… yeah, just grab another song and we’ll get it on as quickly as possible because this frightens the heck out of me …
[Description by Uncle Ricky]
Bill Todd, aka Cat Simon was known as Johnny Williams at WRKO, Boston, in 1970. Because there was already a Johnny Williams at KHJ when he moved to Los Angeles in 1972, he was briefly dubbed C. C. Simon, but settled on Cat.
Prior to WRKO, he was with Philadelphia’s WIBG, and after KHJ, he worked at KMET in L.A. and San Diego’s KPRI, among others.
In this short, ‘scoped aircheck from June 21, 1972, Cat says “it’s been his night all along”, and you’ll hear a couple of technical snafus. Keep in mind that KHJ had board ops, so all the air talent could do is sound like it
was something they could fix, even though they were completely at the mercy of their engineers (and their machines).
Bill Todd died May 13th, 2007 of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s Disease.)
Since 2004, he had operated a very successful web design and marketing business in Phoenix. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.