Why Did Frosty Leave Heidi and Frank and Come Back

There were tears, as she'd predicted, but the final moments on the air for radio personality Lisa May also unfolded with laughter, music, and a whole lot of love on Friday morning.

May, whose career on Los Angeles radio included the last five years on KLOS-FM/95.5 and nearly 25 years on KROQ-FM/106.7, announced recently that she was leaving the airwaves for a new chapter as the owner and operator of a fitness center in the Coachella Valley.

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  Comedian Brad Williams gives KROQ's Lisa May a lap dance so, as he put it, she would have something to remember from KROQ's 2012 April Foolishness show at the Gibson Amphitheare in Universal City in 2012. (Photo by ARMANDO BROWN, FOR THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER)

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  Lisa May and Brittany, the reigning Miss Double D-cember, introduce comedian Reggie Watts during KROQ 106.7 FM's annual Kevin & Bean's April Foolishness show at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 2014. (Photo by ARMANDO BROWN, FOR THE REGISTER)

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  Kevin and Bean Show team members Lisa May, Chip, and Christine, from left, introduce comedian Doug Benson during KROQ's annual April Foolishness show at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 2014. (Photo by ARMANDO BROWN, FOR THE REGISTER)

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  Lisa May helps host KROQ's annual Kevin & Bean's April Foolishness at Gibson Amphitheatre in April 2013. (Photo by KELLY A. SWIFT, FOR THE REGISTER)

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  Lisa May (Courtesy photo)

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  Longtime L.A. radio personality Lisa May is leaving KLOS-FM and radio on Friday, Dec. 13, 2019 to embark on a new chapter as the owner-operator of a fitness studio in the Coachella Valley. (Photo courtesy of Lisa May)

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  Comedian Brad Williams had the audience in stitches while giving KROQ's Lisa May an alleged lap dance during KROQ's April Foolishness show at the Gibson Amphitheare in Universal City in 2012. (Photo by ARMANDO BROWN, FOR THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER)

As her day on the Frosty, Heidi and Frank Show neared its 10 a.m. finish on Friday, things mostly turned to tributes from the KLOS team as well as calls from longtime listeners.

"You're making me cry," she said soon after the champagne bottles got uncorked and the toasting began.

"She's the first human being I see every day besides the guy who works at 7/11," said show producer Erik Smith before the regular New Music Friday bit for which he'd picked a pair of songs in May's honor.

"The first one is called 'I Made It' (by Manafest), and it's just for you," Smith said. "Because you hear a lot in this industry (that) you never know if or when you've made it.

"We're here to tell you you made it," he continued. "You have done this job with grace, you have done this job with kindness, and nobody in this building can say a bad word about Lisa."

A truck driver named Sam called to thank May for "your love of the traffic" through which he drives every day.

"Your traffic [report] really uplifts me, your voice uplifts me," he told her.

"Thank you, and man, a guy in a truck, that is rough in L.A.," May replied.

Caller Doug noted that he'd met her at a pet adoption event a few years ago, which gave Frosty, Heidi and Frank an opportunity to tease her one more time.

"Which cage were you in, Lisa?" one of the guys asked.

"Yeah, we adopted her from KROQ," the other chimed in.

"She stayed with me awhile," Heidi added. "I fostered her."

Frosty then sang her a song he'd written back when Frosty, Heidi and Frank were leaving their former radio home — that included lyrics he said were appropriate to be "saying goodbye to our dear friend that we're going to miss, that we spent so many years or our lives with."

The song included lines such as "I never thought you'd be leaving this soon," and "I hope you find what you're looking for," and finally, "Goodbye to you."

It's radio, of course, but you could sense the studio was getting a little bit tearier from the audible sniffing you could hear at the finish.

"Losing you in our life, we've all lost people and said goodbye to people we never thought we'd say goodbye to so soon," Frosty said.

"She's not dying!" Heidi joked.

"I might be," May countered.

Caller Jerry came on the line that thank Lisa for the traffic report that helped him find his future wife. He'd been stuck in traffic, heard May's report and her suggested alternate route one day seven or so years ago.

"I ended up getting rear-ended," Jerry said of the woman he met that morning thanks to listening to Lisa. "I ended up talking to her, and seven years later we're still married."

Smith's final song for May closed out the show, a Trampled By Turtles cover of the Warren Zevon song, "Keep Me In Your Heart," which is truly one of the most beautiful and emotional farewell songs you could ever hope to cry along to.

"If I leave, it doesn't mean I loved you any less," one verse goes before the chorus enters with "Keep me in your heart for a while."

As the chorus repeated at the end of the song the studio mics went live again and you could hear the crew singing along.

Then laughter: Apparently some kind of sign was displayed in the room that read "Lisa May, 1988-2019," like a gravestone.

"Oh, you guys, I love you," May said.

"Lisa, we love you too," one of the guys said.

As did a whole, whole lot of other people around Southern California for the last three decades.

Why Did Frosty Leave Heidi and Frank and Come Back

Source: https://www.ocregister.com/2019/12/13/lisa-may-finishes-her-last-day-on-radio-with-klos-team-frosty-heidi-and-frank

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