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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2011 : Issue 31
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Man From Mars spoof [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
2-17 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Brown on Corwin [ "khovard@[removed]" <khovard@[removed] ]
Axis Sally [ igertel@[removed] ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
2-18 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Re: Gunsmoke [ "Jan" <janbach@[removed]; ]
more on the 8000 AFRS ETs discovered [ "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@ ]
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:10:19 -0500
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Man From Mars spoof
While going through scripts and other production material for THE TEX AND
JINX PROGRAM, it seems I made an amusing discovery. The September 17, 1947
broadcast, which according to Jay Hickerson's Ultimate Guide, does not exist
in recorded form, featured a special "Man from Mars" feature. The entire
program continuity tied in with a visit from a "Man From Mars" with Berry
Kroeger impersonating Orson Welles.
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:10:50 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 2-17 births/deaths
February 17th births
02-17-1871 - Donald Brian - St. John's, Canada - d. 12-22-1948
singer, actor: "The Philco Hour"
02-17-1881 - Arthur Judson - d. 1-28-1975
executive: Founder of the Columbia Broadcasting System
02-17-1888 - William Balhatchet - d. 2-3-1971
singer: WHT Chicago, Illinois
02-17-1889 - H. L. Hunt - near Vandalia, IL - d. 11-29-1974
established Facts Forum which produced radio programs
02-17-1897 - Ben Alley - West Virginia - d. 2-8-1970
singer: (the Golden Tenor) "Melody Lane"; "Sweethearts Of the Air"
02-17-1897 - Harry Tugend - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-11-1989
writer: "The Fred Allen Show"
02-17-1905 - Kuda Bux - Kashmir, India - d. 2-5-1981
magician: "Believe It or Not"
02-17-1906 - Virginia Mansfield - Covington, KY - d. 2-16-2001
singer: "Andy and Virginia"; "Turn Back the Clock"
02-17-1907 - Charlie Spivak - Kiev, Ukraine - d. 3-1-1982
orchestra leader: "Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel"; Million Dollar
Band"
02-17-1908 - Staats Cotsworth - Oak Park, IL - d. 4-9-1979
actor: Casey "Casey, Crime Photographer"; David Farrell "Front Page
Farrell"
02-17-1908 - Walter "Red" Barber - Columbus, MS - d. 10-22-1992
sportscaster: (The Old Redhead) "Schaefer Star Revue"
02-17-1910 - Marc Lawrence - NYC - d. 11-28-2005
actor: "Let George Do It"; "This Is Your FBI"; "Scout About Town"
02-17-1910 - Mark Hawley - New Jersey - d. 9-5-1986
announcer: Guy Lombardo's New Year's Eve broadcast
02-17-1911 - Orrin Tucker - St. Louis, MO
bandleader: "Orrin Tucker and His Orchestra"; "One Night Stand"
02-17-1912 - Clifford Evans - Senghenydd, Wales - d. 6-9-1985
Producer and director on Welsh radio
02-17-1914 - Arthur Kennedy - Worcester, MA - d. 1-5-1990
actor: "Best Plays"
02-17-1914 - Larry Douglas - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-15-1996
actor, singer: "Here's to Romance"
02-17-1914 - Wayne Morris - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-14-1959
actor: "Radio Reader's Digest"; "NBC university Theatre of the Air"
02-17-1915 - Norman Thomson - Massachusetts - d. 2-3-2000
actor: (Founding member of "Meercury Theatre) "The War of the Worlds"
02-17-1919 - Kathleen Freeman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-24-2001
actor: California Artists Radio Theatre"
02-17-1921 - Ken Platt - Lancashire, England - d. 10-2-1998
comedian: "Fanfare"; "Worker's Playtime"; "Hit the Road"
02-17-1923 - Buddy De Franco - Camden, NJ
bandleader: "Glenn Miller Orchestra"
02-17-1924 - Margaret Truman - Independence, MO - d. 1-29-2008
coloratura: "The Big Show"; "The Railroad Hour"; "Authors in the News"
02-17-1924 - Mel Welles - NYC - d. 8-19-2005
worked as a radio disc jockey before moving to Hollywood in the 1950s
02-17-1925 - Hal Holbrook - Cleveland, OH
actor: Grayling Dennis "Brighter Day"
02-17-1929 - Patricia Routledge - Birkenhead, Cheshire, England
actor: "Saturday Play"
02-17-1941 - Gene Pitney - Hartford, CT - d. 4-5-2006
singer: "Voices of Vista"
02-17-1948 - Blanquita Cullum - Ventura, CA
talk show host: "BQ View"; "Live from the Capitol"
02-17-1949 - Don Scardino - NYC
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
02-17-1962 - Lou Diamond Phillips - Subic Bay Naval Station, Philippines
actor: "Twilight Zone"
February 17th deaths
01-10-1896 - Frances Lockridge - d. 2-17-1963
writer: "Mr. and Mrs. North"
02-09-1922 - Kathryn Grayson - Winston-Salem, NC - d. 2-17-2010
singer: "Mail Call"
02-12-1904 - Joseph Kearns - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 2-17-1962
actor, host: Melvyn Foster "A Date with Judy"; Man in Black "Suspense"
03-13-1908 - Paul Stewart - NYC - d. 2-17-1986
actor: Gyp Mendoza "Life Can Be Beautiful"; Richard Rogue "Rogue's
Gallery"
03-15-1904 - Verree Teasdale - Spokane, WA - d. 2-17-1987
actor: (Wife of Adolph Menjou) "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
03-17-1901 - Alfred Newman - New Haven, CT - d. 2-17-1970
composer, conductor: "Hollywood Star Time"; "Radio Hall of Fame";
"Silver Theatre"
05-01-1919 - Dan O'Herlihy - Wexford, Ireland - d. 2-17-2005
actor: Nicholas Lacey "One Man's Family"
06-17-1922 - Jerry Fielding - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-17-1980
conductor: "Hardy Family"; "Jack Paar Show"; "You Bet Your Life"
07-16-1906 - Asakusa Ichimaru (Mitsue Goto) - Japan - d. 2-17-1997
singer: "Mitsukoshi Calendar of Songs"
07-17-1905 - William Gargan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-17-1979
actor: Martin Kane "Martin Kane, Private Eye"; Barrie Craig "Barrie
Craig, Private Investigator"
09-15-1876 - Bruno Walter - Berlin, Germany - d. 2-17-1962
conductor: "Salzburg Music Festival"; "Word from the People"; "New
York Philharmonic"
10-15-1918 - Bob Sherry - Chattanooga, TN - d. 2-17-2003
announcer: "Archie Andrews"; "Author Meets the Critics"
11-20-1887 - Eck Robinson - Delaney, AR - d. 2-17-1975
fiddler: "Three Fidders"
11-26-1908 - Lefty Gomez - Rodeo, CA - d. 2-17-1989
baseball pitcher: "Information Please"
11-27-1881 - C. Mildred Thompson - Atlanta, GA - d. 2-17-1975
historian, educator, feminist: "Information Please"
12-31-1884 - Georgette Harvey - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-17-1952
female bass singer: "New World A' Coming"; "Free Company"
xx-xx-1848 - Uncle Jimmy Thompson - Baxter, TN - d. 2-17-1931
fiddler: WSM carried a 2-hour program of his fiddling
Ron
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:10:55 -0500
From: "khovard@[removed]" <khovard@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Brown on Corwin
Years ago I interviewed both Corwin and Brown while researching my book about
World War II era radio. Brown's name never came up in my conversations with
Corwin, but I referred to Corwin while talking to Brown. Brown said," Norman
Corwin, Who's he?
You can put your own interpretation on it.
Howard Blue
Obama Urges Homeowners to Refinance
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:11:04 -0500
From: igertel@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Axis Sally
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A couple of weeks ago, on the anniversary of the formal arrest of Mildred
Gillars (Axis Sally), some newspapers referred to the infamous broadcast of
"Vision of Invasion," broadcast in May 1944. Although she was charged with
many counts of treason, based on her broadcasts, the only count on which she
was actually convicted was for the broadcast of "Vision of Invasion." I have
searched unsuccessfully on the internet for a site at which I might listen to
that broadcast. Does anyone know of a site at which the broadcast can be
heard?
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:11:21 -0500
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[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 Theatre," Bob Bro's "The Old Time Radio Show," John and Larry
Gassman's "Same Time Station" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS
THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER
Episode 154 5-18-48 "Death Writes A Letter"
MUTUAL Sustaining
Stars: Maurice Tarplin
Producers/Directors/Writers: Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan
See also "The Strange Dr. Weird" - Same show format and cast
THE BIG GUY
Episode 17 8-27-50 "The Case of the Villainous Friend"
Stars: John Calvin, David Anderson and Joan Laser
NBC Sustained Sundays 5:00 - 5:30 Pm
Announcer: Fred Collins
Director: Thomas Madigan
Scripts: Peter Barrie
Music: Jack Ward
BATTLE STATIONS
Episode 1 8-5-43 "The Battle Of The Atlantic"
Narrator: Raymond Edward Johnson
NBC Special Events Department in cooperation with NAVAL DEPARTMENT.
Dramatized report on the progress of the Navy in the war.
Announcer: Jack Costello
Script: Charles Gussman
Music Composed/Scored By: Leo Campenski Orchestra: Joseph Stopack
Director: Joseph Mansfield Thursdays 8:30 - 9:00 pm
ARCH OBOLER'S PLAYS
Episode 23 9-20-45 "Rocket From Manhattan"
Stars: Lou Merrill, Elliott Lewis, Ervin Lee
MUTUAL Sustained Tuesdays at 10:00pm
Produced and Directed by: Arch Oboler
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE
THE ALDRICH FAMILY
(NBC) 2/11/43 "Valentine's Day Party" Ezra Stone/ Jackie Kelk
BLONDIE
(NBC) 2/9/49 Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake star in "Alexander's
Valentine's Day Dilemma"
LUM & ABNER
(ABC/Synd.) 2/14/45 "Cedric Shops for a Valentine's Card"
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THE OLD TIME RADIO SHOW
DRAGNET (NBC)
Title: The Big Smoke
Original Air: 2/22/53
Starring: Jack Webb, Ben Alexander
I LOVE A MYSTERY (Mutual)
Title: The Million Dollar Curse, Episode 6
Original Air: 12/49
Starring: Russell Thorson, Jim Boles, and Tony Randall
GUNSMOKE (CBS)
Title: Sundown
Original Air: 6/6/53
Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Georgia Russell
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
SUSPENSE
7-16-61 "The Man Who Knew How"
Martin Grams, Jr Interview
THE SHADOW
3-20-36 "White Legeon"
QUICK AS A FLASH
3-16-47
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:11:29 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 2-18 births/deaths
February 18th births
02-18-1890 - Adolphe Menjou - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-29-1963
host: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Eternal Light"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
02-18-1890 - Edward Arnold - NYC - d. 4-26-1956
actor: President "Mr. President"
02-18-1892 - Wendell Willkie - Elwood, IN - d. 10-8-1944
presidential candidate: "Information, Please"
02-18-1893 - Bruce Kamman - Cincinnati, OH - 10-18-1969
actor: August Kaltenmeyer "Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten"
02-18-1894 - Andres Segovia - Linares, Spain - d. 6-2-1987
classical guitarist: "The Magic Key"; "Theatre [removed]"; "Concert Hall"
02-18-1900 - Zeno Klinker - d. 1-22-1985
writer: "Edgar Bergen/.Charlie McCarthy Show"
02-18-1901 - Wayne King - Savannah, IL - d. 7-16-1985
bandleader: (The Waltz King) "Lady Esther Serenade"
02-18-1903 - George Givot - Ekatarinaslav, Russia - d. 6-7-1984
dialectitian: (Greek Ambassador of Good Will) "George Givot Show)
02-18-1903 - Jacques Fray - Paris, France - d. 1-20-1963
pianist, disc jockey: "Fray and Braggiotti"
02-18-1905 - Queenie Leonard - London, England - d. 1-17-2002
actor: "NBC University Theatre"
02-18-1907 - Billy de Wolf - Wollaston, MA - d. 3-5-1974
actor: "Ginny Simms Show"; "Philco Radio Playhouse"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-18-1907 - Griffing Bancroft - d. 2-5-1999
newscaster: "The Big News of 1957"
02-18-1907 - L. A. "Speed" Riggs - Silverdale, NC - d. 2-1-1987
tobacco auctioneer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Kay Kyser Show"
02-18-1912 - Earl George - Donora, PA - d. 1-30-2004
actor: "Curtain Time"; "Girl Alone"; "Mortimer Gooch"
02-18-1914 - Pee Wee King - Abrams, WI - d. 3-7-2000
singer, songwriter, accordionist: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Pee Wee King Show"
02-18-1917 - Jack Slattery - Missouri - d. 10-29-1979
announcer: "House Party"; "You Bet Your Life"
02-18-1919 - Jack Palance - Lattimer Mines, PA - d. 11-10-2006
actor: "Bud's Bandwagon"
02-18-1920 - Bill Cullen - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 7-7-1990
host, announcer: "Winner Take All"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
02-18-1920 - Howard Rodman - New York - d. 12-5-1985
writer: "The American School of the Air"
02-18-1922 - Allan Melvin - Kansas City, MO - d. 1-17-2008
actor: "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts"; "Arthur Godfrey Time"
02-18-1922 - Ruth Dean Rickaby - d. 10-26-1973
actor: "The Lone Ranger"
02-18-1924 - Sam Rolfe - NYC - d. 7-10-1993
writer, creator: "Suspense"; "Have Gun, Will Travel"
02-18-1925 - George Kennedy - NYC
actor: "Suspense"; "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
02-18-1930 - John Patton, Jr. - Garland City, AR - d. 4-18-2005
tenor: Hosted a popular radio program in Los Angeles
02-18-1931 - Ned Sherrin - Somerset, England - d. 10-1-2007
broadcaster; producer: "Loose Ends"; "Counterpoint"
02-18-1933 - Mary Ure - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 4-3-1975
actor: Won the Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award for Radio Drama acting in
1954.
02-18-1944 - George American Horse
actor: "We Hold These Truths"
02-18-1944 - Michael Riordan - Montreal, Canada
writer: "The Other Cheek"
02-18-1951 - Mark Higgins - Milwaukee, WI
actor: Santa Claus "Billie the Brownie"
February 18th deaths
01-31-1904 - Cliff Nazarro - New Haven, CT - d. 2-18-1961
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
02-01-1903 - Donald Thompson - Albia, IA - d. 2-18-1989
actor/announcer: "The Right to Happiness"; "Those Happy Gilmans"
02-09-1914 - Bob Hite - Decatur, IN - d. 2-18-2000
announcer: "Challenge of the Yukon"; "Green Hornet"; "Casey, Crime
Photographer"
03-14-1919 - Harry Caray - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-18-1998
baseball announcer: St. Louis Cardinals; Chicago Cubs
03-16-1908 - Robert Rossen - NYC - d. 2-18-1966
film director: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
04-23-1895 - Ngaio Marsh - Christchurch, New Zealand - d. 2-18-1982
author: "Final Curtain"
05-03-1911 - Yank Lawson - Trenton, MO - d. 2-18-1995
trumpet: "The Bob Crosby Show"
05-27-1902 - Cedric Adams - Magnolia, MN - d. 2-18-1961
commentator: In 1953 filled in for Arthur Godfrey for 13 weeks
05-31-1938 - Johnny Paycheck - Greenfield, OH - d. 2-18-2003
country singer: "Country Sessions"
06-07-1917 - Kathleen Hite - d. 2-18-1989
writer: "Sam Spade"; "Escape"; "Gunsmoke"; "Rogers of the Gazette";
"Romamce"
06-16-1919 - Mason Jones - Hamilton, NY - d. 2-18-2009
horn player: Philadelphia Orchestra
07-07-1914 - Robert Luff - Bedford, England - d. 2-18-2009
impresario: produced series of weekly shows for Radio Normandie
08-09-1894 - Kathleen Lockhart - Southsea, England - d. 2-18-1978
actor: "The Nebbs"; "Abroad with the Lockharts"
08-24-1903 - Claude Hopkins - Alexandria, VA - d. 2-18-1984
bandleader: "Jubilee"; "Let's Go Nightclubbing"
10-06-1917 - Rosella Qualey - Donnelly, MN - d. 2-18-2007
home economist: KWLM-FM Willmar, Minnesota
10-13-1931 - Eddie Mathews - Texarkana, TX - d. 2-18-2001
baseball player: "Baseball: An Action History"
10-28-1902 - Catherine Shepherd - Zimbabwe - d. 2-18-1976
writer: "The Golden Cockerel"
11-03-1928 - Dick Bennick - North Carolina - d. 2-18-1995
worked as an advertising director for a Florida radio station
12-11-1894 - Eddie Dowling - Woonsocket, RI - d. 2-18-1976
host: "We, the People"; "Ziegfeld Follies of the Air"
12-21-1872 - Albert Payson Terhune - Newark, NJ - d. 2-18-1942
dog expert: "Dog Dramas"
12-22-1947 - Brian Daley - Rockleigh, NJ - d. 2-18-1996
writer: "Star Wars"; "Empire Strikes Back"; "Return of the Jedi"
12-25-1889 - Nat Shilkret - Queens, NY - d. 2-18-1982
conductor: "Eveready Hour"; "Music That Satisfies"; "Palmolive Beauty
Box Theatre"
Ron
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:11:47 -0500
From: "Jan" <janbach@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Gunsmoke
Hello again --
I pulled out my old recording of Gunsmoke's "The New Hotel" and found
nothing strange about it, nor did it seem strange the first time I heard it
several years ago. I'm sure the other OTRers out there are correct -- it was
a rehearsal recording, and from the description given, it was a lot better
and more amusing than the scripted version. I'd love to have a copy of it!
Can anyone contact me off-list and "Let's Make a Deal" (oops -- I'm not
supposed to mention programs on that "other" broadcast medium!)?
yOurs TRuly
Jan Bach
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:12:29 -0500
From: "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: more on the 8000 AFRS ETs discovered recently
here is another article:
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Here are some pix, I believe I counted 13. The arrow to advance is very
light grey and very small, lower left corner under the pix. I almost
didn't find it.
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Here is a brief quote and my response:
"I assumed (the collection) was probably pretty rare, and that it's, I
think, almost a complete history of the early years of Armed Forces
Radio," Denfeld said. "It's just hard to find, when you're looking at
history, the complete history."
This person has never read Mckenzie's Book on the AFRS programs.
"In fact, it's possible the boxes contain recordings that haven't
survived anywhere else."
Yes, maybe so, but not very likely given how common AFRS library records
are.
"Our whole mission is to prevent unauthorized audiences from getting
those materials, so the last thing we want to do is have anything show
up on e-Bay so people can buy it because it's [removed] government property,"
Sichter said. "But as the years have regressed there's a resurgence in
interest in the catalog that Armed Forces Radio Service had. So what
we're dedicated to, here now, is preserving the catalog."
Right. Never saw an AFRS ET on ebay. Not once. Nope. (no further comment
needed)
Preserve the catalog? Yes, you do that. I'd be happy with the records.
joe salerno
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