Dan Leonard

Following the death earlier this month of Syracuse radio legend ‘Dandy Dan’ Leonard, Syracuse New Times writers Allen Czelusniak and Bill DeLapp have put together a retrospective of Leonard’s career which included a stint as a New Times writer in the 1970’s.  (Link to original article at rway.com is no longer active.)

Dan Leonard brought rock and rock to Syracuse radio and went on to become one of the market’s legendary jocks. Leonard, who spent 27 years on the air in central New York starting in 1954 at WNDR, died Feb. 11 from cancer in California at the age of 75.