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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2012 : Issue 170
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Halloween and Welles                  [ James Yellen <jjyellen@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 28 Octobe  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Fwd: Elvis Presley 1954- 1955         [ Luca Fabris <plcpf@[removed]; ]
  10-27 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  10-26 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  10-28 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  SummersTime Haloween Special!         [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:10:42 -0400
From: James Yellen <jjyellen@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Halloween and Welles

It's that time of year again. Halloween is approaching as is the anniversary
of Welles' famous broadcast.
I invite all to go to my website of nostalgic tales of Old Time Radio
captured for posterity in an on-line novel of warmth, reminiscense and
riotous pleasure.
Chapter One is an epic saga wherein our heroic protagonist, inspired by the
Orson Welles radio prank, attempts his own Halloween alien invasion prank
with unexpected results.
Please visit and I hope you enjoy. Thank you for listening.
Here's the [removed]
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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:10:53 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 28 October to 3
 November

 From Those Were The Days

10/28

1922   WEAF in New York broadcast the first collegiate football game
heard coast to coast. Princeton played the University of Chicago at
Stagg Field in the Windy City. The broadcast was carried on phone lines
to New York City, where the radio transmission began. (Princeton 21,
Chicago 18.)

1946   Our favorite flying cowboy was heard on ABC for the first time.
Sky King starred Jack Lester, then Earl Nightingale, and finally, Roy
Engel, as Sky. Beryl Vaughn played Sky's niece Penny; Jack Bivens was
Chipper and Cliff Soubier was the foreman. Sky King was sponsored by
Mars candy.

10/30

Orson Welles, known to radio audiences as The Shadow, presented his
famous dramatization of [removed] Wells' The War of the Worlds on CBS's
Mercury Theater at 8 [removed]

10/31

1942   One of the great wartime shows premiered. CBS debuted Thanks to
the Yanks, starring Bob Hawk. It became one of the most popular of the
wartime programs.

11/1

1937   The first broadcast of Hilltop House was aired on CBS; while on
NBC, the comic strip character Terry and the Pirates debuted.

11/2

1931   Myrt and Marge was heard for the first time    on CBS. The
program centered on two chorus girls who competed for the same parts and
the same men. The creator and writer (Cliff Thomas wrote some) of the
series, Myrtle Vail, also played the role of Myrt; and the original
Marge was performed by Vail's daughter, Donna Fick. Three other
performers played the part when Donna died giving birth. Myrt and Marge
continued for 11 years.

Joe

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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:10:58 -0400
From: Luca Fabris <plcpf@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Fwd: Elvis Presley 1954- 1955
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Dear Sirs,

My name is Fabris [removed],46 years old,Italy. I'm an Elvis Presley
researcher expecially on the early days. We are trying to document every
single show Elvis did, and we have come fairly close. So I'm looking for
photos,recordings from Louisiana Hayride (KWKH program transmitted also
by KTHS) or Opry,Big D Jamboree or any live radio gig or interview ....
ANYTHING IS WELCOME FROM THE 50s!!

Would you like to help us?

Do you know any other local historian that might help ? Your
help,anyone's help is welcome!

Write soon I hope this is not too much of an intrusion. Sincerely yours
Luca Fabris Elvis researcher

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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:11:03 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  10-27 births/deaths

October 27th births

10-27-1890 - Bob Becker - Terryville, SD - d. 8-10-1962
commentator: "Fireside Chats About Dogs/Pet Parade"
10-27-1896 - Eric Dressler - NYC - d. 8-12-1978
actor: "Scattergood Baines"; "Young Widdr Brown"
10-27-1898 - Kathryn Cravens - Burkett, TX - d. 8-29-1991
newscaster: "News Through a Woman's Eye"
10-27-1898 - Richard Carroll - Cambridge, MA - d. 3-11-1959
writer: "Shorty Bell"
10-27-1901 - David Stone - Savannah, GA - d. 8-31-1995
announcer: "Grand Ole Opry"
10-27-1907 - Mignon Schreiber - Chicago, IL - d. 4-18-1965
actor: Jennie Fox "Foxes of Flatbush", Mrs. Kransky "Guiding Light"
10-27-1908 - DeWitt "Snuffy" Jenkins - Harris, NC - d. 4-30-1990
strings: (Jenkins String Band) "Crazy Water Crystals Barn Dance"
10-27-1908 - Josephine Antoine - Boulder, CO - d. 10-30-1971
singer: "Contented Hour"
10-27-1910 - Jack Carson - Carmen, Canada - d. 1-2-1963
comedian: "Jack Carson Show"; "New Sealtest Village Store"
10-27-1911 - Charles R. Callender - Phrae, Thailand - d. 7-26-1987
sang and played piano on radio
10-27-1911 - Leif Erickson - Alameda, CA - d. 1-29-1986
actor: Richard Rhinelander III "My Friend Irma"
10-27-1914 - Dylan Thomas - Uplands, Swansea, Wales - d. 11-9-1953
writer: "Life of the Modern Poet"; "Modern Muse"
10-27-1915 - Albert Albinger - d. 11-29-1982
newscaster: WKWK Wheeling, West Virginia
10-27-1918 - Bill Ballance - Peoria, IL - d. 9-23-2004
talk show host: "Feminine Forum"; "Bill Ballance Show"
10-27-1918 - Teresa Wright - NYC - d. 3-6-2005
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-27-1920 - Nanette Fabray - San Diego, CA
singer, actor: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
10-27-1923 - Peter Bryant - London, England - d. 5-19-2006
announcer, script editor for BBC Radio
10-27-1924 - Bonnie Blue - Talawanda, IN
Singer: "Midwestern Hayride"
10-27-1924 - Ruby Dee - Cleveland, OH
actor: "Story of Ruby Valentine"; "Story Hour"
10-27-1927 - Charles Mullen - d. 4-14-2002
actor: "The Blue Playhouse"; "Advs. of Archie Andrews"
10-27-1933 - Floyd Cramer - Campti, LA - d. 12-31-1997
country pianist: "Country Music Time"; "Country Style [removed]"
10-27-1939 - John Cleese - Weston-Super-Mare, England
comedian: Basil Fawlty "Fawlty Towers"

October 27th deaths

01-01-1900 - Xavier Cugat - Tirona, Spain - d. 10-27-1990
bandleader: (King of the Rhumba) "Camel Caravan"
01-12-1894 - Georges Carpentier - Lens, France - d. 10-27-1975
boxer: Dempsey vs. Carpentier first boxing match broadcast
02-13-1917 - Clara Antonetti - d. 10-27-1995
broadcaster on WTSA Brattleboro, Vermont
03-05-1900 - Sam Hearn - Jersey City, NJ - d. 10-27-1964
comedian: Schlepperman "Jack Benny Program, Glamour Manor"
03-18-1932 - Frank Nagai - Tokyo, Japan - d. 10-27-2008
singer: "Kohaku Uta Gassen"
03-21-1919 - Lois Collier - Salley, SC - d. 10-27-1999
actor: Carol Chandler "Dear John"
04-22-1921 - Vivian Dandridge - Cleveland, OH - d. 10-27-1991
writer: "The Beulah Show"
05-11-1884 - Alma Gluck - Lasil, Romania - d. 10-27-1938
opera singer: made one radio appearance in 1929
05-26-1910 - Larry Rhine - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-27-2000
writer: "Duffy's Tavern"
05-29-1923 - Winifred Wolfe - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-27-1981
writer: "Cloak and Dagger"
06-08-1909 - Leland Frederick Cooley - Oakland, CA - d. 10-27-1998
writer, emcee: "Andre Kostelanetz Program"; "The Shadow"
06-10-1901 - Eric Maschwitz - King's Norton, England - d. 10-27-1969
writer: "In Town Tonight"; "Good Night Vienna"
08-26-1907 - Lester Lanin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-27-2004
bandleader: "Lester Lanin and His Orchestra"; "Here's to Veterans"
09-20-1911 - Frank De Vol - Moundsville, WV - d. 10-27-1999
conductor: "Rudy Vallee Drene Show"; "Sealtest Village Store"; "Dinah
Shore Show"
09-23-1910 - Elliott Roosevelt - NYC - d. 10-27-1990
commentary for the Mutual Network (Son of FDR) "Information Please"
09-24-1929 - Alfred Hudgins - d. 10-27-2004
disc jockey: "Blues in the Night"
10-25-1891 - Father Charles Coughlin - Hamilton, Canada - d. 10-27-1979
commentator, preacher: (The Radio Priest)
10-29-1910 - Lew Parker - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-27-1972
actor: John Bickerson "The Bickersons" "Mennen Shave Time with Lew
Parker"
11-30-1914 - Charles Hawtrey - Hounslow, Middlesex, England - d.
10-27-1988
actor, comedian: Hubert Lane "Just William"
12-01-1886 - Rex Stout - Noblesville, IN - d. 10-27-1975
author: (Creator of Nero Wolfe) Debunker of Axis Propaganda "Our
Secret Weapon"
12-01-1911 - Randy Merriman - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-27-2005
actor: "Doctor [removed]"
12-13-1912 - Herb Sheldon - Connecticut - d. 10-27-1964
announcer, host: "Honeymoon in New York"; "Luncheon at the Latin
Quarter"

Ron

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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:10:48 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  10-26 births/deaths

October 26th births

10-26-1876 - [removed] Warner - London, England - d. 12-21-1958
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-26-1877 - Dr. Max Mason - Madison, WI - d. 3-22-1961
president university of chicago: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
10-26-1888 - Pat Barnes - Sharon, PA - d. 6-9-1969
emcee: "The Pat Barnes and Barbara Show"
10-26-1897 - Louis Castellucci - Italy - d. 4-21-1988
trombonist, composer: "Dragnet"
10-26-1899 - Rudolph Wickel - d. 3-14-1971
contestant: "Truth or Consequences"
10-26-1904 - Igor Gorin - Ukraine, Russia - d. 3-24-1982
singer: "The Voice of Firestone"
10-26-1907 - Tony Pastor - Middletown, CT - d. 10-31-1969
bandleader: "Tony Pastor and His Orchestra"
10-26-1910 - Clarence Hartzell - Huntington, WV - d. 3-5-1988
actor: Uncle Fletcher "Vic and Sade"; Pappy Yokum "Li'l AAbner"; "Ben
Withers "Lum and Abner"
10-26-1911 - Mahalia Jackson - New Orleans, LA - d. 1-27-1972
gospel singer: (The Angel of Peace) "Mahalia Jackson Show"
10-26-1912 - Donald Siegel - Chicago, IL - d. 4-20-1991
film director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
10-26-1912 - Ed Reimers - Moline, IL - d. 8-16-2009
announcer/actor: "Dr. [removed]"; "This Changing World"
10-26-1913 - Charlie Barnet - NYC - d. 9-4-1991
bandleader: "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Saturday Night Swing Session"
10-26-1914 - Jackie Coogan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-1-1984
actor: Ernest Botch "Forever Ernest"
10-26-1917 - Buddy Christian - Nyack, NY - d. 4-5-2009
drummer" "Dizzy Gillespie Band"
10-26-1918 - Ivor Francis - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-22-1986
actor: "Secret Missions"; "The Chase"
10-26-1923 - Jean Bartel(l) - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-6-2011
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "The Kemtone Hour"; "Stars AboutTown"
10-26-1929 - Neal Matthews - Nashville, TN - d. 4-21-2000
singer: (Jordonaires) "Grand Ole Opry"; "Jim Reeves Show"
10-26-1930 - John Arden - Bransley, Yorkshire, England - d. 3-28-2012
writer: "The Life of Man"

October 26th deaths

01-24-1903 - Johnny Anz - d. 10-26-1987
orchestra leader: WESG Elmira, New York
02-18-1922 - Ruth Dean Rickaby - d. 10-26-1973
actor: "The Lone Ranger"
02-23-1909 - Anthony Ross - NYC - d. 10-26-1955
actor: Danny Clover "Broadway Is My Beat"; Broadway Columnist "Mr.
Broadway"
03-08-1902 - Louise Beavers - Cincinnati, OH - d. 10-26-1962
actor: Beulah "Beulah"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
04-24-1910 - Albert Zugsmith - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 10-26-1993
film producer/director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
04-28-1905 - Paul Rhymer - Fulton, IL - d. 10-26-1964
writer: "Vic and Sade"
05-03-1897 - Larry Puck - d. 10-26-1969
producer: "Arthur Godfrey Time" Was one of Godfrey's many firings
05-27-1924 - Eric Lander - Rugby, England - d. 10-26-1999
actor: "Violent Shore"
05-27-1925 - Tony Hillerman - Sacred Heart, OK - 10-26-2008
writer: "The Zero Hour"
06-10-1895 - Hattie McDaniel - Wichita, KS - d. 10-26-1952
actor: Beulah "Beulah"; Mammy "Maxwell House Showboat"
06-19-1899 - Francis Drake "Pat" Ballard - d. 10-26-1960
writer of radio scripts in Troy, Pennsylvania
07-20-1910 - Muriel Evans - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-26-2000
four radio shows of her own in Washington [removed]
09-01-1897 - Lucille Fenton - d. 10-26-1966
actor: Paula Kirby "Myrt and Marge"
09-01-1909 - Charles Bickford - d. 10-26-1988
disk jockey: WOHS Shelby, North Carolina

Ron

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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:11:09 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  10-28 births/deaths

October 28th births

10-28-1886 - Ruth Gates - Denton, TX - d. 5-23-1966
actor: Mrs Lenord "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
10-28-1895 - Herb Butterfield - Rhode Island - d. 5-2-1957
actor: Clarence Wellman "Halls of Ivy"; Hunter Glenn "One Man's Family"
10-28-1895 - John Boles - Greenville, TX - d. 2-27-1969
actor, singer: "Texaco Star Theatre"
10-28-1896 - Howard Hanson - Wahoo, NE - d. 2-26-1981
conductor, composer: "New York Philharmonic"; "ASCAP World's Fair
Concert"
10-28-1897 - Edith Head - San Bernardino, CA - d. 10-24-1981
costume designer: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-28-1902 - Catherine Shepherd - Zimbabwe - d. 2-18-1976
writer: "The Golden Cockerel"
10-28-1902 - Elsa Lanchester - Lewisham, England - d. 12-26-1986
actor: "Arch Oboler's Plays"; "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Everyman's
Theatre"
10-28-1906 - Lou Bring - d. 7-15-1951
orchestra leader: "The Al Jolson Show"; "The Gracie Fields Show"
10-28-1908 - David LeWinter - NYC - d. 1-22-1976
orchestra leader: Late night dance band remotes
10-28-1910 - Arthur Altman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-18-1994
CBS staff violinist and librarian
10-28-1912 - Madaline Lee - Dallas, TX - d. 1-10-1974
actor: Genevive Blue "Amos 'n' Andy"; Wendy Burton "Second Mrs. Burton"
10-28-1913 - Ruth Peterson - Wauwatosa, WI - d. 2-2-1985
actor: Linda Carroll "Hawthorne House"
10-28-1915 - Alwyn Kurts - Perth, Western Australia - d. 5-4-2000
performer: "Raising a Husband"
10-28-1915 - Dody Goodman - Columbus, OH - d. 6-22-2008
actor: "Hopalong Cassidy"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
10-28-1917 - Ron Rawson - Iowa - d. 7-18-1994
announcer: "Right to Happiness"; "Advs. of Topper"; "Advs. of the Thin
Man"
10-28-1934 - Cecil Blackwood - Ackereman, MS - d. 11-13-2000
singer: (Blackwood Brothers Quartet) "Songs of the Gospel"
10-28-1934 - Johnny Western - Two Harbors, MN
singer, actor, songwriter: (Ballad of Paladin) Daily show on KFDI
Wichita, KS

October 28th deaths

01-26-1914 - Jack de Manio - Hampstead, England - d. 10-28-1988
announcer: "Today"; "Jack de Manio Precisely"; "Woman's Hour"
02-22-1891 - George Jeske - Utah - d. 10-28-1951
writer: "Truth or Consequences"
02-27-1893 - Maurice Spitalny - Tetieff, Russia - d. 10-28-1986
conductor: Music director for KDKA Pittsburgh
03-04-1910 - Miriam Kressyn - Poland - d. 10-28-1996
Was the most popular Yiddish artist on radio of her day
03-16-1924 - Beryl Davis  Plymouth, England - d. 10-28-2011
vocalist: "Your Hit Parade"; "Jubilee"
03-24-1918 - Bill Aya - d. 10-28-1985
sportscaster: KEVE Seattle, Washington
04-01-1917 - Leon Janney - Ogden, UT - d. 10-28-1980
actor: Danny Stratford "Life of Mary Sothern"; Richard Parker "Parker
Family"
07-27-1918 - Veola Vonn - NYC - d. 10-28-1995
actor: Dimples Wilson "Blondie"; Princess Nadji "Chandu the Magician"
08-12-1927 - Porter Wagoner - West Plains, MO - d. 10-28-2007
singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
08-18-1917 - Mary Rolfe - Brooklyn NY - d. 10-28-1996
actor: Mary Aldrich "The Aldrich Family"; Rose O'Brien "Rose of My
Dreams"
08-29-1913 - Sylvia Fine - NYC - d. 10-28-1991
writer: (Wife of Danny Kaye) "Danny Kaye Show"; "Forecast"; "Bud's
Bandwagon"
09-15-1915 - Phil Brito - Boomer, WV - d. 10-28-2005
narrator: "Moon River"
09-16-1919 - Larry Dobkin - NYC - d. 10-28-2002
actor: Archie Goodwin "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; Ellery Queen "Advs. of
Ellery Queen"
09-17-1907 - Alice Yourman - South Dakota - d. 10-28-2000
actor: Mary Andrews "Archie Andrews"; [removed] Aldrich "Aldrich Family"
09-20-1917 - Red Auerbach - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-28-2006
legendary baskeball coach: "The Inside Track"
10-06-1899 - Mitchell Leisen - Menominee, MI - d. 10-28-1972
director: Lux Radio Theatre
11-02-1892 - Alice Brady - NYC - d. 10-28-1939
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
12-08-1937 - James MacArthur - Los Angeles, CA - d. 10-28-2010
actor: "Theatre Guild of the Air"

Ron

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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:51:48 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  SummersTime Haloween Special!

Folks;

   Kate and I hope you'll join us for our Halloween special all this week on
Radio Once More when we remote from the Nostalgialand Cemetary, where
entertainment media of the past are buried! Kate picks an episode of "The
Witch's Tale," I spook up the school with "Our Miss Brooks," she thinks
"Father Knows Best" (boy, don't I wish!), and I close up the show with a
creepy episode of "Quiet, Please!" Ghosts and goblins abound when our
Halloween special premiers at 6:00pm EDT, 3:00pm PDT Monday evening; you can
listen at [removed] and visit our website at
[removed] for airtimes, episode descriptions and
playlists, and even a few pictures of all of us involved in SummersTime!

   And for those who can't make appointment radio, our shows are available
delayed by about two weeks at my blog at [removed] -
subscribe to the RSS feed in your podcasting client or iTunes, and you can
get the shows downloaded directly to your MP3 player or computer!

   (Sorry for the commercial, but we _really_ enjoy doing this show together,
and we hope you enjoy it, too!)

         Charlie

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