He went several years with minor musical success limited to the West Coast, including being the original "Bob" in the duo Bob & Earl.
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He interviewed dozens of blues and R&B legends, such as Joe Turner, Lowell Fulson, Ruth Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Bo Diddley, Ike Turner, Hank Ballard, Bobby Day, Richard Berry, Don Julian, Brenton Wood, and Eugene Church, as well as doo-wop enthusiast George Carlin.
In 1980, he landed his first role in a major motion picture, playing Bobby Day the DJ in the Academy Award-winning Coal Miner's Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones.
D.B.'s Delight featured two regular co-hosts- a live performer (successively, St. Louis media celebrities Julius Hunter, "Young" Bobby Day and later Guy Phillips) and a puppet character called "D.B. Doorbell" (performed, at various times, by puppeteers Dale Thompson, Doug Kincaid, and Bobby Miller).
Many of Kansas City's most popular deejays would take their turn playing hits at Q-104's Country Club Plaza studios, including Pat McKay, Mike O'Brien, Steve Garrett, Johnny (Rockin') Rowlands, Bobby Ocean, Bobby Day, Chuck Nasty, Johnny Dare, Doug Billings, and Randy Miller.
After several unsuccessful replacements, Bobby Day from Salina, Kansas was chosen.