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...evoked an earlier, less dangerous musical era. He didn't talk with eccentric urgency, like so many of the radio DJs of the time - his only coinages were "IFIC" (from "Flavor-ific," to describe Beechnut Gum, sponsor of a Saturday night show he hosted for a few years) and "gesachtstehagen" (then, and now, undecipherable to me). You could say that Clark was to rock 'n roll what Pat Boone was to Little Richard: the nice white man who made the rough stuff palatable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philly Fifties: Rock 'n Radio | 7/14/2001 | See Source »

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