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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2010 : Issue 64
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
#OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig [ charlie@[removed] ]
4-6 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Radio Once More Upcoming Shows [ Ken Stockinger <bambino032004-otr@y ]
Re: John Forsythe [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
Other pictures of GI Jill Martha Wil [ "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <bratcher@ ]
4-7 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Two unusual OTR recreations [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
re: Eddie Carroll [ Robert Paine <ka3zci@[removed]; ]
Correction [ Robert Paine <ka3zci@[removed]; ]
EDDIE CARROL [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
Eddie Carroll Interview [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 02:12:01 -0400
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!
A weekly [removed]
For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
Network, the channel name is #OldRadio. We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
real-time OTR talk!
Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
it's always a good time!
For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
week and every week!
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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:53:34 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 4-6 births/deaths
April 6th births
04-06-1883 - Vernon Dalhart - Jefferson, TX - d. 9-14-1948
singer, composer: "Barbasol Ben"
04-06-1884 - Walter Huston - Toronto, Canada - d. 4-7-1950
actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Cavalcade of America"
04-06-1887 - Max Montesole - London, England - d. 9-17-1942
author of several radio plays
04-06-1892 - Lowell Thomas - Woodington, OH - d. 8-29-1981
newscaster, commentator: "Lowell Thomas and the News"; "Man with a
Question"
04-06-1895 - Dudley Nichols - Wapakoneta, OH - d. 1-4-1960
screenwiriter: "Cavalcade of America"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-06-1903 - Charles R. Jackson - d. 9-21-1968
writer: "The Columbia Workshop"; "Sweet River"
04-06-1903 - Mickey Cochrane - Bridgewater, MA - d. 6-28-1962
sportscaster: (Member Baseball Hall of Fame) "Mickey Cochrane"
04-06-1908 - Bernard Dougall - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 9-24-1972
writer: "The Falcon"; "Mr. President"; "Show Boat"
04-06-1909 - Denver Darling - Cumberland County, IL - d. 4-27-1981
country music artist: "Right to Happiness, as commercial spokesman"
04-06-1913 - Don Fedderson - Beresford, SD - d. 12-18-1994
a vice president of palo alto radio station
04-06-1913 - Martha Lipton - NYC - d. 11-28-2006
opera singer: "Music from the House of Squibb"; "Great Days We Honor"
04-06-1913 - Todd Russell - Middleborough, England - d. 4-xx-1974
host: "Double or Nothing"; "Strike It Rich"
04-06-1919 - Paula Kelly - d. 4-12-1992
vocalist: (Modernaires) "Club Fifteen"
04-06-1921 - Arnold Marquis - Dortmund, Germany - d. 11-24-1990
producer, writer: "Pacific Story"; "Unlimited Horizons"
04-06-1922 - Dorothy Donegan - Chicago, IL - d. 5-19-1998
jazz pianist: "Jubilee"; "Radio Hall of Fame"
04-06-1924 - Mimi Benzell - Bridgeport, CT - d. 12-23-1970
singer: "Jack Pearl and Mimi Benzell"; "Railroad Hour"
04-06-1927 - Gerry Mulligan - NYC - d. 1-20-1996
jazz saxophonist: "Sound of Jazz"; "White House Jazz Festival"; "Voice
of Vista"
04-06-1929 - Andre Previn - Berlin, Germany
pianist: "Songs by Sinatra"
04-06-1934 - David Doyle - Wisconsin - d. 9-29-2008
program host: "Growing Older, A New Perspective"
04-06-1938 - Roy Thinnes - Chicago, IL
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
April 6th deaths
01-02-1920 - Isaac Asimov - Petrovich, Russia - d. 4-6-1992
Author: "I, Robot"; "Nightfall"
01-15-1882 - Henry Burr - St. Stephen, Canada - d. 4-6-1941
singer: "National Barn Dance"; "Uncle Ezra"
01-27-1886 - Bessie Beatty - d. 4-6-1947
hostess: Martha Deane
02-26-1907 - Hal Fimberg - d. 4-6-1974
writer, director, producer: "Abbott and Costello"; "Spike Jones"
03-31-1908 - Red Norvo - Beardstown, IL - d. 4-6-1999
jazz vibraphonist: "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Woody Herman Show"
04-08-1915 - Fred Flowerday - d. 4-6-1989
director: "The Lone Ranger"; "The Green Hornet"; "Challenge of the
Yukon"
06-16-1892 - Al Llewelyn - d. 4-6-1964
comedian, singer: (Brad and Al) Heard over CBS and NBC
06-17-1882 - Igor Stravinsky - Oranienbaum, Russia - d. 4-6-1971
composer: "Columbia Work Shop"; "New York Philharmonic"
07-25-1916 - Barbara Vernon - Inverell, Australia - d. 4-6-1978
writer: "The Gerney"
08-07-1903 - Hilda Hopkins Burke - d. 4-6-1978
soprano: WBAL Baltimore, Maryland
08-26-1934 - Gordon Clough - Salford, England - d. 4-6-1996
radio journalist: "The World at One"; "World This Weekend"; "PM"
09-21-1909 - Nathaniel Curtis - NYC - d. 4-6-1983
writer: "You Can't Take It With You"
09-29-1904 - Greer Garson - County Down, Ireland - d. 4-6-1996
actor: "Arch Oboler's Plays"; "Everything for the Boys"; "Star and the
Story"
10-08-1881 - Oscar O'Shea - Peterboro, Canada - d. 4-6-1960
actor: John Marshall "Those We Love"
11-21-1912 - Ralph Butler - d. 4-6-1987
director: "Bright Horizon"; "Perry Mason"; "Rosemary"
11-25-1919 - Norman Tokar - Newark, NJ - d. 4-6-1979
actor: Henry Aldrich "The Aldrich Family"
Ron
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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:53:42 -0400
From: Ken Stockinger <bambino032004-otr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Radio Once More Upcoming Shows
Hi Everyone,
Here's what's coming up on "The Live Show" on Radio Once
More([removed]). "The Live Show" airs every Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday from 9pm-Midnight Eastern and Sunday from 6pm-9pm Eastern.
Wednesday, April 7th - Laura Leff will discuss Jack Benny
Friday, April 9th - Charlie Summers, webmaster of the Old Time Radio Digest
(He has his own theme song, you know)
Sunday, April 11 - Roy Remembers with R. G. Bright
Monday, April 12 - Author Charles Tranberg will talk about his book on The
Thin Man
Friday, April 16 - John Abbott "The Who is Johnny Dollar Matter"
Sunday, April 18 - Roy Remembers with [removed] Bright
Monday, April 19 - Author Jim Cox will discuss Mr. Keen Tracer of Lost Persons
Wednesday, April 21 - Rick Payne with Classic TV tickets
So join Neal Ellis and myself for all of the fun, plus OTR and Nostalgia
programming 24/7!
Ken Stockinger
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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:54:29 -0400
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: John Forsythe
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In a message dated 4/5/2010 5:19:35 [removed] Central Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:
John Forsythe, who besides playing Charlie in "Charlie's Angels" appeared
in a CBS Radio Mystery episode "The Golden Blood of the Sun"(10-31-1974)
has died in San Ynez California at age 92
My understanding is that he may have done radio work (soap operas) as vfar
back as pre-WWII, anyone else confirm?
Dixon
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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:54:55 -0400
From: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <bratcher@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Other pictures of GI Jill Martha Wilkerson?
The only one I've seen is the photo of her face with an AFRS
microphone on her right side. My question is: were any other
publicity photo's of
Martha Wilkerson as GI Jill released besides the one I described? I
did see here in part of a film clip from a VHS tape called
Entertaining The Troops but the clip fades out before finishing. It's
in a studio with a scene of a turntable playing the into music to GI
Jive then Jill turns it off & begins speaking to the camera plus we
see a guy in uniform (don't remember his rank) behind Jill with glass
in a 2nd studio who I suppose played the actual records while Jill
did the announcing & other talk during the show. That clip gives a
much better view of the blonde gal which I really enjoyed seeing as
before that I've only heard mp3 recordings of her show since I'm too
young (I'm 51 now) for WWII to hear the show over the radio. I can
see why the GI's liked her so much as she sounds so nice during the
shows. So were there any other pictures of Jill released during the
GI Jive/AEF Jukebox era or was the mike photo the only one?
Oh & is there a full length version of the video clip I described
available somewhere? If so then where could I find it & what film was
it taken from? Army/Navy Screen Magazine perhaps?
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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:55:06 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 4-7 births/deaths
April 7th births
04-07-1878 - Bert Swor - Paris, TN - d. 11-30-1943
comedian: "Modern Mistrels"; "Bicycle Party"
04-07-1893 - Irene Castle - New Rochelle, NY - d. 1-25-1969
actor: Best Dressed Woman "Life of Irene Castle"; "Twenty Questions"
04-07-1895 - Bert Wheeler - Paterson, NJ - d. 1-18-1968
comedian: "Frank Sinatra Show"; "New Old Gold Show"
04-07-1897 - Royal Foster - d. 10-1-1971
writer: "Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy"; "Ken Murray"
04-07-1897 - Walter Winchell - NYC - d. 2-20-1972
news-gossip caster: "Lucky Strike Dance Hour"; "Jergens Journal"
04-07-1899 - Robert Casadesus - Paris, France - d. 9-19-1972
pianist: "Telephone Hour"; "Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra"
04-07-1900 - Maria "Gamby" Gambarelli - La Spezia, Italy - d. 2-4-1990
ballerina, singer: "Roxy's Gang"; "Dance with Gamby"
04-07-1901 - Gavin Gordon - Chicora, MS - d. 4-7-1983
actor: Doctor Norfolk "Brenthouse"
04-07-1905 - Murray Bolen - Minnesota - d. 10-22-1995
producer, director: "Father Knows Best"; "Mayor of the Town";
"Railroad Hour"
04-07-1908 - Percy Faith - Toronto, Canada - d. 2-9-1976
conductor: "Carnation Contented Hour"; "Pause That Refreshes on the Air"
04-07-1908 - Walt Framer - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-21-1988
producer, director: "Break the Bank"; "Strike It Rich"
04-07-1915 - Billie Holliday - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-17-1959
singer: "Artie Shaw Band"
04-07-1915 - Fred B. Cole - Hingham, MA - d. 12-6-2007
voice of the big bands
04-07-1915 - Stanley Adams - NYC - d. 4-27-1977
writer: "My Friend Irma"
04-07-1916 - Anthony Caruso - Frankfort, IN - d. 4-4-2003
actor: "This Is Your FBI"
04-07-1916 - Roy "Whitey" Grant - Shelby, NC
country, bluegrass: "Briarhoppers"
04-07-1918 - Peanuts Hucko - Syracuse, NY - d. 6-19-2003
jazz clarinetist: "Swing Shift"; "I Sustain These Wings"; "Doctor Jazz"
04-07-1919 - Ralph Flanagan - Lorain, OH - d. 12-30-1995
bandleader: "Chesterfield's ABC of Music"; "Let's Go Show"
04-07-1928 - James Garner - Norman, OK
spokesman: Financial Freedom
04-07-1934 - Ian Richardson - Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 2-9-2007
actor: Richard II and Bolingbroke "Richard II"
04-07-1942 - Joel Dorn - Yeadon, PA - d. 12-17-2007
disk jockey: WHAT-FM Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
04-07-1943 - Frank Gallacher - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 2-23-2009
actor: "Antarctic Journey"
April 7th deaths
01-31-1921 - John Agar - Chicago, IL - d. 4-7-2002
actor: "Big Show"
02-22-1897 - Alonzo Deen Cole - St. Paul, MN - d. 4-7-1971
writer, producer, director: "Casey, Crime Photographer"
02-23-1899 - Norman Taurog - Chicago, IL - d. 4-7-1981
film director: "Biography in Sound"; "Bud's Bandwagon"
02-25-1909 - Berkley Mather - Gloucester, North Wales - d. 4-7-1996
author: "Bird's Eye View"; "Southern Channel"
02-27-1920 - Jose Melis - Havana, Cuba - d. 4-7-2005
bandleader: "Arthur Godfrey"s Talent Scouts"; "Arthur Godfrey Time"
03-03-1914 - Donald Gray - Fort Beaufort, South Africa - d. 4-7-1978
BBC actor from 1947 to 1951
04-01-1912 - Lou Merrill - Canada - d. 4-7-1963
actor: Thomas Hyland "Crime Classics"; Aaron Saul "Point Sublime"
04-06-1884 - Walter Huston - Toronto, Canada - d. 4-7-1950
actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Cavalcade of America"
04-07-1901 - Gavin Gordon - Chicora, MS - d. 4-7-1983
actor: Doctor Norfolk "Brenthouse"
04-16-1898 - Marian Jordan - Peoria, IL - d. 4-7-1961
commedienne: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten"
04-16-1920 - Barry Nelson - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-7-2007
actor: "Duffy's Tavern"; "Treasury Salute"; "Monitor"
04-26-1910 - Grace Coppin - Murray, UT - d. 4-7-1993
actor: Maude "The Life of Riley"
04-26-1918 - Helen Burgess - Portland, OR - d. 4-7-1937
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-13-1911 - Maxine Sullivan - Homestead, PA - d. 4-7-1987
vocalist: "Night Life"
06-22-1901 - Phil Duey - Macy, IN - d. 4-7-1982
singer: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Leo Reisman Orchestra";
"Happy Bakers"
08-02-1914 - Beatrice Straight - Old Westbury, NY - d. 4-7-2001
actor: "Great Scenes from Great Plays"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
09-01-1893 - Betty Blythe - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-7-1972
actor: "The Whistler"; "This Is Your FBI"; "Let George Do It"
11-14-1914 - Ken Carson - Colgate, OK - d. 4-7-1994
singer: (Lustre Cream Shampoo commercial) "Day in the Life of Dennis
Day"
11-16-1899 - Mary Margaret McBride - Paris, MO - d. 4-7-1976
commentator: "Mary Margaret McBride"; "Martha Deane"
11-29-1905 - Chester Erskine - Hudson, NY - d. 4-7-1986
film director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-30-1873 - Frederic William Wile - La Porte, IN - d. 4-7-1941
commentator: "Political Situation in Washington"
Ron
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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:55:15 -0400
From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Two unusual OTR recreations
1. To celebrate their first anniversary on March 12, a Chicago-based
neo-burlesque group called Naked Girls Reading -- which usually features nude
women reading prose on stage -- read some vintage radio plays. They were
scheduled to do episodes of Suspense, Escape and Mercury Theatre (The War of
the Worlds), along with a couple of Abbott and Costello routines. "The
scheduled readers were Michelle L'amour, Mimi First, Greta Layne, Dominique
Trixx, and Deirdre Doll, with piano accompaniment by (presumably male and
clothed) Alan Gresik."
2. A 1948 episode of Destination Freedom about Haiti's Toussaint L'Ouverture
is scheduled to be performed this week in Colorado as part of "Destination
Freedom Week" (celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee). Here's an article:
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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:56:58 -0400
From: Robert Paine <ka3zci@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: re: Eddie Carroll
Perhaps this is to be taken with skepticism. Eddie Carroll's obituary is
listed on Wikipedia and give the cause of death as cancer. I learned of his
passing on the site's recent deaths section and was quite honestly taken
aback.
I had contacted him last year, via e-mail, about the possibility of him
performing in my section of Washington state. He gave as a reason for that
not being in the future that his agent said it wasn't likely for some time. I
left it at that, e-mailed back that I hoped to see him perform one day and
never contacted him again. I was afraid that maybe it wasn't a good idea to
have made the request, and I certainly didn't want to seem like I was bugging
him or anything. Now I'm thinking it may have been for health reasons.
Anyway, I'm sad to learn of his passing, that I didn't have the opportunity
to see his performance. It's rare to have someone like Jack Benny leave us
then "live on" in someone who captured him so well.
Bob
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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:57:15 -0400
From: Robert Paine <ka3zci@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Correction
I need to correct my source of information on Eddie Carroll's death. It's on
his website that a brain tumor had been discovered recently. My apologies for
the error.
Bob
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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 16:17:01 -0400
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: EDDIE CARROL
First and foremost Eddie made me laugh.
He had the gift.
It was my privilege to work with and see him perform at the FOTR gathering
in Newark a few years back. I was deeply impressed with his talent and his
ability to make everyone in the audience believe that Jack Benny had come
to us through a sort of miracle.
That miracle was Eddie Carroll.
Every year since I would ask if he was going to return so perhaps I could
actually perform with him [removed] was not to be.
I just received word that he had passed [removed]
The world is a little smaller now for his untimely [removed] exits he
knew how to do and exit we all must. But this one feels extra bad for me
somehow.
That was the man's effect on you.
I remember after the show when he joined us in the restaurant/bar where
more fun was to be had, he walked by and I stood to thank him for his
exceptional show. He looked a little puzzled and then said,
"Don't you remember me? I was a late arrival at Chevy Chase's house one
night in Hollywood about ten fifteen years ago and you guys were all playing
jazz. You on the drums, Tom Scott on sax, or maybe it was Mike Jacobsen of
the Smokey Robinson band. Chevy at the piano and when you guys took a break
I asked if I could sit in on the vibes and you said 'sure man. We just
havin' fun.' I never forgot that kindness and we played a few tunes till the
dawn broke. It was a great [removed] lemme buy ya a [removed]"
I was stunned by his memory and thanked him for it as I had no recall of
that night until he painted that picture for me.
Thanks Eddie.
Now he's playing with the big boys.
He and Jack will have many tales to spin.
I am so very sorry I never got to see him again.
My condolences to his family.
I am sure they know more about his greatness than I but I surely did have
a few bright moments with him in a time and place called radio and a
long-ago night in Hollywood I had [removed] he gave it back to me.
Michael C. Gwynne
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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 16:27:04 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Eddie Carroll Interview
Folks;
I've posted a short clip from my one-on-one last year with Eddie Carroll
to the blog at [removed] - the clip I've chosen is actually
my research assistant asking Mr. Carroll questions about a certain cricket he
had the fortune to portray.
Charlie
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