MINNESOTA STATE FAIR
…the 1870s, Minneapolis and St. Paul held competing fairs. In 1884 a committee was put together by the Minnesota State Agricultural Society, the Fair’s governing body, to select a permanent…
Continue reading →…the 1870s, Minneapolis and St. Paul held competing fairs. In 1884 a committee was put together by the Minnesota State Agricultural Society, the Fair’s governing body, to select a permanent…
Continue reading →…such: We’ll have the Community News light show and people will just come in and mostly sit on the floor in little groups and groove with the music. What we…
Continue reading →…WDGY. Ralph Martin – WDGY (1956 – 1957). Storz ad: “Crisp, incisive, smooth, news-voice of WDGY, commentator, community force.” Ernie Martz – WMIN (1954 – 1956 – went into the…
Continue reading →…him. (Minneapolis Star, March 5, 1952) Cozy Eggleston’s Combo The Delta Boys, “America’s Finest Sepia Combo” Hank Hazlett Little Donna Hightower, Decca’s famous recording artist Stomp Gordon Combo, “King…
Continue reading →…its first contest on February 6, 1956, and started its own contest on February 1. KSTP joined the fray on March 7, with WCCO coming in on March 12. In…
Continue reading →Many track listings for these compilations were taken from Bird Dance Beat, an excellent website that has since disappeared. Know of others compilations? Please let me know! (P.S. The *…
Continue reading →…COMMAND Betsy Command and her brother Johnny Command were regular dancers on the show. Betsy says, Our mom, Freda, a fabulous dancer herself, taught us to dance and drove us…
Continue reading →…the FCC by the Meredith Engineering Company of Des Moines, Iowa. The company is owned by Meredith Publishing Company, publishers of Better Homes and Gardens and Successful Farming. The company…
Continue reading →…minorities, and the company represented a string of 30 special-interest stations. He expressed his intent to present commercial religious shows in the morning [commercial meaning they pay for the time?]….
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