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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2010 : Issue 112
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
#OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig [ charlie@[removed] ]
Re: Have you heard the Shadow's news [ John Olsen <jrolsen2@[removed]; ]
6-22 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
the best Sherlock [ Michael Berger <[removed]@yaho ]
6-23 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
6-24 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Himan Brown [ "Thomas Heathwood" <heritageradio@m ]
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:12:01 -0400
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 nine 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, 23 Jun 2010 22:26:32 -0400
From: John Olsen <jrolsen2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Have you heard the Shadow's newspaper pal?
Bob Stepno asked:
I've read somewhere that The Shadow's sometime agent, a newspaper reporter
named Clive Burke, turns up in some radio episodes, not just pulp stories,
but I've never run across any of those radio episodes. Have you?
Reporter Clyde (not Clive) Burke appeared these two radio episodes: "The
Poison Death" (01/30/38) and "Night Without End" (10/16/38). However,
there was no indication in either broadcast that he was an agent of The
Shadow. He was just a reporter. There may have been other appearances by
Burke in other episodes, but these two are the ones that immediately
come to mind.
John
--
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"
The wonderful old pulp mystery stories are all reviewed at:
[removed]~deshadow/
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:26:37 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 6-22 births/deaths
June 22nd births
06-22-1887 - Julian Huxley - London, England - d. 2-14-1975
film director: "Information Please"
06-22-1901 - Charlie Agnew - Illinois - d. 10-22-1978
bandleader: "Yeast Foam Program"; "Armandes Face Cream Program"
06-22-1901 - Jack Whiting - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-15-1961
singer: "MGM Radio Club"
06-22-1901 - Phil Duey - Macy, IN - d. 4-7-1982
singer: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Leo Reisman Orchestra";
"Happy Bakers"
06-22-1903 - Ben Pollack - Chicago, IL - d. 6-7-1971
bandleader: Bib band remotes - became the Bob Crosby Orchestra
06-22-1903 - Glenhall Taylor - d. 12-28-1997
producer, director: "Blondie"; "Sherlock Holmes"; "Dinah Shore Show";
"Ozzie and Harriett"
06-22-1906 - Billy Wilder - Sucha, Austria-Hungary - d. 3-27-2002
screenwriter, film director: "Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre"; "Lux
Radio Theatre"
06-22-1907 - Mike Todd - Minneapolis, MN - d. 3-22-1958
film producer: "Closing the New York World's Fair"
06-22-1909 - Milton Kaye - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-14-2006
pianist/arranger: "Roger Kilgore, Public Defender"; "Under Arrest"
06-22-1912 - June Carroll - Detroit, MI - d. 5-16-2004
composer: "New Faces of 1948"
06-22-1914 - Lem Davis - Tampa, FL - d. 1-5-2002
saxophonist, clarinetist: "Jubilee"
06-22-1915 - Robert Soderberg - Ohio - d. 4-9-1996
writer: "Junior Miss"
06-22-1916 - John Craven - NYC - d. 11-24-1995
actor: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Star Spangeled Theatre"
06-22-1916 - Johnny Jacobs - Milwaukee, WI - d. 2-8-1982
announcer: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Frontier Gentleman";
"Granby's Green Acres"
06-22-1918 - Julian Anthony - d. 6-xx-1984
newscaster: "News of Tomorrow"
06-22-1919 - Gower Champion - Geneva, IL - d. 8-25-1980
choreographer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Guest Star"
06-22-1920 - Paul Frees - Chicago, IL - d. 11-1-1986
actor: Jethro Dumont/Green Lama "Green Lama"; Robert Aladdin "Mr.
Aladdin"
06-22-1922 - Joe Siracuso - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-5-1997
drummer: "The Spike Jones Show"
06-22-1925 - Basil Beardsley - d. 12-3-1991
disk jockey: WJER Dover, Ohio
06-22-1930 - Roy Drusky - Atlanta, GA - d. 9-24-2004
singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
06-22-1932 - Prunella Scales - Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England
actor: Sybil Fawlty "Fawlty Towers"; Sarah France "After Henry"
06-22-1941 - Ed Bradley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-9-2006
newscaster: WBCS New York, New York
06-22-1949 - Meryl Streep - Summit, NJ
actor. "Earplay"
June 22nd deaths
01-09-1908 - Carl Swanson - Utica-Rome, NY - d. 6-22-1994
disk jockey: "Mr. Sunshine"
01-14-1909 - Joseph Losey - La Crosse, WI - d. 6-22-1984
director: "Words at War"
01-26-1899 - Wyllis Cooper - Pekin, IL - d. 6-22-1955
producer, writer, director: "Lights Out"; "Quiet Please"
03-17-1905 - Lisa Sergio - Florence, Italy - d. 6-22-1989
news and music commentator: "Let's Talk it Over"; "One Woman's Opinion"
03-17-1927 - Betty Allen - Campbell, OH - d. 6-22-2009
singer: "National Music League"; "Tin Pan Alley"
03-30-1905 - Don Hollenbeck - Lincoln, NE - d. 6-22-1954
news commentator: "CBS Views the Press"; "You Are There"
05-03-1897 - Charlie Lung - England - d. 6-22-1974
actor: Paul Sycamore "You Can't Take It with You"; "Wild Bill Hickok";
"Escape"
05-10-1899 - Fred Astaire - Omaha, NE - d. 6-22-1987
dancer, actor: "Fred Astaire Show"
05-10-1902 - David O. Selznick - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-22-1965
film producer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Bud's Bandwagon"
05-10-1907 - Pee Wee Hunt - Mount Healthy, OH - d. 6-22-1979
composer: "The Hoagy Carmichael Show"
05-12-1937 - George Carlin - NYC - d. 6-22-2008
comedian : Teamed up with Jack Burns on KDAY Los Angeles
05-17-1906 - John Cannon - Chicago, IL - d. 6-22-2001
announcer, actor: "City Hospital"; "Jack Armstrong, the All-American
Boy"
05-21-1916 - Dennis Day - The Bronx, NY - d. 6-22-1988
singer, comedian: "Jack Benny Program"; "Day in the Life of Dennis Day"
05-22-1918 - Herb Arrasmith - d. 6-22-1985
disk jockey: KERN Bakersfield, California
06-07-1896 - Hope Summers - Mattoon, IL - d. 6-22-1979
actor: Clara "Girl Alone"
06-10-1922 - Judy Garland - Grand Rapids, MN - d. 6-22-1969
singer, actor: Romantic Interest "The Hardy Family"; "Good News of 1938"
08-10-1902 - Venezuela Jones - d. 6-22-1995
actor: Susie Robinson "Our Gal Sunday"
08-24-1909 - Ridley Bell - d. 6-22-1989
newscaster: WGBA Columbus, Ohio
09-01-1914 - Bert Bank - Montgomery, AL - d. 6-22-2009
Founder of the Alabama Football Radio Network
09-11-1889 - Bill Comstock - Syracuse, NY - d. 6-22-1979
actor: Tizzy Lish "Mirth Parade"
10-06-1866 - Dr. Reginald Fessenden - Milton, Canada - d. 6-22-1932
made world's first radio voice broadcast (Decmeber 24, 1906)
10-18-1908 - Rene Garriguenc - d. 6-22-1998
composer: "Rogers of the Gazette"; "Advs. of Sam Spade, Detective"
10-28-1915 - Dody Goodman - Columbus, OH - d. 6-22-2008
actor: "Hopalong Cassidy"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
11-10-1931 - Don Henderson - Leytonstone, East London, England - d.
6-22-1997
actor: "The Wolf and the Woodcutter"
12-09-1927 - Benny Green - Leeds, England - d. 6-22-1998
musician, conversationalist, writer: ""Stop the Week"; "Kaleidoscope"
12-14-1884 - Jane Cowl - Boston, MA - d. 6-22-1950
actor: "Great Plays"; "Brownstone Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-28-1896 - Rose Franken - Gainesville, TX - d. 6-22-1988
writer: "Claudia and David" based on her stories
12-29-1892 - Emory Parnell - St. Paul, MN - d. 6-22-1979
actor: Grouch "Grouch Club"; "Eddie Bracken Show"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
Ron
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:26:45 -0400
From: Michael Berger <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: the best Sherlock
Listened recently to a 1940s Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone and the
Hollywood version of Dr. Watson, and wondered whether the far superior BBC
multi-series [from the 1980s onward] qualifies as OTR. If so, I highly
recommend any of them, but especially the ones written by Bert Coules. Those
of you with access to Usenet can use searches to download several that are
stlil online.
Michael Berger
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:26:49 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 6-23 births/deaths
June 23rd births
06-23-1876 - Irvin S. Cobb - Paducah, KY - d. 3-10-1944
humorist: "Gulf Show"; "Paducah Plantation"
06-23-1884 - Marley R. Sherris - Toronto, Canada - d. 7-2-1956
announcer: "Midweek Hymn Sing"; "National Vespers"
06-23-1889 - Kajetan Attl - d. 2-13-1976
harpist: KPO, San Francisco, California
06-23-1894 - King Edward VIII - Richmond Park, England - d. 5-28-1972
king, ex-king, duke: Abdication Speech for the "woman" he loved
06-23-1894 - Laurie York Erskine - England - d. 11-30-1976
author: "Renfrew of the Mounted"; "Adventure Story"; "National
Children's Week"
06-23-1895 - Pick Malone - nr. Dallas, TX - d. 1-22-1962
comedian: "Show Boat"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
06-23-1907 - Eddie Pola - NYC - d. 11-3-1995
director: "Blondie"
06-23-1908 - Erik Barnouw - The Netherlands - d. 7-19-2001
radio historian/author: "A Tower of Babel"; "The Golden Web"; "The
Image Empire"
06-23-1910 - Edward P. Morgan - Walla Walla, WA - d. 1-27-1993
newscaster: "News and Commentary"
06-23-1910 - Milt Hinton - Vicksburg, MS - d. 12-19-2000
jazz bassist: "Town Hall Concert"; "Monsanto Night: Benny Goodman"
06-23-1911 - Eddie Miller - New Orleans, LA - d. 4-1-1991
saxaphone: "The Bob Crosby Show"
06-23-1912 - John Milton Kennedy - Farrell, PA - d. 6-11-2006
announcer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Tidbit Revue"
06-23-1914 - Nat Hiken - Chicago, IL - d. 12-7-1968
creator, director, writer: "Magnificent Montague"; "Texaco Star Theatre"
06-23-1916 - Irene Worth - Fairbury, NE - d. 3-10-2002
actor: "Odyssey of Homer"
06-23-1917 - Norman Rose - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-12-2004
narrator: "Dimension X"
06-23-1922 - Rusty Morris - Colorado - d. 5-14-1986
actor: "Halls of Ivy"; "Mayor of the Town"; "This Is Your FBI"
06-23-1923 - George Russell - Cincinnati, OH - d. 7-29-2009
composer, theoretician, pianist: Director of Swedish Radio
06-23-1925 - Larry Blyden - Houston, TX - d. 5-6-1975
actor: "Radio City Playhouse"; "Cavalcade of America"
06-23-1929 - June Carter Cash - Maces Spring, VA - d. 5-15-2003
singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
06-23-1943 - James Levine - Cincinnati, OH
conductor: "The Metropolitan Opera"
06-23-1944 - "Jolly Joe" Truszkowski - Warrior Run, PA - d. 4-23-2009
polka bandleader: WICK-AM Wilkes Barre, PA
June 23rd deaths
01-28-1880 - Mary Boland - Detroit, MI - d. 6-23-1965
03-06-1923 - Ed McMahon - Detroit, MI - d. 6-23-2009
actor-announcer: Monitor"
03-25-1897 - John Laurie - Dumfries, Scotland - d. 6-23-1980
actor: James Fraser "Dad's Army"
04-30-1925 - Corinne Calvert - Paris, France - d. 6-23-2001
actor: "Martin and Lewis Show"
05-17-1911 - Maureen O'Sullivan - Boyle, Ireland - d. 6-23-1998
actor: "Dreft Star Playhouse"; "Family Theatre"
06-12-1914 - Sydna Scott - Chicago, IL - d. 6-23-1996
actor: "Luke Slaughter of Tombstone"
06-21-1880 - Mary Young - d. 6-23-1971
actor: Lily "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"
07-07-1907 - Elton Britt - Marshall, AR - d. 6-23-1972
singer: "Tennessee Jed"
08-13-1886 - Aurania Rouverol - Utah - d. 6-23-1955
author: "Andy Hardy"
08-18-1893 - Benjamin Abrams - Rumania - d. 6-23-1967
co-founder of Emerson radio
08-22-1936 - John Callaway - New Martinsville, WV - d. 6-23-2009
journalist: "Chicago Tonight"; "Nightline"
08-28-1891 - Stanley Andrews - Chicago, IL - d. 6-23-1969
actor: Daddy Warbucks "Little Orphan Annie"
09-07-1905 - Ivy Maude Baker Priest - Kimberly, UT - d. 6-23-1975
treasurer of the united states: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
09-26-1893 - Fay Holden - Birmingham, England - d. 6-23-1973
actor: Mrs. Hardy "The Hardy Family"
09-29-1895 - Colonel Roscoe Turner - d. 6-23-1970
host, narrator: "Sky Blazers"
10-06-1925 - Shana Alexander - NYC - d. 6-23-2005
writer and commentary
10-17-1917 - Sumner Locke Elliott - Sydney, Australia - d. 6-23-1991
writer: "Jezebel's Daughter"
11-16-1895 - Michael Arlen - Rustchuk, Bulgaria - d. 6-23-1956
creator: "The Falcon"
Ron
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:26:57 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 6-24 births/deaths
June 24th births
06-24-1891 - Irving Pichel - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 7-13-1954
actor, film director: "Gulf Screen Theatre";"Screen Director's
Playhouse"
06-24-1893 - Arthur Hughes - Bloomington, IL - d. 12-28-1982
actor: Bill Davidson "Just Plain Bill"; Stephen Dallas "Stella Dallas"
06-24-1895 - Jack Dempsey - Manassa, CO - d. 5-31-1983
boxing champion: "Ben Bernie Show"; "Kemtone Hour"; "Saturday Night
Bandwagon"
06-24-1900 - Gene Austin - Gainesville, TX - d. 1-24-1972
singer: "Gene Austin"; "Joe Penner Show"; "[removed] Musical Showroom"
06-24-1904 - Phil Harris - Linton, IN - d. 8-11-1995
bandleader, singer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show"
06-24-1909 - Milton Katims - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-27-2006
violist, conductor: "NBC Symphony"; "Eternal Light"
06-24-1910 - Cootie Williams - Mobile, AL - d. 9-14-1985
jazz trumpet player: "Jubilee"
06-24-1910 - Katherine Locke - Kalakenchu, Russia - d. 9-12-1995
actor: (Wife of Norman Corwin) "Columbia Presents Corwin"
06-24-1912 - Brian Johnston - Little Berkhamsted, England - d. 1-5-1994
entertainer-commentator: "In Town Tonight"; "Down Your Way"
06-24-1914 - Allan E. Sloane - d. 4-29-2001
writer: "Indictment"; "Bulldog Drummond"; "The Man Behind the Gun"
06-24-1915 - Jack Sterling - Baltimore, MD - d. 10-31-1991
announcer/emcee: "Make Up Your Mind"
06-24-1921 - Peggy DeCastro - On a Sugar Plantation, Dominican
Republic - d. 3-6-2004
singer: (The DeCastro Sisters) "Steve Lawrence Show"; "Here's to
Veterans"
06-24-1923 - Jack Carter - NYC
comedian: "Philip Morris Playhouse on Broadway"
06-24-1924 - Mickey "Junior" O'Day - Newark, NJ
actor: Peter Pig "Children's Hour"; Neddie Evans "Big Sister"
06-24-1924 - Thelma Rogers - Coventry, England - d. 1-13-2000
actor: "The Archers"
06-24-1925 - Louis Jean Brunelli - NYC
assistant conductor: "Longines Symphonette"
06-24-1929 - Barbara Franklin (Perkins) - Regina, Canada - d. 2-15-2009
actor/singer: "Opportunity Knocks"
June 24th deaths
01-28-1921 - Jerry Appy - d. 6-24-1990
sportscaster: KXXX Colby, Kansas
02-26-1916 - Jackie Gleason - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-24-1987
comedian: "Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne Show"
04-09-1883 - Frank King - Cashton, WI - d. 6-24-1969
cartoonist: Created Gasoline Alley comic strip
05-17-1925 - Ira Tucker - Spartanburg, SC - d. 6-24-2008
gospel singer: (The Dixie Hummingbirds) WCAU Philadelphia, PA
05-23-1911 - Dorothy Lee - Los Angeles, CA - d. 6-24-1999
singer: "Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians"
05-26-1915 - Ray Austin - NYC - d. 6-24-1998
composer/arranger for many big bands
05-29-1937 - Misora Hibari - Yokohama, Japan - d. 6-24-1989
enka singer: "Kohaku Uta Gassen"
07-04-1913 - Barbara Weeks - Boston, MA - d. 6-24-2003
actor: "Pulitzer Prize Plays"; "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"; "Romance"
08-04-1889 - William Keighley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-24-1984
host: Lux Radio Theatre
08-28-1898 - Artells Dickson - Oklahoma Territory - d. 6-24-1968
actor: Tom Mix "Tom Mix"; Slim "Pretty Kitty Kelly"
09-06-1908 - Paul Lavalle - Beacon, NY - d. 6-24-1997
conductor: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"; "Dinah Shore
Show"
09-13-1912 - Claude Casey - Enoree, SC - d. 6-24-1999
country, bluegrass: "Briarhoppers"
09-18-1894 - Willard Robison - Shelbina, MO - d. 6-24-1968
orchestra leader: (Evangelist of Rhythm) "Plantation Echoes"
10-09-1912 - John Tackaberry - Adelaide, Australia - d. 6-24-1969
writer: "Jack Benny Program"
10-21-1907 - Jack Holden - Alba, MI - d. 6-24-1971
announcer: "National Barn Dance"; "Uncle Ezra"
12-21-1922 - Paul Winchell - NYC - d. 6-24-2005
ventriloquist: "Paul Winchell-Jerry Mahoney Show"
12-28-1879 - Frank Blanchford - Toronto, Canada - d. 6-24-1957
violinist: WGY Schenectady, New York
Ron
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:29:19 -0400
From: "Thomas Heathwood" <heritageradio@[removed];
To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Himan Brown
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For folks interested in Hi Brown's shows, you will find a number of his
programs on The Olde Tyme Radio Network this week.
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t> streaming 24/7
Tom Heathwood
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