Lorne has been involved in collecting and broadcasting vintage music all his life, which is a long time. He got his first 78 RPM record - by Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters - when he was three and never stopped searching for and acquiring recorded music, mostly on those beloved 78s.

He made regular appearances on CBC Radio in the 1970s. He was a fixture on Saturday Night Oldies with Don Daynard for ten years and had his own shows on Toronto community stations CKLN and CIUT in the 1980s. He was prominent in the Toronto music community having his own collectors' record store, the Bluenote Record Shop at Queen and Broadview, and running Canada's largest record collectors' get-together, the Toronto/Mississauga Musical Collectables  Show, for 35 years.

During this time he met the love of his life, Mary, and they, with their daughter Sarah, moved to Orillia, ON. There Lorne and Mary ran a popular antiques store, Carousel Collectables, that featured a cafe and regular live music. Lorne also did a daily feature on CFOR radio's morning show and wrote articles on music and record collecting for the Orillia Packet & Times, which were syndicated to papers all over Ontario. Many of those articles are available here.

His musical interests revolve around blues, jazz, country and roots with a special interest in Black gospel. Now retired, he and Mary still reside in Orillia and Lorne broadcasts his weekly show, which is recorded in his home studio, on CanoeFM (CKHA 100.9) in Haliburton and various stations across Canada, the U.S.A. and beyond.