Description
The most popular selections since 1933 with the favorite readings of 1952 and 1951 featured on Don McNeill’s Breakfast Club. This little book features selections from Chicago’s Century of Progress with Don McNeill who took over an ugly-duckling early morning radio show on June 23. He introduced a new format, four calls to breakfast, March Time and Memory Time, sprinkled it with corn and his personality, and called it Breakfast Club. Starting with a few pages of notes which he laughingly called a script, Don handled the show “purely catch as catch can with 16 messers of ceremonies.” These included: singer Dick Teela, Walter Blaufuss, 12 musicians and announcer Bill Kephart. In the absence of an audience, Don invented characters like “Homer”, the hero of his one-man, one-act plays, and “Juliet”, the dumb dame. Listeners were also introduced to Bill Krenz, the tallest piano player in captivity, and “Elmer” (Bill Short), the man of many romances.
