Rock Radio Scrapbook

AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of March 9, 2014
Edition #774

Talent: DICK BIONDI
Station: WBZ Boston
Date: July 17, 1972
Time: 30:17 (unscoped)

It was a gathering of the greats never seen before or since.

In July, 1972 - and again in July, 1973 - WBZ invited some of Top 40 radio's greatest talents to appear in the "Grease Weekend." Dick Clark, Dick Biondi, Wolfman Jack, Ed Heider, Dave Maynard, Larry Justice, Rockin' Joe Smith, J.J. Jeffrey, B. Mitchel Reed, Arnie Ginsberg, Murray the K and Robert W. Morgan were among those who appeared in one or both of these programs.

Dick Biondi was heard in both the 1972 and 1973 editions. At the time, Biondi had been on the air for over two decades, having begun at WCBA Corning, N.Y., in 1951. Who would have guessed that he was just getting started! He would celebrate his 60th anniversary in radio in 2011, and is still going strong today as a night-time host at Chicago's WLS-FM.

Enjoy Dick Biondi on the WBZ "Grease Weekend" from 1972 here.

(The Don Shuttleworth Collection)

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