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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2018 : Issue 40
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Radio History                         [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]

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    Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 19:40:02 -0400
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
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    Subject:  Radio History
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>     Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 14:53:33 -0400
>     From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];

>     6/26

>     1933   The Kraft Music Hall debuted.

    Does anyone know who the first host of the Kraft Music Hall was? I
    know that Bing Crosby was probably the best-known radio host. The title
    "Kraft Music Hall" was revived on television in 1958, when the
    long-running "Kraft Television Theater" on Wednesday evening on NBC
    ended and was replaced by Milton Berle, making an attempt at a TV
    comeback.  His half-hour show, using the title "Kraft Music Hall,"
    lasted for one television season, then was replaced for the summer with
    British comedian David King, still using the "Kraft Music Hall" title.
    In the fall, Perry Como became host of the Kraft Music Hall, and
    remained there for quite a few years.  Perry Como's first Kraft Music
    Hall show began with a visual of Bing's silhouette inside a door, and a
    mention of the year that "Bing Crosby closed the doors of the Kraft
    Music Hall."  Someone came out and handed Como the keys left behind by
    Bing, and there was a pretense that nobody, not Berle and not whoever
    came after Bing on radio, had hosted the Kraft Music Hall since.

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

    And a great show it was, with Jack Benny as guest, exaggerating his
    cheapness until Jack said, "Nobody ever made me this cheap on my own
    show."  I remember Fred Allen making a number of TV appearances during
    the early 1950s, on Colgate Comedy Hour, substituting for Herb Shriner
    as host of the quiz show "Two for the Money," and even making a guest
    appearance on the fifth anniversary Howdy Doody show.  There are quite a
    number of episodes of "What's My Line" on YouTube where Fred appeared as
    a panelist.

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>     1957   Funnyman Stan Freberg debuted a new weekly comedy program on CBS.
>     The Freberg show only lasted a short time and that newfangled
>     contraption, television, was blamed for the show's quick demise.

    By that time television had already supplanted radio as the mass
    entertainment medium in the US.  Jack Benny's radio show was still on
    CBS, but had been in reruns for a couple of years, and Stan Freberg was
    Jack's summer replacement.  It was a funny show, and its best bits were
    issued in a two-LP record set.

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