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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 20
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  1-21 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  re: Cincinnati Convention             [ Chargous@[removed] ]
  The Best Radio Comedians              [ Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@sbcgl ]
  OTR experiences, Lum and Abner, etc   [ rand@[removed] ]
  Private Eyelashes book search reques  [ Tony Baechler <tony@[removed]; ]
  50% off some BearManor Media books t  [ Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed]; ]
  30s network musical shows are really  [ Chargous@[removed] ]
  1-22 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:15:58 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-21 births/deaths

January 21st births

01-21-1895 - Muriel 'Molly' Pollock - Kingsbridge, NY - d. 5-25-1971
concert pianist: "Radio-Keith-Orpheum Hour"; "Sonara Hour"
01-21-1897 - J. Carrol Naish - NYC - d. 1-24-1973
actor: Luigi Basco "Life with Luigi"
01-21-1902 - Smith Ballew - Palestine, TX - d. 5-2-1984
singer: "The Ipana Troubadors"; "Shell Chateau"
01-21-1904 - Allen Prescott - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-27-1978
host: "Wife Saver"; "Prescott Presents"
01-21-1909 - Sid Raymond - NYC - d. 12-1-2006
actor: "X Minus One"
01-21-1914 - George A. Putnam - Middletown, NY - d. 4-8-1975
announcer: "Can You Top This?"; "Vic and Sade"; "Portia Faces Life"
01-21-1915 - Alan Hewitt - NYC - d. 11-7-1986
actor: Ken Martinson "This is Nora Drake"; Karl Dorn "Romance of
Helen Trent"
01-21-1915 - John Dunkel - Springfield, OH - d. 2-22-2001
writer: "Escape"; "Fort Laramie"; "Gunsmoke"
01-21-1915 - Ray Erlenborn - Denver, CO - d. 6-4-2007
sound effects, actor: "Burns and Allen"; "Anderson Family"
01-21-1919 - Jinx Falkenburg McCrary - Barcelona, Spain - d. 8-27-2003
hostess: "Hi! Jinx"; "Tex & Jinx"; "Weekend"
01-21-1921 - Charlotte Manson - NYC
actor: Patsy Bowen "Nick Carter, Master Detective"
01-21-1921 - Manya Starr - NYC - d. 7-26-2000
writer: Allegedly fired by Hummert asking about God, "Who's will play
him?"
01-21-1922 - Telly Savalas - Garden City, NY - d. 1-22-1994
actor: "[removed] Story"
01-21-1924 - Benny Hill - Southampton, England - d. 4-20-1992
comedian: "Educating Archie"
01-21-1925 - Charles Aidman - Frankfort, IN - d. 11-7-1993
acotr: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
01-21-1927 - Milus L. Bradley - Lake Charles, LA
composer, singer, pianist, accordionist
01-21-1941 - Placido Domingo - Madrid, Spain
tenor: "The Metropolitan Opera"
01-21-1947 - Jill Eikenberry - New Haven, CT
actor: "We Hold These Truths"

January 21st deaths

02-21-1915 - Ann Sheridan - Dallas, TX - d. 1-21-1967
actor: (The Oomph Girl) "Smiths of Hollywood"; "Stars in the Air"
02-25-1951 - Don Poier - d. 1-21-2005
sports announcer
03-22-1895 - Joseph Schildkraut - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-21-1964
actor: "Intrigue"; "Best Plays"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Hollywood Hotel"
04-01-1915 - Bob Dwan - San Francisco, CA - d. 1-21-2005
director: "You Bet Your Life"
05-12-1896 - Milton Herman - NYC - d. 1-21-1951
actor: Gargoyle "The Bishop and the Gargoyle"; Italo "Today's Children"
05-22-1938 - Susan Strasberg - NYC - d. 1-21-1999
actor: Emily Marriott "Marriage"
05-26-1920 - Peggy Lee - Jamestown, ND - d. 1-21-2002
singer: "Jimmy Durante Show"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"; "Peggy Lee
Show"
05-27-1910 - Sidney Slon - Chicago, IL - d. 1-21-1995
actor: Solly "The Goldbergs"; Mr. Trent "Valiant Lady"
06-01-1917 - Donald Dame - Titusville, PA - d. 1-21-1952
singer: "Music for an Hour"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
07-05-1921 - Mort Fega - d. 1-21-2005
long time jazz disc jockey in New York
08-07-1927 - Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer - Paris, IL - d. 1-21-1959
actor: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
08-11-1908 - Russell Procope - d. 1-21-1981
clarinetist, saxophonist: "Duke Ellington and His Orchestra";
"Ellington at Newport"
08-12-1881 - Cecil B. DeMille - Ashfield, MA - d. 1-21-1959
host: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-17-1914 - Jerry Siegel - Cleveland , OH - d. 1-21-1996
co-creator (with Joe Shuster): "Advs. of Superman"
10-25-1908 - Polly Ann Young - Denver, CO - d. 1-21-1997
actor: (Sister of Loretta) "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-23-1894 - Andrew Schoeppel - Chaflin, KS - d. 1-21-1962
governor kansas: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
12-02-1921 - Rita Lynn - Louisiana - d. 1-21-1996
actor: "Dimension X"
12-28-1904 - Country Washburn - Houston, TX - d. 1-21-1974
bandleader/singer: "Curt Massey/Martha Tilton"; "Spike Jones and His
City Slickers"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:16:20 -0500
From: Chargous@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  re: Cincinnati Convention

I hope the weather will be good for the 11/12th.  At least it'll be 2 less
weeks to wait, though - I can't wait for the convention!

Being a local, I didn't have to stay in the hotel, but I heard some of the
issues.  Like Bob said, please give the new people a chance.  The
Convention is a really great thing.   I look forward to every years'
convention.

Travis

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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:16:48 -0500
From: Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@[removed];
To: Time Radio Digest Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The Best Radio Comedians

As an ethnic Jew, it does NOT please me when someone
writes that the best comedians were Jewish. I cannot
agree.  No group has ever cornered the market on
anything, but being that the subject has come up,
let's form a list of great, non-Jewish radio
comedians. As a kid, I listened to Fred Allen, Edgar
Bergen, Joan Davis, Hattie MacDaniel, and certainly
those zanies on "It Pays To Be Ignorant"  were
wonderful comedians, given their terrific timing
ability.  As for timing, no one has ever surpassed
Hans Conreid, J. Carrol Naish, and Art Linkletter.
The list goes on:  Gosden and [removed] guess the real
question is:  What makes a comedian?

Stuart

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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:17:16 -0500
From: rand@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR experiences, Lum and Abner, etc

Reading some posts about listening to the Goldbergs, Vic and Sade and
Yiddish programs, I thought I'd ask folks in the group to share how you
became interested in OTR.

For me, I caught the "bug" a little late.  I grew up in the 1970s, when
the "nostalgia boom" was going on and my discovered a number of great old
radio shows on cassette at my local library after hearing the CBS Radio
Mystery Theater and NBC's 50th anniversary retrospectives.

One show that I treasure a great deal is "Lum and Abner".  A country
station in Statesville, NC ran the show throughout the 1970s each day
around 5:45 pm and I tried not to miss it.  Growing up in Appalachia, I
usually cringe at attempts at rural humor (like the Beverly Hillbillies or
the Andy Griffith Show), but Lum and Abner still comes across as very warm
and real.

My parents told me stories about walking a few miles to listen to the
Grand Old Opry in the 30s and 40s on one of the few radios in the area and
I recall asking my great-grandmother what she listened to.  She mentioned
really enjoying Myrt and Marge and it's only recently I was able to track
down an episode of the show.

The area where I grew up, in northwestern North Carolina, was very poor
and isolated during network radio's heyday.  My hometown didn't get their
own radio station until 1959-1960.

Randy

____
Randy A. Riddle
Mebane, NC

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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:48:09 -0500
From: Tony Baechler <tony@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Private Eyelashes book search request

Hello all,

I have a bit of an odd request.  I'm currently reading Private
Eyelashes: Radio's Lady Detectives.  At one point fairly early in the
book, the name of Elvia Allman is mentioned.  Sorry in advance if the
spelling is off.  It would be helpful to me if someone could tell me the
name of the subsection in which her name appears.  In other words, under
what entry is she mentioned?  I'm fairly sure it's in the first chapter
but I'm not positive.  Unfortunately page numbers won't help, I just
need to know what entry she is under.

The reason why I'm asking is because the NLS narrator mispronounces her
name.  I would like to report it as an error but I'm not sure where it
occurs.  I didn't make note of the time.  The NLS is the National
Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.  They need the
exact point in the digital audio file where the problem is but I would
have to find it again.

Authors, again I ask, beg, and encourage you to please consider donating
electronic copies of your books to Bookshare.  If I had it
electronically, this would be a non-issue.  Either I could find the
problem myself or I wouldn't have to download the audio version.  Oh,
and electronic, text books are a lot more searchable.  Please consider
donating error-free electronic copies.  [removed]

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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:26:41 -0500
From: Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  50% off some BearManor Media books this weekend

I know this is technically an ad, but I thought some
of you would be interested to know we've got a sale on
some of our books today and tomorrow (ends tomorrow
night at midnight EST).

Now on to other news! We have a few more radio books
being worked on now, coming out later this year. Clair
A. Schulz (one of the It's That Time Again! authors)
has submitted a Great log/history book on Fibber McGee
and Molly. Terry Salomonson is working on his personal
bio of Parley Baer. We're close to releasing the first
book on Shirley Booth, by the same author, Jim Manago
(you might remember him from some FOTR conventions;
that's where I met him), who's trying to conquer the
amazing task of a Gale Gordon biography. And he's
looking for all the help he can get, so feel free to
email him at sbbiography@[removed]. Meantime, I've
already set release dates for my own books on Judy
Canova (August 8th), Phil Rapp (October 10th) and Mel
Blanc (November 19th). The Blanc book is going to be
wonderful, because I'm reprinting much of Noel Blanc's
unpublished bio on his dad, some of which ended up as
first person narrative in Mel's autobiography, but
most of which hasn't been seen by the public yet.
Plus, the brilliant Walt Mitchell is letting me print
his Amazing and completely updated Blanc discography
as part of Mel's credits. This is a Fantastic work and
I'm so grateful to Walt for allowing this.

Well, there are more things in the pipeline, but I
think that's a long enough commercial. As always, I
appreciate the support of everyone here. Without you,
I couldn't afford to put out the books McFarland turns
down! :)

Ben Ohmart
[removed]

Old radio. Old movies. New books.
[removed]

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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:17:15 -0500
From: Chargous@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  30s network musical shows are really hard to find

I would like to find the best possible copies of 30s network musical shows,
like the 30s incarnation of Kraft Music Hall and other network shows of
1932-36 that are like it.  Such programs are technically in circulation,
being listed in Hickerson, and they're in the Goldin collection, but
they're IMPOSSIBLE to find.  I found a few mp3 copies of KMH, but I'm
looking for a quality CD or open reel.

I suppose they're hard to find because they aren't in real high demand
among trading circles, but I'd sure like to find some.

Travis

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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:32:20 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-22 births/deaths

January 22nd births

01-22-1872 - Beatrice Fairfax - Washington, [removed] - d. 11-28-1945
writer: "Advice to the Lovelorn"
01-22-1875 - D. W. Griffith - La Grange, KY - d. 7-23-1948
movie producer-director: "Brooklyn Mark Strand Stage and Studio Program"
01-22-1878 - Constance Collier - Windsor, Berkshire, England - d.
4-25-1955
actor: Jessie Atwood "Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy"
01-22-1893 - Conrad Veidt - Potsdam, Germany - d. 4-3-1943
actor: "Free World Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
01-22-1893 - Fulton Oursler - Baltimore, MD - d. 5-24-1952
writer: "The Greatest Story Ever Told"; "Thatcher Colt Mysteries"
01-22-1894 - Rosa Ponselle - Meriden, CT - d. 5-25-1981
opera soprano: "Atwater Kent Hour"; "Metropolitan Opera"
01-22-1895 - Ethel (Everett) Remey - d. 2-28-1979
actor: Kathleen Norris "By Kathleen Norris"
01-22-1897- Linda Carlon - Stuttgart, Germany - d. 6-xx-1985
actor: Mary Sothern "Life of Mary Sothern"
01-22-1899 - Anne Elstner - Lake Charles, LA - d. 1-29-1981
actor: Stella Dallas "Stella Dallas"; Mary Weston "Wilderness Road"
01-22-1906 - Guy Savage - d. 8-31-1981
announcer: "Play Broadcast"
01-22-1907 - Douglas 'Wrong-Way' Corrigan - Galveston, TX - d. 12-9-1995
intrepid pilot: "Believe It or Not"
01-22-1909 - Ann Sothern - Valley City, ND - d. 3-15-2001
actor: Maisie Revere "Maisie"
01-22-1911 - Arnold Robertson - Chicago, IL - d. 7-xx-1969
comedian: Ed Potts "Scattergood Baines"; Dr. Jensen "This Is Nora Drake"
01-22-1914 - Dick Willard - d. 9-6-2000
announcer, emcee: "The Strange Dr. Weird"; "Take it Easy Time"
01-22-1914 - Joy Hodges - Des Moines, IA - d. 1-19-2003
vocalist; "The Joe Penner Show"
01-22-1916 - Howard Teichmann - Chicago, IL - d. 7-7-1987
writer: "Road of Life"; "Theatre USA"; "Valiant Lady"
01-22-1920 - Herman Alexander Baron - NYC - d. 9-xx-1984
staff composer with NBC 1943-1948
01-22-1920 - William Warfield - West Helena, AR - d. 8-25-2002
bass-baritone singer: "Edgar Bergen Show"; "Beyond Victory"
01-22-1924 - J. J. Johnson - d. 2-4-2001
jazz trombonist: "Arthur Godfrey Show"; "One Night Stand"
01-22-1932 - Piper Laurie - Detroit, MI
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "NBC Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
01-22-1934 - Bill Bixby - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-21-1993
actor: "We Hold These Truths"
01-22-1935 - Dave Holland - Raleigh, NC - d. 11-14-2005
author: "From Out of the Past: A Pictorial History of the Lone Ranger"

January 22nd deaths

01-21-1922 - Telly Savalas - Garden City, NY - d. 1-22-1994
actor: "[removed] Story"
01-29-1913 - Daniel Taradash - Louisville, KY - d. 1-22-2003
film writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
02-10-1892 - Alan Hale, Sr. - Washington, [removed] - d. 1-22-1950
actor:"Lux Radio Theatre"
03-02-1905 - Marc Blitzstein - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-22-1964
author: "Mercury Theatre On the Air"
03-03-1911 - Henry Gladstone - Boston, MA - d. 1-22-1995
announcer: "White Owl Reporter"
04-10-1911 - Victor Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 1-22-1994
musician: (Guy Lombardo's Orchestra) "Lady Esther Serenade"
04-12-1919 - Ann Miller - Chireno, TX - d. 1-22-2004
dancer, actor: "Forecast"; "Hollywood Hotel"
05-23-1890 - Herbert Marshall - London, England - d. 1-22-1966
actor: Ken Thurston "Man Called X"
06-23-1895 - Pick Malone - nr. Dallas, TX - d. 1-22-1962
comedian:"Show Boat"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
07-21-1901 - Allyn Joslyn - Milford, PA - d. 1-22-1981
actor: "Island Boat Club"; "Page of Romance"; "Show Boat"
08-21-1916 - Consuelo Velazquez - Ciudad Guzman, Mexico - d. 1-22-2005
songwriter: (Besame Mucho) Oversaw classical music programs for
station XEQ
08-27-1908 - Lyndon Baines Johnson - nr. Stonewall, TX - d. 1-22-1973
[removed] president: "Meet the Press"; "World's Fair Holiday"
09-10-1879 - Jess Pugh - Andersonville, IN - d. 1-22-1962
actor: Scattergood Baines, "Scattergood Baines"
10-22-1891 - Parker Fennelly - Northeast Harbor, ME - d. 1-22-1988
actor: Titus Moody, "Fred Allen Show"; Dan Tucker, "Lawyer Dan Tucker"
10-28-1908 - David LeWinter - NYC - d. 1-22-1976
orchestra leader: Late night dance band remotes
11-05-1933 - Donald Madden - NYC - d. 1-22-1983
actor: "Let's Pretend"
11-10-1916 - Billy May - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-22-2004
orchestra leader: "Music Depreciation"; "Stan Freberg Show"
12-07-1920 - Frances Gifford - Long Beach, CA - d. 1-22-1994
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Home state of the losing Packers

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