Dick Whittinghill

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Dick Whittinghill (born March 5, 1913 in Montana – died January 24, 2001 in Los Angeles, California) was a movie and television actor, recording artist and radio disc jockey in the United States. His early music career included membership in The Pied Pipers vocal group which sang with Tommy Dorsey's big band. Beginning in 1950, Whittinghill was for almost three decades a popular disc jockey at radio station KMPC-AM in Los Angeles. Among the features of his program were the "story records," sent in by listeners, in which a short anecdote was completed with a line from a song. For example, the spider told Little Miss Muffet, "You can keep the curds but give me...All the Way (whey). (using Frank Sinatra's song). Whittinghill also spoofed the long-running radio serial Helen Trent, with "Helen Trump," written and narrated by Whittinghill and Foster Brooks. One of Helen's suitors was a politician named C. Dewey Detterwick, with whom, Whittinghill said, Helen doesn't drive any more, because when C. Dewey drives, he sees spots--lonely spots.

Whittinghill had a number of appearances on Dragnet in the 1960s, once as himself.

Whittinghill always signed off from his morning show with "I'm walkin' out the door, with you on my mind..." from the Nat King Cole record, "Walkin'." He utilized the services of Freddie Fill and his Orchestra to fill the last few seconds of air time prior to news broadcasts.