When Art Laboe was a child, his mother couldn’t pull him away from the radio. “I listened to soap operas. I listened to news. I listened to all the announcements,” he told The Times in 2009. “I was ...

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With his cheery baritone and enthusiasm for old rock, R&B, doo-wop and soul, Art Laboe was a fixture of West Coast radio for 79 years. The gregarious Los Angeles disc jockey was considered as much a ...