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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2011 : Issue 79
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Bob Edwards and Harry Shearer talk O  [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
  5-21 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 22-28 May  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  5-22 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 12:46:10 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Bob Edwards and Harry Shearer talk OTR

Folks;

   There's a mildly-complicated story about how I ended up with tape of a
conversation between Harry Shearer and Bob Edwards discussing Old-Time Radio,
but it all comes down to me being a real nooge pestering a producer. Senior
Producer Chad Campbell was awesome enough to provide to me the tape they
couldn't use in their radio piece about Harry's documentary about the
disaster aftre Hurricane Katrina, "The Big Uneasy," and it's posted on the
Nostalgic Rumblings blog at [removed] - you can listen
on-line just by clicking the play button on the embedded player, or download
the show to your MP3 player. If you subscribe to the podcast feed, you can
get these podcasts downloaded automatically.

   It was awesome fun to produce even a short segment of a Bob Edwards
interview; any flaws in the production mine, not the fault of the satellite
radio program.

         Charlie

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Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 12:46:19 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  5-21 births/deaths

May 21st births

05-21-1894 - Kenyon Nicholson - Crawfordsville, IN - d. 12-19-1986
writer: "Theatre Guild on the Air"
05-21-1901 - Fred Cole - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1964
writer: "Double or Nothing"
05-21-1901 - Horace Heidt - Alameda, CA - d. 12-1-1986
bandleader: "Horace Heidt Brigadiers"; "Pot o' Gold"; "Treasure Chest"
05-21-1904 - Robert Montgomery - Beacon, NY - d. 9-27-1981
actor: "Doctor Fights"; "Suspense"; "This Is War"
05-21-1904 - Thomas "Fats" Waller - NYC - d. 12-15-1943
pianist, singer: "Columbia Variety Hour"; "Saturday Night Swing Club"
05-21-1906 - Marie Joan Callahan - Chicago, IL - d. 8-6-1984
assistant director, director, producer and creator
05-21-1912 - Lucille Manners - Newark, NJ
singer: "Cities Service Concert"
05-21-1912 - Stephen Estaban Kelen - Budapest, Hungary - d. 5-1-2003
writer: "Fifty Years from Farrer"
05-21-1915 - Kathleen Cordell - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-19-1997
actor: Marion Burton Sullivan "Second Mrs. Burton"; Monica Brewster
"Valiant Lady"
05-21-1916 - Dennis Day - The Bronx, NY - d. 6-22-1988
singer, comedian: "Jack Benny Program"; "Day in the Life of Dennis Day"
05-21-1917 - Raymond Burr - New Westminster, Canada - d. 9-12-1993
actor: Lee Quince "Fort Laramie"; Ed Backstrand "Dragnet"
05-21-1918 - Anthony Alfred Ambrose - New Alexandria, PA - d. 3-16-2003
composer/singer: WHJB Greensburg, Pennsylvania
05-21-1918 - Jeanne Bates - Berkeley, CA - d. 11-28-2007
actor: Teddy Lawson "One Man's Family"; "Gunsmoke"
05-21-1920 - Bill Barber - Hornell, NY - d. 6-18-2007
jazz tuba player: "Claude Thornhill and his Orchestra"
05-21-1920 - James Plunkett - Dublin, Ireland - d. 5-28-2003
writer: "Dublin Fusilier"
05-21-1923 - Dorothy Hewett - Perth, Western Australia - d. 8-25-2002
writer: "Frost at Midnight"
05-21-1923 - Rick Jason - NYC - d. 10-15-2000
actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"

May 21st deaths

01-04-1907 - Floyd Christy - NYC - d. 5-21-1962
writer: "The Johnson Family"
01-14-1929 - Billy Walker - Ralls, TX - d. 5-21-2006
c/w singer: "Columbia's Country Caravan", "Country Music Time"
03-04-1913 - John Garfield - NYC - d. 5-21-1952
actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"; "Free Company"; "Treasury
Star Parade"
03-13-1913 - Rolf McPherson - Providence, RI - d. 5-21-2009
preacher: KFSG Los Angeles
03-22-1892 - Charlie Poole - Randolph County, NC - d. 5-21-1931
country music: "Charlie Poole and his North Carolina Ramblers"
03-24-1928 - Vanessa Brown - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-21-1999
panelist: "Quiz Kids"
03-29-1888 - Earle Ross - Illinois - d. 5-21-1961
actor: Judge Horace Hooker "Great Gildersleeve"; J. R. Boone, Sr.
"Meet Millie"
04-14-1904 - John Gielgud - London, England - d. 5-21-2000
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
04-16-1915 - Joan Alexander - St. Paul, MN - d. 5-21-2009
actor: Lois Lane "Advs. of Superman"; Ellen Deering "Philo Vance"
05-30-1911 - Douglas Fowley - NYC - d. 5-21-1998
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
06-04-1906 - Vinton Haworth (Hayworth) - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-21-1970
actor: Fred Andrews "Archie Andrews"; Michael Shayne "Michael Shayne"
08-14-1914 - Andrea Leeds - Butte, MT - d. 5-21-1984
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
09-04-1925 - Howard Morris - NYC - d. 5-21-2005
comedian: "Those Good Old Days"
09-09-1905 - Ulric Cole - NYC - d. 5-21-1992
composer, conductor: "NBC String Symphony"
10-06-1907 - Owen Davis, Jr. - NYC - d. 5-21-1949
actor: Allen McCrea "Those We Love"
10-07-1911 - Vaughn Monroe - Akron, OH - d. 5-21-1973
singer, bandleader: "Penthouse Party"; "Vaughn Monroe Show"
10-21-1908 - Tommy Riggs - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 5-21-1967
comedian: "Fleischmann Hour"; "Quaker Party with Tommy Riggs"; "Tommy
Riggs and Betty Lou"
11-02-1897 - Dennis King - Coventry, England - d. 5-21-1971
announcer: "When a Girl Marries"
12-23-1922 - Jack Lloyd - Duisburg, Germany - d. 5-21-1976
actor: "Armstrong Theatre of Today"; "The Joan Davis Show"
12-24-1928 - Norman Rossington - Liverpool, England - d. 5-21-1999
comic actor: "Big Jim and the Figaro Club"

Ron
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Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 12:46:32 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 22-28 May

 From Those Were The Days -

5/22

1955 - Jack Benny signed off his last first run network radio broadcast
after a run of 23 years.  The show continued in repeats for several more
years.

5/ 23

1922 - The first debate to be heard on radio was broadcast on WJH in
Washington, DC. The two debaters argued about the topic of Daylight
Saving Time with the audience acting as the judge.

5/26

1940 - "Invitation to Learning" was first heard on CBS radio. The
educational radio program ran for 15 years on the network.

5/28

1931 - WOR radio in New York City premiered "The Witch's Tale". The
program was broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System (of which WOR
was the flagship station) where it aired until 1938.

Joe

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Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 12:46:40 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  5-22 births/deaths

May 22nd births

05-22-1859 - Arthur Conan Doyle - Edingurgh, Scotland - d. 7-7-1930
author: Many of his works were adapted for radio
05-22-1879 - Alla Nazimova - Yalta in the Crimea - d. 7-13-1945
actor: " I'm An American"; "Towards the Century of the Comman Man"
05-22-1891 - Parks Johnson - Sheffield, AL - d. 10-4-1970
emcee, interviewer: "Vox Pox"
05-22-1898 - Charles Borrelli - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-26-1984
pianist: "Italian Sunday"
05-22-1903 - Ward Wilson -Trenton, NJ - d. 3-21-1966
actor, announcer: Mr. DeHaven "Aldrich Family"; Beetle "Phil Baker Show"
05-22-1906 - Harry Ritz - Newark, NJ - d. 3-29-1986
comedian: (The Ritz Brothers) "Hollywood Hotel"
05-22-1907 - Laurence Olivier - Dorking, England - d. 7-11-1989
actor: "Biography in Sound"; "Document A/777"; "Hour of Mystery"
05-22-1910 - Johnny Olson - Windom, MN - d. 10-12-1985
emcee, announcer: "Ladies Be Seated"; "Get Rich Quick"
05-22-1911 - John W. Neher - Shelbyville, IL - d. 3-16-1972
singer, actor: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Cavalcade of America"
05-22-1914 - Ken Powell - d. 3-11-1976
announcer: "Chick Carter, Boy Detective"; "Nick Carter, Master
Detective"
05-22-1916 - Rupert Davies - Liverpool, England - d. 10-22-1976
actor: "Afternoon Theatre"
05-22-1918 - Herb Arrasmith - d. 6-22-1985
disk jockey: KERN Bakersfield, California
05-22-1923 - Bill Andrick - d. 6-14-1981
disk jockey: WPAR Parkersburg, West Virginia
05-22-1925 - James King - d. 11-20-2005
operatic tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"
05-22-1934 - Peter Nero - Brooklyn, NY
socialite pianist: "Voices of Vista"
05-22-1938 - Susan Strasberg - NYC - d. 1-21-1999
actor: Emily Marriott "Marriage"

May 22nd deaths

02-01-1902 - Langston Hughes - Joplin, Mo - d. 5-22-1967
writer: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"
02-06-1914 - Thurl Ravenscroft - Norfolk, NE - d. 5-22-2005
singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
02-27-1915 - Donald Curtis - Cheney, WA - d. 5-22-1997
actor: Michael Shayne "Michael Shayne"
03-15-1909 - John Roeburt - d. 5-22-1972
writer: "Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator"; "Inner Sanctum
Mysteries"
03-27-1921 - Fletcher Markle - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - d. 5-22-1991
actor, director, producer: "Columbia Workshop"; "Studio One"
04-04-1902 - Bernice Berwin - Bay Area, CA - d. 5-22-2002
actor: Hazel Barbour "One Man's Family"
04-28-1938 - Connie Marshall - NYC - d. 5-22-2001
actor: "Hallmark Playhouse"
05-11-1892 - Margaret Rutherford - London, England - d. 5-22-1972
actor: "Wisdon of Miss Marple"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
06-19-1912 - Martin Gabel - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-22-1986
actor: John Wayne "Big Sister"; Gregory Hood "Casebook of Gregory Hood"
06-29-1907 - Joan Davis - St. Paul, MN - d. 5-22-1961
comedian: "Sealtest Village Store"; "Joan Davis Show"
07-04-1884 - George Trendle - Norwalk, OH - d. 5-22-1972
executive: WXYZ Detroit; Original idea for "The Lone Ranger"
07-10-1909 - Bernard Katz - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-22-1992
pianist: (Cousin of Mel Blanc) "Katz on the Keys"
07-12-1919 - Earl Blessey - d. 5-22-1990
sportscaster, disk jockey: WVMI Biloxi, Mississippi
07-23-1937 - Robert W. Morgan - Galion, OH - d. 5-22-1998
host (communicator) "Monitor"
08-12-1926 - John Derek - Hollywood, CA - d. 5-22-1998
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-30-1917 - Dan Enright - d. 5-22-1992
producer: "Put Up or Shut Up"; "Brain Train"; "Juvenile Jury"; "Life
Begins at 80"
10-13-1892 - Albert Sonn - d. 5-22-1968
pioneer radio personality "Man On the Moon"

Ron
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