A Book About Network Television in the late 1940s and early 1950s, by Andrew Lee Fielding. Published in 2007 by BearManor Media. See also: www.luckystrikepapers.com
Sunday, September 11, 2011
The Tenth Anniversary
(Photo, circa 1978, courtesy of artist Jenny Lynn)
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"The Lucky Strike Papers"--subtitled "Journeys Through My Mother's Television Past"--profiles such early network television shows as "Your Hit Parade" (also known as "The Lucky Strike Hit Parade"), "Kay Kyser's College of Musical Knowledge," and "The Freddy Martin Show." Author Andrew Fielding's late mother, Sue Bennett, sang on these programs, and others, in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Andrew Fielding has written for The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Providence Journal, The Philadelphia Daily News, Horizon Magazine, and other publications. He has also worked as a radio talk show host--in Philadelphia, in suburban Philadelphia, in Charlottesville, Virginia, and in Passaic County, New Jersey. His book about early television, "The Lucky Strike Papers," was published in December, 2007 by BearManor Media.