Beginning in the mid-1930s, Noel Gilbert organized small orchestras to play at local hotels as well as conducting both the WREC-and WMC-Radio staff orchestras. In the early 1950s he brought classical music to the new medium of television with a nightly program titled Evening Serenade on WMC-TV.From 1947 through the 1970s Gilbert also conducted a summer series of classical music at the band shell in Overton Park. He even found time in the early 1960s to serve as astudio musician and coordinator at recording sessions for Sun, Hi, and Stax records. Hiswork accompanied recordings from artists as diverse as Presley, Green, Hayes, andDionne Warwick.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 January 2019 14:03 (five years ago) link