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Jimmy Rabbitt

michael hagerty

michael hagerty

Very sorry to be the bearer of sad news on this morning after Thanksgiving. Jimmy Rabbitt (Eddie Payne) passed away in Texas at the age of 79.


On a personal note, Rabbitt is easily on my list of the ten air talents I've enjoyed the most. REELRADIO has airchecks of him at KLIF, Dallas, KRLA, KHJ, KGBS-FM and KROQ AM and FM, Los Angeles, but Rabbitt was also (briefly) on ABC-FM's "Love" format, on KMET and went straight-up country in stints at KBBQ, KGBS-FM and KLAC (twice).


He and B. Mitchel Reed, to me, are the pillars of FM rock radio in Southern California. As a teenager, there simply was no one hipper than The Rabbitt.
 
Sorry to hear this. I had the opportunity to hear Jimmy Rabbitt on the REELRADIO website. Very entertaining and quite talented. RIP!
 
radioman148 said:
Sorry to hear this. I had the opportunity to hear Jimmy Rabbitt on the REELRADIO website. Very entertaining and quite talented. RIP!
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I was too young to hear Jimmy Rabbit on my favorite station growing up, KMET and was very disappointed that he and other jocks from the pre-Sam Bellamy era (late 70s to early 80s) were not included in the KMET reunion that took place on the Sound (KSWD). As I said at the time, KMET was at its height in the Bellamy era , but those achievements were also built on work of those that came before them including Jimmy Rabbit, Steven Clean, and Shadoe Stevens among others. I wish that work could have been recognized while he was still with us.
 
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