Sold Date: November 23, 2020
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I am offering one super-rare copy of the 1965 record "Another Evening With Franklyn MacCormack", which has been signed "Best Wishes, Franklyn MacCormack".
Franklyn MacCormack (March 8, 1906 – June 12, 1971) was an American radio personality in Chicago, Illinois, from the 1930s into the 1970s.  After his death, Ward Quaal, the president of the last company for which MacCormack worked, described him as "a natural talent and one of the truly great performers of broadcasting's first 50 years
At first I questioned the authenticity of the signing, but I now believe it is genuine as I found several other examples of MacCormack's autograph/signature on the internet and they matched this one.  Also, Sharpie markers (which with this item appears to have been signed) were introduced in 1964, the year before this record was issued (see the associated Wiki article).  Lastly, MacCormack lived until 1971, so it is entirely possible this record jacket was signed by him. ___
MacCormack began his radio career in South Bend, Indiana, and in 1930 had his first large-market job with WIL in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1933, he moved to WBBM in Chicago, Illinois, where he was "an actor, announcer and producer."His obituary in the Chicago Tribune said, "He developed his technique of lacing music with poetry while announcing in his native Waterloo, IA."
MacCormack was the announcer of the long-running old-time radio serial Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy.  He was also the announcer for Easy Aces, Hymns of All Churches, Myrt and Marge, The Story of Joan and Kermit, The Wayne King Show, Woman in White, Bouquet for You, Caroline's Golden Store. The Curley Bradley Show, and Dot and Will. Beginning November 9, 1936, MacCormack (poetry reader) and Jack Fulton (tenor) starred on Poetic Melodies. The program was carried on CBS.
On WCFL in Chicago, he was host of A Great Day for Music, and for many years he was the overnight broadcaster on two of Chicago's well-known clear-channel radio stations, first on WBBM and then on WGN, and thus was heard by listeners hundreds of miles from Chicago.
In contrast to the primary sports-and-talk formats of WBBM and WGN, MacCormack read romantic and sentimental poetry and played classical, big band and Broadway music. One poem, "Why Do I Love You?" became his signature, the first line of which he would typically use to begin his program:  I love you not only for who you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
MacCormack's sotto voce style of reading these poems inspired the Bob and Ray character Charles the Poet, who can never get through one of his overly sentimental poems without breaking up into laughter.
In his final stint on radio, MacCormack hosted The All Night Showcase on WGN from 1959 until the day he died in 1971.[10] The program was syndicated in addition to its broadcasts on WGN.