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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2018 : Issue 68
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
More on first college football play- [ Timothy Cronin <tc1001@[removed] ]
This week in radio history 9-15 Dece [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Tune into Yesterday Issue 85 [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
1940s editions of BBC's 'Radio Times [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
The Cinnamon Bear! [ Dennis Crow via <charlie@[removed] ]
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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:24:16 -0500
From: Timothy Cronin <tc1001@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: More on first college football play-by-play
A search on [removed] and in the era's amateur radio call book confirms
that the Thanksgiving Day 1921 broadcast of Texas at Texas A&M was a
telegraph transmission, likely from 5XB, Texas A&M's "special land station,"
to all who could hear it. [removed] "Doc" Tolson worked the key from the Kyle
Field press box.
In 1912, 9X1 in Minneapolis did the same thing with Minnesota home football
games, so this was not a first, but drew wide attention in Texas.
In Waco, a radio at the News-Tribune picked up the dots and dashes and fed
the final score to the AP before the writer in the press box could do so.
In Austin, a receiver at Clark Field, the University of Texas station, picked
up the reports, which were relayed by megaphone to the crowd watching the
Texas freshman team play Marshall College.
WTAW's licence dates to Oct. 7, 1922.
It's likely that the Sat., Oct. 8, 1921, KDKA airing of the West
Virginia-Pittsburgh game was the first live college football broadcast, and
probably in full, as that day's World Series game in New York, which was
going to be recreated via telegraph reports, was rained out. Both the Press
and Post-Gazette noted the Westinghouse station's plan.
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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:24:33 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 9-15 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.
Joe
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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:27:20 -0500
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Tune into Yesterday Issue 85
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Hi. The Christmas issue of ORCA's Tune into Yesterday magazine is now
available. Main article in this issue is by Steve Poppitt looking at the lost
and found episodes of the BBC comedy show The Clitheroe Kid. The Supplement
looks back to the BBC in the 1920s and 30s, plus the recording of radio news
programmes during the war [removed] free sample copy is available in the UK from
John Wolstenholme, our membership sec:ORCA, PO Box 1922, Dronfield, England,
S18 8XAAnnual membership is 15 pounds UK ( Cheques payable to 'ORCA' ), which
brings you 4 issues of Tune into Yesterday plus access to our vast lending
library of old programmes on CD and audio DVD.
Graeme
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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:32:27 -0500
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 1940s editions of BBC's 'Radio Times now online
Hi. The BBC have now put the 1940s editions of 'The Radio Times' online. Two
links below:
<[removed]#decade-1940>Issues - BBC Genome
<[removed]#decade-1940>
Issues - BBC Genome
<[removed];BBC
- BBC makes landmark 1940s Radio Times magazines available to public - Media
Centre
<[removed];
BBC - BBC makes landmark 1940s Radio Times magazines available to public -
Media Centre
The release, by the BBC Genome Project, covers World War Two, the immediate
post-war years and key landmark [removed]
Cheers ! Graeme
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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:47:46 -0500
From: Dennis Crow via <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Cinnamon Bear!
(I have to make a sincere apology to subscribers to this Digest, and frankly
to Dennis himself. With Kate living at college, for the first time we are not
listening to the program as he proscribed, hoping to catch up when she comes
home for the break. That is no excuse for not reminding everyone else to
listen, though, so my apologies for the tardiness of this post. I promise to
try and do a lot better next year. --cfs3)
Dear Reader:
Hi, everybody! I hope by now you have established a schedule for playing
episodes of "The Cinnamon Bear." Remember, there are 26 installments
(available everywhere). They should be programmed between Thanksgiving
Day and Christmas Day. Research by First Generation Radio Archives has
determined that the very first episode was broadcast in the USA on Friday,
November 26, 1937, so you will be carrying on a tradition lasting over
eighty years!
As a reminder, my friends, November 29 is the day to begin "The Cinnamon
Bear." If you play one 15 minute segment a day, the story will conclude
on Christmas Eve.
Your family will thrill to the adventures of Paddy, Jimmy and Judy Barton,
and the Crazy Quilt Dragon, as they search Maybeland for the missing silver
star that goes atop the Barton family Christmas tree. If you don't have the
program tapes, all the clubs and dealers have them, most of whom write to
this list. YES, It is time once again to celebrate THE CINNAMON BEAR, first
heard in 1937.
Charlie helped me make the Maybeland map and the eleven songs in the serial
more accessible to you this year. Just go to:
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You can print them off and use them as you listen with your kids to the
program. You'll have so much fun.
It is golden age radio at its best, with the actors who are so familiar to
you---Joseph Kearns, Elvia Allman, Gale Gordon, Frank Nelson, Martha
Wentworth, Barbara Jean Wong, Verna Felton, Hanley Stafford, Elliott Lewis,
Lou Merrill, Howard McNear, and the list goes on and on and on.
As Paddy himself says, "I'd be much obliged to you!"
Sincerely,
Dennis Crow
(via and mildly edited by Charlie Summers. For those who didn't know Dennis,
he was the best friend a short stubby little teddy bear could ever [removed]
he was in love with the magic and wonder of The Cinnamon Bear and never
missed an opportunity to talk about the story. He was a friend to this
Digest, but a better friend to my daughter, who each year shortly before
Judy and Jimmy went to the attic would receive a small gift from Dennis
related to The Cinnamon Bear. She still lovingly places the Cinnamon
Bear ornament on our Christmas Tree each year, and listens to the show with
the Crazy Quilt Dragon perched above her bed. Dennis passed away ten years
ago in 2008, but will be fondly remembered here on the Digest for as long as I
operate it.
The best-sounding set of this series, and the version played each year
here at Chez Charlie, is available from Radio Archives - see:
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...for more details - this is truly an excellent transfer. Also, there
is a free iCalendar schedule for import into any modern calendar
application attached to the blog post at:
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..that will let you track which episode should be played each day. --cfs3)
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