Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 02:45:10 -0400 From: [email protected] (Mark H. David) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OTR Obit: Benjamin Gailing Newsgroups: alt.radio.oldtime Ben's Jewish -- mostly Yiddish -- radio show in Boston, The "Freylekher Kabtsen" program, has run continuously from 1931 to this day, and will continue for the rest of April. It's scheduled to sign off forever on April 28, 1999, after the final show on WUNR 1600 AM/Brookline, MA, at 7:00 p.m. Hankus Netsky, Ben's producer and cohost, has been producing the show the past few years completely without Ben's active involvement, mixing tapes of Ben's inimitable jingles, intros, singing performances, etc., with current announcements and old and new Jewish/Yiddish music. Ben contributed segments well into his '90s, well into the 1990's -- it was no earlier than 1995, for example, when Ben switched from Sunday morning to a Wednesday night spot on WUNR, and recorded his post-intro greeting, heard each week, Thank you, smiling announcer of WUNR, 1600 on your AM dial. [Yiddish:] Zayt mir gegrist mayne libe fraynt ... Hankus Netsky announced last week that he's just come into possession of an aircheck of one of Ben's 1932 broadcasts, and will be playing it in the coming final weeks. He thinks this is the oldest recording of a Jewish radio broadcast anyone knows about. In cooperation with Hankus Netsky, I have set up a web page in Ben's memory: http://www.yv.org/gailing/ Mark David Host/Producer, The Yiddish Voice, Boston http://www.yv.org
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