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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2017 : Issue 73
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  ?Amos N Andy                          [ "Walden" <waldenhughes@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 12-18 Nov  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 19-25 Nov  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  New Facebook page set up              [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:44:15 -0500
From: "Walden" <waldenhughes@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  ?Amos N Andy
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Hi,

Michael Biel located Amos N Andy show number 23.  This is the show where
they buy the fresh air cab.  Take care,

Walden

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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:44:22 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 12-18 November

11/12

1932   The National Broadcasting Company opened its new studios at Radio
City in New York City. They celebrated with a gala program at Radio City
Music Hall.

1938   Kate Smith sang God Bless America for the very first time. It
would later become her signature song. Irving Berlin penned the tune in
1917 but never released it until Miss Smith sang it for the first time
on her radio broadcast.

1940   The chant, "invovo legem magicarum," was heard for the first time
when Mandrake the Magician debuted on WOR in New York City.

11/14

1921   KYW radio, Chicago, IL broadcast the first opera by a
professional company. Listeners heard Samson Et Dalila as it was being
performed at the Chicago Auditorium.

 From Today in History at the NY Times -

1922  The British Broadcasting Corp. began its domestic radio service.

11/15

1926   Network radio was born. Twenty four stations carried the first
broadcast from the National Broadcasting Company. The program was a gala
four and a half hour broadcast from the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New
York City.

11/18

1307   The story of William Tell shooting the apple off of his young
son's noggin is said to have taken place on this day.

(If it hadn't been for Tell there would have been no opera, if there had
been no opera there would have been no overture, if there had been no
overture the Lone Ranger wouldn't have had the theme music we know. <g>
  ed)

Joe (that's a joke son, I say that's a joke).

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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:44:31 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 19-25 November

11/20

1929 - The first broadcast of The Rise of the Goldbergs, with Gertrude
Berg as Molly, was heard on the NBC Blue network. Later, the title would
be shortened to The Goldbergs. Mrs. Berg, incidentally, wrote the first
scripts for the 15-minute program and starred in the show -- for $75 a
week. ($1,069 in 2016 dollars). The program continued until 1945 (it
returned for one season in 1949-1950). Gertrude Berg entertained
audiences with New York style, motherly phrases like, "Button up your
neck. It's cold outside."

11/21

1938   WBOE in Cleveland, OH became the first school operated radio
station (owned by a municipality) to receive a license from the FCC.
WBOE went on the air as a 500 watt AM station and later became an FM
station.

1938   The first broadcast of Central City was heard. It was an
adventure mystery show set at the newspaper in, you guessed it, Central
City. Elspeth Eric played the part of crime reporter Emily Olson; and
Van Heflin was crime reporter Bob Shellenberger (later, the part was
played by Myron McCormick). Central City aired until 1941.

1944   "Happy trails to you, until we meet [removed]" The Roy Rogers
Show was first heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Singing along
with Roy (The King of the Cowboys'), were the Whippoorwills and The Sons
of the Pioneers.

11/22

1906   Delegates attending the Berlin Radiotelegraphic Conference in
Germany voted to use SOS (...[removed]) as the letters for the new
international signal. The international use of "SOS" was ratified in
1908. Its meaning? No, not "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" as many
believe. Its only meaning was as a distress signal, quick to transmit by
Morse code and not easily misread. It is not an acronym. Incidentally,
how did SOS pads come to use the same initials? They're named after a
patented process, Soap on Steel.

11/23

1929   Shirley Booth and Ed Gardner were married on this day. Miss Booth
was famous for her television acting role ("Hazel"); but we remember
when she and her husband played Miss Duffy and Archie on Duffy's Tavern.

1958   One of the last drama programs on radio debuted. It was unusual
in that it followed the TV show of the same name. Have Gun Will Travel
was broadcast on CBS and starred John Dehner as Paladin.

11/24

1937   Music from the Raymor Ballroom in Boston, Massachusetts was
beamed coast to coast on NBC. The special guests during this broadcast
were Glenn Miller and his orchestra.

11/25

1920   The first play by play coverage of a football game was broadcast
by WTAW in College Station, TX. Texas University beat the Aggies of
Texas A&M, 7-3.

1944   CBS presented The FBI in Peace and War for the first time. It
became one of the longest running crime shows on radio, lasting 14 years.

1945   A spoof of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic, [removed] Pinafore, was
broadcast on The Fred Allen Show. The spoof was titled, The Brooklyn
Pinafore. Joining actress Shirley Booth in the skit was baseball great
Leo 'The Lip' Durocher.

1960   Radio actors were put out of work when CBS axed five serials
(soap operas) from the airwaves. We said so long to The Second Mrs.
Burton (after 14 years), Young Doctor Malone, Whispering Streets (after
8 years), Right to Happiness (after 21 years) and Ma Perkins (after 27
wonderful years.) In 1940, the high point for these radio programs,
there were as many as 45 on the air each day!

Joe

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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:44:39 -0500
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  New Facebook page set up
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Hi. For those of you on Facebook I see a new page was set up yesterday titled
'BBC Transcription Service'. Could be of potential interest ... ... ...Cheers
! Graeme

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