Swing (Feb-Dec 1952)

Page scan 000453 from Swing

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Feb-Dec 1952
Publisher:
Kansas City : WHB Broadcasting Co.
Volume:
Swing (Feb-Dec 1952)
Leaf #:
000453
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:
August 29, 2024
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WHB NEWSREEL FULTON LEWIS, JR. spoke in Kansas City Oct. 27, and originated his Mutual network broadcast from WHB. He is shown (above, left) in our studios with D. L. Barnes, president of Nash Central Motors, a Kansas City sponsor. MARY MAYO, petite songstress and Capitol recording artist (above, center) is a new member of WHB's Guest Disc Jockey Club. Guest D.J.s preside over WHB's "Night Club of the Air" Saturday and Sunday nights, from I 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. EVERETT HENDRICKS, head of the music department at Kansas City University (above, right) conducts "Sixth Row Center" on WHB Sundays at 9:30 p.m. — a pre-view of upcoming cultural events in Kansas City during the week to follow. OPENING NIGHT OF THE PHILHARMONIC SEASON finds Sandra Lea of WHB (in formal gown, right) interviewing from the Music Hall lobbv Mrs. O. K. Wuertz, rchestra department chairman of the K. C. Musical Club. I IBERACE (right) guest artist at the annual Katz Conicrts. took time out to greet WHB listeners while visiting Kansas City. YOUNG IDEAS", the Sunday WHB discussion panel broadcast by young people at 12;30 p.m.. had as guests recently Lt. Colonel Howard Cook. Sgt. Richard R. Duncan, Sgt. John E. Vassar and Sgt. Davev L. Davis. With them (lower right) at microphone is Rosemary Fillmore Grace, moderator of the program. HI CLUB, WHBs Saturday 4:30 p.m. broadcast of, by and for teen-agers presents high school students in news of high school activities; discussions of teen-age fashions and etiquette: music for the saddle-shoe-set. At extreme left, below, with students, is Diane Brewster, Hi Club femme commentator.