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Volume 2016 : Issue 78
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 27 Novemb [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Attn: Peg Lynch fans [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
The Cinnamon Bear! [ Dennis Crow via <charlie@[removed] ]
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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:12:37 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 27 November to 3
December
From Those Were The Days
11/26
1945 Bride and Groom, debuted on the ABC network. It is estimated that
1,000 newlywed couples were interviewed on the program before it left
the airwaves in 1950.
11/27
1930 Broadcasting from "...the little theatre off Times Square,"
according to the show's introduction, The First Nighter was first heard.
The program, which actually originated from Chicago, then from
Hollywood, aired for 23 years and featured dramas and comedies.
11/28
1932 Groucho Marx performed on radio for the first time.
12/2
1932 The Adventures of Charlie Chan was first heard on the NBC Blue
network.
12/3
1928 The first broadcast of The Voice of Firestone was heard. The
program aired each Monday evening at 8. The Voice of Firestone became a
hallmark in radio broadcasting. It kept its same night, time (in 1931
the start time changed to 8:30) and sponsor for its entire run.
Beginning on September 5, 1949, the program of classical and semi
classical music was also seen on television.
Joe
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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:13:54 -0500
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Attn: Peg Lynch fans
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Had she still been with us, Peg Lynch would have celebrated her 100th birthday
this November 25th. On that birth anniversary, her daughter, Astrid King,
announced the creation of Peg Lynch Relaunched. This will be a gigantic
umbrella under which Astrid plans to release books, recordings, film and TV
clips and interviews of her famous mother, the remarkable comedy writer and
performer. These releases will even include over 80 uncirculated vintage TV
episodes, currently archived at the University of Oregon. Astrid resides in
England and assisting her in this extensive project is Kristin Erikson in
Wisconsin, a longtime fan of Peg and an award-winning entrepreneur.
Peg died in July 2015 and since then Astrid has been inventorying the vast
accumulation of Pegbs show-biz career, much of it dealing with the radio and
TV shows of Ethel and Albert and The Couple Next Door. The collection includes
thousands of business and personal letters, over 10,000 scripts plus films,
tapes, photos and notes.
To be a part of this welcome project and be notified of the status of Peg
Lynch Relaunched and the progress being made, go to either
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then click Submit. Astrid promises to never share your email address with
anyone.
Jack French
Editor, RADIO RECALL
Metro Washington OTR Club
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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:15:32 -0500
From: Dennis Crow via <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Cinnamon Bear!
Dear Reader:
Hi, everybody! I hope by now you have established a schedule for playing
episodes of "The Cinnamon Bear." Remember, there are 26 installments
(available everywhere). They should be programmed between Thanksgiving
Day and Christmas Day. Research by First Generation Radio Archives has
determined that the very first episode was broadcast in the USA on Friday,
November 26, 1937, so you will be carrying on a tradition lasting almost
eighty years!
As a reminder, my friends, November 29 is the day to begin "The Cinnamon
Bear." If you play one 15 minute segment a day, the story will conclude
on Christmas Eve.
Your family will thrill to the adventures of Paddy, Jimmy and Judy Barton,
and the Crazy Quilt Dragon, as they search Maybeland for the missing silver
star that goes atop the Barton family Christmas tree. If you don't have the
program tapes, all the clubs and dealers have them, most of whom write to
this list. YES, It is time once again to celebrate THE CINNAMON BEAR, first
heard in 1937.
Charlie helped me make the Maybeland map and the eleven songs in the serial
more accessible to you this year. Just go to:
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You can print them off and use them as you listen with your kids to the
program. You'll have so much fun.
It is golden age radio at its best, with the actors who are so familiar to
you---Joseph Kearns, Elvia Allman, Gale Gordon, Frank Nelson, Martha
Wentworth, Barbara Jean Wong, Verna Felton, Hanley Stafford, Elliott Lewis,
Lou Merrill, Howard McNear, and the list goes on and on and on.
As Paddy himself says, "I'd be much obliged to you!"
Sincerely,
Dennis Crow
(via and mildly edited by Charlie Summers. For those who didn't know Dennis,
he was the best friend a short stubby little teddy bear could ever [removed]
he was in love with the magic and wonder of The Cinnamon Bear and never
missed an opportunity to talk about the story. He was a friend to this
Digest, but a better friend to my daughter, who each year shortly before
Judy and Jimmy went to the attic would receive a small gift from Dennis
related to The Cinnamon Bear. She still lovingly places the Cinnamon
Bear ornament on our Christmas Tree each year, and listens to the show with
the Crazy Quilt Dragon perched above her bed. Dennis passed away in 2008,
and will be fondly remembered here on the Digest for as long as I operate
it.
The best-sounding set of this series, and the version played each year
here at Chez Charlie, is available from Radio Archives - see:
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...for more details - this is truly an excellent transfer. Also, there
is a free iCalendar schedule for import into any modern calendar
application attached to the blog post at:
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..that will let you track which episode should be played each day, in case
you get a day or two behind the way we generally do. Again, the first
episode, assuming you listen to one episode every day including weekends,
should be heard this coming Tuesday, November 29th, so the story will end on
Christmas eve. --cfs3)
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