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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2010 : Issue 90
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Orphan Annie on Broadway. [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
And speaking of the Hornet ... [ Bob <hrkeller@[removed]; ]
5-18 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Cincinnnati Convention [ Bob Burchett <haradio@[removed]; ]
Question: BURNS & ALLEN [ "Thomas Heathwood" <heritageradio@m ]
Soldiers of the Press inquiry and ge [ "bob@[removed]" <bstepno@mindsprin ]
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine [ Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed]; ]
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Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 23:23:03 -0400
From: Rentingnow@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Orphan Annie on Broadway.
Does anyone know why Harold Gray or even the comic strip was never
credited on the promos or program for the musical "Annie"?
Larry Moore
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Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 23:27:45 -0400
From: Bob <hrkeller@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: And speaking of the Hornet ...
While the comic book world has a handful of new interpretations of the Green
Hornet (by Dynamite Entertainment) on sale, one item of possible interest to
OTR fans is "The Green Hornet Golden Age Re-Mastered" series, also by
Dynamite. This is listed in the May 2010 issue of the previews comic catalog.
This is apparently a re-packaging of the early Hornet comics with stories by
Fran Striker with newly commissioned covers for $[removed] I know that the rices
of the earlier Hornets have kept them out of my collection, so affordable
"re-mastered" copies of the comics will be welcome to my collection.
There is also a short interview with Martin Grams Jr. about the new Green
Hornet history in the May 17th newsletter from Bear Manor Media.
Regards,
Bob Keller,
Waukesha, Wisc.
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Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 23:27:53 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 5-18 births/deaths
May 18th births
05-18-1892 - Ezio Pinza, Rome, Italy - d. 5-9-1957
singer: "Telephone Hour"; "Ezio Pinza's Children Show"; "Stagestruck"
05-18-1894 - Raymond Paige - Wausau, WI - d. 8-7-1965
conductor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Musical Americana"; "Stage Door Canteen"
05-18-1897 - Frank Capra - Bisacquino, Sicily - d. 9-3-1991
film director: "Gulf Screen Theatre"; "NBC Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-18-1900 - Joyce Barthelson - d. 12-1-1986
pianist: KGO Oakland, California
05-18-1900 - Lew White - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-4-1955
organist: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Break the Bank"; "Betty
Moore"
05-18-1902 - Meredith Willson - Mason City, IA - d. 6-15-1984
conductor, composer: "Maxwell House Coffee Time"; "Meredith Willson/
Music Room"
05-18-1904 - Fred Shields - Kansas City, MO - d. 6-30-1974
actor: Bill Fraser "Tarzan"
05-18-1904 - Jacob K. Javits - NYC - d. 3-7-1986
[removed] senator new york: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
05-18-1907 - Clifford Curzon - London, England - d. 9-2-1982
pianist: "March of Dimes"
05-18-1908 - Alastair McBain - d. 12-xx-1980
author: "Cloak and Dagger"
05-18-1908 - Del King - Kansas City, KS - d. 8-22-1964
announcer: "Avalon Time"; "Tommy Dorsey's Kool Show"
05-18-1908 - Lorene Scott - d. 4-19-1983
actor: Maria Hawkins "Young Widder Brown"
05-18-1908 - Ted Malone - Colorado Springs, CO - d. 10-20-1989
commentator: "Between the Bookends"; "Pilgrimage of Poetry"
05-18-1908 - Tommy Tucker - Souris, ND - d. 7-13-1989
bandleader: "Lucky Strike Show with Walter Winchell"; "George Jessel
Show"
05-18-1912 - John Campbell Crosby - Milwaukee, WI - d. 9-7-1991
radio critic: New York Herald Tribune
05-18-1912 - Perry Como - Canonsburg, PA - d. 5-12-2001
singer: "Perry Como Program"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
05-18-1913 - Charles Trenet - Creteil, France - d. 1-18-2001
singer: "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Discoparade"
05-18-1922 - Bill Macy - Revere, MA
actor: "Earplay"
05-18-1922 - Kai Winding - Aarhus, Denmark - d. 5-7-1983
musician: "Stan Kenton and His Orchestra"; "One Night Stand"; "Jubilee"
05-18-1924 - Jack Whitaker - Philadelphia, PA
disc jockey, sportscaster: "Jack the Bachelor"; "Sports Shots"
05-18-1931 - Robert Morse - Newton, MA
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
05-18-1932 - Walter Anglin - d. 9-8-2001
disk jockey: WJLD Birmingham, Alabama
05-18-1936 - Joel Kupperman - Chicago, IL
panelist: "Quiz Kids"
May 18th deaths
02-06-1888 - Lucille Gleason - Pasadena, CA - d. 5-18-1947
actor: "Jimmy Gleason's Diner"
03-21-1893 - Sidney Franklin - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-18-1972
film producer, director: "Academy Awards Program"; "Screen Guild
Theatre"
03-25-1892 - Andy Clyde - Blaingowrie, Scotland - d. 5-18-1967
actor: California Carlson "Hopalong Cassidy"
05-03-1919 - Doris Rich - Canada - d. 5-18-1971
actor: Hannah O'Leary" Houseboat Hannah"; Miss Daisey "Portia Faces
Life"
05-10-1910 - Louis Buck - Bessemer, AL - d. 5-18-1971
announcer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Sunday Down South"
06-13-1890 - Elmer Davis - Aurora, IN - d. 5-18-1958
newscaster: "Elmer Davis and the News"
06-18-1919 - Ed Simmons - d. 5-18-1998
writer, director: "The Martin and Lewis Show"; "The Quiz Kids"
06-29-1908 - Leroy Anderson - Cambridge, MA - d. 5-18-1975
composer, arranger: " Contemporary Composers Concerts"; "Must for
America"
08-31-1908 - William Saroyan - Fresno, CA - d. 5-18-1981
writer: "Columbia Workshop"; "The Free Company"; "Biography in Sound"
09-09-1927 - Elvin Ray Jones - Pontiac, MI - d. 5-18-2004
jazz drummer: "Newport Jazz Festival"
10-12-1906 - Daniel Saidenberg - d. 5-18-1997
conductor: "Alec Templeton Time"
10-29-1902 - Lillian Lee - d. 5-18-1987
actor: (Wife of Jack Kirkwood) "Jack Kirkwood Show"; "Fibber McGee and
Molly"
11-01-1923 - Charles Dugdale - Lincoln, NE - d. 5-18-1985
actor: "Heartbeat Theatre"
11-16-1912 - Paul Dudley - Massachusetts - d. 5-18-1959
writer: "Pot o' Gold"; "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
11-23-1912 - Tyree Glenn - Corsicana, TX - d. 5-18-1974
trombonist, vibraphonist: "Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concert"
11-27-1925 - Marshall Thompson - Peoria, IL - d. 5-18-1992
actor: "Free World Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-29-1905 - Mario Braggiotti - Florence, Italy - d. 5-18-1996
pianist, composer: "Fray and Braggiotti"
Ron
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Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 23:38:40 -0400
From: Bob Burchett <haradio@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Cincinnnati Convention
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What a great experence. Everything considered this one
was the best one. The hotel went out of it's way to make
us feel welcome. I told them I when came out to pay the
bill I wanted next year's contract ready to sign. Had
lunch today, and signed it. Next year's dates are
May 20,21, 2011 at the Crowne Plaza 5901 Pfeiffer Rd.
Cincinnati, Oh 45242. Exit 15 off interstate 71. At lunch I
gave the hotel a Stone/Waterman award, which they are
going to hang it in the lobby. Their contribution to the preservation
of OTR is that they are making it possible for us to continue
to have our convention.
The attendence was up this year,and when the news gets out
about the hotel it will be up again. Ken and Neil had a live 3
hour show Monday reviewing the convention. Many called and
had some nice things to say about the convention, and many
said they wanted to come next year. Make your plans to
attend next year.
Barb Davies says the Cincinnati convention is family reunion,
but no one is related. After 24 years we are a family.
Become a member of our family next year.
Some complain about us having the same guest, and want
different guests. I will continue to have the same guest as
long as they can come. They are also part of our family.
For more information about the convention cleck on [removed]
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Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 23:42:30 -0400
From: "Thomas Heathwood" <heritageradio@[removed];
To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Question: BURNS & ALLEN
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Anyone have an idea what the date of a BURNS & ALLEN SHOW might be for a
Christmas program that included the song:
"Beautiful Dreamer" and Gracie recalls "Little Tommy Tucker, Sing for your
Supper." A listener asked, and I have no idea and
find no reference to this particular show in any of the standard references.
Tom Heathwood
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Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 23:49:19 -0400
From: "bob@[removed]" <bstepno@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Soldiers of the Press inquiry and general
comments on research sources
(Apologies for duplication of this note to a few individuals on the list.
The server bounced it twice.)
Thank you, Michael Biel, for that note posted to the list last week
concerning attribution of information sources. As Mr. Biel put it, "One of
the REQUIREMENTS of advanced research and writing is that ALL facts -- every
single one of them -- that is not considered 'common knowledge' MUST be
[removed]"
For journalism students, my advice is to not just dutifully write down what
someone says, but to follow-up with the question "... and how do you know
that?" The question doesn't always get a great answer, but it often makes for
a better interview.
What *I* know is that I've been having a fantastic time rediscovering
old-time radio, which I stumbled into through various OTR podcasts and an
early addiction to [removed] for Web research. I am old enough to remember
listening to Johnny Dollar on AM radio in the 1950s, and to have invested in
a radio-cassette-clock combination unit in 1980 to time-shift after-midnight
rebroadcasts of The Shadow.
The love, enthusiasm, time, work and money that people have put into
collecting and preserving radio programs is just amazing, and I think
discussion lists like [removed] are a great bridge between the collecting
hobby and academic research.
So right now I'm wearing my academic hat and making a list of "... and how do
you know?" questions that I'll have to answer in order to complete a research
article. Perhaps some of you can help.
First up: Can anyone point me to more information about the program Soldiers
of the Press, which dramatized the adventures of United Press correspondents
in World War II?
So far the RadioGOLDINdex is the best source I've found for episode
information, but I've been through three histories of the United Press and
have contacted former Unipressers without finding any reference to the
creation of the program itself. That's my main interest. The "provenance" of
the digital audio files and location of the "originals" is a secondary
question, but one that could help answer the first.
Through various episode guides and download sites, I have listened to 40 MP3
episodes and I've located a couple of library collections (alas, outside my
area) that have transcription discs or copies. I wish Mr. Goldin's list
indicated where his information came from -- presumably from the labels of
transcription discs that are either in his possession or that he has donated
to university archives, such as
the UMKC archival project.
(Goldin and several sites mention episodes with stories of Harrison
Salisbury and Charles Arnot, which are not at [removed] or other free or
for-sale-as-CDs online sources.)
As Mr. Biel indicated, answering the "how do you know?" question would solve
a lot of mysteries. It also might eliminate a lot of misinformation. For
example, [removed], [removed] and even a resource page at a
major university library -- all using links to or copies of the OTRR Group
files -- include the statement
that "The series was narrated by United Press correspondents including Walter
Cronkike, Harrison Salisbury, and many lesser [removed]" (Yes, they all spell
it "Cronkike." The curse of cut-and-paste.)
The Soldiers of the Press programs are clearly studio productions with vocal
actors, not the star UP reporters, who were scattered around the world
watching a war happen. Cronkite mentioned this once in an NPR interview. But
I haven't found an authoritative source identifying the actors,
script-writers, etc., or definitively saying which, if any, UP news personnel
were involved.
An unsigned page at [removed] at least mentions "narrator Lon Clark and
actor Jackson Beck" as being involved with the series, but gives no source
for that information or for its MP3s. Granted, it doesn't take the detective
skills of Nick Carter or Philo Vance for an experienced listener to identify
two of the most familiar actors in radio. I've found mention of the series in
obits of Clark and Beck,
too, but obits also don't cite sources.
Goldin's list of 94 episodes adds the word "impersonated" in parentheses
after each UP correspondent's name and mentions Beck in several episodes, but
gives no details (roles etc.).
The OTRR intro at [removed] and sites that have copied from it say "little
is known about the [removed]" but mention Salisbury, although their
collections include no episodes featuring him. (The OTRR file names also
attribute one episode to "Walter Cronkike" and misspells Leo Disher's name
"Durer." I've sent a note about that to OTRR.)
So where did those OTRR Group mp3 files come from? Were they simply released
into the wild anonymously via Usenet 10 or 20 years ago, as an OTRR list
member suggested to me? If so, where are the originals or the last commercial
reissues?
As I said above, any help would be wonderful.
[removed]
Bob Stepno
mild-mannered journalism prof
Radford University
[ADMINISTRIVIA: Responses should go directly to the poster, as my private
email is running overwhelmingly toward closing down the entire thread on
attribution and returning to discussing Old-Time Radio. --cfs3]
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Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 22:13:06 -0400
From: Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
I don't get major reviews for fiction everyday, so I just had to share this
one with you all, which just arrived in today's mail. I wish Jim could see it.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
It's That Time Again, Volume IV, edited by Jim Harmon, sets mystery short
stories in the worlds of old radio shows. Editor Harmon takes Sherlock Holmes
out West to collaborate with Tom Mix, and the presumably pseudonymous
Dashiell X. Doyle fashions a tale about the robbing of Jack Benny's vault.
While some entries can be enjoyed without knowledge of the programs, I can't
imagine what someone unfamiliar with Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, would
make of Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.'s deadpan parody, which I found screamingly
funny.
Ben Ohmart
Old radio. Old movies. New books.
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