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      • Before appearing in television, Rayburn was an actor and radio performer. He had a morning drive time radio show in New York City, first with Jack Lescoulie (Anything Goes) and later with Dee Finch (Rayburn & Finch) on WNEW. Rayburn's pairings with Lescoulie and Finch helped to popularize the now-familiar morning drive radio format.
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  2. Dee Finch, who for 16 years was the straight-man partner of Gene Klavan on WNEW Radio’s ”Klavan and Finch” early morning show, died of a heart attack Tuesday in Binghamton, N.Y., after attending his mother’s funeral.

  3. Mar 31, 1983 · From 1947 to 1952, he teamed up with Gene Rayburn in a zany disk-jockey show known for an irreverence toward commercials and a penchant for inserting incongruous material in the music being...

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    Rayburn and Finch, 1951. Before appearing in television, Rayburn was an actor and radio performer. He had a morning drive time radio show in New York City, first with Jack Lescoulie (Anything Goes) and later with Dee Finch (Rayburn & Finch) on WNEW.

  5. Oct 8, 2005 · Television was little more than an experimental medium when Gene Rayburn arrived in New York from his native Illinois in the late 1930s. But it was not television that brought Rayburn to New...

  6. Gene Rayburn married Helen Ticknor in 1940, and was married to her till her death in October 1996. Their only daughter Lynne was born in 1942. He died on November 29, 1999 due to congestive heart failure, while he was at his daughter's home in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

  7. Apr 27, 2020 · American television personality, Gene Rayburn, who was famous for hosting the classic TV show, "Match Game," led a remarkable life throughout his lifetime.

  8. Dec 4, 1999 · Gene Rayburn, who became a mainstay on television from the 1960's to the 80's as the amiable host of ''The Match Game,'' died on Monday at his home in Beverly, Mass. He was 81. The cause was...