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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2014 : Issue 78
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 7-13 Sept [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
Next Week on The Bob Edwards Show [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]
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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:40:28 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 7-13 September
9/8
1935 The Hoboken Four, featuring Frank Sinatra as lead singer,
appeared on Major Bowes Amateur Hour on WOR. The group won the
competition held at the Capitol Theatre in New York City.
1944 Ed Wynn resumed his radio career after seven years off the air.
Wynn starred in Happy Island on the NBC Blue network.
From the New York Times Today in history
9/9
1926 the National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) was created by the Radio
Corp. of America.
From Those Were The Days
1946 Ben Alexander hosted Heart's Desire for the first time, a
giveaway contest program on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
9/10
1935 "I'm Popeye the sailor [removed]" toot! toot! Popeye was heard for
the first time on NBC. The show was based on the Elzie Crisler Segar
comic strip, which featured Popeye, Olive Oyl, Brutas, Wimpy and
Sweepea. Now, eat your spinach in celebration!
9/12
1938 [removed] Kaltenborn made broadcasting history by covering a crisis in
Czechoslovakia for CBS beginning on this day. Kaltenborn was so devoted
to his work that he slept in the studio for 18 days while bringing
updates to his appreciative audience.
9/13
1931 Vaudeville star Eddie Cantor was heard for the first time on
NBC. The Chase and Sanborn Hour became one of the most popular radio
shows of the 1930s.
1937 The first broadcast of Kitty Keene, Inc. was heard on the NBC Red
network.
Joe
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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:40:36 -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 high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
Radio Theatre," 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 audio, on
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS
JUBILEE
Episode 186 6-3-46
Features: Benny Carter, Lucy Elliott, Nat 'King' Cole and the King Cole
Trio, Charlie Parker, Willie Smith
MC: Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman
Announcer: Verne Smith
AFRS Production
THE LINEUP
Episode 104 11-5-52 "Be-Bop Bandits Bungling Bang-Bang"
Stars: Bill Johnstone As Lt Ben Guthrie and Wally Maher As Sgt Matt Grebb
CBS SUSTAINED
BENNY GOODMAN MUSIC FESTIVAL
Episode 1 7-1-46 "Somebody Stole My Gal"
Features: Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, Martha Tilton, Art Lund,
Peter Donald
Announcer: Bud Collyer
NBC Sustained. Monday 9:30 pm - 10:00 pm
HOLLYWOOD STAR PLAYHOUSE
Episode 58 5-28-51 "They Call Me Lucky"
Stars: John Lund, Barbara Fuller, Sheldon Leonard, Sidney Miller
Host/Narrator: Herb Rawlinson
Announcer: Norman Brokenshire
Director: Jack Johnstone
Orchestra: Jeff Alexander
CBS Bromo Seltzer Mondays 8:00 - 8:30 pm
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATER
This week, we begin our salute to Virginia Gregg.
She was such a versatile actress that the salute covers at least 6 weeks.
SUSPENSE
02/16/53 The Love and Death Of Joaquin Murietta.
WINGS TO VICTORY
10/07/43 episode (34) Major John Rocky Saunders.
CAVALCADE OF AMERICA
04/17/44 Episode (379) A Mask for Jefferson.
ADVENTURES BY MORSE
Cobra King Strikes Back 8 (It Was Not Cannibalism).
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
This week, we begin our salute to Virginia Gregg.
She was such a versatile actress that the salute covers at least 6 weeks.
SUSPENSE
02/16/53 The Love and Death Of Joaquin Murietta.
WINGS TO VICTORY
10/07/43 episode (34) Major John Rocky Saunders.
CAVALCADE OF AMERICA
04/17/44 Episode (379) A Mask for Jefferson.
ADVENTURES BY MORSE
Cobra King Strikes Back 8 (It Was Not Cannibalism).
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This Week's Classics & Curios Show:
"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"
Episode 136
"A DATE WITH PEGGY LEE" & "LISTEN TO A LOVE SONG" WITH TONY MARTIN
First on this episode we play a "Date with Peggy Lee," and then we get
to "Listen to a Love Song" (actually several) with Tony Martin, from
July 7, 1951, and July 13, 1946, respectively. Judy's guest is her
former big band "boss" Benny Goodman. Any day that we get to hear Peggy
is a good day, and that's the name of her opening tune and hit recording
"It's a Good Day." Her closing song is "Where or When," and in between
comes a casual and professionally paced program with smooth
introductions by Peggy followed by songs accompanied by the Russ Case
orchestra. Among Peggy's song highlights are "If I Could Be with You"
and "Too Young."
Benny performs a new recording just released in 1951 with the title
"Toodle-Lee-Yoo-Doo." But the show's highlight is a complete rendition
of Benny's closing theme song "Good-Bye," which we rarely seem to hear
all the way through on his own programs and remotes. Gordon Jenkins
composed it in 1935, and critic Leonard Feather noted that it was among
his "top ten songs it would be hardest to tire of hearing."
Another musical show on this episode is Tony Martin's "Listen to a Love
Song," and Tony truly rewards listeners with love songs as they should
be sung, just as he did in movie musicals in the 1930's to the 1950's.
After Tony's opening theme "You Stepped Out of a Dream" his highlights
are "Who Cares?" "September Song," and "The Gypsy." Georgia Gibbs teams
with Tony on the show and does a great "I've Got the Sun in the Morning
and the Moon at Night" and "More Than You Know." Albert Sack and his
orchestra do a nice instrumental of Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies," and
The Little Sisters and Chorus provide fine backup.
This show has some rather "cutesy" introductions, in contrast to the
more simple, straightforward introductions on Peggy's show. Tony closes
fittingly with another "dream" song: "I'll See You in My Dreams."
Audiences indeed knew "Where or When,' they would hear Peggy again and
be part of Tony's radio dreams on their weekly shows on CBS when radio
was golden.
It was truly a golden memory for me to attend Tony's concert in Nebraska
in the 1950's while I was still a high school kid who thought he could
"out croon" Tony, Bing, Perry, and Frank. The world never knew!
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THE GLOWING DIAL
Big John and Greg prove that they DO know Jack!
The Jack Haley Show (The Wonder Show) - "Pony Bill Haley"
originally aired Friday, October 21, 1938 on CBS
Starring: Jack Haley, Lucille Ball, Virginia Verrill, Artie Auerbach,
Ted Fio Rita & His Orchestra.
Gale Gordon announcing.
Sponsor: Wonder Bread
The Jack Benny Program (The Grape Nuts Flakes Program) - "Jack Opens
Swimming Pool For The Season"
originally aired Sunday, April 18, 1943 on NBC
Starring: Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Eddie
"Rochester" Anderson, Loretta Young.
Don Wilson announcing.
Sponsor: Grape Nuts Flakes
The Jack Carson Show - "Frank Sinatra"
originally aired Wednesday, February 13, 1946 on CBS/AFRS
Starring: Jack Carson, Norma Jean Nilsson, Arthur Treacher, Diana
Barrymore, Frank Sinatra,
Freddy Martin & His Orchestra.
Del Sharbutt announcing.
Sponsor: Campbell Soup (AFRS version presented here)
The Jack Paar Show - "Singing Cowboy Parody"
originally aired Sunday, July 27, 1947 on NBC
Starring: Jack Paar, Hans Conreid, Page Cavanaugh Trio, Trudy Erwin,
Jerry Fielding & The [removed]
Hy Averback announcing.
Sponsor: Lucky Strike
The Jack Kirkwood Show - "A Visit To The Movie Theater"
originally aired Thursday, December 6, 1951 on AFRS
Starring: Jack Kirkwood, June Hutton.
AFRS version presented here
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If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.
Jerry Haendiges
Jerry@[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: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:50:52 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Next Week on The Bob Edwards Show
Folks;
For those of you who read my blog, you know I drove to [removed] on Monday to
spend some time with the staff and host of The Bob Edwards Show at SiriusXM.
There is even a photograph of the final board, where the upcoming shows are
tracked from pitch to completion.
On the blog, I have pixilated the last two weeks, believing that it should
be up to the show to announce the guests for those weeks. But I'm breaking
that rule to tell you that next Thursday, September 18th, the show will
re-broadcast Bob's conversation with Norman Corwin, originally broadcast in
July of 2005.
If you aren't paying for SiriusXM, you can get a free 30-day demo account
to their on-line stream at [removed] And if you
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listen, drop me a private [removed] can set up a unique forwarding email
account on this server for you to use to register and listen to the show.
Charlie
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