Jimmy rabbitt biography

Jimmy Rabbitt, a pioneering freeform radio DJ who helped expose outlaw country music to Southern California, died of natural causes on Nov. 25.
Born in 1941 under his given name of Dale Payne, The Rabbitt was one of the coolest sounding DJs to ever grace the local airwaves.
He was born Dale Payne, first adopted the on-air name Fast Eddie Payne, and then when he got his first big radio job at KLIF in Dallas, TX, he.

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James Rabbitt

British Columbian politician

James Thomas "Jim" Rabbitt (born May 22, 1941 in Princeton, British Columbia)^[1] is a Canadian businessman and former politician. He represented Yale-Lillooet in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1986 to 1991 as a Social Credit member.

He is the son of Patrick J. Rabbitt, and was educated at the University of British Columbia. In 1961, Rabbitt married Eileen A. Goldie. He was an alderman for Merritt and was mayor from 1980 to 1984. Rabbitt served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Labour and Consumer Services.^[1] He was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1991 as a Social Credit member and again in 1996 as a Liberal, losing to Harry Lali each time.^[2]

In 1988, he chaired a special legislative committee charged with reviewing the distribution of electoral districts in British Columbia.^[3] In 1989, he published Taking action: a strategy for the management of solid wastes as chair of the Municipal Solid Waste Management Task Force.^[4]

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Jimmy Rabbitt Turned The World Onto Outlaw Country (RIP)

If you’re an actual country music fan, you will immediately recognize the name “Jimmy Rabbitt.” You just may not know exactly why he was so important. But when you’re co-writing with David Allan Coe and getting named dropped in his songs, and Waylon Jennings once produced an album for you, your fair to characterize as an Outlaw country legend.

But Jimmy Rabbitt’s legacy wasn’t primarily forged as a performer or a songwriter. Though he did that as well—which is one of the many things that gave him the skins on the wall to be respected by so many artists—it was his work as a DJ that made Jimmy Rabbitt so integral to the formation and popularization of Outlaw country music.

“She said Jimmy Rabbitt turned her on to my last album” is the line from David Allan Coe’s infamous song “Longhaired Redneck” where many got clued into this man’s importance, though folks in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan region needed no name drop. Jimmy R

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Rabbitt, Jimmy

He is a radio DJ, guitarist, singer-songwriter and actor born Eddy Payne from Washington DCwho settled in Tyler, Texas with his grandparents while he was young. Busy from the start, he attended school and spent the rest of the time working as a shoe salesman and playing in a band.

While he was still a teenager in 1961 he was given the chance to host his own radio show for KGKB AM and soon became known as “Fast Eddy Payne”. The following year he was broadcasting a night-time show in Corpus Christi at KRYS AM when he got noticed by a radio and record promoter who took him down to KOLE AM at Port Arthur in Louisiana. Before long he was back in Tyler working at KDOK AM and remained there until 1964.

While broadcasting in Tyler he was listened to by Johnny Borders of McLendon Broadcasting and soon he was whisked off to a job in Dallas at KLIF AM where he changed his name to Jimmy Rabbitt and learnt many of the tricks of the radio presenter’s trade. At the same time the British Invasion was erupting in America and he began playing a huge range of local music mixe