Charlie on the M.T.A. is introduced.

Initially called “M.T.A.,” the song is played from a sound truck outside factories in Roxbury and South Boston. The song was was written by Jacqueline Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes, and recorded by them and brothers Sam and Arnold Berman, and Al Katz as the Boston Peoples Artists at Ace Studios at 1 Boylston Place. It is meant to be a campaign song for Progressive Party mayoral candidate Walter O’Brien Jr. and to draw attention to his opposition to the state takeover and bailout of the Boston Elevated Railway Company and the recent five-cent exit fare imposed on riders. The song is recorded for widespread release in 1957.*