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KOY History Question

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When I first moved to Phoenix in 1958, there was a nice house on Alvarado Rd. near Palm Lane for sale. It was stone with slate roof, like an English cottage and an interior auto court. It was supposedly built by Borden (Borden's milk) as a wedding present for his daughter.

Here's my question: somehow it was connected to KOY. There was a pipe organ on a loft in this house, and it was used for a program for KOY. I don't know if the organ was formerly in the KOY studio, or if KOY did remote broadcasts from the house. I did notice on an old radio program column from the Arizona Republic, that KOY did have an organ program twice a week. I can't find that link now, but I think it was with SWECC musuem in Glendale.

Anybody know the connection between the house, KOY, the organ? I know a lot of early radio stations had organs as part of their studios.
 
I grew up in that neighborhood and know the house your talking about. I was told by my dad that it used to be the KOOL studios. Never heard anything about KOY. And yes, the early years of radio the stations did live music as opposed to recorded music, so an organ would fit right in for drama's and church programs I would suspect.
 
Mike Lee TN said:
I grew up in that neighborhood and know the house your talking about. I was told by my dad that it used to be the KOOL studios. Never heard anything about KOY. And yes, the early years of radio the stations did live music as opposed to recorded music, so an organ would fit right in for drama's and church programs I would suspect.
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KOOL 960 came on the air in 1947, near the end of the "old-time radio" era. Could they have wanted live music on a brand new station that late in the '40s, even considering the fact that TV in Phoenix was still two years away?
 
KeithE4 said:
Mike Lee TN said:
I grew up in that neighborhood and know the house your talking about. I was told by my dad that it used to be the KOOL studios. Never heard anything about KOY. And yes, the early years of radio the stations did live music as opposed to recorded music, so an organ would fit right in for drama's and church programs I would suspect.
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KOOL 960 came on the air in 1947, near the end of the "old-time radio" era. Could they have wanted live music on a brand new station that late in the '40s, even considering the fact that TV in Phoenix was still two years away?
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Live music had more to do with Joe Petrillo and the IFM (Musicians' union) than what stations wanted to program. Those were the days when unions opposed recorded music and even in smaller markets (there was a famous legal battle about house band size and hours in chatanooga, in fact) live music was mandated.
 
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