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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2007 : Issue 191
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Heaston, name change [ "Lois Culver" <loiseula@[removed] ]
HV mimic on Benny [ "Laura Leff" <president@[removed] ]
Amos & Andy [ "[removed]" <asajb2000@ ]
6-30 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Re: Listening to the Radio [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
Help: Bill Conrad's Book of Photogra [ Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed]; ]
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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:49:55 -0400
From: "Lois Culver" <loiseula@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Heaston, name change
Stephen Davis asks:
at the end of each "Let George do it" during 1949, the announcer identifies
himself as John Heaston. Is this the same announcer who was "last, but not
least'n, with Bud Heaston" on the Burns & Allen show during 1940-41?
I imagine that the man you are referring to is John Hiestand/Bud Hiestand.
He was in radio in the Hollywood scene as announcer, producer, etc. He was
working at KFI Los Angeles as a producer at the same time I worked there.
(1944 on)
Lois Culver
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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:58:10 -0400
From: "Laura Leff" <president@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: HV mimic on Benny
Michael Berger asked:
imitation of the famed newscaster HV Kaltenborn that cracked up the
audience,
That's the talented Ollie O'Toole.
--Laura Leff
President, IJBFC
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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:58:35 -0400
From: "[removed]" <asajb2000@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Amos & Andy
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My dad was a child in the 1930's and he remembered that during A & A, they
used to stop the movies during an afternoon at the mopvies at the local
theater (Paramount in Brooklyn) and air Amos and Andy and then continue on
with the film presentation. This was very common, especially with something
as influential as Amos & Andy.
Andy Blatt
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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:11:05 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 6-30 births/deaths
June 30th births
06-30-1879 - Walter Hampden - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-11-1955
actor: Leonidas Witherall "Leonidas Witherall"
06-30-1891 - Man Mountain Dean - NYC - d. 5-29-1953
professional wrestler: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
06-30-1894 - Phillips Carlin - NYC - d. 8-27-1971
announcer: "Palmolive Hour"; "Atwater Kent Hour"
06-30-1896 - Wilfred Pelletier - Montreal, Canada - d. 4-9-1982
conductor: "Roses and Drums"; "Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air"
06-30-1898 - Carl Pierce - Quincy, MA - d. 8-16-1962
announcer: "Breakfast at Sardi's"; "The Right Thing to Do"
06-30-1898 - George Chandler - Waukegan, IL - d. 6-10-1985
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-30-1899 - Santos Ortega - NYC - d. 4-10-1976
actor: Nero Wolfe "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; Richard Queen "Advs. of
Ellery Queen"
06-30-1900 - Frank Gallop - Boston, MA - d. 5-17-1988
announcer: "Milton Berle Show"; "Gangbusters"; "Stella Dallas"
06-30-1904 - Glenda Farrell - Enid, Oklahoma Territory - d. 5-1-1971
opposing pitcher: "Quizzer's Baseball"
06-30-1905 - Nestor Paiva - Fresno, CA - d. 9-9-1966
actor: "NBC Presents: Short Story"; "Escape"
06-30-1910 - Sundra Love - Chicago, IL
actor: Kay Fairchild "Stepmother"; Ethel Foster "Guiding Light"
06-30-1913 - Harry Wismer - Port Huron, MI - d. 12-3-1967
sportscaster: "Harry Wismer Sports Show"; "Champion Roll Call"
06-30-1917 - Buddy Rich - NYC - d. 4-2-1987
drummer: "Artie Shaw and His Orchestra"; "Tommy Dorsey and His
Orchestra"
06-30-1917 - Lena Horne - Brooklyn, NY
singer: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
06-30-1917 - Susan Hayward - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-14-1975
actor: "Radio Almanac"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-30-1918 - Stewart Foster - Binghamton, NY - d. 2-7-1968
singer: "Stewart Foster Show"; "Galen Drake"; "On a Sunday Afternoon"
06-30-1920 - Dean Harens - South Bend, IN - d. 5-20-1996
actor: Arthur Anderson "We, the Abbotts"
June 30th deaths
02-20-1906 - Gale Gordon - NYC - d. 6-30-1995
actor: Mayor LaTrivia "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Osgood Conklin "Our
Miss Brooks"
05-04-1903 - Elmer Leyden - Davenport, IA - d. 6-30-1973
football player: "One of the Four Horseman" "Information Please"
05-18-1904 - Fred Shields - Kansas City, MO - d. 6-30-1974
actor: Bill Fraser "Tarzan"
05-29-1909 - Oliver Wakefield - Mahlabitini, South Africa - d. 6-30-1956
comedian: "The Chesterfield Program"; "Fox Fur Trappers"
06-20-1905 - Lillian Hellman - New Orleans, LA - d. 6-30-1984
author: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
06-20-1924 - Chet Atkins - Luttrell, TN - d. 6-30-2001
guitarist: "Boone County Neighbors"; "Grand Ole Opry"
06-23-1908 - Mary Livingston - Vancouver, Canada - d. 6-30-1983
comedienne: (wife of Jack Benny) "Jack Benny Program"
07-26-1906 - Galen Drake - Kokomo, IN - d. 6-30-1989
commentator: "Galen Drake"
08-26-1873 - Lee De Forest - Council Bluffs, IA - d. 6-30-1961
inventor: Audion tube
09-23-1901 - Frederick Hazlitt Brennan - d. 6-30-1962
writer: "Shorty Bell" based on Brennan's stories
09-26-1921 - Russ Atwood - d. 6-30-1992
disk jockey: WMAS Springfield, Massachusetts
10-02-1928 - George 'Spanky' McFarland - Dallas, TX - d. 6-30-1993
actor: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
10-10-1920 - Bernard Grant - The Bronx - d. 6-30-2004
actor: "Rober Kilgore"; "Big Story"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:02:54 -0400
From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Listening to the Radio
> I overheard a conversation this morning in a restaurant. Two women
were talking about the older one's youth and growing up in a rural
Iowa town. The older woman is about ninety I would say. She
mentioned that they had to get all dressed up to go down the
street to listen to Amos and Andy. It was the same as going to
a birthday party or church.
I wonder how common that was. I don't know the year.
It's funny you mention this because I was recently wondering the same
thing. Just last week, I ran across this little paragraph in the
February 17, 1923 Oil City Derrick, a Pennsylvania newspaper. It's
about the broadcast of a circa 1909 play called "The Third Degree" by
Schenectady's WGY Players:
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RADIO PLAY HEARD BY NUMBER OF FANS
Eighty spectators "listened in" [in] Young's Electric store last
evening to a radio play, "The First [sic] Degree," which was being
broadcasted by the General Electric Co.'s station WGY at Schenectady,
N. Y. The entire play, four acts, was heard very distinctly and music
was furnished between the acts by the WGY orchestra. The store will be
open to those who wish to "listen in" on the radio Tuesday and Friday
nights and a play is scheduled to be broadcast from WGY every week.
This is the second [sic, more like the 27th] play to be sent out from
that station.
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Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:45:23 -0400
From: Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Help: Bill Conrad's Book of Photographs
I have a small combbound book of Bill Conrad's close-up photographs of a
beach, published in 1949 by Noel Young Press. The book is called
WATERSEDGE SANTA BARBARA.
Conrad signed this copy of the book "For "Frankie" Fowler, with warmest
personal regards. Bill Conrad, Christmas 1949."
The first name, which is in quotes, is hard to decipher. It looks like
Frankie, but it could possibly be Frontier or Frontline.
Google told me that in Conrad's unbought TV pilot "The Murder That
Wouldn't Die," one of the characters is named police Lt. Frank Fowler.
Wonder if it's a tribute to whomever this book was given?
Also, Frank Fowler is the real name of screenwriter Borden Chase,who
wrote a film that Conrad was in.
Finally, he dedicated the book to Hope. Wife? Daughter?
Thanks!
---Dan, [removed]
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