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Posted by Billy Rees, a 1970 interview with Dick Biondi. A rare example of an interview where Karen and Richard discuss political and religious views.
I also wanted to listen with special attention to both Landecker and to Dick Biondi, who died June 26. Biondi’s death prompted LiveLine’s John Garabedian to write about the influence that Biondi had on him at WKBW Buffalo, N.Y., his job before WLS.
I am a big big fan of Dick Biondi. Listened every nite when I was a teenager. Who knows? He may have had some influence on that Dave Mickie guy. Many years later we, along with a couple other DJs, were put into the R & R Hall of Fame together. Meaning - I got to spend almost a week with him in Cleveland. It was so wonderful. Can you imagine?
And we’ve got Dick Biondi and Joel Sebastian and Jimmy P Stagg, who all are gone now, of course, but we’ll, we’ll play segments from them. In addition, Tommy Edwards sent me an Animal Stories to run that is not on any of the albums.
August 31, 1959 is a big day in Los Angeles: It’s the day that the original KRLA — Radio Los Angeles — made its debut. So let’s look back at 65 years of KRLA.
He continues to play a role in numerous shows and specials, his most recent being The Game Show Show, The Voice That Rocked America: The Dick Biondi Story and Big Blast Live to name a few.
It was all due to Dick Biondi, disk jockey at WLS who loved the song and reworked it with the Shadows of Knight to clean it up so it could be played on Chicago radio. Reply this comment
