Make Believe Ballroom

Intro to one of the earliest and best radio dj programs in US radio. WNEW-am radio in New York City's Make Believe Ballroom with Martin Block (1935-49) and later William B. Williams. First to play records on the radio is credited LA's Al Jarvis. Visit http://www.examiner.com/x-2623-Swing-and-Big-Band-Examiner

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Music

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• Martin Block
• WNEW radio

[dyinglikeflies]

god, I miss this station

[Robert4770]

William B. the Fred Astaire of radio, God I still miss him so much.

[959jipp]

Grew up with WNEW, Martin Block and William B. They were the best. This little clip brings back incredible memories.

[Juliaflo]

@whenaman So do I.

[is1531]

Going down to broadway to see plays helps keep this type of music alive. I wish Jaye P Morgan and Jane Morgan were young again.

[artiefun]

It's ashamed their all gone, but not forgotten by many of us who lived in those day's of great radio.

[artiefun]

This was called music in my time.

[milopeng1942]

We had Martin Block's radio show in the late 1950's when we in Singapore were introduced to Rock n Roll and the early stars. I remember his wonderful voice as he started his Top Twenty(?)program reminding his audience that it was being beamed thru "AM - FM in New York". Didn't know what it meant...didn't matter, the music was all that we wanted. He usually approached the top three hits of the week with a Rusty Draper song called "The Magic Circle". Thanks for the posting. Andy Singapore

[judyjahn]

William B was great ,but it was Martin Block who srarted it all.

[whenaman]

@dyinglikeflies I wish it would come back!

[Featureman]

I was on Al Jarvis' Make Believe Ballroom TV show about 1957. I did a monologue. Now that would be stand up comedy.

[laparejr]

Yeah, "Good morning world"!