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'''Larry Wayne Corbin''' (December 2, 1938 – June 3, 2018) was a [[radio]] pioneer and financial advisor in, primarily, [[Lubbock]], [[Texas]].

'''Larry Wayne Corbin''' (December 2, 1938 – June 3, 2018) was a [[radio]] pioneer and financial advisor in, primarily, [[Lubbock]], [[Texas]].

Born in Duncan in Stephens County in southwestern [[Oklahoma]] to Howard and Naomi Corbin, Larry Corbin graduated from Levelland High School in Levelland in Hockley County west of Lubbock, where the family had relocated. He continued his education under a [[basketball]] scholarship at West Texas State University (since West Texas A&M University)) in Canyon in Randall County.  On August 17, 1958, he wed the former Jackie Roberts, and the couple moved to Lubbock. They were married for fifty-nine years until his death. In Lubbock, Corbin joined the family- owned radio station KLLL-AM. By 1970, the year of the deadly Lubbock tornadoes, he was the sole owner of the station, which was located on the twentieth floor of the Great Plains Life building. The station returned to the air in a few days but operated out of the Corbin home for several weeks. After the tornado, Corbin changed the 96.3 FM call letters to KLLL-FM and converted the business into one of the first full-time country music-formatted FM stations in the nation. The most successful FM station in Lubbock, KLLL remains a heritage station to this day. He sold the station in the late 1970s.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lubbockonline/obituary.aspx?pid=189277048|title=Larry Corbin obituary|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=June 13, 2018|accessdate=August 8, 2018}}</ref>  

Born in Duncan in Stephens County in southwestern [[Oklahoma]] to Howard and Naomi Corbin, Larry Corbin graduated from Levelland High School in Levelland in Hockley County west of Lubbock, where the family had relocated. He continued his education under a [[basketball]] scholarship at West Texas State University (since West Texas A&M University)) in Canyon in Randall County.  On August 17, 1958, he wed the former Jackie Roberts, and the couple moved to Lubbock. They were married for fifty-nine years until his death. In Lubbock, Corbin joined the family- owned radio station KLLL-AM. By 1970, the year of the deadly Lubbock tornadoes, he was the sole owner of the station, which was located on the twentieth floor of the Great Plains Life building. The station returned to the air in a few days but operated out of the Corbin home for several weeks. After the tornado, Corbin changed the 96.3 FM call letters to KLLL-FM and converted the business into one of the first full-time country music-formatted FM stations in the nation. The most successful FM station in Lubbock, KLLL remains a heritage station to this day. He sold the station in the late 1970s.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lubbockonline/obituary.aspx?pid=189277048|title=Larry Corbin obituary|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=June 13, 2018|accessdate=August 8, 2018}}</ref>  

Corbin and another Lubbock radio pioneer, Jerry "Bo" Coleman, and the famous musician Waylon Jennings, decided that their old friend, singer [[Buddy Holly]], who perished in an airplane crash in [[Iowa]] in 1959, should be honored in Lubbock. Corbin himself paid for the startup costs for the landmark Holly statue. With financial help from the proceeds of two Waylon Jennings concerts, the statue was completed and stands as a memorial to Buddy Holly.<ref name=obit/> After the Holly statue, Corbin, Jennings, and Coleman developed the concept of the West Texas Walk of Fame, dedicated to area musicians. The Walk of Fame inducted Holly in 1979, Jennings in 1980, Mac Davis in 1983, Jimmy Dean and Ralna English in 1984, and [[Don Allison]], among others, in 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/20180807/west-texas-walk-of-fame-to-add-abbott-allison-livingston-weeks|author=William Kerns|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|title=West Texas Walk of Fame to add Abbott, Allison, Livingston, Weeks|date=August 7, 2018|accessdate=August 8, 2018}}</ref>

Corbin and another Lubbock radio pioneer, Jerry "Bo" Coleman, and the famous musician Waylon Jennings, decided that their old friend, singer [[Buddy Holly]], who perished in an airplane crash in [[Iowa]] in 1959, should be honored in Lubbock. Corbin himself paid for the startup costs for the landmark Holly statue. With financial help from the proceeds of two Waylon Jennings concerts, the statue was completed and stands as a memorial to Buddy Holly.<ref name=obit/> After the Holly statue, Corbin, Jennings, and Coleman developed the concept of the West Texas Walk of Fame, dedicated to area musicians. The Walk of Fame inducted Holly in 1979, Jennings in 1980, Mac Davis in 1983, Jimmy Dean and Ralna English in 1984, and [[Don Allison]], among others, in 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/20180807/west-texas-walk-of-fame-to-add-abbott-allison-livingston-weeks|author=William Kerns|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|title=West Texas Walk of Fame to add Abbott, Allison, Livingston, Weeks|date=August 7, 2018|accessdate=August 8, 2018}}</ref>