… …Well, I don’t know if he was or not unless it was just because that I left him – because he drank. …
[Description by Gene Knight]
I was lucky enough to dub this from the original tape of WAKE from 1959, which I found at KCBQ when I worked there. From what I’ve read, KCBQ and WAKE were co-owned by Bartell in 1959, and both stations were Top 40. Lots of echo and production on this, and Bill Drake, one of the “WAKE HitParaders”, worked there at this time.
WAKE, an original “Local” (Class IV) AM station, would have been 250 watts on 1340 in 1959, but was a ratings leader in Atlanta before more powerful stations like WQXI and WPLO adopted the Top 40 format.