Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #268
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Date: 9/4/2005 10:16 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 268
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: Dick Tracy                        [ Michael Shoshani <mshoshani@sbcglob ]
  "Play it again, (?)"                  [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  "And [removed] DICK TRACY!!!"            [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  9-4 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Re: Johnnie Ray and Jack Benny        [ "Michael J. Hayde" <michaelhayde@ea ]
  Re: Mel Blanc/Bogart                  [ Jordan Young <jyoung@[removed]; ]
  "Bacall to Arms"                      [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
  Egbert & Umley/ Matthew Slade         [ Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@yahoo ]
  Technology Article                    [ "Marvin R. Bensman" <mbensman@memph ]
  This week in radio history 4-10 Sept  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 02:08:11 -0400
From: Michael Shoshani <mshoshani@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Dick Tracy

Jack French wrote:

Chester Gould created Dick
Tracy (originally called Captain Joseph Patterson) for the Chicago
Tribune and it began in October 1931

Er, not quite :)  Chester Gould originally called the character "Plain
Clothes Tracy"; Captain Joseph Patterson renamed it "Dick Tracy",
thinking that it would convey more of a "tough guy" image. (The word
'dick' at that time was popular American slang for 'detective'.)

Captain Joseph Medill Patterson was the editor and publisher of the
New York Daily News, the sister paper to the Chicago Tribune.
Patterson and Robert McCormick, who was the editor and publisher of
the Tribune, were cousins.  In those days, the Daily News did the
syndication work for strips originating at the Tribune.

Michael Shoshani
Chicago

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Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:25:31 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  "Play it again, (?)"

From: Sandy Singer _sinatradj@[removed]_ (mailto:sinatradj@[removed])

A DVD bonus  of one the the Bogart-Bacall films, is a WB cartoon --
Mel did Bogart to a  T

Dear Sandy-

Again, I'll bow to greater [removed]

But  I'm familiar with that short, and I think it's highly possible that
that's not  Mel
(talented as he was, he didn't do EVERYTHING at  Warner's.)

Best,
-Craig

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Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:25:54 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  "And [removed] DICK TRACY!!!"

From: Jack & Cathy French otrpiano@[removed]

Chester  Gould created Dick
Tracy (originally called Captain Joseph Patterson) for the  Chicago
Tribune and it began in October [removed]

Dear  Jack-

Right date, wrong name?

Captain Joseph Patterson was the  Chicago Tribune Syndicate editor who
greenlighted the strip, and named the cop -  artist/writer Chester Gould
wanted to
call him "Plainclothes  Tracy."

Best,
-Craig Wichman

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Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:26:01 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  9-4 births/deaths

September 4th births

09-04-1891 - Sam Lanin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-5-1977
bandleader: "Ipana Troubadors"; "Benrus Ticksters"
09-04-1895 - Jack Miller - Dorchester, MA - d. 3-18-1985
conductor: "Kate Smith and Her Swanee Music"; "Aldrich Family"
09-04-1898 - Agnes Ayres - Carbondale, IL - d. 12-25-1940
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-04-1898 - Charlie Cantor - Worchester, MA - d. 9-11-1966
actor: Clifton Finnegan "Duffy's Tavern"; Levy Soloman "Abie's Irish Rose"
09-04-1898 - Harry Salter - Bucharest, Romania - d. 3-5-1984
conductor: "It Pays to Be Ignorant"; "Lanny Ross Show"; "Mr. District Attorney"
09-04-1905 - Meade Lux Lewis - Chicago, IL - d. 6-7-1964
jazz pianist: "Camel Caravan"; "Mercury Theatre"; "Jubilee"
09-04-1908 - Ed Dmytryk - Grand Forks, Canada - d. 7-1-1999
film director"; "George Fisher Interviews the Stars"
09-04-1912 - Jan Savitt - Petrograd, Russia
bandleader: "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Rhapsody in Rhythm"
09-04-1913 - Henry Russell - Michigan - d. 4-14-1968
conductor: "NBC University Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
09-04-1918 - Paul Harvey - Tulsa, OK
commentator: "Paul Harvey News"; "Speak Your Mind"
09-04-1923 - Virginia Maxey - Indianapolis, IN
singer: (Modernaires) "Club Fifteen"
09-04-1925 - Howard Morris - New York City, NY - d. 5-21-2005
comedian: "Those Good Old Days"
09-04-1928 - Dick York - Fort Wayne, IN - d. 2-20-1992
actor: Billy Fairfield "Jack Armstrong/Armstrong of the SBI"
09-04-1930 - Mitzi Gaynor - Chicago, IL
singer, actress: "Juke Box Jury"
09-04-1936 - Wayne Cody - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 6-7-2002
Seattle sportscaster

September 4th deaths

06-02-1915 - Walter Tetley - New York City, NY - d. 9-4-1975
actor: Julius Abbruzio "Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show"; LeRoy Forrester "Great
Gildersleeve"
08-19-1903 - Fran Striker - Buffalo, NY - d. 9-4-1962
creator, writer: "The Lone Ranger"; "Sgt. Preston of the Yukon"; "The Green
Hornet"
10-11-1932 - Dottie West - McMinnville, TN - d. 9-4-1991
country singer: "Country Music Time"
10-26-1913 - Charlie Barnet - New York City, NY (Raised: Winnetka, IL) - d.
9-4-1991
jazz saxophonist: "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Kate Smith Hour"; "Jubilee"
12-20-1898 - Irene Dunne - Louisville, KY - d. 9-4-1990
actress: Susan Armstrong "Bright Star"; "Family Theatre"; "Hallmark Hall of
Fame"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:26:09 -0400
From: "Michael J. Hayde" <michaelhayde@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Johnnie Ray and Jack Benny

Derek Tague's [removed]

I kind of remember once seeing a "Jack Benny Program" from a time in the
early 1950s when  Mr. Ray was all the rage. In it, Dennis Day took on
Johnnie Ray's  histrionically overwrought song stylings to hilarious
extremes <snip>

... brought a reply from Laura Leff, our resident Benny historian:

That show is available in our video library.  The [removed]

Laura goes on to describe the conclusion of a Benny TV show on which Mr. Ray
appeared.  Unfortunately, that wasn't the episode described by Derek.  As
"Mr. Ether" noted, the focus of the show he's recalling involves Dennis Day's
impersonation of Ray.

Unfortunately, I have no specific details on this episode.  However, just
yesterday I obtained a copy of the October 16-22 1953 issue of TV GUIDE,
which includes the following blurb in its "TV Teletype" section:  "After JACK
BENNY's devastating take-off of JOHNNIE RAY on TV last year, the weeping
singer will repay the honor by guesting on BENNY's show Nov. 15."  I'm
supposing that the former is Derek's memory, while the latter is the show
described by Ms. Leff.

Incidentally, was there ever a worldwide phenomenon more thoroughly consigned
to obscurity than Johnnie Ray?  Last year, I helped research a book entitled
"1952: The Year of the Atomic Ray" - basically a scrapbook of newspaper,
magazine and trade press articles from the beginning of Ray's career
(Detroit, 1951) through the end of 1952.  The media attention this man
received was mind-boggling, and reading through it, you realize that here was
not only a unique song-stylist but also, in terms of popularity, clearly the
bridge between Frank Sinatra's bobby-soxers and Elvis Presley's rabid
following.

If anyone's interested, copies of the "Atomic Ray" book are still available,
according the this website:
[removed]

Michael

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Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 14:45:13 -0400
From: Jordan Young <jyoung@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Mel Blanc/Bogart

A DVD bonus of one the the Bogart-Bacall films, is a WB cartoon --
Mel did Bogart to a T

The cartoon is BACALL TO ARMS (1946), and it is hilarious--caught it
recently on TCM--but what is the DVD it's included in?

Jordan R. Young

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Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 14:45:47 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  "Bacall to Arms"
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Sandy Singer wrote:

A DVD bonus of one the the Bogart-Bacall films, is a WB cartoon --
Mel did Bogart to a T

If the film in question is "Bacall to Arms," which takes place in a movie
theatre,
then I think the "Bogey Go-Cart: in that film was voiced by an actor named
Robert Bruce. In addition, if my memory serves me correctly, "Laurie Be-Cool"
in that same film was voiced by Sara Berner, a member of the Jack Benny radio
stock company best known as one Jack's phone operators.

I don't have my cartoon reference books at-hand.  Naturally,  I send out a
"bacall"
to some of my favourite animation historians such as Michael "Mr. Dragnet"
Hayde,
Ben Ohmart, Rodney Bowcock, and Ivan [removed] Takers?

Derek Tague

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Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 14:46:18 -0400
From: Rutledge Mann <cliff_marsland@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Egbert & Umley/ Matthew Slade

Hello there, radio experts, I am again in need of your
expertise.  I was recording a reel of Egbert and
Umley, but it's very confusing.  They seem to be
separate shows (NBC chimes at the end and so and so
program is today).  THere are 2 15 minute shows and 1
30 minute show to a storyline.  The reel box lists
each as one 60 minute show and each hour's worth has
the same storyline.  Does anyone have any info on this
kid's show?  It's very confusing.

I also came across a show I really liked - Matthew
Slade Private Investigator - made by Pacifica circa
1964.  Does anyone have pristine copies?  MOst I've
heard are muddy.

Trav

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Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 17:03:14 -0400
From: "Marvin R. Bensman" <mbensman@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Technology Article
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WEEK IN REVIEW   | August 28, 2005
Confounding Machines: How the Future Looked
By PETER EDIDIN
In an age of technology, which produces a constant flood of 
incomprehensible phenomena, magical forms of thinking may be an 
occasional necessity for everyone.

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