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Thursday Jul 03, 2008
Americans at Work - Oct 12, 1942, WCFL, Chicago
Thursday Jul 03, 2008
Thursday Jul 03, 2008
Here's another episode of "Americans at Work", a weekly series produced as a WW II morale booster by WCFL in Chicago. These WCFL transcriptions were probably cut for the guest speaker heard on the show, sales manager Carl E. Payne, or his employer, Oscar W. Hedstrom Corporation. Payne gives a short speech on working together towards common goals to aid the War effort. Businesses referred to on the show include the Welsh Scientific Company, Modern and Dye and Drop Forge Company. The program was broadcast October 12, 1942 from 7:30 to 7:45 p.m. Songs on the show are almost exactly like the other episode in the last post ("I Am an American", "They Started Something (But We're Gonna End It)", "That's Worth Fighting For", "Arms for the Love of America", and the end theme, "God Bless America"). So, I wonder if they were running out of War-themed tunes to play or if the songs were popular enough to be repeated on the show.
This program was transferred from four sides of a set of 78 rpm 12" acetates. The sound quality varies a great deal - one side in the set was "gouged" by a heavy stylus in a concentric circle all through the side, producing several ticks and skips, unfortunately.
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