Subject: [removed] Digest V2002 #56
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Date: 2/13/2002 9:03 AM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2002 : Issue 56
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Bishop Sheen                          [ Herb Harrison <herbop@[removed] ]
  Today in radio history                [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  "Music and the Spoken Word"           [ leemunsick@[removed] ]
  the 2 Bob Claytons                    [ "Dave Walter" <fredallenfan@hotmail ]
  Clyde Beatty Show                     [ " Dial" <epminney@[removed]; ]
  ranger lunch box                      [ "Ed Carr" <edcarr@[removed]; ]
  Lone Ranger question                  [ "Ryan Osentowski" <rosentowski@neb. ]
  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ lois@[removed] ]
  Today in radio history                [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Radio in the 1950s                    [ otrbuff@[removed] ]

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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:20:03 -0500
From: Herb Harrison <herbop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Bishop Sheen

I remember watching Bishop Sheen's program as a kid in Baltimore. MD.
He certainly had a presence on TV; I can still see, in my mind's eye, those
dark, piercing eyes.
I don't remember much detail of what he preached, but I remember his talk
as uplifting and positive.
A joke of his lodged in my mind <paraphrased>:
" I just flew from (somewhere) to (somewhere) and the flight was wonderful.
The airline was TWA. With me aboard, they could have called it 'Travel With
Angels'."



Herb Harrison

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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:20:43 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-net <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Today in radio history

  From Those Were The Days --

1924 - Calvin Coolidge, known by many as the 'Silent Cal', made the
first presidential political speech on radio. The speech originated from
New York City and was broadcast on five radio stations. Some five
million people tuned in to hear the President speak.

1924 - The Eveready Hour became radio’s first sponsored network program.
The National Carbon Company
took the honor of being the first sponsor of a network show.

1940 - Mutual Radio presented the first broadcast of the comic-strip
hero, Superman. The identity of the man
from planet Krypton was unknown to listeners for six years. The secret
eventually leaked out that Superman's voice was actually that of Bud
Collyer, who would later host the hit television program, To Tell the
Truth on CBS.

  Joe

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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:08:39 -0500
From: leemunsick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "Music and the Spoken Word"

I am a longtime fan of the Mormon Choir programs, properly titled "Music
and the Spoken Word".
Bill Murtaugh's recollections were great.  Knew all those names, now gone.

In the 1960s my job had me traveling all over the country.  Quite often I'd
be on the road all day  Sunday, driving to a new city.  KSL then fed the
real CBS network.  I automatically sought out CBS stations anyway, as I
drove through each station's listening area (undoubtedly Murtaugh's work,
although I didn't know it at the time!).

I could and often did listen to that day's Mormon Choir program 3 and 4
times, as different stations aired it at different times and came up on my
car radio.  Still great listening even with repetition, often even better
as one could listen again (and again) to a particularly favorite selection.

I wonder if Bill can tell us at what time the program was performed, and
fed to the web from KSL.  I suspect it must have been Saturday night.

Here in South Side Virginia, the program is not carried on CBS/Westwood
One/Viacom/YouNameIt.  It is carried on the Virginia Tech/NPR station WVTF
(FM) at 7:30 [removed] Sundays.  That would be 5:30 [removed] at KSL, I think, and I
kind of doubt that's when they did it, thus my guess at Saturday.

They're now in their 70-somethingth year, well over 3000 programs.  And
still going great!  It's amazing how all those 90+ year-olds can still
sing!  Ahem!  Amen!

Thanks Bill and Jan.

Lee Munsick	That Godfrey Guy

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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:32:53 -0500
From: "Dave Walter" <fredallenfan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: the 2 Bob Claytons

Tom Heathwood writes:

Despite his correction of my announcement of the passing of Bob Clayton, I must
respectfully correct my good friend, Russ Butler.  Bob Clayton of WHDH radio
fame never worked as a TV host on CONCENTRATION.  There was another Bob Clayton
who had worked as Hugh Downs' announcer, and he became the second host and
later the host for 4 years on the show.
Not nit-picking Russ, but we want to keep our departed friend's history
correct.

I have since received off-list confirmation from Dixon Hayes, who maintains 
a "Hollywood Squares" fan website and is an authority of sorts on TV game 
shows, as well as others who subscribe to the digest, that the Bob Clayton 
who replaced Hugh Downs on "Concentration" went on to become Dick Clark's 
announcer on "Pyramid" and died of a heart attack in 1979. And, indeed, he 
was not the one who was on Boston radio for so long.

While we're keeping things corrected, it should probably be pointed out that 
Clayton did not immediately replace Downs on "Concentration," as Downs left 
that show in 1965 and was immediately replaced by Jack Barry, in what I 
believe was his first crack back into network television after the scandal 
surrounding "Twenty-One." Other hosts included Art James, Bill Mazer and Ed 
McMahon (weren't Mazer and McMahon also on NBC Radio's "Monitor" concurrent 
with their "Concentration" stints?) before Bob Clayton took over in 
September 1968 for the last 3-1/2 years of the original NBC-TV run.

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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:04:57 -0500
From: " Dial" <epminney@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Clyde Beatty Show

I am interested in the Clyde Beatty show because John Dunningís
Encyclopedia says that Vic Perrin played the lead in it.  However, I
think I remember hearing this show a long time ago, and Clyde Beatty
actually played himself.  Does anyone have any recollections of this
show?
Thanks ñ Elizabeth Minney

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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:56:56 -0500
From: "Ed Carr" <edcarr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: ranger lunch box

hi
anyone interested in the [removed] lunch box? $10 ea, includes post
ed

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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:57:18 -0500
From: "Ryan Osentowski" <rosentowski@[removed];
To: "old time radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Lone Ranger question

Hi all:
I ordered a couple of Lone Ranger box sets from Radio Spirits.  In one of
them, there are a couple of shows where Brace Beamer does not play the Lone
Ranger.  Now, are my ears deceiving me, or is that a younger Mr. Beamer as
the narrator?  Who played the Lone Ranger before him?  I did notice that
Tonto is the same.
I also notice the music is different.
Also, I know that Fred Foy is the best known narrator from the series, but
there were a few gentleman who narrated before him.  Can someone please tell
me the names of these different narrators?  Anyone who knows me on this
digest knows that one of my pet gripes about the radio series was the
overuse of Mr. Foy's narrative abilities as the series aged.  He was and is
a very talented speaker, but sometimes, his narrations were used when
character dialogue, sound effects and such could have told the story just as
well.
RyanO

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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 04:52:01 -0500
From: lois@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

A weekly [removed]

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and widow of actor Howard Culver

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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:01:06 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-net <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Today in radio history

  From Those Were The Days --

1947 - Family Theatre was heard for the first time on Mutual. Jim Ameche
and Loretta Young starred in the program's first episode, Flight from
Home.

  Joe

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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:01:54 -0500
From: otrbuff@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Radio in the 1950s

One of the criterion applied in selecting topics for my books is to seek
niches that haven't been sufficiently filled previously.  This spring
McFarland & Co. expects to release one of these that will hopefully offer
a fresh perspective on the environment in which aural broadcasting found
itself in the 1950s.  It's titled "Say Goodnight, Gracie:  The Last Years
of Network Radio."

I've attempted to explore the dimensions that surrounded the decline of
radio between 1950-1960 while focusing upon some of the leading series
that continued to air in that decade.  There's an intensive look at some
innovative programming concepts heavily favored in the period including
adult westerns, science fiction, documentaries, police dramas and private
detectives fostering mature themes, novelty comedy introductions and
several major programming insertions like The Big Show, Road Show,
Weekend, Weekday and the most durable and influential of all, Monitor.
All of this is set against a background of events that impinged heavily
upon broadcast communications, including the McCarthy hearings and
blacklisting of performers, the Korean conflict and the Cold War, the
widespread introduction of the transistor radio and radio-equipped
vehicles among commoners, the proliferation of AM stations and the
influence of FM, scandals within the broadcast industry, the impact of
television, a demand by local affiliates for diminished network
schedules, the shifting fortunes of advertisers and stars into new
venues, and an unprecedented national prosperity that allowed the middle
class to dramatically alter its lifestyle, tastes and desires.

The book is chock full of photos of radio personalities from that epoch
and interesting details about the individuals and shows that millions of
Americans continued to turn to throughout that decade, even as TV
siphoned off much of the audience.  There's an appendix describing more
than 30 key players in network radio in the 1950s whose contributions
significantly influenced the outcome.

One of the gaps that the book purposely attempts to fill is to provide a
factual account of what has transpired in radio in the years since the
golden age.  As I researched it I could never find all in one place what
occurred in (and to) the major chains in the years from 1961-2001.  After
intensive investigation, now we will have a print record of "the lost
years" as a concluding chapter chronicles what became of the networks
that we counted on so reliably.  Yes, The CBS Radio Mystery Theater, The
Sears Radio Theater and other scheduling innovations attempted in that
era are included in the book.

McFarland & Co. is taking prepublication orders now ($35) for "Say
Goodnight, Gracie" or it will notify you by mail when the book is
available.  You can reach the publisher daytime at 800-253-2187 or
[removed].  A copy of the firm's spring 2002 catalog is
currently available and you'll find the new book prominently featured in
it.  A request will probably get you a copy of this attractive 48-page
compendium of upcoming releases, a large segment in the performing arts.
Hopefully the new text will supply answers to many curiosities about what
happened in radio as the golden age declined and in the years since.
It's an itch that needed to be scratched.

Jim Cox

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