Subject: [removed] Digest V2004 #352
From: <[removed]@[removed]>
Date: 11/2/2004 11:23 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2004 : Issue 352
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      A & A Music Hall                      [ "Bill Hintz" <retiredwillie@charter ]
      11-2 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Re: Billl Johnstone                   [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
      Allen's Alley                         [ "Donald P. Tuttle" <dobbsi5@[removed] ]
      "Cracked" Magazine                    [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]
      Rocky Jordan - Organ vs Orchestral M  [ "Archie YKnow" <y_know_archie@hotma ]

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    Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:45:54 -0500
    From: "Bill Hintz" <retiredwillie@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  A & A Music Hall

    Elizabeth discusses the A & A Music Hall "non-availability" due to rights
    issues.  The latest Radio Spirits Catalog lists three Music Hall shows in
    their "Best of Amos and Andy" collection.

    Was an agreement reached between all the parties which allows this to
    happen?

    Bill Hintz
    Morro Bay, CA

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    Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:56:29 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-2 births/deaths

    November 2nd births

    11-02-1886 - Philip Merivale - Rehutia, Manickpur, India - d. 3-12-1946
    actor: Reverend Spence "One Foot in Heaven"
    11-02-1892 - Alice Brady - NYC - d. 10-28-1939
    actress: "Hollywood Hotel"
    11-02-1899 - Evelyn MacGregor - Pittsfield, MA - d. 7-1967
    singer: " American Melody Hour"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
    11-02-1899 - Glenn Rowell - Pontiac, MI - d. 10-9-1965
    singer, comedian: "Quaker Early Birds"; "Gene and Glenn"
    11-02-1901 - James Dunn - NYC - d. 9-1-1967
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-02-1901 - Paul Ford - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-12-1976
    actor: "Suspense"; "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
    11-02-1906 - Peggy Conklin - Dobbs Ferry, NY - d. 3-18-2003
    actress: Kitty Archer "McGarry and His Mouse"; Barbara 'Babs' Riley "Life of
    Riley"
    11-02-1908 - Bunny Berigan - Near Fox Lake, WI - d. 6-2-1942
    bandleader: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Tim and Irene"; "Norge Program"
    11-02-1909 - Fred Lowrey - Palestine, TX - d. 12-1984
    whistler: (The Blind Whistler) "New Fred Lowrey Show"; "Horace Heidt Show"
    11-02-1913 - Burt Lancaster - NYC - d. 10-20-1994
    actor: "Ford Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-02-1918 - Janette Davis - Memphis, TN
    singer: "Arthur Godfrey Time"; "Avalon Time"; "RedSkelton Show"
    11-02-1919 - Warren Stevens - Clark's Summit, PA
    actor: "Quiet Please"
    11-02-1920 - Ann Rutherford - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    actress: Blondie Bumstead "Blondie"; Connie Menihan "Eddie Bracken Show"
    11-02-1920 - Kay Armen - Chicago, IL
    singer: "Stop the Music!"; "Pet Milk Show"; "Bob Crosby Show"

    November 2nd deaths

    01-14-1892 - Hal Roach - Elmira, NY - d. 11-2-1992
    film producer, actor: Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-26-1856 - George Bernard Shaw - Dublin, Ireland - d. 11-2-1950
    playwright: "Wisconsin College of the Air"; "George Bernard Shaw Speech"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 16:28:26 -0500
    From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Billl Johnstone

    on 11/1/04 9:41 AM, [removed]@[removed] at
    [removed]@[removed] wrote:

>     I was surprised to see that Bill Johnstone died in Scotland. (Presuming
>     I'm interpreting that correctly--it's closer to his death date than his
>     birth date.) Had he moved there when he retired? Or did he perhaps die
>     on vacation?

    ***It has often been stated that Bill Johnstone was BORN in Scotland.  This
    information is incorrect.  The radio actor was a native New Yorker.

    However, his journalist father (also named William) was born in  Paisley
    Scotland. His father's biography was confused with Bill's in some 1940s
    articles and PR.

    --Anthony Tollin (in the shadows)

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    Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 01:16:22 -0500
    From: "Donald P. Tuttle" <dobbsi5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Allen's Alley

    For years I have doggedly searched for the source of a bit of doggerel a high
    school
    buddy  of mine (now deceased) used to recite. Something about an Ode to a
    Sparrow, and
    I always assumed it was an Ogden Nash creation, but apparently it is not. The
    "ode"
    ended as follows, more or less: "But I love that little ruffian/here,
    sparrow, have a
    hot buttered muffian." Suddenly it struck me that Falstaff Openshaw of
    Allen's Alley
    could have been the guilty party. Is there any way, short of listening to every
    program, of searching for scripts that contained Openshaw poems?

    =====
    Donald P. Tuttle

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    Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 01:43:36 -0500
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  "Cracked" Magazine

>     Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:39:55 -0500
>     From: "[removed]" <asajb2000@[removed];

>     Does anyone remember the Mad Magazine competitor, Cracked?  Hardly much
>     of a competitor and second-rate, even in the 1980's to Mad.

    I remember it.  I looked at a couple of issues, and I didn't see anything funny in them, so I
    stopped paying attention.  I haven't seen them in a long time, but I have no idea when or if
    they folded.

    I did see exactly one funny line in one issue of "Cracked."  In a rather unfunny Star Trek
    parody, there was one exchange, in which Kirk says, 'Funny, Mr. Spock, I have the feeling
    I've been here before.  And Spock replies, "Quite possibly, Captain.  This is the 20th time
    they've rerun this episode."

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    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     15 Court Square, Suite 210                 lawyer@[removed]
    Boston, MA 02108-2503           	         [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:37:06 -0500
    From: "Archie YKnow" <y_know_archie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Rocky Jordan - Organ vs Orchestral Musical
     Introduction

    The Adventures of Rocky Jordan is, without doubt, one of my favourite
    detective series.  The interplay between Jordan and Sabaaya was wonderful.
    Jack Moyles and Jay Novello were perfect for the roles.

    My question is about different versions of the same title.  An example is
    'Smoke Screen'.

    The main CBS broadcast of January 8, 1950 starts with the orchestral musical
    introduction followed by the normal opening lines.  Rocky's first words are
    'It was the other side of midnight'.

    There is another version that begins with an organ introduction.  Right
    after
    a very brief introduction by an announcer, we hear Rocky saying 'Osiris is
    the name of the Egyptian God of the Underworld and Judge of the Dead."  This
    is then followed by the announcer doing a version of the normal opening.

    Both episodes are announced as 'Smoke Screen'.

    Can anyone shed any light on this difference?  I assume that the organ
    version was a re-recording for AFRS.  Is there an on-line source that I
    could
    investigate further?

    Thanks

    Archie

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