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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2020 : Issue 35
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  This week in radio history 27 Septem  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 08:26:47 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 27 September to 3 October

 From Those Were The Days

9/27

1933   NBC debuted Waltz Time, featuring the orchestra of Abe Lymon. The 
program continued on the network until 1948.

1938   Thanks for the Memory was heard for the first time on The Bob 
Hope Show on the NBC Red network.

9/28

1936   Bachelor's Children debuted on CBS (at 9:45 [removed]) in addition to 
its schedule on the Mutual Network (at 10:15 [removed]). The show's theme 
song, Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, opened the 15 minute, critically 
acclaimed, daily serial. Bachelor's Children became very popular because 
of its natural dialogue which made folks think they were hearing a real 
event. Bachelor's Children ... brought to you by Old Dutch Cleanser, 
Palmolive Peet Soap, Colgate Toothpaste and Wonder Bread.

1939   The final broadcast of The Fleischmann Hour was heard. The star 
of the show, Rudy Vallee, wrapped things up after a decade of 
entertaining radio before moving on to other sponsors.

9/29

1920   Radios for 10 bucks! That's what Joseph Horne Company's 
department store in Pittsburgh, PA was selling. The radios were 
advertised in The Pittsburgh Sun for $10 ($129 in 2019 dollars)  and up. 
One could get a ready made radio in a box with headphones and tuning 
knob. This way, one could do away with the Quaker Oats round box and the 
cat's whisker wire, which was a pain to tune.

1930   "This is Lowell Thomas." Those words were spoken for the first 
time as a young Lowell Thomas made his debut on CBS. He replaced Floyd 
Gibbons on the nightly (6:45 [removed]), 15 minute newscast. Thomas, who 
started as a reporter for the New York Daily News (at age 19), was heard 
on the radio for the next 46 years.

1930   "Ba, ba, ba, boo. I will, ba ba ba boo ... marry you!" Bing 
Crosby, America's premier crooner for decades, married Dixie Lee.

1940   Double or Nothing was first heard on Mutual. Each time 
contestants answered questions correctly, their winnings would double 
from $20 to $40 to the big payoff of $80.  ($362, $729 and $1479 in 2019 
dollars: [removed]) If they gave an incorrect 
answer, they were gone! Nobody bet on long how long the show would last. 
Good thing. It kept going for a dozen years. Among the sponsors: 
Feen-A-Mint, Chooz breath candy and Campbell's soup.

1946   Mystery fans remember when The Adventures of Sam Spade debuted on 
CBS this Sunday night. (It had aired in the summer of 1946 on ABC on 
Friday nights.) The Adventures of Sam Spade, with Howard Duff playing 
Spade, became a big hit in the Sunday night radio lineup. And now a word 
from our sponsor: "Use Wildroot Cream Oil, Charlie ... it keeps your 
hair in [removed]"

9/30

1930   Death Valley Days was first heard on the NBC Red network this day 
(and) became one of radio's biggest hits. The 30 minute, Western 
adventure series starred Tim Daniel Frawley as the Old Ranger, Harvey 
Hays as the Old Prospector, John White as the Lonesome Cowboy, Edwin 
Bruce as Bobby Keen, Robert Haag as Sheriff Mark Chase and Olyn Landick 
as Cassandra Drinkwater.

The tales heard on Death Valley Days were all based on fact and were 
human interest stories revolving around the borax mining town of Death 
Valley, California. The show was created by Ruth Woodman, a script 
writer for a New York ad agency. She had never seen Death Valley; but
had found the vehicle to sell 20 Mule Team Borax. As time went on, Ms. 
Woodman did make a trip to Death Valley. She went back again and again 
after that, digging up facts for her scripts. She even met an honest to 
goodness old ranger, Wash Cahill, who knew everyone and everything about 
the mining town.

Death Valley Days was renamed Death Valley Sheriff in 1944 and The 
Sheriff in 1945. And Ruth Woodman continued to write the scripts. She 
even wrote scripts when Death Valley Days became a TV show. Buy some 20 
Mule Team Borax in commemoration.

1933   The theme song was Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here and it opened 
the National Barn Dance. The half hour country music and comedy show, 
originally heard on WLS, Chicago since 1924, moved to the NBC Blue 
network this night. National Barn Dance was broadcast from the Eighth 
Street Theater in Chicago, where the stage was transformed into a 
hayloft every Saturday night. The host was Joe Kelly. Uncle Ezra was 
played by Pat Barrett who was known to say, "Give me a toot on the 
tooter, Tommy," as he started dancing. A few of the other Barn Dance
characters were Arkie, the Arkansas Woodchopper; Pokey Martin; the 
Hoosier Hotshots; the Prairie Ramblers; cowgirl, Patsy Montana; Pat 
Buttram; Lulu Belle and the Cumberland Road Runners. Gene Autry and Red 
Foley were heard early in their careers on National Barn Dance. Although 
there were plenty of sponsors (Alka Seltzer, One A Day vitamins, 
Phillips Milk of Magnesia), the National Barn Dance was one of the few 
radio shows to charge admission.

1935   "Calling all [removed]" The Adventures of Dick Tracy came to radio 
for the first time    on the Mutual Radio Network. Based on the comic 
strip created by Chester Gould, the 15 minute adventure show was heard 
Monday thru Friday at 5:45 [removed] The sponsors were Quaker Puffed Wheat 
and Quaker Puffed Rice.

1962 <<226>><<128>>" The death of OTR.  The last regularly scheduled network programs, 
Suspense and Johnny Dollar were heard.

10/1

1942   People Are Funny went on the air with host Art Baker.

10/3

1901   The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated on this day. 
After a merger with Radio Corporation of America, RCA Victor became the 
leader in phonographs and many of the records played on them. The famous 
Victrola phonograph logo, with Nipper the dog, and the words "His 
Master<<226>><<128>><<153>>s Voice", appeared on all RCA Victor phonographs and record labels.

1946   Dennis Day started his own show on NBC. Dennis, a popular tenor 
featured on The Jack Benny Show, played the same (type) naive young 
bachelor he played on the Benny show. A Day in the Life of Dennis Day 
aired for five years.

Joe

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