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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2010 : Issue 172
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  George Schackle                       [ "otrbuff" <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 3-9 Octob  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  10-3 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Fire Bugs Or Arson Shows              [ "Louie Johnson" <ljohnson@[removed]; ]

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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:42:18 -0400
From: "otrbuff" <otrbuff@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  George Schackle

I'm having a very difficult time identifying an instrumentalist from back in
the day named George Schackle (that's the spelling I've been given).  A
source says that at one point he and guitarist Tony Mottola and accordionist
Charles Magnante were the backup musicians for "the shortest fifteen minutes
in radio" every weekday starring singer Jack Berch "and His Boys."  At about
mid-20th century, Schackle, Mottola and Magnante were "the Boys" during that
long-running matinee feature.  Anybody have a clue what instrument Schackle
played?  And just perhaps, the years of his birth and death?  I'll take
instrument only if you can supply it.  Your answer could gladden the heart
of a stupendously stumped scribe.

Jim Cox

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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:42:24 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 3-9 October

 From Those Were The Days

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 ($190,918 in 2009 dollars).  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.)  (PS I have a door
that creaks just like that one and half the time expect to find Raymond
lurking around somewhere.  I've never oiled it in the hopes Raymond
would appear.)

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.

10/8

1935   The O'Neills debuted on CBS. The theme song, Londonderry Air,
opened the 15 minute soap opera. The O'Neills aired Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays at 7:30 [removed] In 1936 it moved to daytime where it stayed
until 1943 on NBC's Red and Blue networks and on CBS, too. One of
radio's original soaps, it was sponsored appropriately by Silver Dust,
Ivory soap and Ivory soap flakes.

1935   Wedding bells pealed for a singer and a bandleader who tied the
knot, making radio history together. The bandleader was Ozzie Nelson and
the singer was Harriet Hilliard. They would make the history pages again
on this very day nine years later.

1944   The first broadcast of The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet was
heard on the CBS network.

10/9

1935   Cavalcade of America was first broadcast this very day. The CBS
show featured some of Hollywood and Broadway's most famous stars in
leading roles in the half hour dramas. Thomas Chalmers narrated the
stories about obscure incidents and people in American history. The
orchestra was led by Donald Voorhees. The show aired from 1935 to 1953,
changing from CBS to NBC in 1939; with one sponsor for its entire
duration. The DuPont Company introduced its slogan on Cavalcade of
America ... "Better things for better living through [removed]"

1943   ABC presented Land of the Lost. The opening phrase for the show
was, "In that wonderful kingdom at the bottom of the [removed]" This
children's adventure fantasy serial took the audience underwater where
the main characters, Isabel and Jimmy, were guided by their friend, a
red fish named Red Lantern and played at first by Junius Matthews and
later, by Art Carney. Land of the Lost found a large audience and
remained on the air until 1948.

Joe

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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:43:25 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  10-3 births/deaths

October 3rd births

10-03-1873 - Emily Post - Baltimore, MD - d. 9-25-1960
commentator: "Emily Post"; "Right Thing to Do"
10-03-1881 - George Moran - Elwood, KS - d. 8-1-1949
comedian: (Two Black Crows) "Majestic Theatre of the Air"; "Eveready
Hour"
10-03-1882 - Ulderico 'Rico' Marcelli - Rome, Italy - d. 8-17-1962
bandleader: "Fibber McGee and Molly"
10-03-1890 - Henry Hull - Louisville, KY - d. 3-8-1977
actor: Honest Abe "Abraham Lincoln"; Nathan Hale "Roses and Drums"
10-03-1897 - Vincent Sorey - Turin, Italy - d. 3-29-1977
conductor/violinist: Musical director for WOR New York
10-03-1898 - Leo McCarey - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-5-1969
judge: "This Is My Story"
10-03-1898 - Morgan Farley - Mamaroneck, NY - d. 10-11-1988
actor: "Escape"
10-03-1899 - Gertrude Berg - NYC - d. 9-14-1966
actor: Molly Goldberg, "Goldbergs"
10-03-1907 - Paul Nugent - Brooklyn, NY - d. unknown
actor: Paul Strong "Mother O' Mine"; "Just Plain Bill"
10-03-1908 - Johnny Burke - Antioch, CA - d. 2-25-1964
composer: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Kraft Music Hall"; "The Big Show"
10-03-1910 - Gwen Davenport - Colon, Canal Zone, Panama - d. 3-23-2002
author: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-03-1911 - Michael Hordern - Berkhamsted, England - d. 5-2-1995
actor: Gandolf "The Lord of the Rings"
10-03-1912 - Gabriel Julian - Newark, NJ - d. 9-29-2002
piano: "Bobby Byrne Orchestra"; arranger: "Glenn Miller Orchestra"
10-03-1913 - Mark Houston - Ohio - d. 5-11-1971
announcer: "Queen for a Day"
10-03-1916 - James Alfred "Alf" Wight - Sunderland, England - d.
2-23-1995
author: James Herriot Books
10-03-1918 - Perry Lafferty - Davenport, IA - d. 8-25-2005
producer: "Meet the Music"; "Columbia Workshop"
10-03-1924 - Joe Allison - McKinney, TX - d. 8-2-2002
songwriter: Began his career as a radio disk jockey

October 3rd deaths

01-23-1892 - Eleanor Nash - d. 10-3-1969
beauty and style consultant (Sister of Ogden Nash): "Ask Eleanor Nash"
01-23-1919 - Millard Lampell - d. 10-3-1997
co-founder of the Almanac Singers: "Treasury Star Parade"
02-24-1914 - Zachary Scott - Austin, TX - d. 10-3-1965
actor: "Suspense"; "Encore Theatre"; "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Screen Guild
Theatre"
03-14-1891 - Dr. Dolphe Martin - Poland - d. 10-3-1974
conductor: "Tydol Jubilee (Music on the Air)
05-17-1903 - Artie Auerbach - NYC - d. 10-3-1957
actor: Mr. Kitzel "Jack Benny Program"
05-19-1919 - Louisa Vass - Greenville, SC - d. 10-3-2000
singer: (The Vass Family) "The Lady Next Door"; "Kraft Phoenix Program"
05-26-1915 - Vernon Alley - d. 10-3-2004
musician, disk jockey: San Francisco area
06-04-1917 - Charles Collingwood - Three Rivers, MI - d. 10-3-1985
newscaster: CBS News UN Correspondent/White House Correspondent
06-13-1911 - Maurice Copeland - Rector, AR - d. 10-3-1985
actor: Augustus Pendelton "Ma Perkins"; "Curtain Time"; "Hall of
Fantasy"
06-27-1920 - Betty Bryant - Bristol, England - d. 10-3-2005
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-30-1893 - Virginia Beberus - Mercer, ME - d. 10-3-1964
composer/author: conducted a radio program
07-06-1927 - Janet Leigh - Merced, CA - d. 10-3-2004
actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players" - Radio Debut
07-17-1914 - Eleanor Steber - Wheeling, WV - d. 10-3-1990
singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "[removed] Fox Trappers"
07-24-1911 - Dudley McCarthy - Sydney, Australia - d. 10-3-1987
auther of radio plays
08-27-1900 - Gene Burdette - Chicago, IL - d. 10-3-1968
producer, director: "Luck of the Irish"
09-13-1903 - Dave Binder - London, England - d. 10-3-1992
formed "Jingle Jem Co," to produce radio jingles
09-17-1928 - Roddy McDowall - London, England - d. 10-3-1998
panelist: "Keep Up with the Kids"
09-20-1896 - Si Wills - Pennsylvania - d. 10-3-1977
writer: (Husband of Joan Davis) "Joan Davis Time"
09-25-1929 - Ronnie Barker - Bedford, England - d. 10-3-2005
comedian: "The Floggits"
10-07-1910 - Wayne Ackley - d. 10-3-1988
newscaster: Des Moines, Iowa
11-18-1907 - Gwen Meredith - Orange, Australia - d. 10-3-2006
writer: "Blue Hills"; "The Lawsons"
11-30-1913 - John K. M. McCaffrey - Moscow, ID - d. 10-3-1983
newscaster: "Author Meets the Critics"; "What Makes You Tick?"
12-22-1891 - Mc Kay Morris - Fort Sam Houston, TX - d. 10-3-1955
actor: Abe Lincoln "The Abe Lincoln Story"; Gregory Ivanoff "Ma Perkins"

Ron

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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:43:33 -0400
From: "Louie Johnson" <ljohnson@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Fire Bugs Or Arson Shows
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I recalled an episode of Nightbeat which dealt with a fire bug, and
checked Frank Passage's program log at [removed]

The episode aired on May 15, 1950
Title: The Night Watchman,
         aka The Fire Bug

 "Marty" <martyd64@[removed]; wrote
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:35:16 -0400

Subject:  Looking for Fire Bug or Arson topic shows

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