Starter of this subject: Jim Hilliker
Last post in this subject: 1/12/2000
Messages in this subject: 1
| Jim Hilliker | 1/12/2000 1 replies |
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Well, we finally got a reasonable answer to this from a radio history research mailing group I belong to.
It seems this song was played many years ago as part of the 60th Anniversary of the long-time NBC affiliate in Washington, DC, WRC radio, which became WWRC in 1984. It probably came off a transcription disc from the '30s, but was apparently used by WRC as a filler between the network shows when the local stations would leave the network to play their local commercials. It's unique to radio of those days and quite a novelty today, even strange! Interesting also, that I later found out that Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra did another song, this one an instrumental, based on the NBC chimes, called "The Announcer's Blues", recorded in 1937, I believe. jh |
| City Slicker | 1/13/2000 0 replies |
| Circa 1942, Standard Transcriptions sent to radio stations a 78 rpm release NOT for the public that was a "naughty" song about words one would never hear on the radio. At the end of each verse, instead of the expected naughty word that rhymes, you heard the NBC chimes instead. </ |