Don Bombard (December 16, 1948 – June 28, 2023), known professionally as Bob Shannon, was an American radio disc jockey best known for his work on WCBS-FM in New York City.
Don Bombard was first introduced on radio by future sportscaster Marv Albert, then a Disc Jockey on WOLF (AM), in May 1962 as the winner of a guest deejay contest while still a junior high school student over in his hometown of Syracuse, New York.
In high school he partnered with Jody Carmen and Mel Cowznofski in the Big 50 Hits of the Week Survey, which was printed and distributed in Syracuse, NY to local record stores.
Bombard came to the attention of the local Syracuse Top 40 stations WNDR and WOLF when, as a teenager, he compiled and distributed his own weekly music survey known as The Big 50.
In 1969, he was part of the team that returned WOLF to a Top 40 format and remained as music director and night DJ until the following year, when he was hired back full-time at WNDR.
Later he became assistant program director and afternoon drive DJ, as well as taking over the reins of the "Saturday Night of Gold" oldies show.
In 1975, he left radio briefly to run "Don Bombard Disco," a company formed with partner Guy Capone.
The Hall Of Fame was revamped in evenings to feature several to half a dozen songs an hour by a selected artists mixed in with other regularly played music.
At WCBS-FM, on the 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. timeslot, he programmed music features such as "Rockeology", "Hands Across the Water", "First and Foremost", "lost hits", "songs with the same title but are different", "Wednesday Fourplay/Three For The Road", and others.
In 1986 he collected his interviews with music acts into a book, "Behind The Hits: Inside Stories of Classic Pop and Rock and Roll", co-authored with John Javna.
He co-hosted, with WCBS-FM's Bobby Jay, live broadcasts for Westwood One from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in New York.