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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 163
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  6-3 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Interest in OTR                       [ Grams46@[removed] ]
  How I Got Hooked                      [ MGiorgio1@[removed] ]
  How I got started with OTR            [ "Texas Radio Theatre Company" <info ]
  Re: First exposure to OTR             [ bob davis <bob_d60@[removed]; ]
  Re: How I got into OTR                [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
  A Request                             [ crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow) ]

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Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 22:26:05 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  6-3 births/deaths

June 3rd births

06-03-1900 - Frank Dailey - Bloomfield, NJ - d. 2-27-1956
bandleader: "Matinee at Meadowbrook"
06-03-1901 - Maurice Evans - Dorchester, England - d. 3-12-1989
actor: "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "Texaco Star Theatre"
06-03-1904 - Jan Peerce - NYC - d. 12-15-1984
singer: "Music Hall of the Air"; "A & P Gypsies"; "Golden Treasury of
Song"
06-03-1905 - Paulette Goddard - Whitestone Landing, Long Island, NY -
d. 3-23-1990
actor: "Cresta Blanca Players"
06-03-1906 - Brooke Temple - Niagra Falls, NY - d. 04-1982
actor: Red Ryder "Red Ryder"
06-03-1906 - Josephine Baker - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-12-1975
singer: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
06-03-1908 - Joey Nash - Brooklyn, NY
singer: "The Capitol Family"; "Notes of Love"
06-03-1911 - Ellen Corby - Racine, WI - d. 4-14-1999
actor: "Bud's Bandwagon"
06-03-1914 - Roy Glenn - Pittsburg, KS - d. 3-12-1971
actor: "The Beulah Show"
06-03-1915 - Ralph Allinger - d. 10-xx-1971
sportscaster: White Plains and Utica, New York
06-03-1916 - Jack Manning - Cincinnati, OH
actor: David Crawford "Young Dr. Malone"
06-03-1917 - Leo Gorcey - NYC - d. 6-2-1969
actor: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"; "Blue Ribbon Town"
06-03-1919 - Charles F. McCarthy - d. 7-4-1988
newscaster: "Charles F. McCarthy and the News"
06-03-1924 - Colleen Dewhurst - Montreal, Canada - d. 8-22-1991
actor: "Will Cather: A Look of Rememberance"
06-03-1924 - Ted Mallie - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-25-1999
announcer: "I Love A Mystery"; "The Shadow"; "Bill Hickok"
06-03-1925 - Tony Curtis - NYC
actor: "Hollywood Star Playhouse"; "Stars in the Air"; "Suspense"

June 3rd deaths

01-06-1913 - Tom Brown - NYC - d. 6-3-1990
actor: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Suspense"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
01-09-1909 - Patrick Peyton - Carracastle, Ireland - d. 6-3-1992
preacher: (The Rosary Priest) "Family Theatre"
01-11-1899 - Eva Le Gallienne - d. 6-3-1991
actor: "Civic Repertory Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-20-1906 - Ozzie Nelson - Jersey City, NJ - d. 6-3-1975
actor: "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
04-21-1915 - Anthony Quinn - Chihauha, Mexico - d. 6-3-2001
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Your Radio Theatre"
05-25-1905 - Joseph C. Harsch - Toledo, OH - d. 6-3-1998
news commentator: "A Closer Look at the News"; "Emphasis"
05-26-1908 - Robert Morley - Semley, England - d. 6-3-1992
actor: "[removed] Steel Hour"
08-13-1905 - Olga Albani - Barcelona, Spain - d. 6-3-1940
singer: "Coca-Cola Hour"; "Silken String"
08-13-1910 - Skinnay Ennis - Salisbury, NC - d. 6-3-1963
bandleader, singer: "Bob Hope Show"; "Abbott and Costello Show"
08-24-1917 - Dennis James - Jersey City, NJ - d. 6-3-1997
host, announcer: "Lawyer Q"; "Major Bows Original Amateur Hour"
09-18-1910 - Joe "Curley" Bradley - Coalgate, OK - d. 6-3-1985
actor, singer: Tom Mix "Tom Mix"; "Singing Marshall"
10-12-1909 - Jack Orrison - Colorado - d. 6-3-1986
actor: "X Minus One"; "Gangbusters"
10-20-1904 - Anna Neagle - Forest Gate, Essex, England - d. 6-3-1986
actor: "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "Kate Smith Hour"; "Radio Tribute to the
Kind and Queen"
11-07-1895 - Jerry Belcher - Austin, TX - d. 6-3-1962
interviewer: "Vox Pop"; "Our Neighbors"
12-09-1925 - Patricia Wheel - NYC - d. 6-3-1986
actor: "Stroke of Fate"; "Crime and Peter Chambers"

Ron Sayles

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Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 22:26:19 -0400
From: Grams46@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Interest in OTR

i was born in 1946.   my parents bought a television set about  1953 and i
was hooked - "howdy doody", saturday morning westerns, and later "the  mickey
mouse club".
in early 1957, my father was deployed to yokota  air force base in japan and
we went with him.    at that time,  the far east network (fen) was
broadcasting only radio - not  television.    a whole world of imagination
theatre was
opened to  me.    "johnny dollar", inner sanctum", "the greatest story ever
told", "gunsmoke", and "enjoy japan" were my favorites.
when we returned to the states in 1960, the golden age of radio was just
about gone.    i think "heartbeat theatre" was the last radio  drama i heard
for
a long while.
after i married and moved to los angeles county, i was delighted to be  able
to listen to old radio on krla and kpfk.   and much later,  bobb lynes on kcrw
and john and larry gassman on kpcc.   now i try to  catch bobb lynes and
barbara sunday on kpfk the first monday night of each  month.
i am a member of "the friends of vic and sade", "the national lum and  abner
society", "sperdvac" and until recently, a member  of "one man's family
family".
i am happy to say that my 35 year old daughter, alli is also a member of
"the friends of vic and sade" and my husband is a big fan of lum and  abner.
old
radio still lives in our family.
peace from kathy
support  our troops; end the war
john 3:16

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Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 00:14:48 -0400
From: MGiorgio1@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  How I Got Hooked
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In 1987, my father died about a month after my twentieth birthday.  A  few
months later, I was wandering around the McCrory's store (like a  Woolworth's)
in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida, killing some time between work  and
school.  I saw the dollar cassette bin and, as usual, looked through  it.
The title
"Gunsmoke" caught my eye.  Gunsmoke was a TV tradition  when I was little.
Every Monday night, my dad and I were on the couch,  waiting for Gunsmoke.  I
knew there was a radio version, but never heard  it.  In homage to my father,
I
bought the tape, and I was hooked.  I  found out how to get more of these
great shows and got them whenever I  could.

Flash forward ten years.  Facing thirty, I wanted to do something
unexpected.  But I was (and am) an accountant, so doing something foolish
like bungee
jumping or cliff diving was out of the question.  I read that  the FOTR was
having their first script writing contest.  I thought that was  something
unexpected, but safe and non-stupid, I could do, so I gave it a  shot.  And my
Whistler script won.

Flash forward two years.  I tried my hand at other radio plays, but  decided
I wanted to try fiction.  I met a woman in a writers' chat room who  was a
professional writer and editor and who volunteered to work with me on my
first
attempt at fiction.

To make a long story short, all because of that dollar Gunsmoke tape twenty
years ago, I helped myself deal with the death of my father, developed a
adult-lifelong love of old time radio, and got into writing, which led to
meeting
my wife (the professional writer and editor), the birth of my daughter,  and
a second career as a writer, writing instructor and editor myself.

All-in-all, I owe more to OTR than anyone would ever imagine.  And I
wouldn't have it any other way.

Michael Giorgio
Waukesha, WI
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Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 00:13:55 -0400
From: "Texas Radio Theatre Company" <info@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  How I got started with OTR

George Tirebiter wondered if he would have been interested in OTR if he were
ten years younger. I am [removed] I am. Though I think it took a little longer
for me to get there.

My journey was a little backwards. I first heard radio drama on the CBS
Mystery Theatre in the early to mid 70's. The few I listened to were
enjoyable, but I never made it a point to tune [removed] the same with Bob and
Ray on WOR - and though it made an impression - I wasn't a fan yet.

Fast forward about 5 years ('78 to '81 or so) when I discovered the "comedy
hour" on WHCN. Late nights on Sunday I made it a point to tune [removed] they'd
play Cheech and Chong, Stan Freberg, The Bickersons, Monty Python, Abbott
and Costello, Firesign Theatre, WC Fields, Bill Cosby and all sorts of other
things.

Stan Freberg, Monty Python and Firesign Theatre really got my attention.
When I was visiting my aunt in Vermont we were in a record [removed] and I
remember the excitement when I actually saw a Monty Python album AND a
Firesign Theater [removed] I don't know how I swung it but I think got both.
Firesign Theatre lampooned and also was an homage to OTR, but Stan was
actually a part of [removed] I soon discovered that he had a short-lived radio
show that filled Jack Benny's [removed] from there I learned about [removed]
the rest kind of [removed]  From I Love a Mystery to Vic and Sade to Lux
Radio Theatre to Burns and [removed] it got even worse after  I discovered
"The Golden Age of Radio" on WBAI.   I'm hooked.

Rich
Texas Radio Theatre Company

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Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 10:48:10 -0400
From: bob davis <bob_d60@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: First exposure to OTR

My first taste of OTR was around 1978, listening to
Chuck Shaden boradcast "The Thing that Cries in the
Night". The CBS radio Mystery theatre also kept me up
late at night.

Now, here's a question for the group. What OTR
commercials still seem convincing today? Have you
heard an OTR commercial and then wanted to try that
product today? For me, the Lux soap commercials sound
convincing as well as Jack Webb's Fatima cigarette
commercials. Neither products are in stores anymore
(and I don't smoke) but the commercials still made me
want to check into them.

Bob Davis

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Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 16:26:56 -0400
From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: How I got into OTR

Hello again --

I've been enjoying the postings from OTRers (most of them younger than me)
describing how they got interested in this educational, informative, and
entertaining hobby of Old Time Radio. For me, born in 1937, radio was my
only source of entertainment except for the movies Dad took us to about once
a month. I couldn't wait for the days when television would become common,
yet when those days finally came, my video involvement, I found, was simply
not there as it had been with the serial radio characters, all of whom I
really cared about and waited breathlessly to find out what would happen to
them. In the late forties I think Tom Mix was my favorite; later on it was
the comedy shows, topped by Bob and Ray who appeared on the NBC network
around the summer of 1952 or '53.  I didn't discover Vic and Sade until I
came upon their published scripts around 1965 and once I found their
recorded programs, the show (and the dry humor of Paul Rhymer, its writer)
has been my all-time favorite.
I missed the death throes of OTR because college took up all my time from
1955-62 when many of the radio shows disappeared entirely or resurfaced in
usually disappointing TV shows. By 1965 I was really missing these old radio
shows, thinking they had disappeared forever.
I have Iowan George Lilly to thank for making me aware that there were many
OTR collectors; I bought my reel-to-reel collection of the Cinnamon Bear
episodes and a couple of other shows from him when his name surfaced in an
"Ask Andy"-type column in the Chicago Daily News, around 1967.
And then, in 1985, I discovered Chuck Schaden's Those Were The Days shows
broadcast from Chicago for four hours every Saturday afternoon. I was in
heaven! Without Chuck I wouldn't have most of the shows on cassette that I
have today; Chuck often tipped off his "tapeworm" listeners that something
of special interest was going to be heard, and he actually encouraged his
listeners to record the programs broadcast from his collection. As a result
I had over 3000 of his programs, most of them with his comments before
and/or after their broadcast, until I began collecting from other collectors
and, now, from dealers in mp3.
Thanks, Chuck! You made this hobby very affordable to me, and introduced me
to many of the programs I couldn't have possibly heard as a youngster --
because they were on rival stations at the same time!

yOurs TRuly,
Jan Bach

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Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 22:17:35 -0400
From: crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow)
To: [removed]@[removed] (Old Time Radio Digest)
Subject:  A Request

Once before I asked on these pages about a recording heard by me a half
century ago.

I ask again.

I have searched high and low for a dimly remembered record featuring a rider
passing through a canyon whose walls resounded with native Indian voices. The
voices were retelling their historic stories, which were part of a great
heritage. Travelers through this passageway heard them anew.

This is  as I remember it.  The reality may be quite different.

Fred Berney and others have a good collection of children's records, but,
alas, I have not located this one.  It was unforgettable and I'd like to find
it again.

Can anyone help?

Dennis Crow

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