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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2013 : Issue 98
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Tune into Yesterday newsletter [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
This week in radio history 14-21 Sep [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Radio Correspondence Course [ JayHick@[removed] ]
MANC [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:33:13 -0400
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Tune into Yesterday newsletter
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Hi.
Issue 69 of ORCA's Tune into Yesterday newsletter is now available.
Articles in this issue include the story of the BBC detective series Paul
Temple, a look at how the BBC Home Service covered the Harrow & Wealdstone
rail disaster in 1952, and a look at the surviving discs of the Tom Mix radio
series. The Supplement with this issue is full of 'news from the archives'.
There is also a big selection of old radio shows for members to hire.
Annual
membership is eight pounds in the UK, or twenty dollars in the US. For a
sample copy of the newsletter write to our membership secretary John
Wolstenholme at: ORCA, PO Box 1922, Dronfield, S18 8XA, England.
Graeme
Stevenson ( Editor: Tune into Yesterday, ORCA/UK )
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:33:40 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 14-21 September
From Those Were The Days -
9/15
1934 NBC presented The Gibson Family to American audiences. The
program was the first musical comedy drama to be broadcast. Ernest
Whitman and Eddie Green were featured members of the cast and were
billed as "network radio's only colored comedians." The show originated
from the studios of WEAF in New York City.
9/18
1927 The Columbia Broadcasting System was born on this day in 1927.
CBS broadcast an opera, The King's Henchman, as its first program.
1948 The Original Amateur Hour returned to radio on ABC, two years
after the passing of the program's originator and host, Major Bowes.
Bowes brought new star talent into living rooms for 13 years.
9/19
It was just an average day this day in 1932, when Just Plain Bill was
first heard on CBS. It was "The real life story of people just like
people we all know." The 15 minute show (Monday through Friday at 7:15
[removed]) was all about (just plain) Bill Davidson and his daughter, Nancy,
who lived in (just plain) Hartville. Since Bill was the town barber,
everybody came to him with their problems and Bill helped them
straighten things out.
Instead of playing the usual organ, as a first, Hal Brown played
harmonica and whistled the Just Plain Bill introduction music (Darling
Nellie Gray). Hal also handled the closing theme (Polly Wolly Doodle) in
the same manner.
The show, created by Frank and Anne Hummert, who also came up with Mr.
Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, Little Orphan Annie, Amanda of Honeymoon
Hill, Front Page Farrell, John's Other Wife, Mr. Chameleon, Our Gal
Sunday and many other radio dramas, later moved to NBC. Just Plain Bill
chalked up 23 years on the air, until 30 September, 1955. A few of the
Just Plain Bill sponsors over the years were Kolynos toothpaste and
Clapp's baby [removed]
9/20
1921 KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania started one of the first daily
radio newscasts in the country. The broadcast came from the city desk of
The Pittsburgh Post.
1953 Jimmy Stewart debuted in The Six Shooter on NBC. He played Britt
Ponset on the Western.
9/21
1946 After being tested on a regional basis, The Second Mrs. Burton
was heard for the first time on the entire CBS network. The Second Mrs.
Burton fared very well, having a relationship with the network for 14 years.
1948 The serial Life With Luigi debuted on CBS. Luigi Basko was played
by J. Carroll Naish. Naish, an Irish American, became typecast as an
Italian immigrant, and went on to play the same role in the TV version
in 1952.
Joe
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:33:48 -0400
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Radio Correspondence Course
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I received this email from Gil Vassek. If you can help, reply to the
email listed. Jay
I have complete correspondence course of radio repair from Radio and
Television Institute of Chicago
from 1931, if interested my email is joanv55@[removed]
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:35:31 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: MANC
Folks;
If you're attening MANC, and you're around Thursday morning, find me and
say Howdee - I'll be there for a few hours Thursday morning.
Charlie
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