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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2006 : Issue 143
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
Re: favorite OTR moment? [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
Re: some unfinished business [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
A Good Thread Deserves Repeating [ Wich2@[removed] ]
Favorite OTR moment [ "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed] ]
Hornet Moment [ "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
HELEN O'CONNELL RAY EBERLY DUETS [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
Billy Walker [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
Johnny Olson, OTR, and a movie [ Timothy Clough <timothy@[removed]; ]
favorite moments [ "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed]; ]
Phil Harris/ Frankie Remely [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
PHIL HARRIS/ALICE FAYE [ "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@m ]
ISO "The Terror in the Street" [ Paul Evans <evans_paul1963@[removed] ]
5-24 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
#OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig [ charlie@[removed] ]
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 08:18:25 -0400
From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK
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
Theater," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The Glowing
Dial," Lee Michael's "The RADIO Show" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."
Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
THE DAVID STREET SHOW
Episode 1 8-8-47 Guest: George Jessel
THE UNEXPECTED
Episode 127 10-3-48 "Two of a Kind"
Stars: Barry Sullivan
THE DAVE GARROWAY SHOW
2-22-47 Guest: Mildred Bailey
THE LUX RADIO THEATER Episode 249 2-5-40 "The Young At Heart"
Stars: Don Ameche and Ida Lupino
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATER
THE MARCH OF TIME
(CBS) 12/11/41 Van Vorhees narrates the "First Week of WWII in The
USA"
SUSPENSE
(CBS) 11/17/49 Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez star in "The Red-Headed
Woman" for Auto-Lite
THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR
(CBS) 1957-60 Series Peg Lynch and Alan Bunch star in "Moving"
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THE GLOWING DIAL
The Jack Pearl Show (The Raleigh-Kool Program) -
"World Wide Information Bureau"
originally aired November 23, 1936 on NBC Blue
Starring: Jack Pearl as Baron Munchhausen, "Sharlie" Cliff Hall, Morton
Bowe, Mae Questel, Robert Bernard, Tommy Dorsey and his Famous Orchestra,
Edythe Wright, The Three Esquires, Paul Stewart announcing.
Sponsor: Brown & Williamson Tobacco (Raleigh & Kool Cigarettes)
The Jack Paar Program - "Jack Benny"
originally aired August 17, 1947 on NBC
Starring: Jack Paar, Trudy Erwin, Jerry Fielding and the Orchestra, Elvia
Allman, Jack Benny, Hy Averback announcing.
Sponsor: Lucky Strike
The Jack Kirkwood Show - "The Buried Electric Light Bulb"
originally aired June 6, 1945 on CBS
Starring: Jack Kirkwood, Lillian Leigh (Mrs. Jack Kirkwood), Tom Harris,
Irving Miller and his Dripsyland Twelve, Jimmy Wallington announcing.
Sponsor: Proctor & Gamble (Oxydol & Ivory Dish Soap)
The Jack Carson Show (The Campbell Soup Show) -
"George Burns and Gracie Allen"
originally aired January 15, 1947 on CBS
Starring: Jack Carson, Arthur Treacher, Dave Willis, Norma Jean Nillson,
Irene Ryan, Freddie Martin and his Orchestra, Del Sharbut announcing.
Sponsor: Campbell Soups
The Jack Haley Show (The Wonder Show) - "Pepe Sacola Haley"
originally aired October 14, 1938 on CBS (first show of new series)
Starring: Jack Haley, Lucille Ball, Virginia Verrill, Artie Auerbach, Ted
Fio Rita and his Orchestra, Gale Gordon announcing.
Sponsor: Wonder Bread
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If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.
Jerry Haendiges
Jerry@[removed] 562-696-4387
The Vintage Radio Place [removed]
Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:15:42 -0400
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: favorite OTR moment?
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In a message dated 5/23/06 7:32:23 AM Central Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:
Something to ponder on. What is your favorite moment in Olde Tyme
Radio?
I have [removed]
The announcer getting incinerated in the "War of the Worlds" broadcast.
Agnes Moorehead's character hearing someone pick up the downstairs phone
extension near the end of the classic "Suspense" episode "Sorry, Wrong
Number."
(There are a lot of favorite moments from "Suspense.")
Fred Allen taking off Jack Benny's pants during the "Queen for a Day" spoof
on "The Fred Allen Show."
"The Jack Benny Show": the announcer at the drive-in calls out the second
feature, "The Horn Blows at Midnight," then you hear motors roaring like cars
taking off at a race.
"Gunsmoke": Matt puts a notch in his gun after accidentally shooting and
killing a friend.
"The Amos 'n' Andy Show": Kingfish and Sapphire break up and Kingfish joins a
personals club; at the end he meets his date and realizes it'[removed] mother
in law. (Who says radio humor doesn't hold up well?)
I mentioned this one recently: the teenage werewolf discovering to his horror
that at daybreak, he transforms into an ad executive, in "The Stan Freberg
Show."
Dixon
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:18:12 -0400
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: some unfinished business
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In a message dated 5/23/06 7:32:23 AM Central Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:
[ADMINISTRIVIA: The Internet Movie DataBase ([removed]) is your friend:
It may be my friend, but when I sent the message my dialup connection was my
sworn enemy, so I couldn't load anything up fast enough to look it up. (Dadgum
those popup ads.) Thanks for the assist.
As for the post about my inquiry concerning "Suspense" ever being on NBC
(apparently it wasn't), please note I wasn't making a correction, I was just
asking. There are a lot of things I found out about "Suspense" just from this
list, like the fact several episodes are still lost and the fact it was off
the
air from fall 1960 until summer 1961. The idea that it may have jumped
networks
briefly (as "Inner Sanctum" did multiple times) wouldn't have been
farfetched.
Dixon
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:18:37 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: A Good Thread Deserves Repeating
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
Subject: Favorite moment?
Dear Ron & gang-
There are obviously [removed]
But acknowledging the given that a "moment" is often precious largely
because of the careful build up to it (as is the case with the Benny piece
you
[removed]), I'd want to include Orson Welles last lines in THE HITCHHIKER.
(From memory, here:)
Referring to the Bittersweet Spirit who has haunted him all across the [removed],
"Ronald Adams" wistfully says -
"In a few moments, I shall know who he [removed] and who I [removed]"
Best,
-Craig
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:19:05 -0400
From: "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Favorite OTR moment
In #142, Ron Sayles asked about our favorite moments in Old Time Radio
(that he irritatingly and anachronistically calls Olde Tyme Radio).
Well, I'm sure that I'll think of a hundred others as soon as I hit
send, but one leapt immediately to mind.
A couple of people on the list have said that they hate it, but I'm a
big fan of the Suspense episode titled "The Long Night", starring Frank
Lovejoy. In it, Lovejoy plays an air traffic controller trying to talk
down a lost, inexperienced pilot in bad weather. I was cleaning my
place the first time I heard it, and once it had finished, I realized
that I had become so wrapped up in the story that I had stopped cleaning
and had been standing still in the middle of the room listening for the
last twenty minutes.
I won't spoil the ending, but right after the story reaches the finish,
there's this moment of dead air silence, and then the background noise
of the air traffic control room comes back up.
That moment of stunned silence, and then the sound of everyone getting
back to work always impresses me. What great direction.
-chris holm
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 10:13:38 -0400
From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Hornet Moment
Ron Sayles rightly cites the marvelous Green Hornet episode in which old Dan
Reid tells his son Britt about the legacy of crime fighting handed down by
his great-uncle, The Lone Ranger. But Ron, listen carefully. John Todd (as
Dan Reid) never discloses the Ranger's first name. I hate to start that
thread all over again, but it's fiction.
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 10:43:53 -0400
From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: HELEN O'CONNELL RAY EBERLY DUETS
How many duets did O'Connell and Eberly sing with the Dorsey band?
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 10:44:26 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Billy Walker
Country music legend Billy Walker, 77, his wife, and two of
his backup musicians died in a single car crash early Sunday
on I-65 south of Montgomery, Ala. while returning to
Nashville from a Saturday night performance in south
Alabama. Walker was a Grand Ole Opry star for 46 years,
having previously worked the Big D Jamboree at a Dallas
station. Among his most famous tunes were "Charlie's
Shoes," "Cross the Brazos at Waco," "When a Man Loves a
Woman," "Funny How Time Slips Away" -- 32 top 10 hits in
all. At 6'3" he was dubbed "The Tall Texan" in professional
appearances. A very personable entertainer, he loved to do
interviews wherever he went and was often a guest on local
radio stations. His death removes one of a handful of
venerated artists with long histories at the Opry.
Jim Cox
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 11:32:03 -0400
From: Timothy Clough <timothy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Johnny Olson, OTR, and a movie
05-22-1910 - Johnny Olson - Windom, MN - d. 12-12-1985
emcee, announcer: "Ladies Be Seated"; "Get Rich Quick"
This reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask this list, but
have never gotten around to asking.
Back in the late 70's or early 80's, my sister was watching a movie
(black & white, I believe) on television, that involved a high school or
college-age woman who kept listening to a certain radio game show that
had as its announcer/emcee/whatever Johnny Olson. I have since seen
parts of this movie, but never the whole thing, while channel surfing,
mostly, I believe, on Vermont Public Television.
Does anyone recognize, from my limited description, this movie? If so,
can you name the movie? Also, can you name the game show, was it a real
show, and, if so, do copies of any episodes still survive?
Thanks in advance.
Timothy Clough
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 15:21:07 -0400
From: "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: favorite moments
Hmmm, Prof. Sayles with another trick question. I hope this is
open-ended essay ... there are no right or wrong answers! Picking
out a favorite moment is like asking about your favorite
anything. But if I had to choose ... despite all the other great
moments, comedy, drama or whatever ... because it sends chills
down my back and makes the hairs on the back of my neck tingle
... the answer is: When the story teller introduces his wife -
Quiet Please, "The Thing on the Fourble Board."
Bob Cockrum
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 17:01:29 -0400
From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "The Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Phil Harris/ Frankie Remely
I took my feather duster out and dusted off some older cassette tapes of
Interviews of Elliott Lewis (8/27/75, Phil Harris (6/15/88 and Alice
Faye-Harris 10/28/87. It was good listening to them again. I was looking for
Info. on why the P &A show dropped Frankie Remily and called the charter
Elliott. I did not find the [removed] Schaden did the interviews and
played then on his "Those Were The Days" Program
Is you go to [removed] Chuck has a book, for sale, of his
interviews with OTR people "Speaking of Radio"
I did find out that the real Frankie was a wonder person that was
universally like and respected. He and Jack Benny were close personal friend
who would take driving vacations together.
Phil and Elliott stated that Jack created charters that followed to the
Dennis Day to his show , Dennis as dumb kid and Phil & Elliott as [removed]
Jack told Phil never say anything sweet to him on the Benny show.
Frankie started with Phil in the 1920's and was always with him.
Phil didn't go with Jack to TV because he didn't need it he had his show.
The Elliott Lewis was interesting because he told about how the Afroces
Radio Service made and distributed the hundreds of radio shows around the
world. Howard Duff and Elliott and others took the programs of the air and
took out commercials and filled in so the program were 29:30 minutes.
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 19:13:24 -0400
From: "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@[removed];
To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: PHIL HARRIS/ALICE FAYE
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Our presentation of the PHIL HARRIS/ALICE FAYE SHOW of 10/2/49 will be heard
on our show the week starting
May 28th - 24/7 on The Olde Tyme Radio Network:
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Tom Heathwood
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 19:43:03 -0400
From: Paul Evans <evans_paul1963@[removed];
To: Old-Time Radio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: ISO "The Terror in the Street"
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I am collecting information on writer Robert Lowry (1919-1994). Does anyone
have a recording of a radio play of his, "The Terror in the Street"? I don't
know what program it aired on, but it starred Linda Darnell and Ronald
Reagan. Please contact me at this address and/or [removed]@[removed]
if you have a recording you are willing to dub for me. (I will send a blank
MP3 disk or cassette.)
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 23:34:52 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 5-24 births/deaths
May 24th births
05-24-1878 - Harry Emerson Fosdick - Buffalo, NY - d. 10-5-1969
preacher: "National Vespers"
05-24-1883 - Elsa Maxwell - Keokuk, IA - d. 11-1-1963
society mistress: Roma Wine spokesperson for Suspense; "Texaco Star
Theatre"
05-24-1886 - Paul Paray - Treport, Normandy, France - d. 10-10-1979
conductor: "New York Philharmonic"
05-24-1896 - Jock MacGregor - d. 2-14-1984
director, actor: "Cisco Kid"; "Gangbusters"
05-24-1901 - Lucien Moraweck - d. 10-xx-1973
music: "The City"; "Intrigue"; "Passpoet for Adams"; "Suspense"
05-24-1902 - Wilbur Hatch - Mokena, IL - d. 12-22-1969
conductor: "Our Miss Brooks"; "Gateway to Hollywood"; "Screen Guild
Theatre"
05-24-1905 - Joe Lindwurm - d. 2-25-1992
musician: "The Ipana Troubadors"
05-24-1907 - Bill Bouchey - Clare, MI - d. 9-27-1977
actor: Red Albright/Captain Midnight "Captain Midnight"
05-24-1909 - Howard Snyder - d. 4-13-1963
writer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Lum and Abner"; "That's My Pop"
05-24-1911 - Lilli Palmer - Posen, Germany - d. 1-28-1986
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-24-1911 - Rachel Carlay - Brussels, Belgium
singer: "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"
05-24-1916 - Tony Barrett - NYC - d. 11-16-1974
actor: Charlie Dyer "This Life is Mine"; Biff Bradley "Pepper Young's
Family"
05-24-1924 - Theodore Bikel - Vienna, Austria
actor: "Eternal Light"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
05-24-1932 - Elaine Malbin - NYC
singer: "Serenade to America"; "Saturday Matinee with Elaine Malbin"
May 24th deaths
01-22-1893 - Fulton Oursler - Baltimore, MD - d. 5-24-1952
writer: "The Greatest Story Ever Told"; "Thatcher Colt Mysteries"
02-01-1859 - Victor Herbert - Dublin, Ireland - d. 5-24-1924
composer: "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"; "Railroad Hour"
03-06-1882 - Guy Kibbee - El Paso, TX - d. 5-24-1956
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-03-1898 - George Jessel - NYC - d. 5-24-1981
comedian, emcee: (Toastmaster General of the [removed]) "Hollywood Calling"
04-29-1899 - Duke Ellington - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-24-1974
bandleader: "Jubilee"; "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Story of Swing"
05-01-1922 - Katy Abraham - Wayland, NY - d. 5-24-2005
gardening expert: "The Green Thumb"
06-04-1901 - Carlton E. Morse - Jennings, LA - d. 5-24-1993
writer, producer, director: "One Man's Family"; "I Love A Mystery"
06-26-1897 - Warren Colston - Great Bend, PA - d. 5-24-1972
actor: "Young Widder Brown"; "Cavalcade of America"
07-05-1905 - John Abbott - London, England - d. 5-24-1996
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-22-1920 - Mitzi Green - The Bronx, NY - d. 5-24-1969
actor: Girl "Passport to Romance"
11-29-1895 - Yakima Canutt - Colfax, WA - d. 5-24-1986
actor, stuntman: "Daredevils of Hollywood"; "Hollywood Rodea"
12-09-1897 - Hermione Gingold - London, England - d. 5-24-1987
actor: "Stagestruck"
12-25-1913 - Candy Candido - New Orleans, LA - d. 5-24-1999
comedian: "Sealtest Village Store"; "Jimmy Durante Show"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Birthplace of Tommy Bartlett
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 02:12:00 -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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