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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 158
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: Dance Bands on the Air, 1929-193  [ "Bob Scherago - Verizon" <scherago@ ]
      9-9 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 22:55:06 -0400
    From: "Bob Scherago - Verizon" <scherago@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Dance Bands on the Air, 1929-1934

    Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed]; wrote:

>     I don't normally talk up a
>     broadcast after the fact, but I wanted to share the great time I had during
>     last weekend's "Those Were the Days" program, as our friend Karl Pearson
>     joined us for an afternoon of broadcasts featuring dance bands from
>     1929-1934. . .

    If dance bands and the Big Band Era interest you, you might enjoy "A One
    Night Stand with the Big Bands" as broadcast on WTIC in Hartford, CT, in the
    1960s and 1970s. On these one-hour programs Arnold Dean interviewed the
    greats - Harry James, Artie Shaw, Duke Elllington, Gene Krupa, to name a
    few. 42 one-hour programs at [removed]

    Bob Scherago
    Webmaster and former WTIC Engineer
    [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 22:55:11 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  9-9 births/deaths

    September 9th births

    09-09-1828 - Leo Tolstoy - Yasnaya, Polyana, Russia - d. 11-20-1910
    author: Some works adapted for radio
    09-09-1873 - Max Reinhardt - Baden, Austria - d. 10-30-1943
    film director: "Texaco Star Theatre"
    09-09-1882 - Clem McCarthy - East Bloomfield, NY - d. 6-4-1962
    sportscaster: The Kentucky Derby
    09-09-1885 - Billy Curtis - Lowell, MA - d. 4-28-1954
    writer of radio scripts
    09-09-1887 - Raymond Walburn - Plymouth, IN - d. 7-26-1969
    actor: "That's My Pop"
    09-09-1894 - Arthur Freed - Charleston, SC - d. 4-12-1973
    songwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-09-1898 - Frankie Frisch - The Bronx, NY - d. 3-12-1973
    baseball broadcaster: (Baseball Hall of Fame) New York Giants
    09-09-1899 - Neil Hamilton - Lynn, MA - d. 9-24-1984
    actor: [removed] Raffles "Raffles"
    09-09-1899 - Waite Hoyt - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-25-1984
    sportscaster, "Sports Review"; "According to Hoyt"; play-by-play:
    Cincinnati Reds
    09-09-1900 - James Hilton - Leigh, Lancashire, England - d. 12-20-1954
    host: "Hallmark Hall of Fame/Hallmark Playhouse"; "Ceiling Unlimited"
    09-09-1901 - James Blades - Peterborough, England - d. 5-19-1999
    percussionist: Freelance, best known as the drummer for  'V for Victory'
    09-09-1903 - Phyllis Whitney - Yokohoma, Japan - d. 2-8-2008
    author: "The Young Book Reviewers"
    09-09-1905 - Elsie Park Gowan - Helensburgh, Scotland - d. 2-2-1999
    writer: "New Lamps for Old"
    09-09-1905 - Ulric Cole - NYC - d. 5-21-1992
    composer, conductor: "NBC String Symphony"
    09-09-1908 - Ed Prentiss - Chicago, IL - d. 3-19-1992
    actor: Red Albright/Captain Midnight "Captain Midnight"; Ned Holden
    "The Guiding Light"
    09-09-1909 - Giulio Gari - Medias, Romania - d. 4-15-1994
    operatic tenor: "Musical Bits"; "NBC Symphony Orchestra"
    09-09-1914 - Marion Mann - Columbus, OH
    singer: "The Breakfast Club Matinee"; "Danny Thomas Show"
    09-09-1915 - Arnold Hillebrandt - Wisconsin - d. 10-xx-1986
    actor: Santa Claus "Billie the Brownie"
    09-09-1915 - Richard Webb - Bloomington, IL - d. 6-10-1993
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Crime Does Not Pay
    09-09-1918 - Blanche Thebom - Monessen, PA - d. 3-23-2010
    mezzo-soprano: "Bell Telephone Hour"; "Metropolitan Opera"; "Railroad
    Hour"
    09-09-1920 - Michael Aldridge - Glastonbury, England - d. 1-10-1994
    actor: "Relatively Speaking"
    09-09-1922 - Imogene Lynn - Trenton, MO - d. 2-24-2003
    singer: "Spotlight Bands"
    09-09-1924 - Jane Greer - Washington, [removed] - d. 8-24-2001
    singer, actor: "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-09-1927 - Elvin Ray Jones - Pontiac, MI - d. 5-18-2004
    jazz drummer: "Newport Jazz Festival"
    09-09-1927 - "Mary" Olive Major - Santa Barbara County, CA - d.
    8-12-1998
    vocalist: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    09-09-1930 - Martha Jean "The Queen" Steinberg - d. 1-29-2000
    Owned WQBH-AM Detroit, Michigan
    09-09-1931 - Barbara Lyon - Hollywood, CA - d. 7-10-1995
    actor: "Life  with the Lyons"

    September 9th deaths

    01-31-1872 - Rupert Hughes - Lancaster, MO - d. 9-9-1956
    writer: (Uncle to Howard Hughes) "The Story of Holly Sloan"
    02-02-1911 - Jussi Bjorling - Stora Tuna, Sweden - d. 9-9-1960
    singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    03-19-1927 - Richie Ashburn - Tilden, NE - d. 9-9-1997
    sportscaster: "Philadelphia Phillies Play by Play"
    03-21-1903 - Nan Boardman - NYC - d. 9-9-1984
    actor: "The Modern Adventures of Casanova"
    03-23-1911 - Herbert Rudley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-9-2006
    actor: "Helen Hayes Theatre"; "Great Plays"; "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
    05-23-1921 - Helen O'Connell - Lima, OH - d. 9-9-1993
    singer: (Jimmy Dorsey Band) "Kraft Music Hall"; "Fitch Bandwagon"
    06-10-1916 - Bill Waddington - Lancashire, England - d. 9-9-2000
    actor: "Ack-Ack, Beer Beer"
    06-30-1905 - Nestor Paiva - Fresno, CA - d. 9-9-1966
    actor: "NBC Presents: Short Story"; "Escape"
    08-02-1892 - Jack L. Warner - London, Ontario, Canada - d. 9-9-1978
    film studio owner" "Jack Benny Program"; "Warner Brothers Academy
    Award Theatre"
    08-16-1908 - Russell Preston Pike, Jr. - d. 9-9-1995
    singer: "The Prairie Knights"
    09-13-1911 - Bill Monroe - Rosine, KY - d. 9-9-1996
    mandolin player: (Father of Bluegrass) "Grand Ole Opry"
    09-22-1900 - Hanley Stafford - Hanley, Staffordshire, England - d.
    9-9-1968
    actor: Mr. Higgins "Baby Snooks Show"; Julius C. Dithers "Blondie"
    09-26-1927 - Patrick O'Neal - Ocala, FL - d. 9-9-1994
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    11-16-1907 - Burgess Meredith - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-9-1997
    actor: "Red Adams/Red Davis "Red Adams/Red Davis" (the precursor to
    "Pepper Young's Family")
    12-23-1922 - Ruth Roman - Boston, MA - d. 9-9-1999
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Hollywood Sound Stage"
    12-24-1915 - Helen Brown - Washington - d. 9-9-1994
    actor: Miss Foster "Big Town"
    12-26-1906 - Catherine Turney - Chicago, IL - d. 9-9-1998
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"

    Ron

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