*** WAPI 1949-1965 RUNDOWN ***
(notes by Russell Wells)

0.00 - 02/27/1949: Spike Jones Show into The Jack Benny Program
	Includes a brief clip of an earlier Spike Jones ending, promoting future 
	appearances of "The Musical Depreciation Revue" in Birmingham and ... 
	Savannah, Georgia (where yours truly lives).  CBS network handoff, into 
	a station identification for WAPI, mentioning its studio location in the 
	Protective Life Building.  A short spot for Ivory Snow follows, and the 
	time is given before going into Jack Benny.  I love how old-school, 
	dignified and stoic the announcer sounds while giving the time.  There
	was something downright elegant about radio announcers back then, even 
	those doing short local breaks like this. 

1.47 - ca. 1956: Golden Flake Potato Chips spot, with station ID
	Makes mention of WAPI's eventual upgrade to 50,000 watts. 

2.07 - 1961: Newscast intro and Amoco commercial
	(I didn't know a car battery went "galumph!" before dying!)

3.17 - 1961(?): (audio from WAPI-TV 13) Cousin Cliff goes postal!!!
	I'm sure the kids in the studio didn't mind putting away the birthday cakes 
	intended for no-shows Sam, Bud, Marcia and Joan.  Cousin Cliff tears their 
	Moms and Dads new ones ... but quickly goes into a Popeye cartoon.  That'll 
	show 'em! 

5.01 - 12/1961: Everett Holle - "The Merry-Go-Round"
	A pleasant run of tape from a December Sunday afternoon and one of WAPI's 
	popular music shows, hosted with great wit by Everett Holle and sponsored 
	by Southern Advertising - phone TRemont 9 - 1681.  (an old Homewood exchange - 
	that was my grandparents' prefix!).  PS - I would love to find more recordings 
	of this kind of music program.

15.06 - 1965: Everett Holle - clips from alive broadcast of the Ala. Pops
	Finally, we have a simulcast of WAPI AM & FM - introductions of the Alabama 
	Pops Orchestra at what was then Howard College (now, of course, Samford 
	University).  I don't have a date for this, but there is a humorous reference 
	to The Beatles, so I'm going to say 1965, although it might be 1964.  Eh, I'll 
	go with '65.  It was a good year; I was born.  :-)

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