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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2007 : Issue 104
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 1-7 April [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Don McNeill's Prayer [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
re: Breakfast Club Question [ Doug Berryhill <fibbermac@[removed] ]
RE: Editing comercials. [ david vonbogart <dvonbogart@[removed] ]
re: Damon Runyon [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
Language Study [ crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow) ]
Real Sound Effets [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
Scripts For Missing GUNSMOKE 1952 Ep [ "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@worldn ]
4-1 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Editing Out commercials in sound rec [ billcf@[removed] ]
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Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:55:09 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 1-7 April
From Those Were The Days --
4/1
1941 - The first contract for advertising on a commercial FM station
began on W71NY in New York City.
1949 - The first all-black-cast variety show, Happy Pappy was presented
on WENR-TV in Chicago, IL.
4/2
1947 - The Big Story was first heard on NBC. It stayed on the air for
eight years.
4/3
1939 - Mr. District Attorney was heard for the first time on NBC. The
serial about the 'champion of the people' was originally a 15-minute
nightly program. In June of 1939, the program went to a half-hour weekly
format. Mr. District Attorney aired until 1952.
1942 - People Are Funny was first heard this day on NBC
1949 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis debuted in an NBC.
4/4
1938 - After seven years of singing on the radio, Kate Smith began a new
noontime talk show.
4/6
1931 - Little Orphan Annie, the comic strip character developed by
Harold Gray, came to life on the NBC Blue network.
1942 - We Love and Learn premiered on CBS. The serial featured Frank
Lovejoy as Bill. The program would continue until 1951.
1945 - This is Your FBI debuted on ABC.
Joe
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Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:58:38 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Don McNeill's Prayer
On Saturday, March 31, 2007 two Digesters wrote:
Each in his own words,
Each in his own way;
For a world united in peace,
bow your heads, let us pray.
"Each of you,
In his own words,
In his own way,
For a free world united in peace,
Let us bow our heads and pray."
Thanks to Bill Harper and Dennis Crow for providing these two similar
versions of Don's prayer, which although following a standard format,
did allow him to change the wording occasionally. This is reflected in
the line about world peace, which doesn't have to rhyme as the "way"
and "pray" lines do.
The 1948 Breakfast Club Yearbook states that Don started the prayer in
1944 during WW II so his 15 second silent prayer, following his
introduction, was usually concerned with world peace. However several
times during the year he would substitute a prayer of thanksgiving for
blessings received or a prayer to further family understanding.
Conclusion: There is no absolute wording on this silent prayer
introduction.
Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:58:20 -0400
From: Doug Berryhill <fibbermac@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: re: Breakfast Club Question
-FIBBERMAC HERE-
Many thanks to Bill, Dennis & Conrad for answering my
question.
I have forwarded your answers to the man wanting the
information.
-FIBBERMAC-
Wonderful World!
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Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:59:27 -0400
From: david vonbogart <dvonbogart@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: RE: Editing comercials.
Charlie wrote
Why would I love commercials on OTR, and hate them on
Television? It defy's all reasoning to me.
I do the same thing, turn down commercials on TV and
fast-forward on VCR, but like hearing them on OTR. I
think it's because the old commercials bring back
memories of products no longer advertised on the air
or on longer exist, or if they do still exist I think
"wow, I sitll use that product" or similiar thoughts.
I think its a nostalgia thing for me.
Dave B
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Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:00:45 -0400
From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: re: Damon Runyon
Stuart Lubin asked:
Does anyone know if Mr. Runyon had a role in casting the show?
Pretty unlikely, since he died of cancer over two years before the show
debuted. (Even if he had lived, he probably would not have had a voice
in casting. My impression is that authors generally had very little
involvement with radio adaptations of their work. They simply collected
a check, and often grumbled -- privately -- about the results.)
The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation is still active today in
fundraising and supporting cancer research. Their website is
[removed].
Kermyt
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Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:19:59 -0400
From: crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow)
To: [removed]@[removed] (Old Time Radio Digest)
Subject: Language Study
I should resist the temptation to correct Stuart Lubin, who wrote an
intelligent post today on "language study" and "contractions."
Additionally, he "plugged" standard English, when he also noted
appropriately that the prepositional phrase, "between you and I," is
wrong, and requires the pronoun "me" instead of "I."
But, [the devil made me do this], Stuart misspelled "grammatically."
Dennis Crow
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Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:20:12 -0400
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Real Sound Effets
[removed] King's Subject Real Sound Effects, has triggered my mind of trivia.
I read, or heard, that in 1938 when Orsen Wells was he producing,
directing and acting in "War of the Worlds" he wanted to create a
certain sound . He found that having a microphone in a CBS Men's wash
room created the desired [removed] I think it was either an echo or the
sound made by flushing a toilet.
Frank McGurn
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Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 03:51:09 -0400
From: "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Scripts For Missing GUNSMOKE 1952 Episodes
Found
The Following Post IS NOT An April Fools Gag!
Fans of Old-Time Radio are extremely fortunate that all but six of 480
broadcast episodes of GUNSMOKE survive in some recorded form, either from
the broadcast or a rehearsal recording. Five of those Missing broadcasts are
from 1952, GUNSMOKE's first year on the air.
A large number of scripts from the 1952 portion of GUNSMOKE's CBS Radio
run were recently found. Included in this group of scripts were those for
the Five Missing broadcasts from that year. They are:
05/03/1952 Ben Thompson
05/17/1952 Dodge City Killer
06/14/1952 Jailbait Janet
06/21/1952 Heat Spell
06/28/1952 The Ride Back
(A script for the other Missing episode: Homely Girl, Air Date 06/19/1960,
Written by Kathleen Hite is known to exist in archives in California and
Kansas. The Plot for that episode is described in the book GUNSMOKE: A
Complete History by SuzAnne and Gabor Barabas.)
Prior to this recent discovery, very little was known about four of these
five missing 1952 episodes. More was known about Jailbait Janet because the
script was modified and reused in 1959 for a new production with a different
guest cast.
Plotline Summaries for these five 1952 Missing episodes will be posted in
The Old-Time Radio Digest at the rate of one a week over the next five
weeks.
Additional information, such as Cast credits, from each script will be
posted on the GUNSMOKE Forum of The Nostalgia Pages Forums Website after
each Plotline Summary is posted in the Digest. The Nostalgia Pages Forums
can be found at:
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The following is a plot summary of the first Missing GUNSMOKE 1952 episode.
Ben Thompson
05/03/1952
Script by Hugh Purdum
EPISODE NOTES:
A few early GUNSMOKE episodes had no titles on the scripts. The script for
this episode was simply labeled GUNSMOKE #2. This episode was assigned the
title "Ben Thompson" at an unknown, later date; perhaps by Norman
Macdonnell.
PLOT:
Lassiter, a notorious gunman, is killed in a gunfight with Matt Dillon.
Vi, his irate widow, lets Dillon know that she plans to ruin the Marshal's
reputation before she has him killed.
Sometime later, Texas, a drunk who Dillon disarmed and put in jail, has
some news. Three gunmen: Ben Thompson, Tom Tom Henderson, and
Nueces Smith are coming to Dodge to kill the Marshal. Apparently, Vi
Lassiter has hired them to discredit and kill Dillon. The three outlaws
commit several unsolved, petty robberies around Dodge and Thompson leaves
vague notes signed by "Ben" that taunt Dillon, but do not provide adequate
information to find the gunmen.
A young drunk, egged on by Nueces, claims to be Ben and publicly belittles
the Marshal. Dillon knocks out the young braggart and is taking him to jail
when Thompson gets the drop on Matt. Thompson takes Dillon's gun and knife
and makes Matt leave the unconscious young man with Henderson. Then Ben
forces the Marshal to walk with him to the edge of Dodge. As Thompson
mounts his horse, he tells Matt where he can find him later that evening and
orders him to come alone.
When Matt gets back to town, he finds out that the young man has been
killed, stabbed in the back with the Marshal's knife. Dillon knows that he
must go after Thompson and his gang to clear his name and that he cannot
expect a fair fight from the outlaws.
Texas volunteers to go with Matt. Dillon refuses his offer and informs
him that he has figured out that Texas is really a lawman, a Texas Ranger.
Texas confirms Matt's assumption and admits that he is after Thompson.
Dillon reconsiders and allows the Ranger to follow him at a distance.
At the outlaws' hideout, Matt tells Vi Lassiter that she didn't really
know her husband. At one time, Matt and Lassiter were friends. Lassiter
was an outlaw and a gunman, who was obsessed with proving that was faster
with a gun than Dillon. Unlike the men she hired, her husband faced the men
he killed. Matt informs her that Thompson had an unconscious boy murdered
to make Matt look guilty.
When Vi confronts Thompson, he admits to the murder and informs her that
she is no longer giving the orders. Ben tells Vi that he wants her and that
she'll get use to his ways.
Nueces tries to take the Marshal and Dillon kills him. Texas knocks out
Henderson who was going to shoot Dillon in the back.
Thompson uses Vi as an unwilling shield until he reaches his horse. Texas
is wounded when he tries to stop Ben's escape.
Dillon corners the outlaw leader in some rocks when Thompson's horse goes
lame. Matt then uses ricochet shots to convince Ben to surrender.
Back in Dodge, Matt lets the recovering Texas know that he has ordered Vi
out of Dodge. When the Ranger asks why he didn't kill the no good Thompson,
Matt replies,
Let's just say I don't like having to shoot a man, Texas.
Somehow, to me. . . it just isn't any fun.
Comment:
It is unfortunate that this episode is among the Missing GUNSMOKE
broadcasts because the story is extremely well-written and provides
significant insight into Matt's character. Matt has the following narration
after killing Lassiter:
I couldn't tell anyone, but the bitterness icing my stomach made me sick as
I remembered Lassiter as a friend. . . . now dead by my gun. Then I got
over it. . . I always got over it. The frontier code was a harsh one. . .
. and I knew my job was one that had to be done if the West was ever to see
peace. As long as killers like Lassiter lived, I would carry a gun. . . .
and use it. It was the way it had to be. Sometimes a man's dying was the
end of it. . . sometimes the beginning of something worse.
These words describe the motivation of Matt Dillon as well as any I have
ever read or heard.
Signing off for now,
Stewart Wright
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Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 03:51:23 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 4-1 births/deaths
April 1st births
04-01-1883 - Jules Verne Allen - d. xx-xx-1945
cowboy singer: Known as "Lonsome Luke"
04-01-1884 - Laurette Taylor - NYC - d. 12-7-1946
actor: "The Everedy Hour"
04-01-1886 - Wallace Beery - Kansas City, MO - d. 4-15-1949
host: "Shell Chateau"
04-01-1891 - Harold True - Hornell, NY - d. 2-15-1973
announcer/narrator: "The Lone Ranger"
04-01-1893 - Linton Wells - Louisville, KY - d. 1-31-1976
writer: "The Magic Key"
04-01-1895 - Alberta Hunter - Memphis, Tn - d. 10-17-1984
blues singer: "Jazz at the Simthsonian"
04-01-1895 - Franklin Babcock - d. 1-xx-1963
newscaster: KTRH Houston, Texas
04-01-1904 - Sid Field - Birmingham, England - d. 2-3-1950
comedian: Freelance
04-01-1907 - Stanley Joseloff - d. 10-1-1989
writer: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
04-01-1908 - Bob Nolan - New Brunswick, Canada - d. 6-16-1980
singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) "The Roy Rogers Show"
04-01-1909 - Eddy Duchin - Cambridge, MA - d. 2-9-1951
bandleader: (The Ten Magic Fingers of Radio) "Lasalle Style Show"
04-01-1911 - Maurice Tarplin - Boston, MA - d. 5-12-1975
actor: Mysterious Traveler "Mysterious Traveler"; Inspector Faraday
"Boston Blackie"
04-01-1912 - Lou Merrill - Canada - d. 4-7-1963
actor: Thomas Hyland "Crime Classics"; Aaron Saul "Point Sublime"
04-01-1914 - Philip Yordan - Chicago, IL - d. 3-24-2003
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-01-1915 - Bob Dwan - San Francisco, CA - d. 1-21-2005
director: "You Bet Your Life"
04-01-1917 - Leon Janney - Ogden, UT - d. 10-28-1980
actor: Danny Stratford "Life of Mary Sothern"; Richard Parker "Parker
Family"
04-01-1917 - Mel Shavelson - NYC
writer: "The Bob Hope Show"
04-01-1917 - "Wee" Bonnie Baker - Orange, TX - d. 8-11-1990
singer: "Your Hit Parade"
04-01-1920 - Art Lund - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 5-31-1990
singer, actor: "Benny Goodman and His Orchestra"; "Land's Best
Bands"; "Jubilee"
04-01-1922 - William Manchester - Attleboro, MA - d. 6-1-2004
author, historian: "Meet the Press"; "Biography in Sound"
04-01-1923 - Bobby Jordan - NYC - d. 9-10-1965
actor: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"; "Wheatenaville
Sketches"
04-01-1925 - Ernest Kinoy
nbc staff writer
04-01-1926 - Jack Grimes - NYC
actor: Archie Andrews "Archie Andrews"; Homer Brown "Aldrich Family"
04-01-1929 - Jane Powell - Portland, OR
singer: Judy Foster "A Date with Judy"; "Chase & Sanborn Hour";
"Stars of Tomorrow"
04-01-1932 - Debbie Reynolds - El Paso, TX
actor: "Stars Over Hollywood"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-01-1934 - Don Hastings - Brooklyn, NY
actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Studio One"; "Radio City Playhouse"
04-01-1937 - Jordan Charney
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
April 1st deaths
01-12-1878 - Ferenc Molnar - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 4-1-1952
playwright: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
01-17-1884 - Noah Beery, Sr. - Kansas City, MO - d. 4-1-1946
actor: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
01-18-1902 - Helen Lynd - New Jersey - d. 4-1-1992
actor: Miss Duffy "Duffy's Tavern"
05-11-1894 - Martha Graham - Allegheny, PA - d. 4-1-1991
choreographer: Miss Hush on "Truth or Consequences"
05-13-1902 - David Broekman - Leiden, The Netherlands- d. 4-1-1958
conductor: "Mobil Magazine"; "Texaco Star Theatre"
05-20-1909 - Jerry Hausner - Cleveland, OH - d. 4-1-1993
actor: "Lum and Abner"; "Silver Theatre"
05-24-1914 - Vern Carstensen - Clinton, IA - d. 4-1-1999
announcer, actor: "Box 13"; "Damon Runyon Theatre"
05-25-1907 - Barbara Luddy - Helena, MT - d. 4-1-1979
actor: Carol Evans "Road of Life"; Janet Munson Adams "Woman in White"
06-15-1921 - Lucille Norman - Lincoln, NE - d. 4-1-1998
singer: "Time, the Place and the Tune"; "Railroad Hour"
06-23-1911 - Eddie Miller - New Orleans, LA - d. 4-1-1991
saxaphone: "The Bob Crosby Show"
07-11-1922 - Gene Evans - Holbrook, AZ - d. 4-1-1998
actor: "Family Theatre"
07-30-1880 - Robert R. McCormick - Chicago, IL - d. 4-1-1955
newspaper publisher, commentator: "The Chicago Theatre of the Air"
11-16-1896 - Jim Jordan - Peoria, IL - d. 4-1-1988
comedian: Mickey Donavan, "Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten"; "Fibber McGee
"Fibber McGee and Molly"
11-22-1922 - Lynn(e) Roberts - El Paso, TX - d. 4-1-1978
vocalist: "Dorsey Brothers Orchestra"; "Benny Goodman Orchestra"
12-15-1873 - Harry Humphrey - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-1-1947
actor: Old Ranger "Death Valley Days"; Horace "Ma and Pa"
Ron Sayles
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Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 10:21:57 -0400
From: billcf@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Editing Out commercials in sound recording
This program can be used to eliminate commercials. The Program is
called Sound Editor and it's free.
[removed]
Bill
[ADMINISTRIVIA: Actually, it's called Audacity, and _is_ a sound editor. And
a good one, too. --cfs3]
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