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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2013 : Issue 46
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Puzzle [ <radioaz@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history 21-27 Apr [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
New OTR book available [ "otrbuff" <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:51:31 -0400
From: <radioaz@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Puzzle
I recently listened to about half-a-dozen Jack Benny vault episodes--they
used the same combination every time.
Ted
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Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:52:15 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 21-27 April
From Those Were The Days
4/21
1940 Take It or Leave It, was first heard on CBS on this day. Bob Hawk
offered contestants a top prize of $64 ($1033 in 2012 dollars). No,
there were no lovely parting gifts or consolation prizes. Losers just left.
1949 The prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for Broadcasting was
presented to You Bet Your Life star, "The one, the only, Groucho
(Marx)." This was the first time the honor had been awarded to a comedian.
4/22
1940 The first all Chinese commercial radio program was broadcast over
KSAN in San Francisco, CA.
1946 Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg arrived at WEAF in New York City
with an entertaining morning show called, Hi, Jinx.
4/24
1949 Dick Powell starred in Richard Diamond, Private Detective on NBC.
The show stayed on the air for four years.
1955 X Minus One, a show for science fiction fans, was first heard on NBC.
1959 The final broadcast of One Man's Family was heard on NBC after
being on the air 27 years.
4/25
1938 Your Family and Mine, a radio serial, was first broadcast.
4/27
1921 Weather broadcasts were heard for the first time on radio when
WEW in St. Louis, MO aired weather news.
1931 NBC presented Lum and Abner for the first time.
1932 The Texaco fire chief, Ed Wynn, was heard on Texaco Star Theater
for the first time. Wynn, a popular vaudeville performer, demanded a
live audience to react to his humor if he was to make the switch to
radio. The network consented and Wynn became radio's first true superstar.
1937 The initial broadcast of Lorenzo Jones was heard over NBC.
Joe
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Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:52:22 -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 Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
Radio Theatre," John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane
Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios," Charlie St George's "Make Believe
Ballroom Time" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics." Streamed in
high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS
POPEYE THE SAILOR
Audition Show 1935 "The Lost Penny"
Stars: Detmar Poppen as Popeye
Creator: Elzie Segar
Producer/Writer: Frank Hummert, Anne Hummert
Music: Vic Irwin and his Cartoonland Band
NBC Wheatena
MEMO FROM MOLLY
8-19-51 "Household Repairs"
Stars: Olan Soule, Barbara Luddy, Sarah Selby, Jess Kirkpatrick, Stuffy
Singer
Announcer: Roy Rowan
Producer/Director: Gorden T. Hughes
CBS Lucerne Milk
CAPTAIN DANGER
Episode 1 1940 "The Mystery Letter"
Syndicated by Bennett-Downie Associates
THE PENNY SINGLETON SHOW
Episode 1 5-30-50 "The Lizard"
Summer Replacement for FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY
Stars: Penny Singleton, Sheilah James, Mary Lee Robb, Jim Bacus, Gale
Gordon, Bea Benaderet
Director: Max Hutto
NBC Wheaties Tuesdays 9:00-9:30 pm
THE LONE RANGER
Episode 1822 9-9-49 "The Red Wagon"
ABC Syndicated
STARS: Brace Beemer as THE LONE RANGER and John Todd as TONTO.
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE
AMOS AND ANDY
(CBS) 1/9/49 "Kingfish's Conscience"
George sells stock to Andy.
QUIET PLEASE
(ABC) 5/18/49 "Other Side of the Stars"
with Ernest Chappell
TOM MIX STRAIGHTSHOOTERS
3/10/39
A pre-War version - Pursuing Simon Blake. Hear Curley Bradley (soon to
be the long-running Tom Mix) as Pecos.
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
Our actor of the month is Elliott Lewis. This versatile performer acted,
directed and wrote during his career in radio.
This week we'll hear him in:
ON STAGE 01/01/53 Episode (01) The String Bow Tie.
Several weeks ago, Jim Taylor suggested a specific Dragnet program and
that got me thinking about doing a full 2 hour show on Telephones and
operators.
We did a full week on this theme last week and had some programming left
over so, here is week 2.
"JACK BENNY" This broadcast originally aired on 12/29/53. We don't have
that broadcast, but we do have the rebroadcast of 12/29/57. In the last
few minutes of the show, Jack needs to use the phone to call his sponsor
in New York.
"SUSPENSE" 09/02/42 Episode 011 The Hitch-Hiker. This stars Orson Welles.
"COLUMBIA WORKSHOP" from 08/24/39 Episode (001) Meridian 7-1212.
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Episode 76
MELODY HOUR: "THE BUDDY CLARK SHOW"
Buddy Clark takes center stage on "The Melody Hour," which was the Armed
Forces Radio Service version of NBC's "Carnation Contented Hour" with
commercials edited out. Buddy was featured vocalist and each week
introduced guest performers such as Duke Ellington, Lena Horne, Dennis
Day, and Eddy Duchin. Percy Faith's orchestra would perform a few
numbers in a lush style that sometimes today may unkindly be called
"elevator music" by some. I would have liked more of Buddy, and
certainly the bands of Harry, Benny, Artie or other big band orchestras
might have brought some swing and spirit. Yet Percy's orchestral
arrangements surely provided some pleasantly peaceful melody moments
which many of our troops must have appreciated, and even today amid the
world's violence Percy Faith's melodies give soothing soulful moments,
which I for one can appreciate, [I write this now just after Boston
Marathon's 2013 tragic bombings and following the horrible plant
explosion in the little town of West, Texas.]
Buddy Clark's first and perhaps best song on this show from August 11,
1947, is "Says My Heart." This song was recorded first by Mildred
Bailey, her recording reaching number one the week of June 18, 1938. The
first performance of the tune, however, was by Harriet Hilliard and Fred
MacMurry in the film "Cocoanut Grove" in 1938, the same year that Ozzie
Nelson's orchestra and Harriet recorded it. Harriet's version remains my
favorite, but Buddy's rendition is excellent.
Buddy's other 2 songs are "Ain'tcha Ever Comin' Back (to Me?)" and "I
Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You." Victor Young's "Ghost" was
first done by Bing Crosby in 1932, Bing apparently having helped write
the lyrics with Ned Washington. This Brunswick recording reached number
5 on the [removed] singles charts on January 21, 1933. The jazz/pop song was
recorded by just about everybody, from Mildred Bailey to Cab Calloway,
Maurice Chevalier, the Dorseys, the Duke, Artie, Bing, Frank, Nat, Ella,
Tony Martin, and many more.
Buddy's guest on this episode is Joan Nichols, a vocalist about whom I
know nothing more except that she entertains us nicely with "The Man I
Love" and "Comin' Through the Rye.'"
Percy conducts the band for the pop standard "Speak Low When You Speak
Love" and for the popular piece "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To," a
Cole Porter composition and a big hit for Dinah Shore in 1943. Percy
also curiously selects a novelty, "The Flight of the Bumblebee," a tune
offering no small challenge for lush strings.
Finally, the theme song "Stardust" rounds out the hour of melodies that
must have given many brave troops a few precious minutes of welcome
escape from the realities of war to thoughts of home and happy times.
"Blessed are the peacemakers." Matthew 5:9a
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"Melody Hour" programs featuring Buddy Clark are available for purchase
from the Jerry Haendiges Productions collection. .
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Make Believe Ballroom Time
Episode 6
Today, BBSS is featuring Chuck Foster and his "Music in the Foster
Fashion" They are broadcasting from the Hotel New Yorker in NY City. The
New Yorker Hotel is located in Manhattan's Garment Center, central to
Pennsylvania Station, Madison Square Garden, Times Square and the Empire
State Building. An early ad for the building boasted that the hotel's
"bell boys were 'as snappy-looking as West Pointers'" and "that it had a
radio in every room with a choice of four stations" It was a New Yorker
bellboy who served as tobacco company Phillip Morris' pitchman for
twenty years, making famous their "Call for Phillip Morris" advertising
campaign.
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s the hotel was among New York's most
fashionable and hosted many popular Big Bands, such as Benny Goodman and
Tommy Dorsey, while notable figures such as Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford
and Fidel Castro stayed there. The New York Observer noted that in the
building's heyday, "actors, celebrities, athletes, politicians,
mobsters, the shady and the luminous-the entire Brooklyn Dodgers roster
during the glory seasons-would stalk the bars and ballrooms, or romp
upstairs".
Some say the Foster band copied the style of Guy Lombardo's successful
and popular Royal [removed] Reed player Chuck Foster began his career
as a bandleader in 1938, bringing the sweet (and sometimes syrupy)
sounds of his band to such sizeable venues as San Francisco's Mark
Hopkins Hotel and the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel's famous Biltmore Bowl.
With radio remotes routinely being broadcast from both locations, the
band hit its stride early and quickly achieved popularity with the help
of talented pianist Hal Pruden and a raft of popular vocalists.
The Foster band is appearing on BBSS in a remote broadcast from the
Hotel New Yorker in NY City. It's mid-August 1945 just prior to Chuck
Foster being drafted into the WWII military.
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If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.
Jerry Haendiges
Jerry@[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, 21 Apr 2013 21:52:29 -0400
From: "otrbuff" <otrbuff@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: New OTR book available
Just released is my latest 260-page odyssey, "Radio Journalism in America:
Telling the News in the Golden Age and Beyond." It's the first time I've
addressed this in an exclusive volume, including radio news and public
affairs and the legends that brought it to us. It may be the first text in
modern times to focus extensively on the topic. With pictures it's an
examination of how radio directed the nation's mass appeal to events
happening throughout the country and the globe. The book explores the
implications of print media, television, satellite, and Internet technology
with rapidly expanding derivatives and platforms. Not to be missed is a
54-page appendix containing biographies of 115 great and near-great
broadcasters who delivered the news in earlier days, many of them revealing
little-known gems that have never been widely circulated. The appendix
itself may be worth the price of the book which McFarland has set at $45,
now available in softcover and electronic editions. To order contact the
publisher at 800-253-2187 or Box 311, Jefferson, NC 28640.
Jim Cox
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