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RIP: Dale ‘Truckin Bozo’ Sommers
The Cincinnati Enquirer
| August 24, 2012
| John Kiesewetter
Posted on 08/24/2012 11:00:58 AM PDT by EveningStar
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: dalesommers; obituary; talkradio; truckinbozo; trucking
To: EveningStar
Listen to him alot he was on of the great ones.
To: EveningStar
Listened to him alot he was one of the great ones.
Correction
To: EveningStar
Listened to him alot he was one of the great ones.
Correction
To: Pardeeville Liberator
The call ins were regular guys and had down home values and opinions.
Nuthin' fancy, just truckers sayin' their say.
A lot of truck/epa stuff came out before most people thought about it.
IOOA lost a valued friend and compatriot.
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posted on
08/24/2012 11:12:07 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: knarf
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posted on
08/24/2012 11:15:26 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: EveningStar
Used to listen to him. He was very good at what he did.
To: EveningStar
Sad to hear it is real this time. A few years ago at the end of his 9pm-midnight show on WLW Bill Cunningham announced that The Truckin' Bozo had died and they would be playing "best of" shows. It took him the first few callers to convince listeners that he wasn't really dead.
Cunningham was always doing things like suspending him for a week for various station infractions. Odd, but those suspensions always seemed to match with when Sommers was going on vacation.
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posted on
08/24/2012 11:21:11 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Recycled Olympic tagline Shut up, Bob Costas. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
To: EveningStar
I’d heard him many times on long drives at night. The clear channel stations (not the company) are the only ones you can keep for more than 50 miles, and they’re trucker type stations usually. RIP
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posted on
08/24/2012 12:14:10 PM PDT
by
Figment
To: EveningStar
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posted on
08/24/2012 12:39:10 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
To: EveningStar
WLW, back during Desert Storm, he was on the air and mentioned it.
The one and only time my radio pulled in that particular station.
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posted on
08/24/2012 1:43:45 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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