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Date: 2/2/2004 10:18 AM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2004 : Issue 46
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed] ]
  Harpo speaks?                         [ "Jennifer Pope" <ifearonlyhim@hotma ]
  Laughing Records/La Cucaracha         [ "Tom van der Voort" <evan@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history            [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Harpo Speaks                          [ "John Eccles, Jr." <jeccles@earthli ]
  Seattle convention                    [ "Scott D. Livingston" <[removed]@comca ]
  Radio Intellect                       [ danhughes@[removed] ]
  Drunks on radio                       [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
  Zane Grey and OTR and an OTR short s  [ "Nancy Hudson" <hudson@[removed]; ]
  2-2 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Hildegarde                            [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Lum Edwards for President!            [ "Michael Leannah" <mleannah@charter ]
  Harpo Speaks!                         [ JackBenny@[removed] ]
  Re Harpo Marx                         [ RadioCM25@[removed] ]

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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 09:21:01 -0500
From: "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

Hi friends,

Here is this week's line-up for the week of 2-1-04 on my Olde Tyme Radio
[removed] Featuring Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio Theatre," Big John
Matthews and Steve Urbaniak's "The Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same
Station" broadcasts, being broadcast on demand 24/7 in high quality
streaming RealAudio at [removed]

Past archived broadcasts are also available there.

We look forward to having you join us!

	Jerry

Here's this week's lineup:

SAME TIME, SAME STATION with Jerry Haendiges

THE RECORD COLLECTORS
Audition Show  9-29-52
Host: Larry Thor

CBS RADIO WORKSHOP
Episode 14  4-21-56  "The Record Collectors"
Host: John Dehner
Guests: Margaret Whiting, Lynn Murray, Margaret Young (recorded)

FRIENDLY FIVE FOOTNOTES
1931  Episode 10  "I Know That You Know"
With Friendly Fred & the Friendly Five Orchestras
Casey Jones with Aviation news

FRONTIER GENTLEMAN
Episode 8  "The Actress"  3-23-58
STARS: John Dehner as Jonathan D. Kendall, English Journalist
With: Jeanette Nolan, Larry Dobkin, Harry Bartell, Jack Moyles, Jim Nesser.
PRODUCER, DIRECTOR AND SCRIPTS by: Antony Ellis

HOST PLANET EARTH
Episode 1  7-30-67  "The Beginning"
BBC 6-part serial
The first spaceship has been launched and its crewmen soon become infected
with a strange malady.  Can they be allowed to return to Earth?
=======================================

HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE with Tom Heathwood

SPECIAL GUEST:
Martin Grams, Jr., author of the new book, "Information Please"

INFORMATION PLEASE
MBS    7-23-50
Guests: Fred Allen and Howard Lindsey

THE SHADOW
MBS    1-30-38       "The Poison Death"
Stars: Orson Welles and Agnes Moorehead

BOB AND RAY EXTRA
A few minutes with OTR's funny-men, Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding.
========================================

THE GLOWING DIAL with Big John and Matthews and Steve Urbaniak

Those daring detectives return to The Glowing Dial featuring:

The Adventures Of Frank Race
SYNDICATED   5/29/49   # 5   "The Enoch Arden Adventure"

Broadway Is My Beat
CBS   1/31/53   # 150   "Helen Selby"

Casey, Crime Photographer
CBS 7/24/47 "Photo Of The Dead"

The Adventures Of Nero Wolfe
NBC   3/23/51   # 22   "The Final Page"

Boston Blackie
MUTUAL 5/14/47 # 109 "Drowned After Robbery"
====================================

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or requests for upcoming
shows.

            Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];

  [removed]  The Vintage Radio Place
  Largest source of OTR Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 09:57:15 -0500
From: "Jennifer Pope" <ifearonlyhim@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Harpo speaks?

   He certainly does - check out the recordings here!

[removed]

Jennifer

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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 10:00:07 -0500
From: "Tom van der Voort" <evan@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Laughing Records/La Cucaracha

     Speaking of laughing records, Slim Gaillard put out a 10 inch LP in the
fifties with a number of novelty tracks including "Laughin' In Rhythm".  In
the late thirties Gaillard was one half of a great jazz duo with bassist
Slam Stewart, known as Slim and Slam.  He also entertained late night
habitues of New York's Birdland in the fifties with a guitar/bongos/piano
routine. He was known for his scat lyrics. His masterpiece was 'Opera in
Vout'.
     My recollection of the 'La Cucaracha' lyrics is:
   La cucaracha, la cucaracha,
   Yo no quiere que bailar
   Porque no tiene, porque no tiene
   Marijuana que fumar.
     Simplified translation: "I don't want to dance because I don't have
marijuana to smoke".
     Notes from a misspent youth.
     Tom
[removed]  In the syndicated ZIV radio program 'Freedom USA', Tyrone Power plays
Senator Dean Edwards.  Sounds like two good names for a Presidential
candidate!

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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:23:24 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history

 From Those Were The Days --

2 Feb

1946 - The Mutual Broadcasting System presented Twenty Questions for the
first time. Bill Slater was the master of ceremonies.

5 Feb

1931 - Eddie Cantor's long radio career got underway as he appeared on
Rudy Vallee's The Fleischmann Hour.

1940 - Amanda of Honeymoon Hill debuted. Joy Hathaway starred as 'the
beauty of flaming red hair'. The program stayed for six years on NBC.

6 Feb

1943 - Frank Sinatra made his debut as vocalist on radio's Your Hit
Parade this night. Frankie had left the Tommy Dorsey Band just four
months prior to beginning the radio program. He was described as,
"...the biggest name in the business."

1950 - NBC first broadcast Dangerous Assignment. The show starred Brian
Donlevy in the role of soldier of fortune, Steve Mitchell.

Joe

--
Visit my slightly updated (1/1/04) homepage:
[removed]~[removed]

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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:25:35 -0500
From: "John Eccles, Jr." <jeccles@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Harpo Speaks

Actually, there is a recording of Harpo speaking because I heard it on the
Internet.  It was a couple of years ago and a Marx Bros. website had it
posted as an audio file. I recall there was a brief introduction to the clip
narrated by an Englishman explaining the background of the recording.   It
was a recording Harpo made while preparing his autobiography "Harpo Speaks."
The excerpt of the recording lasted about 45 seconds if my memory serves me
correctly, but it was something to hear Harpo's voice after all these years.

John Eccles, Jr.

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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:28:38 -0500
From: "Scott D. Livingston" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Seattle convention

Harlan Stone mentioned a the convention in Seattle. Can someone tell me
where a when. I travel there a number of time a year on business and would
like to try and schedule a trip around that event. Also the same goes with
LA.

Scott (Fibber) Livingston

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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:28:47 -0500
From: danhughes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Radio Intellect

Mark sez:
Compared with TV and movies, radio is infinitely tolerant of the physical
person and vastly less forgiving of a dull intellect.

I so want to believe this.  Then I think of the Judy Canova [removed]

---Dan

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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:28:58 -0500
From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Drunks on radio

Mark Kinsler wrote:

I recall a lot of drunk jokes on old-time TV--Red
Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Dean Martin--but I don't
seem to recall any on old radio.

Several examples come to mind immediately, the
foremost being Phil Harris's legendary binges. (And by
extension, Frank Remley's.) Molly McGee's Uncle Dennis
was quite a tippler, as was Horatio K. Boomer, on the
same show. Perhaps the most inebriate of them all was
Jocko Madigan, Pat Novak's occasional source of help
and information. I'm sure there are plenty more, but
those are the ones that come to mind first.

Two real life characters known for the drinking
presumably made references to it on the air as well
(though I've never heard any of these episodes
featuring them). First, WC Fields on Charlie
McCarthy's show--one presumes Charlie couldn't resist
a dig at Fields' penchant for the grape? Second, John
Barrymore, in his final days on the Rudy Vallee show.
I gather he was butt of many jokes at that point, and
presumably some of them alluded to his imbibing?

Kermyt

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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:32:05 -0500
From: "Nancy Hudson" <hudson@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Zane Grey and OTR and an OTR short story

Just came back from a Zane Grey birthday party at his former home in
Lackawaxen, PA where he and his wife are buried, and where he lived for
fifteen years starting in 1903 before he moved his family to Altadena,
CA.  (He would have been 131 years old yesterday, were he to be alive,
if you're interested.)

At the party, I presented an opportunity for visitors, US Park Service
staff, and members of the Zane Grey's West Society in attendance to
listen to Zane Grey on OTR, of which there is very little, if any, that
actualluy made broadcasting.

Acquired at FOTR 2003, I have a cassette copy of the audition disc made
in 1943 of two fifteen-minute shows of "King of the Royal Mounted" I
played, which was recorded to present a flavor of the show and to be a
pitch to prospective sponsors.  Dave Goldin lists these two programs in
his radiogoldindex database, and I recall seeing an ET auctioned on eBay
last year of these programs.

I also have a half-hour show of "King of the Royal Mounted" that does
not sound like an audition.  It stars Richard Dix as Sgt. King, but all
the other actors are unidentified. The show was announced by John Milton
Kennedy on NBC, music was by Al Sack & His Orchestra.  The story was
written by Paul Franklin and Albert Van Antwerp, and the program was
directed by Paul Franklin.  The broadcast originated from Hollywood,
Kennedy announces. There is also a studio audience. Most likely, this is
a wartime show, since at the midpoint break is a PSA morale booster to
encourage the home front to write letters to servicemen.

What is also interesting here is that Richard Dix also starred in a Zane
Grey movies, playing lead in the silent films, "To the Last Man" in
1923, "The Vanishing American" in 1925 and "Call of the Canyon" in 1925.

Does anybody have any further information on these two programs?  I have
queried members of the Zane Grey's West Society, and many have not even
heard of Zane Grey on radio, but we have yet to question Dr. Loren Grey,
Zane's son, if he knew anything. He and his mom were actively engaged in
managing Doc's estate after his passing, which is how new unpublished
Zane Gray novels were released periodically after his death in 1939.

During this time there were serials playing in the movie houses,
"King of the Royal Mounted" 1936 12 parts, Paramount, and "King of the
Royal Mounted" 1940 directed by John English and William Whitney,
Republic, (who also directed the earlier Lone Ranger Republic serials)
and by John Whitney again directing another 12 parter "King of the
Mounties" in 1940 for Republic. Based on their popularity for juveniles,
was someone trying to cash in on a radio program tie-in, like the Lone
Ranger success?  Any idea where perhaps Striker got inspiration for
"Challenge of the Yukon," when it went on the air in 1938? King was in
comic books in the mid-1930's.

Further, there was at least one other Zane Grey program on radio
entitled "The Zane Grey Show" that featured the fictitious cowboy Tex
Thorne, the son of an Italian immigrant, who roamed the west.  It is
listed in Dunnings bible, and Dave Goldin lists three shows from this
program from 1948-one complete and two partials.  Paul Franklin also
directed this show. While I know no one can access his material today,
did anybody out there purchase copies from Radio Yesteryear, or have
other copies?  I'd like to trade dubs for the three King shows I have
digitized to CD. I am also looking for anybody who may have upgrades of
the King shows, as mine were recorded on cheap cassettes at low volume.
If you have a high quality cassette/reel, and can dub or send it to be,
I'll return to you a digitized compact disc, along with your sources
material.

If anybody lurking out there was the purchaser of the discs on ebay, I'd
like to hear from him too! There may be info on the labels that may
provide additional information.

If anybody needs any further information on the Dix show, EMAIL me off
line and I'll send you the plot synopsis.

With information gathered and compiled, I'd like to write an article
about "Zane Grey on Radio" for the Zane Grey West's Society magazine,
"Review." Material source credit will be given.  For those of you who
don't know about the ZGWS, or would like to get more information on Zane
Grey, go to: [removed]

And now the OTR short story:
While having paid many previous visits to the Zane Grey homestead on the
banks of the Delaware River in the sleepy town of Lackawaxen, an area
where Grey used to go to relax, fish, and escape the heat of New York
City where he had his dental practice, we were given for his birthday
party yesterday somewhat of a "free reign" of the house which is under
the care, custody, and supervision of the US National Park Service. I
was perusing Dr. Gray's office, which has not been re-decorated at all
since they moved in 1918, as the walls contain Indian drawings done by
his wife Elise when they lived there--to help give it a more "Western"
flavor. (He wrote "Riders of the Purple Sage" there in 1912!)  The
office contains implements from his dental days used at the turn of the
twentieth century at his New York office (ouch!) and original
illustrations of his first self-published work, "Betty Zane," among
other things, when I noticed some tiny writings on a back wall that were
started in ink, then continued in pencil. I asked a museum guide to
remove some farm implements that were blocking the view, and when she
did, it revealed a subsequent tenant/owner of the building (Grey and his
family moved out in 1918) must have had a radio next to the electrical
plug below on the baseboard (the house was wired in the early 30's)
behind the desk in the study, and had written on the wall frequency
tuning meter ranges, call signs, and station locations of distant radio
stations, probably as heard, since the were just listed and written at
an angle!  Most of the stations were small, and have probabaliy since
gone off the air, but WEAF, New York, jumped out at me. When I pointed
this out to the guide, she said no one in the museum really knew what
any of those numbers and markings were. I checked with Dot Moon,
Cultural Research Program Manager, who knows more about Zane Grey than
Mrs. Grey ever did, and she was equally mystified. Receiving far away
stations must have been a treat there, since the home is on the banks of
the Delaware and right there is in a pretty deep valley. It would take a
lot of skip to get a signal down there, perhaps with a bounce off a
granite cliff. Stations noted were emanating from South Dartmouth, MA,
New York, NY (of course) and a couple from Chicago, IL. With Dot's
permission, I'll have to go back with some industrial lighting and read
the ones in pencil, as only the writings with pen and ink are easily
legible--the room is very dark to protect delicate drawings and other
material.

Perhaps with OTR Digest help, we can determine the approximate time
these notations were made, and present this information to the museum,
compliments of the OTR Digest.  Dot can provide the owner of the time
via deed research, and we may be able to correlate the station call
letters with times and narrow it down a bit.

Any info on Zane Grey on OTR I'm looking for would be greatly
appreciated. Share info on line here or off line to the EMAIL below.

Thank you,
Russell S. Hudson
Bethlehem, PA
EMAIL: hudson@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 15:19:04 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  2-2 births/deaths

February 2nd births

Groundhog's Day

Happy 98th birthday Hildegard, the Dear that made Milwaukee famous!

02-02-1893 - Len Doyle - Toledo, OH - d. 12-6-1959
actor: Len Harrington "Mr, Distric Attorney"
02-02-1899 - Benny Rubin - Boston, MA - d. 7-15-1986
comedian: Tout "Jack Benny Program"; "Benny Rubin Show"; "Benny Rubin's
Whirligig Revue"
02-02-1906 - Hildegarde - Adell, WI
singer, pianist: (The Dear that Made Milwaukee Famous) "Hildegard Program"
02-02-1908 - Cal Tinney - Pontotoc County, OK
actor: Binnacle Barnes "Robinson Crusoe, Jr."
02-02-1909 - Frank Albertson - Fergus Falls, MN - d. 2-29-1964
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-02-1912 - Stefan Schnabel - Berlin, Germany - d. 3-11-1999
actor: Herbert Yost "Joyce Jordan, [removed]"
02-02-1923 - Bonita Granville - Chicago, IL - d. 10-11-1988
actress: "Continental Celebrity Club"; "Stars Over Hollywood"

February 2nd deaths

01-03-1905 - Anna May Wong - Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA - d. 2-2-1961
actress: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Hollywood Hotel"
04-18-1912 - Wendy Barrie - Hong Kong, China - d. 2-2-1978
hostess, actress: "Detect and Collect"; "Jack Haley Show"; "Star for a Night"
08-23-1912 - Gene Kelly - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-2-1996
actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"; "Star for a Night"; "Suspense"
08-29-1914 - Willard Waterman - Madison, WI - d. 2-2-1995
actor: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve "Great Gildersleeve"; Roger Barton
"Guiding Light"
09-07-1936 - Buddy Holly - Lubbock, TX - d. 2-2-1959
singer: "Sunday Party"; "Buddy and Bob Show"
10-02-1896 - Bob Burns - Van Buren, AR - d. 2-2-1956
comedian: (The Arkansas Traveler) "Kraft Music Hall"; "Bob Burns Show"
11-23-1887 - Boris Karloff - Dulwich, England - d. 2-2-1969
actor, host: "Starring Boris Karloff"; "Creeps by Night"
12-02-1893 - William Gaxton - San Franciso, CA - d. 2-2-1963
actor, singer: "Broadway Showtime"
12-30-1914 - Bert Parks - Atlanta, GA - d. 2-2-1992
emcee, announcer: "Break the Bank"; "Stop the Music"; "Double or Nothing"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 15:19:27 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Hildegarde

Today you will find listed the birthday of one Hildegarde who was born in
Adell, Wisconsin, but raised in Milwaukee. I have her birthday listed as
February 2nd, but I have been informed that she was actually born on February
1st. I guess when one is 98 years old a day or two can't make that much of a
difference, but I want my list to be as accurate as it is possible to make it
in an undertaking such as this. I have done some more extensive research and
the date is divided between the 1st and the 2nd, but more seem to say the 1st,
therefore, I will make the change for future lists. I have also been informed
that a birthday party will be held for her in New York City so the people
holding the party must know. Thanks to those who pointed this out to me, I am
indebted to you.

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 16:32:46 -0500
From: "Michael Leannah" <mleannah@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Lum Edwards for President!

Derek Tague asked about other presidential runs by OTR personalities. Lum
Edwards of Lum and Abner made a run in 1936. It was quite a campaign
apparently. Thousands of buttons bearing the message, "Let's 'Lect Lum!"
were distributed to radio fans. The demand for the buttons was overwhelming.
Wish I had one of those buttons today.

Mike Leannah
Sheboygan, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 16:33:19 -0500
From: JackBenny@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Harpo Speaks!

Martin Grams writes:

((Harpo, for the record, DID speak in real life.  To date, there does not
exist any recording of Harpo speaking.))

Sorry, Martin, but I'm going to disagree with you.  There is at least one
recording of Harpo speaking, and the excerpt I've heard is where he is talking
about playing piano in a house of ill-repute and reputedly becoming ill
himself.
 Somehow, I think I have also seen a video of Harpo speaking, but I can't
recall any more details of that.  Haven't pulled out my copy of "The Unknown
Marx
Brothers" in a while, but that would be a good starting place.

--Laura Leff
President, IJBFC
[removed]

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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 16:33:41 -0500
From: RadioCM25@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re  Harpo Marx

Harpo was just on XM Satellite Radio Channel 164, an appearance on the
Burns&Alllen broadcast of 5/9/49.  He honked whistled, and played the harp but
didn't talk.

CHICK MEYERSON

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