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...News was on 5% of the time, but almost a third of it (station WOR-TV's Telefax program) featured typed news bulletins accompanied by unrelated music (e.g., a gay waltz was played during the report of Sinclair Lewis' death...
...WOR says he stopped picking too soon: there are closer...
...WOR specializes in murder," wrote Crosby, "so naturally it has a lusty collection of these bridges." His favorite finds: There's a Face in the Window; Quick! Follow That Car; Macabre, Running Motor; and, for a really gruesome situation, Out of the Dark Valley Came Slimy Crawling Things...
Amateur Musicologist Crosby found that some bridges are just scene shifters: "WOR has one called Big City, another called Bigger City" One all-purpose bridge is called From Here to There Without Fireworks. Some bridges mix both scene and mood: Menacing Humor to Racetrack Background; Light Confusion -and Then Down the Stairs in a Hurry. If a radio dramatist likes music behind his words, Crosby found, one piece he can get is Background-Nostalgic-Tender into ye Rude Awakening. "Ye Rude Awakening, in this case, is simply a sad chord of a sort known in the trade as a stab...
What Columnist Crosby did not report is the way WOR's two unabashed staff composers, Elliot Jacoby and Richard duPage, turn out their bridge music and titles. Explains Composer Jacoby: "Ye Old English Countryside but Something Is Amiss breaks down into an opening of nostalgic muted strings; then the French horn dirties it up at the end." "Hate," says he, "is almost always bitter brass and off-key woodwinds." Love is usually-a muted string solo, but, "if very throbbing," the sweetly sighing string section is divided, "like Kostelanetz...