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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2008 : Issue 104
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Sam, Henry, Amos, Andy [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Revelle With Beverly [ mchone@[removed] ]
Re: Whites on A&A [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
4-24 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Russ [removed] [ Afanofoldradio@[removed] ]
Tune into Yesterday newsletter [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:20:21 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Sam, Henry, Amos, Andy
Just curious. Did Charles Correll and/or Freeman Gosden ever play
characters on radio other than Sam and Henry or Amos and Andy?
Ron Sayles
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:47:31 -0400
From: mchone@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Revelle With Beverly
TCM is going to show the movie 'Revelle With Beverly'(1943) on May 4. It stars Ann
Miller and Frank Sinatra and is about a lady Disc Jockey. I was under the
impression that there was a radio program called Revelle With Beverly during WWII,
where a lady DJ played popular music for GIs. I looked it up in my Dunning's but
it was not listed.
Was there such a program on radio or was it only broadcast on AFRN?
Roby McHone
Fairbanks, Alaska
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:59:48 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Whites on A&A
On 4/23/08 6:18 PM [removed]@[removed] wrote:
One of the few surviving episodes from the 1930's network run features a
guest appearance by Walter Huston playing himself. I think this is from
1936. I don't think he's identified as "white actor Walter Huston", but the
audience would have known he was white.
There were a handful of celebrity appearances on the program during 1936,
but these were very much the exception rather than the rule. The conceit
was that the Kingfish, who had a job on the side as a gossip columnist
for a Harlem newspaper, was invited to go to Hollywood to tour the film
studios and interview stars. Amos, Andy, and Lightning went along for the
ride, and the sequence dominated the storyline during the late summer of
1936. All of the celebs who appeared during the sequence were personal
friends of Correll and Gosden, among them Walt Disney, Cary Grant, and
Randolph Scott.
There were a couple of other appearances by white celebrities of note in
the later years of the serial. In 1939, New York World's Fair president
Grover Whalen appeared to give Amos and Andy a tour of the fairgrounds,
and in 1941, Fred Allen -- a devoted A&A fan -- appeared in reciprocation
of an A&A guest appearance on his own program.
White *characters* on the program, on the other hand, were extremely
rare. The only one to ever have a significant continuing role was Honest
Joe the Pawnbroker, who began appearing occasionally from 1939 onward. He
was played by Correll in a voice quite similar to that of Jake Goldberg.
Elizabeth
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:36:23 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 4-24 births/deaths
April 24th births
04-24-1871 - Blanche Ring - Boston, MA - d. 1-13-1961
actor/singer: "Fight Camp"; "Jumbo"
04-24-1894 - Norman Sweetser - d. 8-xx-1980
director: "Just Plain Bill"; "Stella Dallas"
04-24-1897 - Alfred Brown - d. 1-28-1978
actor: Og "Og, Son of Fire"
04-24-1905 - Robert Penn Warren - Guthrie, KY - d. 9-15-1989
author: (All the King's Men) "NBC University Theatre"
04-24-1906 - William "Lord Haw Haw" Joyce - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-3-1946
propagnadist for Nazi Germany during World War II: Hung for treason
04-24-1907 - John Frank Anders - Upward, NC - d. 12-18-1983
composer, singer: live radio program in Knoxville, Tennessee
04-24-1910 - Albert Zugsmith - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 10-26-1993
film producer/director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
04-24-1911 - Arval Hogan - Robbinsville, NC - d. 9-12-2003
country, bluegrass: "Briarhoppers"
04-24-1916 - Eldon Shamblin - Weatherford, OK - d. 8-5-1998
guitarist: "Bob Wills and the Texax Playboys"
04-24-1922 - Aaron Bell - Muskogee, OK - d. 07-28-2003
singer: "Steve Lawrence Show"
04-24-1926 - Marilyn Erskine - Rochester, NY
actor: Gail Carver "Lora Lawton"; Janey Brown "Young Widder Brown"
04-24-1928 - Ted McKay - Raised in North Avondale, OH - d. 12-22-2005
talk show host: "Party Line"; Created first talk show on WKRC
Cincinatti in 1955
April 24th deaths
02-03-1924 - Leslie Stevens - Washington, [removed] - d. 4-24-1998
film director: "Stagestruck"
02-12-1923 - Mel Powell - NYC - d. 4-24-1998
pianist, composer: "Jam"; "I Sustain These Wings"; "Grand Roundup"
02-13-1908 - Lennie Hayton - NYC - d. 4-24-1971
conductor: "Your Hit Parade"; "Ipana Troubadors"
03-08-1889 - Rosario Bourdon - Montreal, Canada - d. 4-24-1961
conductor: "Cities Service Concert"; "Great Personalities"
04-26-1920 - Frankie Scott - Georgia - d. 4-24-2004
performer: "Grand Ole Opry"
06-04-1921 - Harvey Bullock - Oxford, NC - d. 4-24-2006
writer: "Breakfast with Burrows"
06-17-1913 - Bob Allen - Allendale, OH - d. 4-24-1989
singer: (Hal Kemp Band) "Phil Baker Show"; "Calling America"
06-27-1914 - Noboru Kirishima - Iwaki City, Japan - d. 4-24-1984
enka singer: "This Week's Star"
07-17-1906 - John Carroll - New Orleans, LA - d. 4-24-1979
actor: "Hello Mom"; "Suspense"
08-03-1904 - Clifford Simak - Millville, WI - d. 4-24-1988
writer: "Dimension X"
08-16-1915 - Al Hibbler - Tyro, MS - d. 4-24-2001
jazz singer: "A Date with the Duke"; "Jubilee"
08-21-1890 - Bill Henry - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-24-1970
commentator: Chief CBS Correspondent
10-02-1895 - Bud Abbott - Asbury Park, NJ - d. 4-24-1974
comedian: "Abbott and Costello Show"
10-29-1897 - Hope Emerson - Hawarden, IA - d. 4-24-1960
actor: Henrietta Topper "Advs. of Topper"; Elsie the Cow "Happy Island"
10-30-1912 - Preston Lockwood - Leyton, England - d. 4-24-1996
actor: "Sherlock Holmes"
11-15-1924 - Mike Raven - London, England - d. 4-24-1997
actor: "Raven Around Show"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:36:52 -0400
From: Afanofoldradio@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Russ [removed]
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In regards to Russ Hodges and his famous 1951 call of the Giants/Dodgers
ball game, does anyone remember that the play called the shot heard around
the
world was taped at a car repair/dealership in Manhattan from a radio (hence
the
screaming in the backround) due to the fact that many radio stations did not
record their game highlights in those days? Now how the hall of fame got it
I don't [removed]
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:37:16 -0400
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Tune into Yesterday newsletter
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Readers in the UK might be interested to know that the latest edition
of ORCA's Tune into Yesterday newsletter is now available. Included
are articles on the early days of AFN Berlin, and the disc recordings
made at the time of the Pearl Harbour attack. The Supplement is about
radio in the Cold War era. Cost in the UK is One Pound and fifty pence
( Cheques payable to 'ORCA') from: John Wolstenholme, PO Box 1922,
Dronfield, S18 8XA
Outside of the UK the annual subscription is Ten Pounds. The easiest
way is just to send a Bank of England ten pound note to John's
address.
Graeme Stevenson, Editor: Tune into Yesterday ORCA / UK
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