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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 274
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: old radio mags posted on the int  [ K & J Hammel <haml@[removed]; ]
  Joe Laurie, I mean Lurie              [ "Irene Theodore Heinstein" <IreneTH ]
  ERNIE KOVACS ON RADIO                 [ "Andolina, Joe" <Joe_Andolina@cable ]
  Cassettes                             [ Richard Olday <raolday@[removed]; ]
  Decca Lone Ranger series              [ "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
  Can You Top This? on the [removed]   [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
  The Railroad Hour                     [ "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed]; ]
  9-24 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  wow - Gildersleeve went faster than   [ Chargous@[removed] ]

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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:55:58 -0400
From: K & J Hammel <haml@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: old radio mags posted on the internet

To take a look at some of the OTR magazines that Al has scanned, you can
access them at the OTRR website at [removed]

CLick on PUBLICATIONS and then select the MAGAZINES link.  There's a lot
to choose from, some are OTR fan [removed] the ones Al did are
"Microphone", "Movie-Radio Guide", "Radio Guide" and "Radio Stars".
Enjoy.  He did a fabulous job on these.

Take a look around the rest of the site while you're there.  Lots of
things of interest.

Kathy H.

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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:31:44 -0400
From: "Irene Theodore Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Joe Laurie, I mean Lurie

Jack, a follow-up to your speculations about Joe Laurie Jr.

I decided to do another search and I located the Laurie family immigration
records.

The name under which they came to the US was LURIE.

They sailed from Hamburg in Aug 1891.  [They arrived in NY the year before
Ellis Island opened in 1892 which is why I didn't find them in the Ellis
Island database.]  The family consisted of the parents and five children.
Joe Jr. was the youngest child born about six months before the family
arrived in NY.   His name was originally Leiser Lurie.  The family appeared
on the 1900 census in Manhattan and I was able to match up the 'old country'
given names with the names they took in NY.

 Many Luries came to the US from Russia.  The family was Jewish and I'm not
sure what their name might have been in Russia but on the manifest it would
have been anglicized if necessary to Lurie.  [Names were NOT changed at
Ellis Island or other US destinations, but at departure, on the ship's
manifest]  The historical context for their leaving their home in Moscow,
Russia was the expulsion of Jews from Moscow which began in March 1891 and
continued through June 1892.  At the time the Jewish population in Moscow
was about 20,000.

Joe Jr. was not too far off his birth name.  From Leiser to Joseph Jr. and
from Lurie to Laurie.  His birth year was one year earlier than reported,
1891 not 1892.   His father's given name was Jossel which he changed to
Joseph.

Glad to clear that up.  Now I and folks on this list are possibly some of
the few people who know this much about Joe Laurie [removed] background.  I wish
there was a repository for random information in case someone includes him
in a book.

~~Irene

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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:55:51 -0400
From: "Andolina, Joe" <Joe_Andolina@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  ERNIE KOVACS ON RADIO

Does anybody know if any of Ernie Kovacs radio shows are in circulation?
I believe he did the show in NJ? Would love to hear some. I heard a clip
on an old A&E Biography broadcast I taped in 1999 on Kovacs.

Joe

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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:08:07 -0400
From: Richard Olday <raolday@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Cassettes

Hi: For those who still use cassettes, Walgreens has TDK tapes on sale this
week for $ 5 for either a 12 pack of 60's or a 10 pack of 90's. I do not have
any relationship with Walgreens.  Dick Olday

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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:14:49 -0400
From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Decca Lone Ranger series

Andrew Steinberg asks about two of the nine Decca records Lone Ranger
mini-adventures that were released in the early 1950's.  The first one is
"He is Saved By Tonto", and the second is, "He Finds Silver".  That second
one is one of three that re-tell the origin story.

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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:14:57 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Can You Top This? on the [removed]

Folks;

   Recently here we've discussed "Can You Top This?," an
audience-participation program where the listeners could send in jokes to
tell; the panelists would then try to top the laughter level as measured on
the meter, which would determine how much money the joke-sender would receive.

   Our friend Jim Widner, he of the Radio Days ( [removed] )
website, provided a collection of episodes he's acquired from the Net for
running on the Nostalgia Rumblings podcast. The first episode is labled from
April 21, 1942 and has as its first topic "Restaurants." (Note the original
encoder [not Jim] did a rather poor encode, sampling at 11kHz and encoding a
mono file in joint stereo, so apologies for the poor quality of the file.
I've learned that trying to "fix" things like this makes it even worse, so I
am providing the file as-is.)

   You may stream the show using the web-based player, or download it with
the provided link. Folks subscribed to the blog with any podcasting client
(iTunes, Juice, etc.) have likely already received the show!

   There are additional shows which will be posted over the next week or
three, so check the blog frequently (or add it to your browser's RSS monitor
- Firefox has native support).

   The Nostalgic Rumblings blog is at [removed]

         Charlie

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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:21:41 -0400
From: "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The Railroad Hour

After two attempts I received a copy of the book "The Railroad
Hour, A History of the Series." Perhaps somewhere down the block
or over on the next street, someone is learning a little about
radio's past.

This is a good book for fans of the series, with about 37 pages
devoted to a history of the program, its stars, supporting cast
and writers/adapters, before moving on to an exhaustive guide to
the episodes. The guide names cast members, the songs that are
included, a synopsis of the story, and - my favorite information
because I'm such a dummy about the musical theater - the history
of the story, which might be traced back to centuries-old plays
or music, poems or prose.

The book is not without its difficulties, including a number of
typographical errors, such as referring to a radio station as
SGAR in one sentence, followed by another which starts, "At WGAR,
...," making one think the "G-A-R" of SGAR weren't intended
either; did the authors possibly mean one of the stations - WHKC,
WOSU or WCOL - mentioned in a previous sentence? On the same
page, there is a reference to the "Armed Forces Radio Series."

The profiles of the supporting cast could have been more helpful
if the names were followed by the years of their births and
deaths, just to give the reader a better idea of what stage in
life they entered that of The Railroad Hour. The profiles are
compromised with the formula "born in" and non sequitir, the
funniest of which is, "Born in Piedmont, California, Warenskjold
was the granddaughter of Axel Warneskjold, who invented the Atlas
Diesel engine and was knighted by the King of Norway." To think
that being born in Piedmont could contribute to such success!
Also, there is a strange shift from past tense to present to
introduce Carmen Dragon, making it sound as if he and the program
itself are still alive.

There are troubles, too, in the episode guide, such as Episode
#36, OKALAHOMA! [sic], which is followed by "Script subtitle:
'Tribute to Franz Schubert.'" Next comes more about Rogers and
Hammerstein, the story and history of "Oklahoma!", only to be
followed by "Songs include: An Sylvia [removed], Fischerweise, [removed],
Ave Maria ...."

I don't mean to be overly critical of the authors and publishers
of old time radio books in general. They are doing a great
service in preserving industry history and Americana. But in
fact, this is a problem I've noticed in other special interest
and hobby-oriented books. Much time and effort and love of the
topic is expended in putting these books together, and not a
little money is spent in buying them. Before finally going to
press, someone removed from a book's development needs to do a
final proofing of the document to catch inconsistencies in style
and fact.

Having said all that, this book was worthwhile to me as a reader.

Bob Cockrum

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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:21:48 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  9-24 births/deaths

September 24th births

09-24-1886 - James Burke - NYC - d. 5-23-1968
actor: producer: "Rose of My Dreams"
09-24-1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald - St. Paul, MN - d. 12-21-1940
writer: "Escape"; "NBC Presents: Short Story"
09-24-1900 - Ham Fisher - Wilkes-Barre, PA - d. 9-7-1955
cartoonist: (Creator of Joe Palooka) "Raleigh Room"; "Philco Radio Time"
09-24-1900 - Poley McClintock - d. 1-6-1980
comedic singer: "The Fred Waring Show"
09-24-1901 - Paschal Strong - d. 1-xx-1988
writer: "Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy"
09-24-1903 - Stu Wilson - Chicago, IL - d. 8-1-1991
actor: "Quiz of Two Cities"
09-24-1904 - Jan August - NYC - d. 1-17-1976
pianist, bandleader: "Quarter hour broadcast on Mutual during 1947-48
09-24-1905 - Howard Hughes - Humble, TX - d. 4-5-1976
film producer, bra inventor, billionaire: "Howard Hughes Senate
Hearings"
09-24-1905 - Wilbur 'Bill' P. Bardo - d. 1-xx-1975
bandleader: "One Night Stand"
09-24-1908 - John Winters - Williamsport, PA - d. 8-24-1990
organist: "Frank Merriwell"; "When a Girl Marries"; "Young Dr. Malone"
09-24-1911 - Edmund L. Hartman - St. Louis, MO - d. 11-28-2003
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-24-1914 - Edward Roecker - Merchantville, NJ
baritone: "Model Minstrels"; "Pipe Smoking Time"
09-24-1915 - Larry Gates - St. Paul, MN - d. 12-12-1996
actor: "Radio City Playhouse"
09-24-1916 - Johnny Catron - Boston, MA - d. 10-31-1998
bandleader: "The Union Oil Company Show"
09-24-1919 - Dayton Allen - NYC - d. 11-11-2004
actor: Phineas T. Bluster/Flubadub "Howdy Doody"; "Words at War"
09-24-1919 - Keremit Barker - d. 2-xx-1986
disk jockey: Charleston, Missouri
09-24-1921 - Edward Bryce - Allenport, PA - d. 12-6-1999
actor: Captain Strong "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
09-24-1924 - Sheila Macrae - London, England
actor, singer: "Railroad Hour"; "Your Rhythmn Revue"; "Lux Radio
Theatre"
09-24-1928 - Jennifer Ramage - London, England
actor: "Calling All Forces"
09-24-1929 - Alfred Hudgins - d. 10-27-2004
disc jockey: "Blues in the Night"
09-24-1931 - Anthony Newley - London, England - d. 4-14-1999
singer, actor: "Round and Round"

September 24th deaths

01-12-1910 - Patsy Kelly - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-24-1981
comedienne: "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
02-13-1915 - Lyle Bettger - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-24-2003
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Family Theatre"
03-02-1904 - Theodor "Dr. Suess" Geisel - Springfield, MA - d. 9-24-1991
children's book author: "American School On the Air"; "Columbia
Workshop"
03-12-1900 - Harlow Wilcox - Omaha, NE - d. 9-24-1960
announcer: "Fibber McGee and Molly Show"; "Suspense"; "Amos 'n' Andy"
03-19-1892 - James Van Fleet - Coytesville, NJ - d. 9-24-1992
4 star army general: "A Tribute to Jack Benny"
06-13-1900 - Ian Hunter - Kenilworth, South Africa - d. 9-24-1975
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "[removed] Steel Hour"
06-22-1930 - Roy Drusky - Atlanta, GA - d. 9-24-2004
singer: "Grand Old Opry"
06-27-1924 - Rosalie Allen - Old Forge, PA - d. 9-24-2003
yodeling cowgirl: "Grand Ole Opry"
07-16-1887 - Floyd Gibbons - Washington, [removed] - d. 9-24-1939
commentator: "Headline Hunter"; "World Adventures"; "Nash Program"
09-09-1899 - Neil Hamilton - Lynn, MA - d. 9-24-1984
actor: [removed] Raffles "Raffles"
09-16-1926 - Tommy Bond - Dallas, TX - d. 9-24-2005
actor: Randolph Foster "A Date With Judy"
10-07-1914 - Sarah Churchill - London, England - d. 9-24-1982
actor: (Daughter of Winston Churchill) "Romance"
10-14-1914 - Norma Ransom - Chicago, IL - d. 9-24-1998
actor: "Destination Freedom"
11-15-1893 - Grover Jones - Rosedale, IN - d. 9-24-1940
writer: "Silver Theatre"
11-23-1896 - Ruth Etting - David City, NE - d. 9-24-1978
singer: "Music That Satisfies"; "Oldsmobile Show"; "Kellogg College
Prom"
12-02-1895 - Warren William - Aitkin, MN - d. 9-24-1948
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-02-1915 - Paul Mann - Toronto, Canada - d. 9-24-1985
actor: George Kirby "Advs of Topper"; Perry "Quiz" Quisinberry
"Passport for Adams"
12-18-1911 - Jerry Lawrence - Rochester, NY - d. 9-24-2005
host, announcer: "laugh 'N' Swing Club"; "Tom Power's Life Stories"
xx-xx-1873 - Royal Arch Gunnison - d. 9-24-1946
newsman: twice weekly 15 minute broadcast on Mutual
xx-xx-1908 - Bernard Dougall - d. 9-24-1972
writer: "The Falcon"; "Mr. President"; "Show Boat"
xx-xx-xxxx - William Stoess - d. 9-24-1953
conductor: "Greatest Story Ever Told"; "Radio's Reader's Digest"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:55:49 -0400
From: Chargous@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  wow - Gildersleeve went faster than I expected

Wow, 131 downloads of the new Gildersleeves, not including who knows how
many usenet downloads. I received 5 or 6 nice notes from people thanking me
for the eps.  Glad to see they were enjoyed.

Travis

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