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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2013 : Issue 103
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 29 Septem  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Sept. 30th "Radio Once More" show     [ TVHistory2009@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 10:40:37 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 29 September to 5
     October

     From Those Were The Days -

    9/29

    1920   Radios for 10 bucks! That's what Joseph Horne Company's
    department store in Pittsburgh, PA was selling. The radios were
    advertised in The Pittsburgh Sun for $10 ($113 in 2012 dollars) and up.
    One could get a ready made radio in a box with headphones and tuning
    knob. This way, one could do away with the Quaker Oats round box and the
    cat's whisker wire, which was a pain to tune.

    1930   "This is Lowell Thomas." Those words were spoken for the first
    time as a young Lowell Thomas made his debut on CBS. He replaced Floyd
    Gibbons on the nightly (6:45 [removed]), 15 minute newscast. Thomas, who
    started as a reporter for the New York Daily News (at age 19), was heard
    on the radio for the next 46 years.

    1930   "Ba, ba, ba, boo. I will, ba ba ba boo ... marry you!" Bing
    Crosby, America's premier crooner for decades, married Dixie Lee.

    1940   Double or Nothing was first heard on Mutual. Each time
    contestants answered questions correctly, their winnings would double
    from $20 to $40 to the big payoff of $80.  ($323, $646 and $1292 in 2012
    dollars: [removed]) If they gave an incorrect
    answer, they were gone! Nobody bet on long how long the show would last.
    Good thing. It kept going for a dozen years. Among the sponsors: Feen A
    Mint, Chooz breath candy and Campbell's soup.

    1946   Mystery fans remember when The Adventures of Sam Spade debuted on
    CBS this Sunday night. (It had aired in the summer of 1946 on ABC on
    Friday nights.) The Adventures of Sam Spade, with Howard Duff playing
    Spade, became a big hit in the Sunday night radio lineup. And now a word
    from our sponsor: "Use Wildroot Cream Oil, Charlie ... it keeps your
    hair in [removed]"

    9/30

    1930   Death Valley Days was first heard on the NBC Red network this day
    (and) became one of radio's biggest hits. The 30 minute, Western
    adventure series starred Tim Daniel Frawley as the Old Ranger, Harvey
    Hays as the Old Prospector, John White as the Lonesome Cowboy, Edwin
    Bruce as Bobby Keen, Robert Haag as Sheriff Mark Chase and Olyn Landick
    as Cassandra Drinkwater.

    The tales heard on Death Valley Days were all based on fact and were
    human interest stories revolving around the borax mining town of Death
    Valley, California. The show was created by Ruth Woodman, a script
    writer for a New York ad agency. She had never seen Death Valley; but
    had found the vehicle to sell 20 Mule Team Borax. As time went on, Ms.
    Woodman did make a trip to Death Valley. She went back again and again
    after that, digging up facts for her scripts. She even met an honest to
    goodness old ranger, Wash Cahill, who knew everyone and everything about
    the mining town.

    Death Valley Days was renamed Death Valley Sheriff in 1944 and The
    Sheriff in 1945. And Ruth Woodman continued to write the scripts. She
    even wrote scripts when Death Valley Days became a TV show. Buy some 20
    Mule Team Borax in commemoration.

    1933   The theme song was Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here and it opened
    the National Barn Dance. The half hour country music and comedy show,
    originally heard on WLS, Chicago since 1924, moved to the NBC Blue
    network this night. National Barn Dance was broadcast from the Eighth
    Street Theater in Chicago, where the stage was transformed into a
    hayloft every Saturday night. The host was Joe Kelly. Uncle Ezra was
    played by Pat Barrett who was known to say, "Give me a toot on the
    tooter, Tommy," as he started dancing. A few of the other Barn Dance
    characters were Arkie, the Arkansas Woodchopper; Pokey Martin; the
    Hoosier Hotshots; the Prairie Ramblers; cowgirl, Patsy Montana; Pat
    Buttram; Lulu Belle and the Cumberland Road Runners. Gene Autry and Red
    Foley were heard early in their careers on National Barn Dance. Although
    there were plenty of sponsors (Alka Seltzer, One A Day vitamins,
    Phillips Milk of Magnesia), the National Barn Dance was one of the few
    radio shows to charge admission.

    1935   "Calling all [removed]" The Adventures of Dick Tracy came to radio
    for the first time on the Mutual Radio Network. Based on the comic strip
    created by Chester Gould, the 15 minute adventure show was heard Monday
    thru Friday at 5:45 [removed] The sponsors were Quaker Puffed Wheat and
    Quaker Puffed Rice.

    1962 - The death of OTR.  The last regularly scheduled network programs,
    Suspense and Johnny Dollar was heard.

    10/1

    1942   People Are Funny went on the air with host Art Baker.

    10/3

    1901   The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated on this day.
    After a merger with Radio Corporation of America, RCA Victor became the
    leader in phonographs and many of the records played on them. The famous
    Victrola phonograph logo, with Nipper the dog, and the words "His
    Master's Voice", appeared on all RCA Victor phonographs and record labels.

    1946   Dennis Day started his own show on NBC. Dennis, a popular tenor
    featured on The Jack Benny Show, played the same (type) naive young
    bachelor he played on the Benny show. A Day in the Life of Dennis Day
    aired for five years.

    10/4

    1948   Gordon MacRae hosted the premiere of a radio classic. The
    Railroad Hour debuted on ABC. The theme song was I've Been Working on
    the Railroad and the show was sponsored by, get ready, America's Railroads.

    10/5

    1930   The New York Philharmonic Orchestra was first heard on the air
    over CBS from Carnegie Hall. The Sunday afternoon concerts set CBS back
    $15,000 ($203,790 in 2012 dollars). Not per week, but for the entire season!

    1930   This was a big day for CBS. Following the orchestra broadcast
    (above), Father Coughlin, The Fighting Priest was first heard on network
    radio. He lit up the airwaves with oratory that aired into the early
    forties.  He was first heard on WJR Detroit in 1926.

    1934   The first major network radio show to originate from Hollywood
    aired on this day. Hollywood Hotel was heard on CBS and was heavily
    promoted as being the first to broadcast from the West Coast of the [removed]

    1947   A small Northern California company got a major boost from Bing
    Crosby. The first show recorded on tape was broadcast on ABC. 'Der
    Bingle' was so popular, that his taped show promoted wide distribution
    of the new magnetic tape recorders that would become broadcast classics
    the venerable Ampex 200.

      1952   After an 11 year run, Inner Sanctum, the legendary mystery
    series, was heard for the final time. We'll never know if they oiled
    that squeaky [removed]  (Of course there is the story of a staffer who did
    actually oil the door before one [removed] ed.)  (PS I have a door
    that creaks just like that one and half the time expect to find Raymond
    lurking around in the hallway somewhere.  I've never oiled it in the
    hopes Raymond would appear.)
       Joe

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    Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 01:04:45 -0400
    From: TVHistory2009@[removed]
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    Subject:  Sept. 30th "Radio Once More" show
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    A  program note about "Radio Once More," the Maryland-based Internet radio
    station,  which is run by Neal Ellis:
    Monday  night's "Live Show" (9 [removed] to midnight, Eastern time), with host
    Neal Ellis and  co-host Kathy Meola, will focus on the recent Mid-Atlantic
    Nostalgia  Convention.
    Listeners, on Monday night, will be invited to post MANC-related  stories
    and pictures on the radio station's Facebook page.  Phone calls are also
    encouraged,  at 410-360-6070.
    Here  is the "Radio Once More" website, via which one can hear the station:
    _[removed]_ ([removed])
    Here,  too, is the station's Facebook page:
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    Thanks!
    Andrew  Fielding
    Thursday night host/"Radio Once  More"

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