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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2004 : Issue 66
A Part of the [removed]!
ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Submarines on OTR [ JJLjackson@[removed] ]
"From out of the past," or NOT, Kevi [ Wich2@[removed] ]
Sherlock Holmes [ Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed] ]
2-22 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
My Chicago store query [ "Philip Chavin" <philchav@[removed] ]
Disney on [removed] [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
Laudanum [ JackBenny@[removed] ]
Disney on the Radio [ Max Schmid <mschmid@[removed]; ]
Walt Disney on OTR [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed] ]
Judy Canova article [ <crw934@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
The Green Hornet movie [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
Walt Disney radio spots [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
12-7-41 Shows [ otrdude@[removed] ]
2-23 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Digitizing OTR from Tape? [ "Richard j Smith" <rjsmith608@chart ]
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:06:27 -0500
From: JJLjackson@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Submarines on OTR
This question arose for me back in September, and I listened to some titles
on Cavalcade of America and LUX. But I was listening to see what kind of sound
effects they were using. Because I was researching for a radio play I was
writing, one that I call The Sunset Squadron.
And the stumper sound was sound of the background when the action is within
the submarine, and under the surface. And obviously, they must have been using
records to make the sound. How to make the submarine come alive is the real
challenge.
Sunset Squadron will be performed by members of the Radio Enthusiasts of
Puget Sound at Museum of Flight in Seattle on March 13, 2004, 2 pm, and
broadcast
on KIXI-880AM radio on March 20, 2004, 7 pm. It's an hour-long radio show
which follows the rescue of a P-51 pilot in World War II by a US submarine,
and
cotinues through the rest of that week, in which they rescue 28 more
aviators. A
true tale.
Joy Jackson
Radio Enthusiasts of Puget Sound
JJLjackson@[removed]
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:07:20 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "From out of the past," or NOT, Kevin Smith?
From: John Leasure <jleasure@[removed];
Subject: Green Hornet Movie
So my question is" If it is obscure and people don't know it and you can't
use the history, then why do the character at all?
I don't draw these conclusions from anything Smith has said?
Can't he do his own character with a passing homage to the Hornet?
Radio folks may not know what comics folks do (paging Msssrs. Tollin, et
al?), but Smith has in the past treated pop classic icons like the Green
Arrow and Daredevil with a respect, and a talent, that impressed fans &
critics alike.
Oh, well. At least Brett Reid isn't a skateboard champion and Kato a kick
boxer ...yet!
Again, I don't see this inferred from any statements Smith has made. If this
film happens, it will NOT be like the recent tv "Ranger" or "Tarzan" (those
qoutation marks intentional). Almost a decade ago, when a new SUPERMAN
feature project was first percolating, Smith wrote a legendary screenplay SO
faithful, and good, that the cretins in the ties immediately sank it, in
favor of travesty variations by Time Burton & Jon Peters that later died a
merciful death.
Britt Reid is in good hands, if the bean counter "artists" don't screw it up.
Best,
-Craig Wichman
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:07:32 -0500
From: Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Sherlock Holmes
In the posts about OTR and "medicines," someone should have mentioned
super sleuth "Sherlock Holmes."
I don't recall the radio show referencing what Sherlock really used the
pipe for, but it is certainly clear in most of the stories, particularly
"The Hound of the Baskervilles."
The last line in the Basil Rathbone movie version is, "The pipe, Watson,
the pipe," as Holmes mounts the stairway.
That particular line was removed from the re-releases of the original
film.
Dennis Crow
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:07:40 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 2-22 births/deaths
February 22nd births
George Washington's birthday
Harumi Miyako's birthday, my favorite Japanese singer
02-22-1896 - Enid Markey - Dillon, CO - d. 11-15-1981
actress: Lillian Burke "Woman of Courage"
02-22-1905 - Robert Weede - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-9-1972
singer: "Great Moments in Music"; "For America We Sing"
02-22-1907 - Robert Young - Chicago, IL - d. 7-21-1998
actor: Jim Anderson "Father Knows Best"; Doug Adams "Passport for Adams"
02-22-1907 - Sheldon Leonard - NYC - d. 1-10-1997
comedian: Tout "Jack Benny Program"; Joe Crunchmiller "Judy Canova Show"
02-22-1908 - Sir John Mills - North Elmham, England
actor: BBC
02-22-1910 - Gene Hamilton - Toledo, OH
announcer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
02-22-1915 - Dan Seymour - NYC - d. 7-27-1982
actor: Danny "Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories"
02-22-1920 - Giulietta Masina - San Girogio di Piano, Italy - d. 1994
actress: Pallina "Terzoglio"
February 22nd deaths
01-21-1915 - John Dunkel - Springfield, OH - d. 2-22-2001
writer: "Escape"; "Fort Laramie"; "Gunsmoke"
02-09-1902 - Chester A. Lauck - Alleene, AR - d. 2-22-1980
comedian: Columbus 'Lum' Edwards "Lum and Abner"
04-08-1903 - Ilka Chase - NYC - d. 2-22-1978
panelist, hostess, actress: "Leave It to the Girls"; "Luncheon at the Waldorf"
10-15-1893 - Ina Claire - Washington, [removed] - d. 2-22-1985
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:07:49 -0500
From: "Philip Chavin" <philchav@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: My Chicago store query
Many thanks to Chuck Schaden, Kris Stone, and Mickey for responding
clearly and fully to my recent query on the Digest re the Metro Golden
Memories store.
-- Phil C.
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:08:00 -0500
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Disney on [removed]
Just checked my catalog, and I have Walt Disney appearing on the Hinds' Hall
of Fame, December 24, 1935.
Ted Kneebone/1528 S. Grant [removed], SD 57401/605-226-3344
OTR: [removed]
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:08:14 -0500
From: JackBenny@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Laudanum
When I interviewed Larry Adler, he said that Oscar Levant was the only person
he ever knew who took laudanum.
--Laura Leff
President, IJBFC
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:08:29 -0500
From: Max Schmid <mschmid@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Disney on the Radio
From the Fair Pickings catalog:
[removed]
THE MAGIC KEY
(all of the following shows are available from FAIR PICKINGS)
The Magic Key was a top-notch NBC variety show, often featuring "long-hair"
musicians, but sometimes featuring popular acts as well. The show was
sponsored by RCA and NBC; mcs were Milton Gross and Ben Grauer. Each show
is 60 minutes.
9/29/35 Paul Whiteman, Maria Jeritza, Amos 'n' Andy, Walt Disney ( Mickey
Mouse and Donald Duck) (premiere)
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:09:05 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Walt Disney on OTR
Sometime around 1959-1960 or so, Disney's TV show, "Walt Disney Presents" did a special
stereo version, which involved tuning an AM radio to your local ABC station for one channel,
tuning an FM radio to your local ABC station on FM for the other channel, and the TV for the
middle channel. Since Disney always hosted the show in those days, he appeared on radio,
too, in those areas where it was carried.
I believe the ABC affiliate in Boston at that time was WTAO Cambridge, which was a
daytime-only AM station. They had a sister FM station, WXHR, which was a classical
music station at the time. Since the program involved had some classical music in it,
WXHR may have carried the FM portion, but WTAO was off the air by the time the Disney
show came on. I don't know if any other station carried the AM portion.
--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed] [removed]
15 Court Square, Suite 210
lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2503
[removed]
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:09:48 -0500
From: "Jerry Haendiges"
<Jerry@[removed];
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK
Hi friends,
Here is this week's line-up for the week of 2-22-04 on my Olde Tyme Radio
[removed] Featuring Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio Theatre," Big John
Matthews and Steve Urbaniak's "The Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same
Station" broadcasts, being broadcast on demand 24/7 in high quality
streaming RealAudio at
[removed]
Past archived broadcasts are also available there.
We look forward to having you join us!
Jerry
Here's this week's lineup:
SAME TIME, SAME STATION with Jerry Haendiges
Metro Goldwyn Mayer on the Radio
MGM THEATER OF THE AIR
Episode 17 2-3-50 "Stablemates"
Stars: Mickey Rooney and Parker Fennely
HOST: Howard Dietz
MGM MUSICAL COMEDY THEATER
Episode 8 2-20-52 "Yolanda and the Thief"
Stars: Boris Karloff, Lisa Kirk and John Conte
=======================================
HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE with Tom Heathwood
THE ADVENTURES OF OZZIE & HARRIET
NBC 12-5-48 Features Guests: Bing Crosby and son
NOVELTY RECORDINGS OF RADIO STARS
A mini-collection of some recorded rarities of broadcast favorites. Jim
Backus, Two Black Cows, Abbott & Costello, Beatrice Kay, Red Ingle, etc.
Thanks to Ted Kneebone.
I LOVE A MYSTERY
MBS 4-30-50
Jack Doc and Reggie in an episode of: "The Nevada Man Killer"
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THE GLOWING DIAL with Big John Matthews and Steve Urbaniak
The Glowing Dial's Sunday Funnies and other silliness featuring:
Gasoline Alley
WOR / SYNDICATED 1948-49 "The Adventure Of Jealous Jessica"
Moon Mullins
CBS Audition 1940 or 1947 "Suit Of Armor"
The Sad Sack
CBS 1946 "Sad Sack Comes Home"
That Brewster Boy
NBC RED 1941 "Joey Runs Away From Home"
Blondie
ABC 1949-50 "The Acting Bug Bites Alexander"
The Spike Jones Show
CBS 6/25/49 "Opera"
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Please feel free to contact me with any questions or requests for upcoming
shows.
Jerry Haendiges
<Jerry@[removed];
[removed] The Vintage Radio Place
Largest source of OTR Logs, Articles and programs on the Net
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:10:13 -0500
From:
<crw934@[removed];
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Judy Canova article
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Hey y'all.
For anyone out there who is a Judy Canova fan, The Macon Telegraph has an
article on her and her "connnection" to Unadilla, Georgia in it today, Sunday,
Feb. 22, 2004.
Here's the link. I hope this works, I have never done this on the digest
before.
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Once you get to the home page, look on the left hand column and click 'local
columnists', then when you get to the local colummists, click on 'Ed
Grisamore'. The Judy Canova article is his latest column titled, "Comedian
lives on in her unofficial hometown."
Its a nice little article, I think.
Bob
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:10:29 -0500
From: Joe Mackey
<joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-net
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history
From Those Were The Days --
2/22
1954 - ABC radio's popular Breakfast Club, program with longtime host,
Don McNeill, was simulcast on TV beginning this day. The telecast of
the show was a bomb, but the radio program went on to break records as
the longest-running program on the air.
2/23
1927 - [removed] President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill into law that
created the Federal Radio Commission, "to bring order out of this
terrible chaos." The president was speaking, of course, of the nation's
then unregulated radio stations. The commission assigned frequencies,
hours of operation and power allocations for radio broadcasters across
the [removed] The name was changed to the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) on July 1, 1934.
2/24
1942 -- It was an historic day in radio broadcasting, as the Voice of
America (VOA) signed on for the first time on this day.
2/27
1922 - Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convened the first National
Radio Conference in Washington, DC. There, industry regulations were
widely discussed.
Joe
--
Visit my slightly updated (1/1/04) homepage:
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:10:56 -0500
From: "Martin Grams, Jr."
<mmargrajr@[removed];
To:
[removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Green Hornet movie
As many people on the Digest know, I've been away from all communication for
the past two weeks to finish a project and as usual, I have found my e-mail
box backed up. Those who have e-mailed but haven't had a reply, I'll
contact you shortly, my appologies.
John Leasure commented about Miramax's plans to develop a GREEN HORNET
movie. I'd like topoint out that Universal Studios has spent the last ten
years developing the movie (I even have a script in my collection somewhere)
with plans to have Jet Li play the role of Kato (great idea). But even with
Miramax's plans, keep in mind that 99% of the ideas that go to the script
and planning stages never make it to the big screen so chances are [removed]
If they do release a movie of THE GREEN HORNET, I'll believe it when I see
the movie trailer. There was a version filmed in China in 1995 and I've
seen the film. More martial arts than anything related to the character of
the Green Hornet so there's been one version made recently and it's
available from many bootleg distributors at martial arts and horror/sci-fi
conventions.
Martin Grams, Jr.
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:11:15 -0500
From: "Martin Grams, Jr."
<mmargrajr@[removed];
To:
[removed]@[removed]
Subject: Walt Disney radio spots
Doug G asked:
Does anybody know if Walt Disney made any OTR appearances either on his own
show or guesting (is that a word?) on other's programs?
The list below is just a sampling and this does not count the many times
Disney appeared on radio programs in the form of Donald Duck or Mickey
Mouse, or the 1938 Mickey Mouse radio series.
The Magic Key (9/29/35) with Amos N' Andy and Paul Whiteman.
The Lux Radio Theatre (9/28/36) "The Plutocrat" with Wallace Berry and M.
Rambeau.
The Log Cabin Jamboree (3/5/38) Disney appears on the show by proxy.
The Lux Radio Theatre (12/26/38) "Snow White and Seven Dwarfs"
The Metropolitan Opera (3/1/41) "The Barber of Seville" with Ezio Pinza
and Rise Stevens.
The Chase and Sanborn Program (6/1/41) Stars Edgar Bergen and Charlie
McCarthy.
We, the People (10/28/41) A Phillips H. Lord production.
The Treasury Hour (11/18/41) Disney appeared by remote broadcast.
The March of Time (7/1/43)
Vox Pop (12/12/46)
The Electric Hour (12/23/45) with Nelson Eddy.
The Charlie McCarthy Show (9/21/47) Disney and the troop performed a short
skit entitled "Jack and the Beanstalk," for publicity purposes with RKO
Pictures for "FUN AND FANCY FREE," a movie featuring Edgar Bergen and two
animated shorts, one being "Mickey and the Beanstalk."
The Story of Mickey Mouse (recorded 10/31/47, syndicated)
The Tex and Jinx Show (11/4/47) Disney is interviewed.
The Cavalcade of Stars (3/27/55) with an all-star cast.
Easy as [removed] (3/9/58) "D is for Dreams" with Claude Dauphin and Ricardo
Montalban.
I don't believe Disney himself appeared in any other Lux Radio Theater
productions except for the two above. A number of his movies were
dramatized on LUX, but I don't believe Disney himself appeared in those
except for the two listed above.
Disney was heard on a large number of TREASURY STAR PARADE syndication
programs, even as the voice of Donald Duck singing (part publicity for THE
THREE CALLABEROS (sp?).) There are also recording known to exist in which
Disney was interviewed on radio stations but always (and shrewdly) for
publicity purposes.
Disney was heard literally dozens and dozens of times on the radio when a
radio station in Los Angeles or New York covered the premiere of the latest
Disney picture, and Walt himself got interviewed briefly on the air. The
studio also cut hundreds of 30 second, 60 second, and five minute and 10
minute radio spots and trailers advertising Disney-released movies and on
occassion, the studios have been releasing them as part of their extras on
the Disney DVDs and some even feature Disney supplying the narration so
there are probably hundreds of radio appearances that could be documented
that featured Walt Disney over the radio waves.
Martin Grams, Jr.
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:11:57 -0500
From:
otrdude@[removed]
To:
[removed]@[removed]
Subject: 12-7-41 Shows
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Does anyone have a chronology of the shows that were broadcast on the Red and
Blue Networks on Dec. 7, 1941?
Andrew
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:12:05 -0500
From: Ron Sayles
<bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 2-23 births/deaths
Feburary 23rd births
02-23-1904 - William L. Shirer - Chicago, IL - d. 12-28-1993
news analyst: "CBS European News"; "[removed] Shirer: News and Comments"
02-23-1909 - Anthony Ross - NYC - d. 10-26-1955
actor: Danny Clover "Broadway Is My Beat"; Broadway Columnist "Mr. Broadway"
02-23-1912 Thomas L. Thomas - Maesteg, South Wales - d. 4-17-1983
singer: "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"; "Voice of Firestone"
02-23-1913 - Jon Hall - Fresno, CA - d. 12-13-1979
actor: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Silver Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
02-23-1935 - Gerrianne Raphael - NYC
actress: "Let's Pretend"
February 23rd deaths
03-25-1906 - Margaret Daum - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-23-1977
singer: "American Album of Familiar Music"
06-16-1890 - Stan Laurel - Ulverston, England - d. 2-23-1965
comedian: "Laurel and Hardy Show" Pilot, never broadcast
09-12-1910 - Shep Fields - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-23-1981
bandleader: "Rippling Rhythm Revue"
10-03-1916 - James Alfred "Alf" Wight - Sunderland, England - d. 2-23-1995
author: James Herriot Books
11-08-1899 - Edmund "Tiny" Ruffner - Crawfordsville, IN - d. 2-23-1983
announcer: "Show Boat"; "Captain Diamond's Adventure"; "Better Half"
11-13-1913 - Alexander Scourby - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-23-1985
actor: Herbert Temple "Young Widder Brown"; Philip Cameron "Against the Storm"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:12:33 -0500
From: "Richard j Smith"
<rjsmith608@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest"
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Digitizing OTR from Tape?
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I am just starting a project of digitizing as many of my OTR programs as
I can. I am doing it in wma format. I was wondering what the normal
bit rate is for recording and archiving them on CD would be? I know
that 128 bps is CD quality. Would it be better to go a bit lower and
make more room on the disk or stay at 128 bps? Any thoughts would be
appreciate. I also want to be able to listen to shows on my mini disk
player as well.
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