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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2013 : Issue 103
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 29 Septem [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Sept. 30th "Radio Once More" show [ TVHistory2009@[removed] ]
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Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 10:40:37 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 29 September to 5
October
From Those Were The Days -
9/29
1920 Radios for 10 bucks! That's what Joseph Horne Company's
department store in Pittsburgh, PA was selling. The radios were
advertised in The Pittsburgh Sun for $10 ($113 in 2012 dollars) and up.
One could get a ready made radio in a box with headphones and tuning
knob. This way, one could do away with the Quaker Oats round box and the
cat's whisker wire, which was a pain to tune.
1930 "This is Lowell Thomas." Those words were spoken for the first
time as a young Lowell Thomas made his debut on CBS. He replaced Floyd
Gibbons on the nightly (6:45 [removed]), 15 minute newscast. Thomas, who
started as a reporter for the New York Daily News (at age 19), was heard
on the radio for the next 46 years.
1930 "Ba, ba, ba, boo. I will, ba ba ba boo ... marry you!" Bing
Crosby, America's premier crooner for decades, married Dixie Lee.
1940 Double or Nothing was first heard on Mutual. Each time
contestants answered questions correctly, their winnings would double
from $20 to $40 to the big payoff of $80. ($323, $646 and $1292 in 2012
dollars: [removed]) If they gave an incorrect
answer, they were gone! Nobody bet on long how long the show would last.
Good thing. It kept going for a dozen years. Among the sponsors: Feen A
Mint, Chooz breath candy and Campbell's soup.
1946 Mystery fans remember when The Adventures of Sam Spade debuted on
CBS this Sunday night. (It had aired in the summer of 1946 on ABC on
Friday nights.) The Adventures of Sam Spade, with Howard Duff playing
Spade, became a big hit in the Sunday night radio lineup. And now a word
from our sponsor: "Use Wildroot Cream Oil, Charlie ... it keeps your
hair in [removed]"
9/30
1930 Death Valley Days was first heard on the NBC Red network this day
(and) became one of radio's biggest hits. The 30 minute, Western
adventure series starred Tim Daniel Frawley as the Old Ranger, Harvey
Hays as the Old Prospector, John White as the Lonesome Cowboy, Edwin
Bruce as Bobby Keen, Robert Haag as Sheriff Mark Chase and Olyn Landick
as Cassandra Drinkwater.
The tales heard on Death Valley Days were all based on fact and were
human interest stories revolving around the borax mining town of Death
Valley, California. The show was created by Ruth Woodman, a script
writer for a New York ad agency. She had never seen Death Valley; but
had found the vehicle to sell 20 Mule Team Borax. As time went on, Ms.
Woodman did make a trip to Death Valley. She went back again and again
after that, digging up facts for her scripts. She even met an honest to
goodness old ranger, Wash Cahill, who knew everyone and everything about
the mining town.
Death Valley Days was renamed Death Valley Sheriff in 1944 and The
Sheriff in 1945. And Ruth Woodman continued to write the scripts. She
even wrote scripts when Death Valley Days became a TV show. Buy some 20
Mule Team Borax in commemoration.
1933 The theme song was Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here and it opened
the National Barn Dance. The half hour country music and comedy show,
originally heard on WLS, Chicago since 1924, moved to the NBC Blue
network this night. National Barn Dance was broadcast from the Eighth
Street Theater in Chicago, where the stage was transformed into a
hayloft every Saturday night. The host was Joe Kelly. Uncle Ezra was
played by Pat Barrett who was known to say, "Give me a toot on the
tooter, Tommy," as he started dancing. A few of the other Barn Dance
characters were Arkie, the Arkansas Woodchopper; Pokey Martin; the
Hoosier Hotshots; the Prairie Ramblers; cowgirl, Patsy Montana; Pat
Buttram; Lulu Belle and the Cumberland Road Runners. Gene Autry and Red
Foley were heard early in their careers on National Barn Dance. Although
there were plenty of sponsors (Alka Seltzer, One A Day vitamins,
Phillips Milk of Magnesia), the National Barn Dance was one of the few
radio shows to charge admission.
1935 "Calling all [removed]" The Adventures of Dick Tracy came to radio
for the first time on the Mutual Radio Network. Based on the comic strip
created by Chester Gould, the 15 minute adventure show was heard Monday
thru Friday at 5:45 [removed] The sponsors were Quaker Puffed Wheat and
Quaker Puffed Rice.
1962 - The death of OTR. The last regularly scheduled network programs,
Suspense and Johnny Dollar was heard.
10/1
1942 People Are Funny went on the air with host Art Baker.
10/3
1901 The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated on this day.
After a merger with Radio Corporation of America, RCA Victor became the
leader in phonographs and many of the records played on them. The famous
Victrola phonograph logo, with Nipper the dog, and the words "His
Master's Voice", appeared on all RCA Victor phonographs and record labels.
1946 Dennis Day started his own show on NBC. Dennis, a popular tenor
featured on The Jack Benny Show, played the same (type) naive young
bachelor he played on the Benny show. A Day in the Life of Dennis Day
aired for five years.
10/4
1948 Gordon MacRae hosted the premiere of a radio classic. The
Railroad Hour debuted on ABC. The theme song was I've Been Working on
the Railroad and the show was sponsored by, get ready, America's Railroads.
10/5
1930 The New York Philharmonic Orchestra was first heard on the air
over CBS from Carnegie Hall. The Sunday afternoon concerts set CBS back
$15,000 ($203,790 in 2012 dollars). Not per week, but for the entire season!
1930 This was a big day for CBS. Following the orchestra broadcast
(above), Father Coughlin, The Fighting Priest was first heard on network
radio. He lit up the airwaves with oratory that aired into the early
forties. He was first heard on WJR Detroit in 1926.
1934 The first major network radio show to originate from Hollywood
aired on this day. Hollywood Hotel was heard on CBS and was heavily
promoted as being the first to broadcast from the West Coast of the [removed]
1947 A small Northern California company got a major boost from Bing
Crosby. The first show recorded on tape was broadcast on ABC. 'Der
Bingle' was so popular, that his taped show promoted wide distribution
of the new magnetic tape recorders that would become broadcast classics
the venerable Ampex 200.
1952 After an 11 year run, Inner Sanctum, the legendary mystery
series, was heard for the final time. We'll never know if they oiled
that squeaky [removed] (Of course there is the story of a staffer who did
actually oil the door before one [removed] ed.) (PS I have a door
that creaks just like that one and half the time expect to find Raymond
lurking around in the hallway somewhere. I've never oiled it in the
hopes Raymond would appear.)
Joe
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Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 01:04:45 -0400
From: TVHistory2009@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Sept. 30th "Radio Once More" show
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A program note about "Radio Once More," the Maryland-based Internet radio
station, which is run by Neal Ellis:
Monday night's "Live Show" (9 [removed] to midnight, Eastern time), with host
Neal Ellis and co-host Kathy Meola, will focus on the recent Mid-Atlantic
Nostalgia Convention.
Listeners, on Monday night, will be invited to post MANC-related stories
and pictures on the radio station's Facebook page. Phone calls are also
encouraged, at 410-360-6070.
Here is the "Radio Once More" website, via which one can hear the station:
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Here, too, is the station's Facebook page:
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Thanks!
Andrew Fielding
Thursday night host/"Radio Once More"
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