ITO PARODY PUTS BRYAN ON SPOT
Tuesday, April 11th 1995, 2:35AM
NEW YORK's old friend Gary Bryan was the San Francisco deejay who rewrote "Iko Iko" into a Lance Ito parody called "Ito Ito."
Contrary to press reports, he wasn't fired for it. Not, he says, that some people didn't try.
Bryan, who left here when WHTZ didn't renew his contract at the end of 1993, now works at KFRC in San Francisco, which he calls a beautiful city with "P.C. run totally amok."
This is a problem for a morning-show host: "Things that didn't make anybody bat an eye in New York can get you run out of town here."
Take "Ito Ito," which pokes fun less at Ito than the absurdity of the whole trial.
Several groups didn't see it that way, including the Asian-American Trial Lawyers Association, so Bryan was brought up on charges before the city Human Rights Commission.
"And they found me guilty," he says. "They recommended I be demoted and take a cut in pay. Fortunately, they have no authority, so I told them to screw off."
KFRC did take the song off the air, though Bryan and his partner, Dan Clark, have stayed on the O.J. case anyhow, along with Prop 187 and everything else. "We've turned the morning show pretty much into all-talk," he says. "Which is great. Ross [Brittain] and I almost did that at Z-100." Speaking of which, Bryan says he'd love to come back to New York someday. "I never wanted to leave," he says. "After Z-100 didn't renew me, I was in shock for a year."
