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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2016 : Issue 65
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 2-8 Octob [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
SummersTime Halloween Program [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 22:29:40 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 2-8 October
10/3
1901 The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated on this day.
After a merger with Radio Corporation of America, RCA Victor became the
leader in phonographs and many of the records played on them. The famous
Victrola phonograph logo, with Nipper the dog, and the words "His
Master's Voice", appeared on all RCA Victor phonographs and record labels.
1946 Dennis Day started his own show on NBC. Dennis, a popular tenor
featured on The Jack Benny Show, played the same (type) naive young
bachelor he played on the Benny show. A Day in the Life of Dennis Day
aired for five years.
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 ($215,473 in 2015 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. 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. 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 Clayton 'Bud' Collyer,
later of eventual Superman fame. 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.
Joe
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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 23:23:33 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: SummersTime Halloween Program
Folks;
Kate and I are putting together our newest Halloween-themed episode of
SummersTime with another spooky trip to the Nostalgialand Cemetary, and we'd
really appreciate some program suggestions! What Halloween shows are your
favorites? Comedy, mystery or horror, everything's fair game - we have three
hours this year, so even more candy-corn and house-egging!
Shows we've already played in previous trips to the Cemetary:
Witch's Tale, The 371019 Four Fingers and a Thumb
Our Miss Brooks 481031 Halloween
Father Knows Best 531029 Halloween Blues
Quiet, Please 471027 Don't Tell Me About Halloween
Escape 491115 Three Skeleton Key
Jack Benny Program, The 411102 Halloween Celebration
Inner Sanctum Mysteries 451106 #244 The Wailing Wall
Baby Snooks 461101 Halloween
So which of _your_ favorite Halloween programs should we run this year?
Charlie
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