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A Christmas Sing with Bing. (1955–1962) A Christmas Sing with Bing was a series of transcribed radio hours hosted by Bing Crosby and broadcast on Christmas Eve for eight years from 1955 to 1962. The first edition of the program was released as an LP by Decca Records in 1956. Insurance Company of North America was the broadcast sponsor.
The Saint Paul Hotel. / 44.94500°N 93.09583°W / 44.94500; -93.09583. The Saint Paul Hotel is a landmark hotel in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1910 overlooking Rice Park [ 2] during the "First Great Age" of skyscraper construction. The Renaissance revival style building was one of the most prominent ...
A Prairie Home Companion is a weekly radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor that aired live from 1974 to 2016. In 2016, musician Chris Thile took over as host, and the successor show was eventually renamed Live from Here and ran until 2020. A Prairie Home Companion aired on Saturdays from the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul ...
Dec. 24—For many people, Christmas conjures up visions of Santa Claus in his red suit, reindeer dashing across the sky, snowmen in top hats, and presents under twinkling trees. Yet it's also ...
Air1 Radio (formerly K-LORD) was originally launched by K-LOVE founder Bob Anthony Fogal and Jon and Noonie Fuglar. Former logo used from 2013 to 2019. In 1999, Air1 joined with EMF Broadcasting, and finally in 2002, it moved its headquarters to Rocklin, California. Air1 makes use of broadcast translators to spread the signal across much of the ...
The first recording of "Home for the Holidays", arranged by Joe Reisman, was made on November 16, 1954. It was released as a single for Christmas that December by RCA Victor. [ 2] The flip side was "Silk Stockings" (which scored in the Cash Box magazine top 50). In the United States, "Home for the Holidays" peaked at number eight on Billboard ...
ITMA was a character-driven comedy and contained parody and satire, unlike previous British radio comedy. The programme's satirical targets during the war were government departments and the ostensibly petty wartime regulations, although the programme "never challenged authority but instead acted as a safety valve for the public's irritation with bureaucracy, wartime shortages, queues and the ...
1837 – The Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia destroyed except for The Hermitage. 1844 – Separate fires at St. Michael's & St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Churches during the Philadelphia nativist riots, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1845 – Theatre fire in Canton, China. 1,670 killed. 1856 – Second Royal Opera House fire in London, England.