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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 9
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Musical Parody Man                    [ Ken Greenwald <kgradio@[removed]; ]
  A bit more on Skip Craig              [ Ken Greenwald <kgradio@[removed]; ]
  [removed] club                       [ Afanofoldradio@[removed] ]
  RIP Johnny Grant                      [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
  Victor Borge                          [ James H Arva <wilditralian@[removed] ]
  The Whistler                          [ Jmartell3@[removed] ]
  "Ah, MRS. Mozart was not so [removed]  [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  Cincinnati Old-Time Radio & Classic   [ Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@yahoo. ]
  The Count's music                     [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  Victor Borge's Autobiography          [ George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@hotmai ]

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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 23:32:29 -0500
From: Ken Greenwald <kgradio@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Musical Parody Man

Ted Kneebone wrote:

I have forgotten the name of the British comedian who sponsored several
music festivals, one of which was the Interplanetary Music Festival. These
also have been recorded. One of them featured a duel between the Grieg and
the Chaikovskii piano concertos. He also included a bunch of weird
instruments like bicycle pumps and a caliope.

That comedian would be Gerard Hoffnung. Actually Hoffnung was an accomplished
musician, writer, comedian and a brilliant cartoonist.
He is best known for his 6 minute comedy routine "The Bricklayer." And for
the international music festivals he put on, writing much of the music
parodies and comedy narrations. You can still find some of his International
Music Festival" LP records in used record stores.

In England his cartoons delighted people for years.
The down side of all this is the sad fact Gerard Hoffnung died at the age of
35.

Ken Greenwald

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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 23:33:22 -0500
From: Ken Greenwald <kgradio@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  A bit more on Skip Craig

I'm glad that a "frisson of delight" hit Michael Gwynne at the mention of
Skip Craig. Skip is alive and doing quite well in retirement. I used to see
him a great deal at the Jay Ward Production house on Sunset Blvd. And Michael
is correct when he mentioned that Skip had boxes of open reel tapes in his
workroom, all filled with radio shows. Skip and Cliff Caplinger were the
first to compile lists of radio shows back in the late 60s, early 70s. Skip
would listen to each and every show he and Cliff would obtain, write out
complete descriptions of the shows and then hand the notes over to Cliff.
Cliff, who worked on early computers (the ones that had punched holes on
paper strips) would then stay after work each evening and punch in the
information, printing it out on folding computer paper. This took years of
work. Shows how devoted to radio these two were.
When Skip retired he gave his vast collection of open reel tapes to the
SPERDVAC archives.
I haven't seen Skip in a few years, but know he is living the relaxed life in
Simi Valley, California.
A gentle man I am glad Michael Qwynne and I have come to know.

Ken Greenwald

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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:35:46 -0500
From: Afanofoldradio@[removed]
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Subject:  [removed] club
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:37:15 -0500
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  RIP Johnny Grant

Tihs obituary for Johnny Grant, who was known as the "Mayor of Hollywood,"
mentions several OTR personalities.  Apparently, he appeared in commercials
on Jack Benny's Lucky Strike program.

He died recently at the age of 84.

RIP,

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:37:55 -0500
From: James H Arva <wilditralian@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Victor Borge

01-10-08

Christian Blees asked for information about Victor Borge.  My wife's
uncle was the chief engineer for the AFRS in Europe during the very late
40's (after flying in the Berlin Airlift and managing the NAV radio
system for the corridor) and early 50's, and worked with Victor Borge
periodically.  He's by no means an expert on the man's life, but they
were amiable acquaintances, and he and his wife have had dinner with him
in his home town in Denmark.  If Mr. Blees would be interested in any
miscellaneous stories I could pick up from him, I'd be pleased to see
what nuggets I could glean.  Although 93, he's still quite lucid, and I
see him every week.

Regards,

Jim
--
James H. Arva
201 Short St.; Harrisburg, PA 17109; (717) 545-5709
E-MAIL:  wilditralian@[removed]

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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:48:16 -0500
From: Jmartell3@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Whistler

For those of you that are fans of The Whistler; TCM will be broadcasting  The
Voice Of The Whistler and The Mysterious Intruder this Sat. morning. I find
it unusual that Richard Dix starred in all six of the Whistler films playing
six  different characters in doing so. I would be interested in knowing why
this was  done.

Jerry Martell

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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:55:36 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  "Ah, MRS. Mozart was not so [removed]"

From: Christian Blees _christianblees@[removed]_
(mailto:christianblees@[removed])

And/or does anybody know where Borge's surviving kids are living?

Years ago when I did extra work on LAW & ORDER, there was a tall, nice  guy
who was a PA or AD. I thought folks kept calling him "Phoebe" - then, I was
told his name was "VB", and he was Victor Borge, Jr.!
And, I believe  another son helped during his later concerts; The Wife and I
saw one do  so.

I think Borge lived in Long Island, and the experiences mentioned were  in
NY, [removed]

Best,
-Craig W.

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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:03:55 -0500
From: Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Cincinnati Old-Time Radio & Classic Movie Club

Hi,

I am a member of this club, as are a few others here.
Bob Burchett, organizer of the Cincinnat convention is
our president.  We have a large library of shows on
cassette, and smaller numbers on CD and mp3, as well
as a library of a couple hundred movies available to
our members.

We meet once a month, the first Wednesday, and a few
of us get together for dinner beforehand.  Dues are
$25 a year, which you easily get back in free radio
shows.  I think we have about 15 members now.

Rodney

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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:04:07 -0500
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Count's music

  Bob Griffin asks for the name of musical theme in "Count of Monte
Christo."

It's a piece from "The Sylvia Ballet" composed by Clement Philibert
Delibes (1836-1891) a French musician who wrote mostly for ballet and
opera in Paris. He is probably most famous for his "Bell Song" from
the opera, "Lakme", a favorite recital piece.

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:22:58 -0500
From: George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Victor Borge's Autobiography

Well, Victor Borge did publish a book in 1999. It's title:Smilet er den
korteste afstand. Erindringer fortalt til Miels-J?rgen Kaiser. Yep, it's in
Danish.  Whether it is an autobiography or not I can't tell.

Borge published in English books titled My Favorite Intermissions and My
Favorite Intervals in 1971 and 1974, respectively.  I assume they are memoirs
of some sort, but I have no details.

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