Dude Martin’s Radio Rancho

   June 21, 2020

It’s 3:30 Sunday afternoon, January 5, 1947. From the studios of KGO San Francisco, The American Broadcasting Company presents Dude Martin’s Radio Rancho.

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Martin worked during the 1930s and 1940s at KYA, KLX, KSFO, KGO, and on KGO-TV’s “Hoffman Hayride”, sponsored by those “Easy Vision” television sets with their famed green screens.

Dick Ellingson

A man and his dogs in a little country town. Parcel post crusher; blood'n'guts laundry serf; parking lot fender bender/bumper jumper; Lazy B flunkie with 7-word job title; P-I down crew; bobtail trucker; Sunbeam breader; retail store mangler; bothersome boiler roomie; fake real estate agent; d.j./copywriter/p.d./ripper/reader - 600 KGEZ Good Advertising, Kalispell; Community Radio 1510 KURB, Mountlake Terrace; 1540 News/MOR/92.5 Solid Gold Rock & Roll KFKF, Bellevue; 1150 Kountry KAYO America's Own Music, Seattle; 1300 KoMPaSs Radio 13 Modern Country, Seattle; 1360 KLFF Good Music & Great Memories, Glendale/Phoenix; 106.3 Koncert 106 KONC, Sun City/Phoenix; 1580 KCWW Real Country Network, Tempe/Phoenix. Four-year Volunteer P-I/Times/TNT news reader for Evergreen Radio Reading Service broadcasting from the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library, Seattle; dotcomboom day trader who came out alive; King County Metro Bus Driver; Seattle Streetcar Operator. I threw it in at 78 and frequently have bizarre dreams about radio and bus driving, my two preschool dream jobs. More articles by Dick

2 thoughts on “Dude Martin’s Radio Rancho”

  1. Dick Ellingson • June 22, 2020

    Glad you liked it Bruce! Me too!!

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  2. Bruce Caplan • June 21, 2020

    Thanks Dick! This music brings back so many wonderful memories—Roy, Gene and even Hoppy (even though Cassidy didn’t sing). Jimmy Wakely was fantastic too! Thanks for a beautiful trip down memory lane!

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