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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2017 : Issue 67
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: Tune into Yesterday Issue 81      [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
      Strange Foreshadowings On OTR         [ <skallisjr@[removed]; ]
      SPERDVAC Presents                     [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
      This week in radio history 1-7 Octob  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Bob Steele "On the Record"            [ "scherago" <scherago@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 8-14 Octo  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 00:47:47 -0400
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Tune into Yesterday Issue 81
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    Hi. Issue 81 of ORCA's Tune into Yesterday magazine is now out. Main section
    covers recent news from the radio archives, Supplements 1 and 2 look at
    politics on the radio 1945B  - 1958, monitoring the airwaves 1942 - 1955, and
    a look back at the BBC in the 1920s and 30s. Members also receive access to
    our vast lending library of old [removed] sample copy is free in the UK
    from our membership sec John Wolstenholme:

    ORCA, PO Box 1922, Dronfield, S18B 8XA

    Annual membership is 12 pounds UK ( thirty dollars US ), all cheques
    payable to 'ORCA'

    Graeme

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    Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 00:48:08 -0400
    From: <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Strange Foreshadowings On OTR

    In the /Captain Midnight/ serial, in the Fall season, the story had two
    of
    the characters as captive by an Oriental criminal, The Barracuda, held in
    Japanese-occupied China.  Captain Midnight leads a rescue force.  While
    at The Barracuda's headquarters, Captain Midnight finds an oilskin pouch
    in which he discovered plans for an attack on Pearl Harbor.  This was
    weeks before 7 December 1941!
    In the beginning of the 1940 season of /Jack Armstrong, The All-American
    Boy/ season, the industrialist, James Fairfield, receives  package in the
    mail
    that sets him, his niece, and nephew, along with Jack Armstrong, to the
    Sulu Sea, to track down a shipment of Uranium 235 that had gone astray
    somewhere around the,
    was intended for the US Army.  Uranium 235 is the central ingredient in
    an atomic bomb.
    In a sequence of /Buck Rogers In The 5th Century AD/, Buck and some of
    his cohorts are captured and held prisoners by a civilization that
    consisted solely of robots that were about to
    replace their leader with a newer model.  Buck and his cohorts manage to
    sneak into where the new leader is being constructed, and managed to
    alter
    its programming so that it would  be friendly to humans -- nearly 20
    years
    before computers became  part of technical life.
    These two foreshadowings are the only two that come to mind, but there
    may have been others.  There are audio files of many of the OTR shows.
    It might be interesting to see whether there are other foreshadowings.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 00:48:16 -0400
    From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
    To: oldtimeradio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  SPERDVAC Presents
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    This month's post is John Milton Kennedy. John Milton Kennedy was a longtime
    friend of SPERDVAC, having emceed several events for SPERDVAC before appearing
    at the February 12, 1983 meeting to talk about his career. He began as a stage
    actor, winning a Shakespearean contest in 1930, and has many delightful
    stories to tell about the early days of radio. (Did you know the call letters
    for station KGFJ stood for keeping good folks joyful?) He is best remembered
    by radio fans as the announcer on Lux Radio Theater from 1942 to 1952, saying
    Lux presents Hollywood! Now, SPERDVAC Presents John Milton Kennedy! Listen or
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    Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 00:48:23 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 1-7 October

     From Those Were The Days

    10/1

    1942   People Are Funny went on the air with host Art Baker.

    10/3

    1901   The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated on this day.
    After a merger with Radio Corporation of America, RCA Victor became the
    leader in phonographs and many of the records played on them. The famous
    Victrola phonograph logo, with Nipper the dog, and the words "His
    Master's Voice", appeared on all RCA Victor phonographs and record labels.

    1946   Dennis Day started his own show on NBC. Dennis, a popular tenor
    featured on The Jack Benny Show, played the same (type) naive young
    bachelor he played on the Benny show. A Day in the Life of Dennis Day
    aired for five years.

    10/4

    1948   Gordon MacRae hosted the premiere of a radio classic. The
    Railroad Hour debuted on ABC. The theme song was I've Been Working on
    the Railroad and the show was sponsored by, get ready, America's Railroads.

    10/5

    1930 Father Coughlin, "The Fighting Priest" was first heard on the radio
    web. He lit up the airwaves with oratory that aired into the early forties.

    10/6

    1937   Hobby Lobby debuted on CBS. The host was the dean of American
    hobbyists, Dave Elman. The show's theme was The Best Things in Life are
    Free. Sponsors included Fels Naptha soap, Hudson paper products and
    Colgate Dental Creme.

    10/7

    1922   The first radio network, of sorts, debuted. It was a network of
    just two stations. WJZ in Newark, NJ teamed with WGY in Schenectady, NY
    to bring the World Series game direct from the Polo Grounds in New York.
    Columnist Grantland Rice was behind the microphone for that broadcast.

    1939   Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy was heard for the first time on CBS
    radio. Tom Hopkins, Kate's husband, was played by Clayton 'Bud' Collyer,
    later of eventual Superman fame. The 15 minute radio drama was written
    by Chester McCraken and Gertrude Berg.  The announcer for the four year
    run of Angel of Mercy was Ralph Edwards of future This is Your Life
    fame. And the sponsor was Maxwell House of coffee fame.

    1940   Portia Faces Life debuted on the NBC Red network. This radio soap
    opera centered around the life of Portia Blake Manning, an attorney and
    a widow with a young son.  Portia Faces Life was extremely popular, and
    therefore, had many sponsors, none of which were soap. The sponsors
    included Post Toasties, Grape Nuts Flakes, Grape Nuts Wheat Meal,
    Maxwell House coffee, Jell-O desserts and La France bleach.

    Joe

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    Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 00:48:30 -0400
    From: "scherago" <scherago@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Bob Steele "On the Record"

    One of the longest-running morning shows on radio was The Bob Steele
    Show on WTIC in Hartford.

    Bob started at WTIC in 1936, and became the morning drive host in 1943
    when his predecessor, Ben Hawthorne, joined the armed forces. Bob hosted
    the morning show until 1991, and continued to do the show on Saturday
    mornings until shortly before his death in 2002.

    In the 1970s Bob made a record - that is a vinyl 33 - of some of his
    best and most familiar bits. You can hear it, along with excerpts of his
    35th anniversary show, at [removed] -
    Click on "Additional Features," then on "Bob Steele - On the Record."

    The website, started by former WTIC announcer Dick Bertel and former
    WTIC engineer Bob Scherago, includes hundreds of hours of interviews
    with old-time radio personalities, big-band-era personalities, and other
    features, all available for download, with no cookies and no ads.

    Bob Scherago
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    Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 00:48:49 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 8-14 October

    10/8

    1935   The O'Neills debuted on CBS. The theme song, Londonderry Air,
    opened the 15 minute soap opera. The O'Neills aired Mondays, Wednesdays
    and Fridays at 7:30 [removed] In 1936 it moved to daytime where it stayed
    until 1943 on NBC's Red and Blue networks and on CBS, too. One of
    radio's original soaps, it was sponsored appropriately by Silver Dust,
    Ivory soap and Ivory soap flakes.

    1935   Wedding bells pealed for a singer and a bandleader who tied the
    knot, making radio history together. The bandleader was Ozzie Nelson and
    the singer was Harriet Hilliard. They would make the history pages again
    on this very day nine years later.

    1944   The first broadcast of The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet was
    heard on the CBS network.

    10/9

    1935   Cavalcade of America was first broadcast this very day. The CBS
    show featured some of Hollywood and Broadway's most famous stars in
    leading roles in the half hour dramas. Thomas Chalmers narrated the
    stories about obscure incidents and people in American history. The
    orchestra was led by Donald Voorhees. The show aired from 1935 to 1953,
    changing from CBS to NBC in 1939; with one sponsor for its entire
    duration. The DuPont Company introduced its slogan on Cavalcade of
    America ... "Better things for better living through [removed]"

    1943   ABC presented Land of the Lost. The opening phrase for the show
    was, "In that wonderful kingdom at the bottom of the [removed]" This
    children's adventure fantasy serial took the audience underwater where
    the main characters, Isabel and Jimmy, were guided by their friend, a
    red fish named Red Lantern and played at first by Junius Matthews and
    later, by Art Carney. Land of the Lost found a large audience and
    remained on the air until 1948.

    10/10

    1932   Two of radio's earliest efforts at soap operas were heard for the
    first time. Judy and Jane, sponsored by Folger's Coffee, and Betty and
    Bob, sponsored by General Mills, had listeners glued to their radios
    into the early 1940s.

    1933   Dreft, the first synthetic detergent, went on sale. Ten years
    later Dreft was the sponsor of The Dreft Star Playhouse.

    1937   The Mutual Broadcasting System debuted Thirty Minutes in
    Hollywood. 48 sponsors shared the cost of the program that aired in 72
    cities nationwide. It was the first Mutual co op radio show. George
    Jessel and Norma Talmadge starred. Music was provided by the Tommy
    Tucker Orchestra.

    10/11

    1936   Professor Quiz aired for the first time. It was the first
    national quiz show on radio and lasted until 1948. Guests asked
    Professor Quiz (Dr. Craig Earl) questions. If they were able to stump
    the prof, they collected a $25 prize. ($352 in 2016 dollars).  Professor
    Quiz announcers were Robert Trout and Arthur Godfrey. Sponsors included
    Kelvinator refrigerators, Teel Shampoo and Velvet pipe tobacco.

    1948   One of radio's last premiering soap operas, The Brighter Day,
    happened this day in Three Rivers. The show centered around the Dennis=
    and their extended family. It's interesting to take a look at the cast
    and see which names are still recognizable, like Hal Holbrook and
    William Redfield. Some of the sponsors are still around, too: Ivory Soap
    flakes, Blue Cheer detergent and Hazel Bishop lipstick. The soap opera
    lasted for six years on radio.
    10/12

    1937   The longest running detective show debuted. Mr. Keen, Tracer of
    Lost Persons lasted until 1955. Three different actors played the title
    role, Bennett Kilpack was Mr. Keen the longest, and Arthur Hughes saw
    the final show. Phil Clark also played the part. There were many more
    than three sponsors: Anacin, Kolynos toothpaste, BiSoDol antacid mints,
    Hill's cold tablets, Heet liniment, Dentyne, Aerowax, RCA Victor and
    Chesterfield cigarettes.

    10/13
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    1930  Groucho Marx made his radio debut introducing Heywood Broun on
    WABC, the New York affiliate of CBS.

    10/14

    1934   Folks had cleaner hands for 21 years beginning this day. The Lux
    Radio Theater was heard on the NBC Blue [removed] and nearly every
    famous Hollywood star over the next three decades appeared on the
    program. Lux Radio Theater adapted novels, Broadway plays and Hollywood
    films into radio's favorite dramatic series.

     From NYT Today in history

    In 1943, the Radio Corporation of America completed sale of the NBC Blue
      network to businessman Edward J. Noble for $8 million; ($11,2815,902
    in 2016 dollars) the network was renamed the American Broadcasting Company.

    Joe

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