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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2005 : Issue 33
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Benny/Robot/Carson [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
This Is Our America [ Illoman <illoman@[removed]; ]
off topic - clock radio with cassett [ Grams46@[removed] ]
This week in radio history 30 Januar [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
[removed] and JANE [ "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@hotm ]
Tex Morton [ "Austotr" <austotr@[removed]; ]
Goodman Ace and Writing [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
Carson on an earlier Benny TV show [ "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@sbcglob ]
Portland Hoffa [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
Re: Conventions [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
OTR joke [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:27:29 -0500
From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Benny/Robot/Carson
In the late '70s, early '80s, Channel 5, then WNEW, here in New York,
occasionally broadcast JACK BENNY SHOW repeats, late in the overnight.
One of the neat things about the Johnny Carson episode is that if I
remember it correctly, it was really designed as a showcase to help
fully introduce Carson to America. I'm pretty sure he sings on that
episode, and unless I'm confusing it with the Bobby Darin
segment--Carson even plays the drums--something which the 60 MINUTES
segment said he never did in [removed]
Jim Burns
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:03:43 -0500
From: Illoman <illoman@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: This Is Our America
I am trying to locate information, and recordings of a show entitled
"This Is Our America". Can anyone tell me where to obtain these?
Thanks,
Mike
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:39:35 -0500
From: Grams46@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: off topic - clock radio with cassette tape
player
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anyone know where i can buy a clock radio with cassette tape player? my
husband and i listen to old radio tapes when we can't sleep.
i have visited the usual store suspects but no luck.
i have tried on line sites that claim to have clock radios with cassette
players but so far, i have been unsuccessful.
peace from kathy
john 3:16
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:52:22 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 30 January to 5
February
From Those Were The Days --
1/30
1933 -- The Lone Ranger was heard for the first time.
1/31
1936 - The Green Hornet was introduced by its famous theme song, The
Flight of the Bumble Bee. The radio show was first heard on WXYZ in
Detroit, MI on this day. The show stayed on the air for 16 years. The
Green Hornet originated from the same radio station where The Lone
Ranger was performed. You may remember that the title character in The
Green Hornet was really named Britt Reid. He was, in fact, supposed to
be the great nephew of John Reid, the Lone Ranger. Both popular series
were created by George Trendle and Fran Striker.
2/2
1946 - The Mutual Broadcasting System presented Twenty Questions for the
first time on radio. Bill Slater was the master of ceremonies.
2/5
1931 - Eddie Cantor's long radio career got underway as he appeared on
Rudy Vallee's The Fleischmann Hour.
1940 - Amanda of Honeymoon Hill debuted. Joy Hathaway starred as 'the
beauty of flaming red hair'. The program stayed for six years on NBC.
Joe
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:55:15 -0500
From: "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: [removed] and JANE
Nice post on the above show, Gary W. To answer the question about the exact
duration of the run, according to Dunning the show premiered on 2/14/48 and
aired for the last time on 12/31/48, a run of less than a year.
This leads me to 2 questions I have on Easy Aces:
1) Most of the surviving 15 minute episodes are from the 1945-46 ZIV
syndicated series. Everything I read agrees that these shows are simply
rebroadcasts of shows from the network run in 1937-38 but the sources are
divided as to whether it was the old scripts being done again or whether
they were simply using recordings from '37-'38 with new intros. Does anyone
know for sure?
2) There was an Easy Aces TV show on the DuMont network for 6 months from
12/49-6/50. One source says this was a filmed program and was syndicated to
other stations by DuMont. If this was the case is it known if there are any
surviving shows?
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:55:40 -0500
From: "Austotr" <austotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Tex Morton
G'Day folks, I know I have asked this before, but thought I would try again.
Tex Morton is acknowledged as the father of Australian and New Zealand
Country Music. He modelled his style on the great Jimmy Rodgers who is
acknowledged as the father of [removed] Country Music. I am trying to collect
more information on the 12 years or so that Tex Morton spent in the [removed] and
Canada. In interviews he mentioned that he had played parts on radio in
Gunsmoke and Lux Theatre. He performed many times on the Grand Ol Opry. As
can be seen on this website
[removed]#GREAT_MORTON Tex was known
as Robert Morton, Tex Morton, The Great Morton, Dr Robert Morton and no
doubt other names.
If you read the article on that website you will read of the stunts he
pulled to attract publicity, walking blindfolded on the parapets of the
highest buildings in the cities and towns he toured through. One annecdote
I heard on the Last Ride of Tex Morton, tells how he didn't get some of the
publicity photos on one particular building, because the photographer had
fainted :)
He tipped suitcases of banknotes from the tops of buildings, shot out street
lights, deliberately stalled his vehicle in the busiest intersections so
people would see the signwriting on the side of his van, all sorts of
stunts, Tex Morton was a Showman.
I would love to find recordings and photos of that period of his life. I
have hundreds of his regal 78s and other recordings, but none of any of his
'live' performances in North America, including Grand Ol Opry. There were
so many shows he did in that 12 year period before his return to Australia,
that there would have to be some recordings surviving.
The name Tex was bestowed on him by his mate, Australia's Greatest Radio
personality, Jack Davey. Jack and Tex, both from New Zealand, arrived in
Australia on the same boat. Both sadly had short lives, but boy what an
impact they made.
Please let me know if you have any information to assist me in researching
that period of Tex Morton's life, 1940's and 1950's.
Ian Grieve
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:55:57 -0500
From: Rentingnow@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Goodman Ace and Writing
I first became aware of Goodman Ace from the Magazine "The Saturday Review
of Literature. It is amazing to now think that a magazine could come out
weekly whose subject matter is literature.
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:31:56 -0500
From: "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Carson on an earlier Benny TV show
Laura Leff commented on a Johnny Carson guest shot on the Jack Benny
Program:
Not quite. Johnny compliments Jack on his continuing youthful appearance
considering his age. At the end of the show, it is revealed that Jack is a
robot who is then disassembled by two stagehands.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is this the one from Jack's TV show which first
aired on October 22, 1963?? Johnny Carson was also a guest on Jack's TV
show a few years earlier, on November 20, 1955 in the episode "Jack Gives
Johnny Carson Advice." This was just after young Mr. Carson (age 30 then),
hosted a game show on CBS-TV, "Earn Your Vacation", and in 1955, he was
emcee of his own "The Johnny Carson Show" on CBS. His appearance on Benny's
show then was probably a bit of cross-promotion for Johnny's CBS TV show,
which I think lasted only 39 weeks.
Jim Hilliker
Monterey, CA
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:32:17 -0500
From: Rentingnow@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Portland Hoffa
Portland Hoffa was listed the other day on the birth/death list. I looked
her up on the [removed] site and there is no listing. Does anyone know
where she is buried so that I make sure she is listed on that site.
Fred Allen is listed with a picture of his stone. I visited his grave a
while back. It was just in a row with all of the "common folk." Considering
his
propensity to dislike the celebrity thing I assume that is what he wanted.
There was no room for Portland next to him, by the way.
Larry Moore
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:31:17 -0500
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Conventions
[removed]@[removed] wrote:
Somebody wrote that a list of OTR conventions could be found at
[removed]
I saw no conventions listed there, just a form for providing listings. Am
I missing something?
Try again. When I mentioned it, Lou apparently had a bug, but he worked
it out and I have updated the page for him.
Jim Widner
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:56:23 -0500
From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
To: OTR <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OTR joke
Somebody recently asked for OTR-related jokes. Here's one I thought of
myself--though I'm sure hundreds have conceived the same gag over the
years.
Q: What do you call Lamont Cranston's proboscis?
A: The Shadow's nose.
On a COMPLETELY unrelated note, my wife is a big fan of "The Couple
Next Door." At some point in the program, they've aired ads for a
contemporary (late 50s) program called "City Hospital," which she's
curious to hear. RadioGoldIndex lists 9 copies, but I haven't found any
information anyplace else (not even in Dunning). Does anybody have any
copies to trade or sell?
Kermyt
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