Keeping the Spirit of 45 Alive-- Part 5: Big Bill's Little Band and the Legacy Sisters

August 9, 2015, Sunday

We had a concert/radio show broadcast for the first hour.  Bill's Little Big Band (about 18 members) provided the music and every so often an announcer would come on to pitch commercials of the era, only in humorous form.  The band played that great Big Band/Swing music which was so popular from the era.

At the end, they had a special announcement recording of President Truman's August 14, 1945, announcement that Japan had surrendered and the WAR WAS OVER!!  That 70th anniversary of that date will come along this Friday.

Then the Legacy sisters, an Andrews Sisters tribute trio, got up and sang "The Star-Spangled Banner."  This was a new and hopefully continued in the future, feature.  Really enjoyed this.

This is the sixth time the Keep the Spirit of 45 Alive has been commemorated in McHenry, Illinois.  Only a few other towns across the country have done this all six times since Congress decreed this to be celebrated on the second Sunday of August.

--GreGen