Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #180
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 6/13/2005 10:18 AM
To: [removed]@[removed]

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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 180
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Radio Days                            [ "Stevenson, Graeme (FVAH)" <Graeme. ]
  what was the scariest show for you?   [ leonardfass@[removed] (Leonard Fass ]
  6-12 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Re: last of the dramas                [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
  Jewish Jack Benny                     [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
  Re: Scary Shows                       [ John Mayer <mayer@[removed]; ]
  Re: Gunsmoke & "Black Sunday"         [ "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed]; ]
  Re: Dates of Last Shows               [ William Harker <wharker@[removed] ]
  Actual Cases?                         [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]
  YTJD and Other Mystery Ads            [ William Harker <wharker@[removed] ]
  6-13 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 10:20:17 -0400
From: "Stevenson, Graeme (FVAH)" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Radio Days

Peter Blau asked about a magazine called Radio Days. This was an excellent
magazine published in Britain by Andy Emmerson but sadly it folded after a
couple of editions.
Peter also asked about the 1926 BBC hoax programme - this coming Thursday
BBC Radio 4 has a 30' documentary about this early broadcast. For those in
the USA it can be received on [removed]
Graeme Stevenson, Scotland.

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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 10:20:32 -0400
From: leonardfass@[removed] (Leonard Fass)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  what was the scariest show for you?

an episode of i love a mystery on cbs for fleishmann*s high vitamin
yeast. i was a kid and home alone. and when the program ended had to go
outside until someone came home. <>

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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 10:20:43 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  6-12 births/deaths

June 12th births

06-12-1884 - William Austin - Georgetown, British Guiana - d. 6-15-1975
actor: Professor of the English Department "Jack Oakie's College"
06-12-1890 - Junius Matthews - Chicago, IL - d. 1-18-1978
actor: Grandpa Eph "David Harum"; Ling Wee "Gasoline Alley"
06-12-1893 - Evelyn Varden - Adair, Oklahoma Territory - d. 7-11-1958
actress: Dorothy Stewart "This is Nora Drake"; Mother Malone "Young Dr. Malone"
06-12-1902 - Al Donahue - Dorchester, MA - d. 2-20-1983
orchestra leader: Big Band remotes; "Matinee at Meadbrook"
06-12-1909 - Archie Bleyer - Corona, NY - d. 3-20-1989
conductor: "Arthur Godfrey Time"; "Casey, Crime Photographer"
06-12-1914 - Herbert C. Kenny - d. 7-11-1992
singer: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots"; "Let's Go
Nightclubbing"
06-12-1914 - William Lundigan - Syracuse, NY - d. 12-20-1975
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; announcer in early radio
06-12-1915 - Priscilla Lane - Indianola, IA - d. 4-4-1995
singer: "Fred Waring Show"
06-12-1916 - Ivan Tors - Budapest, Hungary - d. 6-4-1983
producer: "Bud's Bandwagon"
06-12-1919 - Uta Hagen - Gottingen, Germany (Raised: Madison, WI) - d.
1-14-2004
actress: "Big Show"
06-12-1920 - Peter Jones - Wem, Shropshire, England - d. 4-10-2000
actor: narrator "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"; "In All Directions"
06-12-1924 - Dave Parker - Fresno, CA
actor: Young Good Guys "Lone Ranger"; "Green Hornet"; "Challenge of the Yukon"
06-12-1924 - George Herbert Walker Bush - Milton, MA
[removed] president: Saturday morning presidential broadcasts
06-12-1928 - Vic Damone - Brooklyn, NY
singer: "Saturday Night Serenade"; "Stars in Khaki 'n' Blue"

June 12th deaths

01-01-1917 - Ted Cott - Poughkeepsie, NY - d. 6-12-1973
announcer, emcee: "So You Think You Know Music?"; "Music You Want"
01-27-1888 - Harry "Singin' Sam" Frankel - Hillsboro, OH - d. 6-12-1948
singer: (The Barbasol Man) "Reminiscin' with Singin' Sam"
02-29-1904 - Jimmy Dorsey - Shenandoah, - d. 6-12-1957
bandleader: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Your Happy Birthday"
03-08-1908 - Franklyn MacCormack - Waterloo, IA - d. 6-12-1971
announcer: "Caroline's Golden Store"; "Jack Armstrong"
04-05-1916 - Gregory Peck - Lo Jolla, CA - d. 6-12-2003
actor: "Doctor Fights"; "Sealtest Variety Hour"
06-01-1915 - Johnny Bond - Enville, OK - d. 6-12-1978
singer, comedian: "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"; "Hollywood Barn Dance"
07-07-1898 - Arlene Harris - Toronto, Canada - d. 6-12-1976
actress: Mrs. Higgins "Baby Snooks"; Human Chatterbox "Al Pearce and His Gang"
08-11-1900 - Norma Shearer - Montreal, Canada - d. 6-12-1983
actress: "Everyman's Theatre"; "Louella Parsons"
10-20-1884 - Thomas Chalmers - NYC - d. 6-12-1966
actor: Sam Young "Pepper Young's Family"
xx-xx-1924 - Eugenie Baird - d. 6-12-1988
vocalist: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Forever Top"; "Sing It Again"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 10:44:54 -0400
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: last of the dramas
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In a message dated 6/12/05 5:18:15 AM Central Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:

I remember that "Have Gun Will Travel," "Gunsmoke," "Suspense," and "Yours
Truly, Johnny Dollar" were the last of the old network radio dramas (until
the CBS Mystery Theater in the 1970s), all airing in a block early Sunday
evening, and I always heard that they all went off on the same night, in
November 1961, not June.

I thought "Have Gun Will Travel" went off in November 1960, two days after
the last soaps and "Amos 'n' Andy" bit the dust.  I also thought "Suspense"
went
off in '60, but replaced "Gunsmoke" in '61 and lasted (along with "Johnny
Dollar") until September 1962.

Dixon

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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:08:33 -0400
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Jewish Jack Benny

Funny Laura Leff should notice that bit about Jack Benny and pork because a 
columnist for The New Republic wrote an article today that implies that Jack 
dropped his "Kubelsky" name so he wouldn't sound Jewish.  Now, as Laura and 
I'm sure most Benny fans know, he dropped the name after a fellow 
vaudevillian with a similar name complained about it - he was performing as 
Benjamin Kubelsky in his early career.

Of course, Jack was a Jew who had a Christmas tree and probably hid Easter 
eggs for Joanie to boot - my guess is that the Benny household did not keep 
Kosher.  His biographies describe him as very secular in his religious 
observances.

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

[removed];page=3 

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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:09:05 -0400
From: John Mayer <mayer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Scary Shows

"Gary Dixon" <argy@[removed]; wrote:
Nobody has brought up the Suspense program: "ON A COUNTRY ROAD" with Cary
Grant, Cathy Lewis, and Jeannette Nolan (as the crazy woman).  It
definitely should be included in the 'scary shows survey!'

Actually, I did, but I inadvertently only addressed my letter to Mr.
Story. What I wrote him is below. I'll add one that was a favorite of
my nephew (a successful OTR convert from a non-OTR era) as a child:
"The Thing on the Fourble Board" from, I believe, _Quiet Please_.

My letter to Randy:

"There are a few shows that stick in my mind from my childhood.

Perhaps the most frightening single SCENE was the scraping branch on
the window scene in a radio dramatization of _Wuthering Heights_
which, at the age of ten or so, I'd never encountered before. I think
it might have been on _The Hall of Fantasy_, but I'm not sure.

_Suspense_'s "On a Lonely Road" was another that made an impression
on me. And I remember I was often unsettled by _X-1_, though the only
scary story I remember clearly from that show was "Tunnel Under the
World," which frightened by placing the protagonist in a position of
absolute powerlessness. Appropriately, it was about advertising.

Hope this is of some use.

Yours truly,
John Mayer"

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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:09:24 -0400
From: "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Gunsmoke & "Black Sunday"

Joseph Ross inquired about the cancellation date of Gunsmoke and its
relation to the other "last CBS shows".

Gunsmoke was, in fact, cancelled (on radio) in June, 1961, and did not
survive until "the day OTR died" in September of the following year. Its
final broadcast came on June 18, 1961.

However, the program for which Gunsmoke was cancelled =did= last into 1962.
That program was Suspense, returning to the airwaves on June 25, 1961, after
having been cancelled itself seven months earlier.

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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:11:35 -0400
From: William Harker <wharker@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Dates of Last Shows
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At 06:19 AM 6/12/2005 -0400, you wrote:

Is this right?  I remember that "Have Gun Will Travel," "Gunsmoke,"
"Suspense," and "Yours
Truly, Johnny Dollar" were the last of the old network radio dramas (until
the CBS Mystery
Theater in the 1970s), all airing in a block early Sunday evening, and I
always heard that
they all went off on the same night, in November 1961, not June.

Anyone have any more information on this?

The dates I have:

Johnny Dollar: 9/30/62
Gunsmoke:  6/18/61
Have Gun Will Travel:  11/27/60
Suspense:  9/30/62

Naturally, your mileage may vary.

However, can someone provide a good source that explain, in depth, the
demise of this form of radio in the early '60s; that is, a source that
provides details of audiences, advertisers, networks, producers and their
strategies/reactions to the advance of television, multiple forms of
leisure, and a significantly growing (and changing) economy, and anything
else that might have effected the existence of radio as it was known until
this period?

Many thanks.
Bill Harker

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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 20:38:17 -0400
From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Actual Cases?

Many of the crime shows on radio such as Dragnet, Gangbusters and the FBI
shows all indicated that the stories were based on actual cases.  "Only the
names were changed to protect the innocent" became a popular phrase.

But, were these shows based on real situations?  Why would police
departments give access to those  files to writers on such a wholesale
basis?

I realize that they would have been public record.  But I just wondered if
anyone knows for a fact that those shows were reality-based?

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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:47:31 -0400
From: William Harker <wharker@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  YTJD and Other Mystery Ads

Can someone tell me if there were ever _Yours Truly Johnny Dollar_
advertisements in newspapers or trade magazines and, if so, how to obtain
copies?

To make this complete, how about ads for any other mystery-oriented shows?

Bill Harker
wharker@[removed]

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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:18:59 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  6-13 births/deaths

June 13th births

06-13-1873 - Jean Adair - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - d. 5-11-1953
actress: "Radio Guild"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
06-13-1874 - Major Edward Bowes - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-13-1946
emcee: "Capitol Family"; "Original Amateur Hour"
06-13-1890 - Elmer Davis - Aurora, IN - d. 5-18-1958
newscaster: "Elmer Davis and the News"
06-13-1892 - Basil Rathbone - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 7-21-1967
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"; Inspector Burke "Scotland Yard's
Inspector Burke"
06-13-1894 - Mark Van Doren - Hope, IL - d. 12-10-1972
pulitzer prize winning poet: "NBC University Theatre"; "Invitation to Learning"
06-13-1894 - Tay Garnett - Los Angeles, CA - d. 10-4-1977
film director: "Three Sheets to the Wind"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
06-13-1900 - Ian Hunter - Kenilworth, South Africa - d. 9-24-1975
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "[removed] Steel Hour"
06-13-1903 - Jack Fulton - Philipsburg, PA - d. 11-13-1993
singer: "Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro"; "The Kraft Music Hall"
06-13-1905 - Doc Cheatham - Nashville, TN - d. 6-2-1997
jazz trumpeter: "Benny Goodman and His Sextet/Orchestra"; "Benny Goodman
Quintet"
06-13-1911 - Maurice Copeland - Rector, AR - d. 10-3-1985
actor: Augustus Pendelton "Ma Perkins"; "Curtain Time"; "Hall of Fantasy"
06-13-1912 - Sam Taylor - Chicago, IL - d. 5-26-2000
writer: "Tales ofWillie Piper"
06-13-1913 - Bob Bailey - Toeldo, OH - d. 8-13-1983
actor: Johnny Dollar "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; George Valentine "Let
George Do It"
06-13-1913 - Ralph Edwards - Merino, CO
host, announcer: "Truth or Consequences"; "This Is Your Life"; "Original
Amateur Hour"
06-13-1916 - Mary Wickes - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-22-1995
actress: Louise "Meet Corliss Archer"; Irma Barker "Lorenzo Jones"
06-13-1917 - Si Zentner - NYC - d. 2-6-2000
jazz and big band trombonist: "Si Zentner and His Orchestra"; "Guard Session"
06-13-1920 - Ben Johnson - Pawnee, OK - d. 4-8-1996
actor: "Francis Burke for Attorney General"
06-13-1924 - Lee Millar - Oakland, CA - d. 9-21-1980
actor: Bob Regent "Chandu the Magician"; "On Stage"; "NBC Presents: Short
Story"

June 13th deaths

05-26-1893 - Eugene Goosens - London, England - d. 6-13-1962
conductor: New York Philharmonic
05-30-1909 - Benny Goodman - Chicago, IL - d. 6-13-1986
bandleader: (King of Swing) "Camel Caravan"; "Victor Borge Show"
06-13-1874 - Major Edward Bowes - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-13-1946
emcee: "Capitol Family"; "Original Amateur Hour"
07-20-1919 - [removed] Stevens - Los Angeles, CA - d. 6-13-1994
actress: Lois Graves "Junior Miss"
07-26-1896 - Charles Butterworth - South Bend, IN - d. 6-13-1946
comedian: "Fred Astaire Show"
07-28-1912 - George Cisar - IL - d. 6-13-1979
actor: Tim "Tena and Tim"
10-10-1913 - Johnny Downs - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-13-1994
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-08-1931 - Darla Hood - Leedey, OK - d. 6-13-1979
actress: "Jack Benny Program"; "Bud's Bandwagon"
11-20-1907 - Fran Allison - La Porte City, IA - d. 6-13-1989
actress, singer: Aunt Fanny, "Breakfast Club"; "National Barn Dance"; "Uncle
Ezra"
11-22-1924 - Geraldine Page - Kirksville, MO - d. 6-13-1987
actress: "Arch Oboler's Plays"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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