Editing Gene Rayburn (section)

===Radio career===
[[File:Gene Rayburn Dee Finch 1951.JPG|thumb|left|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. Rayburn's pairings with Lescoulie and Finch helped to popularize the now-familiar morning drive radio format.<ref name="Times"/> At WNEW, he lobbied for playing of certain songs, resulting in chart popularity (e.g. "[[Music! Music! Music!]]" (recorded by [[Teresa Brewer]])) and co-authored the lyrics of the song "[[Hop-Scotch Polka]]" with [[Carl Sigman]] (both 1949).<ref>{{cite web |title=Gene Rayburn: Hop-Scotch Polka |website=musicroom.com |url=https://www.musicroom.com/product/dam164694/gene-rayburn-hop-scotch-polka.aspx |access-date=2021-07-13}}</ref> When Rayburn left WNEW, Dee Finch continued the format with [[Gene Klavan]].