Wallace M. Rogerson
Wallace Matthew Rogerson (1880 - 1943), President of the Wallace Institute of Chicago, was an early 20th-century era exercise leader and record producer of "Wallace Records."
Biography
[edit]Rogerson was born in Moline Rock, Illinois on November 29, 1880. He made exercise records for the phonograph like "Get Thin to Music," and presaged the work of Jack LaLanne.[1] Wallace Rogerson founded the Wallace Institute around the turn of the 20th century[2] and offered in-person physical training and developed Wallace Records, or Wallace Reducing Records.[3] For many years he conducted the WGN programme Keep Fit to Music.[4] A 09/06/2011 PBS "History Detectives" broadcast found that Wallace Records preceded a competitor (named Walter Camp) in marketing records for (largely women's) exercising for weight reduction. Rogerson died on February 24, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois[4]
Rogerson's Wallace Institute is not to be confused with another Wallace Institute, which ceased operating September 1, 2002.
Wallace Reducing Records
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Founded in Chicago in 1918, the Wallace Institute was "dedicated to physical fitness and weight loss."[5]. These were the first exercise records marketed in the United States. There were 5 or more records providing exercise regimes in verbal lessons and music recorded by Wallace Rogerson and targeted mostly to women.[6] [7].
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ History Detectives, 09/06/2011 Transcript of PBS Broadcast on Wallace Rogerson, and others
- ^ Official Reference Book, Press Club of Chicago, 1922
- ^ "Wallace M. Rogerson". Discogs. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
- ^ a b "Obituary Wallace M. Rogerson". Chicago Tribune. 1943-02-25. p. 21. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
- ^ Discogs (n.d.). "Wallace Institute".
- ^ History Detectives, 09/06/2011 Transcript of PBS Broadcast on Wallace Rogerson, and others
- ^ Lupe Vallejo (2017). "1920's Exercise records "Dictated by Wallace" audio recordings 78 rpm".