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Date: 7/23/2013 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2013 : Issue 79
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: Fred Waring                       [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
      Fred Waring                           [ "danhughes@[removed]" <danhughes@jun ]
      Re: Fred Waring                       [ "Candy Jens" <candyj@[removed]; ]
      Re: Fred Waring                       [ Steve Salaba <dangerdanger@sbcgloba ]
      Waring Blender                        [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]

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    Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:27:01 -0400
    From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Fred Waring

    Hello again --

    When my parents bought their Waring Blender back in 1947, the literature
    accompanying it stated that Fred Waring was the inventor of the thing. I
    suspect he only bankrolled it, but he was associated with it and gave his
    name to the product.

    By the way, when I met Fred at a reception after a concert of his
    Pennsylvanians at the U of IL when I was a student rep on the Star Course
    Board there from 1956-57, I wasn't impressed with him at all. It was
    well-known to us in the School of Music there that he could hardly even read
    music, but fronted the group because his brother Tom, who started it, was
    less "photogenic," shall we say. And Fred was the original "grumpy old man,"
    in my opinion. He sat in a chair moping and refused to talk to anybody
    because we didn't fall all over ourselves worshipping him when he entered
    the Faculty Club where the reception was held.

    I have met a lot of distinguished musicians during my life, and they have
    all been very cordial and unassuming -- Leonard Bernstein, Beverly Sills,
    George Shearing, Leopold Stokowki, etc., all except Fred. And when I played
    in the Tampa Philharmonic, several instrumental musicians who had retired
    from the Waring organization said the same thing about him.

    Jan Bach

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    Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:27:37 -0400
    From: "danhughes@[removed]" <danhughes@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Fred Waring

    Andy asks of Fred Waring:

>     Someone told me that he was responsible for waring appliances.  Is this true?

    Yep!  Waring invested in a primitive blender that didn't work too well, and
    he made some improvements and brought out his own Waring blender.  He also
    popularized the "smoothie" that is the main use for most blenders nowadays.

    ---Dan

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    Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:27:58 -0400
    From: "Candy Jens" <candyj@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Fred Waring

    Fred did invent the Waring Blendor (note spelling), according to his
    long-ago secretary, who told me about it.  He was known to be a
    perfectionist, which shows in his recordings.  He held a summer music camp
    for teens, and this "attribute" wasn't widely appreciated by the attendees
    (until later).  One of Fred's givebacks was to arrange alma maters for high
    school bands upon request.

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    Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:28:10 -0400
    From: Steve Salaba <dangerdanger@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Fred Waring

    Andy Blatt asks:

>     Someone told me that he was responsible for waring appliances.  Is this true?

    He did invent the Waring Blender.  For mixing drinks, IIRC.

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    Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:28:30 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Waring Blender

    Andy Blatt asked about the truth of the story that Fred Waring was connected
    to the blender. Well, it's true, although he probably did not actually invent
    it, as some sources claim.

    Thomas A. DeLong, in his 1996 book, "Radio Stars" put it this way:  "When his
    popular TV show ended after five years in 1954, the entrepreneurial Waring
    helped to develop and market the Waring Blender, opened a Pocono Mountain
    resort (and) formed the largest choral and band music publishing company in
    the world."

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
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