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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2017 : Issue 45
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
SPERDVAC Presents post for July [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
This week in radio history 2-8 July [ [removed]@[removed] ]
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Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 20:25:33 -0400
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: oldtimeradio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: SPERDVAC Presents post for July
The July SPERDVAC Presents is now available. Writer Phil Leslie was
SPERDVAC's guest speaker at the March 14, 1981 meeting. Phil wrote for the
Beulah Show, The Great Gildersleeve, and for 13 years for Fibber McGee and
Molly. He is interviewed by a young John Tefteller and clips of some shows
are played. This was also SPERDVAC's annual election meeting, presided over
by president Joe Crawford who steps down after five years as president. Joe
mentions many names who helped make SPERDVAC successful in the early years.
Go to [removed] to listen or download.
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Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 20:25:50 -0400
From: [removed]@[removed]
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 2-8 July
From Those Were The Days
7/2
1939 The Aldrich Family debuted on NBC.
1946 CBS signed Arthur Godfrey to do a weekly nighttime show.
1951 NBC presented Bob and Ray (Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding) on a
network show.
7/3
1939 Chic Young's comic strip character, Blondie was first heard on CBS.
1940 The legendary comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello debuted
with their network show on NBC.
1945 NBC gave the comedian/pianist Victor Borge his own the summer
replacement show for Fibber McGee and Molly. He had been heard a few
years earlier as a semi regular on NBC's "Kraft Music Hall" with Bing
Crosby.
7/4
1943 The Rhythm Boys, Bing Crosby, Al Rinker and Harry Barris, were
reunited for the first time since the 1930s on Paul Whiteman Presents on
NBC.
1951 Jack Webb, along with Dragnet, also did a summer show that of
Pete Kelly. Pete Kelly's Blues, a crime drama, was the summer
replacement on NBC for Halls of Ivy (with Ronald Colman and Benita Hume).
7/5
1943 The Adventures of Nero Wolfe debuted on the NBC Blue network.
Nero Wolfe was "the detective genius who rates the knife and fork the
greatest tools ever invented by man." The 'gargantuan gourmet' continued
on the air until 1951.
1948 My Favorite Husband, with Lucille Ball, became the gifted
redhead's first regular radio program on CBS. Richard Denning co
starred with Lucy as "two people who live together and like it." (Which
today has a different [removed] -ed)
1951 The Silver Eagle debuted on ABC as a entry into radio's action
adventure lineup. Jim Ameche starred as Jim West.
7/6
1943 Judy Canova, the 'Queen of the Hillbillies', began a weekly
comedy show on CBS.
1947 A hidden microphone eavesdropped on unsuspecting people for the
first time this night, as Candid Microphone hit the ABC airwaves.
7/7
1927 Christopher Stone becomes the first British 'disc jockey' when
he plays records for the BBC.
From Those Were The Days
1920 A device known as the radio compass was used for the first time
on a [removed] Navy airplane near Norfolk, Virginia.
1943 Flashgun Casey was heard on radio. The name of the program had
several name changes, Casey, Press Photographer, Crime Photographer and
ended up as Casey, Crime Photographer.
7/8
1950 Joel McCrea appeared in the lead role of Tales of the Texas
Rangers on NBC.
Joe
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