Beyond The Music

Back before I was a famous radio personality, I was a stand up comic. In the early seventies I started as a solo act, then I teamed up with my brother Terry. We called ourselves “Jeff & Stan”, because “Ralph & Terry” just sounded too much like some sort of stomach disorder! (Think about it, but don’t dwell on it!)

We played some of the hottest nightclubs with some of the biggest names in showbiz.


The summer we spent in Las Vegas headlining two shows a night at The Sands was really a turning point in our careers…We had the pleasure of working with two of the giants of the business, Chip & Dale.


It was kinda weird having Chip & Dale opening for us…I mean, these cats had been in the biz for years doing movies and TV and nightclubs before we came along. Their routines about nuts and berries were a little old fashioned, but they were polished and professional and well liked by the audiences….their act was completely opposite of the edgy drug humor that Stan and I were doing…it made for a very interesting evening of entertainment.


We bonded and hung out with Chip & Dale almost 24-7…Chip liked the booze and the broads, and Dale barley left the crap table, except to go out back with Stan and me to smoke a doobie or 2 or 5 before the show!

We were living large…the American Dream…Sammy Davis, Jr. started hanging out with us poolside and after the shows…and It was Sammy himself who dubbed us the New Rat Pack!

Stan became really close to our fuzzy opening act during our summer run in Vegas, and when the tour was over, Stan decided to leave the team and join Chip & Dale. They called themselves “3 Hairy Guys” (Hairy, by the way, was Dale’s real name!) and started doing and act that was a cross between the 3 Stooges and the edgy drug humor we had been doing. Sadly, they did only one tour, where they were booed off almost every stage, and then disbanded.



I went back to doing a solo act and had great success all throughout the seventies and eighties, until I was hired to work at KPIG in 1992.


Chip & Dale left the stage and opened a string of successful nightclubs featuring male dancers (turns out Chip didn’t really like the broads all that much).


And Stan…well, he lost his desire to perform, after winning the lottery!

There’s no biz like showbiz!


Ralphie