Swing (Feb-Dec 1951)

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Feb-Dec 1951
Publisher:
Kansas City : WHB Broadcasting Co.
Volume:
Swing (Feb-Dec 1951)
Leaf #:
00037
Language:
English
Subjects:
Radio broadcasting -- Missouri -- Kansas City -- Periodicals, Radio broadcasting -- Kansas -- Periodicals","WHB-AM (Radio station : Kansas City, Mo.) -- Periodicals","Kansas City (Kan.) -- History -- Periodicals","Kansas City (Mo.) -- History -- Periodicals","Cook Paint and Varnish Co. -- Periodicals","WHB Broadcasting Company (Kansas City, Mo.) -- Periodicals.","Cook Paint and Varnish Co -- Periodicals","WHB Broadcasting Company (Kansas City, Mo.) -- Periodicals","Radio broadcasting",Kansas,"Kansas -- Kansas City","Missouri -- Kansas City
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsor:
LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
The official magazine of Kansas City's WHB radio station, SWING printed far more than the station's schedule (which, as the title SWING suggested, relied heavily on music). From 1945 to 1953, SWING offered readers something eclectic every month -- profiles of entertainers on one page, discussions of citizenship in the postwar world on the next, with write-ups of nightlife offerings in KC, Chicago, and New York mixed in. WHB spent decades lobbying the FCC for clear channel status; the magazine's ambitious scope may have been part of the station's attempt to legitimate itself. But it was SWING'S first editor, Jetta Carleton, who later wrote a celebrated novel, that gave the magazine its distinctive style. -- Eric Hoyt, 2015
Date Added:
March 28, 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.

MANAGING MARGARET 31 25 engagements, not trying to book her beyond that number this season, her second under his guidance. She recently appeared on a national radio show that honestly demonstrated Miss Truman can dish it out and take it, regardless of whom she is pitted against. She is completely pleasant to handie, comments Davidson. "She goes about doing what she has to without any complaints at all. "Margaret wants to be treated the same as anybody else. She wants to succeed on her own and she is off to a good start." She will probably earn about $75,000 in the concert field this season, to say nothing of the rewards A Hollywood composer asked a famous musician how to go about writing back' ground music for airplanes. Said the com fjoser, "Exactly h'ke bee music, only ouder." . "The *Ink Spots' are the guest start tonight." from radio and television, according to Davidson. Before winding up his comments, Davidson said he takes no credit for working miracles for Miss Truman. He has a wealth of experience and has used it to good advantage in the instance of Miss Truman, as with others he manages. Miss Truman's zeal to succeed has been an inspira' tion to Davidson; and because of this zeal the stepping stones upward are made easier. James A. Davidson, better known to his colleagues and in the concert field as "Jim," prefers to remain in the background which, he believes, managers should do if their songbirds are to succeed. Jesus Maria Sanroma, well known con' cert pianist, was honored with a doctor of music degree from Boston College not long ago. When a physician friend was making out a hay fever prescription for the pianist somewhat later he jokingly put Dr. before his noted patient's name. As the prescription was being filled Dr. Sanroma was puzzled when the druggist asked him if he practiced much, but he politely replied: "Certainly, when I have time." "Then," said the druggist, "I'll give you the usual 10% professional discount." ▲ A famous author touring the jungles of Central India came to a village. "You people in the forests are certainly lost to civilization," he observed to the headman. "We don't mind being lost," was the reply. "It's being discovered that worries us." A If you think you're going to be happy and prosperous by sitting back and letting the government take care of you — look at the American Indians!