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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2007 : Issue 159
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
re: Jack Benny Phone Calls [ TIMOTHY M KELLEY <tmk1_99@[removed]; ]
#OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig [ charlie@[removed] ]
Richard Zoglin and Jack Benny [ "Pamela K. Gitta" <wjmtv@[removed] ]
If it happened before TV . . . [ <verotas@[removed]; ]
Jack Benny sponsor phone calls [ "Laura Leff" <president@[removed] ]
Surprise Party [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
June issue of RADIO RECALL [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
Interested? [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
5-31 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
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Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 23:23:51 -0400
From: TIMOTHY M KELLEY <tmk1_99@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: re: Jack Benny Phone Calls
Certainly there were calls to Jack's sponsor. Unlike the calls to
Rochester, where we would here both sides of the conversation, the
sponsor calls could only be heard from Jack's end. They usually went
something like:
"Yes, [removed] (long pause)... [removed](long pause)....yes, [removed](long
pause)...of course, [removed] (long pause)....Good-bye."
Tim
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Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 09:01:46 -0400
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!
A weekly [removed]
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Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:28:48 -0400
From: "Pamela K. Gitta" <wjmtv@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Richard Zoglin and Jack Benny
Zoglin looks to be 50 or thereabouts, if the bio and photo on this page are
accurate: [removed]
As for Jack phoning his sponsor, just a few days ago I happened to catch an
episode on XM Radio where he was on the phone with his advertising agency,
Batton, Barton, Durstein and Osborne (a real ad agency).
Jack was bounced around for a while from one extension to another, which
allowed for many funny operator moments.
But that's the closest I've heard to "calling the sponsor."
Pam
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Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 16:40:41 -0400
From: <verotas@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: If it happened before TV . . .
In the recent colloquy re a search for info on the 'real' MBS - not the
present shadow version (oops-sorry for that awful pun), there was the
following exchange:
Q - Does anybody in the media give thanks for what radio did anymore?
A - The current generation of writers think everything began with Television.
If something happened before their time, it isn't important.
I am reminded of the ancient business adage, in defense of the requirement
for what's now referred to as "a paper trail":
"If it wasn't written down, it didn't happen". See the parallel? A sad
comment it is, too.
Between the abuses of the marvelous potential tools for education and
information (Print, Radio, TV ,and Internet) one can only wonder what awful
changes are being wrought in our History, and how future generations will
probably screw it up even much more than we and our predecessors!
Sadly, Lee Munsick That Godfrey Guy
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Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 16:41:09 -0400
From: "Laura Leff" <president@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Jack Benny sponsor phone calls
Keith Houdeshell asks:
Other than perhaps one time do I remember him talking to his
sponsor. I must admit I've only listened to four or five hundred of
the shows, so maybe I missed something. Could some digesters point
me in the direction of these sponsor phone call shows.
I wouldn't say it was often, but it did happen a few times, generally
culminating in what I call the "But but but" routine. The setup is usually
Jack being worried that the sponsor is going to pick up his option, or
something about the script or something that Jack's done that is anticipated
to either please or irk the sponsor. So the sponsor calls or Jack calls
him, and Jack tries to make nice with him. The sponsor gets upset, and Jack
is left feeling the sponsor's wrath and saying "[removed]" with increasingly
long pauses in between (sometimes punctuated by "WELL!").
--Laura Leff
President, IJBFC
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Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 16:41:21 -0400
From: Rentingnow@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Surprise Party
With the presidential election next year isn't it time that we all join the
"Surprise Party"?
I hear the convention is in Omaha.
Larry Moore
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Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 19:13:18 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: June issue of RADIO RECALL
The June issue of RADIO RECALL, published by the Metro Washington OTR
Club, is enroute to email subscribers now, with hard copy to follow in
10 days to snail mail adherents.
The front page article, by Cort Vitty, describes the history of Tommy
Riggs and the imaginary little girl, Betty Lou, whom he also voiced,
thus keeping them both on network radio for years. Kathy Hammel returns
to our publication pages with an update on the "Howie Wing" juvenile
adventure series and how his sponsor, Kellogg's of Battle Creek,
promoted this show, including staging an around-the-world flight
contest.
The eight different voices who portrayed "Bobby Benson" on both the CBS
and Mutual versions are described by yours truly, with a tip-of-the-hat
to those OTR researchers who have helped me identify these radio
actors. Melanie Aultman gives a review of the Cincinnati Convention,
including local sites to visit in that wonderful city.
Jim Cox, prodigious OTR writer, weighs in to praise a fellow author:
Gary Poole and his new McFarland book, "Radio Comedy Diary." There is
also an announcement on the permanent cancellation of the "Jot 'Em Down
Journal," the publication of the National Lum & Abner Society. All this
plus a reminder to former fans of "Let's Pretend with Uncle Russ" to
get in touch with Uncle Russ, who's still alive and well in California.
You can review past articles of RADIO RECALL by going to our web site
<[removed]> and if you're thoroughly enchanted, subscription
info is found there too.
Jack French
Editor
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Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 19:13:39 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Interested?
I asked this question about three or four years ago, but since then I
assume that we have many new subscribers. So, I will ask it again. If
you old timers, and I use word old advisedly, want to answer, go for
it. I am in my 70s so I grew up with radio, not getting a television
set 'till I was 14 years old. How did those of you who who are not of
such an "advanced" age get interested in radio? With me it is two
things, nostalgia and a pathological dislike of television.
Ron Sayles
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Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 22:33:42 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 5-31 births/deaths
May 31st births
05-31-1819 - Walt Whitman - Long Island, NY - d. 3-26-1892
writer: "Against the Storm"
05-31-1879 - Frances Alda - Christchurch, New Zealand - d. 9-18-1952
soprano: "Atwater Kent Hour"
05-31-1893 - Albert Mitchell - Elsberry, MO - d. 10-4-1954
host: "Answer Man"
05-31-1894 - Fred Allen - Cambridge, MA - d. 3-17-1956
comedian: "Linit Bath Club"; "Town Hall Tonight"; "Fred Allen Show"
05-31-1898 - Norman Vincent Peale - Bowersville, OH - d. 12-24-1993
preacher: "Art of Living"
05-31-1900 - Hugh Studebaker - Ridgeville, IN - d. 5-6-1978
actor: Ichabod Mudd "Captain Midnight"; Silly Watson "Fibber McGee
and Molly"
05-31-1901 - Alfredo Antonini - Alessandra, Italy - d. 11-3-1983
conductor: "La Rosa Concerts"; "Treasure Hour of Song"
05-31-1901 - Joe Kelly - Crawfordsville, IN - d. 5-26-1959
emcee, quizmaster: "National Barn Dance"; "Quiz Kids"
05-31-1903 - Abo Hosiosky - Latvia - d. 2-xx-1976
NBC news in partnership with Alex Dreier
05-31-1903 - Blanche Stewart - Pennsylvania - d. 7-25-1952
actor: Brenda "Bob Hope Show"
05-31-1904 - Clifton Utley - Chicago, IL - d. 1-19-1978
newsman: (Father of Garrick) "Comments by Clifton Utley"
05-31-1904 - Jeanne Juvelier - NYC - d. 1-25-1981
actor: Madame Babette "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"
05-31-1905 - Jeff Sparks - NYC - d. 9-30-1981
announcer: "Ben Bernie and all the Lads"; "Death Valley Days"
05-31-1908 - Don Ameche - Kenosha, WI - d. 12-6-1993
actor, singer: John Bickerson "Bickersons"; Captain Hughes "Jack
Armstrong"
05-31-1908 - Jack Costello - Sauk Centre, MN - d. 9-xx-1983
announcer: "Stella Dallas"; "Words at War"
05-31-1912 - Henry M. Jackson - Everett, WA - d. 9-1-1983
[removed] senator washington: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
05-31-1918 - Bill Harrington- Indianapolis, IN
singer, songwriter: "Your Hit Parade"
05-31-1921 - Alida Valli - Pola, Istria, Italy - d. 4-22-2006
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood"
05-31-1925 - Bob Aro - d. 5-25-1996
disk jockey: WHLB Virginia, Minnesota
05-31-1931 - Barbara Whiting - Los Angeles, CA - d. 6-9-2004
actor: Judy Graves "Junior Miss"; Mildred "Meet Corliss Archer"
05-31-1938 - Johnny Paycheck - Greenfield, OH - d. 2-18-2003
country singer: "Country Sessions"
May 31st deaths
01-29-1917 - Lloyd Perryman - Ruth, AR - d. 5-31-1977
singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) "The Roy Rogers Show"
02-04-1908 - Manny Klein - NYC - d. 5-31-1994
trumpet: "The Ipana Troubadors"
02-25-1904 - Adelle Davis - Lizton, IN - d. 5-31-1974
nutritionist, author: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"
04-01-1920 - Art Lund - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 5-31-1990
singer, actor: "Benny Goodman and His Orchestra"; "Land's Best
Bands"; "Jubilee"
04-13-1912 - Roy Winsor - Chicago, IL - d. 5-31-1987
director, writer: "Vic and Sade"; "Sky King"
04-20-1923 - Tito Puente - NYC - d. 5-31-2000
percussionist, bandleader: "Manhattan Melodies"
05-03-1898 - John Roy - d. 5-31-1985
actor: Roy Calvert "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
06-02-1908 - Ben Grauer - Staten Island, NY - d. 5-31-1977
announcer, emcee: "Walter Winchell"; "Information, Please"; "Boston
Symphony"
06-24-1895 - Jack Dempsey - Manassa, CO - d. 5-31-1983
boxing champion: "Ben Bernie Show"; "Kemtone Hour"; "Saturday Night
Bandwagon"
07-29-1900 - Owen Lattimore - Washington, DC - d. 5-31-1989
consultant: "Pacific Story"
08-03-1907 - Adrienne Ames - Fort Worth, TX - d. 5-31-1947
film star: WHN New York, New York
08-05-1905 - Wilbur Evans - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-31-1987
singer:"Vicks Open House"; "Stars from the Blue"
10-20-1907 - Arlene Francis - Boston, MA - d. 5-31-2001
panelist, actor: "What's My Line"; Ann Scotland,"The Affairs of Ann
Scotland"
12-30-1899 - Michael Raffetto - Placerville, CA - d. 5-31-1990
actor: Paul Barbour "One Man's Family"; Jack Packard "I Love A
Mystery/Adventure"
Ron Sayles
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