BFYP-FM is helpin’ you rise ‘n’ shine! We see the big ol’ sun peeking over the hill, playing hide an’ seek with fluffy clouds … it’s so bea-u-ti-ful. But wait, wait … ‘Hey, hey you! Get offa my cloud!’
“This is your old fuddy-duddy
buddy, Dr. Don at the yawn of a new day!” (A DDR oft-repeated wake-up
greeting.)
Dr. Don Rose (a.k.a. Donald Rosenberg)
Best known at KFRC/San Francisco, California
1934 ~ 2005 (Interview with son, Jay Rosenberg.)
While Jeff Prescott’s dad, Norm
[coming up in another excerpt], carved out his platter-spinning niche in
Boston, another kid in Philly cocked his head quizzically at his dad’s voice
coaxing him awake.
“My earliest memory was of
listening to him from a clock radio next to my bed,” said Jay Rosenberg, “and
wondering how he got inside the box. My mom kind of explained how it worked.
But I don’t think I got it.”
Jay recalls this fond memory of
his dad, Donald Rosenberg. Before all was said and done, Donald became endeared
to thousands of fans on both sides of the country as “Dr. Don Rose.”
Don Rose’s radio star was already
on the rise before Jay, the second youngest of five Rosenberg siblings,
marveled at his dad’s voice bouncing out from the radio.