Barkley became the program director at Los Angeles station KLAC and hired Al Lohman for the morning show.
Barkley was quoted as saying, "We figured we were all going to be fired, so Al and I thought perhaps we should do the morning show as a team; this way, we could buy some time to look for another job.
The morning commuter audience tuned in by the thousands as shown by ratings to hear Lohman's quick wit and vast array of character voices play against Barkley's straight man routine.
Although Lohman and Barkley's morning KFI show was mostly talk and the skits, an occasional tune was played, probably to give the guys a restroom break.
In a later Los Angeles Times article regarding his sudden exit from KFI, Barkley was quoted as saying that he warned their program director that their constant playing of the same Eagles songs over and over was very aggravating to him.
Barkley said: "For the past two weeks or so, it was awfully tough to work on taping and doing shows when I couldn't even bear to listen to another (rocker Bruce) Springsteen song.
The Roger Barkley Community Foundation continues to donate money to hospitals, youth groups, scholarships and medical research.
[2] Roger Barkley died at age 61 of pancreatic cancer on December 21, 1997, at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California.