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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2012 : Issue 179
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
11-16 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
11-17 birth/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history 18-24 Nov [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
11-18 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:07:48 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 11-16 births/deaths
November 16th births
11-16-1873 - W. C. Handy - Florence, AL - d. 3-28-1958
jazz trumpeter, composer: "Cavalcade of Music";"Freedom's People"
11-16-1887 - Arthur Krock - Glasgow, KY - d. 4-12-1974
journalist: "Information Please"
11-16-1889 - George S. Kaufman - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-2-1961
panelist: "Information, Please"; "This Is Broadway"; "Who Said That?"
11-16-1890 - George Seldes - Alliance, NJ - d. 7-2-1995
journalist: His book "A Disease Called Fascism" adapted for "Words at
War"
11-16-1895 - Michael Arlen - Rustchuk, Bulgaria - d. 6-23-1956
creator: "The Falcon"
11-16-1896 - Jim Jordan - Peoria, IL - d. 4-1-1988
comedian: Mickey Donavan, "Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten"; "Fibber McGee
"Fibber McGee and Molly"
11-16-1896 - Lawrence Tibbett - Bakersfield, CA - d. 7-15-1960
singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Golden Voices"
11-16-1899 - Mary Margaret McBride - Paris, MO - d. 4-7-1976
commentator: "Mary Margaret McBride"; "Martha Deane"
11-16-1905 - Eddie Condon - Goodland, IN - d. 8-4-1973
guitarist, host: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
11-16-1907 - Burgess Meredith - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-9-1997
actor: "Red Adams/Red Davis "Red Adams/Red Davis" (the precursor to
"Pepper Young's Family")
11-16-1911 - Sonny Dunham - Brockton, MA - d. 7-9-1990
trumpeter, bandleader: "One Night Stand"; "Spotlight Bands"
11-16-1912 - George O. Petrie - New Haven, CT - d. 11-16-1997
actor: Michael Waring "The Falcon"; John J. Malone "Amazing Mr. Malone"
11-16-1912 - Paul Dudley - Massachusetts - d. 5-18-1959
writer: "Pot o' Gold"; "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
11-16-1913 - Jack "Smilin' Jack" Smith - Bainbridge Island, WA - d.
7-3-2006
singer: "Breezing Along"; "Prudential Family Hour"; "Jack Smith Show"
11-16-1916 - Daws Butler - Toledo, OH - d. 5-19-1988
actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"; "Stan Freberg Show"; "That's Rich"
11-16-1919 - Marion Bell - St. Louis, MO - d. 12-14-1997
actor, singer: "The Railroad Hour"
11-16-1919 - Ronald (Harold) Hardy - d. 10-xx-1991
wrote plays for radio and television
11-16-1920 - Colin Thiele - Eudunda, Australia - d. 9-4-2006
writer: "Burke and Wills"
11-16-1921 - Evelyn Goodkin - d. 9-5-2005
actor: Marge Minter "Myrt and Marge"; Penny Latham "Dan Harding's Wife"
11-16-1927 - Barbara Payton - Cloquet, MN - d. 5-8-1967
actor: "Pepsodent Show starring Bob Hope"
11-16-1938 - Walter J. Learning - Quidi Vidim, New Foundland, Canada
wrote scripts for the CBC
November 16th deaths
02-01-1901 - Clark Gable - Cadiz, OH - d. 11-16-1960
actor: "So Proudly We Hail"; "Silver Theatre"
02-03-1899 - Doris Speed - Manchester, England - d. 11-16-1994
actor: "Remember It All"
02-28-1919 - David Marshall Cox - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 11-16-1998
producer for WNAC Boston Massachusetts
03-04-1904 - Joseph Schmidt - Davideny, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary - d.
11-16-1942
singer: "General Motors Concerts"
04-17-1918 - William Holden - O'Fallon, IL - d. 11-16-1981
actor: "Hour of Mystery"; "Smiths of San Fernando"; "So Proudly We Hail"
04-21-1930 - Kirby Ayres - d. 11-16-2005
disk jockey: "Bob and Ray Present the CBS Radio Network"
05-07-1906 - Jack Johnstone - Vineland, NJ - d. 11-16-1991
writer, producer, director: "Buck Rogers"; "CBS Radio Workshop"; "Six
Shooter"
05-24-1916 - Tony Barrett - NYC - d. 11-16-1974
actor: Charlie Dyer "This Life is Mine"; Biff Bradley "Pepper Young's
Family"
06-01-1930 - Edward Woodward - Croydon, Surrey, England - d. 11-16-2009
actor: "Price of Fear"
06-06-1900 - Arthur Askey - Liverpool, England - d. 11-16-1982
comedian: "Band Waggon"; "Music Hall"; "Does the Team Think"
06-13-1913 - Ralph Edwards - Merino, CO - d. 11-16-2005
host, announcer: "Truth or Consequences"; "This Is Your Life";
"Original Amateur Hour"
07-31-1912 - Milton Friedman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-16-2006
economist: Radio Australia
08-04-1905 - Frank Luther - Lakin, KS - d. 11-16-1980
singer: "Luther-Layman Singer"; "Frank Luther Show"; "Happy Wonder
Bakers Trio"
08-05-1912 - Clyde Barrie - d. 11-16-1987
baritone: CBS 1935-1937; KUOA Siloam Springs, Arkansas
08-15-1914 - Eve Alwyn - Christ Church, New Zealand - d. 11-16-2005
actor: WEAT West Palm Beacg, Florida
09-06-1881 - Charlie Dale - NYC - d. 11-16-1971
comedian: (Smith and Dale) "Al Jolson"; "Kate Smith"
09-21-1915 - Mac Benoff - NYC - d. 11-16-1972
writer: "The Mel Blanc Show"
09-27-1885 - Harry Blackstone, Sr. - Chicago, IL - d. 11-16-1965
magician: "Harry Blackstone, the Magic Detective" based on him.
09-28-1903 - Boake Carter - Baku, Russia - d. 11-16-1944
news commentator: "Night newscast for CBS"
10-24-1916 - Ray Singer - NYC - d. 11-16-1992
writer: "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Charlotte
Greenwood Show"
12-04-1910 - Mary Hunter - Bakersfield, CA - d. 11-16-2000
actor: Marge "Easy Aces"; "Against the Storm"
12-20-1914 - Patti Pickens - Macon, GA - d. 11-16-1995
singer: (Pickens Sisters) "The Pickens Sisters"; "The Magic Key"
Ron
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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:07:53 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 11-17 birth/deaths
November 17th births
11-17-1878 - Grace Abbott - d. 7-19-1939
talks for mothers: "Your Child"
11-17-1897 - Frank Fay - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-25-1961
actor: "Jack Oakie's College"; "Rudy Vallee Show"
11-17-1898 - "Quin" Ryan - d. 10-7-1978
announcer, actor: "Quin Ryan Reports"; "Uncle Quin"; "Uncle Quin's
Scalawags"
11-17-1899 - Toscha Seidel - Odessa, Ukraine - d. 11-15-1962
violin virtuoso: Staff musician for CBS
11-17-1902 - Ricky Craig, Jr. - NYC - d. 11-28-1933
monologist: "Blue Ribbon Malt Jester"
11-17-1905 - Josef Marais - Sir Lowey's Pass, South Africa - d.
4-26-1978
singer: "African Trek/Sundown on the Veld"; "Meredith Willson Show"
11-17-1905 - Mischa Auer - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 3-5-1967
actor: "Mischa the Magnificent"
11-17-1907 - L. Sprague de Camp - NYC - d. 11-6-2000
science fiction writer: "X-Minus One"; "Future Tense"
11-17-1911 - Jack Lescoulie - Sacramento, CA - d. 7-22-1987
announcer, emcee: "Grouch Club"; "Meet the Champions"
11-17-1916 - Bill Rogers - Thompsonville, MI - 5-28-1993
commentator, announcer: "Bill Rogers and the News"; "Hoot'nanny"
11-17-1916 - Frank Maxwell - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-5-2004
actor: Uthas P. Garvey "Colonel Humphrey Slack"
11-17-1917 - Byron Keith - Illinois - d. 1-19-1996
Started his career in radio in Boise, Idaho in the 1930s
11-17-1917 - Harry Worth - Tankersley, Yorkshire, England - d. 7-20-1989
actor: "New to You"
11-17-1918 - Paul Crabtree - Pulaski, VA - d. 3-9-1979
actor: David Naughton "Claudia and David"
11-17-1922 - Jack Farren - NYC - d. 6-25-1997
announcer: "Under Arrest"
11-17-1925 - Rock Hudson - Winnetka, IL - d. 10-2-1985
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-17-1931 - Wayne J. Andre - d. 8-26-2003
trombonist: Benny Goodman Orchestra; Woody Herman Orchestra
11-17-1935 - Audrey (Grace) Thomas - Binghamton, NY
writer: "Once Your Submarine Cable is Gone"
11-17-1936 - John Wells - Ashford, Kent, England - d. 1-11-1998
actor, writer: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
11-17-1937 - Peter Cook - Devonshire, England - d. 1-9-1995
satirist, writer, comedian: "Why Bother"
November 17th deaths
01-17-1914 - Irving Brecher - NYC - d. 11-17-2008
writer, producer: "Community Sing"; "The Life of Riley"
01-30-1928 - Ruth Brown - Portsmouth, VA - d. 11-17-2006
singer: "Newport Jazz Festival"
02-01-1894 - James P. Johnson - New Brunswick, NJ - d. 11-17-1955
pianist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"; "This is Jazz"
02-06-1902 - George Brunis - New Orleans, LA - d. 11-17-1984
trombonist: "This Is Jazz"; "Tennessee Ernie Show"
04-14-1916 - Emerson Buckley - NYC - d. 11-17-1989
conductor: "Two Thousand Plus"; "Murder By Experts"
05-17-1896 - Ruth Donnelly - Trenton, NJ - d. 11-17-1982
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-01-1887 - Clive Brook - London, England - d. 11-17-1974
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"
06-15-1861 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink - Prague, Czechoslovkia - d.
11-17-1936
singer: "Enna Jettick Melodies"; "Hoover Sentinels Serenade"
06-19-1909 - Maurice Zimm - Waterloo, IA - d. 11-17-2005
writer: "The Man Who Sang"
06-19-1912 - Jerry Jerome - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-17-2001
musician: "Eileen Barton Show"; "Mirth and Madness"
07-14-1919 - Claude Trenier - Mobile, AL - d. 11-17-2003
singer: "Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra"
07-24-1916 - Bob Eberly - Mechanicville, NY - d. 11-17-1981
singer: (Jimmy Dorsey Band)
08-19-1903 - Claude Dauphin - Corbeil, France - d. 11-17-1978
actor: "As Easy as [removed]"
09-15-1904 - Sheilah Graham - Leeds, England - d. 11-17-1988
gossip commentator: "Heinz Magazine of the Air"; "Sheilah Graham"
10-05-1903 - Jimmy Ritz - Newark, NJ - d. 11-17-1985
comedian: (The Ritz Brothers) "Hollywood Hotel"
11-22-1895 - Alexander Laszlo - Budapest, Hungary - d. 11-17-1970
orchestra leader: "This Is Your Life"
11-24-1900 - Ireene Wicker - Quincy, IL - d. 11-17-1987
actor: (The Singing Lady) Sylvia Bertram "Road of Life"; Eileen Moran
"Today's Children"
11-26-1913 - Bill Baldwin - Pueblo, CO - d. 11-17-1982
announcer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Mario Lanza Show"
12-18-1888 - Gladys Cooper - Lewisham, England - d. 11-17-1971
actor: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
Ron
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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:07:58 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 18-24 November
From Those Were The Days
11/18
1307 The story of William Tell shooting the apple off of his young
son's noggin is said to have taken place on this day.
(If it hadn't been for Tell there would have been no opera, if there had
been no opera there would have been no overture, if there had been no
overture the Lone Ranger wouldn't have had the theme music we know.
(that's a joke son, I say that's a joke).
11/20
1929 - The first broadcast of The Rise of the Goldbergs, with Gertrude
Berg as Molly, was heard on the NBC Blue network. Later, the title would
be shortened to The Goldbergs. Mrs. Berg, incidentally, wrote the first
scripts for the 15-minute program and starred in the show -- for $75 a
week. ($930 in 2009 dollars). The program continued until 1945 (it
returned for one season in 1949-1950). Gertrude Berg entertained
audiences with New York style, motherly phrases like, "Button up your
neck. It's cold outside."
11/21
1938 WBOE in Cleveland, OH became the first school operated radio
station (owned by a municipality) to receive a license from the FCC.
WBOE went on the air as a 500 watt AM station and later became an FM
station.
1938 The first broadcast of Central City was heard. It was an
adventure mystery show set at the newspaper in, you guessed it, Central
City. Elspeth Eric played the part of crime reporter Emily Olson; and
Van Heflin was crime reporter Bob Shellenberger (later, the part was
played by Myron McCormick). Central City aired until 1941.
1944 "Happy trails to you, until we meet [removed]" The Roy Rogers
Show was first heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Singing along
with Roy (The King of the Cowboys'), were the Whippoorwills and The Sons
of the Pioneers.
11/22
1906 Delegates attending the Berlin Radiotelegraphic Conference in
Germany voted to use SOS (... ...) as the letters for the new
international signal. The international use of "SOS" was ratified in
1908. Its meaning? No, not "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" as many
believe. Its only meaning was as a distress signal, quick to transmit by
Morse code and not easily misread. It is not an acronym. Incidentally,
how did SOS pads come to use the same initials? They're named after a
patented process, Soap on Steel.
11/23
1929 Shirley Booth and Ed Gardner were married on this day. Miss Booth
was famous for her television acting role ("Hazel"); but we remember
when she and her husband played Miss Duffy and Archie on Duffy's Tavern.
1958 One of the last drama programs on radio debuted. It was unusual
in that it followed the TV show of the same name. Have Gun Will Travel
was broadcast on CBS and starred John Dehner as Paladin.
11/24
1937 Music from the Raymor Ballroom in Boston, Massachusetts was
beamed coast to coast on NBC. The special guests during this broadcast
were Glenn Miller and his orchestra.
Joe
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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:08:03 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 11-18 births/deaths
November 18th births
11-18-1836 - William S. Gilbert - London, England - d. 5-29-1911
composer: (Gilbert and Sullivan) "Several works adapted for radio"
11-18-1860 - Jan Ignace Paderewski - Kurilovka. Poland - d. 6-21-1941
concert pianist, statesman: "Paderewski's Eightieth Birthday Tribute"
11-18-1885 - James Brennan - Boston, MA - d. 8-24-1956
composer, pianist: "The Sachs Program"
11-18-1888 - Frances Marion - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-12-1973
screen writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-18-1891 - Sigmund Anker - Bern, Switzerland - d. 4-23-1958
violinist: KFRC San Francisco, California
11-18-1899 - Eugene Ormandy - Budapest, Hungary - d. 3-12-1985
conductor: "Roxy's Gang"; "Phildelphia Orchestra"
11-18-1900 - Don Quinn - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 12-30-1967
writer: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Halls of Ivy"
11-18-1901 - Dr. George Gallup - Jefferson, IA - d. 7-26-1984
statistician: "Living 1948"
11-18-1907 - Gwen Meredith - Orange, Australia - d. 10-3-2006
writer: "Blue Hills"; "The Lawsons"
11-18-1908 - Imogene Coca - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-2-2001
comedian: "Big Show"
11-18-1909 - Johnny Mercer - Savannah, GA - d. 6-25-1976
singer: "Camel Caravan"; "Johnny Mercer's Music Shop"; "Dinah Shore
Show"
11-18-1912 - Arthur Peterson - Mandan, ND - d. 10-31-1996
actor: Reverend John Rutledge "The Guiding Light"; "World's Great
Novels"
11-18-1919 - Georgia Carroll - Bloomington Grove, TX - d. 1-14-2011
singer: (Wife of Kay Kyser) "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
11-18-1923 - Alan Shepard - Derry, NH - d. 7-21-1998
astronaut: "NASA Audio News"; "Space Story"
11-18-1924 - Les Lye - Toronto, Canada - d. 7-21-2009
emcee: CFRA Ottawa; CKEY Toronto
11-18-1926 - Dorothy Collins - Windsor, Ontario, Canada - d. 7-21-1994
singer: "Your Hit Parade"
11-18-1928 - Mickey Mouse - Hollywood, CA
cartoon character: "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"
11-18-1936 - Don Cherry - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 10-19-1995
jazz trumpeter: "Manhattan Melodies"
11-18-1939 - Brenda Vaccaro - Brooklyn, NY
actor: "We Hold These Truths"
11-18-1945 - Glenn Walken - Queens, NY
actor: (Brother of Christopher) Michael Bauer "The Guiding Light"
November 18th deaths
03-13-1913 - Harold J. Stone - NYC - d. 11-18-2005
actor: Sergeant Waters "21st Precinct"
03-30-1902 - Ted Heath - Wandsworth, London, England - d. 11-18-1969
bandleader: "Ted Heath and His Orchestra"
05-01-1888 - [removed] Armstrong - Waverley, Australia - d. 11-18-1973
writer: "Drought"
05-29-1924 - Bob Corley - Macon, GA - d. 11-18-1971
actor: Beulah "Beulah"
06-07-1907 - Tom Slater - Parkersburg, WV - d. 11-18-1961
announcer: "Kitty Keen"; "Jack Berch Program"; "For Men Only"
06-14-1929 - Cy Coleman - NYC - d. 11-18-2004
jazz pianist, composer: "Cy Coleman at the Piano"; "Voices of Vista"
06-18-1893 - Gladys Gooding - Macon, MO - d. 11-18-1963
organist, singer: organist at Madison Square Garden
07-06-1910 - Dorothy Kirsten - Montclair, NJ - d. 11-18-1992
singer: "Keepsakes"; "Kraft Music Hall"; "Light Up Time"
07-11-1894 - Walter Wanger - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-18-1968
film producer: "Information, Please"; "Hollywood Fights Back"; "Lux
Radio Theatre"
07-14-1880 - Donald Meek - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 11-18-1946
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-29-1916 - Max Bice - d. 11-18-2002
newscaster: KMO Seattle, Washington
09-06-1888 - Joseph P. Kennedy - East Boston, MA - d. 11-18-1969
ambassador to Great Britain: "Ambassador Joseph Kennedy"
09-18-1948 - Ken Brett - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-18-2003
part of the Los Angeles Dodgers broadcast team
09-21-1916 - Zinovy Gerdt - Sebezh, Russia - d. 11-18-1996
actor: Read poetry and prose on radio
10-07-1888 - Henry Wallace - Adair County, IA - d. 11-18-1965
vice president: "Free World Theatre"
10-15-1900 - Fritz Feld - Berlin, Germany - d. 11-18-1993
actor: "NBC Uinversity Theatre"; "Nightbeat"; "Advs. of the Saint"
10-30-1891 - Bill Brandt - d. 11-18-1963
sports commentator: "Inside of Sports"
11-29-1894 - H. Leslie Atlass - d. 11-18-1960
Chicago radio pioneer, CBS executive
12-12-1909 - Louis G. Cowan - Chicago, IL - d. 11-18-1976
producer: "The Quiz Kids"; "Murder at Midnight"
12-12-1913 - Hal Dickinson - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-18-1970
organized Modernaires: "Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra"
xx-xx-1919 - Walter McGraw - d. 11-18-1978
director: "Believe It or Not"; "The Chase"
Ron
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