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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2006 : Issue 76
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Elmer Fudd [ Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed]; ]
The Upcoming PHC Movie [ "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@hotm ]
3-14 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
The Eveready Hour [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
Music Til Dawn History [ [removed]@[removed] ]
Both use pencils, [removed] [ Wich2@[removed] ]
radio recreations of baseball games [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
paladin [ "Mike Leannah" <mleannah@[removed] ]
More on Shell Chateau [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
OTR Recreations Article [ ilamfan@[removed] (S Jansen) ]
Late Night Music [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
Mr Llewyn [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
THE DAY I MET PALADIN [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:14:54 -0500
From: Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Elmer Fudd
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That would be Arthur Q. Bryan. He was a regular as 'Floyd the barber," on
"The Great Gildersleeve" show on radio, also. Bob Slate
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:15:00 -0500
From: "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Upcoming PHC Movie
There is an interesting article on the upcoming Robert Altman directed A
PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION movie at:
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(As this is Salon you have to watch a short commercial before you can read
the story).
And there is now a website for the movie up at
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which has a teaser (short) trailer available for viewing.
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:00:17 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 3-14 births/deaths
March 14th births
03-14-1869 - Algernon Blackwood - d. 12-10-1951
author: "Escape"
03-14-1879 - Albert Einstein - Ulm, Germany - d. 4-18-1955
physicist: "The Quick and the Dead"
03-14-1900 - Bernie Cummins - Akron, OH - d. 9-22-1986
bandleader: "Coca-Cola Spotlight Bands Program"; "Fitch Bandwagon"
03-14-1912 - Les Brown - Reinerton, PA - d. 1-4-2001
bandleader: (Les Brown and His Band of Renown) "Bob Hope Show";
"Fitch Bandwagon"
03-14-1913 - Jay Barney - Chicago, IL - d. 5-19-1985
actor: Bugsy O'Toole "The Romance of Helen Trent"
03-14-1918 - Dennis Patrick - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-13-2002
actor: "Shakespeare Festival"
03-14-1919 - Harry Caray - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-18-1998
baseball announcer: St. Louis Cardinals; Chicago Cubs
03-14-1919 - Luther Henderson - Kansas City, MO - d. 7-29-2003
arranger: "Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP"
03-14-1933 - Michael Caine - London, England
actor: "Wednesday Night" CBC
March 14th deaths
01-09-1901 - Chic Young - Chicago, IL - d. 3-14-1973
cartoonist: Creator of Blondie Bumstead nee Boopadoop
01-17-1910 - Tex Fletcher - Harrison, NY - d. 3-14-1987
actor: Tex Mason "Songs of the B-Bar-B"
05-30-1915 - Frank Blair - Yemasse, SC - d. 3-14-1995
newscaster, announcer: "America Looks Ahead"; "Fulton Lewis, Jr."
06-30-1917 - Susan Hayward - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-14-1975
actress: "Radio Almanac"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-21-1906 - Carlton Kadell - Danville, IL - d. 3-14-1975
announcer, actor: Tarzan "Tarzan"; Red Ryder "Red Ryder"
09-03-1910 - Michael Eisenmenger - d. 3-14-2003
sound effects: "Captain Midnight"; "Backstage Wife"
11-23-1913 - Maurice Zolotow - NYC - d. 3-14-1991
writer: "Information Please"
11-29-1895 - Busby Berkeley - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-14-1976
choreographer: "Gulf Screen Theatre"; "Whatever Became Of . . . ?"
12-08-1895 - Harold Arlin - d. 3-14-1986
first full time radio announcer in the world, KDKA, Pittsburgh, 1921
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, wisconsin
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:14:02 -0500
From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Eveready Hour
[Brad Barker] came by his radio specialty by accident while rehearsing
a program about a shipwreck in the Galapagos. At one point where the
script mentioned seals, Barker jokingly let out a burst of seal barks.
The director loved it and decided to keep it in the show, and the next
day they had him in front of a microphone doing other animal sounds.
I've been meaning to post a query about the Eveready Hour's
oft-repeated Galapagos episode. Does this script survive (or any of
the 1924-25 Eveready drama scripts), by any chance? Judging from the
newspaper coverage I've seen, it sounds as if it is one of the
earliest dramas written for radio to feature first person narration.
But does anyone know if that's actually the case?
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:16:57 -0500
From: [removed]@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Music Til Dawn History
Someone had ask about Music Til Dawn, which I remember well from WLW in
Cincinnati. I dug out an old album marketed by the program and American
Airlines
in 1968 which features this history on the back cover.
The name "Music 'Til Dawn" is the title of the late-night radio program
sponsored by American Airlines on 10 stations across the country. The first
program was hosted by the late Bob Hall on station WCBS in New York, the night
of April 13, 1953. The year 1968, therefore, marks the 15th anniversary of this
Peabody Award-winning program of fine music.
Today's network of Music 'Til Dawn stations and their hosts are: WEEI -
Boston -
Jack Lazare; WBBM, Chicago - Jay Andres; WLW, Cincinnati - Lee Stewart; KRLD,
Dallas - Tony Garrett; WJR, Detroit - Jay Roberts; KNX, Los Angeles - George
Walsh; WCBS, New York - Don Robertson; KOFM, Oklahoma City - Maurice Eaves;
KCBS, San Francisco - Ken Ackerman; WTOP, Washington - Terry Hourigan.
Music 'Til Dawn's producer is Lyman Clardy, and its Director, Robert H. Prall.
According the Goldenindex the program left the air on WCBS on January 3,1970.
Paul Urbahns
Radcliff,KY
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:17:37 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Both use pencils, [removed]
From: Ron Sayles _bogusotr@[removed]_ (mailto:bogusotr@[removed])
04-28-1911 - Lee Falk - St. Louis, MO - d. 3-13-1999
cartoonist: "Mandrake the Magician"
Dear Ron, & gang-
Mr. Falk did indeed create Mandrake; and with The Phantom, the
long-johned-hero.
But he was no cartoonist; he wrote the scripts.
He was also a published novelist, and accomplished in the field of Theater,
but that's another story entirely from The [removed]
Best,
-Craig
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:18:05 -0500
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: radio recreations of baseball games
If the scheduled game was rained out (I'm
not sure if it was just local games or all games) they
would use the teletype reports to give game
play-by-play of another game. But, as I recall, there
was no attempt to simulate the game. It was just a
straight report. You could hear the teletype in short
bursts in the background as a pitch or play came in.
No actual sound effects or "creativity."
I've seen two demonstrations of the craft, both on television. The first
one I saw was on a late-night talk show, probably Tonight w/Johnny Carson.
The fellow did, indeed, describe a baseball game as if it was happening
right in front of him, and it was quite effective.
The second demonstration I saw was from another old announcer, who
apparently had done a lot of this kind of thing before he served two terms
as President. Yup, Ronald Reagan did a very short but exceedingly effective
few lines of a baseball game description--again, as if he was at the ball
park--at a press conference. Everyone loved it.
M Kinsler
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:19:42 -0500
From: "Mike Leannah" <mleannah@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: paladin
One more thing about The Ballad of Paladin and its composer/singer, Johnny
Western: He attended the FOTR Convention in 2000, performing many songs,
including his most famous one, The Ballad of Paladin. The LP Martin Grams
mentioned was for sale (in tape or CD format) at one of the tables. I've
played it to the point of wearing it out. Johnny Western was a very kind and
gracious man. I'll never forget meeting him and hearing him perform. It was
one of the highlights of the convention for me.
Michael Leannah
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:52:05 -0500
From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "The Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: More on Shell Chateau
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There were 115 episodes of Shell Chateau from April 6 1935 to June 26, 1937.
About 13 or 14 program are in existance.
In 1935 Jolson made 2 movies and short subject film which could account for
the need of substiute hosts.
Winchell subed on October 5, 1935, Beery substiuted On Oct. 26 Nov. 9,16,23,
Dec. 21 & 28 Jolson made a few more shows.
I have 5 Shell Chateau shows that I dig out and listen to and really enjoy
them, Why can't we get get good entertainment like that anymore?
Did a Google search and found lots of information including a complete log
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This is a great site for collectors who want the correct date of programs.
I have found over 50 web sits that have logs, play programs or sell CD's or
cassetts of OTR programs, and the numbers are growing.
There is an Al Jolson fan club and several othe sites that tell the Jolson
story
movies and recording etc. Google is great.
Frank McGurn
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:52:22 -0500
From: ilamfan@[removed] (S Jansen)
To: [removed]@[removed] (OTR Bulletin Board)
Subject: OTR Recreations Article
Hey, all!
Here's a link to the Daily Herald - they did an article about my OTR
collecting and restorations with the First Generation Radio Archives and our
recreation group, the Theatre Of The Mindless.
If you're in the Chicago area (far north suburbs), please check out our
show at the Jack Benny Center, Bowen Park, Waukegan this Saturday the 18th at
3pm. Tickets $10. Great fun for all!
We've got a continuing gig at the Benny Center, about every other month
for this entire year.
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Stephen Jansen
--
Old Time Radio never dies - it just changes formats!
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:52:32 -0500
From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "The Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Late Night Music
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Some one was looking for good music for late night [removed] I, by
accident, found AM 740 Tronto, Canada. Just music no talk and little or no
commericals.
I'm in McHenry County, Illinois 50 miles NW of Chicago, and I get it loud
and clear.
If your on line and like jazz try [removed] it a great music station its
24/7
FM station
Frank McGurn
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:16:48 -0500
From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "The Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Mr Llewyn
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Charlie:
Elmer Fudd's voice was Arthur Q. Bryan who was on Gilersleeve for years as
one of the Jolly Boys. He was Floyd Munsen the Barber. Doing research I
went to John Dunnings "Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio" and read the material
on Gildersleeve, no Mr. Llewy in the regular cast. I don't have the 12/7/41
show so I couldn' check it out
I checked out Arthur Q. Bryan's name in the index and find he is listed 17
times so he was a busy actor. As you may remember he was Doc Gamble on
Fibber McGee & Molly from April 6, 1943 until the end of the series.
Many times an actor or actress would do more than one chacter in a program,
especially bit parts.
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:01:41 -0500
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: THE DAY I MET PALADIN
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Martin Grams employs his usual scholarly insights in recalling the great
single "BALLAD OF PALADIN." around 1959 or so, I feel I must also say add
that
one of the single's most inspiring bits of narration, one that made me really
want to be an actor on radio and even the movies and TV, was on the B side of
that 45 RPM record called,
"The Guns of Rio Muerto."
A stunning bit of drama read by Richard Boone that put chills down my 16
year old spine!
I knew then that I wanted to be an actor.
By the time I got to Hollywood, Richard Boone was playing a parody of
Paladin in a show called, "Hec Ramsey," a character which he himself
described
as, "Paladin, only fatter."
I ran into him, almost literally, while rounding a sound stage on the
back lot at Universal and stuttered like a drooling fan about his narration
on
that record.
He stared at me till I finished and I think I noticed a slight smile.
It was then I felt the fear that every 'villain' must have felt as he
stared into the eyes of Paladin.
Then he lumbered into the commissary, leaving me to ponder my fate,
hoping I might get to do the show and get myself shot by Paladin.
Sadly, it was not to be.
Michael C. Gwynne
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