Music Till Dawn on WEEI

[Doug Drown]

Only kidding.  ;-)
You've made a good point.  I  have to confess I had never heard of the 
program.  -Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
To: "Bill O'Neill" <billohno@gmail.com>; "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@verizon.net>
Cc: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>; "Don A" 
<donald_astelle@yahoo.com>; "BRI" 
<boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: Music Till Dawn on WEEI


> At 02:26 PM 2/24/2008, Bill O'Neill wrote:
>>Doug Drown wrote:
>>>>>Housewives'
>>>Protective League. How's that for an exciting name?
>
> Joke all you want, guys, but actually the show served a very useful 
> purpose when it first went on the air in 1925 (!) in New York and appeared 
> in various incarnations after that.  Back then, most people were barely 
> educated-- high school was considered a luxury in many cities, and rural 
> poor people often left school in the 8th grade.  As a result, radio was 
> seen as an educational service in many ways, and some of the housewife 
> shows, in addition to plugging lots of products, actually gave important 
> and factual information about nutrition, and taught listeners how to avoid 
> outrageous pricing, various health scams, etc.  It was an era of various 
> "doctors" making false claims, and shows like these provided the facts. 
> They also helped rural homemakers to feel a sense of community with those 
> who lived in the bigger cities.