Subject: [removed] Digest V01 #43
From: <[removed]@[removed]>
Date: 2/6/2001 9:10 AM
To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                      The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                         Volume 01 : Issue 43
                    A Part of the [removed]!


                           Today's Topics:

 Time Zone Rebroadcasts               ["steven kostelecky" <skostelecky@ho]
 World transcription records          ["Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];]
 Mark Warnow as composer              [Neal Rogers <nealrogers@[removed]]
 Re: THE LONE RANGER's first name     [SanctumOTR@[removed]                 ]
 Radio premiums                       [LBohall@[removed]                    ]
 Re: Introductions                    ["Tony D" <tonyd@[removed];          ]
 marvin miller 16rpm                  ["Ed Carr" <edcarr@[removed];       ]
 Re:OTR Premiums                      [Cnorth6311@[removed]                 ]
 Nothing but the [removed]             ["Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed]]
 THE HIGHEST PAID PERFORMER IN RADIO  ["Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed]; ]
 WW II and the Big Bands              [George Aust <austhaus1@[removed]]
 Bloopers                             ["Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@]
 The Goldcoast Show                   [KENPILETIC@[removed]                 ]
 Twilight of Big Bands on Radio       [JJJ445@[removed]                     ]

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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:49:49 -0500
From: "steven kostelecky" <skostelecky@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Time Zone Rebroadcasts

This may seem silly, but I've always wondered how many duplicate shows of
the rebroadcasts made to accomodate different time zones exist? I know many
shows would do an early show for the East Coast and a later one for the West
Coast, and there must have been differences in the performance--especially
in the case of a show like Jack Benny's where there would be so many asides
and business besides what was in the script. Dramatic shows seem to stick
more closely to the script, but the performances themselves--the acting
inflection, reading, [removed] have contained differences. Are there two
recordings of different performances floating around for some of these
shows?

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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:54:15 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  World transcription records

Does any one know who I can contact in order to locate a collection of World
transcription records?  The recordings wore used in radio station during the
golden days of radio, Walden.

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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:10:37 -0500
From: Neal Rogers <nealrogers@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Mark Warnow as composer

On Monday, February 5, Art Shifrin wrote:

Hi Gang,

Add to the list of talent on YHP the orchestra leaders Axle Stordahl and
Mark Warnow. Mark was Raymond Scott's older brother.  Mark died young of a
heart attack (I think) and as a result of conducting a memorial bdcst for
his brother, Raymond wound up doing the series on NBC TV.

The YHP thread as brought up an interesting question for me. I've been doing
research on theme music for our radio re-creation company. I understand from
information I've gathered, that Mark Warnow might have written the theme for
the Bob Bailey episodes of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. (the instrumental
theme, not the organ theme of earlier shows) I can't find a definitive
answer. I know the themes for YTJD changed as each format changed, as far as
I can tell.

Can anyone shed any additional light on the subject? I'd like to get as much
information as possible, and even possibly obtain a copy of the music,
including stings, intros and the like. I could copy out the music myself
from the broadcasts and do a reasonable facsimile for our shows, but I would
love to get hold of the original score or a clean recording. Of course, if
they are copyrighted anywhere, I would pay the appropriate fees. In doing
searches on ASCAP's and BMI's websites, Warnow's name didn't come up at all.
Any information on Warnow, anyone? I've visited the Classic Themes website
([removed]) and there is still research being done. Elizabeth,
is this up your alley?

My best to you all--
Neal Rogers
[removed]

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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:21:55 -0500
From: SanctumOTR@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: THE LONE RANGER's first name

In a message dated 2/3/01 2:48:36 PM, Owens Pomeroy writes:

<< As to the postings about the LRR having a first name, If anyone has the
premire epsode of The Green Hornet (the pilot) Brit Reid is told by his
father (Dan Reid) that he has a legecy to live up to which started with his
"Great Uncle John" who became The Lone Ranger. So the family of reid is as
follows: Dan Reid, Sr. (the brother who died in ambush) Dan Jr., John (the
Lone Ranger), and Brit Reid, Dan, Jr's [removed];>

***Did you hear the original pilot episode, Owens?  Were you living in
Michigan at the time (since THE GREEN HORNET aired over WXYZ from
01/36/38-04/07/38 and didn't move onto the network until 04/12/38)?  Where
does your information come from?

I've read the first two scripts a number of times since Fran Striker, Jr.
gave me copies fifteen years ago, and the premiere show was recreated at
SPERDVAC a couple years back.  Those particular scripts haven't been unpacked
since I moved 2000 miles to San Antonio, but I'm sure I would have noticed
such a mention.  To the best of my usually-accurate memory, Dan Reid doesn't
even appear in the first broadcast.  Before he can change to The Green Hornet
in that show, Britt Reid has to ditch his new bodyguard (the former-cop Mike
Axford whom his father had previously hired to keep an eye on his playboy son
before leaving on a long trip).  The popular character of Mike Axford was, of
course, spun off from Striker's earlier WARNER LESTER, MANHUNTER series.

And there would have been no reason for Striker to mention an "Uncle John" in
a 1936 GREEN HORNET episode since The Lone Ranger didn't acquire the "Reid"
surname until the Christmas 1941 storyline that first introduced Dan Reid,
Jr.  The Bryant's Gap origin story wasn't part of Striker's original concept
for the character.  The ambush story first appeared in the 1938 movie serial,
and was originally set in both the film and early-1940s radio shows in
Grant's Pass (including the "Black Arrow" origin in which a young woman, the
sister of one of the slain Rangers, comes upon the ambush scenes and bandages
the lone survivor's wounds before being forced to leave by the approach of
Indian she assumes to be hostile).  The Bryant's Gap local was first
mentioned in a mid-1940s LONE RANGER novel by Striker and later featured in
the 1948 15th anniversary broadcast, the 20th Anniversary "Return of
Cavendish" show, the premiere TV episodes and comic book stories.  The family
connection between The Green Hornet and The Lone Ranger appears to have been
an brilliant afterthought on Striker's part, and Britt and Dan Reid had the
surname for years before it was assigned the the daring and resourceful
masked rider of the plains.

Actually, the most interesting thing about the pilot script is how fully
formed THE GREEN HORNET series was from the very beginning.  Britt, Miss
Case, Mike Axford, Ed Lowry, etc. are all there from the first episode, along
with Kato.  (Fran Striker had apparently learned his lesson writing the first
nine Tonto-less LONE RANGER scripts; a hero needs a sidekick on radio or else
he will have to spend a lot of time awkwardly talking to himself so that the
listener will know what's going on.)  THE GREEN HORNET was, of course, not
originally intended to be a LONE RANGER spinoff.  WXYZ-owner George W.
Trendle had given Striker a copy of Frank Packard's THE ADVENTURES OF JIMMIE
DALE (a hugely influential and popular novel that strongly influenced R. T.
M. Scott's early SPIDER novels), Walter Gibson's THE SHADOW and Lee Falk's
THE PHANTOM), and asked for a similar series.  (Jimmie Dale was a wealthy
playboy and confident of the police commissioner who led a double life as the
"Grey Seal," leaving a small grey seal as his calling card, similar to The
Spider's seal and The Phantom's sign of the skull.)

To the best of my knowledge, the much-later (late-1940s) GREEN HORNET program
in which Dan Reid first makes mention of his uncle has never materialized.
Jim Harmon recreated the scene from memory in his 1960s book THE GREAT RADIO
HEROES.  Harmon's retelling made no mention of an "Uncle John."  Striker went
to great lengths to avoid giving the Masked Man a first name in his novels
and radio, television and comic strips; and The Lone Ranger's unmasked face
was always obscured in the TV shows and comic books and strips.  Striker
understood the importance of keeping a sense of mystery around his character
. . . as did Walter Gibson who established in his earliest SHADOW novels that
Lamont Cranston was only a role The Shadow assumed and not his true identity.

Personally, I like to think that Dan Reid chose to name his only son after
the uncle who had raised him instead of the father he never knew.  It makes
sense to me that The Lone Ranger's real first name might have been Britt, and
that would explain why Britt Reid wasn't named Daniel Reid III.  That makes a
lot of sense to me, but I would never want to know for sure whether that was
what Fran Striker may have intended.  It would take some of the mystery away
from the character (as the terribly updated 1980s LEGEND OF THE LONE RANGER
movie unfortunately accomplished long after Striker's death) . . . mystery
that Fran Striker went to great lengths to put there in the first place.
There were indeed reasons why The Lone Ranger's true identity was buried with
his brother and fellow Texas Rangers at Bryant's Gap.

So again, Owens, where does your information come from that Dan Reid mentions
a "Uncle John" in the premiere radio broadcast (or even a later show)?  Do
you have a copy of the script that you can check (since mine is currently
packed away)?  Or do you have an actual recording of the first episode?
(Unlikely since WXYZ didn't even begin transcribing THE LONE RANGER shows
until January 17, 1938).  -- ANTHONY TOLLIN

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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 18:17:20 -0500
From: LBohall@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Radio premiums

Retrospectively, virtually every premium I ever sent for didn't
disappoint me.  Each delivered exactly as advertised.  Most still do.
Admittedly, the radioactive element in the Lone Ranger Atom Bomb ring has
gone inert, so the sparkles from the alpha particles has been stilled.
The flints needed for the Lone Ranger Six-Gun ring are unavailable and
difficult to fabricate, so creating sparks by "fanning" the gun is almost
impossible to do today.  Yet the magnifier and luminous plastic on the
Sky King Magni-Glo Writing Ring still function as when first received in
the mail.  The Tom Mix Six-Gun Decoder badge still works as designed.

Thanks, Stephen, for [removed] just missed the "premium age"--I remember
getting a couple of things, but by the time I was the right age, the
television producers (OTR had passed on) had quit. I DID pester Mom to buy
over-priced cereal boxes so I could get the prize inside, and my wife and I
got our first set of glassware from [removed]

Anyway, thanks!

Larry Bohall

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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 20:04:53 -0500
From: "Tony D" <tonyd@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Introductions

Hi Ian, welcome to the list. Would I be the person to whom you're referring
about the webpage with Pro Wrestling links to OTR?
[removed]

That page mentions several OTR shows that either feature Pro Wrestlers
(Primo Carnera on Bill Stern, "Wild" Red Berry and "The Great Wrestling
Sheik of Persia" on You Bet Your Life) or in which a Pro Wrestler is
mentioned (Gorgeous George gets mentioned on an episode of My Favorite
Husband, and Gorgeous George and Bronko Nagurski both get mentioned on
episodes of The Phil Harris-Alice Fay Show).

Right now, I'm listening to a tape that a former Wrestling Manager sent me
from about the Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis being torn down and the
wrestling shows that were held in the Kiel. It features part of a match
between Lou Thesz and Dick The Bruiser. There's also a snippet of an
interview between Stan "The Man" Stasiak and Bill Miller from 1964, and the
interview is Jack Buck (I think, or is it Puck?) but I don't know if the
match and interview were broadcast over the radio or if that was television
audio. This 30 minute (approximately) tape contains interviews with Sam
Muchnick  (St. Louis Promoter), Dick The Bruiser, Lou Thesz, Dory Funk Jr.,
Ric Flair and "Hacksaw" Butch Reed among others.

Roger Cooper reporting for The Saturday Sports Showcase on KMOX St. Louis.
The Pro Wrestling Illustrated Almanac says that the last night that The Kiel
had wrestling was September 20, 1985, but someone on this broadcast refers
to Ted DiBiase as "The Million Dollar Man" and I didn't think he was known
by that name in 1985.

I found out about an episode of The Jack Benny Show that might have
something to do with Wrestling, but that show is not in my collection.
There's an episode of Fibber McGee and Molly from June 6, 1939 in which a
handwriting expert says that Fibber should be a wrestler, but that show
isn't in my collection either. Another episode of Fibber from April 22, 1947
(I think) has him taking Molly to a carnival and Fibber mentions such
wrestling/carnival insider terms as shill (Wrestling traces its roots to the
Carnival). I knew that in the 20+ history of Fibber McGee and Molly that
they had to mention wrestling sometime.

There is an episode of The Jack Benny Show from January 21, 1940 about a
woman named Gladys Zybisco. A wrestling fan would spell that last name
"Zbyszko" as in Waldek, Stanislaus and Larry. I know that Waldek and
Stanislaus Zbyszko both wrestled in the 1910's and 1920's. I don't know if
they were wrestling by 1940 or why Gladys would have that last name if the
show didn't have something to do with wrestling. (Larry Zbyszko wrestled in
the 1970's through the 1990's).

I also have two bloopers from an audiotape I bought a few years ago at
Wal-Mart called "Bloopers" that has two with Pro Wrestlers, but that tape
also has the "Uncle Don Blooper" so the two wrestling bloopers could be fake
(Wrestling? Fake? :-) )

Does anybody out there know any of the following?

1. Was Pro Wresting ever broadcast on the radio? (Jesse Ventura mentioned
listening to wrestling on the radio on his A&E Biography)

2. Are there any other OTR Shows that feature or mention wrestlers?

3. Were any boxing matches featuring either Primo Carnera or Joe Louis
broadcast on the radio and are they in circulation? (Joe Louis turned to
wrestling to help pay his income tax, I have a match of his in which he
wrestles Cowboy Rocky Sky High Lee (what a name) )

Ian, I first got into OTR with Superman as well. I'll be sure to check out
the wrestling that is broadcast on [removed] Talk to you
later.

Tony D.
(Ian, be careful if you quote Joel Gertner (-: )

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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 20:04:55 -0500
From: "Ed Carr" <edcarr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  marvin miller 16rpm

hi
 i have been reading with interest all the discussion on marvin miller's
readings on records at 16rpm.
 since i acquired a 5 record set with him reading "the adventures of
pinocchi" i wonder how one can find out how many of these he did do.
  ed

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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 22:03:49 -0500
From: Cnorth6311@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re:OTR Premiums

Steve wrote there were basically two kinds of premiums, and of course he is
exactly right. For instance there was instant gratification on the back of
the cereal boxes where you could get the latest Allied and Axis model planes.
I also remember in the old Kellogs Shredded Wheat boxes, there used to be
cardboard layers separating the biscuits, and those cardboard separators used
to have cut outs on them, also. And of course, there always premiums inside
the bottom of the box of cereal such as the pins Superman and a few other
heroes pitched. I used to drive my mother wild until she would finally pour
the cereal out of the box so I could get my prize. Of course, I did not ask
her to do it for me at first, and after many spills on the cabinets and
floors she finally decided it was better for her to do it for me. If the
cereal companies had only put the prize on the top, all of this could have
been avoided. These were all wonderful prizes, but they could not compare to
the premiums you had to send off for. The excitement of the wait was all
encompassing. There was nothing like waiting for the postman to deliver your
sought after prize so you could be part of the gang with your decoder, or
your whistling sheriffs badge, or your TV set with pictures of Tom Mix and
Tony the Wonder Horse. One series of  cereal box premiums I especially
remember were from Nabisco featuring Straight Arrow. When I was a kid, and
all the gang got together for some shoot em up fun, I always wanted to be
Straight Arrow. No one else wanted to be the Indian which always meant I was
a little out numbered and usually got killed off rather quickly. I'm with
Steve. I never remember being disappointed with any of my premiums. What fun.

I was thinking today. Do you suppose, say fifty years or so down the road,
there will be someone sitting down as I am now and writing a letter like this
about OTT (Old Time Television) and if so, what in the world will those folks
have to talk about? With looks being the paramount objective in today's
entertainment, and no super stars of TV to really speak of, what in the world
will there be to talk about? Can you imagine Edgar Bergen and Charlie
McCarthy on TV No way. They were purely radio and could not have made it in
television. I think that's the beauty of OTR and why it continues to be so
popular. The stars of OTR could look any way you wished them to look. It
wasn't until many years later that I got a look at most of the OTR stars, and
while I was disappointed in a few, most lived up to my expectations. Well, I
have rambled on long enough. Have a great evening.

Charlie Northway

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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 00:24:28 -0500
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Nothing but the [removed]

Here is another story about truth in newscasting, or whatever you call it
that Paul Harvey does.  In November 1964, Harvey visited the SD School for
the Blind and was taken to the garage to observe several blind students
shooting at a target using sound waves to locate it.  They did pretty well,
and he was impressed.  In his broadcast of January 2, 1965 he told of this
experience, but added something like this (not a direct quote):  "Some of
these blind kids went hunting that afternoon.  And you know what?  They each
got their limit of pheasants!"
    When I first heard this (really poor sounding tape), I asked the man who
had been principal at that time if this was true.  He tried to look at me as
if I weren't easily misled and told me Harvey had made up the hunting
episode.
    I have the tape of the program made from a microphone and very poorly
done, but I guess you could call it proof that Mr. Harvey was possibly a
protégé of Bill Stern.

Ted Kneebone / 1528 S. Grant St. / Aberdeen, SD 57401 / 605-226-3344
tkneebone1@[removed] | OTR:  [removed]
[removed]  |
[removed]

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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 08:57:37 -0500
From: "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  THE HIGHEST PAID PERFORMER IN RADIO

                           RADIO SUPER STARS

    In the countless number of talk shows I have done over the years to
promote OTR since I retired from broadcasting, the one question I have been
asked more than any other is "who was the highest paid performer on radio?"
The answer to that is: WILL ROGERS!And he still holds the all-time record
for high salaries during the Golden Era, receiving $15,000 for a single
radio performance behind a mike for just 15 minutes of air time.  Sponsors
being what they were in those days, signed him for that sum - not once - but
3 times in 1930!!  He was signed again in 1932 for his first series----at
$5,000 a broadcast for 13 weeks.  When a CBS executive told him he would
have to pay 10% to the agent that booked him for the series< Rogers told him
to forget the whole deal unless he got the full amount of the salary
himself.  at that remark, the excusive was quite upset and told him it was
standard procedure to pay an agent 10% booking fee.

      Rogers remained silent, and when the executive saw he was not going to
convince Rogers to pay the agents fee and would lose Rogers as a radio
performer, he reached an unusual decision never before repeated in the
history of Broadcasting:  Knowing it would be a distinction for CBS to have
Rogers on their network, they (CBS) paid the 10%!  So for thirteen weeks CBS
paid $500 a week to an agent for a SHOW THAT FLOPPED!

                                - 30 -
Owens Pomeroy

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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 08:57:40 -0500
From: George Aust <austhaus1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  WW II and the Big Bands

Thanks to Owens Pomeroy for posting that article written by his cousin
in 1944 while attending a concert by Glenn Miller and his Army Air Force
Orchestra (Band of the AEF).  It is a rare contemporary insight  written
by a non music critic about the feelings of an average GI in hearing a
touch of home.
Its amazing how many broadcasts of Glenn Millers two orchestras are
still turning up. There seem to be about 6 - 10 new ones that are
released every year.  I have about  170 complete shows and 275 partial
broadcasts in my collection and I don't have all that have been made
[removed] Maybe the most amazing thing is that there is still  a large
enough  market for this music, to be economically feasible to release
these CDs.
How rich was OTR with three 15 minute Chesterfield Moonlight Serenades a
week plus beginning in 1941 Millers 30 minute Sunset Serenades dedicated
to the growing number of military servicemen and women. And all this
from just one band. Think of all the great music from all the other big
bands, symphony orchestras and singers all free for the twist of a knob
in your own living room. Even with 220 channels via satellite we don't
have anything that comes close to those kinds of choices today.

George Aust

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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 08:57:42 -0500
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Bloopers

Michael Biel notes,

It has long been established that perhaps 95% of the recordings on
Kermit Shaffer's copyrighted "Pardon My Blooper" records are fakes<<

Which brings up an interesting point.  Memories are not always reliable.
I recall a line I was certain I'd heard, and related the story for some
years until about a year ago.  I finally got a tape of the show and
discovered that I'd misremembered what I'd heard.  When I do serious
writing, I've learned not to rely on memory alone.  When I reminisce, I
try to remember to qualify any casual memory with some phrase such as,
"As I recall," or "If memory serves," because we're all subject to
frailties of human memory.

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 08:57:44 -0500
From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Goldcoast Show

Hi Gang -                  February 6, 2001 - Tuesday - 7:11 AM cst

In issue 42, Richard Pratz inquires about a show on WBBM that was
    "... the funniest and most clever show ...  ... a series of jingles and
         commercials strung together with "live" dialog. ..."

The program Richard describes so well in his posting is "The Goldcoast
Show" (not to be confused with Goldcoast Review).   I used to listen to
the Goldcoast show almost every day, and I even recorded some of them.
Unfortunately, I can't find any of the tapes, so I probably erased them
years ago (yik!).

Their Theme Song was "Changes", performed live.   I can still hear it in my
head.   [removed] Parhaps  Art Van Damme might have been involved (??).

Now that we all know the name of the show, perhaps we can turn up
some recordings somewhere.  I don't remember who was on the show,
but I rather imagine some of the old WBBM staff might remember.  It
would be worth pursuing.

Happy Taping -- Ken Piletic - Streamwood, Illinois
kenpiletic@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 10:26:24 -0500
From: JJJ445@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Twilight of Big Bands on Radio

Owens Pomeroy's reminiscences brought back some memories of my own from the
1960s and 70s during the twilight of the big band era on radio. I was running
radio station KMPX in San Francisco and since we were the last ones in the
Bay Area still playing the big band sound, we got a steady stream of
bandleaders and vocalists who always took the time to come by the station
when they came through town.

What a treat to interview folks like Woody Herman, Tex Beneke, Les Brown,
Stan Kenton, Freddy Martin, Del Courtney, Helen Forrest, Anita O'Day,  Alan
Jones, Ethel Merman, the Mills Brothers, Bing Crosby, Ray Noble and many
others.

We also did regular Friday and Saturday night remote broadcasts from the Ali
Baba Ballroom in Oakland and local hotels around town. Many a Saturday night
I wore a tux and walked out on stage and with hand cupped to my ear announced
we were "high atop Nob Hill overlooking the beautiful bay," and introduced
Ernie Hecksher and his Orchestra from the Fairmont Hotel and a half-hour of
dance music.

Some of my favorite on-air memories include doing a live remote with Orrin
Tucker and special guest Hildegarde from the Mark Hopkins, Meredith Wilson
leading a band at Treasure island,  Joe Venuti playing his violin at the
Great American Music Hall, Bob Haggart whistling while playing bass and
Bobbie Rosengarten, pounding the drums and Haggart's bass strings to a wild
rendition of "Big Noise From Winnetka" at Earthquake McGoon's, and Phil
Harris showing up drunk at a remote broadcast at the Hyatt Regency and
swearing on air.

One of the greatest memories I have is the night Duke Ellington came to town.
 As was common, the venue where he was appearing would ask a local disc
jockey to introduce whomever was appearing there. It was a real treat when
they called because I had been a lifelong fan and had never seen him in
person.

When the evening arrived, I went backstage to introduce myself and told him I
would be introducing him. He was most gracious and in a very pleasant way let
me know he would prefer I didn't. I was somewhat puzzled until he explained
that when he used to come out to start a concert all eyes would be riveted on
him. "Everybody is watching me and not listening to the music. Now I come out
later so the audience will really get into enjoying the fellows play."  Sure
enough, the band started without him. It wasn't until halfway through the
second number when he came out from behind the curtain and quietly slid into
the piano seat and started to play. Many in the audience didn't even notice
his arrival because they were so into the music.

Later, during the intermission, I got to talk to him backstage and with my
portable cassette recorder he graciously made intros for all the on-air
staff. I still can hear him saying, "Hi, this is Duke Ellington, and you're
listening to John Jensen, on KMPX, San Francisco."

I never got to introduce him, but many a night he introduced me on my show.
He was one class act.

John Jensen
Federal Way, WA

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