Tom Dooley

Radio DJ, artist, label owner. Born January 18, 1947 in Chicago, IL, died November 9, 2010 in Texas. At 14 Tom Dooley had already laid his criminal life behind him and dropped out of high-school. Before he reached 17 he had gone through radio school, started working at a radio station in Dyersburg, TN, gotten married and had his first child. His first record label, Dana Lynn, was named after that child. He worked at various radio stations such as KELI (Tulsa), WQAM (Miami), KNUZ (Houston) and WSAI (Cincinnati) before coming to WAKY the first time. He left WAKY to concentrate on his musical career full-time. He lost his voice and had two operations. When his voice returned, he got back into radio and worked at WMPS (Memphis, Dooley's hometown), WORD (Spartanburg, SC), KRIZ (Phoenix), WFIL (Philadelphia), WHBQ (Memphis) and KHJ (Los Angeles) previous to returning to WAKY. He left WAKY to go to work for the Jimmy Carter campaign in Atlanta. While in Atlanta, he got a job with WGST, leaving there to go to FM100 in Memphis. Tom also did time at stations in Rockford, IL, Cleveland, OH, and Knoxville, TN. He became a Christian in 1978 and mostly worked for christian radio the rest of his life. He had a nationally syndicated Contemporary Christian radio show ("The Journey") and more out of MasterMedia Ministries in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.