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Date: 12/31/2005 1:46 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 402
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Friends of Old-Time Radio DVDs        [ osborneam@[removed] ]
  Re: A&A dates                         [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
  Re: WEBH                              [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
  12-31 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Other Lone Ranger Researchers         [ Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed]; ]
  The Phantom on OTR?                   [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  RE: Books on "The Goldbergs"          [ "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed] ]
  WEBH AM and FM                        [ RBB <oldradio@[removed]; ]
  Margaret Whiting Interviews           [ "HARLAN ZINCK" <zharlan@[removed]; ]
  The Year in Obituaries                [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 1-7 Janua  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  OTR folks in odd places               [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Goldbergs on TV                       [ Lee Munsick <damyankeeinva@earthlin ]
  The Phantom                           [ "Karl Schadow" <bluecar91@[removed] ]

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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:34:06 -0500
From: osborneam@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Friends of Old-Time Radio DVDs
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I have to write this group to share my enthusiasm.  I just received
the DVDs of the Friends of Old-Time Radio convention that I
ordered from Fred and Ellen Berney at Satellite Media Production.
THEY ARE TERRIFIC!

In fact, I shared one with my husband last night and after the
first two minutes, his reaction was "Wow, what great quality!".
Fred and Ellen outdid themselves this year.

Wonderful disks, wonderful friends.

Arlene Osborne

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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:16:03 -0500
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: A&A dates

On 12/30/05 5:34 PM [removed]@[removed] wrote:

I have a Radiola cassette which lists a show with guest Walter Huston, but it
is dated 8/9/36. Is this the same show with a wrong date?

I have a cassette also on Radiola entitled "The Marriage Of Andy Brown" that
is dated 4/1/39. Is this show the same as above but with a wrong date?

Wrong dates on both counts -- presumably those were typos when the
cassette labels were printed. The authoritative dates, confirmed by me
from the original scripts, are 8/19/36 and 4/3/39.

Interestingly, when the NBC "Recollections at Thirty" series offered a
supposed compilation of excerpts from "a single night's programming"  --
March 4, 1938 -- they used a clip from the 8/19/36 A&A with Huston and
falsely dated it, since that episode was, at the time, the *only*
serial-era A&A episode that NBC could locate in its archives. It was
preserved by the network only because network president Lenox Lohr was
heard on the program giving an anniversary tribute to Correll and Gosden.

Elizabeth

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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:50:10 -0500
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: WEBH

On 12/30/05 5:34 PM [removed]@[removed] wrote:

In its latterday years, WEBH was a small station at the Edgewater Beach
Hotel in Chicago, until the permanent residents were given about two hours to
move out when the hotel was sold to a developer who was to tear it down and
replace it with high-rise apartments. Do any of you folks know it that's
where the station was from the beginning? I know that toward the end, the
only time that I listened in, it concentrated on ethnic programming.

WEBH was always located at the hotel, going all the way back to its
beginnings. The station first signed on the air in 1922 as WJAZ under the
aegis of the Chicago Radio Laboratories (ancestor of the Zenith Radio
Corporation), with studios at the hotel. As the call letters suggested,
the programming emphasis was on dance music played by the various
orchestras performing at the hotel.

The Tribune Company took over the station in early 1924 and operated it
as the original WGN until that spring, when the newspaper built and
opened a WGN of its own. The hotel itself took over the station, and
since the WJAZ call letters had been retained by the Chicago Radio
Laboratories for a new station in suburban Mt. Prospect, the new call
letters became WEBH.

During Correll and Gosden's tenure at the station -- which ran from April
to August of 1925 -- the programming was made up of a hodgepodge of
smalltime Chicago talent, none of which was paid. No commercial
advertising was sold by the station in this era, since it was considered
a publicity tool for the hotel. The station briefly shared time with
Westinghouse's KYW, but the bigger station ended up buying out WEBH to
get full control of the frequency, and closed it down in 1929.

The WEBH call letters were revived in the 1950s for an FM station
operated from the hotel, but this station had no direct connection to the
original 1920s operation.

Elizabeth

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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:50:19 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  12-31 births/deaths

December 31st births

12-31-1897 - Orry-Kelly - Kiama, New South Wales, Australia - d.
2-27-1964
costume designer: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-31-1897 - Paula Hemminghous - Columbus, OH - d. 11-22-1997
singer: "Philco Hour"; "National Radio Pulpit"; "Highlights of the
Bible"
12-31-1904 - Nathan Milstein - Odessa, Russia - d. 12-21-1992
violinist: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "Concert Hall"
12-31-1905 - Dick Chevillat - New York, NY - d. 5-10-1984
writer: "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Rudy Vallee Show"
12-31-1905 - Jule Styne - London, England - d. 9-28-1994
songwriter: "I Don't Wan to Walk Without You"; "I've Heard That Song
Before"
12-31-1908 - Jonah Jones - Louisville, KY - d. 4-30-2000
jazz trumpeter: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"; "Army Bandstand";
"Manhattan Melodies"
12-31-1910 - Richard Kollmar - Ridgewood, NJ - d. 1-11-1971
actor: John Perry "John's Other Wife"; "Michael West "Big Sister";
"Boston Blackie "Boston Blackie"
12-31-1914 - Pat Brady - Toledo, OH - d. 2-27-1972
sidekick, stooge: "Roy Rogers Show"
12-31-1921 - Rex Allen - Wilcox, AZ - d. 12-17-1999
country/western singer: "Country Music Time"; "Country Hoedown"
12-31-1930 - Odetta - Birmingham, AL
singer: "Voices of Vista"

December 31st deaths

01-12-1908 - Joan Burroughs - Chicago, IL - d. 12-31-1972
actress: (Daughter of Edgar Rice Burroughs) Jane "Tarzan"
02-13-1912 - Art Rollini - d. 12-31-1993
saxophone: (The Benny Goodman Orchestra) "Let's Dance"
03-11-1887 - Raoul Walsh - New York, NY - d. 12-31-1980
film director: "Jack Benny Program"
03-29-1919 - Eileen Heckart - Columbus, OH - d. 12-31-2001
actress: "Cloak and Dagger"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
05-08-1940 - Ricky Nelson - Teaneck, NJ - d. 12-31-1985
actor: "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
05-12-1927 - Suzanne Dalbert - Paris, France - d. 12-31-1970
actress: "George Fisher Interviews the Stars"; "Command Performance"
07-27-1919 - David Swift - Minneapolis, MN - d. 12-31-2001
writer: "Opie Cates Show"
08-04-1913 - Wesley Addy - Omaha, NB - d. 12-31-1996
actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Great Plays"
08-24-1905 - Don Douglas - Kinleyside, Scotland - d. 12-31-1945
actor: "Good News of 1939"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Did Justice
Triumph?"
09-27-1921 - Carol Thurston - Forsyth, MT - d. 12-31-1969
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-27-1933 - Floyd Cramer - Samti, LA - d. 12-31-1997
country pianist: "Country Music Time"; "Country Style [removed]"
12-01-1896 - Ray Henderson - Buffalo, NY - d. 12-31-1970
composer: "Music for Millions"; "Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP"

Ron Sayles

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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:50:52 -0500
From: Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Other Lone Ranger Researchers
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I too am saddened about the death of Dave Holland. I have his book, "From Out
Of The [removed] ,"about The Lone Ranger that he sent me autographed back in
the late 1980'[removed] also sent me his 2 books on "Location In Lone Pine"of
which one is a supplement, and both of his VHS Video copies of Western Movie
and Serial Location Sites. He is one of a kind and will be sorely [removed]
research was a work of love. The man who really kicked off the research
before, was David Rothel and Jim Harmon. Mr. Rothel had the first definitive
book on "The Lone Ranger" back in the late1960's or early 70'[removed] is : "Who
Was That Masked Man?" which has since been [removed] has some information
that wasn't in Dave Holland's [removed], don't forget Jim Harmon's book, "The
Great Radio Heroes",Jack Mathis great tome, "Valley Of The Cliffhangers' plus
the later [removed] are about 3 or 4 others such as Mario DeMarco and
Reginald Jones great classic "Mystery
  Of The Masked Man's music. Happy New Year 2006 Everybody! I think we all
deserve it don't you?    Bob Slate

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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:51:34 -0500
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Phantom on OTR?

On Friday, December 30, 2005, at 05:35 PM, Roger Keel wrote:

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?

'Fraid not, Roger.

While there were plenty of series with "Phantom" in the title 
(including Phantom Pilot, Phantom Pirate, Phantom Rider, and Phantom 
Spoilers) there was no series based upon that purple-attired hero from 
the jungles.

BTW, since you're interested in OTR shows based upon the comics, you 
should obtain a copy of a new book released by Bear Manor Media. It's 
entitled "Comic Strips & Comic Books of Radio's Golden Age" and was 
written by OTR historian Ron Lackmann. It addition to the characters 
you mentioned above, it covers several dozen more, including L'il 
Abner, Sad Sack, Dick Tracy, Skippy, Archie Andrews, Gasoline Alley, 
Joe Palooka, Popeye, Major Hoople, and Smilin' Jack.

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL

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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:14:11 -0500
From: "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE: Books on "The Goldbergs"

 The "Goldberg Cookbook" or similar title by Gertrude Berg is a book of
recipes for Ashkenazic Jewish cooking, with homilies and wise sayings thrown
in by Ms. Berg, in Molly Goldberg's voice. Most of the recopies are typical
of Jewish cookbooks of that type and are quite serviceable.

Thanx,

 B. Ray

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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 22:02:51 -0500
From: RBB <oldradio@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  WEBH AM and FM

<<Ray Druian asked about the original radio station in the Edgewater
Beach Hotel in Chicago>>>

Originally, in 1923, with an estimated 100,000 radio sets in
Chicagoland, WEBH was called WJAZ in the Edgewater Beach Hotel sharing
670AM then with WMAQ.  WJAZ was owned by Zenith Radio Corporation, the
local radio manufacturer (with the famous Zenith slogan: "The quality
goes in before the name goes on")

The WEBH call started in 1924 on the 810AM frequency continuing until
1928 when it was bought by a competitor, KYW, who shut down the
frequency in 1929. Years later, Zenith started WEFM, an early FM station
to essentially to test their FM receivers with uninterrupted,
non-commercial classical and easy listening programming.

WEBH originated live big bands in The Marine Dining room of the hotel
and from the popular Beach Walk near the waterfront (that would the
"edge water beach" area, of course) and was called "The Edgewater Beach
Hotel's Dance Band Station" on the dial at 810AM.  NBC picked up many of
the the broadcasts for their network from WEBH.  .

I worked nights at WEBH-FM ([removed] mHz) when Buddy Black owned the station
years later, and I think the transmitter tower was atop the hotel
building.  The small office and studio was in the hotel lobby, a
glass-enclosed production cubicle (which was part of the original
barbershop and an adjacent closet) within view of the revolving front
door so that hotel guests could watch the live broadcasts. There was a
loud speaker under the studio window for the "fishbowl" viewers to hear
the music, and it was difficult to discourage tapping on the glass to
get the announcer's attention
so a curtain was eventually installed to hide the viewing.

Buddy insisted that the newscasts include background music tracks from
Montavani albums - just to have a different sound identity, I guess.
The rip and read news included crime stories
and world events like everyone else, so the music didn't soften
the news story's impact for the listener.

There was a variety of music on WEBH-FM in the late-1950's.
Mostly beautiful music albums (like most of the other FM stations on the
dial at the time), some relaxing jazz standards, vocals, an occasional
light classical "dinner hour" and German language programming which
eventually changed from a few hours a day to fulltime when the station
was sold to ethnic broadcasters.

Happy New Year to the list!!

=Russ Butler  oldradio@[removed]

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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:53:40 -0500
From: "HARLAN ZINCK" <zharlan@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Margaret Whiting Interviews

Though not old time radio in the strictest sense, fans of 1940s music may
well enjoy a two-part interview with singer Margaret Whiting on "Radio
Intersection," a program produced by NPR station KUOW-FM in Seattle. The two
half-hour shows are currently available for playing on-line via the KUOW
website:

Part One (12/22/05):
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Part Two (12/29/05):
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To quote the website: "As a singer on the rise in the 1940s and 50's,
Margaret Whiting introduced some of the greatest pop standards of all time,
such as "Moonlight In Vermont" and "Come Rain Or Come Shine". This week,
81-year-old Whiting will talk about her rise to stardom, her long
association with friend, mentor, and songwriting legend Johnny Mercer, and
how the music of the postwar era continues to direct her life today. KUOW's
Amanda Wilde interviewed Whiting in November of 2005 at her home in New York
City."

I have no association with these shows, aside from being a long-time member
of KUOW, but I found them both to be very insightful and enjoyable to listen
to.

Harlan Zinck
First Generation Radio Archives
"Preserving Radio's Past for the Future"
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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:54:02 -0500
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Year in Obituaries

The Hollywood Reporter writes on notable entertainment deaths in 2005 - 
including Paul Henning and Artie Shaw.

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:57:54 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 1-7 January

 From Those Were The Days --

1/1

1923 - The very first radio broadcast of the Rose Bowl was beamed in Los
Angeles over KHJ.

1925 - Lucrezia Bori and John McCormack of the famous Metropolitan Opera
in New York City made their singing debuts on radio this day. The
broadcast over WEAF encouraged others to sing on radio.

1927 - The very first coast-to-coast network radio broadcast of the Rose
Bowl was made. Graham McNamee provided the play-by-play on NBC.

1930 - The Cuckoo Hour, was heard for the first time on the NBC Blue
network.

1/2

1921 - The first religious broadcast on radio was heard, as Dr. [removed] Van
Etten of Calvary Episcopal Church preached on KDKA radio in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.

1959 - CBS dropped the curtain on four soap operas. Our Gal Sunday, This
is Nora Drake, Backstage Wife and Road of Life all hit the road for good.

1/4

1928 - NBC debuted one of radio's first variety shows. The Dodge Victory
Hour starred Will Rogers, Paul Whiteman and his orchestra and singer Al
Jolson. The cost to produce this one show was $67,600.

1932 - NBC Red presented The Carnation Contented Hour. The show
continued on network radio for 19 years as a showcase for top singers
and musicians.

1935 - Bob Hope was first heard on network radio as part of The Intimate
Revue with Jane Froman, James Melton and the Al Goodman Orchestra.

1/5

1935 - We proudly remind you that Phil Spitalny's All-Girl Orchestra was
featured on CBS this day on the program, The Hour of Charm.  (ed- And
who can ever forget Evelyn and her magic violin?)

1940 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) got its very first
demonstration of FM radio. The new medium, free of interference, static,
and noise in thunderstorms, was developed by Major [removed] Armstrong. The
first FM transmitter was put in operation in 1941.

1/6

1941 - A young actor appeared for the first time in a new program on CBS
titled, The Home of the Brave. Along with others in the cast, this was
Richard Widmark's radio debut.

1950 - Ronald Coleman starred as the president of Ivy College in The
Halls of Ivy.

1974 - CBS radio returned to dramatic programming at night with the
first broadcast of Radio Mystery Theatre, hosted by [removed] Marshall. The
program debuted on 218 CBS network stations.

1/7

1926 - A famous marriage that endured for many years is remembered this
day. It's the wedding anniversary of George Burns and Gracie Allen who
were married by a Justice of the Peace in Cleveland, Ohio.

1940 - The gate to Gene Autry's Melody Ranch opened. The 'singing
cowboy' would entertain on CBS radio for the next 16 years.

1941 - The NBC Blue network presented the first installment of Inner
Sanctum.

1950 - Ernest Tubb made his first appearance at The Grand Ole Opry in
Nashville, TN. Ernest also did a 15-minute radio program each day that
became very popular in West Texas. So popular, in fact, that he bought
the radio station that had aired the program for years and years: KGKL
in San Angelo, Texas.

   Joe

PS:  I want wish everyone a happy new year and also thank those who over
the past year who have corrected and added more information to the
history series.

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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:19:45 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OTR folks in odd places

   I was making my usual rounds of the Prelinger Archives, which has a
wide variety of the strange, the unusual films.  Believe it or don't.  A
few of the films I watched were traffic safety films from the '30s till
the middle '60s.
   I was watching "Anatomy of an accident" and at the end found two
older ladies in the short were Irene Tedrow (who was all over radio) and
Edith Evanson, who played Hermi the maid on Myrt and Marge. The film
stars David Wayne as a traffic safety teacher for "the telephone
company" c. 1964.  Tedrow and Evanson show up early in the film as two
older ladies haggling over the price of a La-Z-Boy at an estate sale and
then later towards to the end of the film.
   It's always interesting when someone from otr pops in unusual places.
   [removed]
   Joe

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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:05:53 -0500
From: Lee Munsick <damyankeeinva@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Goldbergs on TV

Since someone has brought up the subject of the Goldbergs, I'll seize the
opportunity to raise a question I've had for years.

During their TV era, the show obviously was on CBS.  This is how I know:  I
watched often, and 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.  I do not honestly recall how Mr. Godfrey figured in the rest of
the segment.  Probably the Goldbergs talking about him, not he himself
involved, but I could be wrong.  I also don't know if this was a carry-over
from previous radio combined appearances.  Does anybody?

Mr. Godfrey had talked up this appearance on his own programs for a couple of
days before, so that well could have been the night of the Goldbergs' highest
ratings!  I am not aware whether if Molly returned the compliment by
appearing on his show.  Is anybody?

I'll appreciate it if anyone knowing of references to all this would contact
me, direct or on OTRD, re any OTR books especially on the Goldbergs, and
(dare I hope?) where there might just possibly be a copy of the program,
which obviously would have to be from a kinescope!  Hope springs eternal!

Many thanks and a Healthful, Successful, Happy New Year to one and all!

Lee Munsick

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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 13:43:10 -0500
From: "Karl Schadow" <bluecar91@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Phantom

On page 691 of the Fifth Edition of Hake's Price Guide to Character Toys
(2004) is a picture of a billboard poster for The Phantom radio program. The
poster (with accompanying illustration of The Phantom) states "Listen to The
Phantom on [removed]" The information provided in Hake's indicates that it
was from the 1940s for an intended Phantom radio show WEBR/Canada. WEBR was
located in Buffalo, New York. Production and actual broadcast details are
currently unknown.
---Karl Schadow

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