Lee baby sims

FM was still a thing of the future, and the recordings were decidedly limited when it came to listening quality. One day Lee called me up and asked me to call in during the show and impersonate Paul McCartney. For weeks and months after the show, people in Coronado were still talking about the time Paul McCartney called into KCBQ radio and spoke with Lee Baby Simms for an hour even waiting between commercials.

I remained blissfully silent, and even though I wanted to tell everyone, it was more mysterious and exciting to keep the secret. Ironically, when I did try to tell people that it was I and not Paul McCartney, they just would not believe me. It saddens me deeply to report that Lee was diagnosed with stomach cancer and became so despondent that he took his own life.

From: Hamlet. William Shakespeare. April ? April 23, Ken, what a great remembrance. Just his being on the air was an event for us coming of age boomers. I still remember getting calls from friends to ask if I wanted to go cruisin' with them - and the added enticement along with all the hot girls we were sure to meet was that " Lee Baby's on the radio".

He should have been huge. For those of us got to hear him and got to 'get' him, he was. Jim Sumpter. The 60s were a great time for radio. We had two competing stations as well. One had Boss Jocks and they would travel around in an old English double-decker bus - accompanied by hto events with the station's logo emblazoned on it. The other was the pre-eminent rock station before the Boss Jocks rose to prominence, so there was a changing of the guard, so to speak, late in the decade before FM rose to prominence in the 70s.

Back then DJs had cool names like Frank X. Don Rose and Hy Lit, who owned the night. Nothing better going to the Shore in the summer and hearing both stations blaring from transistor radios on neighboring blankets. More on Lee Baby Simms from Radio Link magazine: Simms once noted that he had 41 jobs, at some stations twice, and was fired 25 times. You hear this thrown around a lot, but the man was an on-air legend.

Simms is the main topic of an as-yet-unpublished book titled Hitbound by Dr. Robert Weisbuch, former president of Drew University. Here's what wdrcobg. KONO went to court and got an injunction to keep them off the air within 50 miles for 18 months. After reading a pimple cream commercial during his first show, Lee unleashed a tirade of angry calls when he described how terrible it is to get close to your girl only to have a zit pop.

He was arrested for telling his listeners to go there and have a snowball fight. Simms was famous for breaking the music format, going off on lengthy tirades. Point of Hartford radio trivia We were transfixed. He told us he was missing one of his little toes because it had been bitten off by a shark. After he disappeared from the air for a few days Woody Roberts was filling in for him and supposedly tracked him down to a hotel in Monte Carlo and got him on the phone.

Monte Carlo! Imagine that on a WPOP salary. It was the hippest sounding guy I ever heard and used the medium brilliantly. Loved his show in Hartford.. I'll tell you who he sounds like. They could be twin as far as the voice is concerned. Do you think a truly great jock should be able to enhance the music played in -any- format? Thanks for this, Ken. I remember him in San Antonio in the sixties, along with Woody Roberts.

Magic, like everything else, doesn't last forever. You summed him up tee-totally So liked his on air style Never really got enough props when he was hitting the airwaves here and there Hope it stirs up some wonderful memories for all out there They hated him, but they listened to every word.

We all listened to KDUK, and he was the best. I am Lee's sister. I want to thank everyone for all the stories and memories of my brother. I want to share some personal stories about him because he was a great brother. He is survived by 3 sisters, myself,Tricia, and Tamie. We didn't call him Lee, we only knew him by the name of Bubby, and he said we were"his" girls. He took care of us when we were little and he always told us, as recent as a month or so ago, how much he loved us.

He was a great brother and we idolized him. When we were little girls,and he worked in Spartenburg, S. It was so exciting when he dedicated songs to us over the radio. What an exciting time!!! A few months ago we face-timed, and I will tell you, he looked great and we had a lot of laughs.

I can't even believe he's gone, but not forgotten ever! One of my favorite jocks. So I made a tape of his stuff and sent them to him. The Chronicle said it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Great memories from when radio was something worth listening to.

Yes - Lee Simms moved around a lot, but I had the privilege of hearing him in 3 cities. I'm not sure where he went in the following years, but I was pleasantly surprised when he showed up doing afternoon drive at Kiss-FM KISQ about , then billed as a "Classic Soul" station The format was rather restrictive, but Lee still had moments when his personality could shine through, and he always entertained. Apparently KISQ was good to him, and he was able to retire comfortably about or so.

I still miss him, and was very sorry to hear about his tragic demise. Thanks for letting me chime in Llew Keller. Hi, my name is Lee Baby Simms and since I've got spaces in-between my teeth the boss has given me extra talk time between songs,so I probably sound different than other disc jockeys here in Miami.

Reading it does not do his style Justice, you had to hear him. He lasted about 6 months before he got tired of the Miami heat, I think. Ricky Dee. I worked in the newsroom at KRLA to I was very fortunate to be in Lee"s close circle of friends. Lee Baby's act was unlike anything central Connecticut had previously heard.

On his very first program he incurred the wrath of a teenage caller for graphically describing how awful it was to be kissing a girl when her pimple pops.

While he was a deejay, he frequently interrupted the pop hits for extended rants on all sorts of inane topics. Some of his stories were fascinating as he ad libbed off the top of his head for minutes at a time. Whether he truly felt that way, or the P. It made for good listening though it made WPOP some enemies. Like many of the stops in his radio career, Lee's Hartford engagement lasted only a year.

It made great listening for Connecticut teens.