Dick Whittinghill
Broadcast Artist
1913 – 2001
Who was Dick Whittinghill?
Dick Whittinghill 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.
Beginning in 1950, Whittinghill was for three decades a popular disc jockey at radio station KMPC in Los Angeles. 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..
Dick Whittinghill had a minor national chart record. His narration "The Square" reached #144 on the Record World chart in May, 1965.
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- Born
- Mar 5, 1913
Montana - Also known as
- Noral Edward Whittinghill
- Whit
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Jan 24, 2001
Los Angeles
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on July 23, 2013
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