Frank Page (broadcaster)
| Raymond Franklin "Frank" Page | |
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| Born |
July 16, 1925 Malvern, Hot Spring County Arkansas, USA |
| Died | January 9, 2013 (aged 87) Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA |
| Resting place | Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport |
| Occupation | Radio broadcaster: KWKH and the Louisiana Hayride |
| Spouse(s) | Helen Hullet Page (married 1944-2013, his death) |
| Children |
Patti Lea Page Stephens |
| Parent(s) | Raymond Foster and Stella Irene Coston Page |
Patti Lea Page Stephens
Raymond Franklin Page, known as Frank Page (July 16, 1925 – January 9, 2013), was a boadcaster from radio station KWKH in Shreveport, Louisiana, who on October 16, 1954 introduced Elvis Presley to the Louisiana Hayride Country music program. The Hayride was presented weekly from 1948 until 1960 at the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium; it was akin to Shreveport's temporary alternative to the permanent Grand Ole Opry of Nashville, Tennessee.
Page was born in Malvern in Hot Spring County, Arkansas, a son of Raymond Foster Page and the former Stella Irene Coston. He attended school in Harlingen, Texas, Malvern, and North Little Rock, Arkansas. He enrolled in high school in the capital city of Little Rock, where he worked beginning at the age of sixteen for KGHI radio and thereafter at KLRA. On December 7, 1941, Page was broadcasting at the time of the Attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1943, he enlisted in the United States Army during World War II. He was assigned briefly at the end of the war to Armed Forces Radio in Berlin, Germany. In 1945, while being transported home on a Greek vessel, Page was shipwrecked in the North Atlantic. In 1946, he returned to KLRA but he and his announcing partner, Bob Fulton, were soon fired. His next and permanent stint brought him to Shreveport on Thanksgiving Day 1947.
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