Lohman & Barkley Eye on L.A.

[@jackiejones5136]

Loved these guys and their cast of characters. They set my mood to laughter as I drove to work every single day!

[@2098elk]

Were my passengers on the radio for many years while working in Los Angeles. Even dined at Barkleys in the La Cerescenta area for a while. Had a great cast of "characterrs" on the soap opera. If I had a $ for every time I laughed with them, it would be a rich man. Also atteneded the television show. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@MrSteelerfan58]

These guys were the gold standard for radio personalities. I spent a month in the hospital in 1973. Every morning I listened to Al and Rodger, and they always had me laughing. I couldn't wait for another episode of light of my life. Thanks for posting this video, brought back fond memories during a rough road of my life.

[@greatpix]

They made my several hospital stays in the 60's much more tolerable too.

[@nordello65]

Good memories as a young boy listening to them getting ready for school, then going to school

[@greatpix]

THE GREATEST morning radio show ever! Life hasn't been as funny since they left the airwaves, and these days it would be wonderful to have their humor to lift my spirits again.

[@743mince]

Great memories of my youth Loman and barkley. Jim Healey, And the hullabaloer Dave Hull

[@7ReelsRanch]

Brilliant and beautiful!

[@mjmil]

Not 1980 - this is from 1982. I was the producer. Boy, these guys were great!

[@bonniemccoy934]

I remember them as far back as 1969! And their faces appeared in the San Pedro News Pilot every night, in costume of whomever they (Al) was portraying. They were fabulous. I can't believe Roger did that. It was a crime. I started everyday in the mid-70's by laughing my head off. Remember when Dr Duncan got a face lift? He was still ugly, but his face was higher.

[@Pamhamlet]

I remember in the early 1980s L & B made my drive into work every morning a fun time with Light of My Life! I remember the character Farmer Brown who used to dance in ladies' underwear, and the other characters thinking he had died, because Farmer Brown had "bought the farm" when really, Farmer Brown actually did "buy" the farm...something like that. It was near the woods, the Evelyn Woods! Their voice characterizations were so funny, and that organ music! A riot! I miss them.

[@743mince]

Those are good memories I used to listen to light on my life every day as my dad drove me to school

[@jgc760]

morning radio has not been the same since L&B left KFI.

[@brooklynboy494]

I loved these guys. I remember, " three words never meant more than" you're under arrest." Then at Dodger stadium, it was going to be free beer and bat night.

[@keca1430]

Yes, KCET-channel 28 in Los Angeles did a program on Lohman and Barkley in the '70s, but I can't recall what year. It was a great show, I'd love yo find a video of that program, too.

[@lpentis]

Anybody still have that record album they put together, "Lohman & Barkley's First?" It was from their days at KFWB. I lost mine years ago. They had the "Lohman & Barkley Lemonade" jingle on there, as well as their impersonation of their newsman, David Rogers, and his daughter, "Little Denise Rogers, KFWB News-kid," all done in ridiculously deep voices. My favorite, though, was Mrs. Dickie Bandsback.

[@nakayle]

One morning in 1986 Barkley stunned his long time partner and fans by suddenly getting up and walking out right in the middle of their show. It is said the two men never spoke to each other again and neither would ever talk about what happen that morning. Does anyone know what was behind this mysterious breakup?

[@dariowiter3078]

Nathan Kayle They had a fight on the air that caused Roger to get up and and one of them used the F-word on the air(I remember hearing this particular show when it happened in 1987, not 1986) and it was a bit of a shock when it happened. Shame, really. 😐

[@hookalakah]

L&B started on KFWB where, for a short while, they were broadcasting five-minute a day taped pieces by Bill Cosby ("Will Cos help our cause?"). They started in '66--when Lord Tim Hudson was the first hip British deejay in the L.A. Top 40 market (Michael Jackson was already on KFI as "Michael From Scotland Yard")--to the fall of '67 when KFWB was running weekly fantasy "computer boxing" matches with, say, Jack Johnson vs. Max Baer. L&B spoofed Batman among other other things.

[@chieromancer]

I just remember "Lower priced overalls."

[@busstopbilly]

Ad libbing a lost art...and these were the Masters. When I wuz 25 or so, working at a HS library, I was hot on a 17 yr old student, whose Mother chaperoned us to a live stage appearance by these guys in Corona del Mar, I think. Arrived late, my Lolita in a tight sweater traversed the entire pit, w lecherous me following and then Mom. Needless to say, these guys riffed off that fashionably late (and lecherous) entrance and brought the house down--us included. Laughed til I peed.

[@CuffColl]

Anyone remember the short-lived, syndicated television show these guys did together in the early Eighties? I believe it was called just, "The Lohman and Barkley" because their budget wouldn't allow for the purchase of a "Show." It was hilarious. I used to stay up late on Sunday nights to watch it on a distant, weak station that I could receive only after the local (Chattanooga) station went off-air. CuffColl.

[@jackwebb714]

ITs a shame they hated each other.

[@nakayle]

@SaintDavidsEpiscopal Thanks for the info, SaintDavidsEpiscopal. I thought there must be something behind Barkley's sudden decision to leave and the fact (from what I read) that neither man would ever talk about it to anyone. In any case, its a sad end to a great era in radio.

[@SueGoryan]

Really? I had no idea they made records of that soap. I would love to get them! Those 2 were dynamite.