| Who is ‘Sweet Dick’ Whinnington? Or WHAT the hell is a ‘Sweet Dick’ Whittington?! To the novice, the name might be easily mistaken for an unsavory character in a bad Farley Brothers flick. However, the name is better associated to a Top 40 disc jockey/radio personality who populated various Los Angeles radio stations for over four decades. His name often comes up among other names in LA radio history like The Real Don Steele, Robert W. Morgan and Dick Whinninghill and is still remembered fondly. Yet, despite his stature and his cult following amongst radio fanboys, industry people and regular listeners who still remember him many years since his last radio broadcast (believed during the early 90’s), not much is known about “the man behind the mic”, especially on the internet. Why the lack of information? Who knows. What is known is his professional resume, or, at least, good chunks of it and this is where this small site comes in, along side some rare stuff I dumped into in the past, which should be evident to the size of the site. The last known set of semi-rumors is that he’s now living in the San Louis Obispo County area, the image voice for the local KKJL-AM staion and is working on a book that is “loosely based on my own life, consisting of a trilogy of three cities in the Midwest.” Until that book is done and released, the radio world well be left guessing the ‘who’ ‘what’ and ‘where’ that is currently the state of ‘Sweet Dick’ Whittington. In the meantime, you can spend a few seconds here. Enjoy, fanboy! Don-O |
| NOTICE: This site pays a respective, appreciative and, at times, humorous tribute to Sweet Dick Whittington, what’s left of KGIL and their associates and co-workers. As loudly indicated at the top of this page, this site is not authorized nor associated with the above party. Any reporting and opinions expressed in this site is only of that person nor should be confused with Mr. Whittington, ex-KGIL and so on. There’s no copyright infringed and are owned by their respective writers and owners. If you have any contributions, comments or questions, you can contact me at oddlystupid at yahoo dot com Thanks! |
| NEWS: (old version) Still no word or evidence of that KGIL Reunion from July, but we did find out about another event that happen JUST a few days ago. Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters had a tributary luncheon on September 16th for many of L. A.'s radio legends, one of them being Sweet Dick Whittington. The luncheon was first announced in the Orange County Register. Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters were quick with posting details and pictures on their web site of this event, which you can see HERE and HERE. In the meantime, I just put up a Sweet Dick playlist on my YouTube account. Finally, I pulled the finger out and, instead of putting the videos HERE, I put them all over THERE in copyright-infringement-land! Click the 'video' button above and see what happens. |
| NEWS (3/13/13) Well, folks. It’s time for the yearly news update to prove that Sweet Dick Whittington still has a pulse….much less this web site. First off, the station that employs Sweet Dick as their “image voice”, KKJL-AM, has added a FM frequency late last year and had Dick record new spots to reflect the new change for 2013. Plus, he even recorded a spot for a local business. Second is Sweet Dick-related. His former producer Douglas McEwan has written a new book called ‘Tallyho, Tallulah’, a sequel to ‘My Lush Life’. In the book, McEwan dedicates this new tome to his high school drama teacher and Sweet Dick; “my first mentor; the man who first told me that I was funny, that I was a writer, and who began the task of teaching me what the hell I was doing. He even paid for my A. F. T. R. A. initiation fee. These things are not forgotten.” To which Dick replied: “Dear Doug, Thank you so much for the dedication. I never remember being that nice or generous, or anything else unless it pertained to me, me, me. Seriously, I am very flattered. Incidentally after studying the picture in the back of the book, I must say that each year, you are more and more looking like the late Gore Vidal. I think he too would have been very proud of you, and probably hate me for getting the dedication and not him. I should mention that the only other dedication I have had was from a driver on the 101, who shouted over to me in the next lane after I cut him off: 'Go f**k yourself!' Now you can understand why I am so pleased. The best of luck with Tallulah, of course, and to you, my fifth child. Dick" To find, read and, hopefully, buy McEwan’s new book, go to the publishers web site for information at www. ElectricNoggin.com/Tallyho.html. For those of you who are Facebook addicted: www.facebook. com/TallyhoTallulah. For those who are wondering who the hell this Tally (a.k.a. Tallulah Morehead) is swing on over to www.tallulahmorehead.blogspot.com/ and check out her verbal wears. Go, Dougie! |