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I love this message board!
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Just exactly what kind of "disc jockey" would have given that rockin' little record a spin on the air? Just curious!
It would take an unusually cool cat!
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Any idea who each of these fellas is, Ray?
(The guy standing on our left with white breastpocket handkerchief looks vaguely familiar.)
"REALLY old-skool: Disc jockey Bill Stanley, left, gets ready to spin the record "Shtiggy Boom" for the last time in the 58-hour marathon during which he and his partner Bill Elliott on February 16, 1955, right, played the tune continuously except for station breaks, commercials, and newscasts. Al Jarvis, composer of the tune, (back left) hands the pair a new record of the tune as program director Bill Stewart, of WNOE, at New Orleans, La., looks on. The pair started the marathon as a gag to publicize the station's 24-hour broadcast."
From: http://blog.syracuse.com/storefront/2009/03/some_still_go_to_the_cd_store.html
The tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PrZnPf8MJg
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Calm down, JEC, calm down. Asking twice won't get you your answer any sooner.
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Calm down, JEC, calm down. Asking twice won't get you your answer any sooner.
Oops! Hoist on my own petard!
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Aug 29, 2014 - 1:46 PM
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manderley
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Any idea who each of these fellas is, Ray?
(The guy standing on our left with white breastpocket handkerchief looks vaguely familiar.)
"REALLY old-skool: Disc jockey Bill Stanley, left, gets ready to spin the record "Shtiggy Boom" for the last time in the 58-hour marathon during which he and his partner Bill Elliott on February 16, 1955, right, played the tune continuously except for station breaks, commercials, and newscasts. Al Jarvis, composer of the tune, (back left) hands the pair a new record of the tune as program director Bill Stewart, of WNOE, at New Orleans, La., looks on. The pair started the marathon as a gag to publicize the station's 24-hour broadcast."
From: http://blog.syracuse.com/storefront/2009/03/some_still_go_to_the_cd_store.html
Ahhhh.....Al Jarvis---the one standing on the left.
Jarvis was one of the first, if not THE first, radio disc jockeys---originally plying his trade in the Southern California market.
In the late 1940s, Jarvis moved over from radio into very early local television, and partnered on a show with Betty White. (Film buff/historian Rudy Behlmer was also a part of this early TV era with White and later-director Sam Peckinpah also worked with this team in the "biz" while he was attending college.)
I well remember seeing Jarvis in these early days (very early 1950s) on local television, as well as Betty White.
I googled Jarvis' name and one of the things that came up was an extensive fascinating early career history of Betty White, of which Jarvis is an early part, of course.
Still working in TV, White must be absolutely the longest still-working survivor of the very earliest days of television in any capacity---at least 65+ years by my count.
Here is that very interesting story of early Betty White:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/04/the-early-betty-white.html
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