… the star of WAKE Weekend – Million Dollar Music! …
[Description by Uncle Ricky]
Paul Drew grew up in Detroit. His first radio gig was at Wayne State University in 1953. He moved to Atlanta in 1957 to work at WGST. By 1961, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Drake had moved into his apartment complex. In a 1977 interview with Radio and Records, Drew described how he left his job at WGST to work at WAKE:
Bill Drake (top left) and Paul Drew (2nd from right) are shown at the YMCA (with three unidentified WAKE Hitparaders) for the WAKE Olympics promotion.
“So Bill and I, one morning, just the two of us in my apartment over probably the best cup of coffee I think either one of us have ever had, something in the water and something in the coffee that day, and we talked about it, and then I went to work at WAKE