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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 70
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      5-2 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      5-3 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      5-4 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Old time radio streaming              [ ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 15:55:40 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-2 births/deaths

    May 2nd births

    05-02-1878 - Roy Atwill - Syracuse, NY - d. 2-6-1962
    actor, comedian, composer: "The Fred Allen Show"; "The Fred Waring Show"
    05-02-1885 - Hedda Hopper - Hollidaysburg, PA - d. 2-1-1966
    actor, columnist: Portia Brent "Brenthouse"; "Hedda Hopper Show"
    05-02-1892 - Bruno Wick - Krefeld, Germany - d. 11-xx-1979
    actor: Ming the Merciless "Flash Gordon"; Mr. Fowler "The Goldbergs"
    05-02-1895 - Lorenz Hart - NYC - d. 11-22-1943
    lyricist: "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"; "Chase and Sanborn Hour";
    "Railroad Hour"
    05-02-1897 - J. Fred Coots - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-8-1985
    composer, pianist: "Ray Shield's Revue"
    05-02-1898 - Edmund Barclay - Gosford, Australia - d. 8-26-1961
    writer: "As Ye Sow"
    05-02-1902 - Brian Aherne - King's Norton, England - d. 2-10-1986
    actor: Simon Templar "The Saint"
    05-02-1902 - Erin O'Brien-Moore - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-3-1979
    actor: Elsa Banning "Big Sister"
    05-02-1903 - Sylvan Levin - Baltimore, MD - d. 8-10-1996
    conductor: "Sinfonietta"; "Brownstone Theatre"; "Let's Go to the Opera"
    05-02-1904 - J. Anthony Hughes - NYC - d. 2-11-1970
    actor: Bob Drake "Betty and Bob"
    05-02-1905 - Sidney Skolsky - NYC - d. 5-3-1983
    newspaper columnist: "Songs by Arlen, Stories by Skolsky"; "Bromo
    Seltzer Program"
    05-02-1907 - Pinky Lee - St. Paul, MN - d. 4-3-1993
    comedian: "Hoagy Carmichel Show"; "Carefree Carnival"
    05-02-1908 - William R. Carter - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-14-1976
    pianist and soloist
    05-02-1908 - Wilms Herbert - Chicago, IL - d. 3-5-1951
    actor: Sergeant Otis Ludlum "Richard Diamond, Private Detctive"
    05-02-1911 - Myron Niesley - d. 11-28-1985
    singer: "Carefree Carnival"
    05-02-1912 - Arnold Auerebach - Manhattan, NY - d. 10-20-1998
    comedy writer: "Fred Allen Show"; "Milton Berle Show"
    05-02-1915 - Van Alexander - NYC
    bandleader: "The Callihans"; "Fitch Bandwagon"
    05-02-1916 - Robert Grapperhaus - d. 12-13-1966
    sound effects: "One Man's Family"; "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Duffy's Tavern"
    05-02-1916 - Two Ton Baker - Chicago, IL - d. 5-4-1975
    singer, pianist: "Tip Top Lunch Program"
    05-02-1917 - Herman Clebanoff - Chicago, IL - d. 1-13-2004
    musician: (Herman Clebanoff and the Ensemble) "Big City Serenade"
    05-02-1918 - Frank Milano - d. 12-15-1962
    animal sounds: "Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders"
    05-02-1924 - Theodore Bikel - Vienna, Austria
    actor: "Eternal Light"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    05-02-1925 - Svatopluk Havelka - Vrbice, Czechoslovakia - d. 2-24-2009
    composer: member music department Czechoslovakia in Ostrava
    05-02-1945 - Leah Garchik - Brooklyn, NY
    panelist: "Minds Over Matter"
    05-02-1952 - Campbell McComas - Melbourne, Australia - d. 1-8-2005
    regular performer on Australia's ABC radio
    05-02-1961 - Lisa Bellear - Melbourne, Australia - d. 7-6-2006
    writer: "From a Tribute to Sir Ronald Wilson"

    May 2nd deaths

    01-21-1902 - Smith Ballew - Palestine, TX - d. 5-2-1984
    singer: "The Ipana Troubadors"; "Shell Chateau"
    01-30-1911 - Hugh Marlowe - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-2-1982
    actor: Ellery Queen "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; Jim Curtis "Brenda Curtis"
    01-30-1933 - Louis Rukeyser - NYC - d. 5-2-2006
    economic commentator: "Rukeyser's World"; "College Quiz Bowl"
    02-01-1908 - George Pal - Cegled, Austria-Hungary - d. 5-2-1980
    film producer, director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    02-15-1918 - Jean Hatton - Denver, CO - d. 5-2-2009
    assistant to Fulton Lewis, Jr.
    02-25-1899 - Wini Shaw - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-2-1982
    actor: Air Trailers "Good News of 1935 and In Caliente"
    03-07-1889 - Lula Vollmer - Keyser, NC - d. 5-2-1955
    writer: "Moonshine and Honeysuckle"
    03-08-1943 - Lynn Redgrave - London, England - d. 5-2-2010
    actor: "Artist Descending a Staircase"; "Vile Bodies"
    03-20-1918 - Jack Barry - Lindenhurst, NY - d. 5-2-1984
    actor: "It's the Barrys"
    03-27-1919 - Robert Homme - Stoughton, WI - d. 5-2-2000
    created "Friendly Giant" for radio in Madison, Wisconsin
    04-05-1905 - William Andrews - Oakland, CA - d. 5-2-1985
    announcer: "One Man's Family"
    04-30-1926 - Lou Cioffi - d. 5-2-1998
    news reporter: "The Warning Bell"; "Big News of 1957/58"
    05-04-1902 - Dudley Williamson - Above Discovery, AK - d. 5-2-1948
    emcee: "What's the Name of the Song?"; "Queen for a Day"
    06-11-1908 - Katherine Carrington - South or East Orange, NJ - d.
    5-2-1953
    vocalist: "Evening in Paris"
    07-20-1935 - Ted Rogers - South London, England - d. 5-2-2001
    comedian: "The Billy Cotton Band"
    08-17-1909 - Larry Clinton - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-2-1985
    bandleader: "Larry Clinton's Musical Sensations"; "Tommy Riggs and
    Betty Lou"
    09-15-1899 - Dr. Milton Eisenhower - Abilene, KS - d. 5-2-1985
    doctor: (Brother of Ike) "Second Seagram's Symposium"; "Meet the Press"
    09-23-1913 - Robert Hudson Ballard - Nyack, NY - d. 5-2-1992
    violinist, arranger: "Phil Harris Orchestra"
    10-03-1911 - Michael Hordern - Berkhamsted, England - d. 5-2-1995
    actor: Gandolf "The Lord of the Rings"
    10-07-1917 - Helmut Dantine - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-2-1982
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Silver Theatre"; "Theatre of Romance";
    "Suspense"
    10-16-1912 - Maidie Norman - Villa Rica, GA - d. 5-2-1998
    character actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"
    10-17-1925 - Robert Pauley - New Canaan, CT - d. 5-2-2009
    president of abc radio: "Then, Now and Later"
    10-28-1895 - Herb Butterfield - Rhode Island - d. 5-2-1957
    actor: Clarence Wellman "Halls of Ivy"; Hunter Glenn "One Man's Family"
    10-31-1917 - Don Hughes - d. 5-2-1990
    juvenile actor: Rollo "Daddy and Rollo"; "Helen and Mary"
    11-10-1909 - Robert Arthur, Jr. - Corregidor, Philipines - d. 5-2-1969
    writer: "The Mysterious Traveler"
    11-14-1908 - Joseph McCarthy - Appleton, WI - d. 5-2-1957
    despotic senator: "Meet the Press"
    11-28-1901 - Bobbe Brox - Riverton, IA - d. 5-2-1999
    singer: (Brox Sisters) "A Tribute to Irving Berlin"

    Ron
    [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 15:55:45 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-3 births/deaths

    May 3rd births

    05-03-1874 - Louis Dean - Wilmington, DE - d. 4-8-1933
    announcer: "Stoopnagle and Budd"
    05-03-1880 - Horace Murphy - Finley, TN - d. 1-20-1975
    actor: Buckskin Blodgett "Red Ryder"
    05-03-1890 - Nick Dawson - Vineland, NJ - d. 12-28-1957
    actor: "Dangerous Paradise"; "Follow the Man"
    05-03-1892 - Beulah Bondi - Chicago, IL - d. 1-11-1981
    actor: "Free World Theatre"; "NBC University Theatre"
    05-03-1897 - Charlie Lung - England - d. 6-22-1974
    actor: Paul Sycamore "You Can't Take It with You"; "Wild Bill Hickok";
    "Escape"
    05-03-1897 - Larry Puck - d. 10-26-1969
    producer: "Arthur Godfrey Time" Was one of Godfrey's many firings
    05-03-1898 - Golda Meir - Kiev, Russia - d. 12-8-1978
    israeli prime minister: "Meet the Press"
    05-03-1898 - John Roy - d. 5-31-1985
    actor: Roy Calvert "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
    05-03-1899 - George H. Combs - Lee's Summit, MO - d. 11-29-1977
    congressman, commentator: "Now You Decide"; "Spotlight, New York"
    05-03-1902 - Jack Larue - NYC - d. 1-11-1984
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-03-1902 - Walter Slezak - Vienna,  Austria - d. 4-21-1983
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Best Plays"; "Studio One"; "Columbia
    Workshop"
    05-03-1903 - Bing Crosby - Tacoma, WA - d. 10-14-1977
    singer: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Philco Radio Time"
    05-03-1905 - James Nusser - Cleveland, OH - d. 6-8-1979
    actor: "Gunsmoke"
    05-03-1905 - Sebastian Shaw - Holt, England - d. 12-23-1994
    actor: "For Elise"
    05-03-1905 - William Brown Meloney - NYC - d. 5-4-1971
    writer: "Claudia and David"
    05-03-1906 - Anna Roosevelt - Hyde Park, NY - d. 12-1-1975
    Daughter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On her mother's programs
    05-03-1906 - Mary Astor - Quincy, IL  - d. 9-25-1987
    actor: Mary Christmas "Merry Life of Mary Christmas"
    05-03-1907 - Degar Lustgarten - Manchester, England - d. 12-15-1978
    author: "The Burden Mystery"
    05-03-1907 - Earl Wilson - Rockford, OH - d. 1-16-1987
    columnist: "Earl Wilson's Broadway Column"
    05-03-1909 - Fort Pearson - d. 2-19-1989
    announcer: "Beat the Band"; "Queen for a Day"; "Hoosier Hot Shots"
    05-03-1910 - Curt Massey - Midland, TX - d. 10-21-1991
    singer: "Show Boat"; "Curt Massey Show"
    05-03-1910 - Norman Corwin - Boston, MA
    writer, director: "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Twenty-Six by Corwin"
    05-03-1911 - Yank Lawson - Trenton, MO - d. 2-18-1995
    trumpet: "The Bob Crosby Show"
    05-03-1919 - Betty Comden - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-23-2006
    writer, actor: "Revuers"
    05-03-1919 - Doris Rich - Canada - d. 5-18-1971
    actor: Hannah O'Leary" Houseboat Hannah"; Miss Daisey "Portia Faces
    Life"
    05-03-1919 - Pete Seeger - NYC
    folk singer, songwriter: "Off the Page"
    05-03-1920 - John Lewis - LaGrange, IL - d. 3-29-2001
    co-founder of "Modern Jazz Quartet": :Modern Jazz Quartet";
    "Listener's Digest"
    05-03-1920 - Nina Bara - Buenos Aires, Argentina - d. 8-15-1990
    actor: Tonga "Space Patrol"
    05-03-1921 - Joe Ames - Malden, MA - d. 12-22-2007
    singer: (Ames Brothers) "Sing It Again"; "Robert Q. Lewis Show"
    05-03-1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson - Detroit, MI - d. 4-12-1989
    pugilist: "Destination Freedom"; "Heat It Now"
    05-03-1922 - Elizabeth Lawrence - d. 6-11-2000
    actor: Francie Brent "Road of Life"
    05-03-1924 - Ken Bailey - East Cleveland, OH - d. 3-25-2008
    producer: "Morning Midway"; "Breakfast With the Baileys"
    05-03-1927 - Rosemary Rice - Montclair, NJ
    actor: Betty Cooper "Archie Andrews"; Jill Malone "Young Doctor Malone"
    05-03-1928 - Dave Dudley - Spencer, WI - d. 12-22-2003
    country singer: "Dave Dudley Trio"
    05-03-1943 - Helen Strohm - San Francisco, CA
    actor: Kathy Anderson "Father Knows Best"

    May 3rd deaths

    02-02-1920 - Hughie Green - London, England - d. 5-3-1997
    host: "Opportunity Knocks"
    02-19-1899 - Carl Matthews - Oklahoma Territory - d. 5-3-1959
    actor: "The Cuckoo Hour"
    02-26-1914 - Robert Alda - NYC - d. 5-3-1986
    singer: "Rudy Vallee Presents the Drene Show"
    03-05-1906 - Aileen Carlyle - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-3-1984
    vocalist: "Spike Jones and His City Slickers"
    03-12-1923 - Walter Schirra - Hackensack, NJ - d. 5-3-2007
    astronaut: "Meet the Press"
    03-16-1894 - Elizabeth Lennox - Ionia, MI - d. 5-3-1992
    singer: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "American Album of Familiar
    Music"
    03-22-1916 - George Wyle - NYC - d. 5-3-2003
    songwriter: "Alan Young"
    04-11-1913 - Millie Good - Mt. Carmel, IL - d. 5-3-1993
    singer: (Girls of the Golden West) "National Barn Dance"
    04-20-1904 - Bruce Cabot - Carlsbad, NM - d. 5-3-1972
    actor: "Hallmark Hall of Fame"; "Hollywood on the Air"
    05-02-1902 - Erin O'Brien-Moore - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-3-1979
    actor: Elsa Banning "Big Sister"
    05-02-1905 - Sidney Skolsky - NYC - d. 5-3-1983
    newspaper columnist: "Songs by Arlen, Stories by Skolsky"; "Bromo
    Seltzer Program"
    05-30-1926 - Christine Jorgenson - The Bronx, NY - d. 5-3-1989
    actor: "Whatever Became [removed]"
    06-14-1914 - Nat Polen - NYC - d. 5-3-1981
    actor: Edward McCormick "Indictment" "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    07-04-1902 - George Murphy - New Haven, CT - d. 5-3-1992
    actor, emcee: "Let's Talk Hollywood"; "Hollywood Calling"
    08-02-1904 - John McClain - Ohio - d. 5-3-1967
    writer: "Hollywood Hotel"
    08-13-1908 - Gene Raymond - NYC - d. 5-3-1998
    actor: John J. Malone "Amazing Mr. Malone"; "Witness"; "Hollywood Hotel"
    08-14-1914 - Bill Downs - Kansas City, MO - d. 5-3-1978
    newscaster: CBS Moscow 1942
    10-04-1912 - Lynne "Angel" Harvey - St. Louis, MO - d. 5-3-2008
    producer: (Wife of Paul Harvey) "The Rest of the Story"
    10-11-1936 - Billy Higgins - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-3-2001
    jazz drummer: "Jazz Alive"
    10-30-1908 - Patsy Montana - Hot Springs, AK - d. 5-3-1996
    yodeling country singer: (Prairie Ramblers) "Nationial Barn Dance"
    10-30-1927 - Joe Adcock - Coushatta, LA - d. 5-3-1999
    baseball player: "Baseball: An Action History"
    11-30-1903 - Frank Worth - Debrezin, Hungary - d. 5-3-1990
    orchestra leader: "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"; Those Websters"

    Ron
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    Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 15:56:52 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-4 births/deaths

    May 4th births

    05-04-1874 - Frank Conrad - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 12-11-1941
    "the father of radio broadcasting" Started radio station KDKA in his
    garage
    05-04-1886 - Earl Lee - Topeka, KS - d. 6-2-1955
    actor: Fred Thompson "One Man's Family"
    05-04-1886 - Shelton Brooks - Amesburg, Ontario - d. 9-6-1975
    composer, author, pianist: "Cavalcade of Music"
    05-04-1896 - Dr. Frank Baxter - Camden, NJ - d. 1-18-1982
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    05-04-1902 - Al Dexter - Jacksonville, TX - d. 1-28-1984
    singer, songwriter: (Pistol Packn' Mama) "Command Performance"
    05-04-1902 - Dudley Williamson - Above Discovery, AK - d. 5-2-1948
    emcee: "What's the Name of the Song?"; "Queen for a Day"
    05-04-1903 - Elmer Leyden - Davenport, IA - d. 6-30-1973
    football player: "One of the Four Horseman" "Information Please"
    05-04-1903 - Luther Adler - NYC - d. 12-8-1984
    actor: Peter Gentle "Mystery Without Murder"; "Greatest Story Ever
    Told (1938-39)"
    05-04-1904 - Gray Gordon - d. 7-23-1976
    bandleader: "The Magic Key of RCA"
    05-04-1909 - Ed Max - Georgia - d. 10-17-1980
    actor: Mr. Gallagher "Voyage of the Scarlet Queen"
    05-04-1909 - Howard Da Silva - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-16-1986
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Forecast"; "Suspense"
    05-04-1912 - Louis Brown - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-7-2007
    composer/conductor: "The Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Show"
    05-04-1913 - Carroll Moore, Jr. - Somerville, MA - d. 2-5-1977
    writer: "The Henry Morgan Show"
    05-04-1913 - Joe Aleman - d. 1-2-1996
    disk jockey: KPRL Paso Robles, California
    05-04-1916 - Jean Carroll - Toledo, OH - d. 7-6-1990
    comedian: "The Sealtest Village Store"
    05-04-1918 - Joel Cohen - NYC - d. 3-13-2009
    writer: "Mr. and Mrs. Music"
    05-04-1919 - Thomas Madigan - NYC - d. 7-8-2004
    writer, director: "The Big Guy"
    05-04-1921 - Patsy Garrett - Atlantic City, NJ
    singer: "Broadway Matinee"; "Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne Show"
    05-04-1923 - Erik Sykes - Oldham, Lancashire, England
    actor, writer: "Entertaining Archie"
    05-04-1923 - Godfrey Quigley - Jerusalem - d. 9-7-1994
    producer: "The Kennedys of Castleross"
    05-04-1924 - Gene Klaven - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-8-2004
    new york morning personalty: "Klaven and Finch"; "Klaven in the Morning"
    05-04-1924 - Merrill Mael - d. 10-16-2000
    actor: Uncle Fletcher "Vic and Sade"
    05-04-1927 - Terry Scott - Watford, England - d. 7-26-1994
    actor: "Junior Choice"; "Great Scott, It's Maynard"; "Hugh and I"
    05-04-1929 - Audrey Hepburn - Brussels, Belguim - d. 1-20-1993
    actor: "[removed] Story"; "Stagestruck"
    05-04-1930 - Gordon Gould - Chicago, IL
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    05-04-1938 - Gillian Tindall - London, England
    author: "A Little Touch of Death"

    May 4th deaths

    01-25-1918 - Ernie Harwell - Washington, GA - d. 5-4-2010
    baseball broadcaster for the Detroit Tigers
    02-05-1893 - Carlton Coon - Rochester, MN - d. 5-4-1932
    bandleader: (Coon-Sanders Nighthawks) "Florsheim Frolic"
    05-02-1916 - Two Ton Baker - Chicago, IL - d. 5-4-1975
    singer, pianist: "Tip Top Lunch Program"
    05-03-1905 - William Brown Meloney - NYC - d. 5-4-1971
    writer: "Claudia and David"
    06-10-1898 - Norman Brokenshire - Murcheson, Ontario, Canada - d.
    5-4-1965
    announcer: "Music That Satisfies"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    06-14-1891 - Elaine Sterne Carrington - NYC - d. 5-4-1958
    creator-writer: "Pepper Young's Family"; "Rosemary"; "When a Girl
    Marries"
    06-19-1897 - Moe Howard - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-4-1975
    original stooge: (Three Stooges) "Whatever Became of . . . .?"
    10-23-1931 - Diana Dors - Swindon, Wiltshire, England - d. 5-4-1984
    actor: "Earplay"
    10-28-1915 - Alwyn Kurts - Perth, Western Australia - d. 5-4-2000
    performer: "Raising a Husband"
    11-13-1925 - Ed Backey - Havre de Grace, MD - d. 5-4-1988
    disk jockey: WTOW Towson, Maryland

    Ron
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    Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 15:57:25 -0400
    From: ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Old time radio streaming

    Are there any net based services like Pandora which provide sources for
    otr?

    I know there are individual web pages, I'm looking more for something like
    Pandora or similar service.

                                    XB
                                     IC|XC

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