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 On this day in 2017, John Landecker was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. 

Here’s my report from the event…

Great night last night for John Records Landecker. He was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame by his good buddy Bob Sirott. John used his speech to argue for recognition for the man who created the Lone Ranger.

He also thanked everyone who helped him along the way, including yours truly. Very nice speech. We had a great time. The dinner was held at the Museum of Broadcasting, which currently has a great SNL exhibit. (Hence the SNL-type photos below)

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 *On this day in 2014, six Eckhartz Press authors appeared at the Printers Row Litfest: Joel Daly (The Daly News), Rick Kaempfer (The Living Wills), Dave Stern (The Balding Handbook), Chuck Quinzio (Life Behind the Camera), Randy Richardson (Cheeseland and Lost in the Ivy) and Dan Burns (Recalled to Life). To see a photo gallery, click here.

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   Every week I send my Minutia Men Co-Host Dave Stern a list from our audio archives for this week's Studio Walls feature. These are the possibilities for this week. Which one will he choose?

*February 7th is the birthday of Coleman Griffith. He was a trailblazer in baseball, one of the first sports psychologists. He was also roundly dismissed by baseball players of the day, and inspired the character in the movie The Natural (We have the audio of his famous scene)

*February 7, 1971, Earth Wind & Fire released their first album. We talked to Alan Hewitt who was one of the producers with the band, and who later joined the Moody Blues (Listen to the entire interview here)

*February 10, 1994, the Olympic Games were taking place in Lillehammer Norway. The big story about that Olympics was the drama between Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. John Landecker and I wrote two songs about that, including this one. 

*February 11, 2001, Disney released "The Tigger Movie". Little Tommy Kaempfer reviewed the film for the radio show. (We have the audio)

*February 12 is Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Dave's famous award winning poem about Lincoln has been committed to audio, and needs to be played at least once a year.

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 *On this day in 2013, Dave Stern appeared on Mancow's television show in Chicago to promote his Eckhartz Press book The Balding Handbook: The Five Stages of Grieving for your Hair Loss. Among the other guests on the show that day, sportscaster Mike North. Relive more of the photo memories here.

*Today is Rod Stewart's birthday. Two Eckhartz Press books have great stories about the rocker. In Mitch Michael's Doin the Cruise, you can read about the inadvertant way Mitch helped propel the song "Maggie Mae" to the top of the charts. In Bobby Skafish's book We Have Company, Bobby spends an entire chapter writing about his encounter with the gravely-voice singer. Both of these great books are still available at Eckhartz Press.