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Dick Whittinghill

American jazz trumpeter and movie, television actor, radio DJ and author. Born March 05, 1913 in Montana. Died January 24, 2001 (aged 87) in Los Angeles, California. Was for three decades, beginning in 1950, the popular morning drive disc jockey at radio station KMPC in Los Angeles. As trumpeter played with Tommy Dorsey (big band). He attended the University of Montana. After moving to Los Angeles, he formed a singing quartet, 'The 4 Esquires'. Subsequently, he became one of the original Pied Pipers, a vocal group, often accompanying Jo Stafford and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Posthumously inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2008.