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5 unusual facts about Chenault


Chenault

Mike Chenault (born 1957), House speaker of the 26th Alaska State Legislature

Claire Lee Chennault, US military aviator, leader of the Flying Tigers

Drake-Chenault

That montage inspired a whole series of later medley hits by everyone from Elvis Presley to The Beatles, Stars on 45 to Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers.

formatted by Gary Theroux, was narrated by Drake and produced by Theroux, Drake and chief engineer Mark Ford.

WAIZ

From 1980, probably earlier, until sometime after 1982, the station broadcast a Country Music format using the Drake-Chenault Great American Country programming service.


Bill Drake

It was later at KYNO in Fresno, California that he met Gene Chenault, who became his business partner.

The History of Rock and Roll

Among other things, Theroux had Drake-Chenault chief engineer Mark Ford painstakingly assemble two kinds of annual montages: one of each chart-topping hit of a given year (in sequence) and the other of other key songs there was no time to play in full.


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