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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2010 : Issue 49
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
  Kate [removed]                       [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  Behind every great announcer          [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  When Kate Smith electrified the nati  [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  Panic in Georgia After a Mock News B  [ charlie@[removed] ]
  3-15 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:18:24 -0500
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

Hi Friends,

Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
Radio Theatre," Bob Bro's "The Old Time Radio Show," Jonn and Larry
Gassman's "Same Time Station" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."
Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

St. Patrick's Day Special

THE DANNY KAYE SHOW
Episode 11 3-17-45 "One Irishman's Family"
Guest: Kitty Kallen
CBS Pabst Blue Ribbon
Stars: Eve Arden, Lional Stander, Harry James and His Music Makers

MAN OF MAGIC
Episode 1 3-16-44 "Smiling Irish Eyes"
Guest: Wendie Barrie
Mutual Eichler's Beer
Stars: Felix Greenfield, A Mind Reader

THE RAILROAD HOUR
Episode 24 3-14-49 "Eileen"
Guest Stars: Cecil Kelloway, Irene Manning, Clark Dennis
ABC Association Of American Railroads
Host/Star: Gordon MacRae

BING CROSBY-ROSEMARY CLOONEY SHOW
Episode 14 3-17-60 "Did Your Mother Come From Ireland?" CBS General
Electric Stars: Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Ken Carpenter, The Buddy
Cole Trio Producers: Bill Morrow and Murdo McKenzie
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

TOWN HALL TONIGHT
(NBC) 3/17/37 starring Fred Allen on his St. Patrick's Day show
including a Hillbilly sketch, an Irish tenor and a real Irish band.

THE ADV. OF SUPERMAN
3/13/40 Trouble on the way to Canyon City.
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THE OLD TIME RADIO SHOW

Voyage of the Scarlet Queen (Mutual)
Original Air: 7/10/47
Title: "The White Jade Buddha"
Sponsor: Sustained
Starring: Elliott Lewis and Ed Maxx

I Love a Mystery (Mutual)
Original Air: 10-31-49
Title: "Thing That Cries in the Night - Episode #1"
Sponsor: Sustained
Starring: Russell Thorson, Jim Boles, and Tony Randall

Our Miss Brooks (CBS)
Original Air: 7-3-55
Title: "Hillbilly Heifetz"
Sponsor: Anacin
Starring: Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Richard Crenna, and Jane Morgan

Gunsmoke (CBS)
Original Air: 3/26/55
Title: "Horse Deal"
Sponsor: L & M Cigarettes
Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, and Georgia Ellis
Announcer: George Walsh
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION

We pay tribute to St Patrick's day

BURNS AND ALLEN
03-07-41
Featuring Burns and Allen as they take in a St. Patrick's day parade.
This week, from New York City, The show is brought to you by Hormel and
Spam.
Cast: George Burns and Gracie Allen, Minerva Pious,
With Artie Shaw and his orchestra, Songs by the Three Smooties,
(Announcer) Jimmy Wallington.
Heard on the NBC Radio Network.

BEAT THE BAND
03-17-40.
NBC General Mills (KIX Cereal)
With Host Gary More, Music by Ted Weems and his orchestra, Elmo Tanner,
Red Ingle, Orm Downes, Country Washburn.
Vocalists were Parker Gibbs, Marvel (Marilyn) Maxwell, and Perry Como.
Announcer: Fort Pearson.

THE QUIZ KIDS
03-11-51. episode 560 St. Patrick's Day Show From Chicago; With the
Chief Quizzer, Joe Kelly And Quiz Kids, Patrick Owen Conlon, Mike
Mullin, Announcer: Bob Murphy

SHERLOCK HOLMES
03-18-46 Episode 210 "Adventure Of The Blarney Stone"
Sponsor: Petri Wines.
With Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce,
With Paula Winslowe,
The show was written by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green.
Announcer: Harry Bartell
Heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
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If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

      Jerry Haendiges

      Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
      The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
      Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
the Net

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:22:14 -0500
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Kate [removed]

Gene Dench wants to know when Kate Smith first sang "God Bless
America" on radio.

As reported in the Dec 2009 issue of RADIO RECALL, Kate first sang
"God Bless America" on her 11-10-38 radio show, which would have been
a program dedicated to Armistice Day.

Irving Berlin had originally written this song for a 1918 musical but
it was cut before the show opened. In 1938 he dug it out of his trunk
and gave it to Kate, in response to her request that he write her a
new song for her program. He said he didn't have time, but he
remembered a song he had composed twenty years earlier and offered it
instead.

Of course, it went on the become the most-played song of WW II and
will be forever associated with Kate. She sang it countless times on
radio and in concerts, however I do not believe that any recording
exists of that 1938 show.

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:22:25 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Behind every great announcer

Ed Kienzler aptly reminds us:

The name "Fireside Chats" was first used by Robert Trout from  CBS
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Correct!  Pay that man 64 silver dollars.  Trout was the first to say it on
the air.

Giving more credit where it's due, the "Fireside Chats sobriquet [was]
inspired by Alexandria, Va. station WJSV honcho Harry Butcher who knew FDR
spoke from [the] White House Diplomatic Reception Room by [the] fireplace;
Robert Trout, CBS announcer, used [the] epithet introducing FDR March 12
[1933]."

Behind every great announcer stood ... a station or network manager ...
possibly?

The excerpt is from This Day in Network Radio at
[removed].

Jim Cox

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:22:30 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  When Kate Smith electrified the nation

Gene Dench inquires:

I am trying to find out when Kate Smith sang "God Bless America" for the
first
time on radio.

"November 10, 1938, Smith premiered God Bless America on her 60-minute Kate
Smith Hour over CBS, a performance critic Leonard Maltin asserted 'made the
song an anthem overnight.'  The new piece 'electrified the nation' claimed
another source.  Earlier that same afternoon she had advised noontime
listeners that the [Irving] Berlin work she was to introduce that night
'will be timeless -- it will never die -- others will thrill to its beauty
long after we are gone.'  As she often was, Kate Smith would prove to be
right.  (Can any who lived through the Smith era dispassionately dismiss her
rendition of that tune in a contemporary celebration of Independence Day?
It would likely be difficult for millions to disassociate the two.)"

There is much more on this topic in an extensive Smith treatise in Music
Radio:  The Great Performers and Programs of the 1920s through Early 1960s
at [removed].

Jim Cox

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:22:36 -0500
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Panic in Georgia After a Mock News Broadcast

Folks;

   An independent television station in the republic of Georgia panicked the
populous by running a satirical "mocumentary" depicting a Russian invasion,
drawing comparisons to Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast:

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         Charlie

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:23:12 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  3-15 births/deaths

How many of you remember this date as "Tax Day?"

March 15th births

03-15-1874 - Harold Ickes - Frankstown, PA - d. 2-3-1952
secretary of interior: "Information Please"
03-15-1877 - Montague Love - Portsmouth, England - d. 5-17-1943
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Suspense"
03-15-1883 - Ernie Hare - Norfolk, VA - d. 3-9-1939
singer: (The Happiness Boys)
03-15-1887 - Billy Jones - NYC - d. 11-23-1940
singer: (The Happiness Boys)
03-15-1898 - Everett Mitchell - Austin, IL - d. 11-9-1990
annnouncer, host: "National Farm and Home Hour"; "Voice of the Farm"
03-15-1901 - Madeleine Pierce - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-8-1983
actor: Wiki "Just Plain Bill"; Rudy Cameron "When A Girl Marries"
03-15-1904 - George Brent - Dublin, Ireland - d. 5-26-1979
actor, moderator: "Doctor Fights"; "Leave It to the Girls"; "Lux Radio
Theatre"
03-15-1904 - Pat O'Malley - Burnley, Lancashire, England - d. 3-1-1985
actor: "Cavalcade of America";"Lux Radio Theatre"
03-15-1904 - Verree Teasdale - Spokane, WA - d. 2-17-1987
actor: (Wife of Adolph Menjou) "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
03-15-1905 - Margaret Webster - NYC - d. 11-13-1972
stage actor, director: "Information Please"
03-15-1905 - Nat Perrin - New York - d. 5-9-1998
writer: "The Marx Brothers"
03-15-1907 - Jimmy McPartland - Chicago, IL - d. 3-13-1991
jazz artist: "Doctor Jazz"; "Town Hall Concert"
03-15-1908 - Roland Varno (Varnoux) - Utrecht, Netherlands - d.
5-24-1996
character actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "You Were There"
03-15-1909 - John Roeburt - d. 5-22-1972
writer: "Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator"; "Inner Sanctum
Mysteries"
03-15-1910 - Nick Stewart - NYC - d. 12-18-2000
actor: "Hollywood Newsreel of the Air"
03-15-1911 - Abraham A. Albayalde - d. 2-23-1994
newscaster: KTOH Lihue, Hawaii
03-15-1913 - Macdonald Carey - Sioux City, IA - d. 3-21-1994
actor: Jonathan Hillary "Just Plain Bill "; Lee Markham "Woman in White"
03-15-1915 - David Schoenbrun - NYC - d. 5-23-1988
news correspondent: CBS News, Paris; "CBS Radio Workshop"
03-15-1915 - Johnny Frazer - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-11-1945 Died in WWII
announcer: "Brenthouse"; "The Bob Hope Show"; "The Kool Show"
03-15-1916 - Frank Coghlan, Jr. - New Haven, CT - d. 9-7-2009
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Doctor Christian"
03-15-1916 - Harry James - Albany, GA - d. 7-5-1983
bandleader: "Spotlight Bands"; "Call for Music"
03-15-1919 - Lawrence Tierney - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-26-2002
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-15-1919 - Merv Baldrica - d. 4-25-2006
sportscaster: WMIQ Iron Mountain, Michigan
03-15-1927 - Carl Smith - Maynardville, TN - d. 1-16-2010
country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Cas Walker's Radio Show"
03-15-1932 - Ray Aparicio - d. 1-12-2006
disk jockey: KBUC Corona, California
03-15-1939 - Robert (Thomas) Nye - London, England
writer: "Sisters"

March 15th deaths

01-22-1909 - Ann Sothern - Valley City, ND - d. 3-15-2001
actor: Maisie Revere "Maisie"
03-21-1906 - Helen Deutsch - NYC - d. 3-15-1992
writer: "Forecast": "Gulf Screen Guild Theatre", "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-30-1930 - Pepper Barker - d. 3-15-1998
disk jockey: WCMB Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
04-13-1906 - Bud Freeman - Chicago, IL - d. 3-15-1991
tenor sax player: "Camel Caravan"; "Fats Waller Jam School"; "Doctor
Jazz"
05-17-1923 - Alice Backes - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 3-15-2007
actor: "This Is Your FBI"; "The Whistler"; "Family Theatre"
08-24-1912 - Durward Kirby - Covingnton, KY - d. 3-15-2000
announcer, emcee: "Club Matinee"; "Honeymoon in New York"
08-27-1916 - Larry Thor - Lundar, Manitoba, Canada - d. 3-15-1976
actor: Danny Clover "Broadway Is My Beat"
08-29-1910 - John Kane - Davenport, IA - d. 3-15-1910
actor: Tom Jones "Five Star Jones"; Scubby "Nick Carter"
08-xx-1864 - Clara Lane - Ellsworth, ME - d. 3-15-1952
singer: WBZ Boston, Massachusetts
09-13-1910 - Van Amburg - d. 3-15-1990
sportscaster: KPIX San Francisco, California
11-11-1898 - Rene Clair - Paris, France - d. 3-15-1981
film director: "This Week Around Paris"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-26-1889 - H. I. Phillips - Connecticut - d. 3-15-1965
writer, composer: "Information Please"
12-21-1908 - Sylvester L. "Pat" Weaver - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-15-2002
producer: "Fred Allen Show"

Ron

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