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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2012 : Issue 51
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
3-20 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
3-21 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
#OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig [ charlie@[removed] ]
Jack Binns on broadcast radio [ "William Jaker" <bilj@[removed]; ]
Radio sound effects history [ Michael Berger <[removed]@yaho ]
More Jack Webb Appearances [ Steve Salaba <dangerdanger@sbcgloba ]
Remembering Uncle Dave [ Bill Knowlton <udmacon1@[removed] ]
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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:13:37 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 3-20 births/deaths
March 20th births
03-20-1828 - Henrik Ibsen - Skien, Norway - d. 5-23-1906
playwright: Many of his works adapted for radio
03-20-1890 - Gigli Beniamino - Recanti, Italy - d. 11-30-1957
operatic tenor: "Atwater Kent Hour"
03-20-1890 - Lauritz Melchior - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 3-18-1973
singer: "Magic Key"; "Metropolitan Opera"; "Voice of Firestone"
03-20-1903 - Edgar Buchanan - Humansville, MO - d. 4-4-1979
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-20-1903 - Sarah Burton - London, England - d. 12-24-1994
actor: Mrs. Bixby "Mrs. Miniver"; Lisa "Against the Storm"
03-20-1904 - Bob Chester - Detroit, MI - d. 11-5-1975
bandleader: "Bob Chester and His Orchestra"
03-20-1906 - Ozzie Nelson - Jersey City, NJ - d. 6-3-1975
actor: "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
03-20-1908 - Frank Stanton - Muskegon, MI - d. 12-24-2006
president of cbs 1946-1971
03-20-1908 - Kermit Murdock - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-11-1981
actor: Rod Buchanan "Whisper Men"
03-20-1908 - Michael Redgrave - Bristol, England - d. 3-21-1985
actor: Horatio Hornblower "Horatio Hornblower"
03-20-1908 - Stuart Metz - Buffalo, NY - d. 1-5-1994
announcer: "Pepper Young's Family"; "Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons"
03-20-1909 - Doris C. Frankel - Manhattan, NY - d. 2-3-1994
writer: "Ma Perkins"; "Romance of Helen Trent"
03-20-1913 - Judith Evelyn - Seneca, SD - d. 5-7-1967
actor: Grace Marshall "Helpmate"; Kay Miniver "Mrs. Miniver"
03-20-1913 - Kenny Gardner - Lakeview, IA - d. 7-26-2002
singer: "Guy Lombardo Show"; "Lombardoland [removed]"; "Your Hit Parade"
03-20-1914 - Lawson Zerbe - Portland, OR - d. 8-18-1992
actor: Frank Merriwell "Advs. of Frank Merriwell" Pepper Young "Pepper
Young's Family"
03-20-1914 - Wendell Corey - Dracut, MA - d. 11-8-1968
actor: Detective Dan McGarry "McGarry and His Mouse"
03-20-1915 - Sviatoslav Richter - Zhitomir,Russia - d. 8-1-1997
classical pianist: "Boston Symphony Orchestra"
03-20-1918 - Jack Barry - Lindenhurst, NY - d. 5-2-1984
actor: "It's the Barrys"
03-20-1918 - Marian McPartland - Stough, England
jazz pianist: "Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz"
03-20-1918 - Mort Lachman - Seattle, WA - d. 3-18-2009
gag writer" "The Bob Hope Show"
03-20-1921 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Cotton Plant, AR - d. 10-9-1973
singer: "Jubilee"
03-20-1922 - Carl Reiner - The Bronx, NY
comedian: "The Curse"; "Sounds of Freedom"; "Here's to Veterans"
03-20-1922 - Jack Kruschen - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 4-2-2002
actor: Sergeant Muggowen " Broadway is My Beat"
03-20-1922 - Ray Goulding - Lowell, MA - d. 3-24-1990
comedian: "Bob and Ray Show"
03-20-1924 - Philip Abbott - Lincoln, NE - d. 2-23-1998
actor: "Family Theatre"
03-20-1933 - Pasquale Borgomeo - Naples, Italy - d. 7-2-2009
Director of Vatican Radio
03-20-1937 - Izumi Yukimura - Tokyo, Japan
enka singer: "Kohaku Uta Gassen"
03-20-1950 - Linda Aronson - London, England
worter: "Reginka's Lesson"
March 20th deaths
01-19-1886 - Samuel Pettengill - Oregon - d. 3-20-1974
conservatice commentator: Weekly 15 minute program on ABC
01-31-1906 - Edith Adams - West Union, IA - d. 3-20-1993
actor: Mrs. Gilman "Those Happy Gilmans"; "Jenny Peabody"
03-01-1917 - David Dunhill - England - d. 3-20-2005
announcer: "BBC Light Programme"; "Take It From Here"
03-03-1937 - Bobby Driscoll - Cedar Rapids, IA - d. 3-20-1968 (body
found)
actor: "A Day in the Life of Dennis Day"; "Family Theatre"
05-05-1921 - Ted Brown - Collingwood, NJ - d. 3-20-2005
announcer, emcee: "Bulldog Drummond"; "Lawrence Welk High Life Revue"
06-12-1909 - Archie Bleyer - Corona, NY - d. 3-20-1989
conductor: "Arthur Godfrey Time"; "Casey, Crime Photographer"
07-05-1904 - Don Goddard - Binghamton, NY - d. 3-20-1994
news commentator: "The Goodyear Rubber Company's Farm Radio News"
07-07-1908 - Ben Brady - NYC - d. 3-20-2003
host: "The Comedy Writers Show"
08-03-1920 - Marilyn Maxwell - Clarinda, IA - d. 3-20-1972
singer, actor: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Abbott and Costello Show"; "Bob
Hope Show"
10-22-1906 - Sidney Kingsley - NYC - d. 3-20-1995
writer: "Pulitzer Prize Plays"
12-06-1920 - Howard Atwell - d. 3-20-2002
disk jockey: WVPO Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
12-10-1911 - Chet Huntley - Cardwell, MT - d. 3-20-1974
newscaster, producer: "Chet Huntley and the News"
12-16-1889 - Kurt Kupfer - d. 3-20-1974
actor: the kindly Joseph Steinbloch "Romance of Helen Trent"
12-18-1885 - J. Anthony Smythe - San Francisco, CA - d. 3-20-1966
actor: "Carefree Carnival"; Henry Barbour "One Man's Family"
Ron
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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:14:36 -0500
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK
Hi Friends,
Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
Radio Theatre," Bob Bro's "The Old Time Radio Show," John and Larry
Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios"
and my own "Old Time Radio Classics." Streamed in high-quality audio,
on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
[removed]
Check our our Transcription Disc scans at:
[removed]
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS
HENRY MORGAN SHOW
Episode 25 2-19-47 "Radio Program Blood Preasure Test"
Stars: Henry Morgan, Arnold Stang
Music: Bernard Green and His Orchestra
Announcer: Charles Irving
ABC Eversharp
INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES
Episode 240 10-9-45 "Death By Scripture"
Stars: Stefen Schnabel, Joan Banks, Luis Van Rooten, Jackson Beck
Host: Paul McGrath
Lipton Commercial Spokesperson: Mary Bennett
CBS Lipton Tea
JACK CARSON SHOW
Episode 38 6-18-47 "High School Speech"
Stars: Jack Carson
With: Arthur Treacher, Irene Ryan, Dave Willock, Norma Jean Nillson.
Announcer: Del Sharbut
Music: Freddie Martin Orchestra
CBS Campbell Soup Wednesdays 7:30 - 8:00 pm
SONGS BY SINATRA
Episode 23 2-13-46 Guest: Jack Carson
STARS: Frank Sinatra, The Pied Pipers
CBS Old Gold Cigarettes
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE
INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES
(CBS) 6/29/52 "Terror By Night" Paul McGrath is "Raymond" the host.
SUSPENSE
(CBS) 5/3/51 Rosalind Russell stars in " When The Bough Breaks" for
Auto-Lite.
THE CHALLENGE OF THE YUKON
(WXYZ - Michigan Radio Network) 1/27/44 "Wolf Pack"
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THE OLD TIME RADIO SHOW
NIGHT BEAT (NBC)
Title: The Girl in the Park
Original Air: 2/27/50
Starring: Frank Lovejoy
THE JACK BENNY SHOW (NBC)
Title: Jack Visits St Joseph, MO --- Guest Star Jane Wyman
Original Air: 1/28/45
Starring: Jack Benny, Phil Harris, Don Wilson
GUNSMOKE (CBS)
Title: Gun Smuggler
Original Air: 1/30/54
Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
Let's begin this week by talking to Ed Silverman. Ed just finished a
book that is now on sale called: "Brief Encounters: With The Famous, The
Near Famous, and the Not So Famous".
His book is available from [removed] or go to the web page of the
company that published the book.
[removed]
Ed was a newsman, for most of his career but began as a sports reporter.
We talk to him about the many things he did and the many people he met
as a result.
After our weekly radio calendar, We continue with a show that Ed
worked on as we present
"BILL STERN SPORTS NEWS" from 09/30/54.
Ed Silverman worked in news for many years. We don't have an example
of any of those shows, so we'll hear a 15 minute broadcast from
[removed] KALTENBORN from 05/27/41 Comments on the sinking of the battleship
Bismarck.
We continue with our actor of the month and hear Ralph Bell as a
villain in a great program heard in the later days of radio called: THE
CHASE.
It aired on 02/22/53. It was episode (39) and is called The Jail Break.
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CLASSICS & CURIOS
"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"
Episode 19
Texaco Time with Fred Allen
Fred produces a musical following the success of "Oklahoma" on
Broadway and calls it "South Dakota" with original amusing lyrics and
with music "borrowed" directly from "Oklahoma" itself. Fred questions
Allen's Alley folks about vacations and Classics & Curios Extras feature
Bob Hope and Margaret Whiting performing duets followed by vintage radio
[removed]
Plus: Bob Hope takes center stage. Portions from Hope's first
Pepsodent show and more, along with Doris Day, Margaret Whiting, Six
Hits & a Miss, Skinnay Ennis, and Les Brown bring a Classics & Curios
2003 celebration broadcast of Hope's 100th Birthday.
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If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.
Jerry Haendiges
Jerry@[removed] 562-696-4387
The Vintage Radio Place [removed]
Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
the Net
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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:15:25 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 3-21 births/deaths
March 21st births
03-21-1867 - Florenz Ziegfeld - Chicago, IL - d. 7-22-1932
showman: "Ed Sullivan Show"; "Ziegfeld Follies of the Air"
03-21-1869 - Vivia Ogden - Ohio - d. 12-22-1952
actor: Mrs. Manners "John's Other Wife"; Annie "Orphans of Divorce"
03-21-1893 - Aileen Stanley - d. 3-24-1982
vocalist: (The Victrola Girl) "RCA Thesaurus Music Hall Varieties"
03-21-1893 - Sidney Franklin - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-18-1972
film producer, director: "Academy Awards Program"; "Screen Guild
Theatre"
03-21-1903 - Mark Hellinger - NYC - d. 12-21-1947
broadway, hollywood producer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Post Toasties Time"
03-21-1903 - Nan Boardman - NYC - d. 9-9-1984
actor: "The Modern Adventures of Casanova"
03-21-1906 - Helen Deutsch - NYC - d. 3-15-1992
writer: "Forecast": "Gulf Screen Guild Theatre", "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-21-1908 - Vincent Pelletier - Minneapolis, MN - d. 2-25-1994
actor: Victor Powell "This is Life"; Robin "Calling All Detectives"
03-21-1911 - Henny Backus - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-9-2004
actor: "Romance"
03-21-1912 - Henry Gibson - NYC - d. 5-29-2003
director, writer: "Burns and Allen"; "Junior Miss"
03-21-1912 - Suzanne Kaaren - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-27-2004
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-21-1915 - Dude Martin (John Steven McSwain) - Plainsburg, CA - d.
2-11-1991
bandleader/singer: "Round-up"
03-21-1915 - Hank D'Amico - Rochester, NY - d. 12-3-1965
clairinetist: "Rumpus Room"; "Saturday Senior Swing"
03-21-1918 - Cliff Norton - Chicago, IL - d. 1-25-2003
actor: Connie the coolie "Terry and the Pirates"; "American Novels"
03-21-1919 - Lois Collier - Salley, SC - d. 10-27-1999
actor: Carol Chandler "Dear John"
03-21-1922 - Bonnie Papple - St. Paul, MN - d. 2-11-2010
singer: "The Gateway to Hollywood"
03-21-1926 - Virginia Weidler - Eagle Rock, CA - d. 7-1-1968
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
03-21-1932 - Tommy Bernard - Los Angeles, CA
actor: David Nelson "Ozzie and Harriet Show"
03-21-1943 - Vivian Stanshall - Shillingford, England - d. 3-5-1995
pop musician: "Viv Stanshall's Radio Flashes"
03-21-1959 - Tobsha Learner - England
writer: "Lionheart"
March 21st deaths
01-30-1914 - John Ireland - Vancouver, Canada - d. 3-21-1992
actor: "MGM Theatre of the Air"; "[removed] Steel Hour"
03-15-1913 - Macdonald Carey - Sioux City, IA - d. 3-21-1994
actor: Jonathan Hillary "Just Plain Bill "; Lee Markham "Woman in White"
03-20-1908 - Michael Redgrave - Bristol, England - d. 3-21-1985
actor: Horatio Hornblower "Horatio Hornblower"
03-28-1871 - Willem Mengelberg - Utrecht, Netherlands - d. 3-21-1951
composer, conductor: "The New York Philharmonic Orchestra"
03-28-1917 - Randy Brooks - Sandford, ME - d. 3-21-1967
bandleader: "One Night Stand"; "The Kate Smith Hour"
04-01-1927 - Bob Arbogast - Bellingham, WA - d. 3-21-2009
host: "Same Time, Same Station"
05-08-1915 - Nan Wynn - Wheeling, WV - d. 3-21-1971
singer: "Ceiling Unlimited"
05-22-1903 - Ward Wilson -Trenton, NJ - d. 3-21-1966
actor, announcer: Mr. DeHaven "Aldrich Family"; Beetle "Phil Baker Show"
05-27-1904 - Marlin Hurt - Du Quoin, IL - d. 3-21-1946
actor: Beulah "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Bill Jackson "Beulah"
06-08-1918 - Robert Preston - Newton Highlands, MA - d. 3-21-1987
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Eternal Light"; "Medicine USA"; "Silver
Theatre"
07-18-1891 - Gene Lockhart - Ontario, Canada - d. 3-21-1957
actor: "Nebbs"; "Doctor Fights"; "Abroad with the Lockharts"
08-17-1903 - Bob Evans - California - d. 3-21-1961
actor: "Sing It Again"
09-15-1924 - Bobby Short - Danville, IL - d. 3-21-2005
singer: Sang on Chicago radio at beginning of his career
10-05-1902 - Robert Ballin - d. 3-21-1977
pianist: (Race and Ballin) WOR Newark, New Jersey
10-17-1925 - Ted Jarrett - Nashville, TN - d. 3-21-2009
songwriter, disk jockey: WSOK Nashville, Tennessee
11-27-1925 - Ernie Wise - Leeds, England - d. 3-21-1999
comedian: "The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Radio Show"; "Bandwagon"
Ron
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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 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, 21 Mar 2012 16:26:42 -0500
From: "William Jaker" <bilj@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Jack Binns on broadcast radio
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Likely the most famous operator in the first decades of wireless
communication was an Englishman named Jack Binns. His emergency work aboard
the [removed] Republic following the collision of the liner in 1909 allowed nearly
all the passengers to be rescued. That demonstration of the power of wireless
telegraphy possibly made the White Star Line skimp on safety precautions on
its ship the Titanic. Binns had been recommended as Marconi operator on the
Titanic but superstition caused the line to reject the assignment -- he had
already been aboard one vessel that went down and some people were afraid he'd
jinx the Titanic. We all know how that voyage turned out, and Binns became a
campaigner for proper wireless regulation. Jack Binns later became a US
citizen and was for many years president and then chairman of the Hazeltine
Corporation. He died in 1959.
Does anyone know if Jack Binns ever appeared on broadcast radio in any
capacity and, if so, are there are any recordings of him. I'm searching for
this for possible use in a Public Radio feature about Binns concurrent with
the centennial of the Titanic disaster.
Thanks very much.
-- Bill Jaker
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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:27:09 -0500
From: Michael Berger <[removed]@[removed];
To: otr <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Radio sound effects history
In one of my periodic searches through my New Yorker DVD-ROM collection, I
found an article in the April 13, 1940 issue about the history, then just 18
years old, of sound effects techniques for radio broadcasts.
The very first 'sound effect', the article said, was on Aug. 3, 1922 when
station WGY in Schenectady broadcast a drama in which the director of the
play slapped a couple of two-by-fours together to simulate the slamming of a
door.
The story details the efforts of NBC and CBS to develop a range of special
effects and how Orson Welles, producing Dracula for CBS, tested fruits and
vegetables in combination with a sharpened broomstick to simulate the sound
of a stake being driven through a vampire's heart. The sound combination
that finally pleased Welles' demanding ear - a watermelon and a hammer.
An intriguing part of the article is that it was signed by Lucille Fletcher,
probably the same Lucille Fletcher who in that year of 1940 wrote My Client
Curley for Norman Corwin's series. The next year she wrote The Hitchhiker for
Orson Welles, and later on another Suspense classic, Sorry, Wrong Number. Her
husband at the time of the 1940 New Yorker article was the famed composer for
film, Bernard Hermann.
Michael Berger
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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:27:21 -0500
From: Steve Salaba <dangerdanger@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: More Jack Webb Appearances
And let us not forget Webb's appearance on the Johnny Carson Tonight show and
the infamous "Copper Clapper Caper". I'm sure it available on YouTube.
Another instance of Webb doing comedy.
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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:27:44 -0500
From: Bill Knowlton <udmacon1@[removed];
To: oldtime radio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Remembering Uncle Dave
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UNCLE DAVE MACON, the Squire Of Readyville, the Dixie Dewdrop, the King Of the
Hillbillies, the Grand Ole Man of the Grand Ole Opry entered Hillbilly Heaven
60 years ago this Thursday.
Please make sure you play some Uncle [removed] have some country ham with
perhaps a sip of Jack Daniels while you're at it!!
BILL KNOWLTON, WCNY, Syracuse NY
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