The Allan Handelman Show
For May 19, 2013

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• This week Allan welcomes back the amazing Wink Martindale. In the history of TV game shows, no name is more synonymous with "host" than Wink Martindale - the man who has guided 19 broadcast network, national cable and syndicated TV games. He has hosted more game shows than anyone except Bill Cullen.
• Also on this sow we welcome back Rock N Roll Historian and author R Gary Patterson. Get ready for more Rock and Roll Myths, Legends, and Curses. Gary was also the Rock consultant for VH1 and the man behind the TV show "VH1 Confidential". Much more below.
  

Wink Martindale's years in broadcasting encompass more than his hit TV game shows. Before TV, there was radio. Before the games, there was a Gold Record. Along with "host" there have been many producer credits as well.

Winston C. Martindale - nicknamed "Wink" by a neighborhood pal - was born and raised in Jackson, Tennessee - the only member of his family of seven to be in broadcasting.

"I guess I broke the mold" he laughs. "I think that I was born with a desire to be a radio announcer. I always had that great desire to sit behind a microphone. My first 'mike' was two paper cups attached to a string."

It wasn't long before he was sitting behind the real thing. After years of pestering his Sunday School teacher - who happened to manage one of the local radio stations - Wink auditioned for WPLI at age 17. He got the job just three months before graduating from Jackson High School.

"They gave me a job at $25 per week, and for that you were expected to do everything", he says. "You read commercials, the news - play-by-play high school football and basketball, and you played records. If the floor needed sweeping, you did that too."

Over the next two years, Wink graduated to even-larger stations in Jackson and eventually to the station of his dreams - WHBQ in Memphis, which he listened to as a teenager. He hosted the station's popular "Clockwatchers" morning show while attaining a Bachelor of Science degree from Memphis State University (now University of Memphis). Just months after landing the radio job, WHBQ-TV signed on the air and Wink became a popular local television personality as well.

His success in memphis led to Los Angeles, where he hosted radio and television programs for KHJ. At the same time, Wink's career took an unexpected turn. Dot Records, Randy Wood, tapped him to record a pop version of a previous hit country narrative - "Deck of Cards".

The recording shot to the top of the charts, earned Gold Record status - and a appearance by Wink on the "Ed Sullivan Show".

After years of carving out a place for himself as one of the most popular air personalities in Los Angeles - primarily popular local radio and television programs - Wink felt a change was due.

"I had been a deejay since I was 17. " he says. "My roots were in radio, but I thought it would be fun to try my hand hosting a television game. I'd become addicted to Allen Ludden's popular show, "Password". And after hosting a local version of "What's This Song", a musical show featuring celebrities, NBC added it to its daytime lineup". Wink had found his niche.

In the years since "What's This Song", Wink has hosted an impressive array of shows, including: "Tic-Tac-Dough, "Trivial Pursuit, " "Can You Top This," "Gambit," "High Rollers," and "Debt." He also produced the syndicated "Headline Chasers," in association with Merv Griffin and KingWorld. He and his late partner, Bill Hillier, were the first to produce real-time interactive game shows for The Family Channel ("Boggle", "Jumble" and others).

In June of 2006, Wink was honored with his star on the Hollywood walk of Fame. It can be found between those of Suzanne Sommers and Tom Hanks on Hollywood Boulevard.

Wink shows no sign of slowing his pace. He is the national spokesperson for Orbitz travel on both radio and television, and he recently published his autobiography "Winking at Life".

When not working, Wink lives in Calabasas, CA with Sandy, his wife of 32 years, and their three Chihuahuas.

Check out Wink's web site and his FaceBook page.

R. Gary Patterson is a native Tennessean with a passion for rock and roll. As a published author with Simon and Schuster, Patterson's works portray many fascinating events that helped shape musical history from Robert Johnson through current groups making a place for themselves among rock and roll's standing legends. In 1996, Patterson released his first book entitled The Walrus Was Paul: The Great Beatle Death Clues. Immediately, the book became highly sought after. Beatlefest catalog proclaimed The Walrus Was Paul as one of its best selling titles of the year. Due to the instant success of the book, Patterson found himself as a highly sought after radio personality. He appeared on all the syndicated Beatle radio shows including Westwood One's The Beatle Years, ABC Radio's Beatle Archives, the Breakfast With the Beatles programs from New York to Los Angeles, and Joe Johnson's Beatle Brunch. International shows were broadcast throughout Canada, Great Britain on the BBC, Australia, and Radio Caroline in New Zealand. He has appeared at numerous national Beatle conventions including "Beatlefests" in New York and Chicago, and other Beatle conventions in Orlando, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Atlanta, Memphis, and Nashville.

Shortly thereafter, Patterson released his second work, Hellhounds on Their Trail: Tales from the Rock N Roll Graveyard. In this work, Patterson continued with his popular theme of rock and roll's enduring myths and legends. Hellhounds on Their Trail begins with Robert Johnson waiting at the Crossroads just outside Clarksdale, Mississippi to make his deal with Old Scratch. Other chapters focus on hidden messages in rock, Jimmy Page and the Zeppelin Curse, strange fatal coincidences in the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd bands, and a discussion of an exclusive group of musicians who were members of "The Club," whose only membership requirement was untimely death at the tender age of 27.

Patterson's third book was released by Simon and Schuster's Fireside Books on July 13, 2004. It is called Take A Walk on the Dark Side: Rock and Roll Myths, Legends, and Curses. Of course, Gary is collecting more tales for his next volume of great rock and roll myths and legends so check back for information concerning its release date.

In 2000, Gary Patterson served as a consultant for VH1 Confidential. The series highlighted a number of rock music's most enduring mysteries. A vast majority of these tales were found in Patterson's "The Walrus Was Paul" and Hellhounds on Their Trail. Patterson appeared in three of the episodes discussing the Paul is Dead rumors of 1969, the Robert Johnson legend, the Curse of 27, and Rock and Roll's mad geniuses. Today Patterson is developing other ideas for several new television series dealing with fascinating events in the ongoing history of rock and roll. Starting on October 31, 2008, Patterson was involved with NBC and E! Network on the one hour special "Doomed to Die: 13 Curses." The show is still in rotation so check your TV listings for the next showing. Gary is also currently programming live entertainment events for broadband pay for view audiences. More information will soon be posted here as to content and scheduling.

Patterson's radio appearances continue to grow beyond the Beatles shows and he enjoys being a guest on Coast-to-Coast AM. Gary also continues to be a consultant for many of rock radio's premier stations nationwide, and spends some of his time lecturing on college campuses. Many lectures concern myths and little-known legends of popular music, and for his research in this field, R. Gary Patterson has been called "the self-styled Fox Mulder of Rock and Roll." This year Patterson has formed a production company with two extremely talented producers in Los Angeles to develop programming for cable and network television.

When he is not writing, appearing on television, or radio, Gary Patterson teaches literature and European history in the Tennessee public school system. Patterson is a life long resident of Tennessee and is a graduate of Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee. He has a daughter, Shea, who is currently enrolled in Graduate Studies at the University of Tennessee.

His hobbies include reading, traveling, listening to music, watching movies, and playing the guitar.

Visit Gary's website RGaryPatterson.com.

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