music

Select HERE to view Wilmington Radio Station “Music Survey” sheets and other photos and data...

Click on selection to view my personal MP3 music collection lists
(Other decades and collections will follow: 1930-1979)
(Every song is encoded using 160 Kbps or greater)

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MUSIC FROM OUR TIME
MUSIC FROM THE DECADES Enjoy selections from the years 1920 to 1970		Listen to Jimmy Smith playing at the Club Baby Grand in 1956 Click HERE to listen to the 81 minute live performance with Introduction by former Radio Station WILM personality Mitch Thomas.
1920s 1930s 1940s	1950s 1960s 1970s
The History of Rock & Roll is a 52-hour long radio program that the stations would broadcast usually on the long holiday weekends. Presented here is the 1st hour. The History of Rock & Roll - Hour #1

Local Musicians

The Banjo Dusters
The Range Riders (Photo)
The Blue Rangers (Photo)
The Trail Blazers
Ogilvy Highlanders Pipe Band (North American Champions in 1973)
City of Wilmington Pipe Band and Scottish dancers
Olla Belle Reed, bluegrass singer lived in Newport
Cab Calloway
The Commanders

Ralph Pryor (left) and Paul Richardson (1960)

'Tex' Larraine and The Range Riders ('Hank', 'Tex', 'Slim', 'Shorty' and 'Cheyenne') doing a
radio broadcast over WDEL, July 1936 (submitted by B.Hartman)

Above 3 photos of Hank 'Rusty' Russell and The Blue Rangers

Rusty was first known as "Little" Charlie Russell and played with Frankie DelCoglin's Band, "The Trail Blazers".
They appeared weekly on Saturday mornings on radio station WAMS. They also were featured regularly at the Columbus Hall for dances and live 'Remotes'. Additionally, appearances were made at the Queen and Warner Theaters and for a short while, The Strand Theater.

After that, Rusty "Winged It" solo on radio station WTUX. Then returned to WAMS as "Hank Russell, The Blue Ranger". Plans for a nightly, hour-long program of records and live music on radio station WILM were scrapped when he was drafted into the US Army during the Korean War.

"The Young Sound" logo sticker from CBS-FM music service from mid-1960's to the early 1970's
Click HERE (Real Audio file) for "The Young Sound" theme by Tony Hatch - who also wrote 'Downtown'