DON STEELE

Don Steele was an on-air personality from the middle of the 1960s until his retirement in May 1997.

He was better known as "The Real Don Steele”. He worked at seven radio stations before moving to Los Angeles in April 1965 to become a “Boss Jock” at 93/KHJ-AM, Boss Radio. Steele became nationally known as a DJ on radio station KHJ in Los Angeles, where he helped to promote the "ultrahip" top-40 Boss Radio format. When the popularity of AM radio gave way to FM stereo in the 1970s, Steele continued to remain a popular personality at the station. Following the years at 93/KHJ, The Real Don Steele continued to be heard on Los Angeles radio stations, including KIQQ (K-100), KTNQ (Ten-Q), KRLA, KCBS-FM and KRTH-FM (K-Earth 101), until his death in August 1997.

At one time, Steele also had a successful, nationally syndicated radio show, Live From the 60’s, created by Steele along with friend and contemporary M.G."Machine Gun" Kelly, who followed Steele at KHJ-AM. "Live From the 60's" was a three-hour program that featured oldies exclusively from the 1960s. Each hour of the show profiled a certain year from that decade. It was written and performed in present tense, and peppered with audio clips of news events, presidential speeches and TV shows that correlated with that particular year. The show ran in syndication and was marketed and picked up by over 200 radio stations with an "Oldies" format from 1988 until 1993. Repeats of earlier shows aired in some markets as late as 1996. In July 2015, "Live From the 60's with The Real Don Steele" was placed back into three hour re-run syndication for AM/FM and Podcasting radio stations.