Bill Drake - After Drake-Chenault

After Drake-Chenault

Drake-Chenault was sold and eventually dissolved in the mid-1980s, but their radio specials are still available from a variety of sources.

In 1973, Drake left KHJ, along with Steele and Morgan, to program KIQQ-FM ("K-100") in Los Angeles. Bill Drake was a member of the nominating committee of the Hit Parade Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame in 2007.

He died of lung cancer in Los Angeles on November 29, 2008. Gene Chenault died at 90 on February 23, 2010.

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