the Bay Area. During that period he initially worked afternoons on 610/KFRC. He eventually accepted an offer to broadcast weekday mornings on "Magic 61," by then owned by real estate magnate Peter Bedford (Bedford Broadcasting). Magic 61 was formatted as "American pop standards" (Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, Harry Connick, Jr., Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, et al.). After the sale of KFRC AM and FM (99.7) (the new owners decided to simulcast the FM "oldies" format on 610 AM), Jim and the show decamped for a run on KKSJ, San Jose. In 1997, Lange became morning host of The Lange Gang on KABL in San Francisco. Lange retired in 2005 after KABL went off the air. He also appeared as himself in the critically acclaimed 2002 film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. In later years, he lived in Marin County, California, with his wife, Michigan native Nancy Fleming, former Miss America 1961, whom he married in 1978. Lange died of a heart attack at their home in Mill Valley, California on February 25, 2014. He was 81. References External links 1932 births 2014 deaths American game show hosts American radio DJs American radio personalities People from Mill Valley, California People from Saint Paul, Minnesota University of Minnesota alumni United States Marines