Career
As an adolescent in Cambridge, England, Gambling studied horticulture, planning to make a career in that field Later, he joined the merchant marine and "became chief operator on the big passenger ships."
With his Musical Clock, his all-in-fun setting-up exercises, cheerio music, wheezy gags, weather information and news scraps, John B. Gambling was a WOR fixture. Once he was a British seaman on a World War I mine sweeper.
John Gambling had a band, and provided live music, including the March of the Seven Dwarfs every morning at 7 am sharp.
Gambling bought a home in Teaneck, New Jersey in 1929.
