Count Basie 1937 Savoy Ballroom broadasts- what radio station?

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

 

putting together correct discog info for this amazing lp of basie live 1937-40 and i was wondering if you guys knew what station was b'casting the jun 30 1937 savoy show-  interestingly the 2/20/40 southland cafe boston show was a -nat'l- brodcast, wow

[lipi]

My guess is that the Savoy broadcast also was a national broadcast, and if so, it would have been on NBC's Blue Network. Local station would have been WMCA.

I'm basing this on Ella's 1939 and 1940 recordings, all of which were on NBC.

Edit: Yeah, it was definitely national. I'm listening to it now. The announcer stumbles over his words, but he says "good evening to the East and good morning to the West Coast".

Edited June 26, 2019 by lipi

[brownie]

Chris Sheridan in his Basie Bio-Discography indicates the source is a WOR-Mutual broadcast. 

[EKE BBB]

50 matches in www.newspapers.com for "WOR-Count Basie" for the period 1937-40, for newspapers from several different states, such as:

(Baltimore Sun, 5 July 1937, page 14)

Edited June 26, 2019 by EKE BBB

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

thx everybody!!!!!

[lipi]

Well I'll be damned. WOR it is. See also here:

https://jdisc.columbia.edu/session/count-basie-june-30-1937

(I wish I had that Sheridan bio-discography!)