Music Till Dawn on WEEI

[Doug Drown]

>>Housewives'
Protective League. How's that for an exciting name?

Sounds like a great name for a rock group or a comedy troupe.   -Doug


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
To: "Don A" <donald_astelle@yahoo.com>; "Donna Halper" 
<dlh@donnahalper.com>; "BRI" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 1:39 PM
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> Absolutely. There was a different host in every market in which the
> show appeared. The program was not fed over the network. AND it was
> NOT unique in that regard. There was at least one other program that
> appeared on CBS radio stations in the same manner--Housewives'
> Protective League. How's that for an exciting name? It was a half hour
> (I believe) daily monologue about houshold products--soaps, cleansers,
> etc--that truly delivered on the excitement of its name ;>( On WCBS,
> the host was Galen Drake. On WEEI, it was Morgan Baker, I believe.
>>From the standpoint of on-air sound, these hosts were 100%
> interchangeable (like Harold Perry and Willard Waterman on the Great
> Gildersleeve). I remember when Drake had to take a few weeks off for
> some reason and they brought in the HPL guy from another city as the
> substitute host. He actually used his air name from that city on WCBS,
> but I'd say that he sounded even more like Drake than Drake himself
> did, so if the substitute had called himself Galen Drake, I don't
> think one listener in 1000 would have known that it was somebody else.
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Don A" <donald_astelle@yahoo.com>
> To: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>; "BRI"
> <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> Cc: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 1:15 PM
> Subject: Re: Music Till Dawn on WEEI
>
>
>>
>>> As for "Music Till Dawn," it went on the air in 1953, sponsored by
>>> American Airlines, and the CBS network was where the show seemed to
>>> be, based on all of my files...
>>
>>
>> It was a CBS Network offerring...but with local hosts?
>>
>