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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2009 : Issue 183
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: Victor Borge - an original        [ Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history            [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  9-27 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Jack's illness                        [ "Laura Leff" <president@[removed] ]
  Re: Rod Serling on radio              [ "Bill Jaker" <bilj@[removed]; ]
  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]

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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:08:23 -0400
From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re:  Victor Borge - an original

Irene Heinstein asks if I was joking when I said that in comparing Borge's
musical parodies with that of Alec Templeton that  "I've always wondered why
Borge had not been pegged as a copycat". I also am a huge Borge fan, and when
I brought up a stack of records for him to autograph which included his
earliest 78 albums and every other album he ever made, he delightedly called
his manager over to look at them.  But I also have Alec Templeton's records
from the 1930s which include a Mozart opera parody and other similar
interpolations of a common melody in the styles of great composers.

I know full well of Borge's performing history in Europe in the 30s under his
real name Borge Rosenbaum, and of his escape to the [removed] and start in our
country.  I even asked him about his early European career.  He had made some
records in Denmark but didn't remember anything specific.  The one I found a
few years after was a non-musical stand-up routine about going to a
restaurant.  There is now a Danish documentary about him on YouTube, and near
the end of part 1 they play a section of a record of him singing. At the
start of Part 2 they note that he introduced Phonetic Punctuation into his
act in 1937 and play a short recording of it in Danish then segue into a more
recent film.  They also show two excerpts from his Danish films, one scene
where he plays five pianos and another where he accompanies a whistler.
Funny, but not like the main thrust of his musical parodies and
interpolations he is remembered most for and were also the hallmarks of
Templeton's act.  A few minutes later they do mention that while he continued
to learn English, much of his early radio material on the Crosby program was
read from scripts written by his bi-lingual wife who "translated stuff from
his career in Denmark". The example they play has him mentioning the
inspirations of modern composers, and playing his upside Blue Danube Waltz.

So I am not suggesting that he WAS copying ideas and formulas from Templeton,
but that Crosby's audience was familiar with the similar things that
Templeton had been doing and now suddenly was someone else doing similar
things, and I am surprised that the idea of the similarity did not seem to
come up, or that nobody remembers if it did.

When I was in Denmark in 1983 I had a chance to attend his live performance
at Tivoli, the only one he would do in Denmark that year.  He laughed when I
reminded him of his one sentence in English about 10 minutes into the
performance in which he said that this would be the ONLY sentence in English!
But I wasn't disappointed, I told him, because I wanted to hear how he
sounded in his native language.  I could pretty much tell what he was doing,
but I wonder if routines like the restaurant one was also included.  I've
never heard him do something similar in English.

If you too are interested in how he sounds in Danish, take a look at the
program.  Part 2's URL is  [removed];NR=1 ,
and you can get to the other parts from there.

Michael Biel   mbiel@[removed]

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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:08:44 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history

 From Those Were The Days

9/27

1933   NBC debuted Waltz Time, featuring the orchestra of Abe Lymon. The
program continued on the network until 1948.

1938   Thanks for the Memory was heard for the first time on The Bob
Hope Show on the NBC Red network.

9/28

1936   Bachelor's Children debuted on CBS (at 9:45 [removed]) in addition to
its schedule on the Mutual Network (at 10:15 [removed]). The show's theme
song, Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, opened the 15 minute, critically
acclaimed, daily serial. Bachelor's Children became very popular because
of its natural dialogue which made folks think they were hearing a real
event. Bachelor's Children ... brought to you by Old Dutch Cleanser,
Palmolive Peet Soap, Colgate Toothpaste and Wonder Bread.

1939   The final broadcast of The Fleischmann Hour was heard. The star
of the show, Rudy Vallee, wrapped things up after a decade of
entertaining radio.

 From Those Were The Days

9/29

1920   Radios for 10 bucks! That's what Joseph Horne Company's
department store in Pittsburgh, PA was selling. The radios were
advertised in The Pittsburgh Sun for $10 ($[removed] in 2007 dollars) and
up. One could get a ready made radio in a box with headphones and tuning
knob. This way, one could do away with the Quaker Oats round box and the
cat's whisker wire.

1930   "This is Lowell Thomas." Those words were spoken for the first
time as a young Lowell Thomas made his debut on CBS. He replaced Floyd
Gibbons on the nightly (6:45 [removed]), 15 minute newscast. Thomas, who
started as a reporter for the New York Daily News (at age 19), was heard
on the radio for the next 46 years.

1930   "Ba, ba, ba, boo. I will, ba ba ba boo ... marry you!" Bing
Crosby, America's premier crooner for decades, married Dixie Lee.

1940   Double or Nothing was first heard on Mutual. Each time
contestants answered questions correctly, their winnings would double
from $20 to $40 to the big payoff of $80. If they gave an incorrect
answer, they were gone! Nobody bet on long how long the show would last.
Good thing. It kept going for a dozen years. Among the sponsors: Feen A
Mint, Chooz breath candy and Campbell's soup.

1946   Mystery fans remember when The Adventures of Sam Spade debuted on
CBS this Sunday night. (It had aired in the summer of 1946 on ABC on
Friday nights.) The Adventures of Sam Spade, with Howard Duff playing
Spade, became a big hit in the Sunday night radio lineup. And now a word
from our sponsor: "Use Wildroot Cream Oil, Charlie ... it keeps your
hair in [removed]"

9/30

1930   Death Valley Days was first heard on the NBC Red network this day
(and) became one of radio's biggest hits. The 30 minute, Western
adventure series starred Tim Daniel Frawley as the Old Ranger, Harvey
Hays as the Old Prospector, John White as the Lonesome Cowboy, Edwin
Bruce as Bobby Keen, Robert Haag as Sheriff Mark Chase and Olyn Landick
as Cassandra Drinkwater.

The tales heard on Death Valley Days were all based on fact and were
human interest stories revolving around the borax mining town of Death
Valley, California. The show was created by Ruth Woodman, a script
writer for a New York ad agency. She had never seen Death Valley; but
had found the vehicle to sell 20 Mule Team Borax. As time went on, Ms.
Woodman did make a trip to Death Valley. She went back again and again
after that, digging up facts for her scripts. She even met an honest to
goodness old ranger, Wash Cahill, who knew everyone and everything about
the mining town.

Death Valley Days was renamed Death Valley Sheriff in 1944 and The
Sheriff in 1945. And Ruth Woodman continued to write the scripts. She
even wrote scripts when Death Valley Days became a TV show. Buy some 20
Mule Team Borax in commemoration.

1933   The theme song was Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here and it opened
the National Barn Dance. The half hour country music and comedy show,
originally heard on WLS, Chicago since 1924, moved to the NBC Blue
network this night. National Barn Dance was broadcast from the Eighth
Street Theater in Chicago, where the stage was transformed into a
hayloft every Saturday night. The host was Joe Kelly. Uncle Ezra was
played by Pat Barrett who was known to say, "Give me a toot on the
tooter, Tommy," as he started dancing. A few of the other Barn Dance
characters were Arkie, the Arkansas Woodchopper; Pokey Martin; the
Hoosier Hotshots; the Prairie Ramblers; cowgirl, Patsy Montana; Pat
Buttram; Lulu Belle and the Cumberland Road Runners. Gene Autry and Red
Foley were heard early in their careers on National Barn Dance. Although
there were plenty of sponsors (Alka Seltzer, One A Day vitamins,
Phillips Milk of Magnesia), the National Barn Dance was one of the few
radio shows to charge admission.

1935   "Calling all [removed]" The Adventures of Dick Tracy came to radio
for the first time    on the Mutual Radio Network. Based on the comic
strip created by Chester Gould, the 15 minute adventure show was heard
Monday thru Friday at 5:45 [removed] The sponsors were Quaker Puffed Wheat
and Quaker Puffed Rice.

10/1

1942   People Are Funny went on the air with host Art Baker.

10/3

1901   The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated on this day.
After a merger with Radio Corporation of America, RCA Victor became the
leader in phonographs and many of the records played on them. The famous
Victrola phonograph logo, with Nipper the dog, and the words "His
Master=s Voice", appeared on all RCA Victor phonographs and record labels.

1946   Dennis Day started his own show on NBC. Dennis, a popular tenor
featured on The Jack Benny Show, played the same (type) naive young
bachelor he played on the Benny show. A Day in the Life of Dennis Day
aired for five years.

Joe

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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:09:06 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  9-27 births/deaths

September 27th births

09-27-1872 - Bentley D. Ackley - Spring Hill, PA - d. 9-3-1958
pianist for Billy Sunday: "Back Home Hour"
09-27-1883 - Rev. Dr. Frederick K. Stamm - Millheim, PA - d. 2-23-1961
pastor: "Highlights of the Bible"
09-27-1885 - Harry Blackstone, Sr. - Chicago, IL - d. 11-16-1965
magician: "Harry Blackstone, the Magic Detective" based on him.
09-27-1887 - Pat "Uncle Ezra" Barrett - Holden, MO - d. 3-25-1959
actor: "National Barn Dance"; Uncle Ezra "Uncle Ezra"
09-27-1892 - Ed Tomlinson - Stockton, GA - d. 12-30-1973
commentator: "The Other Americans"; "What's New in South American?"
09-27-1893 - Phil Cook - Coldwater, MI - d. 9-18-1958
comedian: "Radio Chief"; "Quaker Oats Man"; "Morning Almanac"
09-27-1896 - Buddy Pearson (Hyman) - d. 11-21-1959
writer: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
09-27-1898 - Vincent Youmans - NYC - d. 4-5-1946
composer: "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
09-27-1901 - Beasley Smith - McEwen, TN - d. 5-14-1968
pianist/orchestra leader: "Music In the Moonlight"; "Sunday Down South"
09-27-1903 - Robert O. Cook - Manitowoc, WI - d. 11-9-1995
Began his career as a sound man on a Hollywood radio station
09-27-1913 - Hugh Rowlands - Racine, WI - d. 1-5-1978
actor: Trigger Brett "Island Venture"; Jimmy "Tom Mix"
09-27-1915 - Cy Howard - Milwaukee, WI - d. 4-29-1993
creator, writer, producer: "Life with Luigi"; "My Friend Irma";
"Milton Berle Show"
09-27-1915 - Frank Gerstle - d. 2-23-1970
actor: "Escape"; "NBC University Theatre"; "Six Shooter"; "Gunsmoke"
09-27-1917 - James Andelin - Provo, UT - d. 12-27-2006
actor: "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"; Og, Son of Fire"; "Houseboat Hannah"
09-27-1917 - William Orr - d. 12-25-2002
actor: "Hollywood Theatre Group"
09-27-1918 - Barclay Allen - d. 12-7-1966
pianist/composer: "Freddy Martin, His Singing Saxophone and His
Orchestra"
09-27-1918 - James McCallion - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 7-11-1991
actor: Stephen Dallas "Stella Dallas"; Sydney Lawrence "One Man's
Family"
09-27-1920 - Jayne Meadows - Wu Chang, China
actor: "Hollywood Star Preview"
09-27-1920 - William Conrad - Louisville, KY - d. 2-11-1994
actor: Matt Dillon "Gunsmoke"; Louis Dumont "Jason and His Golden
Fleece"
09-27-1921 - Carol Thurston - Forsyth, MT - d. 12-31-1969
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-27-1923 - Mary McCarty - Winfield, KS - d. 4-3-1980
actor: "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
09-27-1925 - Burkett "Uncle Josh" Graves - Tellico Plains, TN - d.
9-30-2006
dobro player: (Foggy Mountain Boys) "Grand Ole Opry"
09-27-1927 - Red Rodney - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-27-1994
jazz trumpeter: "Saturday Night Swing Session"
09-27-1933 - Greg Morris - Cleveland, OH - d. 8-27-1996
actor: "Voices of Vista"
09-27-1934 - Claude Jarman, Jr. - Nashville, TN
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-27-1934 - Dick Schaap - NYC - d. 12-21-2001
sportscaster: "Sports Answer Man: "Sports Week"

September 27th deaths

01-03-1900 - Cecil Underwood - Vienna, MO - d. 9-27-1976
producer, director: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Great Gildersleeve"
01-09-1898 - Gracie Fields - Rochdale, Lancashire, England - d.
9-27-1979
comedian, singer: "Gracie Fields Victory Show"; "Gracie Fields Show"
01-12-1896 - Harry Reser - Piqua, OH - d. 9-27-1965
bandleader: "Cliquot Club Eskimos"
01-13-1914 - Stanley Waxman - Ohio - d. 9-27-1998
actor: "Escape"; "Man Called X"; "Tell It Again"; "Presenting Charles
Boyer"
01-26-1937 - Alison Steele - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-27-1995
disk jockey: "The Nightbird"
03-06-1885 - Ring Lardner - Niles, MI - d. 9-27-1933
writer: "Hallmark Hall of Fame"; "NBC Presents: Short Story"
03-27-1915 - Hugh Conover - Washington, [removed] - d. 9-27-1992
announcer: "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"; "Big Sister"; "Right to
Happiness"
04-09-1913 - Fay Helm - Bakersfield, CA - d. 9-27-2003
actor: "Shell Chateau"; "Cavalcade of America"
05-21-1904 - Robert Montgomery - Beacon, NY - d. 9-27-1981
actor: "Doctor Fights"; "Suspense"; "This Is War"
05-24-1907 - Bill Bouchey - Clare, MI - d. 9-27-1977
actor: Red Albright/Captain Midnight "Captain Midnight"
05-28-1919 - Ola Masters - Pambula, Australia - d. 9-27-1986
writer: "The Penny Ha'penny Stamp"
05-29-1909 - Bruce Seton - Simla, India - d. 9-27-1969
actor: Flint "Flint of the Flying Squad"
06-14-1904 - Karena Shields - d. 9-27-1972
actor: Helen Gregory "Tarzan"
06-26-1914 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias - Port Arthur, TX - d. 9-27-1956
all-around athlete: "Babe Didrikson Zaharia Sports Show"
07-29-1905 - Clara Bow - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-27-1965
actor: (The It Girl) "Kay Parker in Hollywood"
08-04-1904 - Phil Clark - London, England - d. 9-27-1985
actor: Mr. Keen "Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persosn"
08-11-1902 - Lloyd Nolan - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-27-1985
actor: Johnny Strange "Results Inc."; Martin Kane "Martin Kane,
Private Eye"
08-28-1925 - Donald O'Connor - Chicago, IL - d. 9-27-2003
comedian, actor: "Ginny Simms Show"; "Philip Morris Playhouse";
"Suspense"
09-18-1916 - Samuel Badillo - d. 9-27-1992
newscaster: WIAC San Juan, PR
10-04-1909 - James Webb - Denver, CA - d. 9-27-1974
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-22-1915 - Laurette Fillbrandt - Zanesville, OH - d. 9-27-2000
actor: "Girl Alone"; "Affairs of Anthone"; "One Man's Family"

Ron

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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:09:14 -0400
From: "Laura Leff" <president@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Jack's illness

Tom Barnett asks:
My question is - does anybody know what Jack was out sick with?

Pneumonia.  Very bad.  Spent some of the time in an oxygen tent.

--Laura Leff
President, IJBFC
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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:09:25 -0400
From: "Bill Jaker" <bilj@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Rod Serling on radio

	My thanks Martin Grams, Jr. for plugging the special OFF THE PAGE
program
about Rod Serling this Tuesday at 1:00 Pm (with a repeat broadcast at 7:00
PM) on WSKG Public Radio in Rod's hometown of Binghamton.  It will launch an
extensive commemoration of the 50th anniversary of "The Twilight Zone" in
Binghamton, Ithaca and elsewhere.  I believe that our program will be the
only event that will look with any depth into Serling's radio experience.
	I should add two more points (and I hope they make it onto the Digest
by
Tuesday):
	The program will also include an interview with the humble Mr. Grams
about
his new and encyclopedic book on "The Twilight Zone".  Also, WSKG is not
streaming programs live at this time, but the audio will be archived on our
website at [removed] and should be available within a day or so following
the broadcast and will remain on the website for at least the next couple of
years.
                                                    -- Bill Jaker

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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:09:30 -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," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The
Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."  Streamed in
high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
[removed]
=======================================

SAME TIME, SAME STATION

HARRY VON ZELL SHOW
3-18-46    Audition Show
NBC Sustaining
Stars: Walter Tetley And Frank Nelson
Announcer: Marvin Miller

THE WHISPERER
Episode 4    8-8-51    "Policeman In Danger"
NBC Sustaining Sundays 5:00 - 5:30 Pm
Stars: Carlton Young as Philip Gualt (The Whisperer) and Betty Moran as
Ellen Morris (The Nurse)
Music: Johnny Duffy; Organist
Producer/Director: Bill Karn
Writer: Jonathan Twice
The story of a man who leads a double life. One as a Lawyer and the
other as a Crime Syndicate Front.

TEXACO STAR THEATER
Episode 1  11-9-08  "Out Of Thin Soil"
Stars: The Dead End Kids: Billy Halop, Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan. Paula
Winslowe
CBS   Texaco
Host: John Barrymore
Cast:  Charlie Ruggles, Una Merkle, Ned Sparks, Jane Froman, Kenny Baker
Music: David Broekman and His Orchestra
Announcer: Jimmy Wallington
==================================

HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

BLONDIE
(NBC) 1948 "Alexander Joins The Circus" Penny Singleton/Arthur
Lake/Hanley Stafford/Larry Sims.

ESCAPE
(CBS) 11/26/47 "Country of the Blind" Paul Frees/Bill Conrad/Peggy
Webber/Harry Bartel. A classic.

BLACKSTONE - THE MAGIC DETECTIVE
(MBS/Synd) 2/13/49 "The Coin of Cleopatra" Ed Jerome as Blackstone.
====================================

THE GLOWING DIAL

Challenge of the Yukon - episode # 303  "Return to the Crime"
originally aired October 1, 1943 on WXYZ, Detroit, The Michigan Radio
Network
and via Transcription
Starring: Jay Michael as Sgt. Preston, Dewey Cole as Yukon King, Bill
Morgan announcing.
Sustained
Special Note: Audio restoration on "Challenge of the Yukon" was done by
Jerry Haendiges.

The Lone Ranger - "Trouble on the Railroad" aka "Trestle of Death"
originally aired January 27, 1939 on WXYZ, Detroit and MUTUAL
Starring: Earle Graser as The Lone Ranger, John Todd as Tonto, Brace
Beemer announcing.
Sponsors: Silvercup Bread (most of the [removed]), Gingham Bread (Western
[removed]), Merita Bread (Southern [removed])

The Green Hornet - "Death in the Dark"
originally aired August 31, 1946 on WXYZ, Detroit and ABC
Starring: Bob Hall as The Green Hornet, Rollon Parker, Lee Allman, Gil
Shea, Paul Hughes, Bill Saunders, Elaine Alpert, John Todd, Bob Hite
announcing.
Sustained

The Hermit's Cave aka The Little Theatre of the Air - "Spirit Vengeance"
originally aired between 1935 and the mid-40's on WJR, Detroit and via
Transcription
Starring: Detroit Acting Troupe "The Mummers".
Sponsor: Olga Coal

Show World - "Edward Everett Horton is interviewed"
originally aired January 8, 1940 on WXYZ, Detroit and The Michigan Radio
Network
Starring: Dick Osgood hosts, Edward Everett Horton is special guest,
Fielden Farrington announcing.
Sustained
Special Note: Audio restoration on "Show World" was done by Jerry Haendiges.

Challenge of the Yukon - episode # 304  "King Spots Murder"
originally aired October 8, 1943 on WXYZ, Detroit, The Michigan Radio
Network
and via Transcription
Starring: Jay Michael as Sgt. Preston, Dewey Cole as Yukon King, Bill
Morgan announcing.
Sustained
==================================

If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

      Jerry Haendiges

      Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
      The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
      Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
the Net

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