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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2005 : Issue 253
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Sea Legs Matter part 5 [ DanHaefele@[removed] ]
This week in radio history 21-17 Aug [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
early NBC question [ Dziadsj@[removed] ]
8-21 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Re: let's see what's going on down i [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
Article about the demise of [removed] [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
New EQ script book [ Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@erols ]
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Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 19:55:28 -0400
From: DanHaefele@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Sea Legs Matter part 5
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In a posting dated 8/15/2005 Travis C. wondered:
The version [of the Sea Legs Matter, part five] that I heard was a pretty
decent dub, but it had the AFRTS filler deleted. Is there a version with the
full recording?
I'm the fellow who made the digital transfer from the AFRTS transcription,
so I guess I'm qualified to answer this question. AFRS (and later AFRTS) used
filler music to fill in time after commercials were expunged from network
shows. The 15 minute Johnny Dollar broadcasts were sustainers, so nothing
needed to be cut except the reference to CBS. And CBS used more than enough
theme music at the program's conclusion to give local stations leeway in deciding
when to fade out the music and go to a commercial. SPERDVAC released the
program last year, uncut. The only thing I removed from the recording was some
of the noise caused by disc damage. If there had been filler music, I would
have left it in.
Dan Haefele
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Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 19:56:26 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 21-17 August
From Those Were The Days --
8/23
1923 - Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, The Happiness Boys, were heard on
radio for the first time. The two were billed as radio's first comedians
and were also credited with creating and performing the first singing
commercial.
8/24
1950 - The summer replacement radio show for Suspense, titled Somebody
Knows, was heard for the final time. The program offered a reward of
$5,000 for information that led to the solving of crimes. Somebody Knows
began with the introduction, "You out there. You, who think you have
committed the perfect crime -- that there are no clues, no witnesses --
listen. Somebody knows."
8/25
1949 - NBC debuted Father Knows Best. The Thursday night program aired
for five years. Robert Young played the role of Jim Anderson, the
ever-patient father. The rest of the family included wife Margaret, son
Bud and lovely daughters Betty (the eldest) and Kathy. The family lived
on Maple Street in Springfield.
8/26
1873 -- Lee DeForest was born on this day in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
DeForest seemed to be a born inventor. He held patents for hundreds of
different items including the photoelectric cell and the surgical radio
knife. But none had as much impact on the world as his invention of the
electron tube, specifically the triode, a three element vacuum tube,
which later became the audion tube -- possibly the most significant
invention that made radio possible.
1939 - Arch Oboler's Plays presented the NBC Symphony, for the first
time, as the musical backdrop for the drama, This Lonely Heart.
Joe
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Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 01:36:15 -0400
From: Dziadsj@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: early NBC question
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Hello,
I am in the midst of reading "All my Yesterdays" an autobiography by Cecil
Lewis. I am well aware of Lewis' involvement with the early BBC. But in his
chapter "Drama in New York" he tells of of his stint with NBC and his
association with "Mr. Aylesworth". The dates he gives are sketchy and keep in
mind these
are the recollections of a 95 year old man! (that's how old he was when he
wrote this book.)
Does anyone have any idea as to what years he was associated with NBC? Is
it possible that this is all some kind of fabrication? I have read a couple
of
accounts that his autobiography is not the most accurate but [removed] a
whole chapter?
Please feel free to email me at dziadsj@[removed]
Thank you,
Steve Joyce
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Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 12:54:32 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 8-21 births/deaths
August 21st births
08-21-1882 - Helen Carew - Kansas - d. 3-7-1980
actress: Vera Johnson "Stella Dallas"; "Mrs. Mitchell "Barry Cameron"
08-21-1890 - Bill Henry - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-24-1970
commentator: Chief CBS Correspondent
08-21-1896 - Marie Blake - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-14-1978
actress: (Sister of Janette MacDonald) "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-21-1900 - Ken Carpenter - Avon, IL - d. 10-16-1984
announcer: "Kraft Music Hall"; "One Man's Family"; "Edgar Bergen/Charlie
McCarthy Show"
08-21-1904 - William Allen "Count" Basie - Red Bank, NJ - d. 4-26-1994
bandleader: "Command Performance"; "Jubilee"
08-21-1906 - Carlton Kadell - Danville, IL - d. 3-14-1975
announcer, actor: Tarzan "Tarzan"; Red Ryder "Red Ryder"
08-21-1908 - Bob Jellison - Iowa - d. 4-21-1980
actor: Oswald Ching "Story of Mary Marlin"; Buster Gunn "Great Gunns"
08-21-1908 - Tom Tully - Durango, CO - d. 4-27-1982
actor: Charles Martin "Stella Dallas"
08-21-1911 - Anthony Boucher - Oakland, CA - d. 4-29-1968
writer: "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"; "Advs. of Ellery Queen; "Gregory Hood"
08-21-1913 - John Faulk - Austin, TX - d. 4-9-1990
humorist, writer: "Forecast"; "Says Who?"; "Hootenanny"
08-21-1916 - Consuelo Velazquez - Ciudad Guzman, Mexico - d. 1-22-2005
songwriter: (Besame Mucho) Oversaw classical music programs for station XEQ
08-21-1920 - Billy Idelson - Forest Park, IL
actor: Rush Gook "Vic and Sade"; Henry Herbert Murray "One Man's Family"
08-21-1923 - Chris Schenkel - Bippus, IN
sportscaster: "Campy's Corner"; "11:30 Clubhouse"
08-21-1924 - Jack Buck - Holyoke, MA - d. 6-18-2002
baseball broadcaster: St. Louis Cardinals
08-21-1927 - Barry Foster - Beeston, England - d. 2-11-2002
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"
08-21-1938 - Kenny Rogers - Houston, TX
country/western singer: "Here's to Veterans"
August 21st deaths
04-30-1903 - Fulton Lewis, Jr. - Washington, [removed] - d. 8-21-1966
commentator: "News and Comments"
05-01-1894 - Sam McGee - d. 8-21-1975
guitarist: (Performed with the "Fruit Jar Drinkers") "Grand Ole Opry"
08-14-1863 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer - Lawrence, MA - d. 8-21-1940
author: "Favorite Story"
08-14-1914 - Alyce King - Payson, UT - d. 8-21-1996
singer: (The King Sisters) "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"; "Al Pearce and
His Gang"
10-08-1913 - Walter Schumann - New York City, NY - d. 8-21-1958
composer: "Dragnet"; "Junior Miss"; "Modern Advs. of Casanova"
12-09-1918 - George Heinemann - d. 8-21-1996
creator: "Faces in the Window"
12-25-1915 - Richard Wilson - McKeesport, PA - d. 8-21-1991
actor, writer, director: Co-founded The Mercury Theatre with Orson Welles
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Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 12:54:39 -0400
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: let's see what's going on down in Pine
Ridge
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In a message dated 8/19/05 11:18:41 AM Central Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:
A bus with the destination sign [removed] Ridge! Probably an apt. complex.
Actually my apartment complex is named Pine Ridge. I always wondered why
they named it that, other than the many pine trees around here (as opposed to,
say, Pine Dale or Pineview or something like that). There are quite a few
people around here in
Gadsden, Alabama, who do remember Lum and Abner.
Dixon
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Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:05:24 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Article about the demise of [removed]
Folks;
At the risk of further annoying executives of Cincinnati Public Radio
(you should see my private email when someone posts something unsubscribed
CPR execs don't like very much), the Cincy Enquirer has a farewell to WVXU at:
[removed]
Charlie Summers
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Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:38:46 -0400
From: Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: New EQ script book
Crippen and Landu Publishers in Norfolk, VA have released a new book
containing 14 radio scripts from Ellery Queen series. The book is
dedicated to the centennial of the births of Manfred Lee and Frederic
Dannay who created the famous dectective. Stories include these
favorites:
Case of Tontine
Napoleon's Razor
Haunted Cave Strangling
The Case Sherlock Holmes Failed to Solve.
Books can be ordered from the publisher. Clothbound (limited to 275
copies) are $ 45. Softback issues $ 20. Postage is $3 for one book and
one dollar for two. (Yes, you read that right.) Order on-line at
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(Usual disclaimers of personal interest or relationship to anyone
remotely connected to the book)
Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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