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Talent: DICK BIONDI
Station: WCFL Chicago
Date: October 3, 1967
Time: 34:28

Chicago - it has always been Dick Biondi's kind of town.

The fast-talking, quick-witted Biondi was part of the original lineup when WLS became a Top 40 station in 1960 - he was there for three memorable years. In 1983 - after briefly working at WBBM-FM - he helped launch Chicago's long-time oldies outlet, WKMK-FM in 1984. He spent some two decades there before moving to WLS-FM in 2006.

Biondi also starred at WLS Top 40 rival WCFL. Biondi - on this aircheck sounding somewhat more subdued than in his wild WLS days - had a five-year run at WCFL beginning in 1967 before moving to yet another Chicago station, WMAQ. He left Chicago in 1972 worked for the next decade at WBZ Boston, WSAI Cincinnati and WNMB North Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Hear Dick Biondi's first show on WCFL here.

(The Don Shuttleworth Collection)

More 1967 airchecks here!

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