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Merry Christmas to our Puget Sound Radio readers

The classic radio version of “A Christmas Carol” with Lionel Barrymore (pictured) as Scrooge aired live.  Glenn Gould made his CBC broadcast debut on ‘Sunday Morning Recital A special Christmas episode of “I Love Lucy” aired on CBS. On this day in 1961, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens became the first African song to reach number one on the North American pop charts. in 1968, Castlegar BC got its second local radio station as CKQR. Read much more INSIDE, including today's birthdays....

https://youtu.be/TsIxLils4vw Long Train Runnin'        

It’s the day when Don McNeill of radio’s ‘Breakfast Club’ and James Gregory of TV’s ‘Barney Miller’ were born. As well it’s Happy Birthday to Harry Shearer, Susan Lucci, Patrick Watson and Eddie Vedder. The BBC began regular daily radio newscasts; NBC began programming its national radio network; the first complete opera (Hansel & Gretel) was televised on WRGB Schenectady; Swift Current got local TV service as CJFB signed on; the daytime soap ‘The Young and the Restless’ premiered on CBS-TV; and the ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ cartoon was televised for the first time. Obits for Dec. 23 include Dragnet’s Jack Webb, Canadian jazzman Oscar Peterson, comic pianist Victor Borge and actor Charlie Ruggles. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

I was working a Saturday morning at 1310 CHLW St. Paul. Phone rings...and on the other end is a man who says he's from a country station in Medicine Hat & that they are looking for an announcer & would I be interested in applying

Claire wraps up the Pay It Forward contest in Airdrie

The title, "Wildflower", is not mentioned in the song. The closest line to the title occurs as the final line of the repeated chorus: "She's a free and gentle flower growing wild".