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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2017 : Issue 63
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 9-16 Sept [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
American OTR on the BBC [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
This week in radio history 17-23 Sep [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 22:13:15 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: This week in radio history 9-16 September
1935 - "I'm Popeye the sailor [removed]" toot! toot! Popeye was heard for
the first time on NBC radio. The show was based on the Elzie Crisler
Segar comic strip, which featured Popeye, Olive Oyl, Brutas, Wimpy and
Sweepea.
9/12
1938 [removed] Kaltenborn made broadcasting history by covering a crisis in
Czechoslovakia for CBS beginning on this day. Kaltenborn was so devoted
to his work that he slept in the studio for 18 days while bringing
updates to his appreciative audience.
9/13
1931 Vaudeville star Eddie Cantor was heard for the first time on
NBC. The Chase and Sanborn Hour became one of the most popular radio
shows of the 1930s.
1937 The first broadcast of Kitty Keene, Inc. was heard on the NBC Red
network.
9/14
1936 NBC presented John's Other Wife for the first time. Actually,
John's other wife was not his wife at all. She was his secretary.
9/15
1934 NBC presented The Gibson Family to American audiences. The
program was the first musical comedy drama to be broadcast. Ernest
Whitman and Eddie Green were featured members of the cast and were
billed as "network radio's only colored comedians." The show originated
from the studios of WEAF in New York City.
Joe
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 22:17:42 -0400
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: American OTR on the BBC
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Might be of interest ... ... ...
BBC - The Golden Age Of American Radio - Media Centre
BBC - The Golden Age Of American Radio - Media Centre
The decades between the end of the silent film era and the rise of TV were golden years for the medium of radio ... | |
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Cheers ! Graeme
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 22:17:52 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 17-23 September
9/18
1927 The Columbia Broadcasting System was born on this day in 1927.
CBS broadcast an opera, The King's Henchman, as its first program.
1948 The Original Amateur Hour returned to radio on ABC, two years
after the passing of the program's originator and host, Major Bowes.
Bowes brought new star talent into living rooms for 13 years.
9/19
It was just an average day this day in 1932, when Just Plain Bill was
first heard on CBS. It was "The real life story of people just like
people we all know." The 15 minute show (Monday through Friday at 7:15
[removed]) was all about (just plain) Bill Davidson and his daughter, Nancy,
who lived in (just plain) Hartville. Since Bill was the town barber,
everybody came to him with their problems and Bill helped them
straighten things out.
Instead of playing the usual organ, as a first, Hal Brown played
harmonica and whistled the Just Plain Bill introduction music (Darling
Nellie Gray). Hal also handled the closing theme (Polly Wolly Doodle) in
the same manner.
The show, created by Frank and Anne Hummert, who also came up with Mr.
Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, Little Orphan Annie, Amanda of Honeymoon
Hill, Front Page Farrell, John's Other Wife, Mr. Chameleon, Our Gal
Sunday and many other radio dramas, later moved to NBC. Just Plain Bill
chalked up 23 years on the air, until 30 September, 1955. A few of the
Just Plain Bill sponsors over the years were Kolynos toothpaste and
Clapp's baby [removed]
9/20
1921 KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania started one of the first daily
radio newscasts in the country. The broadcast came from the city desk of
The Pittsburgh Post.
1953 Jimmy Stewart debuted in The Six Shooter on NBC. He played Britt
Ponset on the Western.
9/21
1946 After being tested on a regional basis, The Second Mrs. Burton
was heard for the first time on the entire CBS network. The Second Mrs.
Burton fared very well, having a relationship with the network for 14 years.
1948 The serial Life With Luigi debuted on CBS. Luigi Basko was played
by J. Carroll Naish. Naish, an Irish American, became typecast as an
Italian immigrant, and went on to play the same role in the TV version
in 1952.
9/22
1943 Singer Kate Smith finished her War Bond radio appeal. For 13
continuous hours Smith had stayed on the air, collecting a whopping $39
million dollars in bond pledges. ($549,977,526,248 in 2016 dollars.)
1957 The CBS Radio Workshop was silenced after 18 months of what the
critics said was "ingenious radio programming."
Joe
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 11:25:45 -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
*Radio Program Episodes NOT Previously in General Circulation*
BLONDIE
Episode 476 11-10-48 "Blondie's Historical House"
Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake
NBC Super Suds Wednesday 8:00 - 8:30 pm
GREAT GILDERSLEEVE
Episode 154 1-28-45 "Aunt Hattie Is Due To Arrive"
Stars: Harold Peary, Walter Tetley, Earle Ross, Richard LeGrand, Lillian
Randolph
NBC Kraft
SUSPENSE
Episode 175 1-10-46 "This Was A Hero"
Stars: Phillip Terry, Lurene Tuttle, Howard Duff
CBS Roma Wines
REAL MOMENTS OF ROMANCE
Episode 2 1947 "The story of Ludwig Van Beethoven"
Syndicated by Bendix Radio
Host: Jim Ameche
Features: Johnny Thompson
Music: Earl Sheldon and His Orchestra
SERGEANT PRESTON OF THE YUKON
Episode 1104 6-9-53 "Tugboat Skipper Mamie"
Final show of the 1952-1953 season.
Stars: Paul Sutton
Announcer: Fred Foy
Mutual Sustained
=================================SAME TIME, SAME STATION:
This week, we return to the career of Ben Wright.
VOYAGE OF THE SCARLET QUEEN
08/21/1947 ep08 Eight Historic Periods.
SUSPENSE
08/21/1947 Murder Aboard The Alphabet. With John Lund.
THE WHISTLER
09/07/1951 ep119 Broken Arrow.
ESCAPE
07/11/1948 (046) She.
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CLASSICS & CURIOS:
"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"
Episode 270
EDDIE HUBBARD SPECIAL: SWEET SONGS ENCORE
Thomas Edison said, "Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight
and sweet music." Memories of my kids', grandkids', and great grandkids'
goodnights confirm the first part of that quote, and today's show on
CLASSICS & CURIOS helps confirm the second. The first rebroadcast of
this show helped "celebrate" my birthday in 2016.
It's Eddie Hubbard's soothing Special devoted to delightful sweet music.
The show is dated November 15, 1989, and I am pleased to rebroadcast it
almost 30 years later.
Bing Crosby's joyful "Sweet Georgia Brown" alone is worth listening to
this show. But there is much more. Besides Bing's great recording, Eddie
plays such great sweet tunes as "Sweethearts on Parade," "Sugar Time,"
"Candy Kisses," "A Taste of Honey," "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine," "When My
Sugar Walks Down the Street," "Sugar Blues," "Candy," "Sweet Eloise,"
"Sweet Lorraine," and "Roses and Lollipops.
Featured artists, to name a few, include Nat King Cole, Johnny Mercer
and the Pied Pipers, Tony Bennett, the McGuire Sisters, Guy Lombardo and
Kenny Gardner, Glenn Miller and Ray Eberle, Clyde McCoy, Jimmie Rodgers,
and Jack Jones.
Under the influence of jazz greats like Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters,
but especially Louis Armstrong, young Bing Crosby sang with the rhythm
of swing, cool energy, precise articulation, improvised phrasing and fun
scat-singing in a "vibrant, virile baritone." [Gary Giddins, online] No
wonder that Bing's jazz-influenced "Sweet Georgia Brown" is my favorite
recording of this tune, although other artists have had great versions,
such as Django Reinhardt in the 1930's and Ethel Waters in the 1920's.
Also worth listening to still today are stylized versions by Cab
Calloway, the California Ramblers, Ella Fitzgerald, the Nat King Cole
Trio, Ray Charles, Count Basie, and even Harry James. And the almost
endless list goes on, even including the Beattles when the group backed
singer Tony Sheridan in Hamburg, Germany. A classic version continues as
a warm-up song by the Globetrotters, a whistling instrumental from 1949
by Brother Bones and His Shadows.
Thanks, Eddie, for some positive sweet music to brighten our day. Truly,
in songs and every day speech, "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to
the soul and healing to the bones." - Proverbs 16:24
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[Quotation and paraphrasing above about Bing are from "Music: Bing
Crosby, the Unsung King of Song" by Gary Giddins, online.] Many thanks
to Jerry Haendiges Productions for remastering the original studio tape
for this rebroadcast.
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THE GLOWING DIAL
Big John and Steve pay tribute to Orson Welles!
Orson Welles Ray Collins Arthur Anderson Edgar Barrier Alice
Frost Anton Karas with his Zither
Orson Welles Ray Collins Arthur Anderson Edgar Barrier Alice
Frost Anton Karas with his Zither
The Mercury Theatre On The Air - "The Immortal Sherlock Holmes"
originally aired on Sunday, September 25, 1938 on CBS
Starring: Orson Welles, Ray Collins, Mary Taylor, Brenda Forbes, Edgar
Barrier, Morgan Farley, Richard Wilson,
Alfred Shirley, William Alland, Arthur Anderson, Eustace Wyatt.
Frank Gallop announcing.
Sustained
The Mercury Summer Theatre Of The Air - "The Hitchhiker"
originally aired on Friday, June 21, 1946 on CBS
Starring: Orson Welles, Alice Frost.
Ken Roberts announcing.
Sponsor: Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer
The Lives Of Harry Lime (The Third Man) - "Blackmail Is A Nasty Word"
originally aired on Friday, June 13, 1952 on MUTUAL/Syndication
(also aired across the pond on the BBC)
Starring: Orson Welles.
Anton Karas on the Zither
Sponsor: varied due to syndication
running time: 2 hours, 39 minutes, 28 seconds
Clicking on a series title will take you a log/episode guide for that
series.
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