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Ray Dorey, WHDH's man about music, has good reason for saying:
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Don't Call Me Deejay"
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i oston, once characterized in a "New Faces" revue sketch as "the home of the free, home of the Braves home of the Red Sox," has a new claim to fame. It's Ray Dorey, to whom the Mayor gave the key to the city — for his "Freedom Train" recording — and to whom the rest of the city have given their hearts. Six days a week at 6 A.M., there's music, news, weather reports and just plain good talk on The Ray Dorey Show over Station WHDH. Much of the music is served up "live" by Ray and his partner, pert Pat Dale, and for this and other reasons, Ray says, with all the Yankee emphasis of a Vermont-born, Maine-bred denizen of Massachusetts: "Don't call me deejay." . . . Ray's informal, relaxed song and speech are also aired daily at 1:35 P.M. when he joins organist -Ken Wilson and pianist Bill Green for Stumpus, a musical quiz on which listeners send in song titles to try to "stump us." If the trio can't play or sing the song, the listener wins a prize. . . . Ray himself never collected the amateur contest prize he won when he was 12 — a world tour with Henry Santry and his Soldiers of Fortune. Child labor laws kept Ray at home, but the contest launched his career that same year as he sang in knickers and long black stockings as the "Boy Blues
Singer" with Leo Doucette's band. When he was a high school senior, an injury ended Ray's football playing days and turned him into a football "spotter" for Augusta's Station WRDO. He next talked the station into giving him a 15-minute singing program and from there he went to other New England stations as a disc jockey (oops!) and singer. Then Willard Alexander — who discovered Benny Goodman — discovered Ray, introduced him to Benny, and Ray became a singer with the famous Goodman band. Ray was about to make a movie when the draft board called him. After traveling across the continent to report, Ray was declared 4-F. But the Goodman band disbanded soon after that, so Ray came to Bean Town and, in 1949, to WHDH. . . . Ray lives in Watertown, is married to a fellow Vermonter named Lorraine, and has four children: Carol, 14, Freddy, 12; Linda, 7; and Gail, 5. For a while, Carol appeared on Ray's Saturday show to talk about children's records but, when she decided the job took up too much of her playing time, she resigned. Today, she's "just a listener," one of the thousands of Bostonians who with all due respect don't call Ray Dorey "deejay."' They call him "just wonderful."
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Once a singer with Benny Goodman, Ray now leads his own band. At home^he leads Freddy, Carol, Lorraine, camera-shy Linda and Gail in a barbecue.
Ray rises at five, skips afternoon naps in favor of swims with Linda and Gail.