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RADIO RECALL

New!  Back issues of Radio Recall from 2001-2006 are available on CD now.  Each issue is complete and is stored in PDF format.  Contact our Editor for ordering details.

These indexes cover the articles in RADIO RECALL and letters in Voice Of The Listener, from 1997 through 2002:

       Index to RADIO RECALL
       Index to Voice of the Listener

The following articles are reprinted from RADIO RECALL.  Each edition contains about 10 pages, with more than twice the number of articles seen here.  Join us and receive every issue!

    December 2007
       Edgar Allan Poe on Radio
       Quiz: TV Radio Mirror Awards for 1958-59
       Radio's First Drama Show
       Book Review: The Great Radio Sitcoms
       Book Review: Radio and the Jews
       War of the Worlds: Response Greatly Exaggerated?

    October 2007
       The Halloween Broadcast that Spooked America
       The Railroad Hour
       The Musical Steelmakers
       Quotable Quotes
       Candy Matson Co-Lead Henry Leff Dies at 88

    August 2007
       Cities of Origin
       What Aussies Heard of American Radio in WW II
       Phyl Coe Mysteries
       Ed Walker to Appear at Convention in Aberdeen
       LOC Sound & Film Archives Move To Culpeper
       Book Review: Straight Arrow
       Book Review: The Rise of Radio

    June 2007
       Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou
       Kellogg's and Howie Wing
       Bobby Benson had Eight Voices
       Cincinnatti OTR and Nostalgia Convention
       Uncle Russ wants to hear from you

    April 2007
       Converting OTR to Digital
       Czar Wars: RCA vs. CBS in Early Radio (part 2)
       American WW II Military Radio in the Solomon Islands (part 3)
       Radio Stars' Professions and Hobbies

    February 2007
       Czar Wars: RCA vs. CBS in Early Radio (part 1)
       American WW II Military Radio in the Solomon Islands (part 2)
       New Show-Biz Book: Manhattan Diary
       Ask The Expert (Norman Corwin)

    December 2006
       The Jane Froman Story
       American WW II Military Radio in the Solomon Islands (part 1)
       Finding Scripts Made Easy
       Ralphie's Secret Decoder
       Birth of the Cinnamon Bear

    October 2006
       Soap Stars: Ethereal Busybodies
       When Kay Kyser Joined Batman
       Ralston's Breakfast Song
       Book Review: The Daytime Serials of Television

    August 2006
       Radio's 100th Anniversary
       Talbot Mundy's Jack Armstrong Serials
       David Harding, Counterspy
       Comic Strips of Radio's Golden Age
       Gunsmoke: Myth of the Prime-Time Repeats
       Open Letter to the White House

    June 2006
       The Brotherhood of the Airways
       Building Jack Armstrong's Airplane
       ProQuest: A Valuable Tool for the OTR Researcher
       Tokyo Rose: American Patriot
       OTR Rebuttal from Wisconsin

    April 2006
       Mutual's Forgotten Soap Operas
       Produce It Again, Sam (the reuse of scripts)
       Historical Dictionary of American Radio Soap Operas
       Memories of Don Knotts on the B-Bar-B
       Eternal Light Documentary Now Available

    February 2006
       In The Air On The Air: Radio Captured the Thrill of Flying
       Fred Foy's Contribution to the WXYZ Programs
       The 1945 Code-O-Graph: a War Curiosity
       Maury Cagle, 2005 Cawelti Award Winner
       A Different Kind of OTR Reference Book
       Jessica Dragonette: America's Queen of the Radio (part 2)

    December 2005
       Guest Detectives on Quick As A Flash
       Summer of the Secret Squadron
       Cruisin' with the Cinnamon Bear
       Rudy Vallee Introduced Many Radio Performers to Fame
       Random Quotes from OTR Shelf
       Memories of Nick Williams
       Jessica Dragonette: America's Queen of the Radio (part 1)

    October 2005
       Old Time Radio Meets New Time Technology
       Private Eyelashes Revisited
       The Extraordinary Musical Landscape that was Radio
       New Ellery Queen Book
       Ask the Expert (Scopes Trial)
       Imagination Theatre adds two new series

    August 2005
       Captain Midnight and Decoder Rings (special to the web site)
       The Howie Wing Transcriptions, Part 3
       African-American OTR Collection
       Shakespeare on Radio
       Rating OTR on Satellite Radio

    June 2005
       Tom Swift - A Radio Mystery
       The Howie Wing Transcriptions, Part 2
       The Adventures of Captain Hudson
       Ask The Expert (Captain Midnight)

    April 2005
       Ted Drake, Guardian of the Big Top
       The Howie Wing Transcriptions
       Superman in the Media, part two
       Twenty Questions Book Available On Line
       Message from Former OTR Cowboy Singer
       OTR Stars Buried with Former Baseball Greats

    February 2005
       Superman in the Media
       Four Kinds of OTR Premiums
       The Little Lady Who Could Locate Anybody
       Ask The Expert (First Singing Commercial)

    December 2004
       The Breakfast Club
       OTR Fanciful Marriages
       Sound Effects in Early Radio
       Death of Stan Cawelti
       Vintage Invitations and Advertisements

    October 2004
       Peter Quill, the Crimson Wizard
       Stories of the Black Chamber
       OTR's Animal Imitators
       Storytelling in the Pulps, Comics, and Radio
       Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons

    August 2004
       Charlie Chan, Down Under
       Save Our Stella (Dallas)
       Family Theater OTR Series Remastered
       Obituaries (Sam Edwards, Jackson Beck)

     June 2004
       All We Want Are The Facts:  Eddy King and DRAGNET
       Buck Rogers In The (20th) Century, Part Two
       Ask The Expert (Hindenburg)

    April 2004
       The Short Musical Career of "Little Jack" Little
       Buck Rogers In The (20th) Century, Part One
       Robert Donley (An Appreciation)
       Obituaries

    February 2004
       The Shadow Radio Program
       Factual Review of Tony Wons
       Ask The Expert (I Can Hear It Now)
       Radio's Clumsy Counterfeits
       Obituaries

   December 2003
       The Sounds of Christmas
       Interview: OTR author Jim Cox
       Book Review: Speaking of Radio
       Discovery of Lost OTR Show
       Fond Memories of Eddie Gallaher
       Obituaries
 
   October 2003
       Not Your Father's Lone Ranger
       I Love A Mystery - Stairway to the Sun
       Book Review: Frank and Anne Hummert’s Radio Factory

   August 2003
       New Songs for Old Radio
       Captain Midnight's Uniform
       Radio Actors who played Johnny Dollar
       Tyler McVey dies at 91

   June 2003
       The Miracle of Writing for Radio
       Art Carney's Show-Biz Career Began on Radio
       War of the Worlds original script on eBay

   April 2003
       It Pays To Be Ignorant
       Martin and Lewis on Radio (part 2)
       Ask The Expert (Mutual Network and The Lone Ranger)

   February 2003
       Martin and Lewis on Radio (part 1)
       Ask The Expert (Myrt and Marge)
       Book Review: It's That Time Again
       Book Review: Words at War

   December 2002
       Candy Matson, YUkon 2-8209 (part 2)
       Ask The Expert (decoder rings)
       Book Review: Radio Crime Fighters

   October 2002
       A Tribute To Will Rogers
       Candy Matson, YUkon 2-8209 (part 1)
       New Book On Radio Premiums Arrives
       Ask The Expert (African American life)

The RADIO RECALL is the official journal of the Metropolitan Washington Old Time Radio Club, and is published six times a year. Each issue contains 12 pages of text and graphics relating to all phases of vintage radio. Contributors to past issues have included well-known OTR writers and researchers, including Elizabeth McLeod, Jim Cox, Ken Piletic, Jim Snyder, Stephen A. Kallis, Jr., Michael Biel, Dennis W. Crow, and others.

Articles, frequently illustrated by Bobb Lynes, have appeared which have discussed Tom Mix, Suspense, Straight Arrow, Quiet Please, Marx Brothers on Radio, OTR's Lady Detectives, Art of Audio Collecting, The Blue Beetle, Origins of Radio Broadcasting, Captain Midnight, OTR Magicians, McNeil's Breakfast Club and many other topics. There are also regular features on current OTR conventions and festivals, reviews of new OTR books, articles on new OTR acquisitions, and radio related quizzes and puzzles. Each issue includes a "Voice of the Listener" column which contains requests from those seeking missing shows, books, or data on stars or shows.

A complete index of the past 20 years of RADIO RECALL is underway and should be finished in early 2003. When finalized, it will be posted on this site. Copies of any back issue are available for $5 (post paid) from the editor, Jack French. A one-year subscription to this publication comes with membership in MWOTRC.