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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2014 : Issue 87
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Film about BBC Archives               [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO CLASSICS              [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 12:55:32 -0400
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
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    Subject:  Film about BBC Archives
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    Hi Folks

    This might be of interest ... ...

    BBC Academy - Technology - Digitising the BBC archive

    BBC Academy - Technology - Digitising the BBC archive
    Whether you're seeking newsreels of the Queen's coronation, a classic episode
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    Cheers ! Graeme ( ORCA/ UK )

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    Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 12:55:52 -0400
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO CLASSICS

    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

    THIS IS JAZZ
    Episode 28 8-16-47 "Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band"
    "Pure Authentic Jazz, Improvised over the air by Great Jazz Artists in
    Person"
    Features: Lu Waters (Trumpet), Bob Scobey (Trumpet), Turk Murphy
    Trombone), Bob Helm (Clarinet), Wally Rose (Piano), Harry Mordecai
    (Banjo), Dicki Lammi (Tuba), Bill Dart (Drums).
    Songs: "Cakewalking Babies", "Antigua Blues", "Pineapple Rag", "Beale
    Street Blues", "Jazzin' Babies Blues", "Snake Rag"
    Narrater: Rudi Blesh
    Producer/Announcer: Don Davis

    THIS FABULOUS WORLD
    Episode 1 1950 "Disaster caused by Butterflies"
    Bizarre stories as told by: Alex Dreier
    Stars: Herb Butterfield
    Producer/Director: Sherman Marks
    Announcer: John Holtman
    Organist: Irma Glenn

    PAT O'BRIEN FROM INSIDE HOLLYWOOD
    Episode 142 6-30-49 "Ghost Rider"
    Pat O'Brien tells stories from his own personal experiences
    NBC Syndicated Monday through Friday

    FOUR STAR PLAYHOUSE
    Episode 8 8-21-49 "The Incredible Anna Lee"
    Stars: Rosalind Russell, Frank Lovejoy, Betty Moran, George Neise, Ken
    Christy
    Series rotates it's Stars: Robert Cummings, Rosalind Russell, Fred
    Macmurray and Lorretta Young each week.
    NBC SUSTAINED

    LITTLE OLD HOLLYWOOD
    Episode 47 10-14-40 "Meet The NBC Orchestra"
    Host: Ben Alexander
    Features: GoGo DeLys
    Announcer: Frank Bingman
    Music: Gordon Jenkins Orchestra
    Blue Network Sustained Mondays 9:35 - 10:00 Pm

    STRANGE ADVENTURE
    Episode 58 1945 "The White Shawl"
    Syndicated by Teleways
    Narrator: Pat McGeehan
    Writer: Charles Crowder
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    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    THE FRED ALLEN/TOWN HALL TONIGHT
    (NBC) 10/2/35
    This 75 year old show combines comedy with a real amateur show which was
    a weekly part of this early Allen show.

    VIC AND SADE
    (NBC) 6/21/44
    A delightful, complete wartime episode of one of the long-running daily
    story of "radio's home folks" written by Paul Rhymer.
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    This week, we continue our salute to Virginia Gregg.
    This is week 5 of 7.

    We thank Jim Taylor, "The Walking encyclopedia Of Old Time Radio for
    requesting these terrific shows. They really do illustrate how good an
    actress Virginia Gregg was.

    HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL
    12/07/58 Episode 003 Ella West. The show stars John Dehner.

    YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR
    from 09/25/60 Episode 705 The Five Down Matter. Stars Bob Bailey.

    GUNSMOKE
    01/15/61 Episode (458) Wake. Stars Bill Conrad.

    ADVENTURES BY MORSE
    Girl on Shipwreck Island (The Pirate Is A Fighting Man). Program 2.
    And, Virginia Gregg did work for Carlton E Morse on One Man's Family.
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    This Week's Classics & Curios Show:

    "Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

    Episode 140

    YOUR HIT PARADE & THE JOHNNY DESMOND FOLLIES

    Here's a "Your Hit Parade" program on CBS/AFRS from October 14, 1945,
    featuring singers Joan Edwards and Dick Todd. Energetic blond vocalist
    Joan sang and played piano with the Paul Whiteman band and became very
    popular when Frank Sinatra joined her on "Your Hit Parade" in 1944. The
    two were a big hit with teens, and the show became a national Saturday
    night favorite. "Your Hit Parade" was so well received on radio that it
    ran from 1935 to 1955, and the popularity carried over to TV from 1950
    to 1959.

    Often referred to as the Canadian Bing Crosby, Dick Todd had a relaxed,
    smooth vocal style and sang on radio with the Artie Shaw and Larry
    Clinton orchestras. Tommy Dorsey and Bing once did a radio comedy
    routine called "I Wonder Where Dick Todd Is Tonight?" Among Dick's
    popular recordings were "Deep Purple" and "Daddy's Little Girl." Joining
    Joan and Dick were the Hit Paraders choral group to sing back-up and
    commercials.

    If this were a Browsers show we might hear a few interesting trivia
    questions with connections to the show. The first question perhaps would
    be "What singer's relative composed "School Days" and "In My Merry
    Oldsmobile?" (Hint: He was an uncle to one of the singers on this
    episode and was a vaudeville favorite.) The other question, in two
    parts, is "What was the very first number one song on "Your Hit Parade"
    and who had the hit recording of the song?" (Hint: The singer sounded a
    lot like Dick Todd.) Another question might be "What was the name of the
    show which was the origin of "Your Hit Parade" which aired in the late
    twenties and early thirties?" An answer to that one would be the hour
    long "The Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra." Other answers in reverse order:
    Bing Crosby's "Soon," and Gus Edwards.

    The top ten songs on this episode in random order include "It's Gotta Be
    This Or That," "I'll Buy That Dream," "Oklahoma," "Homesick, That's
    All," "The Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe," "Till the End of Time,"
    "That's for Me," "I'm Gonna Love That Guy," "If I Loved You," and "Along
    the Navajo Trail."

    The show's theme song was, of course, "This Is My Lucky Day" from the
    musical revue "George White Scandals of 1926." The basis for the song
    choices remained a mysterious and arbitrary secret, and the audience was
    always told that the show's "survey" included best sellers on sheet
    music and phonograph records and the songs most heard on the air and
    most played on the automatic coin machines. The show assured us that the
    songs were an accurate authentic tabulation of America's taste in
    popular music.

    We could always have friendly disagreements with our friends about the
    order of the top ten songs, but It didn't really matter too much,
    because it was great fun, and the music was equally great. We could even
    sing our own versions of the songs in an era when songs had melodic and
    lyric harmony, and made us not just listeners but also performers as we
    sang them on our lips, in our minds, and in our hearts. We somehow felt
    part of the best songs, and they were part of us and in a way became
    living lyrics in our lives.

    Johnny Desmond also sang on the TV version of "Hit Parade" in 1958 and
    1959. One of Johnny's other ventures was a show on radio in 1946 called
    "The Johnny Desmond Follies" featuring the Jerry Gray orchestra,
    vocalist Margaret Whiting, the 16 Follies Girls, and humorist Herb
    Shriner. On this show Johnny sings songs like "Just a Little Fond
    Affection," "She's Funny That Way," and "Oh, What It Seemed to Be."
    Johnny is probably best remembered as a member of Glenn Miller's Army
    Air Forces Orchestra, for his many fine recordings, and for his turn
    with Don McNeill's "Breakfast Club" after the war.

    A tribute to song writer Richard Whiting was planned for this "Follies"
    show, with Margaret singing samples of her father's great melodies.
    Margaret was ill, so Audry Marsh filled in singing tunes like "Breezin'
    Along with the Breeze" and "Beyond the Blue Horizon." Jerry Gray's band
    performs a swinging version of "Blue Skies," and Herb Shriner does a
    quick "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" on harmonica.

    What a delightful line-up of songs on this "Johnny Desmond Follies" show
    from July 13, 1946, the year of Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech and of
    the first automatic electronic digital computer. In fact, the two shows
    for this episode of Classics & Curios Song & Smile Time are, in the
    words of Richard Whiting's song, simply "Too Marvelous for Words."
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    THE GLOWING DIAL

    Big John and Greg present a tribute to those daring detectives!

    Command Performance - "Dick Tracy In B Flat or For Goodness Sakes,
    Isn't He Ever Going To Marry Tess Trueheart?"
    originally aired Thursday, February 15, 1945 on AFRS
    Starring: Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Frank
    Sinatra, Jerry Colonna,
    Frank Morgan, Judy Garland, The Andrews Sisters, Cass Daley.
    Harry Von Zell announcing.
    Sustained

    The Abbott & Costello Show - "Sam Shovel in She Rubbed Him Out"
    originally aired Thursday, January 13, 1949 on ABC
    Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Veola Vonn, Norman Abbott, Sidney
    Fields, Hal Winters.
    Michael Roy announcing.
    Sustained

    The Shadow - "The Three Ghosts"
    originally aired Sunday, October 31, 1937 on MUTUAL
    Starring: Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead.
    Ken Roberts announcing.
    Sponsor: Blue Coal

    Mr. Keen, Tracer Of Lost Persons - "The Case Of The Frightened Child"
    originally aired Thursday, November 16, 1944 on CBS
    Starring: Bennett Kilpack, Jim Kelly.
    Larry Elliott announcing.
    Sponsor: Whitehall Pharmical for Anacin, Hill's Nose Drops and Cold
    Tablets, Kolynos Toothpaste

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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]
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