"The 2008 Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention" will be running from October 23rd until October 26th, at the Holiday Inn-North, in Newark, New Jersey. I've just been added to a panel discussion taking place at the convention--at 2 p.m. on the 23rd.
The panel features several writers, including Ben Ohmart, who runs BearManor Media (publisher of The Lucky Strike Papers); in addition to his work as publisher, Ben has written a number of show business-related books (including biographies of Joan Davis, Paul Frees, and Daws Butler). Trivia expert Mel Simons is also on the panel; BearManor has brought out several books by Mel (including The Old-Time Radio Trivia Book).
Another panelist will be Janet Cantor Gari, one of the daughters of Eddie and Ida Cantor. She'll discuss the book she's written about her mother, Don't Wear Silver in the Winter; the book is also published by BearManor Media.
Here's the convention's web address: http://www.lofcom.com/nostalgia/fotr/update08.php3
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Andrew Fielding, while host of a radio talk show in Charlottesville, Virginia, 1996
A Book About Network Television in the late 1940s and early 1950s, by Andrew Lee Fielding. Originally published in 2007 by BearManor Media. Revised Edition published in 2019. See also: www.andrewleefielding.com
A Blog About Early Television...Later Television...The Big Band period...and other matters of history, family, and popular culture...
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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.
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Andrew Fielding, while host of a radio talk show in Charlottesville, Virginia, 1996
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- Andrew Lee Fielding
- 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 northern New Jersey. He was also, for three years, the host of a weekly talk show on a nostalgia-oriented Internet radio station. His book about early television, "The Lucky Strike Papers," was published in December, 2007 by BearManor Media. A revised edition of the book was brought out in January of 2019.