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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 337
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  11-30 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Re: 2006 Hallmark Ornament            [ "Bill Harris" <nbcblue@[removed]; ]
  DELICIOUS                             [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
  Glass on the Radio                    [ Kelli Stanley <ks4color@[removed] ]
  Re: Halls of Ivy                      [ Henry <wa0goz@[removed]; ]
  Yes, there were awards                [ Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed]; ]
  It's a date                           [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  Re: award winners                     [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
  Delicious                             [ "Donald" <alanladdsr@[removed]; ]
  Delicious                             [ Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed]; ]
  RE: 11-19 births/deaths (Billy Sunda  [ "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed] ]
  Awards fo OYR people                  [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]

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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:06:38 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-30 births/deaths

November 30th births

11-30-1667 - Jonathan Swift - Dublin, Ireland - d. 10-19-1745
writer: "The Columbia Workshop"
11-30-1873 - Frederic William Wile - La Porte, IN - d. 4-7-1941
commentator: "Political Situation in Washington"
11-30-1874 - Winston Churchill - Oxfordshire, England - d. 1-24-1965
british prime minister: War time broadcasts
11-30-1884 - Rev. Dr. Daniel A. Poling - Portland, OR - d. 2-7-1968
clergyman: "The National Youth Conference"
11-30-1885 - Charles West - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-10-1943
actor: "Dramas of Youth"
11-30-1889 - Vito Pellettieri - d. 4-xx-1977
stage manager: "Grand Ole Opry"
11-30-1890 - Ramsey Hill - Georgetown, Guyana - d. 2-3-1976
actor: "Escape"; "NBC University Theatre"
11-30-1894 - David Ogden Stewart - Columbus, OH - d. 8-2-1980
humorist: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-30-1900 - Geoffrey Household - Briston, England - d. 10-4-1988
writer: "NBC Presents: Short Story"
11-30-1906 - John Dickson Carr - Uniontown, PA - d. 2-27-1977
writer: "Suspense"; "Cabin B-13"; "Murder by Experts"
11-30-1907 - Happy Felton - Bellevue, PA - d. 10-21-1964
actor: "Pot O Gold"; "Finders Keepers"; "Stop the Music"
11-30-1907 - Jack Brinkley - Oxford, NC - d. unknown
announcer: "Aunt Jemima"; "Couple Next Door"
11-30-1913 - John K. M. McCaffrey - Moscow, ID - d. 10-3-1983
newscaster: "Author Meets the Critics"; "What Makes You Tick?"
11-30-1914 - Charles Hawtrey - Hounslow, Middlesex, England - d.
10-27-1988
actor, comedian: Hubert Lane "Just William"
11-30-1915 - Brownie McGhee - Knoxville, TN - d. 2-16-1996
blues guitarist, singer: "New World A' Coming"; "This Is Jazz)
11-30-1918 - Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. - NYC
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-30-1919 - Joe Cabbibo - d. 10-xx-1973
sound effects: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Tennessee Jed".
"Counterspy"
11-30-1920 - Virginia Mayo - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-17-2005
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-30-1926 - Dick Crenna - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-18-2003
actor: Oogie Pringle, "A Date with Judy"; "Walter Denton, "Our Miss
Brooks"
11-30-1929 - Dick Clark - Mount Vernon, NY
host: "March of Dimes March of Stars"; "Tribute to Murray the K"
11-30-1947 - David Mamet - Chicago, IL
writer: "Earplay"
11-30-1952 - Mandy Patinkin - Chicago, IL
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

November 30th deaths

01-11-1908 - Lionel Stander - The Bronx, NY - d. 11-30-1994
actor: J. Riley Farnsworth "Life of Riley"; Hoolihan "Grapevine Rancho"
01-27-1916 - Merrill Mueller - NYC - d. 11-30-1980
reporter: "NBC Stands By"; "Morning News Roundup"; "The Navy Hour"
01-28-1892 - Ernst Lubitsch - Berlin Germany - d. 11-30-1947
film director: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-10-1910 - Joyce Grenfell - London, England - d. 11-30-1979
writer, actor: "How"; "A Note with Music"; "We Beg to Differ"
02-25-1901 - Zeppo Marx - NYC  - d. 11-30-1979
comedian: (Marx Brothers) "American Review"
04-08-1900 - Bert "Mad Russian" Gordon - NYC - d. 11-30-1974
comedian: "Eddie Cantor Show"; Yasha "Duffy's Tavern"
04-28-1900 - Val Gielgud - London England - d. 11-30-1981
writer: (Brother of John Gielgud) "The Columbia Workshop"
05-08-1899 - Arthur Q. Bryan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-30-1959
actor: George Doc' Gamble "Fibber McGee and Molly"
05-10-1884 - Olga Petrova - Tur Brook, England - d. 11-30-1977
actor, writer: "Mary Margaret McBride"
05-12-1901 - Harold "Scrappy" Lambert - New Brunswick, NY - d.
11-30-1987
singer: Mark "Smith Brothers: Trade and Mark"; "Town Hall Tonight"
06-23-1894 - Laurie York Erskine - England - d. 11-30-1976
author: "Renfrew of the Mounted"; "Adventure Story"; "National
Children's Week"
07-29-1900 - Don Redman - Piedmont, WV - d. 11-30-1964
bandleader: "Don Redman and His Orchestra"; "Chipso Radio Program"
08-11-1915 - Jean Parker - Deer Lodge, MT - d. 11-30-2005
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-15-1910 - Johnny Roventini - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-30-1998
commercial announcer: (Call for Phil-lip Mor-ress) "Ferde Grofe
Show"; "Johnny Presents"
10-09-1922 - Phil Sterling - d. 11-30-1998
actor: "Radio City Playhouse"; "Hilltop House"; "Special Agent"
10-16-1854 - Oscar Wilde - Dublin, Ireland - d. 11-30-1900
writer: "The Columbia Workshop"
12-04-1889 - Buck Jones - Vincennes, IN - d. 11-30-1942
actor: "Hoofbeats"
12-08-1906 - Richard Llewellyn - St. David's, Wales - d. 11-30-1983
author: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "NBC University Theatre"

Ron Sayles

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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:09:35 -0500
From: "Bill Harris" <nbcblue@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: 2006 Hallmark Ornament

 Jim Widner commented:

However, despite their seemingly nostalgic reminders the company seems
to have lost any sense of its radio history. I contacted them one time
about the Hallmark Hall of Fame on radio after seeing nothing on their
web site and they knew nothing about it. They were well aware of their
television history, but it seemed to stop there. Too bad.

The current generation running these companies were born in the years of
Television. They had nothing to do with radio so they simply think
everything began with TV.

Bill H.

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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:02:56 -0500
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  DELICIOUS
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Bob Ruble asks about Jim Backus and his delightful  1958 45 RPM novelty bit
called DELICIOUS.
    One of my personal favorites and a damned fine  piece of work.
    In my radio days traveling around the country as a  young man, I would
play that on or around New Year's Eve.
    I got fired more than once for doing so and I still  have the original
copy.
    I  would sometimes play it at other times  of the year when I WANTED to
get fired.
    It always worked and I would gather my 45s, that  one on top and head out
the door.
    The big question that has always haunted me is, who  is that fabulous
woman with the great laugh????????
    She makes the record.
    It's one fine thing to hear a drunken McGoo but she  is a complete
knockout.
    The one party in Hollywood I regretted being late  for is the one in
Beverly Hills back in early 70s when I was told that Jim  Backus and his wife
had
just left.
    I so much wanted ask him about that woman.
    I have only recently learned from someone who  should know that he is
almost sure that it is Phyllis Diller.
    Someone please help.
    I hope Bob has the record.
    I still play it every year even if I have to take  it with me to a party
or play it alone in a hotel room.
    Hey, it's almost time again!!!!!
    "Oooooo, we're gonna have fun."
                        Michael  C Gwynne

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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:22:46 -0500
From: Kelli Stanley <ks4color@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Glass on the Radio

For any fellow Anchor Hocking fans out there who may remember my earlier
post about products made in the [removed], I received some great news from
the company--they still make their glass  in America, in Lancaster, Ohio
and Monaca, Pennsylvania!

Sigh. I'll enjoy Casey, Crime Photographer with a full and glad heart!

I have a correction to my earlier query, however: it is the [removed] Smith
company I was wondering about (whether or not they ever sponsored any
radio programs), not the fictional [removed] Smith company, which only exists
in the alternate typo universe. ;)

Any radio info on them would be much appreciated.  Since I've had luck
with Anchor, I'll also write them directly, but it seems as though the
collective memory of many companies and corporations is only about five
years long.

Happy Holidays--I'll be drinking my eggnog in Anchor Hocking! :)

Kelli

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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:32:25 -0500
From: Henry <wa0goz@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Halls of Ivy

Hi Chris

You wrote:

The theme was released on a single.  Ed Walker drags it out occasionally
on WAMU's The Big Broadcast, usually in the fall when school starts up.
If you listen to the Big Broadcast ([removed]), and there's no reason
you shouldn't be listening anyway, you might try hassling them to play
it this spring during graduation season.

I live in Stillwater, MN. so I can't listen to WAMU from here.  I
googled "The Halls of Ivy" and found information on it but nowhere I
could get a copy.  I even emailed Jerry Haendiges and did not get a
response.  I just emailed WAMU to see if I could get a copy of the
original song from the program.  It may be copywrited and so I'd be
out of luck even if they wanted to do it.

Thanks for the information.

Henry

[ADMINISTRIVIA: Anyone can listen to WAMU's The Big Broadcast hosted by Ed
Walker; check out the WAMU website at [removed] where
you can find the show available on-demand the entire week following the
broadcast. You can also listen on-demand to WBAI's Golden Age of Radio,
hosted by our friend Max Schmid, at [removed] also for a week
following the broadcast.

Doesn't matter whether you're in Stillwater, MN or York, PA, these great
shows are available to you, and on your schedule. No longer must we listen
only to "local" radio; now excuse me, I need to turn on my XM Satellite
Radio.  ;)    --cfs3]

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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:49:02 -0500
From: Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Yes, there were awards

During the Golden Age of Radio there were a good number of magazines
that gave awards; not all of those magazines were distributed
nationally.
One that comes to mind is RADIO LIFE, which started in 1940, in Los
Angeles. It continued on through radio, then was renamed RADIO-TV
LIFE, then -- you guessed it -- TV-RADIO LIFE. Finally, the magazine
was bought up by a company that changed the name to TV GUIDE, which
is still here with us today.
RADIO LIFE gave yearly awards. They had categories similar to what
the Academy Awards give --- you know, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best
Comedy show, and so on.
In the 1930s there were such national magazines as RADIO and RADIO
GUIDE, which also gave similar awards.
If you listen to radio shows long enough you will eventually run into
a show where, before the half hour is over, someone comes on and
awards someone for being the best actor or actress or best dramatic
show, etc.
Yes, there was recognition of radio back then because it was the only
major entertainment medium besides motion pictures. Television had to
wait a few years before it could step it and destroy a great medium
of imagination.
Ken Greenwald

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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:50:09 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  It's a date

This week I was reading from one of the several biographies on the life of
David Sarnoff that has been on my bookshelves for years.  The author, Eugene
Lyons, pointed out, just as I had remembered:

"The National Broadcasting Company was finally incorporated in September,
1926.  It had required the pooling of GE and Westinghouse stations with
those of RCA, and then the absorption of WEAF and its facilities.  Fifty
percent of the stock of NBC was held by RCA, 30 percent by General Electric,
and 20 percent by Westinghouse."

The author continues to observe on page 138 of the comprehensive account
released in 1966:

"The formal launching of the country's first and for some time only
nationwide broadcasting organization took the form of a banquet in the
ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria in January, 1927.  The one thousand guests
included virtually all leaders of the industry, along with the most
celebrated radio personalities.  The most impressive radio program ever
attempted to that time was mounted in the ballroom and carried to
twenty-five stations.  Although it reached only as far as Kansas City, it
was the biggest hookup yet assembled."

That estimated $50,000 bash, incidentally, included the likes of Mary
Garden, Will Rogers, Weber and Fields, Walter Damrosch conducting the New
York Symphony, Vincent Lopez's orchestra and more.

I buy into everything Mr. Lyons has stated on the subject except his choice
of dates for that momentous gala.  All I have ever read on the subject --
most likely including literally hundreds of documented sources -- affirms
that this inaugural extravaganza was broadcast from the Waldorf for four
hours on the evening of Friday, November 15, 1926 and not in January 1927 as
the biographer intimates.  If Mr. Lyons is accurate in his recollection,
everybody else has missed it.  On the other hand, if he sidestepped an
undabatable fact that's this imposing, what else might not be authentic in
his treatise?  For a biographer, getting it right leaves little wiggle room
when it comes to dates as historically profound as this one.

Jim Cox

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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:06:17 -0500
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: award winners

On 11/29/06 10:07 PM [removed]@[removed] wrote:

I'm thinking there may have been awards in some or all of these categories
in Radio Mirror, aka Radio-TV Mirror, aka TV-Radio Mirror.  I know there
were for the personalities, like "Best Soap Opera Heroine," "Best Daytime
Emcee," etc.  They were voted on by readers of this important fanzine.
Maybe citations weren't handed out on the ether but appearing in print such
designations carried a lot of weight with networks and advertisers and, I'm
sure, with performers at contract renewal negotiation time.

The Radio Mirror awards were preceded by quite a few years by the Radio
Guide Star of Stars awards, which began in 1943, and continued until the
magazine folded in 1943. Awards were given in various categories, with
"Star of Stars" being the most prestigious -- the individual receiving
this honor was considered the top personality in radio for that year.
Winners received a gold medal, presented to them on their own programs by
a representative of the magazine.

What makes this contest interesting is that the awards were decided by
the readers of the magazine. Ballots were included in issues of the
magazine thruout the spring, and readers were encouraged to submit their
choices for each category. Running totals were published as ballots were
tabulated, and the winners were announced in June.

I don't believe a complete listing of Star of Stars winners has ever been
published, but as an example, here are the winners and closest
competitors for the 1934-35 season, as published in the 6/29/35 issue of
"Radio Guide":

Performer ("Star of Stars"):

1. Jack Benny
2. Lanny Ross
3. Eddie Cantor
4. Bing Crosby
5. Joe Penner
6. Fred Allen
7. Frank Parker
8. Will Rogers
9. Edgar Guest
10. Don Ameche

Team:

1. Amos 'n' Andy
2. George Burns and Gracie Allen
3. Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone
4. Myrt and Marge
5. Lum and Abner
6. Elsie Hitz and Nick Dawson
7. Mary Lou and Lanny Ross
8. Jesse Block and Eve Sully
9. Marian and Jim Jordan
10. The Easy Aces

Musical Program:

1. Maxwell House Show Boat
2. Rudy Vallee's Hour
3. Jack Benny's Program
4. Richard Himber's Studebaker Champions
5. Fred Waring's Program
6. WLS Barn Dance
7. Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre
8. Town Hall Tonight
9. Breakfast Club
10. Lombardoland

Dramatic Program:

1. One Man's Family
2. Lux Radio Theatre
3. March of Time
4. First Nighter
5. Dangerous Paradise
6. Today's Children
7. Red Davis
8. Mary Pickford Stock Company
9. Myrt and Marge
10. Death Valley Days

Orchestra:

1. Wayne King
2. Guy Lombardo
3. Richard Himber
4. Ben Bernie
5. Jan Garber
6. Kay Kyser
7. Don Bestor
8. Fred Waring
9. Rudy Vallee
10. Walter Blaufuss

Announcer:

1. James Wallington
2. Don Wilson
3. Harry Von Zell
4. Ted Husing
5. David Ross
6. Milton J. Cross
7. Phil Stewart
8. Don McNeill
9. Tiny Ruffner
10. Jean Paul King

A total of 209,388 ballots were cast by Radio Guide readers over the
course of the 1934-35 contest. What makes the contest most interesting is
the fact that it drew heavy participation from rural listeners -- a
segment of the audience totally ignored by the ratings services then in
use.

Elizabeth

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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:18:40 -0500
From: "Donald" <alanladdsr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Delicious

I had the record, on '45. Terrific. I believe his wife (Henny?) was the
woman in the dialogue.

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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:18:49 -0500
From: Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Delicious
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I bought the "Delicious" 45 record in the summer of [removed] still have [removed]
Bacus in the late 1960's or 70's said to Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show,"
that they looked all over for actresse's that could do the voice for  the
"and Friend" part, but to no avail. It so happened that an unknown lady truck
driver was in the studio at the recording session, and she had such an
infectious laugh, that the session people said, 'Thats it, she can be the
"Friend!"So she accepted graciously and along with Jim Bacus had a very
hilarious, delightful [removed] the recording was over she just walked out
of the studio never to be seen again. They wanted to pay her for her part on
the [removed] never did find out who she [removed] late mother and I, even
after 40 years still cracked up everytime they started that crazy infectious
[removed] was the funniest record outside of "Mr. Grillon"by the George
Garabedian Players and the much earlier "What It Was, Was Football" and
 "Silhouettes"by Andy "The Screekin' Deacon" [removed] other side of
"Delicious" was "I Need A Vacation" that was silly and funny at the same time.

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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:19:08 -0500
From: "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE: 11-19 births/deaths (Billy Sunday)

11-19-1863 - Billy Sunday - Ames, IA - d. 11-6-1935
preacher: "Back Home Hour"

It's pretty seldom that Ron Sayles leaves something out, and I believe I've
stated before that I'm rather sensitive to anything having to do with
Chicago, especially the Cubs and Sox. Well, Ron didn't mention that Billy
Sunday was an outfielder for the Chicago Cubs, I think sometime during the
1880s. I suppose it can be excused though, because I doubt that the games
were broadcast in those days.

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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:19:16 -0500
From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "The Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Awards fo OYR people

Was listening to Jack Benny's last NBC show 12/26/48. Don was introducing
Jack at the start of the show when Jack interrupt Don and says he wants
introduce Don who has been voted the best announcer for 1948 by "Fame
Magazine' . Then Don tells that Jack has voted the best comedian of 1948 in
the same issue of "Fame Magazine". .They make a good comedy routine out
trying to be humble.

I can't remember shows but other OTR stars have been given award by various
magazine and groups. Red Skelton and Fibber McGee have gotten awards on the
air.

Frank McGurn

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