UPDATE: 03-08-2010 BLC EXCLUSIVE... LEGENDARY RADIO ICON RICHARD W. FATHERLEY PASSES AWAY We have been informed that Kansas City radio broadcasting legend Richard W. Fatherley, who suffered a severe heart attack Feb. 14, passed away this afternoon at St. Margaret Hospital in KCK. He had been in critical condition at the Cardiac ICU at KU Med Center after his heart attack. Link to earlier story by TV Barn's Aaron Barnhart about Fatherley's radio career. Fatherley, who lives in Kansas City, Kansas, was a production director at Storz's KXOK-St. Louis in the mid-'60s and PD at the chain's Kansas City giant, WHB, from 1967 through '69. He operated Advoice (LINK) for several years and recently did a CD about radio in Kansas City in the 1940's (below). He is extremely well-known for his voiceover work and is the booming voice behind numerous local and national ad campaigns, including Blue Cross, Simplicity Vacuum Cleaners, John Deere, Jiffy Lube and Baskin-Robbins, Providence Medical Center, Suburban Lawn & Garden, Catholic Charities, and just about every college and university in the Kansas City area. One of his most prominent gigs is as the narrator for “The Voice of Kansas University” – ads that can be heard frequently during KU football and basketball radio broadcasts. (Link to samples of his work: http://advoicellc.com/sounds/Track_1.mp3)
KANSAS CITY RADIO IN THE 1940'S
In June, a pair of other Kansas City radio icons, Richard W. Fatherley and Ted Cramer, sat down with Walt Bodine and produced a CD titled "Kansas City Radio in the 1940's," where Bodine discussed the early days of his radio career. Fatherley, a familiar voiceover talent (advoicellc.com) in Kansas City, was the CD's producer, while Cramer, an inductee into the Country Music DJ and Radio Hall of Fame (LINK), interviewed Walt in a fascinating discussion of the early days of radio.
FINE GENTLEMAN... "Thank you for this post. Dick Fatherley is one of the finest gentlemen I have ever had the pleasure to know. I am devastated. Please join me in praying for him." --Pat Carlson
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