Swing (Jan-Dec 1953)

Record Details:

Title:
Swing
Date:
Jan-Dec 1953
Publisher:
Kansas City : WHB Broadcasting Co.
Volume:
Swing (Jan-Dec 1953)
Leaf #:
00056
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.
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
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The WHB DAYTIME PROGRAM SCHEDULE 5:00 A.M. to 6 P.M. Co. and Greiner'Fifield Lithograph' ing Company. When World War II began, he was operating his own business in Chicago, designing and manufacturing dealer displays. His adver' tising experience thus prepared him for Radio through his knowledge of publications and graphic media, direct' mail and point-of-purchase display. Ed is a director and vice-president of the Business District League of Kansas City; a member of the Advertising Club; and during World War II served without pay as public relations director of the Office of Price Administration. His hobby is "barber-shop" singing; and he is a director of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. All together, folks! Let's sing out a word of greeting and congratulations to Ed and Phyl Birr on their 10th Anniversary at WHB! A VISIT by Johnny "It's in the Book" Standley to Kansas City resulted in a fan letter to Roch Ulmer of WHB from Johnny's father, J. T. Standley of Oklahoma City. Seems Standley pere listens to the WHB "Night Club of the Air" every night! "Your commercials," writes Standley, Sr., to Roch, "are tops — the lead up, timing and body punches that really count. What I call a real sales talk. And you always have a good program." Father Standley is 76. He operates a tent show through Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. TIME 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 2 3 4 5 45 SUNDAY Silent A. M. Silent San-Dial Serenade Mmie and Time Signals . . . Newt Weather Wing i orer K. C. . San Dial Serenade Bible Study Hour Old Sunday School How** Your Health? Land of the Free .... Newa Barbershop Quartet Singing Travel Time Travel Hints Gay Lombardo Hoar "Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven" Bill Cunningham Lanny Ross Show . "Young Ideas'* with Rosemary Grace K.C.U. Playhouse. . . Proudly We Hail ... Drama Drama Time Myatery Myster Theatre Drama Peter Salem Mystery Crime Fighters Police Action Dear Margy, Its Murder News. Ed Pettit The Shadow Mystery Drama True Detective Mystery Drama Nick Carter Mystery News. Cecil Brown . Squad Room Mystery MONDAY Town & Country Time Don Sullivan Show. . News-Weatber Livestock Don Sullivan Show . . Musical Dock Music-Time and Temperature News, Charles Gray. Musical Clock Mask, Time and Temperature . News, Charles Gray. Weather Fruits & Vegetables Musical Clock Crosby Croons Musical Clock Gabriel Hcatter . Unity Viewpoint Guy Lombardo Orch. Sandra Lea Program For Women News, Frank Singiser Ladies' Fair with Tom Moore . . News, H. Engle Queen For A Day . . . with Jack Bailey . Curt Massey Time. . . Capital Commentary. Alls weet Music Bos . . WHB Neighbor^' Time News, Charles Gray. WHB Neighborin' Time WHB Neighborin' Time — Deb Dyer. News, Sam Hayes. , Don Sullivan CLUB 710 Pop Records Old Standards News, Sam Hayes.. CLUB 710 The "Top Twenty Tunes'* . . News, D. Smith . . . CLUB 710 News & Sports Bobby Benson Show Drama at Bar-B Wild Bill Hickok... Drama. . Cecil Brown