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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2005 : Issue 308
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Classic Movies On Radio Series [ [removed]@[removed] ]
WSM studio and Hank Williams [ "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@run ]
Halloween OTR [ "jazmaan@[removed]" <dmf273@ya ]
The Golden Age of Radio with Dick Be [ Steve Carter <scarter2@[removed]; ]
Re:Review of Good Night and Good Luc [ Jim Widner <widnerj@[removed]; ]
the Murrow film [ Michael Berger <makiju@[removed]; ]
The Gumps [ Mike Thomas <calvetrecept@[removed] ]
Story Time for Grownups in Portland [ David Loftus <dloft59@[removed] ]
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in Portlan [ David Loftus <dloft59@[removed] ]
10-7 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
FOTR--Book It! [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
Thanks From WSM (re: 80th Birthday) [ "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed] ]
Another Good Night, Good Luck Review [ seandd@[removed] ]
Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs [ [removed]@[removed] ]
RE: Halloween OTR [ "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed] ]
Scary Shows [ Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed]; ]
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 21:24:25 -0400
From: [removed]@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Classic Movies On Radio Series
Livin' out here in the sticks of Kentucky, I many times hear about new things
years after it's over. The Internet is helping change this but one project I
recently heard about was called "Classic Movies On Radio" in which an edited
soundtrack to a film is played with a narrator describing the action. American
Entertainment Group produced these back in 1997. The only thing I can find on
the Internet is a finanacial statement for the company which stated in part, "
February 4, 1997, the Company, via its wholly owned subsidiary Comex
Interactive Network Limited, entered into an Agreement with Pelmorex Inc.
of Toronto, Canada respecting the sale over the next two years of 104
episodes of Classic Movies on Radio. The series is based on the Company's
Audio Classic Movies which will bring to the North American public, via
radio, vintage movies derived from the Company's film library."
Does anyone know anything about this. These are movie soundtracks like Sherlock
Holmes "Dressed To Kill" with a narrator, not the Lux radio dramas marketed by
Radio Spritis.
If they produced 104 as stated, I have missed out on something fairly big.
Thanks!
Paul Urbahns
Radcliff, KY
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 21:25:22 -0400
From: "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: WSM studio and Hank Williams
Hello, I've recently recieved a collection of the Hank Williams shows for
Mother's Best Flower, broadcast over WSM in 1951. Does anyone know the
configuration of that studio where they broadcast from? Did Cousin Louie
Buck, the announcer, have his own microphone, and the band have only one
that was suspended from the ceiling? If anyone does know how this studio was
set up, I'd appreciate knowing, since the band never seems to have a problem
having each instrument clearly heard equally. Are they crammed in there, or
was there enough room to be comfortable with a whole band in the studio?
Nowadays, the announcer can be in a different room from his cohost and you'd
never even know it unless you were in the studio, and usually when a band
comes in to play live today, they'll leave out the drummer and bassist, and
have just two guitars. Perhaps space is more limited today. Anyhow, I'd
appreciate any feedback on these questions or any tidbits about the Mother's
Best shows you might be able to share. Whoever collected these shows
together has given a goldmine to Hank Williams fans. Just so you know, this
is not an official release. It's fifteen audio discs assembled by collectors
and traded throughout the show trading community.
Thanks a lot.
Matthew
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 22:33:24 -0400
From: "jazmaan@[removed]" <dmf273@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Halloween OTR
Baby Snooks Halloween Show, Nov 1 1946 is a classic.
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 22:34:00 -0400
From: Steve Carter <scarter2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Golden Age of Radio with Dick Bertel and
Ed Corcoran
The latest "Golden Age of Radio" programs with
Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran, can be heard at
[removed]
Hi,
I'm quite new to the Classic Radio scene so I've just recently gotten
on this list and started hearing these wonderful interviews from the
1970s by Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran. I think that are golden.
I just listened to the great Martha Raye. Here we have this master
comedian talking lovingly about her work with Chaplin on Monsieur
Verdoux. To me it doesn't get any better than this. I love Chaplin and
I love Raye. I had the honor of seeing her perform live in the late
1970s. I had never see such a master perform like that; the falls, the
perfect timing, and did I laugh! And how, and howl!! She really showed
me what it means to take a lifetime and perfect a performing art. In
this cast absolute mastery of physical comedy. I had never seen
anything like it in person and I doubt very much if I ever will again.
Artists like her just do not exist and more.
Then last week we had William Robeson. I love these programs even if I
had not heard of the personality before hand. The low key style of Dick
and Ed bring out the best in everyone. These interviews are treasures.
Thank you!
Steve Carter
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 00:01:18 -0400
From: Jim Widner <widnerj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re:Review of Good Night and Good Luck
[removed]@[removed] wrote:
[ADMINISTRIVIA: George Clooney and others associated with the film will be
interviewed on tomorrow (Friday's) The Bob Edwards Show on XM Satellite
Radio, Channel 133, 8am in the east, 7am in the west, evening
rebroadcast 8am
eastern, and available all day on XM Radio Online. --cfs3]
I forgot to mention that Ed Murrow television employees of the CBS
"See It Now" program - Joe and Shirley Wershba were interviewed last
week on NPR's "On the Media." The program appears every Friday, but I
believe you would still be able to hear the old episode with this
interview. It was the last story of the program.
It was the 9/30/05 episode and if you go to: [removed]
and near the top of the web page, you can select the date of the
episode, then look for the last story titled "Seeing Red."
Also, I have a press release in word format that includes synopsis,
background, cast, etc. I received it several weeks ago and if anyone is
interested in a copy, email off digest and I will send you a copy.
Jim Widner
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:02:23 -0400
From: Michael Berger <makiju@[removed];
To: otr <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: the Murrow film
Slate's Jack Shafer criticizes the upcoming Murrow
docudrama for sloppy research and overstatement, as
follows:
". . .The McCarthy program "came very late in the
day," said one of Murrow's brightest "boys," Eric
Sevareid, in a January 1978 broadcast. "The youngsters
read back and they think only one person in
broadcasting and the press stood up to McCarthy,"
Sevareid said, "and this has made a lot of people feel
very upset, including me, because that program came
awfully late." Sevareid named Elmer Davis and Martin
Agronsky as two broadcasters who had taken on McCarthy
long before Murrow. "
Shafer also writes that Jack Gould, the New York Times
television columnist whose Murrow praise is read aloud
in the movie, took lunch with Murrow shortly after the
McCarthy program. Murrow confessed his tardiness in
taking on McCarthy, according to an interview Gould
gave to Edwin R. Bayley for his 1981 book, Joe
McCarthy and the Press. "My God," he recalls Murrow
saying. "I didn't do anything. [Times columnist]
Scotty Reston and lot of guys have been writing like
this, saying the same things, for months, for years.
We're bringing up the rear."
Michael Berger
[ADMINISTRIVIA: In this morning's interview on XM's The Bob Edwards Show,
George Clooney said _exactly_ the same thing; "He was late to the game."
That he was "late" means a whole lot less than that he got there, with all
the power he had accumulated over the years.
As to the charge that it suffers from, "sloppy research," Clooney mentions
that every scene in the film was double-sourced; I don't know of any other
film, made to entertain, can make that claim. --cfs3]
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:02:31 -0400
From: Mike Thomas <calvetrecept@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Gumps
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Is there any surviving "Gumps" shows out there? Just wondering!
Thanks!
Mike
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:02:57 -0400
From: David Loftus <dloft59@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Story Time for Grownups in Portland
I have two upcoming events to report in Portland, Oregon. The other is more
of an OTR-type of show, but I wanted to mention my monthly reading here as
well:
STORY TIME FOR GROWNUPS
at Grendel's Coffee House
presents David Loftus reading
"Varieties of Jewish Experience" - stories for Rosh Hashanah
In honor of the Jewish New Year, my October "Story Time" will consist of a
selection of stories on Jewish themes by a variety of storytellers, from
Isaac Bashevis Singer and Mark Helprin to Joseph Epstein and Nathan
Englander, at Grendel's Coffee House, 729 E. Burnside, 503-595-9550, 7:30
[removed] on Monday, October 10, 2005.
>From an Eastern European folk tale to a Middle Eastern war front, from a
widower in Chicago to an Orthodox rabbi whose wife makes him hire on as a
department store Santa in downtown Manhattan every Christmas to make ends
meet, these stories portray the breadth of the Jewish experience, often with
considerable humor.
I hope you can make it to this event. As always, admission is free.
David
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:03:28 -0400
From: David Loftus <dloft59@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in Portland
As a Hallowe'en treat at the end of this month, Willamette Radio Workshop
will be performing an adaptation of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by local
playwright [removed] Gregory.
The show will be performed live by members of WRW in the style of an old live
radio show, complete with plenty of foley. Show times and places, as I
understand it, will be the White Eagle Tavern (which itself has had a
longtime reputation for being haunted) on Saturday, Oct. 29 at 7:00 [removed], and
at the McMenamins Kennedy School on Monday, Oct. 31 at 5:30 and 7:00 [removed]
More details may eventually be forthcoming at the WRW Web site:
[removed]
and yes, I'll be in the cast.
David Loftus
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:22:46 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 10-7 births/deaths
October 7th births
10-07-1853 - James Whitcomb Riley - Greenfield, IN - d. 7-22-1916
writer: "Way Down Home" a musical tribute drama based on Riley's life
10-07-1870 - "Uncle Dave" Macon - Smartt Station, TN - d. 3-22-1952
banjo player: "Grand Ole Opry"
10-07-1888 - Henry Wallace - Adair County, IA - d. 11-18-1965
vice president: "Free World Theatre"
10-07-1889 - Clarence Muse - Baltimore , MD - d. 10-13-1979
singer: "Paducah Plantation"
10-07-1896 - Phil Ohman - New Britain, CT - d. 8-8-1954
pianist: "Roxy and His Gang"
10-07-1898 - Alfred Wallenstein - Chicago, IL - d. 2-8-1983
conductor: "Virtuosos"; "Voice of Firestone"
10-07-1905 - Andy Devine - Flagstaff, Arizona Territory - d. 2-20-1977
actor: Jingles P. Jones "Wild Bill Hickok"; Mose Muich "Lum and Abner"; "Jack
Benny Program"
10-07-1905 - Jean Ellyn - New York City, NY - d. 11-23-1989
actress: Margie 'Cookie' Cook "Valiant Lady"; Dr. Watson "Strange Dr. Karnac"
10-07-1911 - Vaughn Monroe - Akron, OH - d. 5-21-1973
singer, bandleader: "Penthouse Party"; "Vaughn Monroe Show"
10-07-1914 - Alfred Drake - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-25-1992
singer: "Best Plays"; Broadway Matinee"; "Ford Festival of American Music"
10-07-1914 - Sarah Churchill - London, England - d. 9-24-1982
actress: (Daughter of Winston Churchill) "Romance"
10-07-1917 - June Allyson - The Bronx, NY
actress: "Hallmark Playhouse"; "NBC Star Playhouse"; "Harold Lloyd Comedy
Theatre"
10-07-1918 - Helmut Dantine - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-3-1982
actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Silver Theatre"; "Theatre of Romance"; "Suspense"
10-07-1922 - Martha Stewart - Bardwell, KY
vocalist: "Your All-Time Hit Parade"
10-07-1926 - Diana Lynn - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-18-1971
actress: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
October 7th deaths
01-10-1914 - Polly Rowles - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-7-2001
actress: Nita's Aunt "Lone Journey"
01-19-1809 - Edgar Allan Poe - Boston, MA - d. 10-7-1849
author: "Columbia Workshop";"World's Greatest Short Stories"; "Weird Circle"
01-31-1921 - Mario Lanza - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-7-1959
singer: "Mario Lanza Show"
06-01-1921 - Nelson Riddle - Oradell, NJ - d. 10-7-1985
composer, conductor: "On a Sunday Afternoon"; "Sears Radio Theatre"
07-27-1905 - Leo Durocher - West Springfield, MA - d. 10-7-1991
baseball legend: "baseball announcer"
11-26-1910 - Cyril Cusack - Durban, South Africa - d. 10-7-1993
actor: "Great Expectations"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:23:24 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: FOTR--Book It!
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Hiya Gang:
This is the year at FOTR/NJ that I've decided to play catch-up on getting my
favourite OTR-related books inscribed by various authors who I know will be in
attendance. Fortunately, I live close enough to execute this.
Some of the folks I'll be seeking out: Elizabeth McLeod, "The Original Amos
'n' Andy"; Jack French, "Private Eyelashes" [I bought it at last year's FOTR,
but never got around to getting Mr. French's John-Hancock]; Howard Blue,
"Words at War;"; Arthur Anderson, "Let's Pretend"; Hal Stone, "Aw, Relax,
[removed]"; Jim Widner, [I forget the name of his authoratative
self-published book on OTR science-fiction]; Gary Yoggy, "Riding the Video
Range'; Anthony Tollin, "The Shadow Scrapbook"; lotsa books by Jim Cox, Dave
Siegel, Martin Grams Jr., and Ben Ohmart. I know I'm missing somebody. My
profoundest advance apologies for any lapsed memories.
I happen to know that health concerns have sidelined Ron Lackmann, and that
Jordan Young is not attending.
Will anybody be selling Laura Leff's "39 Forever, Jack benny Log"?
So all you OTR published authors: please let the folks reading this list know
if you're going to be visiting the Graden State for this year's FOTR. Your
books might not be hot-off-the-presses to be sold at Jay Hickerson's table,
but other conventioneers might like to bring their books from home to get
inscribed.
Yours in the ether,
Derek Tague
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:23:52 -0400
From: "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Thanks From WSM (re: 80th Birthday)
Wednesday October 5, 2005 was a tremendously magical day in the history
of WSM Radio as we celebrated our 80th birthday.
>From 5:30 AM until 7:00 PM, we broadcasted live from our transmitter
site in Brentwood, Tennessee. It was truly a special event with on-air
interviews with many people within the industry who have been impacted
by this great radio station. Besides people like Del McCoury, Jim Ed
Brown, John Conlee, Kris Kristofferson, The Jordanaires, 91 year old
Johnny Wright (who remembered when WSM went on the air), Kitty Wells,
Carl Smith, Little Jimmy Dickens, Bud Wendell, Dan Seals, Andy Griggs,
Carol Lee Cooper, Steve Wariner, Mel McDaniel, Neil Craig (the son of
WSM's founder Edwin Craig), many others all made the day quite
unforgettable.
All of these generations of guests realize the validity and importance
of this great radio station, as do the millions of listeners that we're
fortunate to have.
>From 7 PM until 12 Midnight, we wrapped up our day with recordings and
programs that have helped to make WSM what it is today. We were honored
to have former Operations Manager Kyle Cantrell in studio to share his
wealth of knowledge about WSM's rich history and its continued relevance
to the present and future.
Unfortunately, for those who were tuned in on Sirius Satellite Radio
Channel 111, shortly after we began the evening show, we were pre-empted
by a hockey game. Because WSM on Sirius is an Entertainment Channel,
Sirius does have the right to do this on occasion, as they have more
sports events going on than they have channels to air them.
If you are a customer of Sirius, you are strongly encouraged to voice
your opinion by contacting them directly. WSM has heard from many
concerned listeners about what happened on Wednesday evening October
5th, and we sincerely apologize. Unfortunately, we had no advance
notice. We are telling these listeners as well to contact Sirius
directly.
There is good news! If you missed the October 5, evening retrospective
on WSM, we will be re-broadcasting the entire five hours on-line at
[removed] and on Sirius Satellite Radio Channel 111. We have
been told that evening will not be interrupted on Sirius.
Many have wondered if our 80th birthday broadcast will be archived, and
unfortunately it is too cost prohibitive.
If you were present for our birthday festivities or just tuned in at
some point during our eighteen-and-a-half hours of on-air coverage, we
sincerely thank you. It was said many times yesterday by young and old
alike that WSM is the greatest radio station in the world. Thanks for
helping to make it that way.
Eddie Stubbs
WSM-AM Radio
Nashville, Tennessee
[removed]@[removed]
forwarded by Bill Knowlton
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:24:04 -0400
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Another Good Night, Good Luck Review
This one is from today's New York Daily News. It's by the same reporter who
can't tell the difference between Senators and Congressmen but for what it's
worth, he really liked it.
Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]
[removed]
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:24:15 -0400
From: [removed]@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs and
Norman Shelley
The BBC is currently streaming Sherlock Holmes episodes on demand at BBC
Radio 7
website. A new adventure airs each day and the past adventures remain on the
web
site for 7 days. So the first 5 of 10 that they plan on airing is available at
this website:
[removed]
Once you go there click on BBC Radio On Demand then select BBC7, you will be
presented a list of series, below Sherlock Holmes is listed five days. The
shows
listed are MON - FRI all are 1950s and 1960s productions in clear digital
sound.
They seem to be the original British versions not the US versions normally
found
in collections that were syndicated by the BBC in the 60s with dubbed in
recorded orchestra mood music for the American market.
The Monday show will be replaced next Monday with a different episode so next
week you can visit the web site each day and hear a different show than this
week.
Paul Urbahns
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:43:33 -0400
From: "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: RE: Halloween OTR
How about the Mercury Theater presentation of "War of the Worlds." While
strictly speaking, not a Halloween show, it was billed, at its conclusion, as
a Halloween present.
I may have mentioned this before here, but when I watched the TV movie about
the show, "The Night That Panicked America," the most chilling scene occurs
at the end, when the Welles character announces, "The nightmare is now over,"
followed by an image of massed goose stepping German soldiers marching down
the screen. The narrator intones, "In fact, the nightmare was just
beginning."
Thanx,
B. Ray
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 14:42:58 -0400
From: Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Scary Shows
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How about "Knock" on "Dimension -X "!
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