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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 247
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Congrats to the Gotham Radio Players  [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
  Musings on "Who's on First?           [ ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed]; ]
  Who Is on First, Anyway?              [ "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@hotm ]
  Jack Benny and Lawrence Welk          [ JackBenny@[removed] ]
  Variations on Who's On First          [ "James Yellen" <clifengr3@[removed] ]
  Feetlebaum Rides Again                [ Jordan Young <jyoung@[removed]; ]
  Garbled transcription                 [ "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
  James Melton                          [ JackBenny@[removed] ]
  Tom Delong                            [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
  Radio Memories Network                [ TED DAVENPORT <tedotr@[removed] ]
  You had to be a real dummy to not kn  [ Doug Berryhill <fibbermac@[removed] ]
  Attention Peter Lorre [removed]         [ Doug Berryhill <fibbermac@[removed] ]
  8-15 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Deaths in July                        [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Sea Legs matter part 5                [ Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@yahoo ]
  WTIC's Golden Age of Radio            [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 12:24:58 -0400
From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Congrats to the Gotham Radio Players, on the
 Lincoln Center Gig

Congradulations, Steve!

This is a GREAT place to do this type of performance. By odd
coincidence, I was there just yesterday afternoon, for a  friend's show.

(Avant garde puppets, in 100-degree heat; interesting [removed])

Folks near Manhattan, should definitely go!

(And, if you need any more incentive, you'l be just about one thousand
feet away from the Billy Rose Collection, at the Performing Arts
Library, which--as that ether boy, Derek Tague, can tell you--has a ton
of great OTR, and other, wondrous, lore, and ephemera.)

((And, in an another odd, coincidence, Lore and Effie-mora were the
names of two gals I once hung out with, at the bar at [removed]))

This is a wonderful opportunity to introduce a wider segment of the
populace to voice-acting presentations!

Best, Jim Burns

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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:58:44 -0400
From: ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Musings on "Who's on First?

I can't recall the contents now but A & C did a horse racing variation on
the baseball theme.  They used racing terms with double meanings which C
didn't get but took it's common meaning with obserd results.  One bit was
something like "he is on the second leg", to which C replied "don't horses
have 4 legs?".  I recall it was every bit as funny as the baseball gag.
                               XB
                                IC|XC

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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:58:58 -0400
From: "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Who Is on First, Anyway?

The discussion of the classic Abbott and Costello routine reminds me that
when I am having a conversation with someone and I don't know what on earth
they are talking about, or they obviously don't know what I'm talking about,
I get exasperated and throw the phrase "Who's on First?" into the
conversation.  People rarely catch the reference, but it helps me relieve my
frustration and I don't get into trouble by swearing.

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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:02:43 -0400
From: JackBenny@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Jack Benny and Lawrence Welk

Steve Salaba writes:

they show a black & white clip of Jack Benny as a guest  violinist - and
the band plays "When You Say "I Beg Your Pardon', I'll  Come Back to You"!!
It's the song that Jack supposedly wrote and was  featured several times on
Jack's radio show

That's actually from an appearance that Lawrence Welk and his orchestra did
on Jack's program of 10/23/62.  If you saw the whole thing of Jack doing a
bit with Lawrence Welk to "prove" that orchestra leaders really don't do
anything, then you're seeing something that was lifted almost verbatim from
Jack's
vaudeville days.  Jack also does the same bit, word for word at  times, with
George Olsen on the original Canada Dry series back in 1932.

--Laura Leff
President, IJBFC
[removed]

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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:02:16 -0400
From: "James Yellen" <clifengr3@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Variations on Who's On First

There are even modern variations on this old routine. Most memorable is the
one by Johnny Carson
showing President  Ronald Reagan being briefed by an aide. Puns were made
with the names of Chinese leader  Hu (who?), of Yasser Arafat (yes, sir),
and of  Interior Secretary  James Watt (what?).

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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 19:54:31 -0400
From: Jordan Young <jyoung@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Feetlebaum Rides Again

My guess (someone else can verify) is that "William Tell" came
before "Dance", and that "Dance" was playing off the popularity of
"William Tell".

Timothy Clough

Doodles was doing both routines in nightclubs--sans music--as early
as 1944, before he joined Spike. The RCA recording of "William Tell"
was released 4/48, "Dance" came out 7/49.



Doodles Weaver did his Feitlebaum character in at least one movie,
THE ROAD TO NASHVILLE (1967) -- as "Colonel Feitlebaum." Some sources
suggest Weaver borrowed his Spoonerism-spouting character from 1930s
comedian Joe Twerp. True?

Bhob Stewart

Doodles named Roy Atwell as his influence when I asked him in 1982;
he never mentioned Twerp, whose rendition of "Trapeze" (heard on
radio in 1935) is the obvious source of Weaver's parody. But Twerp
didn't hold a grudge; he later collaborated with Weaver on similar
material.

Weaver recorded an album called "Feetlebaum Returns" in '74. In fact,
he peeled the cellophane from an LP to wrap a leftover baked potato
at a banquet the night I first met him. But I [removed]

Jordan R. Young
"Spike Jones Off the Record"
[removed]

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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:21:01 -0400
From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Garbled transcription

Joe Salerno nicely included references to two websites that contained
information on Spike Jones' "William Tell Overture".   I got a kick out of
the phonetic transcription contained at [removed].  They thought
Stoogehand was Stu Chan - must have been a Chinese horse.  They had no clue
about Notary Sojack, who besides being a horse in the race was a character
in the old "The Little King" comic strips of the time.  Of course, it's
anyone's guess now how "Feetlebaum" is spelled, but they have it
"Feitlebaum".  Oh, [removed]

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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:21:20 -0400
From: JackBenny@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  James Melton

I have an inquiry from the daughter of James  Melton, a radio, recording
and opera star from the mid 1920s to the mid  50s.  He appeared on Jack
Benny's radio program in the 1930s.  She is  looking for any articles
relating to
his career and/or personal anecdotes of  interest to help with a book about
her
father. She would appreciate any  information that you may be able to provide.

Contact:
Margo Melton  Nutt
[removed]@[removed]

--Laura Leff
President,  IJBFC
[removed]

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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:22:04 -0400
From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Tom Delong

Hi everybody,

does any one have a contact for Tom Delong?  Frank Bresee would like me to
get in touch with him.  Take care,

Walden Hughes

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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:24:23 -0400
From: TED DAVENPORT <tedotr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Radio Memories Network
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It has come to my attention that a radio podcasting website is operating
under the name of RADIO MEMORIES.  Their official name is the Radio Memories
Network, however their logo states simply "Radio Memories".  As most of you
know, I have operated my OTR company for tape sales & rentals under the name
of RADIO MEMORIES for the past 10 years.  I have spent my money and the past
decade making RADIO MEMORIES a recognized and trusted name. "Radio Memories
Network" is not affiliated with me, nor did they ask my permission to use the
name, RADIO MEMORIES.  I just wanted as many people as possible to know that
I have no connection with what they have done, are doing, or will be doing in
the future.

Ted Davenport
Radio Memories
[removed]

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[ADMINISTRIVIA: You can tell this is a different operation; other than the
program done by our friend Jim Widner, the quality of the "podcasts" is
nothing like the quality of the _real_ Radio [removed] is, in fact, a bit
amaturish, in this critic's opinion.  --cfs3]

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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:16:32 -0400
From: Doug Berryhill <fibbermac@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  You had to be a real dummy to not know you
 were on "This is Your Life".

Fibbermac here-
In March of 1950, the "This is Your Life" radio show
did a two-part program honoring and recounting the
life of Charlie McCarthy. (Since Charlie was a wooden
ventriloquist dummy, I was able to state that, not
only didn't he know about the show in advance, but he
didn't even know he'd been on the show when it was
over.) However, this was another instance where the
honoree knew about the show in advance, since the show
was largely a tribute to Edgar Bergen and there was no
attempt to keep Bergen in the dark. Ralph Edwards
admitted at the begining of the program that Bergen
was in on the secret in order to surprise Charlie. In
fact nearly all of the dialogue from the "surprise
guests" seems to be scripted in order for Charlie to
give his trade-mark punchlines and zingers.

-Fibbermac-

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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:16:52 -0400
From: Doug Berryhill <fibbermac@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Attention Peter Lorre [removed]

There is a new, authorized biography coming out next
month of Peter Lorre. I understand that it will
include a complete listing of his radio appearances.
Here's some info from the web site:

Release Date: September 28, 2005
Format: Hard-bound
Illustrations: 76
Pages: 664 -- Including Appendix (Peter Lorre's Stage,
Film, Radio, and Television credits), Notes,
Bibliography, Interviews, and Index
ISBN: 0-8131-2360-7
Price: $[removed]

To see more about the book and pre-order a copy, check
out:
[removed]

I should mention that I have no financial interest in
the matter, however, I understand that I'll be listed
in the acknowledgements for assisting in compiling Mr.
Lorre's radio appearances.
-FIBBERMAC-

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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:17:01 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  8-15 births/deaths

August 15th births

08-15-1879 - Ethel Barrymore - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-18-1959
actress: Hattie Thompson "Miss Hattie"
08-15-1885 - Edna Ferber - Kalamazoo, MI - d. 4-16-1968
author: "Cavalcade of America"; "Cables from Lisbon"; "Campbell Playhouse"
08-15-1888 - Albert Spalding - Chicago, IL - d. 5-26-1952
violinist: "Forecast"; "Pause That Refreshes . . . On the Air"
08-15-1897 - Aben Kandel - d. 1-28-1993
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-15-1897 - Charles Tobias - New York City, NY - d. 7-7-1970
songwriter: (Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree) :Music for Millions"; "Great
Moments to Music"
08-15-1898 - Monroe Upton - d. 8-6-1990
announcer, writer, comedian: KFRC San Francisco
08-15-1901 - Ned Washington - Scranton, PA - d. 12-20-1976
songwriter: "Dick Aurandt Show"
08-15-1901 - Sam Perrin - d. 1-8-1998
writer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Phil Baker Show"; "Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou"
08-15-1903 - Jerry Cady - d. 11-7-1948
writer: "Major Hoople"
08-15-1909 - Hugo Winterhalter - d. 9-17-1973
pop-music conductor, arranger: "Johnny Desmond Program"; "Musical Showcase"
08-15-1910 - Johnny Roventini - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-30-1998
commercial announcer: (Call for Phil-lip Mor-ress) "Ferde Grofe Show";
"Johnny Presents"
08-15-1910 - Signe Hasso - Stockholm, Sweden - d. 6-7-2002
actress: "Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Hollywood Star Time"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-15-1912 - Wendy Hiller - Bramhall, Cheshire, England - d. 5-14-2003
actress: Queen Vic "Original Dramatic Work"
08-15-1916 - Van Patrick - d. 9-29-1974
detroit lions play-by-play: "Jean Shepard Show"
08-15-1919 - Huntz Hall - New York City, NY - d. 1-30-1999
comedian: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"
08-15-1921 - Florian Zabach - Chicago, IL
violinist: "Aarthur Godfrey and His Talent Scouts"; "Here's to Veterans"
08-15-1923 - Baby Rose Marie - Lower East Side, New York City, NY
singer: (Radio's first genuine child star) "Baby Rose Marie"
08-15-1925 - Oscar Peterson - Montreal, Canada
jazz pianist: "Oscar Peterson and Art Tatum"

August 15th deaths

03-26-1907 - Clarence Stroud - Kaufman, TX - d. 8-15-1973
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Chaarlie McCarthy Show"
04-04-1906 - John Cameron Swayze - Wichita, KS - d. 8-15-1995
host. panelist: "Monitor"; "Who Said That?"
05-03-1920 - Nina Bara - Buenos Aires, Argentina - d. 8-15-1990
actress: Tonga "Space Patrol"
05-26-1887 - Paul Lukas - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 8-15-1971
actor: Albert Einstein "Quick and the Dead"
06-01-1909 - Ray Heatherton - Jersey City, NJ - d. 8-15-1997
singer, host: "Old Gold Hour"; "Musical Cruise with Spearmint Crew"
07-18-1906 - Clifford Odets - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-15-1963
playwright: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"; "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"
07-24-1911 - Raymond Edward Johnson - Kenosha, WI - d. 8-15-2001
actor: Raymond your host "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"; Don Winslow "Don Winslow
of the Navy"
07-28-1903 - Duane Thompson - Red Oaks, IA - d. 8-15-1970
actress: Telephone Operator "Hollywood Hotel"
09-21-1907 - Jack Mather - d. 8-15-1966
actor: Cisco Kid "Cisco Kid"
10-23-1904 - Ford Bond - Louisville, KY - d. 8-15-1962
announcer: "Cities Service Concert"; "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"; Highways in
Melody"
11-04-1879 - Will Rogers, Sr. - Oolagah,  Oklahoma Territory - d. 8-15-1935
humorist: (America's Greatest Humorist) "Gulf Headliners"
11-28-1916 - Richard Tregaskis - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 8-15-1973
author, war correspondent: (Guadalcanal Diary) "Lux Radio Theatre"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:17:08 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Deaths in July

06-10-1926 - June Haver - Rock Island, IL - d. 7-4-2005
vocalist: (Fio Rito Orchestra) "Hollywood Hotel"
12-08-1915 - Ernest Lehman - New York, NY - d. 7-5-2005
writer: "Forecast"
04-04-1914 - Frances Langford - Lakeland, FL - d. 7-11-2005
singer, actress: Blanche Bickerson "Bickersons"; "Bob Hope Show"
08-02-1924 - Joe Harnell - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-14-2005
jazz arranger: (Joe Harnell Quartet) "The Navy Swings"
11-24-1913 - Geraldine Fitzgerald - Dublin, Ireland - d. 7-17-2005
actress: "Arthur Hopkins Presents"; "Ford Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
xx-xx-1927 - Paul Duke - Richmond, VA - d. 7-18-2005
newscaster: "News of the World"
03-03-1920 - James Doohan - Vancouver, Canada - d. 7-20-2005
actor: "You Never Had It So Good"; "The Investigator"
11-05-1919 - Myron Floren - Webster, SD - d. 7-23-2005
accordianist: "Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music"
02-01-1906 - Hildegarde - Adell, WI (Raised: Milwaukee, WI) - d. 7-29-2005
singer, pianist: (The Dear that Made Milwaukee Famous) "Hildegard Program"

--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:16:03 -0400
From: Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Sea Legs matter part 5

Hi,

The version that I heard was a pretty decent dub, but
it had the AFRTS filler deleted. Is there a version
with the full recording?

Trav

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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:36:03 -0400
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  WTIC's Golden Age of Radio

The latest "WTIC's Golden Age of Radio" programs
with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran, can be heard at
[removed]

We present three complete shows in MP3 format for
your listening pleasure or for downloading:

Program 56 - November, 1974 - Virginia Graham

After beginning her career in radio during the 1930s
under the pseudonym Virginia Gotham, she wrote the
soap operas Stella Dallas, based on the novels by Olive
Higgins Prouty (1882-1974), and Backstage Wife.
She was the host of "Weekday" on radio. She later
starred in a number of TV shows, including "The City",
"Texas" and "Where Was I?" Her filmography includes
The Perils of [removed] (1986) and Slapstick (Of Another
Kind) (1983). Ms. Graham was one of the co-founders
of the Cerebral Palsy Foundation.

Program 57 - December, 1974 - Christmas Stories on
the Radio

Christmas Stories tended to be repeated year after year
on radio and became a memorable part of that era. We'll
hear the stories of and excerpts from "Grand Central
Station," "The Couple Next Door," and Fred Allen's
memorable Christmas show about Santa's elves going
on strike.

Program 58 - January, 1975 - Robert Anderson

Robert Anderson, who has been described as the "dramatist
of loneliness," is one of America's major playwrights to
chronicle mid-century American life.

His plays have been produced professionally and in community
and college theatres all over the world.

Anderson's most famous plays include Tea and Sympathy (1953),
Silent Night, Lonely Night (1959), You Know I Can't Hear You
When the Water's Running (1967) and I Never Sang for My
Father (1968). Other plays include Come Marching Home
(1945), Eden Rose (1948), Love Revisited (1950), All Summer
Long (1954), Solitaire/ Double Solitaire (1971), The Days
Between (1975), and Free and Clear (1983).

Anderson has also written extensively for motion pictures, radio,
and television. The author recalls his days immediately following
World War Two as a struggling young radio writer in New York.

In the 1970's Dick Bertel created the program for WTIC in
Hartford, CT. The idea came to Dick after he interviewed radio
collector-historian Ed  Corcoran a few times on his radio and
TV shows. "The Golden Age of Radio was first broadcast in
April, 1970;  Ed was Dick's co-host.

For the next seven years the program featured interviews with
actors, writers, producers, engineers and musicians from radio's
early days. Each show featured excerpts from Ed's collection.

"WTIC's Golden Age of Radio" can also be heard Saturday nights
on Walden Hughes's program on Radio Yesteryear.

Bob Scherago
Webmaster

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