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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2015 : Issue 80
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Tune into Yesterday issue 75          [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
      Halloween ghost stories on BBC Radio  [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 27 Septem  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 10:01:26 -0400
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Tune into Yesterday issue 75
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     [removed] Autumn Issue (# 75 )B of ORCA's 'Tune into Yesterday' newsletter is
    now available. The main article is from Andrew D. Roberts and is about his
    father's wartime career at the BBC's European Service. Steve Arnold writes
    about the 'Archiving Tomorrow' conference held earlier this year in
    Birmingham, and the rest of the magazine is filled with current news from the
    [removed] sample issue is available from our membership sec John
    Wolstenholme:ORCA, PO Box 1922, Dronfield, S18B  8XAAnnual membership in the
    UK is 10 pounds, thirty dollars in the US, for four issues which also gives
    access to the lending library of old programmes on CD, mp3 CD, and mp3 audio
    dvd.
    Cheers ! GraemeB B

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    Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 10:06:54 -0400
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Halloween ghost stories on BBC Radio 4
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     Hi. I know a lot us like a good ghost story on the radio. Looks like
    something of interest for us on Radio 4 at Halloween:

    BBC - Fright Night: pure horror from Radio 4 - Media Centre

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    | BBC - Fright Night: pure horror from Radio 4 - Media [removed] chilling
    dramas bring Halloween horror to audiences as Radio 4 launches its inaugural
    Fright Night this October with special events and a 3D listening [removed]

    Cheers ! Graeme

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    Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 10:07:01 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 27 September to 3
     October

    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.

    9/28

    1936   Bachelor's Children debuted on CBS (at 9:45 [removed]) in addition to
    its schedule on the Mutual Network (at 10:15 [removed]). The show's theme
    song, Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, opened the 15 minute, critically
    acclaimed, daily serial. Bachelor's Children became very popular because
    of its natural dialogue which made folks think they were hearing a real
    event. Bachelor's Children ... brought to you by Old Dutch Cleanser,
    Palmolive Peet Soap, Colgate Toothpaste and Wonder Bread.

    1939   The final broadcast of The Fleischmann Hour was heard. The star
    of the show, Rudy Vallee, wrapped things up after a decade of
    entertaining radio before moving on to other sponsors.

    9/29

    1920   Radios for 10 bucks! That's what Joseph Horne Company's
    department store in Pittsburgh, PA was selling. The radios were
    advertised in The Pittsburgh Sun for $10 ($113 in 2012 dollars)  and up.
    One could get a ready made radio in a box with headphones and tuning
    knob. This way, one could do away with the Quaker Oats round box and the
    cat's whisker wire, which was a pain to tune.

    1930   "This is Lowell Thomas." Those words were spoken for the first
    time as a young Lowell Thomas made his debut on CBS. He replaced Floyd
    Gibbons on the nightly (6:45 [removed]), 15 minute newscast. Thomas, who
    started as a reporter for the New York Daily News (at age 19), was heard
    on the radio for the next 46 years.

    1930   "Ba, ba, ba, boo. I will, ba ba ba boo ... marry you!" Bing
    Crosby, America's premier crooner for decades, married Dixie Lee.

    1940   Double or Nothing was first heard on Mutual. Each time
    contestants answered questions correctly, their winnings would double
    from $20 to $40 to the big payoff of $80.  ($333, $666 and $1332 in 2014
    dollars: [removed]) If they gave an incorrect
    answer, they were gone! Nobody bet on long how long the show would last.
    Good thing. It kept going for a dozen years. Among the sponsors: Feen A
    Mint, Chooz breath candy and Campbell's soup.
    1946   Mystery fans remember when The Adventures of Sam Spade debuted on
    CBS this Sunday night. (It had aired in the summer of 1946 on ABC on
    Friday nights.) The Adventures of Sam Spade, with Howard Duff playing
    Spade, became a big hit in the Sunday night radio lineup. And now a word
    from our sponsor: "Use Wildroot Cream Oil, Charlie ... it keeps your
    hair in [removed]"

    9/30

    1930   Death Valley Days was first heard on the NBC Red network this day
    (and) became one of radio's biggest hits. The 30 minute, Western
    adventure series starred Tim Daniel Frawley as the Old Ranger, Harvey
    Hays as the Old Prospector, John White as the Lonesome Cowboy, Edwin
    Bruce as Bobby Keen, Robert Haag as Sheriff Mark Chase and Olyn Landick
    as Cassandra Drinkwater.

    The tales heard on Death Valley Days were all based on fact and were
    human interest stories revolving around the borax mining town of Death
    Valley, California. The show was created by Ruth Woodman, a script
    writer for a New York ad agency. She had never seen Death Valley; but
    had found the vehicle to sell 20 Mule Team Borax. As time went on, Ms.
    Woodman did make a trip to Death Valley. She went back again and again
    after that, digging up facts for her scripts. She even met an honest to
    goodness old ranger, Wash Cahill, who knew everyone and everything about
    the mining town.

    Death Valley Days was renamed Death Valley Sheriff in 1944 and The
    Sheriff in 1945. And Ruth Woodman continued to write the scripts. She
    even wrote scripts when Death Valley Days became a TV show. Buy some 20
    Mule Team Borax in commemoration.

    1933   The theme song was Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here and it opened
    the National Barn Dance. The half hour country music and comedy show,
    originally heard on WLS, Chicago since 1924, moved to the NBC Blue
    network this night. National Barn Dance was broadcast from the Eighth
    Street Theater in Chicago, where the stage was transformed into a
    hayloft every Saturday night. The host was Joe Kelly. Uncle Ezra was
    played by Pat Barrett who was known to say, "Give me a toot on the
    tooter, Tommy," as he started dancing. A few of the other Barn Dance
    characters were Arkie, the Arkansas Woodchopper; Pokey Martin; the
    Hoosier Hotshots; the Prairie Ramblers; cowgirl, Patsy Montana; Pat
    Buttram; Lulu Belle and the Cumberland Road Runners. Gene Autry and Red
    Foley were heard early in their careers on National Barn Dance. Although
    there were plenty of sponsors (Alka Seltzer, One A Day vitamins,
    Phillips Milk of Magnesia), the National Barn Dance was one of the few
    radio shows to charge admission.

    1935   "Calling all [removed]" The Adventures of Dick Tracy came to radio
    for the first time    on the Mutual Radio Network. Based on the comic
    strip created by Chester Gould, the 15 minute adventure show was heard
    Monday thru Friday at 5:45 [removed] The sponsors were Quaker Puffed Wheat
    and Quaker Puffed Rice.

    1962 - The death of OTR.  The last regularly scheduled network programs,
    Suspense and Johnny Dollar was heard.

    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.

    Joe

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