Subject: [removed] Digest V2004 #376
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Date: 11/25/2004 4:19 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2004 : Issue 376
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Save the Beavers                      [ JackBenny@[removed] ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      Voiceover Talent Question             [ "Gary Dixon" <argy@[removed]; ]
      Don LaFontaine                        [ Bhob <bhob2@[removed]; ]
      Sammy Kay                             [ eloyer@[removed] ]
      11-25 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Black Friday                          [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
      blacks staying at hotel in the north  [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
      Golden Age II                         [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      Two Jack Benny Mentions               [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]

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    Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:38:55 -0500
    From: JackBenny@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Save the Beavers

    Derek Tague writes:

>     So, Laura on the Leff Coast, who are the still-extant Beavers? I  know Beverly
>     Washburn was one. Possibly HarryShearer? Richard "Dick"  Beals once played one in
>     FOTR's 1999 Jack Benny re-creation; did he ever play one back in the  day?

    Beverly Washburn and Harry Shearer were both Beverly Hills Beavers.   Also
    Frank Bank, and a gentleman whom I met at SPERDVAC last year and forgot his
    name.  Bobb - He was on the Benny panel.  Can you remember?  I'd  like to talk
    with him again.

    --Laura Leff
    President, IJBFC
    [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:39:19 -0500
    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 six 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, 24 Nov 2004 08:17:32 -0500
    From: "Gary Dixon" <argy@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Voiceover Talent Question
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    I seem to remember that Dick Tufeld did most of the voiceover work for the
    Disney [removed] in the theatres as well as on TV.   Art Gilmore voiced
    a lot of trailers for other studios.  Those two voices I recognize from some
    of the trailers in my film collection.

    argydix

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    Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:38:44 -0500
    From: Bhob <bhob2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Don LaFontaine

>     is there a book or any reference to who did the voice overs for
>     various movie trailers?... The movie trailers
>     these days rarely have any voice overs anymore.

    The king is Don LaFontaine, who has been heard in movie trailer
    voiceovers since 1964. There's an excellent illustrated profile of
    LaFontaine at [removed]

    Audio clips of LaFontaine movie trailer voiceovers:
    [removed]

    A multi-millionaire, LaFontaine relaxes in his white stretch limo,
    traveling to different studios to record 12 to 17 voiceover sessions a
    day.

    Bhob @ PRE-FUSE @ [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:39:12 -0500
    From: eloyer@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Sammy Kay

    Sammy Kay did indeed attend Ohio University (in Athens, Ohio). In the 30's he
    led the college dance band "The Ohioans" which was still going strong well into
    the 50's and 60's when I walked the brick paths on that lovely colonial campus.
    This year Ohio U. is celebrating her bi-centennial - the first land grant
    college founded west of the Allegheny's in 1804. Sammy Kaye is indeed a part of
    that long history. Ed Loyer (who has walked the paths at the University of
    Michigan for nearly 40 years)

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    Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:48:08 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-25 births/deaths

    H A P P Y  T H A N K S G I V I N G !

    November 25th births

    11-25-1896 - Virgil Thomson - Kansas City, MO - d. 9-30-1989
    composer: "Columbia Workshop"
    11-25-1899 - Kay Strozzi - Swan's Point Plantation, VA - 1-18-1996
    actress: Shelia Blade "I Love Linda Dale"; Victoria Lorring "Young Widder
    Brown"
    11-25-1900 - Helen Gahagan Douglas - Boonton, NJ - d. 6-28-1980
    11-25-1904 - Jessie Royce Landis - Chicago, IL - d. 2-2-1971
    actress: Housekeeper "House on Q Street"
    11-25-1905 - Will Osborne - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-22-1981
    bandleader, singer: "Abbott and Costello"
    11-25-1914 - Joe DiMaggio - Martinez, CA - d. 3-8-1999
    baseball superstar: "Joe DiMaggio Show"
    11-25-1916 - Peg Lynch - Lincoln, NE
    writer, actress: Ethel Arbuckle "Ethel and Albert"; "Couple Next Door"
    11-25-1920 - Ricardo Montalban - Mexico City, Mexico
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "As Easy as [removed]"
    11-25-1925 - Jeffrey Hunter - New Orleans. LA - d. 5-27-1969
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"

    November 25th deaths

    04-29-1912 - Richard Carlson - Albert Lea, MN - d. 11-25-1977
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-16-1907 - Jack Albertson - Lynn, MA - d. 11-25-1981
    actor: Grouch "Grouch Club"; "Milton Berle Show"
    06-16-1910 - Jack Albertson - Malden, MA - d. 11-25-1981
    actor: "Milton Berle Show"; "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Cavalcade of
    America"
    07-13-1889 - Frank M. Thomas - St. Joseph, MO - d. 11-25-1989
    actor: Police Captain "Martin Kane, Private Eye"
    07-30-1912 - Edward L. Bliss - Fizhou, China - d. 11-25-2002
    cbs news correspondent: (One of Morrow's Boys) CBS News Twentieth Century
    Roundup"
    08-28-1895 - H. Norman Schwarzkopf - Newark, NJ - d. 11-25-1958
    narrator: "Gangbusters"

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    Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:09:46 -0500
    From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Black Friday

    Hi Everybody,

    after talking to a friend and reading Jim Cox post on black Friday.  I
    wondering if the networks should have tried to broadcast there radio shows
    over night.  It seems that local radio wanted more control during the day
    time hours, and there was not that many station doing all night broadcast.
    we had such shows as music after dark, and in the [removed] area in the 1960s
    talk shows became a factor.  Covering cost might have been a problem, but
    who know after time that might have been a big enough audience to carry the
    shows.  My friend feels that OTR would had a good chance to survive, if
    today technology like satellite would have been around to make it easier for
    local station to carry national shows at a lower cost.  Take care,

    Walden Hughes

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    Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:23:33 -0500
    From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  blacks staying at hotel in the north

    Hi Everybody,

    in the last digest a poster thought that blacks might not have a problem
    staying in hotels in the north.  My late friend Budd Grannoff who was
    mairried to singer Kitty Kallen for 48 years until his death in 1996 was a
    age to 18 stars all at the same time from 1948 until 1952.  Some were Frank
    Sinatra, Martin and Lewis, Doris Day, Kitty Kallen, ect a lot of the big
    names in music.  One of his client was Leana Horne.  He told me and my dad
    at lunch that in the north Leana Horne could perform at some hotels but not
    stay there.  In fact Kitty Kallen was responsible in braking the color
    barrier in Las Vegas.  She and Mickey Rooney was the head liners for a show,
    and Mickey got sick.  Kitty called Sammy Davis to help out that night and
    that broke the color barrier in Las Vegas.  Take care,

    Walden Hughes

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    Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:33:35 -0500
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Golden Age II

    I have a television question that I'm sure some of my OTR buddies can answer
    definitively:  What was the end of the golden age in television?

>     >From multiple sources I have received multiple answers, extending as far out

    as the end of the 1970s or beginning of the 1980s.  One authority suggests
    that it ended with the close of the 1950s, "encompassing the time when most
    live programming went to tape."  I've seen evidence of other dates in
    between those parameters.

    If you possess some information on the topic (or can make reference to
    specifics I can locate), I'd be grateful to hear from you off-list.  This
    would be a big help to me in finally establishing as proper a date as
    possible.  Whatever any of you may be able to shed will certainly be
    welcome.  Thanks in advance for your input.

    Jim Cox
    otrbuff@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:35:42 -0500
    From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Two Jack Benny Mentions

    The great Jack Benny is mentioned in the following Thanksgiving Tribute to
    Jello --

    [removed]

    And as  Jewish comic pioneer in this review of edgy Jewish humor in The
    Jerusalem Post.

    [removed];cid=110
    1270344643

    Happy Thanksgiving,

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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