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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 265
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Memories of Bill Murtough             [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
  Bill Murtough                         [ "Arthur Funk" <art-funk@[removed]; ]
  2 shows                               [ "EDWARD J. CARR" <edcarr@[removed] ]
  OTR books made into talking books     [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  9-30 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Bill Murtaugh                         [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  JFK Assassination                     [ "Bob Watson" <crw934@[removed]; ]
  Greenberg on Third                    [ tomheston@[removed] (Irish Tom) ]
  This week in radio history 1-7 Octob  [ "Joe Mackey" <joemackey108@adelphia ]
  No death dates October                [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:05:31 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Memories of Bill Murtough
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"Our Gal Sunday," Barbara Watkins wrote about the recent passing of Bill
Murtough:

He had a million stories about his days in radio and shared them with anyone
who took the time to listen.

Amen to that! About five years ago, I had the pleasure of interviewing Mr.
Murtough for a One-on-One panel at FOTR. He had such a remarkable memory for
every facet of OTR with which he was involved and was always able to give
great insight from the perspective of  a greatly under-acknowledged segment of
OTR--the sound engineers. Bill could talk non-stop about his days in radio--in
fact, he didn't even need me as moderator as he was able to carry the panel
with one story melding into another.   I believe the ancient Chinese had a
saying to the effect that when an old person dies, such is akin to a library
burning down. And to me, that saying describes Bill Murtough. Not just
fantastic memories of the OTR days, but also of sharing time with Bill and
Lucille at OTR conventions.

My deepest condolences to Bill's widow Lucille as well as to the Murtoughs'
very close friends, Lee and Charlotte Munsick.

Sadly in the ether--

Derek Tague

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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:06:07 -0400
From: "Arthur Funk" <art-funk@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Bill Murtough
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Dear Fellow OTR Digesters,

It saddened me to read B. J. Watkins' post in Digest No. 264 re Bill's
passing.  While I never met Bill I always enjoyed his interesting and
informative posts on this Digest.  Only this week I wondered why we hadn't
heard from him in recent months.  His is another voice from among the
broadcasting pioneers that is stilled.  He will be missed.

Regards to all,
Art Funk

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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:06:17 -0400
From: "EDWARD J. CARR" <edcarr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  2 shows

hi
is there anyone familar with "leatherneck jamboree"  or "harlem hospitality
club"
or am i overlooking info somewhere
thanks, ed

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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:06:53 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR books made into talking books

Glen Schroeder commented:

I'm in the middle of reading Private Eyelashes by Jack French and I sure am
enjoying it.  I'm reading it on Talking Book from the National Library
Service for the Blind.  I wish they would record more otr books than they
do.

Anyone who has ever had a book copyrighted has the option to check a section
on the form granting permission to the Copyright Office/Library of Congress
to make the published work put into a Talking Book form.  If the National
Library Service does not have a book you want to listen to, send them a
request.  They do take the requests and if enough requests are given to
them, they will look into the possibility of having it put into Talking Book
form.

Anyone who is presently writing a book and has never filled out a Copyright
Registration form before, keep this in mind when you do.  You are performing
a favor to those who otherwise wouldn't be able to read the book under
normal circumstances. Check yes.

Martin Grams Jr.

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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:50:28 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  9-30 births/deaths

September 30th births

09-30-1891 - Fabien Sevitzky - d. 2-3-1967
director: "The Indianaoplis Symphony Orchestra"
09-30-1895 - Lewis Milestone - Odessa, Russia - d. 9-25-1980
film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
09-30-1896 - Fred Howard - San Diego, CA - d. 2-7-1990
actor: "The Saint"; "Dearest Mother"; "We Are Four"
09-30-1896 - Fred Wright - San Diego, CA - d. 7-2-1990
writer, actor: "Lights Out"; "Mystery is My Hobby"; "Ma Perkins"
09-30-1905 - Michael Powell - Bekesbourne, Kent, England - d. 2-19-1990
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-30-1908 - Jay Michael - NYC
actor: Butch Cavendish "The Lone Ranger"
09-30-1911 - Jerry Scoggins - Mount Pleasant, TX - d. 12-7-2004
singer: (Member of the Cass County Boys) "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"
09-30-1912 - Kenny Baker - Monrovia, CA - d. 8-10-1985
singer, comedian: "Jack Benny Program"; "Glamour Manor"; "Kenny Baker
Show"
09-30-1916 - Wendell Noble - Mesa, AZ - d. 2-10-1988
singer, actor: "Bride and Groom"; "Listener's Digest"
09-30-1921 - Deborah Kerr - Helensburgh, Scotland
actor: "Hollywood Calling"; "Hollywood Star Playhouse"; "Lux Radio
Theatre"
09-30-1922 - Lamont Johnson - Stockton, CA
actor: Tarzan "Tarzan"; Mark Douglas "Wendy Warren and the News"
09-30-1922 - Oscar Pettiford - Okmulgee, OK - d. 9-8-1960
jazz composer, bass player: "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Esquire Jazz
Concert"
09-30-1924 - Truman Capote - New Orleans, LA - d. 8-25-1984
author: "Cather: A Look of Remembrance"
09-30-1930 - Ben Cooper - Hartford, CT
actor: Brad Burton "Second Mrs. Burton"; Scotty "Mark Trail"
09-30-1935 - Jill Corey - Avonmore, PA
singer: "Jill Corey Show"; "Stop the Music"
09-30-1935 - Johnny Mathis - Gilomer, TX
singer: "Star Carousel"
09-30-1939 - Lou Cariou - Winnipeg, Canada
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

September 30th deaths

01-04-1919 - Al "Jazzbeaux" Collins - NYC - d. 9-30-1997
disc jockey: "Collins on a Cloud"; "Happy Al"
02-08-1931 - James Dean - Byron, IN - d. 9-30-1955
actor: "Hallmark Playhouse"
02-16-1903 - Edgar Bergen - Chicago, IL - d. 9-30-1978
ventriloquist: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
03-18-1886 - Edward Everett Horton - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-30-1970
actor, host: "Shell Chateau"; "Kraft Music Hall"
04-19-1907 - Lin Basquette - San Mateo, CA - d. 9-30-1994
actor: "Whatever Became of  . . . "
05-23-1912 - Marius Goring - Newport, Isle of Wight, England - d.
9-30-1998
actor: Sir Percy Blakeney/Scarlet Pimpernel "Scarlet Pimpernel"
06-08-1905 - Ruth Bailey - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 9-30-1989
actor: "First Nighter"; "Kitty Keene, Inc."; "Guiding Light"
06-10-1911 - Mary Lansing - Louisiana - d. 9-30-1988
actor: Betty Crane "The Greatest of These"; Julie Collins "The
Guiding Light"
07-18-1920 - Charlie McCarthy - Chicago, IL - d. 9-30-1978
dummy: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
07-30-1890 - Casey Stengel - Kansas City, MO - d. 9-30-1975
hall of fame baseball manager: "DiMaggio Farewell"; "Witness!"; "Tops
in Sports"
08-09-1892 - Joe Emerson - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 9-30-1969
gospel singer: "Hymns of All Churches"; "Hymn Time"
11-25-1896 - Virgil Thomson - Kansas City, MO - d. 9-30-1989
composer: "Columbia Workshop"
12-09-1906 - Freddy Martin - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-30-1983
bandleader: "Penthouse Serenade"; "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Jack Carson Show"
12-18-1913 - Alfred Bester - NYC - d. 9-30-1987
writer: "Charlie Chan"; "Nick Carter, Master Detective"; "The Shadow"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:21:56 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Bill Murtaugh

Does anyone know the birth date and birth place of Bill Murtaugh, I
am going to include him in my list.

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:21:23 -0400
From: "Bob Watson" <crw934@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  JFK Assassination

Not quite OTR, but I hope folks will endulge me this once.  Was the CBS
radio coverage of the JFK assassination a simucast of the CBS TV coverage?
Or did the radio news staff do the reporting?

Thanks,

Bob

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Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:09:18 -0400
From: tomheston@[removed] (Irish Tom)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Greenberg on Third

Hank Greenberg was a real ball player.  For some reason I mentally
associate  "And Greenberg's on third" with the phrase "...and the winner
is -- Beetlebaum."  That takes me right back to Jack Benny.  Ah, them
were the days, eh, lads?

               Tom Heston

  Slan agus Go n-eiri an bothar leat.

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Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:31:57 -0400
From: "Joe Mackey" <joemackey108@[removed];
To: "otrd" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 1-7 October

>From Those Were The Days --
10/1

1942 - People Are Funny went on the air with host Art Baker.

10/3

1901 - The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated on this day.
After a merger with Radio Corporation of America, RCA-Victor became the
leader in phonographs and many of the records played on them. The famous
Victrola phonograph logo, with Nipper the dog, and the words "His Master's
Voice", appeared on all RCA-Victor phonographs and record labels.

1946 - Dennis Day started his own show on NBC. Dennis, a popular tenor
featured on The Jack Benny Show, played the same (type) naive young bachelor
he played on the Benny show. A Day in the Life of Dennis Day aired for five
years.

10/4

1948 - Gordon MacRae hosted the premiere of a radio classic. The Railroad
Hour debuted on ABC. The theme song was I've Been Working on the Railroad
and the show was sponsored by -- get ready -- America's Railroads.

10/5

1930 - The New York Philharmonic Orchestra was first heard on the air over
CBS from Carnegie Hall. The Sunday afternoon concerts set CBS back $15,000.
Not per week, but for the entire season!

1930 - This was a big day for CBS. Following the orchestra broadcast
(above), Father Coughlin, The Fighting Priest was first heard on network
radio. He lit up the airwaves with oratory that aired into the early
forties. He was first heard on WJR Detroit in 1926.

1934 - The first major network radio show to originate from Hollywood aired
on this day. Hollywood Hotel was heard on CBS and was heavily promoted as
being the first to broadcast from the West Coast of the [removed]

1947 - A small Northern California company got a major boost from Bing
Crosby. The first show recorded on tape was broadcast on ABC. 'Der Bingle'
was so popular, that his taped show promoted wide distribution of the new
magnetic tape recorders that would become broadcast classics -- the
venerable Ampex 200.

1952 - After an 11-year run, Inner Sanctum, the legendary mystery series,
was heard for the final time. We'll never know if they oiled that squeaky
[removed] (Of course there is the story of a staffer who did actually oil the
door before one [removed] ed)

10/6

1937 - Hobby Lobby debuted on CBS. The host was the dean of American
hobbyists, Dave Elman. The show's theme was The Best Things in Life are
Free. Sponsors included Fels Naptha soap, Hudson paper products and Colgate
Dental Creme.

10/7

1922 - The first radio network -- of sorts -- debuted. It was a network of
just two stations. WJZ in Newark, NJ teamed with WGY in Schenectady, NY to
bring the World Series game direct from the Polo Grounds in New York.
Columnist Grantland Rice was behind the microphone for that broadcast.

1939 - Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy was heard for the first time on CBS
radio. Tom Hopkins, Kate's husband, was played by eventual Beat the Clock
host Clayton 'Bud' Collyer. The 15-minute radio drama was written by Chester
McCraken and Gertrude Berg (writer and Emmy Award-winning actress of The
Goldbergs, a popular radio and TV series in the 1940s & 1950s). The
announcer for the four-year run of Angel of Mercy was Ralph Edwards of
future This is Your Life fame. And the sponsor was Maxwell House of coffee
fame.

1940 - Portia Faces Life debuted on the NBC Red network. This radio soap
opera centered around the life of Portia Blake Manning, an attorney and a
widow with a young son. Portia Faces Life was extremely popular, and
therefore, had many sponsors -- none of which were soap. The sponsors
included Post Toasties, Grape Nuts Flakes, Grape Nuts Wheat Meal, Maxwell
House coffee, Jell-O desserts and La France bleach.

Joe

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Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:35:06 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  No death dates October

October birthdays with no death date

10-01-1921 - James Whitmore - White Plains, NY
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-01-1927 - Tom Bosley - Chicago, IL
host: "Sears Adventure Theatre"
10-01-1935 - Julie Andrews - Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England
singer: "Music As You Like It"; "Heartbeat of Broadway"
10-02-1915 - Bonnie Kay - Iowa City, IA
actor: "Barton Family"; "Mary Nobel, Backstage Wife"
10-02-1934 - Peggy Joan Moylan - Sag Harbor, NY
singer: (The Moylan Sisters, Angels of the Airwaves) "Moylan Sisters"
10-03-1907 - Paul Nugent - Brooklyn, NY
actor: Paul Strong "Mother O' Mine"; "Just Plain Bill"
10-04-1908 - Patricia Calvert - London, England
actor: "Just Plain Bill"; "Our Gal Sunday"
10-04-1924 - Charlton Heston - Evanston, IL
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Kaleidoscope"
10-04-1932 - Felicia Farr - Westchester County, NY
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
10-05-1930 - Skip Homeier - Chicago, IL
actor: "Let's Pretend"; Dickie Blake "Portia Faces Life"; "Reg'lar
Fellers"
10-07-1911 - Helen Choate - Boston, MA
actor: Patsy Bowen "Nick Carter, Master Detective"
10-07-1922 - Martha Stewart - Bardwell, KY
vocalist: "Your All-Time Hit Parade"
10-10-1909 - Kathleen Niday - Boise, ID
actor: "Death Valley Days"; "Mr. District Attorney"
10-10-1918 - Bobby Byrne - Columbus, OH
trombonist, bandleader: big band remote from Glen Island
10-10-1930 - Harold Pinter - London, England
writer, actor: "Focus on Football Pools"
10-10-1946 - Ben Vereen - Miami, FL
actor: "We Hold These Truths"
10-10-1946 - Chris Tarrant - Reading, England
writer, presenter: "Tiswas"; "OTT"
10-11-1926 - Earle Hyman - Rocky Mount, NC
actor: "Story of Ruby Valentine"
10-12-1912 - Robert Mitchell
choir director: (Robert Mitchell Boy Choir) "Nobody's Children"
10-12-1935 - Luciano Pavarotti - Modena, Italy
tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"
10-12-1936 - Tony Kubek - Milwaukee, WI
baseball announcer for the New York Yankees
10-13-1917 - Laraine Day - Roosevelt, UT
talk show hostess, actor: "Laraine Day Show"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-13-1927 - Lee Konitz - Chicago, IL
alto saxophonist: "Artistry in Rhythm"
10-15-1912 - Vivian Fridell - Milwaukee, WI
actor: Mary Noble "Mary Noble, Backstage Wife"; "Road of Life"
10-16-1920 - Sharon Douglas - Stevens County, OK
actor: Mildred Anderson "A Day in the Life of Dennis Day"; "Joan
Davis Time"
10-16-1925 - Angela Lansbury - London, England
actor: "NBC University Theatre"; "Suspense"
10-16-1925 - Lenka Peterson - Omaha, NE
actor: "Theatre Five"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
10-17-1917 - Marsha Hunt - Chicago, IL
actor: Blanche Bickerson "Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Document A/777"
10-17-1921 - Tom Poston - Columbus, OH
comedian: "Arthur Godfrey Show"
10-17-1926 - Julie Adams - Waterloo, IA
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-18-1912 - Gerta Rozan - Vienna, Austria-Hungary
actor: Eleta "Terry and the Pirates"
10-18-1914 - David W. Dole - Minneapolis, MN
sound effects, animal imitator: "Bob Becker's Chats About Dogs"
10-19-1917 - Evelyn Kaye Klein - NYC
violinist: (Evelyn and Her Magic Violin) "Hour of Charm"
10-19-1920 - Harry Alan Towers - London, England
producer: "The Black Museum"; "Horatio Hornblower"; "The Scarlet
Pimpernel"
10-19-1945 - John Lithgow - Rochester, NY
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
10-20-1925 - Art Buchwald - Mount Vernon, NY
humorist: "Monitor"
10-21-1923 - Jean Gillespie - Boston, MA
actor: Martha Piper "Tales of Willie Piper"; Inza Burrage "Advs. of
Frank Merriwell"
10-21-1924 - Julie Wilson - Omaha, NE
vocalist: "Hollywood Showcase"
10-22-1915 - Laurette Fillbrandt - Zanesville, OH
actor: "Girl Alone"; "Affairs of Anthone"; "One Man's Family"
10-22-1917 - Joan Fontaine - Tokyo, Japan
actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"
10-22-1938 - Sir Derek Jacoby - Leytonstone, London, England
actor:  Renaissance Theatre Company in association with BBC Radio Drama
10-22-1939 - Jim Cox - Pineville, KY
author: "Radio Crime Fighters"; "Great Radio Soap Operas"
10-22-1939 - Tony Roberts - NYC
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
10-23-1918 - Augusta Dabney - Berkeley, CA
actor: "Theatre Five"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
10-23-1922 - Coleen Gray - Staplehurst, NE
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-24-1925 - Teri Keane - NYC
actor: Hope Evans "Big Sister"; Terry Burton "Second Mrs. Burton"
10-24-1936 - David Nelson - NYC
actor: "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
10-25-1927 - Barbara Cook - Atlanta, GA
actor: Julie Boyd "Great Merlini"
10-25-1928 - Marion Ross - Albert Lea, MN
actor: Lux Radio Theatre
10-27-1920 - Nanette Fabray - San Diego, CA
singer, actor: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
10-27-1924 - Ruby Dee - Cleveland, OH
actor: "Story of Ruby Valentine"; "Story Hour"
10-27-1939 - John Cleese - Weston-Super-Mare, England
comedian: Basil Fawlty "Fawlty Towers"
10-28-1934 - Johnny Western - Two Harbors, MN
singer, actor, songwriter: (Ballad of Paladin) Daily show on KFDI
Wichita, KS
10-29-1909 - Virginia Clark - Peoria, IL
actor: Helen Trent "Romance of Helen Trent"
10-29-1925 - Robert Hardy - Cheltenham, England
actor, writer: "The Leopard and the Lillies"
10-29-1933 - Douglas Cameron - Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
presenter: "Today"; "double act"
10-30-1939 - Sammy Ogg - Lexington, VA
actor: Little Beaver "Red Ryder"; Donnie Henderson "Beulah"
10-30-1951 - Harry Hamlin - Pasadena, CA
actor: "We Hold These Truths"
10-31-1931 - Dan Rather - Wharton, TX
newscaster: Houston Radio
10-31-1942 - David Ogden Stiers - Peoria, IL
actor: "Empire of the Air"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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