RIP: Dale ‘Truckin Bozo’ Sommers
08/24/12 at 9:05am
Written by jkiesewetter
Sad news from Florida: Dale “The Truckin’ Bozo” Sommers, host of WLW-AM’s overnight show for truckers (1984-2004), died this morning in a Florida hospice. He was 68.
Born Glen Council on Nov. 26, 1943 in Humboldt, Tenn., he moved to Cincinnati with his family at age 15 and started working in radio a year later, in 1959. He changed his name to Bruce Dale Sommers for radio.
After radio jobs in Indianapolis, Seattle, San Diego, Miami and Kansas City, he returned to Cincinnati in 1984 to do the overnight show for 20 years on WLW-AM. He retired in April 2004 “due to health concerns,” the station announced at the time, and was replaced by his son, Steve.
His retirement in Florida didn’t last long. Soon he was doing afternoons on the XM radio Open Road Channel (now the Road Dog channel on XMSirius. He gave up the satellite radio show earlier this year. CLICK TO CONTINUE
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