[78-L] AM Radio (and the music) is now dead / Make believe ballroom

[simmonssomer]

Yup."So Long For A While"...."a long, long while."

Al S.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "don ward" <dward7 at earthlink.net>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] AM Radio (and the music) is now dead / Make believe 
ballroom


>I remember listening to the original "Make Believe Ballroom" in the 1930s 
>on KFWBam Los Angeles.  My first indoctrination into swing and dance music.
> Later i got a wind up phonograph and ive been accumulating records ever 
> since.
> There were some great music programs on radio Sat and Sun night.  Your Hit 
> Parade on Sat.... who remembers "The Manhatten Merry go-round?"  "Touring 
> the alluring, New York town"... sung by the chorus... Don
> Vorheese and the Bell telephone hour.... on and on...
> Where oh where has outstanding radio gone ??   only to be replaced by "How 
> much is that doggie in window".
> Its lucky that some of those great music programs can be found on old AFRS 
> trascriptions, some Thesaurus ets as well.
> I cant remember where my cell phone is, but i can sure remember good music 
> from 70 years ago  lol
> don ward
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
>>Sent: May 11, 2009 5:03 PM
>>To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>Subject: Re: [78-L] AM Radio (and the music) is now dead
>>
>>From: "Michael Biel"
>>> >You might think that WNEW was noted for Big Bands, but that was
>>> > only for a few hours a day.
>>From: "RAY KILCOYNE" <kil at roadrunner.com>
>>> Hard to believe that I got my very first taste of Country music from 
>>> Martin
>>> Block. He counted down the Top 5 Country records every week on his 
>>> Saturday
>>> show. (He followed that with the Top 5 R&B records, but I had already 
>>> heard
>>> plenty of them).     RayK
>>
>>
>>DITTO FOR ME!!!!!!  But it was also my first taste of R&B.  I remember
>>his program being the first place I heard Maybelline.  The main C&W
>>record I remember hearing on Block's show was "He's In The Jailhouse
>>Now" because I could only understand half of the words.  By this time he
>>was no longer on WNEW but had moved to WABC.  He later went on to WOR.
>>William B. Williams at WNEW was still using the program title Make
>>Believe Ballroom as was Block on both the later stations.
>>
>>Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>