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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notes between the notes: Stan Brown's signing the Dunster House dance November 11 comes as no surprise as he and his band are being considered for the Fitch Band Wagon . . . Victor records announce that the following Goodman records are being dropped from the Victor label to the Bluebird listings. And don't miss them, because they're all old ones that are good: "If I Could Be With You"--"Dear Old Southland"; "Japanese Sandman".--"I Know That You Know"; "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"--"Christopher Columbus"; "Madhouse"--"Get Happy"; "Can't We Be Friends"--"Swing...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

...Stan Shaw is a skinny, jumpy, 31-year-old ex-teacher of psychology and ex-orchestra leader from Kansas City. He and his aides never hand records back & forth, they throw them. With a great play at keeping everything Grade A on the Milkman's Matinee, Assistant John Flora prepares pots of refreshing black coffee for all hands, takes over the mike now and then if Stan's mouth is full. When 7 a. m. rolls around, the crew go out and have dinner; if the weather is right, they ride out to Floyd Bennett Field and hire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Milkman Stan | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...studio perched high above Madison Avenue, Stan Shaw, with an engineer and an assistant, stands watch over two turntables, a microphone, 10,000 records and two telegraph receiving machines. He gets anywhere from 150 to 250 request telegrams each morning. Most come from Manhattan's metropolitan area, but some regulars click in from far-away Florida and Ohio. Once Walter Winchell, whose favorite selection is Star Dust, sent Stan a 794-word telegram. One mysterious regular, Little Caesar, has sent as many as 20 telegrams in one morning, usually hailing Stan with "Hiya Skipper" and requesting selections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Milkman Stan | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...Stan Shaw's sponsors now number eleven, have been as many as 14. They and the studio net him between $7,500 and $10,000 a year. In his first year he broadcast ten chop-licking plugs a night to the lunchroom circuit for doughnuts and buns made by Fischer Baking Co. Sample "It's permissible to dunk Fischer's doughnuts up to the second knuckle." In that year Fischer's opened two new branches, added 19 new delivery routes. His first sponsor, in 1935, was Krueger Brewing Co. In 25 days, with no other advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Milkman Stan | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...importance of the Milkman's Matinee during its five small hours can be reckoned in other terms than sales figures and telegraph tolls. One Newark trucking firm has equipped all its trucks with radios, on the theory that Stan keeps night drivers from drowsing. When a murderer last year eluded the New Jersey police and hit for the highways, Stan sounded the alarm between recordings of Mexicali Rose and The Very Thought of You; within 15 minutes a lunchwagon proprietor had the fugitive cornered. Anxious parents like to have Stan broadcast his all-is-forgiven patter to runaways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Milkman Stan | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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