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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2012 : Issue 1
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Born 100 Years Ago in January [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
1-1 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
1927 Rose Bowl gamne on NBC radio [ "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@sbcglob ]
1-2 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
A Question: Radio "Kid" Classroom Sh [ Jim Burns <jameshburns@[removed]; ]
You may enjoy this book [ Larry Jordan <midtod@[removed] ]
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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:18:28 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Born 100 Years Ago in January
01-05-1912 - Frances Blaisdell - d. 3-11-2009
flutist: "Phil Spitalny and His All Girl Orchestra"
01-06-1912 - Danny Thomas - Deerfield, MI - d. 2-6-1991
actor: Amos "Bickersons"; Postman "Fanny Brice Show"
01-12-1912 - Sara Berner - Albany, NY - d. 12-19-1969
actor: Mable Flapsaddle "Jack Benny Program"
01-18-1912 - Bob Sabin - Illinois - d. 1-15-1959
announcer: "Modern Romances"
01-20-1912 - Paula Stone - NYC - d. 12-23-1997
moderator: "Leave It to the Girls"
01-28-1912 - Monty Masters - New Haven, CT - d. 12-9-1969
actor, producer: "The Mad Masters"; "Candy Matson"
Ron
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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:18:33 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 1-1 births/deaths
January 1st births
01-01-1867 - Lew Fields - NYC - d. 7-20-1941
comedian: (Weber and Fields) "The Eveready Hour"; "George Jessel Show"
01-01-1878 - Edwin Franko Goldman - Louisville, KY - d. 2-21-1956
bandmaster: "The Cities Service Concert"; "The Pure Oil Band"
01-01-1879 - [removed] Forster - London, England - d. 6-7-1970
novelist: Many works adapted for radio
01-01-1889 - Alexander Smallens - St. Petersburg, Russia - d.
11-27-1972
conductor: "Rising Musical Star"
01-01-1889 - Charles Bickford - Cambridge, MA - d. 11-9-1967
actor: "Radio Hall of Fame"
01-01-1889 - Maurice Baron - Lille, France - d. 9-5-1964
conductor of various symphony orchestras for radio
01-01-1895 - Art Gillham - St. Louis, MO - d. 6-6-1961
piano playing vocalist: (Whispering Pianist) Plugged songs to sell
sheet music
01-01-1895 - Bernard Schubert - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-4-1988
writer, producer: "The Falcon"; "Murder and Mr. Malone"
01-01-1897 - Walter Greaza - St. Paul, MN - d. 6-1-1973
actor: "Columbia Workshop"; "Suspense"
01-01-1900 - Xavier Cugat - Tirona, Spain - d. 10-27-1990
bandleader: (King of the Rhumba) "Camel Caravan"
01-01-1904 - George Landen Dann - Brisbane, Australia - d. 6-6-1977
writer: "Funerals for Field Mice"
01-01-1904 - Lou Kosloff - Chicago, IL - d. 2-12-1986
orchestra leader: "Blondie"; "Sad Sack"; "Sherlock Holmes"
01-01-1905 - Dick Aurandt - d. 7-16-1984
orchestra leader: "Voyage of the Scarlet Queen"; "Steve Canyon"
01-01-1905 - Richard Keith - NYC - d. 9-16-1976
actor: Ray Hunt "Myrt and Marge"; Frank W. Brock "Special Investigator"
01-01-1908 - Bob Russell - Passaic, NJ - d. 1-24-1998
singer, songwriter: Helped create " Name that Tune"
01-01-1909 - Dana Andrews - Collins, MS - d. 12-17-1992
actor: Matt Cevetic "I Was A Communist for the FBI"
01-01-1909 - Frank Kettering - Monmouth, IL - d. 6-09-1973
bass player: (Hoosier Hot Shots) "National Barn Dance"
01-01-1911 - Hank Greenberg - NYC - d. 9-14-1986
baseball great: "Play Ball"; "We the People"; "Philco Radio Time"
01-01-1911 - Leona Ledoux - d. 8-16-1987
actor: Robespierre Higgins "Baby Snooks"; Bumstead Children "Blondie"
01-01-1913 - Norman Rosten - d. 3-7-1995
writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "An American in Russia"
01-01-1915 - Earl Sheldon - NYC - d. 11-14-1977
orchestra leader: "The Bickersons"; "Jack Smith Show"
01-01-1915 - Irv Orton - d. 5-xx-1960
musical director: "Double or Nothing"
01-01-1916 - Earl Wrightson - Baltimore, MD - d. 3-7-1993
singer: "Highways in Melody"; "Getting the Most Out of Life"
01-01-1917 - Shelby Storck - Kansas City, MO - d. 4-5-1969
actor: Speed Robertson "The Air Advs. of Jimmie Allen"
01-01-1917 - Ted Cott - Poughkeepsie, NY - d. 6-12-1973
announcer, emcee: "So You Think You Know Music?"; "Music You Want"
01-01-1919 - Carole Landis - Fairchild, WI - d. 7-5-1948
actor: "Warner Brothers Academy Award"; "Command Performance"
01-01-1922 - Robert De Cormier - Pinelawn, NY
choral director: "Christmas in Vermont with Countrypoint"
01-01-1923 - Milt Jackson - Detroit, MI - d. 10-9-1999
vibraphone: "Modern Jazz Quartet"
01-01-1928 - Helen Westcott - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-17-1998
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "My Wildest Dream"
01-01-1938 - Norma Jean Nilsson - Hollywood, CA
actor: Kathy Anderson "Father Knows Best"; Cookie Bumstead "Blondie"
01-01-1939 - Ray Bellew - Montreal, Canada - d. 10-10-2006
announcer for CBC radio
01-01-1947 - Neil Munro - Musselburgh, Scotland - d. 7-13-2009
actor: Quentin Nickles "Investigations of Quentin Nickles"
January 1st deaths
01-20-1927 - Dawn Lake - Sydney, Australia - d. 1-1-2006
singer: "The Jack Davey Program"
02-04-1908 - Jack Fraser - Lawrence, MA - d. 1-1-2000
newscaster: "John Gordon Fraser and the News", "Monitor"
02-15-1907 - Cesar Romero - NYC - d. 1-1-1994
actor: "Movietone Radio Theatre"
02-15-1922 - Otis Carney - Chicago, IL - d. 1-1-2006
writer: "Words at War"
03-06-1909 - Floyd Holmes - Glasgow, KY - d. 1-1-1970
singer: (Prairie Ramblers) "Smile-a-While"
04-17-1915 - Joe Foss - Sioux Falls, SD - d. 1-1-2003
south dakota governor: "Tops in Sports"
04-25-1919 - Albert Aley - NYC - d. 1-1-1986
actor: Hop Harrigan "Hop Harrigan"; Bob James "Stella Dallas"
05-16-1911 - Margaret Sullavan - Norfolk, VA - d. 1-1-1960
actor: "Electric Theatre"; "Hollywood Playhouse"
06-16-1907 - Joan Winters - Dayton, OH - d. 1-1-2001
actor: Alice Ames "Girl Alone"; Sylvia Bertram "Road of Life"
06-25-1913 - Cyril Fletcher - Watford, England - d. 1-1-2005
panelist: "Does the Team Think"
07-14-1932 - Del Reeves - Sparta, NC - d. 1-1-2007
country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
08-03-1886 - Anna Barbash - d. 1-1-1983
soprano: "Memories of Jennie Lind"
08-09-1908 - [removed] Bezzerides - Samsun, Turkey - d. 1-1-2007
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-16-1913 - Joe Lilley - d. 1-1-1971
orchestra leader: "Drene Time"
08-17-1899 - Ralph Goll - d. 1-1-1957
scriptwriter: "The Lone Ranger"
09-11-1896 - Robert S. Kerr - Ada, Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-1-1963
governor oklahoma: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
09-12-1888 - Maurice Chevalier - Paris, France - d. 1-1-1972
actor, singer, host: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "This is Paris"; "Bing
Crosby Show"
09-17-1923 - Hank Williams - Georgiana, AL - d. 1-1-1953
singer: "Louisiana Hayride"; "Grand Ole Opry"; "Health and Happiness"
09-17-1941 - Robert Takeo Matsui - Sacremento, CA - d. 1-1-2005
congressman: Democratic response to President's radio address
10-06-1905 - Helen Wills Moody - Centerville, CA - d. 1-1-1998
tennis playeer: "Information Please"
10-07-1916 - Palmer Williams - Tenafly, NJ - d. 1-1-1996
producer: "Hear It Now"
12-02-1914 - Ray Walston - New Orleans, LA - d. 1-1-2001
actor: "The Woolworth Hour"
12-06-1898 - Jack Beall - Waxahachie, TX - d. 1-1-1963
newscaster: "News of Tomorrow"; "American Legion Presents"
12-16-1890 - Jane Morgan - North Platte, NE - d. 1-1-1972
actor: Mary Lane "Aunt Mary"; Mrs. Margaret Davis "Our Miss Brooks"
12-25-1902 - Barton Maclane - Columbia, SC - d. 1-1-1969
actor: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
12-27-1914 - Jack Latham - Washington - d. 1-1-1987
announcer: "The Man Called X"; "Wake Up, America"
Ron
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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:18:40 -0500
From: "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 1927 Rose Bowl gamne on NBC radio
Hi everybody. I wanted to comment on Brian Rogers' post and blog regarding
the 85th anniversary of the January 1, 1927 Rose Bowl football game over NBC
radio from Pasadena, California. While WEAF and NBC announcer Graham
McNamee was the most famous voice heard on that first coast-to-coast
broadcast for NBC (and the Rose Bowl game) on that historic day, there is
more to the story. It involves how radio station KFI in Los Angeles played a
major role in getting this broadcast on the air, thanks to a man named Carl
Haverlin. (By the way, the Rose Bowl had been heard locally on Los Angeles
radio as early as 1923, first on KHJ radio)
Mr. Haverlin died in 1985 at the age of 86. He retired from Broadcast
Music, Inc. (BMI) as its president in the mid-1960s, after having been with
BMI since the late-1930s. Haverlin started in radio broadcasting with
station KFI between 1923 and 1936, working as an announcer, selling
advertising time, and promoting the station. By 1935, he was concentrating
on the business side of broadcasting, as KFI's commercial manager.
During the 1920s, Haverlin became very popular with Southern California
radio fans for doing the play-by-play announcing of the football games of
USC and UCLA over KFI. In his Los Angeles Times obituary of August 28,
1985, part of a 1979 interview with Westways Magazine is re-printed. In that
interview, Haverlin discusses how in 1926, NBC decided to make the Earle C.
Anthony-owned radio station its Los Angeles affiliate. Haverlin, then in
his 20s, thought it would help KFI's credibility if he persuaded NBC
officials to put on the first national broadcast of the New Year's Day Rose
Bowl game in 1927. NBC agreed and they used KFI's remote broadcasting
equipment at the Rose Bowl. With Haverlin's experience calling college
football over KFI for several years, NBC officials also decided to have Carl
Haverlin share the announcing chores with Graham McNamee for the
Alabama-Stanford game. Haverlin continued to work Rose Bowl games for NBC
until 1934, two years before he ended his affiliation with KFI. (Haverlin
was also credited with getting KFI to broadcast the summer season of live
concert broadcasts from the Hollywood Bowl, with Haverlin on the air as
announcer, starting in 1927. And he also got the Los Angeles Philharmonic
to broadcast their Thursday night concerts over KFI.)
Back to that first coast-to-coast broadcast of the Rose Bowl game on NBC in
1927, if I may. Somebody else may know this type of data better than I do.
But, I believe NBC did not have a permanent network of radio stations set up
until late in 1928. For the first Rose Bowl NBC broadcast 85 years ago, I'm
not certain how may radio stations were contracted to carry the game. But,
when NBC carried the Rose Bowl again in 1928, they used 46 radio stations in
26 states and Washington, [removed] Some cites though such as Chicago, New York
and San Francisco were broadcasting the game on two or three stations at the
same time. (Source, New York Times, 1-1-1928)
Also, the New York Times of 1 January 1928 stated that NBC engineers were
using 20,000 miles of special telephone circuits. About 4,000 miles of
telephone wires and circuits would first carry McNamee's and Haverlin's
voice from Pasadena to New York, and then distributed to each NBC affiliate
across the United States.
In addition, a Los Angeles Times story from 1 January 1934 recalled the
initial 1927 NBC Rose Bowl broadcast. Of McNamee's ability as a
sportscaster, the article said, "Graham (McNamee) glorified the purple hills
of the Arroyo Seco, Southern California's climate, the orange blossoms and
did just about everything on the air, but let the fans in on what was
happening on the gridiron, where Alabama was holding Stanford to a tie." I
had always read that McNamee was not an expert on the sporting events he
announced for NBC, but brought an element of excitement to listeners during
radio's earliest years.
In the October 29, 1929 issue of Radio Doings magazine, there's a photo of
Haverlin at the KFI microphone with USC's head football coach Howard Jones.
The article says Haverlin was KFI's Commercial Manager, "but listeners to
his weekly broadcasts of football games cannot be persuaded that he does
anything better than describe a football game." Toward the end of the
story, the magazine adds, "Similes and metaphors, amazingly appropriate,
make Mr. Haverlin's description of the gridiron classics unusually vivid.
Nor do the fine points of football suffer from his colorful telling, since
the announcer is recognized for his accurate knowledge of the game. Mr.
Haverlin will be at the (KFI) microphone for all local games."
So, while I too salute the 85th anniversary of the first national broadcast
of the Rose Bowl game on NBC radio in 1927, I feel that more people should
know that it was KFI announcer/promotion man/salesman Carl Haverlin who gave
NBC the idea to put the game on the air in the first place, and how he was
chosen to call the game along with NBC's Graham McNamee.
Jim Hilliker
Los Angeles radio historian
Monterey, CA
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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:18:46 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 1-2 births/deaths
January 2nd births
01-02-1865 - William Lyon Phelps - d. 8-21-1943
author, critic, scholar: "Information Please"
01-02-1888 - Tito Schipa - Lecce, Italy - d. 12-16-1965
operatic tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"; "La Rosa Concerts"
01-02-1892 - Artur Rodzinski - Dalmatia, Yugoslavia - d. 11-27-1958
concuctor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "Cleveland Symphony Orchestra"
01-02-1894 - Robert Nathan - NYC - d. 5-25-1985
writer: "CBS Radio Workshop"
01-02-1901 - Hugh Ross Williamson - Romsey, England - d. 1-13-1978
author: "Paul, a Bondslave"
01-02-1904 - Bernardine Flynn - Madison, WI - d. 3-10-1977
actor: Sade Gook "Vic and Sade"; Mathilda Barker "Welcome Valley"
01-02-1904 - James Melton - Moultrie, GA - d. 4-21-1961
singer" "Palmolive Hour"; "Telephone Hour"; "Harvest of Stars"
01-02-1905 - Michael Tippett - London, England - d. 1-8-1998
composer: "Midsummer Marriage"
01-02-1913 - Anna Lee - Ightham, Kent, England - d. 5-14-2004
actor: "Soldiers in Greaspaint"; "Lifebuoy Show"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
01-02-1913 - David Levy - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-25-2000
producer: " We the People"
01-02-1915 - Nick Fatool - Milbury, MA - d. 9-26-2000
drummer: (Member of the Big 7 Band) "Pete Kelly's Blues"
01-02-1917 - Vera Zorina - Berlin, Germany - d. 4-9-2003
ballet dancer: "Duffy's Tavern"; "I'm An American"
01-02-1918 - Joan Merrill - Baltimore, MD - d. 5-10-1992
singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
01-02-1920 - Charles Douglass - Mexico - d. 4-8-2003
radio engineer for the CBS radio network
01-02-1920 - Corny Peeples - Oak Park, IL - d. 11-15-1954
actor: William Snood "Tom Mix"; Bud Fairchild "Stepmother"
01-02-1920 - Isaac Asimov - Petrovich, Russia - d. 4-6-1992
Author: "I, Robot"; "Nightfall"
01-02-1920 - Richard Lewis - NYC - d. 5-25-2009
director, writer: "The Falcon"; "Suspense"
01-02-1923 - Mary Elizabeth Smith - Ft. Worth, TX
associate radio producer: "Wide, Wide World"
01-02-1925 - Larry Harmon - Toledo, OH - d. 7-3-2008
actor: "The Great Gildersleeve"
01-02-1925 - Richard Jessup - d. 10-22-1982
writer: "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
01-02-1928 - Howard Caine - Nashville, TN - d. 12-29-1993
actor: "The Brighter Day"; "The Guiding Light"
01-02-1930 - Julius LaRosa - Brooklyn, NY
singer: "Arthur Godfrey Time"
01-02-1931 - Renee Roy - Buffalo, NY - d. 7-30-2005
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
01-02-1932 - Peter Redgrove - Kingston-on-Thames, England - d. 6-16-2003
writer: "The Nature of Cold Weather"
January 2nd deaths
01-12-1906 - Tex Ritter - Murvaul, TX - d. 1-2-1974
singer: "Lone Star Rangers"; "Grand Ole Opry"
01-13-1914 - Osa Massen - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 1-2-2006
actor: "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Columbia Workshop"
01-18-1918 - Peter Hobbs - Etretat, France - d. 1-2-2011
actor: "You Are There"
02-07-1896 - Earl Burtnett - Harrisburg, PA - d. 1-2-1936
orchestra leader: KHJ Los Angeles, California
02-08-1912 - Margot Stevenson - NYC - d. 1-2-2011
actor: Margo Lane "The Shadow"
02-09-1902 - Fred Harman, Sr. - St. Joseph, MO - d. 1-2-1982
cartoonist: Creator of Red Ryder
02-19-1915 - Dick Emery - London, England - d. 1-2-1983
comedian: "Educating Archie"
02-20-1920 - Frank Muir - Ramsgate, England - d. 1-2-1998
comedy writer: "Take It from Here"; "Bedtime with Braden"
03-08-1918 - Alan Hale, Jr. - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-2-1990
actor: "Smiths of Hollywood"
03-30-1883 - Jo Davidson - NYC - d. 1-2-1952
sculptor: "Information Please"
04-14-1915 - Richard Hart - Providence, RI - d. 1-2-1951
actor: "Family Theatre"
05-04-1913 - Joe Aleman - d. 1-2-1996
disk jockey: KPRL Paso Robles, California
06-15-1921 - Erroll Garner - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-2-1977
jazz muscian: "Jubilee"; "Command Performance"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
08-23-1906 - Harriet Parsons - Burlington, IA - d. 1-2-1983
commentator: (Daughter of Louella Parsons) "Hollywood Hotel"
08-25-1912 - John Rarig - Washington - d. 1-2-1991
singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
09-08-1902 - Milton Watson - Salinas, CA - d. 1-2-1982
vocalist: "Burns and Allen"
10-20-1897 - Adolph Deutsch - London, England - d. 1-2-1980
arranger, conductor, composer: "Kraft Program"; "This Is Hollywood"
10-27-1910 - Jack Carson - Carmen, Canada - d. 1-2-1963
comedian: "Jack Carson Show"; "New Sealtest Village Store"
11-02-1921 - Shep Menken - NYC - d. 1-2-1999
actor: "Six Shooter"; "NBC Presents: Short Story"; "Four-Star Playhouse"
11-05-1901 - Etta Moten - Weimer, TX - d. 1-2-2004
singer, actress: "The Laff Parade"; Hollywood Spotlight"
11-14-1904 - Dick Powell - Mountain. View, AR - d. 1-2-1963
actor: Richard Diamond "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"; Richard
Rogue "Rogue's Gallery"
11-19-1897 - Bud Green - Austria - d. 1-2-1981
lyricist: "Great Moments to Music"
12-02-1880 - Fred A. Sullivan - Zionsville, IN - d. 1-2-1951
actor: Kirby Willoughby "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"; Mitchell Frazier
"Story of Mary Marlin"
12-10-1903 - Una Merkel - Covington, KY - d. 1-2-1986
actor: Adeline Fairchild "Great Gildersleeve"; "Johnny Presents";
"Texaxo Star Theatre"
Ron
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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:18:52 -0500
From: Jim Burns <jameshburns@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: A Question: Radio "Kid" Classroom Shows
I was doing some research on ROMPER ROOM recently (you can read the
article, if you like, below, with some memories and mysteries involving
our old friends Joan Thayer, Louise Redfield and Mary Ann
[removed]!)--
When a question occured to me, that I should probably know the answer
to:
Did any of the radio classroom shows around the country, feature an
audience, participatory or not, of real kids?
One of ROMPER ROOM's unique features, debuting in the mid-to-late
fifties, was that each week, they'd bring in a new group of classroom
kids. (Since there was a different ROMPER ROOM in each city that aired
it, there could be as many as 1000 to 1500 or more kids a year, making
their "TV debuts"!)
I was wondering--as I marveled at my ignorance--if there was a radio
equivalent?
And:
Happy New Year!
Best, Jim
"A Requiem For Romper Room"
[removed]
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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:19:21 -0500
From: Larry Jordan <midtod@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: You may enjoy this book
I've been a subscriber to the OTR Digest for many years and have
occasionally posted comments or questions, including telling other
radio buffs of the book I was writing called "Jim Reeves: His Untold
Story." A number of you have helped me with information, or to get in
touch with people I needed to interview. I've also had the assistance
of OTR readers in tracking down old 16-inch transcriptions from some
of Jim's radio shows.
The reason I'm telling you all this is I am proud to announce that
after 11 years of research and writing, my new book on Jim Reeves has
been published. It runs 672 pages and is based on more than 500
interviews, plus Jim's personal diaries and private correspondence.
It is virtually a day by day account of his life -- which was FAR
more fascinating than anyone realized. Reeves had an incredibly rich
baritone voice and was a progenitor of the smooth Nashville Sound,
with major crossover pop appeal.
Jim was born in east Texas in 1923, the son of a sharecropper who
died when Reeves was an infant. Jim grew up to become a baseball
player in the St. Louis Cardinals farm system and after injuring his
leg, got a job at KGRI in Henderson, TX. in 1947. He eventually ended
up being an announcer on KWKH in Shreveport, where he got his big
break one night by being allowed to sing on the famed "Louisiana
Hayride."
After his move to Nashville in 1955 he had a string of 80 hits like
"Four Walls," "He'll Have to Go," and "Welcome To My World," and sold
an estimated 180 million records worldwide. Even today there is
virtually a cult following for Reeves in far flung places like Sri
Lanka, the UK, Australia and South Africa (where he made a movie).
After he was killed in a plane crash in 1964, Jim became the only
artist in the history of recorded music to score 34 charted hits
AFTER his death, thanks to a backlog of unreleased recordings that
RCA and Jim's widow, Mary, continued to issue for the next 20 years.
During his lifetime Jim made many appearances on AFRN and on shows
like "Country Style USA" and "Navy Hoedown." He ended up buying KGRI
and was an avid fan of radio such that he invariably stopped by the
local stations when he'd tour around the country. Border radio like
XERF helped introduce Reeves to a broad international audience.
There are so many things in my book that pertain to broadcasting that
I thought OTR members might like to acquire a copy. It is 3 times the
size of a standard book (in terms of page count), and is $[removed]
There is also a KIndle edition priced at only $[removed] You can find it
at [removed] or on my website at [removed] (where
you can see a more detailed list of contents).
One last thing: I want to send Herb Oscar Anderson a copy of the book
because he was so kind to give me an interview but I have misplaced
his address. If someone could email that to me I'd appreciate it.
(Herb was a colleague of Jim Reeves when they both had daily, one-
hour shows on the old ABN network in 1957-58). Happy New Year to all
OTR readers! Larry Jordan
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