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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 351
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  12-15 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  November 2007 deaths                  [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Not a dirty word                      [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  Re: 12-13 births                      [ Jordan Young <jyoung@[removed]; ]
  ADMINISTRIVIA: New Mailing Address    [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
  Overdubbing                           [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
  "Won't you ride in my little red wag  [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 16-22 Dec  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Bing and Bowie                        [ George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@hotmai ]
  Sergeant Friday Badge number          [ "origami" <origami@[removed]; ]
  12-16 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:05:26 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  12-15 births/deaths

December 15th births

12-15-1873 - Harry Humphrey - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-1-1947
actor: Old Ranger "Death Valley Days"; Horace "Ma and Pa"
12-15-1883 - Marion S. Barney - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-xx-1968
actor: "Red Davis"; "Gangbusters"; "We, The People"
12-15-1888 - Maxwell Anderson - Atlantic, PA - d. 2-28-1959
writer: "Free Company"; "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "O'Neill Cycle"
12-15-1896 - Betty Smith - NYC - d. 1-17-1972
author: "Studio One"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
12-15-1901 - Gail Bonney - Columbus, OH - d. 12-7-1984
actor: "Family Theatre"; "Joan Davis Time"; "NBC University Theatre"
12-15-1907 - Bob Hawk - Creston, IA - d. 7-4-1989
quizmaster: "Take It or Leave It"; "Thanks to the Yanks"; "Bob Hawk
Show"
12-15-1915 - Margaret Hayes - Baltimore, MD - d. 1-26-1977
actor: "Silver Theatre"
12-15-1916 - Buddy Cole - Irving, IL - d. 11-5-1964
musician: (Buddy Cole Trio) "Ginny Simms Show"; "Hollywood Showcase"
12-15-1917 - Raymond Morgan - Utah - d. 1-18-1975
announcer: "Chandu, the Magician"; "Murder at Midnight"
12-15-1918 - Jeff Chandler - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-17-1961
actor: Michael Shayne, "Michael Shayne, Detective"; Philip Boynton,
"Our Miss Brooks"
12-15-1926 - Rose Maddox - Boaz, AL - d. 4-15-1998
country singer: "Faron Young Show"; "Country Hoedown"

December 15th deaths

01-14-1899 - Carlos P. Romulo - Camiling, Tarlac, Philippines - d.
12-15-1985
diplomat: "Information Please"
01-15-1913 - Stephen Courtleigh - NYC - d. 12-15-1967
actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"
01-28-1910 - Arnold Moss - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-15-1989
actor: Philip Cameron "Against the Storm"; Reed Bannister "Big Sister"
02-15-1919 - Frank Behrens - Sheboygan, WI - d. 12-15-1986
actor: Billie "Billie the Brownie"; Jack Armstrong "Jack Armstrong"
03-01-1904 - Glenn Miller - Clarinda, IA - d. 12-15-1944
bandleader: "Moonlight Serenade"; "USO Matinee"
05-02-1918 - Frank Milano - d. 12-15-1962
animal sounds: "Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders"
05-03-1907 - Degar Lustgarten - Manchester, England - d. 12-15-1978
author: "The Burden Mystery"
05-21-1904 - Thomas "Fats" Waller - NYC - d. 12-15-1943
pianist, singer: "Columbia Variety Hour"; "Saturday Night Swing Club"
06-03-1904 - Jan Peerce - NYC - d. 12-15-1984
singer: "Music Hall of the Air"; "A & P Gypsies"; "Golden Treasury of
Song"
07-01-1899 - Charles Laughton - Scarborough, England - d. 12-15-1962
actor: "Three Ring Time"; "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Blue Ribbon Town"
07-18-1903 - Chill Wills - Seagoville, TX - d. 12-15-1978
actor: "Armed Forces Radio Theatre"; "Dinner Bell Round-Up Time"
08-03-1902 - Irma Glen - Chicago, IL - d. 12-15-1982
organist: "Irma Glen Lovable Music"; "Vic and Sade"
10-09-1913 - John Guedel - Portland, IN - d. 12-15-2001
producer: "You Bet Your Life"; "People Are Funny"; "Pillsbury House
Party"
10-13-1885 - Harry Hershfield - Cedar Rapids, IA - d. 12-15-1974
comedian: "Stop Me If You Heard This One"; "Can You Top This?"
11-11-1915 - William Proxmire - Lake Forest, IL - d. 12-15-2005
[removed] senator: "Meet the Press"
12-02-1910 - Sidney Marshall - d. 12-15-1977
writer: "Man Called X"; "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
12-05-1901 - Walt Disney - Chicago, IL - d. 12-15-1966
actor: Mickey Mouse "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:05:31 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  November 2007 deaths

November 2007 deaths

02-23-1915 - Paul Tibbets - Quincy, IL - d. 11-1-2007
on 8-6-1945 dropped Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan: "Morning Edition"
11-20-1917 - Jim Hawthorne - Victor, CO - d. 11-6-2007
disk jockey: "The Hawthorne Thing"; "Hawthorne's Adventures"
09-03-1925 - Hank Thompson - Waco, TX - d. 11-6-2007
singer/guitarist: "Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys"
01-31-1923 - Norman Mailer - Long Branch, NJ - d. 11-10-2007
author: "Highlights of Monitor's Twenty Great Years"
08-31-1907 - Gus Hawkins - Shreveport, LA - d. 11-10-2007
congressman: Democratic response to Reagan's radio address
10-13-1920 - Laraine Day - Roosevelt, UT - d. 11-10-2007
host, actor: "Double Play with Durocher and Day"; Screen Guild Theatre"
07-30-1928 - Joe Nuxhall - Hamilton, OH - d. 11-15-2007
baseball annoucer for the Cincinnati Reds
07-30-1916 - Dick Wilson - Preston, Lancashire, England - d. 11-19-2007
actor: "Family Theatre" Mr. Whipple in Charmin commercials
xx-xx-xxxx - Delaney "Ben" Casey - Asheville, NC - d. 11-20-2007
talk show host: "Community Focus"
12-03-1923 - Frank Guarrera - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-23-2007
operatic baritone: "Metropolitan Opera Audition of the Air"
04-03-1913 - Mel Tolkin - Odessa, Russia - d. 11-26-2007
comedy writer: wrote jokes for Bob Hope
12-09-1932 - Bill Hartack - Ebensburg, PA - d. 11-26-2007
jockey: "Tops in Sports"
05-21-1918 - Jeanne Bates - Berkeley, CA - d. 11-28-2007
actor: Teddy Lawson "One Man's Family"; "Gunsmoke"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:06:47 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Not a dirty word

From: Joe Mackey _joemackey108@[removed]_
(mailto:joemackey108@[removed])

The other  day I ran across this clip of Orson Welles from a Dean Martin
t--------n  show<

Been watching some Holiday Classics of late - THE GRINCH; CHARLIE  BROWN;
CROSBY & SINATRA SPECIAL; DRAGNET: "BIG LITTLE [removed]"

On the merits of those alone (if nothing else), I think the modern box  in
the living room deserves being released from Santa's "Bad"  list?

-Craig W.

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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:24:55 -0500
From: Jordan Young <jyoung@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: 12-13 births

Ron,

You can add the Nilsson Twins, Elsa & EIleen, to 12-13 births (1925,
Wichita Falls, KS). They were regulars on "Furlough Fun" with Spike
Jones.

I don't have exact dates of death (let me know if you come up with
them); Elsa died in '95 and Eileen a few years later.

Jordan

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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:38:12 -0500
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  ADMINISTRIVIA: New Mailing Address

Folks;

   After some twenty-seven years, I've finally grown weary of certain
requirements and regulations, and so the Post Office and my company have come
to a parting of the ways. The surface mailing address for this list has
changed to:

   [removed] Communications
   211 Pauline Drive #525
   York, PA  17402

   For those who keep track of such things, please update your records or
PIM. I'm hoping to get all of the pages on the various websites updated, but
it may take a while and knowing me, I may miss some.  ;)

         Charlie

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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:11:56 -0500
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Overdubbing

I am wondering if anybody knows of any other instances where old
radio recordings have been overdubbed with new music? If so, I'd be
interested to know the details.

Only a few years ago Natalie Cole made an album that she sang duets with
her father Nat "King" Cloe who died in the 60's and it sounded very good.
Frank McGurn

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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:19:18 -0500
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  "Won't you ride in my little red wagon?"
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I just received an e-mail with the heart-rending story about a little boy who
temporarily appropriated the statue  of the infant Jesus from a church's
creche/manger scene. Supposedly this incident took place in San Francisco. But
we OTR fans know this scenario as the plot device for the "Dragnet" (both
radio AND TV) episode "The Big Little Jesus," which was said to be based on a
real-life incident involving a little Mexican boy and a Roman Catholic mission
church in Los Angeles in the early 1930s.

Can anybody flesh out the deatils? What year did this happen? Was such a great
story ever mentioned in the LA area newspapers or was this a story passed
around among the LAPD for two decades and was finally suggested to Jack Webb
during the Dragnet years? Takers?

Yours in the wreath-er,

Derek Tague

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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:19:31 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 16-22 December

 From Those Were The Days --

12/17

1936 - Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen kidded around with his pal, Charlie
McCarthy (who was a bit wooden, we [removed]), for the first time on
radio. The two debuted on The Rudy Vallee Show on NBC. Soon, Bergen
became one of radio's hottest properties, and was called Vallee's
greatest talent discovery.

12/19

 From The Today in History, NY Times --

1932 -- the British Broadcasting Corporation began transmitting overseas
with its Empire Service to Australia.

12/22

1920 - WEAF, in New York City, aired the first broadcast of a prize
fight from ringside. The fight was broadcast from Madison Square Garden
where Joe Lynch defeated Peter Herman to retain the bantamweight title.
Bantamweights top the scales at 118 pounds. Just think, either of those
boxers could have been mistaken for the microphone stand.

1922 - WEAF once again proved to be the pillar of radio promotion. This
time they broadcast radio's first double wedding ceremony. 4,000
spectators watched as the two couples exchanged vows at Grand Central
Palace. The broadcast was made in conjunction with the American Radio
Exposition. The couples each got $100; a hefty sum in 1922. (In 2006
that $100 would be worth $[removed] [removed])

   Joe

--
Visit my homepage: [removed]~[removed]

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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:12:14 -0500
From: George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Bing and Bowie

Steve Salaba wrote:

Didn't Bing record a Christmas song with rock star David Bowie?

I don't think it was issued as a record, but on one of Bing's Christmas
specials in the 1970s he and David Bowie teamed up to sing "The Little
Drummer Boy".  Not surprisingly, this is available on You Tube. A search on
You Tube for "bing bowie" will bring up several appearances.

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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:12:24 -0500
From: "origami" <origami@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Sergeant Friday Badge number

I just finished watching some old "Dragnet" TV shows.  They
always start with a prominent picture of Badge Number 714.
Was that purely a TV invention, or did the radio shows
reveal that number?  I do not remember "hearing" it.

John

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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:54:45 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  12-16 births/deaths

December 16th births

12-16-1889 - Kurt Kupfer - d. 3-xx-1974
actor: the kindly Joseph Steinbloch "Romance of Helen Trent"
12-16-1890 - Jane Morgan - North Platte, NE - d. 1-1-1972
actor: Mary Lane "Aunt Mary"; Mrs. Margaret Davis "Our Miss Brooks"
12-16-1892 - Cameron Prud'homme - Auburn, CA - d. 11-27-1967
actor: Governor Bradley "Little Herman"; David Harum "David Harum"
12-16-1895 - Andy Razaf - Washington, D. C. - d. 2-3-1973
lyricist: "Music for Millions"
12-16-1898 - Lud Gluskin - NYC - d. 10-13-1989
conductor: "Hollywood Showcase"; "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Advs. of Sam Spade"
12-16-1899 - Noel Coward - Teddington, Middlesex, England - d. 3-26-1973
actor, playwright: "Stagestruck"
12-16-1900 - Jesse Block - NYC - d. 3-22-1983
comedian: appeared with wife Eve Sully on radio
12-16-1907 - Albert Gore, Sr. - Granville, TN - d. 12-5-1998
[removed] senator tennessee: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
12-16-1911 - Howard Reilly - d. 11-28-1991
producer: "The Fred Allen Show"
12-16-1913 - Verlye Mills - St. John, KS - d. 10-2-1983
harpist: "The Hour of Charm"; "Your Hit Parade"
12-16-1918 - Paul Talbot - d. 7-6-2005
actor: "It Happened to Me"; "Let's Playwright"
12-16-1946 - Robert Urich - Toronto, OH - d. 4-16-2002
salesman: WGN Chicago, Illinois

December 16th deaths

01-02-1888 - Tito Schipa - Lecce, Italy - d. 12-16-1965
operatic tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"; "La Rosa Concerts"
01-25-1874 - Somerset Maughan - Paris, France - d. 12-16-1965
writer: " Somerset Maughan Theatre"
02-02-1923 - Haleloke Kahuaolapus - Hilo, Hawaii Territory - d.
12-16-2004
singer: "Hawaii Calls"; "Arthur Godfrey Time"
02-08-1917 - Robert Dryden - d. 12-16-2003
actor: Doctor West "We Love and Learn"; Sergeant Maggio "Call the
Police"
03-03-1919 - Enzo Stuarti - Rome, Italy - d. 12-16-2005
operatic singer: "Stars for Defense"
03-07-1906 - Edward Mabley - Binghampton, NY - d. 12-16-1984
writer: "The American School of the Air"
03-10-1882 - Lewis J. Valentine - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-16-1946
nyc police commissioner: "Gangbusters"
04-21-1891 - Will Donaldson - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-16-1954
composer, arranger, musician: "The Wonder Bakers Orchestra"
05-12-1910 - Jack Jenney - Mason City, IA - d. 12-16-1945
trombonist: "The Saturday Night Swing Club"
07-14-1928 - George Rose - Limestone County, AL - d. 12-16-2006
disk jockey: Cousin Josh "The Cousin Josh Jam-O-Ree"
07-14-1928 - George "Cousin Josh" Rose - Huntsville, AL - d. 12-16-2006
country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
07-23-1895 - Aileen Pringle - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-16-1989
actor: Anne Hill "Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne"
07-29-1895 - Bill Corum - Speed, MO - d. 12-16-1958
boxing color man: "Gillettes's Cavalcade of Sports"
07-29-1906 - Thelma Todd - Lawrence, MA - d. 12-16-1935
comedienne: Series with Zasu Pitts
08-02-1886 - Cesare Sodero - Naples, Italy - d. 12-16-1947
conductor: Series of condensed operas on WEAF New York
09-19-1879 - Louis Joseph Vance - NYC - d. 12-16-1933
writer: "The Lone Wolf"
10-19-1925 - Eddie Layton - d. 12-16-2004
organist: New York Yankees and many radio programs

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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