Sweet Dick Whittington’s 4th Of July Spetacular (excerpt)

…and now for me first “podcast”…. To make a long story short, I quickly became a fan of LA disc jockey Sweet Dick Whittington soon after my arrival in the San Fernando Valley at the age of 14. He was broadcasting from ‘Valley Radio’ KGIL-AM, which I would later find out too late that their studios was just a miles from where I lived. I became such a fan that I began to record some of his radio adventures on my Sears boom box in Nobility cassettes. One of the longer pieces I manage to capture (and that survived) was this tail end of a 1978 (?) broadcast. After having a live broadcast from an Alphie’s restaurant (which was owned by Alpha Beta supermarket) and letting their news anchor do his report from a plane, Dick bragged everybody out to the stations parking lot and set off some fireworks….in broad daylight. We now join Dick and the KGIL’ers as they finish off the last of the fireworks as he takes care of some last minute business. I’ll make my official Podcast deal soon…after I find what audio program to use. Don-O BTW: I run an unofficial Sweet Dick Whittington web site at: www.geocities/oddlystupid/sweetdick.html.