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The OTRNow Radio Program 2024-034Benny Goodman and His Orchestra. October 27, 1937. CBS net. Sustaining. A band remote from The Madhattan Room of The Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City. The first tune is, "When Buddha Smiles.". Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, Mel Allen (announcer), Martha Tilton (vocal), Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson, Gene Krupa, Ziggy Elman.My Friend Irma. December 01, 1947. CBS net. Sponsored by: Swan, Spry. After Irma and Al find a handbag on the street, they try to return it to the owner. This causes a mix-up with petty cash from Jane's office. Marie Wilson, Cathy Lewis, John Brown, Leif Erickson, Hans Conried, Frank Bingman (announcer), Cy Howard (creator, writer, producer, director). The Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel. September 12, 1942. NBC net. Sponsored by: Colgate Shave Cream. Bill Stern, Harry James. The N.K. Musical Showroom. October 24, 1945. CBS net, KNX, Los Angeles aircheck. Sponsored by: Nash, Kelvinator. The first tune is, "Strike Up The Band, Here Comes A Sailor." The girls also sing, "Take It Away," "Gotta Be This Or That" and "The Lullabye Of Broadway." Guest Lou Holtz tells jokes about his pal "Lapidus.". The Andrews Sisters, Curt Massey, Vic Schoen and His Orchestra, Andre Baruch (announcer), Lou Holtz. Casey, Crime Photographer. January 29, 1948. CBS net. "The Piggy Bank Robbery". Sponsored by: Anchor Hocking Glass. Bill Shapiro, cub photographer, has been beaten up after his son's piggy bank has been robbed! The key to the mystery...is a key! Ethelbert the bartender observes that the president of CBS has predicted that some day radios will be small enough to wear on one's wrist!. Alonzo Deen Cole (writer), Archie Bleyer (music), Bill Adams, Herman Chittison (piano), Jan Miner, John Dietz (director), John Gibson, Staats Cotsworth, Tony Marvin (announcer), George Harmon Coxe (creator). Suspense. September 02, 1942. CBS net. "The Hitch-hiker". Sustaining. One of the great supernatural stories ever on radio, a modern classic. A cross country motorist sees a man by the side of the road, with spots of fresh rain on his shoulder!. Lucille Fletcher (writer), Orson Welles, William Spier (producer, director), Bernard Herrmann (composer, conductor), John Dietz (guest director), John Brown (?), Berry Kroeger (announcer).

It's Time To Smile. January 15, 1941. Red net. Sponsored by: Ipana, Sal Hepatica. Eddie's opening monologue is about winter sports and skiing. Dinah Shore sings, "Number Ten, Lullaby Lane." Eddie is in charge of his own motion picture company and guest Phil Harris is going to star in his next picture. Eddie Cantor, Dinah Shore, Cookie Fairchild and His Orchestra, Phil Harris, Harry Von Zell (announcer).Love Story. August 13, 1937. Program #21. MacGregor and Sollie syndication, RCA transcription. "Devil Wind". Sponsored by: Music fill for local commercial insert.Radio Guild. April 13, 1940. Blue Network. "The Ineffable Essence Of Nothing". Sustaining. "A fantasy for radio." A truly creative experiment in radio drama, and thoroughly enjoyable. A man walks through an enchanted doorway into his own future. The script was broadcast twice previously in 1938, "the second performace in its second version.". Ian Martin, Ian MacAllaster, Ranald MacDougall (writer), Eric Dressler, Howard Smith, Harry Nevel, Lotte Stavisky, Kay Lee, Gene Hamilton (? announcer)Rogers Of The Gazette. June 10, 1953. CBS net. Sustaining. Will is planning to write a story about Lance O'Neill, Illyria's famous artist, despite the opposition of the powerful Mrs. Hannibal. No music cues. The date above is possibly the recording date, July 8, 1953 is possibly the broadcast date. See cat. #65176 for the final show with music cues. Will Rogers Jr., E. Jack Neuman (writer), Georgia Ellis, Parley Baer, Byron Kane, John Dehner, Mary McGovern, Howard McNear, Bob Lemond (announcer), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Walter Brown Neuman (writer).Rocky Fortune. February 16, 1954. NBC net. "One Husband Too Many". Sustaining. Fine cops and robbers with Frank in a straight non-singing role. Well-written and fine Sinatra. A case of too many husbands after Rocky is hired by a beautiful woman to kill her husband...for $5000!. Frank Sinatra, Betty Lou Gerson, Barney Phillips, Norm Sickle (writer), Andrew C. Love (director), John Stevenson, Maurice HartSuspicion_1935_e001_Double_CrossThe Shadow. September 26, 1937. Mutual net. "The Death House Rescue". Sponsored by: Blue Coal. The first show of the series with "The Shadow" as a force against crime and not just a phantom announcer. Just before an innocent man is to be executed for murder, The Shadow uses mental telepathy to get the goods on the real killers. A good show with an intelligent plot. Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead, William Johnstone, Jeanette Nolan, Ray Collins (triples), Paul Stewart, Elia Kazan, Everett Sloane (quadruples), Paul Huber (commercial spokesman), Frank Readick (opening and closing voice), Arthur Whiteside (announcer), Edward Hale Bierstadt (writer), Elsie Thompson (organist), Clark Andrews (producer), Martin Gabel (director), Edith Meiser (story editor), Walter B. Gibson (story consultant), J. R. Poppele (sound engineer), Thomas Coffin Cooke (commercial spokesman, as "John Barclay"), Walter Gibson (writer). TOTAL TIME: 2:53:47.643SOURCES: Wikipedia and The RadioGoldindex.com

Maxwell House Coffee Time. September 26, 1946. NBC net. Sponsored by: Maxwell House Coffee, Birdseye Foods. George and Gracie go on a quiz show to win new appliances. They're going to appear on, "It Pays To Be A Schnook," but wind up on Kay Kyser's show instead. Kay Kyser sounds like he is being impersonated. The Maxwell House production commercial is based on, "Ramona.". George Burns, Gracie Allen, Meredith Willson and His Orchestra, Frank Nelson, Bill Goodwin, Kay Kyser (?), Mel Blanc, Paul Henning (writer), Keith Fowler (writer).Frontier Gentleman. February 02, 1958. CBS net. "South Sunday". Sustaining. The first show of the series. Kendall takes on the entire Shelton gang in a small town in the Montana Territory. Parts of the public service announcements have been deleted. The story titles given for this series are subject to correction, in fact, the series may not have story titles at all. John Dehner, Jack Kruschen, Harry Bartell, Barney Phillips, Virginia Gregg, Stacy Harris, Johnny Jacobs (announcer), Antony Ellis (creator, writer, producer, director), Jerry Goldsmith (composer, conductor).The Lux Radio Theatre. October 11, 1937. CBS net. "Stella Dallas". Sponsored by: Lux. The third anniversary show of the series. A tearful story of mother love and sacrifice, "soon to be made into a radio serial.". Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil, Bruce Satterlee, Cecil B. DeMille, Dickie Jones, Elia Braca (doubles), Frank Nelson (doubles, commercial spokesman, program opening announcer), Grace Kern (doubles), Hudson Faussett (doubles), Jack Egger, James Eagles (doubles), Joan Taylor (doubles, commercial spokesman), Lou Merrill, Louis Silvers (music director), Margaret Brayton (triples), Margaret McKay (doubles), Mary Lansing (doubles), Melville Ruick (announcer), Ross Forrester (doubles), Sada Cowan (doubles), Teresa Harris (doubles), Wallis Roberts (doubles), Sarah Y. Mason (screenwriter), Victor Heerman (screenwriter), Harry Wagstaff (adaptor), Gertrude Purcell (adaptor), Joe Bigelow (additional dialogue), Frances Marion (screenwriter), Olive Higgins Prouty (author), T. Keith Glennon (intermission guest: operations manager for Paramount), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). Crime Classics. December 3, 1952. CBS net. "The Crime Of Bathsheba Spooner". Sustaining. An audition recording. The script was used for the first show of the series on June 15, 1953. The story of the first woman tried and executed in the United states. Lou Merrill (host), Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), Bernard Herrmann (composer, conductor), Elliott Lewis (producer, director), Mary Jane Croft, William Johnstone, Tudor Owen, Georgia Ellis, Herb Butterfield, Ben Wright, Sam Edwards.Lights Out. March 09, 1943. Program #21. CBS net origination, syndicated rebroadcast. "The Ball". Sponsored by: Commercials added locally. A ghastly story of the headless, walking dead. Syndicated program name: "The Devil and Mr. O." The story is also known as, "Paris Macabre." See cat. #77942 for a network, sponsored version of this broadcast. Arch Oboler (writer, host), Bea Benaderet, Jane Morgan.TOTAL TIME: 2:59:13.184SOURCES: Wikipedia and The RadioGoldindex.com