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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2018 : Issue 60
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 21-17 Oct [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
BBC radio drama experiment [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
This week in radio history 28 Octobe [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
SummersTime for the week of 10/29/20 [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
would there be any intrest to host a [ "Walden" <waldenhughes@[removed] ]
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 13:08:44 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 21-17 October
Those were the days --
10/23
1932 - Fred Allen made his radio debut. His wife, Portland Hoffa, joined
him on the CBS radio broadcast. Allen's comedy-variety program was known
as "The Linit Bath Club Revue". It then became "The Salad Bowl Revue",
then, "The Sal Hapatica Revue", "The Hour of Smiles", "Town Hall
Tonight", "The Texaco Star Theatre" and finally, someone with just a bit
of sense, came up with "The Fred Allen Show". The comedic legend stayed
on radio for 17 years.
10/24
1929 The Rudy Vallee Show was broadcast for the first time on NBC.
Actually, the Rudy Vallee show had several different titles over the
years, all of which were referred to by the public as The Rudy Vallee
Show. Megaphone totin' Rudy and his Connecticut Yankees band were
mainstays on radio into the late 1940s.
10/25
1937 Stella Dallas made her debut on the NBC Red network. Stella hung
out on NBC until 1955 with Anne Elstner in the title role for the
entire run. Stella Dallas was "A continuation on the air of the true
life story of mother love and sacrifice, in which Stella saw her own
beloved daughter, Laurel, marry into wealth and society, and realizing
the difference in their tastes and worlds, went out of Laurel's life."
10/26
1935 A talented 13 year old sang on Wallace Beery's NBC show. Judy
Garland delighted the appreciative audience. The young girl would soon
be in pictures and at the top of stardom. It would be only four years
before Ms. Garland (George Jessel gave her the name, thinking it would
be better than her own, Frances Gumm) captured the hearts of moviegoers
everywhere with her performance as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.
10/27
Marconi, Fessenden, and De Forest were the catalysts. However, it was an
engineer for Westinghouse Electric who, in 1916, was broadcasting music
from his garage (in Wilkinsburg, PA, a suburb of Pittsburgh) over a
wireless (amateur radio station 8XK) who really got the whole thing
started. A newspaper article about the broadcasts caused such interest
that the head honchos at Westinghouse decided to build a real radio station.
It took until this day in 1920 for the Westinghouse radio station to
receive a license to broadcast. The license for KDKA, Pittsburgh came
from the [removed] Department of Commerce. Although the license was
officially issued on this day, KDKA did not start their broadcast
operations for a week (they had to wait until the license was posted in
the station). On November 2, 1920, the station aired the returns of the
Harding/Cox election ... the first radio programming to reach an
audience of any size ... approximately 1,000 people.
1947 This is Nora Drake premiered on NBC. Nora solved domestic, social
and child raising problems until January 2, 1959.
1947 "The one, the only Groucho" Marx appeared as quizmaster on You
Bet Your Life for the first time on ABC. George Fenneman was Groucho's
eternal straight man. Fenneman stayed with Marx during the program's run
on radio (1948-1959) and TV (1950-1961). By the way,
who is buried in Grant's tomb?
Joe
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 13:08:54 -0400
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: BBC radio drama experiment
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HiI saw these links on the BBC Research & Development website. Could be the
future of radio drama ... ...??
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Cheers ! Graeme
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 13:09:05 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 28 October to 3
November
From Those Were The Days
10/28
1922 WEAF in New York broadcast the first collegiate football game
heard coast to coast. Princeton played the University of Chicago at
Stagg Field in the Windy City. The broadcast was carried on phone lines
to New York City, where the radio transmission began. (Princeton 21,
Chicago 18.)
1946 Our favorite flying cowboy was heard on ABC for the first time.
Sky King starred Jack Lester, then Earl Nightingale, and finally, Roy
Engel, as Sky. Beryl Vaughn played Sky's niece Penny; Jack Bivans was
Clipper and Cliff Soubier was the foreman. Sky King was sponsored by
Peter Pan Peanut Butter
10/30
Orson Welles, known to radio audiences as The Shadow, presented his
famous dramatization of [removed] Wells' The War of the Worlds on CBS's
Mercury Theater at 8 [removed]
10/31
1942 One of the great wartime shows premiered. CBS debuted Thanks to
the Yanks, starring Bob Hawk. It became one of the most popular of the
wartime programs.
11/1
1937 The first broadcast of Hilltop House was aired on CBS; while on
NBC, the comic strip character Terry and the Pirates debuted.
11/2
1931 Myrt and Marge was heard for the first time on CBS. The
program centered on two chorus girls who competed for the same parts and
the same men. The creator and writer (Cliff Thomas wrote some) of the
series, Myrtle Vail, also played the role of Myrt; and the original
Marge was performed by Vail's daughter, Donna Fick. Three other
performers played the part when Donna died giving birth. Myrt and Marge
continued for 11 years.
Joe
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 13:09:15 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: SummersTime for the week of 10/29/2018
Folks;
Since the program is only running once this week on Radio Once More, I
posted it to the Nostalgia Rumblings blog at [removed] - so
if you need some great OTR to chase away tonights ghostly visitors, enjoy!
And special thanks to subscribers Bryan Wright and Larry Siskind for
suggesting programs for this walk through the land of deceased entertainment!
Charlie
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 13:08:37 -0400
From: "Walden" <waldenhughes@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: would there be any intrest to host an old time
radio convention in Chicago, New York City, or Newark NJ?
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Hello,
A group of us are wondering would there be any intrest in hosting an old
time radio convention in 2019 in Chicago, or New York City, or Newark NJ?
If so would you be willing to help do some of the work in produceing a
convention? That will be a major factor in produceing an old time radio
convention in any of these cities, finding people who live near these cities
to work on a convention. Take care,
Walden Hughes
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