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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2007 : Issue 249
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
8-28 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
A little fun [ "Wayne Johnson" <wayne_johnson@mind ]
Joyce McCluskey [ "Paul F. Murphy" <pfmurphy@[removed]; ]
John Charles Daly [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
Did Billy Mills front his own orches [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
Re: WEAF real estate ad [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
Re: wartime commercials/PSA's [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
Re:Billy Mills from #248 [ ARago17320@[removed] ]
"Strictly Business" [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Patriotism [ mchone@[removed] ]
Motel discount at MANC [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:34:38 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 8-28 births/deaths
August 28th births
08-28-1891 - Stanley Andrews - Chicago, IL - d. 6-23-1969
actor: Daddy Warbucks "Little Orphan Annie"
08-28-1893 - Harriette Widmer - Water Valley, MS - d. 9-1-1964
actor: Madam Queen "Amos 'n' Andy"; Aunt Jemima "Aunt Jemima"
08-28-1895 - H. Norman Schwarzkopf - Newark, NJ - d. 11-25-1958
narrator: "Gangbusters"
08-28-1897 - Charles Boyer - Figeac, France - d. 8-26-1978
actor: Michel "Presenting Charles Boyer"; "Hollywood Playhouse"
08-28-1898 - Artells Dickson - Oklahoma Territory - d. 6-24-1968
actor: Tom Mix "Tom Mix"; Slim "Pretty Kitty Kelly"
08-28-1900 - Diana Bourbon - NYC - d. 3-19-1978
producer, director: :Double or Nothing"; "Life Begins"
08-28-1900 - Rudy Schrager - Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary - d. 8-24-1983
musical director: "Box 13"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-28-1907 - Roy Chamberlain - NYC - d. 5-xx-1981
old gold rhythmaires: "The New Old Gold Show"
08-28-1907 - Sam Levene - NYC - d. 12-17-1980
comedian: "Fred Allen Show"
08-28-1908 - Genevieve Rowe - Freemont, OH - d. 2-26-1995
singer: "Gay Nineties Revue"; "Songs America Loves"; "An Evening with
Romberg"
08-28-1910 - John F. Holbrook - Cameron, WI - d. 9-20-1978
announcer, director: "The Bickersons"; "The Dinah Shore Show"
08-28-1914 - Glenn Osser - Munising, MI
maestro: "American Music Hall"
08-28-1914 - Richard Tucker - NYC - d. 1-8-1975
opera tenor: "Chicago Theatre of the Air"; "Standard Hour";
"Metropolitan Opera"
08-28-1915 - Tol Avery - Texas - d. 8-27-1973
actor, announcer: "Pat Novak for Hire"; "Richard Diamond, Private
Detective"
08-28-1920 - Don Glasser - Derry, PA - d. 4-26-2004
bandleader: "Don Glasser and His Orchestra"
08-28-1924 - Peggy Ryan - Long Beach, CA - d. 10-30-2004
dancer, actor: "Mail Call"; "Bob Hope Show"; "Proudly We Hail"
08-28-1925 - Donald O'Connor - Chicago, IL - d. 9-27-2003
comedian, actor: "Ginny Simms Show"; "Philip Morris Playhouse";
"Suspense"
08-28-1926 - Andree Wallace - Brooklyn, NY
actor: Mary Lambert "Brave Tomorrow"; Irene "Mary Noble, Backstage Wife"
08-28-1929 - Roxie Roker - Miami, FL - d. 12-2-1995
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
08-28-1930 - Ben Gazzara - NYC
actor: "Strange Interlude"
August 28th deaths
02-06-1913 - Porter Bourne - d. 8-28-2001
announcer: WXYZ Detroit
02-15-1926 - Mary Lee Robb - Chicago, IL - d. 8-28-2006
actor: Marjorie Forrester "Great Gildersleeve"
06-05-1908 - Craig Rice (Georgiana Ann Randolph) - Illinois - d.
8-28-1957
writer: "Murder and Mr. Malone"
07-22-1917 - Lou McGarity - Athens, GA - d. 8-28-1971
jazz trombonist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
08-05-1906 - John Huston - Nevada, MO - d. 8-28-1987
actor, writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-17-1918 - Evelyn Ankers - Valparaiso, Chili - d. 8-28-1985
actor: Argentine Radio
09-03-1918 - David Harmon - NYC - d. 8-28-2001
writer: "America in the Air"; "Now Hear This"
09-12-1910 - Lehman Engel - Jackson, MS - d. 8-28-1982
broadway conductor: "Madrigal Singers of New York"; "Texaco Star
Theatre"
10-13-1918 - Robert Walker - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 8-28-1951
actor: Davy Dillon "Maudie's Diary"
10-30-1896 - Ruth Gordon - Wollaston, MA - d. 8-28-1985
actor: "Lincoln Highway"; "Meet Mr. Weeks"; "Orson Welles Theatre"
11-11-1901 - F. Van Wyck Mason - Boston, MA - d. 8-28-1978
writer: "The Man from G-2"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:35:06 -0400
From: "Wayne Johnson" <wayne_johnson@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: A little fun
You know, with a little time, imagination and some searching, one might find
film clips of their favorite OTR stars:
Joel McCrea, Tales of the Texas Rangers can be found here:
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including a clip that he might like to forget:
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Gerald Mohr doesn't sound so tough when he isn't Phil Marlowe:
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Dick Powell (Richard Diamond) is Phil Marlowe in this clip:
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My favorite female OTR voice can be seen here:
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Just meant as a little diversion. A good way to see the face that belongs
to the voice and watch them act for a change of pace. But then there is
always the GEM ... the man of a thousand voices and the eternally youthful
man of 39.
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:53:50 -0400
From: "Paul F. Murphy" <pfmurphy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Joyce McCluskey
Hello Friends,
Of late I have developed an obsession with one particular OTR voice:
Joyce McCluskey, who appeared frequently on radio Dragnet and also
memorably on two other favorites, This is Your FBI and Broadway is my
Beat. Her innocent voice is uniquely affecting to me. So far I have
found out little about her. She seems to have had a brief Radio/TV
career in the first half of the 1950s, small parts in a couple of
movies, but I know nothing specific. Can anyone help with
information or anecdotes about this unique voice?
all best,
paul murphy
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:54:14 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: John Charles Daly
Don Jensen writes:
interrupted for the Roosevelt death announcement.
I'd thought it was Bob Trout, but perhaps it indeed was John Daly ... when
the news
flash broke in.
For legions who watched What's My Line? on CBS-TV for 17 years (1950-1967)
John Charles Daley was the affable, impish, urbane panel moderator
consummate. But most of those fans forgot that it was his voice that first
told them that the Japanese attacked Pear Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, or that
President Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945. And no one outside
the industry knew he tutored Douglas Edwards for greater responsibility,
preparing him for a post that would one day be Daly's most formidable
competition as the two newsmen sought viewers on rival evening network
telecasts.
--Adapted from "Radio Speakers" (2007) [removed]
Jim Cox
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:54:34 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Did Billy Mills front his own orchestra?
Frank McGurn writes about maestro Billy Mills:
I did a Goggle search and found lots of references to Billy, but all were
in
conjunction with Fibber McGee & Molly, from 1938 to 1953
I have a feeling that Billy had a good paying regular job that kept him busy
for 39 weeks a year.
Here's a thought worth pondering: Did Billy Mills even have an orchestra?
Or was he merely conducting a group selected from the aggregate of resident
staff musicians available at NBC? It's logical to speculate, as some
observers have, that such outfits didn't embrace the same individuals every
week.
"I would imagine that there were some broadcasts which required specific
instrumentation for some mood or another one week, but a different
combination for another," a music historian contended. "A pool seems to me
to be the only logical way they could always have available just what was
needed." If true, it would reaffirm the beauty of a selective system. The
composition of house bands could be tailored to fit the requirements of
specific broadcasts. Of course, the major chains maintained enough talented
artists for every instrument that just the right number of musicians could
be secured without tying up extra people. The ability to customize
translated into significantly reducing expenses for many shows.
--Adapted from "Music Radio" (2005), chapter labeled The House Bands,
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Jim Cox
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:01:05 -0400
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: WEAF real estate ad
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In a message dated 8/26/07 10:08:36 PM Central Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:
Once
the new idea caught on, WEAF officials reneged on a previous hard-line stand
against advertising and permitted it, in limited quantity, starting August
1922. (WEAF's first pitch pronounced the joys of residential apartment
living.)
Does anyone know the source of the oft-repeated audio clip of this sales
pitch? It can't be original for sure, the audio is too clear.
BTW while we're at it, I always heard the real estate pitch on WEAF ran for a
full half [removed] possibly making it broadcasting's first informercial!
Is that true and were there any sales pitches that ran near that long or
longer beforehand, that anyone knows about?
Dixon
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:01:32 -0400
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: wartime commercials/PSA's
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In a message dated 8/26/07 10:55:07 PM Central Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:
Miles Laboratories often gave up its commercial time for war-themed PSAs,
as [removed]
So does Heinz, in their first ever "Information Please" that they sponsored.
They devote an entire commercial break to convincing people not to take out
their frustrations over wartime shortages on their grocer.
Dixon
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:02:12 -0400
From: ARago17320@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re:Billy Mills from #248
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Hi,
I do know that for a lot of those years Mills played on Fibber his guitarist
was the great George Van Eps. I always looked forward to hearing him as he
usually had a small solo on one of the numbers.
Al
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:02:34 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: "Strictly Business"
I received this e-mail, can anyone help. I personally have never
heard of the show in question.
Dear Mr. Sayles:
I am an author writing a biography and career history of Shirley Booth.
I recently obtained on eBay a publicity photo of Shirley, dated 1940,
from a radio show called "Strictly Business." Doing a web search for
more information on this show, I came across your blog sites.
Would you be able to tell me anything more about what seems to be one
of Miss Booth's most obscure roles?
Thanks.
David C. Tucker
Thanks,
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:03:09 -0400
From: mchone@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Patriotism
Someone, I forget who, wrote in recently and mentioned a joke on the Fibber McGee &
Molly program about a globe. I too am going through my FM & M programs and
happened to unknowingly put that same show on yesterday. It is from the program
aired 12-09-41
the day after FDR asked congress for a declaration of war. Mayor LaTrivia mentions
that he needs a globe and Molly asked if he wanted Japan to be on it, he said "of
course", Molly says you better get one quick while it is still there. At the end
of the program Fibber is giving a patriotic talk about buying bonds etc, then the
audience, in unison, sings My Country tis of Thee. My wife commented that that
reminds her of the mood of the country right after 9-11.
Roby McHone
Fairbanks, Alaska
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:23:47 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Motel discount at MANC
For anyone attending the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention, I worked out a
bargain with Red Roof Inn.
Save 15% on stays from September 4, 2007 through November 30, 2007.
Redeeming this offer is simple:
1. Call 1-800-RED-ROOF, or call the inn directly, and mention the code
CP539810.
2. Or book online at [removed] and enter the code CP539810.
If you already made a reservation at the Red Roof, book a new reservation
with the code/discount and if it's cheaper than the rate you already got
with your previous reservation, book it and call back later and cancel the
old reservation. The Red Roof Inn is across the parking lot from the
Clarion where the convention is held. SOme people don't like Red Roof Inn,
others do. I admit it's not classy but for anyone wanting a room with a
discount, this is the best around.
Among the old-time radio recreations on stage, one will be a "lost" episode
of THE ADVENTURES FROM SAM SPADE from 1946, 47 or 48.
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Martin
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