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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2013 : Issue 31
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Headphones                            [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
      Marty Halperin?                       [ "Laura Leff" <president@[removed] ]
      OLD TYME RADIO NETWORK                [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
      Readings and Writings About Radio     [ IreneTH@[removed] ]
      Lightning Jim                         [ James H Arva <wilditralian@[removed] ]

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    Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:28:49 -0500
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Headphones

    Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 11:40:28 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];

>     3/13

>     1923   A great improvement in radio receivers was advertised. The new
>     models had a concealed speaker and eliminated the need for headphones,
>     which were considered a nuisance because they were so heavy to wear and
>     messed up hairdos. The new radios were also said to have a "foolproof"
>     design.

    I wonder whether the "foolproof" design was superhetrodyne circuits, a
    circuit design used to this day.

    I remember my father telling me about radios with headphones. Another
    disadvantage was that only one person could listen over the headphones
    at once.  My father told me that they used to put the headphones in a
    wooden bowl, which would amplify the sound so that everyone could listen.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]| 92 State Street| Suite 700| Boston, MA 02109-2004
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    Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:28:55 -0500
    From: "Laura Leff" <president@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Marty Halperin?

    Hello all,

    Someone recently told me that Marty Halperin had passed away.  Is this true?
    I tried his phone (disconnected) and sent E-mail (no response), but I'm
    hoping there may be another reason.  Thanks in advance.

    --Laura Leff
    President, IJBFC
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    Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:29:01 -0500
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLD 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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    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    CRIME AND PETER CHAMBERS
    Episode 13 6-29-54 "The Bubbles Club"
    Stars: Dane Clark
    Announcer: Fred Collins
    NBC Sustained Tuesdays 9:30 - 10:00 pm

    PHOENIX SUN RANCH CHUCK WAGON
    Episode 2 1938 "Tombstone"
    Syndicated by The Phoenix Valley of the Sun Club
    Host: `Arizona' Bill Bender
    Producer/Director: Howard Etheridge
    Writer: Stephen C. Shadegg
    This is an excellent series documenting the History of Arizona

    THE SAINT
    Episode 14 9-10-50 "The Horrible Hamburger"
    Stars: Vincent Price as Simon Templar
    NBC Sustained

    IN THE NAME OF THE LAW
    Episode 24 10-18-36 "Gruesome Catch"
    Syndicated
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    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

    GUNSMOKE
    (CBS) 10/17/52 stars Wm. Conrad "Lockinvar": Matt gets involved in a
    marriage problem.

    THE JACK BENNY SHOW
    (AFRS/CBS) 3/21/54 "The Mean Old Man" radio show.

    AFRS SPOTLIGHT BANDS
    with Harry James Pgm. #632 4/12/46. 1st Song: "All Of Me"
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    This is week one of our two week salute to the Police.

    The first show was syndicated, and is a rather primative example
    especially in light of Dragnet, Gang bustrs and many others that came
    along later.

    POLICE REPORTER
    from xx/xx/35 Episode 001 Warren J Lincoln.

    Next a show which usually was directed by William N Robson. This week,
    you will hear the voice of Gale Gordon as host and narrator.

    CALLING ALL CARS
    from 08/04/64 Episode (002)A House of Cards.

    The next example features Police Woman Marry Sullivan who was a part of
    the New York City Police Force for 35 years.

    POLICE WOMAN
    06/29/47 Episode (058) Scheming Bridegroom.

    One of the most remembered police shows on Radio was GANG BUSTERS
    We'll hear episode (0382) from 09/15/44 The Case Of Bielanski & Tillotson.

    Jack Webb came along with another incredible police show in 1949. We'll
    hear:

    DRAGNET
    08/11/49 Episode (010) Production 10 aka Homicide aka Maniac Murderer
    aka Mad Killer At Large.
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    CLASSICS & CURIOS

    "Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

    Episode 70

    EDDIE HUBBARD & THE BROWSERS: "BATTLE OF THE BANDS" WITH WOODY, ARTIE,
    JIMMY, CHARLIE, HARRY, CLAUDE, LES, GLEN, & DICK

    Eddie brings Woody, Artie, Jimmy, Charlie, and Harry -- Herman, Shaw,
    Dorsey, Spivak, and James, respectively, along with Claude, Les, Glen,
    and Dick -- Thornhill, Brown, Gray, and Jurgens, that is! It's sort of a
    "battle of the bands" featuring songs such as "Dancing in the Dark,"
    "Fools Rush In," "Stardust," "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night,"
    "Royal Garden Blues," "Deed I Do," "Maybe," "I Can't Believe That You're
    In Love With Me," "Ain't Misbehavin'," and "When the Lights Go On Again
    All Over the World." Vocalists such as Bob Eberle, Helen Forrest, Eddie
    Howard, Doris Day, the Andrews Sisters, and Vaughn Monroe bring their
    talents into the "battle," and the result is a remarkable bandstand
    standoff, making you and me the winners!

    In between songs comes a trivia question "battle" designed to bring back
    some music memories, to expand our knowledge of big band history, or to
    add to our inventory of purely trivial information. For fun, who, for
    example, had the original recording of "Royal Garden Blues"? Can you
    name the instrument that comedian Jackie Gleason played as a young man?
    Or what was radio's Harry von Zell's show business profession before he
    became an announcer? What instrument did Spike Jones play? Can you name
    the movie that featured the song "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night"?
    Or who wrote the song "Fools Rush In"? Maybe you know who first recorded
    the vintage song "Harbor Lights."

    Also, can you name 3 instrumental versions of "Stardust"? Or perhaps
    Claude Thornhill's vocalists? You might know that Les Brown started his
    first band at Duke University, but can you come up with the band's name?
    How about identifying the president after whom Woody Herman was named?
    The first name of the singer on Phil's "Phooler" recording, by the way,
    is the same as the first name as one of the band leaders on this broadcast.

    My favorite question involves the definition of a "sweet band." There
    was a "sweet band" that Louis Armstrong especially liked. Can you name
    it? And what "swing" band leader admitted to Sammy Kaye that he liked
    the "sweet band" sound during romantic moments, even though he made fun
    of Sammy's band with a recording that had the (here partial) title of
    "Swing and Sweat with ..."?

    Of course, some of the Browsers occasionally can't come up with answers,
    but it's all great fun, and, of course, it's the music that is the main
    focus, and as usual Eddie keeps things moving along smoothly and adds a
    couple of Extras in place of commercials, such as the delightful curio
    "Civilization" with the Andrews Sisters and Danny Kaye. The program
    begins with Eddie's Extra, the recording of "Crazy Otto," that
    delightful ragtime instrumental by Johnny Maddox which my high-school
    pals and I used to listen to on the car radio back in 1955. The "Otto"
    tune actually included 3 tunes popular in Germany along with Irving
    Berlin's "Play a Simple Melody." I did not know about the German
    connection at the time, and ironically, the Lord soon led me on a career
    path of joy, learning and teaching German language, literature, and
    culture. So, Crazy Otto, Achtung! Fertig! Los! (Ready! Set! Take it Away!)

    Again, special thanks to Jerry Haendiges Productions for adapting the
    original studio tape of this "Browsers" show for highest quality
    rebroadcast. .

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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: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:34:31 -0500
    From: IreneTH@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Readings and Writings About Radio

    This is a column from Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle, by radio columnist Ben Fong-Torres. It includes some OTR books.

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    Irene Theodore Heinstein

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    Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:52:44 -0500
    From: James H Arva <wilditralian@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lightning Jim
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    03-12-13

    In V2013, #30, a contributor requested info on the series, "Lightning
    Jim".  Just Google that phrase on the web and you'll be treated to an
    almost unending string of sources for the escapades of US Marshall
    Lightning Jim Whipple, including freedownloads and CD's for sale.

    Regards,

    Jim Arva

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