Johnnie Darin 1942-2016

 

Johnnie was born John Christian Miller.  On one of his first jobs as Johnnie Christian. 

KACY Oxnard, KMEN San Bernardino, KRLA and KIIS; KRLA, 1968-71; KDAY, 1971; KROQ, 1972-73; KNAC, 1975; KGOE, 1975; KNX, 1976; KGIL, 1976-83; KJOI, 1978; KBLA, 1989-92; KGIL, 1993; KFWB, 1998-2008 and many more.  We had Johnnie in the 1970s and 80s.  We lost Johnnie 03/09/2016 to pancreatic cancer.  He had been hospitalized in Olympia, WA to be near his friends and family.  It was a great loss.

 

Johnnie Darin on AFRTS

 

 

Darin was born John Christian Miller. He worked at KACY in Oxnard as Johnnie Christian. In 1967 he went to KMEN in San Bernardino. There was a Chuck Christian working there and Johnnie didn’t want to be confused with him. The station was promoting a James Darren concert so Johnnie took that as his new last name and changed the spelling. Now I’m wondering if anyone every confused him with Bobby Darin!