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Date: 7/4/2005 4:18 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 201
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  7-3 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  REPS Showcase 2005. Thoughts and pic  [ John <origami@[removed]; ]
  Re: Drawing a Blanc/Bergen's lips     [ Jordan Young <jyoung@[removed]; ]
  Drawing a Blanc                       [ mlwallace57@[removed] (Mary L. Wa ]
  Candace and Charlie                   [ John Mayer <mayer@[removed]; ]
  CBS: On the Air 50th yr series        [ Lee Munsick <damyankeeinva@earthlin ]
  classic unit                          [ knight555@[removed] ]
  listen to the Paul Winchell radio sh  [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
  7-4 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Derek Tague On Mel Blanc              [ "Gary Dixon" <argy@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 15:27:02 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  7-3 births/deaths

July 3rd births

07-03-1878 - George M. Cohan - Providence, RI - d. 11-5-1942
composer: "Collier Hour"; "Ed Sullivan Show"; "Free Company"
07-03-1881 - Leon Errol - Sydney, Australia - d. 10-12-1951
actor, comedian: WENR Chicago
07-03-1890 - Herbert A. Bell - Rock Valley, IA - d. 1-30-1970
radio manufacturer: Co-founder of Packard-Bell in 1945
07-03-1899 - Herb Polesie - d. 6-8-1979
panelist,director: "Twenty Questions"; "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
07-03-1900 - John Mason Brown - Louisville, KY - d. 3-16-1969
host-critic: "Of Men and Books"
07-03-1903 - Wynne Gibson - NYC - d. 5-15-1987
actress: Amah "Thanks for Tomorrow"; Angie "When a Girl Marries"
07-03-1906 - George Sanders - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 4-25-1972
host: "High Adventure"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Cavalcade of
America"
07-03-1913 - Dorothy Kilgallen - Chicago, IL - d. 11-8-1965
commentator: "Voice of Broadway"; "Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick"
07-03-1914 - Gertrude Niesen - Mid-Atlantic Ocean - d. 3-27-1975
singer: "Songs by Gertrude Niesen"; "Good News of 1939"
07-03-1915 - Jerry Gray - Boston MA - d. 8-10-1976
bandleader: "I Sustain the Wings"; "Philip Morris Frolics"; "Club 15"
07-03-1920 - Louise Allbritton - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 2-16-1979
actress: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "This Is My Best"; "Cavalcade of America"
07-03-1930 - Pete Fountain - New Orleans, LA
dixieland clarinetist: "New Year's All-Star Parade of Bands"

July 3rd deaths

02-25-1913 - Jim Backus - Cleveland, OH - d. 7-3-1989
comedian: Hubert Updike "Alan Young Show"; Chester Fenwick "Sad Sack"
03-22-1920 - Ross Martin - Grodek, Poland (R; NYC) - d. 7-3-1981
actor: Soap Opera "Janice Grey"
03-27-1921 - Harold Nicholas - Winston-Salem, NC - d. 7-3-2000
dancer: (The Nicholas Brothers) "Big Broadcast of 1936"; "Ben Bernie Show"
05-07-1906 - Irving Reis - NYC - d. 7-3-1953
director: "The Free Company"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Brave New World"
07-28-1901 - Rudy Vallee - Island Pond, VT (Raised: Westbrook, ME) - d.
7-3-1986
singer, bandleader, emcee: (The Vagabond Lover) "Fleischmann Hour"; Rudy
Vallee Show"
10-08-1919 - Gabriel Dell - Barbados, British West Indies - d. 7-3-1988
actor: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"
12-22-1885 - Deems Taylor - NYC - d. 7-3-1966
commentator: "Deems Taylor Music Series"; "Prudential Family Hour"; "RCA
Victor Show"
12-24-1920 - John Barron - London, England - d. 7-3-2004
actor: "Dad's Army"; "Brothers In Law"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 15:27:43 -0400
From: John <origami@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  REPS Showcase 2005.  Thoughts and pictures

REPS is the first OTR gathering I have ever attended.  As a person nervous
about clubs and assemblages of any sort, I was suspicious of the great times
reported by attendees of various gatherings of this sort.

I was wrong.  REPS was an extraordinary experience.  Great actors (who are
also great people), great entertainment, a great learning experience-- all
that and a lot more.

I had the opportunity to meet several of the actors and to visit with them:
Hal Stone, Donald Buka, Esther Geddes McVey, Gil Stratton, Bill Brooks, and
others.

Yes, kind, thoughtful people.  For instance, Hal Stone, a real gentleman, I
observed escorting a sight-impaired lady through the Silent Auction displays,
describing them to her.  An additional kindness was his consenting to pose
for an update to the last picture in his book!  Oh, yes, to answer a
question, he can still do the Jughead voice as this short clip demonstrates:
[removed]

Yes, I took lots of pictures.  There was the constraint of no flash allowed,
and I compounded that problem by my carelessness in not adjusting always for
indoor/outdoor pictures.  But despite that, perhaps you will find some of the
pictures in this series worthwhile:
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Still in awe,

John Warmington

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Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 15:29:24 -0400
From: Jordan Young <jyoung@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Drawing a Blanc/Bergen's lips

Derek Tague

[removed]: Would Jordan Young or Mary Lou Wallace or one of the other Blanc
historians tell us the story how the song "Big Bear Lake" came about
and how he became honourary mayor of Big Bear Lake, California? Didn't Mel
write said song/

I'll defer to others re the history or Mel's mayorship, but -- it's 
unlikely Mel wrote the song. He's one of the writers credited with 
"Ugga Ugga Boo Ugga Boo Boo Ugga," but writer Eddie Maxwell told me 
Mel had nothing to do with it. (There was no [removed] with Eddie, the 
genius who wrote "Pal Yat Chee" and many other songs recorded by 
Spike Jones, and also worked on Mel's radio show among many others).

This of course was very common with the stars-- Jolson, Cantor, etc. 
Putting their name on the song as co-author--and cutting themselves 
in on royalties--was simply part of the deal.

You can see Edgar Bergen's lips moving in the early Vitaphone shorts 
he did, before he became famous on radio or appeared in features. So 
what? His characterization and portrayal of Charlie were brilliant. 
One of my prized possessions is a snapshot of teenaged me dummying up 
on Bergen's lap, in his Lake Tahoe dressing room.

Jordan R. Young

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Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 15:30:01 -0400
From: mlwallace57@[removed] (Mary L. Wallace)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Drawing a Blanc

In answer to Derek Tague's question regarding Mel Blanc's recording of
"Big Bear Lake"......yes, Mel did indeed write the song.  He had a
vacation home at Big Bear Lake and he told me that he and his wife
Estelle would sit on the porch overlooking the [removed] said it
seemed like every time he said would say something to her he would be
drowned out by the sound of the motor boats going by.  This inspired Mel
to write the song.  At one point Mel was the honorary mayor of Big Bear
Lake.

BTW, years ago I did correspond with somebody at Rhino (I think it was
Bill Inglot) and as I recall, they had tried to license Mel's recordings
from Capitol but nothing came of it.  I am excited about the cd but
there are other selections that I would have [removed], I
welcome any legit collection of Mel's recordings. Also, there are two
tracks ("Buzzy Bazoo" and "Barney Google") that, to the best of my
knowledge, have never been released!

Happy July 4 in the ether!

Mary Lou Wallace

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Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 15:31:28 -0400
From: John Mayer <mayer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Candace and Charlie

"A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed]; wrote:

Edgar Bergan once told a story of how he used to
sit with his daughter on one knee and  Charlie
McCarthy on the other, and the three of them
would sing songs together.  But Candace seemed
to be getting into it so much that he became
concerned about whether she  actually believed
Charlie was real.

There's a great episode of Benny's t*l*visi*n
show  in which he visits Bergen's home and is
welcomed by a young Candace around 8 or so. As I
recall - and it's been a very long time - Benny
becomes a little concerned over young Candy's
overly credulous references to Charlie and
Mortimer, fearing she actually believes they are
alive. Then they walk into the room.

A time or two, while _Murphy Brown_ was a hit,
Candace Bergen appeared on _Saturday Night Live_.
I always thought they'd missed a bet not
including Charlie McCarthy in a  skit with her.
Maybe, say, she's driving through skid row and
sees a dissolute Charlie leaning on a lamp post,
his top hat battered and askew, his monocle held
together with adhesive tape, clutching a
half-empty bottle of Pine Sol, suffering from a
hacking cough as a result of an infestation of
termites. She stops and there is an exchange
about how she's gone on to fame and fortune and
Chalie (along with her other adopted siblings)
has been forgotten. I daresay plenty of dummy
gags could have been gleaned from the original
radio show. If the show were done today a number
of timely political jokes could also be worked
in. I don't have a final punchlineŠ

But maybe there would have been trademark
problems - though I am under the impression the
right to lampoon trumps those - or maybe Lorne
Greene just assumed none of their youthful
demographic would have any idea who Charle
McCarthy was.

Say, does Ms. Bergen ever attend OTR conferences?
She'd be a natural, it would seem, with an
endless supply of OTR anecdotes.

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Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 15:31:57 -0400
From: Lee Munsick <damyankeeinva@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  CBS: On the Air 50th yr series

Hello anyone, here's Munsick again, with his hand out.

Thanks so much to those who wrote with information about the Tobacco
Distributors convention Como-Crosby-Godfrey outing for Chesterfield.  I do
truly appreciate the help.

I also am trying to obtain video copies of "CBS: On the Air", the seven-part
TV miniseries which aired in 1978 to celebrate 50 years of CBS broadcasting.
The second in the series was co-hosted by Lucille Ball and Arthur Godfrey.  I
definitely want to obtain that program, but would like if any way possible,
to obtain all seven of the programs.

If anyone can help me, please contact me off-list.  I will be happy to
reimburse for the cost of the copies.  Thanks so much!

1978 was 6 years after Mr. Godfrey had his last show on CBS.  He did not look
good, and both he and Lucy were showing their age.  I found the following
listing of co-hosts from [removed]  There were numerous other CBS alumni and
current stars involved as well.

Over-all Hosts:  Mary Tyler Moore, Walter Cronkite

Part 1    Jean Stapleton, Telly Savalas
Part 2    Lucille Ball, Beatrice Arthur, Arthur Godfrey, George Burns
Part 3    Alan Alda
Part 4    Cicely Tyson, Danny Kaye, Dick Van Dyke, Buddy Ebsen
Part 5    Richard Thomas
Part 6    Eve Arden, Bonnie Franklin, Linda Lavin, Bert Convy,
             Richard Crenna, Jim Nabors
Part 7    Carol Burnett, Isabel Sanford, Art Carney, Art Linkletter,
            Sherman Hemsley, Carroll O'Connor, Tony Randall

Gratefully yours - thanks for the memories - Lee Munsick

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Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 16:06:05 -0400
From: knight555@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  classic unit

just a heads up if anyone is interested.  i was just in Best Buy and they
had a combination console style cd player/cassette player/record player
(can't remember if there was a radio also), in a brown oak colored wood
case with a lift up cover (turntable was on top under the cover), made by
classic on sale for $79.   Seemed like alot for the money .  i've had
Classic products before and never had any complaints, frankly they take
more abuse than GE in my experience.   If i didn't already have a similar
unit (though mine is in a more modern console), i wouldn't have hesitated
to buy this one.  i have no idea if it is available through them on line.

MJ

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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 04:52:25 -0400
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  listen to the Paul Winchell radio show

If you'd like to hear a Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney RADIO SHOW, tune in
Monday midnight July 4th to 3 am Tuesday for "Don't Touch That Dial" on KPFK
[removed] FM. We'll play a "Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Show", "Suspense,"
the "Screen Guild Players" broadcast of 'Yankee Doodle Dandy', plus other
old-time radio shows.

>From 3 to 5:30 Roy of Hollywood continues with Old Radio Americana. Here's
his schedule:

3-3:30 Favorite Story (probably 1946)  'The Young Years'
Hosted by Ronald Colman, starring William Johnston and William Conrad.
A play about George Washington, the man as opposed to the legend, and
the favorite story of Ethel Barrymore.

3:30-4 Cavalcade of America   'Valley Forge'
Originally broadcast in January 1942.

4-5 Mercury Theatre 'Abraham Lincoln'
Story by John Drinkwater, starring Orson Welles and Agnes Moorehead.
Originally broadcast on CBS and CBC August 15, 1938.

5-5:30 Columbia Workshop, 'Brewsie and Willie' An  amazingly profound and
prophetic radio drama adaptation from Gertrude Stein's writings on two
American GI characters and the world of the '40's.  Originally broadcast
October 12, 1946.

The program is streamed live at [removed]

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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 10:25:44 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  7-4 births/deaths

July 4th births

07-04-1883 - Rube Goldberg - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-7-1970
cartoonist: "Famous Comic Artists"; "The Shell Show"; "Biography in Sound"
07-04-1884 - George Trendle - Norwalk, OH - d. 5-22-1972
executive: WXYZ Detroit; Original idea for "The Lone Ranger"
07-04-1885 - Louis B. Mayer - Minsk, Byelorussia, Russian Empire - d.
10-29-1957
film executive: "Good News of 1938/39"; "Songs By Sinatra"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
07-04-1888 - Henry Armetta - Palermo, Italy - d. 10-21-1945
actor: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
07-04-1895 - Irving Caesar - NYC - d. 12-17-1996
lyricist: "Biography In Sound"; "Perspective"
07-04-1898 - Johnny Lee - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-12-1965
actor: Algonquin J. Calhoune "Amos 'n' Andy"
07-04-1900 - Gertrude Lawrence - London, England - d. 9-6-1952
singer, actress: "Royal Gelatin Hour"; "Campbell Playhouse"; "Radio Reader's
Digest"
07-04-1901 - Adelaide Klein - NYC - d. 3-18-1901
actress: Mrs. S. Kent Wentworth "Life Can Be Beautiful"; Dragon Lady "Terry
and the Pirates"
07-04-1902 - George Murphy - New Haven, CT - d. 5-3-1992
actor, emcee: "Let's Talk Hollywood"; "Hollywood Calling"
07-04-1907 - Tommy Carr - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-23-1997
actor: Jerry Hall "Magic Island"
07-04-1909 - Al Jarvis - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 5-6-1970
disc jockey, songwriter: "Make-Believe Ballroom"
07-04-1909 - Fielden Farrington - d. 7-xx-1977
announcer: "Green Hornet"; "Just Plain Bill"; "Romance of Helen Trent"
07-04-1910 - Alec Templeton - Cardiff, South Wales - d. 3-28-1963
pianist, satirist: "You Shall Have Music"; "Universal Rhythm"; "Alec
Templeton Time"
07-04-1911 - Dwight Hauser - Idaho - d. 1-18-1969
producer, director: "Defense Attorney"; "I Fly Anything"; "Man from Homicide"
07-04-1911 - Olga Druce - d. 4-18-2004
director: "House of Mystery"; "When a Girl Marries"
07-04-1912 - Virginia Graham - Chicago, IL - d. 12-22-1998
talk show host: "Cancer Can Be Cured"; "Weekday Theatre"
07-04-1913 - Barbara Weeks - Boston, MA - d. 6-24-2003
actress: "Pulitzer Prize Plays"; "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"; "Romance"
07-04-1916 - Iva Toguri d'Aquino "Tokyo Rose" - Los Angeles, CA
disc jockey: (Little Orphan Ann) Zero Hour NHK Tokyo, Japan
07-04-1924 - Eva Marie Saint - Newark, NJ
actress: "As Easy as [removed]"
07-04-1926 - Mary Stuart - Miami, FL - d. 2-28-2002
actress: "Doctor Christian"; "Advs. of Maisie"; "Lux Radio Theatre"

July 4th deaths

01-27-1895 - Violet Heming - Leeds, Yorkshire, England - d. 7-4-1981
actress: Connie Wakefield "Right to Happiness"
02-11-1919 - Eva Gabor - Budapest, Hungary - d. 7-4-1995
disc jockey: "Little Night Music"
02-14-1912 - Tyler McVey - Bay City, MI - d. 7-4-2003
actor: Elwood Giddings "One Man's Family"; Tyler "Glamour Manor"
03-23-1916 - Grant Richards - Raleigh, NC - d. 7-4-1963
actor: Charles Dobbs "This Is Nora Drake"; Hal Thomas "Against the Storm"
03-26-1908 - Hank Sylvern - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-4-1964
orchestra leader: "Beyond Tomorrow"
04-17-1918 - Anne Shirley - NYC - d. 7-4-1993
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-26-1916 - Vic Perrin - Menomonee Falls, WI - d. 7-4-1989
actor: Ross Farnsworth "One Man's Family"; Sergeant Gorce "Fort Laramie"
06-10-1903 - Ernest Chappell - Syracuse, NY - d. 7-4-1983
announcer: "Fabulous Dr. Tweedy"; "Quiet Please"; "Big Story"
09-06-1902 - Morgan Beatty - Little Rock, AR - d. 7-4-1975
newscaster: "News of the World"
09-10-1934 - Charles Kuralt - Wilmington, NC - d. 7-4-1997
sportscaster: "Junior Sports Parade"; "Sports Final"
10-09 1933 - Judy Tyler - Milwaukee, WI - d. 7-4-1957
actress: Princess Summer-Fall-Winter-Spring "Howdy Doody"
10-31-1901 - Eric Hatch - d. 7-4-1973
commentator: "Cresta Blanca Carnival of Music"
12-15-1907 - Bob Hawk - Creston, IA - d. 7-4-1989
quizmaster: "Take It or Leave It"; "Thanks to the Yanks"; "Bob Hawk Show"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 10:26:41 -0400
From: "Gary Dixon" <argy@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Derek Tague On Mel Blanc
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While Derek Tague's enthusiasm for the upcoming Mel Blanc set is certainly
[removed]'s almost as if he's got a COLLECTORS CHOICE business
connection?  Just because CC puts out one set doesn't necessarily mean that
more Mel Blanc compiliations are on the way?  [You aren't a spy for the
[removed] you, Derek?]..

What I've never been able to figure out is why Capitol Records NEVER reissued
all those terrific Mel Blanc Childrens stories that many of us grew up with?
These were the ones that were originally issued on 78rpm---10" [removed]
then were briefly available (through a company called WONDERLAND Records) on
33 1/3---12" discs.  Mel Blanc (along with June Foray, Arthur Q. Bryan, and
many other terrific OTR actors) did fantastic voices on these 8-10 minute
stories. [I played BUGS BUNNY IN STORYLAND and BUGS BUNNY & THE BEANSTALK till
they were too scratchy to listen to].

[removed] same stories work remarkably well today.  And they're not
loaded with "smart-ass" voiceover talent who feel that 4-letter words are
suitable for 3 and 4 year olds.

[removed]

If COLLECTORS CHOICE really wants to sell a bunch of Mel Blanc
[removed] some of these stories.

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