Radio varieties (Sept 1940-June 1941)

Page scan 00038 from Radio varieties

Record Details:

Title:
Radio varieties
Date:
Sept 1940-June 1941
Publisher:
[Chicago, F. L. Rosenthal]
Volume:
Radio varieties
Leaf #:
00038
Language:
English
Subjects:
Radio Periodicals, Radio -- Periodicals
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Recorded Sound Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Midwest Edition.
Date Added:
July 25, 2024
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

YOUR CRAZY PROGRAM Jack Amiung, Your Crazy Program Maestro, signals for a fanfare. Trumpeters "Brother Pinknose," left, and "The Great Lover" comply. All the "noise" is by way of introducing another hilarious skit by Sugarcane (Conrad Brady), left, and February Francis Quinn). The scene was the Mineral Wells, Texas office of Hal H. Collins, president of the Crazy Water Company. Mr. Collins was addressing a timid yoimg reporter from a college newspaper. "Yes, this radio business is going to be a big business someday. Why some time we might even use it to advertise our products." The time: 1929. One year later Mr. Collins' Crazy Water Company was selling Crazy Water Crystals via WBAP, Fort Worth, with a harmonica player and Mr. Collins as head spieler. One of Texas' most popular radio programs was bom. TODAY, Your Crazy Program is being aired Monday through Friday over WBAP and the Texas Quality Network, consisting of WFAA, Dallas; KPRC, Houston, and WOAI, San Antonio, in addition to WBAP. The cast consists of nearly half-a-hundred Page 10 artists and a recent week's mail count was 32,291 postal cards. Yes, it's a far cry from the harmanica opus of 1930 to the huge RADIO VARIETIES — OCTOBER