The History of Rock and Roll

[Gary's Ice Cream]

Actually - this is not the original History of Rock & Roll.  This is the
later remake - the one that Bill Drake himself voiced.  The first one was
voiced by Robert W Morgan and Harble Harve - they did individual hours.  The
Boston version was voiced by Frank Kingston Smith - he used to tell
hilarious stories about the recording of the hours in real time in a hallway
of WRKO.  If they made a mistake - they had to start the whole hour over
again!

-Gary Francis
 

-----Original Message-----
From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org
[mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of
Donna Halper
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 7:23 PM
To: boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org
Subject: The History of Rock and Roll

I noticed that Oldies 103.3 is re-playing a classic, the old Drake-Chenault
History of Rock and Roll.  It has aged very well, and has some very
interesting soundbyte-interviews and the tight production they expected back
in those AM top 40 days...  but the announcer doing the voice-overs sounds
like an old time Middle of the Road announcer-- and I cannot recall his
name.  I know I've heard him before.  Anybody recall who narrated it back
then?  And is it available for purchase anywhere?

--
Internal Virus Database is out-of-date.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.6.1/343 - Release Date: 5/18/2006
 

-- 
Internal Virus Database is out-of-date.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.6.1/343 - Release Date: 5/18/2006