Overview
- Big Country 99.5 (KVOO) announced Parker’s passing on social media, calling him a legend of the station.
- Channel 6 News reported he died Monday morning at a Tulsa hospital at age 88.
- Parker worked at KVOO from 1971 until his retirement in 2015, shaping country radio in Oklahoma for more than four decades.
- Career honors included CMA Disc Jockey of the Year in 1974, ACM awards in 1975, 1977, 1978 and 1984, and a 1992 induction into the Country Music Disc Jockey Hall of Fame.
- He received the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995 and recorded more than 20 charted songs during the 1970s and 1980s.