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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2003 : Issue 432
A Part of the [removed]!
ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Bill Pfeiffer [ art-funk@[removed] ]
Eddie Gallaher [ "RBB" <oldradio@[removed]; ]
Happy Birthday! [ badaxley@[removed] ]
OTR Digest Financial Support [ "RBB" <oldradio@[removed]; ]
Quest to save 16in Transcription of [ John DOrazio <ventureqwest@[removed] ]
Death Valley Days [ Charles Willson <cwillson@[removed] ]
Lone Ranger on "who wants be a Milli [ Keith Houdeshell <khowdy@[removed] ]
Art Linkletter [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
Ad Agency Question [ ilamfan@[removed] ]
Shortwave [ "mike kerezman" <philipmarlowe@cfai ]
Passing of Henry Brugsch [ Tony Baechler <tony@[removed]; ]
#OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig [ lois@[removed] ]
"Halitosis" on stage [ Herb Harrison <herbop@[removed] ]
Information Please books are in! [ benohmart@[removed] ]
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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 16:53:56 -0500
From: art-funk@[removed]
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Bill Pfeiffer
In Digest 430 Marty Grams makes a pitch for us to help Charlie Summers cover
the costs of maintaining the internet OTR Digest. Marty mentions that Lou
Genco began the Digest on 9/14/94 and that there are now some 2000
subscribers. I reckon I was one of the early birds cuz I think I signed on
sometime in 1995.
My reason for this post is to mention one more name in connection with the
Digest in addition to Lou and Charlie. That is Bill Pfeiffer.
For those who were not on the Digest subscriber list back then, Bill was the
moderator and driving force behind the Digest from its inception until his
untimely death at age 44 in a tragic car crash in 1999. Bill was interested
in ALL phases of broadcasting. He was a radio fanatic and a really nice
guy. I enjoyed an email banter with Bill via private email and I miss those
exchanges. Heck, I miss Bill. He was a nice guy.
Regards to all.
Art
Art Funk
Art's Militaria MacDill AFB Exchange
(813)840-9606 [removed]
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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 18:08:18 -0500
From: "RBB" <oldradio@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Eddie Gallaher
Longtime broadcaster with a legendary baritone voice, Eddie Gallaher has
died at age 89. His 21 year career on WTOP in Washington, DC began in 1947
and he stayed on the air in the one major market with two other stations for
a total of 53 years.
WTOP was formerly WJSV where Arthur Godfrey was the morning "Sundial"
deejay. Eddie Gallaher replaced him when Godfrey went to CBS in NY, and
began hosting the morning "Sundial" program as well as the "Moondial" music
show at night.
Willard Scott, the former "Today Show" TV weatherman and his radio partner,
Ed Walker were called "The Joy Boys" on the competing NBC station, WRC in
Washington from 1955-1972. Walker remembered that Gallaher used to get all
of the new records to play on his show before anyone else.
(There was an earlier thread posted on this list about The Joy Boys:
Wiillard Scott, incidentally, was once "Bozo, The Clown" as well as the
first "Ronald McDonald" in 1963 with Ed Walker doing the voice-overs on the
TV commercials [removed])
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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 18:08:30 -0500
From: badaxley@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Happy Birthday!
As usual, I'm a day late and a dollar short. However, the very happiest of
birthdays to the grand man of radio, Harry Bartell. Many thanks for all the
wonderful hours we've enjoyed listening to your performances.
Bob Axley
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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:18:24 -0500
From: "RBB" <oldradio@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OTR Digest Financial Support
In addition to Martin Grams terrific proposal to purchase OTR books with $7
of the purchase price donated to the OTR Digest (...and there's nothing
wrong with that!) - is there another way to contribute via credit card or
check to give secure financial support of the web site's expenses?
Thanks for the reply. It might give folks on this list living out of the
country, another method of making a donation.
And this would be a good time for me to send holiday greeting to all "OTR
Digesters."
Russ Butler oldradio@[removed]
[ADMINISTRIVIA: At the botton of every issue, in the footer along with a
bunch of other helpful URLs and email addresses, is an URL that will link you
to:
[removed]
...which gives information on voluntary subscriptions. I'll be posting a note
in the next day or three about the Fundraiser Disc effort we had during
October and November, along with some other stuff. Right now, though, I have
to sit down with my daughter and find out how Judy and Jimmy are going to get
back the Silver Star; see, the Crazy Quilt Dragon dropped it into the Root
Beer Ocean last night, and everyone is muchly [removed] --cfs3]
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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:18:43 -0500
From: John DOrazio <ventureqwest@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Quest to save 16in Transcription of OTR
Shows.
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Dear members of OTR, I'm on a quest to save and have restored 16in
transcriptions
of OTR Shows. Please email me, John D'Orazio @ ventureqwest@[removed]
or call me @ 973-743-1930
Thank You !
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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:19:09 -0500
From: Charles Willson <cwillson@[removed];
To: old time radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Death Valley Days
Dear OTR Friends-
( From a long-time lurker!)
When I was a young boy, my father heard an episode on Death
Valley Days called "Death Valley Chuck-A-Walla". He heard the program
on a two-tube Crosley Model 51 Radio using earphones. The program so
excited him that he was telling everybody about it, including the group
of farmers gathered on Saturday night at the Joe Furbach General Store
located at Ovid Center, NY.
I recently entered "Death Valley Days" in Google and found a
list of programs which had been broadcast and sponsored by 20-Mule Team
Borax. The date that the episode "Death Valley Chuck-A-Walla" was
broadcast was May 23, 1932. I was 11-years and 3-weeks old. Seems like
yesterday! A few years ago I bought a Model 51 Crosley just like the
one my father owned.
Charles Willson (K2GMZ) Palmyra, NY
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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 23:52:38 -0500
From: Keith Houdeshell <khowdy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Lone Ranger on "who wants be a Millionaire"
Most of the digesters probably don't watch much TV, but I'm a game show
addict. On yesterdays (Mon. DEC 1) Who Wants to be a Millionaire there was
a question about what Hero's real name was John Reid. One of the other
choices was the Green Hornet, I wondered if the researcher who came up with
that question knew of the connection between the two. I know there has
been some controversies about the first name John for the Lone Ranger but
don't remember how it was resolved.
On a second topic, I have been listening lately to The Halls of Ivy, the
Ronald Coleman series. Was this program simulcast, I remember seeing it on
TV as a youngster? The song Halls of Ivy, was it an old song or was it
written for the program? Finally Don Quinn the writer, did he have any
connection with the TV production team of Quinn-Martin?
Thanks Keith
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Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 00:14:55 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Art Linkletter
Hi Everybody, the interview that Frank Bresee did with Art Linkletter this
year will be heard for the first time on Yesterday USA this Friday night at
7-30 [removed] West Coast time. Take care,
Walden Hughes
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Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 00:46:29 -0500
From: ilamfan@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed] (OTR Bulletin Board)
Subject: Ad Agency Question
Does anyone know who was the advertising agency for:
Sylvania, Cella Vinyards, Frigidaire, Goodrich Rubber And Tire, Old Dutch
CLeanser, Blue Coal, General Foods, Grove Laboratory, Wildroot, Libby, and
Lin-X?
Thanks!
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Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 00:46:49 -0500
From: "mike kerezman" <philipmarlowe@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Shortwave
I live in Oklahoma. Here in Oklahoma near the OKC area Old Time Radio was
discontinued years ago. It seems anything not having to do with OU Football
is of little importance its sad to say.
Anyways, Does anyone know if there is any Old Time Radio currently being
broadcast on Shortwave?
Mike Kerezman
Macomb, Oklahoma
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Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 02:45:09 -0500
From: Tony Baechler <tony@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Passing of Henry Brugsch
Hello all. I have no details on cause of death or when, but I have learned
of the passing of Henry Brugsch. He was an occasional digest
contributor. He was an American who had moved to the UK. His site had
various train sounds which he recorded. If anyone has other details on his
passing, please post to the digest. My apologies if this was posted
previously.
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Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 03:36:00 -0500
From: lois@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!
A weekly [removed]
For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
Network, the channel name is #OldRadio. We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
over six years, same time, same channel!
Our numerous "regulars" include one of the busiest "golden years" actors in
Hollywood; a sound man from the same era who worked many of the top
Hollywood shows; a New York actor famed for his roles in "Let's Pretend" and
"Archie Andrews;" owners of some of the best OTR sites on the Web;
maintainer of the best-known OTR Digest (we all know who he is)..........
and Me
Lois Culver
KWLK Longview Washington (Mutual) 1941-1944)
KFI Los Angeles (NBC) 1944 - 1950
and widow of actor Howard Culver
(For more info, contact lois@[removed])
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Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 10:08:35 -0500
From: Herb Harrison <herbop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "Halitosis" on stage
As I write this, I'm watching an old videotape of some "folk song" groups
singing their old hits. Sometimes two performers share a microphone,
singing "face-to-face".
I got to wondering how some of these folks handled situations where their
"mike-partners" had eaten "fragrant" stuff at lunch, or just had really bad
[removed] Did they just go with the flow (of garlic, etc.), etc. or what?
Same applies to early OTR, maybe in spades: Smaller studios, fewer [removed]
were there any "blowup-type" incidents, or did all actors swallow a bunch
of Sen-sen before they went "onstage"?
Just curious,
Herb Harrison
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Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 16:56:53 -0500
From: benohmart@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Information Please books are in!
Thanks to all who have pre-ordered Martin Grams, Jr.'s Information Please
book.
Books came in today and are going out to you all tomorrow. For those
interested in an
intelligent Christmas present, see [removed]
Ben
The Walter Tetley biography
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