20 (y)ears of corn (1952)

Record Details:

Title:
20 (y)ears of corn
Date:
1952
Publisher:
Syndicate Publishing Company, Inc.
Volume:
20 (y)ears of corn (1952)
Leaf #:
00020
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
April 18, 2024
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Don McNeill as he appear¬ ed before the microphone in 1933. Walter Blaufuss, com¬ poser of popular songs and a boy prodigy of Milwau¬ kee, conducted the orchestra until 1942. Chicago’s Century of Progress was news when Don McNeill took over an ugly-duckling early morning radio show on June 23. He introduced a new for¬ mat, four calls to breakfast, March Time and Mem¬ ory Time, sprinkled it with corn and his personality, and called it Breakfast Club. Starting with a few pages of notes which he laughingly called a script, Don handled the show "purely catch as catch can with 16 messers of ceremonies.” These included: singer Dick Teela, Walter Blaufuss, 12 musicians and announcer Bill Kephart. In the absence of an audience, Don invented characters like "Homer”, the hero of his one-man, one-act plays, and "Juliet”, the dumb dame. Listeners were also introduced to Bill Krenz, the tallest piano player in captivity, and "Elmer” (Bill Short), the man of many romances. Big Bill Kreni still capti¬ vates audiences with his original piano composi¬ tions. Eddie Ballantine, present conductor, is the only other 20 year vet¬ eran of Breakfast Club music. Dick Teela and The Originalities, a group of B.C. mu¬ sicians, presented this picture in 1933. Left to right, Jean Cafarelli, Bill Giese, Dick Teela, Bill Short and Jack Rose. 18