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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2019 : Issue 48
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      The Whistler                          [ Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 12-19 Oct  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 20-26 Oct  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Fibber and Molly prose                [ Joe Stevens <joestevensus@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 18:42:43 -0400
    From: Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Whistler
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    Researcher Karl Schadow and I offered a presentation about The Whistler
    series at the recent Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia [removed] presentation can
    be viewed on YouTube at [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 18:42:58 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 12-19 October

    10/13

     From [removed]

    1930  Groucho Marx made his radio debut introducing Heywood Broun on
    WABC, the New York affiliate of CBS.

    10/14

    1934   Folks had cleaner hands for 21 years beginning this day. The Lux
    Radio Theater was heard on the NBC Blue [removed] and nearly every
    famous Hollywood star over the next three decades appeared on the
    program. Lux Radio Theater adapted novels, Broadway plays and Hollywood
    films into radio's favorite dramatic series.

     From NYT Today in history

    In 1943, the Radio Corporation of America completed sale of the NBC Blue
      network to businessman Edward J. Noble for $8 million;
    ($11,748,851,188 in 2018 dollars) the network was renamed the American
    Broadcasting Company.

    10/16

    1939   Radio listeners welcomed The Right to Happiness on the NBC Blue
    network. The 15 minute drama turned out to be one of the longest running
    shows of its kind. It moved over to CBS in 1941, then back to NBC in
    1942. Fourteen years later Right to Happiness returned to CBS where it
    stayed until its last days in 1960. The show had a theme song, Song of
    the Soul, and what seemed like a cast of thousands. It just took a lot
    of different actors to play the continuing roles over a 21 year period.

    1945   Barry Fitzgerald starred as Judge Barnard Fitz in His Honor, the
    Barber, which debuted on NBC.

    10/17

    1919   The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed.

    1938   This was a big day in Tinseltown. NBC moved to the corner of
    Sunset and Vine, the 'Crossroads of the World'. The new Hollywood Radio
    City drew thousands of visitors ready to fill studio audience seats for
    popular radio programs.

    1938   Captain Midnight was heard on radio for the first time, on
    Mutual. The Captain flew his single engine plane all over the place
    fighting crime.

    10/18

    1922   As the British observed the wild growth of radio in the [removed],
    they realized the potential of broadcasting in their own country, as
    well as the need for its regulation. The British Broadcasting
    Corporation (BBC) was established on this day to monitor the development
    of the radio biz in Great Britain.

    1943   The first broadcast of Perry Mason was presented on CBS. In the
    15 minute (Monday Friday) shows, Perry was played by Barlett Robinson,
    Santos Ortega, Donald Briggs and John Larkin.

    10/19

    1937   "The freedom of the press is a flaming sword. Use it justly, hold
    it high, guard it well." The radio classic, Big Town, made its debut on
    CBS radio. Star reporters at the Illustrated Press, Steve Wilson and
    Lorelei Kilbourne, were played by Edward G. Robinson and Claire Trevor.
    Tell the Story was the theme song. Sponsors included Ironized Yeast
    tablets and Lifebuoy soap.

    Joe

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    Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 18:43:08 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 20-26 October

     From Those Were The Days

    10/20

    1930 - One of the most memorable of all radio shows, "The Adventures of
    Sherlock Holmes", was first heard on the NBC Red network. Its debut
    entry, "The Speckled Band",  featured William Gillette in the role of
    the famous detective. Gillette introduced Holmes to New York audiences
    as early as 1899 ... on the stage, not the radio, of course.

    1932 - Journalist Robert Trout joined CBS. Trout became a household name
    to CBS listeners.

    10/23

    1932 - Fred Allen made his radio debut. His wife, Portland Hoffa, joined
    him on the CBS radio broadcast. Allen's comedy-variety program was known
    as "The Linit Bath Club Revue". It then became "The Salad Bowl Revue",
    then, "The Sal Hapatica Revue", "The Hour of Smiles", "Town Hall
    Tonight", "The Texaco Star Theatre" and finally, someone with just a bit
    of sense, came up with "The Fred Allen Show". The comedic legend stayed
    on radio for 17 years.

    10/24

    1929   The Rudy Vallee Show was broadcast for the first time on NBC.
    Actually, the Rudy Vallee show had several different titles over the
    years,  all of which were referred to by the public as The Rudy Vallee
    Show.  Megaphone totin' Rudy and his Connecticut Yankees band were
    mainstays on radio into the late 1940s.

    10/25

    1937   Stella Dallas made her debut on the NBC Red network. Stella hung
    out  on NBC until 1955 with Anne Elstner in the title role for the
    entire run.  Stella Dallas was "A continuation on the air of the true
    life story of  mother love and sacrifice, in which Stella saw her own
    beloved daughter,  Laurel, marry into wealth and society, and realizing
    the difference in  their tastes and worlds, went out of Laurel's life."

    10/26

    1935   A talented 13 year old sang on Wallace Beery's NBC show. Judy
    Garland delighted the appreciative audience. The young girl would soon
    be in pictures and at the top of stardom. It would be only four years
    before Ms. Garland (George Jessel gave her the name, thinking it would
    be better than her own, Frances Gumm) captured the hearts of moviegoers
    everywhere with her performance as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.

    Joe

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    Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 18:43:15 -0400
    From: Joe Stevens <joestevensus@[removed];
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    Subject:  Fibber and Molly prose
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    I've been having fun writing prose versions of my fave old time radio show,
    Fibber Mcgee and Molly. I thought someone might enjoy reading this preview of
    what I hope is a series of books eventually. I'm off to the hospital and
    recovery for a while, so it won't happen soon. The first story was fan
    fiction I did years ago. Note these are from the earliest Fibber and Molly
    shows I could find.

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