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Date: 4/12/2007 4:18 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 114
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Arthur Godfrey Time                   [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
  Correction                            [ "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed] ]
  Mt. Carmel Lone Ranger Festival Canc  [ "Phil Stallings" <redrydertexas@sbc ]
  Sounds WITH Pictures?                 [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  Filmation's "Battle of Hastings"      [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
  Rooted in O. Henry                    [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  Nightbeat with Frank Lovejoy          [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
  4-12 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  [removed]                       [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
  The Cisco Kid                         [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  Rextoration has come a long way       [ Chargous@[removed] ]
  Radio Actors on Cartoon Acting        [ seandd@[removed] ]
  RKO Radio Pictures                    [ "Dick Judge" <dickjudge@[removed]; ]
  Re: Tom Corbett, ABS and more         [ FabFicBks@[removed] ]
  Re: Pabst-ett                         [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
  Dick Beals SOAKY [removed]                [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]

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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:37:46 -0400
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Arthur Godfrey Time

I strongly suggest that everyone read John Dunning's "On The Air" Pages
43 through 47 re; "Arthur Godfrey Time"  It brief biography of Mr. G.

I went to college, strange as that my be, for a year in  1948-9 in
Chicago. Every day I would drive form hone about the time Mr. G came on
the air. I listened to A. G  during my trip to the Sooth side of
Chicago. Every 15 minutes was a new sponsor first was Glass Wax, next
was NABISCO, then Chesterfeild Cigarettes and so on. Each segment was a
new program because there were places that the did not carry the total
hour and a half. There was complete sign of and a brief pause and a new
opening them by the orchestra and Big Voice of Tony Marvin with a
complete introduction "ABC always Chesterfield . because it milder the
best cigarette for you to smoke (then a jingle ) A - always Milder, B-
better tasting, C- cooler smoking ABC. AG says "Alway buy Chesterfield
They satisfy"   a group sings a few line of the song Smoke Rings and
Tony comes in and says Chesterfield present Arthur Godfrey Time. The
after some music. Yes it's Arthur Godfrey and all the Little Godfrey s,
Jeanette Davis, Bill Lawrence & Archie Blyer  & his Orchestra.

The Introduction was basiclly the same for each segment with the sponsor
of the segment "Arthur Godfrey and All the little Godfrey s".. I have
been listening to a Friday AM October 8, 1948, as I write [removed] only
have an hour of the show. Gene Autry was a surprise guest .

ABC- "Always buy Chesterfield"  was used long before Bob Hope and Bing
Crosby were sponsored by [removed] don't remember A -Arthur, B- Bob
Hope, & C - Crosby, may one of them joked about it when all the had the
same sponsor
I have more Godfrey programs but one a day is enough,

Frank McGurn.

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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:38:26 -0400
From: "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Correction

"WBNX (now WADO)"

New York City's WADO (1280 kc) used to be WOV, not WBNX.

I'm not sure what call WBNX was replaced by (1380kc)

Bill Knowlton

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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:40:16 -0400
From: "Phil Stallings" <redrydertexas@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Mt. Carmel Lone Ranger Festival Canceled

Mt. Carmel, Illinois - At the Retail Merchants Committee's regular meeting
on Tuesday (Apr 10), Tanja Bingham, Chamber of Commerce executive director,
announced that the 2007 Lone Ranger Festival - originally scheduled for June
16 - has been canceled.

There will be a Lone Ranger Festival, though, in 2008, in celebration of the
Lone Ranger's 75th anniversary.
----- Phil Stallings, webmaster: [removed]

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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:49:19 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Sounds WITH Pictures?

From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)

Bob Hastings had worked with  Filmation within the last couple of years,
on the aforementioned SUPERBOY,  but was not asked, obviously, to supply
the voice of [removed]

Did they go with someone closer in age to the character?

So,  somewhere, perhaps sitting in a vault, are at least a few
performances, of  Curry, as the Clown Prince of [removed]

They're out of the vault; at least one of them actually aired.

-Craig W.

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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:23:40 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Filmation's "Battle of Hastings"
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A certain New Yorker posted about Filmation's big-shots Prescott and
Scheimer:

Even at the height of their company's network success, in the late '70s,
I can remember being surprised, when visiting them, that these two
studio honchos SHARED an office.  (It was a large office, mind you, but
[removed])

My estimation, judging by the low-budget nature of their cartoons,  is that
they were equally cheap regarding administration costs.

Same post-er goes on to say:

Bob Hastings had worked with Filmation within the last couple of years,
on the aforementioned SUPERBOY, but was not asked, obviously, to supply
the voice of [removed]

I asked Bob at one of the OTRs in the early '90s, and he seemed unsure
as to the reason, as well!

One year at FOTR, I gave Bob Hastings a commercially released VHS of some of
his Filmation "Superboy" cartoons. Bob speculated that the reason he never did
any further work for Filmation was because he complained about not getting
compensated extra for doubling up on voices in the "Superboy" cartoons.

Although Dallas McKinnon did a commendable job as "Archie" for Filmation,  it
would've been nice to have heard Bob in the role.  I don't doubt for a minute
that the Filmation powers-that-be got ahold  of some of the 1940s "Archie
Andrews" radio shows and played them for the cartoon voice actors before the
series began production.  McKinnon, Howard Morris, and Jane Webb probably
heard and drew heavily from the portrayals rendered by Hastings, Hal Stone,
and Rosemary [removed]

Also in the cartoon mix was John Erving as "Reggie Mantle."  [Erving' is
probably best known for having provided the voice of Morris, the  (9-Live Cat
Food) Cat].  Maybe I'm not so "Swift" but  I never heard an "Archie Andrews"
radio programme that even featured Reggie. Are there any out there in the
ether?

If only Hal Stone were still with us to give an authoritative answer. I miss
him.

Derek Tague

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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:24:51 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Rooted in O. Henry

My friend Melanie Aultman inquires:

Would someone please enlighten me as to why the introduction to the TV
Cisco Kid says something about O'Henry's Robin Hood?

Slackly centered in O. Henry's classic romantic character Robin Hood, Cisco
was a Latin adaptation of the tenderhearted guy who stole from the haves to
share with the have-nots.  In this version (broadcast first on radio) he
encountered banditos galore and an assortment of other rampaging,
mean-spirited hombres.  They had to be suppressed in order for the Hispanic
avenger to rectify wrongs, pillage the plunderers and restore the underdogs
to their rightful spots.

The origins of the Cisco Kid figure may be found in O. Henry's short story
"The Caballero's Way."  He debuted there as a disheveled bandito who
victimized the rich to help the poor.  Cisco next turned up in early silent
films, then in numerous sound features starting in 1929 with "In Old
Arizona."  The subsequent radio series (1942-56) inspired a syndicated video
version produced by Ziv TV (1950-56) and a comic strip in daily newspapers
(1950-68).  There was also a made-for-TV movie on TNT Feb. 6, 1994.

And now you know the rest of the O. Henry story, which was adapted from my
book "Radio Crime Fighters:  Over 300 Programs from the Golden Age"
(McFarland, 2002).

Jim Cox

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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:24:29 -0400
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Nightbeat with Frank Lovejoy

I am still looking for someone who has Nightbeat with Frank Lovejoy in good
sound.  My collection is mostly from the Golden Age of Radio Drama.  Good
sound, but there are breaks for commercials to be inserted by local
stations.  Anyone for a trade?

Ted Kneebone, 1528 S. Grant St.,  Aberdeen, SD 57401/Phone 605-226-3344
OTR website:  [removed]

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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:24:47 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  4-12 births/deaths

April 12th births

04-12-1898 - Lily Pons - Draguignan, France - d. 2-13-1976
singer: "Telephone Hour"; "Voice of Firestone"
04-12-1902 - John White - d. 11-26-1992
country/western singer: Lonesome Cowboy "Death Valley Days"
04-12-1904 - Frankie Masters - Saint Marys, WV - d. 1-29-1991
music: "Edgar A. Guest"
04-12-1907 - Ivan Ditmars - Olympia, WA - d. 9-10-1997
music: "Advs. of Frank Race"; "Dr. Christian"; "Escape"
04-12-1908 - Robert L. Scott - Waynesboro, GA - d. 2-27-2006
wwII fighter pilot, author: "Mail Call"; "Hop Harrigan"
04-12-1912 - Herbert B. Mills - Picqua, OH - d. 4-12-1989
singer: (The Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette"
04-12-1914 - Ken Williams - Canada - d. 2-16-1984
actor: Brian Wells "David Harum"
04-12-1918 - Helen Forrest - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 7-11-1999
singer: "Artie Shaw and His Orchestra"; "Harry James and His Orchestra"
04-12-1919 - Ann Miller - Chireno, TX - d. 1-22-2004
dancer, actor: "Forecast"; "Hollywood Hotel"
04-12-1919 - Cy Bahakel - Birmingham, AL - d. 4-20-2006
newscaster: WJRD Tuscaloosa, AL
04-12-1920 - Anita Ellis - Montreal, Canada
singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"; "Jack Carson Show" "Red
Skelton Show"
04-12-1921 - Peter R. Brooke - Berlin, Germany - d. 4-14-1999
writer: "Secret Mission"
04-12-1926 - Jane Withers - Atlanta, GA
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-12-1930 - Johnny Antonelli - Rochester, NY
baseball pitcher: "Bill Stern Sports News"
04-12-1931 - Betty Clooney - Maysville, KY - d. 8-xx-1976
singer: (The Clooney Sisters) "Moon River"

April 12th deaths

01-30-1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Hyde Park, NY - d. 4-12-1945
[removed] president: "Fireside Chats"
04-06-1919 - Paula Kelly - d. 4-12-1992
vocalist: (Modernaires) "Club Fifteen"
04-12-1912 - Herbert B. Mills - Picqua, OH - d. 4-12-1989
singer: (The Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette"
05-03-1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson - Detroit, MI - d. 4-12-1989
pugilist: "Destination Freedom"; "Heat It Now"
05-13-1914 - Joe Louis (The Brown Bomber) - Lafayette, AL - d. 4-12-1981
heavyweight boxing champ: "Fred Allen Show"; "Freedom's People"
05-23-1882 - James Gleason - NYC - d. 4-12-1959
actor: "Jimmy Gleason's Diner"
06-03-1906 - Josephine Baker - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-12-1975
singer: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
07-19-1902 - Buster Bailey - Memphis, TN - d. 4-12-1967
clarinet: "Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm"
07-24-1913 - Brian Reece - Noctorum, England - d. 4-12-1962
actor: Archibald Berkeley-Willoughby "The Advs. of [removed] 49"
09-08-1921 - Harry Secombe - Swansea, Wales - d. 4-12-2001
comedian: Neddie Seagoon "Goon Show"
09-09-1894 - Arthur Freed - Charleston, SC - d. 4-12-1973
songwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-15-1898 - Gene Arnold - d. 4-12-1954
singer: (the man with a tear in his throat) "National Barn Dance"
10-11-1919 - George Rock - Farmer City, FL - d. 4-12-1988
260 poind trumpet player: "The Spike Jones Shw"
11-02-1901 - Paul Ford - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-12-1976
actor: "Suspense"; "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
11-16-1887 - Arthur Krock - Glasgow, KY - d. 4-12-1974
journalist: "Information Please"

Ron Sayles

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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:24:53 -0400
From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  [removed]

So, let met get this straight:

There was time when one could be eating some Pabst-ett, while sipping, a
Pabst?

And they call our modern world, progress!

(Yes, I know.  Hardly a Blue Ribbon [removed])

;-)

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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:25:09 -0400
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Cisco Kid

Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:49:47 -0400
From: Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed];

Would someone please enlighten me as to why the introduction to the TV
Cisco Kid says something about O'Henry's Robin Hood?

As I recall the reference was to "O. Henry's Robin Hood of the Old
West."

O. Henry was a pen name of William Sydney Porter, an American writer
of the late 19th and early 20th century, who was best known for his
short stories with twist endings.  I don't know, but I assume the TV
and radio character was based on some of his stories.  Since I don't
recall Cisco ever stealing from the rich to give to the poor, I think
the reference to Robin Hood is a bit of a stretch.

--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
 15 Court Square, Suite 210                 Fax [removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2503           	         [removed]

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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:25:42 -0400
From: Chargous@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Rextoration has come a long way

Sound restoration has sure come a long way - the newest (high end)
restoration softwares and hardwares are pretty sophisticated.

The newer version of CEDAR is the best - correct me if I'm wrong, it's even
automatic  In the more affordable pro category, there's Waves and Sony
Oxford (about 800-900 for the plugins that pertain to vintage audio).  Of
those two, I'm using Waves.  It did an amazing job on some AFRS discs that
were really through - really had bad crackle and wear-related [removed]  It
wasn't able to make all of them perfect, but even the worse ones it
improved without the horrible artifacts of past restoration applications,
and the advanced algorithms don't take out similar sounds, like footsteps,
etc, like some past ones [removed] Waves also separates the functions, click,
crackle, and noise into separate plugins, a feature which I
like.  Relatively simple to use, but it requires finding the right setting
for each application. Sony Oxford also received good reviews, but I haven't
tried it.  The bad part about Oxford is that their crackle refers to clicks
and their clicks refer to crackle.  Backwards.

I've remembered good advice from the past, and I always keep a raw version
of what I restore, as restoration is ever-improving.  I'm excited to see
what it'll be like in another five years.

We've come a long way from the cassette!

Travis

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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:26:31 -0400
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Radio Actors on Cartoon Acting
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The recent post about Bob Hasting's career in cartoons made me think of two
FOTR interviews on acting and [removed] Beals, who worked extensively in
the Hannah Barbera Shop in the 1960s as well as on the religious claymation
cartoon "Davey and Goliath," said that animation acting was very different
from radio acting.  He noted that he wasn't always in the same room with the
other actors and that his roles often had him sitting alone at a microphone
reading lines in a vacuum.  He also noted that he had to learn to speak in a
very stilted manner in order to leave "cut room" between lines for the
producers who would piece the final episode together.  Radio, he contrasted,
was more like stage acting where you would take cues from other actors and
respond to their [removed], on the other hand, recalled working on
"Batman" in the 1990s as Commissioner Gordon, said that they would all sit in
cubicles with headphones on - but were in the same room.  He said that the
episodes in which Mark Hamil appeared as the Joker were the best because Hamil
would stand up in his cubicle and act out his part as they read through the
episode.  That got everyone in the cast excited - which is more like how Beals
described the experience of working in [removed] can only surmise that
superior editing technology developed between the eras that Dick and Bob were
active in animation made it possible to record "Batman" in real time in 1992
while they needed to go slower on "The Flinstones" in [removed]
DoughertySeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:27:01 -0400
From: "Dick Judge" <dickjudge@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  RKO Radio Pictures
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This subject probably has been discussed before, but how or what does the
"Radio" mean in these great B&W movies of the past. Thanks.
dickjudge

MEMORIES OF RADIO/Dick Judge
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?

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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:33:01 -0400
From: FabFicBks@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Tom Corbett, ABS and more

The comment about the Tom Corbett book bearing some  resemblance to Harry
Potter should hardly be unique or surprising, since both  Tom and Harry Potter
roughly follow the basic form used by thousands upon  thousands of boys'
series
books and dime novels which have gone before.   The theme of youngsters going
off to a school, becoming friends, dealing with  class bullies, playing games,
having adventures and overcoming dangers is a  staple of the printed page
going back several hundred years (at least).   Some of those school-setting
adventures even made it to radio, including the  most popular and the most
famous
of the dime novel school boys, Frank  Merriwell.

    The Amalgamated Broadcasting System was not formed  by Ed Wynn.  He was
recruited as a partner and was supposed to be the  public spokesman and the
President of the company.  According to his son  and his own statements, Ed
Wynn
lost $305,000 on that ambitious but unsuccessful  venture.  Wynn rapidly
discovered he was not a businessman, especially when  it came to negotiating
ad
contracts, making decisions on building studios,  arranging deals to bring
independent stations into the new network and  performing the daily nuts and
bolts
of running a business.  He became a  public relations president and left the
decision making and operations to  Goldman, who actually ran the network.  A
couple of stations were formed by  ABS which survived the breakup of the
venture,
none owned or financially  connected with Wynn.

    Wynn survived the breakup of ABS nicely too.   He soothed his
disappointment by buying a brand new yacht, price tag  $150,000, which he
named "The Fire
Chief", in honor of his radio show.  The  yacht had a full time crew of six
and cost him $2,000 a week to maintain, even  more when he actually took it
out
for a spin on the open waters.   As noted in an article I did on Ed Wynn last
year, an hour's trip around  the sound in that yacht cost him $[removed] in fuel
alone, more than most people who  listened to his radio show earned in an
entire week.

---Bob Jennings

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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:33:15 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Pabst-ett

As I mentioned previously on this digest, I have had this page up on my
web site for some time after doing some research on Pabst-ett several
years ago.

[removed]

Jim Widner

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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:33:51 -0400
From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Dick Beals SOAKY [removed]

Dick, as the voice of the Soaky Kid, with Mel Blanc, and Clarence
[removed]

Mark Evanier has put up a neat 1960s SOAKIES ad, over at his wonderful
website, [removed]  (Mark's a talented Hollywood, writer/producer,
AND historian/raconteur, whose wide ranging interests reflect those of
many of the folks here. His website is well worth spending some time
browsing around at. If Mark's name is familiar, he's also spent years in
the comic book biz, working on many of the great licensed animation
characters, as well as TARZAN, and co-creating the award-winning GROO,
with Sergio Aragones. He has a mammoth, prestige, MAIN STREAM, Jack
Kirby art-book coming out, from Abrams, which should be well worth
keeping an eye out for.)

In the interest of full disclosure--

;-)

Further down, at the site, you'll also find a bit I wrote, on an
encounter, a couple of years back, with Kurt [removed]

[removed]

Best, Jim Burns

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