Twin Cities Music Highlights

KSTP Studios: 1936

A publication called “KSTP Market Data”  gives a list of NBC Network broadcasts originating at the KSTP studios during the last six years.  Among them were:

“Dancing in the Twin Cities,” a regular Sunday evening program that was a regular feature of the NBC networks since 1933.  Included were the orchestras of:

  • Blue Steele
  • Bernie Cummins
  • Paul Pendarvis
  • Lou Blacke
  • Don Gonzales
  • Ted Weems
  • George Hamilton
  • Norvy Mulligan
  • Cecil Golly
  • Buddy Fisher
  • Jimmy Joy
  • Barney Rapp
  • Bob McGrew

 

Also recorded at KSTP studios were:

  • Ben Bernie and the Pabst Blue Ribbon Program, recorded during a local theater engagement of Bernie’s Orchestra
  • Ethel Shutta and George Olsen and His Music, recording a commercial for Nestle’s Chocolate during a local theater engagement of the orchestra
  • Abe Lyman and His Orchestra, Vivian Segal, and Frank Munn, recording a commercial Phillip’s Milk of Magnesia during a local theater engagement