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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2008 : Issue 2
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Smiles sometimes come in threes [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
5 minutes shows [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
Bing Crosby Show from 12/19/51 [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall concert [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed] ]
1-3 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Willis Conover - Jazz USA [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 15:38:06 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Smiles sometimes come in threes
I've enjoyed the little "controversy" sparked by our pal Ron Sayles'
clarification of Chicago as site of the Benny nativity. Ah, the power of
the airwaves and press has done much to create an aura about Waukegan that
can't be stilled, even preventing some naysayers from accepting reality. I
marvel at that! But then we've been steeped in the tradition a lot longer
than 39 years.
In regard to that popularized myth that at least one well-known trio
perpetuated through song, a digester observed this week:
I can't believe that Peter, Paul OR Mary would lie.
I chuckled. For more than one reason. My mind went back to a few days
before Christmas when my wife and I were in Indianapolis. Visiting a major
mall, to my surprise and glee, there was a branch of one of the most
prominent names in American retail merchandising history:
Carson-Pirie-Scott. Not only was it an affirmation that Macy's hasn't quite
snapped up everything yet, on that occasion I was instantly transported to
an incident involving the revered emporium and -- who else? -- Jack Benny!
When Mrs. Florence Hubbard, 68, a $30-a-week widowed clerk working at
Chicago's famed State Street headquarters of Carson-Pirie-Scott, identified
Jack Benny as "The Walking Man" in Truth or Consequences' longrunning
audience participation sound contest in 1947 -- in which she won tens of
thousands of dollars' worth of merchandise prizes (and reportedly gained 40
proposals of marriage as a result!) -- Mrs. Hubbard was invited to appear on
the following Saturday night's live broadcast of Truth or Consequences.
Speaking on the air from elsewhere in Los Angeles with host Ralph Edwards
after being unmasked, Benny told Edwards: "I'd like to get Mrs. Hubbard as
a guest on 'my' show Sunday night. And if we can't get her, Ralph, would
you see if you can get Carson, Pirie or Scott?"
Jim Cox
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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 15:38:21 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 5 minutes shows
Hi Everybody,
does any one have a sorce of 5 minutes shows beside the 5 minute Mystery on
audio cd? I am trying to locate them in order to be use on Yesterday USA.
Thank you for any help,
Walden
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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 16:30:57 -0500
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Bing Crosby Show from 12/19/51
Folks;
If anyone has a copy of the Bing Crosby Show episode that aired
12/19/1951, please contact me; I received a request for this program, and so
would like to run this episode on the Nostalgic Rumblings podcast if it
exists and is available. (That's at [removed] for those of
you just returning from Siberia. ;)
Charlie
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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 21:46:32 -0500
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall concert
January 16, 2008, will mark the 70th anniversary of the historic Benny
Goodman Carnegie Hall concert!
You can hear all about it as Arnold Dean interviews noted music critic
Irving Kolodin, drummer Gene Krupa, and trumpeter Harry James in the
November 1971 edition of "A One Night Stand with the Big Bands" as broadcast
by WTIC in Hartford, CT.
Go to [removed] , click on "A One Night Stand with the Big
Bands," and select Program # 10.
You can also hear such big band greats as Artie Shaw, Ray Coniff, Woody
Herman, in their own words, and their own music. And 89 one-hour "Golden Age
of Radio" programs, and other features as well!
--
Bob Scherago
Webmaster
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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 22:40:36 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 1-3 births/deaths
January 3rd births
01-03-1886 - Josephine Hull - Newtonville, MA - d. 3-12-1957
actor: Miss Julia "Miss Julia"; Mrs. Kayden "The O'Neills"
01-03-1891 - Gaston Anderson - d. 5-xx-1978
disk jockey: WGWD Gasden, Alabama
01-03-1892 - Marion Davies - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-25-1961
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "How I Made Up for the Moview"
01-03-1893 - Gilbert Seldes - Alliance, NJ - d. 9-29-1970
writer: "Americans All, Immigrants All"
01-03-1897 - Dorothy Arzner - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-1-1979
film director: "You Were Meant to be a Star"
01-03-1898 - Freddie Rich - Warsaw, Poland - d. 9-8-1956
bandleader: "Friendly Five Footnotes"; "Freddie Rich's Penthouse Party"
01-03-1898 - John Loder - London, England - d. 12-9-1988
actor, host: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Silver Theatre"
01-03-1898 - Zasu Pitts - Parsons, KS - d. 6-7-1963
comedienne: "Lum and Abner"; "Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou"
01-03-1900 - Cecil Underwood - Vienna, MO - d. 9-27-1976
producer, director: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Great Gildersleeve"
01-03-1905 - Anna May Wong - Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA - d. 2-3-1961
actor: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Hollywood Hotel"
01-03-1905 - Ray Milland - Neath, Wales - d. 3-10-1986
actor: Ray McNutley "Meet Mr. McNutley"
01-03-1909 - Victor Borge - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 12-23-2000
comedian, pianist: "Victor Borge Show"; "Kraft Music Hall"
01-03-1911 - Al Sack - NYC - d. 12-6-1947
orchestra leader: "Beula Show"; "Tony Martin Show"; "Frank Morgan Show"
01-03-1916 - Betty Furness - NYC - d. 4-2-1994
actor: Anne Williams "Casey, Crime Photographer"
01-03-1917 - Jay Sommers - NYC - d. 9-25-1985
writer: "Lum and Abner"; "Joan Davis Time"; "Alan Young Show"
01-03-1918 - Jesse White - Buffalo, NY - d. 1-8-1997
actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"; "Sears Radio Theatre"
01-03-1918 - Maxene Andrews - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-21-1995
singer: (Andrews Sisters) "Andrews Sisters Revue"
01-03-1920 - Lester Bashara - d. 2-19-1990
newscaster: KGFW Kearney, Nebraska
01-03-1927 - William Boyett - Akron, OH - d. 12-29-2004
actor: Freelance in younger years
01-03-1942 - John Thaw - West Gorton, England - d. 2-21-2002
actor: "Peter Pan"
January 3rd deaths
01-27-1905 - Howard McNear - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-3-1969
actor: Doctor Charles Adams "Gunsmoke"
02-08-1890 - Irving Kaufman - Syracuse, NY - d. 1-3-1976
singer: "Champion Sparkers"; "Broadway Vanities"
02-08-1892 - Will Aubrey - Lithuania - d. 1-3-1958
actor: (The Bard of the Byways) "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
02-10-1897 - Judith Anderson - Adelaide, Australia - d. 1-3-1992
actor: Royal Gelatin Hour"
02-13-1904 - Erwin D. Canham - Auburn, ME - d. 1-3-1982
news commentator: "Christian Science Monitor Views the News"
02-20-1874 - Mary Garden - Aberdeen, Scotland - d. 1-3-1967
singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"
03-03-1948 - Byron MacGregor - Alberta, Canada - d. 1-3-1995
CKLW radio newsman, recorded narrative "The Americans"
03-04-1907 - Pat McGeehan - Steelton, PA - d. 1-3-1988
announcer, actor: "Abbott and Costello"; "The Red Skelton Show"
04-02-1907 - Luke Appling - High Point, NC - d. 1-3-1991
baseball great: "Tops in Sport"
04-03-1904 - Peter Van Steeden - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - d.
1-3-1990
bandleader: "Town Hall Tonight"; "Mr. District Attorney"
04-16-1897 - Milton J. Cross - NYC - d. 1-3-1975
announcer, commentator: (The Voice of the Met) "General Motors Concerts"
04-24-1906 - William "Lord Haw Haw" Joyce - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-3-1946
propagnadist for Nazi Germany during World War II: Hung for treason
05-16-1880 - Julius Tannen - Chicago, IL - d. 1-3-1965
comedian: (Human Chatterbox) "Goldenrod Revue"; "Seven Star Revue"
05-23-1907 - Kenneth Griffin - Enid, Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-3-1951
actor: Larry Noble "Mary Noble, Backstage Wife"
08-12-1895 - Carol DeAngelo - Rome, Italy - d. 1-3-1962
actor, director: "We Love and Learn"; "The Jack Benny Program"
08-14-1917 - Marty Glickman - NYC - d. 1-3-2001
sprorts broadcaster: "Saturday Night Bandwagon"; "Play Ball"; "Box
Score Review"
09-04-1923 - Graham Archer - d. 1-3-2001
disk jockey: "Wax Museum"; "The States of the Union"
10-23-1912 - Floyd Mack - Ava, OH - d. 1-3-1983
commentator: "Floyd Mack and the News"; "Bell Telephone Hour"
12-20-1906 - Marion Talley - Nevada, MO - d. 1-3-1983
singer: "Ry-Krisp Presents Marion Talley"
12-xx-1894 - Tess Gardella - Wilkes-Barre, PA - d. 1-3-1950
actor: Aunt Jemina "Aunt Jemina"
xx-xx-xxxx - Bryna Raeburn - d. 1-3-1986
actor: "Gangbusters"; "Philo Vance"; "The Big Story"
xx-xx-xxxx - Isabella Beech - d. 1-3-1972
food editor: Francis Lee Barton "Mother Knows Best"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 11:49:36 -0500
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Willis Conover - Jazz USA
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Kim Andrew Elliott's website ( [removed] ) this week carried
info about a radio station in Russia that has been playing old VOA tapes of
Willis Conover's Jazz USA shows. The link to the station is
[removed] but Google says that to download anything from this
site might not be good for your pc. Does anyone know a way around this, or
know of any other sites where it is possible to hear these old Jazz USA shows
from the VOA ?
Cheers ! Graeme Stevenson ORCA / UK
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