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{{short description|American radio personality}}
[[File:Richard Beebe of The Credibility Gap, 1970.jpg|thumb|right|Richard Beebe in 1970]]
'''Richard Paul Beebe''' (December 5, 1929<ref>{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VLJ3-B5Z|title=California Birth Index|author=|date=|website=familysearch.org|accessdate=28 March 2019}}</ref> – August 29, 1998)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JGQD-52S|title=United States Social Security Death Index|author=|date=|website=familysearch.org|accessdate=28 March 2019}}</ref> was an American radio personality who was on the air for five decades in [[Los Angeles]] and won two [[Golden Mike Award]]s.  A journalist at [[KRLA 1110]],<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Station-Albums/Dream-House-KRLA-Earl.pdf |date=1991 |title=Dream-House: The history of a major West Coast radio station and Southern California's 50 years of "Radio Eleven-Ten"! |first=Bill |last=Earl |publisher=Desert Rose }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.playlistresearch.com/la/krla.htm|title=KRLA Los Angeles Radio History|author=|date=|website=www.playlistresearch.com}}</ref> he became a founding member of [[The Credibility Gap]].<ref name=lat98/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://krlabeat.sakionline.net/img/lewirwin.pdf|title=Lew Irwin Sets Record Straight on Origins of 1110/KRLA Credibility Gap|author=|date=July 15, 2010|website=sakionline.net|accessdate=28 March 2019}}</ref>  His experience and wit were key to most versions of the group. He became the link between the original and more famous later lineups when we was joined by [[Harry Shearer]], [[David Lander|David L. Lander]], and [[Michael McKean]], all much younger than he.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.laradio.com/q&a3q-98.htm|title = ~Los Angeles Radio People, Q&A 3rd quarter 1998}}</ref>  He left the Gap in 1975.<ref name=mm>{{cite web|url=https://michaelmckean.com/2016/06/01/the-reality-building/|title=THE REALITY BUILDING: Some Words on The Credibility Gap|author=|date=1 June 2016|website=michaelmckean.com|accessdate=28 March 2019}}</ref> Some of their early work can be heard at [[The Paley Center for Media]] in Los Angeles and New York City.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=richard&p=51&item=R89:0168|title=The Paley Center for Media|author=|date=|website=The Paley Center for Media|accessdate=28 March 2019}}</ref>

Beebe performed the voice of [[Dewey Phillips]] on the ''[[Pop Chronicles]]'' documentary.<ref name=pc7>{{Gilliland|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19754/m1/ |title=Show 7 - The All American Boy: Enter Elvis and the rock-a-billies. [Part 1&#93; |publisher=Digital.library.unt.edu |date=2013-05-28 |accessdate=2013-06-10}}</ref>  He returned to [[KRLA 1110]] in 1991.<ref>{{cite magazine |page=88 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=4 November 1991 |title=News and Public Affairs |magazine=Broadcasting |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1991/BC-1991-11-04.pdf |volume=121 |number=19 |access-date=29 June 2024}}</ref>

An Air Force veteran, he died of lung cancer in 1998.<ref name=lat98>{{Citation
  | title = Obituaries; Richard Beebe; Local Radio Broadcaster
  | newspaper = [[L.A. Times]]
  | pages = B10
  | date = September 3, 1998
  | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-sep-03-me-19189-story.html }}</ref>

== Discography ==
{{See|Credibility Gap discography}}
*''An Album Of Political Pornography'', with [[Lew Irwin and the Credibility Gap]] ([[Blue Thumb]], 1968)<ref name=mjj>{{cite web|url=http://magicofjuju.blogspot.com/2006/12/political-porno.html |title=Magic of JuJu: Political Porno |publisher=Magicofjuju.blogspot.com |date=2006-12-21
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708051842/http://magicofjuju.blogspot.com/2006/12/political-porno.html
|archivedate=2011-07-08 |accessdate=2010-01-08}}</ref>
* ''Woodshtick and More'' (1971)
* ''A Great Gift Idea'' ([[Reprise Records|Reprise]], 1974)
* ''The Bronze Age of Radio'' ([[Waterhouse Records|Waterhouse]], 1977)

==External links==
*[http://www.laradio.com/whereb.htm Los Angeles Radio People B]

==References==
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[[Category:American radio personalities]]
[[Category:Mass media people from Pasadena, California]]
[[Category:People from the San Gabriel Valley]]
[[Category:United States Air Force airmen]]
[[Category:Comedians from California]]
[[Category:20th-century American comedians]]
[[Category:Deaths from lung cancer in California]]


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