Fred Ronald Lundy (June 25, 1934 – March 15, 2010) was a popular radio announcer in New York City, heard on WABC 770 AM from 1965 to 1982 and on WCBS-FM 101.1 from 1984 until his retirement in 1997.
[1] At the same time, he worked across the street at WHHM-AM, where he got his first on-air experience one night when he substituted for the regular disc jockey who failed to report for his shift.
[2] After a stop in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at WLCS-AM, Lundy was brought to WIL-AM in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1960 by Dan Ingram, who was the station's program director until the middle of the next year.
[3] Nicknamed the "Wil' Child", Lundy had a style which was described as a combination of "country and crawfish pie" by broadcaster Bob Whitney, who also played a major role in the appointment.
The first one was in an early scene in Midnight Cowboy, when Joe Buck, hearing a Lundy WABC broadcast while listening to his portable radio, realized that the bus he was riding soon approached New York City.