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Uncle Pete & Louise & . . .

Only A Tramp -Uncle Pete & Louise (3:01)

All and all, Uncle Pete and Louise’s  song reflected scripture’s call to help the poor, to keep an open heart and open door. Some will hear that as doing good for goodness sake, others might calculate it as an insurance policy.  Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.

How did Uncle Pete and Louise come to he heard on WNEW even though the station had not specially engaged them? For most of the economic hard times of the 1930’s, many  radio stations were able to survive by sharing dial positions and airtime. WNEW, for example, came to be in February, 1934 when its owners, bought two New Jersey stations, WODA, Paterson and WAAM, Newark, where Uncle Pete’s program originated.

The stations were merged, and their licenses cancelled as new call letters, WNEW, took over the 1250 spot on the dial.  WODA and WAAM, along with WHBI Newark, had shared airtime at 1250 kc. since the late 1920’s and WNEW continued to share air time with WHBI for another seven years.      ECB

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(add) “The Engineers”

by Andy Fisher

As extensive as my list of “The Engineers” was in my last posting on wnew1130.com, it just began to list the personnel of the engineering department in the golden days of the 1960s. Here are others, whom I knew less well, but who were nevertheless essential parts of the engineering department:

Engineering Supervisors: Karl Neuwirth, Bill Schmidt

Engineers:  Frank Dubiel, Howie Epstein, Ken Haile, Joe Palumbo, Eric Potts, Bird S. Coler Southern, George Speer, Steve Sullivan

Many, but not all, of these fine technicians worked at the transmitters — the AM transmitter in Kearny, the later AM transmitter in Carlstadt, and the FM transmitter on the 82nd floor of the Empire State Building — and rarely came to the Fifth Avenue studios.       AF

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The Jazz Baron

Billie Holiday “Summertime” 1936     (2:55)

Benny Goodman Stompin’ At The Savoy  1936  (3:09)

 Here Comes Louis

Louis Armstrong “Falling In Love With You.”  1935  (3:11)

Bunny Berigan “I Can’t Get Started.” 1937 (4:40)

Timme Rosenkrantz And His Barrelhouse Barons – A Wee Bit Of Swing” 1938 (2:33)

Cuts from the album pictured below were played on Timme’s WNEW show on February 1, 1945.

Erroll Garner  1944 (3:07)

Tyree Glenn “Mood Indigo” (4.44)

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Jimmy Lunceford

WNEW -ID In The Style of Count Basie

 My Last Affair – Jimmy Lunceford Orchestra    2:45

I’m Walking Through Heaven With You – Jimmy Lunceford Orchestra    3:19

 

 

One More Spin Of Frank Sinatra

Adam Gopnik, writing for The New Yorker Culture Desk:

For decades, there was a special connection between Sinatra’s music and what is now called “terrestrial radio.” A curious extravagance of disk jockeys spent entire careers spinning Sinatra records—partly because there were so many recordings and so many of them so good, partly because the range of emotion was sufficiently large that a single hour could pass from upbeat to deeply melancholy and still remain consistent in quality, and perhaps mostly because there was something . . . epic about every Sinatra take. Many of these radio personalities, like William B. Williams of WNEW-AM, who first called Sinatra “Chairman of the Board,” died long ago. Others have slipped on into silence. And, some, such as Mark Sudock, who has a fine scholarly program on the Internet radio station Metromedia, have emerged more recently. But some of the Sinatra standbys stayed on for a long time after the singer’s death, in 1998. Herewith, a brief summary of the twilight of Sinatra radio, and a quick salute to a couple of the hardier cases.  (To read the rest of the story, click on the link below.)

The New Yorker: One More Spin Of Frank Sinatra