Vocalist CHRIS CONNOR dies at 81

Chris Connor, a Kansas City native and prominent big-band jazz singer of the 1940s, ‘50s and beyond, died on Saturday 29 August 2009, of cancer. She was 81.
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V Discs preserve 1940 radio shows...

Many pop and Big Band radio programs are available today because they were pressed for listening by servicemen overseas during Wprld War II. Many are preserved and can be heard today.

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Very interesting program on BBC Radio 2 - "Opp Goes Uncle Sam." It tells the history of the V-Disc program of World War 2 and beyond. You can find it at

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This program is Part 1 of a multi-part series.

This is an archived program that was broadcast last Monday evening GMT. It will be replaced by Part 2, so if you want to hear Part 1, you must bring it up right away.

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CBS News' Don Hewitt dies

Donald Shepard Hewitt (December 14, 1922 – August 19, 2009) was an American television news producer and executive, best known for creating 60 Minutes, the CBS news magazine in 1968, currently the longest-running prime time broadcast on American television.

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Strange Dr Weird

The Strange Dr. Weird is a radio program broadcast on Mutual from 1944 to 1945.
Sponsored by Adams Hats, the drama is notable in part because it was a sister series to The Mysterious Traveler, both in theme and its narrator. Maurice Tarplin, who was also the creepy voice of The Mysterious Traveler. Many of the scripts were condensed 15-minute versions of scripts originally broadcast on The Mysterious Traveler.

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SINATRA Ten years after death

This article originally ran in the May 15, 1998 edition of the New York Daily News.
Frank Sinatra sang with a fierce intensity, like a man in pursuit of that one elusive moment when the song would be precisely as he wanted it to be.
He lived the same way, and when he died May 14, he probably would have said that he never reached that moment that in the end it remained one step and one note beyond his grasp...Read More
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Christopher Boscole, piano

Original piano solos combining elements of folk, new age, jazz and meditative music in a relaxing, lyrical style.
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ARTIE SHAW Band Remote

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Broadcasting Pioneer and friend

My old friend and broadcasting buddy Doug HIBBS Sr. passed away on Thursday, July 23, 2009. He was 89 years of age. He was born in Phila., Pa., and formerly of Williamstown and West Chester, PA and lived in Pitman NJ for 40 years. Doug spent most of his life in Philadelphia Radio and in the summer of 1960 he guided me into my career in radio by teaching me the ropes at WTEL. "Philadelphia's clear channel local" is what he used on the air (It made the 250 watt daytime radio station sound a bit exclusive). He was a member of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia, who published: [Doug "Bud" Hibbs started in the business in 1934 (not a typo). His dad, Earl Douglass Hibbs, put WTEL Radio on the air in the mid-20s. While he was in his upper 80s, Doug Hibbs still worked part-time selling radio time at WVLT in Vineland. ] He was also a member of Clayton Kiwanis, West Chester Exchange Club and the West Chester Jaycees. Doug enjoyed trips to the casino and was a huge Philadelphia Phillies fan. I took this photo of him in the main performance studio at WTEL, SUMMER 1960.

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Easy Listening...

As a former and now retired beautiful music radio programmer, I invite you to tune into our streaming station by clicking the icon at our website BEAUTIFULinstrumentals.com presenting beautiful music from the beautiful mountains of the Sierra Madre Oriental and the golden shores of the Gulf of Mexico. Music from Broadway, Hollywood and America's great collection of standards.

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Save the Bandstand floor

The Enterprise Center is desperately seeking to raise $25,000 towards the renovation of the original American Bandstand Studio Floor!

Enterprise Center, Philadelphia

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