At a time when Top 40 radio seemed to be dominated by phony-sounding cheery pukers, Larry Lujack stood out with his sarcastic, iconoclastic style that made fun of the music, commercials, jingles and listeners (but bringing in listeners who loved him for doing just that). Although living the typical nomadic life of a radio DJ for over a decade, Mr. Lujack (as he often referred to himself) settled down in Chicago in 1967 at WCFL in overnights, then left a few months later for WLS' afternoon drive shift. He continued to alternate between the two stations for the next twenty years, developing his unique personality and paving the way (along with the even crankier Larry Josephson and the more avant-garde Bob Fass to WBAI in New York) for a new group of snarky and sarcastic radio personalities--in fact, Howard Stern probably owes Lujack a debt for making misanthropes like him suitable for mainstream radio and Rush Limbaugh freely admits that his act is based a lot on Mr. Lujack, particularly his use of pauses on a medium and format scared of dead air. Mr. Lujack retired in 1987 on more-or-less his terms and eventually moved to New Mexico, making two brief comebacks (by ISDN line from New Mexico) on Chicago oldies stations in the Y2K decade, but pretty much enjoyed his last years in leisure and on the golf course before passing of esophageal cancer today:
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