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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2019 : Issue 53
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 8-14 Dece  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Yesterday USA is offering gifts for   [ "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@yeste ]
      Re: Backing up Radio History          [ <mlaurino@[removed]; ]
      Dick Tracy In B Flat script           [ "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@yeste ]
      This week in radio history 15-21 Dec  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Tune into Yesterday Issue 88          [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:40:09 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 8-14 December

     From Those Were The Days -

    12/9

    1940   The Longines Watch Company signed for the first FM radio
    advertising contract with experimental station W2XOR in New York City.
    The ads ran for 26 weeks and promoted the Longines time signals.

    12/10

    1927   For the first time, famed radio announcer George Hay introduced
    the WSM Barn Dance as The Grand Ole Opry.

    12/11

    1944   The Chesterfield Supper Club debuted on NBC. Perry Como, Jo
    Stafford and many other stars of the day shared the spotlight on the 15
    minute show that aired five nights a week. The show was sponsored by
    Chesterfield cigarettes.

    12/12

    1948 - NBC presented the "Horace Heidt Youth Opportunity Program" for
    the first time. The talent show earned Dick Contino, an accordionist,
    the $5,000 prize ($51,764 in 2017 dollars)) as the program's first
    national winner. Over the years Heidt gave some big stars their big
    starts: Frankie Carle, Gordon MacRae, the King Sisters, Alvino Rey, Ken
    Berry, Frank DeVol, Dick Contino, Al Hirt, Fred Lowrey, Ronnie Kemper,
    Larry Cotton, Donna and her Don Juans, Ollie O'Toole and many others.

    12/13

    1942   The characters of Allen's Alley were presented for the first time
    on The Fred Allen Show. This particular segment of the show became very
    popular and was used by Allen until 1949. Remember the stops along the
    way in Allen's Alley? They were at the Brooklyn tenement of Mrs.
    Nussbaum, the farmhouse of Titus Moody, the shack of Ajax Cassidy and
    the antebellum mansion of Senator Beauregard Claghorn.

    12/14

    1953   Fred Allen returned from semi-retirement to narrate Prokofiev's
    classic, Peter and the Wolf, on the Bell Telephone Hour on NBC.

    Joe

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    Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:40:24 -0500
    From: "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Yesterday USA is offering gifts for support
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    Hi Everybody,

    Yesterday USA is offering gifts of radio shows and interviews for your support
    on kick starter.  See the link below for info.

    [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:40:40 -0500
    From: <mlaurino@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Backing up Radio History

    Catching up on the newsletter, I read the comment from our beloved
    Administrator, saying, in part:

>     True preservation isn't allowing a single entity to have (and control!) the
>     [removed]'s having hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of people
>     holding and sharing copies! ...
>     So yeah, send any interviews, radio specials, or air checks to Walden and the
>     Gassman brothers. But send them to all your friends, [removed] them to me
>     for inclusion in the OTR Digest shared [removed] them all [removed]
>     the more people that have copies, the less likely any of this material will
>     be lost.  --cfs3]

    Absolutely correct (IMHO). May I suggest that "all over" should include the
    old time radio collection at [removed]
    <[removed];, where posting is free and easy,
    and maybe even YouTube, free albeit not so easy, since you'll need to convert
    the audio file into a video (a static title card would suffice).

    Season's Greetings,
    mjl

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    Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:40:52 -0500
    From: "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Dick Tracy In B Flat script
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    Hi Everybody,

    Does any one have a transcribe script version of Dick Tracy in B Flat?  Take
    care,

    Walden

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    Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:41:09 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 15-21 December

     From Those Were The Days

    12/16

    1949   After a decade on radio, Captain Midnight was heard for the final
    time. Put your secret decoder badges away now, kids.

    12/17

    1936   Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen kidded around with his pal, Charlie
    McCarthy (who was a bit wooden, we [removed]), for the first time on
    radio. The two debuted on The Rudy Vallee Show on NBC. Soon, Bergen
    became one of radio's hottest properties, and was called Vallee's
    greatest talent discovery.

    12/19

    1932    the British Broadcasting Corporation began transmitting overseas
    with its Empire Service to Australia.

    Joe

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    Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:41:17 -0500
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Tune into Yesterday Issue 88
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    Hi. Issue 88 of ORCA's Tune into Yesterday magazine is now available. Full of
    the usual mixture of archive news, plus a Supplement looking back at radio in
    Europe in late 1945. A free sample copy is available in the UK from our
    membership sec John Wolstenholme: ORCA, PO Box 1922, Dronfield, S18  8XA,
    EnglandAnnual membership is 15 pounds ( cheques payable to ORCA, or by postal
    order for those who no longer use cheques ) which brings you 4 issues of TIY
    plus access to our vast lending library of old programmes on CD, mp3 CD, and
    mp3 audio [removed] ! Graeme

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