Subject: [removed] Digest V2003 #224
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Date: 6/3/2003 4:54 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2003 : Issue 224
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Arthur Godfrey's 100th                [ "Russ Butler" <oldradio@[removed] ]
  re: who played                        [ "Robert Angus" <rangus02@[removed]; ]
  Eddie Anderson                        [ BH <radioguy@[removed]; ]
  Oh Johnny Oh                          [ JackBenny@[removed] ]
  General Schwartzkopf                  [ welsa@[removed] ]
  who played                            [ Howard Blue <khovard@[removed]; ]
  Today in radio history                [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Rochester-GWTW                        [ "e ginsburg" <edginsburg@[removed] ]
  moral message                         [ "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@earthli ]
  JFK and RFK Assassinations Newscasts  [ Tom Kleinschmidt <otr1962@[removed] ]
  OTR Morality Plays                    [ Doug Berryhill <fibbermac@[removed] ]
  Edward (Edgar) Fairchild              [ leemunsick@[removed] ]
  June 4th birthdays                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Guest Stars                           [ AandG4jc@[removed] ]
  Re: General Schwarzkopf               [ "Jan Willis" <jlwillis@[removed]; ]
  OTR programs w/moral messages         [ Kenneth Clarke <kclarke5@[removed]; ]

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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:19:43 -0400
From: "Russ Butler" <oldradio@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Arthur Godfrey's 100th

Listed in Chuck Schaden's "Those Were The Days" radio broadcast schedule,
the Saturday, August 23rd program
is a 100th birthday salute (1903 - 2003). to the late Arthur Godfrey with a
selection of his great shows.  Included is
the Julius LaRosa swan song excerpt and the FDR funeral procession
description, of some recent interest here on this discussion list.

The 1 to 5 [removed] Central Time program can be heard online at [removed] and
in suburban Chicago on WDCB [removed]
Chuck has an interesting program every Saturday afternoon and an excellent
"Nostalgia Digest" quarterly magazine by subscription. The new Summer 2002
edition has a great story and photos about Arthur by a fella named Munsick!

Russ Butler  oldradio@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 01:36:56 -0400
From: "Robert Angus" <rangus02@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  re: who played
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The appearance of free shows like Guest Star, Here's To Veterans, etc.
(roughly 1947) coincided with a rash of new daytime-only stations, many owned
and/or operated by veterans.  These stations appeared in the suburbs of larger
cities and supplemented the older (usually network-affiliated) stations in
smaller cities.  Since network affiliation was out of the question for most of
them because  they could only broadcast until sunset, usually with lower power
than the nearby network stations, they were delighted to have free programming
featuring big-name talent to fill up the schedule.  Network affiliates,
particularly in smaller markets, also occasionally played these shows, but it
was the new daytimers who were their main users.

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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 01:37:50 -0400
From: BH <radioguy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Eddie Anderson

Laura posted:

I'm not well-versed in vocal chord injuries (which is supposed to be why Roch
sounded the way he did), but it may affect the voice differently at different
tonal levels.
I am not aware of any time that Eddie Anderson did a "non-Rochester" voice,
if you mean one without the gravelly affectation.  Go back to "What Price
Hollywood", "Green Pastures", or "Gone With the Wind" and you can hear the
gravel
there as well, although not as accentuated as it was later in the Benny show.

I was watching an old movie on video from the Library a few weeks
ago, in which Eddie Anderson had a minor roll. I have been
diagnosed with CRS (Can't Remember Stuff) so the title escapes me,
but it was from the 1930's. When he spoke I did not recognize him
at first as his voice did not have any gravel sound to it at all.
This made me wonder if the gravel voice came later due to some
medical condition or accident.

Bill H.

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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 01:38:08 -0400
From: JackBenny@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Oh Johnny Oh
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Bob Slate writes:

I'm looking for all OTR programs that has Johnny Roventini like, Johnny
Presents, The Phillip Morris Playhouse, and his 25th Anniversary show from
the early 1960's on MP3. I think this would be an interesting topic for a
future discussion on OTR digest, like people who knew him etc.,

Just a [removed] anyone takes up this mantle, I highly recommend that you get
in contact with the Van Andel Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  Both Johnny
and I are from there (Grand Rapids, not the museum), and they have a small
display dedicated to him (I'm still waiting for mine).

If memory serves, he used to be a page at the Rowe Hotel (which was even
featured in selected orchestra radio broadcasts).  The Rowe became Olds Manor
(a
retirement community), and is was recently in debate about being turned back
into a hotel.  Directly across Michigan Street, the city has torn down the
Hall
of Justice and connected governmental buildings to make was for a new,
enlarged convention center (adjoining DeVos Hall, which hosted a Bob Hope
special at
the opening of the Gerald R. Ford [removed] [removed] GRFord Museum is a
stylized building in the shape of a triangle.  This prompted Hope to comment,
"Do you know why the Ford Museum only has three sides?  He wasn't in office
long enough to have four.").  So the old Rowe Hotel may have life in it yet
for
Johnny-come-latelies.

--Laura Leff
President, IJBFC
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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 01:38:19 -0400
From: welsa@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  General Schwartzkopf

I didn't think that the senior Schwartzkopf was personally involved with
Gangbusters.  I thought he only lent his name to the series.  After all,
they always introduced him as appearing "by proxy."

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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 01:39:38 -0400
From: Howard Blue <khovard@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  who played

Walden Hughes asked

1. who played the shows like Guest Star, Red Cross, Treasury stars on
Parade?
 2. Were they just local station that were not hook up with a network,
orcould station played them during local time while waiting to go back to
a network show?
3. Were they just local station that were not hook up with a network, or
could station played them during local time while waiting to go back to a
network show?
4. Who produce them and how often did they ship the disc to the  station?
5.  Did the station get played to play them, or did they do them as part
of there way of servicing there area?

1. I'm not sure what you're asking here Walden. I have no information
about "Guest Star" If you mean who were the actors, both the Red Cross
shows and Treasury Star Parade  (note correct title) featured some of
Hollywood's (and sometimes Broadway's) biggest stars [removed] John Garfield,
Helen Hayes, Fredric March etc.

 2. Director William Bacher worked on Treasury Star Parade. Transcription
disks were made in both New York and Hollywood by the Treasury
Department.  In New York, they were taped at the facilities of the World
Broadcasting System , a syndication company in the old NBC studios on
Fifth Avenue.

3.  The transcription disks for the Red Cross shows and Treasury Star
Parade were sent to the various stations which I  believe were free to
play them when they wanted to.

4. Stations were not not paid to play Treasury Star Parade and I strongly
suspect the same thing can be said about the Red Cross shows. These were
public service shows.

For further information, see  WORDS AT WAR  ( [removed] )

Howard Blue

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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:00:55 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-net <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Today in radio history

   From Those Were The Days --

   1946 - Mutual debuted The Casebook of Gregory Hood, the summer
replacement for Sherlock Holmes. The mystery series became a regular
weekly program in the fall of 1946.

   Joe

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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:01:49 -0400
From: "e ginsburg" <edginsburg@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Rochester-GWTW

Go back to "What Price Hollywood", "Green Pastures", or "Gone With
the Wind" and you can hear the gravel

I do not remember Eddie Anderson in GWTW tell me a bit about his role
thanks
ed

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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:43:44 -0400
From: "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@[removed];
To: "OTR List" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  moral message

Just a few days ago I was thinking about a New Year's Eve ep of Amos & Andy
where Andy skips the big party where the big star is going to perform to
help someone out on New Year's Eve. In the end, all the parties are over,
he's alone, missed all the fun. Someone asks him if he wants to go to dinner
with a friend, who has also missed all the fun because she was working or
something. Turns out the friend is the big star, a big name of that day
whose name escapes me at this moment. But it was a touching story with a
moral lesson about giving unselfishly to others, even if it hurts a little.

Joe Salerno

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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 14:23:35 -0400
From: Tom Kleinschmidt <otr1962@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  JFK and RFK Assassinations Newscasts

I was contacted by someone who found my web site and
is searching for audio of news broadcasts related to
the JFK and RFK assassinations. He needs these for a
project he is working on. Below is the list of what he
is looking for. At the bottom of the list is his
contact information, he is not on the OTR Digest so
please contact him directly if you can help him.
Thanks!

ABC TV (video or audio)
11/22[removed] seeking video or audio of the news
bulletins that aired on
ABC TV of the JFK assassination.  Please note that I
already have
videotapes of the news coverage provided by ABC-TV
Dallas affiliate WFAA
TV (which re-aired in 1983 as part of a 20th
anniversary documentary
entitled "The Kennedy Tapes").  Am looking for the ABC
TV bulletins from
Don Goddard, Ron Cochran and Ed Silverman that were
not included in that
1983 WFAA TV retrospective.

ABC Radio (audio)
11/22[removed] also seeking audio of news bulletins
that aired on ABC Radio
of the JFK assassination.  Please note that I already
have the excerpts
that were part of the ABC-produced 1966 phonograph
album entitled
"November 22, 1963" that was narrated by Fred Foy).
Am looking for the
ABC Radio bulletins from Don Gardiner that were not
included in that 1966
ABC News phonograph album.

NBC Radio (audio)
11/22[removed] also seeking audio of all the news
bulletins that aired on
NBC Radio of the JFK assassination.

Mutual Radio (audio)
11/22[removed] also seeking audio of all the news
bulletins that aired on
Mutual Radio of the JFK assassination.  Please note
that I already have
the 30-minute sound clip of coverage by the Mutual
Broadcasting System
that has circulated throughout the internet.  Am
looking for the MBS
bulletins that were not included in that 30-minute
sound clip.

ABC TV (video or audio)
6/4-5[removed] also seeking video or audio of the news
coverage that aired
on ABC TV of the 1968 California primary and/or the
RFK assassination
which occurred the same night.  I'm interested in ABC
TV video or audio
from that entire night, but of particular interest to
me is the
black-and-white videotape of RFK walking through the
Ambassador Hotel
kitchen on his way to the ballroom for his victory
speech at Midnight (he
would be shot in the same kitchen area some 15 minutes
later after his
speech); this b&w RFK videotape was either shot by ABC
or KABC and was
aired live on ABC TV at Midnight on June 4-5, 1968.

NBC TV (video or audio)
6/4-5[removed] also seeking video or audio of the news
coverage that aired
on NBC TV of the 1968 California primary and/or the
RFK assassination
which occurred the same night.

Will also pay for a lead or referral from anyone who
successfully points me in the right direction leading
to
my obtaining this material.
Contact Brad Johnson at [removed]@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 14:25:27 -0400
From: Doug Berryhill <fibbermac@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR Morality Plays

Bill Wilson wrote:

I'm looking for episodes of old-time radio programs
that send clear moral messages that I can share with
church groups and such.  They don't have to be
directly spiritual, but should have a definite moral
message.

What a great question. I'm looking forward to what
others on this list come up with. As for me, these two
shows immediately came to mind:

ESCAPE episode #121 50-07-28 "Poison"

and

THE SIX SHOOTER 54-04-15 "Crisis at Easter Creek"

Like most episodes of Escape, "Poison" is rather
intense and may not be suitable for your purposes,
depending on your target audience, but it contains one
of the strongest anti-prejudice storylines I've heard
in OTR.

"Crisis at Easter Creek", is a thoroughly enjoyable
story of Britt Ponsett's atypical solution to helping
a church acquire a new organ. This one was extremely
well written and very entertaining.

Otherwise, try getting your hands on a series called
"Family Theater". That anthology series had big name
Hollywood stars appearing in 30 minute morality plays
for over 10 years and ran commercials advocating the
benefits of prayer.

Hope this helps.

-FIBBERMAC-

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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 14:27:15 -0400
From: leemunsick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Edward (Edgar) Fairchild

Edgar (not Edward) "Cookie" Fairchild provided leadership for the
orchestral backgrounds on the Eddie Cantor program (a young musician named
Spike Jones was one of his sidemen), and for the Ginny Simms Show in the
early 1940s.   I suspect that he lent his artistry to various other
programs where his name was not so prominently listed.

Afficionados of player piano "literature"--meaning the perforated rolls,
especially those made for "reproducing pianos"--know Fairchild in another
vein.  He was a prolific pianist making many such rolls under his own name
and others.

I'd suggest that if you want to know a great deal more about this fine
artist, contact a member of the Musical Box Society (International) or
MBS-Great Britain, or the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors of
America (AMICA).  Most any player piano store could tell you how to do so.

Lee Munsick

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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 14:28:36 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  June 4th birthdays

If you were born on the 4th of June, you missed the 4th of July by a month and
you share your birthday with a dog:

06-04-1891 - Erno Rapee - Budapest, Hungary - d. 6-26-1945
conductor: "Roxy's Gang"; "General Motors Concert"
06-04-1906 - Vinton Haworth (Hayworth) - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-21-1970
actor: Fred Andrews "Archie Andrews"; Michael Shayne "Michael Shayne"
06-04-1908 - Rosalind Russell - Waterbury, CT - d. 11-28-1976
actress: "Four-Star Playhouse"; "Silver Theatre"
06-04-1917 - Charles Collingwood - Three Rivers, MI - d. 10-3-1985
newscaster: CBS News UN Correspondent/White House Correspondent
06-04-1919 - Robert Merrill - Brooklyn, NY
singer: "An Evening with Romberg"; "Robert Merrill Show"
06-04-1940 - Lassie (Pal) - North Hollywood, CA - d. 1958
actor: "The Lassie Show"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Hometown of [removed] Kaltenborn and Spencer Tracy

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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 14:27:33 -0400
From: AandG4jc@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Guest Stars

Here is a Television/Old Time Radio trivia question. As you know Batman was a
guest Super Hero on Superman's radio show from time to time. Do you know what
Old Time Radio Super Hero was a guest on the Adam West Batman television
series? I know the answer but do you? Lets see how many know out there.
Allen

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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 17:28:51 -0400
From: "Jan Willis" <jlwillis@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: General Schwarzkopf

Martin Grams, Jr. mentioned:
I have an odd request.  During the 1940s, General Schwartzkopf's father was
a police officer in New Jersey and hosted many broadcasts of radio's
GANGBUSTERS.  I came across something that I think Mr. Schwarzkopf would
appreciate regarding his father's involvement on the radio program, but
have
yet to find any contact information in order to contact him.
Does anyone have any ideas how to contact him?

Martin:
  Here's a possiblity -
  Try the WSB/ Washington Speakers Bureau, which
appears to still be representing him exclusively, in his speaking
engagements.
[removed]

They can be reached at:
1663 Prince Street Alexandria, VA 22314 USA
Phone [removed]
FAX [removed]
E-mail: info@[removed]
  But as that's just a "get in the front door" e-mail,
look over these e-mails of the WSB's staff,
if you'd like to start w/ a specific person - I'd pick the president.
   Start at the top, and see if he'll pass it on to the person handling
the general for the bureau.  With the personal touch you will
give it, the message might get passed on to him and you'll
get a more direct mailing address for him.
[removed]

Jan Willis

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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 18:36:33 -0400
From: Kenneth Clarke <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR programs w/moral messages

          One OTR program which might fill the bill nicely
(IMHO) is the Christmas show from 12-22-44 of
"Amos n Andy".  Andy takes a job as a department store
Santa Claus in order to get enough money to buy Amo's
daughter Arbodella a doll for Christmas.  Amos then
explains the meaning of Christmas and the spirit of
generosity to her.

Kenneth Clarke

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