Monty McFarlane
Monty McFarlane (1925-2003) Monty was a funny man and a great artist on radio for 46 years but he is best remembered for a long stretch as morning man at
Monty liked jazz music, big band and frowned on the “new music” of the 50’s 60’s and 70’s and somehow he survived in the radio entertainment business on the humour he generated. It was his dry wit, interplay with other radio personnel and tiny bits of old radio shows played at just the right second that made the Monty in the Morning show. He was an expert with the tight clip from a big LP. “You never loved me!” – A hysterical women shrieks and Monty would try to calm her down. McFarlane said it was a giggle and titter type of show. “I would try to keep people entertained.” He did it with no live audience to feed him energy.
Monty was a busy man putting together a CFUN basketball team that won a National championship in 1956, he was in four TV segments on CBC called Summer Begins and he appeared for several years as a character (Sam Lockhart) in the Vancouver TV production - The Littlest Hobo (1963-1965). He loved golf and played just about every day for four decades…..if it wasn’t raining.
Confined to a wheelchair with a neurological problem, Monty was quite ill for a number of years prior to his death but his humour remained. Some firefighters were whisking him away to hospital and he quipped: “You know guys; this is the third time you have taken me out of here. The fourth time you get to punch the card for a free coffee.”
Monty took his last ride on December 15, 2003. He was 78.
Radio and TV stations that he worked for over the course of his 46 year career: CBW, CKY, CKPR, CJVI, CKMO, CKNW, CFUN, CKLG, CJOR, KGU, CISL, CJVB, CIMA, CBC-TV, CHAN-TV