THE WORLD'S MOST UNUSUAL... -- Just A Minute Radio for Wednesday Sept. 9th 2009

            Hello there… Glad you could join us today!

 

            We’re going to take a short stroll down memory lane. Since WMUU is celebrating serving the people of Upstate South Carolina, parts of North Carolina and Georgia for SIXTY years this month – Sept. 15^th 1949 to be exact – we’ll just join them. The studios at that time were on the campus of Bob Jones University – and the 1000 watt daytime station, signed on 1260 KC mid-morning with the singing of the University Hymn and a dedication program broadcast during the morning chapel hour in progress in the Rodehaver Auditorium.

 

            Since I’d had a smattering of radio experience when I came to Bob Jones that Fall… I did some announcing… and later engineering etc. culminating in fourteen years on the staff of the station and the university. It’s an anniversary I always remember along with a lot of friends in the Greenville area where our family began and where we have so many friends.

 

            Aside from the personal satisfaction of seeing the station fulfill the initial goals outlined and carried on by the Founder, Dr. Bob Jones, Sr. and his son Bob, Jr. --  and it’s now celebrating the beginning of its 82^nd  year of educational effort that began in Florida in 1927, moved to Tennessee and eventually to South Carolina – our family began on the Greenville Campus – and we’ve lived Greenville more than anywhere else. All five of our children we born on the campus. So Greenville and BJU are special to us. We are very attached by friendship and sharing common goals over the years. It so happens also that my mother’s birthplace is about 11 miles from the campus – I guess you can figure we’ve put down some roots here.

 

            Today’s program, JUST A MINUTE, covers just a slice of our time in association with BJU and WMUU. Obviously we owe a lot to our friends and colleagues here. We believe we’ve been here – as well as from time to time serving and living in Spartanburg, Fairfax, VA and Rutherford County, NC – by God’s direction. And we’re happy to continue our associations and friendships in such pleasant surroundings.

            Obviously I could go on… but I think I’d better quit… and I see my wife of 62 years nodding her head in agreement. We’ll just glad we’re able to count all of you among our friends too. God bless you.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack and Barbara.

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

THE WORLD’S MOST UNUSUAL…

HOMER: Just a Minit – Mr. Jack, you been awful quiet…

Jack: Oh … just thinking back…   

BB: You look neuralgic…

Homer: He means nostalgic, Mr. Jack.

Jack: OK … in the Fall of 1949 – 15^th to be exact… Just knowing people were listening made me nervous …

HOMER: You got ‘mike fright’ din’t you ‘cause WMUU was a-goin’ on th’ air first time.

JACK: That’s right, Homer.

MizP: Wuz you there, Homer?

Homer: No, but summa my older frens was a-listening – Ezeikel Emreson – an my cousin Rufus.

BB: Oh … I ‘member them Uncle Zeke an Cousin Rufe…

MizP: They was on th’ radio too?

Homer: Yes’m – course I’s a little feller back then … they come on ever morning…

BB: They was more farms back then… their progrum wuz,  “Down On Th’ Farm.”

MizP: Whut’d hit sound like?

BB: Hit b’gin wif a rooster a-crowin’ – Cock-a-doodle-doooooooo

MizP: Souns a bit sick.

Jack: No we had a sound effects recording of a Rooster Crow.

MizP: You played hit every mornin’?

Jack: Every morning – 6:05 – an – we had hog prices and what milk was selling for and news from the Clemson extension service.

BB: Ah member tha-ut.

HOMER: Ah member you did a ree-mote progrum frum a feed & seed store down on McBee Avenue. An I member KeeLo th’ SAFETYcyle – who tole boys & girls how ta' be safe an Uncle Remus reads th’ funnies…  

Jack: No – we did have the Uncle Remus program – but Uncle Zeke read the funnies on Saturday morning.

MizP – Whut else?

Jack: In those days almost every thing was done live because tape recorders hadn’t come along yet, and my wife Barbara and I, sometimes with the children did a morning program called “Recipe for Good Listening” and In the summer we gave away picnic baskets.

MizP: Oh … oh now Ah ‘member… Car’liner Pride – we got one.

Jack: It was sixty years ago on the 15^th of September, 1949… But our memory overtime’s up right now – I’m Jack Buttram

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