- Is a member of the nominating committee of the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.
- From 1959-67 was a celebrated TV host and rock-and-roll impresario in the tri-state--New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania--area around New York City.H e also owned a teen nightclub in Newark, NJ, called "Clay Cole's Land of 1000 Dances". .
- In 195 he hosted "The Record Wagon", a "rate the record" panel show on NY/NJ public TV. He went on to host a teen dance show on WPIX TV 11 (1960-67). He was briefly a radio DJ on WINS.
- Born Albert Rucker, he was asked by the producers of "Rate the Records", a TV dance show he had just been hired to host, to change his name. He chose "Clay Cole", which was actually the name of one of his cousins.
- As of July 2003, was retired and living on Oak Island, NC.
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