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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2018 : Issue 40
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Radio History                         [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]

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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 19:40:02 -0400
From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
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Subject:  Radio History
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Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 14:53:33 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];

6/26

1933   The Kraft Music Hall debuted.

Does anyone know who the first host of the Kraft Music Hall was? I
know that Bing Crosby was probably the best-known radio host. The title
"Kraft Music Hall" was revived on television in 1958, when the
long-running "Kraft Television Theater" on Wednesday evening on NBC
ended and was replaced by Milton Berle, making an attempt at a TV
comeback.  His half-hour show, using the title "Kraft Music Hall,"
lasted for one television season, then was replaced for the summer with
British comedian David King, still using the "Kraft Music Hall" title.
In the fall, Perry Como became host of the Kraft Music Hall, and
remained there for quite a few years.  Perry Como's first Kraft Music
Hall show began with a visual of Bing's silhouette inside a door, and a
mention of the year that "Bing Crosby closed the doors of the Kraft
Music Hall."  Someone came out and handed Como the keys left behind by
Bing, and there was a pretense that nobody, not Berle and not whoever
came after Bing on radio, had hosted the Kraft Music Hall since.

1949   Fred Allen broadcast his final program, though he continued for
several years to guest on other shows.

And a great show it was, with Jack Benny as guest, exaggerating his
cheapness until Jack said, "Nobody ever made me this cheap on my own
show."  I remember Fred Allen making a number of TV appearances during
the early 1950s, on Colgate Comedy Hour, substituting for Herb Shriner
as host of the quiz show "Two for the Money," and even making a guest
appearance on the fifth anniversary Howdy Doody show.  There are quite a
number of episodes of "What's My Line" on YouTube where Fred appeared as
a panelist.

7/14

1957   Funnyman Stan Freberg debuted a new weekly comedy program on CBS.
The Freberg show only lasted a short time and that newfangled
contraption, television, was blamed for the show's quick demise.

By that time television had already supplanted radio as the mass
entertainment medium in the US.  Jack Benny's radio show was still on
CBS, but had been in reruns for a couple of years, and Stan Freberg was
Jack's summer replacement.  It was a funny show, and its best bits were
issued in a two-LP record set.

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