Dick Summer

Dick Summer

To the great surprise of his parents who were expecting a future doctor or lawyer, Dick Summer was born on a brutally cold Brooklyn February night. Some would say the cold weather was the original reason for his lifelong feelings of rejection, because after all, it’s not easy for a newborn baby to nurse through a thick wool sweater. Shortly after his birth, Dick spent four years at Fordham University. More rejection. Fordham called it graduation, but Dick felt they just didn’t want him hanging around anymore, and he knew his parents felt pretty much the same way, so he decided to go to work at a big New York radio station called WNEW. Needless to say, they ignored him. But since Dick had developed a deep seated desire to eat, he finally managed to find work behind the microphones of a number of smaller stations all around the country. And then one night, a strange and wonderful thing happened.