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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2004 : Issue 153
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Mayor od Doodyville [ "Michael Muderick" <[removed] ]
Re: Benny's Reappearing Maxwell [ "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed]; ]
air maxwell [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
Bob Hastings singing [ davesline@[removed] ]
5-3 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
mayor dilly dally [ Grams46@[removed] ]
Re: Was Lucy a Radio Star? [ GOpp@[removed] ]
Jack's Maxwell [ danhughes@[removed] ]
"Saints preserve us: Mr. Keen--longe [ SanctumOTR@[removed] ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed] ]
Mr. Keen revisited [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
Charles Osgood/Gasoline Alley [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
Gasoline Alley and "Radio" Word Orig [ bhob2 <bhob2@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 12:21:53 -0400
From: "Michael Muderick" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Mayor od Doodyville
Whenever Mr. Ross talks about Doodyville, I listen. I don't remember Dilly
actually being mayor, but I do remember reading/hearing of that somewhere in
my travels, or in my conversations with Bob Smith. I looked for the answer
in Jack Koch's book, to no avail. Then I gave up. Not very persistent.
Michael Muderick
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Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 12:22:17 -0400
From: "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Benny's Reappearing Maxwell
Well, I've got an even better mystery for you. Due to public pressure, Jack
donated his Maxwell to the World War II scrap drive. Then in a subsequent
show, you can hear planes flying overhead, followed by a plane sputtering and
wheezing its way across the sky. Everyone knew that the Maxwell had been
reborn.
IIRC, it was that same episode, as part of a dream sequence that left Jack
rightly proud of his "little Maxwell".
But Jack had his Maxwell again after the war. I have not yet found (but give
me [removed] should know this by next year for 39 Forever, Volume 2) the show
where the Maxwell reappears, and how it is explained.
It was sometime post-1948. In one episode that spring, Jack and Mary are
riding with the Colmans in a Mel Blanc-voiced jalopy when Benita asks Jack if
this was the Maxwell she and Ronnie had heard so much about; Jack says that,
no, this was a different car, because he had given his Maxwell over for scrap
during the War.
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Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 13:59:03 -0400
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: air maxwell
Due to public pressure, Jack
donated his Maxwell to the World War II scrap drive. Then in a subsequent
show, you can hear planes flying overhead, followed by a plane sputtering
and
wheezing its way across the sky. Everyone knew that the Maxwell had been
reborn.
That is one of the funniest Jack Benny stories I have ever heard, and I
intend
to steal it for use with those who remember the show.
Philistine that I am, I wish I had better memories of Jack Benny. I never
heard the radio show during its regular run, though when I did hear a
rebroadcast when I was young I noted
that the show seemed to work lots better on radio than on TV. By the time
it
got to TV, it seemed to a Cleveland kid to be a sort of lame, slow-moving
sitcom
with lots of California jokes (Pasadena?) that was beloved by grandparents.
I suppose what happened is that the show's characters aged along with its
audience,
ensuring its popularity and profitability: kids didn't buy anything then.
For me, the salvation of the TV show and such rebroadcasts that I heard was
Rochester.
M Kinsler
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Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 15:47:16 -0400
From: davesline@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Bob Hastings singing
As an aside here Bob Hastings released a record back in at about the 60's
where he sang children's songs and lullaby's. All 4 of my children loved that
record and most nights wanted to listen to it as they fell asleep. I spoke to
Bob at a REP's convention a few years ago and he said he thought that the
record was still available as a CD from BMG but as of now I have not been
able to find it. I do not remember the name of the album right now but if any
one is interested I could find it and tell you. My kids literally wore that
record out.
--
Dave Palmer
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Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 18:12:17 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 5-3 births/deaths
May 3rd births
05-03-1880 - Horace Murphy - Finley, TN - d. 1-20-1975
actor: Buckskin Blodgett "Red Ryder"
05-03-1892 - Beulah Bondi - Chicago, IL - d. 1-11-1981
actress: "Free World Theatre"; "NBC University Theatre"
05-03-1898 - George H. Combs - Lee's Summit, MO - d. 11-29-1977
congressman, commentator: "Now You Decide"; "Spotlight, New York"
05-03-1898 - John Roy - d. 5-31-1985
actor: Roy Calvert "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
05-03-1902 - Jack Larue - NYC - d. 1-11-1984
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-03-1902 - Walter Slezak - Vienna, Austria - d. 4-21-1983
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Best Plays"; "Studio One"; "Columbia Workshop"
05-03-1903 - Bing Crosby - Tacoma, WA - d. 10-14-1977
singer: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Philco Radio Time"
05-03-1905 - James Nusser - Cleveland, OH - d. 6-8-1979
actor: "Gunsmoke"
05-03-1906 - Mary Astor - Quincy, IL - d. 9-25-1987
actress: Mary Christmas "Merry Life of Mary Christmas"
05-03-1907 - Earl Wilson - Rockford, OH - d. 1-16-1987
columnist: "Earl Wilson's Broadway Column"
05-03-1910 - Curt Massey - Midland, TX - d. 10-21-1991
singer: "Show Boat"; "Curt Massey Show"
05-03-1910 - Norman Corwin - Boston, MA
writer, director: "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Twenty-Six by Corwin"
05-03-1915 - Betty Comden - Brooklyn, NY
writer, actress: "Revuers"
05-03-1919 - Doris Rich - Canada - d. 5-18-1971
actress: Hannah O'Leary" Houseboat Hannah"; Miss Daisey "Portia Faces Life"
05-03-1919 - Pete Seeger - NYC
folk singer, songwriter: "Off the Page"
05-03-1920 - John Lewis - La Grange, IL - d. 3-29-2001
jazz pianist: "White House Jazz Festival"
05-03-1920 - Nina Bara - Buenos Aires, Argentina - d. 8-15-1990
actress: Tonga "Space Patrol"
May 3rd deaths
02-02-1920 - Hughie Green - London, England - d. 5-3-1997
host: "Opportunity Knocks"
02-26-1914 - Robert Alda - NYC - d. 5-3-1986
singer: "Rudy Vallee Presents the Drene Show"
03-16-1894 - Elizabeth Lennox - Ionia, MI - d. 5-3-1992
singer: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
04-20-1904 - Bruce Cabot - Carlsad, NM - d. 5-3-1972
actor: "Hallmark Hall of Fame"; "Hollywood on the Air"
05-02-1902 - Erin O'Brien-Moore - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-3-1979
actress: Elsa Banning "Big Sister"
06-14-1914 - Nat Polen - NYC - d. 5-3-1981
actor: Edward McCormick "Indictment" "CBS Mystery Theatre"
07-04-1902 - George Murphy - New Haven, CT - d. 5-3-1992
actor, emcee: "Let's Talk Hollywood"; "Hollywood Calling"
08-13-1908 - Gene Raymond - NYC - d. 5-3-1998
actor: John J. Malone "Amazing Mr. Malone"; "Witness"; "Hollywood Hotel"
08-14-1914 - Bill Downs - Kansas City, MO - d. 5-3-1978
newscaster: CBS Moscow 1942
10-07-1918 - Helmut Dantine - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-3-1982
actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Silver Theatre"; "Theatre of Romance"; "Suspense"
--
Ron Sayles
For a complete list:
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Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 18:12:42 -0400
From: Grams46@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: mayor dilly dally
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In a message dated 5/2/2004 7:04:57 AM Pacific Standard Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:
But in this group of fans, isn't there anyone out there who remembers Dilly
Dally being mayor?
not me.
was dilly the mayor of radio doodyville or tv doodyville?
from kathy
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Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 19:35:59 -0400
From: GOpp@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Was Lucy a Radio Star?
CBS must've thought
highly enough of "My Favorite Husband" if they wanted
to adapt it to television. Maybe, Gregg, do you know
if the radio show was ever a hit?
I've never researched the question, but according to my
father, the popularity of My Favorite Husband grew and
grew, and it did indeed become a hit -- though by no
means on anything like the scale of "I Love Lucy."
- Gregg Oppenheimer
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Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 19:36:49 -0400
From: danhughes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Jack's Maxwell
In about 1990, when we made our first pilgrimage to Waukegan, a motel
employee told us that he owned one of Jack's Maxwells and was slowly but
surely refurbishing it for future display. He was going to show us some
photos but he didn't have them with him and we told him were just there
for one day so could not return the next day to see them.
Maybe he was putting us on, but at the time it seemed quite plausible.
He was very excited that we were Benny fans, and he said that many
Waukeganites were unaware of the comedian.
---Dan
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Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 22:35:29 -0400
From: SanctumOTR@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "Saints preserve us: Mr. Keen--longest
detective run?
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In a message dated 5/2/04 9:03:49 AM, Jim cox writes:
Were you aware that Keen and
his sidekick Mike Clancy persisted in their efforts far longer than any
other sleuths in radio or television? Eighteen years, in fact, as the
deductive detective and his bone-headed partner ("Saints preserve us, Mr.
Keen-why, it's a dead body!") aired 1,690 aural episodes, a favorable
comparison to runner-up Nick Carter with 726 performances. No TV gumshoe
came close to those phenomenal numbers, by the way.
MR. KEEN certainly had the greatest number of individual episodes, since it
aired through much of its run as a daily or thrice-weekly 15-minute serial.
However, MR. KEEN's 17-year, 6-month network run is only three months longer
timewise than THE SHADOW's 17-year, 3-month run on Mutual. And, if one adds
in
the 15-minute syndicated SHADOW serial produced by MacGregor and Sollie in
1935, THE SHADOW (Lamont Cranston detective version) was on the air from April
1, 1935 through December 26, 1954. That's just three months shy of 20
years. That, of course, also doesn't include the one-shot SHADOW Lamont
Cranston
audition scripted by Walter Gibson that aired on WMCA in June of 1934 ... or
several seasons featuring THE SHADOW as mystery host, not detective.
Of course, the MacGregor and Sollie SHADOW serial starring Carl Kroenke
consisted of only 26 episodes (like their similar series of Street & Smith's
DOC S
AVAGE and LOVE STORY DRAMAS), so it did not have long runs on any single
station. And while MBS THE SHADOW was off the network airwaves over the
Summer
months until 1950, the Mutual and MacGregor episodes continued to be
syndicated
over the summer months by Charlie Michelson. It's important to note that the
15-minute SHADOW serial appears to have stayed in syndication both here and
abroad from 1935 through at least 1942, and was still being aired in the USA
during the years Orson Welles and Bill Johnstone were starring in the Mutual
version.
Not to deny MR. KEEN's considerable run, but it's not completely fair to say
that "Keen and his sidekick Mike Clancy persisted in their efforts far longer
than any other sleuths in radio or television." And of course, Lon Clark's
12-year, 6-month run as NICK CARTER needs to be honored as the longest-running
radio detective series to star the same actor from beginning to end.
--ANTHONY TOLLIN (in the shadows)
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Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 03:14:36 -0400
From: "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK
Hi friends,
Here is this week's line-up for the week of 5-2-04 on my Olde Tyme
Radio
[removed] Featuring Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio Theatre," Big John
Matthews and Steve Urbaniak's "The Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same
Station" broadcasts, being broadcast on demand 24/7 in high quality
streaming RealAudio at [removed]
Past archived broadcasts are also available there.
We look forward to having you join us!
Jerry
Here's this week's lineup:
SAME TIME, SAME STATION with Jerry Haendiges
THE RUDY VALLEE SHOW
5-19-42 "John Barrymore's final Performance"
Rehearsal
Stars: Rudy Vallee, John Barrymore, Joan Davis
Guest: Stu Erwin
THE SEALTEST VILLAGE STORE
10-28-43 Guest: Coast Guard Lt. Rudy Vallee
Hosts: Joan Davis and Jack Haley
STREAMLINED SHAKESPEARE
"The John Barrymore Theater"
Episode 6 7-26-37 "Taming of the Shrew"
Stars: John Barrymore, Hans Conried, Hanley Stafford, Elaine Barrie, Henry
Hunter, Nancy Leach, Vinton Heyworth, Russell Simpson, Miles Lander, Lew
Merrill and
Buddy Edwards.
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE with Tom Heathwood
SPECIAL GUEST INTERVIEW
Jack French, OTR historian and author of the new book, "Private Eyelashes" -
The story of radio's lady-detectives.
THE ADVENTURES OF MR. & MRS. NORTH
NBC 10-11-44 "The Second Death of Christopher Columbus"
Stars: Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin
HOWDY-DOODY TIME (segment)
8-9-42 NBC's adaptation of their TV tapes for Saturday morning kid's
radio
Features Buffalo Bob Smith
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THE GLOWING DIAL with Big John Matthews and Steve Urbaniak
Amos 'n' Andy
CBS 10/7/51 "Aptitude Test"
Kay Kyser's College Of Musical Knowledge
NBC / AFRS 10/11/44 "from the [removed] Naval Station at Alameda,
California"
The First Nighter Program
CBS 12/22/45 "Little Town Of Bethlehem"
Grand Central Station
CBS 8/15/51 "If The Shoe Doesn't Fit"
Guest Star
[removed] Treasury Dept. 10/9/49 # 133 "Hopalong Cassidy"
The Couple Next Door
CBS 1/1/58 # 3 "Phone Call"
====================================
Please feel free to contact me with any questions or requests for upcoming
shows.
Jerry Haendiges CET <Jerry@[removed]; 562-696-4387
[removed] The Vintage Radio Place
Largest source of OTR Logs, Articles and programs on the Net
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Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 08:31:37 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Mr. Keen revisited
Not to get into an argument with the esteemed Anthony Tollin, but a couple
of points of clarification in his post regarding Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost
Persons, are in order. Anthony wrote:
MR. KEEN's 17-year, 6-month network run is only three months longer
timewise than THE SHADOW's 17-year, 3-month run on Mutual.
Ah, but that projects a popular myth that only one who found and read the
Keen scripts could know. While historiographers (including the venerable
John Dunning and so many more authorities) have ascribed April 19, 1955 as
Mr. Keen's final episode, the series extended a few more months in fact, to
September 26, 1955, a run but two weeks shy of its 18th birthday. A small
correction, but one of several revelations uncovered by acquiring and
pouring over those scripts. That provided a wealth of irrefutable
documentation as I researched my new book.
Anthony Tollin also writes:
Lon Clark's 12-year, 6-month run as NICK CARTER needs to be honored as the
longest-running radio detective series to star the same actor from beginning
to end.
True and while taking nothing away from Lon Clark's feat in a series "from
beginning to end," let it be noted that Bennett Kilpack played Mr. Keen,
Tracer of Lost Persons from the start of that series October 12, 1937
through October 26, 1950, 13 years of consecutive performances without
summer breaks, a total of 1,314 installments including weekly and
thrice-weekly chapters. More than anybody else, Kilpack's voice was heard
more often than any other radio actor appearing as a detective.
The book, "Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons," may be ordered now from
McFarland at 800-253-2187 or [removed]. It is expected to be
ready for shipment later this month.
Jim Cox
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Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 08:31:43 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Charles Osgood/Gasoline Alley
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Hello Again.
Once again the "CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood" programme
had a couple of OTR references. Starting yesterday (Su. 05/02) and continuing
throughout each Sunday this month, my favourite Sunday morning news/magazine
show will be featuring segments about the state of radio today. The thrust of
yesterday's story was how radio is just as much a vital force in everyday life
as it ever was. The piece did have a nice build-up for NPR but didn't really
address the biggest gripe of us Digest-ers which is the paucity of dramatized
stories, although there were passing references to the important part Chicago
played in radio history and how it was where radio institutions "Amos 'n'
Andy" and "Fibber McGee & Molly" originated.
The story also focussed on the richness found in the Chicago radio
market and featured Chicago institutions like Dick Biondi and Steve Dahl. If
anybody in the Chicago area saw this segment, I'd be intereseted to know your
insights.
For those folk out there that eschew TV, you might want to check
out "Sunday Morning" show. If there is any news programme which can be
perceived as OTR-friendly, it's undoubtedly the Osgood-cast. In recent years,
there were nice stories commemorating the death of Lucille Fletcher and the
release of Gerald nachman's book "Raised on Radio."
If you're unfamiliar with the show, it's quieter and less flashy than other
programmes of its ilk. Usually, there's one, maybe two, "hard" stories with
the rest of the ninety minutes dedicated to the humanities. It's where you'll
find stories about popular authors and museum exhibits, "almanac" pieces
relying on old newsreel footage, travelogues which celebrate both the wacky
and wonderful of small-town America, and nature segment photo-essays.
What's more, Mr. Osgood' sign-off (referring to his weekday radio
commentaries) is the encouraging "I'll see you on the radio."
In today's (Mon. 05/03) "Gasoline Alley" comic-strip continuing
the storyline of what is presumably Uncle Walt Wallet's funeral, we see the
pallbearers transporting the casket to the cemetery during a rainstorm. Over
the gravesite is a canopy which reads "DIGGER O'DELL FUNERAL PARLOR & FER (the
rest is cut off ny the strip's panel border). What my pal Anthony Tollin said
in a recent post about artist James Scancarelli being an OTR fan and advocate
rings true once again.
"I guess I'll [removed] off."
Derek "Ether" Tague
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Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 08:34:29 -0400
From: bhob2 <bhob2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Gasoline Alley and "Radio" Word Origin
BTW, GASOLINE ALLEY's Jim Scancarelli is a big fan of OTR, and a
really nice guy. --Anthony Tollin
And note Scancarelli's OTR reference in today's strip -- the Digger
O'Dell Funeral Home: [removed]
The word "radio" is an abbreviation of "radiotelegraphy," which derived
from the
Greek "tele" (meaning "far off") and the Latin "radius" (meaning "staff,
stake").
The Latin "radius" also meant the "spoke of a wheel." The spokes radiate
from the hub.
Radius=ray. So "radiotelegraphy" meant the sending of distant messages
by
electromagnetic waves or rays.
Bhob @ FUSEBOX @
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