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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2005 : Issue 387
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
12-15 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
12-16 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Those Mad Masters [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed] ]
OTRR Launches Electronic Magazine [ jim beshires <beshiresjim@[removed] ]
Humphrey Bogart Theatre [ "Don and Kathy Dean" <dxk@ezlinknet ]
Metropolitan Opera [ "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@hotm ]
12-17 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
ABC [ "evantorch" <etorch@[removed]; ]
Benny Bell [ JayHick@[removed] ]
Mike Wallace on The Green Hornet [ [removed]@[removed] ]
More Mad Masters [ DanHaefele@[removed] ]
Victor gets his name [ "JAMES NIXON" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
Amos 'N' Andy [ "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed] ]
Billie the Brownie Correction [ "Mark E. Higgins" <paul_frees_fan@a ]
This week in radio history 17-24 Dec [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:01:18 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 12-15 births/deaths
December 15th births
12-15-1873 - Harry Humphrey - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-1-1947
actor: Old Ranger "Death Valley Days"; Horace "Ma and Pa"
12-15-1888 - Maxwell Anderson - Atlantic, PA - d. 2-28-1959
writer: "Free Company"; "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "O'Neill Cycle"
12-15-1896 - Betty Smith - New York, NY - d. 1-17-1972
author: "Studio One"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
12-15-1901 - Gail Bonney - Columbus, OH - d. 12-7-1984
actress: "Family Theatre"; "Joan Davis Time"; "NBC University Theatre"
12-15-1907 - Bob Hawk - Creston, IA - d. 7-4-1989
quizmaster: "Take It or Leave It"; "Thanks to the Yanks"; "Bob Hawk
Show"
12-15-1915 - Margaret Hayes - Baltimore, MD - d. 1-26-1977
actress: "Silver Theatre"
12-15-1916 - Buddy Cole - Irving, IL - d. 11-5-1964
musician: (Buddy Cole Trio) "Ginny Simms Show"; "Hollywood Showcase"
12-15-1918 - Jeff Chandler - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-17-1961
actor: Michael Shayne, "Michael Shayne, Detective"; Philip Boynton,
"Our Miss Brooks"
12-15-1926 - Rose Maddox - Boaz, AL - d. 4-15-1998
country singer: "Faron Young Show"; "Country Hoedown"
December 15th deaths
01-15-1913 - Stephen Courtleigh - New York, NY - d. 12-15-1967
actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"
01-28-1910 - Arnold Moss - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-15-1989
actor: Philip Cameron "Against the Storm"; Reed Bannister "Big Sister"
02-15-1919 - Frank Behrens - Sheboygan, WI - d. 12-15-1986
actor: Billie "Billie the Brownie"; Jack Armstrong "Jack Armstrong"
03-01-1904 - Glenn Miller - Clarinda, IA - d. 12-15-1944
bandleader: "Moonlight Serenade"; "USO Matinee"
05-02-1918 - Frank Milano - d. 12-15-1962
animal sounds: "Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders"
05-21-1904 - Thomas "Fats" Waller - New York, NY - d. 12-15-1943
pianist, singer: "Columbia Variety Hour"; "Saturday Night Swing Club"
06-03-1904 - Jan Peerce - New York, NY - d. 12-15-1984
singer: "Music Hall of the Air"; "A & P Gypsies"; "Golden Treasury of
Song"
07-01-1899 - Charles Laughton - Scarborough, England - d. 12-15-1962
actor: "Three Ring Time"; "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Blue Ribbon Town"
07-18-1903 - Chill Wills - Seagoville, TX - d. 12-15-1978
actor: "Armed Forces Radio Theatre"; "Dinner Bell Round-Up Time"
10-13-1885 - Harry Hershfield - Cedar Rapids, IA - d. 12-15-1974
comedian: "Stop Me If You Heard This One"; "Can You Top This?"
12-02-1910 - Sodney Marshall - d. 12-15-1977
writer: "Man Called X"; "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
12-05-1901 - Walt Disney - Chicago, IL - d. 12-15-1966
actor: Mickey Mouse "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"
deaths in november 2005
01-27-1918 - Skitch Henderson - Birmingham, England - d. 11-1-2005
bandleader: "Philco Radio Time"; "Songs by Sinatra"
02-28-1925 - Jean Carson - Charleston, WV - d. 11-2-2005
actress: "Broadway Is My Beat"; "Frontier Gentleman"
12-28-1932 - Pamela Duncan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-11-2005
actress: "Dangerous Assignment"
06-13-1913 - Ralph Edwards - Merino, CO - d. 11-16-2005
host, announcer: "Truth or Consequences"; "This Is Your Life"; "Original
Amateur Hour"
03-13-1913 - Harold J. Stone - New York, NY - d. 11-18-2005
actor: Sergeant Waters "21st Precinct"
05-15-1910 - Constance Cummings - Seattle, WA - d. 11-23-2005
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-17-1910 - Marc Lawrence - New York, NY - d. 11-28-2005
actor: "Let George Do It"; "This Is Your FBI"; "Scout About Town"
08-11-1915 - Jean Parker - Deer Lodge, MT - d. 11-30-2005
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
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Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:01:27 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 12-16 births/deaths
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December 16th births
12-16-1889 - Kurt Kupfer - d. 3-xx-1974
actor: the kindly Joseph Steinbloch "Romance of Helen Trent"
12-16-1890 - Jane Morgan - North Platte, NE - d. 1-1-1972
actress: Mary Lane "Aunt Mary"; Mrs. Margaret Davis "Our Miss Brooks"
12-16-1892 - Cameron Prud'homme - Auburn, CA - d. 11-27-1967
actor: Governor Bradley "Little Herman"; David Harum "David Harum"
12-16-1895 - Andy Razaf - Washington, D. C. - d. 2-3-1973
lyricist: "Music for Millions"
12-16-1898 - Lud Gluskin - New York, NY - d. 10-13-1989
conductor: "Hollywood Showcase"; "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Advs. of Sam Spade"
12-16-1899 - Noel Coward - Teddington, Middlesex, England - d. 3-26-1973
actor, playwright: "Stagestruck"
12-16-1911 - Howard Reilly - d. 11-28-1991
producer: "The Fred Allen Show"
12-16-1946 - Robert Urich - Toronto, OH - d. 4-16-2002
salesman: WGN Chicago, Illinois
December 16th deaths
01-25-1874 - Somerset Maughan - Paris, France - d. 12-16-1965
writer: " Somerset Maughan Theatre"
02-08-1917 - Robert Dryden - d. 12-16-2003
actor: Doctor West "We Love and Learn"; Sergeant Maggio "Call the
Police"
03-07-1906 - Edward Mabley - Binghampton, NY - d. 12-16-1984
writer: "The American School of the Air"
05-12-1910 - Jack Jenney - Mason City, IA - d. 12-16-1945
trombonist: "The Saturday Night Swing Club"
07-29-1906 - Thelma Todd - Lawrence, MA - d. 12-16-1935
comedienne: Series with Zasu Pitts
08-02-1886 - Cesare Sodero - Naples, Italy - d. 12-16-1947
conductor: Series of condensed operas on WEAF New York
09-19-1879 - Louis Joseph Vance - New York, NY - d. 12-16-1933
writer: "The Lone Wolf"
10-19-1925 - Eddie Layton - d. 12-16-2004
organist: New York Yankees and many radio programs
xx-xx-1922 - Haleloke Kahuaolapus - Hilo, Hawaii Territory - d.
12-16-2004
singer: "Hawaii Calls"; "Arthur Godfrey Time"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:00:15 -0500
From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Those Mad Masters
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There may have been a East Coast replay (years?) after the West Coast
broadcast.
This information was provided to me (in a different forum)
Monty and Natalie Masters' show, "Mad Masters," is in the Oakland Tribune's
radio listings starting on March 26, 1946, and listed thereafter every
Tuesday night through April 23, 1946. It was broadcast on KGO at 7:00 [removed]
On the 19th and all of the other Tuesday nights in March of 1946 that time
slot was held by "Musical Panorama."
Visit [removed] for OTR program title and date corrections
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:00:47 -0500
From: jim beshires <beshiresjim@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OTRR Launches Electronic Magazine
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Hi All,
The Old Time Radio Researchers ([removed]) is lauching
it's on-line electronic Magazine - 'Old Radio Times' on December 18, 2005.
It will be available as a pdf file attached to an e-mail and look just like a
printed magazine when you open it.
The first issue is about 18 pages long and features an article on the new
discoveries in the Tarzan series made by our researchers and one about the
attempt to hi-jack Ted Davenport's Radio Memories website name.
We are going to gear it to all those who love old time radio in any format.
If you'd like to subscribe go to -
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and enter your e-mail address.
jimb
Fans of OTR - please check out the OTR Researchers Group Forum at
[removed]
MEMBER: ASSOCIATION OF OLD TIME RADIO GROUPS
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:01:03 -0500
From: "Don and Kathy Dean" <dxk@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Humphrey Bogart Theatre
Hello again:
FYI - First I want to thank all the digesters for responding
to my query a few issues ago.
For those who missed it. My question was about an episode
of The Humphrey Bogart Theatre that I have on an mp3. I
received the following information from a very reliable source.
This was a copy an audition disc of The Humphrey Bogart Theatre
for 09-27-49 entitled "Deadman" that never made it to the
airwaves. So th th th th that's all, folks :-)
Don Dean - N8IOJ
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:08:01 -0500
From: "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Metropolitan Opera
I suppose others will write about this as well, but just in case no one does
I'll point out that there is a story on page E1 of Friday's NY Times about
the Metropolitan Opera's efforts to acquire and conserve recordings of the
radio broadcasts. There is even a small picture of Milton Cross.
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:08:04 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 12-17 births/deaths
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December 17th births
12-17-1895 - Rudolph Anders - Germany - d. 3-27-1987
actor: Dr. VanMeter "Space Patrol"
12-17-1896 - Arthur Fiedler - South Boston, MA - d. 7-10-1979
conductor: "Robert Merrill with the Boston Pops Orchestra"; "Boston
Pops"
12-17-1900 - Katina Paxinou - Piraeus, Greece - d. 2-22-1973
actress: "Suspense"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
12-17-1902 - House Jameson - Austin, TX - d. 4-23-1971
actor: Sam Aldrich "Aldrich Family"; Inspector Douglas Renfrew
"Renfrew of the Mounted"
12-17-1903 - Erskine Caldwell - Morland, GA - d. 4-11-1987
playwright: "Information, Please"; "Short Story"
12-17-1906 - Martin Skiles - d. 5-1-1981
music: "Mr. Aladdin"
12-17-1913 - Herbert Nelson - Stillwater, MN - d. 7-19-1990
actor: Ralph Fraser "Dan Harding's Wife"; George Lawlor "Romance of
Helen Trent"
12-17-1919 - Edward "Shrimp" Wragge - New York, NY - d. 12-22-1992
actor: "Gold Spot Pal"
12-17-1927 - Richard Long - Chicago, IL - d. 12-21-1974
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Proudly We Hail"
12-17-1928 - Julia Meade - Boston, MA
December 17th deaths
01-01-1909 - Dana Andrews - Collins, MS - d. 12-17-1992
actor: Matt Cevetic "I Was A Communist for the FBI"
03-01-1914 - Gil Doud - Minnesota - d. 12-17-1957
writer, director: "Sam Spade"; "Escape"; "One out of Seven"; "Pat
Novak for Hire"
07-04-1895 - Irving Caesar - New York, NY - d. 12-17-1996
lyricist: "Biography In Sound"; "Perspective"
07-10-1889 - Noble Sissle - d. 12-17-1975
songwriter, orchestra leader: "Freedom's People"
07-11-1892 - Thomas Mitchell - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 12-17-1962
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
08-28-1907 - Sam Levene - New York, NY - d. 12-17-1980
comedian: "Fred Allen Show"
10-09-1913 - John Guedel - Portland, IN - d. 12-17-2001
producer: "You Bet Your Life"; "People Are Funny"; "Pillsbury House
Party"
actress: "Your Hit Parade"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
12-31-1921 - Rex Allen - Wilcox, AZ - d. 12-17-1999
country/western singer: "Country Music Time"; "Country Hoedown"
xx-xx-1895 - James Van Dyk - d. 12-17-1951
actor: Clyde Houston "Lora Lawton"; Dick Phillips "Rosemary"
xx-xx-xxxx - Susan Odin - d. 12-17-1975
actress: "Elizabeth Sharon Ann Barbour "One Man's Family"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:35:12 -0500
From: "evantorch" <etorch@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: ABC
I was listening to an excellent episode of "The Clock" last night and it
seems on reflection odd to me how few programs I have ever heard that were
ABC Radio productions, how few stories about their studio locations,
conflicts etc. Now that I think of it, the same is true of NBC-RED too. And
yes I realize that ABC was not in existence that long compared to the other
3 OTR era networks, but then again, that means almost all should have been
recorded. Any thoughts or memories?
Evan Torch, MD
Atlanta
etorch@[removed]
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:39:18 -0500
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Benny Bell
For all you old-time radio fans who remember one of the funniest and craziest
novelty song pioneers of all time, there's a new Benny Bell compilation CD
called "Benny Bell: Another Close Shave" that has been made available
exclusively on the [removed] online record store. The new CD is a must-have
for anyone
who loves songs like "Shaving Cream," "Everybody Loves My Fanny," "Grandpa Had
a Long One," "Without Pants" and "Six Feet Samba" and other, and for anyone
who wants to help the Benny Bell renewal bandwagon pick up the speed it
deserves! Benny, born in 1906, wrote and recorded hundreds of songs in his
seven-decade career, and appeared on radio and TV frequently with Joe
Franklin, Dr.
Demento, Uncle Floyd, Cousin Brucie and others. Visit
[removed] to order the new CD, and send an email to
bennybellsongs@[removed] for
more biographical information. After all, this crazy world needs more Benny
Bell! Now you can have it.
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 23:29:59 -0500
From: [removed]@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Mike Wallace on The Green Hornet
Mike Wallace was the narrator on the Green Hornet episode Racket On the River
which I have a date of August 30, 1941. There are very few Green Hornets in
circulationso she could have done a series of them.
Paul Urbahns
Radcliff, KY
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Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 01:06:03 -0500
From: DanHaefele@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: More Mad Masters
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I'm really glad there has been some discussion here about the broadcast of
Those Mad Masters. I had begun to suspect the show in SPERDVAC's Archives
Library might be an audition recording, since the show in question, Irene
pointed out, has a broadcast date which precedes date the program first
aired on
NBC. I checked the transcription labels on SPERDVAC's copy and confirmed the
date indicated is March 19, 1946.
Today I played the opening and closing of the show to determine if
there are any other clues. One clue is that the transcription labels are
from
the American Broadcasting Company. The other clue solves the mystery for
me.
The closing announcement indicates it aired over KGO, San Francisco, not on
the network. At the end of the program radio listeners are invited to attend
a live broadcast from Studio C at KGO. Apparently the series moved to NBC
in 1947 as a summer replacement for Truth or Consequences.
Dan Haefele
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Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:45:38 -0500
From: "JAMES NIXON" <ranger6000@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Victor gets his name
Stephen Kallis raised a question about when Dan Reid, the Lone Ranger's
nephew, found a name for the horse, the son of Silver, that was given to him
by his uncle. This occurred in the episode that was aired on March 1, 1943,
titled "Death and Taxes". So it wasn't exactly after WWII, but during it.
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Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:46:07 -0500
From: "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Amos 'N' Andy
Question For Elizabeth (whose magnificient book on Amos & Andy I'm about to
finish [removed]):
On Paul Harvey's "The Rest Of the Story" this morning he told of a would-be
musician who got into auditioning musicians for radio on a suburban station
in Chicago. He hired Gosden and Correll as singers although he thought they
sang terribly but had good patter.
This was not WGN.
Anyway, the "rest of the story" was that this fellow went on to "discover"
the hamburger flipping MacDonald Brothers on the west coast too.
It was Ray Kroc.
Elizabeth, is this a, er, crock?!
BILL KNOWLTON
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Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:12:52 -0500
From: "Mark E. Higgins" <paul_frees_fan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Billie the Brownie Correction
The other day (Issue 381) I mentioned that we would be doing a live
recreation of Billie the Brownie twice in the coming week. I included
links to the two station websites. Yesterday, I was listening to WOKY
(the place for the Sunday morning show) over the internet, and noticed
that there were no commercials. Apparently "Listen live to WOKY" might
not mean what it sounds like, and that they may be broadcasting
continuous Christmas music during the holidays. So, if you do try on
Sunday, and it's not there, there is still Friday morning at 10 (CST).
Sorry about that.
Mark Higgins
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Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:18:21 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 17-24 December
12/19
From The Today in History, NY Times --
1932 -- the British Broadcasting Corporation began transmitting overseas
with its Empire Service to Australia.
12/22
From Those Were The Days --
1920 - WEAF, in New York City, aired the first broadcast of a prize
fight from ringside. The fight was broadcast from Madison Square Garden
where Joe Lynch defeated Peter Herman to retain the bantamweight title.
Bantamweights top the scales at 118 pounds. Just think, either of those
boxers could have been mistaken for the microphone stand.
1922 - WEAF once again proved to be the pillar of radio promotion. This
time they broadcast radio's first double wedding ceremony. Four thousand
spectators watched as the two couples exchanged vows at Grand Central
Palace. The broadcast was made in conjunction with the American Radio
Exposition. The couples each got $100; a hefty sum in 1922.
12/23
In 1928, the National Broadcasting Company set up a permanent,
coast-to-coast network.
12/24 --
1906 - Professor Reginald A. Fessenden sent his first radio broadcast
from Brant Rock, MA. The program included a little verse, some violin
and a speech.
1928 - The first broadcast of The Voice of Firestone was heard. The
program aired each Monday evening at 8. The Voice of Firestone became a
hallmark in radio broadcasting. It kept its same night, time (in 1931
the start time changed to 8:30) and sponsor for its entire run.
Beginning on September 5, 1949, the program of classical and
semiclassical music was also seen on television.
1944 - The Andrews Sisters starred in the debut of The Andrews Sisters'
Eight-to-the-Bar Ranch on ABC. Patty, Maxene and LaVerne ran a fictional
dude ranch. George 'Gabby' Hayes was a regular guest along with Vic
Schoen's orchestra. The ranch stayed in operation until 1946.
Joe
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