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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2005 : Issue 41
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
eddie bracken [ "Kurt E. Yount" <blsmass@[removed]; ]
Bill Johnstone birth [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
KNX 50 Memories [ Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed] ]
HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE SCHEDULE [ HERITAGE4@[removed] ]
knx in the 50*s [ leonardfass@[removed] (Leonard Fass ]
Dylan's radio reminiscenses [ Richard Carpenter <newsduck@[removed] ]
Doc Gamble--Arrowsmith [ "Donald P. Tuttle" <dobbsi5@[removed] ]
Music Till Dawn [ "Dave DiSisto" <ddisist1@[removed] ]
I [removed] [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
Lum/Jed Clampett [ Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed] ]
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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 16:19:11 -0500
From: "Kurt E. Yount" <blsmass@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: eddie bracken
You can't mention Eddie Bracken without mentioning Elwood, a suspense
show that was ahead of its time. It was a show I never forgot. I won't
mention the plot elements except to say that it is well worth listening
to. Kurt
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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 16:19:48 -0500
From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Bill Johnstone birth
on 2/6/05 1:39 PM, Ron Sayles wrote:
02-07-1908 - Bill Johnstone - Paisley, Scotland - d. 11-1-1996
actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"; Sam Young "Pepper Young's Family"
***The actor William "Bill" Johnstone was born 02/06/05 in New York. It was
his father, journalist William Andrew Johnstone (1871-1929), who was born in
Paisley, Scotland. Vintage newspapers and magazines have a tendency to
confuse the two, giving the actor a incorrect journalist background. This
information was given to me years ago by Bill Johnstone himself. --Anthony
Tollin***
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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 16:20:39 -0500
From: Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: KNX 50 Memories
Stuart Lubin, did a great job recalling some of the
happenings of KNX Los Angeles in the fifties.
He mentions the Steve Allen weekday after midnight
show, which developed sort of a cult following of an
audience that relished the entertainment a quipping
Steve Allen provided. Steve throroughly off the cuff
ad libbed the entire show. Audience members in the
know would place items on the stage just behind the
footlights to peak the attention of Steve who would
then make a comment about whatever the item's
significance envoked from Steve. Normally it was
humorous and on the mark.
Stuart also mentions Mike Roy, a tall rotund fellow
who looked like the cookshow Chef he later was to
evolve into over CBS airways. Mike's opinion of the
microwave oven when it first came out was it was a
great way to heat a dog's food. On the show I worked
with Mike he did the announcing. It may have been
"The Smiths of Hollywood," I can't really recall, but
he also did the show's warm up. One of his schticks
was his introduction of himself. He'd come out on
stage as large as he was and say something such as,
"Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen. I'm rugged
Micheal Roy, my mother's baby boy, guiding light and
protecting arm of the poor working girl," He'd then
place his right hand's straight up pointed index
finger under his chin, bend a knee and leg behind him,
lower himself a foot and turn his entire body to his
left. Such a gesture and statement by the bulky Mike
Roy always produced the laugh intended and started the
ball moving to break the ice of the audience, getting
them in the mood to have a good time viewing the show
and laughing whenever the mood struck them.
Thanks, Stuart, for jogging MY memory again.
--
conradab@[removed] (Conrad A. Binyon)
Encino, CA
Home of the Stars who loved Ranches and Farms
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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 00:11:30 -0500
From: HERITAGE4@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE SCHEDULE
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Here's our lineup for the week of February 6, 2005 at The Olde Tyme Radio
Network: [removed]
available any time all week 24/7 Enjoy !
1. Fort Laramie - 1/22/56 CBS - 1st show "Playing Indian"
2. The Fred Allen Show - 10/7/45 First NBC show - Guests are:
Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy.
3, Challenge of the Yukon - Rarity - Pre-national show of 10/30/43
from WXYZ on the Michigan Radio Network - Copmete story in
15 mins. "Bank Robbery"
We are selling (3) RCA Ribbon mikes - (1) 77DX (1) 44-BX and
(1) 74 (Junior Velocity) Contact me directly if interested.
Tom Heathwood - Heritage4@[removed]
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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 00:11:43 -0500
From: leonardfass@[removed] (Leonard Fass)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: knx in the 50*s
first, thanks, stuart lubin for knx info & (previous topic) to those
who responded to my question re:fred and portland*s apartment.
next, a question. i know that the great steve allen was on fm when it
was an original and inventive medium. was his program simulcast?
finally, jim hawthorne went from knx to koa denver (where bill ballance
was once on staff); i don*t know if he went there directly.
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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 00:12:11 -0500
From: Richard Carpenter <newsduck@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Dylan's radio reminiscenses
In Bob Dylan's memoir "Chronicles," he reminisces
about growing up listening to radio. His memory is
faulty in a couple of places, which you will easily
spot, but it is obvious that OTR played a significant
role in his young life. He writes:
"Radio shows had been a big part of my
consciousness back in the Midwest, back when it seemed
like I was living in perpetual youth. The Lone Ranger,
This Is Your FBI, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Fat Man,
The Shadow, Suspense. Suspense always had a creaking
door more horrible sounding than any door you could
imagine -- nerve-wracking, stomach-turning tales week
after week. Inner Sanctum, with its horror and humor
all mixed up. Lone Ranger, with the sounds of
buckboards and spurs clinking out of your radio. The
Shadow, the man of wealth and student of science out
to right the world's wrongs. Dragnet was a cop show
with the musical theme that sounded like it was taken
out of a Beethoven Symphony. The Colgate Comedy hour
kept you in [removed]
"Before I had gone into any department store, I was
an imaginary consumer. I used Lava Soap, shaved with
Gillette Blue Blades, was on Boliva Time, putting
Vitalis in my hair, used laxatives and pills for acid
indigestion -- Feenamint and Dr. Lyon's tooth
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"I asked [a] guy who made the sound effects for the
radio shows how he got the sound of the electric chair
and he said it was bacon sizzling. What about broken
bones? The guy took out a LifeSaver and crushed it
between his teeth."
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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 00:24:24 -0500
From: "Donald P. Tuttle" <dobbsi5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Doc Gamble--Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis wrote "Arrowsmith" in 1925--a doctor named Martin Arrowsmith.
Donald P. Tuttle
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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 00:26:33 -0500
From: "Dave DiSisto" <ddisist1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Music Till Dawn
Stuart Lubin wrote:
Baldwin also hosted "Music Till Dawn" for an airline company. I believe
it went on from 12:00 midnight till 5:00 AM. There was also a time that
"Gunsmoke" radio and TV announcer, George Walsh, also hosted "Music Till
Dawn".
I believe that airline company was American Airlines as WCBS in NYC aired
"American Airlines' Music Till Dawn" featuring classical music selections
for years from Midnight to 5 or 6 [removed] before the CBS flagship switched to
the all news format on August 18, 1967.
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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 08:44:00 -0500
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: I [removed]
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Jell-O Again, Gang:
Birthday almancker Ron Sayles & I have been having a spirited discussion
off-list about the
programme "I Remember Mama." It all started about a week ago when Prof. Sayles
posted
the birthday of child actor/political activist Robin Morgan. I wrote Ron
telling him he
neglected to include Ms. Morgan's most famous radio role of little Dagmar on
"I Remember
Mama." I maintain that at some point, the early TV show "Mama" was also done
on [removed]
possibly as a simulcat of the TV offerings or as re-adaptations for the radio.
Back around 1995
or 1996, FOTR staged a re-creation of "IRM" with Rosemary Rice and Dick Van
Patten featured
in their original brother and sister roles, and Pat Hosley essaying Robin
Morgan's original role as
Dagmar. Now why would FOTR stage a TV show at a RADIO convention?!
Sez I to Ron:
I do believe it was also on radio. It might have been re-adapted
scripts from the concurrent TV show.
Ron responded:
You got me intrigued with "I Remember Mama." I have completed much research
and I just can't find that it was ever on radio. This is a direct quote from
the book "I Was Raised on Radio" by Gerald Nachman.
". . . . Guess who comes through? Molly-a jollier, Jewish version of the
gentle, firm, wise Norwegian mother in "I Remember Mama" on stage, screen and
TV (yet never radio, oddly) . . ."
Maybe we should throw this out to the digest and see what we get.
That's what I'm attempting to do right now. Students?
Derek Tague
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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:14:57 -0500
From: Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed];
To: OTRDIGEST <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Lum/Jed Clampett
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I just watched Lum and Abner's "So This is Washington." Was Beverly Hillbilly
Jed Clampett patterned after Lum?
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