Subject: [removed] Digest V2003 #422
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Date: 11/24/2003 7:57 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2003 : Issue 422
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed] ]
      illicit radio station                 [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
      Reality radio                         [ "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed] ]
      Norman Corwin Book Again              [ George Aust <austhaus1@[removed] ]
      Radio Spirits                         [ Tedshumaker@[removed] ]
      11-24 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Early Illegal Radio                   [ "William Schell" <bschell@[removed] ]
      Arc Kansas/ Arkansaw                  [ k g-g <grams46@[removed] ]
      Time Once Again for The Cinnamon Bea  [ Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed] ]
      Today in radio history                [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 08:15:20 -0500
    From: "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi friends

    Here is this week's line-up for the week of 11-23-03 on my Olde Tyme Radio
    [removed] Featuring Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio Theatre," Big John
    Matthews and Steve Urbaniak's "The Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same
    Station" broadcasts, being broadcast on demand 24/7 in high quality
    streaming RealAudio at [removed]

    Past archived broadcasts are also available there.

    We look forward to seeing you there!

    	Jerry

    Here's this week's lineup:

    SAME TIME, SAME STATION with Jerry Haendiges

    Thanksgiving Day Special

    AMOS AND ANDY
    Episode 7  11-19-43  "Turkey Trouble"
    Guest Star: Spring Byington
    NBC  Rinso  Fridays 10:00 - 10:30pm
    STARS: Freman Gosden and Charles Correll, Ernestine Wade, Amanda Randolph,
    Harriett Widmar, Elinor Harriot, Terry Howard, Madeline Lee, Lou Lubin,
    Eddie Green, Johnny Lee

    CASEY, CRIME PHOTOGRAPHER
    Episode 37  11-27-47  "After the Turkey, The Bill!"
    CBS   Anchor-Hocking Glass   Thursdays 9:30 - 10:00 pm
    Stars: Stats Cotsworth
    Producer/Director: John Dietz
    Music: Al Bleyer Orchestra, Lew White Organist

    FAMILY THEATER
    Episode 42  11-27-47  "Home For Thanksgiving"
    Host: Charles Boyer
    Stars: Paul Henreid and Joan Leslie
    Announcer: Tony La Frano
    Created By: Father Patrick Peyton

    OUR MISS BROOKS
    Episode 106  11-19-50  "Thanksgiving Turkey"
    Connie Brooks: Eve Arden
    Philip Boynton: Jeff Chandler
    Walter Denton: Dick Crenna
    Stretch Snodgrass: Leonard Smith
    Mrs. Davis: Jane Morgan
    Harriet Conklin: Gloria McMillan
    Osgood Conklin: Gale Gordon
    Director/Writer: Al Lewis
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    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE with Tom Heathwood

    JOHN F. KENNEDY - THE PRESINDENTIAL YEARS
    As originally produced by Tom on November 22, 1983, the 20th commemoration
    of JFK's assassination in 1963. Tom was doing a daily drive time show in
    those days on WTTP - a Boston 25KW AM station

    THE NEW LUM AND ABNER SHOW
    CBS - 11-21-48    "Thanksgiving Dinner"
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    THE GLOWING DIAL with Big John and Matthews and Steve Urbaniak

    THE BURNS AND ALLEN SHOW
    11-1-45 - AFRS    "Gracie Pretends to be Goodwin's Wife"

    THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM
    #503    2-13-44 AFRS    "Larry Adler"

    DUFFY'S TAVERN
    11-9-45 - AFRS    "Eddie the Waiter Wants to Quit"

    FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY
    #521    10-7-47 - NBC    "Football Game Anniversary"

    THE PHIL HARRIS - ALICE FAYE SHOW
    10-23-53 - NBC    "How to Repair a Living Room"
    Includes Audience warm-up
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    Please feel free to contact me with any questions or requests for upcoming
    shows.

                Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];

      [removed]  The Vintage Radio Place
      Largest source of OTR Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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    Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 13:48:43 -0500
    From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  illicit radio station

>     The article convinced me to build a phono oscillator station in my bedroom
>     and broadcast to my neighborhood, but after a few months on the air, in
>     Boston, I was detected and surrendered the home-made transmitter.

    They got you for a *phono oscillator*????   Did you have, like, a final
    amplifier stage on the thing?

    You should publish the plans.  Inquiring minds ([removed], potential delinquents)
    want to know. 8-)

    M Kinsler

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    Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 16:23:28 -0500
    From: "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Reality radio

      Have been listening to the radio show Nightwatch from 1954. The show has a
    reporter that rides in police car with officers as they respond to calls.
    The show seems to be a forerunner of the COPS type reality TV show. The show
    only ran for a year but to me is one of the most interesting OTR shows I
    have listened to because it is based on what is actually happening at the
    moment.
      One show had a 15 year old boy arrested for breaking into a gas station
    and when his mom talks to the officers at police station you can feel her
    pain at having her son arrested.
       Are there any other reality type OTR shows that were on the air back in
    OTR days?
       Andrew Godfrey

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    Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 16:24:20 -0500
    From: George Aust <austhaus1@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Norman Corwin Book Again

    Martin  Grams Jr.  wrote:

>     The book (for the interested party) is
>     ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH: NORMAN CORWIN AND THE GOLDEN YEARS OF RADIO
>     by R. Leroy Bannerman
>     Foreward by Erik Barnouw
>     The book is indeed out of print and may or may not be difficult to find.
>     Sorry I didn't have the exact title and author earlier in the week.

    I believe that I am the interested party that you are refering to. But what
    is interesting is that my book, and I am looking at as I write this, is
    called "Norman Corwin and Radio: The Golden Years" It is by Leroy Bannerman
    with Foreword by Erik Barnow. It is a hardcover book and shows a publish date
    of 1986 by The University of Alabama Press. There is no previous publish date
    shown.
    There is no mention of "On a Note of Triumph" in the title on the cover or
    inside the book.
    Is it the same book? If it is why the difference in titles?

    Just wondering!

    George Aust

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    Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 16:24:37 -0500
    From: Tedshumaker@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Radio Spirits

    The Half Price Books Stores or  [removed] has the $[removed] Radio
    Spirits collections for $[removed] Some titles are:

    Bob Hope,The Shadow, Greatest Westerns,Greatest Detectives, Greatest Comedy
    Shows, Greatest Comedy Stars, The Lone Ranger, World War II, Christmas Shows.

    $[removed] Radio Spirits collections for $[removed]: Humphrey Bogart, Amos and Andy,
    and Science Fiction Shows.

    Also Superman vs. Atom Man book of scripts.

    Teachers and Librarians recieve 10% off with proper documentation.

    The usual goes I have no connection with either enterprise.

    Ted

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    Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 16:24:45 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-24 births/deaths

    November 24th births

    11-24-1888 - Cathleen Nesbitt - Belfast, Northern Ireland - d. 8-2-1982
    actress: "Philco Radio Playhouse"
    11-24-1900 - Ireene Wicker - Quincy, IL - d. 11-17-1987
    actress: (The Singing Lady) Sylvia Bertram "Road of Life"; Eileen Moran
    "Today"s Children"
    11-24-1906 - Don McLaughlin - Webster, IA - d. 5-28-1986
    actor: David Harding "Counterspy"; "Jim Brent "Road of Life"
    11-24-1910 - Pegeen Fitzgerald - Norcatur, KS - d. 1-30-1989
    host: "Fitzgeralds"
    11-24-1912 - Garson Kanin - Rochester, NY - d. 3-13-1999
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-24-1913 - Geraldine Fitzgerald - Dublin, Ireland
    actress: "Arthur Hopkins Presents"; "Ford Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
    11-24-1927 - Eileen Barton - Brooklyn, NY
    singer: "Frank Sinatra Show"; "Eileen Barton Show"; "MGM Musical Comedy
    Theatre"

    November 24th deaths

    02-16-1909 - Jeffrey Lynn - Auburn, MA - d. 11-24-1995
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Hallmark Playhouse:" "MGM Theatre of the Air"
    05-06-1908 - Parkyakarkus (Harry Einstein) - Boston, MA - d. 11-24-1958
    comedian: "Eddie Cantor Show"; "Al Jolson Show"; "Meet Me at Parkys"
    07-11-1888 - Dr. Lyman Bryson - Valentine, NE - d. 11-24-1959
    moderator: "American School of the Air"; "Invitation to Learning"; "People"s
    Platform"
    08-24-1933 - Bobby Ellis - Chicago, IL - d. 11-24-1973
    actor: Henry Aldrich "Aldrich Family"; Chester A. Riley, Jr. "Life of Riley"
    09-26-1895 - George Raft - NYC - d. 11-24-1980
    actor: Rocky Jordan "Rocky Jordan"
    12-24-1895 - Ruth Chatterton - NYC - d. 11-24-1961
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 17:59:34 -0500
    From: "William Schell" <bschell@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Early Illegal Radio

    Russ Butler's story brought to mind an illegal radio station I was part of
    in the late 50's. At the time I was living in Redondo Beach, Ca.  My friend
    built a Knight Wireless kit and somehow managed to increase the power so we
    had about a two-mile range on the AM dial.  We strung a long wire antenna as
    high as we could get it, hooked a microphone and record player to the
    transmitter and went "on the air".

    One of our ways to gain listeners was to have a contest.  Our one and only
    program was the Ancient Record Hour using old 78 rpm records from our
    parents' collection.   We would call a person in range of our transmitter,
    have them tune us in, then play a record asking them to identify it.  We had
    very few winners but when we did, we would send them a packet of "valuable"
    coupons in an envelope with our station call letters, KHAM, but no return
    address of course.  As I remember our station only lasted one summer as we
    soon lost interest.
    Bill Schell
    Magalia, Ca

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    Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:52:01 -0500
    From: k g-g <grams46@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Arc  Kansas/ Arkansaw

    Ed Kindred kindred@[removed] asked:

>     What does this arky stuff have to do with OTR?

    i asked the question concerning the radio matt dillon's pronounciation of the
    arkansas river.
    from kathy

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    Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:07:56 -0500
    From: Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Time Once Again for The Cinnamon Bear

    Dear Readers:

    You, your children, grandchildren, and others in your family might make a
    happy discovery this year.  I hope you locate the Cinnamon Bear serial,
    which is now so accessible.  It is, in my opinion, the grandest story for
    children that was ever recorded.  It tells the happy story of Judy and
    Jimmy Barton who search for the missing silver star that sits atop their
    Christmas  tree. (The ornament was stolen from their attic by the Crazy
    Quilt Dragon.)  They are aided in this search by the Cinnamon Bear, who
    takes the twins to Maybeland --  a country so "magical" that it defines the
    world where most small children live.

    Please listen to  the 26 installments (15 minutes apiece), which were
    recorded in 1937 and which feature  old time radio personalities you will
    all be able to name.  The show is designed to be played beginning the day
    after Thanksgiving and continuing through Christmas Eve.

    Many families have made The Cinnamon Bear part of their annual traditions.
    It is so timeless it can be played year after year.

    I hope you make the Cinnamon Bear  part of your Christmas this year.  I
    guarantee you won't be disappointed.

    Dennis Crow

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    Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:46:10 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Today in radio history

     From Those Were The Days --

    1937 - Music from the Raymor Ballroom in Boston, Massachusetts was
    beamed coast to coast on NBC. The special guests during this broadcast
    were Glenn Miller and his orchestra.

    Joe

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