Frank Ford was the stage name of Edward Felbin (September 30, 1916 – March 3, 2009), a talk radio host in Philadelphia. Along with partners Lee Guber and Shelly Gross, Ford founded the Valley Forge Music Fair in 1955 and the Westbury Music Fair the following year. He served on the board of trustees for Science Service, now known as Society for Science & the Public, from 1957 to 1962.
He was married to Lynne Abraham, a former judge and District Attorney of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Early life and education
Born as Edward Felbin, he grew up in the Logan section of North Philadelphia, where he graduated from Simon Gratz High School in 1934. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1939.
Career
While in college, he got a job at radio station WHAT as an announcer, earning $15 weekly plus transportation. He used the name "Eddie Hoyle" while hosting Hollywood According to Hoyle, a gossip program. While selling radio time in 1946, a customer called Frankford Unity Grocery Store wanted to sponsor a music show; He decided that he would host the show himself to pick up a few extra dollars, and adopted the name "Frank Ford" for the show, a name that stuck with him for the rest of his life. In a 1995 interview with the Philadelphia Daily News, he wondered "what my name would be if the sponsor was the Piggly Wiggly stores."