Brian
Lord
Brian Lord
A biography:
I was
born on
I graduated from Magee high school in Vancouver... class of '52….then worked in a bank, spent a year as a divinity student and had various dull jobs until I found, loved, and entered the radio business which sustained me for most of the next 47 years.
I got in
the business, more or less by fluke. I was fascinated by hydroplane racing
which was very big in
The
station’s then PD, Terry Garner, heard the reports and left a message that I
was to be in his office next morning where he hired me to do hourly
reports on weekends from through-out the Lower Mainland... mostly traffic or
"events". At the time I was pricing nuts and bolts at a supply
company and jumped at the offer which soon led to a News reporter’s job
followed by the all-night DJ show.
After
several months on the C-FUN overnight gig, I was invited to
join Kamloops Television station CFCR.
This lasted until in the late spring of 1960 when CFUN changed format and
manager Jack Sayers under the urging of Dave McCormick invited me back to
I left CFUN
for the
I returned
to
I had a
natural delivery but not a great voice however I trained myself to use
inflection and over the years recorded spots and did features both for the
radio station I was working for or as a moonlighter. I have
won several awards for my feature work.
Regarding the folk I worked with that meant a lot to me - in Vancouver, Dave McCormick, Brian Forst and Al Jordan; In California, Ron Jacobs and Bill Watson; - in Hong Kong, Kelly Dean.
I still
communicate with all of them and was re-united with my fellow American
DJ's in 2004 when our station (K/MEN) was inducted into a California Hall
of Fame commemorating the 1960's.
When I started it was not a job - it was fun and remained so all my life
largely due to the friends I made in the Industry.
I retired
when I was 67 after meeting my future wife, a Filipino who was 48 when I met
her. We built a home on her ancestral property outside