Bob Poole broadcast his last morning radio show on WBIG in December of 1977. He died a few weeks later.
One of my fave Christmas memories as a youth was listening to Willie (Bob’s sidekick Willie Dailey) playing Christmas tunes as the family opened presents on the big day.
Bob and his wife Gloria were good friends of my parents and, in later years, I contributed to his show with trivia books and the like. Read all about Bob Poole here….
In the spirit of the season, here are some clips for Bob Poole’s radio program when it was broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting System before he returned to Greensboro and became the #1 morning personality on WBIG for 25 years beginning in 1952. Sadly, there are no known surviving tapes of any of Bob's WBIG morning shows!
First the opening to Poole’s Paradise on Mutual, same as it was in Greensboro…
This montage of different versions of Jingle Bells was replayed every holiday season on his morning program over WBIG…
The only known fragment of Bob Poole's WBIG program is a disc Bob gifted to my father of a Ship-to-Shore phone call on November 11, 1955 from the MS Stockholm on its way to Bermuda, for broadcast on his show. Bill Wannamaker (probably the brother of Alan Wanamaker, General Manager of WBIG) is heard, as is Nancy Bryan who lists all of the Greensboro residents on board including my dad Bill Ingram.
The 'Bob' that Bob Poole was talking to was Bob Montgomery who had the WBIG morning show from the 1940s until 1952.
