Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #56
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 2/21/2006 8:40 PM
To: [removed]@[removed]

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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 56
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  2-21 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  WXYZ Bad Guy                          [ "Stuart Lubin" <StuartLubin@[removed] ]
  Bruce Eells Productions               [ Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@yahoo ]
  Re: WXYZ bad guy                      [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
  WXYZ bad guy                          [ "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
  Cincy flyer posted here               [ Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed]; ]
  WTIC's "Golden Age" and "One Night S  [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed]; ]
  The Cool Ghoul                        [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  Titanic broadcasts                    [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
  Deep Voice on The Lone Ranger and Th  [ "Frederick S. Hillman" <fshillman@6 ]
  Ava Maria Hour                        [ [removed]@[removed] ]
  OTR programs                          [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
  Who was that guy?                     [ Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed]; ]
  (From Elmer) Songs Banned from Radio  [ Elmer Standish <elmer_standish@telu ]
  Ben Gross Book                        [ "erest@[removed]" <erest@bel ]
  Titanic and Gigantic                  [ Richard Fish <fish@lodestone-media. ]
  2-22 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:37:05 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  2-21 births/deaths

February 21st births

02-21-1880 - Frank Orth - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-17-1962
actor: Inspector Faraday "Boston Blackie"
02-21-1881 - Dr. Jonah B. Wise - Cincinnati, OH - d. 2-1-1959
preacher: "Message of Israel"
02-21-1893 - Ernest Whitman - Fort Smith, AR - d. 8-5-1954
actor: Bill Jackson "Beulah"; Roustabout "Circus Days"
02-21-1903 - Roland MacLane - d. 2-xx-1984
writer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"; "My Friend Irma"
02-21-1907 - W. H. Auden - York, England - d. 9-29-1973
writer: "Columbia Workshop"
02-21-1915 - Ann Sheridan - Dallas, TX - d. 1-21-1967
actress: (The Oomph Girl) "Smiths of Hollywood"; "Stars in the Air"
02-21-1916 - Norman Jolley - Adel, IA - d. 8-13-2002
actor: Dr. Milingro "Space Patrol"
02-21-1921 - Shirley Bell - Chicago, IL
actress: Little Orphan Annie "Little Orphan Annie"; Patsy Donovan
"Captain Midnight"
02-21-1929 - James Beck - Islington, North London, England - d. 8-6-1973
actor: Private Joe Walker "Dad's Army"
02-21-1933 - Nina Simone - Tyron, NC - d. 4-21-2003
singer: "Voices of Vista"
02-21-1938 - Wolfman Jack - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-1-1995
disc jockey: Mexican Border Radio"

February 21st deaths

01-01-1878 - Edwin Franko Goldman - Louisville, KY - d. 2-21-1956
bandmaster: "The Cities Service Concert"; "The Pure Oil Band"
01-03-1942 - John Thaw - West Gorton, England - d. 2-21-2002
actor: "Peter Pan"
03-19-1909 - Louis Hayward - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 2-21-1985
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"; "This
Is My Best"
03-22-1905 - Don Dowd - d. 2-21-1977
annoouncer: "Moon River"; "Don McNeill's Breakfast Club"
03-25-1901 - John Earl Fetzer - Decatur, IN - d. 2-21-1991
broadcast pioneer: "WKZO Fiftieth Anniversary Broadcast"
08-10-1908 - Jane Pickens - Macon, GA - d. 2-21-1992
singer: (Pickens Sisters) "Gulf Headliners"; "Evening in Paris";
"Jane Pickens Show"
09-02-1914 - Tom Glazer - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-21-2003
folk singer: "[removed] Radio Project"; "Living 1948"; "The Eternal Light"
12-03-1917 - Kermit Slobb - d. 2-21-2004
writer: "Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy"
12-10-1913 - Morton Gould - Richmond Hill, NY - d. 2-21-1996
conductor: "Music for Today"; "Original Amateur Hour"; "Cresta Blanca
Carnival"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:29:44 -0500
From: "Stuart Lubin" <StuartLubin@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  WXYZ Bad Guy

I hope that knowing this will make you sleep better, Jody.  Unless I am
terribly mistaken, the "badest" guy on WXYZ drama was Paul Hughes. He played
many different roles on all three WXYZ shows, but I remember him most for
his portrayal of Thunder Martin on "The Lone Ranger".

Stuart

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:30:08 -0500
From: Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Bruce Eells Productions

I've read where Bruce Eells specialized in recycling
Transco and other old stuff for re-syndication.  I've
never looked at any of the vintage broadcast schedules
here, but it would be interesting to see what kind of
station would run a 1933 show in 1950.  Except for the
Cinnamon Bear, most of the Transcos I've come across
have been pretty wretched, even for early syndicated
shows. I wonder what the average sponsor for a 1950
re-airing would have been like?

Trav

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:30:22 -0500
From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: WXYZ bad guy

Jody Davis asked about a distinctively-voiced actor on
WYXZ's _Lone Ranger_ and _Green Hornet_. You're most
likely thinking of Paul Hughes, who also played the
occassional good guy, too (such as an Army commander
in _The Lone Ranger_). I'm sure he was in episodes of
_Challenge of the Yukon_ (AKA _Sergeant Preston_),
too.

Rick

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:30:41 -0500
From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  WXYZ bad guy

Jody Davis' "bad guy" from the WXYZ stable of supporting actors is Paul
Hughes.  Paul came from Cincinnati and joined the ensemble in 1939, lasting
until the final live dramas ended in 1955.  He also served as president of
the actors union.  After his radio career ended, he went into real estate.
Can you imagine buying a house from a guy who sounded as sinister as he did?
Actually, Paul didn't always play the bad guy.  By his own admission, he was
about 50-50 good and bad.

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:35:09 -0500
From: Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Cincy flyer posted here

I've posted the flyer for the Cincinnati OTR convention (two months from
today!) on my web site:

[removed]

Click on the OTR link, then click on the 2006 Cincy link.

See you there!

---Dan

[ADMINISTRIVIA: Of course, those of you who follow the blog at
[removed] have already accessed the flyer.  --cfs3]

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:50:21 -0500
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  WTIC's "Golden Age" and "One Night Stand"

The latest "Golden Age of Radio" programs with Dick Bertel
and Ed Corcoran, and "A One Night Stand with the Big Bands"
with Arnold Dean can be heard at [removed].

Each week we feature three complete shows in MP3 format
for your listening pleasure or for downloading; two "Golden
Age of Radios" and one "One Night Stand." We present new
shows every week or so. The current three programs will be
available on line at least until the morning of  2/27/06.

Program 22 - January, 1972 - Bret Morrison

Ask anyone who was around during the Golden Age of Radio
what he or she remembers most, and chances are the reply
will be "The Shadow." Who can forget sitting around the
radio when the ominous strains of Saint Seans' Omphale's
Spinning Wheel" signaled the nation's favorite Sunday
evening program?

Bret Morrison was the voice of The Shadow for most of
1943, and John Archer took over near the end of 1944.
Bret Morrison returned in September, 1945, and remained
the voice through 1954, when the program ended.

Program 23 - February, 1972 - The Radio Shows of 1947

Radio Shows from 1947 - A retrospective look at radio programs
from a quarter century ago. We'll hear an excerpt from a United
Press program that dramatized the top ten news stories of the year.
We'll also hear some typical shows of the time including "Our Miss
Brooks," "Sherlock Holmes," "Aunt Jenny," and "Jack Benny."

"A One Night Stand with the Big Bands" With Arnold Dean

Ray Beller was an Alto Sax player with many of the big
bands, including Will Bradley, Ray McKinley, Benny
Goodman, and  Stan Kenton, among others. Beller is an
excellent example of the  musicians who contributed to
the big band era while  remaining virtually anonymous.
He was one of the premier sax players of the Big Band era.

In the 1970's WTIC decided that there was a market in
the evening for long-form shows that could be packaged
and sold to sponsors. Two of those shows were "The
Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand with the
Big Bands."

Dick Bertel had interviewed radio collector-historian
Ed  Corcoran several times on his radio and TV shows,
and thought a regular monthly show featuring interviews
with actors, writers, producers, engineers and musicians
from radio's early days might be interesting. "The Golden
Age of Radio" was first broadcast in April, 1970;  Ed was
Dick's co-host. It lasted seven years. "The Golden Age
of Radio" can also be heard Saturday nights on Walden
Hughes's program on Radio Yesteryear.

Arnold Dean began his love affair with the big band
era in his pre-teen years and his decision to study
the clarinet was inspired by the style of Artie Shaw.
When he joined WTIC in 1965 he hosted a daily program
of big band music.  In 1971, encouraged by the success
of his daily program and "The Golden Age of Radio"
series, he began monthly shows featuring interviews
with the band leaders, sidemen, agents, jazz reporters,
etc. who made major contributions to one of the great
eras of music history.

Bob Scherago
Webmaster

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:51:03 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Cool Ghoul

Dear Fiends-

Did anyone in the NYC area  get a good aircheck of the rare broadcast
appearance of John Zacherle on WFUV  the other day?

Please let me know, off-list.

Beast  Witches,
-Craig

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:54:48 -0500
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Titanic broadcasts

from Graeme Stevenson in Scotland.

  Re. programmes about the Titanic, the BBC North of England Home Service
broadcast a play in May 1966 called 'Signals'. It was a story about a boat in
the Atlantic that started picking up morse code messages. When they de-coded
the messages they were the ones sent by the Titanic in April 1912 ! A very
good story that ends with the
  ' ghost ' of the Titanic looming out the mist !

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:03:46 -0500
From: "Frederick S. Hillman" <fshillman@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Deep Voice on The Lone Ranger and The Green
 Hornet

I'll be surprised if Jody Davis' question about the "heavy" in many
Ranger and Hornet episodes generates fewer than hundreds of replies!

The person referred to is probably Paul Hughes, but it should be noted
that he played many "good-guy" roles too.  He was often a senior
military officer -- the commandant of a fort, for example; often a
sheriff (and, admittedly, often the bad guy for whom the sheriff was
searching!); a governor; President of the United States (though referred
to only by title, not by specific name); a tough rancher or land baron
(sometimes on the right side of the law and sometimes not); and even
occasionally a renegade Indian.  I read somewhere that he was quoted as
saying (a propos the varied nature of his roles) that he would sometimes
be an outlaw and sometimes a doctor -- shooting people in one episode
and doctoring them in the next!

Hi-Yo Silver!
Fred Hillman

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:36:41 -0500
From: [removed]@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Ava Maria Hour

The Ava Maria Hour was a religious drama series produced by Columbia New York
and pressed by Columbia Custom on disks for distribution. I have been trying to
help a researcher of Columkbia Custom with information obtainable only from the
actual disks. If any of the folks on this list have actual Ava Maria Hour disks
and willing to examine them for the required information please email
Reginald Bartlette at reginald@[removed]

Thanks!

Paul Urbahns
Radcliff, KY

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:38:09 -0500
From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR programs
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        I've been trying to find some OTR programs, but have yet to be
successful. If anyone out there knows where I can find audio CD's or
cassettes of the following programs, please tell me.

"Defense Attorney"
"Phyl Coe Mysteries"
"Dr. [removed]"
"Superstition"

        I've checked out every lead I can think of (online sites, book
stores, and even SPERDVAC.  No luck so far.  Are any of these OTR programs
even in circulation?  I've read about these programs and would like to hear
what they're like for myself if possible.  Any help would be aprpeciated.

Another OTR Fan,

Kenneth Clarke

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:52:00 -0500
From: Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Who was that guy?
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That guy was none other than Paul Hughes. He played many heavy parts on The
Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, and Sergeant Preston Of The Yukon, as well as
ranchers,sheriffs,lawyers, etc;He was mostly known as a recurring character,
"Thunder Martin" on "The Lone Ranger."Does anyone out there know if Paul
Hughes and Jaye Michael are still alive? I would like to contact them.    Bob
Slate

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:41:15 -0500
From: Elmer Standish <elmer_standish@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  (From Elmer) Songs Banned from Radio

First I wish to thank everyone responsible for the Digest.
It is an inexhaustible source of knowledge about the OTR
days which were NTR (New Time Radio) when I was a child.

My only problem is finding enough time to read them all
but I'd rather that than not have them available.

My query is detailed below.
- ----------------------------
I ran across this item (Where, I cannot recall) and find
it hard to believe that it was the ONLY song banned.
However a search of the internet did not provide the
verification either for or against that statement
"ONLY SONG BANNED FROM RADIO"

In 1946, Sammy Kaye had a hit record  (1 million
copies) called "I'm A Big Girl Now" with vocal by Betty
Barclay. This tune was banned from [removed] know
the reason why?

Answer: The Lyrics were considered too Risque.

The Lyrics of this and other Sammy Kaye Songs are available
at:
[removed]
[removed]
OR: [removed] if you type URLS

I was also informed by someone who should know that the
sales went to over a million after the ban was issued.

Comments appreciated.
Thanks again to all! ===> ELMER

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:41:24 -0500
From: "erest@[removed]" <erest@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Ben Gross Book

   Sometime ago a question was asked about the book "I looked and I
Listened" by Ben Gross written in 1954.  I found it very easily at used
book store on the web for very little money.
    Mr Gross was a radio and tv critic for a New York paper. A job he
got in 1925 because he was the youngest member of the staff and the
regular radio guy took off.  He didn't even know how to turn on a radio
thats how new it was.
   He covers the early days, the founding of the networks and the
transition to tv.  Most people here would probably enjoy it.
Lots of funny stories and information about the people who made up the
radio scene.
    Rob

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:58:02 -0500
From: Richard Fish <fish@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Titanic and Gigantic

R. R. King wrote:

There's a 1947 episode of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with
Holmes and Watson on a fictional 1912 ocean liner called "Gigantic."

Very interesting that Holmes and Watson should have been aboard that
ship!  The name wasn't entirely fictional. Perhaps the writers knew the
history, as many of you may:

The White Star Line built 3 such ships. Olympic was launched first, then
Titanic, and the third was originally to have been called [removed]
Gigantic. But after the Titanic went down, the name was changed to
[removed] Brittanic, because "Gigantic" was too reminiscent of "Titanic"
and sounded kind of like, well, hubris.

Brittanic got sunk in the Agean Sea during WWI while serving as a
hospital ship, and only Olympic had a full career; she was finally
scrapped in 1937.

As long as we're wading amongst the historical footnotes, all ships of
the White Star Line had names ending in "ic" just as all ships of the
Cunard Line had names ending in "ia."

I trust Sherlock and John made port safely!

Richard Fish

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:40:22 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  2-22 births/deaths

February 22nd births

02-22-1890 - Enid Markey - Dillon, CO - d. 11-15-1981
actress: Lillian Burke "Woman of Courage"
02-22-1891 - George Jeske - Utah - d. 10-28-1951
writer: "Truth or Consequences"
02-22-1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay - Rockland, ME - d. 10-19-1950
author: "Against the Storm"
02-22-1897 - Alonzo Deen Cole - St. Paul, MN - d. 4-7-1971
writer, producer, director: "Casey, Crime Photographer"
02-22-1901 - Bess Johnson - d. 1-xx-1975
actress: Bess Johnson "Story of Bess Johnson"; Lady Esther "Lady
Esther Serenade
02-22-1905 - Robert Weede - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-9-1972
singer: "Great Moments in Music"; "For America We Sing"
02-22-1907 - Robert Young - Chicago, IL - d. 7-21-1998
actor: Jim Anderson "Father Knows Best"; Doug Adams "Passport for Adams"
02-22-1907 - Sheldon Leonard - New York, NY - d. 1-10-1997
comedian: Tout "Jack Benny Program"; Joe Crunchmiller "Judy Canova Show"
02-22-1908 - John Mills - North Elmham, England - d. 4-22-2005
actor: "A Christmas Carol"; "Charlie Chaplin"
02-22-1910 - Gene Hamilton - Toledo, OH - d. 11-23-2000
announcer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Chamber Music Society of Lower
Basin Street"
02-22-1912 - Buddy Tate - Sherman, TX - d. 2-10-2001
jazz saxphonist: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"
02-22-1915 - Dan Seymour - New York, NY - d. 7-27-1982
actor, narrator: Danny "Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories"; "War of the
Worlds"
02-22-1915 - Jules Munshin - New York, NY - d. 2-19-1970
actor: "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
02-22-1918 - Don Pardo - Westfield, MA
newscaster, announcer: "NBC News"; "Magnificent Montague"
02-22-1918 - Sid Abel - Melville, Saskatchewan, Canada - d. 2-7-2000
sportscaster: "Play By Play Detroit Red Wings"
02-22-1920 - Giulietta Masina - San Girogio di Piano, Italy - d. xx-
xx-1994
actress: Pallina "Terzoglio"
02-22-1925 - Stratford Johns - Pietermaritzburg, South Africa - d.
1-29-2002
actor: Pennington "Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile"
02-22-1926 - Kenneth Williams - Islington, England - d. 4-15-1988
actor:  the Snide "Hancock's Half Hour"

February 22nd deaths

01-08-1904 - Peter Arno - d. 2-22-1968
panelist: "Stop Me If You Heard This Before"
01-21-1915 - John Dunkel - Springfield, OH - d. 2-22-2001
writer: "Escape"; "Fort Laramie"; "Gunsmoke"
02-09-1902 - Chester A. Lauck - Alleene, AR - d. 2-22-1980
comedian: Columbus 'Lum' Edwards "Lum and Abner"
02-14-1922 - Murray "The K" Kaufman - New York, NY - d. 2-22-1982
disc jockey: "A Tribute to Murray the K"
04-09-1889 - Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. - Rostov-on-Don, Russia - d. 2-22-1985
violinist: "The Magic Key"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-23-1910 - Simone Simon - Bethune, Pas-de-Calais, France - d.
2-22-2005
actress: "Inner Sanctum"
05-09-1911 - Harry Simeone - Newark, NJ - d. 2-22-2005
arranger, choral director: "The Fred Waring Show"; "Columbia Presents
Corwin"
10-15-1893 - Ina Claire - Washington, [removed] - d. 2-22-1985
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-24-1904 - Radie Harris - New York, NY - d. 2-22-2001
gossip columnist: CBS Radio Network
12-17-1900 - Katina Paxinou - Piraeus, Greece - d. 2-22-1973
actress: "Suspense"; "Hallmark Playhouse"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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