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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2014 : Issue 15
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  British Soap Opera Queen              [ jmeals@[removed] ]
  Fibber McGee sponsor change           [ Froggievilleus <froggievilleus@yaho ]
  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]

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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 18:30:34 -0500
From: jmeals@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  British Soap Opera Queen

One of the joys of the internet is the easy access it provides to BBC Radio
Drama. I have listened to an episode of The Archers, the world's longest
running soap opera, primarily out of curiosity. I know little about the show.

But recently, one of the actors on the show, June Spencer received a Lifetime
Achievement Award for her contributions to the soap. Ms. Spencer has played
the character of Peggy Woolley since the first episode of The Archers in 1950.
June Spencer is now 94.

I believe this lady deserves a tip of the hat, from OTR listeners on this side
of the pond for her work in radio drama, an art form all of us love.

Jim Meals

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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 18:30:42 -0500
From: Froggievilleus <froggievilleus@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Fibber McGee sponsor change
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I've been listening to Fibber McGee and Molly and have just gotten to the
1950-51 season and the sponsorship
has changed from Johnson Wax to Pet Milk.
I was wondering why, after 15 years, the show ended up with a new sponsor.

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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 18:30:48 -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

TELL ME A STORY
Audition Show 5-7-46 "The Pond"
Host: Ida Lupino
Producer/Writer: Carlton E. Morse
Music: Opie Cates
NBC Sustained

ADVENTURES OF BILL LANCE
Episode 3 10-12-47 "Death Wears A New Dress"
Stars: Gerald Mohr, Howard McNear
Producer: Dwight Hauser
Creator: J. Donald Wilson
ABC Sustained Sundays 5:00 - 5:30 pm.

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
5-1-50 "National Music Week" NBC Special
Features the film's artists:
Stars: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern and Keenan Wynn
Producer Arthur Freed
Director George Sidney
Composer Irving Berlin.

TONIGHT ON BROADWAY
"Connee Boswell Show"
Episode 1 5-6-46 "Annie Get Your Gun"
Stars: Connee Boswell, Ted Husing, Bobby Doyle
Music: Ray Block Orchestra
Announcer: Ken Roberts
Blue Network Eversharp
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

STUDIO ONE
(CBS) 2/17/48 "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway - starring
Madeleine Carroll, with an all star radio cast including producer,
Fletcher Markle. A stirring story set in World War I.

THE ADV. OF SUPERMAN
(MBS/Synd) 2/28/40 The Yellow Mask story continues. The Atomic Beam
machine has been stolen.
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION

*Bogart-Bacall*

COMMAND PERFORMANCE from 08/30/45 Episode (189) Frank Sinatra, Humphrey
Bogart & Lauren Bacall, Victor Borge, The Pied Pipers.

THE JACK BENNY SHOW from 01/05/47 Humphrey Bogart Lauren Bacall.

THE CHESTERFIELD SHOW starring Bing Crosby from 02/13/52 episode (094)
Guest - Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

Humphrey Bogart Memorial Tribute from 01/16/57. Recorded in Hollywood
for NBC. George Fischer narrates.
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This Week's Classics & Curios Show:

"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

Episode 108

EDDIE HUBBARD & THE BROWSERS: "EXPERIMENTS WITH MICE"

On this week's "Eddie Hubbard & the Browsers" show from December 4,
1999, a special highlight is a unique recording by Sir John Dankworth,
an English jazz musician, composer, and band leader. In 1956 Sir John
and his orchestra produced and performed a novel "experiment" that
involved imitating several [removed] bands playing the tune "Three Blind
Mice." Sir John narrated the rather strange but playful piece in the
form of a musical saga of three blind mice who lived in a recording
studio. The names of the mice were the names of band leaders Billy May,
Benny Goodman, and Glenn Miller, and all three (mice) led their
orchestras with their distinct versions of the mice tune as interpreted
nicely by Dankworth's own band. As the "saga' continues, "Irish cats"
Jerry Mulligan and Sauter-Finegan enter the scene with "their" versions
until Stan Kenton finally scares them all off with his "own" progressive
jazz "composition" of "Trio for Sightless Rodents." We don't get to hear
the entire recording, but it is available on "You Tube." The question
relating to this recording by Dankworth asks, "What was the name of the
famous British jazz singer whom he married?"

In 1944 Al Dexter had a really good recording of Pistol Packin' Mama,"
but his recording was not the best selling recording of the song. On
this Browsers' show with guests Perry Huntoon and Dick Parker, we'll
hear Al's version as we try to recall the artists who had that best
seller. Other fine recordings on this show include one that Xavier Cugat
made of the tune "Perfidia." We are challenged to name other artists who
recorded that song, such as Jimmy Dorsey and Ozzie Nelson, and even more
interesting, we discover that "As Time Goes By" was not the only song of
note in the movie "Casablanca," and that it was indeed "Perfidia," which
was played in Rick's Cafe Americain night club, although briefly in the
background.

As Bea Wain sings "My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice" with the Larry Clinton
orchestra, perhaps you know the title of the opera from which the song
came. The song title in the form of a polite request, namely, "Music,
Maestro, Please," refers to the recording of that tune by Art Castle and
leads us to try and think of other recordings beginning with the word
"music," such as Teresa Brewer's "Music, Music, Music" and Harry James'
"Music Makers." And on a commercialized recording, what gal vocalist
recorded the "Pepsi Cola Song?" She had huge hits in 1952 with "Kiss of
Fire" and in 1955 with "Tweedle Dee." This vocalist originally had the
name Fredda Gibson (from Fredda Lipschitz) but changed it to a name that
had the initials "GG."

Pete Fountain plays "You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You," a tune he
often played in his club in New Orleans, the name of which the Browsers
challenge us to identify. Also, what was the original title of the song
"Once in a While" and what was the name of the musical that produced the
song "You'll Never Know?" Then concerning Phil's "Phooler" song "Someone
Is Rocking My Dreamboat" the female vocalist is known especially for her
association with a famous singing group. This group began as a threesome
called "Don Juan-Two and Three" with Ted Fio Rito and then became "The
Three Wizards of Ozzie" with Ozzie Nelson. By the time the group joined
Glenn Miller they had become a quartette, and this gal joined them in
1941. Her name is not Jo Stafford. Can you name her?

Among Eddie's happy "Extras" that replace commercials are "That Old
Black Magic," "Slow Poke," "Darn That Dream," and "This Love of Mine,"
which concludes this Browsers' show.

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Our appreciation to Jerry Haendiges Productions for top quality
remastering of the original Eddie Hubbard studio tape for rebroadcast!

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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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