1922-1929 PEOPLE
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Moonshine Kate sings "My Man's
a Jolly Railroad Man"
Moonshine Kate
Her real name was Rosalie Carson and she performed on WSB with her father, "Fiddlin" John Carson in the 20's
Lambdin Kay WSB Station Beak
Lambdin Kay
WSB's first full time general manager and half of the station's nigh time personality team, Kay and Rogers. Kay, known as the "Little Colonel", formed the first radio station fan-club known as The Radio Owls. He organized the "Unorganized Cheerful Givers" a marathon charity program to help the needy during the depression.
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Mrs.Alwilda Lindsey worked in the business office of WSB Radio from 1929 until 1973. For over four decades everyone who worked at WSB Radio got their paycheck thanks to her 44 years of faithful service.
DR. J. SPROLES LYON
Pastor of the first Presbyterian Church of Atlanta, Lyon saw the medium of radio as a great way to spread the word. Easter Sunday 1922, WSB became the first station in the nation to broadcast a complete church service.
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Songwriter and fiddler Clayton McMichen appeared on WSB as early as September 18, 1922. His bands included the Home Town Boys, the Melody Makers, the Dixie String Band, the Skillet Lickers and the Georgia Wildcats.
ROY McMILLAN
Roy joined WSB in 1927 as an announcer and was part of a tradition among early radio announcers to dress up for the invisible audience. Roy is quoted in the book WELCOME SOUTH BROTHER “Announcing was mostly a matter of identifying the station every half hour. But, we put on coats and ties even for that.”
JOHN PASCHALL
Paschall worked at the Atlanta Journal and in 1921 met with a young sailor from Cedartown who had been a wireless operator while serving in the Navy during World War I. He convinced Paschall that The Journal should put in a radio station. Paschall then met with Major John Cohen who enthusiastically endorsed the idea saying the paper should “put in a station at the earliest moment”. (Quote from the book WELCOME SOUTH BROTHER.)
The chimes used on the station
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The original WSB chimes.
NELL AND KATE PENDLEY
Twin sisters who appeared on WSB with a set of chimes. Lambdin Kay wanted to end each WSB program with an identifying set of notes and Nell offered her chimes. Lambdin ordered the chimes to be used at the end of each program with the first three notes of the song “Over There.” Many radio buffs claim that this was the origination of what later became the famous NBC three notes that identified that radio network.
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Singer with the Metropolitan Opera who sang in the early days of the new radio station. “She sang with such gusto that she blew the transmitter off the air” according to the account in the book WELCOME SOUTH BROTHER.
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Riley Puckett was an outstanding vocalist labeled the "Bald Mountain Caruso" in admiration of his renditions of such songs as "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" and "Sleep, Baby, Sleep." Puckett lost his eyesight shortly after being born and taught himself to play the banjo and other instruments. For several years Puckett played and sang with the Home Town Boys, a string-band ensemble composed of Atlanta-area musicians. They made their debut on Atlanta's six-month-old radio station, WSB, on September 18, 1922. Until going off the air in 1926, they remained one of the station's most popular acts.
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