WRKO Meets Bobbie Gentry
In September of 1967, Bobbie Gentry, the singer who made the the Tallahatchie Bridge famous, was photographed at a cocktail party at the hotel next to WBZ on Soldiers Field Road in the summer of '67.

Left to right: John Rode, (blank) Perry Ury, Bobbie Gentry, Joel Cash, Mel Phillips, Al Gates. The man next to Rode is Don Azars, a part-time WRKO employee, attending college.(?) (Photo courtesy of Joel Cash)

In September of 1967, Bobbi Gentry, the singer who made the the Tallahatchee Bridge famous, paid a visit to WRKO's new Government Center studios.  Left to right: John Rode, (unknown) Perry Ury, Bobbi, Joel Cash, Mel Phillips, Al Gates.