Fred Waring

It will not be heard during the intervening week.

We present now Fred Waring.

Radio.

Radio.

Just a pleasant 15 minutes with all shades of variety in music.

Choral arrangements will predominate with the glee club featured, of course.

I think we have to get off the air, Fred, so let me say lots of success and pleasure time starring Fred Waring with the Pennsylvanians will start next Monday evening, ladies and gentlemen.

At 7 o'clock Eastern

Well, look, come on, will you? Come on.

Hey, you know who that was? Sure, somebody wanting to know what time Fred Waring's on.

No,

no, it wasn't.

And most of these songs, unless stated otherwise, only spent one week on the chart.

And at number 14, Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians.

Sherry, I love you.

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Number 7.

Stagger Lee Written by Ray Lopez, the first recorded version was in 1923 as Stack-O-Lee Blues by Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians.

The song has gone through many titles, Stagger-Lee, Stag-O-Lee, Stack-O-Lee, etc.

Who hasn't sung this song? Mississippi John Hurt, James Brown, Ike and Tina, Dave Van Ronk, Doc Watson, Elvis, Bob Dylan, heck, even Neil Diamond did a version.

Junior? Well, I thought I'd throw that in early because I won't be seeing you next week.

Oh, that's right, you won't, will you? Sitting here next Tuesday night listening to Fred Waring, we'll miss you, Mr.

Wilcox.

Thank

if he starts turning handswings, Mr. Wilcox, you'll know it's strictly from grief.

I know what you mean.

I think that's a great idea, though, bringing Fred Waring and that wonderful music of his back for a week.

Yeah, me and Molly and the people in Racine thought it would be kind of a nice New Year's greeting to everyone if we asked Fred to take over the Johnson Wax Program for next

So about an hour and a half out of New York and maybe an hour and a half northeast of Philadelphia.

It used to be a honeymoon capital years ago with heart-shaped bathtubs in the area, and known because of Fred Waring, who had his glee clubs and his music.

But the Deerhead Inn is its own kind of animal.

It's a big old, what, three-story, four-story hotel, a jazz club, a working jazz club.

You want to share some of

the CDs? Let me begin with a little bit of just a quick sample of John Coates, who has left us.

But he was the house pianist, and actually his day gig was he arranged choral music for Fred Waring.

So let's give a listen.

I'm Y.K. Karrenbauer.

You're listening to Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians with Coast Guard Forever, and you're on the sound beat.

Coast Guard Forever, Coast Guard Forever, we always honor thee, pride of Indiana.

The U.S. Coast Guard was officially established in 1915, but its roots go back to the late 18th century.

New York City, 1936.

Backstage at the Vanderbilt Theater, Fred Waring is the biggest band leader in America.

Waring's Pennsylvanians, coast to coast on the radio every week, courtesy of the Ford Motor Company.

And a stranger has just walked into his dressing room carrying a machine.

His patent calls it a disintegrating mixer for producing fluent substances, which is engineer for it doesn't stir, it destroys.

What he doesn't have is money, so he goes to the most famous man he can get to.

Here's the thing about Fred Waring.

Before the band, he studied engineering at Penn State.

It got to number four.

Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians looking at the world through rose-colored glasses.

T-H-R-O apostrophe.

So not through, throw.