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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2017 : Issue 35
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 28 May to [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Jack Armstrong [ Jack French <otrpiano@[removed]; ]
SPERDVAC Presents [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
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Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 21:28:03 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 28 May to 3 June
5/28
1931 - WOR radio in New York City premiered "The Witch's Tale". The
program was broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System (of which WOR
was the flagship station) where it aired until 1938.
5/29
1939 - "When a Girl Marries" was first heard on CBS. The serial
continued for eighteen years.
1943 - "The Million Dollar Band" was heard for the first time on NBC
radio. Charlie Spivak was the first leader of the band that featured
Barry Wood as vocalist. The unusual feature of the show was the awarding
each week of five diamond rings!
5/30
1922 - "Smilin" Ed McConnell debuted on radio, smiling and playing his
banjo. McConnell quickly became a legend in the medium.
1935 - "America's Town Meeting" was heard on radio for the first time.
The NBC program continued for 21 years, with a name change to "America's
Town Meeting of the Air".
1938 - "Joyce Jordan, Girl Intern" was first heard interning on CBS
radio. The show became Joyce Jordan, MD, on NBC in the `40s and later
morphed into "The Brighter Day" (1948).
5/31
1943 - A comic strip came to radio as "The Adventures of Archie
Andrews". It was heard on the NBC Blue network. Archie, Veronica and the
gang stayed on radio for about ten years, moving to Mutual Broadcasting
in January 1944, and then to NBC in June 1945. The radio sitcom was
based on Bob Montana''s comic strip about Archie Andrews and his
teen-age pals.
1949 - A crowd of 35,000 people paid tribute to radio personality Mary
Margaret McBride at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, (one of the five
boroughs that make up New York City). McBride was celebrating her 15th
year in radio.
6/1
1936 The Lux Radio Theater moved from New York City to Hollywood.
Cecil B. DeMille, the program's host on the NBC Blue network, introduced
Clark Gable and Marlene Dietrich in The Legionnaire and the Lady.
1938 - The first issue of "Action Comics" was published. In its pages
was the world's first super hero, Superman. Jerry Siegel had a dream
about the baby, Moses, who was abandoned by his parents in order that
his life be saved. This dream prompted Siegel's creation of the "Man of
Steel". Artist Joe Shuster made the comic book hero come alive. The
first story, in this first issue, took place on the planet, Krypton,
where baby Kal-El was born. The infant was shot to Earth in a rocket
just before Krypton exploded.
6/2
1946 The Fabulous Dr. Tweedy was broadcast on NBC for the first time.
Frank Morgan starred as the absent minded Dr. Tweedy.
1937 CBS presented the first broadcast of Second Husband. The show
continued on the air until 1946.
6/3
1946 - Mutual Radio debuted "The Casebook of Gregory Hood". The show was
the summer replacement series for "Sherlock Holmes". The mystery series
became a regular weekly program in the fall of 1946.
Joe
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Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 21:29:26 -0400
From: Jack French <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Jack Armstrong
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I've been contacted by the granddaughter of Roy Snell; he wrote several
episodes of Jack Armstrong in 1941. One story involved "The Gray Shadow"
and another was about "The Dragon Men." These were broadcast in July and
August of that year over NBC.
She is interested in contacting anyone who might have audio copies of these
broadcasts. In 1994 she was in contact with OTR collector, Tom Price, who
supposedly had some, but she has lost touch with him.
Any Digesters know how to recontact Price or have any audio copies of the
above described shows?
Many thanks,
Jack French
(former editor of RADIO RECALL)
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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 13:18:56 -0400
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: oldtimeradio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: SPERDVAC Presents
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What do Missy Wong, Hey Boy, Paladin, Ma Friday, Clyde Beatty and Chester
Wesley Proudfoot all have in common? The six actors who portrayed those
characters were all guests at the August 14, 1982 SPERDVAC meeting. We're very
pleased to share this magical afternoon with you as Virginia Gregg, Harry
Bartell, John Dehner, Peggy Webber, Vic Perrin and Parley Baer talk about
their radio careers and reminisce with each other. This panel was a radio
fan's dream come true! As a bonus, the meeting begins with SPERDVAC member Cal
Witt describing his visits with Bob Bailey who was living in a convalescent
home in nearby Lancaster, California. Go to
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