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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2016 : Issue 78
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 27 Novemb  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Attn: Peg Lynch fans                  [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      The Cinnamon Bear!                    [ Dennis Crow via <charlie@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:12:37 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 27 November to 3
     December

     From Those Were The Days

    11/26

    1945   Bride and Groom, debuted on the ABC network. It is estimated that
    1,000 newlywed couples were interviewed on the program before it left
    the airwaves in 1950.

    11/27

    1930   Broadcasting from "...the little theatre off Times Square,"
    according to the show's introduction, The First Nighter was first heard.
    The program, which actually originated from Chicago, then from
    Hollywood, aired for 23 years and featured dramas and comedies.

    11/28

    1932   Groucho Marx performed on radio for the first time.

    12/2

    1932   The Adventures of Charlie Chan was first heard on the NBC Blue
    network.

    12/3

    1928   The first broadcast of The Voice of Firestone was heard. The
    program aired each Monday evening at 8. The Voice of Firestone became a
    hallmark in radio broadcasting. It kept its same night, time (in 1931
    the start time changed to 8:30) and sponsor for its entire run.
    Beginning on September 5, 1949, the program of classical and semi
    classical music was also seen on television.

    Joe

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    Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:13:54 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Attn:  Peg Lynch fans
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    Had she still been with us, Peg Lynch would have celebrated her 100th birthday
    this November 25th. On that birth anniversary, her daughter, Astrid King,
    announced the creation of Peg Lynch Relaunched.  This will be a gigantic
    umbrella under which Astrid plans to release books, recordings, film and TV
    clips and interviews of her famous mother, the remarkable comedy writer and
    performer. These releases will even include over 80 uncirculated vintage TV
    episodes, currently archived at the University of Oregon. Astrid resides in
    England and assisting her in this extensive project is Kristin Erikson in
    Wisconsin, a longtime fan of Peg and an award-winning entrepreneur.

    Peg died in July 2015 and since then Astrid has been inventorying the vast
    accumulation of Pegbs show-biz career, much of it dealing with the radio and
    TV shows of Ethel and Albert and The Couple Next Door. The collection includes
    thousands of business and personal letters, over 10,000 scripts plus films,
    tapes, photos and notes.

    To be a part of this welcome project and be notified of the status of Peg
    Lynch Relaunched and the progress being made, go to either
    [removed] <[removed]; or
    [removed] <[removed]; and leave your email address and
    then click Submit. Astrid promises to never share your email address with
    anyone.

    Jack French
    Editor, RADIO RECALL
    Metro Washington OTR Club

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    Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:15:32 -0500
    From: Dennis Crow via <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Cinnamon Bear!

    Dear Reader:

    Hi, everybody!  I hope by now you have established a schedule for playing
    episodes of "The Cinnamon Bear."  Remember, there are 26 installments
    (available everywhere).  They should be programmed between Thanksgiving
    Day and Christmas Day.  Research by First Generation Radio Archives has
    determined that the very first episode was broadcast in the USA on Friday,
    November 26, 1937, so you will be carrying on a tradition lasting almost
    eighty years!

    As a reminder, my friends, November 29 is the day to begin "The Cinnamon
    Bear."  If you play one 15 minute segment a day, the story will conclude
    on Christmas Eve.

    Your family will thrill to the adventures of Paddy, Jimmy and Judy Barton,
    and the Crazy Quilt Dragon, as they search Maybeland for the missing silver
    star that goes atop the Barton family Christmas tree. If you don't have the
    program tapes, all the clubs and dealers have them, most of whom write to
    this list. YES, It is time once again to celebrate THE CINNAMON BEAR, first
    heard in 1937.

    Charlie helped me make the Maybeland map and the eleven songs in the serial
    more accessible to you this year.  Just go to:

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    You can print them off and use them as you listen with your kids to the
    program.  You'll have so much fun.

    It is golden age radio at its best, with the actors who are so familiar to
    you---Joseph Kearns, Elvia Allman, Gale Gordon, Frank Nelson, Martha
    Wentworth, Barbara Jean Wong, Verna Felton, Hanley Stafford, Elliott Lewis,
    Lou Merrill, Howard McNear, and the list goes on and on and on.

    As Paddy himself says, "I'd be much obliged to you!"

    Sincerely,

    Dennis Crow

    (via and mildly edited by Charlie Summers. For those who didn't know Dennis,
    he was the best friend a short stubby little teddy bear could ever [removed]
    he was in love with the magic and wonder of The Cinnamon Bear and never
    missed an opportunity to talk about the story. He was a friend to this
    Digest, but a better friend to my daughter, who each year shortly before
    Judy and Jimmy went to the attic would receive a small gift from Dennis
    related to The Cinnamon Bear. She still lovingly places the Cinnamon
    Bear ornament on our Christmas Tree each year, and listens to the show with
    the Crazy Quilt Dragon perched above her bed. Dennis passed away in 2008,
    and will be fondly remembered here on the Digest for as long as I operate
    it.

    The best-sounding set of this series, and the version played each year
    here at Chez Charlie, is available from Radio Archives - see:

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    ...for more details - this is truly an excellent transfer. Also, there
    is a free iCalendar schedule for import into any modern calendar
    application attached to the blog post at:

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    ..that will let you track which episode should be played each day, in case
    you get a day or two behind the way we generally do. Again, the first
    episode, assuming you listen to one episode every day including weekends,
    should be heard this coming Tuesday, November 29th, so the story will end on
    Christmas eve.  --cfs3)

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