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Say H
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No interviews, just music on WMGM— so here's where I turn the turntables and interview deejay Phil Goulding
By JO-ANN CAMPBELL
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It was a switch — a singer interviewing a deejay. But Phil's so easygoing and friendly.
I'm a rebel. Phil and wife Thelma are both Yankees from Lowell — where Phil lost a contest, won a job.
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My name is Jo-Ann Campbell, but sometimes I'm called the "Wherever You Go" girl, because that's the name of my biggest hit so far on the Point label. Well, wherever I go, I meet the local disc jockeys — and a nicer group of people you couldn't meet. One of the very nicest is Phil Goulding, who's heard on New York's Station WMGM with Music With A Beat— the kind I like to sing — every weekday from 4 to 5 P.M. and Saturdays from 10 to noon. Disc jockeys often interview recording stars on their programs. Phil doesn't, because WMGM vetoes interviews in favor of more music for their listeners. So I decided to turn the turntables and interview Phil instead. ... At first, I didn't know how to start. Then I remembered what we used to say down South when we wanted someone to talk frankly and truthfully. "Say honest, Phil," I told him — and Phil did just that. . . . Phil's a Yankee, born in Clinton and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts. He's always wanted to be on radio. "I couldn't sing or dance or act," he says, "so I decided to become an announcer." Then the local radio station, WLLH, staged a contest for announcers, with the winner to get a suit of clothes. Phil didn't win the contest — or the suit — but they hired him, anyway. The next year, his
younger brother, Ray Goulding, entered the same contest. He didn't win the suit of clothes either, but he, too, got a job. He's now Ray of "Bob and Ray" and Bert Piel of those wonderful beer commercials. After he left Lowell, Phil went to WEEI in Boston and then to the CBS station in New York. He joined WMGM — it was WHN then — in 1944. They're remodeling the station's building now and Phil says, "I've been here so long I go with the cornerstone." . . . Phil is five-feet-ten, has brown hair and very gentle brown eyes. He's fascinated by politics and photography. In his opinion, Colorado is the most beautiful state in the Union, and his wife Thelma, a former Lowell radio actress, the most beautiful girl. They've been married for fourteen years and live in an apartment in Forest Hills, Long Island, where, Phil told me, "I don't even have a record player." . . . But Phil loves music and he's a staunch defender of rock 'n' roll. "It has a real primitive two-beat and it's easy to dance to," he says. Phil says the kids like it, and he should know. He plays the top records as determined by the WMGM survey. "The funny thing," says Phil, "is that teenagers who liked it a couple of years ago and who are now, say, in Princeton or other colleges, still like it."