'Da Loyah' Talks to 415 Media: Wants to Come Back to KGO Radio; Tillem: 'If They (Swanson) Want Me Back'

Len Tillem is ready to come back to KGO

HE HAD THE HIGHEST MID-DAY RATINGS IN SF RADIO when he did his KGO show in the lunch hour. He was topnotch too if you had a sense of humor and enjoyed a lawyer who not only spoke his mind but spoke back at listeners too who gravitated to his, well, uniqueness; an east-coast verbal gravitas that resonated with listeners.

Len Tillem, aka: "Da Loyah" told me he has newfound energy and wants to come back to a newly-formed KGO if  "they want me back. My ratings were #1 and I dominated my time slot."

It would seem too good to be true but in fact, it was new KGO/KSFO PD boss, Jack Swanson that was instrumental in getting Tillem, a trust and estate lawyer from Santa Rosa, on the air to begin with.

Tillem has been relaxing at home with his wife and friends and away from radio. He had an inkling to get back on the air but KGO had a different format run by alien PD's and Tillemhad some minor health issues hit him and wasn't ready to get back into being Da Loyah. "I'm feeling better," he tells me and seems re-energized, re-invigorated over the phone.

"I could do an hour and we can bring back some of the magic."

Tillem has a special relationship with callers; it can be testy at times and uncomfortable with the NY native telling it like it is but it makes for funny, spirited radio and it could generate some buzz for a new KGO sound.

Saying Tillem is strictly a one-hour legal show is like saying Gone With the Wind is only about the Civil War period.