I came into Los Angeles doing weekends at KDAY and then in 1965-66 worked in the Music Business as a West Coast Record Promotion Man for Mercury Records (working with Leslie Gore, Johnny Mathis, Keith, The Blues Magoos, Bobby Hebb) and then to United Artists Records, where | worked with The Spencer Davis Group, Bobby Hillsboro and many other artists. I then went on to writing, then on to music publishing, and became a record producer from 1968 to 1974, working independently for various labels, including Columbia Records, then on to RCA Records. | became the Music Director at KRLA in 1973 when we introduced a new format called “Future Rock”, which was a new radio music format that introduced “new music”, playing the hits before they were hits and before any other stations would