The House I Live In

What is America to me
A name, a map, or a flag I see
A certain word, democracy
What is America to me

The house I live in
A plot of Earth, a street
The grocer and the butcher
And the people that I meet

The children in the playground
The faces that I see
All races and religions
That's America to me

The place I work in
The worker by my side
The little town the city
Where my people lived and died

The howdy and the handshake
The air a feeling free
And the right to speak your mind out
That's America to me

The things I see about me
The big things and the small
The little corner newsstand
Or the house a mile tall

The wedding and the churchyard
The laughter and the tears
The dream that's been a growing
For a hundred and fifty years

The town I live in
The street, the house, the room
The pavement of the city
Or the garden all in bloom

The church the school the clubhouse
The million lights I see
But especially the people
That's America to me

There’s Only One . . .

W-N-E-W  1130 in New York   (:48)

                                                   Metromedia Radio

The Great Northeast     (:29)

In The Style Of George Shearing   (:28)

 

Ted Brown and Bill Harrington  (5:37)

We’ve Got Quite A Few Friends   (:30)

 

Nat Cole Calypso   (:40)

 

Al “Jazzbeaux” Collins. “3 Little Pigs. (4:03)

 

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Springtime In New York

                                                  Metromedia Radio

          Harry Belafonte (1927-2023)

Harry Belafonte during a live broadcast with William B. Williams

It’s Springtime In New York (:48)

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Bob Goldsholl

Ultimate Mets Database

My name is Chris Goldsholl. I came across this site (Ultimatemets.com) while looking for some information on my father, Bob Goldsholl. It was nice to see comments on my father and his days calling Mets games with Sportschannel. My father passed away, peacefully, last week on 12/14 at the age of 89. His life was a “win.”

Regards, Chris Goldsholl – December 22, 2022

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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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