Lan Roberts

Lan's Death

Lan passed away December 30, 2005.

is the creation of Eric Dawes. It can be found at http://www.cfmm.com/lan

Lan's Life

Lan Roberts was a top Radio DJ in Dallas, New Orleans, Seattle, Hawaii and Taiwan, with feature engagements in South Africa, before retiring to his home town of Bonham, Texas. Lan ran his own Web site, which has been preserved as it existed at his death, at http://www.lanroberts.com/lanbo. It includes:

Hear Lan Roberts at KOL-1300 Seattle in 1969, as featured on reelradio.com:

Also from 1969 KOL, hear Lan have trouble reading the Seattle Pilots baseball season end announcement, by clicking here.

In 1977, Lan was on KYYX-FM, as you will hear in this aircheck: click here to listen, including News of Lassie's planned comeback to Movies. Courtesy of Radio West.

And a couple of Lan Roberts KOL audio clips of our own, recorded by Bruce Portzer in Seattle on December 25, 1970:

Man from Mars has a couple of Lan airchecks for sale: click here to see the list.

California Aircheck also features Lan on one of their Classic Issues:

CLASSIC ISSUE #C-49 (NOV. 1984)
KTNQ/JACK ARMSTRONG-1978 KBLA/DAVE DIAMOND-1966 KOL/BURL BARER-1972 KHJ/MARK ELLIOTT-1972 KIQQ/BOB ANTHONY-1974 WYSL/KEVIN O'CONNELL-1972 KING/DAN FOLEY-1972 KFWB/BRUCE HAYES-1960 KJR/LAN ROBERTS-1972

And on one of their Current Issues:

ISSUE #107 (Feb. l989) KJR/Lan Roberts-Emperor Smith WRQX/Gary Spears KHQT/Christopher Lance KVIL/Bill Gardner WCBS-FM/Bruce Morrow KKBQ/Michael Hayes KLOL/Moby KDAY/Russ Parr WZOU/Dan Justin

This site is being run with the cooperation and consent of Lan Roberts' family, and with Lan himself, prior to his death.

Jon Pearkins
August 18, 2006