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Dick Biondi
The fast-talking wild man of Chicago radio, Dick Biondi called himself “The Screamer,” “The Big Mouth,” “The Big Noise from Buffalo,” “The Wild Eye-tralian,” and “The Supersonic Spaghetti Slurper.” Praising his energy, presentation, and appeal to young listeners, pioneer radio programmer Mike Joseph called Biondi one of the all-time great Top 40 disc jockeys and said that “he sounded like a rock jock should.” Biondi came across as a young man excited by what he was saying, playing, and doing. At WKBW in Buffalo, New York, he earned notoriety for going to Memphis, Tennessee, and picking up leaves from the ...(100 of 207 words)