Category Archives: Music
“Big Folk” Sings Again
Ballad of The Long Island Railroad – A Dirge For Dashing Dan
The lyrics compared
Miller and Block
ECB
Read about and hear Martin Block
Glenn Miller role in Wartime Entertainment
Glenn Miller Orchestra –Moonlight Serenade
Noting the 100th anniversary on Dec 12 of the birth of Frank Sinatra. Click on link below to recall his WNEW days.
The Gigs That Begat The Chairman
And, below, is Bill Diehl’s Sinatra special running on ABC this weekend.
A Sound Tinny and Golden
Sandy Becker
To view video clips, click on link below.
Sandy Becker Show – WABD-TV New York
“I’m Martin Block, a radio announcer from California.”
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Dan McCue is Content Editor for Renewable Energy magazine.
Renewable Energy Magazine
Happy Birthday Jooolie! It’s #84
Happy Birthday, Julius LaRosa.
Bill Diehl, seen above with Julie in a late 90’s conversation, sent word today(1/2/14) by phone that Julie, on his 84th birthday, is recovering from a fractured ankle. “Otherwise,” says Julie, “I’m in OK health.” Says Bill, “I reminded him that my wife, Lorry, met his wife, Rory, back in the 1950’s when Rory was Perry Como’s secretary, and Lorry was president of the Perry Como fan club in New York.(and Julie was Perry’s summer TV replacement.) Julie recalled that when he told Como that he was engaged to Rory and gave her a ring and they’d soon be married, Julie quoted Perry as saying, ‘you (bleep), now you’ve taken my wonderful secretary.’ Julie and Rory have been married 57 years”
Mimi Sings Our Song
Bill Diehl (a WNEW alum) writes:
A couple of months ago I interviewed Mimi Hines for a feature I was doing for ABC News Radio. She had recently turned 80 and on July 19 did a special 80th birthday show at “54 Below,” the Broadway nightclub. Mimi, who used to perform with Phil Ford, who’s gone now,(they made their debut in 1958 on the Tonight Show with Jack Paar) had fond memories of WNEW and those wonderful station breaks. So with a little help from her pianist Russ Kassoff, she performed one of the jingles for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuwZE_jxkcY&feature=youtu.be
from PLAYBILL — Hines made her Broadway debut when she replaced Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, performing the lead role for 18 months. Since that time she has starred in several national tours, recorded numerous albums, and returned to Broadway as Miss Lynch in the Tommy Tune production of Grease!. Hines was also seen in the York Theatre Company’s production of 70, Girls, 70, part of its “Musicals in Mufti” series, as well as the City Center Encores! production of Follies.
mimihines.com
playbill.com
The Gigs that Begat the Chairman
The Sinatra/Williams audio is from “The Home Front,” a documentary broadcast on WNEW in February and March, 1983.
all photos added by: WNEW1130.com