Wings Over Jordan Choir
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The Wings Over Jordan Choir was an African-American a cappella spiritual choir founded and based in Cleveland, Ohio. The choir was part of the weekly religious radio series, Wings Over Jordan, created
Rev. Glenn Thomas Settle
Gethsemane Baptist Church
Worth Kramer directed the choir from 1938 to 1942.
The choir (seated) in a February 1943 broadcast hosted by CBS affiliate WDBO, with guest speaker Bethune–Cookman College president James A. Colston
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Wings Over Jordan Choir
…Cleveland's street department who was an ethnic radio broadcaster, Settle entered the choir in an on-air amateur contest hosted by Cleveland station WJAY. The choir was ruled ineligible; the station considered them professional artists, but WGAR program director Worth Kramer was in the audience. After…
The Hollenden Hotel, c. 1925, original studio and transmitter site for WJAY.
The Schofield Building, c. 1913. The rooftop radio mast was built by the United Wireless Telegraph Company in 1909 and used by WJAY from 1928 to 1936.
Newspaper advertisement for WJAY's change to WCLE on September 26, 1937
In-studio orchestra for WHKK's Melody Round-Up, c. 1955, host/announcer Cliff Rodgers at center.