It was fitting to hear of Ron Lundy's death on New York's WABC where he deejayed from 1965 until 1982, when the station went from a Top 40 format to all-talk. He later became a deejay at WCBS-FM, the oldies station.
Lundy's voice is immortalized in the 1969 movie Midnight Cowboy. Jon Voight, as Joe Buck, is on a New York-bound bus and has a portable radio to his ear tuned to Ron Lundy's show. "That's New York talking!" shouts Voight with excitement to his seatmate.
Ron Lundy will be missed.
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