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Browse piano sheets by Gomer Bath on Zen Virtual Piano. Gomer Bath was born in Canton, Illinois, on Washington’s birthday in 1899. He attended Knox and Lake Forrest colleges and won his degree at the University of Illinois. An energetic young man, he abandoned what had looked like a promising career as a musician and, in six years, worked himself up to the post of assistant manager of the radio station WMBD. As a news announcer at WMBD he interviewed the tornado survivor Verna Houston, a child orphaned by the tornado, from her hospital bed at Pekin Hospital. He is credited with originating the “Man on the Street” broadcast, which was copied on many stations throughout the country. He was also a newspaper man at the Peoria Star, where he defended the radio industry’s case for more freedom in an editorial discussion of BROADCASTING’s poll. Speaking for radio from a newspaper desk puts him at the meeting point of two media. Little information about this artist is available.
Browse piano sheets by Gomer Bath on Zen Virtual Piano.
Gomer Bath was born in Canton, Illinois, on Washington’s birthday in 1899. He attended Knox and Lake Forrest colleges and won his degree at the University of Illinois. An energetic young man, he abandoned what had looked like a promising career as a musician and, in six years, worked himself up to the post of assistant manager of the radio station WMBD.
As a news announcer at WMBD he interviewed the tornado survivor Verna Houston, a child orphaned by the tornado, from her hospital bed at Pekin Hospital. He is credited with originating the “Man on the Street” broadcast, which was copied on many stations throughout the country.
He was also a newspaper man at the Peoria Star, where he defended the radio industry’s case for more freedom in an editorial discussion of BROADCASTING’s poll. Speaking for radio from a newspaper desk puts him at the meeting point of two media.
Little information about this artist is available.
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He was born in Canton, Illinois, on Washington’s birthday in 1899, attended Knox and Lake Forrest colleges and took his degree at the University of Illinois.
He abandoned a promising career as a musician and, in six years, worked himself up to assistant manager of the radio station; he was also a news announcer there.
The “Man on the Street” broadcast, which Gomer Bath is credited with originating and which was later copied on many stations throughout the country.