Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #165
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Date: 6/5/2007 10:19 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 165
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      How I Got Started in OTR              [ "David Van Nostrand" <dvannost@msn. ]
      1931 radio transcriptions to be broa  [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
      Re: Ladies                            [ Cnorth6311@[removed] ]
      How I ...                             [ skallisjr@[removed] ]
      How I got hooked                      [ "Leslie Feagan" <lfeagan@actorsfcu. ]
      It all [removed]                     [ "Donald" <alanladdsr@[removed]; ]
      You don't have to be [removed]           [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
      6-5 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      My Intro to OTR                       [ "wayne_johnson" <wayne_johnson@mind ]

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    Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 12:41:19 -0400
    From: "David Van Nostrand" <dvannost@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  How I Got Started in OTR
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    Born in 1969, I missed the golden era of radio and would have love to have
    grown up in it.  I was fairly young around 9 when I began my interest in old
    radio.  My uncle Herb would come up from Detroit to our family picnics in the
    summer and bring his tape recorder with these wonderful "stories" on it.  I
    did not know what old time radio was at that time.  Amos & Andy was my first
    exposure to otr and was amazed how I could "see" everything that I heard in my
    mind.  Growing up in the seventies I was luck enough to have a local AM
    station carry the CBS radio mystery theater.  I was only mad when they carried
    the Tigers game instead of the mystery theater.  Can you tell I like sports.
    My favorites were and are to this day, Jack Benny, The Green Hornet, and
    Fibber Mcgee & Molly.
        Thanks to the computer age and MP3's and CD's my collection has exploded
    and I listen mostly on my comute to work each morning.  Jack Benny's show from
    the Fox theater in Detroit is one of my favorites.

    Dave

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    Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 13:05:13 -0400
    From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  1931 radio transcriptions to be broadcast

    Monday midnight, June 4 to 3 am Tuesday DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL will air on
    KPFK [removed] FM and stream at [removed] Our in-studio guest will be music
    historian, collector and performer Brad Kay who will bring in some newly
    discovered rare syndicated musical radio shows from 1931. For those not able
    to listen live the show will be archived for 60 days. For a description of
    some of the shows he'll play, go to

    [removed]+Greetings+From+1931

    This promises to be a program that you won't want to miss!

    Barbara

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    Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 13:59:47 -0400
    From: Cnorth6311@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Ladies

    It's nice to see a number of ladies joining the  digest. Welcome. Aside from
    a few women who regularly post here, the digest was  devoid of ladies, and I
    often wondered why. Any of you folks---especially  the women---have an
    explanation for this?

    Charlie

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    Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:09:40 -0400
    From: skallisjr@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  How I ...

    On the thread on OTR, I'm hardly a spring chicken.  I grew up listening
    to OTR, and in the early 1950s, television came to San Antonio, Texas,
    and I stopped listening to any radio until my father was stationed in
    Japan and sent for us.  AFRS was just that: no TV; so we listened to OTR
    shows with the commercials excised until we returned to the States.

    Time passed, as Time does.

    In 1963 or thereabouts, I discovered that a local FM radio station was
    rebroadcasting OTR adventures of The Shadow.  However, it came on at the
    same time that some TV show I really enjoyed was also broadcast.  So I
    taped the radio shows.  In time, I had quite a collection.  Not too many
    years later, George Garabedian released LP records containing OTR shows,
    and I gobbled up a lot of them.  I also found that some of my friends by
    mail had tapes of many shows, and I traded with them.

    Years later, I learned of MP3 recordings, and now I have a lot of OTR
    recordings.  I don't listen to them all the time, but anytime I want to
    revisit Phil Harris & Alice Faye, suffer with Pat Novak, tag along with
    Sam Spade, or -- especially important to me -- fly with Captain Midnight,
    now I'm able to.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:10:02 -0400
    From: "Leslie Feagan" <lfeagan@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  How I got hooked
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    Born in 1951 I never got to hear the golden age stuff live. We were too busy
    watching the boob-tube with it's tiny dot of light after you turned it off.
    Around 1980 I was touring the country in "Annie" and came across some
    cassettes for sale in a comic book store in Pike Street Market, Seattle, WA.
    There were SUSPENSE, JACK BENNY, THE SHADOW and others. I bought one of each,
    listened, and went back to buy further episodes.
    In 1985 I did "South Pacific" starring Richard Kiley and met SuZanne and Gabor
    Barrabas, authors of the great GUNSMOKE book. Through them I found out about
    the Newark FOTR convention and became part of the birth of the Gotham Radio
    Players and Max Schmid's GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO on WBAI in NYC.
    Now I reside in Ohio and enjoy sharing this list with all of you old and new
    friends. Just saw Beverly Washburn in "The Greatest Show On Earth" DVD.
    Happy listening, and if you are in Akron before June 30th  drop by the
    Carousel Dinner Theatre to see me in "West Side Story"
    Love,
    Leslie Feagan

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    Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 21:55:56 -0400
    From: "Donald" <alanladdsr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  It all [removed]

    Born in 1937 and growing up in the Chicago area, I was fortunate enough to
    know radio when it was really something to know. Early memories are
    Superman, my mother upset that it wasn't pre-empted when FDR died, hearing
    1945's Sorry Wrong Number broadcast and being thrilled to pieces, soap
    operas when sick in bed, and local Chicago personalities such as Art
    Hellyer, Arbogast, Lynn Burton, Howard Miller and a disc jockey whose name
    constantly escapes me who had "Memories of You" as a theme. In 1968 I saw an
    ad in the New York Times Book Review for a record of 90 radio themes. One of
    David Goldin's offerings. The record
    thrilled me to the marrow of my bones! Here were those wonderful sounds once
    agian. Could I get the whole thing?! I found an ad for Howard Brenner and
    Mar-Bren Sound Company in New Rochelle, NY. I wonder often what has become
    of him and them. Reel to reel 1/4 track.
    I got a tape with John J. Anthony, Captain Midnight, Stella Dallas and Just
    Plain Bill. Have never stopped. Bought and traded with the likes of George
    Fowler, Radio Reruns, Larry Kiner, Pat McCoy, most of the "old guys" from
    the 60's-70's.
    27,000 shows [removed] really must cease and desist but I can't. In my
    "family of origin"we would have Sunday night supper in the living room
    hearing Jack Benny. I hear that opening today with Don Wilson intoning the
    great names
    and I can taste the srambled eggs and bacon once more.
    In the 1980's my dream came true and I had a local disc jockey pgm on a
    Topeka AM station for about 10 years.
    Just played my own records from high [removed] had a torch hour, reading
    romantic poetry like one of my heroes, Franklyn MacCormack. It was the
    greatest thrill of my [removed] alone in a radio studio, talking into
    a microphone, saying whatever I wanted to say about anything I cared about.
    Now, I am finishing up a 600 page annotated catalog of my treasures with
    hopes of putting it on the internet, ala Goldin's index.

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    Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 21:56:16 -0400
    From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  You don't have to be [removed]

    What a joy it is to read the comments of the youngsters who have been
    writing about their first introduction to old time radio.  These young
    people prove to me that there is indeed an audience for "real" radio.

    Now if we could just convince one or more of the surviving radio networks to
    experiment with something "new" -- what we call "old time" radio.

    And what is to stop them from actually offering a real radio drama?  Comedy?
    Variety? Children's programs?  Soap operas?  Live symphony concerts?

    What, [removed]

    Ted Kneebone / 1528 S. Grant St. / Aberdeen, SD 57401
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    Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 23:16:09 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-5 births/deaths

    June 5th births

    06-05-1898 - William Boyd - Hendrysburg, OH - d. 9-12-1972
    actor: Hopalong Cassidy "Hopalong Cassidy"
    06-05-1907 - D'Artega - Silao, Mexico - d. unknown
    conductor, composer: "Enna Jettick Melodies"
    06-05-1908 - Craig Rice (Georgiana Ann Randolph) - Illinois - d.
    8-28-1957
    writer: "Murder and Mr. Malone"
    06-05-1910 - Herb Vigran - Fort Wayne, IN - d. 11-29-1986
    actor: Sad Sack "Sad Sack"; Hector Smith "Father Knows Best"
    06-05-1912 - Dan Ocko - d. 8-29-1991
    actor: Killer Kane "Buck Rogers of the 25th Century"; "Sergeant
    Muggin "Inspector Thorne"
    06-05-1916 - John Raby - NYC - d. 3-xx-1957
    actor: Jerry Forester "A Brighter Day"; Sinjun Harris "Our Gal Sunday"
    06-05-1920 - Cornelius Ryan - Dublin, Ireland - d. 11-23-1974
    d-dat war correspondent, novelist: "Hearing Highlights"
    06-05-1925 - Bill Hayes - Harvey, IL
    singer, actor: "Arthur Godfrey Time"
    06-05-1928 - Robert Lansing - San Diego, CA - d. 10-23-1994
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    06-05-1940 - David Brudnoy - Minneapolis, MN - d. 12-9-2004
    radio personality WBZ Boston, Massachusetts
    06-05-1945 - June Gable - NYC
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    June 5th deaths

    01-26-1918 - Vito Scotti - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-5-1996
    actor: "Romance"; "Broadway Is My Beat"
    02-06-1911 - Ronald "Dutch" Reagan - Tampico, IL - d. 6-5-2004
    panelist, actor: Hollywood Byline"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-17-1877 - Edwin M. Whitney - Parma Center, NY - d. 6-5-1957
    actor: Captain Jimmy Norton "Harbor Lights"; Judge Whipple "Real Folks"
    07-14-1915 - Jack Gregson - Spokane, WA - d. 6-5-1988
    announcer, emcee: "Jack's Place"; "Live Like a Millionaire"
    08-26-1911 - Hal Gibney - Woodland, CA - d. 6-5-1973
    announcer: "Draget"; "The Six Shooter"; "Tales of the Texas Rangers"
    09-11-1862 - O. Henry (Wm. Sydney Porter) - Greensboro, NC - d. 6-5-1910
    short story writer: "Alias Jimmy Valentine"; "The Cisco Kid"
    09-13-1925 - Mel Torme - Chicago, IL- d. 6-5-1999
    actor, singer: Joe Corntassel "Little Orphan Annie"; "Torme Time";
    "New Mel Torme Show"
    09-22-1926 - Sybil Trent - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-5-2000
    actor: "Let's Pretend"; Thelma "As the Twig is Bent/We Love and Learn"
    10-21-1927 - Ray Brenner - California - d. 6-5-1995
    writer: "The Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"
    10-30-1911 - Milton Lieberthal - d. 6-5-1989
    writer: "The Sheriff"
    11-01-1871 - Stephen Crane - Newark, NJ - d. 6-5-1900
    author: "NBC University Theatre"
    11-05-1891 - Vinton Freedley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-5-1969
    host: "Theatre USA"
    11-11-1887 - Roland Young - London, England - d. 6-5-1953
    actor: Cosmo Topper "Advs of Topper"; William "Johnny Presents"
    12-30-1911 - Jeanette Nolan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 6-5-1998
    actor: Nicolette Moore "One Man's Family"; Mrs. Hudson "Advs. of
    Sherlock Holmes"

    Ron Sayles

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    Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 07:52:36 -0400
    From: "wayne_johnson" <wayne_johnson@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  My Intro to OTR

    Even at the age of 10 in the mid 1960s I had heard of WOTW and how it
    created quite a sensation.  KHOS radio (back then 940AM in Tucson) decided
    to replay the broadcast on Holloween 1968.  Dad had a Sony reel-to-reel that
    he had brought back with him from his tour in Vietnam and I had enough
    advance notice to know that this was important enough to me that I purchased
    a tape and recorded the broadcast from the radio.  There were several times
    that that tape came in handy ... especially for high school projects.

    Unfortunately, many years were to pass before I was to REALLY get into OTR.
    Summer of 1993 I had to travel to Jacksonville,FL from Atlanta ... every
    Sunday evening for 6 months.  I would time the trip to cross the GA-FL line
    right at 8pm because an FM station out of Gainesville, FL would broadcast
    old radio programs from 8pm to 11pm.  I THINK that is was [removed] but too much
    time has passed for me to be certain of that.  What I am certain of was that
    I was totally intrigued by OTR and have been ever since.  That internet has
    sure made it easier to locate programs and other people with an interest in
    OTR.

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