{"id":1436,"date":"2021-10-20T01:27:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T01:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2021-10-20T01:27:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T01:27:46","slug":"the-1160-club-at-1160-p-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/20\/the-1160-club-at-1160-p-m\/","title":{"rendered":"The 11:60 Club at 11:60 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Dave Garroway came back to Chicago after serving in World War II, he found himself occupying the midnight slot on WMAQ.<span id='easy-footnote-1-1436' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/20\/the-1160-club-at-1160-p-m\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-1436' title='It&amp;#8217;s a long story, but it came down to Dave being the only one on the air staff who had a car and thus wasn&amp;#8217;t tied to when the trains stopped running at night.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> He turned what seemed like a dead-end assignment into an unusual program of music, patter and whimsy that gained a following everywhere WMAQ&#8217;s signal could be heard. And he named this unusual program <em>The 11:60 Club<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_817\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-817\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-817\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/garrowayatlarge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dg-1160card.jpg?resize=300%2C391&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/garrowayatlarge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dg-1160card.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/garrowayatlarge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dg-1160card.jpg?resize=230%2C300&amp;ssl=1 230w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/garrowayatlarge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dg-1160card.jpg?resize=768%2C1000&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/garrowayatlarge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dg-1160card.jpg?resize=786%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 786w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It even had membership cards, sent to fans who wrote in. (Author&#8217;s collection)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As it happens, <em>The 11:60 Club<\/em> took its name from a popular song of the time, which I&#8217;m happy to share here.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"11: 60 Pm\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DbtcbqAcc9I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>And as a bonus&#8230;notice how Garroway is listed as &#8220;Eagerest Beaver&#8221; of the 11:60 Club? That&#8217;s a reference to&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1944 HITS ARCHIVE: Eager Beaver - Stan Kenton (instrumental)\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x0xj-K213ys?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>You can say many things about Dave Garroway, but there is no disputing that the man knew <em>good<\/em> music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Dave Garroway came back to Chicago after serving in World War II, he found himself occupying the midnight slot on WMAQ. He turned what seemed like a dead-end assignment into an unusual program of music, patter and whimsy that gained a following everywhere WMAQ&#8217;s signal could be heard. And he named this unusual program &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/20\/the-1160-club-at-1160-p-m\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The 11:60 Club at 11:60 p.m.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42,13,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awesomeness","category-nbc","category-wide-wide-web"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garrowayatlarge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}