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Date: 4/8/2006 8:47 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 100
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Meredith Willson                      [ Martin Fass <watchstop@frontiernet. ]
      This week in radio history 9-15 Apri  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      4-8 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      The Castles                           [ Brian Johnson <chyronop@[removed] ]
      Re: Jerry Coleman                     [ Hal Stone <otrjug@[removed]; ]
      Robert Newman                         [ "Bob Burchett" <haradio@[removed] ]
      4-9 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 00:04:32 -0400
    From: Martin Fass <watchstop@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Meredith Willson

    Does anyone out there possibly have recordings of the classical music
    appreciation series that Willson did for a limited period in the
    fifties?  It was on NBC, I think.

    Martin Fass
    Rochester, NY

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    Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 00:04:42 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 9-15 April

     From Those Were The Days --

    4/11

    1921 - The first live sports event on radio took place this day over
    KDKA.  Pittsburgh sports writer, Florent Gibson, gave an account of the
    action in  the lightweight boxing match between Johnny Ray and Johnny
    Dundee.

    1943 - Nick Carter, Master Detective debuted on Mutual.

    9/12

    1932 - The thrill-comedy, Joe Palooka, which would also be a popular
    comic strip, made its debut on CBS.

    Joe

    --
    Visit my homepage: [removed]~[removed]

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    Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 00:04:51 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-8 births/deaths

    April 8th births

    04-08-1882 - Lulu McConnell - Kansas City, MO - d. 10-9-1962
    comedienne: "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
    04-08-1887 - Walter Connolly - Cincinnati, OH - d. 5-28-1940
    actor: Charlie Chan "Charlie Chan"
    04-08-1888 - Thornton Fisher - Cincinnati, OH - d. 8-xx-1975
    sports reporter: "The Briggs Sports Review"
    04-08-1889 - Adrian Boult - Chester, England - d. 2-23-1983
    writer: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "Casebook of Gregory Hood";
    "Sherlock Holmes"
    04-08-1896 - Yip Harburg - NYC - d. 3-5-1981
    lyricist: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
    04-08-1900 - Bert "Mad Russian" Gordon - NYC - d. 11-30-1974
    comedian: "Eddie Cantor Show"; Yasha "Duffy's Tavern"
    04-08-1905 - George Baxter - Paris, France - d. 9-10-1976
    announcer: "Grand Central Station"
    04-08-1905 - Ilka Chase - NYC - d. 2-15-1978
    panelist, hostess, actor: "Leave It to the Girls"; "Luncheon at the
    Waldorf"
    04-08-1908 - Tito Guizar - Guadalajara, Mexico - d. 12-25-1999
    vocalist: (Isham Jones Band) "Duffy's Tavern"; "Hollywood Showcase"
    04-08-1911 - Bob Dixon - Stamford, CT - d. 8-22-1998
    announcer: Edward R. Murrow: created the phrase "Listen to Murrow
    tomorrow"
    04-08-1912 - Sonja Henie - Kristiania, Norway - d. 10-12-1969
    skater, actor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Bill Ster's Colgate Sports
    Newsreel"; "Shell Show"
    04-08-1915 - Fred Flowerday - d. 4-6-1986
    director: "The Lone Ranger"; "The Green Hornet"; "Challenge of the
    Yukon"
    04-08-1916 - Carl Cotner - Indiana - d. 11-14-1986
    steel guitar: "Gene Aurty's Melody Ranch"
    04-08-1919 - Virginia O'Brien - Los Angles, CA - d. 1-23-2001
    actor: "Blue Ribbon Town"
    04-08-1921 - Franco Corelli - Ancona, Italy - d. 10-29-2003
    operatic tenor: "Gala Performance"
    04-08-1930 - Dorothy Tutin - London, England - d. 8-6-2001
    actor: "Before the Party"
    04-08-1931 - John Bartholomew Tucker
    host (communicator) "Monitor"
    04-08-1941 - Peggy Lennon - Los Angeles, CA
    singer: (The Lennon Sisters) "Music on Deck"; "Voices of Vista";
    "Guest Star"

    April 8th deaths

    01-28-1914 - Nelson Olmstead - Minnesota - d. 4-8-1992
    actor: Joe Huston "Bachelor's Children"; Lee Edgar "In the Case of
    Aggie Horn"
    02-12-1893 - Omar Bradley - Clark, MO - d. 4-8-1981
    general of the army: "What Are We Fighting For?"; "[removed] Campaign"
    02-27-1897 - Marian Anderson - South Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-8-1993
    singer: "Ford Evening Sunday Hour"; "Telephone Hour"; "New World A'
    Coming"
    03-08-1909 - Claire Trevor - NYC - d. 4-8-2000
    actor: Lorelei Kilbourne " Big Town", Theresa Travers "Results, Inc."
    03-24-1906 - Julian Funt - d. 4-8-1980
    writer: "Young Doctor Malone"
    05-04-1924 - Gene Klaven - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-8-2004
    new york morning personalty: "Klaven and Finch"; "Klaven in the Morning"
    06-13-1920 - Ben Johnson - Pawnee, OK - d. 4-8-1996
    actor: "Francis Burke for Attorney General"
    08-30-1879 - Fritzi Scheff - Vienna, Austria - d. 4-8-1954
    prima donna: "Lavender and Old Lace"; "The Philco Hour"
    12-19-1894 - Ford Frick - Wawaka, IN - d. 4-8-1978
    baseball comissioner: "Baseball: An Action History"; "Play Ball";
    "Tribute to Babe Ruth"
    xx-xx-1876 - Louis Dean - Wilmington, DE - d. 4-8-1933
    announcer: "Stoopnagle and Budd"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 01:30:54 -0400
    From: Brian Johnson <chyronop@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Castles

    "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" (1939) was the
    last of nine Astaire-Rogers pics at RKO. V&I Castle
    were a ballroom dance couple famous in the early part
    of the 20th Century. Vernon was killed during WWI
    performing his duties as a flight instructor, so the
    ending of the picture was hardly your typical A&R live
    happily ever after affair.
    In 1948 Astaire and Judy Garland teamed up brilliantly
    in "Easter Parade" and MGM wanted a quick encore.
    Production began on the "Barkleys of Broadway" for
    release in 1949. By this time Judy was becoming more
    unreliable and had to be replaced. Ginger was brought
    in to replace her and the only Astaire-Rogers movie in
     Technicolor featured the only number they ever
    performed to twice, George and Ira Gershwin's "They
    Can't Take That Away From Me." It was written for the
    couple in 1937's "Shall We Dance" and Astaire felt
    they had never done justice to it the first time around.

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    Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 09:23:53 -0400
    From: Hal Stone <otrjug@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Jerry Coleman

    Brian Johnson commented on ex Baseball player Jerry Coleman's nomination to
    the Radio Hall of Fame. It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

    During my many years as a Commercial TV Director, I had the opportunity to
    work with a great many sports "Celebrities" over the years. Primarily those
    from Football, Baseball, Basketball.

    Many were cooperative, and easy to work with. Some (very few) were downright
    obnoxious. Some (more than a few) were decent individuals, and made for a
    pleasant and interesting experience.

    But of the 50 or so big name athletes I directed, Jerry Coleman stands out
    as being the nicest "gentleman" of them all. He was one of the earliest
    Sports Celebrities I directed, and over the years, he was the "Benchmark"
    that I used for comparison against all those that followed. As for warmth of
    personality, total cooperation and enthusiasm (for trying to do the best job
    possible), and basically, making my job so easy, Jerry Coleman heads the
    list.

    Hal(Harlan)Stone
    Jughead

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    Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 16:55:51 -0400
    From: "Bob Burchett" <haradio@[removed];
    To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Robert Newman
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    Robert is now home. Just talked to him, and recovery will
    take some time. He
    might be at the Saturday night dinner
    if the hotel has a wheel chair. I'll
    make sure they do just
    in case he can come.

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    Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 22:47:02 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-9 births/deaths

    April 9th births

    04-09-1883 - Frank King - Cashton, WI - d. 6-24-1969
    cartoonist: Created Gasoline Alley comic strip
    04-09-1889 - Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. - Rostov-on-Don, Russia - d. 2-22-1985
    violinist: "The Magic Key"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-09-1892 - Mary Pickford - Toronto, Canada - d. 5-29-1979
    actor: "Mary Pickford Dramas"; "Parties at Pickfair"
    04-09-1897 - John B. Gambling - Norwich, England - d. 11-21-1974
    host: "Your Personal Program"; "John B. Gambling Club"; "Rambling
    with Gambling"
    04-09-1898 - Paul Robeson - Princeton, NJ - d. 1-23-1976
    singer: "Pursuit of Happiness"
    04-09-1900 - Allen Jenkins - NYC - d. 7-20-1974
    actor: "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    04-09-1903 - Ward Bond - Denver, CO - d. 11-5-1960
    actor: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    04-09-1905 - Brewster Morgan - d. 12-xx-1960
    director: "Columbia Workshop"; "Men Against Death"; "Report to the
    Nation"
    04-09-1906 - Antal Dorati - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 11-13-1988
    conductor"; "CBS Symphony Orchestra"
    04-09-1911 - Jim Bannon - Kansas City, MO - d. 7-28-1984
    announcer, narrator: "Joe Penner Show"; "Eddie Bracken Show"
    04-09-1914 - Frank Bingham - Nelsonville, OH - d. 8-21-1988
    announcer: "Straight Arrow"; "Phantom Pilot"
    04-09-1916 - Ann Morrison - Sioux City, IA - d. 4-18-1978
    actor: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Escape"
    04-09-1920 - Art Van Damme - Norway, MI
    jazz accordionist: (Art Van Damme Quintet) Dave Garroway Show
    04-09-1921 - Frankie Thomas - NYC
    actor: Tom Corbett "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
    04-09-xxxx - Louise Larabee - Bremerton, WA - d. 3-30-1988
    actor: "Calvacade of America"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    April 9th deaths

    01-02-1917 - Vera Zorina - Berlin, Germany - d. 4-9-2003
    ballet dancer: "Duffy's Tavern"; "I'm An American"
    02-17-1908 - Staats Cotsworth - Oak Park, IL - d. 4-9-1979
    actor: David Farrell "Front Page Farrell"; Mark Trail "Mark Trail"
    02-19-1922 - Sandy Becker - NYC - d. 4-9-1996
    actor, announcer: Jerry Malone "Young Dr. Malone"; "Backstage Wife";
    "The Shadow"
    03-31-1907 - James L. Saphier - d. 4-9-1974
    producer: "The Saint"; "Somebody Knows"
    05-28-1902 - "Little" Jack Little - London, England - d. 4-9-1956
    singer: (Cheerful Little Earful) "Little Jack Little Show"
    06-08-1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright - Richland Center, WI - d. 4-9-1959
    architect: "Bob Elson on Board the Century"
    06-22-1915 - Robert Soderberg - Ohio - d. 4-9-1996
    writer: "Junior Miss"
    06-30-1896 - Wilfred Pelletier - Montreal, Canada - d. 4-9-1982
    conductor: "Roses and Drums"; "Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air"
    07-01-1914 - Michael Wilson - McAlester, OK - d. 4-9-1978
    blacklisted screen writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-21-1913 - John Faulk - Austin, TX - d. 4-9-1990
    humorist, writer: "Forecast"; "Says Who?"; "Hootenanny"
    10-16-1886 - Will Harridge - Chicago, IL - d. 4-9-1971
    american league president: "Memorial Program for Colonel Jocob Rupert"
    11-03-1913 - Harry Babbitt - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-9-2004
    singer: "Kay Kyser's Surprise Party"; "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical
    Knowledge"
    11-12-1911 - Clay Bryant - Madison Heights, VA - d. 4-9-1999
    baseball analyst: "Baseball with Clay Bryant"
    xx-xx-1909 - Earle Graser - Kitchener, Canada - d. 4-9-1941
    actor: Lone Ranger "Lone Ranger"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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