Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #139
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Date: 5/9/2007 10:18 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 139
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
  5-9 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  "Hot Bands                            [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
  it was sad when the great blimp went  [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
  Bob Hope censorship                   [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]

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Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 02:12:01 -0400
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

A weekly [removed]

For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
real-time OTR talk!

Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
it's always a good time!

For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
week and every week!

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Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 07:58:33 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  5-9 births/deaths

May 9th births

05-09-1860 - James M. Barrie - Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland - d.
6-19-1937
author: "Great Plays"
05-09-1887 - William P. Adams - Tiffin, OH - d. 9-29-1972
actor, announcer: Uncle Henry "Collier's Hour"; Uncle Bill "Let's
Pretend"
05-09-1895 - Richard Barthelmass - NYC - d. 8-17-1963
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-09-1898 - Edith Meiser - Detroit, MI - d. 9-26-1993
writer: "Life and Love of Dr. Susan"; "The Shadow"; "Sherlock Holmes"
05-09-1901 - Fuzzy Knight - Fairmont, WV - d. 2-23-1976
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
05-09-1908 - Leonard Sillman - Detroit, MI - d. 1-12-1982
producer: "New Faces of 1948"
05-09-1911 - Harry Simeone - Newark, NJ - d. 2-22-2005
arranger, choral director: "The Fred Waring Show"; "Columbia Presents
Corwin"
05-09-1912 - Rupert Pray - d. 2-xx-1973
writer: "Forever Ernest"
05-09-1914 - Carlo Maria Giulini - Barletta, Italy - d. 6-14-2005
conductor, musical director: "Chicago Symphony"; "Los Angeles Symphony"
05-09-1914 - Hank Snow - Liverpool, Novia Scotia, Canada - d. 12-20-1999
country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
05-09-1918 - Mike Wallace - Brookline, MA
announcer, actor: "Spike Jones Show"; Flamond "Crime Files of Flamond"
05-09-1919 - Eddie Manson - d. 7-12-1996
harmonica player: "They Shall Be Heard"
05-09-1920 - Frank Perdue - d. 3-31-2005
commercial spokesperson for Perdue Farms
05-09-1923 - Byron Kane - Vermont - d. 4-10-1984
actor: "Gunsmoke"; "Broadway is My Beat"; "Escape"
05-09-1923 - Connie Russell - NYC - d. 12-18-1990
vocalist: "The Dave Garroway Show"
05-09-1930 - Joan Sims - Laindon, Essex, England - d. 6-28-2001
actor: "Round the Horne"; "Stop Messing About"
05-09-1936 - Glenda Jackson - Cheshire, England
actor: Stevie Smith "Stevie"; Guest Panelist "[removed]"
05-09-1946 - Candice Bergen - Beverly Hills, CA
actor: (Daughter of Edgar Bergen) "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"

May 9th deaths

01-20-1878 - Finlay Currie - Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 5-9-1968
actor: John H. Watson "BBC Home Theatre"
01-20-1894 - Harold Gray - Kankakee, IL - d. 5-9-1968
cartoonist: Creater of "Little Orphan Annie"
02-13-1908 - Pauline Frederick - Gallitzin, PA - d. 5-9-1990
newscaster: "News of Tomorrow"; "Pauline Frederick News"; "Second
Sunday"
02-15-1908 - Hartzell Spence - Clarion, IA - d. 5-9-2001
writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-03-1907 - Canada Lee - NYC - d. 5-9-1952
actor: "New World A' Coming"; "Lest We Forger"; "The Free Company"
03-15-1905 - Nat Perrin - New York - d. 5-9-1998
writer: "The Marx Brothers"
04-16-xxxx - Mark Smith - NYC - d. 5-9-1944
actor: Jiggs "Bringing Up Father"; "Uria Calwalder "Show Boat"
05-05-1912 - Alice Faye - NYC - d. 5-9-1998
singer, actor: "Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show"
05-18-1892 - Ezio Pinza, Rome, Italy - d. 5-9-1957
singer: "Telephone Hour"; "Ezio Pinza's Children Show"; "Stagestruck"
07-10-1888 - Graham McNamee - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-9-1942
announcer: "Fleischmann Hour"; "Fire Chief"; "Treasury Hour"
07-28-1910 - Bill Goodwin - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-9-1958
announcer, actor: "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"; Johnny
Fletcher "Johnny Fletcher"
09-10-1915 - Edmund O'Brien - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-9-1985
actor: Johnny Dollar "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
10-30-1923 - Hershel Bernardi - NYC - d. 5-9-1986
actor: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
10-31-1926 - Shirley Dinsdale - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-9-1999
ventriloquist: Judy Splinters "Judy in Wonderland, The Eddie Cantor
Show"
11-09-1895 - George D. Hay - Attica, IN - d. 5-9-1968
host: (The Solemn Old Judge) "Barn Dance"; "Grand Ole Opry"
11-29-1876 - Joseph E. Davies - Watertown, WI - d. 5-9-1958
ambassador to the soviet union: "Information Please"

Ron Sayles

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Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 07:58:59 -0400
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  "Hot Bands

I'm not sure what Travis mean by hot bands. The bands he listed were all
very popular bands.  Big bands had to be adle to play Hot,Swing and
Sweet depebding where they appeared and who was the audience, or should
say "the Dancers" because everyone danced

Between 1935 and 1946 (Big Band era) there were over 500 big Bands, many
were never had remot broadcast

Remotes were from hotel ballrooms and Dance ballrooms like Frank Daly's
Medowbrook or Chicago's [removed] remote was broadcast anywhere from
10:00 PM to Mid night. The orchestra had been playing since 8:00 PM.
They played many different songs before the broadcast. Maybe they played
softer music late at [removed] those day most radio station signed off at
midnight.

The real Dixieland and jazz bands usually appeared at small night clubs
and did get much air play.

Two Books can help to profile Big band. "The Big Bands" (1974) by George
T Simon and "The Big Band Almanac" (1979) By Leo Walker. Another
interesting book is "An Autobiography of Black Jazz" (1983)
by Dempsey H. Travis. On Jazz Look for "Jazzmen" (1939 & 1985) by Freder
Ramsey, Jr & Charles Edward Smith

Frank McGurn

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Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 13:40:31 -0400
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  it was sad when the great blimp went down

I'd be surprised if there weren't songs about the Hindenburg disaster,
though the disaster song genre was, mercifully, waning toward the latter
1930's.  Back in the 1800's your standard railroad bridge disaster resulted
in severe collateral damage in the form of wretched poems and songs.  And
the Titanic was even worse.

M Kinsler
512 E Mulberry St. Lancaster, Ohio USA 43130 740-687-6368 740-503-1973
[removed]
[removed]

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Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 19:11:36 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Bob Hope censorship

I have often found that both Milton Berle and Bob Hope are hilarious - as
long as they don't stick to the script.  They could both improv, and ad-lib
funny lines.  When they stuck to the script, they were not as funny.

There was a time (I forget the details as this is off the top of my head and
don't have the papers on hand), when Fred Allen, Red Skelton and Bob Hope
all "accidentally" got unplugged from the air for a few brief moments on the
same week.  It wasn't a technical error.  One of them (and I believe it was
Fred Allen) made a comment that was considered in bad taste so the show went
dead for a few moments as a wire was unplugged or something to that effect.
When the other comedians heard about this, they made comments regarding the
same joke on their shows, and as a result, they too had the same error.
Martin

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