Speaking of Radio
Selected interviews we think you’ll like
Veteran Chicago play-by-play sports reporter and Baseball Hall of Famer. Born March 22, 1904, he was 75 when he joined us on the air for this live interview. During the conversation we talked about his broadcasting career and presented some examples of his work, including a 1950s broadcast of his program 20th Century Limited, during which he interviewed passengers of the famed train, plus clips of his sportscasts and his talk show from Chicago’s famed Pump Room. Bob Elson died March 10, 1981 at age 76.
To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Those Were the days, we produced a limited series of audio vignettes selected from programs originally heard between 1970 and 2020.
Twenty episodes were presented on selected TWTD programs between October 2019 and April 2020.
Chuck Schaden hosts
SPOTLIGHT BANDS ON THE AIR
OUR SPECIAL GUEST is big band historian KARL PEARSON who will talk about the importance of the Spotlight Band series. Shows include:
VICTORY PARADE OF SPOTLIGHT BANDS #270 (7-31-43) Teddy Powell and his orchestra playing for the officers and men of the U.S. Naval Training School at the University of Chicago.
VICTORY PARADE OF SPOTLIGHT BANDS (9-7-45) Will Osborne and his orchestra from the Marine Air Corps Station, El Centro, California.
VICTORY PARADE OF SPOTLIGHT BANDS #236 (12-20-43) Freddy Martin and his orchestra from the Marine Air Depot, San Diego, California.
VICTORY PARADE OF SPOTLIGHT BANDS #416 (1-18-44) Remote broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, featuring the winners of the Esquire Magazine All-American Jazz Band Poll: Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge, Jack Teagarden, Coleman Hawkins, Barney Bigard, Sidney Catlett, Al Casey, Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Oscar Pettiford, Lionel Hampton, Red Norvo, Benny Goodman and vocalists Billie Holiday and Mildred Bailey.
VICTORY PARADE OF SPOTLIGHT BANDS #104 (1-19-43) Ina Ray Hutton and her orchestra from Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
VICTORY PARADE OF SPOTLIGHT BANDS #780 (3-17-45) George Olson and his orchestra entertaining war workers of Johnson Motors, Waukegan, Illinois.
VICTORY PARADE OF SPOTLIGHT BANDS (8-11-44) Louis Prima and his orchestra.
VICTORY PARADE OF SPOTLIGHT BANDS (3-8-45) Lionel Hampton and his orchestra from the Naval Training School in Dearborn, Michigan.
On the Air 1-5 p.m. Saturday, September 2nd, 2006, WDCB, Glen Ellyn
