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History Live! is a weekly radio adventure through Indiana
history, live with call-in, hosted by author, historian, and
connoisseur of all things Hoosier, Nelson Price. Each
week, the program includes a featured guest and topic, a call in
from “The Roadtripper” with a tip about a Hoosier
heritage-related road trip, and a Hoosier History Trivia question,
complete with a prize for the correct answer. It is the nation’s
first and only call-in talk radio show about history!
The program airs Saturday mornings from
11:30 a.m. to noon Eastern Time on WICR at 88.7 FM, from the
University of Indianapolis.
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July 26
Tin Pan Alley, the Baseball Anthem & Hoosier Brothers
You may have heard this year marks the 100th anniversary of “Take
Me Out to the Ballgame” often considered to be the third most
played song in America, surpassed only by the national anthem and
“Happy Birthday to You.” But did you know the composer of the
baseball anthem was an Indianapolis native? And did you know his
brother (also a hugely successful songwriter) may have inspired
“Tin Pan Alley” as the name for the New York hub for musicians,
composers and publishers in the early 1900s?
Our guest will be Indianapolis author
Nancy Kriplen an expert on Albert Von Tilzer (who composed
the baseball anthem) and his brother Harry whose
hits included “I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl Who Married Dear
Old Dad” and “Wait ‘Til the Sun Shines Nellie.” And to
think the Von Tilzers started out in a colorful family of five
brothers originally named Gumbinsky (Harry came up with Von Tilzer
when he entered vaudeville) that lived on South Illinois Street
in Indy. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
has opened an exhibit this month celebrating the centennial of
“Take Me Out to the Ballgame” which Albert wrote in 1908.
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