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Doc Wildeson Leads the Band at Radio Station WLW

1948 magazine ad for traveling performers from WLW in Cincinnati Keith "Doc" Wildeson, WLW orchestra leader, began leading his Wildcats one year after joining the station. That was in 1932. Wildeson was born and grew up in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, where he attended high school. It was while in high school that he began playing in an orchestra -- an avocation which developed into a full-time profession. As a young man, not yet out of high school, he entered radio by the back door. He traveled to ... (read more)