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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2007 : Issue 155
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Vintage book-end, paperweight [ <verotas@[removed]; ]
Canned Music on radio programs at th [ jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed]; ]
Re: Jack Benny Question [ Martin Fass <watchstop@frontiernet. ]
Jack Benny shows [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
5-26 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
A bit on Mutual [ Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history 27 May to [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 19:12:49 -0400
From: <verotas@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Vintage book-end, paperweight
I have in my collection a heavy cast iron book-end, shaped like one of those
very early NBC square box microphones with the round sound opening.
Also, a wonderful heavy paper weight given out by Radio News magazine. It's
in the round shape of a radio dial with numbers all around the edge, and a
knurled knob in the middle.
Both are large, heavy metal. I'd like to find some aluminum or iron casting
firm that could make sand castings using the originals as models. Does
anyone here know of a source that can do this (reasonably)? If so, please
contact me off-list at verotas@[removed]
Many thanks and all the best from Lee Munsick That Godfrey Guy
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 19:16:49 -0400
From: jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Canned Music on radio programs at the end of the
Golden age
May 25, 2007
Dear Old Time Radio Digest readers:
In Regards to music used two or more radio shows, when
Counter Spy aired on Mutual in the late 1950s, the
bridge music played was theme we all know as the theme
from Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
The worst example of canned music in the last years of
network radio was the music used by NBC on Barry
Craig, dangerous assignment tales of the Texas
Rangers, Rocky Fortune, [removed]
Fortunately NBC did not use this same dreadful music
on The Six Shooter. The music on that program was
above approach. CBS's canned music on programs such
as; "Have Gun Will Travel", "Suspense", and "Gun
Smoke" was much better.
Another example of canned music that really worked was
used on "The Couple Next Door". The music used had a
charm that contributed to the warmth of the program.
How wrote and composed the music for The Couple Next
Door?
To some, canned music was as bad for radio as canned
laughter was for Television; I guess the next works
had no choice.
Many Thanks
Jim Taylor
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 21:47:07 -0400
From: Martin Fass <watchstop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Jack Benny Question
Others have most likely responded before me. The answer to the
question is that the 1951 program was a rebroadcast of the 1949
program, because Jack Benny was ill.
--Martin Fass
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 21:47:50 -0400
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Jack Benny shows
Andrew Steinberg asks :
Is there a way to distinguish the Jack Benny 49-03-20 from the
51-03-11rebroadcast? This episode had Van Johnson as the guest star.
Asnswer "No" because 03/20/49 was repeated on 03/11/51. Jack was home
sick so they repeated the show. So the 2 shows are the same, " Jack and
Van double date"
Frank McGurn.
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Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 00:38:53 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 5-26 births/deaths
May 26th births
05-26-1884 - Charles Winninger - Athens, WI - d. 1-19-1969
actor: Captain Henry "Show Boat"; Uncle Charlie "Uncle Charlie's Tent
Show"
05-26-1886 - Al Jolson - Srednick, Lithuania, Russia - d. 10-23-1950
singer: (The Jazz Singer) "Shell Chateau"; "Kraft Music Hall"
05-26-1887 - Paul Lukas - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 8-15-1971
actor: Albert Einstein "Quick and the Dead"
05-26-1893 - Edward MacHugh - Dundee, Scotland - d. 2-3-1957
singer: "Gospel Singer"
05-26-1893 - Eugene Goosens - London, England - d. 6-13-1962
conductor: New York Philharmonic
05-26-1895 - Norma Talmadge - Jersey City, NJ - d. 12-24-1957
actor: "Thirty Minutes in Hollywood"
05-26-1903 - Austin Armer - d. 2-xx-1984
flutist: KTAB Oakland, California
05-26-1904 - George Formby - Lancashire, England - d. 3-6-1961
singer, actor: "Manitoba Flood Relief Show"
05-26-1905 - Fred MacKaye - Hackettstown, NJ - d. 9-10-1980
actor, director: Monk Rice "Point Sublime"; "Lux Radio Theatre";
"Romance"
05-26-1905 - Margaret Fuller - Butler, PA - d. 1-6-1952
actor: "Attorney At Law"; "Today's Children"
05-26-1907 - John Wayne - Winterset, IA - d. 6-11-1979
actor: Dan O'Brien "Three Sheets to the Wind"
05-26-1908 - Robert Morley - Semley, England - d. 6-3-1992
actor: "[removed] Steel Hour"
05-26-1908 - Vera Van - Marion, OH - d. 4-16-1992
singer: "The George Jessel Show"; "The Vicks Open House"
05-26-1909 - Richard Maibaum - NYC - d. 1-4-1991
screen writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-26-1910 - Larry Rhine - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-27-2000
writer: "Duffy's Tavern"
05-26-1911 - Ben Alexander - Goldfield, NV - d. 7-5-1969
actor: Frank Smith "Dragnet"; Bashful Ben "Great Gildersleeve"
05-26-1912 - Barbara Lee - Denver, CO - d. 11-11-1986
actor: "Big Sister"; "Valiant Lady"; "Our Gal Sunday"
05-26-1914 - Ziggy Elman - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-25-1968
trumpet: "Benny Goodman Orchestra", "The Tommy Dorsey Show"
05-26-1915 - Martin Stone - d. 6-7-1998
producer: "Howdy Doody"; "Author Meets the Critic"
05-26-1915 - Ray Austin - NYC - d. 6-24-1998
composer/arranger for many big bands
05-26-1915 - Sam Edwards - Macon, GA - d. 7-28-2004
actor: Tracy Baker "One Man's Family"; Dexter Franklin "Meet Corliss
Archer"
05-26-1915 - Vernon Alley - d. 10-3-2004
musician, disk jockey: San Francisco area
05-26-1918 - John Dall - NYC - d. 1-15-1971
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Voice of the Army"
05-26-1920 - Peggy Lee - Jamestown, ND - d. 1-21-2002
singer: "Jimmy Durante Show"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"; "Peggy Lee
Show"
05-26-1923 - Roy Dotrice - Island of Guernsey, Channel Islands
actor: Sir Gregory Pitkin "Men from the Ministry"
05-26-1931 - Chet Norris - Manhattan Beach, NY
actor: "Tomnorrow Calling"; "Cisco Kid"; "ABC Radio Workshop"
May 26th deaths
02-01-1916 - Helen Walpole - Birmingham, AL - d. 5-26-1992
actor: Sylvia Bardine "Just Plain Bill"; Frances "Lorenzo Jones"
02-28-1914 - Jim Boles - Lubbock, TX - d. 5-26-1977
actor: Doc Long "I Love A Mystery"; Fulmer Green "King's Row"
03-15-1904 - George Brent - Dublin, Ireland - d. 5-26-1979
actor, moderator: "Doctor Fights"; "Leave It to the Girls"; "Lux
Radio Theatre"
04-22-1906 - Eddie Albert - Rock Island, IL - d. 5-26-2005
actor: Walter Mitty "Secret Life of Walter Mitty"; "Eddie Albert Show"
05-31-1901 - Joe Kelly - Crawfordsville, IN - d. 5-26-1959
emcee, quizmaster: "National Barn Dance"; "Quiz Kids"
06-13-1912 - Sam Taylor - Chicago, IL - d. 5-26-2000
writer: "Tales ofWillie Piper"
07-24-1915 - Lloyd Marx - d. 5-26-1988
composer, conductor: "Capitol Family Hour"; "Original Amateur Hour"
08-15-1888 - Albert Spalding - Chicago, IL - d. 5-26-1952
violinist: "Forecast"; "Pause That Refreshes . . . On the Air"
09-01-1925 - Colin Free - Sydney, Australia - d. 5-26-1996
writer: "Afternoon Theatre"
xx-xx-xxxx - John Brinkley - d. 5-26-1942
the "goat gland doctor"
Ron Sayles
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Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 00:39:12 -0400
From: Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: A bit on Mutual
Jim Taylor asked:
Did MBS ever lead its time
slot with a program? Did MBS ever have any programs
in radio's top Ten or top twenty?
I can't speak for any other shows MBS presented, but "THE NEW
ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES" was a winner and a top rated show on
Mutual.
Of course, that was in the 1940s. But MBS did have this series in the
top twenty of detective shows they presented. Glenhall Taylor, the
producer and sometime
director of the series told me this.
As an aside: The Sherlock Holmes series was sponsored by Petri Wines
when the show left NBC and was picked up by Mutual. One reason the
show went to
Mutual was because the new sponsor was a wine company, Petri wines.
NBC found that the "dry" states would not accept the new season of
Holmes shows because
it was now sponsored by an "alcoholic beverage" company. In the 1940s
Mutual was the largest radio network of them all with 900 stations
across the US. When Petri
complained about the show not being accepted by NBC because of the
new sponsor and NBCs not wanting to loose the "dry" states, Mutual
simply said "Not to
worry, we have so many stations we will simply bypass the "dry"
states and air the show in the rest of the nation. The Petri company
was satisfied with that answer and
stayed the sponsor of the series for many years. Glenhall told me
that, had Mutual not done this "rerouting" of the series, the
Sherlock Holmes show (with Basil Rathbone
and Nigel Bruce) would simply have ceased to exist. And that was in
1944!
Ken Greenwald
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Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 10:03:59 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 27 May to 2 June
From Those Were The Days --
5/28
1931 - WOR in New York City premiered The Witch's Tale. The program was
broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System (of which WOR was the
flagship station) where it aired until 1938.
5/29
1939 - When a Girl Marries was first heard on CBS.
1943 - The Million Dollar Band was heard for the first time on NBC.
Charlie Spivak was the first leader of the band that featured Barry Wood
as vocalist. The unusual feature of the show was the awarding each week
of five diamond rings.
5/30
1922 - "Smilin" Ed McConnell debuted, smiling and playing his banjo.
McConnell quickly became a legend in the medium.
1935 - America's Town Meeting was heard for the first time. The NBC
program continued for 21 years, with a name change to Americas Town
Meeting of the Air.
1938 - Joyce Jordan, Girl Intern was first heard interning on CBS. The
serial later evolved into The Brighter Day (1948).
5/31
1943 - A comic strip came to radio, as Archie Andrews was heard on the
Mutual Broadcasting System for the first time.
1949 - A crowd of 35,000 people paid tribute to radio personality Mary
Margaret McBride at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. McBride was celebrating
her 15th year in radio.
6/1
1936 - The Lux Radio Theater moved from New York City to Hollywood.
Cecil B. DeMille, the program's host on the NBC Blue network, introduced
Clark Gable and Marlene Dietrich in The Legionnaire and the Lady.
6/2
1937 - The Fabulous Dr. Tweedy was broadcast on NBC for the first time.
Frank Morgan starred as the absent-minded Dr. Tweedy.
1937 - CBS presented the first broadcast of Second Husband. The show
continued on the air until 1946.
Joe
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