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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2016 : Issue 53
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      August issue RADIO RECALL             [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      This week in radio history 7-13 Augu  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 00:14:05 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  August issue RADIO RECALL
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    The full color PDF version of August 2016 RADIO RECALL went out via email on
    the first of this month. The B & W hard copy will be mailed to the subscribers
    who chose that version on or about August 13th.

    This issue leads off with an article on the best adventure series Mutual ever
    produced:  Voyage of the Scarlet Queen. This exciting series of 1947-48
    combined excellent writing, superb acting, and top-notch sound effects. All
    but 2 of the 36 broadcasts are in trading currency. Indefatigable researcher
    Stewart Wright has discovered the original scripts of the missing episodes # 7
    and 10 and summarizes them for our readers.

    Are you an OTR historian, researcher, archivist, collector, or just a hoarder?
    Martin Grams, Jr. sorts out this dilemma in a fascinating article entitled:
    Hoarding and the Diogenes Syndrome, based upon his participation in the 2016
    Radio Preservation Task Force Conference in Washington, DC. This significant
    event, co-sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Library of American
    Broadcasting at Univ. of MD, offered insight into all OTR archives and the
    folks who inhabit them.

    Most of us would probably agree that the series, Destination Freedom, was the
    best African-American one on network radio. It was the creation of Richard
    Durham and his recent biography by Sonja D. Williams is reviewed here by
    Digester Ryan Ellett. The book, Word Warrior: Richard Dunham, Radio and
    Freedom, offers fascinating details about Dunham's personal and professional
    relationships. Ellett's review is followed by a mini-review of the book,
    Walter Tetley: For Corn's Sake, a bio which Ben Ohmart wrote for his
    publishing firm, Bear Manor Media.

    Jack Benny's Lucky Strike program had two tobacco auctioneers boasting of
    LSMFT and those voices were not actors; they were real tobacco auctioneers,
    Speed Riggs and F. E. Boone. Author John Abbott gives us the complete story on
    the background of these two famous voices.  Can you guess which one was a
    distant nephew of Daniel Boone?

    An informative article explains the early history of Edgar Bergen in radio, TV
    and film and his successes that led to his receiving the Screen Actors'
    Guild Lifetime Achievement Awardb&.and why Edgar did not receive it in
    person. Recently deceased OTR star Janet Waldo, the voice of Corliss Archer
    and several TV characters, called this editor a liar. Find out where and why
    in this August issue.

    All this, plus details on all upcoming OTR conventions and festivals, letters
    to the editor, and the ongoing search for a new editor. To peruse past issues
    of RADIO RECALL or to obtain a subscription, point your mouse at
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    Jack French
    Editor for now, but not for long

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    Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 00:14:11 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 7-13 August

    8/7

    1949   Martin Kane, Private Eye was first heard on Mutual. William
    Gargan starred on the Sunday afternoon program.

    8/9

    1942   CBS debuted Our Secret Weapon. The program featured Rex Stout,
    who countered lies being broadcast by the Axis powers through shortwave
    radio.

    8/11

    1909    The international distress call, SOS, which replaced CQD (All
    stations distress!), was first used by an American ship "The Arapahoe"
    (out of Cape Hatteras, NC) on this day.

    8/12

    1937   Comedian Red Skelton got his first taste of network radio as he
    appeared on the Rudy Vallee Show on NBC.

    8/13

    1912   St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia, PA was granted the first
    experimental radio license by the [removed] Department of Commerce.

    Joe

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