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BROADCAST ON WNYC TODAY IN…
1930: Peter Hugh Reed hosts Around the Disc. Note: Reed (1892-1969) was the founder and editor of the longest continuously existing independent critical record magazine in the U.S. Founded as The American Music Lover in 1935 it was later renamed The American Record Guide.
1942: Dr. C. W. Cutler, Junior Chief of Emergency Medical Services in Manhattan, says that New York City may one day become a target of the war and notes the ways the medical profession is preparing itself for an attack on this edition of The Role of Science in War.
1951:On Plan for Survival, Bill Leonard talks to Omar Pancost, Special Consultant of the New York State Civil Defense Commission, about food and water. Pancost says there is very little chance water will be contaminated by radiation.
1966: The eccentric documentarian of utopias Marguerite Young addresses The New York Herald Tribune Book and Authors Luncheon.
2003: On The Media's Bob Garfield talks with Newsday's Matthew McAllester, who covered the war in Kosovo in 1999, about reoprter guilt. In Beyond the Mountains of the Damned, McAllester agreed reporters may have jeopardized the safety of the very people who were helping him report on the war.
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Byrd!
Commander Richard E. Byrd in front of the WNYC microphones at City Hall from either June 23rd 1926, July 18, 1927 or June 18, 1930. There were three different ticker-tape parades and receptions for Byrd at City hosted by Mayor Jimmy Walker (to the left of Byrd) and WNYC founder and official New York City greeter Grover A. Whalen (to the right of Byrd). We just don't know which reception this photo is from! (WNYC Archive Collections)
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LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS
WNYC's Sexy DJ
"My brother, Philip, and I both listened to Ralph Berton,* a disc jockey on WNYC radio, every day. Wow, did he play great records. Blue Note Records--this brand-new jazz label--I'd never heard anything like them, the most profound sounds. One record in particular featured Frankie Newton, an obscure trumpet player's trumpet player, and 'After Hours Blues,' with guitarist Teddy Bunn, bass player Johnny Williams, Meade 'Lux' Lewis on piano, and the killer swing drummer 'Big Sid' Catlett…And then one night, I’m in bed and my brother calls. He now has a girlfriend and he's out somewhere with her and I hear him say, 'Get dressed, be downstairs. I got Ralph Berton in the car!' Man, I jumped up like crazy. Because I was…well, attracted to Ralph Berton, just his voice on the radio. He stuttered a little. So sexy..."
Source: Lorraine Gordon, as told to Barry Singer in Alive at the Village Vanguard: My Life In and Out of Jazz Time, Hal Leonard, 2006, pgs. 10-11.
*Note: From 1940-1942 Ralph Berton hosted WNYC's daily foray into jazz called, Metropolitan Review, and he was an integral part of the jazz programming for WNYC's early American Music Festivals. His daily program was the first serious jazz music show on the air. The May 11, 1942 edition of Newsweek noted that "Berton converted listeners by the thousands. His fan mail pyramided to 8,000 letters, outstripping all other regular shows." Later that year, Berton turned the program over to jazz pianist and educator Art Hodes. On May 3rd, 1940 Ralph Berton launched a special weekly series first called The American Jazz Institute and then, The Jazz Institute of the Air.
Listen to Ralph hosting an American Music Festival program with Leadbelly, Sam Price and Albert Ammons at: BERTON.
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It's POETRY MONTH and we've pulled together a lot of archive material including Dylan Thomas, Connie Converse, Jack Kerouac, Philip Levine, Natasha Trethewey, Marianne Moore, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Pinsky, Robert Frost, Vladimir Nabokov and more!
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