SHOW NOTES

Title: Station WOC of Davenport, “Where the West Begins!”

Episode Number: 105

Host: Dr. Thomas Lamar

Show Date: 12/25/11

Run Time: 36:56

Description:  Merry Christmas from Spinal Column Radio!  On this special Christmas Day Episode, Dr. Lamar places a gift under the chiropractic profession’s tree — a gift that unearths a bit of chiropractic radio history that, had it not been for our beloved Chiro-Picker, may never have seen the light of day again.  Join us as we take you back in time to the earliest days of radio when BJ would have been at the helm of the broadcasting boom of the 1920’s and breathe life back into a tremendous chiropractic radio treasure.

Listen Now!

Links:

Chiro-Picker’s ebay store for the sheet music

• Read Todd Water’s Chiro-Picker  radio article:  “Tuning In to Chiropractic’s Past”

• Get the backstory on this video: “BJ and Mabel ‘Listen In’ to Station WOC“

• More Chiropractic Radio History

– History of Radio Podcast: 05, 06

– BJ Palmer early health broadcasts:

17, 18, 19, 20, 21

– Ronald Reagan Connection: CD track 06

– History of Radio Article

– DC Angle of Chiro-Picker’s Radio Article

– DC Angle of Chiro-Picker’s article on WOC song video.

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Ardis and Russell Swank breathe life into Nat Ozmon’s “Where the West Begins!”

Dr. Lamar interviews 97 year-old Leola Anderson (born in 1914) about her earliest memories of radio.

Professor Flint’s Hypnosis Show on the vaudeville circuit

— BJ Palmer’s employer in 1898 —

Credits

When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-bob-bobbin’ Along — Whispering Jack Smith, 1926.

Station WOC of Davenport: “Where the West Begins!” — Nat Ozmon, 1923.

Bleeding Hearted Blues — James P. Johnson, 1923.

Safe in the Arms of Jesus — Chimes, 1902.

Ronald Reagan addressing WHO 50th Anniversary, Des Moines, Iowa, 1974.