Dan McCue
Editor at The Well News
US Content Editor at Renewable Energy Magazine
Editor @TheWellNews RTs ≠ deeper meaning. NPC, SPJ and WHCA member https://t.co/EYjscQgFaz
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goodjustbarelymorning.substack.com | Dan McCue
“Good morning, everybody. Well, it's 10 o’clock, Monday morning ... and we’re starting another week of broadcasting ... I have some music lined up for you. It is music that sparks the magic of romance, music that stirs the smoldering secrets of memory ...”Martin Block starting another installment of the "Make Believe Ballroom" on Oct. 7, 1947.
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5 days ago |
goodjustbarelymorning.substack.com | Dan McCue
Chapter Eight“‘The name is Sinatra’ … Frank F-ing Sinatra.” — A young Frank Sinatra’s response to bandleader Harry James after the later suggested he change his name to “Frankie Satin” after hearing him on a WNEW broadcast. With its growing number of popular programs, WNEW became something more than just another independent radio station.
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1 week ago |
goodjustbarelymorning.substack.com | Dan McCue
Chapter Seven“What you have to understand is they were all peacocks …”— Lindsay Babich, daughter of WNEW-AM announcer John Dale. The studio Block and Shaw broadcast their respective shows from was long and narrow, and lined on one side by shelves bearing vinyl and shellac records in numbered and color-coded paper sleeves.
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1 week ago |
goodjustbarelymorning.substack.com | Dan McCue
Chapter Six“Hello, everybody. It’s your old friend the Milkman here ... and tonight we're getting started with ‘I Love You Truly,’ this one being a request made for Lothario by Dopey-Dope ...”— Stan Shaw at the start of a typical show in the late 1930s. WNEW's new-found success at a time when so many people and businesses were humbled by the depression was a stand up and take notice moment for independent radio stations across the country.
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2 weeks ago |
goodjustbarelymorning.substack.com | Dan McCue
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