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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2014 : Issue 61
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Patricia (Pat) Hosley [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]
Re: Stan Freberg [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
OLDE TYME RADIO CLASSICS [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:28:43 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Patricia (Pat) Hosley
From Susan Sigel (through Jack French) comes the sad news that Pat Hosley,
radio and television performer and great friend to the Friends of Old Time
Radio, passed away last Sunday, July 13, at 90 years. She performed at the
last FOTR convention, starring as Jack in a Let's Pretend re-creation of Jack
and the Beanstalk. My daughter Kate had a minor role in that performance,
making her pretty much the last generation who will be able to say they knew
these wonderful actors and actresses. I have posted a short video from
that recreation to the blog at [removed]
You can see Miss Hosley/Mrs. Kibbe's obituary at
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Another obituary, provided by Derek Tague, is posted at
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I have a Christmas episode of television's The Paul Winchell Show in
which, while there are no credits in my copy, I am _certain_ Miss Hosley
performes as Helen in a flashback sequence. I've posted it to the Digest's
Copy folder for anyone interested - if you forget how to access, drop me a
note. (The Copy referral system has wildly changed, more on that in a future
post.)
If anyone has a list of OTR programs featuring Miss Hosley, please contact
me; Kate and I would like to put together a tribute show with programs in
which she performed.
Charlie
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 22:50:20 -0400
From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Stan Freberg
1957 Funnyman Stan Freberg debuted a new weekly comedy program on CBS.
I remember that show. It was a summer replacement for Jack Benny (whose
show was in reruns on radio, but he was still replaced for the summer by
Stan Freberg). An LP album (two records, I think) came out of routines
from the show, and they were very good. Unfortunately, Freberg never
seemed to click as a television performer.
The show's quick demise probably had more to do with Freberg's
constantly challenging the taboos of broadcasting, as they existed at
that time. He also never managed to attract a sponsor, and he refused
to accept an alcohol or tobacco company. It seems ironic that he later
met great success creating commercials.
Happily, Freberg is still alive and active at 87.
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A. Joseph Ross, [removed]| 92 State Street| Suite 700 | Boston, MA 02109-2004
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 22:50:26 -0400
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO CLASSICS
Hi Friends,
Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
Radio Theatre," John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane
Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios," Big John and Steve's "Glowing Dial"
and my own "Old Time Radio Classics." Streamed in high-quality audio, on
demand, 24/7 at: [removed]
Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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Check our our Transcription Disc scans at:
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS
*Remembering Bob Hastings*
ARCHIE ANDREWS
Episode 258 7-6-46 "Masked Marvel"
Stars: Bob Hastings, Harlan Stone, Alice Yourman, Arthur Kohl, Gloria
Mann, Rosemary Rice
NBC Sustained Sunday 10:30 - 11:00 am
THE HALLS OF IVY
Episode 62 5-2-51 "Champ Waterfield"
Stars: Ronald Colman & Benita Hume (Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Colman),
Williard Waterman, Herbert Butterfield, Gloria Gordon, Bob Hastings
Creator/Writer: Don Quinn
Director: Nat Wolff
NBC Schlitz Brewery Fridays 8:00 - 8:30 pm
THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
Episode 92 1-2-49 "Give Us This Day"
Based on the book of the same name by Fulton Oursler, Dramatizes events
and stories in the Bible as told by Jesus Christ.
Stars: Warren Parker As Jesus Christ
Director: Mark Loeb
Assistant.: Leonard Blair
Scripts: Henry Denker
ABC Goodyear Sundays 6:30 - 7:00 pm till 9-18-49
X MINUS ONE
Episode 36 2-1-56 "Cave Of Night"
A malfunction strands the first astronaut in orbit.
The cast includes Bob Hastings and Alexander Scourby
Writer: James E. Gunn
Director: Daniel Sutter
Announcer: Fred Collins
NBC Sustaining
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATER
LONG JOHN NEBEL
(WOR NYC) An undated replay of a famous broadcast blooper on WMCA in
NYC, "It Happened In Hollywood" Long John loses it on the air.
LUX RADIO THEATRE
(CBS/Edited) 2/1/43 "The Showoff" stars Hal Peary with Una Merkle, Beula
Bondi and Paula Winslow in a delightful comedy.
GUEST STAR
(Synd) Excerpt - Frank Sinatra. from YOUR HIT PARADE transcriptions.
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
This week we salute our friend Bob Hastings.
Robert Francis Hastings
Born: April 18, 1925
Brooklyn, New York, Died: June 30, 2014 (aged 89)
Burbank, California
Prostate cancer
We first met in 1983 when we booked him for a SPERDVAC meeting as a
guest with child actors Bill Idelson, Eddie Firestone, and Dick York.
We will play shows featuring Bob Hastings which include:
THE SEA HOUND
from 09/11/42 Trapped Below.
COAST TO COAST ON A BUS
05/18/47 Jeanine Roose, Anne Whitfield, Walter Tetley, bob Hastings,
Milton Cross. Excerpt.
ARCHIE ANDREWS
05/18/46 Jive Talk.
INHERITANCE
10/17/54 Episode (028) Mother Bickerdyke.
ADVENTURES OF THE ABBOTTS
01/30/55 Episode (18) The Rickshaw Red Lipstick.
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This Week's Classics & Curios Show:
"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"
Episode 129
LOVE, BARBECUE, TAR PAPER, & PROPAGANDA SWING
I love Barbecue Jones and his Hot Dogs band with Wingy Manone,
especially as they play a tune that led to a classic Glenn Miller
recording. We'll feature music that also sings of romantic love with
Frank Sinatra's "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" from 1940 with Tommy Dorsey
along with Eddie Cantor's jazz/blues song "Making Whoopee" from 1929.
With trepidation I also air examples of the false love and true hate of
propaganda during war time in this episode as a reminder of the Nazi
misuse of good music.
We begin with the false love and true hate contained in political
propaganda, especially during World War II when the Nazis developed
propaganda into an insidious art form. American swing music was
"captured" during WWII as evidenced in the tune "Hold Me" performed by
the German ensemble known as "Charlie and his Orchestra." The second
part of this episode will reveal many more swing tunes misused by Nazi
propaganda as words were added clearly to sway Americans away from
participating in the war with funds and armed forces.
Nazi "news" propaganda was broadcast as "Germany Calling," examples of
which will also appear here in part two, but in this first part we'll
hear a brief bona fide newscast from the BBC reporting the first news of
Glenn Miller's missing airplane en route to Paris in 1944. Miller
himself participated rather blandly in American efforts at propaganda.
He tries his best to speak German with help from a German lady by the
name of Ilse, and his band performs "In the Mood."
Our theme song "I've Heard That Song Before" is performed by Harry James
and Helen Forrest on a record from July 31, 1942, the last day before
the Musician Union's ban on recording.
Part 2 of this episode is a collection of 22 tracks containing several
propaganda swing pieces, along with radio "news" reports, "Germany
Calling," aimed at British and Americans before and after America's
entry into the war as well as at its end.
This collection is played without comment from me, and please note that
it is included for its historical value and not for entertainment.
Interestingly Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) who brought radio "news" was
a British citizen who first gained favor with British audiences on radio
by lampooning the English self-indulgent and pretentious upper crust.
But then he used this favor to undermine British patriotism and to
discourage British (and later American) participation in the war front
as his later broadcasts gradually "were cleverly interspersed with
lies," as a British citizen wrote to a friend in America. The Charlie
from "Charlie and his Orchestra" was Karl Schwedler, who was something
of a playboy and was spared serving in the army because of his musical
talent on the propaganda front.
Swing music, referred to by Nazis with an epithet that denigrated the
blacks, was first seen as morally and aesthetically inferior and was
banned in 1933 from radio until it was seen as an effective and integral
part of the propaganda campaign. Among the great American big band tunes
that were virtually "taken prisoner and abused," in addition to "Hold
Me" and "Making Whoopee" are such songs as "Saint Louis Blues," "I'll
Never Say 'Never Again', Again," "I've Got a Pocket Full of Dreams,"
"Tea for Two," "Goody Goody," "I Found a Million Dollar Baby," "Japanese
Sandman," "I Double Dare You," "Blue Moon," "Alexander's Ragtime Band,"
"I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby," and "I Want to Be Happy.''
In the present collection only some twelve tunes are included,
interspersed among the "Germany Calling" broadcasts.
The collection begins with a religious piece, "Onward Christian
Soldiers," and closes with the address from a British Colonel in the
Allied Military Government in a final "Germany Calling," marking an end
to this abominable pollution of the airwaves.
May this collection stand as a sobering reminder how even beautiful
music was abused for propaganda purposes and how troops faced not only
bullets and bombs but also an insidious foe through the airways. Listen
perhaps at some "risk" to your sensibilities. I do, however, include the
definition of true love from First Corinthians 13, which for me at least
drives away the stifling smell of Nazi propaganda and restores truth and
beauty to the soul.
For a thorough overview of German war propaganda see Hitler's Airwaves
-- The Inside Story of Nazi Radio Broadcasting & Propaganda Swing, Horst
[removed] Bergmeier & Rainer E. Lotz, Yale Univ. Press. The book includes a
CD with the collection of 22 propaganda tracks of music and "news."
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THE GLOWING DIAL
Big John and Greg celebrate Independence Day
The Great Gildersleeve - Fourth Of July Speech
originally aired Wednesday, July 2, 1952 on NBC
Starring: Willard Waterman, Walter Tetley, Earle Ross, Mary Lee Robb,
Gloria Blondell, Lillian Randolph.
John Hiestand announcing.
Sponsor: Kraft Foods
The Magnificent Montague - July Fourth
originally aired Saturday, June 30, 1951 on NBC
Starring: Monty Wooley, Anne Seymour, Pert Kelton, Art Carney, Johnny
Gibson,
John Griggs, Anne Pitoniak.
Don Pardo announcing.
Sponsor: Chesterfield, Anacin, RCA Victor
CBS Is There (You Are There) - Philadelphia, July 4, 1776
originally aired Sunday, March 21, 1948 on CBS
Starring: John Charles Daly, Ken Roberts, Ned Calmer, Bud Collier.
Sponsor: Sustained
Mystery House - The Thirsty Death (Audition Show)
originally recorded Monday, July 3, 1944 for NBC
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Lurene Tuttle, John Carradine.
Ken Carpenter announcing.
Sustained
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If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.
Jerry Haendiges
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