Dick Williams
American singer, actor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Blaine Williams was an American singer. He and his brothers, Bob, Don, and Andy Williams, performed as a quartet, The Williams Brothers. Biography Richard Blaine Williams was born in Wall Lake, Iowa, the son of Jay Emerson and Florence Williams. While living in Cheviot, Ohio, he attended Western Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. He finished high school at University High School, in West Los Angeles, because of his family's move to California. Williams had three brothers: Bob, Don, and Andy. One of his first performances was in a children's choir at the local Presbyterian church. He and his brothers formed the Williams Brothers quartet in late 1938, and they performed on radio in the Midwest, first at WHO, in Des Moines, Iowa. In July 1940 the family moved to Chicago and received a job at WLS, in Chicago, and WLW, in Cincinnati. Moving to Los Angeles in 1943, the Williams Brothers sang with Bing Crosby on the hit record "Swinging on a Star" . They appeared in four musical films: Janie , Kansas City Kitty , Something in the Wind and Ladies' Man .
