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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2012 : Issue 107
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  6-28 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Raised on Radio                       [ <klanza3@[removed]; ]
  6-29 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  REPS?                                 [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
  6-30 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Born 100 years ago in July            [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 1-7 July   [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 11:08:29 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  6-28 births/deaths

June 28th births

06-28-1895 - George R. Holmes - Tippecanoe County, IN - d. 2-12-1939
news commentator: "Back of the News in Washington"
06-28-1895 - Kelvin Keech - Punachou, Hawaii Territory - d. 5-xx-1977
announcer: "Popeye the Sailor"; "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing"
06-28-1902 - Richard Rodgers - Long Island, NY - d. 12-30-1979
composer: "ASCAP On Parade"; "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"; "Chase and
Sanborn Hour"
06-28-1904 - Hector Chevigny - d. 4-20-1965
writer: "Portia Faces Life"; "The Second Mrs. Burton"
06-28-1906 - Ann Leaf - Omaha, NE - d. 4-3-1995
organist: (Little Organ Annie) "Ann Leaf at the Organ"; "Lorenzo Jones"
06-28-1908 - Alan Bunce - Westfield, NJ - d. 4-27-1965
actor: Albert Arbuckle "Ethel and Albert"; Jerry Malone "Young Dr.
Malone"
06-28-1908 - John W. Harrington - NYC - d. 9-17-1974
announcer: "Just Plain Bill"
06-28-1909 - Eric Ambler - London, England - d. 10-22-1998
author: "Escape"; "Hour of Mystery"
06-28-1913 - Harry Cool - d. 6-xx-1979
vocalist, bandleader: "Fibber McGee and Molly"s
06-28-1914 - Dan Seymour - NYC - d. 7-27-1982
actor, narrator: Danny "Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories"; "War of the
Worlds"
06-28-1914 - Lester Flatt - Overton County, TN - d. 5-10-1979
bluegrass guitarist: (Flatt and Scruggs) "Martha White Biscuit Time";
"Grand Ole Opry"
06-28-1914 - Zina Provendie - d. 5-15-2005
actor: Sylvia Bruno Wick "The Goldbergs"
06-28-1924 - Gene Thompson - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-14-2001
writer: "Duffy's Tavern"
06-28-1926 - Mel Brooks - NYC
comedian: "Jean Shepherd Show"
06-28-1933 - Maurice Cloutier - Manchester, NH - d. 11-21-2006
disk jockey: KOTA Rapid City, South Dakota
06-28-1946 - Gilda Radner - Detroit, MI - d. 5-20-1989
comedian: "The National Lampoon Radio Hour"

June 28th deaths

04-06-1903 - Mickey Cochrane - Bridgewater, MA - d. 6-28-1962
sportscaster: (Member Baseball Hall of Fame) "Mickey Cochrane"
04-21-1898 - King Calder - Maryland - d. 6-28-1964
actor: James Anderson "Second Mrs. Burton"; Will Stevenson "Barry
Cameron"
04-29-1935 - Lennie Weinrib - NYC - d. 6-28-2006
actor: "Suspense"
05-08-1905 - Red Nichols - Ogden, UT - d. 6-28-1965
music: (Red Nichols and His Five Pennies) "Bob Hope Show"; "Ipana
Troubadors"
05-09-1930 - Joan Sims - Laindon, Essex, England - d. 6-28-2001
actor: "Round the Horne"; "Stop Messing About"
06-02-1891 - Joe Schenck - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-28-1930
singer, comedian, dancer: (Gus Van and Joe Schenck) "The Eveready Hour"
07-03-1903 - John Lake - Leesburg, VA - d. 6-28-1960
actor: "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"; "Twelve Players"
08-15-1912 - Robert Lewis Shayon - NYC - d. 6-28-2008
along with Edward R. Murrow created "You Are There"
08-19-1913 - Harry F. Mills - Picqua, OH - d. 6-28-1982
singer: (The Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette"
10-05-1932 - Arthur Maimane - South Africa - d. 6-28-2005
author: "The Opportunity"; "Where the Sun Shines"
10-23-1923 - Frank Sutton - Clarksville, TN - d. 6-28-1974
actor: "Couple Next Door"
10-29-1880 - Gleason L. Archer - Great Pond, ME - d. 6-28-1966
lecturer: "Laws That Safeguard Society"
11-25-1900 - Helen Gahagan Douglas - Boonton, NJ - d. 6-28-1980
actor: (Wife of Melvin Douglas) "Hollywood Fights Back"; "A Report to
the Nation"
11-28-1895 - Jose Iturbi - Valencia, Spain - d. 6-28-1980
pianist, conductor: "Telephone hour"; "Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra"
12-25-1924 - Rod Serling - Syracuse, NY - d. 6-28-1975
writer, host: "Zero Hour"

Ron

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Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 11:08:39 -0400
From: <klanza3@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Raised on Radio

I do.
I enjoyed it tremendously!

I also recommend THE LAUGH [removed]
Ken Lanza
klanza3@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 11:11:37 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  6-29 births/deaths

June 29th births

06-29-1893 - Alma Kitchell - Superior, WI - d. 11-13-1996
singer, commentator: "Melody Hour"; "Brief Case/Streamline Journal"
06-29-1895 - Paul V. Galvin - Harvard, IL - d. 11-5-1959
co-founder of Galvin Manufacturing, merged with Motorola
06-29-1899 - Lester Vail - Denver, CO - d. 11-28-1959
director: "Aldrich Family"; "March of Time"; "World's Most Honored
Flights"
06-29-1901 - Ed Gardner - Astoria, NY - d. 8-17-1963
comedian: Archie "Duffy's Tavern"
06-29-1901 - Nelson Eddy - Providence, RI - d. 3-6-1967
singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Vicks Open House"; "Chase & Sanborn Hour"
06-29-1903 - Ellen Pollock - Heidelberg, Germany - d. 3-29-1997
actor: "The Lady of Lyons"
06-29-1903 - John Stanley - London, England - d. 12-2-1982
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes" Jeff Brady "Romance
of Helen Trent"
06-29-1905 - John Gibson - Oakland, CA - d. 9-xx-1971
actor: Red Pennington "Don Winslow of the Navy"
06-29-1907 - Joan Davis - St. Paul, MN - d. 5-22-1961
comedian: "Sealtest Village Store"; "Joan Davis Show"
06-29-1908 - John Hench - Cedar Rapids, IA - d. 2-5-2004
actor: Stanley Gilman "Those Happy Gilmans"
06-29-1908 - Leroy Anderson - Cambridge, MA - d. 5-18-1975
composer, arranger: " Contemporary Composers Concerts"; "Must for
America"
06-29-1909 - Oscar Argumedo - d. 8-16-1986
disk jockey: KCOR San Antonio, Texas
06-29-1910 - Frank Loesser - NYC - d. 7-26-1969
composer: "Cavalcade for Victory"; "Abe Burrows Show"; "Heartbeat of
Broadway"
06-29-1911 - Bernard Herrmann - NYC - d. 12-24-1975
conductor, composer: "Columbia Workshop"; "Mercury Theatre on the Air/
Campbell Playhouse"
06-29-1911 - Milt Josefsberg - NYC - d. 12-14-1987
writer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Bob Hope Show"
06-29-1913 - Charles Gussman - Kansas City, MO - d. 10-18-2000
writer: "Road to Life"; "Right to Happiness", Young Doctor Malone"
06-29-1913 - Hilliard Marks - d. 8-19-1982
producer: (Brother of Mary Livingstone) "The Jack Benny Program"
06-29-1914 - Rafael Kubelik - Bychory, Czech Republic - d. 8-11-1996
conductor: "Musicians Off Stage"
06-29-1915 - Leo Diamond - NYC - d. 9-15-1966
harmonica player: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"
06-29-1915 - Mary Jane Higby - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-1-1986
actor: Joan Davis "When a Girl Marries"; Nora Drake "This is Nora Drake"
06-29-1915 - Ruth Warrick - St. Joseph, MO - d. 1-15-2005
actor: "Joyce Jordan, [removed]"; "Myrt and Marge"
06-29-1919 - Slim Pickens - Kingsburg, CA - d. 12-8-1983
actor: Samuel the Seal "Cinnamon Bear"
06-29-1920 - Bonnie Dunn - NYC
singer: "This Is Fort Dix"
06-29-1922 - Norm Michie - Scotland - d. 8-18-1993
reader: "Story Time" Program Director for WI Public Radio
06-29-1922 - Ralph Burns - Newton, MA - d. 11-21-2001
pianist, arranger: "Esquire Jazz Concert"; "Saturday Night Swing
Session"
06-29-1922 - Tony Osborne - Cambridge, England - d. 3-1-2009
arranger: "The Goon Show"; "Take It From Here"
06-29-1924 - T. Tommy Cutrer - Tangipahoa Parish, LA - d. 10-11-1998
announcer: "Grand Ole Opry"
06-29-1925 - Cara Williams - Brooklyn, NY
actor: "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"
06-29-1934 - Chuck Schaden - Chicago, IL
host: Those Were the Days"
06-29-1935 - Keith Walker - St. Louis, MO - d. 12-30-1996
writer: Hollywood Radio Theatre"
06-29-1937 - Ivan Cury - NYC
actor: Bobbie Benson "Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders"

June 29th deaths

01-08-1915 - Guy Mauffette - Montreal, Canada - d. 6-29-2005
announcer: Worked with CBC radio, Canada's French network
02-04-1934 - Bruce Malmuth - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-29-2005
director: New York Yankees baseball games
02-08-1920 - Lana Turner - Wallace, ID - d. 6-29-1995
actor: "Abbott and Costello"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-10-1918 - Pamela Mason - Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, England - d.
6-29-1996
actor: "James Mason and Pamela Mason Show"
03-19-1916 - Irving Wallace - Chicago, IL - d. 6-29-1990
writer: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
05-12-1907 - Kathrine Hepburn - Hartford, CT - d. 6-29-2003
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-23-1928 - Rosemary Clooney - Maysville, KY - d. 6-29-2002
singer: "Rosemary Clooney Show"; "On the Sunny Side"
06-06-1920 - Jan Rubes - Volyne, Czechoslovakia - d. 6-29-2009
opera singer: "Songs of My People"
06-16-1898 - Harold McClinton - d. 6-29-1977
producer: "This Is War"
07-07-1943 - Joel Siegel - Los Angeles, CA - d. 6-29-2007
movie critic: "Joel Siegel's New York"
07-13-1928 - Bob Crane - Waterbury, CT - d. 6-29-1978
actor: "Bob Crane Show"
08-06-1892 - Victor Rodman - Arkansas - d. 6-29-1965
actor: Jerry Payne "Those We Love"
08-21-1907 - Hy Zaret - Syracuse, NY - d. 6-29-2007
composer: "Music for Millions"; "I Love You Joe"
08-29-1882 - Richard Legrand - Mount Tabor section near Portland, OR -
d. 6-29-1963
actor: Richard Q. Peavy "Great Gildersleeve"; Ole "Fibber McGee and
Molly"
09-19-1912 - Edmund Anderson - NYC - d. 6-29-2002
program writer and director for various network programs
09-19-1927 - William Hickey - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-29-1997
performed in radio at the age of 9
11-09-1893 - John P. Medbury - New York - d. 6-29-1947
writer: "Burns and Allen"; "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt"

Ron

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Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 11:11:04 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  REPS?

   [removed] want to give a rundown of the recent REPS Showcase?

         Charlie

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Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 11:12:15 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  6-30 births/deaths

June 30th births

06-30-1879 - Walter Hampden - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-11-1955
actor: Leonidas Witherall "Leonidas Witherall"
06-30-1891 - Man Mountain Dean - NYC - d. 5-29-1953
professional wrestler: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
06-30-1893 - Virginia Beberus - Mercer, ME - d. 10-3-1964
composer/author: conducted a radio program
06-30-1894 - Frank Davis - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-9-1970
singer: "Fred Waring Show"
06-30-1894 - Phillips Carlin - NYC - d. 8-27-1971
announcer: "Palmolive Hour"; "Atwater Kent Hour"
06-30-1896 - Wilfred Pelletier - Montreal, Canada - d. 4-9-1982
conductor: "Roses and Drums"; "Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air"
06-30-1898 - Carl Pierce - Quincy, MA - d. 8-16-1962
announcer: "Breakfast at Sardi's"; "The Right Thing to Do"
06-30-1898 - George Chandler - Waukegan, IL - d. 6-10-1985
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-30-1899 - Santos Ortega - NYC - d. 4-10-1976
actor: Nero Wolfe "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; Richard Queen "Advs. of
Ellery Queen"
06-30-1900 - Frank Gallop - Boston, MA - d. 5-17-1988
announcer: "Milton Berle Show"; "Gangbusters"; "Stella Dallas"
06-30-1904 - Glenda Farrell - Enid,  Oklahoma Territory - d. 5-1-1971
opposing pitcher: "Quizzer's Baseball"
06-30-1905 - Nestor Paiva - Fresno, CA - d. 9-9-1966
actor: "NBC Presents: Short Story"; "Escape"
06-30-1910 - Sundra Love - Chicago, IL - d. 12-6-1996
actor: Kay Fairchild "Stepmother"; Ethel Foster "Guiding Light"
06-30-1913 - Harry Wismer - Port Huron, MI - d. 12-3-1967
sportscaster: "Harry Wismer Sports Show"; "Champion Roll Call"
06-30-1917 - Buddy Rich - NYC - d. 4-2-1987
drummer: "Artie Shaw and His Orchestra"; "Tommy Dorsey and His
Orchestra"
06-30-1917 - Lena Horne - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-9-2010
singer: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
06-30-1917 - Susan Hayward - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-14-1975
actor: "Radio Almanac"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-30-1918 - Stewart Foster - Binghamton, NY - d. 2-7-1968
singer: "Stewart Foster Show"; "Galen Drake"; "On a Sunday Afternoon"
06-30-1920 - Dean Harens - South Bend, IN - d. 5-20-1996
actor: Arthur Anderson "We, the Abbotts"
06-30-1925 - Alice Wallace - Los Angeles, CA - d. 2-23-2002
actor: "Music for America"; "Let Freedom Sing"
06-30-1928 - Frank Marcus - Breslau, Germany - d. 8-5-1996
playwright: "The Hospital Visitor"
06-30-1957 - Carol Boettcher - Milwaukee, WI
actor: Billie "Billie the Brownie"

June 30th deaths

02-20-1906 - Gale Gordon - NYC - d. 6-30-1995
actor: Mayor LaTrivia "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Osgood Conklin "Our
Miss Brooks"
03-30-1926 - Bill Farrell - Cleveland, OH - d. 6-30-2007
singer: "Bob Hope Show"
05-04-1903 - Elmer Leyden - Davenport, IA - d. 6-30-1973
football player: "One of the Four Horseman" "Information Please"
05-18-1904 - Fred Shields - Kansas City, MO - d. 6-30-1974
actor: Bill Fraser "Tarzan"
05-29-1909 - Oliver Wakefield - Mahlabitini, South Africa - d. 6-30-1956
comedian: "The Chesterfield Program"; "Fox Fur Trappers"
06-20-1905 - Lillian Hellman - New Orleans, LA - d. 6-30-1984
author: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
06-20-1924 - Chet Atkins - Luttrell, TN - d. 6-30-2001
guitarist: "Boone County Neighbors"; "Grand Ole Opry"
06-23-1905 - Mary Livingstone (Sadye Marks) - Seattle, WA - d. 6-30-1983
comedian: (wife of Jack Benny) "Jack Benny Program"
07-26-1906 - Galen Drake - Kokomo, IN - d. 6-30-1989
commentator: "Galen Drake"
08-26-1873 - Lee De Forest - Council Bluffs, IA - d. 6-30-1961
inventor: Audion tube
09-23-1901 - Frederick Hazlitt Brennan - d. 6-30-1962
writer: "Shorty Bell" based on Brennan's stories
09-26-1921 - Russ Atwood - d. 6-30-1992
disk jockey: WMAS Springfield, Massachusetts
10-02-1928 - George 'Spanky' McFarland - Dallas, TX - d. 6-30-1993
actor: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
10-10-1920 - Bernard Grant - The Bronx - d. 6-30-2004
actor: "Rober Kilgore"; "Big Story"

Ron

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Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 11:12:17 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Born 100 years ago in July

07-01-1912 - Murray Matheson - Casterto, Australia - d. 4-25-1985
actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
07-04-1912 - Virginia Graham - Chicago, IL - d. 12-22-1998
talk show host: "Cancer Can Be Cured"; "Weekday Theatre"
07-06-1912 - Redd Evans - Meridian, MS - d. 8-29-1972
vocalist: "Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra"
07-08-1912 - Donna Dameral - Chicago, IL - d. 2-15-1941
actor: Marge Mintere "Myrt and Marge"
07-09-1912 - John McQuade - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 9-21-1979
actor: Charlie Wild "Charlie Wild, Private Detective"; Steve Lansing
"Our Gal Sunday"
07-12-1912 - Jim McClain - d. 5-5-2004
host: Dr. [removed] "Dr. [removed]"; Dr. [removed] "Dr. [removed] Jr."
07-12-1912 - Will Bradley - Newtown, NJ - d. 7-20-1978
bandleader: "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Saturday Night Swing Session"
07-13-1912 - Joseph Bell - California - d. 3-xx-1987
director, actor: "Big Town", "East of Cairo"; "Will Rogers Show"
07-14-1912 - Woody Guthrie - Okemah, OK - d. 10-2-1967
songwriter, singer: "Pursuit of Happiness"
07-15-1912 - John Ademy - d. 9-1-1976
bass-baritone: WCAO Baltimore, Maryland
07-16-1912 - Raphael (Ray) Barr - NYC - d. 3-17-1983
composer, arranger, pianist: "Cliquot Club Eskimos"
07-17-1912 - Art Linkletter - Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada - d.
5-26-2010
emcee: "People Are Funny"; "House Party"
07-19-1912 - Frank Kane - d. 11-29-1968
writer: "The Shadow"
07-20-1912 - Tom McDermott - McHenry, IL - d. 3-6-1996
producer, director: "Portia Faces Life"; "Rosemary"; "Wendy Warren and
the News"
07-21-1912 - Frank Deniz - Cardiff, Wales - d. 7-17-2005
guitarist: "Harry Parry's Radio Rhythm Club"
07-21-1912 - Robert Sloane - NYC - d. 4-3-1955
writer: "The Fat Man"; "The Life of Riley"; "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"
07-22-1912 - Orren Allen - d. 2-5-1993
sportscaster: WKAN Kankakee, Illinois
07-23-1912 - Jackson Beck - NYC - d. 7-28-2004
actor: Philo Vance "Philo Vance"; Gregory Hood "Casebook of Gregory
Hood"
07-26-1912 - Buddy Clark - Dorchester, MA - d. 10-1-1949
singer: "Your Hit Parade"; "New Carnation Contented Hour"
07-26-1912 - Monty Margetts - Vancouver, Canada - d. 2-27-1997
announcer: "This Woman's Secret"
07-27-1912 - Charles Crutchfield - Hope, AR - d. 8-19-1998
announcer: "The Johnson Family Singers"
07-27-1912 - Irve Tunick - NYC - d. 9-5-1987
writer: "The Cavalcade of America"; "You Are There"
07-28-1912 - George Cisar - Illinois - d. 6-13-1979
actor: Tim "Tena and Tim"
07-28-1912 - Herbert Finn - Boston, MA - d. 5-28-2002
comedy writer: "Duffy'sTavern"; "Amos 'n' Andy"
07-30-1912 - Charles Irving - Minneapolis, MN - d. 2-15-1981
actor: Tex Mason "Bobby Benson's Advs."; Jerry Malone "Young Dr. Malone"
07-30-1912 - Edward L. Bliss - Fizhou, China - d. 11-25-2002
cbs news correspondent: (One of Morrow's Boys) CBS News Twentieth
Century Roundup"
07-31-1912 - Chester Stratton - Paterson, NJ - d. 7-7-1970
actor: Carter Trent "Pepper Young's Family"; Hop Harrigan "Hop Harrigan"
07-31-1912 - Irv Kupcinet - Chicago, IL - d. 11-11-2003
sportscaster: WGN Chicago "Chicago Bears"
07-31-1912 - Milton Friedman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-16-2006
economist: Radio Australia

Ron

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Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 11:12:20 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 1-7 July

 From Those Were The Days

7/1

1934   The Federal Communications Commission, as mandated in the
Communications Act of 1934, replaced the Federal Radio Commission as the
regulator of broadcasting in the United States.

7/2

1939   The Aldrich Family debuted on NBC.

1946   CBS signed Arthur Godfrey to do a weekly nighttime show.

1951   NBC presented Bob and Ray (Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding) on a
network show.

7/3

1939   Chic Young's comic strip character, Blondie was first heard on CBS.

1940   The legendary comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello debuted
with their network show on NBC.

1945    NBC gave the comedian/pianist Victor Borge his own the summer
replacement show for Fibber McGee and Molly.  He had been heard a few
years earlier as a semi regular on NBC's "Kraft Music Hall" with Bing
Crosby.

7/4

1943   The Rhythm Boys, Bing Crosby, Al Rinker and Harry Barris, were
reunited for the first time since the 1930s on Paul Whiteman Presents on
NBC.

1951   Jack Webb, along with Dragnet, also did a summer show    that of
Pete Kelly. Pete Kelly's Blues, a crime drama, was the summer
replacement on NBC for Halls of Ivy (with Ronald Colman and Benita Hume).

7/5

1943   The Adventures of Nero Wolfe debuted on the NBC Blue network.
Nero Wolfe was "the detective genius who rates the knife and fork the
greatest tools ever invented by man." The 'gargantuan gourmet' continued
on the air until 1951.

1948   My Favorite Husband, with Lucille Ball, became the gifted
redhead's first regular radio program on CBS.  Richard Denning co
starred with Lucy as "two people who live together and like it."

1951   The Silver Eagle debuted on ABC as a entry into radio's action
adventure lineup. Jim Ameche starred as Jim West.

7/6

1943   Judy Canova, the 'Queen of the Hillbillies', began a weekly
comedy show on CBS.

1947   A hidden microphone eavesdropped on unsuspecting people for the
first time this night, as Candid Microphone hit the ABC airwaves.

7/7

1927    Christopher Stone becomes the first British 'disc jockey' when
he plays records for the BBC.

1920   A device known as the radio compass was used for the first time
on a [removed] Navy airplane near Norfolk, Virginia.

1943   Flashgun Casey was heard on radio. Not much later, the name of
the program was altered to Casey, Crime Reporter, and became much more
popular.

Joe

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