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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2016 : Issue 1
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  would you consider attending a SPERD  [ "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@yeste ]
  Happy Birthday song                   [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
  Early Jack Benny mp3s                 [ Joe Stevens <joestevensus@[removed] ]
  Captain Midnight - [removed] Di  [ Zane <intraverse@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 3-9 Janua  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 11:22:17 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  would you consider attending a SPERDVAC Old Time
 Radio   convention in Las Vegas
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Hi Everybody,

SPERDVAC would like to host an old time radio convention in 2016.  The cost
of produceing an old time radio convention in LA or other parts of CA has
gone up a great deal.  Would you consider attending an old time radio
convention in Las Vegas in November?  The cost would allow more people to
attend the event.  Thank you for any suggestion,

Walden Hughes

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Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 11:23:44 -0500
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
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Subject:  Happy Birthday song
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In Digest V2015 #105, Ron Vickery asked:

One of the most popular songs to be played was
"Happy Birthday to You"; which was performed in many different languages
just to get past the ban.  The original song is now, in fact, a copyrighted
piece of music, though it wasn't at the time.
My question, which may not apply to this group, is how did it become a
copyrighted material after being in the public domain for so long?

No, Ron the "Happy Birthday" song had been copyrighted in one form or
another since 1888 (or at least claims were made to that effect).  In
September of this year (2015) A Judge (George H. King) ruled all claims
to that copyright to be invalid.  The song is now in Public Domain and
can be freely used by anyone without fear of being sued.

--
Jerry Haendiges

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Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 11:24:43 -0500
From: Joe Stevens <joestevensus@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Early Jack Benny mp3s

Over an [removed] there are many high quality Benny mp3s. Since they got
taken down once before, I figured I'd put them up for our pleasure on
mediafire away from the prying eyes of the public. Here are the 16 shows
or partial shows that survive from the very earliest broadcasts. They are
scratchy, often unfunny, but very historical and oddly interesting.

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Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 11:45:06 -0500
From: Zane <intraverse@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Captain Midnight - [removed] Digest 2015
 #105

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr. suggested I provide my corrections and
additions to his OTR Digest post of 1 January 2016 on "Secret
Squadron Leader, Captain Midnight." So the corrections and additions
are shown below.

The Captain Midnight book by Leonard Zane (spelled, "Zane") is
entitled, "Captain Midnight's Post-War Radio Years."

As far as I know, there are nearly three dozen Ovaltine-sponsored
(15-minute) serial episodes of radio's Captain Midnight that have so
far been recovered from transcription recordings. There is also one
transcription recording of a half-hour standalone program (namely,
"The Flying Ruby" adventure).  The recovered Ovaltine-sponsored
programs and dates that I know of are:

1  The Origin of Captain Midnight, 400930
2  The Origin of Captain Midnight - The Masked Stranger, 401001
3  Submarine Attack - Two Submarines, 410609
4  Tiger Tong - Car, 411024
5  Assignment Under the Sea, 421008
6  Destruction from the Sky, 421120
7  Fighting with the Commandos, 421124
8  Nazi Submarine Base, 421230
9  Trapped by the Nazis 430216
10 Challenge of the Crossed Swords, 430222
11 The Silver Dagger Strikes (1), 430409
12 The Silver Dagger Strikes (2), 430421
13 The Secret Squadron Strikes, 430526
14 The Philippines Fight On, 431009
15 Flight for Freedom, 431126
16 Suicide Squadron (1), 440117
17 Suicide Squadron (2), 440120
18 Suicide Squadron (3), 440121
19 Prisoner of the Japs, 440424
20 Dangerous Flight, 441101
21 Above the Volcano, 450403
22 Death in the Sky, 1945 (I'm not sure, but suspect this episode
occurred after Germany's 450508 surrender.)
23 Double Crossed, 460814
24 The Man with the Missing Finger, 470211
25 The Slave Smugglers, 470312
26 The Map of Mystery, 470407
27 The Stolen Star, 470514
28 The Jewels of the Queen of Sheba, 480326
29 The Return of Ivan Shark (1), 490107
30 The Return of Ivan Shark (2) - The Cave Men Attack, 490110
31 The Devil on Ice, 490204
32 The Phantom Rustlers, Spring 1949
33 The Flying Ruby (30-minute standalone), Fall 1949

Happy Landings,

Zane

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Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 11:45:20 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 3-9 January

1/4

1928   NBC debuted one of radio's first variety shows. The Dodge Victory
Hour starred Will Rogers, Paul Whiteman and his orchestra and singer Al
Jolson. The cost to produce this one show was $67,600 ($923,429 in 2014
dollars).

1932   NBC Red presented The Carnation Contented Hour. The show
continued on network radio for 19 years as a showcase for top singers
and musicians.

1935   Bob Hope was first heard on network radio as part of The Intimate
Revue with Jane Froman, James Melton and the Al Goodman Orchestra.

1/5

1935   We proudly remind you that Phil Spitalny's All Girl Orchestra was
featured on CBS this day on the program, The Hour of Charm.  (ed  And
who can ever forget Evelyn and her magic violin?)

1940   The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) got its very first
demonstration of FM radio. The new medium, free of interference, static,
and noise in thunderstorms, was developed by Major [removed] Armstrong. The
first FM transmitter was put in operation in 1941.

1/6

1941   A young actor appeared for the first time in a new program on CBS
titled, The Home of the Brave. Along with others in the cast, this was
Richard Widmark's radio debut.

1950   Ronald Coleman starred as the president of Ivy College in The
Halls of Ivy.

1974   CBS radio returned to dramatic programming at night with the
first broadcast of Radio Mystery Theatre, hosted by [removed] Marshall. The
program debuted on 218 CBS network stations.

1/7

1926   A famous marriage that endured for many years is remembered this
day. It's the wedding anniversary of George Burns and Gracie Allen who
were married by a Justice of the Peace in Cleveland, Ohio.

1940   The gate to Gene Autry's Melody Ranch opened.  "The singing
cowboy" would entertain on CBS radio for the next 16 years, other than
1942-45 when he was in the Army Air Corps.

1941   The NBC Blue network presented the first installment of Inner
Sanctum.

1950   Ernest Tubb made his first appearance at The Grand Ole Opry in
Nashville, TN. Ernest also did a 15 minute radio program each day that
became very popular in West Texas. So popular, in fact, that he bought
the radio station that had aired the program for years and years: KGKL
in San Angelo, Texas.

Joe

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