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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2009 : Issue 213
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
11-7 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Battetn, Barton, Durstine & Osborn [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
Drear Pooson [ "Joe" <jpostove@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history 8-14 Nove [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:19:32 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 11-7 births/deaths
November 7th births
11-07-1868 - Royal Copeland - Dexter, MI - d. 6-17-1938
commentator: "Health Talk"; "Fleischmann Hour"
11-07-1883 - Solomon Lightfoot Michaux - Newport News, VA - d.
10-20-1968
preacher: "Elder Michaux's Happiness Church Service"
11-07-1890 - Phil Spitalny - Odessa, Russia - d. 10-11-1970
conductor: "Nestles Chocolateers"; "Blue Coal Revue"; "Hour of Charm"
11-07-1893 - Margaret Leech - Newburgh, NY - d. 2-24-1974
author: "Information Please"
11-07-1895 - Jerry Belcher - Austin, TX - d. 6-3-1962
interviewer: "Vox Pop"; "Our Neighbors"
11-07-1897 - Herman J. Mankiewicz - NYC - d. 3-5-1953
screenwriter, producer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-07-1902 - Ed Dodd - Lafayette, GA - d. 5-27-1991
comic creator: "Mark Trail"
11-07-1903 - Dean Jagger - Lima, OH - d. 2-5-1991
actor: "Crisis in War Town"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Cavalcade of America"
11-07-1904 - Francis M. Nevins, Jr. - Toronto, Canada - d. 4-1-1990
script writer: "Mandrake the Magcian"
11-07-1906 - Red Ingle - Toledo, OH - d. 9-7-1965
vocalist: (Spike Jones and his City Slickers) "The Spike Jones Show"
11-07-1907 - Tom Hanlon - Kansas - d. 9-29-1970
announcer: "Jane Endicott, Reporter"; "That's My Pop"; "Beulah Show"
11-07-1910 - Charles Carroll - Jackson, MI - d. 6-5-1978
actor: "Margo of Castlewood"; "Valiant Lady"
11-07-1911 - Dick Stark - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 12-12-1986
announcer: "It Pays to be Ignorant"; "Perry Mason"; "Walter Winchell's
Jergens Journal"
11-07-1913 - Margorie Anderson - London, England - d. 12-14-1999
disc jockey: "Forces Favourites"; "Woman's Hour"; "Home for the Day"
11-07-1916 - Joe Bushkin - NYC - d. 11-3-2004
jazz pianist: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"
11-07-1917 - Johnnie Stewart - Tonbridge, England - d. 4-29-2005
sound effects for BBC radio in 1930s, then became a producer
11-07-1918 - Billy Graham - Charlotte, NC
preacher: "Hour of Decision"
11-07-1918 - Fred Cusick - Boston, MA - d. 9-15-2009
sportscaster "Irish Hour"
11-07-1921 - Virginia Kaye - d. 3-18-2005
actor: Rosemary Dawson "Rosemary"
11-07-1922 - Al Hirt - New Orleans, LA - d. 4-27-1999
dixieland trumpeter: "Voices of Vista"; "The Navy Swings"; "Here's to
Veterans"
11-07-1926 - Joan Sutherland - Sydney, Australia
soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
11-07-1945 - Ruthe Stein - Chicago, IL
journalist: "Sonya Live"; "All Things Considered"
11-07-1949 - Gary Marcuse - Ithaca, NY
host: "Songs and Stories of Canada"
November 7th deaths
01-21-1915 - Alan Hewitt - NYC - d. 11-7-1986
actor: Ken Martinson "This is Nora Drake"; Karl Dorn "Romance of Helen
Trent"
01-21-1925 - Charles Aidman - Frankfort, IN - d. 11-7-1993
acotr: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
02-19-1902 - Eddie Peabody - Reading, MA - d. 11-7-70
banjoist: (The Banjo King) "National Barn Dance"
03-13-1892 - Janet Flanner - Indianapolis, IN - d. 11-7-1978
reporter: "Listen, The Women"
03-14-1925 - Sonny Cohn - Chicago, IL - d. 11-7-2006
trumpeter: Count Basie Orchestra
03-24-1910 - John V. Ambrose - d. 11-7-1995
sportscaster: WTAG Worcester, Massachusetts
03-30-1914 - Stu Novins - Boston, MA - d. 11-7-1989
writer: "The City"
04-13-1919 - Howard Keel - Gillespie, IL - d. 11-7-2004
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-14-1924 - Shorty Rogers - Great Barrington, MA - d. 11-7-1994
jazz trumpeter: "Army Bandstand"; "Here's to Veterans"
05-12-1909 - Margaret Harshaw - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-7-1997
opera singer: "Radio Hall of Fame"; "Sylvan Opera Condert"
05-17-1905 - John Patrick - Louisville, KY - d. 11-7-1995
writer, actor: Cecil "Cecil and Sally"
05-25-1898 - Gene Tunney - NYC - d. 11-7-1978
heavyweight boxing champion: "National Guard Show"; "The Navy is Fit
to Fight"
06-12-1924 - Howard E. Goldfuss - The Bronx, NY - d. 11-7-2007
judge: "Tell It to the Judge"
08-15-1903 - Jerry Cady - d. 11-7-1948
writer: "Major Hoople"
08-18-1879 - Gus Edwards - Hohensaliza, Germany - d. 11-7-1945
songwriter: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
08-25-1885 - Chick Sale - Huron, SD - d. 11-7-1936
humorist: "General Motors Family Party"; "RCA Victor Hour"
09-16-1927 - Jack Kelly - Astoria, NY - d. 11-7-1992
actor: "Suspense"
09-20-1918 - Peg Phillips - Everett, WA - d. 11-7-2002
actor: "Studio One"; "The Big Show"
10-04-1905 - Ruth Lyons - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-7-1988
talk show host: "50-50 Club"
10-10-1911 - George Mathews - NYC - d. 11-7-1984
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
10-11-1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt - NYC - d. 11-7-1962
commentator: "Eleanor Roosevelt Chats/It's a Woman's World/Talks by
Eleanor Roosevelt"
10-11-1914 - Buddy Twiss - St. Paul, MN - d. 11-7-1952
producer: "I Love A Mystery"; "One Man's Family"
10-16-1900 - Lloyd Corrigan - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-7-1969
actor: Judge Hunter "One Man's Family"
10-21-1905 - Carleton Young - NYC - d. 11-7-1994
actor: Dick Grosvenor "Stella Dallas"; Ellery Queen "Advs of Ellery
Queen"
11-05-1885 - Will Durant - North Adams, MA - d. 11-7-1981
historian: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"
12-11-1883 - Victor McLaglen - Tunbridge Wells, England - d. 11-7-1959
actor: Captain Flagg "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt"; Mountie Eric
Lewis "Red Trails"
12-14-1915 - Jerry Daniels - d. 11-7-1995
singer: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots"; "Let's Go
Nightclubbing"
12-15-1891 - A. P. Carter - Poor Valley, VA - d. 11-7-1960
singer: (Carter Family) "Grand Ole Opry"
Ron
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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:20:00 -0500
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Battetn, Barton, Durstine & Osborn
Ok experts, was it Jack Benny or Fred Allen who coined the lin"Batten
,Barton, Durstine & Osborn "sounded like a trunk falling down a flight of
stairs?
BBD&O was a real advertising firm that was probably the largest in the
world who's clients sponsored a great many of the top radio prpograms
check it out Wikipedia has good article on BBDO
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Frank McGurn
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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:06:57 -0500
From: "Joe" <jpostove@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Drear Pooson
After reading some of the posts about the Jack Benny of 1/08/50 and Laura
Leff's answer to the Drear Pooson question, I went back and listened to the
entire program, which I probably haven't done in 10 years or more.
This was definitely JB in his prime. He was supremely confident when Don
Wilson made his goof, and later on when he had to go "off script" when Mary
Livingston made a bit of a boner herself.
Actually the funniest thing in the program is the show-long running gag
about Jack's new herring bone suit ( which it seemed the whole world knew
[removed] just Drear [removed], you know) which he had just purchased for
$[removed] (first week of [removed]) The cast is really up, and it also shows
that Jack could ad-lib quite ably when called upon.
All that, plus Frank Nelson's come back to Don's fluff, about halfway
through the show (Since this was a taped show, I guess JB knew the retort
was [removed], and Laura may be able to tell us, was this show taped
in advance of airing on the east coast, or run live in NYC and rolled out
transcribed for the rest of the nation at a more convenient time?:>). Also
Cameo's by Prince Michael Romanoff, Gene Kelly, Rosalind Russell, Frank
Sinatra, plus Dennis Day gets in a great Mad Russian impersonation near the
end of the show.
Don's goof started off what became a fun, giddy show for the cast, which the
studio audience picked up on easily, and I believe would have kept fans
wanting more than the 28 minutes and 40 seconds.
An excellent Jack. Give it a listen if you have it.
Joe Postove
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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:07:07 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 8-14 November
From Those Were The Days
11/9
1948 This is Your Life debuted on NBC. Ralph Edwards hosted the radio
show for two years before it moved to television.
11/10
1950 Monty Woolley starred as The Magnificent Montague, which debuted
on NBC.
11/12
1932 The National Broadcasting Company opened its new studios at Radio
City in New York City. They celebrated with a gala program at Radio City
Music Hall.
1938 Kate Smith sang God Bless America for the very first time. It
would later become her signature song. Irving Berlin penned the tune in
1917 but never released it until Miss Smith sang it for the first time
on her radio broadcast.
1940 The chant, "invovo legem magicarum," was heard for the first time
when Mandrake the Magician debuted on WOR in New York City.
11/14
1921 KYW radio, Chicago, IL broadcast the first opera by a
professional company. Listeners heard Samson Et Dalila as it was being
performed at the Chicago Auditorium.
(From Today in History at the NY Times In 1922, the British
Broadcasting Corp. began its domestic radio service.)
Joe
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