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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2006 : Issue 122
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
5-3 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Herb Morrison [ "WEH" <nbcblue@[removed]; ]
#OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig [ charlie@[removed] ]
?The Lord's [removed] [ <ncmoore@[removed]; ]
Huge Collection of Transcription Dis [ Al Girard <24agirard24@[removed] ]
Fibber photo [ benohmart@[removed] ]
C B S Radio's last day time drama [ jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed]; ]
Happy 96th, Norman Corwin! [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
Jamboree USA Now Off Air [ "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed] ]
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Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 22:24:53 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 5-3 births/deaths
May 3rd births
05-03-1880 - Horace Murphy - Finley, TN - d. 1-20-1975
actor: Buckskin Blodgett "Red Ryder"
05-03-1890 - Nick Dawson - Vineland, NJ - d. 12-28-1957
actor: "Dangerous Paradise"; "Follow the Man"
05-03-1892 - Beulah Bondi - Chicago, IL - d. 1-11-1981
actor: "Free World Theatre"; "NBC University Theatre"
05-03-1897 - Charlie Lung - England - d. 6-22-1974
actor: Paul Sycamore "You Can't Take It with You"; "Wild Bill
Hickok"; "Escape"
05-03-1897 - Larry Puck - d. 10-26-1969
producer: "Arthur Godfrey Time" Was one of Godfrey's many firings
05-03-1898 - George H. Combs - Lee's Summit, MO - d. 11-29-1977
congressman, commentator: "Now You Decide"; "Spotlight, New York"
05-03-1898 - John Roy - d. 5-31-1985
actor: Roy Calvert "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
05-03-1902 - Jack Larue - NYC - d. 1-11-1984
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-03-1902 - Walter Slezak - Vienna, Austria - d. 4-21-1983
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Best Plays"; "Studio One"; "Columbia
Workshop"
05-03-1903 - Bing Crosby - Tacoma, WA - d. 10-14-1977
singer: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Philco Radio Time"
05-03-1905 - James Nusser - Cleveland, OH - d. 6-8-1979
actor: "Gunsmoke"
05-03-1905 - William Brown Meloney - NYC - d. 5-xx-1971
writer: "Claudia and David"
05-03-1906 - Mary Astor - Quincy, IL - d. 9-25-1987
actor: Mary Christmas "Merry Life of Mary Christmas"
05-03-1907 - Earl Wilson - Rockford, OH - d. 1-16-1987
columnist: "Earl Wilson's Broadway Column"
05-03-1910 - Curt Massey - Midland, TX - d. 10-21-1991
singer: "Show Boat"; "Curt Massey Show"
05-03-1910 - Norman Corwin - Boston, MA
writer, director: "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Twenty-Six by Corwin"
05-03-1911 - Yank Lawson - Trenton, MO - d. 2-18-1995
trumpet: "The Bob Crosby Show"
05-03-1915 - Betty Comden - Brooklyn, NY
writer, actor: "Revuers"
05-03-1919 - Doris Rich - Canada - d. 5-18-1971
actor: Hannah O'Leary" Houseboat Hannah"; Miss Daisey "Portia Faces
Life"
05-03-1919 - Pete Seeger - NYC
folk singer, songwriter: "Off the Page"
05-03-1920 - John Lewis - LaGrange, IL - d. 3-29-2001
co-founder of "Modern Jazz Quartet": :Modern Jazz Quartet";
"Listener's Digest"
05-03-1920 - Nina Bara - Buenos Aires, Argentina - d. 8-15-1990
actor: Tonga "Space Patrol"
05-03-1921 - Joe Ames - Malden, MA
singer,: (Ames Brothers) "Sing It Again"; "Robert Q. Lewis Show"
05-03-1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson - Detroit, MI - d. 4-12-1989
pugilist: "Destination Freedom"; "Heat It Now"
05-03-1922 - Elizabeth Lawrence - d. 6-11-2000
actor: Francie Brent "Road of Life"
May 3rd deaths
02-02-1920 - Hughie Green - London, England - d. 5-3-1997
host: "Opportunity Knocks"
02-19-1899 - Carl Matthews - Oklahoma Territory - d. 5-3-1959
actor: "The Cuckoo Hour"
02-26-1914 - Robert Alda - NYC - d. 5-3-1986
singer: "Rudy Vallee Presents the Drene Show"
03-16-1894 - Elizabeth Lennox - Ionia, MI - d. 5-3-1992
singer: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "American Album of Familiar
Music"
04-20-1904 - Bruce Cabot - Carlsbad, NM - d. 5-3-1972
actor: "Hallmark Hall of Fame"; "Hollywood on the Air"
05-02-1902 - Erin O'Brien-Moore - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-3-1979
actor: Elsa Banning "Big Sister"
05-02-1905 - Sidney Skolsky - NYC - d. 5-3-1983
newspaper columnist: "Songs by Arlen, Stories by Skolsky"; "Bromo
Seltzer Program"
06-14-1914 - Nat Polen - NYC - d. 5-3-1981
actor: Edward McCormick "Indictment" "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
07-04-1902 - George Murphy - New Haven, CT - d. 5-3-1992
actor, emcee: "Let's Talk Hollywood"; "Hollywood Calling"
08-13-1908 - Gene Raymond - NYC - d. 5-3-1998
actor: John J. Malone "Amazing Mr. Malone"; "Witness"; "Hollywood Hotel"
08-14-1914 - Bill Downs - Kansas City, MO - d. 5-3-1978
newscaster: CBS Moscow 1942
10-07-1918 - Helmut Dantine - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-3-1982
actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Silver Theatre"; "Theatre of Romance";
"Suspense"
10-30-1908 - Patsy Montana - Hot Springs, AK - d. 5-3-1996
yodeling country singer: "WLS Barn Dance"
10-30-1927 - Joe Adcock - Coushatta, LA - d. 5-3-1999
baseball player: "Baseball: An Action History"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 00:49:18 -0400
From: "WEH" <nbcblue@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Herb Morrison
From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
Morrison was a staff announcer who worked at WENR Chicago; he was assigned
to do a remote broadcast, for his station, of the arrival of the
Hindenberg
completing a historic Trans -Atlantic flight. He had an engineer with him
and the radio equipment was big and heavy.
He wasn't doing a remote broadcast, the equipment was for recording only.
An NBC team from NYC arrived on the scene and used a pack transmitter to
transmit to a receiver they placed on the roof of the hanger. The receiver
then relayed the signal through another transmitter to a mobile unit about a
mile away. The mobile unit relayed the signal to the telephone company's
station at Forked River which sent the signals via land line to NBC NY.
F. W. von Meister, Vice-President of American Zeppelin was located and he
reported the incident in German to Berlin over RCA's short-wave transmitters
at Rocky Point.
The record that Morrison made [May 5, 1937] was flown to New York where it
was became the first recording broadcast on NBC in its ten year history.
Morrison and engineer Charles Nelson took the recording back to Chicago were
parts of it were aired the next day over WLS.
Bill H.
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Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 02:12:00 -0400
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!
A weekly [removed]
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For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
week and every week!
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Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 09:19:44 -0400
From: <ncmoore@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: ?The Lord's [removed]
Is the Amos n Andy recording of The Lord's Prayer available anywhere
individually or in a "smaller" program available?
[removed] Moore
ncmoore@[removed]
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Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 15:43:46 -0400
From: Al Girard <24agirard24@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Huge Collection of Transcription Disks
I've been given access to a collection of ETs that appear to number
about 400 disks. I've begun photographing the labels so that I can catalog
the collection with the initial goal of locating anything that is not now in
circulation. The collection is in the library of CKUA. I've also located
another collection locally that has, I've been told, at least 200 disks,
and I've been in contact with the owner.
Al Girard
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Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 15:44:10 -0400
From: benohmart@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Fibber photo
Someone just email this to me, so I thought I'd pass it along to the group.
Ben
Old radio. Old movies. New books.
[removed]
While going through my family's photo albums, I have come across a 1964 photo
of
Gretch (or Grelch) and Jim Jordon. This is an informal photo of the two of
them,taken
at a wedding. They had returned to Tacoma, Washington for the wedding of a
friend's
son. I also havean accompanyingfront page of The Tacoma News Tribune that has
an article 'Fibber McGee' Recalls Watching Vessels Here.
Do you know anyone who might like these? If you do, I would certainly
appreciate the
information.
Sincerely,
[removed]
kddean@[removed]
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Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 16:47:54 -0400
From: jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: C B S Radio's last day time drama
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May 3,
Dear old time radio digest readers:
I have a question about the last day time drama aired on C B S Radio Best
Seller which aired from June 27, 1960 through November 25, 1960?
Does any one know how many books were dramatized? I have two broadcast of
this series Ebby chapter 12, September 6, 1960 and Corporation Wife chapter
15 November 25, 1960 the final broadcast.
Is there a log of this series and are their any full length books aired in
their entirety?
Many Thanks
Jim Taylor
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Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 20:08:16 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Happy 96th, Norman Corwin!
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In recognition of Norman Corwin's 96th birthday today (3rd), I'd like to share
with the readership his entry from "The New Century Cyclopedia of Names,"
(1954 ), a
3-volume reference work where we here at Talking Books find the pronunciations
of all sorts of historical, geographical, biographical, and fictitious names.
Professor Corwin's entry is on pages 1097-1098 of Volume 1 (A -- Emin
Pasha):
Corwin, Norman. b. at Boston, May 3, 1910 ---. American writer, director, and
producer of radio plays. He was awarded first prize by the
10th Radio Education Institution for his "Words Without Music" programs in
1938. Other productions which he wrote and directed include
"They Fly Through the Air" (1938), "Seems Radio Is Here to Stay" (1939),
"Columbia Presents Corwin" (1944), and "One World
Flight" (1947). His fantasies, including "The Plot to Overthrow Christmas"
and "My Client Curley," and his political dramatizations, like "The
Name Nobody Could Pronounce" and "On a Note of Triumph," made him perhaps
the most prominent radio writer of the 1940's. His
publications include The Plot to Overthrow Christmas" (1940), "Untitled and
Other Plays" (1944), and others.
Corwin Rocks!
Derek Tague
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Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 23:16:10 -0400
From: "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Jamboree USA Now Off Air
Buried in an obscure publication I just received--"CC&W: Classic Country and
Western," is a little sad note: "Jamboree USA Now Off Air."
And it HAS been since last December.
The WWVA Jamboree, Wheeling WV, went on the air in 1933. Jimmy Martin, the
Osborne Brothers, Toby Stroud, Red Belcher, Doc Williams, Jim & Jesse, the
Louvin Brothers, Lazy Jim Day, Lee [removed] were part of this
institution that boomed all over the Northeast and Canada, including the
canyons of New York City (and Jackson Heights where I listened in while my
contemporaries were digging Bill Haley).
"Jamboree USA" was a shell of its former self during the last decade but it
still had a live audience, originating in the old movie palace called the
Capitol Music Hall.
Veteran cast member Doc Williams, now in his 90s, has lived to see this show
die. I'm sure it hurts. It does me.
BILL KNOWLTON
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