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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2007 : Issue 346
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Re: Somethin' in the pot, boy! [ Al Girard <24agirard24@[removed] ]
12-10 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Buster Brown Gang's New Years Eve Pr [ KENPILETIC@[removed] ]
HELP - A dare for Night Beat [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
Dice Game and Jack Benny Show [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed] ]
Need another for "Eerie Stories" [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
A tangled Webb Yule actually might e [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 19:10:31 -0500
From: Al Girard <24agirard24@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Somethin' in the pot, boy!
Another great line that Jack Kirkwood used went something like this:
Someone in the cast: "Bob Hope's missing. How could something like this
happen?"
Kirkwood : "Oh I don't know . . . just lucky, I guess!"
Al Girard
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Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 23:24:31 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 12-10 births/deaths
December 10th births
12-10-1889 - Arthur Vinton - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-26-1963
actor: Killer Kane "Buck Rogers"; Commissioner Weston "The Shadow"
12-10-1889 - Ray Collins - Sacramento, CA - d. 7-11-1965
actor: Doc Will Hackett, "County Seat"; member of The Mercury Theatre
12-10-1903 - Una Merkel - Covington, KY - d. 1-2-1986
actor: Adeline Fairchild "Great Gildersleeve"; "Johnny Presents";
"Texaxo Star Theatre"
12-10-1906 - Harold Adamson - Greenville, NJ - d. 8-xx-1980
song writer: "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood"
12-10-1908 - Bill Spargrove - Belle Plaine, IA - d. 9-xx-1984
announcer: "Hollywood Byline"
12-10-1911 - Chet Huntley - Cardwell, MT - d. 3-20-1974
newscaster, producer: "Chet Huntley and the News"
12-10-1913 - Jean Dickenson - Montreal, Canada - d. 1-26-2007
singer: (Nightingale of the Airwaves) "American Album of Familiar Music"
12-10-1913 - Morton Gould - Richmond Hill, NY - d. 2-21-1996
conductor: "Music for Today"; "Original Amateur Hour"; "Cresta Blanca
Carnival"
12-10-1914 - Dorothy Lamour - New Orleans, LA - d. 9-21-1996
singer, actor: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Front and Center"; "Sealtest
Variety Show"
12-10-1919 - Alexander Courage - Philadelphia, PA
music: "Broadway Is My Beat"; "Hollywood Soundstage"; "Romance"
12-10-1923 - Michael Gill - Winchester, England - d. 10-20-2005
producer: Joined BBC in 1954
12-10-1960 - Kenneth Branagh - Belfast, North Ireland
actor: Renaissance Theatre Company in association with BBC Radio Drama
December 10th deaths
02-02-1901 - Jascha Heifetz - Vilnius, Lithuania - d. 12-10-1987
classical violinist: "Telephone Hour"; "Soldiers in Greaspaint";
"Concert Hall"
02-25-1932 - Faron Young - Shreveport, LA - d. 12-10-1996
country singer: "Town and Country Time"; "Country Style [removed]"
03-11-1900 - Andy Sannella - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-10-1962
bandleader: "Campbell Soup Orchestra"; "Gillette Community Sing"
03-14-1869 - Algernon Blackwood - d. 12-10-1951
author: "Escape"
03-26-1907 - Leigh Harline - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 12-10-1969
music: "Eddie Bracken Show"; "Ford Festival of American Music"
03-29-1916 - Eugene McCarthy - Watkins, MN - d. 12-10-2005
[removed] senator: "Meet the Press"
05-05-1899 - Freeman F. Gosden - Richmond, VA - d. 12-10-1982
comedian: "Sam 'n' Henry"; Amos Jones "Amos 'n' Andy"
05-08-1895 - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen - El Paso, IL - d. 12-10-1979
preacher: "Catholic Hour"
06-13-1894 - Mark Van Doren - Hope, IL - d. 12-10-1972
pulitzer prize winning poet: "NBC University Theatre"; "Invitation to
Learning"
07-15-1919 - Eve McVeagh - Ohio - d. 12-10-1997
actor: Harriet Beatty "Clyde Beatty Show"
07-19-1913 - Charlie Teagarden - Vernon, TX - d. 12-10-1984
trumpet: (Brother of Jack) "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
08-02-1892 - John Kieran - The Bronx, NY, New - d. 12-10-1980
panelist: "Information, Please"
08-02-1912 - Ann Dvorak - NYC - d. 12-10-1979 - d. 12-10-1979
actor: "Movietone Radio Theatre"
08-05-1915 - Peter Lisagor - Keystone, WV - d. 12-10-1976
chicago daily news [removed] bureau chief: "Meet the Press"
08-26-1907 - Jack Berch - Sigel, IL - d. 12-10-1992
singer: "Kitchen Pirate"; "Sweetheart Serenade"; "Jack Berch Show"
09-26-1908 - Sylvia Marlowe - NYC - d. 12-10-1981
harpsichord virtuoso: "Lavender and New Lace"; "Sylvia Marlowe and
Richard Dyer-Bennet"
10-04-1884 - Damon Runyon - Manhattan, KS - d. 12-10-1946
short story writer: "Good News of 1940"; "Damon Runyon Theatre"
10-13-1903 - Patsy Moran - Pennsylvania - d. 12-10-1968
actor: Martha Hoople "Major Hoople"; Hilda "Junior Miss"
11-01-1915 - Bob Garred - Walla Walla, WA - d. 12-10-1956
announcer: "The Stanford Hour"; "I Want a Divorce"
11-06-1887 - Walter Johnson - Humboldt, KS - d. 12-10-1946
baseball great: Play-by-Play Washington Senators
12-11-1914 - Marie Windsor - Marysville, UT - d. 12-10-2000
actor: "Escape"; "Suspense"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:37:11 -0500
From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Buster Brown Gang's New Years Eve Program
Hi Gang
I asked this before, but during the past few years many additional
collectors have joined this group, so I thought I might ask again.
Every year around New Year's Eve, Smilin' Ed McConnell told this same story
on his "Buster Brown Gang" program. The story had to do with a Grandfather
Clock which had a rotating disc instead of a pendulum. On this clock were
little statues that chased each other round-and-round.
These statues were actually characters in the story of witches, sorcerers,
magic, dragons, treasure, and soforth. The little boy in the story was the
hero and he had some kind of quest that brought him to a strange land where
the
story takes place.
The clock itself played a role in the story, and the story ends with all the
characters becoming part of the clock, and they were to chase each other
around the disc forever.
This was a strange story which I heard several years in a row. I did not
have a tape recorder then, so I could not preserve it for re-telling. I'm
hoping that somebody might have a recording of this broadcast. It's a very
good
tale, and of course the rest of the broadcast was also a classic. Froggy the
Gremlin and the rest of the Buster Brown characters played their parts as
usual.
If you have a copy of this yearly broadcast, please let us all know. It's
worth having in everybody's collection.
Happy Taping, Ken Piletic - Streamwood, Illinois and Alma, Arkansas
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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:37:34 -0500
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: HELP - A dare for Night Beat
In my quest for perfection, I need the date of a "Night Beat" Episode.
I have named it "Dollie Graham Framed" Dollie, in jail for
manslaughter, writes to reporter Randy Stone asking for his help to
prove that a car accident she was involved in, that caused the death of
Mrs Thompson, was not her fault. Mrs Thompson is the wife of Paul
Thompson is running for State Senate. Stone proves she was framed.
I have looked in several logs and have had no success. I know the OTR
collectors can find anything to do with OTR.
Frank McGurn
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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:08:47 -0500
From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Dice Game and Jack Benny Show
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I believe that some years ago I heard an episode of Jack Benny in which
someone (Rochester?) was playing craps (the dice game). I believe Jack used a
term for the game which involved the word dominoes and another word which
would not be approved of today. I hope this is not too obscure of a
reference, but does anyone know of such a Jack Benny episode?
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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:09:04 -0500
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Need another for "Eerie Stories"
Have a fifteen minute episode of "Eerie Stories" a syndicated from the
1930' S named "The Case of the Disappearing Professors" hosted by
Sidney Mason. The story is a weird guy kills 4 professors but keeps
their heads alive. Can someone furnish me a date?
Since there is only one episode is available we may never get a date.
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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:10:06 -0500
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: A tangled Webb Yule actually might enjoy
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Happy Holidays, [removed]
....and speaking of which, I noticed an irregularity concerning Jack Webb,
"Dragnet," and Stan Freberg in the book "Merry Christmas, Baby: Holiday Music
from Bing to Sting" (1993, published by Little, Brown and Company) written by
rock-'n'roll historians Dave Marsh and Steve Propes. Said book is a fun read,
but I personally did not care for an obviously off-the-cuff remark these
wise-guys authors hazarded.
On page 23, there is a sidebar/box titled "Ten Best Christmas Novely Records"
which lists as # 4:
"Stan Freberg, 'Christmas Dragnet,' aka 'Yulenet'" accompanied by the comment
"(Any record that p---es off Jack Webb has to be great)" [Please note: this
post-er was the one who euphemised the objectionable word in the foregoing].
I just don't get it. "Dragnet" authority Michael Hayde wrote in his excellent
book "My Name's Friday" [more disclaimers: I did some research on this volume
for my pal "Mr. Dragnet"] explains that Freberg received full co-operation
from Jack Webb for the first parody record "St. George and the Dragonet" and
that Webb gave it an enthusiastic thumbs-up to the point that the ordinarily
tight-scheduled Webb held up production so that the cast and crew could listen
to it
So, why would Jack Webb have any objections to "Yulenet?" But, then I remember
the last time I quoted Dave Marsh on this forum years ago. There had been a
thread about celebrities who were the sons and daughters of OTR actors.
Marsh's "The Book of Rock Lists" (c. 1982) had a similar list about "rockers
with famous parents," where he and his co-author Kevin Stein mentioned that
Billy Preston was the son of Ernestine "Sapphire Stevens" Wade from "Amos 'n'
Andy."
At the time, the indomitable Elizabeth McLeod dispelled that myth by saying
that what Preston meant when he said his mother "WAS Sapphire," was that she
exhibited the same traits as the character.
Therefore, I truly don't believe that the "Yulenet" record really p---ed off
Jack [removed], one never knows.
Takers?
Stand-by: here comes the inevitable joke: Maybe [removed] should've checked
"just the facts" about both Billy Preston and Stan Freberg. Not to do so is
plain ol' "dum-de-dum-dumb." But then again, most people call them "green
onions" when they're actually "scallions."
Yours in the wreath-er,
Derek Tague,
Mayor of Etherville
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