I was a WLS Dick Biondi fan, myselfĭick Biondi (whose name I had never seen in print before writing this) came booming out of Chicago on 50,000-watt WLS. Here’s a fairly good tribute site with more info. He was on the air at KXOK AM630, a 5,000-watt radio station, from 1963 to 1969, He died in 1997. Rabbitt’s real name was Don Pietromonaco. All of the references I can find on the web show Rabbitt spelled with two Ts. One thing that’s interesting is that both The Missourian and the photos show Johnny Rabbitt spelled with one T. I was editor of the Youth Page at this time, and I used this photo as a four-column masthead for the page from time to time. Earnis Wright, 811 Perry, and Miss Jane McGinty, daughter of Dr. Martin Hecht, 2416 Terry Hill Miss Mary Wright, daughter of Mr. A TAC spokesman said that the teens would like to pay their own expenses so that United Fund money could be used for “underprivileged families.” The youths above are, from left, Bruce Ashby, son of Alfred Ashby, 1502 New Madrid Steve Robert, son of Mr. Money from the dance will be used to pay Teen Town operating expenses previously underwritten by the United Fund. This caption ran under this photo in The Southeast Missourian’s Youth Page on March 2, 1966:įive members of Cape Girardeau’s Teen-Age Club hold a petition containing the signatures of more than 1,000 high school pupils asking Johnny Rabbit, KXOK disc jockey, to come here March 13 to emcee a dance at the Arena Building.
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