Subject: [removed] Digest V2018 #14
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Date: 2/12/2018 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2018 : Issue 14
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      [removed] Kaltenborn comments              [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
      Radio in the Cold War                 [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 11-17 Feb  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      This I [removed] real one, I mea  [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]
      Program Request                       [ dsanders <dsandersdirect@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 18:53:14 -0500
    From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  [removed] Kaltenborn comments

    "Ronald W. Vickery, PE" <rvickery@[removed]; writes:

>     I was wondering if this is quoted from an actual broadcast, or did the
>     script writers just made it up?

    Most likely not. I collect a lot of news material and also read
    Kaltenborn's autobiography "Fifty Fabulous Years" and based upon both, I
    have never seen this be Kaltenborn's view. He had differences with some
    of Roosevelt's cabinet and also liked Roosevelt and much of New Deal, I
    know of no such broadcast. He was hired by the Columbia Broadcasting
    System around 1931 and began reporting and commenting on the Washington
    scene and world politics at that time on radio (though he appeared on
    radio often as an occasional commentator not an employee of CBS prior to
    his employment with them).

    I would suggest if you want to try to nail down for sure, contact the
    Wisconsin Historical Society where his papers are located including most
    of his radio scripts as a free agent, with CBS and NBC. They might be
    able to track down if such a script exists.

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    Jim Widner

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    Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 18:55:46 -0500
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Radio in the Cold War
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     Hi. This documentary is coming up on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday 11th February.
    Might be of interest ... ...

    Radio Controlled, Sunday Feature - BBC Radio 3
     Robert Worby on how post-war West German radio and modern music won the
    cultural cold war.

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    Cheers ! Graeme

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    Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 18:55:54 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 11-17 February

    2/11

    1940   NBC presented The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street for
    the first time. The famous Blue network series included several
    distinguished alumni among them, Dinah Shore and Zero Mostel. The
    chairman, or host, of The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street
    was Milton Cross. He would say things like, "A Bostonian looks like he's
    smelling something. A New Yorker looks like he's found it." The show
    combined satire, blues and jazz and was built around what were called
    the three Bs of music: Barrelhouse, Boogie Woogie and Blues.

    2/12

    1924   Calvin Coolidge, known by many as the 'Silent Cal', made the
    first presidential political speech on radio. The speech originated from
    New York City and was broadcast on five radio stations. Some five
    million people tuned in to hear the President speak.

    1924   The Eveready Hour became radio's first sponsored network program.
    The National Carbon Company took the honor of being the first sponsor of
    a network show.

    1940   Mutual presented the first broadcast of Superman. The identity of
    the man from planet Krypton was actually that of Bud Collyer.

    1956- Wild Bill Hickok (and Jingles) rode off into the sunset on Mutual
    for the last time, having been on radio since 27 May 1951.

    2/13

    1939   Virginia Payne, already popular as the voice of Ma Perkins, took
    on a new character in NBC's soap opera, The Carters of Elm Street.
    Virginia played the part of Mrs. Carter.

    1943   Frank Sinatra made his debut as vocalist on radio's Your Hit
    Parade this night. Frankie had left the Tommy Dorsey Band just four
    months prior to beginning the radio program. He was described as,
    "...the biggest name in the business."

    2/15

    1932   George Burns and Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on The Guy
    Lombardo Show on CBS.

    1943   My True Story was heard for the first time on ABC.  The program
    continued for 17 years and was presented in cooperation with True Story
    magazine.

    Joe

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    Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 18:59:44 -0500
    From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  This I [removed] real one, I mean

    Folks;

       Next week on SummersTime (can be heard on Radio Once More at
    [removed] ) I'm going to run an episode of the early-1950's
    series This I Believe, hosted by Edward R. Murrow and aired on the CBS
    network. I have been looking for episodes as originally broadcast from the
    series and have found relatively few. I wanted to ask again if folks here
    have additional episodes to add. What I have found thus far:

    Intro - Edward R. Murrow

    Walter Lanier "Red" Barber
    Pearl S. Buck
    Eddie Cantor
    William O. Douglas
    Martha Graham
    Oscar Hammerstein, II
    Herbert Hoover
    Aldous Huxley
    Dr. Charles Johnson
    Sir Muhammad Kahn
    Helen Keller
    Alfred Landon
    Thomas Mann
    James Michener
    Jackie Robinson
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    Harry Truman

       I am aware of the contemporary commercial recreation of this program;
    while they ran some of the 1950's-era programs on The Bob Edwards Show and
    have some on their website, those episodes were stripped of their announcer
    openings and most stripped of Murrow's intros as well. I am more interested
    in episodes that are as complete as possible as originally aired, the way
    _we_ collect shows.

       I will place those I have into the shared OTR Digest's pCloud folder so
    they may be accessed (along with all the other stuff in there). Any provided
    by any of you will be included as well so everyone can listen. (And if you
    don't currently have access to the shared pCloud folder, drop me a line for
    [removed]'s completely free, and there's a bunch of audio and video
    files available in there.)

             Charlie

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    Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 19:03:27 -0500
    From: dsanders <dsandersdirect@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Program Request

    I am looking for a copy of the CBS radio Frank Sinatra Show from February 1944
     featuring [removed] Fields as guest.
     Do you have this available or know of a collection which has it?

     Regards,
     Denis Sanders

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