[78-L] The Columbia Record Shop radio program series

[Michael Biel]

Does anybody know about, or have materials for, a syndicated radio 
series around New Years 1947 called The Columbia Record Shop?  I just 
got a six-pocket 10-inch album of a generic Columbia type that has The 
Columbia Record Shop on the spine and printed in the white rectangle on 
the cover "RECORDS for The Columbia Record Shop, Program No. 7, 
Broadcast Date Feb 22, 1947".  The number and date are rubber-stamped in 
appropriate blanks. 

It might be something like RCA Victor's "Music You Want" where they sent 
stations weekly scripts for records the stations would already have in 
their library or would be sent especially for the program and were then 
to be put in the station's library.  I've got several variations of the 
theme song record, which I think was Bach's Air in G, and a whole binder 
of scripts from the 1950s.  But these Columbia's would all be 
10-inchers, and I wonder if they had special labels, and were they pop 
or classical or mixed. 

Anybody have any records, scripts, info from catalog ads, etc?

Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com