In 1946 Bob Wills started a weekly radio show on KGO-AM out of San Francisco, California. The show was supposed to be live, broadcast from across the Bay at the Oakland Auditorium Theater. However, if you notice from the script ( click on script image ) they were broadcasting on April 30th from Hollywood.
The show was introduced by Jack Webb (later of T.V.s "Dragnet" fame) and MCed by Cactus Jack (Cliff Johnson - listen to audio clip now playing - if you have Flash installed). However, the show from Hollywood only has Jack Webb MCing. The show was sponsored by Zoom cereal, which was described by one former Texas Playboy as tasting like cardboard! During the Tiffany Transcriptions sessions, the band recorded a Zoom Cereal jingle using Junior Barnard's signature guitar lick as the theme.
We don't know how long the radio show lasted. Charles R. Townsend in his book "San Antonio Rose - The Life and Music of Bob Wills" says the show lasted "only a few months." We have a ticket for March 26, 1946, an article and advertisement from Fan Fare magazine dated April 19, 1946, a script from April 30, 1946 and a very fancy ticket for May 21, 1946. So we know if went on from at least March through May 1946.
What is now playing is a clip from one of the shows. (you can hit the pause button on the player below to make it stop)
Click on the images to the left to see larger. (most not up yet.)
