Help Req: Old Radio Show-Squeakin' Deacon

Subject: Lyr Req: Help Req: Old Radio Show
From: Gene
Date: 05 Jan 07 - 02:51 PM

A friend is looking for an old, old radio show

thinks the title was - The Squeakin' Deacon -

or maybe the main character went by that name...

any help appreciated..

Gene

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help Req: Old Radio Show
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Jan 07 - 02:56 PM

Info HERE.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Help Req: Old Radio Show
From: GUEST,beachcomber
Date: 05 Jan 07 - 02:58 PM

Dunno if this will be any help but, for what it is worth , When I was in New York some years ago I went to "Sam Goody's" to browse through records and tapes. I found a selection of Old Radio Shows on Cassette. I bought several, featuring Burl Ives, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Huston and "Lefty Lou"   from old Missou. (who she ??) among others. There seemed to be a very varied stock but, does Sam Goody still trade I wonder??

Subject: RE: Help Req: Old Radio Show-Squeakin' Deacon
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Jan 07 - 03:02 PM

Sam Goody went out of business, I believe, bought out by a firm called FYE or something like that.
Tell us more about the tapes, Beachcomber. Was Sam Goody the publisher? Got exact titles?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Help Req: Old Radio Show-Squeakin' Deacon
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Mar 11 - 08:19 PM

When I was 5 years old I was brought each weekend by my dad to a small bldg in Los Angeles where he emceed the Squeakin' Deacon radio show. It was a live broadcast either on Sat or Sun.and featured live country acts. My memory tells me that it was a VFW hall but I could be wrong. I believe Squeakin' Deacon came out of Bakersfield, CA and was very involved with the Backersfield C & W musice, ie, Buck Owens, Roy Clark, etc. I wish I had some of those radio broadcast of my dad opening, performing, then closing the radio show. Just minutes before the close of each show he would give me and my older brother the keys to the car. We would go out, turn on the radio and listen to him close the show singing Tumbling Tumbleweeds.

Subject: RE: Help Req: Old Radio Show-Squeakin' Deacon
From: ChrisJBrady
Date: 27 Mar 11 - 08:32 PM

There are loads of OTR websites.

Try

http://www.originaloldradio.com/oldradioshows/cd_hometown_jamboree.html

http://www.originaloldradio.com/hometown_jamboree.html

Maybe here

http://www.otrcat.com/music-c-112.html

Subject: RE: Help Req: Old Radio Show-Squeakin' Deacon
From: GUEST,PJ
Date: 29 Apr 11 - 10:00 PM

My mom talks about Squeakin Deacon. He had a radio show Sunday mornings at a place called "The Riverside Rancho". It was a country nightclub and on Sunday mornings they had amateur acts. It was described as "across from the squirtin fountain" (that would be Riverside Drive and Los Feliz).

Subject: RE: Help Req: Old Radio Show-Squeakin' Deacon
From: GUEST,Charles
Date: 13 May 11 - 03:45 PM

My grandparents played on his show and I have a photo of me sitting in his car "THE DEACON SPECIAL"

Subject: RE: Help Req: Old Radio Show-Squeakin' Deacon
From: Cool Beans
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 12:12 PM

Lefty Lou from Old Mizzou was Woody Guthrie's partner on a radio show in California.

Subject: RE: Help Req: Old Radio Show-Squeakin' Deacon
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Sep 17 - 10:49 PM

Hi. I am Squeak'in Deacon daughter, Toodie".

Yes he had a Sunday radio on KXLA and KFOX where there were amateurs and professional entertainment. His sponsor at the time was Enoch
Father passed away in 1985. Marge, his wife is still living at 101 yrs. Thanks for remembering Dad

Subject: RE: Help Req: Old Radio Show-Squeakin' Deacon
From: GUEST,Bob Wagstaff
Date: 02 Mar 18 - 06:41 PM

Hi Tootie,

So nice to hear from you. I am sorry to hear about your dad. I lost mine and 1973. Happy to know your mom is still going at 101 yrs.

My memories are being at your dad's show are a bit hazy now but I recall enjoying the music so much. As I think I said before, when my dad would close the show he would sing tumblin tumbleweeds. Minutes before the closing of the show he would hand me and my brother the keys to the car and we would run out and turn on the radio and hear him sing the song. I don't think he did it every Sunday but I recall going there quite a few times. We were friends with Joanie and the Frontiersman who played there often
as well. Wonderful memories.

Subject: RE: Help Req: Old Radio Show-Squeakin' Deacon
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Apr 24 - 11:22 AM

I often think about going to the Squeaking Deacon show every Sunday.I often think about those days. For some reason " High Pockets" in his blue suit stayed with me. What was the name of the band?

Subject: RE: Help Req: Old Radio Show-Squeakin' Deacon
From: GUEST,Linda Landes
Date: 22 Oct 24 - 05:03 PM

When I was about 5 years old I went to the Shirley Temple dance school. My mom was invited to take me to his radio show and I sang “Mr Bluebird on my Shoulder” standing on Squeaking Deacon’s desk on his radio show That was many years ago!!!! Maybe 1949 or 1950! I still have the little blue dress my mom’s aunt crocheted for me,

Subject: RE: Help Req: Old Radio Show-Squeakin' Deacon
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Nov 25 - 01:11 PM

Hi Tootie. My Brother and his band used to play and compete every Sunday on your dad's show. Chuck and the Falcons.
Us kids would set in the front row and eat the free peanuts form
The sponsor planters peanuts.
While old High Pockets would though peanuts in the air and Catch them in his mouth while we all did the same along with him.
It was always a fun day on Sunday when we go to that old building and watch your dad's show.Thank you for your dad.Thank him for his time he spent with all of us.He was a great man.
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Subject: RE: Help Req: Old Radio Show-Squeakin' Deacon
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 08 Nov 25 - 12:21 AM

Squeekin’ Deacon’ : Carl Moore; Country Music Disc Jockey and Band Leader
L.A. Times Archives
Feb. 14, 1985 12 AM PT

Veteran country music disc jockey and band leader Carl (Squeekin’ Deacon) Moore died of cancer Tuesday in Huntington Beach. He was 83.

Born in Paragould, Ark., Moore began his show business career when he booked his small dance band into tobacco warehouses in the South after World War I. He began playing the hotel dance band circuit in the Midwest in the 1920s.

By the 1930s, he was a regular feature in the ballrooms of Chicago, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Louisville. Doris Day sang with Moore’s band when she was an announcer at Cincinnati radio station WLW. When fronting his band, Moore assumed a hillbilly character who wore a tuxedo.

Moore moved to Southern California in 1947 and joined the staff of Los Angeles’ then-only country music station, KXLA in Pasadena (now KRLA) as a hillbilly disc jockey. He worked with Tennessee Ernie Ford, Cliffie Stone, Merle Travis and other prominent country-western artists of the day at that station.

During the early 1950s, Moore had a daily show on KNBC-TV. During the 1960s, he was a disc jockey on KFOX in Long Beach.

After retiring in 1967, Moore lived at Salton Sea and at Huntington Beach.

Moore is survived by his wife, Marge; a daughter, Carole Hermann, and three grandchildren. Services will be at 10 a.m. today at Westminster Memorial Park.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Help Req: Old Radio Show-Squeakin' Deacon
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 10 Nov 25 - 07:11 PM

This man has a great set of info:

https://iwentdowntostjamesinfirmary.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Squeakin%27%20Deacon

I knew the LA places and stations he references.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Mr. GUEST ... it appears YOU were one of the hill-billy-hooligans that covered our front yard with beer.bottles! Sunday mornings before Sunday school... dressed in starched white shirts, cuff likes and bow-ties my brothers and I would pick up a case of empty beer bottles. Sometimes the beer would spill ... no wonder the Methodists would give us strange looks.