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	    [removed]   Volume 95 : Issue 351


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Sparkie/Sparky TYPOS!
	 Radio Hall of Fame

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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 13:30:36 -0500
From: Ted McKay <tmckay@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Sparkie/Sparky TYPOS!
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Ken Piletic is correct in his spelling of "Big Jon and Sparkie." I
apologize for my spelling error. Nevertheless, Ken's comments sent me
back to my 43 year old files to confirm that indeed the spelling was
Sparkie!  Tucked away in those files I found several radio logs from the
Charleston Gazette and Daily Mail where the spelling was Sparky, so it
must have been a common typo. 
Ted McKay, Cincinnati OH

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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 95 14:35 CST
From: Rich Samuels <richsam@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Radio Hall of Fame
Message-Id: <m0tB6Ma-000BYQC@[removed]>

For those of you who missed the Radio Hall of Fame broadcast of 10/29/95,
here's the script for the first segment dealing with the birth of broadcasting. 
Paul Harvey wrote the "cold open". I wrote the remainder of the segment.
Note that, in the actual broadcast, Fred Foy assumed the roles of both Tom
Snyder (who was ill and could not come to Chicago) and Don Pardo (whose
prerecorded announcements could not be used after Snyder bowed out).
A few more facts that may help you "hear" this in your mind.
The music was live, provided by the Georgia Frances Orchestra (five brass,
five reeds, two violins, one viola, one 'cello, piano, string bass, guitar
and percussion).
With the exception of the theme song "Best of Times" and an item listed as
"March of Time Bridge", the orchestrations were scored during the 1920's and
used by pit musicians who worked for Chicago's Balaban and Katz theater
chain. The arrangements are presently part of the Balaban and Katz
Collection in the Music Division of Chicago's Harold Washington Public Library
The theme "Best of Times" from "Cage aux Folles" was scored by Doug Sharf. I
wrote and scored the "March of Time Bridge"---a grandiose type of fanfare
(lots of parallel augmented chords) inspired by the sort of bridge music one
would hear in early sound newsreels).
The recording of the song "Radio" was provided by collector David Giovanoni.
I assumed the role of Leo Rosenberg in the "KDKA Broadcast recreation". I
recorded the copy at Bob Paquette's Microphone Museum in Milwaukee using a
double button carbon microphone of the sort used in the early days of
broadcasting. (Actually, the first KDKA broadcast probably used a single
button carbon mike--but I figured it would sound too grungy. The mike I used
sounded too good, so we muddied up the sound a bit).
The presidential speeches are from material in the Library of Congress, now
available on cd on Rhino's "Word Beat" label. The Lowell Thomas material
(probably a recreation on his part) came from a private lp pressing put out
by NBC on the occasion of its 40th anniversary.


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RHOF/HISTORY/PAUL HARVEY/REVISION of Wednesday 10/25/95


Paul Harvey [cold open]: Good Evening, Americans:
In the beginning there was void.
The Earth was cloaked in day and dark---and barren silence.
And Gugliemo Marchese Marconi said,
"Let there be music in the air---and voices and singing and preaching and
praying and laughter in the air."
And so he created radio.
Then one November day, the hundred-watt voice of KDKA told anybody within
ten miles of East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that Warren Harding had been
elected President of the United States
On that historic date---for both Paul Harvey and radio news---the world began.
Both I am told entered the world noisily.
So you can see why---inevitably---my perspective is partly personal.
I'm a stage hand tonight.
Promised that if I set the stage---
I can then join you in the audience.
There to hear what Paul Harvey, Junior would call---
THE REST OF THE STORY.

[TYMPANY roll UP/UNDER

Don Pardo: Live from Chicago etc. etc.

ORCHESTRA: "Best of Times" UP FULL/UNDER 

Don Pardo: [Enumerates guests, etc. concluding]
And now your host, Tom Snyder!

APPLAUSE 

ORCHESTRA: Snyder walk-on music

Tom Snyder: [Greeting, preview and re-intro of Paul Harvey]

APPLAUSE

[ORCHESTRA: "Mr. Radio Man" from 1st chorus, ending with dying applause.]

PAUL HARVEY: Thank you Tom.
Let's imagine it's just after sunset on that election day of November 2nd, 1920.
Your standing in a tiny wooden shack on the roof of the Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing Company's headquarters in East Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
In one corner of this primitive penthouse, a Westinghouse engineer twists
the dials of a 100-watt radio transmitter.
In another corner, a young man sits at a desk.
On the desk is a microphone. Next to it, a telephone.
The young man is Leo Rosenberg.
Leo normally works down stairs in advertising.
But tonight his boss has asked him to participate in an experiment.
Periodically Leo will be called on the telephone by a telegraph operator
stationed in the offices of the Pittsburgh Post.
The telegraph operator will relay to Leo the latest election returns
received from the Post's wire services.
Leo will then read the numbers---into the microphone.
Suppose the returns are late in coming?
Suppose the telegraph operator fails to call?
There's a wind-up phonograph in that little shack.
Leo has been told that---if there are unforeseen delays---he is to push the
phonograph near the microphone---and to play records.
Leo Rosenberg is about to become the world's first radio announcer---
The first radio newsman---
And the world's first disk jockey.

[ORCHESTRA: plays "March of Time Bridge"]

[DIGICART: "KDKA Broadcast Recreation"

Leo Rosenberg: This is radiophone KDKA, the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Tonight, with the
cooperation of the Pittsburgh Post, this sending station will transmit the
returns of today's presidential election. We shall bring you the early
returns as soon as they are available. In the meantime, we shall transmit an
interlude of Victrola music.

(Recording of Paul Whiteman's 1920 recording of "Whispering" follows)

DIGICART immediately faded under Paul Harvey]

Paul Harvey: And so began the first broadcast.
I specify "broadcast"---for, up until KDKA, radio had only been used for the
transmission of information from a single transmitting station to a single
receiving station.
But what Westinghouse hoped to do was to send information---and
entertainment---from a single transmitter to many points---simultaneously.
And those "many points" would be the homes of as many Americans as had radio
receivers---which Westinghouse stood ready to manufacture and sell.

[DIGICART fades out]

Now, would Americans buy into this Westinghouse idea?
The answer was a resounding "yes".
Americans bought into radio more thoroughly---and more quickly---than they'd
ever bought into anything.
In fact, Americans were soon caught up in a radio craze !

[DIGICART: Arthur Hall sings the song"Radio" from a 1924 recording:

Arthur Hall: There's a great sensational wonder today, you know,
Everybody's talking and fooling with radio---

DIGICART fades under Paul Harvey]

Paul Harvey: Yes, millions of Americans were "fooling with radio"---
Staying up until the wee hours of the morning trying to tune in distant
stations.
The broadcasts of KDKA were so successful that Westinghouse put other
stations on the air.

[DIGICART fades out]

And entrepreneurs---realizing that radio was a growth industry like no
other---built stations of their own.
Soon there were dozens of stations.
Then there were scores.
And then there were hundreds.

[ORCHESTRA plays introduction to "Charleston Back to Charleston" then goes
under Paul Harvey and continues, playing verse]

Paul Harvey: Americans who could barely change a light bulb suddenly became
radio experts.
They fell from their roofs trying to string up longer antennas.
They burned holes in their parlor rugs with acid spilled from the batteries
that made their sets play.

[ORCHESTRA fades out]

One of the greatest radio fans of the 'twenties was none other than
President Harding.
The Department of the Navy built him a special receiver. Installed it in a
book case in the Oval Office. Ran an antenna from the White House roof.
And the President---like millions of his constituents---stayed up late into
the night---tuning in stations across the land.

[Orchestra plays "March of Time Bridge"

November 3rd, 1924---another presidential election.
Never have Americans gone to the polls so well informed.
They've not only read about the candidates---
They've hear their voices---on the radio!
Four years ago, there was one radio station.
Now there are 530.
Virtually all will broadcast election returns---
Now---in the wake of that election---we're in Washington, [removed]
President Calvin Coolidge reaffirms his oath of office
And then steps before a podium---and a microphone!

[DIGICART: Calvin Coolidge begins inaugural address]

Calvin Coolidge: My countrymen---no one can contemplate current conditions
without finding much that is satisfying and much more still that is
[removed]

DIGICART fades under Paul Harvey]

Paul Harvey: On March 4th, 1925, some 23 million Americans hear the
president speak those words. The largest radio audience to that date.

[ORCHESTRA plays "Doin' the Racoon" from first chorus, going under Paul
Harvey at measure three]

Paul Harvey: There was no way to hold back the dawn.
And no way to limit the events radio would bring into our living rooms---in
real time.
Try to imagine a bigger "scoop" than this:
May 29th, 1927---radio newsman Lowell Thomas rushes to a microphone and
reads this bulletin:

[DIGICART: Lowell Thomas Lindbergh bulletin

Lowell Thomas: This is Lowell Thomas in New York. He made it! Charles A.
Lindbergh---'Lucky Lindy' as they call him---landed at Le Bourget Airport,
Paris, at 5:24 this afternoon---thus becoming the first person to fly New
York to Paris non-stop.]


[ORCHESTRA plays "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?" from beginning of 1st
chorus, going under Paul Harvey at measure three]

Paul Harvey: And when the "Roaring Twenties" ended---and when the nation was
gripped by the Great Depression---
We turned to our radios for distraction---and for courage.
And was through radio that our leaders sought to reassure us:

[DIGICART: Hoover radio address of 10/18/31

President Herbert Hoover: This broadcast tonight marks the beginning of the
mobilization of the whole nation for a great undertaking to provide security
for those of our citizens and their families who---through no fault of their
own---face unemployment and privation during the coming [removed]

Fade cart under Paul Harvey

Paul Harvey: That's the voice of President Herbert Hoover---speaking from
the White House---on the night of October 18th, 1931.
But it was Hoover's successor---elected thirteen months later---who mastered
the medium of radio as had none other.

[ORCHESTRA plays "Happy Days are Here Again" from beginning of first chorus
going under Paul Harvey in measure three]

Paul Harvey: That music, of course, is synonymous with Franklin Delano
Roosevelt--as is the term "Fireside Chat".

[DIGICART: FDR chat of 3/23/33

FDR: Ladies and gentlemen, I want to talk with the people of the United
States about [removed]"

Fades under Paul Harvey]

Paul Harvey: That's how the of those chats--on March 12th, 1933.
In the weeks and months that followed---as skillfully as Proctor and Gamble
used radio to sell soap---FDR used radio to sell America his New Deal.

[ORCHESTRA plays "Gold-Diggers Song (We're in the Money)" from beginning of
first chorus, going under Paul Harvey in measure three. Continues very
softly through first sixteen bars, ending on fermata]

Paul Harvey: It was during the Depression that radio's "Golden Age" began.
Most could not often afford a movie--few could afford phonograph records.
Yet day in and day out, at the tip of a finger,
was---radio---music---drama---news and sports.
We never had to leave our living rooms---
Never had to buy a ticket---
Never had to---
But now we're getting ahead of ourselves.
We have most of two hours tonight to relate radio's exciting evolution.
We have some of today's distinguished radio names to celebrate.
I was not there the day Marconi delivered us from the endless stillness.
I was there when radio was weaned.
I am there to help it emerge now from a sometimes awkward puberty---
But close your eyes---lend us your ears and you will see---the best of times
is now---and better yet is what's to be!

[ORCHESTRA plays reprise of "Best of Times"

Applause

Announce: The Radio Hall of Fame broadcast continues---after these messages.

ORCHESTRA continues into break]

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