June 18th, 1953 - Eldora, IA The first thing you might notice about Tom Owen's Cowboy's is that their leader, and namesake is at l...

No, not the Singing Brakeman, that's Jimmie Rodgers. This is the lesser known Whistling Brakeman, George E. Nearpass III. Sources altern...

Doesn't that picture (above) of Larry Lujack just look like a DJ?  (The shot reminds me of  Buster Poindexter for some reason .)  He...

The first print reference I found to the Humbard family was in the Indianapolis Times, September 5th, 1949. The Humbard family was performin...

Above is a scan of the cover of the  Lucky Lang Original Song Folio . My copy is in poor, maybe even vile condition. It's been stored ...

In France they're pommes frites.  The same taters in Spanish are patatas bravas. Italians call them patate fritte. In Poland they are ...

Hindenburg Disaster is understood as a historical event, but few know it was also historical for it's radio news coverage. Herbert Mo...

Bradley Kincaid was born in Point Leavell, KY and I have the post card to prove it. But built his music career in the northern states. Hi...

Born in 1900 (or maybe 1894, 1899, or 1901), Howard "Doc" Hopkins was a barber, a musician, a machinist and disk jockey. His car...

Art Hellyer, said in a 1993 interview on 97.1 WNIB that he wasn't really a DJ he just "played music as a fill between commercials...

Marlon "Zeke" Clements was not a dwarf. He just played one on the big screen. In 1937 Clements yodeled the part of Bashful, in W...

Malcolm Claire had a one man show as "Uncle Mal" on WLS-AM reading children's stories. His only accompaniment was an organi...

Despite their name, it's doubtful that Shorty Long his Santa Fe Rangers ever went to Sante Fe, let alone New Mexico. He was born in 19...

 They were called the Thinking Man's Hillbillie. I'm not making that up. That's their actual marketing lingo from the 1950s....

The Breakfast Club radio show in Chicago, on 1540 WLS-AM and its announcer Don McNeill. the program aired from 1933 to 1968. McNeill hos...