Thursday Night - Old Time Radio

A Tribute to Art Linkletter

Joy jackson Tells us about the Cincinnati OTR Convention Report.

John Beaulieu
We have from the program “Let George Do It,” “The Unfit Mother,” and another great program that ran simultaneously on radio and TV called “My Little Margie,” entitled: “Vern has 30 days to live.”

Kelly sapergia played tales of the Texas Rangers, “Playing for keeps.” Drag Net”The Big Fake.”

In this week’s audio community room we pay a tribute to ernie harwell, a sports icon and the baseball radio announcer for the Detroit Tigers for 42 years. Ernie passed away at the age of 92. We also played “The Fall of the house of usher.”

Joy Jackson indtroduces us to a wealthy man about town who leads a double life, fighting injustice. Is it Batman? Superman? Zorro? No, but the character that inspired all the super-heroes: The Scarlet Pimpernel. After that we ride with the greatest pirate of them all in Afloat with Henry Morgan.
Also played in the chatroom that night:
Joy read a couple of pages from Over Periscope Pond by Esther Sayles Root and Marjorie Crocker, having to do with soldiers blinded in world war I.
Dave McElroy played his dad’s v-disk from Jan 1945 recorded in Hawaii
Dave also shared a version of Remember Radio adapted and sung by some British artists, played on Fred Fielding’s show on the BBC. If anyone has the full copy of that version of the song, please let him know.

Bob’s Birthday hosted by Rotten Rick Spurgeon
This week “Rotten Rick Spurgeon” was our host. let us see what he will be playing.
At this point I’m supposed to tell you what to look forward to as Rotten Rick takes to cyberspace for yet another assault on your ears. But this time I just aint gonna do it. We will all be surprised together. Oh, all right, I guess I’m obliged to give you a hint. If you think carefully about why this presentation would be a surprise, you’ll probably even have a fighting chance at guessing its content. Join me and see how well developed are your powers of deductive reasoning. Bob has given you a few clues in the past weeks.

Hello again, it’s time for another what once was radio. Thursday April 15th kinda has a ring to it. Oh yes I know why, it’s tax day and being the retired tax man I guess I should do something dealing with taxes. I guess then I will. How about Burns and Allen and income tax time and Father Knows Best and the income tax mix up. Sounds like a real winner to me and I’m sure you’ll enjoy it too.
John Beaulieu

Hosted by Kelly Sapergia
For Thursday, I’ll be featuring “The April Fool’s Day Adventure” from The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, followed by “The Circle of Death” from The Shadow.

Eddie Carroll at Cincinnati convention 2009 Interview Played By Joy jackson

Lately, on Rotten Rick’s Radio Renaissance we’ve been playing shows with a particular point of view, so this time why don’t we just sit back and have some good radio purely for its entertainment. Fibber and Molly lead off from February 1949 as Fiber lives up to his name. Then we’ll go back a couple more years for what I consider to be a really fine Suspense episode featuring Ava Gardner and Howard Duff. So, let’s get together and hear what happens when we spin that radio dial once again.