St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-01-21

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| / read your column The Way See 1t" in yes
OF particular interest to me was the references you
made to Leigh Kamman and the for his dis
surprised you print a
phone cali furnished with What
tS P S6 R 26S ese Ra Here the actual story which sin
Seen Ma a for anu had of
foT his dscbnrSe WAS St h on T p%, m S avg %
PhHs on the type Of music that we know popular with small
Cords" words Nor has other
The color Of an artists skin is in no way issue with Som
So Please Miss Ru dpn puP US SSt s5 GS ugt i hS
wLoL be the last station
As 70. nTqg Thirty right We
We don't know Of anything democratic So concerned
Just for The sake Of I'm the originated
will reveal Martin GeS S SH yoGc
Top Thirty consistently than other jockey
o @ he has enjoyed % S ne needs no discus
About S sDS mus lit g % On scientific
JAZZ happens
rammng pubHc wLo plays
pa daf o as1 NJ Miss @ no the n
portion your a very grave
Yours very truly,
| JACK M swENsoN,
Program Director WLoL
Hey wait Jackson didn't you that
Leigh Kanman discharged for plugging records didn't
| write that Kamman discharged. wrote:
Leigh town. jockey
punch going
cs made by Negro artists records and Stan Kenton etc for
| the Top Thirty tunes of the week"
Neither did Martin plug
Caized Top Thirty Tunes,
Block reputation by
twtrlng platters"
Certainly Block in the heard him New York when he
up gave Negro
bands and artists break did much the recordings of
where, did &C.
o prejudice?
rather significant that an increasingly large list of radio
finding socaed
popular jockeys their
Maybe listener tastes in TIE Twin CITIES are different I've been %
pectng that quite time but I'd have written here the
would have been heard clear the wild blue
Leigh big disc jock caIbre,
and I'm to stick to it. shep me!
b Kendall Crane program wDGY station
spinning February follows
DearM
junior executive because to quote column executives sell
dom have of hgnor but got terrific kick out Of your cur
en I nd IN Ss weeks issue fhAH you very mO' Doth per-
what struck particularly in column was the keen,
of the %G%HT s%o and its
Whatever attracts listeners een for the of c
have very your the
past year and none OF hsse have failed to drive home the message
ut fear favor topics of diverse appeal You apparently cam
in AS a%s 1d know WAS Ssa that ann E Sa T
@ 5 s % oSP s9fs success %ss on the Always
B. KENDALL CRANE
Program Director WDGY
to also write when something
The Pittsburgh page
with Arthur Godfrey like guy much
What grPes than anything n Is
class
he is nice fellow that the Godfrey
COuTier's John
January broadcast stated Godfrey put
self
color after telegram
citizens thanking him for the chance
The Godfrey this 10 you your
people,? What difference
OgniZe color Every
Of creature of
darker skin than others-wha
The quoted Godfrey saying HUNKS
in regard
ertanmen There color
| Catholic makes absolutely difference
Godfrey practices
quartet
the Talent Scout show Jimmy Nathan a Negro
The world could a Godfreys
certainly
know Of Maybe that's why the associated
with it through televison gives such big
Tele
returning here from the One former
There's another Columbia thick
boiling
whenever appear Everybody
Bill Coung, training genuine
good fellow, quick to at intolerance.
wouldn't taIy sII-stOcLng
met for radio people like
erie, Walt Raschck, Darragh
Show people for the schunkS
who make the policy for show business the with the
big sOmachs and the big DESKS who put the barriers