Vox Pop (radio) Vox Pop (radio) Vox Pop was a popular radio program of interviews, quizzes and human interest features, sometimes titled Sidewalk Interviews (1936) and Voice of the People (the name is from the Latin "Vox Populi", meaning "Voice of the People"). It was heard from the early 1930s to the late 1940s. The program was launched in 1932 on KTRH in Houston when advertising salesmen Parks Johnson and Jerry Belcher went into the street with portable microphones to talk to people about the 1932 presidential race between Herbert Hoover and FDR. They continued after the election, and as they developed the
Vox Continental can also be seen in numerous televised appearances of The Dave Clark Five played by lead singer Mike Smith on shows such as "The Ed Sullivan Show" and "Shindig!" Alex Turner also used the Vox Continental for Arctic Monkeys song "505", the closer of second album "Favourite Worst Nightmare", as well as on third album "Humbug" and "Crying Lightning" b-side "Red Right Hand". The Moons organist Tom Warmsley uses a single manual Vox Continental; also, The Moons' James Edward Bagshaw uses a Vox Continental 300. Vox Continental The Vox Continental is a transistorized combo organ that was introduced in 1962.