Chcuk cecils swinging years program

Sections of this page. The following year, he was at the opening of the Hollywood Palladium to see Tommy Dorsey and a skinny singer named Frank Sinatra. It makes the skin crawl. Each week, the program focuses on a writer of poetry, fiction or essays, either in an Cecil confessed he's no hoofer, though he and Edna did sign up for swing dance lessons a few years back. When his father couldn't feed his family of six anymore, he loaded them into a truck and drove to California, installing them in an apartment in Hollywood while he began building a house in what is now Sherman Oaks.

When his father couldn't feed his family of six anymore, he loaded them into a truck and drove to California, installing them in an apartment in Hollywood while he began building a house in what is now Sherman Oaks. In fact, Cecil was a guest at Monroe's wedding to Jim Dougherty in It did lift people's spirits during the Depression and the war. When he is not on the radio, Mr. He sat on the bed while the singer reclined. Often you can hear the sizzle of the needle on the platter. The show grew in popularity.

KPCC's move prompted an intense lobbying effort, during which hundreds of signatures were collected and the program was offered to several stations. Cecil recorded and archived the interviews, using them to introduce his listeners to the men and women behind the music. Though fans in Los Angeles were faced with bitter disappointment as new ownership of KPCC changed the format to exclude our favorite show. Working from a massive library of more than 30, , and rpm records, and his own personal library of interviews with band leaders, singers and sidemen, Cecil mixes dance tunes, sentimental ballads, jazzy jumpers and novelty records. As the show progressed, Cecil included audio clips of his interviews with some of the brightest stars of the big band era.