Peter Smith

Pete Smith was my radio companion back in 1969 in the wee small hours of the morning. I spent time with him, trying to stay awake, on KMPC Radio when I fed my newborn. Loved all the disc jockeys on KMPC then & into the 70's. RIP Pete, & thank you for your company!

P.S. Survivors should include his sister Cory Smith of Coos Bay.

Pete, a legend, a dear friend, my mentor...Thank you for being one of the icons and champions, I began in music and ended in music... Because of Pete I was able to buy my home...music man, we would spin records, his collection of LP´s rivaled my late brother´s...Ray´s collection was better than any Radio Station´s, as was Pete´s! We listened in Baja, his wonderful wife Nancy...the love of his life. He, for some peculiar reason liked me. I would call out an artist, we´d listen together and...

My father Peter C. Smith was a Hollywood radio announcer, a thoroughbred horse breeder and a home developer in Baja California. He passed away after fighting numerous forms of cancer the last few years. He was 90. My dad was a performing artist and as such could be temperamental in his personal life. He was widowed with three young sons in 1961 but stuck with us and did the best he could. His best lesson was we never heard him talk poorly of any ethnicity or gender -- just specific people!...