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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2014 : Issue 105
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Dec 2014 issue of RADIO RECALL        [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  This week in radio history 7-13 Dece  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Richard Diamond episode               [ Dick Backus <rbackus22@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 11:23:44 -0500
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Dec 2014 issue of RADIO RECALL

The full-color December issue of RADIO RECALL went out via PDF on December
1st to the subscribers who prefer that version. The B & W hard copy will be
distributed to the other MWOTRC members locally at our Holiday Party on
December 13th and out-of-towners will be mailed their copy soon after.

This issue is a very fascinating one, starting off with a Martin Grams, Jr.
article on the "Christmas episodes" of the Death Valley radio series. Mark
Anderson follows this up with a discussion on the holiday series from
Milwaukee in the 40s and 50s entitled "Billie the Brownie." Next you can read
of a clandestine radio series you haven't heard [removed] probably never
even heard of, either. It was a propaganda radio program, aimed at the German
troops near the end of WW II. More curious, it was a musical program and
starred Major Glenn Miller and his orchestra, from a studio in London.
Lawrence Kandrach brings us up to speed on this brief and fairly unknown
series.

The MWOTRC, performing live on stage at spacious Lisner Auditorium in DC,
before approximately 2,000 paying attendees, is covered in a fine piece by
Sally Stephens, who was in the cast of both re-creations that day in
November. Next Bert Rude discusses radio's blind piano wizard, Alex
Templeton, coming to Bert's elementary school in SD way back when. And Fred
Berney reviews the new McFarland book on "Vic & Sade" by John Hetherington.

All this, in addition to "Letters to the Editor" and info on upcoming OTR
events for 2015, plus some tips by our Editor on collecting the maps and
charts which were prized radio premiums in the 30s and 40s.

To view past articles from RADIO RECALL, or to learn about membership in
MWOTRC, just point your mouse at <[removed]>

Happy Holidays!

Jack French
Editor

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Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 11:23:51 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 7-13 December

12/7

1948   NBC presented the Horace Heidt Youth Opportunity Program for the
first time. The talent show earned Dick Contino, an accordionist, the
$5,000 ($47,042 in 2012 dollars) prize as the program's first national
winner. Over the years Heidt gave some big stars their big starts: Art
Carney, Frankie Carle, Gordon MacRae, the King Sisters, Alvino Rey, Ken
Berry, Frank DeVol, Dick Contino, Al Hirt, Fred Lowrey, Ronnie Kemper,
Larry Cotton, Donna and her Don Juans, Ollie O'Toole and many others.

1952   My Little Margie, starring Gale Storm and Charles Farrell, made
its debut on CBS. The TV version of the popular show had begun on June
16, 1952. My Little Margie stayed on radio for three years.

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.

Joe

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Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 11:23:57 -0500
From: Dick Backus <rbackus22@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Richard Diamond episode

Can anyone tell me the title or date of the Richard Diamond episode
where real life wife (what a title for a soap!) June Allyson played the
client.
                                                          Dick Backus

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