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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2012 : Issue 146
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  9-7 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Surviving Hawaiian Music              [ rand@[removed] ]
  9-8 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 9-15 Sept  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  9-9 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 10:15:59 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  9-7 births/deaths

Septemter 7th births

09-07-1886 - Alan Devitt - d. 1-28-1955
actor: "Famous Jury Trial"; "The March of Time"
09-07-1888 - Alec Harford - London, England - d. 3-31-1955
actor: "Escape"; "NBC University Theatre"; "Romance"
09-07-1891 - Roscoe Karns - San Bernadino, CA - d. 2-6-1970
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
09-07-1900 - Emerson Treacy - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-10-1967
actor: Fred Thompson "One Man's Family"
09-07-1903 - Margaret Landon - Somers, WI - d. 12-4-1993
author: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-07-1903 - Milton Brown - Stephenville, TX - d. 4-13-1936
singer: "The Musical Brownies"
09-07-1905 - Ivy Maude Baker Priest - Kimberly, UT - d. 6-23-1975
treasurer of the united states: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
09-07-1907 - Johnny McAfee - d. 10-18-1982
vocalist: (Harry James Band) "Chesterfield Time"
09-07-1908 - Max Kaminsky - Brockton, MA - d. 9-6-1994
jazz musician: :This Is Jazz"
09-07-1908 - Paul Brown - Norwalk, OH - d. 8-5-1991
football coach: "Greatest Sports Thrills"
09-07-1909 - Elia Kazan - Constantinople, Turkey - d. 9-28-2003
film director, actor: "Free Company"; "Philip Morris Playhouse"
09-07-1910 - Don Ried - d. 9-16-1996
vocalist: "The Jack Kirkwood Show"
09-07-1913 - Anthony Quayle - Ainsdale, England - d. 10-20-1989
actor:  Guest Panelist "[removed]"
09-07-1918 - Al Christy - Kansas City, KS - d. 3-3-1995
started his career in radio
09-07-1919 - Louise Bennett - Kingston, Jamaica - d. 7-26-2006
poet, folklorist: commented on social matters as Aunty Roachy
09-07-1920 - Mende Brown - d. 2-2-2002
director: "The Affairs of Peter Salem"
09-07-1921 - Art Ferrante - NYC - d. 9-19-2009
pianist: (Ferrante and Teicher) "The Zero Hour"; "Hollywood Radio
Theatre"
09-07-1923 - Peter Lawford - London, England - d. 12-24-1984
actor: "Radio Reader's Digest"; "Suspense"
09-07-1927 - Don Messick - Buffalo, NY - d. 10-24-1997
actor: "Let George Do It"; "Horizons West"; "NBC University Theatre"
09-07-1929 - [removed] McKenna - Mullagh, Ireland - d. 2-13-2011
actor: "Ballylenon"
09-07-1930 - Sonny Rollins - Harlem, NY
jazz saxophonist: "White House Jazz Festival"
09-07-1936 - Buddy Holly - Lubbock, TX - d. 2-3-1959
singer: "Sunday Party"; "Buddy and Bob Show"

September 7th deaths

01-04-1896 - Everett Dirksen - Pekin, IL - d. 9-7-1969
[removed] senator: "Meet the Press"; "American Forum on the Air"
03-15-1916 - Frank Coghlan, Jr. - New Haven, CT - d. 9-7-2009
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Doctor Christian"
03-29-1919 - Robert Enders - Pennsylvania - d. 9-7-2007
producer: "Our Land Be Right"
05-04-1923 - Godfrey Quigley - Jerusalem - d. 9-7-1994
producer: "The Kennedys of Castleross"
05-18-1912 - John Campbell Crosby - Milwaukee, WI - d. 9-7-1991
radio critic: New York Herald Tribune
05-20-1934 - Ken Boyer - Liberty, MO - d. 9-7-1982
baseball player: "Tops in Sports"
05-29-1911 - Vivi Janiss - Nebraska - d. 9-7-1988
actor: (Married to John Larch) Kit Calvert "Aunt Mary"
06-06-1917 - Maria Montez - Barahona, Dominican Republic - d. 9-7-1951
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-20-1924 - Billie Lou Watt - St. Louis, MO - d. 9-7-2001
actor: "Land of the Free"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
07-29-1892 - Horace Braham - London, England - d. 9-7-1955
actor: Charles Lang "Wendy Warren and the News"; Ernest Benning "Big
Sister"
09-14-1918 - Mike Stokey - Shreveport, LA - d. 9-7-2003
announcer: "One Night Stand"
09-24-1900 - Ham Fisher - Wilkes-Barre, PA - d. 9-7-1955
cartoonist: (Creator of Joe Palooka) "Raleigh Room"; "Philco Radio Time"
09-26-1889 - Frank Crumit - Jackson, OH - d. 9-7-1943
singer, emcee: "Blackstone Plantation"; "Battle of the Sexes";
"Singing Sweethearts"
10-13-1900 - Georgia Backus - Columbus, OH - d. 9-7-1983
actor: Peg Riley "Life of Riley"; Portia Brent "Brenthouse"; Doris
Foster "A Date with Judy"
10-17-1893 - Spring Byington - Colorado Springs, CO - d. 9-7-1971
actor: Lily Ruskin "December Bride"
11-07-1906 - Red Ingle - Toledo, OH - d. 9-7-1965
vocalist: (Spike Jones and his City Slickers) "The Spike Jones Show"
11-27-1890 - Gladys Rice - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-7-1983
singer: "Roxy's Gang"; "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Voice of
Firestone"
12-17-1900 - Norman Cloutier - Hartford, CT - d. 9-7-1962
orchestra leader: "Cloutier Calling"; "Cosmopolitan Melodies"
12-20-1920 - Dennis Morgan - Prentice, WI - d. 9-7-1994
actor, singer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Screen Guild
Theatre"

Ron

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Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 10:18:07 -0400
From: rand@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Surviving Hawaiian Music

In response to a request for surviving Hawaiian music programming ... on
my blog, I have two 15 minute shows by Tandy Mackenzie and His Hawaiian
Music from the 1930s.

These is from an RCA pressed disc that was probably intended for
syndication or that might be an audition disc for a proposed series.
Mackenzie was a Hawaiian born tenor that worked in opera and who was known
for doing more pop-oriented versions of traditional Hawaiian music.  The
shows include a mix of upbeat Hawaiian tunes and Mackenzie's Hawaiian
crooning.

To find them, go to my blog at:

[removed]

... and do a search for "Tandy" and it will bring up links to both posts.

rand

[ADMINISTRIVIA: If you're visiting Randy's blog for the first time, plan on
spending a while there; don't go if you have a meeting, since you will miss
it. You'll be there quite a while checking out all the stuff he's posted.
--cfs3]

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Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 10:16:12 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  9-8 births/deaths

September 8th births

09-08-1877 - Bide Dudley - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-4-1944
drama critic: "Around Little 'Ol Broadway"
09-08-1889 - Robert A. Taft - Cincinnati, OH - d. 7-31-1953
us senator: "American Forum of the Air"; "The People's Platform"
09-08-1896 - Howard Dietz - NYC - d. 7-30-1983
song lyricist: "The Gibson Family"
09-08-1897 - Jimmie Rodgers - Meridian, MS - d. 5-26-1933
singer: "The Singing Brakeman"
09-08-1902 - Milton Watson - Salinas, CA - d. 1-2-1982
vocalist: "Burns and Allen"
09-08-1902 - Welcome Lewis - d. 3-25-1999
singer: "Singo"; "The Singing Bee"
09-08-1905 - Henry Wilcoxon - Dominica, West Indies - d. 3-6-1984
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-08-1906 - Orlo Bagley - d. 7-2-1986
sportscaster: KOMB Cottage Grove, Oregon
09-08-1907 - Eleanor Phelps - Baltimore, MD - d. 9-29-2001
actor: Susan Chandler "Life and Loves of Doctor Susan"
09-08-1907 - Tom McAvity - d. 10-1-1972
producer, director: "A Date with Judy"; "Rudy Vallee Show"; "The Saint"
09-08-1908 - John Griggs - Chesterfield, SC - d. 2-25-1967
actor: Capt. Randy Claymore of the Confederacy "Roses and Drums"
09-08-1910 - Joe Bolton - Flushing, NY - d. 8-13-1986
announcer: "The 1937 Radio Show"
09-08-1911 - Christine Johnson - Hopkinsville, KY - d. 6-9-2010
singer, actress: "The Squibb Show"
09-08-1913 - Patricia 'Honeychile' Wilder - Macon, GA - d. 8-11-1995
actor: "Maxwell House Showboat"; "Atlantic Family"; [removed] Jive"
09-08-1914 - Hillary Brooke - Astoria, NY - d. 5-25-1999
actor: "Suspense"
09-08-1915 - Frank Cady - Susanville, CA - d. 6-9-2012
actor: "Gunsmoke"
09-08-1921 - Harry Secombe - Swansea, Wales - d. 4-12-2001
comedian: Neddie Seagoon "Goon Show"
09-08-1922 - Sid Caesar - Yonkers, NY
comedian: "Voice of the Army"; "Tex and Jinx Show"
09-08-1925 - Peter Sellers - London, England - d. 7-24-1980
comedian: Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, Major Dennis Bloodnok, others
"Goon Show"
09-08-1932 - Patsy Cline - Gore, VA - d. 3-5-1963
country singer: "Country Hoedown"; "Grand Ole Opry"

September 8th deaths

01-03-1898 - Freddie Rich - Warsaw, Poland - d. 9-8-1956
bandleader: "Friendly Five Footnotes"; "Freddie Rich's Penthouse Party"
02-28-1915 - Zero Mostel - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-8-1977
comedian: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
05-18-1932 - Walter Anglin - d. 9-8-2001
disk jockey: WJLD Birmingham, Alabama
05-23-1928 - Mary Fickett - Bronxville, NY - d. 9-8-2011
actor: "Cavalcade of America"
05-28-1919 - Frank Middlemass - Stockton-on-Tees, England - d. 9-8-2006
actor: "Too the Manor Born"
06-18-1908 - Clayton "Bud" Collyer - NYC - d. 9-8-1969
actor, announcer: Clark Kent/Superman "Advs. of Superman"; "Cavalcade
of America"
09-30-1922 - Oscar Pettiford - Okmulgee, OK - d. 9-8-1960
jazz composer, bass player: "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Esquire Jazz
Concert"
10-09-1905 - Norman Gottschalk - Chicago, IL - d. 9-8-1979
actor: Joe Palooka "Joe Palooka": "Captain Midnight"
10-10-1870 - J. V. Barborka - Bohemia, Austria - d. 9-8-1936
harpist: KMA Shenandoah, Iowa
11-09-1922 - Dorothy Dandridge - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-8-1965
actor, writer: "Beulah Show"
11-27-1882 - Norman Baker - Muscatine, IL - d. 9-8-1958
vaudevillian: "Mr. Baker Himself"
12-06-1913 - Oswald Hoffman - Nebraska - d. 9-8-2005
preacher: "The Lutheran Hour"

Ron

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Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 10:16:17 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 9-15 September

 From the New York Times Today in history

9/9

1926    the National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) was created by the Radio
Corp. of America.

 From Those Were The Days

1946   Ben Alexander hosted Heart's Desire for the first time, a
giveaway contest program on the Mutual Broadcasting System.

9/10

1935   "I'm Popeye the sailor [removed]" toot! toot! Popeye was heard for
the first time on NBC. The show was based on the Elzie Crisler Segar
comic strip, which featured Popeye, Olive Oyl, Brutas, Wimpy and
Sweepea. Now, eat your spinach in celebration!

9/12

1938   [removed] Kaltenborn made broadcasting history by covering a crisis in
Czechoslovakia for CBS beginning on this day. Kaltenborn was so devoted
to his work that he slept in the studio for 18 days while bringing
updates to his appreciative audience.

9/13

1931   Vaudeville star Eddie Cantor was heard for the first time    on
NBC. The Chase and Sanborn Hour became one of the most popular radio
shows of the 1930s.

1937   The first broadcast of Kitty Keene, Inc. was heard on the NBC Red
network.

9/14

1936   NBC presented John's Other Wife for the first time. Actually,
John's other wife was not his wife at all. She was his secretary.

9/15

1934   NBC presented The Gibson Family to American audiences. The
program was the first musical comedy drama to be broadcast. Ernest
Whitman and Eddie Green were featured members of the cast and were
billed as "network radio's only colored comedians." The show originated
from the studios of WEAF in New York City.

Joe

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Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 20:03:15 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  9-9 births/deaths

September 9th births

09-09-1828 - Leo Tolstoy - Yasnaya, Polyana, Russia - d. 11-20-1910
author: Some works adapted for radio
09-09-1873 - Max Reinhardt - Baden, Austria - d. 10-30-1943
film director: "Texaco Star Theatre"
09-09-1882 - Clem McCarthy - East Bloomfield, NY - d. 6-4-1962
sportscaster: The Kentucky Derby
09-09-1885 - Billy Curtis - Lowell, MA - d. 4-28-1954
writer of radio scripts
09-09-1887 - Raymond Walburn - Plymouth, IN - d. 7-26-1969
actor: "That's My Pop"
09-09-1894 - Arthur Freed - Charleston, SC - d. 4-12-1973
songwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-09-1898 - Frankie Frisch - The Bronx, NY - d. 3-12-1973
baseball broadcaster: (Baseball Hall of Fame) New York Giants
09-09-1899 - Neil Hamilton - Lynn, MA - d. 9-24-1984
actor: [removed] Raffles "Raffles"
09-09-1899 - Waite Hoyt - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-25-1984
sportscaster, "Sports Review"; "According to Hoyt"; play-by-play:
Cincinnati Reds
09-09-1900 - James Hilton - Leigh, Lancashire, England - d. 12-20-1954
host: "Hallmark Hall of Fame/Hallmark Playhouse"; "Ceiling Unlimited"
09-09-1901 - James Blades - Peterborough, England - d. 5-19-1999
percussionist: Freelance, best known as the drummer for  'V for Victory'
09-09-1903 - Phyllis Whitney - Yokohoma, Japan - d. 2-8-2008
author: "The Young Book Reviewers"
09-09-1905 - Elsie Park Gowan - Helensburgh, Scotland - d. 2-2-1999
writer: "New Lamps for Old"
09-09-1905 - Ulric Cole - NYC - d. 5-21-1992
composer, conductor: "NBC String Symphony"
09-09-1908 - Ed Prentiss - Chicago, IL - d. 3-19-1992
actor: Red Albright/Captain Midnight "Captain Midnight"; Ned Holden
"The Guiding Light"
09-09-1909 - Giulio Gari - Medias, Romania - d. 4-15-1994
operatic tenor: "Musical Bits"; "NBC Symphony Orchestra"
09-09-1914 - Marion Mann - Columbus, OH
singer: "The Breakfast Club Matinee"; "Danny Thomas Show"
09-09-1915 - Arnold Hildebrandt - Wisconsin - d. 10-5-1986
actor: Santa Claus "Billie the Brownie"
09-09-1915 - Richard Webb - Bloomington, IL - d. 6-10-1993
actor: "Family Theatre"; "Crime Does Not Pay
09-09-1918 - Blanche Thebom - Monessen, PA - d. 3-23-2010
mezzo-soprano: "Bell Telephone Hour"; "Metropolitan Opera"; "Railroad
Hour"
09-09-1920 - Michael Aldridge - Glastonbury, England - d. 1-10-1994
actor: "Relatively Speaking"
09-09-1922 - Imogene Lynn - Trenton, MO - d. 2-24-2003
singer: "Spotlight Bands"
09-09-1924 - Jane Greer - Washington, [removed] - d. 8-24-2001
singer, actor: "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-09-1927 - Elvin Ray Jones - Pontiac, MI - d. 5-18-2004
jazz drummer: "Newport Jazz Festival"
09-09-1927 - "Mary" Olive Major - Santa Barbara County, CA - d.
8-12-1998
vocalist: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
09-09-1930 - Martha Jean "The Queen" Steinberg - d. 1-29-2000
Owned WQBH-AM Detroit, Michigan
09-09-1931 - Barbara Lyon - Hollywood, CA - d. 7-10-1995
actor: "Life  with the Lyons"

September 9th deaths

01-31-1872 - Rupert Hughes - Lancaster, MO - d. 9-9-1956
writer: (Uncle to Howard Hughes) "The Story of Holly Sloan"
02-02-1911 - Jussi Bjorling - Stora Tuna, Sweden - d. 9-9-1960
singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
03-19-1927 - Richie Ashburn - Tilden, NE - d. 9-9-1997
sportscaster: "Philadelphia Phillies Play by Play"
03-21-1903 - Nan Boardman - NYC - d. 9-9-1984
actor: "The Modern Adventures of Casanova"
03-23-1911 - Herbert Rudley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-9-2006
actor: "Helen Hayes Theatre"; "Great Plays"; "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
05-23-1921 - Helen O'Connell - Lima, OH - d. 9-9-1993
singer: (Jimmy Dorsey Band) "Kraft Music Hall"; "Fitch Bandwagon"
06-10-1916 - Bill Waddington - Lancashire, England - d. 9-9-2000
actor: "Ack-Ack, Beer Beer"
06-30-1905 - Nestor Paiva - Fresno, CA - d. 9-9-1966
actor: "NBC Presents: Short Story"; "Escape"
08-02-1892 - Jack L. Warner - London, Ontario, Canada - d. 9-9-1978
film studio owner" "Jack Benny Program"; "Warner Brothers Academy
Award Theatre"
08-16-1908 - Russell Preston Pike, Jr. - d. 9-9-1995
singer: "The Prairie Knights"
09-13-1911 - Bill Monroe - Rosine, KY - d. 9-9-1996
mandolin player: (Father of Bluegrass) "Grand Ole Opry"
09-22-1900 - Hanley Stafford - Hanley, Staffordshire, England - d.
9-9-1968
actor: Mr. Higgins "Baby Snooks Show"; Julius C. Dithers "Blondie"
09-26-1927 - Patrick O'Neal - Ocala, FL - d. 9-9-1994
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
11-16-1907 - Burgess Meredith - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-9-1997
actor: "Red Adams/Red Davis "Red Adams/Red Davis" (the precursor to
"Pepper Young's Family")
12-23-1922 - Ruth Roman - Boston, MA - d. 9-9-1999
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Hollywood Sound Stage"
12-24-1915 - Helen Brown - Washington - d. 9-9-1994
actor: Miss Foster "Big Town"
12-26-1906 - Catherine Turney - Chicago, IL - d. 9-9-1998
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"

Ron

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