WDJO Program Director Marty Thompson, his boss at WGRR, had asked LaBarbara to do WDJO's 5-9 a.m. "It’s been 4-½ years since I did my own radio show, and sitting in the studio I feel like a kid in a candy store," he says. He was defeated in a re-election bid in November. LaBarbara has been off the air since 2016 while running for – and serving one term as – Sycamore Township trustee. I’ve interviewed or know many of the artists we play and I played the music when it was new," says LaBarbara, who published a memoir in 2011 called Jim LaBarbara, The Music Professor: A Life Amplified Through Radio & Rock 'n' Roll. It is a crazy love affair that began when I did my first show in 1959."ĭubbed "The Music Professor" for his stories about rock 'n' roll artists big and small, LaBarbara has been living on the air in Cincinnati since hired by WLW-AM in 1969. "Today I’m out of politics and I’m doing what I love – and that’s radio. "I'm excited to get back on the radio," says LaBarbara, who debuted on WDJO Monday morning. ![]() Now that he's out of politics, Jim LaBarbarbra has returned to the local radio airwaves hosting mornings on WDJO's Oldies network (1480 AM, 99.5 FM, 107.9 FM).
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