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| - In one of the Academic Articles that Eric W. Rothenbuhler wrote, entitled Peel In America, he interviewed Ken Dowe about his memories of Peel: According to Ken Dowe’s memory he recruited Ravenscroft to be his co-host for a Saturday afternoon program on KLIF in 1965, after the Beatles broke and he recalled hearing him with his British accent on WRR. His memory may be tangled with reports he had read, though, because there is little evidence that Ravenscroft was on WRR often or long and no sense of how Dowe would have found him in Dallas. The usual story, as reported above, is that Ravenscroft called into Russ Knight’s show, probably sometime in 1964. However he was identified by KLIF, they used him as a British voice to lend authenticity to their talk about the Beatles. Dowe reports that th
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| - In one of the Academic Articles that Eric W. Rothenbuhler wrote, entitled Peel In America, he interviewed Ken Dowe about his memories of Peel: According to Ken Dowe’s memory he recruited Ravenscroft to be his co-host for a Saturday afternoon program on KLIF in 1965, after the Beatles broke and he recalled hearing him with his British accent on WRR. His memory may be tangled with reports he had read, though, because there is little evidence that Ravenscroft was on WRR often or long and no sense of how Dowe would have found him in Dallas. The usual story, as reported above, is that Ravenscroft called into Russ Knight’s show, probably sometime in 1964. However he was identified by KLIF, they used him as a British voice to lend authenticity to their talk about the Beatles. Dowe reports that the Saturday afternoon show he did with Ravenscroft was a successful teen-oriented show. They took musical requests and did regular public appearances as well, ‘signing autographs and hyping KLIF’s association with the world’s hottest new music [the British invasion]’. Peel also remembers and reports at least one such public appearance, though he says it was with Russ Knight. Dowe reports they worked together a year and a half and he considered Ravenscroft a good friend during that time. Dowe described him as an intense guy, not the life of the party but he used the talents he had.In 1995 Ken Dowe made a video clip of himself reminding Peel about his days with KLIF, which was broadcast on Peel's This Is Your Life in January 1996. In the clip, Dowe suggested that Peel first got his pay packet at KLIF, to which Peel replied adamantly from the BBC studio that he never got paid there. In fact Peel admitted later on in interviews that his first paid job as a DJ was at KOMA in Oklahoma City.
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