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From: 2010-03-23
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Henry Holloway
Henry Presents one hour of "Swing Sing and all that Jazz" every second week on saturdays at 17:00 - 18:00
Henry Holloway is the "granddaddy" of South African music broadcasting. He has compiled and presented literally thousands of radio programmes during the past 34 years (this written in November 2008).
Henry was rewarded in the USA on March 2 2003 in Los Angeles for promoting American jazz, particularly rhe Big Bands, but also the great vocalists and the mainstream small groups, by being presented with the "Golden Bandstand Award". Not only is he the only South African ever honoured thus, he is one of just two non-Americans in hstory who have received this prestigious trophy. Fifty-eight Americans have been awarded this honour, including Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington and Billy May, to mention just four.
Henry has also set world records for two long-running radio series: In 2001 he did SIXTY hourlong programmes on Les Brown and his Band of Renown, and in 2004/5/6 he did ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN half-hour programmes on Glenn Miller. These have been acknowledged as world records by a number of experts in America and England.
Three television documentaries have been made on Henry, and he was interviewed on American television in 1984
when he was the main catalyst in "solving" Glenn Miller's disappearance in 1944. The details can be read in a book,
"Missing, believed killed", published in a book in the UK in 2002. Henry obviously features strongly in this book.
Apart from his thousands of broadcasts in South Africa, Henry has broadcast to America and Europe, and has personally broadcast on the BBC on at least half a dozen occasions.
