Dale's biography was taken from the WXKS/Boston Website, copied with Dale's kind permission.

Dale knew he wanted to be in radio since he was very young. He literally walked by a radio and heard a man's voice come out of it and said to his mother, "who's that guy, how does that work?" She said that he was miles away talking into a microphone and that it was through the air to the radio. Dale thought that was the coolest thing. From then on that is what he wanted to do. So he banged on a million radio station doors during high school and finally he knocked on the right door in Syracuse, NY at WOLF/1490 AM. The morning guy had quit and they also had another position to fill. Just the day before they had told him that they didn't have any openings but to fill out an application just in case — you never know! Well the General Manager called Dale where he was working as a bookkeeper in a bank and asked for a tape. He didn't have a tape because he had no experience. So the GM gave him some records and a tape and sent him into a studio. The GM told him to make believe he was on the radio. This happened at 5 PM and at 6 PM he was on the air on the 6-Midnight shift and has been working in radio ever since. Originally, Dale thought radio was a great way to get all the new music. The other thing was that the business really does fascinate him, even to this day. "You talk into this piece of metal and people can hear you — it's crazy!!!"

Al Gates told us he'd quit The BIG 68 because he didn't like Bill Drake's format.  So, enter Dale Dorman. Dale worked for a KFRC in San Francisco for 2 years before moving to Boston to work for WRKO.  (The first song Dale played on WRKO was Midnight Confessions by the Grass Roots) He stayed at WRKO for almost 10 years (1968-1978) during which he also was the voice over on Boston's TV Channel 56 for the Kids Block Cartoons, morning and afternoon. He was known there as Uncle Dale from 1969-1991. KISS 108 had just come on the air less than a year before Dale came on board. He loved the energy — KISS was a disco station at the time. The station was wild and nuts! Dale hung out in the building after his shift at another station (WRKO) until they hired him. Dale's calling card or personal trademarks would be that he always signs on his show with "Hi Ma", and being called "Uncle Dale."

In mid-1975, Johnny Dark temporarily replaced Dorman doing mornings (the reason is unclear),  In September of 1978, Dorman was replaced by the team of Charlie & Harrigan — who quit the station shortly thereafter.  Charlie & Harrigan didn't do well at all in Boston.  And Dorman moved on to WVBF, after ten long, loyal (and popular) years at WRKO.

Dale was replaced as WRKO was seguing into its Adult-Contemporary phase.  A savvy Dorman may have known that FM was where it was happening, and that RKO General was too stodgy to take WRKO's FM, WROR, to its fullest potential. So Dale went to WVBF, and has seemingly settled into the Boston market permanently.  New Englanders certainly aren't complaining!  Dale is now the Afternoon Drive On-Air Personality/Operations Manager of Medford-Boston's WXKS/107.9 (Kiss 108).  See the Dorman Timeline, below his airchecks.

More Dorman airchecks are available on the Aircheck Central page.

WRKO Newsman Bill Rossi carries on some fun banter with Dale.  This is the 3-minute version of the original 43-minute aircheck, available to you on Big 68 Souvenir CD #6823, for your support of WRKO/The BIG 68 Remembered!  The full version includes silly stuff with then-co-owned WNAC-TV channel 7's meteorologist Stu Suroka, and of course, much more personality from Uncle Dale.  This show leads into the Jack O'Brien show, also heard on BIG 68 Souvenir CD #6823.