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Amos 'n' Andy was an American radio sitcom about black characters, initially set in Chicago then later in the Harlem section of New York City. While the show had a brief life on 1950s television with black actors, the 1928 to 1960 radio show was created, written and voiced by two white actors, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who played Amos Jones (Gosden), Andrew Hogg Brown (Correll), and ...
The idea was to create The All-Negro Hour, a radio program specifically for black audiences by black creators and performers. [2] Silverstein was the only station owner that took interest in his show and agreed to air it on November 3, 1929. [2] The show featured exclusively black guests, performers, actors, musicians, and comedians. [6]
The Baby Snooks Show; Bachelor's Children; Backstage Wife; The Baker's Broadcast; Baltimore Achievement Hour [1]: 23 ; Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator; Beale Street Nightlife [1]: 25
His upbeat patter and rhyming delivery from the 1940s to 1970s on stations WAAF, WMAQ, WAIT, WGN and other broadcast outlets and television stations brought Daddy-O-Daylie, as he was known, fame and following amongst both black and white audiences. [1] He was inducted into the Black Radio Hall of Fame in Atlanta in 1990. [2]
The live album has been released several times in different formats. On February 24, 2017, a 30th anniversary edition, titled Black & White Night 30, was released. The edition has been expanded, re-edited, and remastered, and it is available both as a CD/DVD and a CD/Blu-ray set. [7]
In the 1950s and 60s, WANN Radio in Annapolis became a beacon for Black listeners by playing music and broadcasting voices that other mainstream stations ignored. The station, led by Charles ...
The transmissions in 625-line format started in Moscow on November 4, 1948. Regular broadcasting began on June 16, 1949. Details for this standard were formalized in 1955 specification called GOST 7845-55, basic parameters for black-and-white television broadcast. In particular, frame size was set to 625 lines, frame rate to 25 frames/s ...
Harry Babbitt; Jim Backus; Parley Baer; Bob Bailey; Jack Bailey; Eugenie Baird; Art Baker; Belle Baker; Kenny Baker; Lucille Ball; Edwin Balmer; Sam Balter; Tallulah ...