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The Spell Of The Blues
Words by Dave Dreyer, Herman Ruby
Music by Arthur Johnston
Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians
Milton Charles at the WENR Radio Studio Wurlitzer Organ, Chicago Illinois
Columbia 1653-D
Recorded November 27, 1928
Milton Charles (1897-1991) was born to a musical family in San Jose, California. He began piano lessons at the age of 7 and became a church organist when he was 13. As a teenager played at movie theaters in San Francisco and was eventually hired to play at the Grauman Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. In the early 1920s he moved to Chicago where was the featured organist at the Tivoli Theatre as well as assisting at the Chicago Theatre and Uptown Theatre. After sound films became prevalent at the end of the 1920s, Charles moved to radio, scoring background music for "The Amos and Andy Show," "Ma Perkins" and "The Road of Life." He later worked on the Roy Rogers and Gene Autry radio shows, was a staff organist with CBS in Los Angeles, and spent the last 20 years of his career as organist and vocalist at the Kings Arms restaurant in Toluca Lake. He died on November 1, 1991 in Corona, California.
E. Norman Rauland, a Norwegian immigrant, was the founder of Chicago radio station, WENR, where the "ENR" were his initials.
WENR, was purchased by Samuel Insull's newly formed Great Lakes Broadcasting Company on April 17th 1928. Great Lakes Broadcasting agreed to purchase WENR for a reported $1.5 Million.
A quote from the Oct. 1928 Radio Digest about WENR:
"There are four regular and two relief announcers, two regular and one relief organist, one 12-piece symphony orchestra, two regular mixed quartets, two male quartets, two comedy teams, string trio, two accompanists, four harmony teams and four soloists on the WENR-WBCN present staff. The two mixed quartets present two light operas every week. The entire popular staff takes part in a comedy feature every Friday."
WENR's organ was a Wurlitzer Opus 1659 3 Manual 10 Rank Special (Installed 1927).
The Spell Of The Blues
Words by Dave Dreyer, Herman Ruby
Music by Arthur Johnston
Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians
Milton Charles at the WENR Radio Studio Wurlitzer Organ, Chicago Illinois
Columbia 1653-D
Recorded November 27, 1928
Milton Charles (1897-1991) was born to a musical family in San Jose, California. He began piano lessons at the age of 7 and became a church organist when he was 13. As a teenager played at movie theaters in San Francisco and was eventually hired to play at the Grauman Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. In the early 1920s he moved to Chicago where was the featured organist at the Tivoli Theatre as well as assisting at the Chicago Theatre and Uptown Theatre. After sound films became prevalent at the end of the 1920s, Charles moved to radio, scoring background music for "The Amos and Andy Show," "Ma Perkins" and "The Road of Life." He later worked on the Roy Rogers and Gene Autry radio shows, was a staff organist with CBS in Los Angeles, and spent the last 20 years of his career as organist and vocalist at the Kings Arms restaurant in Toluca Lake. He died on November 1, 1991 in Corona, California.
E. Norman Rauland, a Norwegian immigrant, was the founder of Chicago radio station, WENR, where the "ENR" were his initials.
WENR, was purchased by Samuel Insull's newly formed Great Lakes Broadcasting Company on April 17th 1928. Great Lakes Broadcasting agreed to purchase WENR for a reported $1.5 Million.
A quote from the Oct. 1928 Radio Digest about WENR:
"There are four regular and two relief announcers, two regular and one relief organist, one 12-piece symphony orchestra, two regular mixed quartets, two male quartets, two comedy teams, string trio, two accompanists, four harmony teams and four soloists on the WENR-WBCN present staff. The two mixed quartets present two light operas every week. The entire popular staff takes part in a comedy feature every Friday."
WENR's organ was a Wurlitzer Opus 1659 3 Manual 10 Rank Special (Installed 1927).
