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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2018 : Issue 6
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Man Called X                          [ Martin Fass <watchstop@frontiernet. ]
  Re: "Happy Birthday To You"           [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  WNEW News Parade                      [ "Ed Brown"@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 7-13 Janu  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 15:47:24 -0500
From: Martin Fass <watchstop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Man Called X

Does anybody know the history behind the quick ironic comments voiced by
Herbert Marshall at the end of virtually every episode?  Were these words
encouraged or even written by HM himself?  By his producer?

Thanks--

--Martin Fass

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Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 15:47:56 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: "Happy Birthday To You"

   A Joseph Ross wrote --

The song finally and indisputably went into the public domain in the
United States on 28 June 2016, when settlement of the lawsuit was
finally approved

   Thanks for the update.
   Correction made.  :)
   Joe

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Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 15:50:05 -0500
From: "Ed Brown"@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  WNEW News Parade

Hello, Mr Ott,

Bill Diehl of ABC News has forwarded to me your request for information
about a News Parade program heard on WNEW in 1944.  The problem all
researchers face concerning WNEW is that it's archives were taken into
private collections and to the dumpster when the station was sold in 1992.
The information you seek might not have been available even then, because
records were lost during two earlier sales of the property   So, I don't
know if we can turn up the information you want, but we'll try.

Ed Brown

[ADMINISTRIVIA: This was sent to the Digest by a non-subscriber; I thought it
important enough to include, although I have redacted Mr. Brown's email
address.  --cfs3]

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Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 15:50:54 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 7-13 January

1/7

1926   A famous marriage that endured for many years is remembered this
day. It's the 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.

1/10

1943   The quiz show, The Better Half, was first heard on Mutual this
day. The program brought four married couples to compete in stunts
involving traditional concepts of "manhood" and "womanhood".

1/11

1947   Amazing Mr. Malone (aka Murder and Mr. Malone) starring Frank
Lovejoy, debuted on ABC.

1/12

1926   Sam 'n' Henry debuted on WGN in Chicago, Illinois.  The show's
name was changed to Amos 'n' Andy with the voices of its creators,
Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll.

1932   Ed Sullivan joined CBS radio in a program of gossip and interviews.

1/13

1906 - Hugh Gernsback of the Electro Importing Company advertised radio
receivers for sale for the low, low price of just $[removed] ($207 in 2017
dollars*) in "Scientific American" magazine. The first ad selling the
gizmos guaranteed reception of about one mile.
(*[removed])

Joe

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