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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2006 : Issue 141
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Re: Cy Feuer [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
CY FEUER [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
George Gobel [ "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed] ]
Great [removed] [ Wich2@[removed] ]
Vincent Lopez Predicts the Future [ "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@hotm ]
LOVE THE SHOW BUT CAN'T FIND ANY [ BERDEAN VANDE VRED8 <[removed] ]
Capt Midnight Code-a-graph Handkerch [ Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed] ]
5-22 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Quick response to Bill Scherer's Den [ "Gary Dixon" <argy@[removed]; ]
"Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Nig [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed]; ]
Houdini [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
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Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 11:36:49 -0400
From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Cy Feuer
on 5/21/06 10:12 AM, [removed]@[removed] at
[removed]@[removed] wrote:
But those of us in the cult of old time radio might know him for his
musical talent in writing some of the music for "Escape," "The Ford
Theater," and "Shorty Bell."
The obits also omitted mention of Cy Feuer's early work at Republic Studios,
where he composed the scores for Roy Rogers' BILLY THE KID RETURNS, the
classic movie serials DAREDEVILS OF THE RED CIRCLE, MYSTERIOUS DOCTOR SATAN
and the ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL, and the MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY movies.
--Oxford comma inserted especially for Derek Tague by Anthony Tollin
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Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 13:22:53 -0400
From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: CY FEUER
Feuer wrote most of the music for those marvelous Republic serials.
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Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 13:23:05 -0400
From: "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: George Gobel
When he was a highly popular boy western singer on the WLS National Barn
Dance in the 1930s, he went by his real name: George Goebel.
So I don't think he'd be related to the Gobel Brewery.
BILL KNOWLTON
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Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 14:08:52 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Great [removed]
...from Charlie's "that's OT!" ax!
In a message dated 5/21/2006 11:12:12 [removed] Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:
But interesting that no one remembers the '70s TELEVISION Houdinimovie,
on ABC, with Paul Michael Glaser and Sally Struthers--
Dear Jim-
I remember it well!
Better cast, and more historically accurate, than the earlier film, I
believe.
(As well as, encouraging me to make a little diorama for my sister's science
project, that included a Mego "Starsky" doll, suspended in a water-filled
glass vase.)
And PETER CUSHING, as Sir Arthur Conan [removed]
Who - though physically FAR off the mark from the Watson-like ACD - did an
admirable job.
(I hear 'ya knockin'...)
If memory serves, Bess never [removed]
Best,
-Craig
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Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 17:07:31 -0400
From: "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Vincent Lopez Predicts the Future
Vincent Lopez was a bandleader who was on the networks pretty consistently
during the OTR era. But I was surprised to find out he was also able to
predict the future. Go here for details
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Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 19:04:32 -0400
From: BERDEAN VANDE VRED8 <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: LOVE THE SHOW BUT CAN'T FIND ANY
THIS IS MY FIRST TIME WRITING TO YOU. I HAVE BEEN A
FAN OF OLD RADIO SHOWS SINCE I WAS 10, I AM NOW 32.
MY PARENTS GOT ME A TAPE WITH THE FIRST TIME THE
CLOSET ROUTINE WAS USED ON FIBBER MCGEE & MOLLY FOR MY
BIRTHDAY AND I HAVE BEEN HOOKED EVERSINCE. I CAN'T
BEGIN TO COUNT THE NUMBER OF EPISODES I OWN ON TAPE OR
CD. I ALSO LOVE THE PHIL HARRIS AND ALICE FAYE SHOW.
I HAVE FOUND THEM TO BE ALOT HARDER TO FIND. I HAVE
QUITE A FEW FROM THE 1948-49 SEASON BUT I CAN'T FIND
ANY OF THE EARLY ONES BEFORE REXALL BECAME THEIR
SPONSOR AND ONLY A FEW OF THE LATER ONES. I HAVE ONE
EPISODE FROM I THINK 1953 AND IT HAS A DIFFERENT ACTOR
PLAYING BROTHER WILLIE AND FRANKIE IS NOW GOING BY HIS
REAL NAME OF ELLIOTT. IS THIS BECAUSE PHIL HAD LEFT
THE JACK BENNY SHOW BY THAT TIME AND REMLEY WAS A NAME
THAT JACK HAD RIGHTS TO?
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Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 21:39:37 -0400
From: Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Capt Midnight Code-a-graph Handkerchief Reply?
.....This piqued Captain Midnight's curiosity, and he
asked,
"Yes, Chuck. Just what's in that handkerchief?"
" 's not a thing." said the faux Chuck?
Just curious
CAB
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conradab@[removed] (Conrad A. Binyon)
Encino, CA
Home of the Stars who loved Ranches and Farms
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Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 23:31:01 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 5-22 births/deaths
May 22nd births
05-22-1859 - Arthur Conan Doyle - Edingurgh, Scotland - d. 7-7-1930
author: "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
05-22-1879 - Alla Nazimova - Yalta in the Crimea - d. 7-13-1945
actor: " I'm An American"; "Towards the Century of the Comman Man"
05-22-1891 - Parks Johnson - Sheffield, AL - d. 10-4-1970
emcee, interviewer: "Vox Pox"
05-22-1903 - Ward Wilson -Trenton, NJ - d. 3-21-1966
actor, announcer: Mr. DeHaven "Aldrich Family"; Beetle "Phil Baker Show"
05-22-1906 - Harry Ritz - Newark, NJ - d. 3-29-1986
comedian: (The Ritz Brothers) "Hollywood Hotel"
05-22-1907 - Laurence Olivier - Dorking, England - d. 7-11-1989
actor: "Biography in Sound"; "Document A/777"; "Hour of Mystery"
05-22-1910 - Johnny Olson - Windom, MN - d. 12-12-1985
emcee, announcer: "Ladies Be Seated"; "Get Rich Quick"
05-22-1934 - Peter Nero - NYC
socialite pianist: "Voices of Vista"
05-22-1938 - Susan Strasberg - NYC - d. 1-21-1999
actor: Emily Marriott "Marriage"
May 22nd deaths
02-01-1902 - Langston Hughes - Joplin, Mo - d. 5-22-1967
writer: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"
02-06-1914 - Thurl Ravenscroft - Norfolk, NE - d. 5-22-2005
singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
02-27-1915 - Donald Curtis - Cheney, WA - d. 5-22-1997
actor: Michael Shayne "Michael Shayne"
03-15-1909 - John Roeburt - d. 5-22-1972
writer: "Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator"; "Inner Sanctum
Mysteries"
03-27-1921 - Fletcher Markle - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - d. 5-22-1991
actor, director, producer: "Columbia Workshop"; "Studio One";
"Mercury Summer Theatre"
04-04-1902 - Bernice Berwin - Bay Area, CA - d. 5-22-2002
actor: Hazel Barbour "One Man's Family"
05-11-1892 - Margaret Rutherford - London, England - d. 5-22-1972
actor: "Wisdon of Miss Marple"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
06-19-1912 - Martin Gabel - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-22-1986
actor: John Wayne "Big Sister"; Gregory Hood "Casebook of Gregory Hood"
06-29-1907 - Joan Davis - St. Paul, MN - d. 5-22-1961
comedienne: "Sealtest Village Store"; "Joan Davis Show"
07-04-1884 - George Trendle - Norwalk, OH - d. 5-22-1972
executive: WXYZ Detroit; Original idea for "The Lone Ranger"
07-10-1909 - Bernard Katz - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-22-1992
pianist: (Cousin of Mel Blanc) "Katz on the Keys"
07-23-1937 - Robert W. Morgan - Galion, OH - d. 5-22-1998
host (communicator) "Monitor"
08-12-1926 - John Derek - Hollywood, CA - d. 5-22-1998
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-30-1917 - Dan Enright - d. 5-22-1992
producer: "Put Up or Shut Up"; "Brain Train"; "Juvenile Jury"; "Life
Begins at 80"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Birthplace of Gerald Hiken
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Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 07:48:10 -0400
From: "Gary Dixon" <argy@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Quick response to Bill Scherer's Dennis Day
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A few issues back, Bill Scherer had indicated that Dennis Day didn't find many
of the Stan Freberg radio shows very funny. [Dennis apparently expressed a
similar sentiment about the Mel Blanc Show]. Whether this is true or not is
subject to debate.
But here are a few of things to keep in mind.
Stan's show aired in [removed] was a 15 week Summer replacement for JACK
BENNY. The 15th show was actually a recap of the previous 14. He was also
competing with [removed] was still rather new. So there's definitely
a reason that some of Stan's comedic material and routines weren't
particularly funny. But if you listen to the 15 shows now and consider the
fact that some of the humor holds up as well as many of the JACK BENNY shows
do, Mr. Freberg should be applauded for his efforts. [removed] of us
are still hoping Stan will release his final UNITED STATES OF AMERICA cd one
of these days.
The radio show: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF DENNIS DAY---even though it ran from
1946 to 1951---wasn't a total success. According to the John Dunning books,
it went through 5 different format changes! The character Dennis played
seemed to focus on the fact that he was always broke, had girlfriend problems,
and a set of parents who either approved (or disapproved) of his work and
lifestyle. Overall, the shows were fair to good. But [removed] emphasize
the fact that most comedy radio programs don't hold up as well as the radio
dramas do.
argytunes
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Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 09:00:29 -0400
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: "Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand
with the Big Bands"
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 May 31, or later;
I'll be moving over the weekend and am not sure when I'll have
a high-speed connection restored.
Program 46 - January, 1974 - Aldo Gisalbert, NBC studio
engineer (Part 2)
In its earliest days NBC operated two networks: NBC Blue,
headed by station WJZ, and NBC Red, headed by WEAF.
This situation arose, due to NBC then owning two stations in
New York (WEAF and WJZ). WEAF and the 'Red' Network
became the flagship network and offered most of the
established shows--and advertisers, and the 'Blue' Network
carried most of the sustaining shows ([removed], shows without
regular sponsors). How did they arrive at the names 'Red'
and 'Blue'? The felt tip marker pen used to trace the routes
of the WJZ-headed stations was blue, and the marker used
to trace the WEAF-headed stations was red. This was a
confusing situation for everyone but NBC and its sponsors
and advertisers.
Program 47: February, 1974 - Larry Haines
Substantial numbers of actors, actresses, and announcers added
up to $30,000 annually to their bottom lines via freelance radio
assignments, a tidy sum in the 1940's. Dashing from one broadcast
center to another, often on the thinnest of time margins, they paid
stand-ins to work rehearsals, hold doors and elevators and reserved
taxis in advance. On their way to the good life, they were often living
on a narrow edge as their voices boomed out of Atwater-Kents at
myriad hours during the first half of the 20th century. At one time
Larry Haines worked in eight different soap operas at the same time.
Larry Haines appeared in almost all of the major evening radio
dramas, including "Gangbusters." He was often cast as a heavy.
"A One Night Stand with the Big Bands" With Arnold Dean
Andy_Kirk and his "Clouds of Joy" - November, 1972
Andy Kirk was born May 28, 1898 in Newport, KY. His
Twelve Clouds of Joy was the first Kansas City band, after
Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, to achieve national
recognition.
Kirk's first professional job was with violinist George
Morrison's band, in which he was featured on bass
saxophone and tuba. He joined Terrence Holder's band
in Dallas, Texas, and was elected leader after Holder's
departure in 1929. In the summer of 1929, the Clouds
of Joy established their base of operation in Kansas City,
opening at the Pla-Mor Ballroom at 32nd and Main.
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: Mon, 22 May 2006 11:39:46 -0400
From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Houdini
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I never had the opportunity to see the movie "Houdini" from the '50's
with Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, but I've heard it was quite good. The only
movie I remember, personally, was one which starred paul Michael Glaser
(from "Starsky and Hutch") which, I believe, was made during the '70's.
I don't recall who played his wife Bess in that movie or even if that version
was ever available on DVD. It was interesting, I give it taht much. Whether
it was historically accurate or not is anyone's guess.
Another OTR Fan,
Kenneth Clarke
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