Sid Mark (born Sidney Mark Fliegelman in 1933/1934)) is an American radio disc jockey based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who hosts weekly syndicated radio programs featuring the music of singer Frank Sinatra (1915-1998), interspaced with commentary, interviews, trivia facts etc. to add color and context.
His Philadelphia-area shows include Sunday with Sinatra, airing Sunday mornings on 1210 WPHT, and The Sounds of Sinatra, which is syndicated nationally through the Westwood One radio network. The first version/iteration, Friday with Frank, began airing in 1957 over WHAT-FM, where Mark was a disc jockey, and has been running continuously ever since. The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia i...
Swing Thing..
‘in the making since Fred first interviewed Helen Forrest back in 1945. Since then he has done hundreds of interviews with the singers, song-writers, sidemen band leaders and arrangers directly involved in the ongoing evolution of that uniquely American musical idiom including it’s many off-shoots and derivitives that we now call Swing. These remarkable shows span the entire gamut of early American music, which includes Swing, early Jazz, and Dixieland.
About Fred – Excerpt from his introduction to Dialogues In Swing
I had grown up with music. A sister played in string quartets, we never missed the NBC Symphony or New York Philharmonic broadcasts and I list...
Java is the creator and founder of the Bachelor Pad Empire. It started in 1999 with the retro website Java's Bachelor Pad. In 2002, he started the weekly lounge and exotica radio show titled, what else, The Bachelor Pad Radio Show. In 2007, Java felt it was time to start a retro girlie magazine. And that was the birth of Bachelor Pad Magazine! He is also a well-known host and emcee and has been all over the US hosting burlesque shows and other retro events.
You can contact him at javabachelor@gmail.com...
I got my love of the Golden Age Of Hollywood very early on. My dad would watch and I would join him. I loved the glamorous NYC, the gorgeous lounging gowns that the beautiful women wore lounging. There were flowers in every room. The apartments were magnificent and I knew that would be me someday. I Read whatever I could get my hands on about classic Hollywood, the stories, the memoirs, the biographies and I’d lose myself learning about everything. I guess I’m an expert but I learn something new everyday.
I didn’t get the glam apartment, but I do live in NYC, I always have fresh flowers, and as far as gorgeous lounging gowns, you’d catch me lounging in sweatpants , l...
Jeff Bressler has been a fan of the big band sounds of the 1930s and 1940s for decades. After a long career in broadcasting and announcing, Jeff has decided to lay back and devout all his time to his commercial-free ode to big band, swing and jazz music of the 1930s and 1940s via his MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM.
The program is Jeff's tribute to the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM that was heard from the mid-1930s to the late 1980s on WNEW AM 1130 in New York.
Since its inception in July of 2020 the Ballroom has grown to be syndicated on over 18 public broadcasting and community radio stations across the US as well as in the UK, and also featured on numerous internet stations.
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