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Date: 12/9/2013 10:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2013 : Issue 128
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Remembering Pearl Harbor              [ <skallisjr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 8-14 Dece  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Patti Page commercials                [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]

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    Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 13:36:29 -0500
    From: <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Remembering Pearl Harbor
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    In the autumn of 1941, on the Captain Midnight radio pogrom, Captain
    Midnight, Ichabod Mudd, Chuck Ramsay, and Joyce Ryan were in an after
    flying over Japanese-occupied China.  Their plane was shot down by agents
    of The Barracuda. Oriental rime lord, with Chuck and Joyce captured by
    The Barracuda's forces.
    Captain Midnight, with the help of Chinese forces, mounted a rescue
    mission against The main base.
    The Barracuda was absent when the rescue was made, and Captain Midnight
    searched The Barracuda's base.
    The rescue party found charts that indicated plans to attack Pearl
    Harbor.
    The Secret Squadron was trying to get to the island of Oahu with copies
    of these plans when Pearl Harbor was actually attacked.  (This is related
    inmybook, ( [removed]
    for the curious).
    After the attack, the program's writer, Robert /Burtt, was interviewed
    extensively by Federal agents.
    There was no leak:Burtt just made a prescient guess.
    I was 4 years old at the time of the attack,and had yet to start
    listening to the program.
    However my father,my mother,my sister,and I were living at a US Army base
    that was hit by the attack.  When researching the program for my
    book,reading the discovery of the Japanese plans gave me a quick chill,
    The 7th is the 72nd anniversary of the attack.  It's interesting that it
    was foreseen on a radio adventure serial.

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    Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 13:35:54 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 8-14 December

     From Those Were The Days -

    12/9

    1940   The Longines Watch Company signed for the first FM radio
    advertising contract with experimental station W2XOR in New York City.
    The ads ran for 26 weeks and promoted the Longines time signals.

    12/10

    1927   For the first time, famed radio announcer George Hay introduced
    the WSM Barn Dance as The Grand Ole Opry.

    12/11

    1944   The Chesterfield Supper Club debuted on NBC. Perry Como, Jo
    Stafford and many other stars of the day shared the spotlight on the 15
    minute show that aired five nights a week. The show was sponsored by
    Chesterfield cigarettes.

    12/12

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    1901    Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first
    transatlantic radio transmission in St. John's Newfoundland.

     From Those Were The Days

    1937   The Federal Communications Commission was a bit upset with NBC.
    The FCC scolded the radio network for a skit that starred Mae West. The
    satirical routine was based on the biblical tale of Adam and Eve but
    West's "suggestive" reading was not to network standards.  So, following
    its scolding by the FCC, NBC banned Miss West from its airwaves for
    several years. Even the mere mention of her name on NBC was a no-no, it
    is said.

    12/13

    1942   The characters of Allen's Alley were presented for the first time
    on The Fred Allen Show. This particular segment of the show became very
    popular and was used by Allen until 1949. Remember the stops along the
    way in Allen's Alley? They were at the Brooklyn tenement of Mrs.
    Nussbaum, the farmhouse of Titus Moody, the shack of Ajax Cassidy and
    the antebellum mansion of Senator Beauregard Claghorn.

    12/14

    1953   Fred Allen returned from semi-retirement to narrate Prokofiev's
    classic, Peter and the Wolf, on the Bell Telephone Hour on NBC.

    Joe

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    Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 13:36:48 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Patti Page commercials

    Have a request from a pal of mine, whose wife is on the board of the Merrill,
    Wisconsin Historical Society. They are trying to find any audio copies of
    Patti Page singing the Page Milk commercials.

     From a historical perspective, this singer, born Clara Fowler, originally
    began singing commercials for Page Milk Company at a station in Tulsa. At
    that time, Page Milk was based in Merrill, Wisconsin and had a branch in
    Kansas, which was probably responsible for those commercials in Tulsa. The
    evidence would seem to indicate that Patti took her professional name from
    that dairy firm.

    Please let me know of any leads you can think [removed](Patti's official web
    site offers no clues.)

    Jack French
    Editor, RADIO RECALL
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