Swing

Swing Issues

Swing [Jan-Dec 1945]

Swing [Jan-Dec 1946]

Swing [Jan-Dec 1947]

Swing [Jan-Dec 1948]

Swing [Jan-Dec 1949]

Swing [Jan-Dec 1950]

Swing [Feb-Dec 1951]

Swing [Feb-Dec 1952]

Swing [Jan-Dec 1953]

The official magazine of Kansas City's WHB radio station, SWING printed far more than the station's schedule (which, as the title SWING suggested, relied heavily on music). From 1945 to 1953, SWING offered readers something eclectic every month -- profiles of entertainers on one page, discussions of citizenship in the postwar world on the next, with write-ups of nightlife offerings in KC, Chicago, and New York mixed in. WHB spent decades lobbying the FCC for clear channel status; the magazine's ambitious scope may have been part of the station's attempt to legitimate itself. But it was SWING'S first editor, Jetta Carleton, who later wrote a celebrated novel, that gave the magazine its distinctive style. -- Eric Hoyt, 2015