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1924: Singer and songwriter Charles Tobias performs There's A Bend at the End of the Swanee. Tobias became one of Tin Pan Alley's most prolific composers, with more than 400 songs to his credit. Among them, Merrily We Roll Along, a rewritten adaptation of a nursery song that was used as the theme song for Warner Brothers' Merrie Melodies cartoons during the late '30s.
2001: The Next Big Thing this week is noise -- the hum of the city that's more than a hum. It's the noises inside our heads; it's the sound a man makes when he's harried.
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August 22, 1928
Capt. Frank T. Courtney (second from left) and his three flying companions are welcomed to New York City by Mayor Walker, (3rd from right). The aviators were rescued mid-ocean when their plane failed in an attempted flight from the Azores to the United States. WNYC's announcer Tommy Cowan is at the microphone. WNYC founder Grover A. Whalen is standing at the far left. (Acme News Photo/WNYC Archive Collections)
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July 1, 1963
WNYC measures decibel level of ice cream trucks for Department of Markets
Albert S. Pacetta, New York City's Commissioner for the Department of Markets, follows through on complaints about loud bell ringing by commercial ice cream trucks roving the city. Four trucks play their music before an audiometer from WNYC. The noise level is measured and a standard for maximum permissible aggravation of the public is established. WNYC Engineer Henry Wei announces that the Good Humor bells, the standard, have registered minus four volume units at forty inches. Commissioner Pacetta says vendors receiving Department summonses for noise-making will be brought in and tested against this WNYC-determined standard.
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