Re: [ARSCLIST] Fwd: Joseph Wilfred Fletcher

[John Ross <johnross@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm sure you're right. KHJ was the Los Angeles outlet and production 
center for the Mutual Network.

John Ross

At  11/6/2006 12:13 PM, you wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> One correction in the info below.   I think the radio station was 
> KHJ, not KJH.    I grew up in the L.A. area, so I'm pretty sure it 
> was the prior identification.
>
> Rod Stephens
>
> John Ross wrote:
>
> > A friend has sent me this query. Anybody have any information about 
> > Joseph Fletcher or his recordings?
> >
> > John Ross
> >
> > > Joseph Wilfred Fletcher was the grandfather of a former co-worker of mine.
> > > He was a tenor who had at least a radio career as a singer, between about
> > > 1920 and 1935. He sang for two stations in LA, KFI and KJH) and made a
> > > couple of records.
> > >
> > > My former colleague is looking for more information about him and also for
> > > copies of the records. (I don't know if what the family had consisted of
> > > shellack 78s or acetates or air-checks or what.)
> > >
> > > I've suggested Grove Opera, dictionaries of musical biography published
> > > before 1940, and the searchable news databases. I suspect there are people
> > > out there who are experts in music on radio in that period, and that those
> > > people would make good resources at least for pointers.
> > >
> > > Any ideas you have would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thank you -
> > >
> > > - Lisa
> > > Lisa Hirsch
> > > sunbear@xxxxxxxx