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THE WILLIAMS BROTHERS
Bob, Dick, Don and Andy (below)
The Williams boys are real brothers: Bob, age 21; Don, 17; Dick, 14 and Andy, just 12 years old. None of them has ever had a lesson in music or voice.
The Williams Brothers came to WLS in late July from WHO in Des Moines, where they had been singing on the Iowa Barn Dance for three years — since just after they started to sing together, in fact.
About six years ago, while the family was living in Wall Lake, Iowa, Bob and Don and their parents were singing in the church choir. The boys, then just 14 and 11 years old, saw the possibilities in a brothers' quartet and approached their father on the matter. It was decided they would start just as soon as six-year-old Andy was a little older. They
RADIO VARIETIES
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did; in a few months they crashed Des Moines radio; and in three years, they now find themselves in big city radio, as staff artists at WLS, Chicago.
Originally they were invitea to Chicago only for two guest appearances on the WLS National Barn Dance, but the audience demand for more of their singing v/as so great that they were added to the staff. On "The Last Hour" they stopped the show as the theater audience applauded loud and long, demanding encore after encore.
In addition to their regular appearances on the Barn Dance, the Williams Brothers have a program of their own at 8 a. m.' CDST on Tuesdays, Thursda'^'s and Saturdays, appear frequently also on the WLS Homemakers' Hour and other programs.
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