"Rock Talk"
With Allan Handelman

 


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The Allan Handelman Show
For January 19, 2003


This week on The Allan Handelman Show we dig out the airchecks to hear some of the greatest disc jockeys of all time. Polled in 1966 about the greatest influences on their lives, teenagers named their top three, in this order: God, disc jockeys, and parents.

Click to buy "The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio" Also this week, one of Allan's guests is legendary author and journalist Ben Fong-Torres, former editor and award-winning reporter for Rolling Stone. Ben's latest book is called, The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Rock Radio. The book comes with a CD packed with airchecks, and shows how the Top 40 Rock format became the on-air birthplace of Rock and Roll, the mouthpiece of the baby boomers, and even the savior of radio itself. We'll also relate the tragic early demise of many Top 40 personalities and show how the format survived and evolved to what we have today. Ben was a DJ on the acclaimed rock station KSAN for nine years, and former managing editor of Gavin, a leading publication for radio professionals. His other books include Not Fade Away, Hickory Wind, and his best-selling memoirs, The Rice Room: Growing Up Chinese-American-From Number Two Son to Rock'N'Roll.

Check out Ben's great site: BenFongTorres.com


Click to visit PETS's website Plus this week, Kayla "The Naked Tiger Girl" from PETA will be naked in a cage and you can watch it live from our studio view cam. She's on a mission to disrupt a circus in Charlotte on Monday. See her Sunday night, and then watch her on the news Monday, as she gets arrested for pulling this off. Joining her is Rav Chand, PETA's coordinator, marathon runner and a US Marine who is going off to war after the show.

Check out: PETA.com



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