He spent 79 years on the radio, promoted shows and put popular songs together for compilation albums. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Art Laboe, the DJ and music promoter who spent 79 continuous years on ...

Radio DJ Art Laboe, who is credited with coining the phrase “oldies but goodies” as well as helping end segregation in Southern California, has died. He was 97. A statement announcing the DJ’s death ...

The radio pioneer died Friday night at home in Palm Springs after catching pneumonia, his representative said Shafiq Najib is a former writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He left PEOPLE in 2023. Art Laboe, a ...

Radio DJ Art Laboe, who interviewed Elvis for radio in the 1950s before he helped make Black music and Latino youths lifelong friends, has died. He was 97. Laboe, who hosted a show on Los Angeles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Art Laboe gets ready for his call-in dedication radio show in the KDAY studios in Palm Springs in 2015. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles ...

FILE - DJ Art Laboe sits in his studio and talks about his 75 years in the radio business on Oct. 9, 2018, in Palm Springs, Calif. Laboe, a pioneering disc jockey who hosted a syndicated oldies show ...

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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Art Laboe, the pioneering DJ credited with helping end segregation in Southern California, has died. He was 97. Laboe died Friday night after catching pneumonia, said Joanna ...