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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2013 : Issue 43
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
cimmeron rolls. [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
Cimerron rolls [ "danhughes@[removed]" <danhughes@jun ]
Cimarron Roll Program revealed! [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
JACK BENNY: CIMMERON ROLLS! [ "Len K." <ljk2476@[removed]; ]
Cimmaron Rolls are REAL [ Tom Barnett <[removed]@earthlink. ]
Cimmeron Rolls [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
Old Sports Broadcasts [ "Don A. Holshuh" <marathondon@[removed] ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
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ADMINISTRIVIA:
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:23:22 -0400
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: cimmeron rolls.
Bryan Jensen Wants to know about Cimmeron Roll Jack Benny's Program on 3/22/53
Only Jack Benny could get away with very simple program as taking "A
wolk through Beverly Hills" on March 23, 1953. Just strolling and taking
to himself, and meeting various people along the way. He ends up in a
bakery buyin donuts, a cake and Cinnamon Rolls, but the baker calls then
cimmeron rolls. When Jack call them Cimmeron the baker calles them
Cinnamon. Got lots of laughs.
Jack bought some donuts going to put a candle on one for tomarrow is
Rochester's Birthday.
A joke that I didn't remember, and maybe a lot of listeners may have
not understood. Jack was selecting rolls and cake and said he would like
some Napoleons, The baker says they are Josephine s, because they are
Danish.
As I remember when there was a sucessful sex change operation from male
to Female in Denmark
Frank McGurn
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:28:29 -0400
From: "danhughes@[removed]" <danhughes@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Cimerron rolls
If I'm not mistaken, it was Dennis Day who called them Cimmeron Rolls.
Don Fisher
Don, not Dennis Day. It was Mel Blanc as the clerk/proprietor of the bakery
where Jack was shopping.
---Dan
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:28:45 -0400
From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Cimarron Roll Program revealed!
After exhaustive research (five minutes on the internet) I found the
Cimarron Rolls sketch on Jack Benny. Date: 3-22-53. One subtitle: "Jack
takes a walk through Beverly Hills." And yes, it was Mel Blanc, and no, it
wasn't Dennis Day (unless he was imitating Mel, which he probably could do)
Jan Bach
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:29:05 -0400
From: "Len K." <ljk2476@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: JACK BENNY: CIMMERON ROLLS!
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It's been some years since I've heard some of the "Cimmeron Rolls" routines on
THE JACK BENNY SHOW, but the shows I remember hearing featured Mel Blanc as a
"delivery boy" who drives Jack nuts (naturally) by mispronouncing "cinnamon."
The capper to the routine was that Jack later found out that the doughnuts,
sweet rolls and bread were made by "the Cimmeron Baking Company"! My best
guess (because I can't access any of my old cassette tapes right now) is that
these shows were from the very late '40s or early '50s.
If all goes well, my co-writer Kristin Dewey and I will have our long-running
book project on CHANDU THE MAGICIAN finished later this year. A few years ago,
I picked up a photo of the CHANDU radio cast from about 1933. There are about
4 actors and actresses we can't identify. (Raymond R. Morgan confirmed our
identifying the rest of them, though.) Any experts out there on spotting 1930s
radio actors out there? If so, we could use your help. - Lenny Kohl
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:29:32 -0400
From: Tom Barnett <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Cimmaron Rolls are REAL
Maybe someone can help me out with the specifics, but I thought in a Jack
Benny Show from the 1950s they settled the Cimmarron and it went somehting
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Mary: Wait a minute, Jack, he's right!
Jack: What?
Mary: It's on the label. [Marry reading label on box] These Cimmaron Rolls
are named for the baker Mr. [removed] Cimmaron and should not be confused with
ordinary cinnamon rolls which are made from entirely different 'ingredi-mints'
TB
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:29:55 -0400
From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Cimmeron Rolls
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 12:41:31 -0400
From: "Don Fisher" <dfisher052@[removed];
If I'm not mistaken, it was Dennis Day who called them Cimmeron Rolls.
The times I've heard the gag, it was Mel Blanc. I don't know the
episode, but I heard the excerpt in an LP record of Jack Benny Program
excerpts. A delivery person played by Mel Blanc arrives from the baker
with the cimmeron rolls that Jack ordered. Jack gets all upset about
his calling them "cimmeron" instead of "cinamon." At some point in the
conversation, the delivery person says "ingredaments." This certainly
sounds to me like the start of the running gag.
In another show from the early 1950s, Jack starts reading a science
fiction book at the library and imagines himself to be Commander Buzz
Corry of "Space Patrol." After landing on Mars, Jack and Mary meet a
Martian, played by Mel Blanc. Jack asks what Martians eat, and the
Martian lists a few things and adds, "and cimmeron rolls."
So I think it was probably one or another Mel Blanc character that said
it mostly. Since it was a running gag, I wouldn't be at all surprised
if other characters said it occasionally.
--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed]| 92 State Street| Suite 700| Boston, MA 02109-2004
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:31:01 -0400
From: "Don A. Holshuh" <marathondon@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Old Sports Broadcasts
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In October 1967 I was a student at Seaford College in Sussex, England. When I
learned my beloved Boston Red Sox were in the World Series featuring my
favorite player, Triple Crown winner Carl Yastrzemski, I listened on a
transistor radio while sitting on a rooftop to play-by-play being broadcast
over the Armed Forces Radio Network presumably from Germany. Through a
microphone placed in front of the radio speaker, I recorded the seventh game.
The broadcasters were none other than Harry Caray and Pee Wee Reese. I saved
the reel to reel recordings and recently had a sound engineer who worked for
one of the major networks covering the Sydney Olympics perform his magic and
place the recording on compact discs. He searched to see if there were any
similar recordings and was unable to locate any recording of the seventh game
of the 1967 World Series. He even told me there is a repository of baseball
games called by Harry Caray but it did not include the seventh game of the
1967 World Series. Sadly, especially for Red Sox fans, my recording lacks the
bottom of the eighth-inning when the Red Sox actually scored one of their two
runs off Bob Gibson. Apparently, I was changing reels. I have often thought of
sending a copy to my hero, Carl Yastrzemski. Perhaps I will for his 80th
birthday in 2019. I have often wondered if there is any interest in this
recording.
Don A. Holshuh
Addendum: The wonders of the Internet! While researching and debating about
whether to send this post, I have discovered a website that offers many old
sports broadcasts including the seventh game of the 1967 World Series with
announcers Harry Caray and Pee Wee Reese. For those that are interested the
website is:
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:35:49 -0400
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," John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane
Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios," Charlie St George's "Make Believe
Ballroom Time" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics." Streamed in
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS
*Baseball's Back!*
PAT O'BRIEN FROM INSIDE HOLLYWOOD
Episode 45 02-13-49 "Baseball Players"
Pat O'Brien tells stories from his own personal experiences
NBC Syndicated Monday through Friday
THE ADVENTURES OF THE SAINT
Episode 13 09-03-50 "Baseball Murder"
STARS: Vincent Price as Simon Templar
Writer: Dick Powell
NBC SUSTAINED
OLD FASHIONED BASEBALL CRACKER BARREL SESSION
1956
Features: Don Dunphy, Jerry Coleman, Phil Foster, Red Smith.
Announcer: Morton Lawrence
American Cancer Society syndication
SEALTEST VILLAGE STORE
Episode 90 06-12-47 "Girls Baseball Team"
Stars: Jack Carson, Eve Arden, Marion Morgan
NBC Sealtest Sleepware
TRANSATLANTIC CALL, PEOPLE TO PEOPLE
Episode 69 05-28-44 "Cricket In England, Baseball In America"
CBS In cooperation with the BBC
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE
THE ADV. OF RIN TIN TIN
(MBS) 11/13/55 "The Ambassador" Lee Aaker is "Rusty"
THE FAT MAN
(ABC) 10/13/47 "A Window For Murder" stars: J. Scott Smart
MARY NOBLE/BACKSTAGE WIFE
(NBC) 8/8/47 Mary & Larry are temporarily separated - upsetting Larry, Jr.
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
Our actor of the month is Elliott Lewis. This versatile performer acted,
directed and wrote during his career in radio.
This week we'll hear him in:
THE PHILIP MORRIS PLAYHOUSE from 04/01/49 Episode (022) Apology. Elliott
Lewis, Cathy Lewis, Alan Reed, Sidney Miller, Ken Crhisty.
The baseball season began this year on Easter Sunday, March 31. So we'll
look back at other programs which featured baseball as the topic.
"AUTHOR MEETS THE CRITICS" from 07/18/48 Baseball.
"COLUMBIA WORKSHOP" 11/24/42 from 09/28/46 Episode (033) The Day That
Baseball Died.
"WELCOME BACK BASEBALL" from 04/15/50 Second Annual with Bing Crosby,
Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, and Ralph Kiner. Brought to you by Wheaties.
To our knowledge the initial broadcast is not circulating.
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Episode 74
EDDIE HUBBARD & THE BROWSERS: BLUES OF "MAMA" AND "SAINT LOUIS"
On this episode of "The Browsers" two blues tunes take the spotlight.
One was by a performer who was a "curio" genius on the steel pedal
guitar, and the other was recorded by a big band legend while in the
armed forces. The "curio" musical magician performs "Mama Blues," and
the legend performs "The Saint Louis Blues March." Alvino Rey is the
performer on a novelty version of "Mama Blues," making the guitar
"talk." He became one of America's highest paid side men with Horace
Heidt, and later he was featured with the King Sisters with whom he
formed his own band in 1939. That collaboration later resulted in the
huge hit "Deep in the Heart of Texas." In the 1960's while performing on
ABC-TV's "King Family Variety Show," he was introduced as "Alvino Rey
and His Talking Guitar." Of course, the "Blues March" is one of Glenn
Miller's many hits and was recorded while he served as a Captain in the
Air Force. More about Glenn in a minute.
Recordings from the 1950's and 1960's are also featured in this
"Browsers" show. One song has the word "blue" in it, but this one is
definitely not a "blues tune." The Four Aces sing the ballad "It's a
Blue World," and The Gaylords sing the happy "Little Shoemaker." Jerry
Wallace performs 1964's "In the Misty Moonlight," and Pee Wee King and
his Golden West Cowboys perform "Slowpoke'" from 1951. In the 1950 film
"Summer Stock" we first heard "You Wonderful You," sung by Gene Kelly.
Back in 1944 Helen Forrest sang "Time Waits for No One," but a bigger
hit for that song was recorded 10 years later in 1954 by The Hilltoppers.
Older melodies featured in this 1999 broadcast include Tommy Dorsey's
"Take Me," Charlie Barnet's theme song "Cherokee," Etta James' "Poor
Butterfly," and the Harry James and Helen Forrest recording of ("It
Seems to Me") "I've Heard That Song Before," a song high on my list of
favorites.
Let's not forget about the trivia questions that the Browsers ask. For
example, can you name another band leader who recorded "Cherokee" (other
than Lund and, of course, Charlie Barnet)? After you hear Gene Kelly
sing "You Wonderful You" can you name other songs with the word "you"
mentioned twice in the title? Can you name 4 other vocal groups
contemporary with The Four Aces? Also, can you name artists who had
instrumental hits for "Poor Butterfly"? And name another hit by Jerry
Wallace, specifically one that had the word "Lane" in the title.
Concerning Glenn Miller most "codgers" know the story of his
disappearance during his flight to Paris. Perhaps not so well known is
the following historical record of Colonel Edward M. Kirby written for
the "Broadcast Pioneers History Project" in 1964:
Here is an American hero who went to his death because be felt he had to
have a "rendezvous" with the young generation who had listened to his
network shows, bought his records and made him an early millionaire. He
didn't have to go into uniform - he was 42, beyond the call to service
when he volunteered his service to the Air Forces. His band was
recruited from the top chairs of the leading name bands of the nation -
he had "Sergeant" Ray McKinley at the drums; Johnny Desmond, the [removed]'s
Sinatra; George Ockner, first violinist of the Cleveland Symphony; Mel
Powell, the pianist from the Benny Goodman trio ... plus sixty more
"first chair" men.
When it was determined to transfer the band from Bedford to Paris, in
December l944 Glenn Miller, in the tradition of a good leader, was
determined to go in advance to see that their billets, transportation
and facilities were suitable. On December 15, l944 he stepped into a
small plane to make his fatal, last flight across the English Channel.
He has never been heard of since, though his music lives on. From the
Queensberry Club, London, Jack Harding the manager, had this to report
to the allied audience:
When on Christmas day, l944, the dramatic message was received at the
Club that Major Glenn Miller was reported missing on a flight to Paris,
I witnessed the most spontaneous tribute in my forty years experience.
Unrehearsed and unasked, three thousand uniformed men and women in the
audience stood up together in silent sympathy for the loss of one who
did so much to provide entertainment when and where it was so badly needed.
The night before Glenn Miller left on his ill--fated trip, Lord
Queensbury gave a farewell dinner for him, and it was here that we at
last succeeded in getting him to speak. Like the man himself, the speech
was simple and direct. He said: "The Band and I tried to give the boys
and girls something they apparently needed. We have done our best and if
it brought them pleasure, then all this was worthwhile."
This Browsers episode appropriately began with Johnny Mercer's "GI-Jive"
performed by "The King of the Jukebox" Louis Jordan and his Tympany
Five, and the show ends with Glenn Miller's jazzy military version of
"Saint Louis Blues March." Glenn Miller's music truly did bring our
troops many hours of desperately needed pleasure. Now some 70 years
later his music still brings joy to America and to the world and with
that joy also comes America's pride in remembering his courage and
patriotism. Glenn, "worthwhile" doesn't begin to describe your legacy.
As always, special thanks go to Jerry Haendiges Productions for highest
quality reproduction from the original studio tape of this broadcast of
"Eddie Hubbard and the Browsers."
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Make Believe Ballroom Time
Episode 6
Today, BBSS is featuring Chuck Foster and his "Music in the Foster
Fashion" They are broadcasting from the Hotel New Yorker in NY City. The
New Yorker Hotel is located in Manhattan's Garment Center, central to
Pennsylvania Station, Madison Square Garden, Times Square and the Empire
State Building. An early ad for the building boasted that the hotel's
"bell boys were 'as snappy-looking as West Pointers'" and "that it had a
radio in every room with a choice of four stations" It was a New Yorker
bellboy who served as tobacco company Phillip Morris' pitchman for
twenty years, making famous their "Call for Phillip Morris" advertising
campaign.
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s the hotel was among New York's most
fashionable and hosted many popular Big Bands, such as Benny Goodman and
Tommy Dorsey, while notable figures such as Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford
and Fidel Castro stayed there. The New York Observer noted that in the
building's heyday, "actors, celebrities, athletes, politicians,
mobsters, the shady and the luminous-the entire Brooklyn Dodgers roster
during the glory seasons-would stalk the bars and ballrooms, or romp
upstairs".
Some say the Foster band copied the style of Guy Lombardo's successful
and popular Royal [removed] Reed player Chuck Foster began his career
as a bandleader in 1938, bringing the sweet (and sometimes syrupy)
sounds of his band to such sizeable venues as San Francisco's Mark
Hopkins Hotel and the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel's famous Biltmore Bowl.
With radio remotes routinely being broadcast from both locations, the
band hit its stride early and quickly achieved popularity with the help
of talented pianist Hal Pruden and a raft of popular vocalists.
The Foster band is appearing on BBSS in a remote broadcast from the
Hotel New Yorker in NY City. It's mid-August 1945 just prior to Chuck
Foster being drafted into the WWII military.
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If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.
Jerry Haendiges
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The Vintage Radio Place [removed]
Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net
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