Chuck Blore and “Color Radio”

By the time Chuck Blore switched on “Color Radio” in Los Angeles, on KFWB in January 1958, Top 40 had been around for several years. It was Blore, however, who gave it a polish that elevated his stations—and those that imitated them—beyond the ultimately limited confines of a teenage audience. Originally a deejay and program director under Gordon McLendon—the famed Texas broadcaster known as one of the founders of Top 40 radio—Blore sought out disc...