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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 105
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Joe Feeney passes                     [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  Amos and Andy Sam and henry and othe  [ "Robert Acosta" <boacosta@[removed] ]
  4-25 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Re: Correll and Gosden in other role  [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
  the Hodges call                       [ Michael Berger <makiju@[removed]; ]
  Reveille With Beverly                 [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]

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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:18:50 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Joe Feeney passes

Joe Feeney, 76, has passed.  Best recalled as the smiling Irish tenor who
belted out favorites on The Lawrence Welk Show like "Mother Macree," "Be My
Love," "Danny Boy," "Sweet Leilani" and "Galway Bay," he died of emphysema
at a Carlsbad, Calif. hospice April 16.  A family member disclosed that
Feeney, a non-smoker, might have acquired his final illness from years of
exposure to second-hand smoke in clubs and casinos where he earned a living
supporting a wife, six sons and four daughters.

Feeney was a Welk regular for a quarter-century, 1957-82, after the station
manager at Omaha's WOW Radio sent Welk a recording of one of his station's
singing stars.  A native of Grand Island, Neb., born Aug. 15, 1931, Feeney
had sung on WOW while attending the University of Nebraska.  Welk liked what
he heard and invited Feeney for a guest appearance on his show in 1956 which
led to a permanent berth and international fame in a short while.

Feeney ultimately was invited to the White House five times to sing for as
many U. S. Presidents, to perform at Carnegie Hall on three occasions, sang
at Disneyland several times, and before Pope Paul VI in 1975.  He is still
heard and seen in Welk reprise telecasts on PBS stations.

Jim Cox

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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:18:27 -0400
From: "Robert Acosta" <boacosta@[removed];
To: "oldtime radio digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Amos and Andy Sam and henry and others
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Hello Ron and all,
I believe that Fremon and Charles played in a program called Calvin and the
Colonel in the early 60s.
Robert Acosta

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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:03:21 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  4-25 births/deaths

April 25th births

04-25-1874 - Guglielmo Marconi - Bologna, Italy - d. 7-20-1937
responsible for the first transtlantic transmission of radio waves in
1901
04-25-1887 - Charles E. Fuller - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-18-1968
preacher: "Old Fashioned Revival Hour"; "Heart to Heart"
04-25-1899 - Guinn (Big Boy) Williams - Decatur, TX - d. 6-6-1962
actor: "Biography In Sound"
04-25-1900 - Gloria Ann Simpson - Cleveland, OH - d. 10-21-1956
actor: "The NBC University Theatre"
04-25-1907 - Paula Trueman - NYC - d. 3-23-1994
actor: "Great Plays"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
04-25-1908 - Edward R. Murrow - Pole Cat Creek, NC - d. 4-27-1965
newscaster: (This is London) "Edward R. Murrow with the News"
04-25-1909 - Karl Farr - Rochelle, TX - d. 9-20-1961
singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) "The Roy Rogers Show)
04-25-1915 - Cliff Bruner - Houston, TX - d. 8-25-2000
fiddle: "The Musical Brownies"
04-25-1916 - Davy Kaye - London, England - d. 2-3-1998
british comic actor who worked in radio during the war
04-25-1916 - Irving Gaynor Neiman - d. 8-25-1996
began career by writing scripts for NBC
04-25-1918 - Astrid Varnay - Stockholm, Sweden - d. 9-4-2006
operatic soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"; "Operatic Excerpts"
04-25-1918 - Astrid Varney - Stockholm, Sweden - d. 9-4-2006
opera singer: "Operatic Excerpts"
04-25-1918 - Ella Fitzgerald - Newport News, VA - d. 6-15-1996
singer: "Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm"; "Jubilee"
04-25-1919 - Albert Aley - NYC - d. 1-1-1986
actor: Hop Harrigan "Hop Harrigan"; Bob James "Stella Dallas"
04-25-1921 - Robert Q. Lewis - NYC - d. 12-11-1991
disc jockey, comedian, host: "Arthur Godrey Time"; "Robert Q. Lewis
Show"

April 25th deaths

01-04-1911 - Fred Killian - d. 4-25-1994
producer, director: "Those Sensational Years"
01-09-1915 - Anita Louise - NYC - d. 4-25-1970
actor: "Stars Over Hollywood"
01-16-1907 - Alexander Knox - Strathroy, Ontario, Canada - d. 4-25-1995
actor: "Document A/777", BBC
01-19-1906 - Lanny Ross - Seattle, WA - d. 4-25-1988
singer: "Lanny Ross Program"; "Maxwell House Show Boat"
01-22-1878 - Constance Collier - Windsor, Berkshire, England - d.
4-25-1955
actor: Jessie Atwood "Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy"
02-09-1912 - Bob Armstrong - Buffalo, NY - d. 4-25-1994
orchestra director: NBC 1942
02-16-1896 - Alexander Brailowsky - Kiev, Ukriane, Russia - d. 4-25-1976
pianist: "Music America Loves Best"; "New York Philharmonic"
02-27-1923 - Dexter Gordon - Los Angeles, Ca - d. 4-25-1990
saxophonist: "Newport Jazz Festival";"White House Jazz Festival"
03-10-1905 - Richard Haydn - London, England - d. 4-25-1985
actor: Professor Lemuel Carp "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
03-15-1919 - Merv Baldrica - d. 4-25-2006
sportscaster: WMIQ Iron Mountain, Michigan
04-05-1928 - Michael Bryant - London, England - d. 4-25-2002
character actor: "Bequest to the Nation"
05-01-1924 - Art Fleming - The Bronx, NY - d. 4-25-1995
host/announcer: "When Radio Was"
06-08-1907 - Roy Lockwood - Bristol, England - d. 4-25-2002
director: "Valiant Lady"
07-01-1912 - Murray Matheson - Casterto, Australia - d. 4-25-1985
actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
07-03-1906 - George Sanders - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 4-25-1972
host: "High Adventure"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "[removed] Steel Hour";
"Cavalcade of America"
07-16-1911 - Ginger Rogers - Independence, MO - d. 4-25-1995
actor: "Star and the Story"; "Packard Hour"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
07-29-1911 - Florence Freeman - NYC - d. 4-25-2000
actor: Ellen Brown "Young Widder Brown"; Wendy Warren "Wendy Warren
and the News"
08-12-1916 - Dorothy Allen - Oakland, CA - d. 4-25-1996
singer: "Bob Crosby Show"; "Shep Fields Orchestra"
08-17-1907 - Bernard Schoenfeld - d. 4-25-1990
writer: "Brave New World"; "This is Our Eneny"
09-01-1900 - Don Wilson - Lincoln, NE - d. 4-25-1982
announcer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Good News of 1941"
10-01-1903 - George Coulouris - Manchester, England - d. 4-25-1989
actor: Hugh Drummond "Bulldog Drummond"; Frank Harrison "As the Twig
Is Bent"
11-02-1917 - Janette Davis - Memphis, TN - d. 4-25-2005
singer: "Arthur Godfrey Time"; "Avalon Time"; "Red Skelton Show"
11-15-1902 - Clyde Kittell - Sayre, PA - d. 4-25-1962
announcer: "Hello Peggy"; "Name Three"
11-19-1922 - Dick Wesson - Maine - d. 4-25-1996
announcer: "Space Patrol"; "Hollywood Open House"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:15:40 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Correll and Gosden in other roles

On 4/24/08 6:18 PM [removed]@[removed] wrote:

Just curious. Did Charles Correll and/or Freeman Gosden ever play
characters on radio other than Sam and Henry or Amos and Andy?

Well, between them they played over 170 different characters over the
first fifteen years of "Amos 'n' Andy." But as far as other programs go,
they're known to have appeared on Orson Welles' Campbell Playouse in
February 1939, in a production of "State Fair." Frustratingly, that's one
of the handful of programs from that series which has not yet surfaced.

They also appeared as themselves in a number of guest shots and special
charity programs. over the years, ranging from an appearance with Louella
Parsons on "Hollywood Hotel" in 1938 to the FDR Memorial program on NBC
in 1945. The latest such appearance I've been able to find is a pair of
National Brotherhood Week public service announcements from about 1950.

In their very earliest radio work over WEBH and WGN in 1925-26, they did
occasional little skits as "Gos" and "Charlie", two roaring-twenties
bachelors-about-town, as bridges between their novelty/harmony tunes.

Elizabeth

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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:49:56 -0400
From: Michael Berger <makiju@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  the Hodges call

The famous Russ Hodges call -- as Hodges himself recalled many
times on SF Giants broadcasts in later years -- was recorded by
a Brooklyn fan from his home radio. It was sold later to Hodges'
station, and the Giants' radio sponsor, Chesterfield, made a
disc recording of the inning and put it on sale in the following
months.

The 'background noise' referred to by an earlier post was
nothing other than the actual crowd noise at the Polo Grounds.

The Thomson HR can also be heard via a full game recording made
from the Liberty Broadcasting Network with Gordon McLendon doing
the call, and a recording of the ninth inning from the Dodger
broadcast that day by Red Barber.

Bob Costas did a great show years later that incorporated all
three calls into the story of that game and the race that led up
to it.

Michael Berger

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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:03:34 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Reveille With Beverly

Roby McHone of Alaska mentions "Reveille with Beverly" movie and
wonders why this radio series is not mentioned in Dunning.

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First of all, as it has been noted umpteen times on this Digest,
neither of Dunning's books, detailed and accurate as they were,
should be expected to contain every network and AFRS series. And they
do not. The closest we have, in terms of a complete summary of over
6,000 radio series, would be found in the most recent edition of Jay
Hickerson's "Ultimate History to Network Radio Programming"

Regarding "Reveille With Beverly," beginning in 1941, six days a
week, starting at 5:30 AM, Jean Ruth was at the microphone of
Mutual's KFEL in Denver, CO.  She had volunteered for this job,
playing popular music, initially aimed at the soldiers at nearby Fort
Logan. The immediate popularity of this show resulted in a TIME
magazine article on her (Jan '42)  and shortly thereafter she was
hired to  bring her show to KNX in Los Angeles. Within a few months,
AFRS began airing her show in 54 countries around the world. This
would  continue until 1944.

The 1943 mini-musical film starring Ann Miller had little resemblance
to Jean or her radio show, even though Jean was brought on as an
advisor. She did however convince the producers to cast Frank
Sinatra, an relative unknown in 1943, and she also got them to
perform every song in its entirety in the film, which was not
customary then.

After WW II, Jean continued in radio in Santa Barbara and for a while
was the voice of "The Pillsbury Homemaker."  She married attorney,
John Hay, and retired in Northern California. Jean Ruth Hay died
9-18-04. Despite the fact that AFRS transcribed her shows for nearly
three years, no audio copies of her programs are in circulation.
However you can hear excerpts of them at <http://
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Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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