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Re: Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenberg on WNBC, New York

Walden Hughes
 

Have you put Bill Brown in www.radiogoldindex.com

 

 

 

From: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io [mailto:main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io] On Behalf Of Neal Lavon
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2023 7:54 AM
To: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io
Subject: Re: [OldTimeRadioResearchers] Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenberg on WNBC, New York

 

Yes, the guest was a 16 year-old kid named Billy Brown from Yorktown Heights, New York.

Billy Brown hosted a very popular and influential Voice of America shortwave broadcast to Pakistan and the Near East in the early 1950s. The NY Times ran a front-page article on Brown on May 28, 1953, noting that the VOA had cancelled his program because they could not keep up with his fan mail.  An embarrassed Voice reinstated the program the next day.  But I am thinking that McCrary or his producers saw the article and booked Billy as a guest. Since May 28 was a Thursday in 1953, I thought the appearance would have been between Friday, May 29, and sometime the next week, which is more likely.

 

Brown's family has a copy of a 15-minute studio recording of the interview that McCrary did with Billy Brown. In the recording, McCrary says listeners would hear a snippet from Billy's VOA program.  After he says that, there is a pause, where a segment of Billy's show would have been inserted by program producers in a final tape for broadcast. That snippet could be the only record of his VOA program that exists.  A similar segment of his show also was used in a Mutual Radio broadcast of Radio Newsreel around the same time.


Thanks for the reply.

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Neal Lavon

Re: The Suspense Project: A daily blog that posts Suspense episodes in order -- starts today...

Tom G.
 

This is great. Something to look forward to every day.
Re: Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenberg on WNBC, New York

Neal Lavon
 

Yes, the guest was a 16 year-old kid named Billy Brown from Yorktown Heights, New York.

Billy Brown hosted a very popular and influential Voice of America shortwave broadcast to Pakistan and the Near East in the early 1950s. The NY Times ran a front-page article on Brown on May 28, 1953, noting that the VOA had cancelled his program because they could not keep up with his fan mail.  An embarrassed Voice reinstated the program the next day.  But I am thinking that McCrary or his producers saw the article and booked Billy as a guest. Since May 28 was a Thursday in 1953, I thought the appearance would have been between Friday, May 29, and sometime the next week, which is more likely.
 
Brown's family has a copy of a 15-minute studio recording of the interview that McCrary did with Billy Brown. In the recording, McCrary says listeners would hear a snippet from Billy's VOA program.  After he says that, there is a pause, where a segment of Billy's show would have been inserted by program producers in a final tape for broadcast. That snippet could be the only record of his VOA program that exists.  A similar segment of his show also was used in a Mutual Radio broadcast of Radio Newsreel around the same time.

Thanks for the reply.
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Neal Lavon
Re: Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenberg on WNBC, New York

Neal Lavon
 

Thanks for looking. I think it's another of my fruitless rabbit hole searches.
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Neal Lavon
The 2023 Virtual Jack Benny Convention is coming!!!

Walden Hughes
 

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The Suspense Project: A daily blog that posts Suspense episodes in order -- starts today...

Joe Webb
 

The Suspense Project... a daily blogpost starting TODAY January 15, 2023

All of the surviving episodes of Suspense augmented by production history, episode analysis, and behind-the-scenes maneuvering, are detailed every day at...

https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/ 

The project will last until all of the episodes are posted; the postings will last for about two years and seven months, ending in the Summer of 2025.

Most all of the recordings will be available in lossless FLAC, selected from recordings assembled for 15+ years from numerous sources and selected for their overall sound quality and other characteristics. Numerous collectors and researchers have generously shared their collections and knowledge that have made this possible. Recently, Old Time Radio Researchers and associated groups, especially "Knights of the Turning Table," have worked to acquire the tape collections of some of the hobby's pioneer collectors. This has resulted in many new versions of recordings being found and significant upgrades to the recordings of episodes from the later years of the series. Thank you to everyone who has participated and continues to do so, diligently working to find discs and disc recordings and airchecks to restore these recordings with today's digital technologies.

Thank you especially to all of the collectors who have gone before us. Their hard work in the pre-digital age of recording is resulting in a superior and more complete collection than they could have ever imagined. This project, and all of the generous collectors who contribute to it today, stand on their strong shoulders.

New blogposts will be available every day at 5:00AM Eastern US time. Recordings will be available at the Internet Archive (link provided in each blogpost) on an individual page for each episode. The Internet Archive is supplied with FLAC recordings but also creates an MP3 file for use on various portable devices or any use that the listener finds convenient... OR an episode can be easily streamed on its page.

Today's post is about the failed 1940 Suspense pilot episode "The Lodger" with Alfred Hitchcock... who wasn't even there! It's a fascinating story.



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Re: Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenberg on WNBC, New York

John Nicholson
 

There aren't any files in the published or unpublished files belonging to the REPS Library for Tex McCrary. Sorry.
   John Nicholson

On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 9:01 AM Neal Lavon <njlavon@...> wrote:
I am searching for someone or some group that has programs from the Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg radio series on WNBC in New York. I am trying to trace down a particular show from what I believe is the first week of June, 1953. I don't have a specific date yet. Hopefully, I can find it. I went to the Library of Congress yesterday, which has an extensive NBC Collection but since the show ran on the local station, not the network, they don't have any records on the show during that time period. They have a few index cards on the program from from the late 1940s but little else. They did have one show from June 9, 1953, that was sent out on AFRTS and catalogued that way, but it wasn't the one I was looking for. I have seen the ones available for sale on OTR sites but they are not what I am looking for either.

So does anyone know if there are private collections of these shows anywhere?

Thanks!
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Neal Lavon



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John
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Joe Webb
 

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Saturday January 14 11pm / Sunday January 15 10pm
* Night Beat - 1951-06-08 Search for Fred - a case of rabies paralyzes Chicago, with Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone in one of classic radio's finest series 
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NOTE: RTBS recommends using the TuneIn app, but there may be occasional commercial interruptions when using the smartphone version. There are no commercials using the TuneIn app on Roku and other popular streaming devices. 
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Re: Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenberg on WNBC, New York

Walden Hughes
 

Hi Neal,

 

Do you know who was the special guest you are looking for?

 

From: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io [mailto:main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io] On Behalf Of Neal Lavon
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2023 7:01 AM
To: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io
Subject: [OldTimeRadioResearchers] Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenberg on WNBC, New York

 

I am searching for someone or some group that has programs from the Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg radio series on WNBC in New York. I am trying to trace down a particular show from what I believe is the first week of June, 1953. I don't have a specific date yet. Hopefully, I can find it. I went to the Library of Congress yesterday, which has an extensive NBC Collection but since the show ran on the local station, not the network, they don't have any records on the show during that time period. They have a few index cards on the program from from the late 1940s but little else. They did have one show from June 9, 1953, that was sent out on AFRTS and catalogued that way, but it wasn't the one I was looking for. I have seen the ones available for sale on OTR sites but they are not what I am looking for either.

So does anyone know if there are private collections of these shows anywhere?

Thanks!
--
Neal Lavon

Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenberg on WNBC, New York

Neal Lavon
 

I am searching for someone or some group that has programs from the Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg radio series on WNBC in New York. I am trying to trace down a particular show from what I believe is the first week of June, 1953. I don't have a specific date yet. Hopefully, I can find it. I went to the Library of Congress yesterday, which has an extensive NBC Collection but since the show ran on the local station, not the network, they don't have any records on the show during that time period. They have a few index cards on the program from from the late 1940s but little else. They did have one show from June 9, 1953, that was sent out on AFRTS and catalogued that way, but it wasn't the one I was looking for. I have seen the ones available for sale on OTR sites but they are not what I am looking for either.

So does anyone know if there are private collections of these shows anywhere?

Thanks!
--
Neal Lavon
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Walden Hughes
 

Hi Everybody,

 

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Walden Hughes

 

 

 
Another song

Ryan Ellett
 

I'm looking for the opening song for this recording as well, if anyone can help. Mystery song

Ryan
Re: Jimmie Grier

Walden Hughes
 

great

 

From: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io [mailto:main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io] On Behalf Of Ryan Ellett via groups.io
Sent: Monday, January 9, 2023 5:57 PM
To: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io
Subject: Re: [OldTimeRadioResearchers] Jimmie Grier

 

Thanks, Walden, I'll send you a link.

 

 

 

The Old Time Radio Researchers

"Saving the Past for the Future"

 

 

 

 

On Monday, January 9, 2023, 07:51:24 PM CST, Walden Hughes <waldenhughes@...> wrote:

 

 

Hi Ryan,

 

I will be happy to give it a shot,

 

Walden

 

 

 

From: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io [mailto:main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io] On Behalf Of Ryan Ellett via groups.io
Sent: Monday, January 9, 2023 5:37 PM
To: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io
Subject: [OldTimeRadioResearchers] Jimmie Grier

 

I need someone familiar with the sweet music genre to proof some broadcasts of Jimmie Grier. I need the First Song verified and comparisons made between 2 or 3 episodes for which we have two recordings. Any takers?
Ryan

Re: Jimmie Grier

Ryan Ellett
 

Thanks, Walden, I'll send you a link.

www.RyanEllett.com


The Old Time Radio Researchers
"Saving the Past for the Future"




On Monday, January 9, 2023, 07:51:24 PM CST, Walden Hughes <waldenhughes@...> wrote:


Hi Ryan,

 

I will be happy to give it a shot,

 

Walden

 

 

 

From: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io [mailto:main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io] On Behalf Of Ryan Ellett via groups.io
Sent: Monday, January 9, 2023 5:37 PM
To: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io
Subject: [OldTimeRadioResearchers] Jimmie Grier

 

I need someone familiar with the sweet music genre to proof some broadcasts of Jimmie Grier. I need the First Song verified and comparisons made between 2 or 3 episodes for which we have two recordings. Any takers?
Ryan

Re: Jimmie Grier

Walden Hughes
 

Hi Ryan,

 

I will be happy to give it a shot,

 

Walden

 

 

 

From: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io [mailto:main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io] On Behalf Of Ryan Ellett via groups.io
Sent: Monday, January 9, 2023 5:37 PM
To: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io
Subject: [OldTimeRadioResearchers] Jimmie Grier

 

I need someone familiar with the sweet music genre to proof some broadcasts of Jimmie Grier. I need the First Song verified and comparisons made between 2 or 3 episodes for which we have two recordings. Any takers?
Ryan

Jimmie Grier

Ryan Ellett
 

I need someone familiar with the sweet music genre to proof some broadcasts of Jimmie Grier. I need the First Song verified and comparisons made between 2 or 3 episodes for which we have two recordings. Any takers?
Ryan
Re: Need name of song

Tony Jaworowski
 

Little Girl, written in 1931

On Jan 8, 2023, at 10:05 PM, Ryan Ellett via groups.io <oldradiotimes@...> wrote:

I'm labeling a series of episodes from The Marmola Entertainers, a musical quarter-hour program. They're usually labeled by the first song but I have no idea on this episode. Can someone help? Here's the link.

Thanks, Ryan

Re: Need name of song

John Nicholson
 

I know this is weird, but might it be Love Letters in the Sand (written in 1931)? Doesn't sound like Pat Boone or Patsy Cline's versions, but it seems to match if you sing the words to the tune being played.
   John Nicholson



On Sun, Jan 8, 2023 at 9:05 PM Ryan Ellett via groups.io <oldradiotimes=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:
I'm labeling a series of episodes from The Marmola Entertainers, a musical quarter-hour program. They're usually labeled by the first song but I have no idea on this episode. Can someone help? Here's the link.

Thanks, Ryan



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John
Re: Need name of song

Walden Hughes
 

Hi Larry,

 

You are right is,t Little Girl rather than Pretty Girl,

 

Walden

 

From: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io [mailto:main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io] On Behalf Of Larry Gassman
Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2023 7:45 PM
To: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io
Subject: Re: [OldTimeRadioResearchers] Need name of song

 

It sounds like, “Little Girl”.

Larry

 

 

From: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io <main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io> On Behalf Of Ryan Ellett via groups.io
Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2023 7:06 PM
To: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io
Subject: [OldTimeRadioResearchers] Need name of song

 

I'm labeling a series of episodes from The Marmola Entertainers, a musical quarter-hour program. They're usually labeled by the first song but I have no idea on this episode. Can someone help? Here's the link.

Thanks, Ryan

Re: Need name of song

Walden Hughes
 

Hi Ryan,

 

First song is Pretty Girl,

 

Second song I got a pocket full of dreams,

 

Walden

 

 

 

From: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io [mailto:main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io] On Behalf Of Ryan Ellett via groups.io
Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2023 7:06 PM
To: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io
Subject: [OldTimeRadioResearchers] Need name of song

 

I'm labeling a series of episodes from The Marmola Entertainers, a musical quarter-hour program. They're usually labeled by the first song but I have no idea on this episode. Can someone help? Here's the link.

Thanks, Ryan

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