Daniel Trombley Ingram was an American Top 40 radio "disc jockey", in a 50-year career on radio stations, which included WABC and WCBS-FM, both ln New York City.
11 Facts About Dan Ingram
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Dan Ingram was one of the most highly regarded DJs from his era.
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Dan Ingram was noted for his quick wit and ability to convey a humorous or satiric idea with fast pacing and an economy of words, a skill that rendered him uniquely suited to, and successful within, modern personality-driven music radio.
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Dan Ingram was among the most frequently emulated radio personalities, cited as an influence or inspiration by numerous current broadcasters.
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Dan Ingram was well known for playing doctored versions of popular songs.
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Dan Ingram had a daily "Honor Group of the Day", and a "Word of the Day".
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TV commercials Dan Ingram narrated include a 1970 promo for free cut-out records of Archies songs on the backs of Post Honeycomb and Alpha-Bits cereals.
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Dan Ingram worked for cable channel HBO in the mid-1980s, mostly as the off-camera host of HBO Coming Attractions and various voiceover roles, though he did occasionally appear on camera in early 1986 as part of the HBO Weekend interstitials of the time.
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Dan Ingram had been diagnosed with Parkinsonian syndrome in 2014, and died in 2018 after choking while eating.
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Dan Ingram had five sons, four daughters, two stepdaughters, 26 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren.
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Dan Ingram's brother was John W Ingram, who was the final president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad when the company went bankrupt on March 31,1980.