Klarinet Archive - Posting 000483.txt from 2002/01

From: Janine <janine@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: Jack Sterling Show (Was: Wondering If Anyone Here Knew My Father,
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 21:42:43 -0500

Kenneth Wolman wrote:
>
> At 08:10 PM 1/17/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >In the '50's he played live every morning w/a small band on the Jack Sterling
> >Show (CBS radio).
>
> I cannot say I remember your father by name or by music, but I DO remember
> the Sterling show from when I was a kid. I think it was on WCBS-AM and
> went on the air at 5:30 every weekday morning. It strikes me as absolutely
> unique now because it had a live band. For whatever reason, I remember the
> trombone player was Tyree Glenn.

Hi Kenneth & all,

Thanks for replying!

Yes, what a memory! Here are a few of the band members from my notes:

Mary Osborne on guitar, Tyree Glenn on trombone, Buddy
Jones on bass, Tony Aless on piano, & Andy Fitz on the clarinet.

They rotated, & didn't necessarily play together, & there may have been others.

I distinctly remember the bass player...he was missing part of one playing
finger, & I was amazed at how he overcame this!

I also remember the piano player...he used to comment on how tired I looked!!!
(Hard on a kid to get up at that hour!) When I didn't have school, I would get
to go to the studio...found it so fascinating!!! I would be so excited the night
before, that I never got any sleep!!

Yes, it was wonderful to have live music over the radio back then!!!!!

> Did Sterling himself play an
> instrument? I can't remember that either.

No...he was the star of the show, but just talked at a mike in an isolated
booth, while the band was out in the audience area. I remember him as having
such a smooth, warm, voice.

The studio was WCBS at 485 Madison Ave, NYC.

> I DO recall I used to get up
> occasionally at 5:30 during the summer of 1958 when I was a volunteer clerk
> at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York just to listen to that show
> every morning.

Yes, it was quite popular! We had many open reel tapes of the on the air
performances. The sound engineer would often tape the show & then give the tape
to one of the musicians, taking turns. Unfortunately, when my father passed
away, we couldn't find the tapes anywhere in his house, where they had been all
of these years. I would love to still have them!!!! He did transfer some of them
to cassettes, which my brother now has, & I am trying to get copies of!!!

Janine

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