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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2016 : Issue 64
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  This week in radio history 25 Septem  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Tune into Yesterday ( Autumn issue )  [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
  The Glowing Dial, Show No. POD44      [ JOHN MATTHEWS <glowingdial@[removed] ]

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:42:49 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 25 September to 1 Oct

9/25

1933 - America's favorite cowboy, Tom Mix, was heard for the first time
on NBC. The Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters continued on the air until
June 1950.

9/27

1933   NBC debuted Waltz Time, featuring the orchestra of Abe Lymon. The
program continued on the network until 1948.

1938   Thanks for the Memory was heard for the first time on The Bob
Hope Show on the NBC Red network.

9/28

1936   Bachelor's Children debuted on CBS (at 9:45 [removed]) in addition to
its schedule on the Mutual Network (at 10:15 [removed]). The show's theme
song, Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, opened the 15 minute, critically
acclaimed, daily serial. Bachelor's Children became very popular because
of its natural dialogue which made folks think they were hearing a real
event. Bachelor's Children ... brought to you by Old Dutch Cleanser,
Palmolive Peet Soap, Colgate Toothpaste and Wonder Bread.

1939   The final broadcast of The Fleischmann Hour was heard. The star
of the show, Rudy Vallee, wrapped things up after a decade of
entertaining radio before moving on to other sponsors.

9/29

1920   Radios for 10 bucks! That's what Joseph Horne Company's
department store in Pittsburgh, PA was selling. The radios were
advertised in The Pittsburgh Sun for $10 ($119 in 2015 dollars) and up.
One could get a ready made radio in a box with headphones and tuning
knob. This way, one could do away with the Quaker Oats round box and the
cat's whisker wire, which was a pain to tune.

1930   "This is Lowell Thomas." Those words were spoken for the first
time as a young Lowell Thomas made his debut on CBS. He replaced Floyd
Gibbons on the nightly (6:45 [removed]), 15 minute newscast. Thomas, who
started as a reporter for the New York Daily News (at age 19), was heard
on the radio for the next 46 years.

1930   "Ba, ba, ba, boo. I will, ba ba ba boo ... marry you!" Bing
Crosby, America's premier crooner for decades, married Dixie Lee.

1940   Double or Nothing was first heard on Mutual. Each time
contestants answered questions correctly, their winnings would double
from $20 to $40 to the big payoff of $80.  ($341, $683 and $1366 in 2015
dollars: [removed]) If they gave an incorrect
answer, they were gone! Nobody bet on long how long the show would last.
Good thing. It kept going for a dozen years. Among the sponsors: Feen A
Mint, Chooz breath candy and Campbell's soup.

1946   Mystery fans remember when The Adventures of Sam Spade debuted on
CBS this Sunday night. (It had aired in the summer of 1946 on ABC on
Friday nights.) The Adventures of Sam Spade, with Howard Duff playing
Spade, became a big hit in the Sunday night radio lineup. And now a word
from our sponsor: "Use Wildroot Cream Oil, Charlie ... it keeps your
hair in [removed]"

9/30

1930   Death Valley Days was first heard on the NBC Red network this day
(and) became one of radio's biggest hits. The 30 minute, Western
adventure series starred Tim Daniel Frawley as the Old Ranger, Harvey
Hays as the Old Prospector, John White as the Lonesome Cowboy, Edwin
Bruce as Bobby Keen, Robert Haag as Sheriff Mark Chase and Olyn Landick
as Cassandra Drinkwater.

The tales heard on Death Valley Days were all based on fact and were
human interest stories revolving around the borax mining town of Death
Valley, California. The show was created by Ruth Woodman, a script
writer for a New York ad agency. She had never seen Death Valley; but
had found the vehicle to sell 20 Mule Team Borax. As time went on, Ms.
Woodman did make a trip to Death Valley. She went back again and again
after that, digging up facts for her scripts. She even met an honest to
goodness old ranger, Wash Cahill, who knew everyone and everything about
the mining town.

Death Valley Days was renamed Death Valley Sheriff in 1944 and The
Sheriff in 1945. And Ruth Woodman continued to write the scripts. She
even wrote scripts when Death Valley Days became a TV show. Buy some 20
Mule Team Borax in commemoration.

1933   The theme song was Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here and it opened
the National Barn Dance. The half hour country music and comedy show,
originally heard on WLS, Chicago since 1924, moved to the NBC Blue
network this night. National Barn Dance was broadcast from the Eighth
Street Theater in Chicago, where the stage was transformed into a
hayloft every Saturday night. The host was Joe Kelly. Uncle Ezra was
played by Pat Barrett who was known to say, "Give me a toot on the
tooter, Tommy," as he started dancing. A few of the other Barn Dance
characters were Arkie, the Arkansas Woodchopper; Pokey Martin; the
Hoosier Hotshots; the Prairie Ramblers; cowgirl, Patsy Montana; Pat
Buttram; Lulu Belle and the Cumberland Road Runners. Gene Autry and Red
Foley were heard early in their careers on National Barn Dance. Although
there were plenty of sponsors (Alka Seltzer, One A Day vitamins,
Phillips Milk of Magnesia), the National Barn Dance was one of the few
radio shows to charge admission.

1935   "Calling all [removed]" The Adventures of Dick Tracy came to radio
for the first time    on the Mutual Radio Network. Based on the comic
strip created by Chester Gould, the 15 minute adventure show was heard
Monday thru Friday at 5:45 [removed] The sponsors were Quaker Puffed Wheat
and Quaker Puffed Rice.

1962 - The death of OTR.  The last regularly scheduled network programs,
Suspense and Johnny Dollar was heard.

10/1

1942   People Are Funny went on the air with host Art Baker.

Joe

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:42:59 -0400
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Tune into Yesterday ( Autumn issue )
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 The Autumn issue of ORCA's Tune into Yesterday magazine is now available. The
main articles are by Dave Goldin writing about the days of the big band
'remotes' on the American networks, and Martin Grams Jr writing about the
Radio Preservation Task Force conference held earlier this year. Supplement 1
with this issue is full of 'news from the archives' and Supplement 2 looks
back to the early days of the BBC at Savoy Hill in the [removed] free sample
copy is available in the UK from our membership secretary:B John Wolstenholme,
ORCA, PO Box 1922, Dronfield, England, S18B  8XAAnnual membership costs ten
pounds UK ( B#10 ) or thirty dollars US ($30 ) which brings you four issues
plus access to our lending library of old programmes. The Autumn library list
includes some rare editions of the BBC'sB Variety Bandbox + Workers Playtime
which we received recently from privately recorded discs.
Cheers ! GraemeB

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:43:08 -0400
From: JOHN   MATTHEWS   <glowingdial@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Glowing Dial, Show No. POD44
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Hello friends, I have been lax about announcing new episodes of my show The
Glowing Dial with Big John and Steve.

Well, I'm here to remedy that. I hope you'll take a listen. A little history
of us, well we started back in 1996 on Yesterday USA Radio where we won our
spot out of some 10 other shows. We did shows for them for 5 years, at which
time we had to take a hiatus due to my health and personal problems. We came
back in 2003 on The Glowing Dial Page, [removed] , and Jerry
Haendiges' Olde Tyme Radio Network where we ran for 4 more years, then had to
take another, longer hiatus. We came back in 2014 on The Glowing Dial Page and
also on Jerry Haendiges' Olde Tyme Radio Network and we have been going strong
since.

We love to hear from our listeners so please e-mail us with your comments.

We now post a new episode every 3 weeks. We are also getting ready to launch
The Glowing Dial LIVE where you, our listeners will be able to call us via
SKYPE and talk with us on the air and maybe even request an old time radio
show! All details on our regular and upcoming LIVE show are on our homepage
(link above).

Now to our current episode:

The Glowing Dial
Latest Episode: No. POD44
running from September 25 to October 15, 2016
run time: 2 hrs. 41 min. 30 sec.

Big John and Steve celebrate Columbus Day and say, "Hmmm, That's Strange"!

Strange - "Captain Robinson"
originally aired 1955 on ABC/AFRTS
Starring: Walter Gibson (host), Grace Keddy, Court Benson.
Charles Woods announcing.
Sustained

The Strange Dr. Weird - "Murder Will Out"
originally aired Tuesday, February 27, 1945 on MUTUAL
Starring: Maurice Tarplin.
Sponsor: Adam Hats

Strange Wills - "The Unwanted"
originally aired 1948 in Australia/Teleways Syndication
Starring: cast unknown.
Sponsor: varied due to syndication

Strange As It Seems - "The Banquet Of Ghosts"
originally aired 1935-1938 in Syndication
Starring: Gayne Whitman (host).
Sponsor: Ex-Lax

Ripley's Believe It Or Not - "Strange War Facts"
originally aired Sunday, October 25, 1936 on NBC BLUE
Starring: Robert L. Ripley (host), Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra, Shirley
Lloyd.
Ben Grauer announcing.
Sponsor: Your Neighborhood Baker

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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Thanks so much for reading and I'll see you on the radio!

Big John Matthews

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