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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2005 : Issue 44
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Jim Hawthorne [ Chuck Everts <ceverts@[removed]; ]
Arch Obolers Plays [ Mike Thomas <calvetrecept@[removed] ]
I Remember Mama [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
#OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig [ charlie@[removed] ]
Happiness Boys on DVD [ Robert Fells <rfells@[removed]; ]
cincy convention [ "Rodney W Bowcock" <[removed]@ ]
Re: Robin Morgan [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
Oldest broadcast [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
George Herman [ ABCDiehl@[removed] ]
2-10 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Mercedes McCambridge [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
Ma Perkins Rose [ Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed] ]
George Herman, RIP [ Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@erols ]
Confirming OTR memories [ Philip Chavin <pchavin@[removed]; ]
A Dearth of CBS Radio Affils [ "Michael Paraniuk" <bourdase@webtv. ]
oldest continuous radio broadcast? [ "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@sbcglob ]
Re: Karl Haas [ Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@sbcglo ]
Stroud Twin [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
Re: Karl Haas [ "Michael Guccione" <jetbonami@hotma ]
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 08:57:59 -0500
From: Chuck Everts <ceverts@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Jim Hawthorne
My recollection of Jim Hawthorne goes back to 1949 when he was on KXLA
in Pasadena, CA. He did his show from a studio/control room at the
back of master control on the 2nd floor. All of us kids on Friday
night would pile into the studio below and watch him do the show. He
came on at 11:00 or 11:30 PM. This was his era of the "Hogan Twanger
and his partner, Skippy, played by Jim. He was also running for
president with his campaign song, "Hawthorne in the White House Would
Be Peachy Keen", ending with "Remember our slogan, up with a Hogan, a
Hogan in every pot". He was followed at midnight by Alex "Pickup a
Couple of Bucks" Cooper. Cooper, I believe, was his running mate for
president.
C. Everts
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 08:58:32 -0500
From: Mike Thomas <calvetrecept@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Arch Obolers Plays
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While doing some otr research at the downtown Los Angeles library last year
I found several of Arch Oboler's plays in book form from way back. I just
glanced through them as time was important to my mission. All this to say
that maybe there is some biographical info in these books. Also, I am sure
some of those old radio digests have articles about him if one could get some.
Mike And Ernestine Thomas
Fans of Old Time Radio.
Please check out the OTR Researchers Group website at
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 08:58:42 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: I Remember Mama
Hi Everybody,
I Remember Mama was also done on Lux Radio Theater. Rosemary and Dick did a
version of I Remember Mama at SPERDVAC too. Take care,
Walden
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 08:59:24 -0500
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!
A weekly [removed]
For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
Network, the channel name is #OldRadio. We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
over six years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
real-time OTR talk!
Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
it's always a good time!
For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
week and every week!
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 08:59:41 -0500
From: Robert Fells <rfells@[removed];
To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Happiness Boys on DVD
I don't think this news has appeared so far in OTR Digest but it's worth
repeating if it has. The Happiness Boys, the 1920s broadcasting team,
are included in a short film they made as part of the bonus materials in
the newly released dvd of the 1929 feature, The Broadway Melody.
Although the feature won the Academy Award for Best Picture, it seems a
little sluggish today even for aficionados of early talkies (like me).
But the disc may be worth acquiring if only to see the pioneering
Happiness Boys at work.
Bob Fells
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:34:42 -0500
From: "Rodney W Bowcock" <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: cincy convention
The topic at hand seems to be what to do besides OTR at the Cincinnati
convention. There are a few good restaurants in the nearby area (Famous
Dave's is excellent if you like that sort of food. I happen to!), or if
you're looking for something else besides eating and hanging out at the
hotel, you might enjoy hopping on the interestate and driving about 20
miles south to Kentucky and spending the evening at Newport on the Levee.
It's part mall, part movie theater, part night club complex and there are
quite a few excellent restaurants inside too. It's very popular and trendy
now and recently won some award from Facets. It's kind of like Mall of
America, but on a smaller scale. The Newport Aquarium is next to it too,
but I think that's probably only open during convention hours.
As an added bonus, if you're a history buff, you can walk across the street
to the Southgate House and enjoy a drink at the home of the inventor of the
tommy gun. It's a dump, but a dump with charm, and while I don't know that
anyone here would be interested, it's the best place for indie/alternative
rock in the city.
Rodney Bowcock
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'high quality-low prices'
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:51:56 -0500
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Robin Morgan
On 2/9/05 9:01 AM [removed]@[removed] wrote:
Is this the Robin Morgan who was a feminist activist, famed
for the remark "Pornography is the theory; rape is the practice"?
It's indeed she. Morgan began her career as a child model when she was
two years old, and by the age of four she had her own Saturday-morning
radio show on WOR -- playing children's records and doing short little
readings. From there it was a short step to acting, and on into
television in the early fifties.
Her autobiography, "Saturday's Child," makes for fascinating,
enlightening reading. Definitely not your run-of-the-mill OTR/showbiz bio
book.
Elizabeth
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:52:35 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Oldest broadcast
My pal Jack French notes:
The Jan/Feb 2005 issue of "Chattanooga Airwaves", the publication of
the Chattanooga OTR Club, has an interesting article setting forth the
claims of a local church there as airing "the oldest continuous radio
broadcast in America."
Those First Presbyterians of Chattanooga may very well be airing the oldest
continuous RELIGIOUS broadcast. But their debut on Jan. 16, 1926 was after
that other revered citadel of ethereal monopoly in the Volunteer State, the
Grand Ole Opry, which premiered on Nov. 28, 1925 and has been heard
continuously since. Often referred to as The Mother Church of Country
Music, how can its unique distinction be ignored?
Methinks those kindred spirits of the Chattanooga clan, obviously proud of
their local parishioners, might have been temporarily blinded by their
zealousness, unintentionally overlooking a bastion of pickers, pluckers,
yodelers and hillbilly dancers further up I-24. Notwithstanding, 1926-2005
is a formidable run for a broadcast worship service and perhaps is
unequaled.
Jim Cox
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:52:47 -0500
From: ABCDiehl@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: George Herman
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George Herman, the CBS Correspondent who died yesterday at 85 was one of the
best in the business. I recall meeting him years ago when I worked at WTOP,
the CBS station in Washington.
Herman was a true gentleman and a terrific reporter. He'll be greatly
missed. An additional note on his passing as reported in today's New York
Times.
When [removed] was laid off by CBS in a cost-cutting move in 1986 the network
offered him a chance to resign. Always a strong union leader, he replied, "Put
me down as one of the fired," The Washington Post reported.
Bill Diehl
ABC NewsRadio
New York
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 13:22:15 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 2-10 births/deaths
February 10th births
02-10-1892 - Alan Hale, Sr. - Washington, [removed] - d. 1-22-1950
actor:"Lux Radio Theatre"
02-10-1893 - Jimmy Durante - NYC - d. 1-29-1980
comedian: (Da Schnozz) Claudius 'Brainy' Bowers "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"
02-10-1897 - Dame Judith Anderson - Adelaide, Australia - d. 1-3-1992
actress: Royal Gelatin Hour"
02-10-1902 - Stella Adler - NYC - d. 12-21-1992
acting teacher: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
02-10-1906 - Lon Chaney, Jr. - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory - d.
7-12-1973
actor: "Pursuit of Happiness"
02-10-1910 - Joyce Grenfell - London, England - d. 11-30-1979
writer, actress: "How"; "A Note with Music"; "We Beg to Differ"
02-10-1913 - James Monk - d. 10-2-1994
actor: [removed] Moto "Mr. Moto"; Jim Brandon "The Avenger"
02-10-1914 - Larry Adler - Baltimore, MD - d. 8-6-2001
harmonica player: "Forecast"
02-10-1922 - Neva Patterson - Nevada, IA
actress: "Cavalcade of America"
02-10-1923 - Cesare Siepi - Milan, Italy
opera singer: "Voice ofFirestone"; "Metropolitan Opera"
02-10-1927 - Leontyne Price - Laurel, MS
singer: "Metropolitan Opera"
02-10-1929 - Jerry Goldsmith - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-21-2004
composer, conductor: "Frontier Gentleman"; "Romance"
02-10-1930 - Robert Wagner - Detroit, MI
panelist: "Juke Box Jury"; "Suspense"
February 10th deaths
01-11-1910 - Richard Kendrick - Vermillion, SD - d. 2-10-1987
Bill Baker "Portia Faces Life"
02-22-1912 - Buddy Tate - Sherman, TX - d. 2-10-2001
jazz saxphonist: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"
05-02-1902 - Brian Aherne - King's Norton, England - d. 2-10-1986
actor: Simon Templar "The Saint"
06-19-1910 - Virginia Payne - Cincinnati, OH - d. 2-10-1977
actress: Ma Perkins "Ma Perkins"; Kerry Carter "Carters of Elm Street"
09-06-1899 - Billy Rose - NYC - d. 2-10-1966
creator-stager: "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 14:20:23 -0500
From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Mercedes McCambridge
I have a couple of questions about Mercedes
McCambridge. Is she the same actress who performed
opposite Joan Crawford in the movie "Johnny Guitar"?
I believe she in one of the crime programs listed
in Jim French's book, "Private Eyelashes", but I'm
not sure what the program was. I believe she was
a district attorney in it.
Another OTR Fan,
Kenneth Clarke
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 14:58:37 -0500
From: Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed];
To: OTRDIGEST <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Ma Perkins Rose
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My house is where plants go to die, but I was looking at rose sites today and
came across some Ma Perkins roses. Anyone know if they are named after "our"
Ma Perkins?
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:13:58 -0500
From: Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: George Herman, RIP
CBS news correspondent George Herman, age 85, died of heart failure on
February 8, 2005 at his Washington, DC home. Classified 4-F by his
draft board in WW II for a bundle of medical problems, including poor
eyesight, ulcers, and flat feet, he began work at WQXR in New York City
in 1942 and two years later was hired by CBS as a radio news writer.
While thought to be unqualified for microphone duties, he made his
radio debut with the news of the Japanese surrender, ad-libbing for
over 20 minutes live on CBS until Robert Trout arrived to take over.
Herman was born in Manhattan, got a BS in mathematics from Dartmouth
and an MA in journalism from Columbia University. After four years with
CBS radio, he made his TV debut for that network in 1948 covering the
Democratic Presidential Convention. But despite his successes, CBS
refused to put him on radio or TV on a regular basis. So he convinced
them if they would pay him for his TV reports in the Far East, he'd
absorb his own expenses to get there. After a year in Guam, VietNam,
and India during which he sent regular audio and 16 mm reports to CBS,
they let him cover the Korean War, which had just broken out. Herman
landed with the [removed] troops at Inchon and continued his reports until
the fighting ended in 1953.
Herman stood in front of the White House for CBS-TV for 20 hours
following the assassination of JFK in 1963, reporting all the incidents
in the aftermath of that tragedy. Later in 1969 he was the first host
of "Face the Nation." He retired in the mid 1980s but in recent years
conducted newsy "month-in-review" sessions with other radio veterans
for the exclusive Cosmos Club in Washington. He was survived by wife,
Patricia, three sons, and six grandchildren.
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 18:16:16 -0500
From: Philip Chavin <pchavin@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Confirming OTR memories
I get a nice feeling when (once in a while) an OTR
memory I have is confirmed by a reliable source. It's
even a bit nicer when that confirmation comes after my
memory of an item has been put in doubt by the
differing memories of others.
One example is my long-time memory of the Whiz candy
bar slogan I heard often on the radio in the 1940s.
I've recalled: "Whi-i-z-zz, best nickel candy there
i-i-zz". But others recalled somewhat different
wording. For example: "Whiz, the best nickel candy
there izz" (Buxton & Owen in The Big Broadcast);
"Whiz, the best candy bar there izz" (Nachman in
Raised On Radio); etc.
Yesterday I found a Website that shows images of pages
from a candy salesman book said to be from 1949. The
page for Whiz candy confirms my memory of the exact
wording of the slogan. Well, OK, confirms it for the
approximate year 1949 at least. (But I certainly give
credit to Buxton & Owen for including additional lines
to that Whiz commercial -- lines I'd forgotten about!)
The link to the candy book images is:
[removed]
-- Phil C.
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:01:32 -0500
From: "Michael Paraniuk" <bourdase@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: A Dearth of CBS Radio Affils
CBS Radio is having real troubles acquiring affiliate stations in some fairly
large markets. Consider that there are no CBS Stations in the following
markets: Louisville, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, Pittsburgh,
Wheeling, Lexington, Nashville (though they may be on WWTN the FM counterpart
to WSM). According to the Westwood One affiliate relations person in charge
for CBS Southeast, the network is finding it difficult to get affiliates in
states like North and South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. One can
drive from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh and the ONLY CBS station that is carrying
the hourlies along the route is WKRC 550 Am 5000 watts. Once outside the
range of KRC 550, you cannot get CBS anywhere during the day till the skip
kicks in from the 50,000 watt CBS Stations at night. Even when CBS had only
about 90 stations in 1941, they list an affiliate in every one of these
cities. It is sad to see this happening because CBS Radio is the oldest and
most prestigious of the remaining OTR network chains. Conversely, ABC Radio
is everywhere. In Cincinnati alone ABC Radio News is carried on THREE AM
stations. Well, some good news maybe for Jim Cox. Westwood One says there is
a radio station across the river from Louisville, KY that is interested in
carrying the CBS News at the Hour for that market. The CHIRP and BONG may
comeback to your city, [removed] hope. [removed] Mike, a 47 year
listener to the Columbia Network. Where is Alexander Kendrick when you need
him?
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:02:08 -0500
From: "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: oldest continuous radio broadcast?
In response to what Jack French wrote about the First Presbyterian Church of
Chattanooga broadcasting its services weekly since January 16, 1926 (still
on WDOD?), he is correct that a church in Atlanta, GA claims to have been on
the air longer.
I was just doing research on this last month. The email I got from Charlie
Souffrant, the broadcast coordinator for the First Presbyterian Church of
Atlanta states that their Sunday morning church services have been broadcast
by WSB-AM 750 in Atlanta every Sunday since April 9, 1922, for the past 83
years. Are there any other weekly church services on the radio that can
beat this claim?
There was one in Pasadena, California from KPPC-AM at Pasadena Presbyterian
Church, which lasted from December 1924 until September of 1996, when their
radio station went off the air. That weekly radio broadcast of their Sunday
services lasted just short of 72 years, but they continue airing their
weekly church service today on local cable TV. Back in the 1970s and '80s,
they claimed they had "one of the oldest continuous radio broadcasts" in
America.
Jim Hilliker
Monterey, CA
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:02:36 -0500
From: Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Karl Haas
On 2/9/2005, Christopher Werner wrote:
A very great man, who was always a joy to listen to, has passed away.
I too listened to Adventures in Music for several years. It is a wonder
that he was able to put together a one hour show which would include a
dozen examples of some gimmick, technique or musical feature each day.
Every day would be a new topic, always interesting. In listening to several
hundred shows, I don't recall any repeated topics. Those programs were
golden. There is nothing I know of to replace it.
See [removed]
Karl Haas was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1997.
Karl Haas died on February 6, 2005 at the age of 91
Don Shenbarger
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:52:53 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Stroud Twin
Hi Everybody,
Martin ask about the Stroud Twin working in radio. They where the band
leaders on the Jack Benny show during the war for a few shows. Maybe Laura
Leff can give the dates of the shows. These shows do exist. Take care,
Walden Hughes
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 07:41:21 -0500
From: "Michael Guccione" <jetbonami@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Karl Haas
He began with: "Hello, and how do you do" and ended with "Until next time,
I wish you good listening" (I think???)
I remember him beginning with (forte), "HELLOU (germanic 'r' sound at the
end of the second syllable) Everyone", had a knack for piecing together
interesting themes on his show.
MG
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