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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 193
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      11-5 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      11-6 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      OTR books on audio                    [ "Ryan O" <ryano218@[removed]; ]
      Green Hornet Question                 [ "Ryan O" <ryano218@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 7-13 Nove  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 16:18:59 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-5 births/deaths

    November 5th births

    11-05-1877 - Henry M. Neely - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-1-1963
    actor, writer, director, producer: "Fitch Bandwagon"
    11-05-1879 - Will Hays - Sullivan, IN - d. 3-7-1954
    puritanical censor: "Republican National Convention 1948"; "A Tribute
    to FDR"
    11-05-1885 - Will Durant - North Adams, MA - d. 11-7-1981
    historian: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"
    11-05-1887 - Ralph Moody - St. Louis, MO - d. 9-16-1971
    actor: "Gunsmoke"; "Roy Rogers Show"; "Wild Bill Hickok"
    11-05-1891 - Vinton Freedley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-5-1969
    host: "Theatre USA"
    11-05-1893 - Jean Sothern - d. 4-14-1964
    actor: Edie Gray "Pepper Young's Family"; Connie Rickard "Red Davis"
    11-05-1893 - Theodore von Eltz - New Haven, CT - d. 10-6-1964
    actor: Inspector Fernak "The Saint"
    11-05-1895 - Charles MacArthur - Scranton, PA - d. 4-21-1956
    playwright: "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"; "Chase and Sanborn Hour"
    11-05-1897 - Jan Garber - Norristown, PA - d. 10-5-1977
    bandleader: "Jan Garber Supper Club"
    11-05-1901 - Etta Moten - Weimer, TX - d. 1-2-2004
    singer, actress: "The Laff Parade"; Hollywood Spotlight"
    11-05-1902 - Borrah Minevitch - Kiev, Russia - d. 6-26-1955
    harmonica player: (King of the Harmonica) Had own show on NBC Blue
    11-05-1905 - Annunzio Paolo Mantovani - Venice, Italy - d. 3-29-1980
    orchestra leader: "Music In the Air"; "Of These We Sing"
    11-05-1905 - Joel McCrea - South Pasadena, CA - d. 10-20-1990
    actor: Jace Pearson "Tales of the Texas Rangers"
    11-05-1905 - John Whedon - d. 11-21-1991
    writer: "The Great Gildersleeve"
    11-05-1905 - Thomas Freebairn-Smith - Walton-on-Thames, England - d.
    12-31-1985
    writer, producer: "Jonathan Trimble, Esq."; "Al Pearce and His Gang"
    11-05-1911 - Roy Rogers - Cincinnati, OH - d. 7-6-1998
    singer, actor: (King of the Cowboys) "Roy Rogers Show"; "Saturday Nite
    Round-Up"
    11-05-1913 - Vivien Leigh - Darjeeling, India - d. 7-7-1967
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-05-1914 - Jack McVea - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-27-2000
    saxophonist: "One Night Stand"; "Jubilee"
    11-05-1917 - Claus Adam - Sumatra, Indonesia - d. 7-4-1983
    first cellist: WOR New York
    11-05-1919 - Earl Bennett - Kansas City, KS - d. 10-4-2007
    musician, comedian: Sir Fredrick Gas "Spike Jones and His City Slickers"
    11-05-1919 - Myron Floren - Webster, SD - d. 7-23-2005
    accordianist: "Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music"
    11-05-1922 - Roger Albright - Evanston, IL - d. 11-13-1987
    writer, producer: "A Home of Your Own"
    11-05-1927 - Robert Abernathy - Geneva, Switzerland
    newscaster: "News on the Hour"
    11-05-1931 - Ike Turner - Clarksdale MS - d. 12-12-2007
    singer: (Ike and Tina) "Lost and Found Sound"
    11-05-1933 - Donald Madden - NYC - d. 1-22-1983
    actor: "Let's Pretend"
    11-05-1935 - Nicholas Maw - Grantham, England - d. 5-19-2009
    composer: "Odyssey"
    11-05-1937 - Harris Yulin - Los Angles, CA
    actor: "Empire of the Air"
    11-05-1948 - Ruth Welting - Memphis, TN - d. 12-16-1999
    coloratura soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
    11-05-1956 - Jacksondouglas (Douglas Hanford) - Williamsburg, VA
    announcer, producer: "Original Oldies Show"

    November 5th deaths

    01-17-1880 - Mack Sennett - Richmond, Quebec, Canada - d. 11-5-1960
    king of silent comedy: "Hear It Now"; "Biography In Sound"
    01-27-1908 - "Hot Lips" Page - Dallas, TX - d. 11-5-1954
    jazz trumpeter: "Milt Herth Trio"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"
    02-05-1884 - Joan Harvey - Bangalore, India - d. 11-5-1965
    writer: "The Hidden Valley"
    02-05-1911 - Bert Wilson - d. 11-5-1955
    chicago cubs play-by-play announcer 1944-1955
    03-11-1922 - Vinnette Carroll - NYC - d. 11-5-2002
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    03-20-1904 - Bob Chester - Detroit, MI - d. 11-5-1975
    bandleader: "Bob Chester and His Orchestra"
    04-09-1903 - Ward Bond - Denver, CO - d. 11-5-1960
    actor: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    06-19-1902 - Guy Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 11-5-1977
    bandleader: (The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven) "Lombardoland USA"
    06-29-1895 - Paul V. Galvin - Harvard, IL - d. 11-5-1959
    co-founder of Galvin Manufacturing, merged with Motorola
    07-03-1878 - George M. Cohan - Providence, RI - d. 11-5-1942
    composer: "Collier Hour"; "Ed Sullivan Show"; "Free Company"
    08-05-1887 - Reginald Owen - Wheathampton, England - d. 11-5-1972
    actor, writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-30-1908 - Fred MacMurray - Kankakee, IL - d. 11-5-1991
    actor: George Harvey "Bright Star"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-31-1906 - Ruth Weston - Boston, MA - d. 11-5-1955
    actor: Maude Kellogg "Life Can Be Beautiful"
    09-11-1899 - Jimmie Davis - Quitman, LA - d. 11-5-2000
    Louisiana's Singing Governor: "Songs By Sinatra"
    09-28-1901 - William S. Paley - Chicago, IL - d. 11-5-1990
    Founder and president of CBS
    09-28-1909 - Al Capp - New Haven, CT - d. 11-5-1979
    cartoonist: Creator of "Li'l Abner"; "Monitor"
    10-01-1904 - Vladimir Horowitz - Kiev, Ukraine, Russia - d. 11-5-1989
    piano virtuoso: "GuestStar"; "Pictures At An Exhibition"
    10-12-1885 - Vladimir Bakaleinikoff - Moscow, Russia - d. 11-5-1953
    conductor: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; WLW Cincinnati, Ohio
    10-13-1909 - Art Tatum - Toledo, OH - d. 11-5-1956
    pianist: David Rose Orchestra
    10-20-1934 - Eddie Harris - Chicago, IL - d. 11-5-1996
    jazz saxophonist: "Voices of Vista"
    12-15-1916 - Buddy Cole - Irving, IL - d. 11-5-1964
    musician: (Buddy Cole Trio) "Ginny Simms Show"; "Hollywood Showcase"

    Ron

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    Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 16:19:35 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-6 births/deaths

    November 6th births

    11-06-1854 - John Philps Sousa - Washington, [removed] - d. 3-6-1932
    composer of marches: "John Philip Sousa Speaks"
    11-06-1886 - Gus Kahn - Koblenz, Germany - d. 10-8-1941
    lyricist: "Good News of 1938"
    11-06-1887 - Walter Johnson - Humboldt, KS - d. 12-10-1946
    baseball great: Play-by-Play Washington Senators
    11-06-1892 - Ole Olsen - Wabash, IN - d. 1-26-1963
    comedian: (Olsen and Johnson); "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Breakfast Club"
    11-06-1896 - Frank Readick - Seattle, WA - d. xx-xx-1965
    actor: (Father of Bob) Knobby Walsh "Joe Palooka"; Shadow "The Shadow"
    11-06-1899 - Francis Lederer - Prague, Czechoslovakia - d. 5-25-2000
    actor: Guest Armchair detective: Ellery Queen
    11-06-1901 - Juanita Hall - d. 2-28-1968
    actor: "Story of Ruby Valentine"
    11-06-1904 - Selena Royle - NYC - d. 4-23-1983
    actor: Hilda Hope "Hilda Hope, [removed]"; Kathy Marsh "Portia Faces Life"
    11-06-1905 - Isabel Carothers - Mt. Pleasant, IA - d. 1-8-1937
    actor: Lu "Clara, Lu and Em"
    11-06-1910 - Donald Dickson - Clairton, PA - d. 9-21-1972
    singer: "Sealtest Party"; "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Blue Ribbon Town"
    11-06-1916 - Ray Conniff - Attleboro, MA - d. 10-12-2002
    arranger: Armed Forces Radio during World War II
    11-06-1931 - Mike Nichols - Berlin, Germany
    comedian: "Mike Nicholes and Elaine May"; "Monitor"
    11-06-1935 - Judy Lewis - Venice, CA
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    11-06-1943 - Berlie Doherty - Liverpool, England
    writer: "The Drowned Village"
    11-06-1951 - Paul (Hugh) Carter - The Hague, Netherlands
    writer: "Memory As Desire"

    November 6th deaths

    03-11-1918 - Grace McTernan - d. 11-6-1995
    soprano: "Your America"
    04-14-1914 - John Hubbard - East Chicago, IN - d. 11-6-1988
    actor: Willie Faye "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"
    05-07-1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - St. Petersburg, Russia - d.
    11-6-1893
    composer: Many of his compositions were used as themes
    05-19-1895 - Harry Saxe - Montreal, Canada - d. 11-6-1947
    actor: Daddy Warbucks "Little Orphan Annie"; Dr. Burr "Mryt and Marge
    07-17-1904 - John B. Hughes - d. 11-6-1989
    news commentator: "Hughes Reel"
    07-21-1883 - Cecil Humphreys - Cheltenham, England - d. 11-6-1947
    actor: "Theatre Guild on the Air"
    08-01-1911 - Fora Campbell - d. 11-6-1978
    actor: Jean Forbes Lambert "Brave Tomorrow"; Janice King "Strange
    Romance of Evelyn Winters"
    08-15-1903 - Burke Bivens - Kirbyville, TX - d. 11-6-1967
    saxophonist: Wayne King Orchestra
    09-03-1925 - Hank Thompson - Waco, TX - d. 11-6-2007
    singer/guitarist: "Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys"
    11-17-1907 - L. Sprague de Camp - NYC - d. 11-6-2000
    science fiction writer: "X-Minus One"; "Future Tense"
    11-19-1863 - Billy Sunday - Ames, IA - d. 11-6-1935
    preacher: "Back Home Hour"
    11-20-1917 - Jim Hawthorne - Victor, CO - d. 11-6-2007
    disk jockey: "The Hawthorne Thing"; "Hawthorne's Adventures"
    11-20-1920 - Gene Tierney - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-6-1991
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Great Scenes from Great Plays"; "[removed]
    Steel Hour"
    12-19-1902 - Mary Michael - Denver, CO - d. 11-6-1980
    actor: Ma Fogart "Big Sister"; Mrs. Kelly "Stepmother"

    Ron

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    Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 16:24:03 -0400
    From: "Ryan O" <ryano218@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OTR books on audio

    Hi all. I see that there are a number of books available on old-time radio
    and on specific series such as Dragnet, Johnny Dollar, The Green Hornet,
    etc. I am a blind guy and wonder if any of these books are available in
    audio form. If anyone can give me any information, I would very much
    appreciate it. Some of these books have been around for years and I can't
    wait for the day when I can read them.

    RyanO

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    Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 16:24:21 -0400
    From: "Ryan O" <ryano218@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Green Hornet Question

    I recently discovered that Radio Spirits has published a brand new
    collection of previously unreleased GH episodes with al Hodge in the title
    role. I eagerly snatched them up, hoping that the quality is better than one
    might find on the internet with downloads encoded at too low a bitrate.

    I am wondering why so few of the Green Hornet episodes are available in
    relation to the other signature WXYZ series; The Lone Ranger and Challenge
    of the Yukon. While many of the Robert Hall era broadcasts are in
    circulation, fewer programs from the Al Hodge and Jack McCarthy phases of
    the series seem to be in existence. Why is this? I am eager to hear more of
    the McCarthy episodes in particular as it seems that more people somehow
    came to know the identity of the Hornet during this time.

    Any info is much appreciated.

    RyanO

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    Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 16:24:26 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 7-13 November

     From Those Were The Days

    11/7

    1932   CBS presented the first broadcast of Buck Rogers in the 25th
    Century. Matt Crowley, Curtis Arnall, Carl Frank and John Larkin played
    Buck in the serial over the years (1932 1947).

    1937   Dr. Christian debuted on CBS. Jean Hersholt played the part of
    the kindly, elderly Dr. Christian who practiced on the air until 1954.
    Laureen Tuttle, Kathleen Fitz, Helen Kleeb and Rosemary De Camp played
    his nurse, Judy. The Dr. Christian theme song was Rainbow on the River.
    Sponsors of the show included Vaseline (petroleum jelly, hair tonic and
    lip ice).

    1938   The first broadcast of This Day is Ours was heard on CBS. Eleanor
    McDonald, played by Joan Banks and later by Templeton Fox, had all kinds
    of problems. Her child was kidnapped, she lost her memory, helped a
    friend find a killer, etc. The soap opera ran for two years.

    11/9

    1948   This is Your Life debuted on NBC. Ralph Edwards hosted the radio
    show for two years before it moved to television.

    11/10

    1950   Monty Woolley starred as The Magnificent Montague, which debuted
    on NBC.

    11/12

    1932   The National Broadcasting Company opened its new studios at Radio
    City in New York City. They celebrated with a gala program at Radio City
    Music Hall.

    1938   Kate Smith sang God Bless America for the very first time. It
    would later become her signature song. Irving Berlin penned the tune in
    1917 but never released it until Miss Smith sang it for the first time
    on her radio broadcast.

    1940   The chant, "invovo legem magicarum," was heard for the first time
    when Mandrake the Magician debuted on WOR in New York City.

    Joe

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