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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 245
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Opera for kids, Tennessee Jed, Westo  [ "Don Jensen" <dnjkenosha@[removed]; ]
  Re: Jim Bannon-his background on Net  [ Joemartelle@[removed] ]
  Mike, Myron, Wallace                  [ Frank =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ros=EDn?= <fra ]
  This week in radio history 26 August  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:25:09 -0400
From: "Don Jensen" <dnjkenosha@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Opera for kids, Tennessee Jed, Weston family
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I raised the question some time ago but it then drew no responses.
I thought I would try again, since perhaps now someone with information will
notice and respond.

I remember a shortlived program, aimed, I believe, at youngsters because it
was scheduled during the pre-suppertime kids' time block.  I think it was a
sustaining show, and most likely a summertime replacement.

It was, as I recall, 15 minutes, though it could have been a half hour, and
featured dramatizations of famous operas, with musical segments of
well known melodies from those operas.   Each opera was was serialized over
five weekdays.

I remember quite vividly two of the five-program series, the operas Aida, when
I first heard the stirring "Triumphal March," and Carmen with its now familiar
themes and arias.   It was my first exposure to operatic music and some of the
stories behind those works.  I must have been somewhere between 8 and 12 years
old, which would date it to 1943-1947 (but I guess it could have been a year
or so later, but not likely earlier).

Others I remember include Tennesse Jed ("Thar he goes, Tennessee, git 'im!"
Sound of rifle/ricochet. "Got 'im, daid center!"   I recall Tennessee Jed
being interrupted by, perhaps it was Bob Trout, announcing that President
Roosevelt had just died at Warm Springs, Ga.

And from approximately the same time, circa 1945, I recall a serial adventure
for kids, again probably 15 minutes, featuring the "Weston family" with
adventures in wilderness Kentucky.  I don't recall if the program was also
about Daniel Boone or was just set in that particular time in history.  I seem
to think that the "Weston family" and Boone were friends, but my memory is a
bit ragged.   The show's theme was played on a banjo as I recall.  Does anyone
know the name of this kids' series and if any recordings of it exist today?
--don
Don Jensen
Kenosha, WI

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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:09:36 -0400
From: Joemartelle@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Jim Bannon-his background on Network Radio
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Jim Bannon had a long and  successful career in  radio.

He was staff announcer in his hometown of Kansas City, later moved to
California, and was on staff at
Los Angeles radio stations, KHJ, KMBC and KFI.

He also worked in Chicago Network Radio as an announcer on many soap operas
that originated in the Windy City, [removed] Ma Perkins, Road of Life,
Woman  in White, Young Dr. Malone, the Romance of Helen Trent, Backstage Wife
and
Portia Faces Life.

While in California, he was  the announcer/narrator  on several  radio
programs, that originated in Hollywood. At one time, his busy 'on-air'
schedule
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Monday- Cavalcade of America
Tuesday- Rudy Vallee
Wednesday-The Great Gildersleeve
Saturday morning- Stars Over Hollywood
Sunday- Walter Winchell

and I Love a Mystery, five days a week

In addition to being the last actor to portray Red Ryder in the movies, he
was the male lead on Gene Autry's Flying A TV Production, playing second
fiddle
 to Gene's horse, on 'The Adventures of Champion.'

I best remember Jim for his announcing duties on one of my favorite
programs, The Cavalcade of America.

Joe Martelle
Mesa, Colorado

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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:10:02 -0400
From: Frank =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ros=EDn?=  <frankr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Mike, Myron, Wallace

In addition to the things mentioned about Mike Wallace, I have two
episodes of a program called 'Crime on the Waterfront' staring Myron
Wallace.  These may have been a couple of pilot episodes for a series
as one of them runs 45 minutes, or perhaps the only surviving two
episodes.   The disks were found in a dumpster behind CBUT Radio in
Vancouver BC about 30 years ago.

Let's not forget that Wallace was on one of the early 'Information
Please' panels.  I forget the date at the moment.  He was introduced as
a Michigan U student and also introduced as his first appearance on
radio on the episode.

Frank Rosin

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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:10:32 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 26 August to 1
 September

 From Those Were The Days --

8/26

1939 - Arch Oboler's Plays presented the NBC Symphony, for the first
time, as the musical backdrop for the drama, This Lonely Heart.

8/28

1922 - The first commercial to be broadcast on radio was heard on WEAF
in New York City. Announcer [removed] Blackwell spoke about Hawthorne Court,
a group of apartment buildings in Queens, New York. The Queensboro
Realty Company, of Jackson Heights, bought what was called Toll
Broadcasting. WEAF, owned by AT&T, sold their block programming, five
one-minute programs, one a day for five days, for $50 plus long-distance
toll fees. The Queensboro Realty Company paid $100 for 10 minutes of
commercial airtime.

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1938 -- The first degree given to a ventriloquist's dummy is awarded to
Charlie McCarthy--Edgar Bergen's wooden partner. The honorary degree,
"Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback," is presented on radio by Ralph
Dennis, the dean of the School of Speech at Northwestern University.

8/30

1951 - Screen Directors' Playhouse was heard for the final time on NBC.
  The program had featured some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.

8/31

1941 - The Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee and Molly,
started on NBC.

1946 - "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound ... the caped crusader
returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Superman had been
dropped from the program schedule earlier in the year, but the outrage
of youngsters brought the show back to the airwaves. Wow! The amazing
power of Kryptonite in the hands of kids! Bud Collyer, later of TV's
Beat the Clock, played Clark Kent aka Superman on the series. His
identity had been well guarded for years. Most people didn't have a clue
as to the identity of Superman until a TIME magazine article about
Collyer appeared in 1946.

9/1

1922 - The first daily news program on radio was The Radio Digest, on
WBAY. The program, hosted by George F. Thompson, the program's editor,
originated from New York City.

Joe

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