Steve Dahl

Among Chicago’s most outrageous disk jockeys, Steve Dahl offers shown to be equally successful being a vocalist and songwriter. His music group, Teenage Radiation, utilized a sharp love of life to carefully turn such tongue-in-jowl parodies as “RTA” and “DO YOU CONSIDER I’m Disco” into nationwide hits. “DO YOU CONSIDER I’m Disco” reached the very best position on the “novelty records top” published by Dr. Demento in August 1979. Dahl afterwards collaborated with Brian Wilson and manufacturer/keyboard participant Joe Thomas to create the title melody of Wilson’s 1998 record, Imagination. Having released his disk jockey profession in southern California, Dahl transferred to Chicago in the middle-’70s to web host the morning change on WLUP. Get together right away DJ Garry Meier in 1978, Dahl discovered a similar-minded collaborator. Agreeing to interact, Dahl and Meier produced perhaps one of the most questionable duos in broadcasting. Among their initial stunts was a “Disco Demolition” evening at Comiskey Recreation area in 1979. In 1981, these were terminated for “violating community vocabulary criteria,” and shifted to dominate the afternoon change at WLS-FM. Regardless of the transformation, Dahl and Meier continuing to handle opposition. Used in WLS-AM in 1984, the duo skipped numerous displays. It had taken legal litigation and suspension system before they decided to surface finish out their agreement. They came back to WLUP-FM in 1986. Although he continued to be energetic in radio, Dahl experienced a minimal stage in his profession through the ’90s. Carrying out a short stint on the sports radio place, he begun to jump back as web host of a favorite radio talk present since 1996. Steve Dahl and Teenage Rays performed their last concert on June 8, 1997.