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Gift from Karelis, Rebekah, 2015 November 9.
Materials are transcription disks with glass backs; they are fragile. One disk is damaged.
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Wheeling Steel Radio Program Transcription Disks, A&M 4746, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
This collection is related to A&M 3470 and contains material from the same radio program, though there is no overlap in the episodes represented.
Set of 11 transcription disks of the Wheeling Steel Radio Program.
Disks include performances by the Coca Cola Spotlight Band and the Musical Steelmakers.
"It's Wheeling Steel!" was a radio program developed by John L. Grimes, advertising executive for the Wheeling Steel Corporation, that ran from 1936 to 1944. The program's content consisted of light classics, popular songs, and show tunes, performed by an orchestra of local musicians, as well as an assortment of amateur "headliner" performers, all of whom were drawn from the corporation's extended family of employees. The program was an instant success with local audiences. When it was picked up by the Mutual Broadcasting System in January 1939, its appeal proved to be nationwide. (Source:
The Wheeling Steel Corporation was created in 1920 by bringing together three independent companies from the Wheeling, West Virginia, area.
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