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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2017 : Issue 54
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 12-19 Aug [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
WSM Transmitter Tour [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
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Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 20:19:03 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 12-19 August
8/13
1912 St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia, PA was granted the first
experimental radio license by the [removed] Department of Commerce.
8/14
1933 WLW in Cincinnati, OH premiered Ma Perkins. Just four months
later, Ma moved to WMAQ in Chicago and was heard over the entire NBC
network. Virginia Payne was 23 years old when she started in the title
role. Ma Perkins operated a lumberyard in Rushville Center. Her children
were Evey, Fay and John (who was killed in the war). One of the other
characters in the show was Shuffle Shober. Virginia Payne played Ma
Perkins for 27 years and 7,065 episodes.
1942 Garry Moore hosted a new program on NBC. The Show Without a Name
was an effort to crack the morning show dominance of Arthur Godfrey
(CBS) and Don McNeil's Breakfast Club (ABC). A prize of $500 ($7,481 in
2016 dollars) was offered to name the show and Someone came up with the
title, Everything Goes.
1945 CBS began the series, Columbia Presents Corwin. Orson Welles did
a special reading about the fall of Japan, titled, Fourteen August.
8/15
1911 Procter & Gamble Company of Cincinnati, OH introduced Crisco
hydrogenated shortening. (Where would all those shows have been with
Crisco as a sponsor? And remember, its digestible! ed)
8/16
1922 WEAF began broadcasting from new studios atop the Western
Electric Building in New York City.
1939 Lights Out, radio's "ultimate horror show," was heard for the
last time on NBC. In 1942, Arch Obler brought the show back to life on
CBS. The show's most familiar trademark, guaranteed to put you under the
covers on a dark night was, "Lights out, everybody!", followed by 12
chimes of a clock.
8/19
In 1929, Amos and Andy, starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll,
made its network debut on NBC.
Joe
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Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 20:19:12 -0400
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK
Hi Friends,
Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
may listen to high-quality broadcasts with John and Larry Gassman's
"Same Time Station," Duane Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios," Big John
and Steve's "Glowing Dial" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."
Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at:
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Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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Check out our Transcription Disc scans at:
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Transcription Disc Restoration example at:
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS
*The Show Must Go On*
THE ABBOTT AND COSTELLO SHOW
Episode 24 11-4-43 Guest: Lana Turner
Broadcast on the day Lou Costello's baby died
Stars: Bud Abbott And Lou Costello
Features: Mel Blanc, Connie Haines, Billy Gray, Elvia Allman
Announcer: Ken Niles
Music: Freddie Rich
NBC Camel Cigarettes Thursdays 7:00-7:30 pm
INFORMATION PLEASE
Episode 24 10-25-38 Guest: Harpo Marx
HOST: Clifton Fadiman
Panal: Franklin P. Adams, John Kieran, Oscar Levant
BLUE NETWORK Sustaining Tuesdays 8:30 - 9:00 pm
McGARRY AND HIS MOUSE
Episode 9 8-21-46 "McGarry And The Movie Star"
STARS: Ted deCorsia as Dan McGarry and Shirley Mitchell as Kitty Archer
MUSIC: Charles Dant
Announcer: Del Sharbet
CBS Sustained
THE WOODY WOODPECKER SHOW
Episode 1 1953 "El Torito"
Stars: Mel Blanc
Mutual Sustained
=================================SAME TIME, SAME STATION:
This week we begin looking back at the career of Woody Herman. It should
take about 10 monthly visits.
ISHAM JONES
Program xxxxxx ep001.
ISHAM JONES
Program xxxxxx ep002.
ALL STAR PARADE OF BANDS
09/24/1954 Woody Herman.
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CLASSICS & CURIOS:
"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"
Episode 265
EDDIE HUBBARD SPECIAL: SEASONS OF LOVE, AN ENCORE
Continuing the theme of love and seasons, this Eddie Hubbard Special of
January 11, 1990, offers a celebration of love in songs relating to all
four seasons. Eddie plays great recordings beginning with a winter love
song during a frightful snowfall, namely, "Let It Snow" by Vaughn Monroe
and featuring the Norton Sisters. What a great recording! This song
reminds us that from 1940 to 1954, Vaughn Monroe had close to 70 chart
records, including many #1 hits. Three of those songs, "Let It Snow,"
"Riders in the Sky," and "Ballerina," rank among the all-time top #1
songs, each dominating the Billboard charts for 10 weeks or more. Vaughn
was known as a pretty good trumpet player who was blessed with one of
the most memorable singing voices in the history of recorded music. His
vocal range perhaps could not compare with the likes of Bing Crosby or
Perry Como, "Yet, when that baritone hit the stage, it was magic."
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Johnny Mercer and Margaret Whiting get together on "Baby It's Cold
Outside." Jo Stafford does "September in the Rain," and Mel Torme sings
"Autumn in New York." Engelbert Humperdinck performs "Winter World of
Love," and Eydie Gorme recalls "The Things We Did Last Summer (I'll
Remember All Winter Long)."
Spring and summer offerings include "The Summer Wind" with versions
performed by both Wayne Newton and Frank Sinatra, "Happy Summer Sounds"
by Robert Goulet, "Cruising' Down the River" by Blue Barron, "Spring Is
Here" by Carly Simon, and "When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano" by
the Ink Spots.
One song, "Autumn Leaves" by Nat Cole, had to be deleted because of an
audio malfunction, but Eddie tosses in 3 Extras suitable in any season
with "Nevertheless" by the Mills Brothers, "I'm a Prisoner of Love" by
Perry Como, and the curio "Spanish Flea" by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana
Brass.
Special thanks to Jerry Haendiges Productions for expert restoration of
the original studio tape for rebroadcast.
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THE GLOWING DIAL
Big John and Steve celebrate Stu's Birthday!
The Shadow - "The Mine Hunters"
originally aired on Sunday, August 7, 1938 on MUTUAL
Starring: Orson Welles, Margot Stevenson.
Ken Roberts announcing.
Sponsor: [removed] Goodrich
The Hallmark Playhouse - "Abe Lincoln: The Prairie Years"
originally aired on Thursday, February 3, 1949 on CBS
Starring: Gregory Peck, James Hilton hosts.
Frank Goss announcing.
Sponsor: Hallmark Cards
Hogan's Daughter - "Television"
originally aired on Tuesday, July 12, 1949 on NBC
Starring: Shirley Booth, Howard Smith, Betty Garde, Everett Sloane.
Ken Roberts announcing.
Sponsor: Phillip Morris
Mail Call - "Tribute To The State Of Maine"
originally aired on Wednesday, August 9, 1944 on AFRS
Starring: Rudy Vallee, Mary Livingstone, Gloria DeHaven, Fred Allen,
Frank Sinatra.
Don Wilson announcing.
Sustained
running time: 2 hours, 48 minutes, 43 seconds
Clicking on a series title will take you a log/episode guide for that
series.
We always try to give as complete info as we have at hand.
If you have any additions or corrections, please e-mail us.
For more Celebrity Birthdays go to Ron Sayles' Blog.
Audio restoration on some shows in this episode was done by Jerry Haendiges.
Click here for information on his Audio Restoration Services.
=======================================================If you have any
questions or request, please feel free to contact me.
Jerry Haendiges
Jerry@[removed] - [removed] - 562-696-4387
The Vintage Radio Place [removed]
Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
the Net
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Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 20:29:08 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: WSM Transmitter Tour
Folks;
In my other role as "Chief Archivest" of The Bob Edwards Show, I posted to
the blog at [removed] the episode from December 6, 2010
where Bob travelled down to Nashville to talk to Craig Havighurst, author of
"Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City," then takes a
tour of the transmitting facility. For those who have only been in the hobby
for a few minutes, WSM originated a little show called the WSM Barn Dance
which eventually became the Grand Old Opry, the longest-running program in
radio history.
Also included is the program's script - as always free to download and
take with, or play right on the page.
Charlie
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