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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2015 : Issue 79
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 18-24 Sep [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
SummersTime Program Note [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 10:43:54 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 18-24 September
From Those Were The Days
9/18
1927 The Columbia Broadcasting System was born on this day in 1927.
CBS broadcast an opera, The King's Henchman, as its first program.
1948 The Original Amateur Hour returned to radio on ABC, two years
after the passing of the program's originator and host, Major Bowes.
Bowes brought new star talent into living rooms for 13 years.
9/19
It was just an average day this day in 1932, when Just Plain Bill was
first heard on CBS. It was "The real life story of people just like
people we all know." The 15 minute show (Monday through Friday at 7:15
[removed]) was all about (just plain) Bill Davidson and his daughter, Nancy,
who lived in (just plain) Hartville. Since Bill was the town barber,
everybody came to him with their problems and Bill helped them
straighten things out.
Instead of playing the usual organ, as a first, Hal Brown played
harmonica and whistled the Just Plain Bill introduction music (Darling
Nellie Gray). Hal also handled the closing theme (Polly Wolly Doodle) in
the same manner.
The show, created by Frank and Anne Hummert, who also came up with Mr.
Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, Little Orphan Annie, Amanda of Honeymoon
Hill, Front Page Farrell, John's Other Wife, Mr. Chameleon, Our Gal
Sunday and many other radio dramas, later moved to NBC. Just Plain Bill
chalked up 23 years on the air, until 30 September, 1955. A few of the
Just Plain Bill sponsors over the years were Kolynos toothpaste and
Clapp's baby [removed]
9/20
1921 KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania started one of the first daily
radio newscasts in the country. The broadcast came from the city desk of
The Pittsburgh Post.
1953 Jimmy Stewart debuted in The Six Shooter on NBC. He played Britt
Ponset on the Western.
9/21
1946 After being tested on a regional basis, The Second Mrs. Burton
was heard for the first time on the entire CBS network. The Second Mrs.
Burton fared very well, having a relationship with the network for 14 years.
1948 The serial Life With Luigi debuted on CBS. Luigi Basko was played
by J. Carroll Naish. Naish, an Irish American, became typecast as an
Italian immigrant, and went on to play the same role in the TV version
in 1952.
9/22
1943 Singer Kate Smith finished her War Bond radio appeal. For 13
continuous hours Smith had stayed on the air, collecting a whopping $39
million dollars in bond pledges. ($510,808,942 in 2012 dollars.)
1957 The CBS Radio Workshop was silenced after 18 months of what the
critics said was "ingenious radio programming."
9/24
1942 Glenn Miller ended his Moonlight Serenade series on CBS. It was
time for Miller to go to war. The show had aired three times a week for
Chesterfield Cigarettes.
Joe
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Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 13:25:56 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: SummersTime Program Note
Folks;
This week on SummersTime broadcast on the Net at Radio Once More, Kate and
I play Mr. Keen, Frontier Town, and more - check
[removed] or [removed] for air times.
And NEXT week (starting the 28th), we will have a special episode, airing
one of the most intimidating things I've ever done - my interview with
National Radio Hall of Fame inductee Bob Edwards. After almost thirty years
at National Public Radio, the last twenty-five-ish hosting its flagship
program Morning Edition, Edwards moved to satellite radio, hosting the
first-ever satellite-radio-produced public radio program, The Bob Edwards
Show. This spawned the PRI-distributed Bob Edwards Weekend, the first
satellite radio program ever to be sold to terrestrial stations. His show is
ending next week, so I took a road trip to sit in his studio and chat about
his career, his books, and even about Old-Time Radio!
Terrifying and exhilarating, let me tell you, to interview one of the top
interviewers!
Charlie
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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 10:08:35 -0400
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," Big John and Steve's "Glowing Dial"
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS
FAVORITE STORY
Episode 42 7-3-48 "The Necklace"
Host: Ronald Coleman.
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Stars: Heather Angel, Hans Conried
Favorite story of Greer Garson
ZIV Syndicated Series
DEADLINE MYSTERY
8-10-47 "A Boy Asks For Help"
Stars: Steve Dunn as "Lucky Larson"
With: June Whitley, Sam Edwards, Byron Kane, Jack Kruschen, John Frank
ABC Knox Pharmacuticals
THEATER GUILD ON THE AIR
Episode 136 12-26-48 "Rip Van Winkle"
Stars: Fred Allen, Arnold Stang, Thelma Ritter, Arthur Margotson, Billy
Lynn, Brad Barker, George Hicks, Harry Bannister, Hiram Sherman, Ian
Martin, Kenny Delmar, Mary Wickes, Paul Crabtree, Roger Pryor, Ruth
Gilbert, Theresa Helburn
ABC United States Steel
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATER
COMMAND PERFORMANCE USA
(AFRS) 2/1/44 Second Anniversary Show. Hostess: Dinah Shore, with
Guests: Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra.
VICK'S MATINEE THEATER
(CBS) 10/22/44 Victor Jury and Gertrude Warner star in the famed novel,
"Wuthering Heights" Host: Martin Gabel.
CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT
(MBS) 1/21/44 - The final chapter of "Suicide Squadron"
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR
04/25/1950 046 Pearl Carrasa
POLICE LINEUP
05/27/1950 Charles Dickson Audition.
PRESENTING CHARLES BOYER
06/20/1950 (001) Mr Smith's Painting. First show of the series.
PHIL HARRIS ALICE FAYE
10/01/1950 Alice's New RCA Contract.
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This Week's Classics & Curios Show:
"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"
Episode 186
EDDIE HUBBARD & THE GREAT SONGWRITERS: JOHNNY MERCER
Presenting one of the best Eddie Hubbard DJ shows and the first in a
series highlighting great songwriters. This show features Johnny Mercer
while future shows will follow with Irving Berlin, Hoagy Carmichael, and
George Gerschwin. Mercer, as Eddie points out, was one of the most loved
and greatest lyricists of American music, and his songs remain among the
best in the Great American Songbook.
Songs with Mercer's lyrics that Eddie chose to feature on this show from
June 18, 1989, are among his best and include "You Must Have Been a
Beautiful Baby," "In the Cool, Cool ,Cool of the Evening," "Moon River,"
"Charade," "Days of Wine and Roses," "The Aitchison, Topeka, and the
Santa Fe," "GI Jive," and "I'm Old Fashioned." Five of the songs are
among my favorite songs by any composer, namely, "Accentuate the
Positive," "Dream," "Blues in the Night," "And the Angels Sing," and
"Glow Worm." Johnny's new lyrics to "Glow Worm" are simply the work of a
wordplay genius, and the lyrics of these favorites and others rank among
the most brilliant ever written and enhance the brilliance of the music
by composers like Jerome Kern, Henry Mancini, Harry Warren, Barry
Manilow, Harold Arlen, and Ziggy Elman,
Artists who perform the songs include Hoagy Carmichael, Rosemary
Clooney, Andy Williams, Dinah Shore, the Mills Brothers, Bing Crosby and
Jane Wyman, and Woody Herman.
Eddie had less than an hour to focus on Johnny's songs, so countless
tunes had to be left out, like "Lazybones," "I'm an Old Cowhand from the
Rio Grande," "That Old Black Magic," "Wings Over the Navy," "Satin
Doll," "The Summer Wind," "My Shining Hour," "Jeepers Creepers," "Goody
Goody," "Autumn Leaves," "Come Rain or Come Shine," "Something's Gotta
Give," "Hooray for Hollywood," and "[removed] I Love You."
From Wikipedia: "Mercer wrote the lyrics to more than fifteen hundred
songs, including compositions for movies and Broadway shows. He received
nineteen Academy Award nominations, and won [removed] regarded also as a
singer, with a folksy quality, Mercer was a natural for his own songs
such as "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive", "On the Atchison, Topeka and
the Santa Fe", "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)", and
"Lazybones". He was considered a first-rate performer of his own work.
[Concerning] When October Goes," a melancholy remembrance of lost love.
[Barry] Manilow applied his own melody to the lyric and issued it as a
single in 1984, when it became a top 10 Adult Contemporary hit in the
United States. The song has since become a jazz standard, with notable
recordings by Rosemary Clooney, Nancy Wilson, and Megon McDonough, among
other performers. For the occasion of Mercer's 100th birthday in 2009
Clint Eastwood produced a documentary film on Johnny Mercer's life and
work called The Dream's on Me (Turner Classic Movies)."
Mercer's own lyrics found in the title of a song composed by Richard
Whiting best describe the man himself and the work of this gifted
performer, producer, and lyricist: "Too Marvelous for Words."
Johnny opened his "Johnny Mercer Music Shop" on the Armed Forces Radio
Service in 1944 with these words -- words fitting to start Eddie's
tribute to Johnny who still makes listeners "feel tip-top:"
"Hi there fellows, won't you feel tip-top?
This is Johnny Mercer and his Music Shop
All you soldiers, sailors, and Marines out there
All you gals in the service, we're on the air."
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THE GLOWING DIAL
The Lux Radio Theatre - "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
originally aired Monday, January 4, 1954 on CBS
Starring: Michael Rennie, Jean Peters, Billy Gray, Herb Butterfield,
Lamont Johnston, Tudor Owen,
Edith Evanson, William Conrad, Alastair Duncan, Tyler McVey, Ottola
Nesmith, Tom Brown,
Shep Menken, Paul Frees.
Irving Cummings (host).
Ken Carpenter announcing.
Sponsor: Lux Soap
The Lux Radio Theatre - "War Of The Worlds"
originally aired Tuesday, February 8, 1955 on CBS
Starring: Dana Andrews, Pat Crowley, Les Tremayne, Herb Butterfield,
Parley Baer, Bill Bouchey,
Ken Peters, Howard McNear, William Conrad, Herb Ellis, Irene Tedrow, Don
Diamond,
Jack Kruschen, Truda Marson, Paul Frees.
Irving Cummings (host).
Ken Carpenter announcing.
Sponsor: Lux Soap
Audio restoration on some shows in this episode was done by Jerry Haendiges.
Click here for information on his Audio Restoration Services.
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questions or request, please feel free to contact me.
Jerry Haendiges
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