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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2014 : Issue 79
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Tune into Yesterday newsletter        [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 14-20 Sep  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Call for help: Navajo Code Talker an  [ Steve Kostelecky <doyasteve@[removed] ]
  Number Please                         [ "Read Burgan" <rgb@[removed]; ]
  Subject:                              [ Steve Kostelecky <doyasteve@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 12:10:53 -0400
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Tune into Yesterday newsletter

Hi. Issue 72 of ORCA's Tune into Yesterday newsletter is now back from the
printers and should be going out in the mail to members soon. 40 pages of
articles and archive news, plus the lending library of programmes on CD and
mp3 CD. A sample copy ( free in the UK ) is available from ORCA's membership
sec John Wolstenholme at: ORCA, PO Box 1922, Dronfield, S18  8XA, England.

Cheers ! Graeme

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Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 12:11:01 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 14-20 September

9/14

1936   NBC presented John's Other Wife for the first time. Actually,
John's other wife was not his wife at all. She was his secretary.

9/15

1934   NBC presented The Gibson Family to American audiences. The
program was the first musical comedy drama to be broadcast. Ernest
Whitman and Eddie Green were featured members of the cast and were
billed as "network radio's only colored comedians." The show originated
from the studios of WEAF in New York City.

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 a first, 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 23 years on the air, until 30 September, 1955. 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.

Joe

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Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 12:11:09 -0400
From: Steve Kostelecky <doyasteve@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Call for help: Navajo Code Talker and YOUR
 MARINE CORPS
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A fellow historian colleague is the daughter of one of the original
World War II Navajo Code Talkers and she is researching the unit as part of
her master's thesis. She
has come across a Temporary Duty Request from September, 1945 asking a
temporary duty station for Corporal Sam H. Begay "In connection with
'YOUR MARINE CORPS' radio program." I wonder if he was interviewed for
the program and, if so, if a recording exists.
If anyone can help it would be much appreciated.

Many thanks.

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Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 14:05:03 -0400
From: "Read Burgan" <rgb@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Number Please

I recently acquired 40 plus 16 inch ETbs of a syndicated 15 minute program
called bNumber Pleaseb sponsored by the Bell Telephone System.  My earlier
edition of Dunningbs book does not list the program nor does a Google search
yield any information.  The format consists of songs by a vocal group called
The Song Spinners that apparently enjoyed some popularity in the early 40bs.
These discs are dated around 1947 and 48.  Some are on the WOR label and some
on the World label.

Can any members on the list provide any additional information on the series?

Thank you!

Read Burgan

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Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 17:43:24 -0400
From: Steve Kostelecky <doyasteve@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Subject:

I've got some new information about the Marine show I'm looking for from a
gracious member of the Cobalt Club. He says, "There was a show called Your
Marine Corps on CBS from July 21, 1945, to September 8, 1945, at 3 [removed]
Unfortunately I don't have any and none are known to exist, but new shows pop
up all the time." It's very possible the original order may have misnamed the
show as this looks like the right time frame.

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