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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2008 : Issue 251
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 26 Octobe [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Storing OTR [ Froggievilleus <froggievilleus@yaho ]
AFRS and Commercials [ Stephen A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed] ]
Golden Age of Radio Website [ rscherago@[removed] ]
archiving your collection [ Tremaine Lea <[removed]@ddicti ]
Re: Archiving OTR [ Peter Boe <boe5650@[removed]; ]
You CAN Go Home Again!! [ Bill Knowlton <udmacon1@[removed] ]
Clarabelle Hornblow/Lone Ranger/Howd [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
10-26 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <jerryhaendiges@cha ]
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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:14:16 +0000
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 26 October t0 1
November
From Those Were The Days --
10/26
1935 - A talented twelve-year-old sang on Wallace Beery's NBC show. Judy
Garland delighted the appreciative audience. The young girl would soon be
in pictures and at the top of stardom. It would be only four years before
Ms. Garland (George Jessel gave her the name, thinking it would be better
than her own, Frances Gumm) captured the hearts of moviegoers everywhere
with her performance as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.
10/27
1920 - Marconi, Fessenden, and De Forest were the catalysts. However, it
was an engineer for Westinghouse Electric who, in 1916, was broadcasting
music from his garage (in Wilkinsburg, PA, a suburb of Pittsburgh) over a
wireless (amateur radio station 8XK) who really got the whole thing
started. A newspaper article about the broadcasts caused such interest that
the head honchos at Westinghouse decided to build a real radio station.
It took until this day for the Westinghouse radio station to receive a
license to broadcast. The license for KDKA, Pittsburgh came from the [removed]
Department of Commerce. Although the license was officially issued on this
day, KDKA did not start their broadcast operations for a week (they had to
wait until the license was posted in the station). On November 2, 1920, the
station aired the returns of the Harding/Cox election ... the first radio
programming to reach an audience of any size ... approximately 1,000 people.
1947 - This is Nora Drake premiered on NBC. Nora solved domestic, social
and child-raising problems until January 2, 1959.
1947 - "The one, the only Groucho" Marx appeared as quizmaster on You Bet
Your Life for the first time -- on ABC. George Fenneman was Groucho's
eternal straight man. Fenneman stayed with Marx during the program's run on
radio (1948 - 1959) and TV (1950 - 1961). By the way,
who is buried in Grant's tomb?
10/28
1922 - WEAF in New York broadcast the first collegiate football game heard
coast to coast. Princeton played the University of Chicago at Stagg Field
in the Windy City. The broadcast was carried on phone lines to New York
City, where the radio transmission began. (Princeton 21,
Chicago 18.)
1946 - Our favorite flying cowboy was heard on ABC for the first time. Sky
King starred Jack Lester, then Earl Nightingale, and finally, Roy Engel, as
Sky. Beryl Vaughn played Sky's niece Penny; Jack Bivens was Chipper and
Cliff Soubier was the foreman. Sky King was sponsored by
Mars candy.
10/30
Orson Welles, known to radio audiences as The Shadow, presented his famous
dramatization of [removed] Wells' The War of the Worlds on CBS's Mercury Theater
at 8 [removed]
10/31
1942 - One of the great wartime shows premiered. CBS debuted Thanks to the
Yanks, starring Bob Hawk. It became one of the most popular of the wartime
programs.
11/1
1937 - The first broadcast of Hilltop House was aired on CBS; while on NBC,
the comic strip character Terry and the Pirates debuted.
Joe
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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:14:27 +0000
From: Froggievilleus <froggievilleus@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Storing OTR
Hi all!
I have to agree with the external hard drive being a great storeage
place. I have gone from cassettes to CDs to DVDs and now am using a 500
Gig hard drive. I was motivated to go that way for a few reasons. First,
Staples had a really great deal. Second, I was getting tired of going back
and forth on multiple discs to get shows that I wanted. Third, some of my
DVDs failed and I lost some shows. Most, thankfully, have been recovered
from other sources. I was not happy losing hours of shows and hours of
work archiving them. Whenever I need a show or shows, I just turn on the
drive, copy and paste what I need, and then shut it down. It has made my
life a touch easier. And yay for memory prices coming down! :)
Elizabeth
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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:06:16 -0400
From: Stephen A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: AFRS and Commercials
Kathy notes,
>we lived in japan 1957-1960. the only english
>speaking station was the far
>east network run by armed forces radio.
>there were several american products that we
>had to do without while living in japan.
>if we had heard the normal ads; it might
>have made homesickness worse.
My family lived in Japan 1952-1953, and we heard the AFRS station at Camp
Sendai. The usual thing was a 5-minute filler at the close of the show
that completed each half hour.
The usual commercials were excised, but once in a while, one would sneak
by. Where the host of the show might give a simple, conversational pitch
for the sponsor's product, occasionally, these would slip by the
cutting-room scissors. Frankly, one of these unexpected touches was
something I and my friends treasured.
Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:14:47 +0000
From: rscherago@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Golden Age of Radio Website
For all the newbies, and for those of you who haven't visited the site lately:
In the 1960s and early 1970s WTIC Radio in Hartford, CT, featured two
monthly programs; The Golden Age of Radio, and A One Night Stand with the
Big Bands.
Each featured interviews with the stars of each genre, and examples of
their work. We are fortunate to have been able to find all 84 Golden Age
programs, plus two specials that predated them, along with a few that were
recreated from interviews, totaling 91 hours of programs. We were also able
to find 42 of the Big Band shows. There is other material as well, that you
might enjoy.
Please check out this website - you'll be glad you did. There is no charge
for looking and downloading, no registration required, and no cookies
involved. I've done this to share the programs with people interested in
old time radio and big bands.
Bob Scherago
Former WTIC Engineer (1963 - 1977) and webmaster
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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:07:26 -0400
From: Tremaine Lea <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: archiving your collection
> How do most of you archive your collection of OTR?
Hi Peter,
The suggestions of a large external drive are good, and I highly
recommend doing that.
I have a kind of dual backup system in place for my computer, an
external hard drive I backup to nightly, as well as what's called a
RAID. The short mostly non-technical explanation is two identically
sized hard drives set to mirror each other. So when you write data to
one, it also gets written to the other. If one dies, you replace that
dead drive and the RAID will rebuild itself. The bright side to this
particular method is that it's a HECK of a lot faster to recover from
than copying files over USB from an external drive.
There are more robust versions where you can 'stripe' across multiple
drives (2 or more) and have even more redundancy. These are less
straight forward to set up however ;)
Cheers!
---
Tremaine Lea
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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:15:12 +0000
From: Peter Boe <boe5650@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Archiving OTR
Hey [removed]
Many thanks to all who replied to my query. The general consensus
seems to be acquiring an external drive, which I had no idea were
so cheap these days. So, that is what I will do.
Again, many thanks to [removed]
pjb/
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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:15:24 +0000
From: Bill Knowlton <udmacon1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: You CAN Go Home Again!!
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Glorioski!
"The Wheeling Jamboree" (nee "WWVA Jamboree," "Jamboree USA") is back on a
weekly basis!For the winter it'll broadcast from the WWVA [removed]'s on the
air Saturday nights from 6 to 9 pm at 1170 on the dial and it booms into the
Northeast and Eastern Canada as it always has, since [removed] "Wheeling
Jamboree" and see how you can listen to it [removed] news for live radio!
BILL KNOWLTON, "Bluegrass Ramble," WCNY-FM [removed] Syracuse, [removed] Utica, [removed]
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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:08:20 +0000
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Clarabelle Hornblow/Lone Ranger/Howdy Doody
A question was recently asked of me via my web site for which I didn't have
a good answer. The Lone Ranger show referred to was from July 9, 1954
"Trouble at Rafter H". Of course Clarabelle was first heard on the Triple B
Ranch radio program over WEAF in 1947 which later became the Howdy Doody Show.
Any answers?
> [removed] grew up with fifties radio and have been in the radio
> TV biz for over 45 years. I was listening to a link of a Lone
> Ranger episode, and I heard the name "Clarabelle Hornblow." I
> remembered that that was the full name of Clarabell the Clown
> on Howdy Doody. Checking the [removed] possible that the Lone
> Ranger stole the name from the kids' show. What is the answer
> to this mystery?
Jim Widner
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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:15:43 +0000
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 10-26 births/deaths
October 26th births
10-26-1876 - [removed] Warner - London, England - d. 12-21-1958
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-26-1877 - Dr. Max Mason - Madison, WI - d. 3-22-1961
president university of chicago: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
10-26-1888 - Pat Barnes - Sharon, PA - d. 6-9-1969
emcee: "The Pat Barnes and Barbara Show"
10-26-1897 - Louis Castellucci - Italy - d. 4-21-1988
trombonist, composer: "Dragnet"
10-26-1899 - Rudolph Wickel - d. 3-14-1971
contestant: "Truth or Consequences"
10-26-1904 - Igor Gorin - Ukraine, Russia - d. 3-24-1982
singer: "The Voice of Firestone"
10-26-1907 - Tony Pastor - Middletown, CT - d. 10-31-1969
bandleader: "Tony Pastor and His Orchestra"
10-26-1910 - Clarence Hartzell - Huntington, WV - d. 3-5-1988
actor: Uncle Fletcher "Vic and Sade"; Pappy Yokum "Li'l AAbner"; "Ben
Withers "Lum and Abner"
10-26-1911 - Mahalia Jackson - New Orleans, LA - d. 1-27-1972
gospel singer: (The Angel of Peace) "Mahalia Jackson Show"
10-26-1912 - Donald Siegel - Chicago, IL - d. 4-20-1991
film director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
10-26-1912 - Ed Reimers - Moline, IL - d. 1-28-1986
announcer/actor: "Dr. [removed]"; "This Changing World"
10-26-1913 - Charlie Barnet - NYC - d. 9-4-1991
bandleader: "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Saturday Night Swing Session"
10-26-1914 - Jackie Coogan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-1-1984
actor: Ernest Botch "Forever Ernest"
10-26-1918 - Ivor Francis - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-22-1986
actor: "Secret Missions"; "The Chase"
10-26-1920 - Eleanor Rella - d. 6-19-2003
actor: Billie Devere "Myrt and Marge"
10-26-1929 - Neal Matthews - Nashville, TN - d. 4-21-2000
singer: (Jordonaires) "Grand Ole Opry"; "Jim Reeves Show"
10-26-1930 - John Arden - Bransley, Yorkshire, England
writer: "The Life of Man"
October 26th deaths
01-24-1903 - Johnny Anz - d. 10-26-1987
orchestra leader: WESG Elmira, New York
02-18-1922 - Ruth Dean Rickaby - d. 10-26-1973
actor: "The Lone Ranger"
02-23-1909 - Anthony Ross - NYC - d. 10-26-1955
actor: Danny Clover "Broadway Is My Beat"; Broadway Columnist "Mr.
Broadway"
03-08-1902 - Louise Beavers - Cincinnati, OH - d. 10-26-1962
actor: Beulah "Beulah"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
04-24-1910 - Albert Zugsmith - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 10-26-1993
film producer/director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
04-28-1905 - Paul Rhymer - Fulton, IL - d. 10-26-1964
writer: "Vic and Sade"
05-03-1897 - Larry Puck - d. 10-26-1969
producer: "Arthur Godfrey Time" Was one of Godfrey's many firings
06-10-1895 - Hattie McDaniel - Wichita, KS - d. 10-26-1952
actor: Beulah "Beulah"; Mammy "Maxwell House Showboat"
06-19-1899 - Francis Drake "Pat" Ballard - d. 10-26-1960
writer of radio scripts in Troy, Pennsylvania
07-20-1910 - Muriel Evans - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-26-2000
four radio shows of her own in Washington [removed]
09-01-1897 - Lucille Fenton - d. 10-26-1966
actor: Paula Kirby "Myrt and Marge"
09-01-1909 - Charles Bickford - d. 10-26-1988
disk jockey: WOHS Shelby, North Carolina
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:15:52 +0000
From: Jerry Haendiges <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
To: <[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," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The Glowing
Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same Station." Streamed in high-quality
audio, on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at: [removed]
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
Halloween Special
FAVORITE STORY
Episode 98 10-26-48 "Jest of Hahalaba"
Narrator and Star: Joseph Kerns.
Favorite Story of Frank Capra
Author: Lord Dunsany
AUTHOR'S PLAYHOUSE
Episode 8 12-4-44 "The Inexperienced Ghost"
Author: [removed] Wells
NBC Sustained Mondays 11:30 - 1200pm
JOHNNY PRESENTS THE RUDY VALLEE SHOW
Episode 7 10-22-46 "The Pre-Fabricated Woman"
Stars: Bela Lugosi and Billie Burke
Host: Rudy Vallee
NBC Philip Morris Cigarettes Tuesdays 8:00 - 8:30 pm
SHERLOCK HOLMES
Episode 8 10-31-48 "The Adventure Of The Uddington Witch"
Sherlock Holmes: John Stanley
Dr. Watson: Ian Martin
Mutual Trimount Clipper Craft Sundays 7:00 - 7:30 pm.
A HALLOWEEN STORY
1970 NBC Special
Stars: John Carradine, John Clark, John Huston, June Lockhart,
Lynn Redgrave, Kasey Kasem & Kim Kasem, Gary Owens
ANNOUNCER: Marvin Miller
HOST: Yaphat Koto
NBC SPONSOR: Jensen Sound Systems.
Aired live from The Magic Castle in Hollywood. Two complete
"Escape" plays including "Three Skeleton Key"
SAME TIME SAME STATION
10-31-04 "The Night That Panicked America - the facts and myths "
MERCURY THEATER
Episode 17 10-30-38 "The War of the Worlds"
Stars Orson Welles
THE CHASE AND SANBORN HOUR
Episode 78 10-30-38 "The Haunted House"
GUEST STAR: Madeleine Carroll
HOST: Don Ameche
WITH: Nelson Eddy, Dorothy Lamour, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, Judy
Canova with Annie & Zeke.
MUSIC: Robert Armbruster
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATER
Halloween Special
THE ADVENTURES OF RIN TIN TIN
(MBS) 11/15/57 "The Ambassador"
BABY SNOOKS
(CBS) 11/1/45 Stars Fanny Brice with Hanley Stafford. Halloween Night.
LUM 'N' ABNER
(ABC Blue) 10/31/44 Remembering Halloween Pranks.
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THE GLOWING DIAL
Halloween Special
Macabre - "The Man in the Mirror"
originally aired November 27, 1961 on The Far East Network
(a division of The Armed Forces Radio and Television Service)
Starring: cast info given at end of episode.
Sustained
The Mysterious Traveler - "The Locomotive Ghost"
originally aired July 6, 1947 on MUTUAL
Starring: Maurice Tarplin, James McCallion, Joe Julian, Bryna Raeburn,
Cameron Andrews, Carl Caruso announcing.
Sustained
Inner Sanctum Mysteries - "Death Demon"
originally aired July 5, 1948 on CBS
Starring: Everett Sloane, Anne Seymour, Santos Ortega, Paul McGrath
hosting, Dwight Weist announcing.
Created, Produced and Directed by Himan Brown
Sponsor: Bromo Seltzer
Lights Out - "He Dug It Up"
originally aired February 9, 1943 on CBS
Starring: Joseph Kearns, Verna Felton, Lou Merrill, Frank Martin announcing.
Written and Hosted by Arch Oboler.
Sponsor: Ironized Yeast
Murder At Midnight - "The Heavy Death"
originally aired November 4, 1946 on WJZ, NY and in Syndication
Starring: Lon Clark, Frank Readick, Raymond Morgan narrating.
Sponsor: varied according to market
"Houdini's Final Seance"
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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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