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| Don Couser |
He was 72, according to mysanantonio.com
Couser is remembered as the host original host for the
locally produced KONO-TV dance show, “Swingtime,” which was patterned after
Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand.” His
Top-40 antics included his beloved, often sassy alter-ego character George the
Duck.
“He had a real good duck voice,” recalled Bruce Hathaway,
the pioneering radio deejay and personality who welcomed the Rolling Stones on
the British band’s first visit to San
Antonio in June 1964.
KONO program director Roger Allen praised Couser’s
theater-of-the-mind approach and quick wit.
Couser also worked at WOAI and KDOK. He was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in 2010.
It was 1971 and I was in my first year at San Antonio College. I was taking Radio, Television and Film classes taught by Jeff Hinger and Don Couser. Couser was a good instructor and the classes were highly entertaining. He was the real deal, a real live DJ that all of us wanted to be. Thanks Don for putting up with me and my lack of skill. I never made it to being a DJ but I had fun learning the basics from you.
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