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j|*Th i cel fretworkWings Over Jordan Choir will celebrate its 500th broadcast over the CBSradioand in-‘rratdal goodwill to millions of American and Allied soldiers in the European Theatre of OpeTMf remarkable record of*)-^Achievement is a credit to the ■^Negroes gift of original Spiritual ^nusic to America. CBS officials «wMtimate the weekly listening j^Jrudience at 10,000,000 persons who 2I3**V* developed the habit of tuning -w*)n on the Wings Over Jordan lt;**radio program each Sunday morn-at 11:05 AM Eastern Daylight rings Time. In 1940, the Natio-nai Association of Broadcasters3tamed Wings Over Jordan as an raportant reason why CBS was • given the George Foster Peabody Award for outstanding meritorious public service” in radio.Jinca the Wings Over Jordan Choir returned from overseas, it has been busily engaged on a coast-to-coast personal appearance tour, having performed in more than 400 different iities since Apru 1946. This tour is now taking them to California for a return visit md, on this trip, one of the major Hollywood studios has engaged Wings Over Jrdan for a picture. This trip has taken them I to 46 States and is still continuing, under the management of International Artists Corporation, 420 Madison Avenue, New York 17, New York. Their largest audience waa 75,000, in Cleveland's outdoor stadium.Reverend Glenn T. Settle, pro-CROWN4*E. 105th KemptonGL. 13124 CHANGES WEEKLY 4Ton it* (THURS.) A FRL Aug; SI, Sept 1Spencer Tracy1 fifHONORED BY O N E WORLD AWARD COMMITTEE—Vivian Collier, Soprano chosen as featured soloist on the Bastille Day Program which was short waved to France. Miss Collier ( center) h*ra discua*es the program with Dr. Jacques F. Farrand,executive-secretary of theOne World Award Committee, and Program Director Raymond Lehrer of station WNYC before the broadcastIntroduced as “an Americanminent Negro clergyman, Is the director and founder of the WingsOver Jordan Choir; and his is the voice that is familiar to millions of listeners each Sunday morning. The choir is conducted by James Lewis Elkins, with Charles E.King as co-conductor.
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Call and Post
Cleveland, Ohio, US
Sat, Aug 02, 1947
Page 20
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