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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 102
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  4-10 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  RE: Radio Spirits                     [ "Linda T." <nemesis@[removed]; ]
  Re: Radio Spirits                     [ "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed]; ]
  Radio Spirits                         [ "david rogers" <david_rogers@hotmai ]
  A Champion                            [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@j ]
  Re: Marge and Gower Champion          [ "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed] ]
  Go [removed]                           [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  "Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Nig  [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed]; ]
  Re: Astaire/Rogers                    [ "Michael J. Hayde" <michaelhayde@ea ]
  The Champions                         [ mikennancy2001@[removed] ]
  re: Radio Spirits                     [ ROB CHATLIN <rchatlin@[removed]; ]
  Marge & Gower Champion                [ Osborneam@[removed] ]
  Handful of senators can't pass legis  [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
  Wartime PSA                           [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@j ]
  Wild Bill Hickok and Jingles On The   [ [removed]@[removed] ]
  4-11 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:26:20 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  4-10 births/deaths

April 10th births

04-10-1827 - Lew Wallace - Brookville, IN - d. 2-15-1905
author: (Ben Hur) "Favorite Story"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
04-10-1868 - George Arliss - London, England - d. 2-5-1946
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-10-1885 - Sigmund Spaeth - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-11-1965
commentator: "Tune Detective"; "Fun in Print"
04-10-1897 - Eric Knight - Menston, England - d. 1-13-1943
writer: "Everyman's Theatre"
04-10-1898 - Fred Hall - NYC - d. 10-8-1964
composer, performer: (Hall and Fields) "Old Man of the Mountain"
04-10-1902 - Mark Warnow - Monastrischt, Russia - d. 10-17-1949
conductor: "We, the People"; "Your Hit Parade"
04-10-1905 - Paul "Hezzie" Trietsch - Muncie, IN - d. 4-27-1980
musician-singer: "National Barn Dance"; "Uncle Ezra"
04-10-1906 - Lilie Darvas - Budapest, Hungary - d. 7-23-1974
actor: Madame Sophie: We Love and Learn/As the Twig is Bent"
04-10-1910 - Peg La Centra - Boston, MA - d. 6-1-1996
singer, actor: "Court of Human Relations"; "For Men Only"; "Gulden
Melodies"
04-10-1911 - Victor Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 1-22-1994
musician: (Guy Lombardo's Orchestra) "Lady Esther Serenade"
04-10-1915 - Harry (Henry) Morgan - Detroit, MI
actor: "Mystery in the Air"
04-10-1922 - Marian Richman - California - d. 2-24-1956
actor: "Tell It Again"

April 10th deaths

02-08-1907 - Ray Middleton - Chicago, IL - d. 4-10-1984
actor: Abraham Lincoln "Honest Abe"
02-24-1890 - Marjorie Main - Acton, IN - d. 4-10-1975
actor: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
05-09-1923 - Byron Kane - Vermont - d. 4-10-1984
actor: "Gunsmoke"; "Broadway is My Beat"; "Escape"
06-12-1920 - Peter Jones - Wem, Shropshire, England - d. 4-10-2000
actor: narrator "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"; "In All Directions"
06-30-1899 - Santos Ortega - NYC - d. 4-10-1976
actor: Nero Wolfe "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; Richard Queen "Advs. of
Ellery Queen"
08-13-1916 - Gloria Dickson - Pocatello, ID - d. 4-10-1945
actor: "Warner Bros. Academy Theatre"; "Federal Theatre Special";
"Lux Radio Theatre"
10-08-1906 - William N. Robson - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 4-10-1995
producer, director: "Beyond Tomorrow"; "CBS Radio Workshop"; "Escape"
10-11-1919 - Jean Vander Pyl - d. 4-10-1999
actor: Kathy Anderson "Father Knows Best"
10-16-1921 - Linda Darnell - Dallas, TX - d. 4-10-1965
actor: "Hollywood Premiere"; "So You Want to Lead a Band"
12-24-1886 - Michael Curtiz - Budapest, Hungary - d. 4-10-1962
film director: "Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre"; Screen Director's
Playhouse"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:28:52 -0400
From: "Linda T." <nemesis@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE: Radio Spirits
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Have any of you been using Radio Spirits' new on line program: 30 day free
trial to down load and stream old radio shows?

Heck, years ago I PAID for their subscriptions and couldn't make them work.
They would play only once on line.

Linda T.

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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:29:41 -0400
From: "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Radio Spirits

"Donald" <alanladdsr@[removed]; wrote:
Have any of you been using Radio Spirits' new on line program: 30 day free
trial to down load and stream old radio shows? I just joined the thing for
30 days and have been having a devil of a time downloading and listening to
[removed] get messages saying I need a license, codecs, when I thought all
that was taken care of. No response from Radio Spirits. I was able to
download two shows but only through luck and trial and [removed] 
nothing works! What have been your experiences?

I signed up for the program in 1999, not long after it started, and dealt 
with all the problems you note: corrupt licenses, -disappearing- licenses, 
malformed file headers (making playback impossible in less-than-forgiving 
media players like WMP [removed]), terrible encodes, terrible encoding 
=choices= (what in the world is the justification behind using 32/44 stereo 
for =any= audio file, let alone for lo-fi mono sources heavy on 
upper-midrange frequencies?), poor customer service, puny program selection, 
and the like.

I stayed with the program for more than a year, hoping the problems were 
indicative merely of a service in its infancy. It eventually became apparent 
to me that there were no plans to fix the service, though, and I dropped it. 
It's disappointing -- but hardly surprising, unfortunately -- to hear that 
little has changed in the interim.

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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:30:09 -0400
From: "david rogers" <david_rogers@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Radio Spirits

I get messages saying I need a license, codecs, when I thought all that was
taken care of.

I know nothing of this Radio Spirits service.  However, if it is asking you
for a license and codecs it could be that it is a DRM (Digital Rights)
issue.  Without going into the pros and cons of this issue it basically
means that you only have a license to play/watch something one time on your
computer in an effort to prevent recording/copying.

If this is the case I, personally, would have nothing to do with it as you
have no control over what is being place on your computer or retrieved by a
third party.  However, it is your choice.

Love as always, David Rogers

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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:30:42 -0400
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  A Champion

Mark Kinsler, speaking of dancers, notes,

And I think Marge and Gower Champion were brother and sister.

It's my understanding that Marge Champion's real name was Marjory Belcher
way back then.  I know that she was the person rotoscoped for the title
female character in the Disney film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:31:01 -0400
From: "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Marge and Gower Champion

M Kinsler:  Marge and Gower Champion were husband and wife.   They
eventually divorced and in Marge's second marriage, to director Boris Sagal
she became the stepmother of  Katy Sagal, Peg Bundy on 'Married With
Children".
my trivia for today

I do agree there should have been more dancing on radio <grin>

Irene

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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:22:53 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Go [removed]

From: "Mark Kinsler"  kinsler33@[removed]

Dancers have always been poorly represented on  radio.

But strangely, ventriloquists have done  [removed]!

Seriously, I know of at least one original 78 by Fred Astaire,  where the
tapping of his dancing is featured as prominently as the warbling of  his
vocal
cords!

-Craig

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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:23:05 -0400
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  "Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand
 with the Big Bands"

The latest "Golden Age of Radio" programs with Dick Bertel
and Ed Corcoran, and "A One Night Stand with the Big Bands"
with Arnold Dean can be heard at [removed].

Each week we feature three complete shows in MP3 format
for your listening pleasure or for downloading; two "Golden
Age of Radios" and one "One Night Stand." We present new
shows every week or so. The current three programs will be
available on line at least until the morning of  April 17, 2006.

Program 34 - January, 1973 - Virginia Payne

Ma Perkins (sometimes called Oxydol's Own Ma Perkins) was
a radio serial which was heard in America on NBC from 1933
to 1949 and on CBS from 1942 to 1960. Between 1942 and
1949, the show was heard simultaneously on both networks.

Originally heard as a local program from WLW, Cincinnati
from 08/14/33 to 12/01/33 weekdays, the series then moved
to the NBC network beginning 12/04/33 and continued through
07/08/49 with Oxydol as the sponsor. Virginia Payne starred as
Ma Perkins for the entire run of 7,065 broadcasts without
missing a single program.

Ma, dubbed "America's mother of the air," was a feisty widow
who owned and operated a lumber yard in the small town of
Rushville Center. The drama which resulted between her
interactions with townsfolk, as well as the dilemmas of her
three children, were much of the stories in the serial. Ma's
daughter Effie Perkins was played by Kay Campbell who later
became known as Grandma Kate Martin on the television soap
opera All My Children.

Program 35 - February, 1973 - Don Ameche

A native of Kenosha, Wisconsin, Don Ameche started his radio
career in 1930 on Empire Builders, a program broadcast from
Chicago's Merchandise Mart. By 1932, Ameche had become the
leading man on two other Chicago-based programs: the dramatic
anthology First Nighter and Betty and Bob, considered by many
to be the forerunner of the soap-opera genre.

He made his film debut in 1935 and by the late thirties had
established himself as a leading actor in Hollywood. He appeared
successfully in such films as Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938),
as Alexander Graham Bell in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
(1939), and Heaven Can Wait (1943). He was so associated with
his role as Bell that for a time, "Ameche" was slang for telephone.

"A One Night Stand with the Big Bands" With Arnold Dean

Jean Goldkette Orchestra - April, 1973

This week's "One Night Stand" features the Jean Goldkette
Orchestra and interviews with Joe Venuti, Spiegel Wilcox,
and Bill Chalice.

The Jean Goldkette Orchestra featured some of the best
White Jazz musicians of the 1920s. According to almost
all that saw them when they played live they were a force
to be reckoned with. The 1926/27 version of the orchestra
featured Bix Beiderbecke, Frankie Trumbauer, Jimmy and
Tommy Dorsey, Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti.

In the 1970's WTIC decided that there was a market in
the evening for long-form shows that could be packaged
and sold to sponsors. Two of those shows were "The
Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand with the
Big Bands."

Dick Bertel had interviewed radio collector-historian
Ed  Corcoran several times on his radio and TV shows,
and thought a regular monthly show featuring interviews
with actors, writers, producers, engineers and musicians
from radio's early days might be interesting. "The Golden
Age of Radio" was first broadcast in April, 1970;  Ed was
Dick's co-host. It lasted seven years. "The Golden Age
of Radio" can also be heard Saturday nights on Walden
Hughes's program on Radio Yesteryear.

Arnold Dean began his love affair with the big band
era in his pre-teen years and his decision to study
the clarinet was inspired by the style of Artie Shaw.
When he joined WTIC in 1965 he hosted a daily program
of big band music.  In 1971, encouraged by the success
of his daily program and "The Golden Age of Radio"
series, he began monthly shows featuring interviews
with the band leaders, sidemen, agents, jazz reporters,
etc. who made major contributions to one of the great
eras of music history.

Bob Scherago
Webmaster

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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:23:14 -0400
From: "Michael J. Hayde" <michaelhayde@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Astaire/Rogers

M Kinsler wrote:

Dancers have always been poorly represented on radio.  Seems a shame.

Sad, but [removed] and yet certain ventriloquist acts seemed to do very well.
There's a paradox for you.

Michael

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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:33:03 -0400
From: mikennancy2001@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Champions

According to Wikipedia, Marge and Gower were husband and wife.

Also, if I remember right Fred and Ginger were not particularly close friends
off-camera.

--Mike in Mountain View

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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:55:37 -0400
From: ROB CHATLIN <rchatlin@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  re: Radio Spirits

I would say "why bother."
With all the various CD distribution groups
available, you can gain access to more show,
and probably of a better quality.

I also suggest looking at some of the OTR podcasts
available, for free, from Apple's itunes software
(also free).

rob

[ADMINISTRIVIA: Of course, you don't need to install Apple's bloated iTunes
(used primarily as a sales tool for their music store) simply to connect to
podcasts. Juice, @podder, [removed] are many, many free, easy-to-use
podcast tools available without installing Apple's software.  --cfs3]

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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:10:03 -0400
From: Osborneam@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Marge & Gower Champion
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Mark Kinsler said:

And I think Marge and Gower Champion were brother and sister.

I believe they were married.  Marge is still alive and dancing with a
new partner.  She and her partner were on Good Morning America
earlier this year.

Arlene Osborne

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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:10:26 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Handful of senators can't pass [removed]
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Last night (9), I heard a "Can You Top This?" on Max Schmid's "The Golden Age
of Radio" over WBAI-FM, NYC.  At the end, the participants, viz. Senator Ford,
Harry Hirschfield, Joe Laurie Jr., and Peter Donald all identified themselves
by name during the end-credits. This ploy was also used on "Let's Pretend."
Were there any other OTR programmes where the actors or panelists individually
gave their names at the conclusion, rather than leaving it to the announcer?
I'm thinking "Jimmy Durante," query?

How did Mr. Ford become a "senator"? What's the mythos behind this? Did he
mock-represent a state, and, if so, which one?
We also all know Senator Claghorne was a Southerner; but did Kenny Delmar or
anybody else ever establish which Southern state?

Yours in the legislature,

Derek Tague (I-NJ)

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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:21:21 -0400
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Wartime PSA

I recently obtained a collection of World War II era songs, collectively
titled "Remember Pearl Harbor."  I've seen several other albums with the
same title.  This one, though, had in addition to the songs and the
inevitable FDR address to Congress, two items.  One was a commercial for
Kraft Macaroni and Cheese; the other, a Public Service Announcement for a
tire census.  Both were clearly wartime items.  I wonder how many other
radio announcements of the period are in circulation.

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:21:29 -0400
From: [removed]@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Wild Bill Hickok and Jingles On The Santa Fe
 Trail

The record album, Wild Bill Hickok & Jingles on the Santa-Fe Trail, was issued
in the United States on the Sunset label, and in Europe and Australia on London
Records of England in 1958.
It is a radio show type album, but especially recorded for records and includes
songs as well as a Wagon Train type story. Starring Guy Madison And Andy
Devine,
it was recorded, I understand, because of the popularity of the TV show.
My copy is on the cheap Tiara label, titled, Spotlight on Will Bill Hickok, and
contains no liner notes or credits.
Does any of the Wild Bill fans on the list have a copy of the album with cast
credits?

Thanks!
Paul Urbahns
Radcliff, KY

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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:34:18 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  4-11 births/deaths

April 11th births

04-11-1893 - Dean Acheson - Middletown, CT - d. 10-12-1971
[removed] secretary of state: "Building the Peace"; "The United Nations Today"
04-11-1893 - Lou Holtz - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-22-1980
comedian: "Fleischmann Hour"; "Kraft Music Hall"
04-11-1893 - Pat Flanagan - Clinton, IA - d. unknown
sportscaster, announcer: CBS Network, WBBM in Chicago
04-11-1902 - Quentin Reynolds - NYC - d. 3-17-1965
author: "Britain Speaks"; "Quentin Reynolds"; "Keep 'Em Rolling"
04-11-1904 - Paul McGrath - Chicago, IL - d. 4-13-1978
actor, host: Host "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"; Robert Allison "My Son
Jeep"
04-11-1907 - Paul Douglas - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-11-1959
announcer, sportscaster, actor: Lawyer Feldman "Meyer the Buyer"
04-11-1909 - Sylvia Picker - NYC - d. 9-25-1981
actor: Suzy "Box 13"
04-11-1910 - Jim Britt - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-31-1980
sports commentator: "Dateline Boston"
04-11-1912 - John Larkin - Oakland, CA - d. 1-29-1965
actor: Perry Mason "Perry Mason"; "Dimension X; " Ford Theatre"
04-11-1921 - Dorothy Shay - Jacksonville, FL - d. 10-22-1978
singer: (Park Avenue Hillbilly) "The Spike Jones Show"
04-11-1921 - Toni Darnay - Chicago, IL - d. 1-5-1983
actor: Evelyn Winters "Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters"; Nona
Dutell "Nona from Nowhere"

April 11th deaths

01-31-1905 - John O'Hara - Pottsville, PA - d. 4-11-1970
author: "Information, Please"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"
02-11-1908 - Hiram Sherman - Boston, MA - d. 4-11-1989
actor: "Les Miserables"; "Mercury Theatre on the Aie"
04-02-1878 - Leo Curley - NYC - d. 4-11-1960
actor: Ed Jackson "Backstage Wife"; Mike Shaw "Tom Mix"
05-08-1928 - John Bennett - London, England - d. 4-11-2005
actor: "John Bennett Programme"
05-11-1907 - Kent Taylor - Nashua, IA - d. 4-11-1987
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
06-15-1894 - Leo Cleary - Massachusetts - d. 4-11-1955
actor: Bailiff "His Honor, the Barber"
06-26-1907 - Ynez Seabury - Oregon - d. 4-11-1973
actor: Libby Collins "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-03-1905 - Dolores Del Rio - Durango, Mexico - d. 4-11-1983
actor: "Hollywood on the Air"
09-29-1903 - Ted de Corsia - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-11-1973
actor: Flip Corkin "Terry and the Pirates"; Dan McGarry "McGarry and
His Mouse"
10-23-1904 - Oliver Barbour - d. 4-11-1968
producer, director: "Life Can Be Beautiful"; "Parker Family"; "When a
Girl Marries"
11-27-1904 - Florence Lake - Charleston, SC - d. 4-11-1980
actor: (Sister of Arthur Lake) Tess Terwilliger "David Harum"
12-17-1903 - Erskine Caldwell - Morland, GA - d. 4-11-1987
playwright: "Information, Please"; "Short Story"
xx-xx-1895 - Paul Specht - d. 4-11-1954
bandleader: Made very first broadcast of dance Music 9-20-1920 WWJ
Detroit

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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