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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2015 : Issue 76
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 6-12 Sept  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
      Life Can Be Beautiful                 [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]

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    Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 11:32:44 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 6-12 September

    9/6

    1920   The first prizefight broadcast on radio featured Jack Dempsey
    knocking out Billy Miske in the third round of a bout in Benton Harbor,
    MI.  WWJ in Detroit was the station that fight fans were tuned to.

    9/8

    1935   The Hoboken Four, featuring Frank Sinatra as lead singer,
    appeared on Major Bowes Amateur Hour on WOR. The group won the
    competition held at the Capitol Theatre in New York City.

    1944   Ed Wynn resumed his radio career after seven years off the air.
    Wynn starred in Happy Island on the NBC Blue network.

     From the New York Times Today in history

    9/9

    1926    the National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) was created by the Radio
    Corp. of America.

     From Those Were The Days

    1946   Ben Alexander hosted Heart's Desire for the first time, a
    giveaway contest program on the Mutual Broadcasting System.

    9/10

    1935   "I'm Popeye the sailor [removed]" toot! toot! Popeye was heard for
    the first time on NBC. The show was based on the Elzie Crisler Segar
    comic strip, which featured Popeye, Olive Oyl, Brutas, Wimpy and
    Sweepea. Now, eat your spinach in celebration!

    9/12

    1938   [removed] Kaltenborn made broadcasting history by covering a crisis in
    Czechoslovakia for CBS beginning on this day. Kaltenborn was so devoted
    to his work that he slept in the studio for 18 days while bringing
    updates to his appreciative audience.

    Joe

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    Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 11:32:51 -0400
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi Friends,

    Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
    may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
    Radio Theatre," John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane
    Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios," Big John and Steve's "Glowing Dial"
    and my own "Old Time Radio Classics." Streamed in high-quality audio, on
    demand, 24/7 at: [removed]
    Many new additions to our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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    Many new additions to our Transcription Disc scans at:
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    Transcription Disc Restoration example at:
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    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    MURDER WILL OUT
    5-8-46 "The Mystery of The Swindled Song Writer"
    Stars: William Gargan, Eddie Marr
    Announcer: Larry Keating
    Director/Writer: Lew X. Lansworth
    ABC Rainier Beer

    A DATE WITH JUDY
    Episode 104 05-29-45 "Oogie's Car"
    Stars: Louise Erickson as Judy Foster, Dix Davis, Ken Christy, Myra Marsh
    NBC Tums Tuesdays 8:30-9:00 pm

    THE MICKEY MOUSE THEATER OF THE AIR
    Episode 1 1-2-38 "Robin Hood"
    Host: John Hiestan
    Stars: Walt Disney (Mickey Mouse), Thelma Boardman (Minnie Mouse),
    Stuart Buchanan (Goofy), Clarence Nash (Donald Duck), Florence Gill
    (Clarabell Cow)
    Music: Felix Mills Orchestra, Donald Duck's Swing Band, The Minnie Mouse
    Woodland Choir
    Writer: Bill Demling
    NBC Pepsodent Tooth Paste

    JACK BENNY SHOW
    6-20-45
    Special USO Camp Show from Olympia Theater, Paris France
    Stars: Martha Tilton, Larry Adler
    AFN Network
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    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    GOOD NEWS OF 1938
    (NBC) 5/5/38 This is a 71 year old ptogram taken from 78 RPM disks with:
    Robert Young, Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks, Hanley Stafford, Una Merkel,
    Frank Morgan, Judy Garland, and Special guest: Clark Gable.

    CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT
    (MBS) 1/17/44 1st Chapter of "Suicide Squadron" - Ending of story will
    be heard 9/13 and 9/20. Hear announcer tell how Ovaltine is good for the
    flu !
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    This week we will look at the celebration which occurred after the
    second World War which ended 70 years ago.

    THE COLUMBIA WORKSHOP
    08/14/1945 Ep007 Fourteen August.
    With Orson Welles. Directed written by Norman Corwin

    COMMAND PERFORMANCE
    08/15/1945 AFRS origination. "Victory Extra Special".
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    This Week's Classics & Curios Show:

    "Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

    Episode 185

    EDDE HUBBARD & THE BROWSERS: "THE RIGHT IDEA," CHARLIE BARNET

    EDDE HUBBARD & THE BROWSERS: "THE RIGHT IDEA," CHARLIE BARNET Eddie
    Hubbard & the Browsers continue with another episode from "trivia
    tower," this one from late 1989 or early 1990. Among recordings we'll
    hear Hal Kemp with "The Moon Got in My Eyes," Charlie Spivak with his
    theme "Star Dreams," Harry James with "Back Beat Boogie," Bob Crosby and
    Bob Zurke with "Little Rock Getaway," Jan Garber with "Avalon," Alvino
    Rey and the King Sisters with "I Said No," "Gogi Grant with "The Wayward
    Wind," and Billy May with "You Turned the Tables on Me."

    Among trivia challenges this time are naming the super hit recording by
    Harry James on which he did not feature himself on the trumpet and also
    a recording in 1929 with the words "sin" and "skin" in the title. Two
    other good trivia questions are to name the first two bands that Bob
    Crosby sang with and also Glenn Miller's first theme song.

    Especially interesting to me is Charlie Barnet's "The Right Idea" which
    followed his earlier recording "The Wrong Idea" and "Swing and Sweat
    with Charlie Barnet." Both were jabs at the slow sweet bands such as
    Sammy Kaye and Guy Lombardo, and especially at Sammy Kaye's "Swing and
    Sway with Sammy Kaye" style. Charlie's message in "The Right Idea" of
    course, was how big band music should be performed, namely, in true
    swing fashion. The Browsers point out that Charlie nevertheless was seen
    dancing with his wife at one of Sammy's gigs.

    As [removed] points out, "The sweet bands ... came out of a different
    tradition entirely. Though similarly influenced by jazz maestros from
    Duke Ellington to Louis Armstrong, the sound of the sweet band was
    simply an outgrowth from the society orchestra of the 1910s and '20s.
    Based mostly in New York, hundreds of society bands fanned out across
    the metropolis each weekend, playing easily recognizable versions of the
    hits-of-the-day for light dances and debutante balls. The major early
    sweet bands, Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians and Les Brown & His Band
    of Renown, paved the way for the most popular band of the World War II
    era, the Glenn Miller Orchestra. And even after large orchestras became
    unfeasible after the war, the sound of the sweet bands lived on for
    decades via The Lawrence Welk Show and various big-band tours."

    And this from wikipedia: "Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of
    American music that developed in the early 1930s and became a
    distinctive style by 1940. Swing uses a strong rhythm section of double
    bass and drums as the anchor for a lead section of brass instruments
    such as trumpets and trombones, woodwinds including saxophones and
    clarinets, and sometimes stringed instruments such as violin and guitar,
    medium to fast tempos, and a "lilting" swing time rhythm. The name swing
    came from the phrase `swing feel' where the emphasis is on the off-beat
    or weaker pulse in the music. Swing bands usually featured soloists who
    would improvise on the melody over the arrangement. The danceable swing
    style of big bands and bandleaders such as Benny Goodman was the
    dominant form of American popular music from 1935 to 1946, a period
    known as the Swing Era. The verb "to swing" is also used as a term of
    praise for playing that has a strong rhythmic "groove" or drive."

    Whether the bands were swing or sweet, they brought - and still bring -
    such joy to listeners the world over and especially to me.
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    THE GLOWING DIAL

    Big John and & Greg celebrate Labor Day and present a tribute to
    Australian Radio!

    The Shadow (Australian Version) - "The Case Of The Burning Skull"
    based on the American story of the same title
    originally aired - date unknown on Australian Radio - Grace Gibson
    Syndication
    American airdate Sunday, March 18, 1945, MUTUAL - Australian airdate unknown
    Starring: Lloyd Lamble, Lyndall Barbour.
    Sustained.

    Inner Sanctum Mysteries (Australian Version) - "Terrible Vengeance"
    based on the American story of the same title
    originally aired 1952 on Australian Radio
    American airdate Sunday, June 14, 1942, ABC
    Starring: cast information unavailable.
    Sustained

    The Clock (Australian Version) - "Star-Crossed Lovers"
    based on the American story of the same title
    originally aired - date unknown on Australian Radio
    American airdate Sunday, April 13, 1947, ABC
    Starring: Harp McGuire, Wendy Clayfair, John Mellian, Barbara Brunton,
    Leon Piers, Joan Lord.
    Sustained

    Strange - "Deja Vu In France"
    originally aired 1955 on ABC/AFRTS
    Starring: Anne Pitoniac, Ian Martin, Walter Gibson as your host.
    Charles Woods announcing.
    Sustained

    Audio restoration on some shows in this episode was done by Jerry Haendiges.
    Click here for information on his Audio Restoration Services.
    =======================================================If you have any
    questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

          Jerry Haendiges

          Jerry@[removed] -  [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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    Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 11:33:03 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Life Can Be Beautiful

    Randy Miller asks about this series and availability of audio copies.

    First of all, this show was known by broadcast insiders as "Elsie Beebee"
    based upon its initials. Secondly, it was a soap opera, but a very unusual
    one. The central character was Papa David Solomon, an elderly Jewish
    intellect who ran the "Slightly Read Book Shop."  He dispensed beams of hope
    in an otherwise dark world to his ward, Carol (AKA Chichi), wheel-chair bound
    Stephen, and their thousands of listeners.

    The program ran from 1938 to 1954. The best summary of this program is found
    in chapter 10 of Jim Cox's book, "The Great Radio Soap Operas" (McFarland,
    1999) which terms Papa David as "the conscience of a metropolis."

    As for audio copies, Jay Hickerson's compendium states that 17 episodes are
    in circulation.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
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