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Volume 2014 : Issue 82
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 21-27 Sep [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:18:09 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 21-27 September
9/21
1946 After being tested on a regional basis, The Second Mrs. Burton
was heard for the first time on the entire CBS network. The Second Mrs.
Burton fared very well, having a relationship with the network for 14 years.
1948 The serial Life With Luigi debuted on CBS. Luigi Basko was played
by J. Carroll Naish. Naish, an Irish American, became typecast as an
Italian immigrant, and went on to play the same role in the TV version
in 1952.
9/22
1943 Singer Kate Smith finished her War Bond radio appeal. For 13
continuous hours Smith had stayed on the air, collecting a whopping $39
million dollars in bond pledges. ($510,808,942 in 2012 dollars.)
1957 The CBS Radio Workshop was silenced after 18 months of what the
critics said was "ingenious radio programming."
9/24
1942 Glenn Miller ended his Moonlight Serenade series on CBS. It was
time for Miller to go to war. The show had aired three times a week for
Chesterfield Cigarettes.
9/25
1933 - America's favorite cowboy, Tom Mix, was heard for the first time
on NBC. The Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters continued on the air until
June 1950.
9/27
1933 NBC debuted Waltz Time, featuring the orchestra of Abe Lymon. The
program continued on the network until 1948.
1938 Thanks for the Memory was heard for the first time on The Bob
Hope Show on the NBC Red network.
Joe
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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:18:16 -0400
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS
MUSIC OF THE NEW WORLD
Episode 19 3-4-43 "Songs Of The Minstrels"
Features: Ray Charles, Alan Holt.
Part of NBC's "University of the Air"
Narrator: Ben Grauer
MUSIC: Frank Black Orchestra
NBC SUSTAINED Thursdays 11:30 - 12:00 am
THE CLYDE BEATTY SHOW
Episode 14 "Noah's Ark"
Stars: Vic Perrin as Clyde Beatty
Producer: Shirley Thomas
Music: Albert Glaser
Syndicated By Commodore Productions
THREE OF A KIND
Audition Show 4-13-44 Guest: Basil Rathbone
Stars: Stars Hanley Stafford, Ilka Chase, Bert Lahr
Announcer: John Brown
Music: Wilbur Hatch Orchestra
Producer/Writer: Phil Rapp
CBS Sustained
THE COMEDY WRITER'S SHOW
Episode 6 7-11-48 "Abbott And Costello Type Show"
Panelists Snag Werris (Bing Crosby Show), Roger Price (Bob Hope Show),
Leonard Stern (Abbott & Costello Show), Sidney Fields.
HOST: Ben Brady
Script outline suggested by: Susan Hayward
ABC SUSTAINED Sundays 10:00 - 10:30 pm
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATER
WE THE PEOPLE
(NBC) 1/26/49
Host: Dan Seymour. Guests: Lawrence Melchoir; The Corn Cobblers.
WEIRD CIRCLE
(MBS) 5/14/44 "The Old Nurse's Story" A fascinating fantasy!
BILL STERN/COLGATE SPORTS NEWSREEL
(NBC_ 4/27/45 From Chicago, with Guest, Hanny Youngman.
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
This week, we continue our salute to Virginia Gregg. This is week 3 of 6.
VOYAGE OF THE SCARLET QUEEN
07/27/47 episode (04) Boston Geisha.
FIRST NIGHTER
02/12/48 Episode (0691) Love Is Stranger Than Fiction.
ESCAPE
03/21/48 Episode (033) Misfortune Isle AFRS.
ADVENTURES BY MORSE
Cobra King Strikes Back 10 (Amazing End Of An Expedition).
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This Week's Classics & Curios Show:
"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"
Episode 138
JOHNNY MERCER'S MUSIC SHOP & SWINGTIME
Episode 138 This week we join Johnny Mercer on two of his shows. The
first show is "Mercer's Music Shop" from June 12, 1944, on NBC and also
broadcast on the Armed Forces Radio Service. Paul Weston and his
orchestra and Jo Stafford, along with June Hutton and the Pied Pipers,
joined Johnny with their musical magic to bring entertainment and cheer
to our troops abroad.
Johnny performs "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?" and "San Fernando
Valley." The band brings "My Blue Heaven," and Jo Stafford sings "It
Could Happen to You." The Pipers add "Love, Go Away," and "Dream,"
Johnny's great 1944 recording, composition, and theme song.
On "Swingtime" from 1945 and also on the AFRS network Johnny is joined
by Mel Torme and the Mel-Tones and the AFRS Swing Band led by Murray
McEachern. Highlights on this show are Johnny's "I'm Gonna See My Baby
(When I Get Home on Victory Bay)" and "Candy." The band swings with
"King Porter Stomp," and Mel and the Mel-Tones do "Eventide." This show
is produced without an audience, but I'm sure our troops didn't care.
Johnny's career took off when he wrote words and music for "I'm An Old
Cowhand from the Rio Grande," inspired by a trip through Texas and
performed by Bing Crosby in the movie "Rhythm on the Range" in 1936.
Johnny, of course, became one of the greatest and most creative and
prolific lyricists in the Great American Songbook, with songs like
"Blues in the Night," "Lazy Bones," "Accentuate the Positive," "Jeepers
Creepers," "Moon River," "The Glow-Worm," "Autumn Leaves," "Hooray for
Hollywood," "Goody Goody," and "And the Angels Sing." Songs with lyrics
by Mercer numbered over 1,500. including songs for films and broadway,
and he received nineteen Academy Award nominations, winning four.
As for the great Pied Pipers, Paul Weston described them best in a few
lines about them in Episode 56 in my archives: Weston observed that The
Pipers were ahead of their time. He said that "Their vocal arrangements
were like those for a sax section and a brass section, and they would
interweave, singing unison or sometimes sing against each other's parts.
It was revolutionary and we'd never heard anything like it." That
comment led Tommy Dorsey to hire the group to sing on the Raleigh Kool
cigarettes program. All in all the group had some 13 charted hits with
Dorsey, 9 of them with Sinatra. When Johnny Mercer's Capitol records
signed The Pipers in 1945, 12 more hits resulted.
Mercer and the Pipers were virtually "Too Marvelous for Words," still
another song with lyrics by Johnny.
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THE GLOWING DIAL
Big John and Greg present a tribute to those daring detectives!
Command Performance - "Dick Tracy In B Flat or For Goodness Sakes,
Isn't He Ever Going To Marry Tess Trueheart?"
originally aired Thursday, February 15, 1945 on AFRS
Starring: Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Frank
Sinatra, Jerry Colonna,
Frank Morgan, Judy Garland, The Andrews Sisters, Cass Daley.
Harry Von Zell announcing.
Sustained
The Abbott & Costello Show - "Sam Shovel in She Rubbed Him Out"
originally aired Thursday, January 13, 1949 on ABC
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Veola Vonn, Norman Abbott, Sidney
Fields, Hal Winters.
Michael Roy announcing.
Sustained
The Shadow - "The Three Ghosts"
originally aired Sunday, October 31, 1937 on MUTUAL
Starring: Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead.
Ken Roberts announcing.
Sponsor: Blue Coal
Mr. Keen, Tracer Of Lost Persons - "The Case Of The Frightened Child"
originally aired Thursday, November 16, 1944 on CBS
Starring: Bennett Kilpack, Jim Kelly.
Larry Elliott announcing.
Sponsor: Whitehall Pharmical for Anacin, Hill's Nose Drops and Cold
Tablets, Kolynos Toothpaste
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