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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2006 : Issue 124
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
5-5 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Soap operas: from radio to video [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
You can order now [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
Good news for Higby [removed] [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
Night Watch, Sirius Radio, etc. [ westernfan56@[removed] ]
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Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 01:07:48 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 5-5 births/deaths
May 5th births
05-05-1879 - Max Marcin - Posen, Prussia, Germany - d. 3-30-1948
writer, producer, director: "Crime Doctor"; "The FBI in Peace and War"
05-05-1890 - Christopher Morley - Haverford, PA - d. 3-28-1957
author: "Information, Please"; "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Studio One"
05-05-1899 - Freeman F. Gosden - Richmond, VA - d. 12-10-1982
comedian: "Sam 'n' Henry"; Amos Jones "Amos 'n' Andy"
05-05-1912 - Alice Faye - NYC - d. 5-9-1998
singer, actor: "Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show"
05-05-1912 - Bret Morrison - Chicago, IL - d. 9-25-1978
actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"; Bruce Wayne/Batman "Advs.
of Superman"
05-05-1914 - Tyrone Power - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-15-1958
actor: Dean Edwards "Freedom [removed]"
05-05-1915 - Ben Wright - London, England - d. 7-2-1989
actor: Hey Boy "Have Gun, Will Travel"; Nicholas Lacey "One Man's
Family"
05-05-1919 - George London - Montreal, Canada - d. 3-23-1985
singer: "The Voice of Firestone"
05-05-1921 - Ted Brown - d. 3-20-2005
announcer: "Magic Carpet"; "Hobby Lobby"; "Scout About Town"
05-05-1925 - Monica Lewis - Chicago, IL
singer: "Jan August's Revere Camera Show"
05-05-1927 - Jim Lowe - Springfield, MO
disc jockey, host: (King of Trivia) WNEW New York
05-05-1927 - Pat Carroll - Shrevport, LA
actor: "We Hold These Truths"; "Fifty Years After Fourteen August"
05-05-1932 - Will Hutchins - Los Angeles, CA
actor: Instrumental in keeping OTR alive in these the latter days
May 5th deaths
03-31-1896 - Eddie Dunn - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-5-1951
quizmaster: "True or False"
06-02-1909 - June MacCloy - Sturgis, MI - d. 5-5-2005
vocalist: "Griff Williams and Jimmy Walsh and Their Orchestra"
07-16-1925 - Cal Tjader - St. Louis, MO - d. 5-5-1982
jazz vibrophonist: "Music for Moderns"; ""Ass-Star Parade of Bands"
09-04-1891 - Sam Lanin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-5-1977
bandleader: "Ipana Troubadors"; "Benrus Ticksters"
09-29-1898 - Doris Hursley - Wisconsin - d. 5-5-1984
writer: "American Women"; "Cousin Willie"; "Those Websters"; "The
Truitts"
10-04-1916 - George Sidney - Long Island City, NY - d. 5-5-2002
film musical director: "Shell Chateau"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-04-1916 - Lenore Kingston - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-5-1993
actor: Mercedes Colby "Don Winslow of the Navy"; Jane Daley "Affairs
of Anthony"
11-29-1914 - Hal McIntyre - Cromwell, CT - d. 5-5-1959
bandleader: "Hal McIntyre and His Orchestra"
12-20-1905 - Albert Dekker - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-5-1968
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Birthplace of Spencer Tracy
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Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:09:53 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Soap operas: from radio to video
What an opening!
Is there any information about daytime soaps, "Guiding
Light," etc. that
started on radio? I seem to remember talk when I was young
about soap operas
on radio, now on tv (around 1966.)
Wow.
It so happens that literally any day now my latest tome "The
Daytime Serials of Television, 1946-1960" will roll from the
McFarland presses packed with everything you wanted to know
about the 40 soap operas that were shown on the networks in
the U. S. during TV's golden age. A significant number of
those had their origins in daytime radio. Chapter 2
"Bubbles in the Air" is a comprehensive history of the radio
soap opera. Chapter 7 "Reincarnations" details the
carryovers from one medium to the other in themes and
titles. Chapter 10 is devoted to "The Guiding Light," the
most durable of all the serialized narratives. You will
find a wealth of information on that show alone. (There are
similar focal chapters on five other major properties that
significantly influenced the form in that embryonic epoch:
"Search for Tomorrow," "Love of Life," "The Secret Storm,"
"As the World Turns" and "The Edge of Night.")
The hardback volume with pictures, a chapter on the
ancestors of continuing narratives and multiple chapters on
the television serials, plus three extensive appendices, may
be ordered right now at $[removed] from McFarland & Company,
800-253-2187 (Monday through Friday daytime) or at the web
address: [removed]
In addition, to further answer the question raised by the
reader, extensive sections of several of my earlier works
provide extensive enlightment on the transition of radio
serials to television. Check out:
"The Great Radio Soap Operas" (McFarland, 1999)
"Frank and Anne Hummert's Radio Factory: The Programs and
Personalities of Broadcasting's Most Prolific Producers"
(McFarland, 2003)
"Historical Dictionary of American Radio Soap Operas"
(Scarecrow Press, 2005)
Jim Cox
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Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 16:33:10 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: You can order now
Earlier today I mentioned that "any day" now The Daytime
Serials of Television, 1946-1960, would be rolling off the
press. I've just received word the book is now in stock for
immediate shipment. It's priced at $[removed] plus $4 shipping
& handling. It isn't carried by the popular book store
chains in their retail operations (our hobby's audience is
considered too narrowly focused, I've always been told)
although the volume may be special ordered from those
distributors soon, quite likely at the same price. Or, you
can get it right now by contacting [removed],
(800) 253-2187 or fax (336) 246-4403. The 236-page
hardbound edition includes three comprehensive appendices,
photographs, chapter notes, bibliography, index and it
covers in depth the 40 daytime serials of TV that were on
the air by 1960. This one answers a lot of requests I've
received over the years and I'm very pleased with the cover
and total design the McFarland staff artists have provided.
I hope you enjoy it.
Jim Cox
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Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 19:15:34 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Good news for Higby [removed]
Yesterday I was contacted by Nicola Daval, the prominent Washington, DC
actress who narrated my book, "Private Eyelashes; Radio's Lady
Detectives" for the Library of Congress when it was made into a Talking
Book for the blind and disabled. Nicola wanted to tell me that she had
just been assigned the narration of Mary Jane Higby's 1968
autobiography, "Tune In Tomorrow." (According to Ron Sayles, Higby died
in 1986 at the age of 76.)
From past experience I know that from the time of assignment until the
actual release of the tapes by the National Library Service, at least a
year will have transpired. So it will be some time before Higby's book
is actually available to the blind and the disabled. However I'm sure
many of them will be reassured to know it is in progress.
Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 23:36:43 -0400
From: westernfan56@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Night Watch, Sirius Radio, etc.
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Greetings,
I'm a newcomer to OTR. Been listening for over a year. Today I began
listening to Night Watch. I noticed on the opening introduction of the
01/07/54 show, a mention of "Car 54." Does anyone know if there's a
connection to the later TV Show Car 54, Where Are You? Secondly, does anyone
know whether Satellite Radio hosts any OTR shows? If you do, would you
kindly let me know. I've been interested in this new medium of radio, but
while looking on their lists of shows, I don't see any nostalgic radio. I'm
interested in most OTR, plus 20s - 40s music.
Thanks.
Linda in NYC
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