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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2017 : Issue 81
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Re: Bob & Ray questions [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
This week in radio history [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Favorite Christmas radio programs [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
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Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 19:57:27 -0500
From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
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Subject: Re: Bob & Ray questions
2) in show #56 (590911) Ray makes a remark about Andy Griffith having a 5
minute show, was this just part of a joke or was Andy actually on CBS ?
Yes, as you have found, around 1959-60, CBS broadcast the "Amos "N" Andy
Music Hall" right after the 7:00 PM news on the hour, followed at 7:30
by a news commentary and then an Andy Griffith monolog for about 5
minutes, probably including commercials. At least some of these came
from some records that Andy did, such as "What it was, was football" and
a couple of others that I had heard and recognized. Then came Burns &
Allen for about 5 minutes. At that time, the Burns & Allen TV show
ended with George and Gracie coming back out to do one of their
Vaudeville routines. These routines were repeated here on radio. Then
came Bob & Ray, I think for 15 minutes, but there may have been a sports
commentary at 5 minutes before the hour. A 15-minute newscast called
"World News Tonight" followed at 8:00. I remember listening to this.
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A. Joseph Ross, [removed] 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 Newton, MA 02459
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Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 13:56:46 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history
From Those Were The Days
12/10
1927 For the first time, famed radio announcer George Hay introduced
the WSM Barn Dance as The Grand Ole Opry.
12/11
1944 The Chesterfield Supper Club debuted on NBC. Perry Como, Jo
Stafford and many other stars of the day shared the spotlight on the 15
minute show that aired five nights a week. The show was sponsored by
Chesterfield cigarettes.
12/13
1942 The characters of Allen's Alley were presented for the first time
on The Fred Allen Show. This particular segment of the show became very
popular and was used by Allen until 1949. Remember the stops along the
way in Allen's Alley? They were at the Brooklyn tenement of Mrs.
Nussbaum, the farmhouse of Titus Moody, the shack of Ajax Cassidy and
the antebellum mansion of Senator Beauregard Claghorn.
12/14
1953 Fred Allen returned from semi-retirement to narrate Prokofiev's
classic, Peter and the Wolf, on the Bell Telephone Hour on NBC.
12/16
1949 After a decade on radio, Captain Midnight was heard for the final
time. Put your secret decoder badges away now, kids.
Joe
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Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 13:57:30 -0500
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Favorite Christmas radio programs
Jack French wrote:
Mine has always been "Britt Ponset's Christmas
Carol" (12-20-53) from the great Six Shooter series, starring Jimmy
Stewart.
I was always partial to the Richard Diamond episode in which the regular
characters become Dickensian characters from A Christmas Carol.
Jim Widner
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