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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 120
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Radio Days                            [ Steve Kostelecky <doyasteve@[removed] ]
  re: Radio Days                        [ Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@yahoo. ]
  OLD TYME RADIO NETWORK                [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
  Re: Amos & Andy                       [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  5-1 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Missing Honest Harold                 [ "Barbara Harmon" <jimharmonotr@char ]
  "Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Nig  [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed]; ]
  Phyl Coe Mysteries solutions          [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed] ]
  Re: A&A and the NAACP                 [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
  RE: This week in radio history 30 Ap  [ "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed] ]
  RE: Amos & Andy (Well, sorta; actual  [ "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed] ]
  Johnnie Dollar Auto                   [ Steve Kostelecky <doyasteve@[removed] ]

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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:22:23 -0400
From: Steve Kostelecky <doyasteve@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Radio Days

I have to disagree with Mr. Lubin's assessment of
Woody Allen's "Radio Days." First, the movie has been
discussed many times on the Digest, at least since
I've been around from 1998 or so. Secondly, the
assertion that, "If you are making a movie, title it
after some popular hobby, whether it has to do with
that hobby or not.  You will at least be guaranteed
that some people will attend, in high [removed]" is
ascribing motives to Mr. Allen that I have never heard
him espouse and that, considering the (lest we forget)
relatively small group of otr buffs would make little
impact financially for the picture.
Besides the period music Mr. Allen alludes to the
Shadow, the War of the Worlds, radio premiums, Bergen
and McCarthy, and Mr. Anthony among others.
Mr. Lubin is, of course, allowed his opinion of the
picture. I found it charming and it is one of my
family's favorite pictures. I think it is an effective
evocation of the times and, though it is not
exclusively related to otr, does help show the
importance of radio in the lives of people of the
time.
Steve

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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:22:40 -0400
From: Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  re:  Radio Days
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While some people found the movie mediocre, and it's certainly no Annie Hall,
Radio Days is a pleasant, nostalgic take on Woody Allen's childhood and is
worth watching for Wallace Shawn's hilarious performance.  One can also
listen for Jackson Beck, and other real radio actors in cameos.

  Just a conflicting view, since I don't see why anyone could *dislike* this
movie!

  Rodney

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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:22:49 -0400
From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLD TYME RADIO NETWORK

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(NBC)    10/11/53    "Lost"
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THE GLOWING DIAL

 The Great Gildersleeve - "The Great Music Lover"
originally aired April 30, 1947 on NBC
Starring: Harold Peary, Walter Tetley, Louise Erickson, Lillian Randolph,
Shirley Mitchell, Earle Ross, Bea Benadaret, John Laing announcing.
Sponsor: Kraft Foods Company

 The Great Gildersleeve - "Leroy Is Excluded From Craig's Birthday Party"
originally aired May 7, 1947 on NBC
Starring: Harold Peary, Walter Tetley, Louise Erickson, Lillian Randolph,
Earle Ross, Richard LeGrand, John Laing announcing.
Sponsor: Kraft Foods Company

The Great Gildersleeve  - "Peavy Disappears"
originally aired May 14, 1947 on NBC
Starring: Harold Peary, Walter Tetley, Louise Erickson, Lillian Randolph,
Earle Ross, Richard LeGrand, Arthur Q. Bryan, Ken Christy, John Laing
announcing.
Sponsor: Kraft Foods Company

The Great Gildersleeve - "Marjorie Is Pregnant"
originally aired September 6, 1950 on NBC
Starring: Willard Waterman, Mary Lee Robb, Walter Tetley, Lillian Randolph,
Arthur Q. Bryan, Earle Ross, Richard Crenna, Richard LeGrand, Bud Hiestand
announcing.
Sponsor: Kraft Foods Company

The Great Gildersleeve - "Visiting the In-Laws"
originally aired September 13, 1950 on NBC
Starring: Willard Waterman, Mary Lee Robb, Walter Tetley, Lillian Randolph,
Earle Ross, Richard LeGrand, Shirley Mitchell, Joseph Kearns, Isabel
Randolph, Bud Hiestand announcing.
Sponsor: Kraft Foods Company
==================================

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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:13:45 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re:  Amos & Andy

   Frank McGurn wrote --

    > The point is the colored loved it and could relate the characters
to people they knew.

   Two events in my life.
   A few years ago I worked one summer for the residence services
department at the local university.  A few people knew I enjoyed otr.
One day a black house keeper asked if I had any A&A shows.  I said I
did.  She said when she was a kid, she, her family and friends always
listened and how much she enjoyed the show.  I loaned her same tapes and
she was thrilled, saying it was as funny today as then.
   In the early to mid 70s while in college there was a discussion about
humour with some friends over some libations at a watering hole.  I had
heard only a handful of otr at the time since it wasn't as available as
today.  The discussion went on about Abbott and Costello, Jack Benny,
etc.  I brought up an A&A show I had heard.  Boy did that cause a fuss.
  The mere mention of the show was enough to rise their ire.  I
continued, as I have a tendency to do, and told about a funny scene.
That was not humourous, I was told, it was racist, blah blah blah.  I
shut up.
   Some time later with the same group otr came up again.  I told about
a hilarious skit I had heard and told about these two guys, along with a
friend who came in and out of the picture, the trouble they got into
with mix ups, etc.  They all roared and thought it was hilarious.
   When they stopped laughing I said, "that was a skit from A&A".  They
sat there sort of blank faced.  I often wondered what was going though
their minds, but the topic was quickly changed to something else.
   Joe

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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:22:51 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  5-1 births/deaths

May 1st births

05-01-1888 - Anna Appel - Bucharest, Romania - d. 11-19-1963
actor: Mrs. Cohen "Abie's Irish Rose"
05-01-1892 - Howard Barlow - Plain City, OH - d. 1-31-1972
conductor: "March of Time"; "Voice of Firestone"
05-01-1894 - Sam McGee - d. 8-21-1975
guitarist: (Performed with the "Fruit Jar Drinkers") "Grand Ole Opry"
05-01-1906 - Rose Hobart - NYC - d. 8-29-2000
actor: "Nightbeat"
05-01-1906 - "Little" Jackie Heller - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 7-15-1988
singer: "Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro"
05-01-1907 - Kate Smith - Washington [removed] - d. 6-17-1986
singer, emcee: (Songbird of the South) "Kate Smith Revue"; Kate Smith
Speaks"
05-01-1913 - Louie Nye - Hartford, CT - d. 10-9-2005
comedian: "Louie Nye Show"; "Official Detective"
05-01-1916 - Glenn Ford - Quebec, Canada
actor: Christopher London "Advs. of Christopher London"
05-01-1918 - Jack Paar - Canton, OH - d. 1-27-2004
comedian: "Jack Paar Show"; "Take It or Leave It"
05-01-1919 - Dan O'Herlihy - Wexford, Ireland - d. 2-17-2005
actor: Nicholas Lacey "One Man's Family"
05-01-1919 - John Meredyth Lucas - d. 10-19-2002
film director, producer: "Bud's Bandwagon"
05-01-1922 - Katy Abraham - Wayland, NY - d. 5-24-2005
gardening expert: "The Green Thumb"
05-01-1933 - Joan Hackett - NYC - d. 10-8-1983
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

May 1st deaths

02-03-1907 - Paul Laven - d. 5-1-1950
writer: "The Bob Hope Show"
03-06-1913 - Ella Logan - Glasgow, Scotlans - d. 5-1-1969
singer: "The Chase and Sanborn Hour"; "Kraft Music Hall"
05-12-1910 - Gordon Jenkins - Webster Groves, MO - d. 5-1-1984
conductor, composer: "Everything for the Boys"; "Bob Burns Show"
06-30-1904 - Glenda Farrell - Enid,  Oklahoma Territory - d. 5-1-1971
opposing pitcher: "Quizzer's Baseball"
09-15-1919 - Nelson Giddings - NYC - d. 5-1-2004
writer: "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon"
11-05-1878 - Henry M. Nealy - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-1-1963
emcee: (The Old Stager) "Philco Theatre of Memories"; "Fitch Bandwagon"
12-14-1911 - Spike Jones - Long Beach, CA - d. 5-1-1965
bandleader: "Bob Burns, The Arkansas Traveler"; "Spike Jones Show"
12-17-1906 - Martin Skiles - d. 5-1-1981
music: "Mr. Aladdin"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 11:43:45 -0400
From: "Barbara Harmon" <jimharmonotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Missing Honest Harold
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In "It's That Time Again, Vol. 3" there is a story by Justin Felix headlined
"Gildersleeve meets Honest Harold".   A number of people have asked where is
Honest Harold?  Somehow, in the offices of BearManor Books, NOT in the
office of Jim Harmon, an earlier story by Mr. Felix was used, one only about
Gildersleeve.  The story involving Honest Harold is yet to be published,
perhaps in a Vol. 4.   I haven't the least idea how this could have
happened, anymore than I know how the excellent story involving Cisco Kid at
Fort Laramie by Jack French was not used.  Last minute cuts to make the
required number of pages did have me cut a second solo story by myself
(about Peter Quill and another), a second story by T. Wayne Clay, and an
essay by Craig Wichman.

            I was pleased to have anything by the great, legendary Norman
Corwin.   Yes, it was brief.  I appreciate the perceptive comments by Martin
Grams Jr. in these columns on the matter.   The important thing was that Mr.
Corwin gave his acknowledgement, his blessing, to the project.   Wouldn't
the editor of a detective anthology be happy to have a few lines of
introduction to his volume by Conan Doyle?

            Despite the problems and errors any undertaking as complex as
ITTA3 has to be, I think the book is still a worthwhile edition to the
category of old time radio.   Emails I have received call it "fabulous",
"marvelous", "a treasure".

            JIM HARMON

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Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 11:44:01 -0400
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  "Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand
 with the Big Bands"

The latest "Golden Age of Radio" programs with Dick Bertel
and Ed Corcoran, and "A One Night Stand with the Big Bands"
with Arnold Dean can be heard at [removed].

Each week we feature three complete shows in MP3 format
for your listening pleasure or for downloading; two "Golden
Age of Radios" and one "One Night Stand." We present new
shows every week or so. The current three programs will be
available on line at least until the morning of

Program 40 - July, 1973 - Gale Storm and Barbara Britton

This week's guests were primarily stars in other media, but
there will be plenty of talk about old-time radio.

Gale Storm is perhaps best known as Margie on the hit
television show, MY LITTLE MARGIE.  But her career
encompasses much more -- she has maintained a very
successful recording career, in addition to her radio, motion
picture, theatre, night club, and television performances.

Barbara Britton was raised in Long Beach and started college
there. By chance she was discovered for films when a talent
scout spotted her photo in a newspaper, and soon afterward
she signed a contract with Paramount.

In 1945, Britton married a psychiatrist, with whom she would
raise a family of four. Nonetheless, unlike many actress of the
period, she continued to work and acted in numerous films in
the late 1940s and early 1950s, including the westerns The
Virginian (1946), Albuquerque (1948), and Ride the Man Down
(1952). She also acted in the early 3-D adventure Bwana Devil
(1952). She temporarily put her film career on hold when she
was cast in the NBC comedy/mystery TV series Mr. & Mrs.
North, returning to films when NBC canceled the series in 1954.

Program 41 - August, 1973 - Roger Bower

Roger Bower was born on January 8, 1903, in New York City. He
attended the City Collge of New York and New York University.
But he was more interested in entertainment than education and
aspired to be an actor, performing in vaudeville, minstrel and road
shows.

Bower joined radio station WOR in New York in 1928, and worked
there for 24 years; during that time, he also produced and directed
programs for other stations, including CBS and NBC. At WOR Bower
produced, directed, acted, and created sound effects. During his years
at WOR, Bower directed several thousand radio and television
programs.

Bower's most famous credit was the comedy panel program Can You
Top This?, with "Senator" Ed Ford, Joe Laurie, Jr., Harry Hershfield
and Peter Donald, first heard in 1940. Bower directed and produced
this program, and also served as moderator and scorekeeper for five
years. Listeners submitted jokes to the show, and the best ones were
read to the panel by Donald. The panelists then tried to "top" the joke,
with one of their own on the same subject. A "laugh meter" hooked to
a microphone gauged audience response to the jokes, determining the
winners.

"A One Night Stand with the Big Bands" With Arnold Dean

Teddy Wilson (Part 1) - September, 1974

Part 1 of 2 parts. Please note: This is not a complete program; it is the
interview that eventually became the program.

Theodore Shaw Wilson (1912-1986) grew up in Tuskegee, Alabama,
and briefly studied music at Talladega College. Wilson was the most
important pianist of the swing period. His early recordings reveal a
percussive style, with single-note lines and bold staccatos, that was
indebted to Earl Hines; but by the time of his first performances with
Benny Goodman he had fashioned a distinctive legato idiom that served
him for the rest of his career.

In the 1970's WTIC decided that there was a market in
the evening for long-form shows that could be packaged
and sold to sponsors. Two of those shows were "The
Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand with the
Big Bands."

Dick Bertel had interviewed radio collector-historian
Ed  Corcoran several times on his radio and TV shows,
and thought a regular monthly show featuring interviews
with actors, writers, producers, engineers and musicians
from radio's early days might be interesting. "The Golden
Age of Radio" was first broadcast in April, 1970;  Ed was
Dick's co-host. It lasted seven years. "The Golden Age
of Radio" can also be heard Saturday nights on Walden
Hughes's program on Radio Yesteryear.

Arnold Dean began his love affair with the big band
era in his pre-teen years and his decision to study
the clarinet was inspired by the style of Artie Shaw.
When he joined WTIC in 1965 he hosted a daily program
of big band music.  In 1971, encouraged by the success
of his daily program and "The Golden Age of Radio"
series, he began monthly shows featuring interviews
with the band leaders, sidemen, agents, jazz reporters,
etc. who made major contributions to one of the great
eras of music history.

Bob Scherago
Webmaster

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Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 12:31:01 -0400
From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Phyl Coe Mysteries solutions
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I compiled a page with some solutions I deduced from each Phyl Coe mystery. I
may have missed some solutions, but I have most of them. It is at

  <[removed];

Visit [removed] for OTR program title and date corrections

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Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 16:00:12 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: A&A and the NAACP

On 4/30/06 6:18 PM [removed]@[removed] wrote:

This whole thing is complicated. Roy Willkins, for example, thought it was a
great radio program. Later, as head of the NAACP, he pushed to have the TV
version cancelled. A&A made some blacks think of the old, hated minstrel
shows, and of white men playing in blackface. After WW-II,  black Americans
were less willing to accept second-class citizenship, and more willing to
protest.

Actually, the Association head at the time of the 1951 protest of the A&A
TV series was Walter White, who had earlier led the movement against
stereotypical portrayals in movies. White's interest in putting pressure
on show business to eliminate or minimize portrayals of
working-class/lower-class African-Americans drew quite a bit of heat from
within the Association itself, from members who believed that the group
had more important priorities. Black performers themselves were also
highly critical of White's campaign, arguing that the Association had no
officials with any background in show business, and therefore, in the
words of actor Spencer Williams -- who had a long background in film
prior to his involvement with the A&A TV series -- they had "no grounds
to kick."

So yes, it was an extremely complicated issue.

However, I should point out that the NAACP itself never involved itself
in any protest of the A&A radio series -- the only comment the national
office ever made on the subject prior to the TV protest was a letter to
the Pepsodent Company in 1933, criticising an episode in which Amos and
Andy, while on a road trip, stopped for the evening in a "colored tourist
camp." This, the Association felt, gave the impression that tourist
facilities were formally segregated in the North -- and even though most
facilities *were* unofficially segregated, Correll and Gosden
acknowledged the point and omitted such references from future scripts.

Roy Wilkins himself was on good terms with Correll and Gosden during the
1930s and 1940s, and had a private meeting with them in 1939 to discuss
the program and its popularity among African-American audiences.

Elizabeth

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Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 16:00:49 -0400
From: "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE: This week in radio history 30 April to 6
 May

5/6

1937 - A student of history, a broadcaster or anyone interested in news
coverage, will remember this day and the words of NBC's Herbert Morrison.
"Oh,
the humanity!" Morrison's emotion-filled historic broadcast of the
explosion of the dirigible, Hindenburg at Lakehurst, NJ, became the first
recorded
coast-to-coast broadcast as it was carried on both the NBC Red and NBC Blue
networks from New York City.

I know this will seem petty, but I do think it's important. What Morrison
actually said was, "Oh, the humanities." As such, it's actually a "flub."
That Morrison, whom I believe was an important announcer in his geographical
location, would make that kind of mistake, is ironic at best. Actually,
except for that particular broadcast, I never knowingly heard any of his
other work, so I don't know if Morrison always had problems with proper
English, or if he blew it because of the intensive emotions that he felt from
watching a bunch of people burn to a crisp in a few minutes. I wonder if
anyone else on the list has more knowledge of Morrison's other broadcast.

Thanx,

 B. Ray

   W9KEE

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Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 16:01:06 -0400
From: "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE: Amos & Andy (Well, sorta; actually about
 Rinso)

Where can I buy a box of Rinso?

Rinso, originally a Lever product, was packed in almost every new washing
machine during the late forties. After a long hiatus, the name was licensed
by a company somewhere in El Lay's eastern suburbs, and it is now available
at the "99 Cent Only" chain throughout much of the West.

Thanx,

 B. Ray

   W9KEE

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Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 19:49:21 -0400
From: Steve Kostelecky <doyasteve@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Johnnie Dollar Auto

I read newspapers for a living and have noticed a car
dealership named Johnnie Dollar Auto in Farmington,
New Mexico. I can't help but wonder if it was
established in September of 1962.

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