Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
24. Jan. 2001 · Noral Edwin "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.
Whittinghill was the top-rated and highest-paid disc jockey in Southern California for years. He earned his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was immortalized in the Hollywood Wax Museum. None of that fazed him. "The disc jockey," he liked to say, "is the lowest rung on the show business ladder. There's no talent required for this whatsoever.
Dick Whittinghill invented the morning show the way it's done today. He started with wild voice tracks long before it became popular, and he was sequencing his music long before most disc jockeys discovered how to orchestrate records and make it a real pr ...
3. Aug. 2019 · Dick Whittinghill was one of the last to go before News and Sports stepped in and changed the landscape forever. So when Dick Whittinghill decided it was time to go, his last week on the air was devoted to nostalgia for the station as it was, not what it was becoming. This last 30 or so minutes gives some idea of what Personality Radio in the ...
24. Jan. 2001 · Dick Whittinghill. American jazz trumpeter and movie, television actor, radio DJ and author. Born March 05, 1913 in Montana. Died January 24, 2001 (aged 87) in Los Angeles, California. Was for three decades, beginning in 1950, the popular morning drive disc jockey at radio station KMPC in Los Angeles. As trumpeter played with Tommy Dorsey (big ...
30. Jan. 2001 · He was 87. Whittinghill died hours after undergoing the surgery at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Burbank. Although best known for his radio career, Whittinghill also acted on TV, including ...
DID YOU WHITTINGHILL THIS MORNING? Dick Whittinghill with Don Page Foreword by Bob Hope Each weekday morning hundreds of thousands of Californians wake up to the voice of disc jockey Dick Whittinghill, who, for years, has been one of the most successful, best loved—and funniest—disc jockeys in America. Here Old Whit tells tales—some
