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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2014 : Issue 83
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 28 Septem  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Halloween Shows                       [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 10:34:01 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 28 September to 4
     October

    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.  ($323, $646 and $1292 in 2012
    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.

    10/4

    1948   Gordon MacRae hosted the premiere of a radio classic. The
    Railroad Hour debuted on ABC. The theme song was I've Been Working on
    the Railroad and the show was sponsored by, get ready, America's Railroads.

    Joe

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    Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 10:42:09 -0400
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Halloween Shows

    Folks;

       Kate and I are putting together this year's Halloween edition of
    SummersTime with another trip to the Nostalgialand Cemetary, and could use
    some suggestions. What is your favorite Halloween show? Doesn't matter if
    it's funny or frightening, scary or silly, just something that screams (!)
    Halloween to you.

             Charlie

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    Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 10:56:46 -0400
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi Friends,

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    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    UNLIMITED HORIZONS
    Episode 11 1-17-41 "Millions To Burn"
    The Story of High-Voltage Electricity
    Producer: Arnold Marquis
    NBC Sustained Friday 11:30 - 12:00 mid

    SUSPENSE
    Episode 16 11-3-42 "The Devil In The Summer House"
    Stars: Martin Gabel, Lesley Woods
    Announcer: Joseph Kearns
    Writer: John Dickson Carr
    Music: Bernard Herrmann
    CBS Sustained

    ARE THESE OUR CHILDREN?
    Episode 1 9-29-46 "Nora Bailey, Witness To Murder"
    Announcer: John Galbraith
    ABC San Francisco Sustaining

    AN AMERICAN RHAPSODY
    3-5-45 "Songs Of The Sea"
    CBS Union Ice Company
    Host: Frederick Shields
    Announcer: James Matthews
    Features: Gene Baker, The Dix Davis Glee Club, Wilbur Hatch and His
    Orchestra.
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    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    THE QUIZ KIDS
    (NBC) 9/30/50
    Joe Kelly leads the quiz of bright young minds.

    THE HALLS OF IVY
    (NBC) 6/28/50 "The Gangster's Son" Ronald & Benita Colman.

    DICK TRACY
    (NBC) 2/21/38 Quaker introduces the Dick Tracy Secret Ring.
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    This week, we continue our salute to Virginia Gregg.
    This is week 4 of 7.

    DIARY OF FATE
    03/30/48 Edward Matthews.

    LET GEORGE DO IT
    06/21/48 Episode (087) The Unfit Mother.

    PHILIP MARLOWE
    01/08/49 Episode (015) The Restless Day.

    ADVENTURES BY MORSE
    Episode (1 of 3) Girl on Shipwreck Island 1 (The Adventure Begins).
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    This Week's Classics & Curios Show:

    "Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

    Episode 139

    THE CHESTERFIELD SUPPER CLUB: PERRY COMO

    As the big bands continued to give way to singers of the 1940's,
    fifteen- minute shows featuring singers like Dinah Shore, Jo Stafford,
    Dick Haymes, Peggy Lee, Bob Crosby, Helen Forrest, Margaret Whiting,
    Johnny Mercer, and the Andrews Sisters gained ever greater popularity
    and provided them with an opportunity to allow audiences to get to know
    them personally.

    One such quarter hour show was the Chesterfield Supper Club, and on this
    episode we'll hear two shows (without commercials) from this series
    showcasing Perry Como. Shows featured are from April 3 and 4 of 1946,
    with the LLoyd Shafer orchestra, Helen Carroll & the Satisfiers (Ted
    Hanson, Art Lambert, and Bob Lange), and announcer Martin Block.

    Film star Carole Landis is Perry's guest on the first show and reveals a
    really fine singing voice on the tune "Personality," Johnny Mercer's
    (along with Johnny Burke's and Jimmy Van Heusen's) super song from the
    film "The Road to Utopia." Contrasting with her upbeat song is Perry's
    "Black Moonlight," which brings a bit of unintentional irony in that
    Perry sang that song of depressing suicidal "darkness that is endless"
    from Bing Crosby's 1933 film "Too Much Harmony" -- not knowing she would
    later commit suicide just some four years after her Supper Club appearance.

    Other more positive performances include Perry doing a great version of
    the song "Shoo Fly Pie," and the Satisfiers singing the curio "Walkie
    Talkie Baby." The fade-out theme is "All the Things You Are."

    The second show offers a unique feature as Perry broadcasts from a TWA
    plane flying around 380 mph at some four miles high over New York City
    on the way to the west coast. Perry's song highlight is the appropriate
    "Blue Skies." Also fitting for the flight is the Satisfiers' song
    "California Sunbeam." Jo Stafford is on board to help Perry announce a
    change in the weekly program schedule for Perry's and Jo's shows on
    NBC/AFRS. Perry and Jo do a mini-medley, and the Art Van Damme Jazz
    Quintet closes out the show back on earth with "Sweet Georgia Brown" and
    "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" after earlier opening the show with "All
    Through the Day."
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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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    If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

          Jerry Haendiges

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