![]() ![]() To the country at large, Rayburn and Finch may not be big names, but they certainly are different. As popular and profitable as the disc jockey business has become, it has never worked for long on a network basis. Noted the Democrat and Chronicle in 1950, “The latest attempt to popularize a network disc jockey show is being made through a zany pair known as Gene Rayburn and Dee Finch. They would also end up hosting an evening edition titled Night Shift with Rayburn and Finch. Both shows are credited with creating the format that many morning drive radio shows would follow in the future. Much more successful was his being teamed with Dee Finch on WNEW’s Rayburn & Finch. Gene’s morning drive time radio show initially saw him teamed up with Jack Lescoulie in a series called Anything Goes. I picked up a phone book and saw a lot of names that I didn’t want and one that I did, that name was, of course, Rayburn and I became Gene Rayburn.” Where do you find names? Well, of course, in the phone book. Change it!’ I swear, she said it like that. So now I’m working for this lady at a station in New York. Gene Rubessa became my name and it’s the name I used when I went into radio shortly after it was invented. Rubessa is the name of my stepfather, a great guy. So my father dies and my mother remarried. “Eugene Jeljenic is how I was born in Chicago several years ago. “How I became Gene Rayburn is a little story in itself,” he told the News-Pilot of San Pedro, California in 1973. This led to his gaining some announcing work at various radio stations, which played a role in him changing his name to Gene Rayburn. Moving to New York, he spent three years working as a page and a tour guide at NBC Studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York. Please scroll down for much more on Gene Rayburn and Match Game. ![]() She thinks that that’s really what attracted Gene to the idea of acting.” ![]() You’re not you for a few hours every day. His daughter’s theory is that that’s why he was so obsessed with being an actor, because when you’re an actor, you’re playing a character and changing your identity. Stuff that’s not being dealt with.’ The feeling was that Gene was carrying around this burden mentally and never really got it properly dealt with. The therapist kind of rubber-stamped Gene and said, ‘You’re OK now,’ but his daughter looked at him and said, ‘No, there’s still stuff going on here. Well, Freud’s methods have pretty much been laughed off the face of the Earth by the psychiatric community, so Gene was not getting the level of health care that he should have. “Talking to Gene’s daughter,” he continues, “he did therapy during his adult life, but the problem was that Gene was a big admirer of Sigmund Freud and his therapy was inspired by Freud’s methods. ![]()
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