Lounsbury, Jim

Jim Lounsbury,
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Name	Lounsbury, Jim Gender: M
Birthname	James Richard Lounsbury
born on	24 February 1923 at 14:30 (= 2:30 PM )
Place	Ames, Iowa, 42n02, 93w37
Timezone	CST h6w (is standard time)
Data source	BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	05°13' 14°54 Asc. 25°49'

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Biography

American early pioneer in rock and roll music and a radio news anchor who wrote the book Hey, Look - I'm on TV about the beginning of rock 'n' roll.

Lounsbury hosted many of the first rock and roll radio programs (WIND and WJJD, Chicago; WOR, New York City) and later many rock and roll television shows, including Jim Lounsbury's Sock Hop, "Bandstand Matinee"', and The Record Hop (WGN-TV and WBKB, Chicago), as well as hosting many local record hops in the Chicago area in the 1950s and '60s, and occasionally guest-hosting for Dick Clark on American Bandstand. He also hosted one of the last shows with Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens, in Kenosha, Wisconsin on 24 January 1959 on the Winter Dance Party tour. Later in his career, he became well known as a radio news journalist, ending his career as the national news anchor for UPI Radio News.

He lived in Skokie, Illinois in the early '60s. He had a daughter, Deborah, and son, Steven. Lounsbury retired to Tucson, Arizona in the early 1980s. He and Helen Mason, whom he described as his "biggest fan", travelled around the Southwest in Jim's Cessna 182 airplane which he piloted. Jim occasionally wrote for Southwest Aviator magazine about his flying experiences. He also occasionally did voice-over work from his home.

Jim Lounsbury died on 8 January 2006 at age 82 in Tucson, Arizona.

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Events

• Death, Cause unspecified 8 January 2006 (Age 82)
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Source Notes

Birth certificate in hand from Sy Scholfield, copy on file.

Categories

• Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 82)

• Vocation : Entertainment : News journalist/ Anchor

• Vocation : Entertainment : Radio/ D.J./ Announcer

• Vocation : Entertainment : TV host/ Personality

• Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction