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Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Roger Mudd and Gayle Wald, February 9, 2015
Author: Bob Edwards
Narrator: Bob Edwards
Format: Original Recording
Length: 57 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-09-15
Publisher: XM Satellite Radio
Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews
Publisher's Summary:
Roger Mudd covered the Congress for CBS News in the glory days of network TV. His anchorman, Walter Cronkite, was partial to Washington stories, so the CBS bureau in the nations capital was The Place to Be, and thats the title of Mudds memoir. Bob talks with Roger Mudd about the news business, Washington and the glory days of CBS television news.
Then, as part of our month-long series of interviews on black history, well hear the story of Rosetta Tharpe. She started singing at the Pentecostal church with her preacher mother. But soon Tharpe crossed over to rock-and-roll and was filling up DC's Griffith Stadium with 20,000 fans. She was Americas first female "stadium rocker." Bob talks to Gayle Wald, about her biography of Tharpe called Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. [Broadcast Date: February 9, 2015]