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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2013 : Issue 12
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
      More On Crystal Sets                  [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]
      Re: Crystal Sets                      [ Andy Blatt <asajb2000@[removed]; ]
      Re: Crystal sets                      [ Al Girard <24agirard24@[removed] ]
      The Rocket Radio                      [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:03:09 -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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    Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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    Check our our Transcription Disc scans at:
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    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    *Patti Page 1927-2013*

    BING CROSBY SHOW
    Episode 95 2-20-52 Guests: Patti Page And The Mills Bros
    CHESTERFIELD SUPPER CLUB
    6-1-50 "Who's the Guest Host?"
    Guest Hosts: Frankie Laine, Robert Q. Lewis, Patti Page, Fontane Sisters

    LET'S GO TO TOWN
    Episode 173 Guests: Patti Page, Tony Pastor Orchestra
    Syndicated by the National Guard
    THE HOOFERS
    Episode 1 1934 "Introducing Laverne And Valentine"
    Produced by Radio Features Syndications
    Stars: Alice Smith

    THE ADVENTURES OF JANE ARDEN
    Episode 2 9-27-38 "Police Question Cab Driver"
    Stars: Ruth Yorke as Jane Arden, Newspaper Reporter, Maurice Franklin,
    Henry Wadsworth, Bill Baar, Frank Provo, Helene Dumas
    Announcer: Alan Kent
    Director: Lawrence Holcomb
    Blue Network Ward Banking Monday through Friday 10:15 am.

    LET'S GO TO TOWN
    Episode 174 Guests: Patti Page, Tony Pastor Orchestra
    Syndicated by the National Guard
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    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

    THE NBC UNIVERSITY THEATRE
    (NBC) 09/17/48 "The Purloined Letter"
    by Edgar Allan Poe.
    Starring: Adolph Menjou.

    TALES OF THE TEXAS RANGERS
    (NBC) 7/22/50 "Apache Peak"
    Joel McCrea stars.

    THE BILL RING SHOW
    (ABC/SYND) (Synd) c. 1955
    May have been one of the original KWTO (Springfield, MO) personalities
    that became part of ABC-TV "Ozark Jubilee"
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    January 20 would have been George Burns' 116th birthday. We go back to a
    time when the country and NBC's Monitor, were celebrating birthday
    number 68.

    MONITOR
    from 07/08/40 Grandpas 92nd Birthday.

    HIGH ADVENTURE
    from 09/24/50 Episode (35) East Side Beat.

    We finish with a favorite of many who listen to Same Time, Same Station.

    MOLLE' MYSTERY THEATER
    from 03/22/46 Alibi for Murder.
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    CLASSICS & CURIOS

    "Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

    Episode 63

    THE LIGHTCRUST DOUGHBOYS ARE ON THE AIR!

     From out of the past I can hear the wonderful words "Listen everybody
    from near and far if you wanna know who we are, we're The Light Crust
    Doughboys from Burrus Mill." That was the famous beginning of each radio
    performance of The Light Crust Doughboys, a group begun by Bob Wills and
    sponsored by Texan W. Lee "Pappy" O' Daniel, owner of Burrus Mill and
    future Texas governor and [removed] senator.

    Wills had formed the Wills Fiddle Band in 1929, and in 1930 he added
    Milton Brown and more first rate musicians. Soon the group became
    "Pappy's" Doughboys, and by the 1940's they had one of the most popular
    programs in the history of the Southwest and were broadcast on over 170
    stations The popular group also appeared in several of Gene Autry's
    early movies such as "Oh, Susanna" in 1936.

    Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery joined the band in 1935 and, after Wills
    left, went on to lead the band for several decades until he entered
    "Them Pearly Gates" in 2001. Smokey, a multi-talented instrumentalist,
    arranger, composer, and producer, introduced Dixieland-style banjo to
    folk type traditional music and was instrumental in the development of
    the music's distinct jazz and big band styles. Bob Wills called Smokey
    Montgomery "the genius on that banjo," Smokey and the "Boys" were called
    "a national treasure" by the Texas legislature in1995 when the band was
    named "Texas' Official Music Ambassadors."

    More recently the band has been nominated several times for Grammys and
    has received awards for recordings of everything from country to
    dixieland, from western swing to big band swing, from gospel and blues
    to cool jazz. Art Greenhaw has followed in Smokey's footsteps as the
    current leader and has led the band to new horizons with outstanding
    reviews, nominations, and several awards.

    Smokey, early on known as Junior, graciously gave me several
    transcriptions of the Doughboys' radio shows, along with vintage vinyl
    records. Most and best of all, Smokey gave me his friendship and so much
    joy! On this broadcast, originally aired at KVOO, you will hear 2
    Doughboy radio shows. In the first program Smokey (Junior) is featured
    on "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby" and demonstrates his amazing talent at the
    age of 23. We'll also hear the vintage "Paris Top Cornpipe" and a song
    originating from the time of the Civil War with the title "My Pretty
    Quadroon" (a girl with partial Negro heritage), along with "Yellow Rose
    of Texas" and "Open Up Them Pearly Gates." On the second program, with
    portions edited out for fidelity issues, we hear wonderful renditions of
    "Dinah," and "Limehouse Blues," both with Smokey strumming a "smoking"
    banjo. Finally, the Doughboys reprise Smokey's excellent treatment of
    "That's My Baby." The announcer and refreshingly gentle pitch man for
    Light Crust flour is Truett Kimzey.

    So it's time to set your radio dial to 1936 and tune in The Light Crust
    Doughboys, broadcasting from KVOO and probably the famous Cain Ballroom
    in Tulsa. The "Boys" end their shows with their closing theme: "Some
    time when we're down your way, we'll drop in and spend the day, we're
    the Light Crust Doughboys from Burrus Mill!"

    I join so many who are thankful that the Doughboys continue to perform
    today in concerts and that for a precious while they dropped down our
    way on radio to bless America and now -- through rebroadcasts like this
    one -- the world! So now it's our turn to drop in and spend time with
    Smokey and The Light Crust Doughboys.

    For more details please see THE LIGHT CRUST DOUGHBOYS ARE ON THE AIR!
    Swing and Rock On, Art Greenhaw, [removed] and San Antonio Rose:
    The life and Music of Bob Wills, Dr. Charles R. Townsend, University of
    Illinois Press. .
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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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    Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:03:26 -0500
    From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  More On Crystal Sets

    Both Stephen A. Kallis, Jr. and Joe Mackey  happened to mention
    crystal sets. I remember I bought one back in the late 1940's. I
    think it was some kind of a kit. It might have even been when I was
    in Cub Scouts and I did it to earn some kind of badge.

    Anyway, I do recall that I got it to work. Since I hardly ever throw
    anything out (ask my wife she'll confirm this) I might even still
    have it in some box somewhere. I also remember building a sun powered
    radio. I think I came across that a few years ago.

    Fred

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    Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:03:20 -0500
    From: Andy Blatt <asajb2000@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re:  Crystal Sets
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    Regarding the battery operated and crystal sets, I remember a pen-radio I got
    from somewhere (Maybe Johnson-Smith from Mount Clemens, MI?)  The antenna was
    the "point" and the inside contained the tuning and other guts and the
    earphone came out the top.  It did not work well because it was self-powered
    and could only pick-up the strongest stations and never needed a battery.
    Besides, you would never be able to put it together after taking it apart and
    it was too small inside to accommodate a battery anyway.  I wonder if these
    things are still available.
    Of course it was not stereo (only one "earbud" and only am radio).

    Andy Blatt
    Vintage Broadcasts

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    Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:03:15 -0500
    From: Al Girard <24agirard24@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Crystal sets

    When I was a kid I built a very simple crystal set with a cat's whisker
    and a gelena crystal.
    The only station I could get on it was the local French station.  I was
    not impressed.

    Al Girard

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    Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:51:55 -0500
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Rocket Radio

>     Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:16:07 -0500
>     From: Stephen A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed];
>     In that time period, as I was growing up, there was a packaged unit
>     called the "Rocket Radio," that was a preassembled crystal set -- diode,
>     ferrite antenna, and ground clip

    I remember having one of those.  It had the disadvantage that you
    couldn't easily select which station you wanted to listen to, and you
    often would hear more than one station at once -- worse even than other
    radios.  And mine didn't last very wrong before it suddenly went silent,
    as if the battery had died.  Except there was no battery.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]|92 State Street|Suite 700|Boston, MA 02109-2004
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