L. S. Toogood Recording Company

1940s-1950s recording company in Chicago, Illinois. 1945-1946 Ham Fisher attempted to reestablish the Joe Palooka (from the comics) back into radio. He took the concept to John Boler, the President of the North Central Broadcasting System, which supplied programming to a number of midsized radio stations. Boler, in conjunction with Fisher's partners, agreed to produce a five-a-week radio series to be recorded in the studios of the L. S. Toogood Recording Company in Chicago. Recording began in the fall of 1945 and, over the next few months, a total of 130 fifteen-minute episodes were produced - 26 weeks worth of daily shows. As it turned out, however, 1946 was not a good year for North Central Broadcasting; in the summer, the company filed for bankruptcy and, by the end of the year, it was no more. 1950 The Billboard has an article about the company and their tape recording machine. 1952 The company is listed in Audio Record January 1952 and The Billboard, March 15, 1952. 1953 By late in 1953, two mass radio program duplicators, specially designed by the L. S. Toogood Recording Company for the network were put into service. Each machine could duplicate eleven programs at triple speed, which made it possible to mail the programs to each individual station as they were ordered.