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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2015 : Issue 82
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Life Can Be Beautiful                 [ Chris Holm <chrisjunk2003@[removed] ]
  Help Identify an Episode              [ Chris Holm <chrisjunk2003@[removed] ]
  October 2015 issue: RADIO RECALL      [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  This week in radio history 4-10 Octo  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 16:28:18 -0400
From: Chris Holm <chrisjunk2003@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Life Can Be Beautiful
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In digest #75, Randy Miller asked about the show Life Can Be Beautiful:
Have any of these broadcasts survived?> Are they available? Sounds like an>
interesting program, which I would like to> sample.
If you're looking for a sample of the program, allow me to recommend the WJSV
broadcast [removed]  Washington DC radio station WJSV recorded their entire
broadcast day on September 21, [removed]  An episode of LIfe Can Be Beautiful can
be heard from 12:15 to 12:30.
The WJSV recording is available from many sources, and includes many other
interesting (and not-so-interesting) shows.
-Chris Holm

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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 16:28:36 -0400
From: Chris Holm <chrisjunk2003@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Help Identify an Episode
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I'm trying to identify a particular episode I remember hearing a while ago,
and was hoping someone on the list might be able to [removed]  It would have been
a mystery/crime type show (Suspense, Crime Classics, Clock, Mysterious
Traveler, etc).
The show is about a series of murders (stranglings?) in (I think) London, with
the murderer being concealed by the [removed]  The two main characters are a
reporter and a police constable (captain?), who are both always on the scene,
and it is unclear throughout the show which of the two is the [removed]  The
reveal at the end is that it is the police officer who is actually the
killer.
I may have some of the details wrong, but it's the best I could [removed]
Does anyone recognize this show?
Thanks!-Chris Holm

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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 16:29:12 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  October 2015 issue: RADIO RECALL

 The full-color version of the current RADIO RECALL just went out to
subscribers via PDF in an email. The B & W version hard copy will be mailed
to the remaining subscribers in about two weeks.

This issue begins with a front-page article on the OTR re-creations that the
Metro Washington OTR Club performed for the Library of Congress at Packard
Theater in their new facility in Culpeper, VA. Author Sally Stephens points
out that although the LOC has had various programs in the theater open to the
public (movies, concerts, etc.) this was the first time vintage radio
programs had been featured. MWOTRC players re-created the very first
"Dragnet" episode, gave a sound effects demonstration, and then performed a
1949 "My Favorite Husband" episode. A packed house of over 200 enjoyed the
evening.

Three of America's top OTR researchers have articles in this October issue.
Martin Grams, Jr. examines "The Big Show" in detail, discussing Tallulah
Bankhead and Fred Allen, and recounting the strengths and weaknesses of
radio's "most expensive" show in broadcast history. Next, Stewart Wright
tells us of his lengthy search to document the mysterious episode of "Rocky
Jordan" which was entitled "The Nile Runs High". His successful conclusion
will delight you. Following up is Karl Schadow, unearthing the secrets of
that syndicated flight series, "Ann of the Airlanes". Dozens of these 15
minute episodes are in common currency in the hobby but few know who the
female lead was, who wrote the series, the names of the cast and crew, or the
early sponsors. In his article, Karl provides all the answers.

This issue also has obsrvations on Peg Lynch's obituaries, the MWOTRC's
invitation to put on a sound effects demonstration for an event at the
headquarters of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) in downtown DC,
and a snippet about the original name of the series that after three weeks,
became (and would remain) "Young Widder Brown."

All this, plus Letters to the Editor, information on all upcoming OTR events,
conventions, and cruises, plus the editorial ramblings of yours truly.

To read articles from past issues, or to download a membership application
for MWOTRC, point your mouse at <[removed]>

Jack French
Editor

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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 16:29:39 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 4-10 October

10/4

1948   Gordon MacRae hosted the premiere of a radio classic. The
Railroad Hour debuted on ABC. The theme song was I've Been Working on
the Railroad and the show was sponsored by, get ready, America's Railroads.

10/5

1930   The New York Philharmonic Orchestra was first heard on the air
over CBS from Carnegie Hall. The Sunday afternoon concerts set CBS back
$15,000 ($203,790 in 2012 dollars). Not per week, but for the entire season!

1930   This was a big day for CBS. Following the orchestra broadcast
(above), Father Coughlin, The Fighting Priest was first heard on network
radio. He lit up the airwaves with oratory that aired into the early
forties.  He was first heard on WJR Detroit in 1926.

1934   The first major network radio show to originate from Hollywood
aired on this day. Hollywood Hotel was heard on CBS and was heavily
promoted as being the first to broadcast from the West Coast of the [removed]

1947   A small Northern California company got a major boost from Bing
Crosby. The first show recorded on tape was broadcast on ABC. 'Der
Bingle' was so popular, that his taped show promoted wide distribution
of the new magnetic tape recorders that would become broadcast classics
the venerable Ampex 200.

1952   After an 11 year run, Inner Sanctum, the legendary mystery
series, was heard for the final time. We'll never know if they oiled
that squeaky [removed]  (Of course there is the story of a staffer who did
actually oil the door before one [removed] ed.)  (PS I have a door
that creaks just like that one when opened slowly and half the time
expect to find Raymond lurking around in the hallway somewhere.  I've
never oiled it in the hopes Raymond would appear.)

10/6

1937   Hobby Lobby debuted on CBS. The host was the dean of American
hobbyists, Dave Elman. The show's theme was The Best Things in Life are
Free. Sponsors included Fels Naptha soap, Hudson paper products and
Colgate Dental Creme.

10/7

1922   The first radio network, of sorts, debuted. It was a network of
just two stations. WJZ in Newark, NJ teamed with WGY in Schenectady, NY
to bring the World Series game direct from the Polo Grounds in New York.
Columnist Grantland Rice was behind the microphone for that broadcast.

1939   Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy was heard for the first time on CBS
radio. Tom Hopkins, Kate's husband, was played by eventual Beat the
Clock host Clayton 'Bud' Collyer. The 15 minute radio drama was written
by Chester McCraken and Gertrude Berg (writer and Emmy Award winning
actress of The Goldbergs, a popular radio and TV series in the 1940s &
1950s). The announcer for the four year run of Angel of Mercy was Ralph
Edwards of future This is Your Life fame. And the sponsor was Maxwell
House of coffee fame.

1940   Portia Faces Life debuted on the NBC Red network. This radio soap
opera centered around the life of Portia Blake Manning, an attorney and
a widow with a young son.  Portia Faces Life was extremely popular, and
therefore, had many sponsors, none of which were soap. The sponsors
included Post Toasties, Grape Nuts Flakes, Grape Nuts Wheat Meal,
Maxwell House coffee, Jell O desserts and La France bleach.

10/8

1935   The O'Neills debuted on CBS. The theme song, Londonderry Air,
opened the 15 minute soap opera. The O'Neills aired Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays at 7:30 [removed] In 1936 it moved to daytime where it stayed
until 1943 on NBC's Red and Blue networks and on CBS, too. One of
radio's original soaps, it was sponsored appropriately by Silver Dust,
Ivory soap and Ivory soap flakes.

1935   Wedding bells pealed for a singer and a bandleader who tied the
knot, making radio history together. The bandleader was Ozzie Nelson and
the singer was Harriet Hilliard. They would make the history pages again
on this very day nine years later.

1944   The first broadcast of The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet was
heard on the CBS network.

10/9

1935   Cavalcade of America was first broadcast this very day. The CBS
show featured some of Hollywood and Broadway's most famous stars in
leading roles in the half hour dramas. Thomas Chalmers narrated the
stories about obscure incidents and people in American history. The
orchestra was led by Donald Voorhees. The show aired from 1935 to 1953,
changing from CBS to NBC in 1939; with one sponsor for its entire
duration. The DuPont Company introduced its slogan on Cavalcade of
America ... "Better things for better living through [removed]"

1943   ABC presented Land of the Lost. The opening phrase for the show
was, "In that wonderful kingdom at the bottom of the [removed]" This
children's adventure fantasy serial took the audience underwater where
the main characters, Isabel and Jimmy, were guided by their friend, a
red fish named Red Lantern and played at first by Junius Matthews and
later, by Art Carney. Land of the Lost found a large audience and
remained on the air until 1948.

10/10

1932   Two of radio's earliest efforts at soap operas were heard for the
first time. Judy and Jane, sponsored by Folger's Coffee, and Betty and
Bob, sponsored by General Mills, had listeners glued to their radios
into the early 1940s.

1933   Dreft, the first synthetic detergent, went on sale. Ten years
later, Dreft was the sponsor of The Dreft Star Playhouse.

1937   The Mutual Broadcasting System debuted Thirty Minutes in
Hollywood. 48 sponsors shared the cost of the program that aired in 72
cities nationwide. It was the first Mutual co op radio show. George
Jessel and Norma Talmadge starred. Music was provided by the Tommy
Tucker Orchestra.

Joe

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