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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2012 : Issue 93
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
6-4 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Joan Barkley on The Lone Ranger [ "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
any address to live radio audience o [ Christian Blees <christianblees@yah ]
Wheaties [ "Jim Kitchen" <jkitchen@[removed]; ]
6-5 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Radio on lp questions [ rand@[removed] ]
Dick [removed] [ Jim Burns <jameshburns@[removed]; ]
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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 11:13:44 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 6-4 births/deaths
June 4th births
06-04-1881 - Clara Blandick - Hong Kong (on a ship in harbor) - d.
4-15-1962
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Campbell Playhouse"
06-04-1888 - Ivy Litvinov - England - d. 4-14-1977
author: "Information Please"
06-04-1891 - Erno Rapee - Budapest, Hungary - d. 6-26-1945
conductor: "Roxy's Gang"; "General Motors Concert"
06-04-1900 - Dan Golenpaul - NYC - d. 2-13-1974
producer: "Information, Please"
06-04-1901 - Carlton E. Morse - Jennings, LA - d. 5-24-1993
writer, producer, director: "One Man's Family"; "I Love A Mystery"
06-04-1906 - Richard Whorf - Winthrop, MA - d. 12-14-1966
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Jack Benny
Program"
06-04-1906 - Vinton Haworth (Hayworth) - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-21-1970
actor: Fred Andrews "Archie Andrews"; Michael Shayne "Michael Shayne"
06-04-1907 - Rosalind Russell - Waterbury, CT - d. 11-28-1976
actor: "Four-Star Playhouse"; "Silver Theatre"
06-04-1912 - Jess Barker - Greenville, SC - d. 8-8-2000
announcer, actor: "Guest Star"; "Proudly We Hail"
06-04-1917 - Charles Collingwood - Three Rivers, MI - d. 10-3-1985
newscaster: CBS News UN Correspondent/White House Correspondent
06-04-1917 - Helen Wood - Clarksville, TN - d. 2-8-1988
actor: Elaine Dascomb "Those We Love"
06-04-1918 - Howard Culver - Colorado - d. 8-5-1984
actor: Steve Adams/Straight Arrow "Straight Arrow"; "Free lance"
06-04-1919 - Robert Merrill - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-23-2004
singer: "An Evening with Romberg"; "Robert Merrill Show"
06-04-1920 - Fedoro Barbieri - Trieste, Italy - d. 3-4-2003
opera singer: "Metropolitan Opera"
06-04-1921 - Don Diamond - Brooklyn NY - d. 6-19-2011
actor: "Confession"; "Gunsmoke"; "Escape"; "NBC University Theatre"
06-04-1921 - Harvey Bullock - Oxford, NC - d. 4-24-2006
writer: "Breakfast with Burrows"
06-04-1921 - Tom Bigler - Terentum, PA - d. 3-2-2007
disk jockey: WILK Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
06-04-1923 - Elizabeth Jolley - Birmingham, England - d. 2-13-2007
writer: "Little Lewis Has Had a Lovely Sleep"
06-04-1924 - Dennis Weaver - Joplin, MO - d. 2-24-2006
actor: Look Magazine Commercial "Have Gun, Will Travel"
06-04-1927 - Phil Rammacher - d. 3-6-2003
drums: "The Hoagy Carmichael Show"
06-04-1940 - Lassie (Pal) - North Hollywood, CA - d. xx-xx-1958
actor: "Lassie Show"
June 4th deaths
01-12-1902 - Joe E. Lewis - NYC - d. 6-4-1971
comedian: "Midnight to Dawn in New York and London"
01-19-1908 - Ish Kabibble (Merwyn Bogue) - Erie, PA - d. 6-4-1994
comedian: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
01-21-1915 - Ray Erlenborn - Denver, CO - d. 6-4-2007
sound effects, actor: "Burns and Allen"; "Anderson Family"
02-09-1937 - Clete Boyer - Cassville, MO - d. 6-4-2007
baseball player: "Tops in Sports"
02-10-1893 - Bill Tilden - Germantown, PA - d. 6-4-1953
tennis player: "Information Please"
03-10-1919 - Lorna Thayer - Boston, MA - d. 6-4-2005
actor: "The Hallmark Hall of Fame"
03-11-1898 - Dorothy Gish - Massillon, OH - d. 6-4-1968
actor: Texaco Star Playhouse"; "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-17-1902 - Jimmy Grier - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-4-1959
orchestra leader: "Woodbury Soap Show"
04-02-1919 - Tom Hubbard - d. 6-4-1974
actor: Sergeant Cadet Stripes "Starr of Space
04-19-1915 - Betty Winkler - Berwick, PA - d. 6-4-2002
actor: Joyce Jordan "Joyce Jordan, [removed]"; Rosemary Levy "Abie's Irish
Rose"
04-21-1930 - Alec Gregonzi - London, England - d. 6-4-2006
actor: Fred "Hancock's Half Hour"
04-27-1931 - James Barrett - Detroit, MI - d. 6-4-2006
actor: Dan Reid "The Lone Ranger"; The Green Hornet"
05-15-1890 - Menasha Skulnik - Warsaw, Poland - d. 6-4-1970
actor: Mr. Cohen "Abie's Irish Rose"; Uncle David "The Goldbergs"
05-27-1919 - Ray Montgomery - d. 6-4-1998
actor: Noel Chandler "Dear John"
05-xx-1931 - Frankie Desmond - d. 6-4-2005
writer for the BBC
06-05-1915 - Alfred Kazin - Brownsville, NY - d. 6-4-1998
author, teacher, literary critic: "Invitation to Learning"
06-12-1916 - Ivan Tors - Budapest, Hungary - d. 6-4-1983
producer: "Bud's Bandwagon"
06-19-1893 - Frank Banyard - d. 6-4-1971
baritone: WOR Newark, New Jersey
07-15-1905 - Shirley Povich - Bar Harbor ME - d. 6-4-1998
sports columnist: "World Series Preview"; "Sonny Liston vs. Cassius
Clay"
07-16-1911 - Sonny Tufts - Boston, MA - d. 6-4-1970
actor: "Harold Lloyd's Comedy Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
07-17-1926 - Doyle Bladon - d. 6-4-2006
disk jockey: KFOR Lincoln, Nebraska
07-21-1910 - Himan Brown - NYC - d. 6-4-2010
actor, producer: Papa Marino "Little Italy"; "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"
07-25-1907 - Jack Gilford - NYC - d. 6-4-1990
comedian: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
07-26-1901 - Serge Koussevitzky - Vyshni Volocheck, Russia - d. 6-4-1978
symphony conductor: "Boston Symphony Orchestra"
07-29-1877 - William Beebe - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-4-1962
author: "Information Please"
07-29-1913 - Stephen McNally - NYC - d. 6-4-1994
actor: "Ford Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"; "Lux Radio
Theatre"
08-02-1912 - Gwen Plumb - Sydney, Australia - d. 6-4-2002
scripter, actor: "Big Sister"; "Blue Hills"
08-16-1895 - Lucien Littlefield - San Antonio, TX - d. 6-4-1960
actor: "Hollywood On the Air"
09-09-1882 - Clem McCarthy - East Bloomfield, NY - d. 6-4-1962
sportscaster: The Kentucky Derby
10-12-1903 - Josephine Hutchinson - Seattle, WA - d. 6-4-1998
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
Ron
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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 11:13:53 -0400
From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Joan Barkley on The Lone Ranger
I am happy to answer "Archie"s question about the character of Joan Barkley
on the Lone Ranger radio program from early 1940's. Played by Lee Allman,
who was more famous for her portrayal of Lenore Case, Britt Reid's secretary
on The Green Hornet, she was one of the more interesting characters to cross
the masked man's path in the long radio series.
First introduced in "A Girl to Aid", the beginning of the Black Arrow
series, she was ostensibly a government agent instructed by no less a person
than the president of the United States to go undercover and lend help to
The Lone Ranger as he fights to break up a determined band of criminals
intent on establishing a new political state in the west. As her character
develops, it becomes clear that she has a crush on the masked man, and over
the course of time, the attraction, at least on Joan's part, becomes more
and more obvious to listeners. It is only a surmise on my part, but I
suspect that George W. Trendle, who listened faithfully to his "cash cow"
every week, became increasingly uncomfortable at the suggestions that his
masked hero was getting romantically involved with a woman. After all, he
was supposed to dedicate his life to fighting criminals and outlaws, not
getting involved with a women, secret agent or not. Just how much latitude
Fran Striker was being given during this time is conjecture, but there
probably came a point when Trendle told Striker to "knock it off". By this
time, in mid-1942, Striker had already had Joan reveal that she knew one of
the Rangers who had been ambushed with the masked man, and was, in fact,
that man's sister. Not only that, but she reveals that she reached the
scene of the ambush before Tonto and effected the rescue of the wounded
ranger. All this comes before Striker re-wrote the origin story that is
told in the Dan Reid series in December of 1942. Of course, none of this
mis-information is dealt with again, leaving it to the listeners to wonder
which story was the true story.
To my knowledge, Joan never appears after the conclusion of the Iron Spur
series. And never again is there any hint of romance between the Ranger and
a female character, and although several times young ladies are inclined to
swoon over the romantic hero, their affection is never returned. If
"Archie" has the time to listen to more and more Ranger episodes, he may
pick up on a particular "on-mike" fondness between Brace Beemer and some of
the ladies played by Elaine Alpert, who joins the cast in 1943. Brace and
Elaine were "good friends", and I'll leave it at that.
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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 11:13:59 -0400
From: Christian Blees <christianblees@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: any address to live radio audience on tape
available?
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Hi,
I'm wondering if there is any recording in existance of an address that the
announcer of a live radio production did in front of the audience, giving
advices regarding the behaviour for the time a radio drama was live on air?
Any hints/help is appreciated!
Thanks
Christian
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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 11:14:06 -0400
From: "Jim Kitchen" <jkitchen@[removed];
To: "old time radio digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Wheaties
Jack Armstrong's Hudson High fight song urged us:
"Won't you try Wheaties?
They're whole wheat with all of the bran.
Won't you buy Wheaties?
For wheat is the best food of man.
They're crispy, they're crunchy,
The whole day through,
Jack Armstrong never tires of them
And neither will you.
Won't you try Wheaties,
The best breakfast food in the land!"
Wheaties are still my favorite breakfast cereal, especially with fresh
peaches!
Jim Kitchen
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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 11:14:18 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 6-5 births/deaths
June 5th births
06-05-1890 - George Briegel - Scranton, PA - d. 5-12-1968
wrote theme music for radio
06-05-1891 - Prosper Buranelli - d. 6-19-1960
writer: Assistant to Lowell Thomas
06-05-1897 - Woods O. Dreyfus - Wisconsin - d. 10-3-1965
singer, announcer, program director WISN Milwaukee, WI
06-05-1898 - William Boyd - Hendrysburg, OH - d. 9-12-1972
actor: Hopalong Cassidy "Hopalong Cassidy"
06-05-1906 - Margaret Rawlings - Osaka, Japan - d. 5-19-1996
actor: "Gigi"
06-05-1907 - D'Artega - Silao, Mexico - d. 1-20-1998
conductor, composer: "Enna Jettick Melodies"
06-05-1908 - Craig Rice (Georgiana Ann Randolph) - Illinois - d.
8-28-1957
writer: "Murder and Mr. Malone"
06-05-1908 - Edward James - d. 3-6-1995
creator of "Father Knows Best"
06-05-1910 - Herb Vigran - Fort Wayne, IN - d. 11-29-1986
actor: Sad Sack "Sad Sack"; Hector Smith "Father Knows Best"
06-05-1912 - Dan Ocko - d. 8-29-1991
actor: Killer Kane "Buck Rogers of the 25th Century"; "Sergeant Muggin
"Inspector Thorne"
06-05-1914 - J. Donald Wilson - d. 1-26-1984
creator, writer, producer: "The Whistler"; "Advs. of Nero Wolfe";
"Dark Venture"
06-05-1915 - Alfred Kazin - Brownsville, NY - d. 6-4-1998
author, teacher, literary critic: "Invitation to Learning"
06-05-1916 - John Raby - NYC - d. 3-xx-1957
actor: Jerry Forester "A Brighter Day"; Sinjun Harris "Our Gal Sunday"
06-05-1917 - Frances Burgio - Baltimore, MD
singer, pianist: "Girl with a Million Melodies"
06-05-1920 - Cornelius Ryan - Dublin, Ireland - d. 11-23-1974
d-dat war correspondent, novelist: "Hearing Highlights"
06-05-1922 - Gordon "Specs" Powell - NYC - d. 9-15-2007
jazz drummer: "Music 'Til Midnight"; "All-Star Sextette"
06-05-1925 - Bill Hayes - Harvey, IL
singer, actor: "Arthur Godfrey Time"
06-05-1928 - Robert Lansing - San Diego, CA - d. 10-23-1994
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
06-05-1940 - David Brudnoy - Minneapolis, MN - d. 12-9-2004
radio personality WBZ Boston, Massachusetts
06-05-1945 - June Gable - NYC
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
06-05-1961 - Mary Kay Bergman - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-11-1999
voice actor: commercials for radio
June 5th deaths
01-26-1918 - Vito Scotti - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-5-1996
actor: "Romance"; "Broadway Is My Beat"
02-06-1911 - Ronald "Dutch" Reagan - Tampico, IL - d. 6-5-2004
panelist, actor: "Hollywood Byline"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-17-1877 - Edwin M. Whitney - Parma Center, NY - d. 6-5-1957
actor: Captain Jimmy Norton "Harbor Lights"; Judge Whipple "Real Folks"
07-14-1915 - Jack Gregson - Spokane, WA - d. 6-5-1988
announcer, emcee: "Jack's Place"; "Live Like a Millionaire"
07-22-1918 - Buddy Black - Huntington, PA - d. 6-5-1990
announcer: "Chuck Foster and His Orchestra"
08-26-1911 - Hal Gibney - Woodland, CA - d. 6-5-1973
announcer: "Draget"; "The Six Shooter"; "Tales of the Texas Rangers"
09-06-1901 - Joseph Vitale - NYC - d. 6-5-1994
actor: "Great Plays"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
09-11-1862 - O. Henry (Wm. Sydney Porter) - Greensboro, NC - d. 6-5-1910
short story writer: Several of his works adapted for radio
09-13-1925 - Mel Torme - Chicago, IL- d. 6-5-1999
actor, singer: Joe Corntassel "Little Orphan Annie"; "Torme Time";
"New Mel Torme Show"
09-22-1926 - Sybil Trent - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-5-2000
actor: "Let's Pretend"; Thelma "As the Twig is Bent/We Love and Learn"
10-21-1927 - Ray Brenner - California - d. 6-5-1995
writer: "The Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"
10-30-1911 - Milton Lieberthal - d. 6-5-1989
writer: "The Sheriff"
11-01-1871 - Stephen Crane - Newark, NJ - d. 6-5-1900
author: Some of his works were adapted for radio
11-05-1891 - Vinton Freedley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-5-1969
host: "Theatre USA"
11-07-1910 - Charles Carroll - Jackson, MI - d. 6-5-1978
actor: "Margo of Castlewood"; "Valiant Lady"
11-11-1887 - Roland Young - London, England - d. 6-5-1953
actor: Cosmo Topper "Advs of Topper"; William "Johnny Presents"
12-20-1902 - Max Lerner - Ivenitz, Minsk, Russia - d. 6-5-1992
editorial director, commentator: "PM"
12-30-1911 - Jeanette Nolan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 6-5-1998
actor: Nicolette Moore "One Man's Family"; Mrs. Hudson "Advs. of
Sherlock Holmes"
Ron
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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 11:18:09 -0400
From: rand@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Radio on lp questions
As a long-term project, I'm working on a discography of old time radio
broadcasts released on lp records in the 1970s and 80s. Often these discs
show up in record shops and the covers don't contain much information
about the contents; there seems to be a little documented area of otr
research and is interesting, at least to me, as one of the major ways that
otr was disseminated to a new audience during the "nostalgia boom" of the
time.
I've got a few questions about some of the shows and releases that I'd
like to get input on from members of the mailing list. I'm hoping the
larger audience of researchers and enthusiasts here might have some
feedback if you bought some of the lps at the time or have dealt with
particular shows on the discs.
I'll post more questions as I go about my research, but here's a couple to
get started. If you have some otr on lp issues and you're familiar with
the contents or can play them, I'd appreciate any info you could provide,
particularly on some of the more obscure issues from the smaller labels.
*Radiola, in the first few years of the company, released their lps in
numbered "limited editions" of 1,000 copies for the first pressing. In
one that I obtained recently that was still sealed, "Joe Louis versus Jack
Sharkey", there was a large insert reprinting news articles about the
fight and photos of the fighters. Have any of you seen other Radiola
releases that originally contained inserts such as this, outside of the
standard Radio Yesteryear/Radiola advertising insert card?
*With Radiola lps, I'm interested in hearing from anyone that has issues
158 or later in lp format. I know they transitioned to lps in the 1980s,
but I've not run into some of their later releases on lp. I'm assuming
they're rare in that format or may have just been issued on cd, just
before the label was sold to Radio Spirits.
*Mark 56 released "The Houdini Seance", an lp of the last attempt to
contact Houdini by his wife, originally broadcast October 31, 1936. The
disc includes newly recorded remarks by George L. Boston before and after
the program. I'm wondering if what's on the disc is complete or if the
beginning and end of the show is cut off. On the Mark 56 lp, the actual
program starts with Dr. Edward Saint saying "Ladies and gentlemen, in this
cathedral like atmosphere ... " and ends with Mrs. Houdini saying "I know
turn out the light. It is finished." There is no intro or outro by a
radio announcer. The only copies I've heard floating around of this show
were dubbed from the lp with the newly recorded intro/outro by Boston -
was there more in the original transcription?
*I've run into a few 40s era "Shadow" broadcasts on lps that were very
obviously "reworked" - the original organ music cues and show open/close
were replaced. With the cues, they used some type of orchestral stock
library music. Anyone know when this editing was done on the programs and
for sure if it was done for syndication purposes, which is my guess? (The
discography will try to point out shows on disc that seem to be complete
as originally broadcast versus syndication, AFRS versions or compilations,
so this will be helpful in discussing what's heard on the disc.)
*Can anyone tell me something of the background of the following labels?
(ie, Who started it? How the discs were distributed, [removed])
-Memorabilia
-Totem
-Radio Archive
-Pelican
-Mar-Bren Sound
-Golden Age
-Spokane
*I remember seeing the Nostalgia Lane and Murray Hill records labels
offered for sale through Publisher's Clearinghouse, with the former
issuing single lps and the latter offering multi-disc sets. Were these
labels related? Were they from the same folks? (I've noticed some
duplication between the discs they issued.)
*I've run into some lps containing episodes of the "Camel Rock and Roll
Dance Party" hosted by Allan Freed. The lps, issued on the WINS and
Silhouette labels, seem to be from AFRTS discs of the show, distributed as
"Rock and Roll Dance Party". Is there anyone out there with the original
AFRTS discs that can help me match the shows on the lps to the AFRTS
program numbers (and possibly dates on the shows from the AFRTS disc
matrices?) I've seen some listings for the show at Goldin's database, but
there's no detail there to go on. (Goldin's Radiola label put out an
"assembled" lp, taking songs from several of these shows.)
Many thanks.
rand
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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 11:18:15 -0400
From: Jim Burns <jameshburns@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Dick [removed]
Back in 1999, at the Old Time Radio Convention in Newark, I was chatting
with Ed Hulse (he the master of pulp history and a major film buff)
outside the hotel's entrance, when Dick Beals showed up from the
airport, exiting the hotel courtesy shuttle.
We nodded Hello, and Dick went to enter the hotel.
He stood in front of the "automatic" glass door--
And nothing happened.
I was about to see if the door was broken or something when Beals simply
walked to a side panel that he knew must be there, pressed it, and the
door slid open.
I still don't understand how the door's weight sensor, or electric eye,
wasn't adjusted to account for what would be the equivalent of a child's
size.
Maybe it was just out of whack.
But there was this kind of look of sadness in Beal's eyes, this
impression of something that had happened many times before, but it was
an annoyance--out of no other choice--he knew how to deal with.
That look has stayed with me all these years.
(It's far more important, of course, to remember all the joy that Beals'
talents helped create!)
And maybe I just read too much into the moment.
Beals might simply have been miffed that he was in [removed]!
James H. Burns
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