Tag: Johnnie Putman
Media: June 2021 β’ “Steve King’s Cult 45”
People in Chicago know Steve King for his four–decade run as a radio DJ and talk show host (WLS, WGN), but before his legendary radio career began, he was doing something else entirely. βI was a full-time musician. That was my career in the early β60s. Even when I first got into radio (1966), If […]
Media: October 2016
In 2014, when WGN Radio unveiled their Walk of Fame, two of the inductees were their long-time overnight team β the husband and wife radio duo of Steve King and Johnnie Putman. βThat was one of those pinch-me moments,β King says now. βTo be mentioned in the same breath as Wally Phillips and Bob Collins […]










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