[78-L] Hayloft Gang documentary

[Michael Biel]

From: Don Chichester <dnjchi78 at live.com>
> Didn't the Nat'l Barn Dance originate from Chicagio, and hence not WLS?
> Don
 
Huh?  WLS is in Chicagooooooo (to use the George D. Hay pronunciation).
What's your point?

Mike Biel  mbiel at biel.com  




From: dwsanderson685 at roadrunner.com
 On 10/19/2012 3:15 PM, Dennis Flannigan wrote:
> > Many of the Hayloft Gang recorded on at 78 rpm. Now there's a documentary,
> > and you can see it this weekend on public television in Seattle, and
> > Yakima, Washington. It's, The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn
> > Dance <http://www.hayloftgang.com>, on KCTS Seattle and KYVE Yakima on
> > Sunday afternoon at 4:00 PM.  Looking forward to it here in Tacoma, WA    Dennis
> 
> This has been around for a while, and seems impossible to obtain as a 
> DVD or streaming, based on my efforts. I'd love to see it, but we seem 
> to be stuck with whatever local stations do. There is the book about the 
> NBD, "The Hayloft Gang," which I recently got and read; pretty 
> interesting, especially in what it says about Northern influences on 
> these radio shows. A local friend of mine, now 89, listened religiously 
> to the NBD with his family, I think not the WLS broadcast but rather the 
> network segments.    David Sanderson