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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 212
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  7-19 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Baby Snooks, volume 2                 [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  WGCH-FM                               [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed] ]
  Command Performance                   [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  Radio Spirits                         [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]

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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:19:31 +0000
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  7-19 births/deaths

July 19th births

07-19-1889 - Max Fleischer - Vienna, Austria - d. 9-11-1972
cartoonist: "Popeye the Sailor"
07-19-1891 - Raymond Bramley - Independence, OH - d. 11-27-1977
actor: Burton York "Howie Wing"; Silas Finke "David Harum"
07-19-1896 - Merle Kendrick - d. 5-23-1968
orchestra conductor: "Cabin B-13"
07-19-1901 - Juano Hernandez - San Juan, Puerto Rico - d. 7-17-1970
actor: Kolu "Jungle Jim"; Lothar "Mandrake the Magician"
07-19-1902 - Buster Bailey - Memphis, TN - d. 4-12-1967
clarinet: "Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm"
07-19-1906 - "Tiny" Hill - Sullivan, IL - d. 12-13-1971
orchestra leader: "Tiny" Hill and His Orchestra"
07-19-1907 - Thomas Grandin - Cleveland, OH - d. 10-xx-1977
correspondent: "ABC News"; "CBS News of Europe"; "World News Today"
07-19-1911 - Dennis Conrad Bardens - Midhurst, England - d. 2-7-2004
editor of weekly BBC radio documentaries "Focus"
07-19-1912 - Frank Kane - d. 11-29-1968
writer: "The Shadow"
07-19-1913 - Charlie Teagarden - Vernon, TX - d. 12-10-1984
trumpet: (Brother of Jack) "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
07-19-1914 - Lou Krugman - Passaic, NJ - d. 8-8-1992
actor: Tony Griffin "Romance of Helen Trent"; Ulysses Hink "Dear
Mom"; "Gunsmoke"
07-19-1930 - Rhoda Williams - Denver, CO - d. 3-8-2006
actor: Betty Anderson "Father Knows Best"; "Life of Riley"
07-19-1940 - Dennis Cole - Detroit, MI
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

July 19th deaths

02-20-1909 - Barry Wood - New Haven, CT - d. 7-19-1970
singer, host: "Million-Dollar Band"; "Your Hit Parade"
02-24-1919 - Betty Marsden - Liverpool, England - d. 7-19-1998
actor: Daphne Whitehigh, Buttercup Gruntfuttock, et al "Round the Horne"
03-31-1928 - Lefty Frizzell - Corsicana, TX - d. 7-19-1975
singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Louisana Hayride"; "Big D Jamboree"
04-27-1902 - Harry Stockwell - Kansas City, MO - d. 7-19-1984
singer: "Broadway Matinee"
06-10-1903 - Clyde Beatty - Bainbridge, OH - d. 7-19-1965
big game hunter: "The Clyde Beatty Show"
06-23-1908 - Erik Barnouw - The Netherlands - d. 7-19-2001
radio historian/author: "A Tower of Babel"; "The Golden Web"; "The
Image Empire"
09-03-1897 - Sally Benson - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-19-1972
writer: "Junior Miss"
09-14-1892 - John Robert Powers - d. 7-19-1977
modeling agency founder: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
09-18-1920 - Jack Warden - Newark, NJ - d. 7-19-2006
actor: "Stagestruck"
10-20-1887 - Charles Warburton - Huddersfield, England - d. 7-19-1952
actor: "Radio Guild"; "Great Plays"; "Front Page Drama"
11-17-1878 - Grace Abbott - d. 7-19-1939
talks for mothers: "Your Child"
11-19-1864 - Geroge Barbier - Philadelphia, PA - d. 7-19-1945
actor: "Song of the Islands"
11-24-1908 - Worth Kramer - d. 7-19-1998
director: "Wings Over Jordan"
12-17-1913 - Herbert Nelson - Stillwater, MN - d. 7-19-1990
actor: Ralph Fraser "Dan Harding's Wife"; George Lawlor "Romance of
Helen Trent"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:19:43 +0000
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Baby Snooks, volume 2

I just received in the mail BABY SNOOKS SCRIPTS volume 2 from Ben Ohmart of 
Bear Manor Media.

Like the first volume, it contains a bunch of scripts to radio broadcasts 
not known to exist in recorded form, plus three bonus scripts.  LITTLE 
OLIVE from February 1952 was Phil Rapp's attempt to get television 
interested in Snooks, that never went anywhere.  A script for Maxwell 
Coffee Houre entitled LET'S LAUGH, LET'S SING with Snooks and Daddy.  And 
last but not least, a funny satire on the ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS series 
with a script entitled UNCLE HITCHY AND LITTLE ALFRED, in Snooks and Daddy 
style dialogue.

I love Baby Snooks so this is a welcome addition to my collection.  The 
Editor's Note states that he has enough scripts to do eight volumes.  But . 
. . obviously it depends on the sales.  Ben Ohmart cannot produce books 
that will not sell or reimburse the expenses so if you have the first 
volume, grab the second as it's now available.  If you have the first, then 
grab the second and start adding to your collection.  Send Ben the message 
that you want to see another book (sending the message means buying a copy) 
because he's got a treasure trove of uncirculated radio scripts and scripts 
to "lost" broadcasts and if he doesn't publish them, we'll never know what 
treasures are still buried.  OTR history should be preserved in this fashion.

Martin Grams Jr.

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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:20:19 +0000
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  WGCH-FM

The Golden Age of Radio - WTIC website has a new
feature: a documentary on Greenwich, Connecticut's
first radio station, WGCH-FM. Go to

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Bob Scherago
Webmaster
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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:20:29 +0000
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Command Performance

An old friend of mine in California wants to know where he can listen
to programs of "Command Performance" on the Internet.  He has a few
cassettes of this series, but would like to listen to more.

Can anyone point him in the right direction?

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:21:15 +0000
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Radio Spirits

Someone asked:

 > I was wondering, does this mean that trading old-time radio shows will be
 > back in power like the early days of trading?  And what happens to the
 > rights of the shows Radio Spirits owns?

Always was in power.  Just low-key.  That's why at conventions you can find 
dozens of dealers selling OTR shows, an vendors today all over the internet.

Various writers, producers and companies own the copyrights, trademarks and 
licensing for various programs.  Radio Spirits never owned anything - they 
merely paid companies and the rights owners of variosu radio programs a 
licensing fee and royalty for recordings sold.  Thus, even before Radio 
Spirits, Conde Nast, who owns the trademarks to "Lamont Cranston," "Margo 
Lane" "Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men?" etc. enforced their 
ownership on various companies like Radio Yesteryear and others.  Even if 
Radio SPirits is not purchased by another company, the rights to those 
shows are still under ownership of those who retain the rights and can 
still enforce their authority regarding distribution of unauthorized programs.

MG

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