Show rl rI i N Arr I I 1 I t L' L fi JL 0 m iIi i fr II III I That Old Revival Hymn Hadn't Been Heard for Years Years Years-Who'd Who'd Have Guessed Hed He'd Come Upon It Again in New York I NEW YORK YORK Around Around tho the radio studios Way back when Michigan was mas as Michigan 1 aud amid her 1101 own homo state and grandma grand grand- 1 ma perched a tiny bonnet upon her herVI VI j gray hair and 0 took us down downto to the lit little tI c S white church at atI atthe atthe I ill the time crossroads I if i. i remember that I m my 1113 f favorite n. n 0 I I t. t c hymn became became- S f for tor reu reasons ns now I o r 0 t t C n nW 11 t W When hen the theM I M 1 J is s t ts b s Have a. a v e I Rolled Honed A w way ay L Such r roc 0 C as I have cau cause e me to believe e that I favored this h hymn mn particularly because a deep voiced bass haag singer In the choir had lad a trick way onay of oC booming out a a. couple of or extra rolled What's this got to do with a aradIo aradio aradio radio station you OU ask Well Weli the tho other night making m my rounds of oC time the big stations 1 stopped In at NBC to cool off or and tiptoed m my way into one of or the broadcasting looms rooms And It Jt was as ns though time tImo h had d stood still for still for here In iii tho the heart of ot New York I Iwas Iwas was as h hearing a voice When voice When the time mists have rolled away rolleda rolled relied a away aY MayBe Ive I've heard It somewhere in the Intervening years ars but but I cant can't remember when or where Tho singer If tr you ou please was none other than Ira Sanko who swept the time crowds In grandmas grandma's da flay day For he lie w was s the tIme gospel o pel singer for fOI tho famed evangelist Dwight Moody foOdy in that far away day of ot great r revivals hals Ho hid had been a a government government gov gov- empoe it s oms when Moody came camo mo through back bacI In 1870 and heard his vol Inducing Sankey Sankey Sankey San- San key to Join up Here 60 years jears Jat later an old I Iman man with a a. line tine resonant voice olce still sUII sending tim tho old songs of or the tIme revival circuits lt out to time tho strangely h changed children of or S S 0 James ton the year 22 carold car old announcer and nd ono ODO of NBC's t OW youngest came caine to the radio direct t from Crom the tho golf links Ho was a a. professional professional professional pro pro- I at the Hillcrest club chub in Rochester N. N Y His average was wa 36 boles hoe a a. day and tired business businessmen men to the tho contrary even golf golC can get set on your our nerves after arter a n. time S S 'S 5 Dill Bill of oC Columbia Columbi tells me mc of a 30 venerable street fiddler who for tor w weeks ks haunted the tho doorway of or orI I j the thera Madison ra son avenue building Iron from m which tho the broadcasts emerge Having noticed him there night after night Bill approached him one evening and asked why hy he lingered lin Un- about J Well Wen taid the tho old fellow I J hoped that maybe sometime some someone one ono would give me inc a chance I used to play In somo pretty good places And before beCore I I die Id I'd like hike to think Id I'd played on the the air So Bill sent him upstairs with a Q note to to ono of or tho the announcers The old fiddler was taken Into a. a room oem and given givena a a. hearing His Hla p playing n n g was C pretty terrible rJ But they didn't 4 want to disappoint disappoint 1 i point tho tIme str street t S 'S veteran They 4 stood him be before c b-c- I fore a a. miko and 4 5 ho lie wheezed away away a- a 1 I way for several I I tu tunes And the theS Y announcer explained ex cx- x- x S I pla-Ined pla that the 5 fiddler was vas Just Justa a a. typical street player of or the time theO Now O l York curb curbstones After allOU all- all you OU cant can't tell teU what will be a on the air And to dozens ens who listened the music was Just what It pretended to be be off off key tunes such as millions o ha heard A number of or people wrote In Somo Some thou thought ht that with a no little brushing up the theold theold theold old gent sent might ht prove e a future futuro novelty nov nov- elty cIty But tho time next and the night after h he did not appear at the time door door- way He lie had had hind his moment and wandered off Into the city's byways again aln GILBERT SWAN Copyright 1930 NEA Service Inc |