"A One Night Stand with the Big Bands" with Arnold Dean
and many of the top Big Band personnel can be heard at
www.goldenage-wtic.org .
Listen to WTIC (Hartford) personality interview music makers
such as Artie Shaw, Harry James, Gene Krupa, Sammy Kaye,
Duke Ellington, Buddy Morrow - 43 one-hour shows in all at
one website.
At that site you can also hear "The Golden Age of Radio,"
with Dick Bertel. You can hear interviews with Vincent
Price, Agnes Moorehead, Edgar Bergen, E.G. Marshall,
William Spier, Fran Allison, Jack Benny, and many others,
and hear excerpts from radio shows in which they appeared.
All the shows are free for download, and there is no registration
required. Check it out.
In the 1970's WTIC decided that there was a market in
the evening for long-form shows that could be packaged
and sold to sponsors. Two of those shows were "The
Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand with the
Big Bands."
Dick Bertel had interviewed radio collector-historian
Ed Corcoran several times on his radio and TV shows,
and thought a regular monthly show featuring interviews
with actors, writers, producers, engineers and musicians
from radio's early days might be interesting. "The Golden
Age of Radio" was first broadcast in April, 1970; Ed was
Dick's co-host. It lasted seven years. "The Golden Age
of Radio" can also be heard Saturday nights on Walden
Hughes's program on Radio Yesteryear.
Arnold Dean began his love affair with the big band
era in his pre-teen years and his decision to study
the clarinet was inspired by the style of Artie Shaw.
When he joined WTIC in 1965 he hosted a daily program
of big band music. In 1971, encouraged by the success
of his daily program and "The Golden Age of Radio"
series, he began monthly shows featuring interviews
with the band leaders, sidemen, agents, jazz re****ters,
etc. who made major contributions to one of the great
eras of music history.
Bob Scherago
Webmaster
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