Hour Glass was sponsored by Standard Brands. The program included comedians, musicians, entertaining films (such as a film of dance in South America), and long, live commercials for the sponsor's products.
Glass Harp is a Youngstown, Ohio based power trio consisting of guitarist Phil Keaggy, drummer John Sferra and bassist Dan Pecchio.
In the early 1970s, Glass Harp performed with Traffic,Yes, The Kinks, Humble Pie, Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, and Grand Funk Railroad among others, on stages ranging from The Fillmore auditorium to Carnegie Hall.
Sferra and Pecchio continued to perform together as Glass Harp for a while, adding guitarist Tim Burks and violinist Randy Benson, but eventually went their separate ways.
HourGlass was a seminal, if largely forgotten, variety program airing on NBC-TV from May 1946 to February 1947.
HourGlass featured different performers every week, including Peggy Lee and--in one of the first examples of a top radio star appearing on network television--Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in November 1946.
HourGlass had a talent budget of only $350 a week, hardly more than scale for a handful of performers.
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