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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2008 : Issue 152
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
FOTR flier [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
Broadcast dates [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
Profile of Raoul Walsh [ seandd@[removed] ]
#OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig [ charlie@[removed] ]
A young Hal! [ <radioaz@[removed]; ]
american shows on reels [ EDWARD CARR <edcarr@[removed]; ]
The Street Singer [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
6-18 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:06:33 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: FOTR flier
Thanks to Bruce Rosenberger, the FOTR flier is now available in pdf format.
If anyone wants any copies, or a pdf file sent to them, drop me a line.
Martin
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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:13:01 -0400
From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Broadcast dates
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Specific (as possible) broadcast dates on these OTR programs
would be helpful:
"Bold Venture"
"I Was A Communist For The FBI"
"One For The Money"
Contact me off list with this info. Thank you.
An OTR Fan,
Kenneth Clarke
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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:29:30 -0400
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Profile of Raoul Walsh
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Ok, this isn't exactly about OTR - but it's a career profile of the director of "The Horn Blows at Midnight," among other lesser [removed][removed] is still worth [removed] DoughertySeanDD@[removed]
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:12:01 -0400
From: charlie@[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 nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
real-time OTR talk!
Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
it's always a good time!
For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
week and every week!
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:56:53 -0400
From: <radioaz@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: A young Hal!
Our re-enactment group (RadiOzona) is doing an outreach this week with our
local Boys and Girls Club. In five days, one hour each day, we are taking a
group of 11-13 year olds and training them to put on their own show for
parents, and others. We went in to this not having any kind of a feeling
for how it would work. So far we are very pleased.
But I digress. The reason I wanted to write the digest is to let you know
about one 12 year old boy who is doing Jughead. He is amazing! If I close
my eyes I'd swear Hal Stone was sitting at the table. It is really
wonderful to hear his nasally twang of "aw, relax, Archie, relax!"
And all the kids are having such fun with this script. They are doing the
voices, the SFX and the music. It won't be perfect, but it will be
[removed] are several times in any Archie script when one of the characters
(always one of the teenagers) talks on and on and never lets another
character get a word in edgewise. These kids have got those moments nailed.
So fun to listen to them.
Wish you could all be here to see this show.
Ted Meland
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:57:01 -0400
From: EDWARD CARR <edcarr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: american shows on reels
anyone interested in american shows on reels i have a box of 15 or more of
them, that someone can have for the postage, no list though
as they were just put on cd for me, i have no use for them
now
edcarr@[removed]
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:57:43 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: The Street Singer
While I knew that Arthur Tracy (birth name: Abbas Tracuvutsky) was a
resident of Washington, DC and also that he was relatively wealthy
from real estate investments when he died, I did not know there was
an "Arthur Tracy, The Street Singer Endowment Fund."
It is described in local Washington, DC circles as "a fund to honor
the memory and musical legacy of Arthur Tracy--the renowned radio,
stage, and screen singer and entertainer whose talent delighted
millions around the word. It will fund arts programs and continue
Tracy's ability to entertain for years to come."
This endowment fund is primarily bestowed upon Jewish productions
only in the Washington area. An internet search regarding the fund
suggests that only productions produced by the Jewish Community
Center in the District of Columbia, including their two performing
centers, Theatre J and the Goldman Theater, have received any backing
from this endowment.
Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:57:50 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 6-18 births/deaths
June 18th births
06-18-1885 - Ernie Adams - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-26-1947
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-18-1893 - Gladys Gooding - Macon, MO - d. 11-18-1963
organist, singer: organist at Madison Square Garden
06-18-1895 - Castro Darazo - San Jose, Costa Rica - d. 12-28-1981
conductor: "Strand Theatre Concert Orchestra" WSMB New Orleans,
Louisiana
06-18-1897 - Alan MacAteer - d. 6-26-1986
actor: Pop, the stage doorman "Backstage Wife"
06-18-1897 - Henry Wadsworth - Maysville, KY - d. 12-5-1974
actor: Alabama Randall "Jane Arden"
06-18-1898 - Carleton Hobbs - Farnborough, England - d. 7-31-1978
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Saturday Night Theatre, Children's Hour"
06-18-1898 - Francis 'Dink' Trout - Beardstown, IL - d. 3-26-1950
actor: Waldo Binney "Life of Riley"; Mr. Anderson "A Day in the Life
of Dennis Day"
06-18-1901 - Jimmy Dale - The Bronx, NY - d. 12-xx-1982
pianist, arranger: "Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra"
06-18-1902 - Tom Breneman - Waynesboro, PA - d. 4-28-1948
emcee: "Breakfast at Sardi's/in Hollywood"; "My Secret Ambition"
06-18-1903 - Jeanette MacDonald - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-14-1965
singer: "Nobody's Children"; "Vicks Open House"; "Campbell Playhouse"
06-18-1904 - Keye Luke - Canton, China - d. 1-12-1991
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Image Minorities"
06-18-1906 - Kay Kyser - Rocky Mt., NC - d. 7-23-1985
bandleader, emcee: (The Old Perfessor) "Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
06-18-1906 - Ray Bauduc - New Orleans, LA - d. 1-8-1988
drummer, composer: "The Bob Crosby Show"
06-18-1908 - Clayton "Bud" Collyer - NYC - d. 9-8-1969
actor, announcer: Clark Kent/Superman "Advs. of Superman"; "Cavalcade
of America"
06-18-1908 - Elmore Vincent - Amarillo, X - d. 3-27-2000
actor: Phineas Peabody "Lum and Abner"
06-18-1910 - Betty Mandeville - Minneapolis, MN - d. 6-14-2001
producer, director: "The FBI in Peace and War"; "Take It or Leave It"
06-18-1910 - Dick Foran - Flemington, NJ - d. 8-10-1979
singer: (The Singing Cowboy) "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"
06-18-1910 - Ray McKinley - Fort Worth, TX - d. 5-7-1995
bandleader, vocalist: Co-leader of the Glen Miller Band
06-18-1910 - Russ Hodges - Dayton, TN - d. 4-19-1971
sportscaster: "Giants win the pennant, Giants win the pennant, Giants
win the pennant"
06-18-1911 - Babe Russin - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-4-1984
tenor sax: "The Ipana Troubadors"
06-18-1913 - Harold Alberghini - d. 7-16-1993
disk jockey and newscaster: Maine
06-18-1913 - Johnnie Neblett - Mississippi - d. 9-15-1946
announcer: "Bargain Counter"; "Tin Pan Alley"
06-18-1913 - Sammy Cahn - NYC - d. 1-15-1993
lyricist: "You Bet Your Life"; "Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP"; "Monitor"
06-18-1914 - [removed] Marshall - Owatonna, MN - d. 8-25-1998
narrator: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
06-18-1917 - Richard Boone - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-10-1981
actor: "Dragnet"
06-18-1917 - Ross Elliott - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-12-1999
actor: "Mercury Theatre"
06-18-1919 - Ed Simmons - d. 5-18-1998
writer, director: "The Martin and Lewis Show"; "The Quiz Kids"
06-18-1919 - Mel Brandt - Brooklyn, NY
announcer: "Advs. of Frank Merriwell"
06-18-1922 - Buck Page - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-21-2006
guitarist: (Riders of the Purple Sage) "The Roy Rogers Show"
06-18-1938 - Don "Sugarcane" Harris - Pasadena, CA - d. 11-27-1999
rock violinist: (Squires) "Stars for Defense"
06-18-1942 - Paul McCartney - Liverpool, England
singer: (The Beatles) "Here We Go Again"
June 18th deaths
01-18-1910 - Arthur Howard - London, England - d. 6-18-1995
actor: "Whack-O!)
02-03-1918 - Gene Baldridge - d. 6-18-1988
disk jockey: WSIP Paintsville, Kentucky
02-07-1949 - Susan Boyd - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 6-18-2004
writer: "Another Day"
03-19-1923 - Pamela Britton - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-18-1974
actor: "Luncheon at Sardi's"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-23-1920 - Alfred Palca - Manhattan, NY - d. 6-18-1998
writer: Wrote for NBC radio while still in college
05-15-1923 - Doris Dowling - Detroit, MI - d. 6-18-2004
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-27-1912 - John Cheever - Quincy, MA - d. 6-18-1982
writer: "NBC Presents: Short Story"
06-01-1922 - Joan Caulfield - East Orange, NJ - d. 6-18-1991
actor: "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Great Scenes from Great Plays"
06-17-1894 - Harold Levey - NYC - d. 6-18-1967
composer, conductor: "Theatre Guild on the Air"
06-19-1928 - Nancy Marchand - Buffalo, NY - d. 6-18-2000
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "A Private Space"
06-25-1919 - Bill Manhoff - Newark, NJ - d. 6-18-1974
writer: "Duffy's Tavern"; "Hollywood Showcase"
07-10-1905 - Thomas Gomez - NYC - d. 6-18-1971
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
07-16-1906 - Vincent Sherman - Vienna, GA - d. 6-18-2006
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
08-08-1927 - Basil Kirchin - Blackpool, England - d. 6-18-2005
drummer: "Harry Roy and His Orchestra"
08-15-1879 - Ethel Barrymore - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-18-1959
actor: Hattie Thompson "Miss Hattie"
08-21-1924 - Jack Buck - Holyoke, MA - d. 6-18-2002
baseball broadcaster: St. Louis Cardinals
09-22-1870 - Arthur Pryor - St. Joseph, MO - d. 6-18-1942
bandmaster, trombonist: "Cremo Military Band Program"; "Goodyear
Program"
09-25-1926 - John Ericson - Dusseldorf, Germany - d. 6-18-1972
actor: "Stars On Parade"
10-02-1920 - Rosemarie Brancato - d. 6-18-1994
operatic soprano: "Twin Sisters"
10-30-1926 - Charles Woolf - California - d. 6-18-1994
actor: "Life of Riley"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-31-1915 - Chris Griffin - d. 6-18-2005
trumpet: (Benny Goodman's Orchestra) "Camel Caravan"
11-01-1908 - Felix Knight - Macon, GA - d. 6-18-1998
singer: "Schaefer Revue"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
11-03-1902 - Milt Herth - Kenosha, WI - d. 6-18-1969
organist: (Milt Herth Trio) "Hollywood News"; "Al Pearce"
11-15-1907 - Bill Anson - Chicago, IL - d. 6-18-1983
quizmaster: "The Hirsch Telephone Quiz"
11-21-1907 - Charles Korvin - Postyen, Hungary - d. 6-18-1998
actor: "Voice of the Army"
12-01-1917 - William Tracy - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-18-1967
actor: Roosty "Roosty of the AAF"
12-05-1892 - Al Boasberg - Buffalo, NY - d. 6-18-1937
writer: "Jack Benny Program"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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