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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2014 : Issue 31
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 23-29 Mar  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Dick Tracy                            [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 10:14:56 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 23-29 March

     From Those Were The Days

    3/23

    1940   Truth or Consequences was first heard on radio. Ralph Edwards
    produced and hosted the [removed] The show was originally heard on only
    four CBS stations. Later, NBC picked up the show where it eventually
    became the most popular of all radio quiz shows.

    3/24

    1932   Belle Baker hosted a radio variety show from a moving train ... a
    first for radio broadcasting. The program originated from a Baltimore
    and Ohio train that chugged its way around the New York area. The
    broadcast was heard on WABC in New York City.

    1935   After a year as a local show from New York City, Major Bowes'
    Original Amateur Hour was heard on the entire NBC network. The show
    stayed on the air for 17 years. Later, Ted Mack took over for Bowes and
    made the move from radio to television.

    3/25

    1943   Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore premiered on network radio. The
    pair replaced the popular Abbott and Costello following Lou Costello's
    heart attack. Durante and Moore stayed on the air for four years.

    3/27

    1943   Blue Ribbon Town was first heard on CBS.

    3/28

    1941   Louella Parsons hosted Hollywood Premiere for the first time on
    CBS. The gossip columnist introduced famous guests who appeared in
    dramatized stories.

    1944   WQXR in New York City, owned by The New York Times newspaper,
    banned singing commercials from its airwaves as of this day.
    Understandable, since the station has always been the classical music
    voice of Manhattan and there aren't many classical singing commercials.

    3/29

    1932   Jack Benny appeared on radio for the first time. He agreed to
    join then newspaper columnist, Ed Sullivan, on his interview show.

    1937   The serial, Our Gal Sunday, debuted. The question, "Can this girl
    from a small mining town in the West find happiness as the wife of a
    wealthy and titled Englishman?" was asked each day for next 22 years.

    Joe

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    Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 10:16:59 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Dick Tracy

    The music for television's DICK TRACY can be heard on numerous CBS radio
    programs. The producers made the TV series on the cheap and licensed the
    music from CBS. This was, of course, a few years prior to the law that went
    into effect that stated TV producers were required to pay for original music
    for a minimal thirteen episodes per season of shows. This was clarified
    during the DICK TRACY presentation at last year's MANC Convention which also
    explained in detail the fire that burned the 35mm masters with all 52 DICK
    TRACY TV shows. Thankfully, most of the episodes exist courtesy of 16mm
    masters. MG

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: Yes, of course, but we were specifically referring to the
    library cut used for the _theme_ of the show.  --cfs3]

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    Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 10:17:06 -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" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."
    Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at:
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    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    THE RUDY VALLEE SHOW
    "The Fleischmann Hour"
    Episode 295 6-13-35 "Spring Song"
    Features: Lyle Talbot, Ruth Easton, Aline Berry, Buddy Baer, Bobby Burns
    (First Network Appearance).
    NBC Fleischmann's Yeast Thursdays 8:00 - 9:00 pm

    THE NIGHTWATCH - TEN TALES OF HORROR
    Episode 1 1974 "Julie And David's Honeymoon"
    Readings by: F. Peter Lee
    Mutual Syndicated

    THE RUDY VALLEE SHOW
    "The Fleischmann Hour"
    Episode 190 5-8-33 "Bob Hope's Debut"
    Features: Bob Hope (debut), Polly Moran, Leo Carrillo, Rudy Wiedoeft,
    Benny Krueger, Katherine Perry
    NBC Fleischmann's Yeast Thursdays 8:00 - 9:00 pm
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    THE QUIZ KIDS
    (NBC) 4/16/41 Quizmaster, Joe Kelly welcomes guest, Jack Benny to the
    program.

    LIGHTS OUT
    (CBS) 7/27/43 Ironized Yeast sponsors Arch Oboler's 2nd incarnation on
    the show, with the very strange story, "The Little People."

    THE ADV. OF SUPERMAN
    3/15/40 Clark is able to get off the icy wing of a plane. Can you name
    the young actor playing 'Anderson' ?
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    This week we continue with Week 3 of show parodies.
    THE WHISTLER from 06/29/52 Episode (526) Night Flight AFRTS.

    THE JACK BENNY SHOW from 10/20/46 The Fiddler Parody.

    THE LONE RANGER from 05/05/41 Episode (509) Gambler Draws A Blank.

    PHILCO RADIO TIME Starring Bing Crosby from 01/07/48 Lone Ranger Parody
    Walter O'keefe, Brace Beemer.
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    This Week's Classics & Curios Show:

    "Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

    Episode 114

    BURNS & ALLEN SHOW: "GRACIE'S CULTURE SCHOOL"

    In keeping with the the spirit of the Lum & Abner Golden Era Discovery
    Club, we'll pay a visit to the "Burns & Allen Show" to experience
    Gracie's Culture School, the "treasurer" of which is a Professor by the
    name of Bollingbroke, played by Hans Conried. Gracie's sweet, naive,
    innocent, and "dizzy-minded" character fits right in with the comic
    nature of bringing "uncultured culture" to characters on the show.

    The first episode, from 01-18-44, is a reprise from my archives of
    02-12-12 and sets the stage for the continuation and "culmination" of
    Gracie's "school" in a following episode from 01-25-44, this one not
    previously in my archives. That first episode reveals that professor
    Bollingbroke's School of Drama and Culture is in need of a home because
    the professor has been kicked out of his living quarters. Gracie offers
    her home for the school, and soon guest star William Bendix unwittingly
    becomes Gracie's first "pupil." She promises to make a suave,
    sophisticated leading man and gentleman out of him like Ronald Coleman
    and to enable him at least to meet, in the words of William Bendix, an
    "ugly dame" with class. Gracie is not successful, of course, but we can
    enjoy the "Four Hits & a Miss" who sing "My Ideal," and George
    contributes his brand of class for Bendix with "I Ain't Got Nobody."
    Herbert Marshall, in a serious classy appearance at the end of the show,
    urges listeners to support the March of Dimes.

    Finally, after this initial Culture School "Burns & Allen" show we offer
    a "Classics & Curios Collector Extra" featuring Horace Heidt and his
    Musical Knights and the vocal group "Donna and Her Don Juans," a popular
    group probably known to George and Gracie in 1942. A member of the "Don
    Juans" was Ralph Cramden's buddy Ed Norton, [removed] Art Carney, pictured
    on the left, who sang with the group for a time, along with Gordon
    MacRrae. They perform "This Is the Army, Mr. Jones."

    The second episode of Gracie's Culture School, as expected, involves
    some zany misunderstandings. George thinks Gracie is having an affair
    with another man, namely Paul Henreid, who has inadvertently become
    involved with the Culture School. George asks Gracie if she still loves
    him, and after Gracie allays his fears, George says, "You wouldn't pull
    my leg would you?" Gracie responds, "Anything to make you happy. Lift it
    up!" When Henried realizes there is only one "humane" way to escape the
    school and the complicated misunderstandings, he pretends to be
    uncultured and calls Gracie "Toots," So "Toots" then decides she no
    longer wants to claim his association with the Culture School. Meanwhile
    George turns on the charm to affirm Gracie's affection and kisses her
    hand, arm, and elbow. He bluntly asks if she indeed loves him more than
    Paul Henreid, to which she replies, "Of course! Paul Henreid couldn't
    like you more than I do."

    All's well that ends well, and announcer/actor Bill Goodwin appeals to
    the radio audience to save cooking fat to support the war effort. Along
    the way, Jimmy Cash sings "I've Had That Feeling Before," and by show's
    end Gracie's Culture School finally has faded into radio history to join
    the Golden Era Discovery Club of Lum and Abner.

    During 1944, the same year of these "Burns & Allen" broadcasts, one of
    radio's "Fitch Bandwagon" shows featured Benny Goodman and his new
    orchestra, with special host Dick Powell. As a "Classics & Curios Extra"
    we'll hear the "Fitch Bandwagon" theme and Benny and his orchestra
    playing "Bugle Call Rag," a rather appropriate follow-up to "This Is the
    Army, Mr. Jones," the "Extra" we heard after the initial "Burns & Allen"
    Culture School program. Later we'll try to play the entire "Bandwagon"
    broadcast with Benny from 09-24-44.

    Meanwhile, as the Fitch commercial told us, after the "Bandwagon" show
    had added weekly comedy skits -- quoted here with special emphasis on
    the first two lines:

    Laugh a while,
    Let a song be your style!
    (Use Fitch Shampoo!

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    If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

          Jerry Haendiges

          Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
          The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
          Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
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