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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2018 : Issue 52
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


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  This week in radio history 16-22 Sep  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 13:55:14 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 16-22 September

 From Those Were The Days

9/18

1927   The Columbia Broadcasting System was born on this day in 1927.
CBS broadcast an opera, The King's Henchman, as its first program.

1948   The Original Amateur Hour returned to radio on ABC, two years
after the passing of the program's originator and host, Major Bowes.
Bowes brought new star talent into living rooms for 13 years.

9/19

It was just an average day this day in 1932, when Just Plain Bill was
first heard on CBS. It was "The real life story of people just like
people we all know." The 15 minute show (Monday through Friday at 7:15
[removed]) was all about (just plain) Bill Davidson and his daughter, Nancy,
who lived in (just plain) Hartville. Since Bill was the town barber,
everybody came to him with their problems    and Bill helped them
straighten things out.

Instead of playing the usual organ, as a first, Hal Brown played
harmonica and whistled the Just Plain Bill introduction music (Darling
Nellie Gray). Hal also handled the closing theme (Polly Wolly Doodle) in
the same manner.

The show, created by Frank and Anne Hummert, who also came up with Mr.
Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, Little Orphan Annie, Amanda of Honeymoon
Hill, Front Page Farrell, John's Other Wife, Mr. Chameleon, Our Gal
Sunday and many other radio dramas, later moved to NBC. Just Plain Bill
chalked up 23 years on the air, until 30 September, 1955. A few of the
Just Plain Bill sponsors over the years were Kolynos toothpaste and
Clapp's baby [removed]

9/20

1921   KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania started one of the first daily
radio newscasts in the country. The broadcast came from the city desk of
The Pittsburgh Post.

1953   Jimmy Stewart debuted in The Six Shooter on NBC. He played Britt
Ponset on the Western.

9/21

1946   After being tested on a regional basis, The Second Mrs. Burton
was heard for the first time on the entire CBS network. The Second Mrs.
Burton fared very well, having a relationship with the network for 14 years.

1948   The serial Life With Luigi debuted on CBS. Luigi Basko was played
by J. Carroll Naish. Naish, an Irish American, became typecast as an
Italian immigrant, and went on to play the same role in the TV version
in 1952.

9/22

1943   Singer Kate Smith finished her War Bond radio appeal. For 13
continuous hours Smith had stayed on the air, collecting a whopping $39
million dollars in bond pledges.  ($56,2077,031 in 2017 dollars.)

1957   The CBS Radio Workshop was silenced after 18 months of what the
critics said was "ingenious radio programming."

Joe

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