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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2016 : Issue 70
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: Editing transcriptions            [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
      The Glowing Dial - Show No. POD45     [ JOHN MATTHEWS <glowingdial@[removed] ]
      Nightmare, the John Norman version    [ "Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed]; ]
      OTR apps                              [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 23-29 Oct  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 14:22:17 -0400
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Editing transcriptions

>     Altho editing was very difficult, dubbing from record to record, it was
>     not impossible and the Armed Forces Radio Service developed the art to
>     an amazing degree. Occasionally you may hear an AFRS disc from which a
>     single word or phrase has been deleted. Timing is everything.

    According to Robert Dwan, director of "You Bet Your Life," in his book
    "As Long As They're Laughing," they used transcription disks in the
    early days of the show, until tape became available, and they would edit
    out any remark of Groucho's that couldn't go over the air.  They also
    regularly ran for about 45 minutes and edited down to an interesting
    half hour.  How they did it, I don't know, but they did it.  They
    benefited from Bing Crosby's interest in using magnetic tape.  By the
    time the show moved from ABC, pre-recording shows by magnetic tape was
    apparently well-established.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed] | 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 | Newton, MA 02459
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    Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 14:22:35 -0400
    From: JOHN   MATTHEWS   <glowingdial@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Glowing Dial - Show No. POD45

    A little late here folks, the latest episode of The Glowing Dial tri-weekly
    Podcast premiered on Sunday, October 16, 2016. Details are below, please take
    a listen.

    The Glowing Dial
    Latest Episode: POD45

    running from October 16 to November 5, 2016
    run time: 2 hrs. 56 min. 25 sec.

    Big John and Steve celebrate Halloween!

    The Great Gildersleeve - "The Halloween Party"
    originally aired Sunday, October 31, 1943 on NBC
    Starring: Harold Peary, Walter Tetley, Lurene Tuttle, Lillian Randolph,
    Richard LeGrand, Shirley Mitchell, Earle Ross, Bea Benadaret.
    Ken Carpenter announcing.
    Sponsor: Kraft Foods

    Author's Playhouse - "The Inexperienced Ghost" by [removed] Wells
    originally aired Monday, December 4, 1944 on NBC
    Starring: Herb Butterfield, Wilms Herbert, Claire Brown, Charles Egleston.
    Sustained

    Fibber McGee and Molly - "Halloween Party At Gildersleeve's House"
    originally aired Tuesday, October 24, 1939 on NBC
    Starring: Jim and Marian Jordan, Harold Peary, Donald Novis, Bill Thompson,
    Billy Mills Orchestra, Isabel Randolph.
    Harlow Wilcox announcing.
    Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

    Our Miss Brooks - "Halloween Party"
    originally aired Sunday, October 30, 1949 on CBS
    Starring: Eve Arden, Jane Morgan, Richard Crenna, Gale Gordon, Leonard Smith,
    Jeff Chandler, Gloria McMillan.
    Bob Lemond announcing.
    Sponsor: Colgate Dental Cream, Lustre Creme Shampoo

    Click this link to LISTEN NOW!
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    Click this link for show details and for information on how you can subscribe
    to our podcast!
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    Remember: our show is now available on Google Play Music, YouTube and The
    Internet Archive! Go to our "Shows" page at the above url for details.

    PLEASE REMEMBER our LIVE show presents it's Halloween Show on Sunday, October
    30, 2016!! It airs from 4 to 7pm Eastern Time.
    Hear it at our website: [removed]
    or you can hear it at our Mixlr Live Page at:
    [removed] .

    See you on the radio!
    Big John MAtthews
    The Glowing Dial Podcast
    The Glowing Dial LIVE

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    Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 14:22:27 -0400
    From: "Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Nightmare, the John Norman version
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    Hi all,

    I used to by those Pass Time Products OTR shows on cassette back in the
    70's. On the end of some of the tapes there were these shows called
    "nightmare." The tag line was "This has been Nightmare. A bedtime Story for
    those who like to dream--violently."

    Does anyone know how many were made or any info about them?

    I found a couple on the net but the quality was much worse than  the ones on
    the cassettes.

    Any tips on where I could find better coppies?

    Thanks for any tips and ideas.

    Bill

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    Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 15:22:34 -0400
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OTR apps

    Hi. There are plety of OTR apps available with shows to listen to an
    download, but does anyone know of an app available with regular OTR news and
    updates ( recent programme discoveries etc ) ?
    Cheers ! Graeme

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: Yes. We call it the Internet OTR Digest.  ;)  --cfs3]

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    Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 15:24:04 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 23-29 October

    Those were the days --

    10/23

    1932 - Fred Allen made his radio debut. His wife, Portland Hoffa, joined
    him on the CBS radio broadcast. Allen's comedy-variety program was known
    as "The Linit Bath Club Revue". It then became "The Salad Bowl Revue",
    then, "The Sal Hapatica Revue", "The Hour of Smiles", "Town Hall
    Tonight", "The Texaco Star Theatre" and finally, someone with just a bit
    of sense, came up with "The Fred Allen Show". The comedic legend stayed
    on radio for 17 years.

    10/24

    1929   The Rudy Vallee Show was broadcast for the first time on NBC.
    Actually, the Rudy Vallee show had several different titles over the
    years,  all of which were referred to by the public as The Rudy Vallee
    Show.  Megaphone totin' Rudy and his Connecticut Yankees band were
    mainstays on radio into the late 1940s.

    10/25

    1937   Stella Dallas made her debut on the NBC Red network. Stella hung
    out  on NBC until 1955 with Anne Elstner in the title role for the
    entire run.  Stella Dallas was "A continuation on the air of the true
    life story of  mother love and sacrifice, in which Stella saw her own
    beloved daughter,  Laurel, marry into wealth and society, and realizing
    the difference in their tastes and worlds, went out of Laurel's life."

    10/26

    1935   A talented 13 year old sang on Wallace Beery's NBC show. Judy
    Garland delighted the appreciative audience. The young girl would soon
    be in pictures and at the top of stardom. It would be only four years
    before Ms. Garland (George Jessel gave her the name, thinking it would
    be better than her own, Frances Gumm) captured the hearts of moviegoers
    everywhere with her performance as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.

    10/27

    1920 Marconi, Fessenden, and De Forest were the catalysts. However, it
    was an engineer for Westinghouse Electric who, in 1916, was broadcasting
    music from his garage (in Wilkinsburg, PA, a suburb of Pittsburgh) over
    a wireless (amateur radio station 8XK) who really got the whole thing
    started. A newspaper article about the broadcasts caused such interest
    that the head honchos at Westinghouse decided to build a real radio station.

    It took until this day for the Westinghouse radio station to receive a
    license to broadcast. The license for KDKA, Pittsburgh came from the
    [removed] Department of Commerce. Although the license was officially issued
    on this day, KDKA did not start their broadcast operations for a week
    (they had to wait until the license was posted in the station). On
    November 2, 1920, the station aired the returns of the Harding/Cox
    election ... the first radio programming to reach an audience of any
    size ... approximately 1,000 people.

    1947   This is Nora Drake premiered on NBC. Nora solved domestic, social
    and child raising problems until January 2, 1959.

    1947   "The one, the only Groucho" Marx appeared as quizmaster on You
    Bet Your Life for the first time on ABC. George Fenneman was Groucho's
    eternal straight man. Fenneman stayed with Marx during the program's run
    on radio (1948-1959) and TV (1950-1961). By the way, who is buried in
    Grant's tomb?

    10/28

    1922   WEAF in New York broadcast the first collegiate football game
    heard coast to coast. Princeton played the University of Chicago at
    Stagg Field in the Windy City. The broadcast was carried on phone lines
    to New York City, where the radio transmission began. (Princeton 21,
    Chicago 18.)

    1946   Our favorite flying cowboy was heard on ABC for the first time.
    Sky King starred Jack Lester, then Earl Nightingale, and finally, Roy
    Engel, as Sky. Beryl Vaughn played Sky's niece Penny; Jack Bivans was
    Clipper and Cliff Soubier was the foreman. Sky King was sponsored by
    Peter Pan Peanut Butter.

    Joe

     ***** WARNING! UNHANDLED BAD CHARACTER!!!!!

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