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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2017 : Issue 4
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
SPERDVAC convention in Las Vegas [ "Walden" <waldenhughes@[removed] ]
Laurel and Hardy [ Joe Salerno <jsalerno@[removed] ]
This week in radio history 22-28 Jan [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 13:31:56 -0500
From: "Walden" <waldenhughes@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: SPERDVAC convention in Las Vegas
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Hi Everybody,
This Friday 1-20-17 and Saturday 1-21-17 SPERDVAC will have it,s convention
at the Orleans hotel. The fun starts on Friday at 2 PM. Please like our
SPERDVAC old time Radio convention facebook page. John and Larry Gassman
will make updates on that page through out the week end on Yesterday USA
Radio network on the Blue feed we will be hosting some live broadcast too.
Take care,
Walden Hughes
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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 13:34:40 -0500
From: Joe Salerno <jsalerno@[removed];
To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Laurel and Hardy
Laurel and Hardy toured in Europe a number of times between 1932 to
1954. BBC Radio4 extra did a piece on this in July of 2006. Since L/H
had some presence in OTR I thought it might be of interest to some of us
on the OTR list.
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Joe Salerno
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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 13:35:17 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 22-28 January
1/22
1956 Raymond Burr starred as Captain Lee Quince in the Fort Laramie
debut on CBS. The program was said to be in "the Gunsmoke tradition."
1/23
1937 In an article published in Literary Digest, Edgar Bergen
mentioned that he made his dummy pal, Charlie McCarthy, the beneficiary
of a $10,000 trust fund ($169,902 in 2016 dollars) to keep him in
serviceable condition and repair.
1/24
1930 Ben Bernie (Benjamin Anzelwitz) began a weekly remote broadcast
from the lovely Roosevelt Hotel in NYC.
1942 - Abie's Irish Rose was first heard on NBC this day replacing
Knickerbocker Playhouse. The program was based on the smash play from
Broadway that ran for nearly 2,000 performances. Sydney Smith played the
part of Abie. Rosemary Murphy was played by Betty Winkler.
1/25
1937 NBC presented the first broadcast of The Guiding Light.
1944 The character, a black maid named Beulah and played by a white
man, Marlin Hurt, aired for the first time on Fibber McGee and Molly.
The spinoff, Beulah, became a radio series in 1945.
1/26
1947 The Greatest Story Ever Told was first heard on ABC.
1/27
1931 - NBC radio introduced listeners to "Clara, Lu 'n' Em" on its Blue
network (later, ABC radio). The show became the first daytime radio
serial when it was moved from its original nighttime slot.
1948 - Wire Recording Corporation of America announced the first
magnetic wire recorder. The "Wireway" machine with a built-in oscillator
sold for $[removed] ($1,[removed] in 2016 dollars).
1956 - The "CBS Radio Workshop" was heard for the first time. This first
broadcast featured Aldous Huxley narrating his classic, "Brave New World".
1/28
1940 Beat the Band made its debut on NBC, with the Ted Weems band. Beat
the Band was where listeners' questions were selected in the hopes of
stumping the band. If a listener's question was chosen, he or she
received $10 ($173 in 2016 dollars ) The questions were posed as
riddles: What song title tells you what Cinderella might have said if
she awoke one morning and found that her foot had grown too large for
her glass slipper? If the band played the correct musical answer, Where
Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?, the listener lost.
When Raleigh cigarettes sponsored Beat the Band, the listener who beat
the band won $50 ($869 in 2016 dollars) and two cartons of cigarettes
... Raleigh's, of course. When the sponsor changed to General Mill's Kix
cereal, if the listener beat the band, he/she won twenty bucks ($347 in
2016 dollars ) and a case of Kix cereal.
1934 As a result of a compliment paid on this day, by Walter Winchell,
in his newspaper column; a local disc jockey began receiving several
offers from talent scouts and producers. The DJ became known as the
Redhead, adored by thousands in Washington, DC and, later, by millions
across the country on CBS radio and TV. His trademark (strumming a
ukulele and delivering down home patter) endeared him to fans for many
years. We remember the broadcasting legend, Arthur Godfrey. "I wanna go
back to my little grass [removed]"
Joe
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