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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2019 : Issue 53
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  This week in radio history 8-14 Dece  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Yesterday USA is offering gifts for   [ "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@yeste ]
  Re: Backing up Radio History          [ <mlaurino@[removed]; ]
  Dick Tracy In B Flat script           [ "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@yeste ]
  This week in radio history 15-21 Dec  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Tune into Yesterday Issue 88          [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:40:09 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 8-14 December

 From Those Were The Days -

12/9

1940   The Longines Watch Company signed for the first FM radio
advertising contract with experimental station W2XOR in New York City.
The ads ran for 26 weeks and promoted the Longines time signals.

12/10

1927   For the first time, famed radio announcer George Hay introduced
the WSM Barn Dance as The Grand Ole Opry.

12/11

1944   The Chesterfield Supper Club debuted on NBC. Perry Como, Jo
Stafford and many other stars of the day shared the spotlight on the 15
minute show that aired five nights a week. The show was sponsored by
Chesterfield cigarettes.

12/12

1948 - NBC presented the "Horace Heidt Youth Opportunity Program" for
the first time. The talent show earned Dick Contino, an accordionist,
the $5,000 prize ($51,764 in 2017 dollars)) as the program's first
national winner. Over the years Heidt gave some big stars their big
starts: Frankie Carle, Gordon MacRae, the King Sisters, Alvino Rey, Ken
Berry, Frank DeVol, Dick Contino, Al Hirt, Fred Lowrey, Ronnie Kemper,
Larry Cotton, Donna and her Don Juans, Ollie O'Toole and many others.

12/13

1942   The characters of Allen's Alley were presented for the first time
on The Fred Allen Show. This particular segment of the show became very
popular and was used by Allen until 1949. Remember the stops along the
way in Allen's Alley? They were at the Brooklyn tenement of Mrs.
Nussbaum, the farmhouse of Titus Moody, the shack of Ajax Cassidy and
the antebellum mansion of Senator Beauregard Claghorn.

12/14

1953   Fred Allen returned from semi-retirement to narrate Prokofiev's
classic, Peter and the Wolf, on the Bell Telephone Hour on NBC.

Joe

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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:40:24 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Yesterday USA is offering gifts for support
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Hi Everybody,

Yesterday USA is offering gifts of radio shows and interviews for your support
on kick starter.  See the link below for info.

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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:40:40 -0500
From: <mlaurino@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Backing up Radio History

Catching up on the newsletter, I read the comment from our beloved
Administrator, saying, in part:

True preservation isn't allowing a single entity to have (and control!) the
[removed]'s having hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of people
holding and sharing copies! ...
So yeah, send any interviews, radio specials, or air checks to Walden and the
Gassman brothers. But send them to all your friends, [removed] them to me
for inclusion in the OTR Digest shared [removed] them all [removed]
the more people that have copies, the less likely any of this material will
be lost.  --cfs3]

Absolutely correct (IMHO). May I suggest that "all over" should include the
old time radio collection at [removed]
<[removed];, where posting is free and easy,
and maybe even YouTube, free albeit not so easy, since you'll need to convert
the audio file into a video (a static title card would suffice).

Season's Greetings,
mjl

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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:40:52 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Dick Tracy In B Flat script
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Hi Everybody,

Does any one have a transcribe script version of Dick Tracy in B Flat?  Take
care,

Walden

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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:41:09 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 15-21 December

 From Those Were The Days

12/16

1949   After a decade on radio, Captain Midnight was heard for the final
time. Put your secret decoder badges away now, kids.

12/17

1936   Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen kidded around with his pal, Charlie
McCarthy (who was a bit wooden, we [removed]), for the first time on
radio. The two debuted on The Rudy Vallee Show on NBC. Soon, Bergen
became one of radio's hottest properties, and was called Vallee's
greatest talent discovery.

12/19

1932    the British Broadcasting Corporation began transmitting overseas
with its Empire Service to Australia.

Joe

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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:41:17 -0500
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Tune into Yesterday Issue 88
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Hi. Issue 88 of ORCA's Tune into Yesterday magazine is now available. Full of
the usual mixture of archive news, plus a Supplement looking back at radio in
Europe in late 1945. A free sample copy is available in the UK from our
membership sec John Wolstenholme: ORCA, PO Box 1922, Dronfield, S18  8XA,
EnglandAnnual membership is 15 pounds ( cheques payable to ORCA, or by postal
order for those who no longer use cheques ) which brings you 4 issues of TIY
plus access to our vast lending library of old programmes on CD, mp3 CD, and
mp3 audio [removed] ! Graeme

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