The Great Radio Audience Participation Shows

Seventeen Programs from the 1940s and 1950s
illustrated Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-7864-4046-7
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

This work contains the histories of 17 radio audience participation shows on the air during the 1940s and 1950s. They are Arthur Godfrey's ""Talent Scouts"", Art Linkletter's ""House Party"", ""Break the Bank"", ""The Breakfast Club"", ""Bride and Groom"", ""Can You Top This?"", ""Dr. Christian"", ""Dr. I.Q."", ""Double or Nothing"", ""Information Please"", ""Queen for a Day"", ""Stop the Music!"", ""Strike It Rich"", ""Take It or Leave It"", ""Truth or Consequences"", ""Welcome Travelers"", and ""You Bet Your Life"". Included for each show are the premise it was based upon, the producers, host, announcer, vocalists, orchestra conductor, writers, sponsors, the ratings, and the air dates. Biographical sketches are provided for 177 figures who were connected to radio audience participation shows. A guide to network audience participation shows follows the text as an appendix.

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Jim Cox was the recipient of the 2002 Ray Stanich Award, given to one individual annually for prolific research and writing in old time radio, at the Friends of Old Time Radio Convention, vintage radio's largest annual event. In 2007, Cox received the Stone-Waterman Award presented by the Cincinnati Old Time Radio and Nostalgia Convention for outstanding contributions to the preservation of old time radio history. He is the author of numerous books, including Radio Speakers (2006), The Daytime Serials of Television, 1946-1960 (2006), Music Radio (2005), Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons (2004), Frank and Anne Hummert's Radio Factory (2003), Radio Crime Fighters (2002), Say Goodnight, Gracie (2002) and The Great Radio Audience Participation Shows (2001), all from McFarland. He is a retired college professor living in Louisville, Kentucky.