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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2013 : Issue 55
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
  Do Wah Diddy Diddy                    [ jeffrey wolfe <jeffreylwolfe@yahoo. ]
  Attention: Bobby Benson Fans          [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]

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Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 10:41:07 -0400
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

Hi Friends,

Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
Radio Theatre," John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane
Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios," Charlie St George's "Make Believe
Ballroom Time" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics." Streamed in
high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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Check our our Transcription Disc scans at:
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

DR PEPPER PARADE
Episode 1 1944 "Bravery"
Stars: Pick Malone, Pat Padgett, Jack Arthur, Margaret McCrea
Music: Peter Van Steeden Orchestra
Dr. Pepper Syndication

THE CLOCK
Episode 58 12-11-47 "The Companion"
Stars: Alice Frost, Joe DeSantis.
Catherine and her boyfriend work the paid companion racket.
ABC Sustained

CAMPBELL PLAYHOUSE
Episode 11 2-17-39 "Burlesque"
Host: Orson Welles
Stars: Alice Frost, Sam Levene
ABC Campbell Soup
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

A LIFE IN YOUR HANDS
(NBC) 7/18/50 Written by Earle Stanley Gardner. "Bill Nelson Story"

IT PAYS TO BE IGNORANT
(CBS/AFRS) 5/11/45 Tom Howard, George Shelton and all in a zany quiz.

OUT OF THE [removed] VANDIS & HIS ORCHESTRA
(ABC) 4/28/45 Live Big Band Show from The Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago.
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION

The theme for this week again, is: "Animals that talk on the Radio. We
begin with:

BURNS AND ALLEN from 10/20/42 Pooling Resources For The War Effort.
Clarence Nash as Herman The Duck

"LAND OF THE LOST" from 11/04/45 The Mike Pike Incident aka A Flying
Fish Named Mike.

"COLUMBIA WORKSHOP" from 07/14/40 Episode (038) Fish Story.

"THE JACK BENNY SHOW" from 03/12/39 Carmichael is sick
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Episode 78

"STAR TIME" FEATURING DJ FRANK BRESEE

This week we highlight a show produced by the legendary Frank Bresee
back in 1953. Frank is still a radio hero for me and, of course, has
been for countless other OTR fans for well over 50 years. Perhaps he is
most famous for his "Golden Days of Radio" on the AFRS Network for over
a quarter of a century and will soon be returning to The Olde Tyme Radio
Network with that great series.

Frank's show for this episode is called "Star Time" and was an audition
show on radio KPOL in Los Angeles. For the format of "Star Time" Frank
planned frequently to have a popular guest artist to introduce a current
hit recording and would also arrange with popular performers to record
introductions to their own hits. Recorded appearances of artists on this
trial show in February of 1953 included Vaughn Monroe, Frankie Laine,
and Billy May. Vaughn introduced his "Tenderly" recording; Billy May
brought "My Silent Love;" and Frankie Laine had "Wonderful, Wasn't It?"
Upon first hearing this delightful show I found Frankie's song
pleasantly new and fresh after I thought I'd heard all of his many
recordings through several decades. (See my "Frankie Laine Tribute" on
Episode 72.)

Now as you listen, you'll hear The Modernaires perform a new "Juke Box
Saturday Night" with their renditions of songs by Don Cornell, The Four
Aces, Les Paul & Mary Ford, and Johnnie Ray. The show's crescendo is
Joni James' number 1 hit at the time of my high-school graduation in
1953: "Why Don't You Believe Me?"

Of all the great songs on this "Star Time" my favorite is probably "Glow
Worm" by the Mills Brothers. Not only is the song and performance great,
with outstanding new and clever lyrics written by Johnny Mercer, but
this tune is dear to my heart for a special reason. It was also one of
my song choices on my brief "DJ of the Day," "audition" which I produced
for Eddie Hubbard and which he played on ABC radio. After my retirement
from The University of Texas at Arlington that was my first "fantasy"
venture into producing shows for conventional and internet radio which
soon led me to Bill Bragg's YesterdayUSA and most recently to Jerry
Haendiges' Olde Tyme Radio Network.

Frank's in-person guest on this show is Eddie Fisher, who was about to
leave for Germany for his army commitment. Eddie talks about
entertaining the troops and about his new recording "Lady of Spain" with
Hugo Winterhalter's fine orchestra.

Frank signs off with "Keep well till I see you tomorrow on KPOL." Frank,
however did not "see" his radio audience "tomorrow" because KPOL in a
major blunder failed to pick up the show. Radio KPOL audiences in 1953
were -- and current listeners on The Olde Tyme Radio Network are -- the
losers of more wonderful additional shows that could have been produced
and aired as part of the continuing Golden Days of Radio, celebrated in
Frank's book "Radio's Golden Years" (with artist Bobb Lynes).

Thank you, Frank, for blessing us with so much radio joy, and thank you,
Lord, for blessing us with Frank Bresee, "Mr. Old Time Radio."

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Special thanks to Jerry Haendiges for the meticulous restoration of
"Star Time." This show is available for purchase from Jerry Haendiges
Productions. .
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Make Believe Ballroom Time

Episode 6

Today, BBSS is featuring Chuck Foster and his "Music in the Foster
Fashion" They are broadcasting from the Hotel New Yorker in NY City. The
New Yorker Hotel is located in Manhattan's Garment Center, central to
Pennsylvania Station, Madison Square Garden, Times Square and the Empire
State Building. An early ad for the building boasted that the hotel's
"bell boys were 'as snappy-looking as West Pointers'" and "that it had a
radio in every room with a choice of four stations" It was a New Yorker
bellboy who served as tobacco company Phillip Morris' pitchman for
twenty years, making famous their "Call for Phillip Morris" advertising
campaign.

Throughout the 1940s and 1950s the hotel was among New York's most
fashionable and hosted many popular Big Bands, such as Benny Goodman and
Tommy Dorsey, while notable figures such as Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford
and Fidel Castro stayed there. The New York Observer noted that in the
building's heyday, "actors, celebrities, athletes, politicians,
mobsters, the shady and the luminous-the entire Brooklyn Dodgers roster
during the glory seasons-would stalk the bars and ballrooms, or romp
upstairs".

Some say the Foster band copied the style of Guy Lombardo's successful
and popular Royal [removed] Reed player Chuck Foster began his career
as a bandleader in 1938, bringing the sweet (and sometimes syrupy)
sounds of his band to such sizeable venues as San Francisco's Mark
Hopkins Hotel and the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel's famous Biltmore Bowl.

With radio remotes routinely being broadcast from both locations, the
band hit its stride early and quickly achieved popularity with the help
of talented pianist Hal Pruden and a raft of popular vocalists.

The Foster band is appearing on BBSS in a remote broadcast from the
Hotel New Yorker in NY City. It's mid-August 1945 just prior to Chuck
Foster being drafted into the WWII military.
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If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

Jerry Haendiges

Jerry@[removed] 562-696-4387
The Vintage Radio Place [removed]
Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 10:41:13 -0400
From: jeffrey wolfe <jeffreylwolfe@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Do Wah Diddy Diddy
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There was also a Jack Benny television special; in which he pulled out a map
and demanded that Phil show him exactly where Do Wah Diddy Diddy was. Phil
said, "Jackson, I can't do that because if I do, Alice will know where I go
on the week-ends."

Jeff

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Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 10:42:32 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Attention: Bobby Benson Fans

Kudos to Don Ramlow for doing what myself and several other B-Bar-B fans
could never do: finding Mutual's "middle" Bobby Benson. Don found the
obituary for Robert J. McKnight, who died 6-29-09 at the age of 73; he was a
retired Catholic priest who served in parishes in Vermont and New Jersey.

Ivan Cury, who was Mutual's first Bobby Benson, also made personal
appearances in the Mid-Atlantic region to publicize the series, and hopefully
attract a sponsor. But when Mutual wanted to send Ivan on a goodwill overseas
trip, his mother refused so Mutual located a young singer from Hoboken, Bobby
McKnight, dressed him in B-Bar-B regalia and sent him to tour the NATO
countries. (The Bobby Benson radio show was popular in Europe, thanks to AFRS
broadcasts overseas.)

When Ivan left the B-Bar-B for greener radio pastures on sponsored shows in
New York, Mutual handed the microphone to McKnight. I haven't confirmed how
many shows he did, but as his voice squeaked into maturity, a younger actor
was quickly found and Clive Rice (under the professional name of Clyde
Campbell) became Mutual's third and last Bobby Benson.

McKnight's obituary indicates he was a winner on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour
and also was the understudy for Sal Mineo as the prince in Yul Brynner's "The
King and I" on Broadway. He served in the [removed] Army for two years and entered
the seminary in 1964.  He served in several parishes throughout Vermont and
the Archdiocese of Newark and retired from the priesthood in 2005.

Interesting coincidence:  Rev. McKnight died on Ivan Cury's birthday: June
29th.

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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