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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2013 : Issue 21
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 17-23 Feb  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      OTR Radio Shows On Vinyl For Sale     [ JSmith4994@[removed] ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:27:19 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history  17-23 February

     From Those Were The Days

    2/18

    1949   Yours Truly Johnny Dollar debuted on CBS. The program starred
    Charles Russell as the insurance investigator with the action packed
    expense account.

    2/19

    1922   Ed Wynn became the first big name vaudeville talent to sign on as
    a radio talent. Previously, top talent had not considered radio a
    respectable medium.

    2/22

    1954   ABC radio's popular Breakfast Club, program with longtime host,
    Don McNeill, was simulcast on TV beginning this day. The telecast of the
    show was a bomb, but the radio program went on as one of the longest
    running programs on the air.

    2/23

    1927   [removed] President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill into law that
    created the Federal Radio Commission, "to bring order out of this
    terrible chaos." The president was speaking, of course, of the nation's
    then unregulated radio stations. The commission assigned frequencies,
    hours of operation and power allocations for radio broadcasters across
    the [removed] The name was changed to the Federal Communications Commission
    (FCC) on July 1, 1934.

    Joe

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    Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:27:50 -0500
    From: JSmith4994@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR Radio Shows On Vinyl For Sale

    I have been collecting over 50 years. Am  retiring and would like to sell my
    collection to a fellow enthusiast. I am  moving to a smaller condo and just
    can't  handle them. Hundreds and  hundreds of shows. Radiola, Sandy Hook
    etc. Please  contact me if  interested. JSmith4994@[removed]

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    Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:28:02 -0500
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    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," Charlie St George's "Make Believe
    Ballroom Time" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics." Streamed in
    high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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    Many new additions to our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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    Many new additions to our Transcription Disc scans at:
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    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    *Patty Andrews 1911-2013*

    THE ABBOTT AND COSTELLO SHOW
    Episode 83 4-26-45 Guests: The Andrews Sisters
    Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Mel Blanc
    Features Connie Haines, Cliff Nazarro
    Music: Will Osborne
    NBC Camel Cigarettes Thursdays 7:00-7:30 pm

    "N-K EIGHT TO THE BAR RANCH"
    Episode 1 12-31-44 "Opening The Ranch"
    Stars: Andrews Sisters, Curt Massey, George "Gabby" Hayes, Foy Willing
    And The Riders Of The Purple Sage
    Announcer: Andre Baruch
    Music: Vic Schoen's Orchestra
    CBS, KNX Nash-Kelvinator Sundays 4:30 - 5:00 pm

    KRAFT MUSIC HALL
    Episode 86 1-25-45 Guests: The Andrews Sisters
    Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Burns, Connee Boswell, Music Maids
    NBC Kraft

    COMMAND PERFORMANCE
    Episode 202 12-13-45 Hosts: The Andrews Sisters
    Features: Garry Moore, Delta Rhythm Boys, Jimmy Durante, Celeste Holm
    AFRS Production
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    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

    THE LUX RADIO THEATRE
    (CBS) 12/1/41 "A Man's Castle"
    stars: Spencer Tracy & Ingrid Bergman
    A Great Depression tale recreated from the 1933 movie.

    THE NEWS 'TILL NOW
    (CBS) 8/11/47 With Bob Trout. Live guests: Howard Hughes and Bill Odem.
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    We continue to feature Ellvia Allman as our performer of the month.
    This week, we hear her in an early program.

    THE BOB HOPE SHOW
    from 03/07/39 Episode (024) Guest - Judy Garland.

    Stan Freberg has appeared with us 3 times on our show over the years.
    One of his next appearances will be at The Radio enthusiasts Of Puget
    Sound (REPS) Showcase convention June 20 through June 23rd in Bellevue
    Washington.

    THE STAN FREBERG SHOW
    from 08/18/57 Episode (06) Program Censor.

    INNER SANCTUM
    from 02/26/46 I Walk In The Night.

    SUSPENSE
    from 12/01/49 Episode (361) James Stewart in: Mission Completed
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    CLASSICS & CURIOS

    "Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

    Episode 67

    EDDIE HUBBARD & THE BROWSERS: "TAKE THE A TRAIN" "UP A LAZY RIVER" with
    CINDERELLA G. STUMP

    Eddie and the Browsers begin this show from 2001 by taking us on a
    musical train ride via Duke Ellington's "Take the 'A' Train," and then
    at the close of the show we journey on a river ride with Si Zentner's
    classic instrumental version of "Up a Lazy River." From rails to water
    we encounter Cinderella G. Stump, (aka and off-key) Darlene Edwards,
    (aka and on-key) Jo Stafford, along with performers Frankie Laine, Anita
    O' Day and Stan Kenton, Della Reese, Ray Charles, Louis Jourdan, Count
    Basie, Benny Goodman, and Spike Jones, along with a mystery duet on
    Phil's Phooler.

    Songs include "Somebody Stole My Gal," "Blue and Sentimental," "Put
    Yourself in My Place," "In a Little Spanish Town," "Take My Heart,"
    "Diane," "Poor Butterfly," "I Should Care," and "Day by Day." A couple
    of fun curio songs creep in such as "Five Guys Named Moe," "Cute Little
    Wiggle," "I Dream of Brownie with the Light Blue Jeans." The last tune
    is performed by Spike Jones who as always gives our chuckle muscles a
    great workout! Be sure to look this one up online for a "full funny body
    workout" on a U-Tube version to hear this master of musical zaniness
    (and sometimes unappreciated musicianship).

    Trivia questions designed to stump -- not Cinderella! -- us listeners
    are a little zany as well. What, for instance, was Cinderella Stump's
    real name? And what was her husband's name? But there's still more to
    that question: What was her husband's name before he received his
    professional name? And yet still more: What name did he have when he
    performed with Darlene Edwards? If you can get all that, you deserve a
    bona fide bonus! Actually, somehow at this point after all those
    convoluted questions, I seem to hear Lou Costello's words to Bud Abbott
    proclaiming, "I don't even know what I'm talkin' about!"

    Can you name the "Five Guys Named Moe" in the above curio tune? Well, I
    confess that I still can't! Concerning the song "Cute Little Wiggle,"
    can you name to whom or what the wiggle was referring! Okay, that's
    pretty hard, but here's one a little easier: Benny Goodman was known as
    "the King of Swing," but what was Spike Jones "King" of? Then try this
    one: What was Anita O' Day's real name, and what does it have to do with
    Pig Latin? O, boy! These questions sound like they came from the old
    radio show "The 64 Dollar Question." Or maybe TV's "64 Thousand Dollar
    Question!" Or even "Can You Top This?"

    The Browsers do give us a more realistic challenge or two. For example,
    we are asked to name the singer whom Frankie Laine replaced in the
    Freddy Carlone band back in the 1930's. Only "keenagers" like me would
    know that the singer was ... well, I won't say, but he had been making
    about $125 a week as at his barber shop and with Carlone he made just
    "$28 a week. He went on to sing with the Ted Weems band, and his first
    million seller was "Till the End of Time," in fact, he was the first
    artist to have 10 records sell more than a million copies.

    Of course, Frankie Laine didn't do too shabbily either with hits like
    "That's My Desire," "Jezebel," "I Believe," "That Lucky Old Sun," "Mule
    Train," and TV's "Rawhide Theme."

    So from rails to water we'll have a joyful musical journey. "All aboard"
    for good music, laughs, and special memories.
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    Make Believe Ballroom Time

    Episode 6

    Today, BBSS is featuring Chuck Foster and his "Music in the Foster
    Fashion" They are broadcasting from the Hotel New Yorker in NY City. The
    New Yorker Hotel is located in Manhattan's Garment Center, central to
    Pennsylvania Station, Madison Square Garden, Times Square and the Empire
    State Building. An early ad for the building boasted that the hotel's
    "bell boys were 'as snappy-looking as West Pointers'" and "that it had a
    radio in every room with a choice of four stations" It was a New Yorker
    bellboy who served as tobacco company Phillip Morris' pitchman for
    twenty years, making famous their "Call for Phillip Morris" advertising
    campaign.

    Throughout the 1940s and 1950s the hotel was among New York's most
    fashionable and hosted many popular Big Bands, such as Benny Goodman and
    Tommy Dorsey, while notable figures such as Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford
    and Fidel Castro stayed there. The New York Observer noted that in the
    building's heyday, "actors, celebrities, athletes, politicians,
    mobsters, the shady and the luminous-the entire Brooklyn Dodgers roster
    during the glory seasons-would stalk the bars and ballrooms, or romp
    upstairs".

    Some say the Foster band copied the style of Guy Lombardo's successful
    and popular Royal [removed] Reed player Chuck Foster began his career
    as a bandleader in 1938, bringing the sweet (and sometimes syrupy)
    sounds of his band to such sizeable venues as San Francisco's Mark
    Hopkins Hotel and the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel's famous Biltmore Bowl.

    With radio remotes routinely being broadcast from both locations, the
    band hit its stride early and quickly achieved popularity with the help
    of talented pianist Hal Pruden and a raft of popular vocalists.

    The Foster band is appearing on BBSS in a remote broadcast from the
    Hotel New Yorker in NY City. It's mid-August 1945 just prior to Chuck
    Foster being drafted into the WWII military.
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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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