Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #46
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 2/13/2006 7:15 AM
To: [removed]@[removed]

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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 46
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  2-12 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Kingfish, Amos N' Andy                [ Steve Carter <scarter2@[removed]; ]
  Re: Obscure Kids/Adventure shows      [ Cnorth6311@[removed] ]
  Hawaii Calls                          [ JLF <jlf@[removed]; ]
  Rosemary DeCamp                       [ <vzeo0hfk@[removed]; ]
  Re: WJSV                              [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
  Cincinnati convention                 [ "Bob Burchett" <haradio@[removed] ]
  Fibber McGee & Molly theme            [ "Cynthia Heimsoth" <chibibarako@hot ]
  SF Chronicle Covers Satelite Radio    [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
  Theater Five                          [ [removed]@[removed] ]
  Re: Theater Five                      [ Art Chimes <[removed]@[removed] ]
  More WJSV thoughts                    [ Jodie Peeler <raisingirl@mindspring ]
  2-13 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Thanx Irene                           [ "Laura Leff" <president@[removed] ]
  "Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Nig  [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:26:54 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  2-12 births/deaths

February 12th births

02-12-1867 - Joe E. Howard - New York, NY - d. 5-19-1961
singer, composer: "Gay Nineties Revue"
02-12-1880 - John L. Lewis - Lucas, IA - d. 6-11-1969
union leader: "Meet the Press"
02-12-1884 - Alice Roosevelt Longworth - New York, NY - d. 2-20-1980
daughter of Theodore Roosevelt: "Information, Please"
02-12-1888 - Victor Kolar - Budapest, Hungary - d. 1-16-1957
conductor: "Ford Sunday Evening Hour"
02-12-1893 - Omar Bradley - Clark, MO - d. 4-8-1981
general of the army: "What Are We Fighting For?"; "[removed] Campaign"
02-12-1898 - Roy Harris - Lincoln County, Oklahoma Territory - d.
10-1-1979
composer: "New York Philharmonic"; "Comtemporary Composers Concerts"
02-12-1898 - Wallace Ford - Batton, England - d. 6-11-1966
actor: "Hollywood on the Air"; "Royal Gelatin Hour"
02-12-1899 - Ray Knight - Salem, MA - d. 2-12-1953
actor: Ambrose J. Weems "Cuckoo Hour"; shopkeeper "House in the Country"
02-12-1902 - Tom Waring - Tyrone, PA - d. 12-29-1960
composer: (Brother of Fred) "The Fred Waring Show"
02-12-1904 - Joseph Kearns - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 2-17-1962
actor, host: Melvyn Foster "A Date with Judy"; Man in Black "Suspense"
02-12-1904 - Ted Mack - Greeley, CO - d. 7-12-1976
emcee: "Original Amateur Hour"
02-12-1905 - Harry Bellaver (Belaver) - Hillsboro, IL - d. 8-8-1993
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
02-12-1910 - Ken Roberts - The Bronx, NY
actor, announcer: Commissioner Weston "The Shadow"; "Easy Aces"
02-12-1912 - Stan Kenton - Wichita, KS - d. 8-25-1979
bandleader: "Bob Hope Show"; "Stan Kenton Concerts"
02-12-1914 - Tex Beneke - Fort Worth, TX - d. 5-30-2000
tenor sax, singer, bandleader: "Glenn Miller and His Orchestra";
"Sunset Serenade"
02-12-1915 - Lorne Greene - Ottowa, Canada - d. 9-11-1987
host Western Night: "Sears Radio Theatre"
02-12-1919 - Forrest Tucker - Plainfield, IN - d. 10-25-1986
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-12-1920 - Shirley Yamaguchi - Manchuria
actress: "New Edgar Bergen Hour"; "Geroge Fisher Interviews the Stars"
02-12-1926 - Joe Garagiola - St. Louis, MO
sportscaster
02-12-1927 - Ann Gillis - Little Rock, AR
actress: Judy Foster "A Date with Judy"
02-12-1927 - Bobby Winkler - Chicago, IL - d. 12-28-1989
actor: Newsboy "Big Town"

February 12th deaths

01-16-1916 - Joe McMichael - Minneapolis, MN - d. 2-12-1944
singer: (The Merry Macs) "Bing Crosby Show"; "Breakfast Club"; "Fred
Allen Show"
02-07-1883 - Eubie Blake - Baltimore, MD - d. 2-12-1983
jazz pianist: "Ragtime"; "White House Jazz Festival"
02-12-1899 - Ray Knight - Salem, MA - d. 2-12-1953
actor: Ambrose J. Weems "Cuckoo Hour"; shopkeeper "House in the Country"
02-14-1932 - Brian Kelly - Detroit, MI - d. 2-12-2005
actor: Started career doing radio commercials in Detroit
03-04-1896 - George Shelton - New York, NY - d. 2-12-1971
comedian: "Sunday Night Party"; "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
04-21-1905 - Ted Osborne - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 2-12-1987
actor: Dr. Carough "Dr. Kildare"; Professor Whiz the Owl "Cinnamon Bear"
04-23-1884 - Edwin C. Hill - Aurora, IN - d. 2-12-1957
news commentator: "Human Side of the News"; "Your News Parade"
04-28-1874 - Sidney Toler - Warrensburg, MO - d. 2-12-1947
actor: "Southern California WPA Symphony Orchestra"; "It's Time to
Smile"
05-07-1921 - Gale Robbins - Chicago, IL - d. 2-12-1980
singer: "Ben Bernie, the Old Maestro"; "The Hoagy Carmichael Show"
06-25-1898 - Jack Roth - d. 2-12-1980
drummer: (Memphis Five) "The Jimmy Durante Show"
11-09-1906 - Muggsy Spanier - Chicago, IL - d. 2-12-1967
cornet: "This Is Jazz"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
12-02-1913 - Morton Wishengrad - d. 2-12-1963
writer: "The Cavalcade of America"; "The Eternal Light"
xx-xx-1896 - George R. Holmes - Tippecanoe County, IL - d. 2-12-1939
news commentator: "Back of the News in Washington"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:28:14 -0500
From: Steve Carter <scarter2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Kingfish, Amos N' Andy

I just saw a TV add for a stage show of Amos N' Andy. It is in New York.
That's all I know.
Here's the site:

[removed]

Steve

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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 10:00:07 -0500
From: Cnorth6311@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Obscure Kids/Adventure shows

Another obscure, so obscure in fact that I can't  find anything about it at
all, not even from the redoubtable John Dunning, is  Champion. I can't even
find it on the RadioGoldindex web site. Now, that's what  I call obscure.
Invisible might be a better word for it.

Does anyone  know anything about this show at all? Who played in it? How many
shows were  there? Etc.

Charlie

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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:18:17 -0500
From: JLF <jlf@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Hawaii Calls

Does anyone know of an existing episode of "Hawaii Calls"?. I still
remember the opening vividly when I listened to it as a kid. I teach
broadcast to our local high school and would like to use it as a great
example of painting pictures with sound!

Jon F.

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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:18:30 -0500
From: <vzeo0hfk@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Rosemary DeCamp

Please contact me if you're interested in my copy of Rosemary DeCamp's audio
biography, "Tales from Hollywood."

Howard Blue
vzeo0hfk@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:24:19 -0500
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: WJSV
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I'm sure a lot of the WJSV broadcast day may be tedious to some people, but
to those who love broadcast history, and like me are geeks for it, even the
simplest local commercials and station ID's are treasures.  I once made a
copy of
a boxing match from 1936 and the local time checks for the local Firestone
store, complete with the "beep," made my day.  Likewise, I work for a TV
station
in Alabama that signed on in 1949 and I would reel over in shock if I found
an old kinescope of a newscast, live commercial, local kid's show, etc. from
the earliest days but sadly they're not known to exist, at least not from my
station.

Dixon

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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:41:12 -0500
From: "Bob Burchett" <haradio@[removed];
To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Cincinnati convention
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There has been some talk about this will be the last
Cincinnati convention.
Over the last few years the attendance
has gone down a few each year. We
dropped just below 400
last year for the first time. If the attendance should
go up
this year it might we might consider continuing. If it goes
down again
we will call it quits This year would be a good
year make your plans to
come.

Bob Burchett

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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:42:54 -0500
From: "Cynthia Heimsoth" <chibibarako@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Fibber McGee & Molly theme

Jed Dolnick asked regarding the Fibber McGee & Molly theme.  On a Google
search I found:

[removed]

which indicates that at least at the beginning of the run their theme was
Save Your Sorrow for Tomorrow.  I then Googled that and got Glen Gray and
the Casa Loma Orchestra, 1940.

All of this assumes that these sources are reliable -- and I have no clue.
Hope that gives Jed a direction to start looking, anyway.

Cynthia "ChibiBarako"

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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:07:46 -0500
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  SF Chronicle Covers Satelite Radio

And mentions OTR in the process:

[removed];type=tvradio

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:08:35 -0500
From: [removed]@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Theater Five

Jim Taylor ask a bunch of questions about Theater Five:
I can offer a little of response based on my listening to the series when it
first aired.

<<  Who created the series?>> It is my undersatanding ABC Radio network did it
themselves. Remember at the time this aired Sci-Fi was very popular with the
younger and older generations. The kids had stuff like Star Trek and the older
folks had books. Plus remember a little film called 2001?

<<  Was it a hard sale to convince ABC to put it on the air when you consider
the fact that ABC was the first radio network to discounted drama in the 1957
or 1958? >> refer to question one, it was produced by ABC.

<<  Did a non-network station air it?>> It was general policy to offer stuff
like this (radio specials and block series) to the affilite station first. If
they turned it down the network usually had option of "shopping it around" to
other stations in the market. In my hometown the show aired on a Public Radio
University owned radio station. The ABC affilitate was a Top 40 rock station
that I worked at, and they would not touch such a thing. They did tun 5 minute
featurettes like the Bill Cosby Show and Bonnie and Clyde. But selling a 5
minute feature was similiar to selling a newscast.

That's about all I know except I remember one episode which I think was called
"Outside Time" as my favorite of the ones I heard. I have not heard the series
much since.

Paul Urbahns
Radcliff, KY

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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:33:40 -0500
From: Art Chimes <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Theater Five

Irene Heinstein wrote

"From the information  above we know that the program did not run in NY
until WJRZ purchased the dramas in May 1965.   'Theater Five' did not appear
in the NY Times radio listings until the June of 1965 and that was for
[removed]

Funny thing, memory.  I remember listening to "Theater 5" as a high school
kid in New Jersey. I used to have some copies of shows I taped off the air. I
would have sworn it was broadcast on the ABC O&O, WABC. In those days I think
it would have been highly unusual for the network's flagship station not to
carry a network program. WABC was, at that time, the leading top 40 station
in the market (if not the nation), but they broke format for the Breakfast
Club and Paul Harvey, so why not Theater 5?

-Art-

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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:34:03 -0500
From: Jodie Peeler <raisingirl@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  More WJSV thoughts

hello all --

Regarding the WJSV thread and the interesting discussion among those who
think it interesting vs. dull, the subject comes at a time when
something similar from a later medium has been on my mind.

I recently had a chance to watch the first six or seven hours of CBS'
coverage of the Kennedy assassination.  Like many folks, the most I'd
seen of it had been the usual very brief clips in nostalgia shows of
moments we probably know too well (the bulletin slide, Walter Cronkite
taking off his glasses and trying to stifle his emotion, etc.), so it
was interesting to get a chance to see the footage as it aired.

I have to say that my reaction as I watched it was similar to what some
folks have written about the WJSV recording -- most of it just isn't
that interesting by today's standards.  Aside from the occasional switch
to another correspondent in another location, and aside from the
occasional wirephoto glued to a piece of cardboard, an awful lot of that
coverage is essentially hours of televised radio and a lot of
fragmentary information repeated over and over.

On the other hand, I think you have to look at these kinds of things --
the WJSV recording, the CBS 11/22/63 recordings, etc. -- as time
capsules that capture both the moments of excitement and the hours and
hours of the mundane, and that's part of what makes me compelled by them
-- such minutiae helps me flesh out the era.  In the case of the
11/22/63 tapes, it helped me see a major news organization scrambling to
cover a breaking news story as best as its capabilities would then
allow, and in the WJSV tapes, it lets me hear a day in the life of a
radio station back in the "golden era," in those last days before we
officially entered World War II.  I love that I can listen to the WJSV
tapes and almost literally be taken back to a different time, right down
to Arthur Godfrey advertising the guy's boat for sale on "Sundial," just
as I love to read the ads and the radio/TV listings and the shipping
notices (wow, the United States is sailing Thursday! cool!) in old New
York Times microfilm when I'm doing research.  It's one thing to read
about these things in a book, but for me the historical picture becomes
more complete when I can experience them in the context of what was
going on around them.

I will grant that a lot of what's on the WJSV tapes is dull as
dishwater.  But, at least for me, the mix of the interesting and the
mundane brings the past back to life as few other things can.  It's a
gestalt thing, I guess.  But I will be the first to admit I'm a huge
nerd, of course.  :)

One final note, since I mentioned Mr. Godfrey up above: If any of you
will be attending the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication Southeast Colloquium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on 2-4 March,
please look me up.  I'll be giving a paper Friday morning in the History
Division on Mr. Godfrey and how he used the medium to promote aviation
(a paper made much better thanks to the enthusiastic help and guidance
of our beloved Lee Munsick!), and would love to meet any of y'all who
will be there.

Jodie Peeler

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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:34:07 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  2-13 births/deaths

February 13th births

02-13-1877 - Sidney Smith - d. 10-20-1935
comic strip writer: "The Gumps" based on his comic strip
02-13-1900 - Wingy Manone - New Orleans, LA - d. 7-9-1982
orchestra leader: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Young Man with a Band"
02-13-1904 - Erwin C. Canham - Auburn, ME - d. 1-3-1982
news commentator: "Headlines and Bylines"; "Christian Science Views"
02-13-1906 - Pauline Frederick - Gallitzin, PA - d. 5-9-1990
newscaster: "News of Tomorrow"; "Pauline Frederick News"; "Second
Sunday"
02-13-1908 - Lennie Hayton - New York, NY - d. 4-24-1971
conductor: "Your Hit Parade"; "Ipana Troubadors"
02-13-1912 - Art Rollini - d. 12-31-1993
saxophone: (The Benny Goodman Orchestra) "Let's Dance"
02-13-1912 - Margaretta Scott - London, England - d. 4-15-2005
actress: "The Merchant of Venice"
02-13-1915 - Lyle Bettger - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-24-2003
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Family Theatre"
02-13-1916 - Albert Harris - London, England
conductor, composer: "Four-Star Playhouse"; "NBC University Theatre"
02-13-1916 - James Griffith - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-17-1993
actor: "Gunsmoke"
02-13-1919 - Joan Edwards - New York, NY - d. 8-27-1981
singer: "Chesterfield Presents"; "Your Hit Parade"
02-13-1919 - "Tennessee" Ernie Ford - Bristol, TN - d. 10-17-1991
singer: "Tennessee Ernie Ford Show"
02-13-1920 - Eileen Farrell - Willimantic, CT - d. 3-23-2002
singer: "Eileen Farrell Sings"; "Prudential Family Hour"
02-13-1923 - Gene Ames - Malden, MA - d. 4-26-1997
singer,: (Ames Brothers) "Sing It Again"; "Robert Q. Lewis Show"
02-13-1930 - Dotty McGuire - Middletown, OH
singer: (The McGuire Sisters) "Arthur Godfrey Time"
02-13-1930 - Frank Buxton - Wellesley, MA
author: "Golden Age of Radio"; "KIRO Mystery Playhouse"
02-13-1932 - Susan Oliver - New York, NY - d. 5-10-1990
actress: "Zero Hour"
02-13-1933 - Kim Novak - Chicago, IL
actress: "Bud's Bandwagon"

February 13th deaths

04-12-1898 - Lily Pons - Draguignan, France - d. 2-13-1976
singer: "Telephone Hour"; "Voice of Firestone"
05-29-1914 - Stacy Keach, Sr. - Milwaukee, WI - d. 2-13-2003
producer-director: "Tales of the Texas Rangers"
06-04-1900 - Dan Golenpaul - New York, NY - d. 2-13-1974
producer: "Information, Please"
07-15-1910 - Ken Lynch - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-13-1990
actor: Lt. Matt King "Twenty-First Precinct"; Christopher Gard "Cafe
Istanbul"
09-01-1886 - Regina Wallace - Trenton, NJ - d. 2-13-1978
actress: Alice Aldrich "Aldrich Family"
11-04-1919 - Martin Balsam - New York, NY - d. 2-13-1996
actor: "Cloak and Dagger"
12-25-1908 - Helen Twelvetrees - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-13-1958
actress: "The Campbell Playhouse"
12-30-1903 - Owen Crump - d. 2-13-1998
producer: " The Grouch Club"
xx-xx-xxxx - Robert K. Adams - d. 2-13-1981
actor: "Dr. Susan"; Hilltop House"; Your Family and Mine"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:34:36 -0500
From: "Laura Leff" <president@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Thanx Irene

Irene sez:

This guy really deserves a stamp, or a bunch of them.

Funny, I put Jack's symphony work in my rough notes for my 39 Man March
speech on the plane this afternoon.  And thanks Irene for doing some of my
Volume 4 research for me.  ;)

Meetings with Congressional people for the Jack Benny 39-cent stamp start at
10AM tomorrow (Monday).  Send the good vibes.

--Laura Leff
President, IJBFC
[removed]

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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:14:37 -0500
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  "Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand
 with the Big Bands"

The latest "Golden Age of Radio" programs with Dick Bertel
and Ed Corcoran, and "A One Night Stand with the Big Bands"
with Arnold Dean can be heard at [removed].

Each week we feature three complete shows in MP3 format
for your listening pleasure or for downloading; two "Golden
Age of Radios" and one "One Night Stand." We present new
shows every week or so. The current three programs will be
available on line at least until the morning of

Program 20 - November, 1971 - Parker Fennely

Parker Fennelly, born October 22, 1891 in Northeast Harbor,
Maine; personified the crusty New England Yankee in roles
on radio, films and television. He played Titus Moody on "Allen's
Alley" on radio. His famous opening line there was "Howdy Bub".
In later years he became famous as the Pepperidge Farm's
television spokesman. Fennelly was also a noted playwright.

Program 21 - December, 1971 - First OTR Convention

This program was recorded at the first Old-Time Radio
Collectors' Convention in New Haven, Connecticut. The
convention's organizers, Sal Traipani and Jay Hickerson,
are featured, along with many of the collectors and their
favorite shows, including X Minus 1, Escape, Suspense,
Kate Smith Hour, and The Witch's Tale.

"A One Night Stand with the Big Bands" With Arnold Dean

The Casa Loma Orchestra - December, 1973

This week's guest is clarinetist Clarence Hutchenrider, who
recalls The Casa Loma Orchestra. The group began as the
Orange Blossoms in 1927 and this is how it all came about.
In the late 1920s burgeoning Detroit suddenly needed more
dance bands. To help satisfy this need Jean Goldkette, already
a well-known band leader and local musician, and businessman
Henry Horvath, contracted dance bands and sent them all over
the eastern states as well as Detroit. One of these bands, the
Orange Blossoms, was dispatched to play a six month season
at the palatial Casa Loma Hotel in Toronto. The band was
nominally led by one Henry Biagini and the saxophones
were led by Glen Gray.

In the 1970's WTIC decided that there was a market in
the evening for long-form shows that could be packaged
and sold to sponsors. Two of those shows were "The
Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand with the
Big Bands."

Dick Bertel had interviewed radio collector-historian
Ed  Corcoran several times on his radio and TV shows,
and thought a regular monthly show featuring interviews
with actors, writers, producers, engineers and musicians
from radio's early days might be interesting. "The Golden
Age of Radio" was first broadcast in April, 1970;  Ed was
Dick's co-host. It lasted seven years. "The Golden Age
of Radio" can also be heard Saturday nights on Walden
Hughes's program on Radio Yesteryear.

Arnold Dean began his love affair with the big band
era in his pre-teen years and his decision to study
the clarinet was inspired by the style of Artie Shaw.
When he joined WTIC in 1965 he hosted a daily program
of big band music.  In 1971, encouraged by the success
of his daily program and "The Golden Age of Radio"
series, he began monthly shows featuring interviews
with the band leaders, sidemen, agents, jazz reporters,
etc. who made major contributions to one of the great
eras of music history.

Bob Scherago
Webmaster

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