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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2014 : Issue 42
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 4-10 May [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
Beverly Washburn Radio Credits [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]
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Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 11:22:06 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 4-10 May
5/5
1935 The program, Rhythm at Eight, made its debut. The star of the
show was 24 year old Ethel Merman. Though Merman would become a legend
years later, she didn't fare so well on radio. Her show was taken off
the air after 13 weeks and Miss Merman returned to her first love, Broadway.
5/6
1937 A student of history, a broadcaster or anyone interested in news
coverage, will remember this day and the words of NBC's Herbert
Morrison. "Oh, the humanities!" Morrison's emotion filled historic
broadcast of the explosion of the dirigible, Hindenburg at Lakehurst,
NJ, became the first recorded coast to coast broadcast as it was carried
on both the NBC Red and NBC Blue networks from New York City.
5/9
1936 Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy started their own radio show on
NBC only months after they had debuted on Rudy Vallee's program. [removed]
Fields, Don Ameche and Dorothy Lamour were a few of the stars that
helped Bergen and the little blockhead, McCarthy, jump to the top of
radio's hit parade.
5/10
1927 The Hotel Statler in Boston, MA. became the first hotel to
install radio headsets in each of its 1,300 rooms.
Joe
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Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 11:22:10 -0400
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," Big John and Steve's "Glowing Dial"
and my own "Old Time Radio Classics." Streamed in high-quality audio, on
demand, 24/7 at: [removed]
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
Featuring Bob Bailey - Part 2
YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR
Episode 463 8-24-56 "The Kranesburg Matter" Part 1
Stars Bob Bailey,Howard McNear, Forrest Lewis, Paul Richards, Mary Jane
Croft
CBS Sustained
YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR
Episode 464 8-27-56 "The Kranesburg Matter" Part 2
Stars Bob Bailey,Howard McNear, Forrest Lewis, Paul Richards, Mary Jane
Croft
CBS Sustained
YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR
Episode 465 8-28-56 "The Kranesburg Matter" Part 3
Stars Bob Bailey,Howard McNear, Forrest Lewis, Paul Richards, Mary Jane
Croft
CBS Sustained
YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR
Episode 466 8-29-56 "The Kranesburg Matter" Part 4
Stars Bob Bailey,Howard McNear, Forrest Lewis, Paul Richards, Mary Jane
Croft
CBS Sustained
YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR
Episode 467 8-30-56 "The Kranesburg Matter" Part 5
Stars Bob Bailey,Howard McNear, Forrest Lewis, Paul Richards, Mary Jane
Croft
CBS Sustained
YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR
Episode 468 8-31-56 "The Kranesburg Matter" Part 6
Stars Bob Bailey,Howard McNear, Forrest Lewis, Paul Richards, Mary Jane
Croft
CBS Sustained
LET GEORGE DO IT
Episode 1 10-18-46 "Cousin Jeff And The Pigs"
Stars: Bob Bailey, Frances Robinson, Eddie Firestone, Polly Hopkins,
Frank Martin, Jane Webb, Rita Craig, June Foray
Producer: Owen Vinson
Writer: Polly Hopkins
Music: Eddie Dunstedter
Mutual-Don Lee Standard Oil
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATER
THE LINEUP
(CBS) 10/08/52 Bill Johnstone stars with Raymond Burr, Virginia Gregg
and a swell cast in a kidnapping story.
MY FRIEND IRMA
(CBS/AFRS) 05/07/51 Marie Wilson is Irma. Complex plot with dogs and
secretaries looking for help.
HERE'S TO VETERANS
(VA Synd) 1950 Frankie Carle and His Orch. >From a 1st gen. disk. Franie
introduces a brand-new song.
EXTRA
The NET does a spoof on KRAFT Theatre commercials. "The Heritage 4th of
July Loaf" using lots of good KRAMP lube!!
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
Orson Welles would have been 99 years old on May 6. And so we salute him
with two lighter shows plus an interview done with Todd Tarbox who wrote
a book about him that can be obtained from
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ORSON WELLES RADIO ALMANAC
05/24/44 episode (18) Guest - The Wildd Twins, Lee and Lyn. Plus starlet
Lois Collier.
THE JACK BENNY SHOW
04/11/43 Welles comes back as a guest after hosting the show for the
last 4 weeks due to Jack's illness.
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This Week's Classics & Curios Show:
"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"
Episode 119
THE CAMEL CARAVAN WITH VAUGHN MONROE & A MOON MAID INTERVIEW
"Hello, nice people, from Maine to California, the Camel Caravan is here
... with thirty minutes of music for your pleasure ..." So sings Vaughn
Monroe to introduce the Camel Caravan featuring top rated songs as
reported in variety.
At [removed] is one of the best write-ups on Vaughn and his orchestra:
"[Monroe] happened to be blessed with one of the most memorable singing
voices in the history of recorded music ... [At the same time] he didn't
possess the range of a Crosby or a Como, and certainly not the timing or
styling of a Sinatra. Yet when that baritone hit the stage, it was
magic. Imagine a pop vocalist who looked and sounded like a movie star.
Imagine a tour full of musicians and a bevy of teenage Texas beauties
singing back up. Imagine hit records rocketing to the top of the charts
... and you have the rather uneventful, wholesome touring group known as
Vaughn Monroe and his orchestra. The young ladies were ... vocalists known
as The Moon Maids, who doubled as babysitters for the band members'
offspring. They sang about "racing with the moon," but were about as
square ["straight"] as a group of musicians could be. And they happened
to be just about the hottest big band of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
From 1940 to 1954, Monroe had close to 70 chart records, including many
#1 hits: There I Go; Racing with the Moon; When the Lights Go On Again
All Over the World; Let it Snow; Ballerina; There, I've Said It Again;
Red Roses for a Blue Lady; Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You); and
Ghost Riders In the Sky.
Three of those songs, Let It Snow, Ghost Riders, and Ballerina rank
among the all-time top #1 songs, each dominating the Billboard charts
for 10 weeks or more."
This Camel Caravan was recorded at New Jersey's Fort Monmouth Signal
Corps Center on June 23, 1951, and illustrates Vaughn's "magic" and his
impressive baritone in songs like "Too Young," "Sound Off," and "Over
the Rainbow." Guest vocalist Eileen Barton performs "How High the Moon"
and "Pretty-Eyed Baby." Included, of course, are Vaughn's theme song
"Racing with the Moon" and his unique lead-in musical introductions to
top rated songs from around the country.
A Classics & Curios bonus is a reprise interview with gracious Moon Maid
and good friend June Hiett Bratone, originally aired in 2006 on
YesterdayUSA from June's home in Arlington, Texas. Interviewers are
Walden Hughes and Duane Keilstrup.
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Special thanks once again to Jerry Haendiges Productions for highest
quality remastering of the original studio tapes of "Eddie Hubbard & the
Browsers" for rebroadcasting.
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THE GLOWING DIAL
Big John and Stu celebrate Mother's Day
(l to r) Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Mary
Livingstone, Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Mel Blanc Red Skelton Alan Young
Eve Arden
(l to r) Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Mary
Livingstone, Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Mel Blanc Red Skelton Alan Young
Eve Arden
The Jack Benny Program - Mother's Day Gags
originally aired Sunday, May 14, 1950 on CBS
Starring: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Dennis Day,
Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, The Sportsmen Quartet, Mel Blanc,
Artie Auerbach, Vivian Blaine, Frank Fontaine, Don Wilson announcing.
Sponsor: Lucky Strike
The Red Skelton Show - Mother's Day
originally aired Friday, May 6, 1949 on NBC
Starring: Red Skelton, Lurene Tuttle, Verna Felton, The Four Knights,
Pat McGeehan, David Rose and his Orchestra,
Rod O'Connor announcing.
Sponsor: Tide
The Alan Young Show - Typical American Mother
originally aired Friday, May 9, 1947 on NBC
Starring: Alan Young, Jim Backus,
Jimmy Wallington announcing.
Sponsor: Bristol Myers
Our Miss Brooks - Mother's Day Surprise (aka Mr. Boynton's Parents)
originally aired Sunday, May 8, 1949 on CBS
Starring: Eve Arden, Jane Morgan, Richard Crenna, Gale Gordon,
Gloria McMillan, Jeff Chandler, Frank Nelson, Myra Marsh,
Bob Lemond announcing.
Sponsor: Colgate
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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, 6 May 2014 11:34:04 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Beverly Washburn Radio Credits
Folks;
As some of you may know (although not due to an announcement here, hinting
to Mike), Kate and I will be interviewing guests at next week's Nostalgia
Expo in beautiful Blue Ash, Ohio. To that end, I'm wondering if anyone has
put together a list of Beverly Washburn's radio credits. I'd like a wide
selection of shows from which to select clips, and am stumbling over shows
one-at-a-time.
If anyone has a list of her appearances on OTR, I'd appreciate a post.
Charlie
[removed] Jon Provost, Lassie's Timmy, and Ivan Cury, OTR's Bobby Benson, are
also scheduled to appear.
Me
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