Radio daily (Feb-Mar 1937)

Tuesday. March 23. 1937 RADIO DAILY: 3 CCCHESTC4SMUSIC KEN DYKE JOINS NBC AS EASTERN SALES HEAD {Continued from Page 1) responsible for more than half of all the business booked by NBC. Dyke was at one time vice-president in charge of sales for JohnsManville Corp., and a director of the Advertising Federation of America and the Advertising Foundation. National Ice Switching To Sunday NBC Spot (Continued from Page 1) Blue net and change time to 8-9 p.m. Ice program will retain Gladys Swarthout and Frank Chapman as stars and will air over the same network of 54 stations now used Wednesday nights. Current plans call for the cancellation of the March 31 program, thereby allowing a ten-day layoff between shows, instead of broadcasting twice during the same week. Same sponsor now broadcasting on CBS every Tuesday and Thursday from 11:45 a.m.-12 noon with show entitled Homemaker's Exchange, has decided to extend that series into June. Program was due to fade April 20. Under new extension the program may be cut to once-weekly, but no definite decision has as yet been reached. Donahue & Coe has the accounts. SAN FRANCISCO JOE ALVIN hurrying back to his Los Angeles headquarters of NBC, where he writes copy, after a short sojourn here. Dick Newton KPO and KGO singing artist, having a reunion party, for his classmates from West Point. Hanni-Girerd Co. have bought a nightly broadcast over KYA to plug their auto servicing. Jack Burroughs, radio editor of the Oakland Tribune, has left for the hot desert of Death Valley on vacation. "True Detective Mysteries," produced by Dave Drummond, began Friday, 9:30-10 p.m., over NBC-Blue, sponsored by Gallenkamp Stores. C. H. Baker Shoe Co. sponsoring a series of 26 broadcasts by the winning amateurs from Budda's "Marin Dell Hour" over KFRC every Friday night. Program handled by Sidney Garfinkel agency. Rod Mays, former KYA announcer, is directing from Los Angeles a series of broadcasts dealing with human interest stories about transients. Phil Harris in town visiting the more quiet night spots, and showing particular interest in band-leader Ellis Kimball. KGO opens a new amateur show over its network with Bennie Walker, former emcee for the Women's Magazine of the Air, bringing the entries before the mike. NBC has assigned Arnold Maguire, director of Dean Buddha Maddux's Amateur Hour, to direct the new program. KTAB has been added to the red network of the Carnation-Albers program, beginning April 1. VINCENT LOPEZ and ork are back on CBS after several weeks of Mutual airing. The schedule remains intact, Fridays at 12:30 a.m. and Sundays at midnight. "You Oughta Learn to Dance," a new tune by Johnny Fortis, one of the "Three Naturals," KYW NBC harmonizers, has been plattered by Victor. Boots and His Buddies, 15-piece colored band, purveying swing to KONO, San Antonio, audiences, have recorded ten sides for Victor, which already has their theme song, "Wild Cherries." Fritz's German Band, KONO weekly feature, has recorded ten sides for the Victor Company. Material consisted of old German dances, polkas, waltzes, etc. Johnny Hamp, Jean Harlow's favorite maestro, and his band make merry on the "WINS Matinee Frolic" today. The Jones Boys, a California quintette unearthed by Duke Ellington, take over the second part of the program with characteristic harmonizing. Lee Johnson, formerly with WESG, Elmira, N. Y., has been added to the WFMD, Frederick, Md., staff orchestra. Johnson plays the fiddle, in addition to strumming the banjo. British American Productions, Inc., of which B. Charles-Dean is president, wired Milton Berle last week warning him against the use of the title "Let's Get Together" in connection with a new song by Berle and Louis Prima. British American has been using "Let's Get Together" (With a Song) as the theme song and title of its musical series produced for Rolls Razor, Inc. CharlesDean wrote the song and Mills Music Co. published it. Abmm Chasins' Music Series pro gram, aired next Saturday at 12 noon over the NBC-red, will have Chopin's most important scherzo, his First in B Minor, for its subject. The piano-playing composer will play and comment on the Chopin opus. Uncle Jimmy and his Texas Cowboys, ace hill-billy unit at WTMV, East St. Louis, are playing Saturday night dances at famous old Kisseli Hall in North St. Louis. Sid Gary, baritone heard nigiitly on the "Howard Dandies" program on WMCA, is now featuring feminine vocalists of leading orchestras, At The Rainbow Room GLEN GRAY and the Casa Loma Orchestra Management Rockwell-O'Keefe, Inc. Radio City, N. Y. and Hollywood on his broadcasts. Linda Lee of Paul Whiteman's Orchestra was his guest Sunday evening. Others expected in the near future include: Frances Hunt, Edith Wright, Rose Blaine, Judy Lane, Dolly Dawn and Muriel Sherman. Carl Ravell and his band take over the Lexington Grill on April 29, succeeding Ozzie Nelson. "South Sea Island Magic," scng sensation of the past few months, has netted composer Andy Iona $5,000 in royalties to date. Woody Herman's new ditty "Face to Face with Love" being featured by maestro Andre Kostelanetz. "Das Rlieirtgold," first of the Ring Operas, will be aired from the Boston Opera House, April 3, via the NBC-Red network. On April 10 "Hansel und Gretel" and "Cavalleria Rusticana" will be heard under the same auspices. NBC AIRS APOLOGY FOR CUTTING SPEECH (Continued from Page 1) the erroneous cut-off. Cox was speaking from WIOD, Miami, and Clarke was in San Diego. 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