PLANNER PROJECT 2016... the 50'S & EARLIER!
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1 PLANNER PROJECT 2016... THE 50’s & EARLIER! EDITOR’S NOTE: Listed below are the venues, performers, media, events, and specialty items including automobiles (when possible), highlighting the years 1951 and 1956 in Planner Project 2016! You’ll also find an additional breakdown of items highlighting the years 1851, 1871, 1876, 1881, 1896, 1901, 1906, 1911, 1916, 1921, 1926, 1931, 1936, 1941 and 1946! 1951! 1951 / FEATUREDAREA MUSIC VENUES FROM 1951 / (20) FEATURED AREA JAZZ / BLUES VENUES / (20) Gleason’s Music Club / Lindsay’s Sky Bar (with new jazz policy) / Marcane Ballroom / Welcome Inn / Circle Theater FEATURED AREA POP CULTURE VENUES / (20) Aragon Ballroom / Cleveland Arena / Hippodrome Theater / Miles Drive-In / Moe’s Man Street / Music Hall / RKO Palace Theatre / Rollercade / Loew’s State / Loew’s Stillman / Superior Ballroom / WestTown Lounge / WHK Radio Cleveland center (5000 Euclid Ave.) [with WHK Auditorium] 1951 / FEATURED ARTISTS / MUSICAL GRPS. PERFORMING HERE IN 1951 / [Individuals: (68) / Grps.: (16)] [(-) NO. OF TIMES LISTED] FEATURED JAZZ / BLUES ARTISTS HERE IN 1951 [BY PLAY DATE] / [Individuals: (33) / Grps.: (5)] Sonny Stitt (3) / Flip Phillips / Bill Harris / Roy Eldridge (2) / Zoot Sims / Charlie Parker (2) / Lester Young / Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong (with Barney Bigard, Cozy Cole, Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines, Vilma Middletown, Arvell Shaw, Jack Teagarden) / Art Tatum / Erroll Garner / Dizzy Gillespie (2) / Lanny Scott / Stan Getz / Eddie Heywood / Meade Lux Lewis / Mary Lou Williams Trio / Gene Ammons / Billie Holiday / Dave Dorn’s Sunday Ad-Lib Jazz Session / Al Hibbler / Clyde McCoy & his ‘Sugar Blues’ Orchestra / Biggest Show of ‘51 (Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Nat King Cole Trio) / Count Basie’s Review / ‘Great Mr. B.’ Billy Eckstine / George Shearing & his quintet / All-American Jazz All-Stars / Charlie Barnett FEATURED POP CULTURE ARTISTS PERFORMING HERE IN 1951 / [Individuals: (30) / Grps: (9)] Ames Bros. / Ray Anthony / Josephine Baker (2) / Tony Bennett (local debut) / Champ Butler / Tex Cromer / Xavier Cugat / The Dominoes / Dorothy Donegan / Billy Ferrell / Four Freshmen / Buddy Greco (with Dolores Hawkins) / Big John Greer’s Orchestra / Bobby Hansen’s Orchestra / Orrin Ide / Spike Jones and the City Slickers / Sammy Kaye (with Freddy Martin) / Abbe Lane / ‘Mr. Mambo’ Joe Loco / Guy Mitchell / Clint Noble & his Orchestra (with Bob Edwards) / Miss Patti Paige / Johnnie Ray / Debbie Reynolds / Al Serafini & his Orchestra / Jack Teagarden / Tommy Tucker / Angelo Vitale’s Orchestra / 65-member Chicago Theater of the Air FEATURED COUNTRY / COUNTRY ROCK / BLUEGRASS ARTISTS PERFORMING HERE IN 1951 / [Individuals: (5) / Groups: ( 2)] ‘Grand Ole Opry’ @ Cleveland Arena with Hank Williams, Sr., Hank Snow, Ernest Tubb & the Texas Troubadors, String Bean, Annie Lou (Stockard) & Danny, Drifting Cowboys, (also Rainbow Ranch Boys) FEATURED LOCAL POLKA ARTISTS FROM 1951 / (1) Frankie Yankovic 2 FEATURED WOMEN IN MUSIC PERFORMING HERE IN 1951 / (10) Josephine Baker / Dorothy Donegan / Dolores Hawkins / Billie Holiday / Abbe Lane / Vilma Middleton / Miss Patti Paige / Debbie Reynolds / Annie Lou (Stockard) / Mary Lou Williams Trio FEATURED ROCK HALL INDUCTEES HERE FROM 1951 / (5) Nat King Cole, Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Hank Williams, Alan Freed FEATURED LOCAL DEBUTS / (1) Tony Bennett (@ Moe’s Main Street) 1951 / FEATURED AREA MEDIA FROM 1951 / NEWSPAPERS (1) / REPORTERS (2) Cleveland Plain Dealer (George Condon, Harold Sauerbrei) RADIO LISTINGS FROM 1951 / FEATURED AREA RADIO STATIONS / (5) WDOK-AM / WERE-AM / WHK-AM / WJW-AM / WTAM-AM FEATURED AREA RADIO PERSONALTIES / SPORTS ANNOUNCERS / (7) WDOK-AM (Wayne Mack) / WERE-AM (Jerry Crocker, Phil McLean) / WJW-AM (Jack Clifton, Soupy (Sales) Hines, Alan Freed’s ‘Moon Dog House’) / WTAM-AM (Joe Mulvihill) / SPORTS ANNOUNCERS: WERE-AM (Jack Graney, Jimmy Dudley) NEW WHK-AM RADIO CLEVELAND CENTER: WHK-AM1420 christens $1 million Radio Cleveland center at 5000 Euclid Ave. with the Ames Bros., live adaptation of Faust over 400-station Mutual Broadcasting Network by 65-member Chicago Theater of the Air TELEVISION LISTINGS FROM 1951 / FEATURED AREA TELEVISION STATIONS / (2) WEWS-TV-5 / WXEL-TV8 FEATURED AREA TELEVISION DEBUTS / (1) ‘I Love Lucy’ debuts on WEWS-TV5 FEATURED AREA SPORTS ANNOUNCERS / (2) WXEL-TV (Hal Newel, Mel Allen) FEATURED AREA LIVE THEATRE ATTRACTIONS / (4) Hanna Theatre presents Darkness at Noon, The Guardsman, Romeo & Juliet, Mister Roberts 1951 / FEATURED ENTERTAINERS / AREA ENTERTAINMENT FROM 1951 / FEATURED AREA AMUSEMENT PARKS: Puritas Springs Park (6¢ Day-any ride noon to midnight) FEATURED AREA JAZZ DISTINCTIONS: Lindsay’s Sky Bar begins new jazz policy with sax man Flip Phillips & trombonist Bill Harris (joins swing circuit of 27 clubs bringing top-flight artists to town) FEATURED COMEDIANS: George Kirby FEATURED HOLLYWOOD STARS APPEARING HERE IN 1951 / (11) Broderick Crawford / Doris Day / John Derek / Jeanette MacDonald / Eleanor Parker / Dick Powell / Gene Raymond / Donna Reed / Edward G. Robinson / Olivia DeHavilland / Henry Fonda 3 FEATURED AREA MOVIES / ARTISTS / [(11) / World Premieres (2) / Pre-release premieres (1) / Local premiere (3) / Live appearances (6)] WORLD PREMIERES: ‘Julie’ [Doris Day LIVE] / ‘A Millionaire for Christy’ [Cleveland native Eleanor Parker LIVE] / LOCAL PREMIERES: ‘Cry Danger’ [Dick Powell LIVE] / ‘The Mob’ [Broderick Crawford LIVE] / ‘Saturday’s Hero’ [John Derek & Donna Reed LIVE] / PRE-RELEASE PREMIERE: ‘An American in Paris’ (with Gene Kelly) / AT THE MOVIES: ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ (with Marlon Brando & Janet Leigh) / ‘Bedtime for Bonzo’ (with Ronald Reagan) / Bowery Battalion / The Day the Earth Stood Still / ‘Frenchie’ (with Joel McCrea & Shelley Winters) FEATURED AREA MOVIE HOUSES / (9) Loew’s Allen Theatre / Esquire Theater / Euclid Theater / Hippodrome Theatre / Loew’s Stillman Theater / Loew’s State Theatre / RKO Palace Theatre / Tower Theater / Miles Drive-In (grand opening- [world’s largest screen]) 1951 / FEATURED SPECIALTY ITEMS FROM 1951 / FEATURED AUTOMOBILES / (3) [Found in auto ads that week] Powder blue ‘50 Cadillac ‘62 convertible coupe w/AC ($3,995-Sun Motors) Horizon blue ‘49 DeSoto convertible Coupe w/white sidewalls ($2,095) Cherry red/black top ‘50 Pontiac ‘8’ convertible w/leather interior ($2,195-Sun Motors) FEATURED AREA FOOD / RESTAURANTS / (2) Grilled pork steak with sauerkraut, sliced tomatoes, rice pudding at Blue Boar Cafeteria, 643 Euclid (60¢) Royal Castle Birch Beer in the giant stein (5¢) 1951 / FEATURED SPORTS PLAYERS / TEAMS / VENUES FROM 1951 / (7) Luke Easter / Bob Feller / Jim Hegan / Bob Waterfield / Cleveland Browns / Detroit Tigers / Municipal Stadium 1951 / FEATURED ENTRIES FROM 1951 / [(36) / Sports: (2)] 1/28 The Aragon hosts Cleveland’s horn man Ray Anthony & his Orchestra ($1.22), 1951 1/30 The Hanna Theatre presents Jeanette MacDonald & Gene Raymond in ‘The Guardsman,’ now in its second night; Olivia De Havilland in ‘Romeo & Juliet’ on February 6th; and Henry Fonda in ‘Mister Roberts’ on Feb. 12th ($1.25-$4.35), 1951 2/10 After a week-long open house attracting 20,000 visitors, WHK-AM christens its $1 million Radio Cleveland center at 5000 Euclid Ave. with a variety show starring the Ames Bros. at 8:30, and a live adaptation of ‘Faust’ at 10 p.m. over the 400-station Mutual Broadcasting Network by the 65-member Chicago Theater of the Air from the soldout 1,370-seat WHK Auditorium (1st show outside of Chicago in its 11-year history), 1951 2/22 It’s Jazz Night tonight with Sonny Stitt at the Welcome Inn, E. 116 & Kinsman, 1951 2/23 Cruising with Phil McLean on WERE in a Horizon blue ‘49 DeSoto convertible Coupe w/white sidewalls ($2,095); the RKO Palace features Rhonda Fleming & Dick Powell in ‘Cry Danger’ (Powell, “an old Clevelander,” appears in person at all shows), 1951 3/25 After seeing ‘Bedtime for Bonzo’ with Ronald Reagan last night at the Esquire on Euclid; Easter Sunday finds Bobby Hansen’s band at the Rollercade on Denison; Tommy Tucker & his Orch. at Marcane Ballroom, & Tex Cromer at the Aragon, 1951 4/16 As Lindsay’s Sky Bar begins its new jazz policy with sax man Flip Phillips & trombonist Bill Harris; Clevelander Billy Ferrell opens a 2-week stand at Moe’s Main, 1951 4 5/6 After jamming to Roy Eldridge & Zoot Sims yesterday, Charlie Parker opens at Lindsay’s today; while Xavier Cugat plays the Aragon tomorrow with Abbe Lane, 1951 6/13 You’ll find Josephine Baker with her fabulous $150,000 French wardrobe starring in the RKO Palace stage show; Loew’s State featuring an all-star show starring Miss Patti Paige with ‘new singing discovery’ Guy Mitchell; & Lester Young at the Sky Bar, 1951 6/22 Offering free orchids & the world’s largest screen, the Miles Drive-In opens to the public, featuring Joel McCrea & Shelley Winters in ‘Frenchie,’ & ‘Bowery Battalion,’ 1951 7/9 Last night, Jack Teagarden, Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines, Arvell Shaw, Vilma Middletown, Cozzy Cole & Barney Bigard joined “the trumpet king of swing,” Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong at the Circle Theater; tonight, young Tony Bennett debuts at Moe’s Main Street, 1951 7/11 Cruising home after ‘6¢ Day’ at Puritas Springs Park (any ride noon to midnight), with the top down in a cherry red/black top ‘50 Pontiac ‘8’ convertible w/leather interior ($2,195-Sun Motors), Alan Freed’s on the AM radio in his 2nd week at WJW, 1951 7/22 Lindsay’s Sky Bar hosts piano men Art Tatum tonight, & Erroll Garner the 23rd, 1951 8/18 Cruising tonight, while Lindsay’s Sky Bar hosts jazz great Dizzy