Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #43
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Date: 2/10/2006 4:18 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 43
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Willard Waterman on Amos n Andy?      [ "Arthur Funk" <art-funk@[removed]; ]
  Tarzan's Yeller! (Well, "Host," actu  [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  Cliff Carpenter commercial            [ <vzeo0hfk@[removed]; ]
  regarding the Sousa inquiry           [ Joemartelle@[removed] ]
  Jack Benny's violin playing (Digest   [ Art Chimes <[removed]@[removed] ]
  RE: Benny's violin [removed]         [ "Kirby, Tom" <Kirby@[removed]; ]
  Country Music Historian Charles Wolf  [ "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed] ]
  Jack's Violin                         [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]

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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 19:30:49 -0500
From: "Arthur Funk" <art-funk@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Willard Waterman on Amos n Andy?

Hello, Fellow Listeners!

While traveling home from out of town yesterday I was listening to some A n
A tapes.  They were from January 1949.  On three of the four episodes I
heard a supporting part played by someone who sounded to my ear like Willard
Waterman.  However, he wasn't credited.  The episode with the most dialogue
involving the WW sound-alike was one in which the Kingfish was hearing his
conscience chiding him for scheming (as usual) to beat Andy out of some
green.

I wonder if anyone on the Digest can confirm that Willard Waterman did bit
parts on Amos n Andy.  These particular episodes would be the year before he
took over the Gildersleeve role.

Best regards to all,
Art Funk

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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 19:31:42 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Tarzan's Yeller! (Well, "Host," [removed])

From: "MICHAEL BIEL" mbiel@[removed]

I  will be forever sad that I never got to meet Lon Clark because I  started
going to Cincinnati the year after he died.  Everybody has told  me how nice 
he was

Dear Michael-

I had the  pleasure.

At about the time I joined the Episcopal Actor's Guild, Lon was  just 
stepping down from a long reign as boss. I saw him do a NICK CARTER  recreation there 
- with sfx by the estimable Barney Beck! Silly script, but a  heck of a fun 
production.

Around then, he also hosted a reading of a  potential COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO 
musical that The Wife was in, at the  Player's.

He was indeed a nice guy. As many of the board-trodders of his  generation, 
he was a bit florid of phrase, long of wind, and full of  "and  THEN, I 
did"[removed] but he truly seemed to be a Good Joe.

Best,
-Craig  

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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:24:11 -0500
From: <vzeo0hfk@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Cliff Carpenter commercial

Yes indeed -- as Sean reported, Cliff is doing commercials. The Lending Tree
one is national -- I saw it here in New York within twenty minutes of seeing
another one in which he appeared. Cliff was flown to California to do the
Lending Tree one.

Now that's my idea of a role model. Soon I have to find a job and keep
working into my nineties too! For one thing it keeps the grey matter healthy!

Howard Blue

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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:25:35 -0500
From: Joemartelle@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  regarding the Sousa inquiry

    regarding the Sousa inquiry and his recorded [removed]   according to
Sousa biographer, Paul E. Bierley, the voice portion of the  recording by
Sousa was recorded in an NBC studio in New York City on November  6th
[removed] happened to be Sousa's 75th birthday. There's an NBC publicity
photo floating around somewhere showing the conductor/composer standing in
front  of a mike, with  baton in hand.     As for the Sousa band's actual
performance of 'The Stars and Stripes  Forever,' which follows  Sousa's voice
on the recording--Sousa fans agree that it comes from one of  three radio
broadcasts in 1929. Namely, October 7th, 14th or the 21st. The band  actually
performed the patriotic march on each of those three dates in a series  of
Monday night programs sponsored by General Motors.     The special Sousa
'Thanksgiving Day broadcast of 1929 was a two hour  special and was carried
by over 35 radio stations. The sponsor was the General  Baking Company, known
to Americans everywhere as the 'Bond Bakers,' because they  baked Bond
bread.  Therefore the reference in Sousa's remarks regarding the  Bond
Bakers.'   Please allow me to step up on the Sousa Bandbox for a
[removed],  during these troubled times, it would do each of us alot
of good to get a  patriotic shot in the left ear by listening  to a few of
Sousa's stirring  marches, like The Washington Post March, The Stars and
Stripes Forever and  as a former Marine, my favorite Sousa [removed]
Fidelis!   Semper Fi!   Joe Martelle Mesa, Colorado  

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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:29:14 -0500
From: Art Chimes <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Jack Benny's violin playing (Digest #41)

I have a wonderful recording, on a generally-dreadful 2-LP set, of Jack
playing at something called the Honor America Day rally at the Lincoln
Memorial in 1970.

(The record, which I got for free and was well worth the price, also includes
a smashing Kate Smith version of God Bless America ... plus a lot of
anti-antiwar, anti-dissent, and anti-counterculture feeling at a time of
intense Vietnam-era hatefulness.)

His song? "Sweet Georgia Brown" of all things, and it sounded pretty good to
me. Maybe Mischa Elman could have played better, and maybe Jack couldn't have
made it past a blind audition for the philharmonic, but it certainly was not
the scratchings we heard in his lessons with Prof. LeBlanc.

And speaking of which -- and I'm sure Laura will know this -- did Jack himself
play during the radio broadcasts? Or was that another musician? I wonder if
there were union rules, or maybe just custom or some technical reason that
might have required that "Jack's" playing actually come from a member of the
house orchestra.

-Art-

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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:30:07 -0500
From: "Kirby, Tom" <Kirby@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE: Benny's violin [removed]

Ted writes:

Someone asked about Jack Benny's violin playing.  I remember seeing a video
or kinescope of Jack playing the Bach double violin concerto in D minor with
Isaac Stern.  This was a fund-raising concert.  Jack did amazingly well.  No
goofing around; he played it straight.

If it's the same clip I remember seeing, the only goofing around he did is when
he explained how this fund raiser worked: The cheap seats were up front, the more
expensive seats were farther back, the really expensive seats were all the way
in the back, and if you gave enough money, you didn't have to come at all! 8^)

-- Tom Kirby

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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:15:17 -0500
From: "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Country Music Historian Charles Wolfe Dies

I received this unexpected message this afternoon. Charles Wolfe was THE
historian of oldtime country music. One of his many priceless books is "A
Good Natured Riot," the early years of the WSM Grand Ole [removed]

Colleagues:

     With sadness I wish to inform you that we lost Charles Wolfe
tonight.  Charles passed away at MTMC at approximately 9:00 pm, after an
extended battle with diabetes and attendant complications, with his
wife, Mary Dean, and his daughters Stacey and Cindy and Cindy's husband
Mark at his side.  Charles was a gentle giant, a prolific scholar and
beloved colleague whose presence in the English Department and in the
University gave new and unique meaning to the term "professor."
Certainly with his prolific productivity, including  nineteen scholarly
books (with others still in the offing) and hundreds of articles on
music, folklore, and popular culture, Charles could have gone to any
institution in the land.  But his feet were deep in the Tennessee soil.
He was Missouri born and bred--and Blue Raider to the core, having
joined MTSU in 1970, where he remained until his retirement just this
past year.  Though nationally and internationally known for his
accomplishments, Charles never ventured far from heart and home, from
family and friends.   Unpretentious, dedicated, mentor to countless
students and friend to all who knew him, Charles has left an indelible
imprint.  He will be missed by those who did not know him personally,
and even so much more by those who did.

John McDaniel

Dean, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro

Charles Wolfe visitation and funeral arrangements
Woodfins Funeral Home
1488 Lascassas Pike (Hwy 96 East)
Murfreesboro, Tn
Visitation
4 - 8 [removed] (Saturday, Feb. 12)
Funeral
1:30 (Sunday, Feb. 13)
(615) 893 1515 -- funeral home telephone
Wolfe mailing address:
Mary Dean Wolfe
1210 Bond Court
Murfreesboro, TN 37129

BILL KNOWLTON, WCNY-FM, SYRACUSE NY

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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:52:00 -0500
From: Rentingnow@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Jack's Violin

I read in a book by George Burns that Jack auctioned his violin for a
benefit.  Where is it now?

Larry Moore

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