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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2019 : Issue 23
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 5-11 May [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Olde Tyme Radio Network [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history 12-18 May [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Benny joke reference [ Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@yahoo. ]
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Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 11:37:25 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 5-11 May
From Those Were The Days
5/5
1935 The program, Rhythm at Eight, made its debut. The star of the
show was 24 year old Ethel Merman. Though Merman would become a legend
years later, she didn't fare so well on radio. Her show was taken off
the air after 13 weeks and Miss Merman returned to her first love, Broadway.
5/6
1937 A student of history, a broadcaster or anyone interested in news
coverage, will remember this day and the words of NBC's Herbert
Morrison. "Oh, the humanities!" Morrison's emotion filled historic
broadcast of the explosion of the dirigible, Hindenburg at Lakehurst,
NJ, became the first recorded coast to coast broadcast as it was carried
on both the NBC Red and NBC Blue networks from New York City.
5/9
1936 Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy started their own radio show on
NBC only months after they had debuted on Rudy Vallee's program. [removed]
Fields, Don Ameche and Dorothy Lamour were a few of the stars that
helped Bergen and the little blockhead, McCarthy, jump to the top of
radio's hit parade.
5/10
1927 The Hotel Statler in Boston, MA. became the first hotel to
install radio headsets in each of its 1,300 rooms.
5/11
1946 - Jack Barry hosted "Juvenile Jury" on WOR radio in New York City.
The show was such a hit after five weeks on the air that it debuted on
the Mutual Broadcasting System coast to coast.
Joe
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Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 11:37:38 -0400
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Olde Tyme Radio Network
Hi Friends,
Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
may listen to, or download, high-quality broadcasts with Frank Bresee's
"Golden Days of Radio," John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time Station,"
Duane Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios," Big John and Steve's "Glowing
Dial" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics." Streamed in high-quality
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS
WELLES meets WELLS
ORSON WELLES MEETS [removed] WELLS
October 28th, 1940 Complete Interview
The first time Orson Welles met [removed] Wells.
Really interesting in that Welles and Wells interview each other.
Special interview by Charles Shaw of KTSA in San Antonio, Texas
ESCAPE
Episode 129 10-27-50 "The Time Machine"
Author: [removed] Wells
Stars: John Dehner, Larry Dobkin and Georgia Ellis
NBC UNIVERSITY THEATER
Episode 78 3-5-50 "Tono-Bungay"
Author: [removed] Wells
Commentator: Hamilton Basso
Stars: Alma Lawton, Charles Davis, Crauford Kent, Margaret Brewster,
Patrick White, Queenie Leonard, Tom Dillon, Tom McKee, Whitfield Connor
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Frank Bresee's GOLDEN DAYS OF RADIO series,
listen to Episode 49 which features clips from:
NAT KING COLE "TOO YOUNG"
BOB HOPE
FIBBER MC GEE & MOLLY
ARTHUR GODFREY
BOB & RAY
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION:
This week, we salute and feature Bill Conrad Part 1.
But first, Larry speaks with Leonard Maltin about Maltin Fest which
takes place on Mother's Day Weekend. The interview with Leonard was done
on Tuesday 04/30/2019.
The rest of the show features Bill Conrad.
DESTINATION TOMORROW
02/24/1945 ep11 Good Home.
DARK VENTURE
1946. Impulse. Taken from Mystery Playhouse. AFRS.
I DEAL IN CRIME
04/05/1946 Davis Daughter Case.
THE WHISTLER
03/25/1946 200 The Trigger Man.
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CLASSICS & CURIOS:
"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"
Episode 344
AL JOLSON AND THE KRAFT MUSIC HALL: LADIES OF SONG, PART TWO - DINAH &
DORIS
Here's Part Two of Al Jolson's guest Ladies of Song on the Kraft Music
Hall on NBC. One show features Dinah Shore, the other Doris Day. The
first show of Part Two with Dinah is from December 16, 1948. Dinah takes
a break from the Eddie Cantor Show to sing "I'll Be Seeing You" and to
join Al in duets to sing "Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey" and "Kiss Me
Once." Al does his energetic "Jolson" treatment on "Sittin' On Top of
the World" and welcomes Dinah by singing "Dinah." Oscar Levant plays
"Maleguena," and Al's "Down Among the Sheltering Palms" and "When Day Is
Done" round out the show.
Then on the KMH of December 30, 1948, Al's great lady of song guest is
Doris Day. At the time Doris had been singing as a regular on the Bob
Hope Show and Your Hit Parade and was fresh from her movie "Romance on
the High Seas." Doris, whose voice was called "a voice of velvet,"
performs her great hit from that film "It's Magic." She also does duets
with Al on "Melancholy Baby" and "My Blue Heaven." Oscar Levant performs
"Sabre Dance," and Al does his special upbeat rendition of "Smiles"
followed by "It All Depends On You," "Who Cares." and "When You Were
Sweet Sixteen." Band leader Lou Bring conducts the orchestra on this
AFRS show.
After being on top of the entertainment world before and through the
1920's and 1930's, Jolson and his popularity hit bottom with changing
musical tastes until the 1946 movie on his life, "The Jolson Story,"
opened new horizons on radio in the later 1940's. Once again, he was on
top, but sadly, he passed away in 1950, just one month after returning
to the [removed] after performing for our troops in South Korea and when he
was scheduled for an appearance on Bing Crosby's radio show. And plans
were in the works for his TV debut in grand style. Also, he was to
costar with Dinah Shore in a movie to be called "Stars and Stripes
Forever." Columbia was even considering another Jolson musical starring
Al himself. It was to be called "You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet" and would
dramatize his tours of military bases. But the exertion in Korea took
its toll, especially for a man with only one lung, and he succumbed to a
heart attack at the age of 64.
Jolson's activity and dedication to entertain our troops in World War II
has been almost forgotten by older or perhaps overlooked by newer
generations. Even before the USO began to set up a formal program
overseas, the excitable Jolson was deluging War and Navy Department
brass with phone calls and wires. He demanded permission to go anywhere
in the world where there is an American serviceman who wouldn't mind
listening to "Sonny Boy" or "Mammy." Early in 1942, Jolson became the
first star to perform at a GI base in World War II He did as many as
four shows a day in the jungle outposts of Central America and covered
the string of [removed] Naval bases. He paid for part of the transportation
out of his own pocket. While touring in the Pacific, Jolson contracted
malaria and had to have his left lung surgically removed.
On September 17, 1950, a dispatch from 8th Army Headquarters, Korea,
announced, "Al Jolson, the first top-flight entertainer to reach the
war-front, landed here today by plane from Los [removed] traveled
to Korea at his own expense. And a lean, smiling Jolson drove himself
without letup through 42 shows in 16 days."
Alistair Cooke wrote, "He [Jolson] had one last hour of glory. He
offered to fly to Korea and entertain the troops hemmed in on the United
Nations precarious August bridgehead. The troops yelled for his
appearance. He went down on his knee again and sang 'Mammy', and the
troops wept and cheered. When he was asked what Korea was like he warmly
answered, 'I am going to get back my income tax returns and see if I
paid enough.'"
After returning from a tour of overseas bases, the Regimental Hostess at
one camp wrote to Jolson, "Allow me to say on behalf of all the soldiers
of the 33rd Infantry that you coming here is quite the most wonderful
thing that has ever happened to us, and we think you're tops, not only
as a performer, but as a person. We unanimously elect you Public Morale
Lifter No. 1 of the [removed] Army."
Soon after Al's death Defense Secretary George Marshall presented the
Medal for Merit to Jolson, "to whom this country owes a debt which
cannot be repaid." The medal carried a citation noting that Jolson's
"contribution to the [removed] action in Korea was made at the expense of his
life" and was presented to Jolson's adopted son as Jolson's widow looked
on. Another source sharing Jolson's faith commented, "Until Jolson died,
heaven hadn't heard 'nothin' yet."
Information and quotations gathered from Wikipedia and various online
biographies
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THE GLOWING DIAL
Big John and Steve celebrate Mother's Day and present another tribute to
The Shadow!
The Shadow - "Carnival Of Death"
originally aired on Sunday, November 10, 1940 on MUTUAL
Starring: Bill Johnstone, Marjorie Anderson, Everett Sloane, Alan Reed.
Ken Roberts announcing.
Sponsor: Blue Coal (no spots heard)
The Shadow - "Death Stalks The Shadow"
originally aired on Sunday, October 9, 1938 on MUTUAL
Starring: Bill Johnstone, Agnes Moorehead.
Ken Roberts announcing.
Sponsor: Blue Coal (no spots heard)
The Shadow - "Murder And The Medium"
originally aired on Sunday, November 30, 1947 on MUTUAL
Starring: Bret Morrison, Grace Matthews, Santos Ortega, Alice Frost,
Ted Osborne, Maurice Tarplin, Alice Reinhardt.
Andre Baruch announcing.
Sponsor: Blue Coal
=======================================================If you have any
questions or request, please feel free to contact me.
Jerry Haendiges
Jerry@[removed] - [removed] - 562-696-4387
The Vintage Radio Place [removed]
Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
the Net
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Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 11:37:52 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 12-18 May
From Those Were The Days
5/12
1812 -- Edward Lear, who helped popularize limericks, was born. A
popular limerick regarding radio was this bit of doggerel from any
unknown wit:
There once a was a man named Nation,
Who worked for a radio station.
Although he was tall,
His hands were too small,
Wee paws for station identification.
5/14
1945 - "The Sparrow and the Hawk", a serial for kids, was first
broadcast over CBS radio.
1945 - "Tennessee Jed" made his debut on ABC radio. Johnny Thomas played
the part of Tennessee Jed Sloan.
5/15
1933 - Irna Phillips, an NBC Blue network program-features writer,
starred in the role of Mother Moran in the radio program, "Today's
Children", which was heard for the first time this day.
5/17
1938 - The NBC Blue network presented "Information Please" for the first
time. The show was moderated by Clifton Fadiman.
1939 - The Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle, NY was the scene of a
memorable dual-network radio broadcast of Glenn Miller and his
orchestra. Both NBC and Mutual carried the event, which was attended by
1,800 people in the casino ballroom.
5/18
1942 - "David Harding, Counterspy" was heard on the NBC Blue network for
the first time. The program enjoyed a long run on radio, lasting for 15
years.
Joe
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Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 11:38:11 -0400
From: Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Benny joke reference
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Hey folks, I thought I'd break the silence with a question that's been nagging
at me for years.
On the Jack Benny Show-oops, I should say Program-there would every once in a
while be a line that went something like "Eastern Columbia, Broadway at 9th"
or something like that, this is from memory.
Is that a reference to some joke early in the series or to something outside
the show? It always gets a laugh, and the cast even seems to get a chuckle out
of it.
I won't say this is a bucket list type question, but it's close. :-)
I'll bet Laura knows.
Alan
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