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Date: 9/17/2006 10:19 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 252
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Tune into Yesterday newsletter        [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 17-23 Sep  [ "Joe Mackey" <joemackey108@adelphia ]

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    Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:01:25 -0400
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Tune into Yesterday newsletter
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    Readers of the OTR Digest in the UK might be interested to know that the new
    edition of Tune into Yesterday is now available from the Old Time Radio Show
    Collectors Association. For a sample copy please send a cheque for [removed] (
    payable to ORCA ) to: John Wolstenholme, PO Box 1922, Dronfield, Sheffield,
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      Annual membership is 6, which also gives you access to the tape & mp3 cd
    programme lending libraries.
      Graeme Stevenson, Scotland.

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    Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 10:36:38 -0400
    From: "Joe Mackey" <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: "otrd" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 17-23 September

    >From Those Were The Days --

    9/18

    1927 - The Columbia Broadcasting System was born on this day in 1927. CBS
    broadcast an opera, The King's Henchman, as its first program.

    1948 - The Original Amateur Hour returned to radio on ABC, two years after
    the passing of the program's originator and host, Major Bowes. Bowes brought
    new star talent into living rooms for 13 years.

    9/19

    It was just an average day this day in 1932, when Just Plain Bill was first
    heard on CBS. It was "The real life story of people just like people we all
    know." The 15-minute show (Monday through Friday at 7:15 [removed]) was all about
    (just plain) Bill Davidson and his daughter, Nancy, who lived in (just
    plain) Hartville. Since Bill was the town barber, everybody came to him with
    their problems -- and Bill helped them straighten things out.

    Instead of playing the usual organ, as afirst, Hal Brown played harmonica
    and whistled the Just Plain Bill introduction music (Darling Nellie Gray).
    Hal also handled the closing theme (Polly Wolly Doodle) in the same manner.

    The show, created by Frank and Anne Hummert, who also came up with Mr. Keen,
    Tracer of Lost Persons, Little Orphan Annie, Amanda of Honeymoon Hill, Front
    Page Farrell, John's Other Wife, Mr. Chameleon, Our Gal Sunday and many
    other radio dramas, later moved to NBC. Just Plain Bill chalked up over 20
    years on the air. A few of the Just Plain Bill sponsors over the years were
    Kolynos toothpaste and Clapp's baby [removed]

    9/20

    1921 - KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania started one of the first daily radio
    newscasts in the country. The broadcast came from the city desk of The
    Pittsburgh Post.

    1953 - Jimmy Stewart debuted in The Six Shooter on NBC. He played Britt
    Ponset on the Western.

    9/21

    1946 - After being tested on a regional basis, The Second Mrs. Burton was
    heard for the first time on the entire CBS network. The Second Mrs. Burton
    fared very well, having a relationship with the network for 14 years.

    1948 - The serial Life With Luigi debuted on CBS. Luigi Basko was played by
    J. Carroll Naish. Naish, an Irish-American, became typecast as an Italian
    immigrant, and went on to play the same role in the TV version in 1952.

    9/22

    1943 - Singer Kate Smith finished her War Bond radio appeal. For 13
    continuous hours Smith had stayed on the air, collecting a whopping $39
    million dollars in bond pledges.

    1957 - The CBS Radio Workshop was silenced after 18 months of what the
    critics said was "ingenious radio programming."

    Joe

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