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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2014 : Issue 22
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 23 Februa [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
Mysterious Traveler [ JayHick@[removed] ]
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:53:43 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 23 February to 1 March
From Those Were The Days
2/23
1927 [removed] President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill into law that
created the Federal Radio Commission, "to bring order out of this
terrible chaos." The president was speaking, of course, of the nation's
then unregulated radio stations. The commission assigned frequencies,
hours of operation and power allocations for radio broadcasters across
the [removed] The name was changed to the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) on July 1, 1934.
2/24
1942 It was an historic day in radio broadcasting, as the Voice of
America (VOA) signed on for the first time on this day.
2/27
1922 Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convened the first National
Radio Conference in Washington, DC. Industry regulations were widely
discussed.
3/1
1932 Radio's greatest effort of on the spot news coverage began as NBC
and CBS rushed to Hopewell, NJ to cover the kidnaping of the Charles and
Anne Lindbergh baby.
1941 Commercial FM broadcasting began in the [removed] when station W47NV
in Nashville, TN started operations on this day.
1941 Duffy's Tavern debuted on CBS.
Joe
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:53:52 -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" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."
Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at:
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS
IT'S ALWAYS SUNDAY
Audition Show 9-30-51 "Trust Your Fellow Man"
Stars: Will Wright, Bob Sweeney, Harry Bartell, Stuffy Singer
Music: Cookie Fairchild
Director: Norman Macdonnall
Announcer: Roy Rowan
CBS Sustained Sunday's 4:30 - 5:00 pm
COMMAND PERFORMANCE
Episode 232 9-22-46
Host: Janet Blair
Featuring: David Street, Clifton Finnegan, Jane Powell (16 years old),
Jerry Colonna
Announcer: Harry von Zell
MAIL CALL
Episode 110 9-20-44
Host: Don Ameche
Featuring: DON AMECHE, Martha Tilton, Joe Besser, Nancy Walker, Lois
Butler, (thirteen year old singer), Janet Blair.
Announcer: Don Wilson
IT'S HIGGINS, SIR
Episode 1 07-03-51 "Higgins Arrives"
Summer Replacement Series for THE BOB HOPE SHOW
Stars: Harry Mcnaughton, Vinton Hayworth, Peggy Allenby, Charles Nevil,
Pat Hosley, Denise Alexander
Writers: Paul Harrison, Rick Vollick
NBC Sustained Thursdays 9:00 - 9:30 pm
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE
THE CAMPBELL PLAYHOUSE
(CBS) 12/8/38
The First show for Orson Welles as director. Edwin C. Hill introduces
Margaret Sullivan and Orson in Daphne DuMauriers' "Rebecca". A
TransAtlantic phone connection brings the author on the air for a few words.
THE ADV. OF SUPERMAN
(Synd/WOR/Nutual) March 4, 1940
Our adventure continues with Clark Kent trying to see the rescued girl
from last week's chapter.
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
This week we continue our tribute to Shirley Temple whom we lost on
Monday 02/10/2014.
This show is in our estimation brilliant. Not only for its acting but
its writing as well. The title for this Screen Guild show says it all.
SCREEN GUILD THEATER from 10/28/46 Episode (319) Adorable. Shirley
Temple, Peter Lawford, Charles Coburn, Arthur Q. Bryan, Ken Christy,
Tommy Cook.
Digitally Mastered and Restored by Jerry Haendiges Productions
Next an Armed Forces effort by Shirley Temple. She was the Mistress of
Ceremonies for this show which brought our troops overseas excerpts of
radio shows with many of the biggest artists and bands of the day.
YANK SWING SESSION Shirley Temple's first appearance as Mistress of
Ceremonies. First song, You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby. AFRS.
THE BOB HOPE SHOW from 03/20/45 Episode (257) Guest - Shirley Temple,
Tony Romano.
THEATER OF ROMANCE from 01/29/46 Episode (083) Cradle Song.
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This Week's Classics & Curios Show:
"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"
Episode 110
LUM & ABNER: "LUM'S GOLDEN ERA DISCUSSION CLUB"
At the end of last week's show description I mentioned an interesting
comparison between the Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street and
Lum's Golden Era Discussion Club on the Lum & Abner Show. So this week
we bring Lum's idea for such a club and the first official GEDC meeting
in episodes from December of 1942.
The gentle, good natured, simple, well-meaning but uneducated Lum has
aspirations usually far beyond his capabilities, and his club devoted to
culture is sure to fulfill its purpose of bringing culture to Pine Ridge
with emphasis on "raising the level of ignorance" in the little community.
Also, Steve Allen in his 1982 book More Funny People gives an insightful
look at Laurel and Hardy, with their simple view of the world and their
challenged intellectual expertise. Allen observes that they [like Lum
and Abner] are basically gentle [although, unlike Lum and Abner, not
always to each other], good- natured, simple, honest, and well-meaning
but uneducated and comically not overly bright. They often seem
unwittingly to compete with each other on levels of idiocy, with Ollie
often looking exasperated to the camera over something stupid Stan has
done and then doing something even more stupid himself.
With Lum and Abner, it's Lum who usually initiates a high level of
stupidity, and it's Abner, of all people, who often seems to keep one
foot (or toe) in reality and common sense but is similarly limited in
his workable brain matter and education and ends up contributing to the
comedy of stupidity mixed with ignorance. Essentially Lum knows a tiny
bit about a lot, and Abner knows a tiny bit about a tiny bit. And like
Laurel and Hardy, in spite of their ignorance they, especially Ollie,
maintain a certain dignity and make us care about them, just as they
care about each other. Ollie himself said, "There's nothing funnier than
a guy [like Ollie] being dumb and dignified at the same time" and "who
thinks he's smart." And, as Allen, points out, laughter often grew out
of Ollie's "pathetic attempt to preserve dignity, unknown in American
comedy today." One thing is sure about Lum, he is absolutely convinced
he is smart.
In a sense then I suppose Lum and Abner are radio's answer to film's
Laurel and Hardy. It's interesting that Lum and Abner had little success
in film, and Laurel and Hardy had even less on radio. But each duo
achieved success by seemingly gently "competing" in comically idiotic
behavior, and we somehow still love them and appreciate them for
bringing such joy and laughter so cleverly and with an underlying
dignity, not to mention how smart they made us feel, somewhat also like
the characters of "Amos & Andy." [See the image to the left picturing,
appropriately, Lum, Abner, Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll, and Laurel &
Hardy.]
So let's visit the little community of Pine Ridge now and enjoy the two
lovable codger proprietors of the "Jot 'em Down General Store," which
stayed "in business" on radio from 1931 to 1954. And, as with the
Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, don't expect any cultural
epiphany but instead lots of laughter and joyful listening as the Golden
Era Discussion Club meets for the first time.
We'll hear two of the initial "Club" episodes as the Golden Era
Discussion Club seeks to fill a culture gap in Pine Ridge. First,
however, Lum actually reveals some quality "down-home" rural wisdom in
suggesting simple pleasures to enjoy right there at home while gas
rationing keeps folks from traveling, like poppin' popcorn, singin', and
gettin' to know neighbors. That leads Lum to his smart new idea about
spending time talking about culture and starting a Discussion Club to
examine such high-toned topics as Shakespeare and Gilbert, the Boy Trapper.
In the second episode the club officially meets and agrees by vote that
Beethoven is high class, and, after Cedric Weehunt finally asks what a
"Beethoven" is, Lum decides to adjourn the meeting because it's obvious
that there's just so much to talk about! There's the usual exchange of
rural pleasantries and Pine Ridge small talk throughout, most of which
interrupt or delay the mostly wordless discussions, all of which bring a
smile as the Pine Ridge characters reserve time for sandwiches and hot
cocoa and finally for a challenging game of checkers.
So, now, it's time to see what's going on down in the little community
of Pine Ridge, Arkansas. Listen ...
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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]
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:53:59 -0500
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Mysterious Traveler
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Hello Jay, it was good talking with you. About the Mysterious Traveler
episode my friend in western Kentucky has been trying to find, Satan and Sam
Shay, I'm not sure it exists. If it does I'm sure information about it might
be on the web.
Please respond to Marvin if you are familiar with this show. The
first word could be Devil. I know it was written by Robert Arthur. Martin
Grams included it in an article about Rod Serling on radio but I can't find
an American radio program it was on. Buckingham Theater, a Canadian show
was mentioned.
Marvin Meyerhoffer
Louisville, KY
502-426-3010 <3armored@[removed];
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