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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2004 : Issue 376
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Save the Beavers [ JackBenny@[removed] ]
#OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig [ charlie@[removed] ]
Voiceover Talent Question [ "Gary Dixon" <argy@[removed]; ]
Don LaFontaine [ Bhob <bhob2@[removed]; ]
Sammy Kay [ eloyer@[removed] ]
11-25 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Black Friday [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
blacks staying at hotel in the north [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
Golden Age II [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
Two Jack Benny Mentions [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:38:55 -0500
From: JackBenny@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Save the Beavers
Derek Tague writes:
So, Laura on the Leff Coast, who are the still-extant Beavers? I know Beverly
Washburn was one. Possibly HarryShearer? Richard "Dick" Beals once played one in
FOTR's 1999 Jack Benny re-creation; did he ever play one back in the day?
Beverly Washburn and Harry Shearer were both Beverly Hills Beavers. Also
Frank Bank, and a gentleman whom I met at SPERDVAC last year and forgot his
name. Bobb - He was on the Benny panel. Can you remember? I'd like to talk
with him again.
--Laura Leff
President, IJBFC
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:39:19 -0500
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!
A weekly [removed]
For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
Network, the channel name is #OldRadio. We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
over six years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
real-time OTR talk!
Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
it's always a good time!
For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
week and every week!
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:17:32 -0500
From: "Gary Dixon" <argy@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Voiceover Talent Question
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I seem to remember that Dick Tufeld did most of the voiceover work for the
Disney [removed] in the theatres as well as on TV. Art Gilmore voiced
a lot of trailers for other studios. Those two voices I recognize from some
of the trailers in my film collection.
argydix
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:38:44 -0500
From: Bhob <bhob2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Don LaFontaine
is there a book or any reference to who did the voice overs for
various movie trailers?... The movie trailers
these days rarely have any voice overs anymore.
The king is Don LaFontaine, who has been heard in movie trailer
voiceovers since 1964. There's an excellent illustrated profile of
LaFontaine at [removed]
Audio clips of LaFontaine movie trailer voiceovers:
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A multi-millionaire, LaFontaine relaxes in his white stretch limo,
traveling to different studios to record 12 to 17 voiceover sessions a
day.
Bhob @ PRE-FUSE @ [removed]
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:39:12 -0500
From: eloyer@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Sammy Kay
Sammy Kay did indeed attend Ohio University (in Athens, Ohio). In the 30's he
led the college dance band "The Ohioans" which was still going strong well into
the 50's and 60's when I walked the brick paths on that lovely colonial campus.
This year Ohio U. is celebrating her bi-centennial - the first land grant
college founded west of the Allegheny's in 1804. Sammy Kaye is indeed a part of
that long history. Ed Loyer (who has walked the paths at the University of
Michigan for nearly 40 years)
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:48:08 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 11-25 births/deaths
H A P P Y T H A N K S G I V I N G !
November 25th births
11-25-1896 - Virgil Thomson - Kansas City, MO - d. 9-30-1989
composer: "Columbia Workshop"
11-25-1899 - Kay Strozzi - Swan's Point Plantation, VA - 1-18-1996
actress: Shelia Blade "I Love Linda Dale"; Victoria Lorring "Young Widder
Brown"
11-25-1900 - Helen Gahagan Douglas - Boonton, NJ - d. 6-28-1980
11-25-1904 - Jessie Royce Landis - Chicago, IL - d. 2-2-1971
actress: Housekeeper "House on Q Street"
11-25-1905 - Will Osborne - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-22-1981
bandleader, singer: "Abbott and Costello"
11-25-1914 - Joe DiMaggio - Martinez, CA - d. 3-8-1999
baseball superstar: "Joe DiMaggio Show"
11-25-1916 - Peg Lynch - Lincoln, NE
writer, actress: Ethel Arbuckle "Ethel and Albert"; "Couple Next Door"
11-25-1920 - Ricardo Montalban - Mexico City, Mexico
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "As Easy as [removed]"
11-25-1925 - Jeffrey Hunter - New Orleans. LA - d. 5-27-1969
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
November 25th deaths
04-29-1912 - Richard Carlson - Albert Lea, MN - d. 11-25-1977
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-16-1907 - Jack Albertson - Lynn, MA - d. 11-25-1981
actor: Grouch "Grouch Club"; "Milton Berle Show"
06-16-1910 - Jack Albertson - Malden, MA - d. 11-25-1981
actor: "Milton Berle Show"; "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Cavalcade of
America"
07-13-1889 - Frank M. Thomas - St. Joseph, MO - d. 11-25-1989
actor: Police Captain "Martin Kane, Private Eye"
07-30-1912 - Edward L. Bliss - Fizhou, China - d. 11-25-2002
cbs news correspondent: (One of Morrow's Boys) CBS News Twentieth Century
Roundup"
08-28-1895 - H. Norman Schwarzkopf - Newark, NJ - d. 11-25-1958
narrator: "Gangbusters"
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:09:46 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Black Friday
Hi Everybody,
after talking to a friend and reading Jim Cox post on black Friday. I
wondering if the networks should have tried to broadcast there radio shows
over night. It seems that local radio wanted more control during the day
time hours, and there was not that many station doing all night broadcast.
we had such shows as music after dark, and in the [removed] area in the 1960s
talk shows became a factor. Covering cost might have been a problem, but
who know after time that might have been a big enough audience to carry the
shows. My friend feels that OTR would had a good chance to survive, if
today technology like satellite would have been around to make it easier for
local station to carry national shows at a lower cost. Take care,
Walden Hughes
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:23:33 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: blacks staying at hotel in the north
Hi Everybody,
in the last digest a poster thought that blacks might not have a problem
staying in hotels in the north. My late friend Budd Grannoff who was
mairried to singer Kitty Kallen for 48 years until his death in 1996 was a
age to 18 stars all at the same time from 1948 until 1952. Some were Frank
Sinatra, Martin and Lewis, Doris Day, Kitty Kallen, ect a lot of the big
names in music. One of his client was Leana Horne. He told me and my dad
at lunch that in the north Leana Horne could perform at some hotels but not
stay there. In fact Kitty Kallen was responsible in braking the color
barrier in Las Vegas. She and Mickey Rooney was the head liners for a show,
and Mickey got sick. Kitty called Sammy Davis to help out that night and
that broke the color barrier in Las Vegas. Take care,
Walden Hughes
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:33:35 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Golden Age II
I have a television question that I'm sure some of my OTR buddies can answer
definitively: What was the end of the golden age in television?
>From multiple sources I have received multiple answers, extending as far out
as the end of the 1970s or beginning of the 1980s. One authority suggests
that it ended with the close of the 1950s, "encompassing the time when most
live programming went to tape." I've seen evidence of other dates in
between those parameters.
If you possess some information on the topic (or can make reference to
specifics I can locate), I'd be grateful to hear from you off-list. This
would be a big help to me in finally establishing as proper a date as
possible. Whatever any of you may be able to shed will certainly be
welcome. Thanks in advance for your input.
Jim Cox
otrbuff@[removed]
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:35:42 -0500
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Two Jack Benny Mentions
The great Jack Benny is mentioned in the following Thanksgiving Tribute to
Jello --
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And as Jewish comic pioneer in this review of edgy Jewish humor in The
Jerusalem Post.
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1270344643
Happy Thanksgiving,
Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]
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