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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2018 : Issue 11
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Suggested playlist for an assisted l  [ Gary <actuarylaw@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 28 Januar  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 4-10 Febr  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 00:05:30 -0500
From: Gary <actuarylaw@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Suggested playlist for an assisted living
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At 67 I was born well after most of the great OTR shows went off the [removed]
Although I'm a devoted fan today, I only like what I like.
In trying to facilitate life at an assisted living facility, can anyone who
lived through the 40's/50's suggest a playlist of shows that I can share with
the residents.
BTW, I was surprised that my first attempt of Gunsmoke/Dragnet/ YTJD did not
go over well.
Thanks, all.
Gary

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Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 00:05:48 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 28 January to 3
 February

1/28

1940 Beat the Band made its debut on NBC, with the Ted Weems band. Beat
the Band was where listeners' questions were selected in the hopes of
stumping the band. If a listener's question was chosen, he or she
received $10 ($177 in 2017 dollars ) The questions were posed as
riddles: What song title tells you what Cinderella might have said if
she awoke one morning and found that her foot had grown too large for
her glass slipper? If the band played the correct musical answer, Where
Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?, the listener lost.

When Raleigh cigarettes sponsored Beat the Band, the listener who beat
the band won $50 ($888 in 2017 dollars) and two cartons of cigarettes
... Raleigh's, of course. When the sponsor changed to General Mill's Kix
cereal, if the listener beat the band, he/she won twenty bucks ($355 in
2017 dollars ) and a case of Kix cereal.

1934   As a result of a compliment paid on this day, by Walter Winchell,
in his newspaper column; a local disc jockey began receiving several
offers from talent scouts and producers. The DJ became known as the
Redhead, adored by thousands in Washington, DC and, later, by millions
across the country on CBS radio and TV. His trademark (strumming a
ukulele and delivering down home patter) endeared him to fans for many
years. We remember the broadcasting legend, Arthur Godfrey. "I wanna go
back to my little grass [removed]"

1/30

1933    The Lone Ranger was heard for the first time.

1/31

1936   The Green Hornet was introduced by its famous theme song, The
Flight of the Bumble Bee. The radio show was first heard on WXYZ in
Detroit, MI on this day. The show stayed on the air for 16 years. The
Green Hornet originated from the same radio station where The Lone
Ranger was performed. You may remember that the title character in The
Green Hornet was really named Britt Reid. He was, in fact, supposed to
be the great nephew of John* Reid, the Lone Ranger. Both popular series
were created by George Trendle and Fran Striker.  (*The name of John is
disputed since his first name is believed not to be recorded anywhere).

2/2

1946   The Mutual Broadcasting System presented Twenty Questions for the
first time. Bill Slater was the master of ceremonies.

Joe

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Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 00:05:58 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 4-10 February

2/5

1931   Eddie Cantor's long radio career got underway as he appeared on
Rudy Vallee's The Fleischmann Hour.

1940   Amanda of Honeymoon Hill debuted. Joy Hathaway starred as 'the
beauty of flaming red hair'. The program stayed for six years on NBC.

2/6

1950   NBC first broadcast Dangerous Assignment. The show starred Brian
Donlevy in the role of soldier of fortune, Steve Mitchell.

2/8

1924   John Joseph Carty of the Bell Telephone System spoke in Chicago,
IL. His speech was carried across the nation on the first coast to coast
radio hookup. An estimated 50 million people heard the speech.

Joe

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