If you ask anyone "outside the Biz" who lived through, and listened to, Bill Drake-inspired radio, I seriously doubt they will ever have heard the name Bill Drake.
So, I was surprised to hear a reference to him, on air, on Sirius/XM yesterday. On 50s on 5, Pat St. John ran a very long drum roll behind his announcement of the anniversary of the release of "Don't Be Cruel" (Elvis), the first single ever to have 1 million orders before the date of release. But he prefaced it with the remark "This is worthy of a Bill Drake timpani."
Must have been fresh in his head, as he ran his daily "Ladies and Gentlemen, you're listening to Pat St. John" (recorded by Bill for CKLW in the late 1960s) less than 10 minutes prior.