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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 403
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  January stars still alive             [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Re: WEBH                              [ "WEH" <nbcblue@[removed]; ]
  Re: the Goldbergs on TV               [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
  Lone Ranger research                  [ Dave Parker <dave@[removed] ]
  Now Known Amos 'n Andy                [ "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@earthli ]
  The Phantom                           [ Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed] ]
  1-1 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Pending Dick Cavett DVD Features OTR  [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:46:05 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  January stars still alive

This is an idea of Walden Hughes, he wanted to know who is still
alive. If this meets with a positive response I will do it on the
first of every month. One caution, because a person does not have a
death may not mean they are still alive, though in most cases that
will be the case. It may mean that I just cannot find the death date.

01-01-1929 - Terry Moore - Los Angeles, CA
actress: Shirley 'Bumps' Smith "Smiths of Hollywood"
01-01-1938 - Norma Jean Nilsson - Hollywood, CA
actress: Kathy Anderson "Father Knows Best"; Cookie Bumstead "Blondie"
01-02-1930 - Julius LaRosa - Brooklyn, NY
singer: "Arthur Godfrey Time"
01-04-1914 - Jane Wyman - St. Joseph, MO
actress: "Dreft Star Playhouse"
01-04-1925 - Johnny Lujack - Connellsville, PA
all-american football player, actor: Himself "Johnny Lujack of Notre
Dame"
01-04-1930 - Barbara Rush - Denver, CO
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
01-08-1923 - Giorgio Tozzi - Chicago, IL
opera singer (bass): "The Chicago Theatre of the Air"
01-08-1923 - Larry Storch - New York, NY
comedian: "Duffy's Tavern"
01-08-1926 - Soupy Sales - Franklinton, NC
script writer, disc jockey: WHTN Huntington, WV
01-08-1930 - May Wynn - New York, NY
actress: "Amos 'n' Andy Show"
01-08-1933 - Charles Osgood - New York, NY
reporter: "Osgood File"
01-10-1925 - Max Roach - Brooklyn, NY
jazz musician: "Bands for Bonds"
01-12-1910 - Luise Rainer - Vienna, Austria
actress: "Linclon Highway"; "Yesterday's Children"
01-12-1926 - Ray Price - Perryville, TX
singer: "Galaxy of Stars"
01-12-1930 - Glenn Yarborough - Milwaukee, WI
singer: "Guest Star"
01-13-1930 - Frances Sternhagen - Washington, [removed]
actress: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
01-14-1915 - George Ansbro - Brooklyn, NY
announcer: "Young Widder Brown"; "Waltz Time"
01-14-1919 - Andy Rooney - Albany, NY
writer: "Red Skelton Show"; "Arthur Godfrey"
01-14-1931 - Caterina Valente - Paris, France
singer: "Guard Session"
01-14-1938 - Jack Jones - Hollywood, CA
singer: "Steve Lawrence Show"; "Guest Star"; "Stars for Defense"
01-14-1943 - Holland Taylor - Philadelphia, PA
actress: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
01-15-1911 - Cy Feuer - New York, NY
music: "Escape"; "Ford Sunday Evening Hour"; "Shorty Bell"
01-15-1920 - Yvonne King - Salt Lake City, UT
singer: (King Sisters) "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"
01-15-1928 - Joanne Linville - Bakersfield, CA
actress: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
01-15-1937 - Margaret O'Brien - San Diego, CA
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"
01-16-1918 - Buddy Weed - Ossining, NY
musician: "Old Gold Party Time"; "Lanny Ross Show"
01-16-1920 - Elliott Reid - New York, NY
actor: Biff Bradley "Pepper Young's Family"; "Julian Browning
"Against the Storm"
01-16-1922 - Lima Romay - New York, NY
latin singer: "The Bing Crosby Show"; "The Dick Haymes Show"
01-16-1924 - Allen Swift - New York, NY
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
01-16-1929 - Popeye the Sailor
cartoon character: "Popeye"
01-16-1930 - Rita Lloyd - Brooklyn, NY
actress: "Let's Pretend"
01-17-1914 - Irving Brecher - New York, NY
writer, producer: "Community Sing"; "The Life of Riley"
01-17-1921 - Herb Ellis - Cleveland, OH
actor: Archie Goodwin "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"
01-17-1922 - Betty White - Oak Park, IL (Raised: Beverly Hills, CA)
hostess: "Betty White on Animals"
01-17-1927 - Eartha Kitt - North, SC
singer: "Here's to Veterans"
01-17-1930 - Dick Contino - Fresno, CA
accordionist: "Horace Heidt Youth Opportunity Hour"
01-17-1931 - James Earl Jones - Akabutla, MS
actor: "We Hold These Truths"
01-17-1941 - Clive Elvyn Rice (Clyde Campbell) - Haslemere, Surrey,
England
actor: Bobby Benson "Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders"
01-19-1927 - Peter Fernandez - New York, NY
actor: George Bigelow "The Aldrich Family"; "Skip "Right to Happiness"
01-19-1931 - Robert MacNeil - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
newscaster: CBC Canada
01-19-1935 - Tippi Hedren - New Ulm, MN
actress: "World's Fair Holiday"
01-19-1939 - Phil Everly - Chicago, IL
singer: (The Everly Brothers) "March of Dimes"; "Country Hoedown"
01-20-1918 - Bert Farber - Brooklyn, NY
orchestra leader: "Curtain Time"
01-20-1922 - Connie Haines - Savannah, GA
singer: "Abbott and Costello Show"; "Rhapsody in Rhythm"
01-20-1922 - Ray Anthony - Bentleyville, PA
band leader: Band remotes for CBS 1951-1952
01-20-1926 - Patricia Neal - Packard, KY
actress: "Hollywood Star Preview"
01-21-1941 - Placido Domingo - Madrid, Spain
tenor: "The Metropolitan Opera"
01-22-1932 - Piper Laurie - Detroit, MI
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "NBC Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild
Theatre"
01-23-1933 - Chita Rivera - Washington, [removed]
singer: "WOR Diamond Jubilee"
01-24-1918 - Oral Roberts - near Ada, OK
evengelist: "Healing Waters"
01-24-1924 - Marvin Kaplin - Brooklyn, NY
actor: Alfred "Meet Millie"
01-24-1925 - Maria Tallchief - Fairfax, OK
dancer: "Image Minorities"
01-26-1892 - Guy Robertson - Denver, CO - d xx-xx-xxxx
singing host: "Broadway Varieties"
01-26-1905 - Charles Lane - San Francisco, CA
writer: "Dramatizations from Red Book Magazine"
01-26-1922 - Page Cavanaugh - Cherokee, KS
singer: (The Page Cavanaugh Trio) "The Jack Paar Show"
01-26-1925 - Joan Leslie - Detroit, MI
actress: "Screen Guild Theatre"
01-26-1935 - Bob Uecker - Milwaukee, WI
baseball announcer: "Milwaukee Brewers"
01-28-1935 - Nicholas Pryor - Baltimore, MD
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
01-29-1911 - Bryan Coleman - London, England
actor: John H. Watson "BBC Light Programme"
01-29-1918 - John Forsythe - Penns Grove, NJ
actor: "NBC Star Playhouse"; "Best Plays"
01-29-1942 - Robin Morgan - Lake Worth, FL
actress, Former president of National Organization for Women:
"Cavalcade of America"
01-29-1943 - Tony Blackburn - Guildford, England
disc jockey: "Midday Spin"; "Junior Choice"
01-30-1925 - Dorothy Malone, Chicago, IL
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
01-30-1931 - Conrad Binyon - Hollywood, CA
actor: Chester A. Riley, Jr. "Life of Riley"; Henry Herbert Murray
"One Man's Family"
01-30-1934 - Tammy Grimes - Lynn, MA
hostess, actress: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
01-31-1923 - Carol Channing - Seattle, WA
actress-singer: "Stagestruck"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
01-31-1929 - Jean Simmons - London, England
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "A Christmas Carol"

Ron Sayles

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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 19:08:07 -0500
From: "WEH" <nbcblue@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: WEBH

Just to add to what Elizabeth wrote:

WJAZ was constructed primiarly to maintain contact with the Donald B.
McMillan 1923 Arctic expedition. The station  "formally" went on the air May
12, 1923 at a frequency of 833 kHz at a power level of approximately 600
watts. The studio and operating room were constructed behind the orchestra
area in the Marine Dining Room of the Edgewater Beach Hotel.

The powerful station interfered with other radio station reception in the
Chicago area and the hotel received many complaints and requests that WJAZ
reduce power. However Eugene McDonald, head of Zenith wanted to keep the
power level high in order to get maximun range for the McMillian expedition.
Near the end of the expedition in April of 1924,  McDonald sold the station
to the Chicago Tribune who owned it breifly, then it was sold to the hotel
and operated as WEBH.

A couple of pictures of the WJAZ station can be view at:
[removed]

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas or however you celebriate the season
and wish you all a Happy New Year!

Bill H.

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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:00:40 -0500
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: the Goldbergs on TV
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In a message dated 12/31/05 2:46:32 PM Central Standard Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:

one evening when it opened with Molly leaning out of her
apartment window talking to the audience, the camera switched angles and we
saw in a similar pose in a similar window on the opposite side of the air
shaft, fellow CBS star Arthur Godfrey.  They had a warm, friendly chat back
and forth.

Sounds like you just revealed where Batman and Robin ripped off their 1960s
"fire escape" bit!

Here's how else I know the Goldbergs were on CBS during their live years: CBS
showed a clip of the show's opening during their "CBS: On the Air"
anniversary miniseries in 1978.  Molly gives Mrs. Bloom some kind of rundown
of life in
the household then launches into an involved plug for Sanka coffee before
1978-era Bea Arthur interrupts her.

By the way if I'm not mistaken there was a mid-1950s Goldberg revival that
was filmed for first-run syndication.  I saw a clip that was apparently filmed
with one camera and actually showed Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg getting out of a car.

Dixon

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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:01:34 -0500
From: Dave Parker <dave@[removed];
To: OLD TIME RADIO <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Lone Ranger research

When I read Bob Slate's neat piece on LONE RANGER RESEARCH - I
applauded his efforts and would like to add the following thoughts.

Yes - by all means Dave Holland wrote a GREAT BOOK - i have it on my
shelf along with Jim Harmon's wondrous book "THE GREAT RADIO HEROES".
HOW I wish I'd had them available back in 1955 when I set out to
write my [removed] dissertation on the  Masked Man. Here's how it happened.

I was an actor on the Ranger and the other WXYZ shows back in
1948--1952. BUT I bailed out in order to study for a doctors degree
because I thought at the time I wanted to make university teaching my
career.  When I reported in at NORTHWESTERN--the first question I was
asked was what I wanted to write my big time study on, and (thinking
they'd laugh their heads off) I said I'd like to write it on THE LONE
RANGER.

Far from laughing they asked with high interest if I could really
talk with the writers, actors, producer, director etc.  When I said I
could--the whole thing  got really SERIOUS!  Variety did a piece
called "Ho Yo Culture"--and I did a Dissertation called "A
DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE LONE RANGER AS A FORM OF POPULAR ART".

THAT WAS EXACTLY 50 YEARS ago when I thought I was the world's expert
on the Ranger.  But when I talk with Jim Harmon--Dave Holland
-Anthony Tollin and maybe from you guys too --I see that there was
much I didn't [removed] I'm humbled by it.

You know----now that I think about it - I THINK I wrote this story
once before.  If I did --I ask your pardon.  But hey - I'm going on
83 and would love it if you'd cut me a bit of slack.  In any case "Hi
Yo Silver"  --may that great horse forever gallop in the mind theater
between our ears.

dave parker

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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 23:13:52 -0500
From: "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@[removed];
To: "OTR List" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Now Known Amos 'n Andy

Last night I finally cracked open my copy of Elizabeth McLeod's book that
has been mentioned on this list a number of times and must add my voice to
the accolades. Maybe it's just because I am a fan, but it is a page turner!
I finally put it down when my eyes would just not stay open any longer.
That's probably how I will enter the New Year tonight.

js

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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 23:14:33 -0500
From: Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Phantom

Roger Keel asked:

....I know and have copies of Little Orphan Annie,
Superman, Jungle Jim, Flash Gordon and the rest of
the OTR shows based on comic strips, was there ever
an OTR show featuring The Phantom?

Roger checkout the following link:

[removed]#Television

Lee Falk's character never made it to radio, but there
was a
program in the early thities called, "The Phantom
Pilot."

It starred Howard Duff as the title role.  Can't tell
you the
name of his sidekick mechanic character nor who played
him.

The show produced a premium Phantom Pilot pin.  I
know, for
my brother and I sent for ours.

Conrad Binyon

---
conradab@[removed] (Conrad A. Binyon)
Encino, CA
Home of the Stars who loved Ranches and Farms

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Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 10:25:08 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-1 births/deaths

January 1st births

01-01-1867 - Lew Fields - New York, NY - d. 7-20-1941
comedian: (Weber and Fields) "The Eveready Hour"; "George Jessel Show"
01-01-1879 - [removed] Forster - London, England - d. 6-7-1970
novelist: "NBC University Theatre"
01-01-1889 - Alexander Smallens - d. 11-27-1972
conductor: "Rising Musical Star"
01-01-1889 - Charles Bickford - Cambridge, MA - d. 11-9-1967
actor: "Radio Hall of Fame"
01-01-1895 - Bernard Schubert - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-4-1988
writer, producer: "The Falcon"; "Murder and Mr. Malone"; "Your Lucky
Strike"
01-01-1897 - Walter Greaza - St. Paul, MN - d. xx-xx-1973
actor: "Columbia Workshop"; "Suspense"
01-01-1900 - Xavier Cugat - Tirona, Spain - d. 10-27-1990
bandleader: (King of the Rhumba) "Camel Caravan"
01-01-1905 - Richard Keith - New York, NY - d. 9-16-1976
actor: Ray Hunt "Myrt and Marge"; Frank W. Brock "Special Investigator"
01-01-1908 - Bob Russell - d. 1-24-1998
singer, songwriter: Helped create " Name that Tune"
01-01-1909 - Dana Andrews - Collins, MS - d. 12-17-1992
actor: Matt Cevetic "I Was A Communist for the FBI"
01-01-1909 - Frank Kettering - Monmouth, IL - d. 6-xx-1973
bass player: (Hoosier Hot Shots) "National Barn Dance"
01-01-1911 - Hank Greenberg - New York, NY - d. 9-14-1994
baseball great: "Play Ball"; "We the People"; "Philco Radio Time"
01-01-1911 - Leona Ledoux - d. 8-16-1987
actress: Robespierre Higgins "Baby Snooks"; Bumstead Children "Blondie"
01-01-1913 - Norman Rosten - d. 3-7-1995
writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "The Doctor Fights"; "An American in
Russia"
01-01-1915 - Irv Orton - d. 5-xx-1960
musical director: "Double or Nothing"
01-01-1916 - Earl Wrightson - Baltimore, MD - d. 3-7-1993
singer: "Highways in Melody"; "Getting the Most Out of Life"
01-01-1917 - Ted Cott - Poughkeepsie, NY - d. 6-12-1973
announcer, emcee: "So You Think You Know Music?"; "Music You Want"
01-01-1919 - Carole Landis - Fairchild, WI - d. 7-5-1948
actress: "Warner Brothers Academy Award"; "Command Performance"
01-01-1929 - Terry Moore - Los Angeles, CA
actress: Shirley 'Bumps' Smith "Smiths of Hollywood"
01-01-1938 - Norma Jean Nilsson - Hollywood, CA
actress: Kathy Anderson "Father Knows Best"; Cookie Bumstead "Blondie"

January 1st deaths

02-04-1908 - Gordon Fraser - Lawrence, MA - d. 1-1-2000
newsman on the Blue Network
02-15-1907 - Cesar Romero - New York, NY - d. 1-1-1994
actor: "Movietone Radio Theatre"
04-17-1915 - Joe Foss - Sioux Falls, SD - d. 1-1-2003
south dakota governor: "Tops in Sports"
04-25-1919 - Albert Aley - New York, NY - d. 1-1-1986
actor: Hop Harrigan "Hop Harrigan"; Bob James "Stella Dallas"
05-16-1911 - Margaret Sullavan - Norfolk, VA - d. 1-1-1960
actress: "Electric Theatre"; "Hollywood Playhouse"
09-12-1888 - Maurice Chevalier - Paris, France - d. 1-1-1972
actor, singer, host: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "This is Paris"; "Bing
Crosby Show"
09-17-1923 - Hank Williams - Georgiana, AL - d. 1-1-1953
singer: "Louisiana Hayride"; "Grand Ole Opry"; "Health and Happiness"
12-16-1890 - Jane Morgan - North Platte, NE - d. 1-1-1972
actress: Mary Lane "Aunt Mary"; Mrs. Margaret Davis "Our Miss Brooks"
12-25-1902 - Barton Maclane - Columbia, SC - d. 1-1-1969
actor: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
xx-xx-xxxx - Joan Winters - d. 1-1-2001
actress: Alice Ames "Girl Alone"; Sylvia Bertram "Road of Life"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 18:09:00 -0500
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Pending Dick Cavett DVD Features OTR Stars

On this list of upcoming DVD releases, note a Dick Cavett collection that
features Lucille Ball and Jack Benny.

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

February 21

"All The President's Men": This two-disc 30th anniversary special edition of
Alan J. Pakula's film based on Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl
Bernstein's (Dustin Hoffman) investigation of the Watergate burglary and
Nixon administration cover-up, includes a commentary by Redford and a
feature about the real "Deep Throat," the FBI's Mark Felt.

"The Dick Cavett Show: Comic Legends": Woody Allen, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny
and Groucho Marx are among the comic greats showcased in their appearances
on Cavett's talk show.

[ADMINISTRIVIA: Of course, our good friend and "fiery announcer with the
voice of might," Fred Foy, was the announcer on the Cavett [removed]  --cfs3]

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