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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2013 : Issue 77
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Who were band members? [ Midwest Today magazine <midtod@iowa ]
You Know You Are An OTR Fan [removed] [ "belanger" <belanger@[removed]; ]
Re: You know you're an OTR fan when. [ Dixon Hayes <dixonhayes@[removed]; ]
Olde Tyme Radio Network [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:10:36 -0400
From: Midwest Today magazine <midtod@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Who were band members?
I have enjoyed the beautiful orchestral accompaniment on various
radio shows (especially in the late 1940s and early '50s) by John
Scott Trotter. But strangely, I have not been able to find a list
anywhere online of WHO the musicians were in his orchestra, other
than incidental references to two or three musicians. Obviously, his
orchestra was a lot larger than that. I have looked in various
databases using a variety of search criteria, all to no avail. This
has my curiosity aroused even more. I am especially interested in
knowing the names of any of the string players (and I'm not referring
to Joe Venuti who was a frequent guest).
Can someone in the OTR community tell me who the musicians were in
John Scott Trotter's Orchestra in the late 40s/early 50s? They were
really outstanding!
Larry J.
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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:10:50 -0400
From: "belanger" <belanger@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: You Know You Are An OTR Fan [removed]
You know you are an otr fan when you lay awake at night trying to remember
where you packed away you Captain Midnight decoder ring.
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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:11:24 -0400
From: Dixon Hayes <dixonhayes@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: You know you're an OTR fan [removed]
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You know you're an OTR fan [removed]
...you measure car trips based on lengths of OTR programming that you can
listen to on CD or MP3. ("Half hour? That's a Suspense or an Inner
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Benny marathon.")
Dixon
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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:10:43 -0400
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Olde Tyme Radio Network
Hi Friends,
Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
Radio Theatre," John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane
Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."
Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS
MY FRIEND IRMA
Episode 140 2-6-50 "Monkey Business"
STARS: Marie Wilson, Cathy Lewis, John Brown, Hans Conried, Gloria
Gordon, Leif Erickson, Alan Reed
CBS PEPSODENT Mondays 10:00 - 10:30 pm
THE ADVENTURES OF FATHER BROWN
Episode 7 7-22-45 "The Three Tools Of Death"
STARS: Karl Swenson as Father Brown
Based on G. K. Chesterton's stories
MUTUAL Sustaining Sundays 5:00 - 5:30 Pm
STEVE ALLEN SHOW
12-5-50 Guest: Bob Hopkins
Memorable final show before Steve Allen left for New York to start NBC's
"Tonight Show"
On-Air audition for new show host Bob Hopkins
KNX
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE
THE LUX RADIO THEATRE
(CBS) 2/1/43 "The Show-Off" stars: Harold Peary in Gildersleeve mode, in
a delightful comedy. Cecil B. DeMille, host.
THE ARTIE SHAW SHOW
(NBC) 12/06/38 Big Band remote from the Blue Room of the Hotel Lincoln
in NYC. Vocalists: Tony Pastor and Helen Forest.
FIVE MINUTE MYSTERIES
(Synd) "The Murder Of Timothy Fuller"
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
The team of Goodson Todman is arguably the finest producing team in
Television with a large number of game show credits to their names.
David Schwartz recently called our attention to the fact that This July
marks the 65th anniversary of the first Goodson-Todman game show on
television, a series called Winner Take All that had previously run on
CBS radio since 1946.
This week, we will hear:
WHAT'S MY LINE from 1961 three of Bing Crosby's sons guest.
We'll take a longer look at this terrific team once we've had a chance
to gather more radio shows created by Goodson and Todman.
The remainder of the program deals with the Circus.
CHARLIE MCCARTHY episode (28) Danger in the Deep.
THE CLYDE BEATTY SHOW from 07/02/41 Episode (001) Fred Allen, Judy
Garland Charles laughton, Grace More, Barry Woods,Mickey Rooney, and the
Information Please cast.
THE RED SKELTON SHOW 03/19/52 Episode (355) The Circus.
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This Week's Classics & Curios Show:
"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"
Episode 79
FRED WARING & HIS PENNSYLVANIANS ON THE AIR
This week Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians take the spotlight in a
30-minute broadcast from New York City on the Columbia Broadcasting
System and station WABC. The main reason for my choosing this particular
Fred Waring radio performance from June 17th, 1934 is his song
selection, which includes a tune that is currently very special for me
and my "main squeeze." That tune title is "I've Loved the Same Girl for
50 Years." In fact, this song's lyrics -- for me and my wife Glenda --
should read "for 51 years," as we anticipate celebrating our 51st
wedding anniversary in 2 weeks. The Pennsylvanians also appropriately do
"Rolling in Love," a tune from the 4-star 1934 movie "The Old Fashioned
Way," as well as "Lover," "You Have Taken My Heart," and "Kissing
Games," a cute curio. In addition, we'll hear a curio "extra" called
"Suntan Charlie" and a bit of that great "oldie" "Breezin' Along with
the Breeze," the latter performed for the show's sponsor, Ford
automobiles. And finally in a hymn the Pennsylvanians express their (and
our personal) reverence and gratitude to the Lord.
Fred Waring, known as "the man who taught America how to sing,"
performed around the world for some seven decades, variously on radio,
the stage, in movies, on television, and in music education. Fred was a
perfectionist and often had his orchestra rehearse as many as 8 times a
day. And many a song was rehearsed in 3 different styles: as a waltz, as
a jive number, and in straight time. Members of the orchestra had to be
alert as Fred would choose the song style he felt appropriate during a
performance. In the late 1940's Waring was the first bandleader to have
his own TV show, which was carried 5 nights a week during prime time.
In 1945 Fred created one of the most expensive daytime OTR shows of all
time, with $18,000 paid just to the orchestra, quite a leap from the
"Snap Orchestra" from his teen years and his "Banjo Orchestra" that
played fraternity parties, proms, and dances.
Waring added a glee club to the orchestra in 1929 and insisted on
crystal-clear diction and demanded that his glee club sing each syllable
of a song. He was known for teaching how to blend sounds and enunciate
words. Later in his life Fred commented that "The kids today are saying
things dynamically but not emotionally. If a song is sentimental, why
scream? After all, you don't get on a [removed] system and yell, 'I love
you'. You whisper it in her ear."
Personally, I remember watching and listening to the Pennsylvanians on
TV and how peaceful and professional the performances and Waring were.
His "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "Sleep" productions were truly
amazing and unforgettable. How blessed our country was to have Fred
Waring to teach it how to sing, even if those lessons have long been
forgotten.
(Some information here was from Claire Spiegel, "The Los Angeles Times,"
July 30, 1984, the year of Fred Waring's death.)
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If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.
Jerry Haendiges
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The Vintage Radio Place [removed]
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