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NYC Mayor LaGuardia’s Legendary Radio Readings

BMPAudio November 20, 2008

NYC Mayor LaGuardia’s Legendary Radio Readings BMPAudio

The year is 1945. The world is at war, and New York City’s newspaper delivery men are on strike.

Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia solves the problem.

Independent producer Ben Manilla shares the story behind LaGuardia’s legendary radio readings of comic strips like Little Orphan Annie. It’s part of our series on legendary audio moments in the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress.

Voices: Thomas Kessner, Ed Koch, Andy Lanset

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Tagged as: Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

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T-Bone Walker’s ‘Stormy Monday’

BMPAudio November 20, 2008

T-Bone Walker swung the blues, made his guitar cry like no-one else and wrote a classic in “Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday’s Just As Bad).” It’s among the latest […]

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