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 to showcase the group.
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
WHKW is a commercial radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, and is known as "AM 1220 The Word" featuring a Christian format. Owned by Salem Media Group, the station serves both Greater Cleveland and the Northeast Ohio region. WHKW's studios are located in the Cleveland suburb of Independence while the transmitter site is in neighboring Broadview Heights.
Wittenberg College's Carnegie Science Hall in Springfield (pictured here in 1911) was the first home to WNAP/WCSO, one of two forerunners to today's WHKW. The station's towers were located in front of the hall.
WGAR trade ad promoting coverage of the 1938 National Air Races relayed over CBS.
Fr. Charles Coughlin
The Hotel Statler in downtown Cleveland was WGAR's first studio home from 1930 to 1971.
