"Radio's Revolution and the World's Happiest Broadcasters" is a radio documentary written and produced by Richard Ward Fatherley, who also co-narrated it along with Ray Otis. The documentary tells the story of Todd Storz and his role in the creation of Top 40 radio in the 1950s.

Richard Ward Fatherley gave me a copy of this documentary shortly after it was produced back in 1999. This is the original, unedited version. There is a shorter version of the documentary that is in the hands of a couple of media archives. But Dick personally gave me this original version. Shortly after his death in March of 2010, his son, Richard, Jr. gave me expressed permission to publish this work online for all to enjoy.

It is a fabulous work, well-researched, exquisitely written, and masterfully told by two of the nation's best narrators.

I do not own the copyright to this work or of the music they used in producing it. I would assume that the music used in the production was included under Fair Use terms. I share this work here for the purpose of sharing this history relating to the origins of top 40 radio with the world.

RIP, Richard Ward Fatherley.

PS: "World's Happiest Broadcasters" was the commonly used meaning of the call letters WHB, one of America's great early top 40 stations in Kansas City at 710 on the AM dial, and the station that I grew up listening to, and which inspired me to pursue a career in radio.