein, the distinctive refrain added to "Hooked on a Feeling" by Blue Swede, "Ooga-chucka-ooga-ooga" would start repeating and listeners would never know when it would end. Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" became "50 Ways to Love Your Leaver" and "49 Ways to Relieve Your Liver", and Ingram "rearranged" the spelling of "S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y" on the Bay City Rollers' "Saturday Night". He had a daily "Honor Group of the Day" (for example, cops on the beat), and a "Word of the Day" (such as humdinger).[4]

His longtime closing theme song was "Tri-Fi Drums" by Billy May. An edited version of the song was used for broadcast.

Post Honeycomb and Alpha-Bits cereals.[5] Ingram also worked for cable channel HBO
in the mid-1980s, mostly as the off-camera host of HBO Coming Attractions (a monthly show featuring previews of HBO's upcoming programming; occasionally he would co-host with another HBO voice, Joyce Gordon) and various voiceover roles, though he did occasionally appear on camera in early 1986 as part of the HBO Weekend interstitials of the time.

Ingram was also featured prominently in his son Chris's book, Hey Kemosabe! The Days (and Nights) of a Radio Idyll, a fictionalized account of the Musicradio WABC era.

On air history

Personal life

Ingram had been diagnosed with

Parkinsonian syndrome in 2014, and died after choking while eating.[2] Upon his death, Ingram was survived by his wife, Maureen Donnelly.[4] He also had five sons (Christopher, Daniel, David, Robert, and Phillip), four daughters (Patricia, Michelle, Christina, and Jacqueline), two stepdaughters (Laura and Linda),[9] 26 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren.[9]

His brother was John W. Ingram, who was the final president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad when the company went bankrupt on March 31, 1980.

References

  1. ISBN 9781615845453
    – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b c Sandomir, Richard (June 25, 2018). "Dan Ingram, Irreverent Disc Jockey, Is Dead at 83". The New York Times. Retrieved August 31, 2021.
  3. ^ "Dan Ingram Dead At 83". Allaccess.com. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  4. ^ a b Fisher, Marc (June 28, 2018). "Dan Ingram, popular DJ who poked fun at his own medium, dies at 83". Washington Post. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  5. ^ Vintage Fanatic (18 June 2013). "Vintage Old 1970's Post Alpha Bits and Honeycombs Cereal Commercial with free record". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  6. ^ "Dan Ingram, jock from WIL's Top 40 days, dies at 83". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. June 25, 2018.
  7. ^ "JAM Photo Album". Jingles.com. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  8. ^ Deitz, Corey (2003-06-20). "Dan Ingram Departs WCBS-FM". AboutRadio.com. Archived from the original on 2013-04-16. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
  9. ^ a b Quinn, Dave (June 26, 2018). "Famed Radio DJ Dan Ingram Dead at 83 After Choking on a Piece of Steak". www.msn.com. Retrieved 14 April 2019.

External links

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