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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 199
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  7-7 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Untouchables voice                    [ etorch@[removed] ]
  The Amazing [removed]                [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
  Re: Early OTR Collecting and the OTR  [ John Mayer <mayer@[removed]; ]
  TRANSCRIPTION DISCS                   [ David Siegel <otrdsiegel@[removed] ]
  Re: Harveytoons                       [ Default <swl2010@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 8-14 July  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  OTR presentation in West Milford New  [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
  It's Higgins, Sir! Returns to the po  [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]

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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 23:27:40 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  7-7 births/deaths

July 7th births

07-07-1887 - Raymond Hatton - Red Oak, IA - d. 10-21-1971
actor: Football Coach "Jack Oakie's College"
07-07-1888 - John Frank - Missouri - d. 2-15-1961
actor: Jimmie Allen "Air Advs. of Jimmie Allen"
07-07-1890 - Tom Powers - Owensboro, KY - d. 11-9-1955
commentator: "Central City"
07-07-1894 - David Ross - NYC - d. 11-12-1975
actor: Bob "Mary and Bob"
07-07-1898 - Arlene Harris - Toronto, Canada - d. 6-12-1976
actor: Mrs. Higgins "Baby Snooks"; Human Chatterbox "Al Pearce and
His Gang"
07-07-1899 - George Cukor - NYC - d. 1-23-1983
film director: "Marilyn Monroe: Fame is Fickle"; "Hollywood Calling"
07-07-1903 - Joe Boland - d. 6-21-1987
actor: Police Sergeant "Abie's Irish Rose"
07-07-1906 - Leroy 'Satchel' Paige - Mobile, AL - d. 6-8-1982
baseball hall of famer: "Destination Freedom"
07-07-1907 - Elton Britt - Marshall, AR - d. 6-23-1972
singer: "Tennessee Jed"
07-07-1907 - Robert Heinlein - Butler, MO - d. 5-8-1988
science fiction writer: "Beyond Tomorrow"; "Dimension X"; "X Minus One"
07-07-1908 - Ben Brady - NYC - d. 3-20-2003
host: "The Comedy Writers Show"
07-07-1909 - Eddie Mayehoff - Baltimore, MD - d. 11-12-1992
actor: Waldo Greentree/Nick Scott "Against the Storm"
07-07-1911 - Gian Carlo Menotti - Cadegliano, Italy - d. 2-1-2007
opera composer: "Best of All"
07-07-1911 - Lou Maury - Butte, MT - d. 12-11-1975
pianist: "What's the Name of That Song?"
07-07-1915 - Ruth Ford - Hazelhurst, MS
actor: "Mercury Theatre"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
07-07-1915 - Terry O'Sullivan - Kansas City, MO - d. 9-14-2006
announcer: "All-Star Western Theatre"; "The Jack Smith Show"
07-07-1915 - Yul Brynner - Vladivostock, Czarist Russia - d. 10-10-1985
actor: "As Easy as [removed]"
07-07-1917 - Doris Dudley - NYC - d. 8-14-1985
actor: Peggy Meek "Meet Mr. Meek"
07-07-1919 - Jon Pertwee - Chelsea, England - d. 5-20-1996
actor: The Doctor "Doctor Who"; Worzel; Gummidge "Worzel Gummidge"
07-07-1920 - Charles Flynn - Chicago, IL - d. 9-29-1999
actor: Jack Armstrong "Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy"
07-07-1924 - Mary Ford - Pasadena, CA - d. 9-30-1977
singer: "Les Paul and Mary Ford Show"
07-07-1927 - Doc Severinsen - Arlington, OR
trumpet player: Bands of Ted Fio Rito, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman
07-07-1927 - Gloria Mann - New York - d. 4-21-1961
actor: Veronica Lodge "Archie Andrews"
07-07-1943 - Joel Siegel - Los Angeles, CA - d. 6-29-2007
movie critic: "Joel Siegel's New York"
07-07-1946 - Joe Spano - San Francisco, CA
actor: "We Hold These Truths"

July 7th deaths

01-22-1916 - Howard Teichmann - Chicago, IL - d. 7-7-1987
writer: "Road of Life"; "Theatre USA"; "Valiant Lady"
02-07-1923 - Keefe Brasselle - Elyria, OH - d. 7-7-1981
actor: "Stars in the Air"
02-18-1920 - Bill Cullen - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 7-7-1990
host, announcer: "Winner Take All"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
02-27-1903 - Reginald Gardiner - Wimbledon, Surrey, England - d.
7-7-1980
actor: "Document A/777"
03-02-1902 - Flora Robson - Brighton, England - d. 7-7-1984
actor: BBC Radio "Streets of Pompeii"
03-03-1920 - Jimmy Edwards - Barns, Surrey, England - d. 7-7-1988
actor: Pa Glum "Take It from Here"
03-17-1922 - Irene Buri-Nelson - d. 7-7-2006
host: WLIP Kenosha, Wisconsin "Around Town"
05-05-1918 - Alden Aaroe - d. 7-7-1993
newscaster: Charlottesville, Virginia
05-22-1859 - Arthur Conan Doyle - Edingurgh, Scotland - d. 7-7-1930
author: "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
07-31-1912 - Chester Stratton - Paterson, NJ - d. 7-7-1970
actor: Carter Trent "Pepper Young's Family"; Hop Harrigan "Hop Harrigan"
08-15-1897 - Charles Tobias - NYC - d. 7-7-1970
songwriter: (Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree) :Music for Millions";
"Great Moments to Music"
08-23-1883 - Art Van Harvey - Chicago, IL - d. 7-7-1957
actor: Vic Gook "Vic and Sade"; Jeffery Barker "Welcome Valley"
08-31-1905 - Dory Schary - Newark, NJ - d. 7-7-1980
writer: "America Calling"; "The Eternal Light"; "Hallmark Hall of Fame"
09-14-1916 - Jerry Doggett - d. 7-7-1997
baseball announcer: "The LIberty Broadcasting System"
10-18-1902 - Barbara Brown - d. 7-7-1975
actor: "Land of the Free"
10-30-1751 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Dublin, Ireland - d. 7-7-1816
writer: (Inventor of the Malaprop) "Great Plays"
11-05-1913 - Vivien Leigh - Darjeeling, India - d. 7-7-1967
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-14-1919 - Veronica Lake - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-7-1973
actor: "Exploring the Unknown"; "Request Performance"
11-19-1885 - Erskine Sanford - Trinidad, CO - d. 7-7-1969
actor: "The Free Company"; "Mercury Theatre on the Air"; "Orson
Welles Theatre"
11-21-1895 - Seth T. Bailey - d. 7-7-1966
announcer: KLX Oakland, California

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 00:27:32 -0400
From: etorch@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Untouchables voice

The Untouchables was a Desilu production. Perhaps the voice over artist did
them all.
Evan Torch,MD
Atlanta

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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 01:46:11 -0400
From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Amazing [removed]

What's fun is that Kreskin is also a frequent guest on WOR's CURRENT
overnight talk-show, THE JOEY REYNOLDS SHOW (broadcast, nationally,
actually, for about ten years!).

And I've been told that the show regards him as a terrifically nice, and
go-to, guy!

Make what you will of Kreskin's powers, but he IS, at the least,
incredibly intuitive.

When we were guests together on Joe Franklin's final Saturday night,
overnight broadcast on WOR, almost exactly three years ago, Kreskin
asked me about some of the writing I've done.  Amongst other stuff, I
just briefly alluded to some of the science fiction movie articles I had
written, years ago--

And, out of nowhere, Kreskin mentioned the name of a fellow I hadn't
seen in over twenty years--

And whom wouldn't be one of the first people one associated with the SF
film [removed]

Interesting!

Kreskin was also a delight!

Jim Burns

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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 09:29:13 -0400
From: John Mayer <mayer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Early OTR  Collecting and the OTR V-Chip

 >I'm curious to know what collecting OTR was like when the hobby first
started in the '60s and '70s.

Well, I for one didn't even conceive of the
possibility of collecting old radio  shows once
they'd left the airwaves; I thought they were
gone forever, headed for the receivers of
youngsters on distant planets.

Looking back I find it somewhat surprising that I
was so aware that radio was dying as it happened.
We did, finally, have a TV that we saved up for
and bought second hand for about $50, no small
sum in those days, about '57. And I knew the
schedules of all three channels by heart. But I'd
grown up with radio; the characters were my
friends and Sgt. Preston, the Lone Ranger and Big
Jon were my moral compass. As the shows fell away
I'd turn the dial at odd moments, hoping some
station had come to its senses and had revived a
show or two somewhere. I kept trying to listen to
Amos and Andy's Music Hall, but there was nothing
there to my taste; it was like when I'd take a
nibble of baker's chocolate as a smaller child
though knowing it was inedible, because that's
all there was and it LOOKED like chocolate. I
started making a point of listening to YTJD,
which I'd never been especially fond of, and
Suspense. Once I was excited to hear what sounded
like the opening to a new mystery show called
Whispering Streets; the intro was full of
sinister whispering, but it was just a soap
opera. I don't know how long they lasted; they
didn't count. The only bright spot was the
release of Arch Oboler's Lights Out album, which
left us the only surviving version of the Chicken
Heart tale.

So when YTJD and Suspense disappeared I was
disconsolate. It was not until I got into college
that I saw an ad for the entire run of The
Cinnamon Bear on reel to reel and skipped lunches
to buy it. My friend Karl Wagner, who also had
fond memories of the  show and who later was to
become a well-known horror writer, joined me in
listening all the way through, while our
girlfriends squirmed restlessly, not
understanding, not caught up in the spirit of the
show even with the aid of whatever mind-expanding
substance we provided. Not long after I sent off
for the Jack Benny/Longine tribute set, which I
listened to over and over and which I still have.
Then it was the two Themes Like Old Times albums,
the bane of my housemates, and, finally, the
albums by some record company I can't recall;
think the corporate name had something to do with
a body of water. I bought those as I could afford
them and rationed the stories out over as long a
period of time as I could stand to deny myself.
When the colorful cassettes finally appeared some
time, I guess, in the 70's, I was in hog heaven
and bought them as I could, though my collection
was still pathetically small compared to what we
all take for granted today.

So, in short - I know; too late now - I did not
think of my collecting as collecting at all, but
as a desperate attempt to hold on to something
important from my childhood. One thing that's
likely to be forgotten about OTR when its
contemporaries are all gone is how very much it
added to the lives of the poorest of that era,
especially the children, especially the isolated
farm children whose world would have been far,
far narrower without it.

I didn't see the beginning of the V-chip thread,
but Stephen Davies <SDavies@[removed]; takes it
up:
If my radio had a V-chip when I was young, I wouldn't have heard the
   "Adventures by Morse" episode where Capt.  and Skip Turner are
   desperately questioning their jungle guide while he is being consumed
   by a carnivorous plant.  "Senors, it is squeezing my brain out!!!"
   On the other hand, Harold Lloyd's "Old Gold comedy theatre" was
    consistently racy

I'm not sure if V stands for Violence or
Vulgarity. But I always thought the Cisco Kid's
dalliances were rather risque. He was, as best I
recall, the only one of the kid's cowboys who had
an eye for the ladies - and vice versa - and I
really didn't care for mushy stuff at the movies,
but maybe because I didn't have to watch I found
his romantic interludes very engaging. Even today
listening to old shows they seem rather steamy,
but that may be because they are now overlaid
with the interpretations of my boyhood.

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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 09:30:03 -0400
From: David Siegel <otrdsiegel@[removed];
To: OTR DIGEST <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  TRANSCRIPTION  DISCS

  I have been asked to find a home for a number of 12 inch authentic
radio transcriptions which are organized into seven sets of
broadcasts, five of which are NBC origin, one of the other two being
CBS and the final one MUTUAL.  Four of these transcription discs
recorded on both sides at a speed of 78 rpm equal a single 30 minute
broadcast.  Two discs recorded on both sides equal a 15 minute broadcast.

    The  discs being offered:  five 30 minute broadcasts (four discs
each for a total of 20 discs) and two 15 minute programs
(two discs each for a total of four) represent seven broadcasts
described below.  While each program is produced by the network the
common thread is that they all are associated with projects sponsored
by the American Legion Auxiliary/

     Anyone interested in acquiring one or more sets of these discs
should contact me for details.

1)  "To Bell a Ghost"  NBC, 4/2/50 a 30 minute dramatic documented
documentary featuring Santos Ortega and Peter in a story about
problems associated with Hansen's disease, otherwise known as leprosy  4 discs

2) "the Man We Never Knew" NBC four discs 10/18/48 a dramatic
biographical  about the life of General John J. Pershing featuring
John Eitel as pressuring and written by Irv Tunnick (NOTE: two of the
discs have a small chip at the rim which resulted in the loss of less
than a minute
sound on the two sides.  All else is perfect.

3) public affairs program: NBC 8/14/48 (from Washington) GIRL'S
NATION 2 teen girls are interviewed, talk about being elected
president and vice president of educational program duplicating US
government organization.  Two discs, four sides, 15 minutes

4) public affairs program: NBC circa  1948 speech urging support of
Universal military training together in a penny Woman's Patriotic
Conference on National Defense, two discs, four sides, 15 minutes

5) MORTON DOWNEY: popular Irish tenor is featured in two Christmas
programs  30 minutes each regularly sponsored by Coca-Cola plus, as a
public service, devoted to hospitalized [removed] 12/20/47MUTUAL
and12/24/49 NBC, eight discs, 16 sides tota; 60 minutes

6) "This Living Flag" CBS 6/13/48 a Documentary  drama Featuring
James Dunn Celebrated the History of the American Flag  Written by
Irv Tunnick in honor Flag Day, 30 minutes, four discs, eight sides

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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 09:32:02 -0400
From: Default <swl2010@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Harveytoons

Actually "Harveytoons" produced none of the cartoons.  All of the
Harveytoons were originally produced by Paramount which by the late
1940's had absorbed the Max Fleischer animation studio.  All Harveytoons
were Paramount cartoons produced theatrically, and carried the Paramount
logo.  Animation historian Jerry Beck as a page devoted to images of the
original cartoon titles:  [removed]

Herman, Katnip, Buzzy, Casper and others were originally Paramount
characters.  I remember seeing a Casper cartoon at a drive-in in the
early 60's that carried the Paramount logo.  On all Harveytoons when the
title of the particular cartoon is shown at the bottom your will see the
copyright statement and it will say "Famous Studios," which was the
legal name of Paramount's cartoon division.  Most of the directors
(Seymour Kneitel, Izzy Sparber) and animators came from the original Max
Fleischer studios when Paramount took control in the 40's.

Harvey was a publishing company that produced comic book versions of the
Paramount characters and they purchased the Paramount cartoons outright
when Paramount had decided to close it's cartoon dividion (later
re-opened) and then edited off the Paramount logos and added newly
animated Harveytoon intros and outros for TV.

What you have on that VHS is rare - an extant theatrical version of the
original cartoon - now in public domain of course.

In the 1950's for Paramount (and Warner Bros.) were struggling due to
the presence of television which affected box office.  Paramount simply
didn't have the foresight to understand the value of their library and
only saw the value in rasising immediate cash.  They began to sell it
off piecemeal to smaller companies that were created to distribute
content to television stations that desperately needed to have product
to program (Warner Bros. did the same).

Paramount sold their older feature films catalogue to MCA, which is now
NBC/Universal.  Their pre 1948 cartoons: the Popeye series was sold to
Associated Artist Productions, the rest of their pre 48 toons (Betty
Boop, etc.) were sold to a company called UM&M.  Noveltoons were sold to
National Telefilm Associates and the group of cartoons with Casper, Baby
Huey, etc., were sold to Harvey in the early 60's.  This is why if you
watch an old Paramount movie on TCM it will sometimes be preceded by a
Universal logo.

An excellent history of the Paramount cartoon studio is compiled in "Of
Mice and Magic," Leonard Maltin's exhaustive history of Hollywood animation.

DR

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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 09:32:14 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 8-14 July

 From Those Were The Days --

7/8

1950 - Joel McCrea appeared in the lead role of Tales of the Texas
Rangers on NBC.

7/11

1944 - The Man Called X, starring Herbert Marshall, debuted on CBS.

7/12

1934 - The first appointments to the newly created Federal
Communications Commission were made. The governing body of the American
broadcasting industry was first served by seven men named as commissioners.

1946 - The Adventures of Sam Spade was heard on ABC for the first time.

7/14

1957 - Funnyman Stan Freberg debuted a new weekly comedy program on CBS
beginning this night.

Joe

--
Visit my homepage: [removed]~[removed]

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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 09:56:05 -0400
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR presentation in West Milford New Jersey
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Jim Cort, a "Best Original Script" winner from the Friends of Old Time Radio
Convention will be presenting an OTR-style show on detectives at the West
Milford Township library in New Jersey on Monday July 9 from 7-8 [removed]

Details follow.

[removed]
[removed]

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 10:17:03 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  It's Higgins, Sir! Returns to the [removed]

By request, I'm posting on the Nostalgic Rumblings blog at
[removed] the first episode in the series, "It's Higgins,
Sir!" aired July 3, 1951, a summer replacement series for Bob Hopes Pepsodent
program starring Harry McNaughton, Vinton Hayworth, and our good friend Pat
Hosley. In this premier episode, the Roberts family meets their inheritance,
a man-servant named Higgins!

Yes, I know we ran this program a bit ago, but this is a quality upgrade.
Jerry Haendiges, he of The Vintage Radio Place at [removed] and
the original source of this series, has provided us high-quality masters of
this entire series from which to create the MP3 files; while we're
distributing 32kbps MP3 files of these programs, you can find
excellent-quality audio CDs at his website - go to the order page at
[removed] and use #40955 for this episode.
(Also, high-quality MP3s of this program are also available from Jerry at his
MP3 Catalog at [removed] )

At the blog, you may stream the show using the built-in flash player, or
download it with a click on the link. And remember, by subscribing to the
blog's RSS feed with any podcasting client (iTunes, Juice, etc.) the shows
will be automatically downloaded to your computer or MP3 player!

         Charlie

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