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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2019 : Issue 26
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 2-8 June [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Another Jack Benny Joke Reference [ Steve <sjdillie@[removed]; ]
Benny reference: Eastern [removed] [ Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@yahoo. ]
This week in radio history 9-15 June [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
D Day coverage [ "Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed]; ]
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 02:10:06 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 2-8 June
From These Were The Days
6/2
1946 The Fabulous Dr. Tweedy was broadcast on NBC for the first time.
Frank Morgan starred as the absent minded Dr. Tweedy.
1937 CBS presented the first broadcast of Second Husband. The show
continued on the air until 1946.
6/3
1946 - Mutual Radio debuted "The Casebook of Gregory Hood". The show was
the summer replacement series for "Sherlock Holmes". The mystery series
became a regular weekly program in the fall of 1946.
6/4
1944 - "Leonidas Witherall" was first broadcast on the Mutual
Broadcasting System. Witherall was a detective who looked just like
William Shakespeare.
6/6
1938 - Stella Dallas was presented for the first time on the NBC Red
radio network. The serial was "the true to life story of mother love and
sacrifice." Stella continued to do this and so much more until 1955.
6/7
1945 The NBC program The Adventures of Topper was heard for the first
time.
1955 NBC presented The Lux Radio Theatre for the final time. The
program had aired for 21 years.
6/8
1942 The comic soap opera Clara, Lu 'n Em was revived on CBS (the
original show began in 1931 on NBC). Clara, Lu and Em were together
again for just a short while before vanishing into radio oblivion.
1947 Lassie debuted on ABC. It was a 15 minute show about an
extraordinary collie. Animal imitator, Earl Keen provided the whines and
other dog noises. The announcer was Charles Lyon; Marvin Miller and
Betty Arnold played Lassie's owners. The sponsor was Red Heart dog food.
Joe
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 02:11:13 -0400
From: Steve <sjdillie@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Another Jack Benny Joke Reference
Jello Everybody, or Grape Nuts Flakes Everybody since the question concerns a
wartime episode. On October 18, 1942 Jack sells his Maxwell to the scrap
drive. There are two times with the line "Oh, I haven't seen her in years."
Once with Mr. Billingsley, the tenant. The routine is Mr. B says "Don't
mention it. Good night, Mr. Benny." Jack replies "Good night." Mr. B says
"Oh, I haven't seen her in years." Jack says, "He's a strange fellow. Boy, am
I all in."
Later in the show it is said again, but it's a dream sequence and they were
playing off many of the earlier lines. Was it a running gag or something
else?
I'm doing this show as a recreation this coming Tuesday, June 4th at 7:30pm
at the Forest View Education Center in Arlington Heights, IL. The show is
free. We are also doing Burns & Allen's Kansas City's Favorite Singer from
June 6th, 1944 as well as some WWII speeches.
Regards,
Steve Dillie
1614 Hadley Ct. Unit C1
Wheeling, IL 60090
847-541-6772
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 02:11:21 -0400
From: Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Benny reference: Eastern [removed]
One last comment on the above reference. I appreciate the responses from
Digesters, and particularly being directed to the Wikipedia entry, which
notes the first use of the reference in the show (September 29, 1946). I went
to that show (thanks, OTR Streamer!) and listened. I actually do believe I'd
heard the show before, but the reference to the department store was so brief
and oblique that I'm sure it didn't register with me. I also can't imagine
that it registered with hardly anyone outside the LA metro area. What do you
suppose folks in St. Joe ("They loved me in St Joe") or even Waukegan made of
it?
I'm guessing it was just an inside joke for the locals.
Alan
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Alan/Linda Bell
Santa Rosa, CA
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 02:11:32 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 9-15 June
6/10
From [removed]
1909 An SOS signal is transmitted for the first time in an emergency
when the Cunard liner SS Slavonia is wrecked off the Azores.
From Those Were The Days
1924 The first political convention on radio was presented. Graham
McNamee provided coverage of the Republican National Convention from
Cleveland, OH.
6/12
1947 Sergeant Preston of The Yukon went national for the first time.
The show, with the Canadian Mountie and his trusty dog, King, continued
on the radio until 1955, beginning on WXYZ Detroit in 1938. Sgt. Preston
was created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, who also created The
Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet.
1955 The first network radio show to be produced with no script, The
University of Chicago Round Table, was heard for the final time on NBC.
The program was the first network radio program to win the coveted
George Foster Peabody Award.
1955 "This is Monitor, a weekend program service of NBC Radio," was
heard for the first time. Notables such as Bill Cullen, Ed McMahon, Hugh
Downs, and Dave Garroway recited this line. It was a network cue to NBC
radio stations across the nation who carried the long form news,
entertainment and variety broadcast from New York City. Stations and
listeners who were "on the Monitor beacon" were entertained for six
hours or more daily for nearly two decades. NBC's Monitor was one of the
last live network radio programs on the air.
6/13
1944 The wire recorder was patented by Marvin Camras.
6/15
1936 Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler starred in Burlesque on the Lux Radio
Theatre.
Joe
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 02:11:56 -0400
From: "Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: D Day coverage
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Just curious if anyone has an opinion as to which network had the best D Day
coverage?
I'm sure both CBS and NBC were great, and I've heard some of both, but
curious if anyone has any opinion on who did it best.
Bill
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