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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2004 : Issue 220
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: Quiz Time                         [ Michael Shoshani <mshoshani@sbcglob ]
  Mercedes McCambridge                  [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
  Amos And Andy                         [ "Sharon Wright" <write@[removed] ]
  A Whiter Shade of Paley               [ Bhob <bhob2@[removed]; ]
  7-4 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Earning good marx?                    [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  Morgenthau                            [ dougdouglass@[removed] (doug dougla ]
  Modern Ostriches?                     [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 4-10 July  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  personal album                        [ "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@earthli ]
  Bradleys                              [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
  Motorola                              [ "Michael E. Fitzgerald" <mikefitz34 ]
  OTR Bloopers                          [ "RBB" <oldradio@[removed]; ]
  Hall of Fantasy                       [ "Tim Hughes" <rekokut@[removed]; ]
  Curley and Cary Grant                 [ Lee Munsick <leemunsick@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 11:02:51 +0000
From: Michael Shoshani <mshoshani@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Quiz Time

Sean Dougherty wrote:

 >From Reason Magazine's weblog, Hit & [removed]
 >Commercial History
 >Today in 1941, the world's first TV commercial aired.
 >
 >The ad was broadcast before a game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the
 >Philadelphia Phillies and cost the Woodside-based company less than ten
 >dollars.
 >The same company also bought the first ever radio advertisement (1926) and
 >was the first company to make a large sponsorship agreement with a TV show
 >(1955). What company is this?

Reason Magazine is slightly misinformed.

This first TV commercial was aired by the Bulova Watch Company, which
also claims the first large sponsorship agreement with a TV show
(Jackie Gleason in 1955-56).  I find this doubtful, though; "The
Goldbergs" was a nationally sponsored show when pressure from said
sponsors forced the removal of Philip Loeb in 1951.

The first RADIO commercial was in 1924, not 1926, and it was for the
Queensborough Corporation advertising their housing division
'Hawthorne Court', not the Bulova Watch Company.

Michael Shoshani
Chicago

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Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 11:03:07 +0000
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Mercedes McCambridge

Stephen A Kallis, Jr. asked about a radio program, possibly a serial in 
which Mercedes McCambridge played a lady on a train who had killers after 
her.  That definitely describes a scene in the Carlton E. Morse serial 
"Family Skeleton." Mercedes' character was married to one of two twin 
brothers Greg and Garth. She was on a train and the plot was very exciting.
I was hooked on that show. I'll never forget that Friday evening when at 
the close of the show, the announcer said to tune in next Monday at that 
time for the new Tennessee Ernie Ford Show. And we were left hanging. I 
talked about that with Carleton back in the 1980s. He said he knew the show 
had been cancelled and didn't do anything to resolve the mystery. His 
revenge, I guess. I tried to talk him into writing a novel about that plot 
to no avail.

Barbara

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Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 11:03:38 +0000
From: "Sharon Wright" <write@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Amos And Andy
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Recently I've been listening to Amos & Andy shows and I notice at one point
Amos was not much in the shows. The shows  are mostly Andy Kingfish and
others. Does anyone know why?

Sharon

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Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 11:03:55 +0000
From: Bhob <bhob2@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  A Whiter Shade of Paley

As a switch from Michael Biel's continual attacks on the Museum of
Television & Radio, note that Alessandra Stanley's article in 7/2 NEW
YORK TIMES gives both pluses and minuses re the MT&R (also a photo that
shows the Museum's console set-up):
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 >>James Gandolfini. star of "The Sopranos," recently went there seeking
film of Ernest Hemingway, whom he plans to portray in a movie. The
museum found only radio tapes. Another visitor recently showed up
seeking a particular episode of "The Lone Ranger." It turned out that
the man's father had died when he was a child, but his mother did not
tell him, insisting the father was sick and away in a sanitarium. The
visitor said he realized his father was dead during an episode of "The
Lone Ranger," which included a subplot about a child's father dying. The
visitor wanted to find the episode to find out how old he had been when
he finally understood that his father was dead. David Bushman, a museum
curator, figured out that it had been a radio program, not television,
and that the museum did not have it. He put the visitor in touch with a
private collector, who sent the man a log of all the "Lone Ranger" radio
shows; Mr. Bushman said that so far the visitor had narrowed down the
list to four possible [removed];<

Bhob @ VINTAGE NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS @
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Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 11:04:07 +0000
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  7-4 births/deaths

July 4th births

07-04-1884 - George Trendle - Norwalk, OH - d. 5-22-1972
executive: WXYZ Detroit; Original idea for "The Lone Ranger"
07-04-1885 - Louis B. Mayer - Minsk, Byelorussia, Russian Empire - d. 
10-29-1957
film executive: "Good News of 1938/39"; "Songs By Sinatra"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
07-04-1888 - Henry Armetta - Palermo, Italy - d. 10-21-1945
actor: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
07-04-1898 - Johnny Lee - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-12-1965
actor: Algonquin J. Calhoune "Amos 'n' Andy"
07-04-1901 - Adelaide Klein - NYC - d. 3-18-1901
actress: Mrs. S. Kent Wentworth "Life Can Be Beautiful"; Dragon Lady "Terry
and the Pirates"
07-04-1902 - George Murphy - New Haven, CT - d. 5-3-1992
actor, emcee: "Let's Talk Hollywood"; "Hollywood Calling"
07-04-1907 - Tommy Carr - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-23-1997
actor: Jerry Hall "Magic Island"
07-04-1910 - Alec Templeton - Cardiff, South Wales - d. 3-28-1963
pianist, satirist: "You Shall Have Music"; "Universal Rhythm"; "Alec 
Templeton Time"
07-04-1913 - Barbara Weeks - Boston, MA - d. 6-24-2003
actress: "Pulitzer Prize Plays"; "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"; "Romance"
07-04-1916 - Iva Toguri d'Aquino "Tokyo Rose" - Los Angeles, CA
disc jockey: (Little Orphan Ann) Zero Hour NHK Tokyo, Japan
07-04-1924 - Eva Marie Saint - Newark, NJ
actress: "As Easy as [removed]"

July 4th deaths

01-27-1895 - Violet Heming - Leeds, Yorkshire, England - d. 7-4-1981
actress: Connie Wakefield "Right to Happiness"
02-11-1919 - Eva Gabor - Budapest, Hungary - d. 7-4-1995
disc jockey: "Little Night Music"
02-14-1912 - Tyler McVey - Bay City, MI - d. 7-4-2003
actor: Elwood Giddings "One Man's Family"; Tyler "Glamour Manor"
03-23-1916 - Grant Richards - Raleigh, NC - d. 7-4-1963
actor: Charles Dobbs "This Is Nora Drake"; Hal Thomas "Against the Storm"
03-26-1908 - Hank Sylvern - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-4-1964
orchestra leader: "Beyond Tomorrow"
04-17-1918 - Anne Shirley - NYC - d. 7-4-1993
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-26-1916 - Vic Perrin - Menomonee Falls, WI - d. 7-4-1989
actor: Ross Farnsworth "One Man's Family"; Sergeant Gorce "Fort Laramie"
06-10-1903 - Ernest Chappell - Syracuse, NY - d. 7-4-1983
announcer: "Fabulous Dr. Tweedy"; "Quiet Please"; "Big Story"
09-06-1902 - Morgan Beatty - Little Rock, AR - d. 7-4-1975
newscaster: "News of the World"
09-10-1934 - Charles Kuralt - Wilmington, NC - d. 7-4-1997
sportscaster: "Junior Sports Parade"; "Sports Final"
10-09 1933 - Judy Tyler - Milwaukee, WI - d. 7-4-1957
actress: Princess Summer-Fall-Winter-Spring "Howdy Doody"
12-15-1907 - Bob Hawk - Creston, IA - d. 7-4-1989
quizmaster: "Take It or Leave It"; "Thanks to the Yanks"; "Bob Hawk Show"
-- Ron Sayles Milwaukee, Wisconsin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 19:10:14 -0400 From: Wich2@[removed] To: <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: Earning good marx? Dear Elizabeth, & Gang- >From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed]; > Zeppo is, and has always been, my favorite Marx Brother ... he was actually a comic artist of rare > subtlety I have to admit - and I've seen the earliest, best Marx's in theaters - I've always suspected that Zeppo's "out-of-the-scene" playing of the straight love moments came from the fact that he just didn't have the "dramatic" chops to pull them off. Of course, for ANYONE to make anything of these insipidly written, early talkie, David Manners-type leads is a miracle out of scripture! As far as COMIC ability, I'd agree that Z. more than held his own with Los Bros. In fact, I seem to recall a story that Z. went on stage once as the Groucho character, & brought down the house. Does anyone know if he ever did any radio work, with or without the others? Yours till they find HUMOR RISK, -Craig W. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 19:08:11 +0000 From: dougdouglass@[removed] (doug douglass) To: <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: Morgenthau The Morgenthau name is still well-known in these parts. Henry's son, Robert, has been District Attorney of New York County (that's Manhattan, for out-of-towners) for the past 20 years. Now in his 80's, Bob plans to run for re-election. Doug Douglass ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 19:10:33 -0400 From: Wich2@[removed] To: <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: Modern Ostriches? Dear Richard, et al- > From: Richard Carpenter <sinatra@[removed]; > I can't imagine today's TV audience ... even knowing who the treasury secretary is. > Either audiences were more knowledgeable then or Morgenthau's fame was an exception. With no overall defense meant for today's navel-gazers, methinks Morgie was well known because he was a TREASURY sectretary during a DEPRESSION. There are no shortage of DEFENSE sec. Rumsfeld japes on TV, in today's trying WAR [removed] Best, -Craig W. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 19:08:26 +0000 From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed]; To: <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: This week in radio history 4-10 July From Those Were The Days -- 7/4 1943 - The Rhythm Boys, Bing Crosby, Al Rinker and Harry Barris, were reunited for the first time since the 1930s on Paul Whiteman Presents on NBC. 1951 - Jack Webb did a summer switch -- from his Dragnet role of Sgt. Joe Friday to that of Pete Kelly. Pete Kelly's Blues, a crime drama, was the summer replacement on NBC for Halls of Ivy (with Ronald Colman and Benita Hume). 7/5 1943 - The Adventures of Nero Wolfe debuted on the NBC Blue network. Nero Wolfe was "the detective genius who rates the knife and fork the greatest tools ever invented by man." The 'gargantuan gourmet' continued on the air until 1951. 1948 - My Favorite Husband, with Lucille Ball, became the gifted redhead's first regular radio program on CBS. Lee Bowman, and later, Richard Denning, co-starred with Lucy as "two people who live together and like it." 1951 - The Silver Eagle debuted on ABC as a entry into radio's action-adventure lineup. Jim Ameche starred as Jim West. 7/6 1943 - Judy Canova, the 'Queen of the Hillbillies', began a weekly comedy show on CBS. 1947 - A hidden microphone eavesdropped on unsuspecting people for the first time this night, as Candid Microphone hit the ABC airwaves. 7/8 1950 - Joel McCrea appeared in the lead role of Tales of the Texas Rangers on NBC. Joe ---- Visit my home page: [removed]~[removed] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 19:08:32 +0000 From: "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@[removed]; To: <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: personal album The Mackenzie AFRS book on page 12 says Personal Album, series H-3, was originally voice tracks used with singer's commercial recordings, later changed to a completely live recording with an announcer and the singer spoke directly to the live audience. He lists almost 2 pages of sample issues from Program 29 through 1446 and 4 Christmas shows. 1 Oct 42- 1949 15 minutes, 4 per week On page 121 he lists Personal Album series EN 6 as the continuation of popular vocal programs but without further description. As an example program 1880 is dated as 1953. Sorry I don't know where you would find more of them. Joe Salerno ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 19:08:38 +0000 From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed]; To: <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: Bradleys Continuing on the "Bradley" thread, how about Curley Bradley, the "Tom Mix of Radio," according to the legend on his Decoder Pinback Button (a 1946 radio premium, part of a set of them)? Since the show came on after Captain Midnight in those later days, I used to listen to it. Mr. Bradley did a good job with the character, and he could sing "Shredded Ralston For Your Breakfast," too, to the tune of "The Bloom Is On the Sage." Stephen A. Kallis, Jr. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 19:04:48 +0000 From: "Michael E. Fitzgerald" <mikefitz34@[removed]; To: <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: Motorola In reference to: > Motorola is considered the first company to > successfully commercialize car radios in the 1930's The inventor of the first practical car radio was William Lear, the designer and builder of the Lear Jet. Lear signed over the rights to Motorola ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 19:05:04 +0000 From: "RBB" <oldradio@[removed]; To: <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: OTR Bloopers Is there an OTR web site that lists "bloopers," perhaps with audio clips? I remember that there are genuine airchecks, like Lowell Thomas breaking up on his newscast, somewhere on an Internet web site, and it has a "dark background" color page. Any suggestions, anyone? Thanks. Happy Fourth to all. Russ Butler oldradio@[removed] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 19:11:00 -0400 From: "Tim Hughes" <rekokut@[removed]; To: <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: Hall of Fantasy Hi all, Many thanks to all the Digesters that replied to my previous queries. Does anyone happen to have The Hall of Fantasy, from disc copies or very lo-gen? I'm looking especially for obscure ones, like the Beast with Red Eyes, or The Wild Huntsman. My Radio Yesteryear Wild Huntsman has bad volume flux. Thanks ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 11:36:58 +0000 From: Lee Munsick <leemunsick@[removed]; To: <[removed]@[removed]; Subject: Curley and Cary Grant As has been noted, the 1944 film version of "My Client Curley" was called "Once Upon a Time". It starred Cary Grant, with a sparkling salvo of great character actors. If you want to be fascinated as I was, look the film up on [removed], and see all the actors listed, followed by the designation "scenes deleted". I've never seen anything quite like it! The original uncut version must have been the length of "Gone With the Wind"! I'd loved to have swept up all that footage from the cutting room floor! Anyway, it seems that there's a sudden revival of interest in the film, apparently a new release on DVD. They're all over eBay. I was able to buy one (my choice of DVD or VHS!) for under $10. while most of the others are over $20+. Incidentally, the [removed] listing credits the story to Norman Corwin, with an additional nod to "Sorry Wrong Number" writer Lucille Fletcher Herrmann. She was married, you will recall, to the famed radio-cum-film composer, musical director, multi-award winner Bernard Herrmann. He of Mercury Theater and subsequent fame, from "War of the Worlds" to those stabbing violin shreks, er, shrieks in "Psycho". Havahappy! Lee Munsick -------------------------------- End of [removed] Digest V2004 Issue #220 ********************************************* Copyright [removed] Communications, York, PA; All Rights Reserved, including republication in any form. If you enjoy this list, please consider financially supporting it: [removed] For Help: [removed]@[removed] To Unsubscribe: [removed]@[removed] To Subscribe: [removed]@[removed] or see [removed] For Help with the Archive Server, send the command ARCHIVE HELP in the SUBJECT of a message to [removed]@[removed] To contact the listmaster, mail to listmaster@[removed] To Send Mail to the list, simply send to [removed]@[removed]