WBT - The Early ThirtiesPrograms

Circa April 1932

DIXIE MAMMOTH MINSTRELS GO COMMERCIAL

CLAIR SHADWELLThe Dixie Mammoth Minstrels, a show which has delighted its radio audience of both the Dixie Network and WBT for a number of years, has been taken under the wing of the S. & W. Cafeteria chain as its medium of good will radio advertising. Both organizations are old Southern institutions of enviable reputations, thus bespeaking most successful season together. There will be no change in the personnel of the show, it was announced by the producer and interlocutor of the act, Clair Shadwell. Slufoot Lochman and Eefraim Lee will be at the ends with Bill Elliott, Al Garr, John Stevens and the Dixie Mammoth Male Quartet completing the circle. On the initial broadcast, Slufoot promises to sing one of the old minstrel favorites, "Pullman Porters on Parade," while Eefraim will sing in his true Bert Williams fashion, "Somebody Said." Al Garr will in all probability sing the new song hit, "My Mom," and Bill Elliott will do one of the numbers he recorded for Victor earlier in the year, "When It's Springtime in the Blue Ridge Mountains." Bill Kercheis, the trumpet sensation of the minstrels, will play one of his fast and furious trumpet solos. In preparation for the new series the minstrel was pulled off sustaining during the week of April 24 to return at 8:15 p.m., EST, Thursday evening, May 5.

 

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