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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 188
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      12-6 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      BBC 'Radio Times' archive             [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
      12-7 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Halloween SummersTime posted          [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
      12-9 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 8-15 Dece  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 14:06:16 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-6 births/deaths

    December 6th births

    12-06-1887 - Lynn Fontanne - Waterford, England - d. 7-30-1983
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Biography In Sound"
    12-06-1888 - Will Hay - Stockton-on-Tees, England - d. 4-18-1949
    comedian: British Radio
    12-06-1893 - Alma Platts - d. 7-13-1970
    actor: "The World's Great Novels"
    12-06-1895 - Lou Little - Boston, MA - d. 5-28-1979
    football coach: "Football Forecasts"; "Friday Night Quarterback"
    12-06-1896 - Ira Gershwin - NYC - d. 8-17-1983
    songwriter: "Lady in the Dark"; "Jolson Story"; "Barkleys of Broadway"
    12-06-1898 - Eric Sagerquist - Karlstad, Sweden - d. 9-11-1944
    orchestra leader/violinist: "First Nighter"; Romantic Melodies"
    12-06-1898 - Gunnar Myrdal - Gustafs, Sweden - d. 5-17-1987
    1974 nobel prize winner in economics: "United Nations Today"
    12-06-1898 - Jack Beall - Waxahachie, TX - d. 1-1-1963
    newscaster: "News of Tomorrow"; "American Legion Presents"
    12-06-1900 - Agnes Moorehead - Clinton, MA - d. 4-30-1974
    actor: Margo Lane "The Shadow";  Marilly "Mayor of the Town"
    12-06-1900 - Robert Effros - London, England - d. 9-12-1983
    trumpeter: "Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra", "Your Hit Parade"
    12-06-1903 - Hugh Farr - Llano, TX - d. 3-17-1980
    singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) "The Roy Rogers Show"
    12-06-1904 - Elissa Landi - Venice, Italy - d. 10-21-1948
    actor: "I'm An American"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-06-1904 - Eve Curie Lubouisse - Paris, France - d. 10-22-2007
    writer: (Daughter of Marie Curie) "This I Believe"
    12-06-1909 - Lyn Murray - London, England - d. 5-20-1989
    conductor: "Chesterfield Presents"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Ford Theatre"
    12-06-1913 - Karl Haas - Speyer-on-the-Rhine, Germany - d. 2-6-2005
    musician, broadcaster: "Adventures in Good Music"
    12-06-1913 - Oswald Hoffman - Nebraska - d. 9-8-2005
    preacher: "The Lutheran Hour"
    12-06-1916 - Elmore Balthis - d. 10-31-1989
    newscaster: KCOK Tulare, California
    12-06-1919 - Bob Blagg - d. 12-19-1998
    disk jockey: WDNE Elkins, West Virginia
    12-06-1920 - Dave Brubeck - Concord, CA - d. 12-5-2012
    jazz musician: "Dave Brubeck Quartet"
    12-06-1920 - Howard Atwell - d. 3-20-2002
    disk jockey: WVPO Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
    12-06-1924 - Eric Merriman - Golders Green, England - d. 6-2-2003
    writer, creator: "Beyond Our Ken"
    12-06-1924 - Susanna Foster - Chicago, IL - d. 1-17-2009
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Mail Call"
    12-06-1924 - Wally Cox - Detroit, MI - d. 2-15-1973
    comedian: "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Wally Cox Show"
    12-06-1925 - Robert William Cooke - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-5-1993
    saxophonist: "Stan Kenton and His Orchestra"
    12-06-1926 - Carroll Abbott - d. 7-6-1984
    sportscaster in Kerrville, Texas
    12-06-1934 - Vivienne Garrett - Iowa
    writer: "Breast Stroke"

    December 6th deaths

    01-03-1911 - Al Sack - NYC - d. 12-6-1947
    orchestra leader: "Beula Show"; "Tony Martin Show"; "Frank Morgan Show"
    01-07-1908 - Eliot Daniel - Massachusetts - d. 12-6-1997
    music: "Fabulous Dr. Tweddy"; "The King's Men"; "Rudy Vallee Show"
    01-11-1910 - Izler Soloman - Minneapolis, MN - d. 12-6-1987
    conductor: "Design for Living"; "Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra!
    01-19-1909 - Hans Hotter - Offenback am Main, Germany - d. 12-6-2003
    bass-baritone: "Metropolitan Opera"
    01-29-1885 - Leadbelly (Huddie Leadbetter) - Louisiana - d. 12-6-1949
    jazz musician: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin street"
    02-02-1893 - Len Doyle - Toledo, OH - d. 12-6-1959
    actor: Harrington "Mr, Distric Attorney"
    02-23-1892 - Kathleen Harrison - Blackburn, England - d. 12-6-1995
    actor: ""Meet the Huggetts"
    03-22-1899 - Douglas Stanbury - Canada - d. 12-6-1980
    baritone: "Roxy's Gang"; "Kraft Music Hall"
    04-07-1915 - Fred B. Cole - Hingham, MA - d. 12-6-2007
    voice of the big bands
    05-23-1912 - John Payne - Roanoke, VA - d. 12-6-1989
    actor: "Hollywood Star Preview"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-31-1908 - Don Ameche - Kenosha, WI - d. 12-6-1993
    actor, singer: John Bickerson "Bickersons"; Captain Hughes "Jack
    Armstrong"
    06-30-1910 - Sundra Love - Chicago, IL - d. 12-6-1996
    actor: Kay Fairchild "Stepmother"; Ethel Foster "Guiding Light"
    08-01-1910 - Jerry Mann - NYC - d. 12-6-1987
    singer: (The Jerry Mann Voices) "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"
    09-12-1897 - Walter B. Gibson - Germantown, PA - d. 12-6-1985
    creater of "The Shadow"; writer for "The Avenger"
    09-24-1921 - Edward Bryce - Allenport, PA - d. 12-6-1999
    actor: Captain Strong "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
    10-05-1911 - Jonquil Anthony/Antony - London, England - d. 12-6-1980
    scriptwriter: "Mrs. Dale's Diary"
    10-13-1917 - Burr Tillstrom - Chicago, IL - d. 12-6-1985
    actor, puppeteer: "The Northerners"; "Kukla, Fran and Ollie"
    11-01-1942 - Michael Zaslow - Inglewood, CA - d. 12-6-1998
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    11-03-1909 - James Reston - Clyde Bank, Scotland - d. 12-6-1995
    new york times columnist: "University of Chicago Round Table"; "Meet
    the Press"
    11-12-1940 - Robert Francis Boulanger - Lewiston, ME - d. 12-6-2005
    sang on the radio at the age of 7
    11-23-1915 - Ellen Drew - Kansas City, MO - d. 12-6-2003
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Suspense"
    11-24-1925 - Alum Owen - Menai Bridge, North Wales - d. 12-6-1994
    writer: "Two Sons"; "It Looks Like Rain"
    12-26-1874 - Leon Rothier - Rheims, France - d. 12-6-1951
    opera singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"

    Ron

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    Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 14:06:22 -0500
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    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  BBC 'Radio Times' archive
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    Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 14:06:31 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-7 births/deaths

    December 7th births

    12-07-1879 - Rudolf Friml - Prague, Bohemia - d. 11-12-1972
    operetta composer: "Railroad Hour"; "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
    12-07-1888 - Heywood Broun - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-18-1939
    theatre critic: "Author, Author"; "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
    12-07-1892 - Fay Bainter - Los Angeles, CA,  - d. 4-16-1968
    actor: "Nobody's Children"; "Cavalcade of America"
    12-07-1901 - Jack Taylor - Summershade, KY - d. 8-4-1962
    singer: (Prairie Ramblers) "Smile-a-While"
    12-07-1904 - Bob Brown - NYC - d. 2-14-1988
    announcer: "Vic and Sade"; "Quicksilver"; "This Amazing America"
    12-07-1905 - Charles Magnante - d. 12-30-1986
    accordionist: "Major Bowes Capitol Family"; "Singin' Sam"; "Tony and
    Gus"
    12-07-1905 - Leonard Goldenson - Scottsdale, PA - d. 12-27-1999
    owner of the ABC network
    12-07-1906 - Fred Stewart - Atlanta, GA - d. 12-5-1970
    actor: "The Columbia Workshop"
    12-07-1908 - Beatrice Churchill - d. 12-13-2006
    actor: Betty Drake "Betty and Bob"
    12-07-1909 - Arch Oboler - Chicago, IL - d. 3-19-1987
    writer: 'Lights Out"; "Adam and Eve skit on Bergen/McCarthy"
    12-07-1910 - Charles Baltin - d. 11-9-1992
    newscaster: WHOM Jersey City, New Jersey
    12-07-1910 - Rod Cameron - Calgary, Alberta, Canada - d. 12-21-1983
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    12-07-1912 - Louis Prima - New Orleans,LA - d. 8-24-1978
    jazz trumpeter: "You Can't Have Everything"; "Songs by Sinatra"; "The
    Navy Swings"
    12-07-1915 - Eli Wallach - Brooklyn, NY
    actor: "Eternal Light"
    12-07-1916 - Dorothea Brooking - Buckinghamshire, England - d. 3-23-1999
    announcer for the BBC
    12-07-1918 - Hurd Hatfield - NYC - d. 12-25-1998
    actor: "Best Plays"; "Crime Does Not Pay"
    12-07-1918 - Randy Atcher - d. 10-9-2002
    disk jockey: "Old Kentucky Barn Dance"
    12-07-1920 - Frances Gifford - Long Beach, CA - d. 1-22-1994
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-07-1922 - Don Maddox - Boaz, AL
    "The Maddox Brothers and Rose"
    12-07-1928 - Rosemary Squires - Bristol, Avon, England
    singer: "Children's Hour"
    12-07-1939 - Nomi Mitty - NYC - d. 8-24-1994
    actor: "The Goldbergs"

    December 7th deaths

    01-12-1916 - Jay McShann - Muskogee, OK - d. 12-7-2006
    jazz pianist and bandleader: "Jubilee"; "Jazz Alive"
    02-27-1910 - Joan Bennett - Palisades, NJ - d. 12-7-1990
    actor: "Ford Theatre"; "MGM Theatre of the Air"; "Skippy Hollywood
    Theatre"
    03-01-1921 - Kenny Baker - Yorkshire, England - d. 12-7-1999
    trumpeter: "Let's Settle for Music"
    03-06-1904 - Hugh Williams - Bexhill-on-Sea, England - d. 12-7-1969
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    03-12-1914 - Loretta Poynton - Jackson, MI - d. 12-7-1991
    actor: Betty Fairfield "Jack Armstrong"; Ruth Morrow "Flying Time"
    03-25-1919 - Jeanne Cagney - NYC - d. 12-7-1984
    actor: (Sister of James Cagney) "Movietone Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"
    04-01-1884 - Laurette Taylor - NYC - d. 12-7-1946
    actor: "The Everedy Hour"
    04-10-1915 - Harry (Henry) Morgan - Detroit, MI - d. 12-7-2011
    actor: "Mystery in the Air"
    04-17-1897 - Thornton Wilder - Madison, WI - d. 12-7-1975
    writer: "This Is My Best"
    06-07-1891 - Alois Havrilla - Pressov, Hungary - d. 12-7-1952
    announcer: "Campbell Soup Orchestra"; "Jack Benny Program"
    06-21-1925 - Desmond Briscoe - Birkenhead, England - d. 12-7-2006
    sound technician and effects cooridinator for the BBC Radio
    06-23-1914 - Nat Hiken - Chicago, IL - d. 12-7-1968
    creator, director, writer: "Magnificent Montague"; "Texaco Star Theatre"
    07-01-1913 - Dolph Nelson - d. 12-7-1981
    actor, director: "Captain Midnight"; "Art Linkletter's House Party"
    07-04-1883 - Rube Goldberg - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-7-1970
    cartoonist: "Famous Comic Artists"; "The Shell Show"; "Biography in
    Sound"
    07-12-1895 - Kirsten Flagstad - Hamar, Norway - d. 12-7-1962
    opera singer: "General Motors Concerts"; "Metropolitan Opera"
    08-07-1904 - Dr. Ralph Bunche - Detroit, MI - d. 12-7-1971
    activist: "The Big Show"
    09-27-1918 - Barclay Allen - d. 12-7-1966
    pianist/composer: "Freddy Martin, His Singing Saxophone and His
    Orchestra"
    09-29-1910 - Bill Boyd - Fannin County, Texas - d. 12-7-1977
    singer: (Cowboy Ramblers) WRR Dallas, Texas
    09-30-1911 - Jerry Scoggins - Mount Pleasant, TX - d. 12-7-2004
    singer: (Member of the Cass County Boys) "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"
    10-17-1910 - George W. Briggs, Jr. - Taunton, MA - d. 12-7-1994
    staff pianist and arranger for WBZ radio
    12-15-1901 - Gail Bonney - Columbus, OH - d. 12-7-1984
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Joan Davis Time"; "NBC University Theatre"

    Ron

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    Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 14:11:27 -0500
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Halloween SummersTime posted

    Folks;

       Finally got the Halloween edition of SummersTime posted to the [removed]
    you're in the mood for a little more fright before the upcoming holiday
    season, give it a listen. In this special, Kate and I are broadcasting direct
    from the Nostalgialand Cemetary, where old media are buried!

       [removed]

       ...for the podcast, which can be heard directly on the web page, or
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    to the podcast, either with the RSS feed or iTunes button directly on the
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             Charlie (who's working on a non-Christmas special for next week)

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    Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 14:11:37 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-9 births/deaths

    December 9th births

    12-09-1888 - John Henry Bodkin - Chicago, IL - d. 10-28-1967
    director: Abundant Life Mixed Chorus "Operatic Night"
    12-09-1897 - Herb Lytton - d. 6-26-1981
    actor: Bill Johnson "Gallant Heart"
    12-09-1897 - Hermione Gingold - London, England - d. 5-24-1987
    actor: "Stagestruck"
    12-09-1902 - Brace Beemer - Mount Carmel, IL - d. 3-1-1965
    actor: Lone Ranger "Lone Ranger"
    12-09-1902 - Joe Quillan - d. 12-30-1983
    writer: "The Eddie Cantor Show"; "Our Miss Brooks"
    12-09-1902 - Margaret Hamilton - Cleveland, OH - d. 5-16-1985
    actor: Aunt Effie "Couple Next Door"; "The Free Company"
    12-09-1903 - Matty Malneck - Newark, NJ - d. 2-25-1981
    bandleader: "Campana Serenade"; "Duffy's Tavern"
    12-09-1904 - Jerry Lesser - Cleveland, OH - d. unknown
    actor: Dr. Benson "Life of Mary Sothern"; Brocco "Fight Camp"
    12-09-1905 - Dalton Trumbo - Montrose, CO - d. 9-10-1976
    writer: (member of infamous Hollywood Ten); "Arch Oboler's Plays"
    12-09-1906 - Freddy Martin - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-30-1983
    bandleader: "Penthouse Serenade"; "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Jack Carson Show"
    12-09-1906 - Ken Niles - Livingston, MT - d. 10-31-1988
    announcer: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Rudy Vallee Show"; "A Date with Judy"
    12-09-1909 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. - NYC - d. 5-7-2000
    actor: "Silent Men"; "This Is War"; "We Care"
    12-09-1911 - Broderick Crawford - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-26-1986
    actor: "Hedda Hopper Show"; "Hallmark Playhouse"; Cavalcade of America"
    12-09-1912 - Bartlett Robinson - NYC - d. 3-26-1986
    actor: Walter Manning "Portia Faces Life"; Perry Mason "Perry Mason"
    12-09-1912 - Philip Guest Adams - d. 1-3-1998
    actor: "The Green Hornet"; "Gangbusters"
    12-09-1914 - Frances Reid - Wichita Falls, TX - d. 2-3-2010
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    12-09-1915 - Bob Emerick - Tacoma, WA - d. 6-1-1973
    announcer: "Two Thousand Plus"; "Mr. Feathers"; "Special Agent"
    12-09-1915 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Jarotschin, Posen, Germany - d.
    8-3-2006
    singer: Austrian Radio
    12-09-1916 - Kirk Douglas - Amsterdam, NY
    actor: "Doris Day Show"; "Hollywood Byline"; "Screen Director's
    Playhouse"
    12-09-1918 - George Heinemann - d. 8-21-1996
    creator: "Faces in the Window"
    12-09-1919 - Gil Rodin - Russia - d. 6-17-1974
    saxophone: "The Bob Crosby Show"
    12-09-1925 - Patricia Wheel - NYC - d. 6-3-1986
    actor: "Stroke of Fate"; "Crime and Peter Chambers"
    12-09-1927 - Benny Green - Leeds, England - d. 6-22-1998
    musician, conversationalist, writer: ""Stop the Week"; "Kaleidoscope"
    12-09-1928 - Dick Van Patten - Richmond Hill, Queens, NY
    actor: Wilfred Finnegan "Duffy's Tavern"; "Let's Pretend"; Jimmy Dugan
    "Reg'lar Fellers"
    12-09-1932 - Bill Hartack - Ebensburg, PA - d. 11-26-2007
    jockey: "Tops in Sports"
    12-09-1934 - Dame Judi Dench - York, England
    actor: Renaissance Theatre Company in association with BBC Radio Drama
    12-09-1934 - Junior Wells - Memphis, TN - d. 1-15-1998
    harmonica player: Muddy Waters Band
    12-09-1940 - Samar Attar - Damascus, Syria
    writer: "Australia Day"

    December 9th deaths

    01-03-1898 - John Loder - London, England - d. 12-9-1988
    actor, host: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Silver Theatre"
    01-07-1922 - Vincent Gardenia - Naples, Italy - d. 12-9-1992
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    01-22-1907 - Douglas 'Wrong-Way' Corrigan - Galveston, TX - d. 12-9-1995
    intrepid pilot: "Believe It or Not"
    01-28-1912 - Monty Masters - New Haven, CT - d. 12-9-1969
    actor, producer: "The Mad Masters"; "Candy Matson"
    02-15-1899 - Anthony Gilbert (Lucy Beatrice Malleson) - London,
    England - d. 12-9-1973
    author: "Black Death"
    02-29-1896 - William A. Wellman - Brookline, MA - d. 12-9-1975
    film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    03-13-1898 - Donald MacDonald - Denison, TX - d. 12-9-1959
    actor: Willie the Weep "Big Town"
    03-19-1906 - Pat Adelman - d. 12-9-1982
    sportscaster: Austin, Texas
    03-21-1911 - Henny Backus - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-9-2004
    actor: "Romance"
    04-28-1922 - Phil Tate - Bramley, England - d. 12-9-2005
    host: "Non-Stop Pop"
    06-05-1940 - David Brudnoy - Minneapolis, MN - d. 12-9-2004
    radio personality WBZ Boston, Massachusetts
    06-14-1919 - Gene Barry - NYC - d. 12-9-2009
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-26-1877 - William Hiram Foulkes - d. 12-9-1961
    presbyterian leader: mid-week inspirational talks
    07-16-1928 - Robert Sheckley - NYC - d. 12-9-2005
    writer: "X-Minus One"
    07-28-1916 - Laird Cregar - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-9-1944
    actor: "Hello, Americans"; "Radio Hall of Fame"; "Suspense"
    08-06-1881 - Louella Parsons - Freeport, IL - d. 12-9-1972
    commentator: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Louella Parsons"
    08-06-1912 - Marina Koshetz - Moscow, Russia - d. 12-9-2000
    singer: "Kraft Music Hall"
    08-08-1905 - Nino Martini - Verona, Italy - d. 12-9-1976
    singer: "Seven Star Revue"
    08-17-1919 - Georgia Gibbs - Worcester, MA - d. 12-9-2006
    singer: (Her Nibs) "Your Hit Parade"; "Camel Caravan"; "Philco Hall of
    Fame"
    10-09-1912 - Walter Compton - Charleston, SC - d. 12-9-1959
    quizmaster: "Double or Nothing"
    11-21-1908 - Marian Young Taylor - Star Lake, NY - d. 12-9-1973
    commentator: "Martha Deane Show";
    11-21-1921 - Vivian Blaine - Newark, NJ - d. 12-9-1995
    actor, singer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-08-1928 - Jay "Jaybird" Drennan - d. 12-9-2006
    country music disk jockey (Akron, Ohio)
    12-13-1913 - Archie Moore - Benoit, MS - d. 12-9-1998
    light heavyweight boxing champion: "Tops in Sports"
    12-18-1909 - George Fisher - d. 12-9-1987
    hollywood reporter: "Hollywood Whispers"; "Hollywood Gossip"
    12-25-1909 - Mike Mazurki - Tarnopol, Austria - d. 12-9-1990
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"

    Ron

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    Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 14:11:43 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 8-15 December

     From Those Were The Days -

    12/9

    1940   The Longines Watch Company signed for the first FM radio
    advertising contract with experimental station W2XOR in New York City.
    The ads ran for 26 weeks and promoted the Longines time signals.

    12/10

    1927   For the first time, famed radio announcer George Hay introduced
    the WSM Barn Dance as The Grand Ole Opry.

    12/11

    1944   The Chesterfield Supper Club debuted on NBC. Perry Como, Jo
    Stafford and many other stars of the day shared the spotlight on the 15
    minute show that aired five nights a week. The show was sponsored by
    Chesterfield cigarettes.

    (Little humour here:  The first display of the Northern Lights was
    recorded in America. The sighting was made in New England on this day in
    1719. The report said that a mysterious face seemed to appear in the
    atmosphere; and, since most aurora borealis displays occur in September
    and October and again in March and April, this is very strange, indeed!

    (The green, red, and frost white light displays occur most frequently
    when there is a great deal of sunspot activity.

    (Old joke.  Phil Harris and Alice Faye go to Alaska to see the Northern
    Lights.  While watching them Phil notices Alice yawning and asks, "Does
    the aurora bore ya Alice?")

    12/12

     From The [removed]

    1901    Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first
    transatlantic radio transmission in St. John's Newfoundland.

     From Those Were The Days

    1937   The Federal Communications Commission was a bit upset with NBC.
    The FCC scolded the radio network for a skit that starred Mae West. The
    satirical routine was based on the biblical tale of Adam and Eve but
    West's "suggestive" reading was not to network standards.  So, following
    its scolding by the FCC, NBC banned Miss West from its airwaves several
    years. Even the mere mention of her name on NBC was a no no, it is said.

    12/13

    1942   The characters of Allen's Alley were presented for the first time
    on The Fred Allen Show. This particular segment of the show became very
    popular and was used by Allen until 1949. Remember the stops along the
    way in Allen's Alley? They were at the Brooklyn tenement of Mrs.
    Nussbaum, the farmhouse of Titus Moody, the shack of Ajax Cassidy and
    the antebellum mansion of Senator Beauregard Claghorn.

    12/14

    1953   Fred Allen returned from semi-retirement to narrate Prokofiev's
    classic, Peter and the Wolf, on the Bell Telephone Hour on NBC.

    Joe

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