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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2013 : Issue 15
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Cincinnati convention reservation in [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
Bronco's parents on The Great Gilder [ Frank Morgan <fhmorgan@[removed]; ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
Johnny Dollar Audition Mystery [ John Abbott <mraastro@[removed]; ]
February issue of RADIO RECALL [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:40:45 -0500
From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Cincinnati convention reservation information
This morning, I called the Crowne Plaza Cincinnati Blue Ash hotel to make my
reservation for the May 31- June 1 Cincinnati OTR convention, now called the
Nostalgia Expo. On the web page for the Nostalgia Expo ([removed]), it
says to mention "the Cincinnati Nostalgia Expo" when making reservations to
get the special rate. I did. The woman I spoke to didn't have anything under
that name. She listed the events going on the weekend of May 31, and
mentioned "old time radio convention." So, if you haven't made a reservation
yet, be sure to make it clear that "Nostalgia Expo" = "old time radio
convention."
Rick
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:41:49 -0500
From: Frank Morgan <fhmorgan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Bronco's parents on The Great Gildersleeve
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I have been listening to the Great Gildersleeve shows leading up to
Marjorie's marriage to Bronco. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Thompson,
appear in several of the shows. At the end of the show credits are given but
only for the stock characters. I'm very sure that its Joseph Kearns who plays
Mr. Thompson. I'm guessing that its Bea Benaderet who plays Mrs. Thompson.
Eve Goodwin, her prior character, is not part of the show at the time. Anyone
know for sure who the actors were?
Frank Morgan
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:42:06 -0500
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK
Hi Friends,
Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
Radio Theatre," John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane
Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios," Charlie St George's "Make Believe
Ballroom Time" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics." Streamed in
high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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Check our our Transcription Disc scans at:
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS
JEFF REGAN, INVESTEGATOR
Episode 8 11-23-49 "If I Knew You Were Coming, I'd Have Wrecked A Train"
Stars: Frank Graham as "THE LION'S EYE" and Frank Nelson as THE LION
Director/Producer: Sterling Tracy
Music: Dick Aurandt
Writers: William Froug And William Fifield
Regan's character changed dramatically from that of Jack Webb.
CBS Sustaining
BOB HOPE SHOW
Episode 10 11-18-47 GUEST HOST: Eddie Cantor
Guests: Red Skelton, Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, Jerry Colonna, Freeman
Gosden, Charles Correll, Walter Winchell
THE ELEVENTH HOUR
Episode 1 5-14-59 "Duel Of The Matadors"
Australian Artransa Production
THE FIGHTING AAF
Episode 21 8-19-45 "Interview With A Bomb Crew"
ABC Sustained. Sundays 8:30 - 9:00 pm.
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE
ARCH OBOLER'S PLAYS
(NBC) 4/15/39 (3) Stories - with Bill Johnstone, Jackie Kelk, Ray
Collins, and Raymond Edward Johnson. A remarkable show.
HOPALONG CASSIDY
(Syndicated/MBS) 1/1/50 "The Dead Man's Hand" with Bill Boyd and Andy Clyde.
BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25th CENTURY
(MBS) 4/21/39 Buck & Wilma head for Dr. Huer's laboratory.
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
George Burns is our performer of the month. In February we will be
listening to show performances by actress Elvia Allman.
EDDIE CANTOR - IT'S TIME TO SMILE
from 06/09/43 Episode (118) Guest Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie
Allen, and Groucho Marx. It is Eddie's 29th Wedding anniversary.
RADIO CITY PLAYHOUSE
featuring Jan Miner from 12/27/48 episode (21) Strange Identity.
Lon Clark starred for years in a program, reading comics to the kids.
We hear him in
COMIC WEEKLY MAN
from 08/13/50 episode (173) Man With Bread in His Mouth. First Comic
Snookums.
I believe the actress reading the girl parts is Cecil Roy. Lon Clark
reads all of the male parts and is excellent.
Lon Clark, Margot Stevenson, and Bill Nadell took part in a panel
regarding the "Comic Weekly Man" at the Friends of Old time Radio
Convention. We'll hear portions of that panel from 11/22/94. Lon Clark
gives us a history of that program from the 1950's.
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CLASSICS & CURIOS
"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"
Episode 63
Dream Along with "Mr. C" on Radio's "Beat the Band" and in Concert
January, 2013, marks the 73rd anniversary of the premier of the radio
show "Beat the Band," which aired weekly from Chicago, Denver,
Milwaukee, and other cities. The initial "Beat the Band" series
continued on NBC from 1940 to February 23, 1941. Sponsored by General
Mills and Kix cereal, the show featured the Ted Weems band, along with
the Whistling Troubadour Elmo Tanner and several others, including a
young fellow early in his career by the name of Perry Como. The emcee
was -- well more about him as you listen to the show. The emcee would
read questions about songs sent in by listeners, often in the form of
riddles, and if a question stumped the band the listener would receive
$20 and a case of Kix.
On this abbreviated segment we'll hear Ted Weems and the band do "Goody
Good-Bye," and Perry performs "Stepping Out With a Memory Tonight." (Two
complete radio programs will follow this week's first Classics & Curios
feature.) From the "Beat the Band" show we shift to a brief segment of a
WGN remote from Chicago's Trianon Ballroom with the Weems orchestra,
Elmo Tanner, and Perry, who sings songs like "Rainbow on the River" and
"When My Dreamboat Comes Home."
Then we jump on a magic "carpet" and attend one of Perry's final
concerts (in 1980) to compare his early style with his style near the
end of his career, and it's a special treat to hear Perry have fun with
his audience as he sings a song composed for him called "Mr. Nice Guy"
which stretches his image a bit but only in the imagination and pokes
fun at himself.
Perry gave Bing Crosby credit for influencing his voicing and style, and
perhaps all too often people have misinterpreted Perry's easy going
personality and performances and have not realized how hard he worked at
his craft. Music critic Gene Lees once noted that his typical
performance revealed his artistry with a song. Lees wrote that his
performance "seems effortless, but a good deal of effort has gone into
making it seem so. Como is known to be meticulous about rehearsal of the
material for an album. He tries things out in different keys ... makes
suggestions, tries it again and again until he is satisfied. The hidden
work makes him look like Mr. Casual, and too many people are taken in by
it -- but happily so." (Album Sleeve Note for "Look to Your Heart")
Additionally in this episode we include 2 complete and uninterrupted
bonus "Beat the Band" broadcasts, both also from 1940. These shows are
from Jerry Haendiges' Archives and also feature Perry. We'll hear "Mr.
C" sing songs like "Forever Faithful," along with other tunes performed
by the "Beat the Band" ensemble -- songs such as "Si, Si," "Hot Lips,"
and "Pop Goes the Weasel."
Writer Harriet Ward Beecher once said, "Where words fail, music speaks."
Often that's so true, but when Perry sings catchy and poetic tunes like
"Catch a Falling Star" or classic ballads like "Till the End of Time,"
"It's Impossible," and "Dream Along with Me," or stirring sacred songs
like "O Holy Night," not only do the words not fail, but the music
speaks even more eloquently. So let's "Dream Along" with Perry Como, one
of America's greatest practitioners in the fine art of singing and one
of God's most joyful blessings to all who love good music. .
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Make Believe Ballroom Time
Episode 6
Today, BBSS is featuring Chuck Foster and his "Music in the Foster
Fashion" They are broadcasting from the Hotel New Yorker in NY City. The
New Yorker Hotel is located in Manhattan's Garment Center, central to
Pennsylvania Station, Madison Square Garden, Times Square and the Empire
State Building. An early ad for the building boasted that the hotel's
"bell boys were 'as snappy-looking as West Pointers'" and "that it had a
radio in every room with a choice of four stations" It was a New Yorker
bellboy who served as tobacco company Phillip Morris' pitchman for
twenty years, making famous their "Call for Phillip Morris" advertising
campaign.
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s the hotel was among New York's most
fashionable and hosted many popular Big Bands, such as Benny Goodman and
Tommy Dorsey, while notable figures such as Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford
and Fidel Castro stayed there. The New York Observer noted that in the
building's heyday, "actors, celebrities, athletes, politicians,
mobsters, the shady and the luminous-the entire Brooklyn Dodgers roster
during the glory seasons-would stalk the bars and ballrooms, or romp
upstairs".
Some say the Foster band copied the style of Guy Lombardo's successful
and popular Royal [removed] Reed player Chuck Foster began his career
as a bandleader in 1938, bringing the sweet (and sometimes syrupy)
sounds of his band to such sizeable venues as San Francisco's Mark
Hopkins Hotel and the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel's famous Biltmore Bowl.
With radio remotes routinely being broadcast from both locations, the
band hit its stride early and quickly achieved popularity with the help
of talented pianist Hal Pruden and a raft of popular vocalists.
The Foster band is appearing on BBSS in a remote broadcast from the
Hotel New Yorker in NY City. It's mid-August 1945 just prior to Chuck
Foster being drafted into the WWII military.
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If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.
Jerry Haendiges
Jerry@[removed] 562-696-4387
The Vintage Radio Place [removed]
Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:42:17 -0500
From: John Abbott <mraastro@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Johnny Dollar Audition Mystery
When my book, "The Who is Johnny Dollar Matter" was published, I included a
reference in Vol. III, Section 7 to the program "The Ellen Dear Matter" being
an audition program for Bob Bailey. Recently I got a question as to why, and
I had to go back and revisit the issue.
The long and short of it is this: There are TWO script title pages for "The
Ellen Dear Matter", one for the 1/6/57 program, and one for a 1/29/57
Audition. I have created a page on my website
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pages and other details.
My questions to the experts are:
1. Was there really an audition for Bob Bailey?
2. Why is the audition dated after the program air date, and over a year
after Bob Bailey took over the role?
3. Does anyone have a copy of the program with John Dehner as Burrman?
I know it will be impossible to get a finite answer, but one never knows,
does one.
John C. Abbott
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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:11:17 -0500
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: February issue of RADIO RECALL
The PDF full-color version of the February 2013 issue of RADIO RECALL was
sent to subscribers upon the stroke of midnight on February 1st via email.
Others who chose the B & W hard copy will be mailed theirs around February
10th.
The headline article is by Virginia's foremost OTR researcher, Karl Schadow,
and it deals with data he's recently unearthed regarding the unusual series,
"Peter Quill--The Crimson Wizard." Karl concentrates on its final season,
1940-41, covering the sponsorship, publicity, and even quotations from some
of the scripts.
John Abbott, the author of the "Johnny Dollar" trilogy, discusses the "Best
D**n" writing team in radio: Gil Doud and William Tallman. This duo was
responsible for both "Adventures of Sam Spade" and "Voyage of the Scarlet
Queen." Next, the radio aspects of the Lindbergh Kidnapping are set forth in
this issue, including details on the very few audio copies that have survived
regarding the "Crime of the Century."
Frequent Digester, Martin Grams, Jr., explains how the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia
Convention (MANC) this September will be streamed live so that fans in
Sheboygan, Salem, and/or Sacramento can view all the proceedings on-line from
the comfort of their easy chair. Only a modest fee will be charged for this
wonderful convenience.
Trivia Question: When was the last "real" Presidential Debate? We are not
referring to those silly Q & A sessions by TV personalities with the
candidates, but an actual debate format. Turns out it was in March 1948, but
only on radio, and you can read all about it in this issue.
All this, plus Letters to the Editor, complete details on upcoming OTR events
throughout the country, and a enquiry about why nobody under the age of 50
remembers Walter Winchell any more.
To view past articles, or download a membership form for Metro Washington OTR
Club, point your mouse at <[removed]>
Jack French
Editor
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