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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2014 : Issue 46
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
[removed] [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]
CBS Pearl Harbor information/anomoli [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history 18-24 May [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
Wee paws [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
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Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 10:48:45 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: [removed]
Folks;
The Digest was supposed to release while we were at the convention, and it
didn't, and I was too busy to notice. Rectified today, with my apologies.
Charlie
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Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 10:49:03 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: CBS Pearl Harbor information/anomolies
For a number of years I have been searching for a complete copy of the
bulletin made by John Charles Daly at the opening of the 2:30 [removed]
December 7th, 1941 broadcast of "The World Today." There is a lot of
confusion over this broadcast with apparently incomplete copies that
exist.
Without going into the history, I will mention one thing right off. The
copy that exists where it appears Daly has "interrupted" a broadcast is
strictly bogus. It did not happen that way at all and has been confirmed
by a number of sources. That copy appears to have originated from the
mind of Fred Friendly and Ed Murrow for their 1948 historical record "Hear
It Now."
However, despite that, the copies that do exist are mixed and not
complete. Essentially, this is what happened as I have been able to
research:
"The World Today" was a 2:30 [removed] news program coming on normally on
Sundays at that time. There was a sort of East and West version due to
sponsors though both did come on at the same time despite the time
differences. The opening that is available is either for West Coast only
as best I can tell comparing it to the broadcast of December 6th, or it
was changed. Essentially, the East Coast opens something like this:
"The World Today. The Columbia Broadcasting System now presents a summary
of all the important news in the world today. Reports from CBS
Correspondents by trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific shortwave radio and the
latest developments as received by Columbia's newsroom, here in New York."
The West Coast opened in this way:
"The World Today. By shortwave radio, Columbia now brings you reports from
its foreign correspondents overseas, with summaries of the latest world
news, presented over these stations by Golden Eagle Gasoline. Go ahead New
York."
The latter copy is the only one I have found. Most likely it originated
from KIRO's (Seattle) copies.
Now to the John Daly Bulletin.
After the program opening, Daly immediately went into the bombing bulletin
which had just come in at about 2:25 [removed] from the United Press. (On a
side note, Bob Trout talked about this on NPR in 1999). What is available
from Daly in circulation is this:
"The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by air, President
Roosevelt has just announced. The attack also was made on all naval and
military activities on the principal island of Oahu."
That is where it stops. However, according to Ed Bliss in his book "Now
the News," it continued a little more:
"The news came in just after the two Japanese envoys in Washington made
the appointment to call at the State Department and follows reports from
the Far East that Japan was ready to launch an attack on Thailand." Bliss
could be wrong here, but his chapter is pretty detailed.
At that point the program switches to Washington with Albert Warner. If
Daly announced the switch, that too is missing.
It is my understanding that the West Coast version only heard some seconds
of silence after their "Go ahead New York" because Daly went directly into
the bulletin instead of whatever took place usually and CBS West was
caught off guard and it took some time to switch since they would normally
have some time to plug the sponsor, so it included silence then Albert
Warner coming on. I am not sure if Master logs for CBS exist, so I am not
sure if there is truly a way to check it, unless a complete broadcast
uncut up as appears to be on the Internet is found or available.
That is what I am looking for. Either a complete version, preferably East
Coast version with the complete Daly bulletin and if anything after exists
just before the switch to Albert Warner. I've been collecting over 40
years and have yet to hear one. If anyone knows of such a recording, I
would be interested in talking to you.
Jim Widner
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Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 10:49:08 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 18-24 May
5/18
1942 - "David Harding, Counterspy" was heard on the NBC Blue network for
the first time. The program enjoyed a long run on radio, lasting for 15
years.
5/19
1921 - The first opera presented in its entirety over the radio was
broadcast by 9ZAF in Denver, CO. The opera, "Martha", aired from the
Denver Auditorium.
5/20
1933 - "Charlie Chan" was heard for the final time on the NBC Blue radio
network after only six months on the air. Not to worry. Several revivals
of the Chinese detective were on the air for years later ...
5/22
1955 - Jack Benny signed off his last first run network radio broadcast
after a run of 23 years. The show continued in repeats for several more
years.
5/23
1922 - The first debate to be heard on radio was broadcast on WJH in
Washington, DC. The two debaters argued about the topic of Daylight
Saving Time with the audience acting as the judge.
Joe
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Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 10:49:16 -0400
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS
Featuring Bob Bailey - Part 2
TALES OF FATIMA
Episode 37 9-17-49 "Portrait Of Fear"
STARS Basil Rathbone, Lili Palmer
CBS FATIMA CIGARETTES Saturdays 9:30 - 10:00pm
FAVORITE STORY
Episode 62 11-18-47 "Golden Ingot"
Host: Jack Albertson.
Favorite of Lauritz Melchior
Stars: Morris Carnovsky, Jack Albertson, Jean Bates
Hosts varied from program to program (Not Ronald Coleman).
KFI Syndicated and Produced by Lawrence and Lee for Bullocks Tuesdays
9:00 - 9:30 pm
HERITAGE
Episode 33 7-23-53 "The Canterbury Tales"
Stars: Bryna Raeburn, Leon Janney, Ivor Francis, Donald Buka
ABC Life Magazine
BEYOND THE GREEN DOOR
Episode 37 1966 "Richard Hearn, Hunter And The Werewolf"
Narrator: Basil Rathbone
Writer: Robert Scheckley
NBC Monitor Syndicated
WALK SOFTLY, PETER TROY
Episode 47 10-27-64 "Heavenly Helen"
Stars: Tom Meehan, John Simpson, Merle Wayne
Producer: Herrick Merril Productions
Springbok Radio - South Africa Irving $ Johnson
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATER
THAT'S RICH
(CBS) 11/21/53 Audition Pgm.
The series didn't air until 1954. Hear Stan, Daws Butler and Marvin
Miller in the cast.
UP FOR PAROLE
55/12/50 A short-lived
show (March-Dec. 1950) presenting "authentic" cases of inmates seeking
parole. "The Case of Clarence Hogan"
THE ADV. OF SUPERMAN
(WOR/Synd.) April 3, 1940 show, "The Giant of Brentwood"
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
*Jury Duty*
FAMOUS JURY TRIALS
Episode 33 5-3-37 "People Vs Radin"
OZZIE AND HARRIET
Episode 21 1-16-48 "Jury Duty"
THE PHIL HARRIS-ALICE FAYE SHOW
Episode 21 2-20-49 "Jury Duty"
SUSPENSE
Episode 540 2-22-54 "Murder By Jury"
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This Week's Classics & Curios Show:
"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"
Episode 121
THE LUCKY STRIKE (DANCE) HOUR
George Olsen and Ethel Shutta appear again, but this time on an episode
of "The Lucky Strike (Dance) Hour," one of several hour-long musical
variety programs that began in the early 1930's.
The Lucky Strike show sent listeners on a magic train and carpet to hear
top dance bands, vocalists, comedy, and drama on Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday nights on NBC and was hosted (or piloted) by Walter O'Keefe.
This episode from 12-01-32 showcases George Olsen's music and the
singing of wife Ethel Shutta during "cutting away" remote moments to the
Hotel New Yorker, along with comedian Jack Pearl as tall tale teller
(pirate) Baron Muenchhausen. The Baron became so popular that he
received his own Sunday night series and later appeared in an MGM movie
with Jimmy Durante. [The historical Hieronymus Carl Friedrich Freiherr
von Muenchhausen is pictured to the left.] Betwixt and between, Howard
Claney brings all the latest Lucky Strike "news."
All the while the show continues at a fast pace, kind of in vaudevillian
fashion, with rapid fire introductions. Interrupting the "barrage of
foolishness," as Walter puts it, come some fine musical numbers aided,
according to Walter, by Olsen's "Combination Glee Club and Choral
Society" or "Combination Choral Society and Bird Lovers Club." Walter
keeps the show moving with the words "on with the dance," and we hear
old and new songs with pleasantly slower paced introductions from George
Olsen whose music includes the show's theme "Happy Days Are Here Again"
along with "Bugle Call Rag;" "Darkness on the Delta;" "Won't You Stay
for Tea?" "A Boy and a Girl Were Dancing;" "Hey, Young Lady;" a novelty
"How Can I Heidi Ho When I Feel So Low?" "A Shine on Your Shoes;" and
"Cradle Lullaby (Mother Sang to Me)."
Near the end of the program we hear a cute German curio, "Was willst du
haben?" ("What Is It You Want?") Interestingly, after that tune Walter
O'Keefe exclaims playfully to the audience, "Pass auf!" (which means,
"Pay attention") and introduces the final song, "Sentimental Gentleman
from Georgia." That brings to a close one of the rarest OTR programs
long thought never to have been recorded.
Partial scripts for the "Lucky Strike Hour" can be found at
[removed] For more on radio "at the dawn of the 1930's"
see "Radio's Forgotten Years" online at [removed] by radio historian
Elizabeth McLeod who discovered "Lucky Strike Hour" recordings made on a
Victor home recording device.
If, like me, you enjoy timeless wholesome radio shows from yesterday or
especially from some 20, 50, or even 80 years ago, perhaps Gertrude
Stein was right when she said, "We are always the same age inside." --
Gertrude Stein
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THE GLOWING DIAL
Big John and Greg celebrate Memorial Day
with a tribute to The Armed Forces Radio Service
Front Line Theater - Ham For Sale
originally aired Monday, December 27, 1943 on AFRS
Starring: Jack Benny, Barbara Stanwyck, Basil Rathbone, Michael Curtiz,
Jean Hersholt, Russ Morgan and his Orchestra
Mail Call - Lum n' Abner
originally aired Wednesday, February 23, 1944 on AFRS
Starring: Lum n' Abner (Chester Lauck, Norris Goff),
Judy Canova, Jerry Cooper, Anita Ellis,
Harry Von Zell announcing
Command Performance - Bob Hope
originally aired Wednesday, September 13, 1944 on AFRS
Starring: Bob Hope, Johnny Mercer, Gloria DeHaven, June Allyson,
Ethel Smith, Frances Langford, Jerry Colonna, Jane Russell, Beatrice Kay,
Ken Carpenter announcing
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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: Mon, 19 May 2014 10:49:35 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Wee paws
Shouldn't the last line start with "Wee paws" instead of "Wee pause"?
Yeah, that does make more sense. :)
Joe
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