Dick Whittinghill
American actor and disc jockey (1913ā2001) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Noral Edwin "Dick" Whittinghill (March 5, 1913 ā January 24, 2001) was an American film and television actor, recording artist and radio DJ in the United States. His early music career included membership in The Pied Pipers vocal group which sang with Tommy Dorsey's big band.
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Born | Noral Edwin Whittinghill (1913-03-05)March 5, 1913 |
Died | January 24, 2001(2001-01-24) (aged 87) |
Beginning in 1950, Whittinghill was for three decades the popular morning drive disc jockey at radio station KMPC in Los Angeles. During KMPC's heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, his fellow announcers included Ira Cook, Roger Carroll, Johnny Grant, Gary Owens, Johnny Magnus and Geoff Edwards. After his retirement, he was heard on a recorded Sunday program on KMPC, and later as afternoon drive personality at KPRZ, Los Angeles, reversing his traditional KMPC role, as former KMPC afternoon DJ Gary Owens was then KPRZ morning man.
Among the features of his program were the "story records," sent in by listeners, in which a short anecdote was completed with a line from a song. For example, the spider told Little Miss Muffet, "You can keep the curds but give me...All the Way (whey). (using Frank Sinatra's song).
Whittinghill had a minor national chart record. His narration "The Square" reached #144 on the Record World chart in May, 1965.