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Saturday Nov 10, 2018
Light Up and Listen - Pgm 317
Saturday Nov 10, 2018
Saturday Nov 10, 2018
Up next on the blog, we go north of the US border to check what’s on Canadian radio. “Light Up and Listen” was a musical variety show, sponsored by Sweet Caporal cigarettes, a brand popular in Canada at the time.
Program 317 of the series features Ted Steele and the Novatones with baritone Bill Johnson. The first song is “Get the Moon Out of Your Eyes”. You might notice the music has an unusual sound - Steele became famous for his work playing the Novachord, an instrument that debuted at the 1939 World’s Fair and is considered the world’s first polyphonic synthesizer.
Our program was transferred from an original RCA Orthacoustic vinyl transcription, matrix number MS 01219. Perhaps someone more familiar with Canadian old time radio and transcriptions pressed in Canada would have a better idea of a year for the show.
We’ll have a few more programs from the series in coming weeks.
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