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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2013 : Issue 69
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Interview with Ivan Cury, Radio's Bo  [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 23-29 Jun  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]

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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:54:43 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Interview with Ivan Cury, Radio's Bobby Benson!

Folks;

   Katie and my interview with Ivan Cury, radio's Bobby Benson recorded at
last month's Cincinnati Nostalgia Expo, premiers tonight on SummersTime -
listen at 6:00pm eastern, 3:00pm pacific on [removed] (repeat
showtimes listed at [removed] ). Professor Cury
discusses his time in radio, we play a show for him he wasn't expecting to
hear, and he even talks about why he became a university professor. Join us!

         Charlie

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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:54:47 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 23-29 June

 From Those Were The Days -

6/23

1933   The Pepper Pot program welcomed a new host. Don McNeill took over
the show and renamed it The Breakfast Club. The show, a huge success for
the NBC Blue and later, ABC, became one of the longest running radio
programs in history. The show aired with McNeill as host until December
27, 1968. The Breakfast Club was a morning show that had its share of
corny jokes, visiting celebrities and lots of audience participation.

1941   Front Page Farrell was heard for the first time on Mutual. In
1942, the program moved to NBC and stayed on the air until 1954. Sally
and David Farrell were the central characters.

1947   Wendy Warren and the News debuted on CBS. The broadcasts
continued until 1958. No, the program was not a newscast, in the
traditional sense. It was a serial one of many of the time. The unique
thing about this particular show, however, was that Wendy Warren and the
News did utilize a real three minute newscast to open the show. The
newscaster, delivering the news as part of the show, chose not to stay
in the entertainment side of radio, but continued to be a true
journalist and a legend at CBS. That newsman was Douglas Edwards.

6/24

1960   The Romance of Helen Trent was heard for the last time. Helen and
her boy toy, Gil Whitney, were about to be married, but the loving
couple never made it to the altar just in case the show would ever be
renewed. Helen Trent and her romance aired for 27 years a total of 7,222
episodes on the CBS.

6/25

1942   The first broadcast of It Pays to Be Ignorant was aired on WOR
and the Mutual Broadcasting System.

6/26

1933   The Kraft Music Hall debuted.

1949   Fred Allen had his final program, though he continued for several
years to guest on other shows.

6/27

1940   As a summer replacement for blind, piano virtuoso Alec Templeton,
The Quiz Kids was first heard. The show continued on NBC until 1953.

1943   The Dreft Star Playhouse debuted on NBC. Jane Wyman (the former
Mrs. Ronald Reagan) starred in the first broadcast, titled Bachelor Mother.

1944   The Alan Young Show debuted on NBC. It was a summer replacement
for the popular Eddie Cantor. The show became a regular in the fall NBC
lineup.

6/29

1932   Vic and Sade debuted on the NBC Blue network this day.

1947   Radio's show with a heart made its debut. Strike It Rich became a
favorite on CBS. Todd Russell was the original host. Warren Hull took
over a few years later.

1951   Bill Stern did his last 15 minute program of sports features for
NBC. Stern had been with NBC for 14 years. He later moved to the Mutual
Broadcasting System to finish out an illustrious sportscasting career.

Joe

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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:54:53 -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," Charlie St George's "Make Believe
Ballroom Time" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics." Streamed in
high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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Check our our Transcription Disc scans at:
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

BABY SNOOKS SHOW
Episode 11 11-25-45 "The Meat Piller" Stars: Fanny Brice as Snooks and
Hanley Stafford as Daddy
CBS Sanka Coffee

WENDY WARREN AND THE NEWS
Episode 5 6-27-47
Stars: Florence Freeman, Douglas Edwards.
Cbs Maxwell House Coffee
PHILO VANCE
Episode 18 11-9-48 "The President Murder Case"
Stars: Jackson Beck As Philo Vance And Joan Alexander As His Secretary
Syndicated By Ziv Productions

LET GEORGE DO IT
Episode 413 9-13-54 "The Man Under The Elm Trees"
STARS: Olan Soule', Virginia Gregg
MUTUAL New York. Pream Artificial Creamer

VIC AND SADE
Episode 2 7-4-46 "Restaurant Business"
Stars: Art Van Harvey, Bernardine Flynn, Billy Idelson, Clarence
Hartzell, Johnny Coons, Norman Gottschalk
Announcer: John Mallow
CBS Fitch Shampoo
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

LET'S PRETEND
(CBS) 9/27/47 "Cinderella" The favorite story of the series

THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
(NBC Blue) 1/18/33 "Murder By Proxy" stars: Richard Gordon and Leigh Lovell.

THE STRANGE DR. WEIRD
(MBS) 4/25/45 "The Ghost Ship" with host, Maurice Tarplin.
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION

Our actor of the month for June is Tommy Cook.

ARCH OBOLERS PLAYS from 07/26/45 Episode (16) My Chicago.

Next we learn a little more about the life of Eli Whitney in a series
called:

CAVALCADE OF AMERICA from 07/27/42 Episode (289) Man of Design. Bud
Colyer announces.

THE LUX RADIO THEATER from 03/20/39 Episode (211) It Happened One Night.
The program stars Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.
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This Week's Classics & Curios Show:

"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

Episode 78

"STAR TIME" FEATURING DJ FRANK BRESEE

This week we highlight a show produced by the legendary Frank Bresee
back in 1953. Frank is still a radio hero for me and, of course, has
been for countless other OTR fans for well over 50 years. Perhaps he is
most famous for his "Golden Days of Radio" on the AFRS Network for over
a quarter of a century and will soon be returning to The Olde Tyme Radio
Network with that great series.

Frank's show for this episode is called "Star Time" and was an audition
show on radio KPOL in Los Angeles. For the format of "Star Time" Frank
planned frequently to have a popular guest artist to introduce a current
hit recording and would also arrange with popular performers to record
introductions to their own hits. Recorded appearances of artists on this
trial show in February of 1953 included Vaughn Monroe, Frankie Laine,
and Billy May. Vaughn introduced his "Tenderly" recording; Billy May
brought "My Silent Love;" and Frankie Laine had "Wonderful, Wasn't It?"
Upon first hearing this delightful show I found Frankie's song
pleasantly new and fresh after I thought I'd heard all of his many
recordings through several decades. (See my "Frankie Laine Tribute" on
Episode 72.)

Now as you listen, you'll hear The Modernaires perform a new "Juke Box
Saturday Night" with their renditions of songs by Don Cornell, The Four
Aces, Les Paul & Mary Ford, and Johnnie Ray. The show's crescendo is
Joni James' number 1 hit at the time of my high-school graduation in
1953: "Why Don't You Believe Me?"

Of all the great songs on this "Star Time" my favorite is probably "Glow
Worm" by the Mills Brothers. Not only is the song and performance great,
with outstanding new and clever lyrics written by Johnny Mercer, but
this tune is dear to my heart for a special reason. It was also one of
my song choices on my brief "DJ of the Day," "audition" which I produced
for Eddie Hubbard and which he played on ABC radio. After my retirement
from The University of Texas at Arlington that was my first "fantasy"
venture into producing shows for conventional and internet radio which
soon led me to Bill Bragg's YesterdayUSA and most recently to Jerry
Haendiges' Olde Tyme Radio Network.

Frank's in-person guest on this show is Eddie Fisher, who was about to
leave for Germany for his army commitment. Eddie talks about
entertaining the troops and about his new recording "Lady of Spain" with
Hugo Winterhalter's fine orchestra.

Frank signs off with "Keep well till I see you tomorrow on KPOL." Frank,
however did not "see" his radio audience "tomorrow" because KPOL in a
major blunder failed to pick up the show. Radio KPOL audiences in 1953
were -- and current listeners on The Olde Tyme Radio Network are -- the
losers of more wonderful additional shows that could have been produced
and aired as part of the continuing Golden Days of Radio, celebrated in
Frank's book "Radio's Golden Years" (with artist Bobb Lynes).

Thank you, Frank, for blessing us with so much radio joy, and thank you,
Lord, for blessing us with Frank Bresee, "Mr. Old Time Radio."

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Special thanks to Jerry Haendiges for the meticulous restoration of
"Star Time." This show is available for purchase from Jerry Haendiges
Productions. .
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Make Believe Ballroom Time

Episode 6

Today, BBSS is featuring Chuck Foster and his "Music in the Foster
Fashion" They are broadcasting from the Hotel New Yorker in NY City. The
New Yorker Hotel is located in Manhattan's Garment Center, central to
Pennsylvania Station, Madison Square Garden, Times Square and the Empire
State Building. An early ad for the building boasted that the hotel's
"bell boys were 'as snappy-looking as West Pointers'" and "that it had a
radio in every room with a choice of four stations" It was a New Yorker
bellboy who served as tobacco company Phillip Morris' pitchman for
twenty years, making famous their "Call for Phillip Morris" advertising
campaign.

Throughout the 1940s and 1950s the hotel was among New York's most
fashionable and hosted many popular Big Bands, such as Benny Goodman and
Tommy Dorsey, while notable figures such as Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford
and Fidel Castro stayed there. The New York Observer noted that in the
building's heyday, "actors, celebrities, athletes, politicians,
mobsters, the shady and the luminous-the entire Brooklyn Dodgers roster
during the glory seasons-would stalk the bars and ballrooms, or romp
upstairs".

Some say the Foster band copied the style of Guy Lombardo's successful
and popular Royal [removed] Reed player Chuck Foster began his career
as a bandleader in 1938, bringing the sweet (and sometimes syrupy)
sounds of his band to such sizeable venues as San Francisco's Mark
Hopkins Hotel and the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel's famous Biltmore Bowl.

With radio remotes routinely being broadcast from both locations, the
band hit its stride early and quickly achieved popularity with the help
of talented pianist Hal Pruden and a raft of popular vocalists.

The Foster band is appearing on BBSS in a remote broadcast from the
Hotel New Yorker in NY City. It's mid-August 1945 just prior to Chuck
Foster being drafted into the WWII military.
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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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