B. Mitchel Reed

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In a career that spanned four decades, B. Mitchel Reed roamed the wide world of radio formats and established himself as a standout in both Top 40 and its flip side, free-form FM rock. He began his radio career as a jazz announcer in Baltimore, Maryland, in the early 1950s, but his first fame came as a fast-talking deejay at KFWB in Los Angeles and WMCA in New York City (“I’m not talking too fast,” he once said, “you’re listening too slow”). By the time he moved to the pre-Top 40 KFWB, he was calling himself “the Boy on a ...(100 of 241 words)