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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2020 : Issue 19
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  This week in radio history 21-27 Jun  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  ADMINISTRIVIA: Recent Changes Within  [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 22:19:30 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 21-27 June

 From Those Were The Days -

6/23

1933   The Pepper Pot program welcomed a new host. Don McNeill took over
the show and renamed it The Breakfast Club. The show, a huge success for
the NBC Blue and later, ABC, became one of the longest running radio
programs in history. The show aired with McNeill as host until December
27, 1968. The Breakfast Club was a morning show that had its share of
corny jokes, visiting celebrities and lots of audience participation.

1941   Front Page Farrell was heard for the first time on Mutual. In
1942 the program moved to NBC and stayed on the air until 1954. Sally
and David Farrell were the central characters.

1947   Wendy Warren and the News debuted on CBS. The broadcasts
continued until 1958. No, the program was not a newscast, in the
traditional sense. It was a serial one of many of the time. The unique
thing about this particular show, however, was that Wendy Warren and the
News did utilize a real three minute newscast to open the show. The
newscaster, delivering the news as part of the show, chose not to stay
in the entertainment side of radio, but continued to be a true
journalist and a legend at CBS. That newsman was Douglas Edwards.

6/24

1960   The Romance of Helen Trent was heard for the last time. Helen and
her boy toy, Gil Whitney, were about to be married, but the loving
couple never made it to the altar just in case the show would ever be
renewed. Helen Trent and her romance aired for 27 years, a total of
7,222 episodes on CBS.

6/25

1942   The first broadcast of It Pays to Be Ignorant was aired on the
Mutual Broadcasting System.

6/26

1933   The Kraft Music Hall debuted.

1949   Fred Allen broadcast his final program, though he continued for
several years to guest on other shows.

6/27

1943   The Dreft Star Playhouse debuted on NBC. Jane Wyman starred in
the first broadcast, titled Bachelor Mother.

1944   The Alan Young Show debuted on NBC. It was a summer replacement
for the popular Eddie Cantor. The show became a regular in the fall NBC
lineup.

Joe

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 12:06:03 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  ADMINISTRIVIA: Recent Changes Within and Without

Folks;

   In the last issue of the Digest there were two postings noting how some
things are changing related to Old-Time Radio; the recent removal of the OTR
show from Wisconsin Public Radio, and the decision to remove Amos n Andy from
the Radio Spirits catalog. By themselves, these posts contained important
information for those of us in this hobby.

   But there have been a number of posts in response to these that are
beginning to push into more contemporary themes and issues. There is, so
there is no confusion, nothing "wrong" with these posts, but it is clear they
will send the OTR Digest down a road I'd prefer it didn't go. Since I will
inevitably need to stop the discussion, I've decided to do it NOW.  Some of
you, particularly those who posted, will probably disagree with this
decision, and that's ok. Feel free to contact me privately if you think I
need to explain my reasoning more than I intend to here.

   There are seemingly massive shifts going on in the political landscape
today. And these are IMPORTANT, certainly, and should be honestly discussed
and debated. Lord knows as a News Junkie I immerse myself in current events.
But while they should be discussed, not here. Look, I know some of you are on
the left. And I know some of you are on the right. And I also know that here,
in this space, those differences do not matter. Here, in this space, we talk
about Old-Time Radio, within its own context.

   I do not want the Digest subscribers being divided, since there are PLENTY
of other places on the Net to discuss and even argue these topics. Here we
should safely discuss OTR insulated from the concerns of today. It isn't that
we ignore the problems of the past, we simply keep them rooted in that past.

   Specifically about Amos n Andy, I wish Elizabeth McLeod were still
posting, since she has researched this subject and could speak to it
authoritatively. But since she isn't, I will borrow the philosophy of Jay
Hickerson. Once, at an FOTR committee meeting, an Amos n Andy recreation was
suggested. After [removed] discussion, Jay weighed in with what I have
always thought was the most intelligent solution available. Why, he asked,
with so many other programs to choose from, would we want to dive into this
controversy?

         Charlie

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