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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2012 : Issue 18
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
  Lone Ranger's 79th                    [ Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed]; ]
  Sarge and Tonto                       [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
  1-30 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Respecting Kenny Delmar, Walter Gibs  [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
  Women in Radio                        [ JayHick@[removed] ]
  GI Jill--redux                        [ Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@yahoo. ]

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:10:49 -0500
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," Bob Bro's "The Old Time Radio Show," John and Larry
Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios"
and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."  Streamed in high-quality audio,
on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
[removed]
Check our our Transcription Disc scans at:
[removed]
=======================================

OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

*Etta James
1938-2012*

ALAN FREED'S ROCK 'N' ROLL DANCE PARTY
  Episode 13 1955 Guests: Etta James, The Clovers
  Featuring: The Duke Ellington Orchestra and Joe Williams.

JOHN STEELE, ADVENTURER
  Episode 39 1-17-50 "Joey's Girl"
  Stars Don Douglas
  Music: Sylvan Levin
  Producer: Robert Monroe
  Announcer: Ted Mallie
  Mutual Sustaining

RUDY VALLEE SHOW
  Episode 56 3-27-41 "Vallee And Barrymore Book Publishing Company"
  Guest: Groucho Marx
  Host: Ruddy Vallee
  Stars: John Barrymore
  NBC Sealtest Sleepware

MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY
  Episode 49 5-15-53 "The Case Of The Body On The Freight Train"
  Stars David Brian
  Creator: Phillips H. Lord
==================================

HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

THE ADVENTURES OF THE SAINT
  (NBC) 8/6/50 "The Corpse said 'Ouch' " Stars Vincent Price.

DARK FANTASY
  ([removed]) 2/22/42 Program #14 "The Delicate Case of Murder"

GASOLINE ALLEY
  (Synd.) Dec. 1948 Listen for Mason Adams as "Wilmer" Auto-Lite.
====================================

THE OLD TIME RADIO SHOW

OUR MISS BROOKS (CBS)
  Title: Peanuts, the Great Dane
  Original Air: 5/22/49
  Starring: Eve Arden, Gale Gordon

I LOVE A MYSTERY (MUTUAL)
  Title: Battle of the Century --- Episode 18
  Original Air: 2/22/50
  Starring: Russell Thorson, Jim Boles, Tony Randall

GUNSMOKE (CBS)
  GUNSMOKE (CBS)
  Title: The Guitar
  Original Air: 12/26/53
  Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION

On 01/22/2012 we lost the fine announcer Dick Tufeld.
  Born December 11, 1926
  Los Angeles, California, [removed]
  Died January 22, 2012 (aged 85)

  From October 25, 1952 to March 19, 1955, he was the announcer for the
entire run of ABC Radio's Space Patrol.
  Dick Tufeld is perhaps best known as the voice of the Robot in the TV
series Lost in Space.
  But on this week's show we'll remember him as a part of Space Patrol.
  We'll go back to the Same Time, Same Station program of 03/08/92. This
was our local show done from Pasadena California for 20 years at KPCC.

  We reunited the cast of Space Patrol for this live broadcast. You'll
hear Andy Andersen, Dick Tufeld, Ed Kemer, Lou Huston, Norman Jolly, and
Ray Erlenborn. You'll also hear author Jean-Noel Bassior.
====================================
CLASSICS & CURIOS

"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

  Episode 12

  It's the Bob Hope Show from Coronado Island Naval Base in 1951.
Special guests are Hedy Lamarr and Frankie Laine, who does a classic
funny sketch with Bob. Also included is a Classics & Curios Extra with
the super song that became Bob's theme song, "Thanks for the Memory."
Shirley Ross sings the song with Bob from the 1938 movie "The Big
Broadcast."

FRANKIE LAINE TRIBUTE

  From the Classics & Curios Archives are the first 2 parts of my 6 part
tribute to Frankie Laine with special interviews with Frankie and
others, as well as an appearance by Duke Ellington's great jazz vocalist
Herb Jeffries, along with clips from a Bing Crosby Show of 1947 and also
from "The Big Show" of 1950 with Frankie and Hoagy Carmichael.
====================================

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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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:11:35 -0500
From: Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Lone Ranger's 79th

All right, I know it's around this time of the year but every time someone
comes out and notes January 30th as the first broadcast of "The Lone Ranger,"
somebody disputes the exact date. Just let me say "Happy Lone Ranger Day"
with a hearty "Hi-Yo, Silver!" to all Digest subscribers.

Next year at this time will be the masked rider's 80th anniversary. Are there
any big plans we should BRACE ourselves for?

Yours in the ether,

Derek Tague

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:12:41 -0500
From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Sarge and Tonto

Jim Nixon wrote,

Gordon Gregerson wrote in a few days ago to report that he believed Ted
Johnstone was voice of Sgt. Burke on the WXYZ broadcasts of The Green
Hornet.  Gordon went on to add that Ted also voiced Tonto on The Lone Ranger
on some occasions when John Todd, the regular actor who played the role, was
[removed] I'm somewhat doubtful that Ted Johnstone ever voiced Tonto
on the Lone Ranger.

He went on to say that Mr. Gregerson may be mistaking Ted Johnstone for a
different actor.

Maybe so, but the actor who voiced Sgt. Burke--whomever that may have been--
did voice Tonto on the "Lone Ranger" episode "Single Tracks", broadcast Aug.
24, 1945.

Rick

[removed] John Todd did other voices from time to time, and in one episode I
listened to recently (I'd need to double check to get the correct date and
title) this "other voice" (a bad guy) sounded just like Tonto. The only
difference being that this character used personal pronouns properly.

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:13:21 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-30 births/deaths

January 30th births

01-30-1862 - Walter Damrosch - Breslau, Silesia - d. 12-22-1950
conductor, commentator: "Baulkite Hour"; "Music Appreciation Hour"
01-30-1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Hyde Park, NY - d. 4-12-1945
[removed] president: "Fireside Chats"
01-30-1885 - Ida Bailey Allen - Danielson, CT - d. 7-16-1973
homemaker: "Ida Bailey Allen and the Chef"
01-30-1896 - Joseph Gallicchio - Chicago, IL - d. 2-20-1979
orchestra leader: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Music from the Heart of America"
01-30-1907 - Lois Wilson - Iowa - d. 1-8-1983
actor: "Jack Benny Program"
01-30-1911 - Hugh Marlowe - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-2-1982
actor: Ellery Queen "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; Jim Curtis "Brenda Curtis"
01-30-1914 - David Wayne - Traverse City, MI - d. 2-9-1995
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre" ;" Eternal Light"; "Stars in the Air"
01-30-1914 - John Ireland - Vancouver, Canada - d. 3-21-1992
actor: "MGM Theatre of the Air"; "[removed] Steel Hour"
01-30-1915 - Dorothy Dell - Hattiesburg, MS - d. 6-8-1934
actor: "Stars of Tomorrow"
01-30-1915 - Michael Guido - Lorain, OH - d. 2-21-2009
evangelist: "Seeds from the Sower"
01-30-1922 - Dick Martin - Battle Creek, MI - d. 5-24-2008
writer: "Duffy's Tavern"
01-30-1925 - Dorothy Malone, Chicago, IL
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
01-30-1928 - Ruth Brown - Portsmouth, VA - d. 11-17-2006
singer: "Newport Jazz Festival"
01-30-1931 - Conrad Binyon - Hollywood, CA
actor: Roscoe 'Butch' Gardiner "Mayor of the Town"
01-30-1933 - Louis Rukeyser - NYC - d. 5-2-2006
economic commentator: "Rukeyser's World"; "College Quiz Bowl"
01-30-1934 - Tammy Grimes - Lynn, MA
hostess, actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
01-30-1937 - Vanessa Redgrave - London, England
actor: Histories "I, Boadicea"
01-30-1950 - Bruce Lidington - Harrow, England - d. 8-5-1996
delighted listeners to Radio 4 serials
01-30-1958 - Sayuri Ishikawa - Kumamoto, Japan
enka singer: "Kohaku Uta Gassen"

January 30th deaths		01-05-1911 - Jean-Pierre Aumont - Paris,
France -
d. 1-30-2001
actor: "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Philip Morris Playhouse"
02-11-1917 - Sidney Sheldon - Chicago, IL - d. 1-30-2007
writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-18-1912 - Earl George - Donora, PA - d. 1-30-2004
actor: "Curtain Time"; "Girl Alone"; "Mortimer Gooch"
03-01-1914 - Aaron Ruben - Chicago, IL - d. 1-30-2010
writer: "The Milton Berle Show"
03-02-1904 - Leonard Levinson - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-30-1974
writer: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Great Gildersleeve"; "Jack Carson
Show"
03-07-1923 - Arthur Julian - Memphis, TN - d. 1-30-1995
writer: "The Beulah Show"
03-12-1910 - R. Dale Butts - Lamasco, KY - d. 1-30-1990
staff arranger for NBC Chicago
03-12-1910 - Robert Denton - d. 1-30-1990
announcer: "Dimension X"; "The Robert Merrill Show"
03-19-1919 - Alfred Apaka - Honolulu, HI - d. 1-30-1960
vocalist: "Hawaii Calls"
03-24-1893 - Jane Seymour - Hamilton, Canada - d. 1-30-1956
actor: Mrs. Brown "Claudia and David"
04-05-1921 - Barney Beck - d. 1-30-2007
sound effects: "The Shadow"; "I Love A Mystery"; "Bob and Ray"
04-23-1901 - George Harmon Coxe - Olean, NY - d. 1-30-1984
novelist: "Casey, Crime Photographer" based on his novels
05-15-1897 - Jacques Renard - Kiev, Ukraine - d. 1-30-1973
bandleader: "Burns and Allen"; "The Joe Penner Show"; "Stoopnagle and
Budd"
05-20-1912 - Julius Dixon - Barnwell, SC - d. 1-30-2004
host: "Variety Jive"
06-02-1896 - Katherine Bacon - Chesterfield, England - d. 1-30-1982
pianist: WOR New York
06-25-1918 - Ken Mayer - California - d. 1-30-1985
actor: Robbie Robertson "Space Patrol"
06-27-1907 - John McIntire - Spokane, WA - d. 1-30-1991
actor: Benjamin Ordway "Crime Doctor"; Lt. Dundy "Advs. of Sam Spade"
07-03-1890 - Herbert A. Bell - Rock Valley, IA - d. 1-30-1970
radio manufacturer: Co-founder of Packard-Bell in 1945
07-09-1894 - Dorothy Thompson - Lancaster, NY - d. 1-30-1961
commentator: "Commentary"
08-06-1917 - Edward Jewesbury - London, England - d. 1-30-2002
actor: "Lady in a Fog"
08-08-1887 - Malcolm Keen - Bristol, England - d. 1-30-1970
actor: "Cavalcade of America"
08-14-1909 - Ed Herlihy - Dorchester, MA - d. 1-30-1999
announcer: "Advs. of the Thin Man"; "Just Plain Bill"; "Vic and Sade"
08-15-1919 - Huntz Hall - NYC - d. 1-30-1999
comedian: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"
09-10-1904 - John V. Aspe - d. 1-30-1973
tenor: WHN New York, New York
09-15-1878 - William Hard - Painted Post, NY - d. 1-30-1962
commentator: "Back of the News"
09-21-1901 - Talitha Botsford - Millport, NY - d. 1-30-2002
composer and violinist
10-01-1890 - Stanley Holloway - London, England - d. 1-30-1982
actor, singer: "Music As You Like It"
10-02-1919 - Henry (Noel) Bentinck - Exton, England - d. 1-30-1997
BBC talks producer
10-13-1918 - Jack MacGowran - Dublin, Ireland - d. 1-30-1973
actor: "All That Fall"; "Embers"; "Juno and the Paycock"
11-09-1895 - Lou Lubin - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-30-1973
actor: Shorty "Amos 'n' Andy"
11-22-1923 - Guy Doleman - Hamilton, New Zealand - d. 1-30-1996
charactor actor, announcer: New Zealand radio
11-24-1904 - Pegeen Fitzgerald - Norcatur, KS - d. 1-30-1989
host: "The Fitzgeralds"
12-03-1915 - Robert H. Forward - San Diego, CA - d. 1-30-2001
director: "And Sudden Death"; "Special All-Star Revue"
12-14-1927 - Richard Cassilly - Washington, D. C. - d. 1-30-1998
tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"
12-22-1909 - Robert Barr - Glasbow, Scotland - d. 1-30-1999
radio writer: "To Tell You the Truth"

Ron

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:40:52 -0500
From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Respecting Kenny Delmar, Walter Gibson, John
 Nanovic and Edith Meiser's momories

on 1/28/12 5:18 PM, [removed]@[removed] at
[removed]@[removed] wrote:

I read with great interest Anthony Tollin's response to my initial post
on The Shadow. Anthony, it seems as if  my comments may have insulted or
offended you. Please understand that was never my intention. As I have
stated in my previous post (and other posts on this forum and others) I
consider you a respected OTR historian. As a longtime OTR fan and very
amateur historian/researcher, I am only interested in getting the facts
straight. I'm sure you would agree that accuracy is the most important
thing, regardless of the source.

No, Ken. I didn't feel personally insulted by your earlier email.

I felt the memories of Kenny Delmar and other OTR greats were insulted, as
were the almost-always-accurate memories of Walter Gibson and John Nanovic
in a recent OTR book. Which was why I set out to explain why I felt their
recollections could be trusted a good deal more than those of a casual
listener or reviewer, especially when the memories of scriptwriter Edith
Meiser and SHADOW MAGAZINE assistant editor Richard Wormser agreed with both
Gibson's and Nanovic's, as did a 1931 issue of RADIO GUIDE and
advertisements in 1931-32 issues of Street & Smith's LOVE STORY MAGAZINE.

I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure that you started attending FOTR a long
time after Kenny Delmar, Walter Gibson, John Nanovic and Edith
Meiser's convention appearances. If you never spoke with them or knew them
personally, perhaps you and others shouldn't be quite so quick to question
the memories of those who lived the world of professional OTR firsthand, and
especially in cases like LOVE STORY where there was actually was some
printed documentation at the time. (Yes, the RADIO GUIDE article and the
multiple LOVE STORY MAGAZINE ads don't specifically state that The Shadow
hosted the first couple months of that program, but they do confirm that The
Shadow was indeed a part of the early broadcasts. Given that there is no
surviving vintage physical evidence that proves that he wasn't the opening
and closing host of the early episodes, I think the fair thing to do is to
trust the firsthand statements of Walter Gibson, SHADOW MAGAZINE editor John
Nanovic, LOVE STORY scriptwriter Edith Meiser and assistant editor Richard
Wormser that The Shadow was indeed host of the early LOVE STORY broadcasts.

My late friends Kenny Delmar, Walter Gibson and John Nanovic are no longer
around to speak up when their recollections are disparaged, which is why
their still-living friends sometimes need to stand up for them.

Ken Stockinger also corrected me, stating that he had not taken home one of
the copies of THE SHADOW #52 that I left on all but two tables at the Friday
night FOTR banquet, and asked: "... If you remembered an event from 3 months
ago incorrectly, are you honestly saying that Walter Gibson's memory (as
well as Mr. Nanovic and Ms. Meisner) from a half century ago is infallible?

Well, Ken, I don't see how my misremembering something trivial negates the
independent and combined memories of Walter Gibson, Edith Meiser, John
Nanovic and Richard Wormser, which were in agreement as to The Shadow having
hosted LOVE STORY and were corroborated by a 1931 RADIO GUIDE article and
vintage ads in LOVE STORY MAGAZINE. It seems to me that there is substantial
evidence to support Walter Gibson's frequent statements that The Shadow
hosted the early LOVE STORY broadcasts.

All memories are not created equal, and some 50-year-old memories are
certainly accurate while some 3-month-old recollections aren't.

Walter Gibson possessed the most amazingly comprehensive photographic memory
I've ever encountered. I've never claimed that my personal memory was
anywhere near Walter's in quality. Furthermore, in 1931, Walter was still
maintaining the daily diary entries that he had to drop once he was
contracted to write 24 novels annually.

There is something special about one's early years in a creative business
that people tend to retain decades and even a half-century later, like Jerry
Robinson's firsthand accounts of the early days of the comic book business,
when he and his young friends were creating a new art form. Personally, I
retain far more vivid memories of sharing 1974 lunches in the Warner
Cafeteria with SUPERMAN-artists Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson, comics legend
Joe Kubert and the always delightful Sergio Aragones than I do of uneventful
meals from last week. I was a 22-year-old fanboy whose childhood idols were
suddenly my professional coworkers. And I also retain stronger memories of
sweating bullets on my first few professional full-book DC Comics coloring
assignments (JUSTICE LEAGUE #143 & 144 and GREEN LANTERN #76 & 77) than I
can recall of the 1000th and 2000th comic books I colored 15 or 20 years
later. The brain retains the exciting aspects of one's first days in a
creative field a lot more than those years later when the deadline stress
become common and everyday.

In the case of the two Sanctum Books sample copies I left as prizes on every
table at the Friday night FOTR banquet, it's really pretty unimportant who
went home with which book. I had some attendees tell me they really wanted
the SHADOW, but somebody else grabbed it first so they had to be content
with the DOC SAVAGE, and vice versa. My motives were twofold. First, I
wanted to leave a couple table gifts for each table at the banquet of the
final FOTR convention. Secondly, I wanted OTR fans to be aware that my pulp
reprints frequently included bonus articles on OTR or scripts of "lost"
radio episodes. It didn't particularly matter who walked off with the books,
as long as they left with someone interested enough to take them home. (And
truth be told, I was far more focused on Friday night with directing a
GUNSMOKE recreation that unfortunately did not come off as well as I'd hoped
it would.)

Who got which book as table gifts is really trivial compared with Walter
Gibson's and John Nanovic's motives for keeping up with how The Shadow was
being promoted in 1931. In both cases, their personal economic survival
during the Great Depression depended upon the success of THE SHADOW
MAGAZINE, so they were both paying a lot of attention to the radio promotion
of The Shadow, and were hardly the uninterested observers some OTR fans (not
you) have recently suggested.

--Anthony Tollin (in the shadows)

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:41:00 -0500
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Women in Radio
X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative
X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain

FROM MCFARLAND

The Encyclopedia of Women in Radio, 1920-1960 by Leora M. Sies and  Luther
F. Sies
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-6439-5
44 photos, appendix, bibliography, indexes
415pp. softcover ([removed] x 11) 2012 [2003]
About the Book
In the early days of radio, there were opportunities for women as singers,
musicians, actors, and hosts of women's interest shows, but few chances to
do much more. Vaughan deLeith, the "Original Radio Girl," was one of the
first women to break into radio and pave the way for others to follow. From
1920
to 1936, deLeith received three million pieces of fan mail, published more
than 200 songs, made more than 300 phonograph records and Edison cylinders,
and sang 15,000 songs on the air.

The women who worked in and on radio from the 20s through the 50s are given
their due in this comprehensive work. Readers will find Kate Smith, the
Andrews Sisters, the Carter Sisters, Wilma Lee Cooper, Kitty Wells, Gracie
Allen, and Minnie Pearl, among many, many others. There are nine extended
entries: the pioneers, Mary Garden and Chicago radio, singers, country
musicians,
comediennes, husband-and-wife talk shows, women in daytime serials (soap
operas), family values, and gender discrimination.
About the Author
The late Leora M. Sies died before this work was completed.   Retired
college professor Luther F. Sies has coordinated programs in speech, hearing
and
language at both educational and medical institutions. He lives in Sun City
West, Arizona

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:41:27 -0500
From: Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  GI Jill--redux

Thanks to all who responded--both on list and privately--to my query about GI
Jill a few days ago. As it happens, within about 5 minutes after I posted my
initial request, I did some searching of my own. I then posted again, maybe
10 minutes later, indicating, basically, that I should'a looked before
posting. I then shared a site that answered most of my questions.

Somehow, that second message didn't make it to the Digest (or if it did, I
missed it). But I'm glad, because if it had, we might not have gotten some of
the information and stories that we did about the GI Jive show and its comely
DJ, especially the great recollection from Gregg Oppenheimer. So, thanks
again everyone.

Alan
_________________
Alan/Linda Bell
Santa Rosa, CA

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