Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #341
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Date: 12/4/2006 10:19 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 341
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      12-4 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Fibber's closet                       [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]
      Baton Rogue Article on OTR            [ seandd@[removed] ]
      We also serve, who only [removed]      [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      New Web Address for Monitor Beacon    [ jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed]; ]
      Favorites "Yours Truly" Jhonny Dolla  [ jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed]; ]
      Re: Just Like Radio!                  [ David Phaneuf <dwphaneuf@[removed]; ]
      Re: Just like radio                   [ Martin Fass <watchstop@frontiernet. ]
      Blackhawk on OTR?                     [ Bruce Rosenberger <bmr3d@[removed]; ]
      12-5 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 01:01:19 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-4 births/deaths

    December 4th births

    12-04-1889 - Buck Jones - Vincennes, IN - d. 11-30-1942
    actor: "Hoofbeats"
    12-04-1889 - Isabel Randolph - Chicago, IL - d. 1-11-1973
    actor: Rhoda Harding "Dan Harding's Wife"; Mrs. Abigail Uppington
    "Fibber McGee and Molly"
    12-04-1903 - Cornell Woolrich - NYC - d. 9-25-1968
    writer: "Radio City Playhouse"; "Starring Boris Karloff"
    12-04-1910 - Mary Hunter - Bakersfield, CA
    actor: Marge "Easy Aces"; "Against the Storm"
    12-04-1915 - Allan Jackson - d. 4-26-1976
    newscaster for the CBS network for 32 years
    12-04-1921 - Deanna Durbin - Winnipeg, Canada
    singer: "Eddie Cantor Show"
    12-04-1930 - Harvey Kuehn - West Allis, WI - d. 2-28-1988
    baseball great: "Tops in Sports"

    December 4th deaths

    01-13-1910 - Jack Mercer - d. 12-4-1984
    actor: Popeye "Popeye the Sailor"
    06-19-1917 - Robert Karnes - Kentucky - d. 12-4-1979
    announcer: Started his career in his native Kentucky
    06-20-1897 - Bob Howard - W. Newton, MA - d. 12-4-1986
    pianist-singer: "Calsodent Presents Bob Howard"; "Sing It Again"
    08-13-1895 - Bert Lahr - NYC - d. 12-4-1967
    comedian: "Hildegarde's Raleigh Room"; "Manhattan at Midnight";
    "Royal Vagabonds"
    09-01-1887 - William Daly - Cincinnati, OH - d. 12-4-1936
    condctor: "Raleigh Review"; "Voice of Firestone"
    09-07-1903 - Margaret Landon - Somers, WI - d. 12-4-1993
    author: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-12-1916 - Ed Binns - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-4-1990
    actor: "This Is My Story"
    10-08-1897 - Rouben Mamoulian - Tiflis, Georgia, Russia - d. 12-4-1987
    film director: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    11-22-1913 - Benjamin Britten - Lowestoft, Suffolk, England - d.
    12-4-1976
    composer: "Columbia Workshop"; "An American in England"

    Ron Sayles

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    Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 01:01:36 -0500
    From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Fibber's closet

    I hope I'm not dreaming.  I recall several years back seeing a list on a
    website of the things the NBC sound effects department used in making
    Fibber's closet.  I also thought I read that they were quite fussy about
    what they used.

    But now I cannot find this information.  I used several web search engines
    and am coming up blank.

    Does anyone know if such a website exists?  Or does anyone have the
    inventory of closet items?

    Ted

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    Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 08:29:49 -0500
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Baton Rogue Article on OTR

    The Baton Rouge Advocate covers the joy of listening to old time radio in a
    recent edition.

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 10:14:47 -0500
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  We also serve, who only [removed]

    Dear Jim & gang-

    From:  otrbuff@[removed]

>     ... we were flipping through the TV channels  and caught part of
>     a PBS presentation called "Great Presentations" featuring  two-plus-hours of
>     "South Pacific." ... there was a full orchestra behind  them, the cast held
>     scripts of the narrative ... What a concept if we could  only have fare
>     like this regularly!

    We do have more and more of  such here in NYC - and likely, elsewhere?

    If memory serves, this "Concert  Version" style series has been running at
    City Center for years.

    And,  there are several groups who do various forms of what is sometimes
    called  "reader's theater," that, when you put a bit of music or sfx in the
    mix,
    fits  the bill you speak of.

    (Here's one:  [removed])

    Merry  merry,
    -Craig

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    Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 15:14:05 -0500
    From: jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  New Web Address for Monitor Beacon

    December 4, 2006

    Dear Old Time Radio Digest Readers:

    I wish to advise you that as of December 2, 2006 the
    Website maintained by Dennis Hart devoted to the
    memory of NBC's Monitor network radio's last great
    program which aired at the end of radio's golden age
    and for thirteen more years has a new address.  The
    new Email address is [removed] this is a
    wonderful site, readers can learn about the programs
    history and can hear sounds of Monitor including the
    famous Monitor Beacon as well as other sounds.  Each
    month you can hear full hours or half hours of the
    program.  This month you can hear an hour of Sunday
    night Monitor hosted by NBC news man Frank Magee from
    December 31, 1961.  When one listens to Monitor it
    makes one realize how great network radio once was and
    how today it leaves much to be desired.
    Many Thanks

    Jim Taylor

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    Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 15:17:50 -0500
    From: jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Favorites "Yours Truly" Jhonny Dollar
     Episodes with 5 of the 6 acters and favorite serialized story and two half
     hour programs with Bob Bailey

    December 4, 2006

    Dear Old Time Radio Digest Readers:

    I am making a Christmas present for a friend of mine.
    She likes Old time Radio programs on Tape.
    This year I am making a collection of Yours Truly
    Johnny Dollar programs.  I would like readers feedback
    as to their favorite YTJD episodes in particular their
    favorite two stories with each of the six actors who
    played Johnny Dollar
    In the case of Bob Bailey their favorite five part
    story and two half hour story.  I want to give Connie
    a representative sample of the series to show why YTJD
    was such a great program.  I will keep your
    suggestions on file for this year as well as later
    Christmas gifts.

    Many Thanks

    Jim Taylor

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    Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 19:30:03 -0500
    From: David Phaneuf <dwphaneuf@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Just Like Radio!

    I have to agree with Jim Cox. The South Pacific
    performance on Public Television was splendid!
    (Although my favorite country singer Reba was mis-cast
    for the role, IMHO -- she just didn't fit as far as
    I'm concerned) Nonetheless it was fun, and just as I
    imagined Old Radio to have been like. Even Baldwin's
    momentary getting lost in the script was great and
    added to the show's enjoyment. Ever since I first saw
    South Pacific on stage in a small dinner theater
    venue, I've been enchanted by the Bali Hai song, and
    can't help singing it over and over ad nauseum. Public
    Television's performance got me doing it again!

    [removed] KNOCK KNOCK

    Who's there? SAM AND JANET

    Sam and Janet who? SAM AND JANET [removed]

    sorry, I couldn't resist.

    Dave Phaneuf

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    Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 22:48:57 -0500
    From: Martin Fass <watchstop@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Just like radio

    This version of "South Pacific" was first aired on the PBS Great
    Performances series last April, and is available on a DVD.

    --Martin Fass

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    Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 22:49:23 -0500
    From: Bruce Rosenberger <bmr3d@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Blackhawk on OTR?

    A friend wrote to me asking if I knew where to get the Blackhawk Old
    Time Radio show as he'd like to surprise his father with it for
    Christmas. I responded to tell him that I'd never heard of a Blackhawk
    radio show and was he sure there was such a thing before I presented the
    query to this knowledgeable group of folks. His response was that his
    father often sings the theme song. Good enough clue for me!

    Can anyone tell me more? An more importantly, can anyone help with a
    place that might sell same?

    Thanks,
    Bruce

    check out my latest podcasts at:
    [removed] and
    [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 22:53:32 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-5 births/deaths
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    December 5th births

    12-05-1886 - Rose Wilder Lane - De Smet, SD - d. 10-30-1968
    writer: (Daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder) "Hallmark Hall of Fame";
    "Helen Hayes Theatre"
    12-05-1890 - Fritz Lang - Vienna, Austria - d. 8-2-1976
    film director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    12-05-1892 - Al Boasberg - Buffalo, NY - d. 6-18-1937
    writer: "Jack Benny Program"
    12-05-1901 - Grace Moore - Jellico, TN - d. 1-26-1947
    opera singer: "General Motors Concerts"; "Speed Show"; "Vicks Open
    House"
    12-05-1901 - Walt Disney - Chicago, IL - d. 12-15-1966
    actor: Mickey Mouse "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"
    12-05-1903 - Fred Van Deventer - Tipton, IN - d. 12-2-1971
    newscaster, panelist: "Vandeventer and the News"; "Twenty Questions"
    12-05-1904 - Harold Huber - NYC - d. 9-29-1959
    actor: Hercule Poirot "Hercule Poirot"; Fu Manchu "Shadow of Fu Manchu"
    12-05-1906 - Otto Preminger - Vienna, Austria - d. 4-23-1986
    actor, film producer, director: "Fun In Print"; "Listen to the People"
    12-05-1906 - William Spier - d. 5-30-1973
    producer, director: "Advs. of Sam Spade"; "Suspense"
    12-05-1907 - Reid Kilpatrick - Michigan - d. 8-11-1983
    host: "Quiz of Two Cities"
    12-05-1912 - Hans Wolf - Hamburg, Germany - d. 8-5-2005
    conducted operas and symphonies for radio
    12-05-1918 - Ralph Blizard - Kingsport, TN - d. 12-3-2004
    fiddler: At age 12 formed "The Southern Ramblers"; Appeared on many
    Tri-cities radio stations
    12-05-1922 - Alan Freed - Johnstown, PA - d. 1-20-1965
    disc jockey: "Moondog Show"; "Alan Freed Show"; "Camel Rock and Roll
    Party"

    March 5th deaths

    02-18-1920 - Howard Rodman - New York - d. 12-5-1985
    writer: "The American School of the Air"
    03-09-1914 - Fred Clark - Lincoln, CA - d. 12-5-1968
    actor: "This Is Your FBI"; "Amos n' Andy Show"
    04-05-1910 - Jim Alderman - d. 12-5-1992
    newscaster: Dallas, Texas
    05-06-1900 - Dave Elman - Park River, ND - d. 12-5-1967
    emcee: (The Dean of American Hobbyists) "Hobby Lobby"
    05-08-1915 - John Archer (Ralph Bowman) - Lincoln, NE - d. 12-5-1999
    actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"; "Gateway to Hollywood"
    06-18-1897 - Henry Wadsworth - Maysville, KY - d. 12-5-1974
    actor: Alabama Randall "Jane Arden"
    07-24-1802 - Alexandre Dumas - Aisne, France - d. 12-5-1870
    writer: "The Count of Monte Cristo" based on Dumas' novel
    09-15-1923 - Arvell Shaw - St. Louis, MO - d. 12-5-2002
    jazz bassist: "Floor Show"; "Damon Runyon Memorial Concert"; "Jubilee"
    10-12-1907 - Bob Ancell - d. 12-5-1988
    disk jockey: WTVN Columbus, Ohio
    11-03-1912 - Gilbert Mack - NYC - d. 12-5-2005
    actor: Impy the Midget "Cloak and Daggeer"; "This is My Story"
    11-29-1917 - George Walsh - Cleveland, OH - d. 12-5-2005
    announcer: "Gunsmoke"; "Music Til Dawn"
    12-07-1906 - Fred Stewart - Atlanta, GA - d. 12-5-1970
    actor: "The Columbia Workshop"
    12-18-1904 - Montana Slim - Guysborough, Novia Scotia - d. 12-5-1996
    singer: Had his own show on CBS

    Ron Sayles

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