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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2011 : Issue 2
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  1-1 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history            [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Looking for the right sound           [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 15:38:51 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-1 births/deaths

January 1st births

01-01-1867 - Lew Fields - NYC - d. 7-20-1941
comedian: (Weber and Fields) "The Eveready Hour"; "George Jessel Show"
01-01-1878 - Edwin Franko Goldman - Louisville, KY - d. 2-21-1956
bandmaster: "The Cities Service Concert"; "The Pure Oil Band"
01-01-1879 - [removed] Forster - London, England - d. 6-7-1970
novelist: Many works adapted for radio
01-01-1889 - Alexander Smallens  - St. Petersburg, Russia - d.
11-27-1972
conductor: "Rising Musical Star"
01-01-1889 - Charles Bickford - Cambridge, MA - d. 11-9-1967
actor: "Radio Hall of Fame"
01-01-1889 - Maurice Baron - Lille, France - d. 9-5-1964
conductor of various symphony orchestras for radio
01-01-1895 - Art Gillham - St. Louis, MO - d. 6-6-1961
piano playing vocalist: (Whispering Pianist) Plugged songs to sell
sheet music
01-01-1895 - Bernard Schubert - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-4-1988
writer, producer: "The Falcon"; "Murder and Mr. Malone"
01-01-1897 - Walter Greaza - St. Paul, MN - d. 6-1-1973
actor: "Columbia Workshop"; "Suspense"
01-01-1900 - Xavier Cugat - Tirona, Spain - d. 10-27-1990
bandleader: (King of the Rhumba) "Camel Caravan"
01-01-1904 - George Landen Dann - Brisbane, Australia - d. 6-6-1977
writer: "Funerals for Field Mice"
01-01-1904 - Lou Kosloff - Chicago, IL - d. 2-12-1986
orchestra leader: "Blondie"; "Sad Sack"; "Sherlock Holmes"
01-01-1905 - Dick Aurandt - d. 7-16-1984
orchestra leader: "Voyage of the Scarlet Queen"; "Steve Canyon"
01-01-1905 - Richard Keith - NYC - d. 9-16-1976
actor: Ray Hunt "Myrt and Marge"; Frank W. Brock "Special Investigator"
01-01-1908 - Bob Russell - Passaic, NJ - d. 1-24-1998
singer, songwriter: Helped create " Name that Tune"
01-01-1909 - Dana Andrews - Collins, MS - d. 12-17-1992
actor: Matt Cevetic "I Was A Communist for the FBI"
01-01-1909 - Frank Kettering - Monmouth, IL - d. 6-09-1973
bass player: (Hoosier Hot Shots) "National Barn Dance"
01-01-1911 - Hank Greenberg - NYC - d. 9-14-1986
baseball great: "Play Ball"; "We the People"; "Philco Radio Time"
01-01-1911 - Leona Ledoux - d. 8-16-1987
actor: Robespierre Higgins "Baby Snooks"; Bumstead Children "Blondie"
01-01-1913 - Norman Rosten - d. 3-7-1995
writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "An American in Russia"
01-01-1915 - Earl Sheldon - NYC - d. 11-14-1977
orchestra leader: "The Bickersons"; "Jack Smith Show"
01-01-1915 - Irv Orton - d. 5-xx-1960
musical director: "Double or Nothing"
01-01-1916 - Earl Wrightson - Baltimore, MD - d. 3-7-1993
singer: "Highways in Melody"; "Getting the Most Out of Life"
01-01-1917 - Shelby Storck - Kansas City, MO - d. 4-5-1969
actor: Speed Robertson "The Air Advs. of Jimmie Allen"
01-01-1917 - Ted Cott - Poughkeepsie, NY - d. 6-12-1973
announcer, emcee: "So You Think You Know Music?"; "Music You Want"
01-01-1919 - Carole Landis - Fairchild, WI - d. 7-5-1948
actor: "Warner Brothers Academy Award"; "Command Performance"
01-01-1922 - Robert De Cormier - Pinelawn, NY
choral director: "Christmas in Vermont with Countrypoint"
01-01-1923 - Milt Jackson - Detroit, MI - d. 10-9-1999
vibraphone: "Modern Jazz Quartet"
01-01-1928 - Helen Westcott - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-17-1998
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "My Wildest Dream"
01-01-1938 - Norma Jean Nilsson - Hollywood, CA
actor: Kathy Anderson "Father Knows Best"; Cookie Bumstead "Blondie"
01-01-1939 - Ray Bellew - Montreal, Canada - d. 10-10-2006
announcer for CBC radio
01-01-1947 - Neil Munro - Musselburgh, Scotland - d. 7-13-2009
actor: Quentin Nickles "Investigations of Quentin Nickles"

January 1st deaths

01-20-1927 - Dawn Lake - Sydney, Australia - d. 1-1-2006
singer: "The Jack Davey Program"
02-04-1908 - Jack Fraser - Lawrence, MA - d. 1-1-2000
newscaster: "John Gordon Fraser and the News", "Monitor"
02-15-1907 - Cesar Romero - NYC - d. 1-1-1994
actor: "Movietone Radio Theatre"
02-15-1922 - Otis Carney - Chicago, IL - d. 1-1-2006
writer: "Words at War"
03-06-1909 - Floyd Holmes - Glasgow, KY - d. 1-1-1970
singer: (Prairie Ramblers) "Smile-a-While"
04-17-1915 - Joe Foss - Sioux Falls, SD - d. 1-1-2003
south dakota governor: "Tops in Sports"
04-25-1919 - Albert Aley - NYC - d. 1-1-1986
actor: Hop Harrigan "Hop Harrigan"; Bob James "Stella Dallas"
05-16-1911 - Margaret Sullavan - Norfolk, VA - d. 1-1-1960
actor: "Electric Theatre"; "Hollywood Playhouse"
06-16-1907 - Joan Winters - Dayton, OH - d. 1-1-2001
actor: Alice Ames "Girl Alone"; Sylvia Bertram "Road of Life"
06-25-1913 - Cyril Fletcher - Watford, England - d. 1-1-2005
panelist: "Does the Team Think"
07-14-1932 - Del Reeves - Sparta, NC - d. 1-1-2007
country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
08-03-1886 - Anna Barbash - d. 1-1-1983
soprano: "Memories of Jennie Lind"
08-09-1908 - [removed] Bezzerides - Samsun, Turkey - d. 1-1-2007
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-16-1913 - Joe Lilley - d. 1-1-1971
orchestra leader: "Drene Time"
08-17-1899 - Ralph Goll - d. 1-1-1957
scriptwriter: "The Lone Ranger"
09-11-1896 - Robert S. Kerr - Ada, Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-1-1963
governor oklahoma: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
09-12-1888 - Maurice Chevalier - Paris, France - d. 1-1-1972
actor, singer, host: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "This is Paris"; "Bing
Crosby Show"
09-17-1923 - Hank Williams - Georgiana, AL - d. 1-1-1953
singer: "Louisiana Hayride"; "Grand Ole Opry"; "Health and Happiness"
09-17-1941 - Robert Takeo Matsui - Sacremento, CA - d. 1-1-2005
congressman: Democratic response to President's radio address
10-06-1905 - Helen Wills Moody - Centerville, CA - d. 1-1-1998
tennis playeer: "Information Please"
10-07-1916 - Palmer Williams - Tenafly, NJ - d. 1-1-1996
producer: "Hear It Now"
12-02-1914 - Ray Walston - New Orleans, LA - d. 1-1-2001
actor: "The Woolworth Hour"
12-06-1898 - Jack Beall - Waxahachie, TX - d. 1-1-1963
newscaster: "News of Tomorrow"; "American Legion Presents"
12-16-1890 - Jane Morgan - North Platte, NE - d. 1-1-1972
actor: Mary Lane "Aunt Mary"; Mrs. Margaret Davis "Our Miss Brooks"
12-25-1902 - Barton Maclane - Columbia, SC - d. 1-1-1969
actor: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
12-27-1914 - Jack Latham - Washington - d. 1-1-1987
announcer: "The Man Called X"; "Wake Up, America"

Ron

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Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 15:39:11 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history

 From Those Were The Days

1/2

1921   The first religious broadcast on radio was heard, as Dr. [removed] Van
Etten of Calvary Episcopal Church preached on KDKA radio in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.

1959   CBS dropped the curtain on four soap operas. Our Gal Sunday, This
is Nora Drake, Backstage Wife and Road of Life all hit the road for good.

1/4

1928   NBC debuted one of radio's first variety shows. The Dodge Victory
Hour starred Will Rogers, Paul Whiteman and his orchestra and singer Al
Jolson. The cost to produce this one show was $67,600 ($842,[removed] in
2008 dollars).

1932   NBC Red presented The Carnation Contented Hour. The show
continued on network radio for 19 years as a showcase for top singers
and musicians.

1935   Bob Hope was first heard on network radio as part of The Intimate
Revue with Jane Froman, James Melton and the Al Goodman Orchestra.

1/5

1935   We proudly remind you that Phil Spitalny's All Girl Orchestra was
featured on CBS this day on the program, The Hour of Charm.  (ed  And
who can ever forget Evelyn and her magic violin?)

1940   The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) got its very first
demonstration of FM radio. The new medium, free of interference, static,
and noise in thunderstorms, was developed by Major [removed] Armstrong. The
first FM transmitter was put in operation in 1941.

1/6

1941   A young actor appeared for the first time in a new program on CBS
titled, The Home of the Brave. Along with others in the cast, this was
Richard Widmark's radio debut.

1950   Ronald Coleman starred as the president of Ivy College in The
Halls of Ivy.

1974   CBS radio returned to dramatic programming at night with the
first broadcast of Radio Mystery Theatre, hosted by [removed] Marshall. The
program debuted on 218 CBS network stations.

1/7

1926   A famous marriage that endured for many years is remembered this
day. It's the wedding anniversary of George Burns and Gracie Allen who
were married by a Justice of the Peace in Cleveland, Ohio.

1940   The gate to Gene Autry's Melody Ranch opened.  "The singing
cowboy" would entertain on CBS radio for the next 16 years, other than
1942-45 when he was in the Army Air Corps.

1941   The NBC Blue network presented the first installment of Inner
Sanctum.

1950   Ernest Tubb made his first appearance at The Grand Ole Opry in
Nashville, TN. Ernest also did a 15 minute radio program each day that
became very popular in West Texas. So popular, in fact, that he bought
the radio station that had aired the program for years and years: KGKL
in San Angelo, Texas.

Joe

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Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 15:39:33 -0500
From: Rentingnow@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Looking for the right sound

I am working on a project for which I will be  the voice of a Landseer
(gray & white) Newfoundland dog.  It dawned on  me that the best source
samples
for voices are those on OTR.

I  would welcome suggestions on a character's voice which might work as a
start to  get the sound I want.  This is not to be an imitation of the voice,
but a  desire to get the feel of a sound of the voice that would reveal the
character  of the large, friendly, "gentle giant" Newfoundland dog.

Larry Moore

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