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The Fred Waring Show (radio program)

The Fred Waring Show is an American old-time radio musical variety program. It was broadcast in a variety of time slots from February 8, 1933, until October 4, 1957, and was heard at different times on ABC, CBS, NBC, and the Blue Network.[1] The program was sometimes called Chesterfield Time or Pleasure Time.[2]

Musician Fred Waring starred in the shows, which featured his orchestra and chorus.[2] An article in the trade publication Broadcasting described Waring's programs on radio (and later on television) as featuring "friendly banter with his crew, plus renditions of old-time favorite songs and ballads by the chorus and vocalists."[3]

The program's producers through the years included Tom Bennett.[4] Announcers included Paul Douglas[5] and Bill Bivens.[6]

Waring's programs were usually broadcast from the Shawnee Inn in Shawnee on Delaware, Pennsylvania, a facility that he acquired and renamed, transforming the venue into the center of his musical activities.[7]

Versions

Waring's broadcasts were heard on the schedule shown in the table below.

Source: On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio[1]

Transcriptions for Ford

In 1935, Ford Motor Company used transcriptions from Waring's CBS broadcasts to promote the new 1935 Ford V8 automobile. The World Broadcasting System produced three 15-minute transcriptions for distribution to 300 radio stations vial local Ford dealers.[8]

Those transcriptions were key in establishing a musical artist's legal rights with regard to recordings of performances. In 1939, A United States District court in North Carolina granted Waring an injunction against using a transcription without his authorization. Waring had sued Richard Austin Dunlea, who owned radio station WMFD in Wilmington, North Carolina, after the station broadcast an excerpt from a transcription despite the station's not being designated for use of the transcription. Judge Isaac M. Meekins' ruling said, in part: "Complainant has a property right in his performance. Complainant by mental labor creates something which is the subject of sale ... It is his work, his property ..."[9]

The ruling in North Carolina followed a similar decision in Pennsylvania, in which a state court said that radio station WDAS had to have Waring's permission to broadcast recordings that he had made.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio (Revised ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 269–271. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  2. ^ a b Reinehr, Robert C.; Swartz, Jon D. (2010). The A to Z of Old Time Radio. Scarecrow Press. pp. 103–104. ISBN 9781461672074.
  3. ^ "Fred Waring Show" (PDF). Broadcasting. July 29, 1957. p. 20. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  4. ^ Chase, Gilbert (1946). Music in Radio Broadcasting (PDF). New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. p. vii. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  5. ^ Rhoads, B. Eric (1996). A Pictorial History of Radio's First 75 Years (PDF). West Palm Beach, Florida: Streamline Publishing, Inc. p. 219. ISBN 1-886745-06-4. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  6. ^ "Behind the Mike" (PDF). Broadcasting. October 18, 1943. p. 40. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  7. ^ Danilov, Victor J. (2013). Famous Americans: A Directory of Museums, Historic Sites, and Memorials. Scarecrow Press. p. 170. ISBN 9780810891869. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  8. ^ "300 Get Ford Discs" (PDF). Broadcasting. January 15, 1935. p. 35. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  9. ^ a b "Court Recognizes Recorder's Rights" (PDF). Broadcasting. March 1, 1939. p. 49. Retrieved 23 December 2017.

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