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Should he hear a disk jockey he doesn't dig, Drake gets on the blower (he has 21 phones around the house, including one in each of the five bathrooms...
...Angeles. But it does not come naturally to a fellow who was born Philip Yarbrough (his assumed name, he says, "sounds better") in Georgia on the edge of Okefenokee swamp. What did come naturally, though, was the sound of music. At an early age, he was conducting a fantasy disk-jockey show at home, playing his favorites-gospel and country, Eddie Fisher and the Four Aces. By junior year in high school he was doing a teen program on Saturdays on the local radio station, and after a year at Georgia Teachers College, he plunged into radio full time. Seven...
...less. Next month 21 new client FM stations will receive by mail, on reels pretaped by Drake's staff, their weekly programming. For the stations, it means getting by for much of their air time with only an engineer on duty. For Drake, it means fewer disk jockeys to monitor, more time in the pool...
...line show is one of the most discredited forms of radio programming. What could be more unedifying than know-nothing listeners phoning in their philosophies to know-it-all ex-disk jockeys? But this summer the United Methodist Church is making judicious use of the format. It is sponsoring a radio dialogue between the races that is more compelling than any heard on the sudden multitude of such talk shows, including those produced...
...Victor). His records still sell as if he had not died in a plane crash four years ago. And no wonder. Reeves had an infallible touch with old-style ballads, a combination of smooth virility and naivete that inspires a secret smile of empathy in most listeners. This disk is one more of his innumerable posthumous albums, but it includes hitherto unreleased recordings of such ballads as Lonesome Waltz and Your Wedding...