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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2015 : Issue 41
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Re: Ben Welden [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
re: Royal Broadcasting System [ Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed]; ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:59:37 -0400
From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Ben Welden
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On Apr 27, 2015, at 11:27 AM, Anthony Tollin wrote:
On Apr 27, 2015, at 11:18 AM, Gary asks:
2. There's IMDB ( Internet movie database) and IBDB (Internet Broadway
database) that is a resource for movie or Broadway shows; is there a database
for old time radio shows?
The only one I can really suggest is David Goldin's [removed],
which lists a few radio credits for Ben Welden including episodes of BOLD
VENTURE, THIS IS YOUR FBI, FAMILY THEATRE and THE RAILROAD HOUR. --Anthony
Tollin
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:58:50 -0400
From: Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: re: Royal Broadcasting System
Jim Widner asked about "a 1931 World in Review broadcast from the 'Royal
Broadcasting System?' This is one of those 'March of Time' style news
programs typical of the time and refers to itself as the 'newsreel of the
air.' I am thinking it is Canadian, but not sure."
I have no information on the broadcast, except that it is not rare; a copy is
listed on the RadioGoldIndex. I can confirm that the "Royal Broadcasting
System" was not Canadian, but New York based. The following is excerpted
from an article in the NY SUN from June 9, 1932, concerning a fund drive for
the Democratic Party. The party's prospective Presidential candidates used
radio to appeal to the public:
"Gov. Roosevelt and former Gov. Smith were heard from station WWJ in Detroit.
Their addresses, which were made through the electrical transcription feature
service of the Royal Broadcasting System of New York, were part of a
concentrated drive to complete Michigan's $40,000 quota to the Democratic war
chest."
Michael J. Hayde
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:58:56 -0400
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK
Hi Friends,
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Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios," Big John and Steve's "Glowing Dial"
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS
THE THIRTEENTH JUROR
Episode 1 4-23-49 "What Really Happened To John Wilkes Booth"
Stars: Vincent Price
NBC Sustained
Stories of Unsolved Mysteries
NBC LITTLE THEATER
Episode 1 11-10-49 "One Brief Moment"
Stars: Gerald Mohr, Betty Lou Gerson
NBC Sustained
THE ABE BURROWS SHOW
5-22-48 "The Purple Phantom"
Music: Milton DeLugg
Announcer: Bob Lemond
CBS Listerine
BEST PLAYS
Epiode 22 11-30-52 "Rope"
Stars: Hurd Hatfield and Victor Jory
Author: Patrick Hamilton
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATER
THE LONE RANGER
(Synd.) 11/3/48 "The Flashing Light" conclusion from last week.
NIGHTBEAT
(NBC) 5/25/51 Frank Lovejoy stars as Randy Stone in "Fear"
THE ADV. OF SUPERMAN
(WOR -NYC/Synd.) 4/27/40 The Yellow Mask demands Million Dollar Ransom.
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
This is week 3 of a multi-week tribute to the late Stan Freberg.
"Stan Freberg" Audition. Harmony Homestead
1945. KXLA Pasadena. 9,45 to 10,15 AM.
HERE'S TO VETERANS
1967- - Stan Freberg.
FORD SHOW
from Australia. 1959 Farewell To Stan Freberg.
Last show before returning home to America.
"Same Time, Same Station" 11/10/1991 Guest Stan Freberg.
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This Week's Classics & Curios Show:
"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"
Episode 166
AL JOLSON AND THE KRAFT MUSIC HALL: LADIES OF SONG, PART TWO
Here's Part Two of Al Jolson's guest Ladies of Song on the Kraft Music
Hall on NBC. One show features Dinah Shore, the other Doris Day. The
first show of Part Two with Dinah is from December 16, 1948. Dinah takes
a break from the Eddie Cantor Show to sing "I'll Be Seeing You" and to
join Al in duets to sing "Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey" and "Kiss Me
Once." Al does his energetic "Jolson" treatment on "Sittin' On Top of
the World" and welcomes Dinah by singing "Dinah." Oscar Levant plays
"Maleguena," and Al's "Down Among the Sheltering Palms" and "When Day Is
Done" round out the show.
Then on the KMH of December 30, 1948, Al's great lady of song guest is
Doris Day. At the time Doris had been singing as a regular on the Bob
Hope Show and Your Hit Parade and was fresh from her movie "Romance on
the High Seas." Doris, whose voice was called "a voice of velvet,"
performs her great hit from that film "It's Magic." She also does duets
with Al on "Melancholy Baby" and "My Blue Heaven." Oscar Levant performs
"Sabre Dance," and Al does his special upbeat rendition of "Smiles"
followed by "It All Depends On You," "Who Cares." and "When You Were
Sweet Sixteen." Band leader Lou Bring conducts the orchestra on this
AFRS show.
After being on top of the entertainment world before and through the
1920's and 1930's, Jolson and his popularity hit bottom with changing
musical tastes until the 1946 movie on his life, "The Jolson Story,"
opened new horizons on radio in the later 1940's. Once again, he was on
top, but sadly, he passed away in 1950, just one month after returning
to the [removed] after performing for our troops in South Korea and when he
was scheduled for an appearance on Bing Crosby's radio show. And plans
were in the works for his TV debut in grand style. Also, he was to
costar with Dinah Shore in a movie to be called "Stars and Stripes
Forever." Columbia was even considering another Jolson musical starring
Al himself. It was to be called "You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet" and would
dramatize his tours of military bases. But the exertion in Korea took
its toll, especially for a man with only one lung, and he succumbed to a
heart attack at the age of 64.
Jolson's activity and dedication to entertain our troops in World War II
has been almost forgotten by older or perhaps overlooked by newer
generations. Even before the USO began to set up a formal program
overseas, the excitable Jolson was deluging War and Navy Department
brass with phone calls and wires. He demanded permission to go anywhere
in the world where there is an American serviceman who wouldn't mind
listening to "Sonny Boy" or "Mammy." Early in 1942, Jolson became the
first star to perform at a GI base in World War II He did as many as
four shows a day in the jungle outposts of Central America and covered
the string of [removed] Naval bases. He paid for part of the transportation
out of his own pocket. While touring in the Pacific, Jolson contracted
malaria and had to have his left lung surgically removed.
On September 17, 1950, a dispatch from 8th Army Headquarters, Korea,
announced, "Al Jolson, the first top-flight entertainer to reach the
war-front, landed here today by plane from Los [removed] traveled
to Korea at his own expense. And a lean, smiling Jolson drove himself
without letup through 42 shows in 16 days."
Alistair Cooke wrote, "He [Jolson] had one last hour of glory. He
offered to fly to Korea and entertain the troops hemmed in on the United
Nations precarious August bridgehead. The troops yelled for his
appearance. He went down on his knee again and sang 'Mammy', and the
troops wept and cheered. When he was asked what Korea was like he warmly
answered, 'I am going to get back my income tax returns and see if I
paid enough.'"
After returning from a tour of overseas bases, the Regimental Hostess at
one camp wrote to Jolson, "Allow me to say on behalf of all the soldiers
of the 33rd Infantry that you coming here is quite the most wonderful
thing that has ever happened to us, and we think you're tops, not only
as a performer, but as a person. We unanimously elect you Public Morale
Lifter No. 1 of the [removed] Army."
Soon after Al's death Defense Secretary George Marshall presented the
Medal for Merit to Jolson, "to whom this country owes a debt which
cannot be repaid." The medal carried a citation noting that Jolson's
"contribution to the [removed] action in Korea was made at the expense of his
life" and was presented to Jolson's adopted son as Jolson's widow looked
on. Another source sharing Jolson's faith commented, "Until Jolson died,
heaven hadn't heard 'nothin' yet."
Information and quotations gathered from Wikipedia and various online
biographies
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THE GLOWING DIAL
Big John and Stu reach into their OTR grab bag!
The Weird Circle - "The Murders In The Rue Morgue"
originally aired Sunday, January 2, 1944 thru Ziv Syndication
Starring: no cast information available, sorry.
Sponsor: Ziv Syndication - sponsorship varied
Lights Out! - "Vengeance And Mac Rogan"
(aka "Until Dead" and "The Luck Of Mark Street")
originally aired Tuesday, February 2, 1943 on CBS
Starring: Frank Lovejoy, Arnold Moss, Paul Stewart, Mercedes McCambridge.
Bob Stevenson announcing.
Sponsor: Ironized Yeast
Adventures Of Ozzie and Harriet - "Bing Crosby"
originally aired Sunday, December 5, 1948 on NBC
Starring: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, Janet Waldo, Tommy Bernard,
Henry Blair,
Bing Crosby, Lindsay Crosby, John Brown.
Verne Smith announcing.
Sponsor: International Silver Company
The Fred Allen Show - "One Long Pan Skit"
Allen's Alley Question: Have You Been Victimized By Misrepresentation In
Advertising?
originally aired Sunday, April 11, 1948 on NBC
Starring: Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Parker Fennelly, Minerva Pious,
Peter Donald,
The DeMarco Sisters, Basil Rathbone, Al Goodman and His Orchestra, Kenny
Delmar.
Kenny Delmar announcing.
Sponsor: Ford Motor Company
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questions or request, please feel free to contact me.
Jerry Haendiges
Jerry@[removed] 562-696-4387
The Vintage Radio Place [removed]
Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
the Net
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