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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2014 : Issue 64
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


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  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]

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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 15:45:42 -0400
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
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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," John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane
Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios," Big John and Steve's "Glowing Dial"
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

HOW DO YOU DO IT?
1944
Announcer: John Grover
Features: Barbara Lee,
Music: Pete Moss And The Celebrated Symphonic Six
Handy Hints Show
NBC Victory Manpower Campaign

MEET CORLISS ARCHER
Episode 1 4-28-46 "Intimate Candid Camera Contest"
First Program for Campbell Soups
Stars: Janet Waldo, Sam Edwards, Fred Archer, Irene Tedrow, Tommy
Bernard, Barbara Whiting, Arlene Becker
Writers: Carroll Carroll, F. Hugh Herbert, Jerry Adelman
Creator: F. Hugh Hurbert
Director: Bert Prager
CBS Campbell Soups Sunday 9:00 - 9:30pm

MANHUNT
Episode 2 1944 "The Crystal Clue"
Narrator: Maurice Tarplin
Stars: Larry Haines, Frances Robinson
Ziv Syndication

MICHAEL PIPER, PRIVATE DETECTIVE
"Michael And Kitty"
"Michael And Kitty"
Episode 18 2-6-42 "The Erie Basin Murder"
Stars: John Gibson, Elizabeth Reller
NBC BLUE 9:30pm Canada Dry "Spur"

THE NIGHTWATCH - TALES OF HORROR
Episode 5 1974 "Beware Of What You Wish For"
Readings by: F. Peter Lee
Mutual Syndicated

MAKE BELIEVE TOWN - HOLLYWOOD
Episode 8 8-8-49 "A Very Important Appointment"
Hostess: Virginia Bruce
Stars: Lurene Tuttle, Howard Culver
Anncr: Johnny Jacobs
Music: Ivan Ditmars
ABC Sustaining
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

THE WHISTLER
(WBBM Chicago) 8/9/46 "Brief Pause For Murder" A broadcasting tale. This
is the Chicago version.

SLEEP NO MORE
(NBC) 4/24/57 Story-telling by Nelson Olmsted. Last show of the series.
Includes "Evening" and "The Flowering of the Strange Orchid" by H .G.
Wells. Ben Grauer introduces the stories.

THE LOUELLA PARSONS SHOW
(ABC) 1/5/51 with special guest, John Wayne.
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION

This week we salute radio from other countries, and we begin a 10 part
serial.

First, we travel to South Africa.

LUX RADIO THEATER
Trap for a Lonely Man from 10/20/69.

Next we go to England and the BBC for "LIFE WITH THE LYONS"
No date on the program but it involves Cupid.

Finally we begin a serial that was written and directed by Carlton E
Morse. It was also syndicated and many heard it in 1944, and others in 1946.

ADVENTURES BY MORSE
Cobra King Strikes Back Chapter 1 (The Adventure Begins).
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This Week's Classics & Curios Show:

"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

Episode 129

LOVE, BARBECUE, TAR PAPER, & PROPAGANDA SWING

I love Barbecue Jones and his Hot Dogs band with Wingy Manone,
especially as they play a tune that led to a classic Glenn Miller
recording. We'll feature music that also sings of romantic love with
Frank Sinatra's "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" from 1940 with Tommy Dorsey
along with Eddie Cantor's jazz/blues song "Making Whoopee" from 1929.
With trepidation I also air examples of the false love and true hate of
propaganda during war time in this episode as a reminder of the Nazi
misuse of good music.

We begin with the false love and true hate contained in political
propaganda, especially during World War II when the Nazis developed
propaganda into an insidious art form. American swing music was
"captured" during WWII as evidenced in the tune "Hold Me" performed by
the German ensemble known as "Charlie and his Orchestra." The second
part of this episode will reveal many more swing tunes misused by Nazi
propaganda as words were added clearly to sway Americans away from
participating in the war with funds and armed forces.

Nazi "news" propaganda was broadcast as "Germany Calling," examples of
which will also appear here in part two, but in this first part we'll
hear a brief bona fide newscast from the BBC reporting the first news of
Glenn Miller's missing airplane en route to Paris in 1944. Miller
himself participated rather blandly in American efforts at propaganda.
He tries his best to speak German with help from a German lady by the
name of Ilse, and his band performs "In the Mood."

Our theme song "I've Heard That Song Before" is performed by Harry James
and Helen Forrest on a record from July 31, 1942, the last day before
the Musician Union's ban on recording.

Part 2 of this episode is a collection of 22 tracks containing several
propaganda swing pieces, along with radio "news" reports, "Germany
Calling," aimed at British and Americans before and after America's
entry into the war as well as at its end.

This collection is played without comment from me, and please note that
it is included for its historical value and not for entertainment.
Interestingly Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) who brought radio "news" was
a British citizen who first gained favor with British audiences on radio
by lampooning the English self-indulgent and pretentious upper crust.
But then he used this favor to undermine British patriotism and to
discourage British (and later American) participation in the war front
as his later broadcasts gradually "were cleverly interspersed with
lies," as a British citizen wrote to a friend in America. The Charlie
from "Charlie and his Orchestra" was Karl Schwedler, who was something
of a playboy and was spared serving in the army because of his musical
talent on the propaganda front.

Swing music, referred to by Nazis with an epithet that denigrated the
blacks, was first seen as morally and aesthetically inferior and was
banned in 1933 from radio until it was seen as an effective and integral
part of the propaganda campaign. Among the great American big band tunes
that were virtually "taken prisoner and abused," in addition to "Hold
Me" and "Making Whoopee" are such songs as "Saint Louis Blues," "I'll
Never Say 'Never Again', Again," "I've Got a Pocket Full of Dreams,"
"Tea for Two," "Goody Goody," "I Found a Million Dollar Baby," "Japanese
Sandman," "I Double Dare You," "Blue Moon," "Alexander's Ragtime Band,"
"I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby," and "I Want to Be Happy.''
In the present collection only some twelve tunes are included,
interspersed among the "Germany Calling" broadcasts.

The collection begins with a religious piece, "Onward Christian
Soldiers," and closes with the address from a British Colonel in the
Allied Military Government in a final "Germany Calling," marking an end
to this abominable pollution of the airwaves.

May this collection stand as a sobering reminder how even beautiful
music was abused for propaganda purposes and how troops faced not only
bullets and bombs but also an insidious foe through the airways. Listen
perhaps at some "risk" to your sensibilities. I do, however, include the
definition of true love from First Corinthians 13, which for me at least
drives away the stifling smell of Nazi propaganda and restores truth and
beauty to the soul.

For a thorough overview of German war propaganda see Hitler's Airwaves
-- The Inside Story of Nazi Radio Broadcasting & Propaganda Swing, Horst
[removed] Bergmeier & Rainer E. Lotz, Yale Univ. Press. The book includes a
CD with the collection of 22 propaganda tracks of music and "news."

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THE GLOWING DIAL

Big John and Stu are playing games with you!

Twenty Questions - The Mouse That Ran Up The Clock
originally aired Sunday, March 10, 1946 on MUTUAL
Starring: Bill Slater (host), Fred Van Deventer, Florence Rinard, Bobby
McGuire,
Herb Polasie, [removed] Kahn (panelists)
Robert Martin announcing.
Sustained

The Ask-It-Basket - What Is A Ruminant?
originally aired Thursday, September 21, 1939 on CBS
Starring: Jim McWilliams (host).
Panelists are: a stenographer, a sailor, a buyer, a student.
Del Sharbutt announcing.
Sponsor: Colgate

Truth Or Consequences - 6th Anniversary Celebrity Show
originally aired Saturday, March 23, 1946 on NBC
Starring: Ralph Edwards (host), Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny, Eddie
"Rochester" Anderson,
Phil Harris, John Charles Thomas, Dinah Shore, George Montgomery, Rudy
Vallee,
William Bendix, Basil Rathbone, Charlie Cantor, Ken Carpenter, Harlow
Wilcox,
Jimmy Wallington, Truman Bradley, Don Wilson.
Jay Stewart announcing.
Sponsor: Proctor and Gamble for Duz

Can You Top This? - Complaints
originally aired Saturday, January 11, 1947 on NBC
Starring: Ward Wilson (host), Senator Ford, Harry Hershfield, Joe
Laurie, Jr., Peter Donald.
Charles Stark announcing.
Sponsor: Colgate/Palmolive

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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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