Topic: Nostalgia Radio 23 JUNE 1933 - "The Breakfast Club" premiered on radio.
The Breakfast Club was a long-run morning variety show on ABC radio (and briefly on television) originating in Chicago, Illinois. Hosted by Don McNeill, the radio program ran from June 23, 1933 through December 27, 1968. McNeil's 35 and a half year run as host remains the longest tenure for an emcee of a network entertainment program, surpassing Johnny Carson (29 and a half years) on The Tonight Show and Bob Barker (34 and 2/3 years) on The Price is Right.
Raymond Scott Radio TV Conductor & Composer Now Playing: 100th birth anniversary in 2008 Topic: Nostalgia Radio "The music of Raymond Scott is positively exhilarating. Its intricacies mesmerize, because they're part of a unique and utterly disarming musical tapestry." -- Leonard Maltin, film critic
Raymond Scott (born Harry Warnow, 10 September 1908 — 8 February 1994)
Raymond Scott, in 1941, he sold his compositions (finally rendered in musical notation) to Warner Brothers. The music was enthusiastically seized upon by Carl Stalling, the man who scored the Warner Brothers cartoons -- which is largely why these tunes are so embedded in our consciousness. (To this day, people think Raymond wrote for cartoons, but he never did. He never even watched cartoons.) In 1942, he became Music Director for CBS Radio and made history by hiring black musicians. His CBS band was the first racially integrated band for radio. In 1946, he founded Manhattan Research Inc, "the world's most extensive facility for the creation of Electronic Music and Musique Concrete." It was the first electronic music studio. Raymond's brother Mark Warnow died in 1949 and Raymond took over Mark's job: Orchestra Leader for Your Hit Parade. Raymond Scott and his wife, Dorothy Collins, became early TV celebrities. MORE | WEB LINKS | IMAGES | S H O P: RAYMOND SCOTT
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Topic: Nostalgia Radio
George Watt Fenneman (November 10, 1919 – May 29, 1997) was a radio and television announcer. He was born in Beijing, China and grew up in San Francisco, California. He graduated from San Francisco State College in 1942 and worked as a radio correspondent during World War II. His career began as a radio announcer for commercials. His most famous role was as the announcer on the Groucho Marx quiz show, You Bet Your Life. The show in began in 1947 on radio and Fenneman joined the program when it moved to the television medium in 1950. He was the perfect straight man for the zany antics and quips of Marx. Fenneman was actually selected because of his intelligence and ability to calculate the score of the contestants. He remained friends with Marx after the show ended in 1961 until the comedian died in 1977. Fenneman was one of two paired announcers on Dragnet, sharing narration duties with Hal Gibney on radio and the original Dragnet television series, and with John Stephenson when Dragnet returned to TV in 1967. It was Fenneman's voice which announced, "The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent." He appeared on screen in the 1951 film The Thing from Another World in a substantial but uncredited role.
Henry Busse Sr and Jr Topic: Nostalgia Radio
Henry Busse Sr. (born May 19, 1894 in Magdeburg, Germany; died Apr 23, 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee) was a jazz trumpeter known for work with sweet bands and big bands. Busse hit his peak in 1930-45, playing dance music before the war and swing during it. His music was often berated by Downbeat magazine, which called his a "sweet" or "Mickey Mouse" band. He and his band appeared in an MGM color movie in 1935 at the Lido in San Francisco along with Clark Gable and MGM's stable of stars and in the movie "Lady Let's Dance", in which Busse had a speaking part.
Son's A Radio Personality (Henry Busse, Jr.):Henry Busse Jr., was born in 1931, and was 3 when his parents divorced. Junior grew up in Milwaukee, then moved along with his mother to Anoka, Minn., where he graduated from high school in 1949. After a quarter at St. Cloud State, he enrolled in Beck School of Broadcasting, graduated in six months, and later was fired from two stations in Wisconsin "because he mumbled too much then." He backtracked home to Anoka, and upped with the National Guard to avoid the Korean War draft. "Two weeks later the Guard was called out," he says. "So in 1951, I ended up in Alabama with a bugle on my knee. There, some guys built and started a radio station, WVIK." Al Heacock, a WNEW writer, hired him at the station. Out of the National Guard the next year, he studied broadcasting at Brown Institute in Minneapolis, and upon graduation was placed at a radio station in Aberdeen, S. Dak. He was fired again. With his tail between his legs he headed back to Brown Institute, which found another spot for him, this time in Mankato at KYSM. Busse Jr. says: "I changed my attitude in Mankato. I stopped worrying about the little mistakes. Everybody is going to make mistakes." Mankato seemed to agree with him, and in December 1953-May 1957 he did the KYSM night show spinning jazz and big band. In that period Louie Armstrong played the Kato Ballroom, and growled one night there at Busse Jr. as only Armstrong could growl: "You're gettin' fat like your daddy!" As a backroom parting gift, Armstrong told Busse Jr. of a special diet to lose weight. "It was Bizmorex, a diuretic," Busse Jr. laughs, "and in a note to me about Bizmorex Armstrong wrote, 'the more you goes, the thinner you grows!'"
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celebratory Now Playing: TOMMY DORSEY Birth Topic: Nostalgia Radio
1905 - Big band leader and trombone soloist Tommy Dorsey is born. He dies on Nov. 26, 1956.
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PERRY COMO RADIO PROGRAM Now Playing: Rebroadcast Topic: Nostalgia Radio
The Como show is scheduled for Sundays at 12:15 PM Eastern Standard Time on WNAR-AM. Other individual Como selections will be used for fill music as necessary until production is done on several origional "Sinatra, Crosby, Como and Friends" broadcasts. Como will also be on KBRD 680 Olympia, Washington.
BING CROSBY SHOW Now Playing: Old transcriptions Topic: Nostalgia Radio
WNAR, a suburban Philadelphia radio station is streaming on-line, those old Bing Crosby daily radio transcriptions. Backed up by Buddy Cole. These are not the variety shows...sans audience, these are the music and conversational programs- including some of the best American popular music of the past as well as some material too serious or exotic for commercial records. Bing does a serious commentary about many of the selections performed. Really a pop music history gold mine. Get out your recorder. ...LINK to complete program guide WNARadio
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WNAR to broadcast PERRY COMO SHOW Mood:
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Perry Como was one of he hottest properties in show business, with a four-year string of hit records and an NBC radio series already to his credit, when his first TV series began in 1948. The Chesterfield Supper Club premiered in the Friday 7:00-7:15 P.M. time slot on December 24, 1948, but stayed there only three weeks before moving to 11:00 P.M. on January 14, 1949. It was at first a simulcast of Perry's popular radio show and made few concessions to the new medium. Cameras were simply brought into the radio studio and Como and his guests were seen in front of a radio microphone, with scripts and music stands in full view. ...LINK to WNAR PROGRAM SCHEDULE
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Newspaper Story About WNAR AM Topic: Nostalgia Radio
Radio rerun THE REPORTER ON LINE
CHRISTOPHER A. STANLEY , Staff Writer
The newest thing on the air in Lansdale is not new at all. In fact‚ if you live in or around the borough and tune your radio to 1620 AM‚ you may think that you have entered a time warp.
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WNAR- RE-CREATION RADIO LANSDALE PA. Mood:
special Now Playing: The very best of Radio Drama and Music with some News and Comedy. 24 hours a day! Topic: Nostalgia Radio
RADIO NOSTALGIA AT IT'S BEST
WNAR Radio am... offers internet listeners a recreation of what radio was about fifty years ago. I grew up with radio drama and comedy, and still can't get enough of "The Theater of the Mind". I do hope you find this programming entertaining and a wholesome experience. --The WNAR Program team, David C. McCrork. ...LINK to complete streaming and programming schedule
WMKV-FM HAS THE BEST IN BIG BAND ON THE WEB! Topic: Nostalgia Radio
You can access our stream on this page by clicking on the flashing "On Air" button and WMKV-FM's stream will load and play. All that is required to listen to WMKV-FM is the Windows Media Player. ...LINK to complete web site
Topic: Nostalgia Radio
Classic radio goes modern
By KORKY VANN, The Hartford Courant
Published: Sunday, May. 15, 2005
If you’re old enough to remember the phrase “Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear,” you may be surprised to learn that, thanks to new technology, the Lone Ranger and other stars of classic radio are riding once again. ...LINK to complete news story
www.wnar-am.com is an Old Time Radio Recreation station worth giving a
listen. ...LINK to WNAR-AM