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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2019 : Issue 50
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
dead link [ Jody Davis <baroygis@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history 10-16 Nov [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
This week in radio history 17-23 Nov [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
interviews and radio special [ "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@yeste ]
This week in radio history 24-30 Nov [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:32:38 -0500
From: Jody Davis <baroygis@[removed];
To: OldTime Radio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: dead link
It looks as if that great font of OTR info, Digital Deli Too
([removed]), is dead. I've been receiving error messages for the
last two weeks when I try to access it. Anyone have any definitive news on it?
Jody Davis
Radio Host
Board Member - Community Broadband Radio Assn
Retired Investigative Reporter & Anchor
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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:32:44 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 10-16 November
From Those Were The Days --
11/10
1950 Monty Woolley starred as The Magnificent Montague, which debuted
on NBC.
11/12
1932 The National Broadcasting Company opened its new studios at Radio
City in New York City. They celebrated with a gala program at Radio City
Music Hall.
1938 Kate Smith sang God Bless America for the very first time. It
would later become her signature song. Irving Berlin penned the tune in
1917 but never released it until Miss Smith sang it for the first time
on her radio broadcast.
1940 The chant, "invovo legem magicarum," was heard for the first time
when Mandrake the Magician debuted on WOR in New York City.
11/14
1921 KYW radio, Chicago, IL broadcast the first opera by a
professional company. Listeners heard Samson Et Dalila as it was being
performed at the Chicago Auditorium.
From Today in History at the NY Times -
1922 - the British Broadcasting Corp. began its domestic radio service.
11/15
1926 Network radio was born. Twenty four stations carried the first
broadcast from the National Broadcasting Company. The program was a gala
four and a half hour broadcast from the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New
York City.
Joe
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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:33:00 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 17-23 November
From Those Were The Days
11/18
1307 The story of William Tell shooting the apple off of his young
son's noggin is said to have taken place on this day.
(If it hadn't been for Tell there would have been no opera, if there had
been no opera there would have been no overture, if there had been no
overture the Lone Ranger wouldn't have had the theme music we know.
that's a joke son, I say that's a joke. -ed)
11/20
1929 - The first broadcast of The Rise of the Goldbergs, with Gertrude
Berg as Molly, was heard on the NBC Blue network. Later, the title would
be shortened to The Goldbergs. Mrs. Berg, incidentally, wrote the first
scripts for the 15-minute program and starred in the show -- for $75 a
week. ($1,113 in 2018 dollars). The program continued until 1945 (it
returned for one season in 1949-1950). Gertrude Berg entertained
audiences with New York style, motherly phrases like, "Button up your
neck. It's cold outside."
11/21
1938 WBOE in Cleveland, OH became the first school operated radio
station (owned by a municipality) to receive a license from the FCC.
WBOE went on the air as a 500 watt AM station and later became an FM
station.
1938 The first broadcast of Central City was heard. It was an
adventure mystery show set at the newspaper in, you guessed it, Central
City. Elspeth Eric played the part of crime reporter Emily Olson; and
Van Heflin was crime reporter Bob Shellenberger (later, the part was
played by Myron McCormick). Central City aired until 1941.
1944 "Happy trails to you, until we meet [removed]" The Roy Rogers
Show was first heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Singing along
with Roy (The King of the Cowboys'), were the Whippoorwills and The Sons
of the Pioneers.
11/22
1906 Delegates attending the Berlin Radiotelegraphic Conference in
Germany voted to use SOS (... ...) as the letters for the new
international signal. The international use of "SOS" was ratified in
1908. Its meaning? No, not "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" as many
believe. Its only meaning was as a distress signal, quick to transmit by
Morse code and not easily misread. It is not an acronym. Incidentally,
how did SOS pads come to use the same initials? They're named after a
patented process, Soap on Steel.
11/23
1929 Shirley Booth and Ed Gardner were married on this day. Miss Booth
was famous for her television acting role ("Hazel"); but we remember
when she and her husband played Miss Duffy and Archie on Duffy's Tavern.
1958 One of the last drama programs on radio debuted. It was unusual
in that it followed the TV show of the same name. Have Gun Will Travel
was broadcast on CBS and starred John Dehner as Paladin.
Joe
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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:51:31 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: interviews and radio special
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Hi Everybody,
John, and Larry Gassman and yours truly are trying to back up radio history
for future Generation. If you have any interviews, radio special or air
checks of special broadcast. Please contact us? We are trying to make sure
as many of these audio files will be pass down to the future. Thank you
for any help,
Walden
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[ADMINISTRIVIA: This is interesting, and IMHO one of the WORST way to, "back
up radio history." I'm not saying you shouldn't provide information to my
friend Walden and the Gassman brothers (lord, I miss their puns!). But if you
are TRULY interested in making sure radio history is preserved, give copies
to everyone you know interested in Old-Time Radio.
True preservation isn't allowing a single entity to have (and control!) the
[removed]'s having hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of people
holding and sharing copies! We have most of what we have now because in the
60's to the 80's, collectors shared and bought reels and cassettes of
programs, mailing them across the world to each other in what was then the
most efficient method of sharing. Now, it's even [removed] cannot tell you
how many times I've emailed links to requested programs; a dashed email and
done. And I'm hardly [removed] people have shared freely of their
collections to me, too. For many items of general interest, both audio and
video, I set up the OTR Digest shared folder, where any Digest subscriber
can, with a free pCloud account, access anything I share [removed] I share
a lot. Want to watch The Night that Panicked America? It's there, along with
episodes of The Eternal Light, Bob Edwards programs dealing with old radio, a
big ZIP file of radio news [removed] I'll cheerfully add more of
anything you folks are interested in having there. And feel free to download
your own copies of anything or everything that's there, and give copies to
your friends, [removed]
So yeah, send any interviews, radio specials, or air checks to Walden and the
Gassman brothers. But send them to all your friends, [removed] them to me
for inclusion in the OTR Digest shared [removed] them all [removed]
the more people that have copies, the less likely any of this material will
be lost. --cfs3]
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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:49:42 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 24-30 November
From Those Were The Days
11/24
1937 Music from the Raymor Ballroom in Boston, Massachusetts was
beamed coast to coast on NBC. The special guests during this broadcast
were Glenn Miller and his orchestra.
11/25
1920 The first play by play coverage of a football game was broadcast
by WTAW in College Station, TX. Texas University beat the Aggies of
Texas A&M, 7 3.
1944 CBS presented The FBI in Peace and War for the first time. It
became one of the longest running crime shows on radio lasting 14 years.
1945 A spoof of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic, [removed] Pinafore, was
broadcast on The Fred Allen Show. The spoof was titled, The Brooklyn
Pinafore. Joining actress Shirley Booth in the skit was baseball great
Leo 'The Lip' Durocher.
1960 Radio actors were put out of work when CBS axed five serials
(soap operas) from the airwaves. We said so long to The Second Mrs.
Burton (after 14 years), Young Doctor Malone, Whispering Streets (after
8 years), Right to Happiness (after 21 years) and Ma Perkins (after 27
wonderful years.) In 1940, the high point for these radio programs,
there were as many as 45 on the air each day.
11/26
1945 - "Bride and Groom" debuted on the ABC network. It is estimated
that 1,000 newly-wed couples were interviewed on the program before it
left the airwaves in 1950.
11/27
1930 Broadcasting from "...the little theatre off Times Square,"
according to the show's introduction, The First Nighter was first heard.
The program, which actually originated from Chicago, then from
Hollywood, aired for 23 years and featured dramas and comedies.
11/28
1932 Groucho Marx performed on radio for the first time.
11/29
1950 "I Fly Anything", starring singer Dick Haymes in the role of
cargo pilot Dockery Crane, premiered on ABC. With a title like that, is
it any wonder the show only lasted one season? Haymes went back to
singing and did very well, thank you.
11/30
1940 Lucille Ball and Cuban musician Desi Arnaz were married.
Joe
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