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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 123
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: Oxydol                            [ Cnorth6311@[removed] ]
  Mutual Publications                   [ Karl Schadow <bluecar91@[removed] ]
  Goodman Ace and Franklin Adams        [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed] ]
  Re: WROW Recordings                   [ "Henry R. Hinkel" <hinkel@[removed] ]
  Re: John Furman                       [ <altamont@[removed]; ]
  Button Gwinnett                       [ George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@hotmai ]
  5-14 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]

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Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 13:04:47 -0400
From: Cnorth6311@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Oxydol

Hello all
 
Can someone please identify the person with the deep basso voice on Ma  
Perkins? He says "Oxydol is deep cleaning," three times. I know I have heard  that 
voice somewhere else, but cannot remember where. His voice is reminiscent  of 
Jackson Beck, but I don't believe it is him.
 
Thanks
 
Charlie

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Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 16:27:07 -0400
From: Karl Schadow <bluecar91@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Mutual Publications
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Does anyone have issues of the Mutual Educational Bulletin (published monthly
by the Press Dept. of the Mutual Broadcasting System) from ca. 1939-42? If so,
please contact me directly. Thanks.
Karl Schadow

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Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 16:28:03 -0400
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Goodman Ace and Franklin Adams

Jack French otrpiano@[removed]  wrote:

Goodman Ace,
like Franklin P. Adams and [removed] Menken, wrote witty,
literate prose for a wide-scale audience in the print media.
Ace continued this in scripting "Easy Aces" and Adams did
so at the mike of "Information Please. . .

The Golden Age-WTIC website, which features over 90
one-hour programs featuring Dick Bertel interviewing big names
in old-time radio, includes an interview with Goodman Ace and
excerpts from "Easy Aces," (Program 10) and a program about
the old quiz shows (Program 78) including "Dr. IQ," "20
Questions," "The Answer Man," and "Information Please.

This site is also the home of 42 one-hour programs from the
series, "A One Night Stand with the Big Bands" with Arnold
Dean interviewing many of the greats from that era, along with
their music.

For all the shows, and many other features, go to
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Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 17:30:56 -0400
From: "Henry R. Hinkel" <hinkel@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re:  WROW Recordings

Joe Webb wrote:

Many of the recordings in the late 50s and 60s of CBS shows and sports
events (like baseball games) seem to exist only because a lone radio
enthusiast in the Albany, NY took the time and spent the money on
recording tape to preserve the shows.
Does anyone know who this collector was? Without the effort of this
person, many Johnny Dollar and Suspense shows would have been forever
lost to collectors.

The fella you were referring to was Pat Respoli from Schenectady, New York.
He was one of the early OTR collectors and traded with many other early
collectors.  Pat died about 12 or 14 years ago.

John Furman, another collector from the area obtained the collection about a
year after he died from Pat's brother who was going to dump it.  John added
Pat's collection to his own large collection and held it for a couple of
years until he decided to get out of the hobby.  Don Aston obtained some of
Pat's reels as well as two collectors from Saratoga Springs, Tom Martin and
Tony Izzo.

I also picked up many of his reels from John, which also included several
years of New Years Eve Big Band Remotes.  These are probably the only copies
in existence since I have never seen any catalogs or lists with these
remotes.  I never met Pat, but I did talk to him several times on the phone.
I hope collectors will remember Pat Respoli for his contributions to the
hobby.

Hank Hinkel

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Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 17:46:34 -0400
From: <altamont@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: John Furman
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As a resident of the Capital District (NY) area, I know that John Furman hosts
(and has hosted for several years) a Christmas Eve (repeated Christmas) OTR
show on WGY AM (former home of "The FBI in Action," among others).

Tom Dandrew

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Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 18:14:06 -0400
From: George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Button Gwinnett

This discussion brought back a memory of a 1960s-1970s TV PI series (I think
it was MANNIX, but I'm not 100% positive. A man is murdered and his dying
words are: "Button win it for mother". Joe Mannix (or whoever it was) spends
the program trying to figure out what the dying words mean.  Eventually it is
disclosed that he (the dead guy) had discovered a fabulously rare and
valuable Button Gwinnett autograph shortly before his death and he wanted to
make sure his mother got it, of course his last words were actually "Button
Gwinnett for mother".

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Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 00:40:20 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  5-14 births/deaths

May 14th births

05-14-1868 - "Big Bill" Thompson - Boston, MA - d. 3-19-1944
mayor of chicago: "The March of Time"
05-14-1874 - Marie Nelson - Detroit, MI - d. 5-12-1943
actor: Ellen Collins "Bachelor's Children"
05-14-1885 - Otto Klemperer - Breslau, Germany - d. 7-6-1973
conductor: "George Gershwin Memorial Program"
05-14-1890 - Carlton Brickert - Martinsville, IN - d. 12-23-1943
actor: David Post "Story of Mary Marlin"; Howard Thurston "Thurston
the Magician"
05-14-1895 - Edith Spenser - Omaha, NE - d. unknown
actor: Aunt Jenny "Aunt Jenny"; Sarah "Main Street Sketches"
05-14-1895 - Lew Lehr - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-6-1950
comic: "Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro"; "Stop Me If You've Heard This One"
05-14-1897 - Sidney Bechet - New Orleans, LA - d. 5-14-1959
soprano sax, composer: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
05-14-1898 - Zutty Singleton - Bunkie, LA - d. 7-14-1975
jazz drummer: "Radio Almanac";"Just Jazz"; "BBC Jazz Session"
05-14-1902 - Rush Hughes - d. 3-28-1979
host: Pot O' Gold"
05-14-1905 - Herbert Morrison - d. 1-10-1989
announcer: Hindenburg Disaster; "Call to Arms"; "Good Old Days of Radio"
05-14-1907 - Dick Bentley - Melbourne, Australia - d. 8-27-1995
actor: "Gently, Bentley"; "Navy Mixture"
05-14-1910 - B. S. Pully - Newark, NJ - d. 1-6-1972
comedian: "Command Performance"; "Mail Call"
05-14-1910 - Bill Danch - Hammond, IN - d. 10-6-2004
writer: "Baby Snooks Show"; "Honest Harold"; "Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou"
05-14-1910 - Paul Sutton - Albuquerque, NM - d. 1-31-1970
actor: Sergeant William Preston "Challenge of the Yukon"
05-14-1914 - Foy Willing - Bosque County, TX - d. 7-24-1978
singer: (Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage) "Roy Rogers
Show"
05-14-1917 - Norman Luboff - Chicago, IL - d. 9-22-1987
choir director: (The Norman Luboff Choir) "The Railroad Hour"
05-14-1918 - June Duprez - Teddington, England - d. 10-30-1918
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
05-14-1922 - Jackie Rae - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 10-5-2006
singer: "Three Little Rays of Sunshine"
05-14-1925 - Patrice Munsel - Spokane, WA
singer: "Prudential Family Hour"; "Voice of Firestone"
05-14-1925  Tristram Cary - Oxford, England - d. 4-24-2008
musician: "Dr. Who"
05-14-1926 - Eric Morecambe - Lancashire, England - d. 5-28-1984
comedian: "The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Radio Show"
05-14-1936 - Bobby Darin - NYC - d. 12-20-1973
singer: "The Bobby Darin Show"; "Cancer Crusade"; "Vocies of Vista"
05-14-1937 - Lloyd Battista - Cleveland, OH
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

May 14th deaths

01-02-1913 - Anna Lee - Ightham, Kent, England - d. 5-14-2004
actor: "Soldiers in Greaspaint"; "Lifebuoy Show"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
01-13-1919 - Robert Stack - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-14-2003
actor: "Family Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
01-25-1878 - Ernest Alexanderson - Uppsala, Sweden - d. 5-14-1975
engineer: Possibly first voice ever heard on radio Dec. 24, 1906
01-28-1898 - Alwyn E. W. Bach - Springfield, MA - d. 5-14-1993
announcer: "Enna Jettick Melodies"; "Luden's Orchestra"; "Real Folks"
02-01-1891 - Alexander Kipnis - Schitomir, Ukraine - d. 5-14-1978
wagnerian basso profundo: "Outpost Concert Series"; "Metropolitan Opera"
02-11-1901 - Fritz Blocki - d. 5-14-1972
writer: "Chick Carter, Boy Detective"
02-16-1909 - Hugh Beaumont - Lawrence, KS - d. 5-14-1982
actor: Appeared on radio in 1931
04-13-1913 - Dave Albritton - d. 5-14-1994
disk jockey: Dayton, Ohio
05-07-1901 - Gary Cooper - Helena, MT - d. 5-14-1961
actor: "Family Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; 'Lux Radio Theatre"
05-08-1922 - Lew Anderson - Kirkman, IA - d. 5-14-2006
musician: (The Honey Dreamers) "Airtime"; "The Bobby Doyle Show"
05-14-1897 - Sidney Bechet - New Orleans, LA - d. 5-14-1959
soprano sax, composer: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
05-15-1909 - Thomas J. D'Andrea - Chicago, IL - d. 5-14-1887
script writer: Eddie Cantor"
06-23-1922 - Rusty Morris - Colorado - d. 5-14-1986
actor: "Halls of Ivy"; "Mayor of the Town"; "This Is Your FBI"
06-26-1902 - William Powell Lear - Hannibal, MO - d. 5-14-1978
inventor: With Elmer Wavering, invented first commerial car radio
(Motorola)
07-10-1908 - Hjerluf Provenson - Racine, WI - d. 5-14-1957
announcer: "John's Other Wife"; "The Gulden Serenaders"
07-17-1911 - Earl Glade, Jr. - Utah - d. 5-14-2001
announcer: "Music and the Spoken Word (Mormon Tabernacle Choir)"
08-05-1920 - Selma Diamond - London, Ontario, Canada - d. 5-14-1985
writer: "Big Show"
08-07-1884 - Billie Burke - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-14-1970
comedienne: "Billie Burke Show"; Mrs. Featherstone "Gay Mrs.
Featherstone"
08-10-1927 - Jimmy Martin - Sneedville, TN - d. 5-14-2005
actor: "Grand Ole Opry"
08-15-1912 - Wendy Hiller - Bramhall, Cheshire, England - d. 5-14-2003
actor: Queen Vic "Original Dramatic Work"
08-28-1907 - Roy Chamberlain - NYC - d. 5-14-1981
old gold rhythmaires: "The New Old Gold Show"
09-26-1922 - Leonard Teale - Brisbane, Australia - d. 5-14-1994
actor: Played Superman on Australian radio
09-27-1901 - Beasley Smith - McEwen, TN - d. 5-14-1968
pianist/orchestra leader: "Music In the Moonlight"; "Sunday Down South"
10-15-1896 - Joe Sanders - Thayer, KS - d. 5-14-1965
bandleader: (The Ole Left Hander) "Nighthawks Frolic"
10-17-1918 - Rita Hayworth - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-14-1987
actor: "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Bob Elson on
Board the Century"
10-20-1901 - Frank Churchill - Rumford, ME - d. 5-14-1942
pianist: "Greek War Relief Fund"
10-22-1893 - Will Collins - NYC - d. 5-14-1968
singer: "Whispering Will Collins"
12-12-1915 - Frank Sinatra - Hoboken, NJ - d. 5-14-1998
singer, actor: (The Voice), "Your Hit Parade"; "Frank Sinatra Show";
Rocky Fortune "Rocky Fortune"
12-24-1887 - Lucrezia Bori - Valencia, Spain - d. 5-14-1960
opera singer: "Telephone Hour"; "Ford Sunday Evening Hour"
12-30-1912 - Hugh Griffith - Marianglas, Anglesey, North Wales - d.
5-14-1980
actor: "Under Milk Wood"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 02:12:01 -0400
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

A weekly [removed]

For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
real-time OTR talk!

Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
it's always a good time!

For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
week and every week!

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