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STAY UP STAN THE ALL NIGHT RECORD MAN - LIFE magazine 1939
Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:00 pm
by Eyeball
http://tinyurl.com/23nogho
I have this issue of LIFE, but it is on line now, so cool.
Great photos and article!
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:01 pm
by Haydn
There's a song called 'Stay Up Stan The All-Night Record Man' isn't there?
Great stuff - I love the ads
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 8:02 pm
by Eyeball
Haydn wrote:There's a song called 'Stay Up Stan The All-Night Record Man' isn't there?
Great stuff - I love the ads
Yeah - it was named in his honor.
There are quite a few Swing DJ record title tributes.
Fred Robbins - Robbin's Nest
Martin Block - Martin On Every Block
Jack something - Jack the Bellboy
Milkman's Matinee - Stan Shaw again
Jivin' with Jarvis - Al Jarvis
Smada - Joe Adams
Jive at Five - forget who
Platterbrains - Leonard Feather
and more.
Milkman's Matinee
Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 4:35 am
by phantom dancer
Fantastic stuff! The internet has killed midnight to dawn radio, a shift I used to do a lot in the 80s. The later the night, the more special the listener! Also like the article on the scarab car. A while ago I was an engineer in a resin factory and an old hand told me how the factory had built a prototype resin chassis. 'Whack a sledgehammer on that, Cec,' the developer said. And Cec and his sledgehammer bounced off the roof of the car. That was the 50s, when unbreakable cars were more important than breakable people - though the resin car never saw the road