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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2005 : Issue 255
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@VintageRad ]
Brace Beamer [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]
Tributes to OTR [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]
Richard Diamond [ DanHaefele@[removed] ]
Senator Joseph McCarthy [ OTRadiofan@[removed] (Stuart Lubin) ]
More school shows [ "nmclain" <nmclain@[removed]; ]
A Different CPR Takeover, A Differen [ "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@worldn ]
8-23 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
WTIC's "The Golden Age of Radio [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed]; ]
Kovacs on radio [ Lee Munsick <damyankeeinva@earthlin ]
Help for Ron Pearce [ JayHick@[removed] ]
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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:13:10 -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
Theater," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The Glowing
Dial," Lee Michael's "The RADIO Show" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."
Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
Victory in Japan - 60 Years Later
VICTORY IN JAPAN SPECIAL
8-14-05 [removed] Day coverage by CBS News
COMMAND PERFORMANCE
8-14-45 "Victory Special"
Hosted by: Ken Carpenter
Appearances by: Jimmy Durante, Bette Davis, Jose Iturbi, Ed Gardner, Jinx
Falkenberg, Marlene Dietrich, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Ida
Lupino, Loretta Young, Bergess Meredith, Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth,
Herbert Marshall, Ginger Rogers, Claire Trevor, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnez,
Edward G. Robinson, Robert Montgomery, Bill Power, Lena Horne, Carmen
Miranda and Greer Garson
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATER
SPECIAL GUEST: Elizabeth McLeod
For the whole show - author of the new McFarland book, "THE ORIGINAL AMOS
`N' ANDY" -Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll and the 1928-1943 Radio Serial."
Elizabeth shares some of her personal A&A tapes and stories of radio's most
famous radio program.
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THE GLOWING DIAL
Lady Esther Screen Guild Players - "Yankee Doodle Dandy"
originally aired October 19, 1942 on CBS
Starring: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Jeanne Cagney, [removed]
Sakall, Richard Whorf, Charles Irwin, Truman Bradley announcing.
Sponsor: Lady Esther Cosmetics
Mr. President - "George Washington"
originally aired July 31, 1949 on ABC
Starring: Edward Arnold, Betty Lou Gerson.
Sustained
Fibber McGee and Molly - "Scrap Drive"
originally aired April 7, 1942 on NBC
Starring: Jim and Marion Jordan, Gale Gordon, Bill Thompson, The King's Men,
Billy Mills and his Orchestra, Harlow Wilcox announcing.
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Gulf Screen Guild Theatre - "Between Americans"
originally aired December 7, 1941 on CBS
Starring: Orson Welles, Roger Pryor hosting, Bud Easton announcing.
Sponsor: Gulf Oil
The Cavalcade of America - "An American Is Born"
originally aired January 19, 1942 on NBC Red
Starring: Bette Davis, Raymond Edward Johnson, Clayton "Bud" Collyer
announcing.
Written & Directed by Arch Oboler from a story by Peter Packer.
Sponsor: DuPont Chemical Co.
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The RADIO Show
The Adventures of Superman
"The Super Sleuth" Ep. #1018 (Pt 3 of 8)
Starring Clayton "Bud" Collyer, Julian Noa, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck
(narrator), Dan McCullough (announcer). Mutual Broadcasting System, July 24,
1946, sponsored by Kellogg's Pep.
2005 Pioneer Nominee for the Radio Hall of Fame: The Abbott & Costello Show
"Who's On First?" starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marilyn Maxwell,
Skinnay Ennis, John Brown. NBC, April 17, 1947
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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: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:30:41 -0400
From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Brace Beamer
I just got an email from someone who wants to know the birth/death date of
Brace Beamer. Can anyone here help?
Fred
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old time radio & TV shows & 3D movies
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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:43:41 -0400
From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Tributes to OTR
For some research I am doing, I need a little help.
I know that Carroll O'Connor, when he accepted the role on TV's "All in the
Family" wanted his character to be named Archie because he was such a fan of
radio's Ed Gardner (Archie on "Duffy's Tavern".)
And I know that in the 1980s movie series called "Rambo," Dick Crenna played
a character named Col. Denton Walters -- a tribute to the Walter Denton
character he created on radio. (Aside: does anyone know who decided to give
that character that name?)
So, what I am seeking is any other similar examples of later media
recognizing radio through character names, shows, etc.
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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:36:26 -0400
From: DanHaefele@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Richard Diamond
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In a message dated 8/22/2005 RadioAZ@[removed]" reported:
I was listening to an episode of "Richard Diamond, Private Detective" (The
Ice Pick Murder, 8/9/53.) At the end of the show, Dick Powell sings "La Vie
en Rose" to Helen. He gets about eight bars into the song, stops, and asks
the back-up musicians to start the song over.
Here's PART of the answer based on some evidence and guesswork. I believe
the Summer 1953 Diamond broadcasts were rebroadcasts of shows aired several
years earlier. I draw this conclusion after noting the 8-16-53 show features
Barton Yarborough, who died in 1950 or 1951. So, it may be that originally
the show aired live and there was no other way for Powell to get out of his
musical difficulty. Three or four years later no one recalled the errror
and it
went out over the airwaves again.
Dan Haefele
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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:34:44 -0400
From: OTRadiofan@[removed] (Stuart Lubin)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Senator Joseph McCarthy
Sean Dougherty is 100% correct. The reviewer from the Daily News should
know that McCarthy's investigation into communists had nothing to do
with the committee in the [removed] House of Representatives.
Yes, Sean, there was communist infiltration in the United States. No
one denies that. The real question and debate were about the proper
methods to fight it.
So I congratulate you for catching that glowing error that McCarthy was
not a House member. Did you catch another error in that article? The
House Committee was called properly "The House Committee on UnAmerican
Activities", not the "House UnAmerican Activities Committee"
Does this all have to do with radio because a radio singer, Rosemary
Clooney, was the aunt of the star of the film, George Clooney? If this
is the case, then this letter is just as on-subject as yours.
Stuart Lubin
OTRadiofan
[ADMINISTRIVIA: Ok, folks, let's all take a deep breath [removed] --cfs3]
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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 22:20:46 -0400
From: "nmclain" <nmclain@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: More school shows
Here a few more shows with a school theme.
Jack Benny 4-10-38 A Yank At Oxford
Phil Harris & Alice Faye Fitch Bandwagon 1-5-47 Phil's Enrolled At USC
Phil Harris & Alice Faye Fitch Bandwagon 11-2-47 Phil's Band At High School
Phil Harris & Alice Faye 04-17-49 Dinner For Teacher
Natalie
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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 00:25:17 -0400
From: "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: A Different CPR Takeover, A Different result
I read the article on the demise of WVXU and it reminded me of another
CPR, Colorado Public Radio, trying to takeover another local Public Radio
station back in 2001. The station involved didn't offer OTR in its format,
but it was an independent Public Radio station that faced being assimilated
by a larger Public Radio entity. The results were quite different.
The station that CPR was trying takeover, was the public radio station,
KUNC, which was owned and run by the University of Northern Colorado in
Greeley. At that time, CPR executives were considered by many to be like
the Borg on Startrek The Next Generation, they wanted to assimilate all
public radio stations in Colorado under the CPR banner. They had reached a
behind-closed-doors agreement with the University's Board of Trustees to buy
KUNC. Once Colorado Public Radio took possession of KUNC they would
eliminate most of the locally produced programming and replace it with CPR
programming from Denver.
It was all quite hush-hush until a couple of the station's staff learned
of the sale and leaked the news to the public just a day before the contract
was to be signed. The local community was outraged that they would lose
their independent public radio station to Colorado Public Radio. A couple
major benefactors of the University were incensed that over the way the U.
of Northern Colorado and CPR had conducted their meetings in secret. These
benefactors told the University's Board of Trustees if they sold KUNC to
CPR, they would cease providing endowments to the University.
The end result of the attempted takeover was quite surprising. In 20
days, a local organization called Friends of KUNC was formed and raised $2
million to purchase KUNC's license and equipment from the University and
preserve Northern Colorado's independent Public Radio voice. They in turn
formed Community Radio for Northern Colorado, Inc., a Colorado non-profit
organization to manage and run KUNC.
In the little over four and a half years since Colorado Public Radio's
attempted takeover was defeated, KUNC has built a network of 12 transponders
across the state which reaches listeners from Ogallala, Neb., to Craig in
northwest Colorado and down the Western Slope of Colorado to Buena Vista and
Salida as well as the northern part of the state and southern Wyoming served
by the station's transmitter near Pierce in northern Weld County. KUNC is
still Northern Colorado's independent Public Radio voice.
Sometimes the little guys win.
Signing off for now,
Stewart Wright
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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:05:04 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 8-23 births/deaths
August 23rd births
08-23-1869 - Edgar Lee Masters - Garnett, KS - d. 3-5-1950
author: "Cavalcade of America"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
08-23-1883 - Art Van Harvey - Chicago, IL - d. 7-7-1957
actor: Vic Gook "Vic and Sade"; Jeffery Barker "Welcome Valley"
08-23-1897 - Ray Perkins - Boston, MA - d. 1-31-1969
emcee, singer: "National Amateur Night"; "Show of the Week"; "Nickel Man"
08-23-1900 - John Nesbitt - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - d. 8-10-1960
commentator: "Passing Parade"
08-23-1912 - Gene Kelly - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-2-1996
actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"; "Star for a Night"; "Suspense"
08-23-1913 - Bob Crosby - Spokane, WA - d. 3-9-1993
bandleader, singer: "Camel Caravan"; "Bob Crosby Show"; "Jack Benny Program"
08-23-1915 - Ralph Amati - d. 6-xx-1980
sound effects: "One Man's Family"; "I Love A Mystery"
08-23-1922 - George Kell - Swifton, AR
baseball announcer: Detroit Tigers
08-23-1925 - Larry Nunn - Marshfield, OR - d. 10-20-1974
actor: Don Bradley "Glorious One"; Peter Bretn "Brenthouse"
08-23-1928 - Marian Seldes New York City, NY
actress: "CBS Mystery Theatre"
August 23rd deaths
01-10-1883 - Francis X. Bushman - Norfolk, VA - d. 8-23-1966
actor: John Fairchild "Step Mother"; Peter Standish "Betty and Bob"
03-27-1902 - Sidney Buchman - Duluth, MN - d. 8-23-1975
movie writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-16-1882 - Mary Gordon - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 8-23-1963
actress: Mrs. Emmett "Those We Love"; Mrs. Hudson "Sherlock Holmes"
05-20-1899 - Virginia Sale - Urbana, IL - d. 8-23-1992
actress: Martha "Those We Love"
06-03-1914 - Elzie Segar - d. 8-23-1997
writer: "Popeye the Sailor" based on his comic strip
06-07-1903 - Glen Gray - Metamora, IL - d. 8-23-1963
bandleader: "Camel Caravan"
06-15-1910 - David Rose - London, England - d. 8-23-1990
conductor: "Red Skelton Show"; "David Rose Show"; "Bold Venture"
07-06-1918 - Sebastian Cabot - London, England - d. 8-23-1977
actor: Toussiant Charbonneau "Horizons West"; "Studio One"; "Lives of Harry
Lime"
07-12-1895 - Oscar Hammerstein II - New York City, NY - d. 8-23-1960
lyricist: "Pet Milk Show"
10-13-1919 - Marion Hargrove - Mount Olive, NC - d. 8-23-2003
author: "MGM Theatre of the Air"; "Information, Please"; "March of Time"
10-23-1911 - Martha Rountree - Gainesville, FL - d. 8-23-1999
co-founder, moderator: "Meet the Press"
xx-xx-xxxx - Wilmer Walter - d. 8-23-1941
actor: David Harum "David Harum"; Andy Agnes "The Gumps"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:12:35 -0400
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: WTIC's "The Golden Age of Radio
The current "WTIC's Golden Age of Radio" programs
with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran have been posted at
[removed]
This month we present an exclusive: a recent interview
with Peg Lynch, creator and star of Ethel and Albert, plus
an excerpt from that show.
Peg Lynch was the first "radio star" interviewed on the
Golden Age of Radio in July, 1970. Now, exclusively
on our web site, she chats once again with Dick Bertel
some 35 years after they first met.
Some weeks ago we received an e-mail from Tom Bewley
of Shoreline, Washington. Tom had been talking with Peg
Lynch about the interview she did with Margaret Hamilton
on the Golden Age of Radio in July, 1970. Peg said she
didn't remember doing it but was anxious to hear it. We
sent her a copy. She also agreed to do a telephone interview
with Dick Bertel. Peg Lynch is now 88 and lives in the
Berkshires in Massachusetts.
In addition, we present for your listening pleasure two
complete Golden Age programs:
Program 59 - February, 1975 - David Rounds
David Rounds, radio soap opera actor and co-author of
the 1973 book, "The Soaps: Daytime Serials of Radio
and TV." Mr. Rounds was also a veteran broadway actor,
appearing with Nancy Marchand in "Morning's at Seven."
We'll hear the inside information on soaps on this program.
Program 60 - March, 1975 - The Chicago Actors
We'll hear interviews with three actors who started in Chicago
radio, Les Tremayne, Betty Lou Gerson, Bret Morrison, and
Vincent Pelletier.
Born in London, Les Tremayne moved to America in his early
teens. Educated at Northwestern, Columbia and UCLA, Tremayne
went on the stage in the early 1930s, where his distinguished
demeanor and mellifluous voice served him well. He rose to
stardom on radio, appearing in literally thousands of "Golden
Age" broadcasts, notably as star of the long-running anthology
"The First Nighter" Program.
Betty Lou Gerson was perhaps best known for her role as the
unforgettable and bombastic voice of the fur-loving villainess,
Cruella De Vil, in Disney's classic 1961 animated feature "101
Dalmatians." Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and raised in
Birmingham, Alabama, Gerson began her radio career in 1935
and went on to earn the nickname, "Soap Opera Queen of
Chicago." Her extensive radio credits included dramatic roles
on such popular programs as "First Nighter" (with Don Ameche),
"Grand Hotel" and "The Lux Radio Theater."
The Shadow is probably the best remembered radio crime fighter
of all time. But it was more than a super hero show. It also had
supernatural overtones, and the Shadow himself was a cruel
dispenser of vigilante justice with a haunting [removed] large variety
of actors voiced the role of The Shadow through its long run,
including James LaCurto, Frank Readick, Orson Welles, and
Bill Johnstone. Bret Morrison replaced Johnstone in April of
1943 until 1944, John Archer did it for about a year, followed
by Steve Courtleigh for a couple of months in 1945. Bret
Morrison then returned from 1945 until 1954.
Vincente Pelletier was one of the busiest and most well-known
radio announcers in the Golden Age. Mr. Pelletier started as an
announcer at NBC in 1931, where he stayed for four years. He
then became a free-lance announcer.
In the 1970's Dick Bertel created the program for WTIC in
Hartford, CT. The idea came to Dick after he interviewed
radio collector-historian Ed Corcoran a few times. When it
was first broadcast in April, 1970, Ed became his co-host.
For the next seven years the program featured interviews with
radio actors, writers, producers, engineers and musicians from
radio's early days. In addition, each show featured excerpts
from Ed's collection.
Bob Scherago
Webmaster
[ADMINISTRIVIA: Ms. Lynch is scheduled to appear at the 30th annual Friends
of Old-Time Radio Convention in Newark, NJ this October, where she'll perform
"Ethel and Albert" scripts with Mercury Theater and "Let's Pretend" alumnus
Arthur Anderson; she's an amazing woman with the brightest smile you'll ever
see. --cfs3]
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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:15:11 -0400
From: Lee Munsick <damyankeeinva@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Kovacs on radio
Melanie Aultman asked if Ernie Kovacs was ever on radio.
According to John Dunning, he was a panelist on a program called "Where Have
You Been?" on NBC radio from December 1954 to the end of April 1955. Other
panelists were Peggy McKay, Marc Connelly (there's a strange coupling) and
Harriet Van Horne.
The idea behind the show was the panelists trying to guess the geographical
history of contestants. Sounds like a not very far throw from "What's My
Line?". Producer(s) not listed by Dunning, but I suspect perhaps Goodson and
Todman.
Some years before, there was a man on the radio who would talk with people
for a few minutes, carefully avoiding any geographic or educational
references. After just a minute or two, this incredible scientist would
launch into a re-creation of the subject's life, where he was born, spent
time as a child, later schooling, college, different cities or regions in
which he lived, etc. All from listening to the way the subject spoke,
linguistic peculiarities, traces of dialects, etc. Much cheaper to hire the
one man than to put together a whole panel show for TV! But perhaps that's
where the show's idea men got theirs.
This was of course well into Mr. Kovacs' better known TV career. He was
panelist on a number of TV panel shows besides his own network offerings.
Probably best known for "What's My Line?".
I have checked several reference books and find nothing else to indicate a
radio career before TV. I believe there is a biography. But I'd bet that
he was on the radio around his birthplace Trenton, Camden NJ and of course
Philadelphia, across the river. I first became aware of him as the morning
announcer and resident yock-em-up on WPTZ, Philco's NBC Channel 3 in
Philadelphia. Circa 1948-49 or so. Unbelievably innovative, and hugely
funny.
I guess most people know that Kovacs died when his new car smashed into a
utility pole in 1962, when he was 42. Friends assumed he was lighting one of
his huge cigars and lost control. What most do not know is that two of his
daughters also died in fatal car crashes. Makes one wonder what Edie Adams
thinks about driving around in an automobile. But back to happier times:
One morning after his early morning wildness, he and the same crew turned
around to the "home economics" set where a lady was to demonstrate some
recipe or other. Kovacs is now supposed to be the straight, perhaps even
strait-laced announcer for this serious program. He and the crew couldn't
get over his previous craziness. Kovacs mugged; cameras jiggled; laughs were
heard (anonymous, of course). The poor lady had no idea what was happening
as Kovacs continued somewhat to "do his thing", standing literally behind her
back as she faced the camera. I wonder if she ever knew the reaction of her
home viewers.
I don't believe that Bob & Ray ever worked the Philly area, although they
certainly did get around especially in their early career. Some time after
watching Kovacs on that cooking show, I saw B&R do one of a number of
hilarious routines with the camera looking "from the outside of the house"
through a kitchen window into just such a kitchen set. Ray was in a
flower-print dress with a typical kitchen apron over it. The top of the
window obscured his head, face and moustache. Bob was narrating what was
going on, and responding to Ray's alto dissertation, done in his familiar
Mary McGoon voice. The recipe for the day was "Choc-o-Spin" salad, in which
a typical tossed salad was mixed with chocolate syrup. All over the apron,
the dress, the camera lens, perhaps even Bob, although he was off camera and
perhaps wisely and safely out of range. One had to wonder if the camera and
mike operators got combat pay!
More years, and one night on "Garroway at Large" from Chicago, Louis Nye came
out as a beret-clad bopster musician. Dave Garroway asked what instrument
the bop dude played, and named several. "No, man," Nye finally said, "I play
meat!" Whereas the camera pulled back revealing a tray of raw steaks or stew
meat, and Nye proceeded to slap both hands all over it in some kind of crazy
boppish rhythm. This time it was blood that spattered all over everything
and everyone.
You can see how my mind connects events. Yet they haven't commited me to
this point! Bestus, Lee Munsick
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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:15:24 -0400
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Help for Ron Pearce
Can any one help Ron? He is from England. Contact him if you can
<[removed]@[removed];
Ron is looking for Hot House, hosted by "The Baron of Bounce" Ken Dunnagan;
also Music USA hosted by Willis Conover.
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