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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 21
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      1-31 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Born 100 Years Ago in February        [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      WWVA's Doc Williams RIP               [ Bill Knowlton <udmacon1@[removed] ]
      2-1 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Feb issue of RADIO RECALL             [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]

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    Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:08:54 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-31 births/deaths

    January 31st births

    01-31-1872 - Rupert Hughes - Lancaster, MO - d. 9-9-1956
    writer: (Uncle to Howard Hughes) "The Story of Holly Sloan"
    01-31-1872 - Zane Grey - Zanesville, OH - d. 10-23-1939
    writer: "Rudy Vallee Hour"
    01-31-1887 - Charlies Irwin - Curragh, Ireland - d. 1-12-1969
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    01-31-1892 - Eddie Cantor - NYC - d. 10-10-1964
    singer, comedian: (Banjo Eyes) "Eddie Cantor Show"; "Chase & Sanborn
    Hour"
    01-31-1894 - Isham Jones - Coalton, OH - d. 10-19-1956
    bandleader: "Isham Jones and His Orchestra"
    01-31-1902 - Leo Corday - NYC - d. 11-29-1985
    writer of special material: "War Manpower Comn."
    01-31-1902 - Tullulah Bankhead - Huntsville, AL - d. 12-12-1968
    actor, hostess: "Johnny Presents"; "Big Show"
    01-31-1904 - Cliff Nazarro - New Haven, CT - d. 2-18-1961
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    01-31-1905 - John O'Hara - Pottsville, PA - d. 4-11-1970
    author: "Information, Please"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"
    01-31-1906 - Edith Adams - West Union, IA - d. 3-20-1993
    actor: Mrs. Gilman "Those Happy Gilmans"; "Jenny Peabody"
    01-31-1908 - Connie Desmond - Ohio - d. 3-3-1983
    sportscaster: play-by-play for the Brooklyn Dodgers
    01-31-1909 - Walter Coy - Great Falls, MT - d. 12-11-1974
    actor: Michael Lanyard/Lone Wolf "Lone Wolf"
    01-31-1913 - Maurice Manson - d. 9-25-2002
    actor: Reverend McArthur "One Man's Family"
    01-31-1915 - Alan Lomax - Austin, TX - d. 7-19-2002
    host, writer: "American School of the Air"; "Cavalcade of America"
    01-31-1915 - Bobby Hackett - Providence, RI - d. 6-7-1976
    cornetist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"
    01-31-1915 - Garry Moore - Baltimore, MD - d. 11-28-1993
    host, comedian: "Garry Moore Show"; "Camel Caravan"; "Take It or Leave
    It"
    01-31-1917 - Bob Steel - d. 10-9-1994
    producer/director: "The Brighter Day"; "Big Town"; "Ellery Queen"
    01-31-1917 - Fay Baker - NYC - d. 12-8-1987
    actor: "Words at War"
    01-31-1919 - Jackie Robinson - Cairo, GA - d. 10-24-1972
    sportscaster: (Baseball Hall of Fame) "Jackie Robinson Show"
    01-31-1921 - Carol Channing - Seattle, WA
    actor-singer: "Stagestruck"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    01-31-1921 - John Agar - Chicago, IL - d. 4-7-2002
    actor: "Big Show"
    01-31-1921 - Mario Lanza - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-7-1959
    singer: "Mario Lanza Show"
    01-31-1922 - William Sylvester - Oakland, CA - d. 1-15-1995
    actor: Jay Gatsby "Gatsby"
    01-31-1923 - Joanne Dru - Logan, WV - d. 9-10-1996
    actor: (Sister of Peter Marshall) "Lux Radio Theatre"
    01-31-1923 - Norman Mailer - Long Branch, NJ - d. 11-10-2007
    author: "Highlights of Monitor's Twenty Great Years"
    01-31-1927 - Norman Prescott - Boston, MA - d. 7-2-2005
    producer: Boston radio
    01-31-1929 - Jean Simmons - London, England - d. 1-22-2010
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "A Christmas Carol"
    01-31-1929 - Joe Jack Cain - Philadelphia, PA
    musician for NBC and CBS

    January 31st deaths

    01-07-1889 - H. R. Baukhage - La Salle, IL - d. 1-31-1976
    commentator: "Four Star News"; "News and Comments"
    01-17-1926 - Moira Shearer - Dunfermine, Scotland - d. 1-31-2006
    worked briefly as a radio announcer in the 1980s
    01-18-1882 - A. A. Milne - London, England - d. 1-31-1956
    author: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
    02-02-1882 - Geoffrey O'Hara - Chatham, Canada - d. 1-31-1967
    tenor: "Roxy and His Gang"
    02-10-1868 - William Allen White - Emporia, KS - d. 1-31-1944
    writer: "American Forum of the Air"; "University of Chicago Round Table"
    04-01-1893 - Linton Wells - Louisville, KY - d. 1-31-1976
    writer: "The Magic Key"
    04-20-1915 - Evelyn Scott - Brockton, MA - d. 1-31-2002
    actor: "Arch Oboler's Plays"; "The Smiths of Hollywood"
    05-01-1892 - Howard Barlow - Plain City, OH - d. 1-31-1972
    conductor: "March of Time"; "Voice of Firestone"
    05-14-1910 - Paul Sutton - Albuquerque, NM - d. 1-31-1970
    actor: Sergeant William Preston "Challenge of the Yukon"
    06-25-1887 - George Abbott - Forestville, NY - d. 1-31-1995
    broadway producer: "Stagestruck"
    07-17-1908 - Jack Douglas - d. 1-31-1989
    writer: "Jack Paar Show"; "The Martin and Lewis Show"
    08-14-1867 - John Galsworthy - Kingston Hill, Surrey, England - d.
    1-31-1933
    author Several of his works adapted for radio
    08-23-1897 - Ray Perkins - Boston, MA - d. 1-31-1969
    emcee, singer: "National Amateur Night"; "Show of the Week"; "Nickel
    Man"
    08-27-1882 - Samuel Goldwyn - Warsaw, Poland - d. 1-31-1974
    panelist: "People's Platform"
    08-27-1901 - Roger Pryor - NYC - d. 1-31-1974
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Summer
    Symphony"
    09-26-1904 - Richard Thorne - NYC - d. 1-31-1957
    writer, creator, producer, director: "The Hall of Fantasy"
    10-16-1910 - Douglas Browning - Norwood, OH - d. 1-31-1991
    announcer: "Douglas Browning Show"; "Ladies Be Seated"
    11-01-1923 - Gordon R. Dickson - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - d.
    1-31-2001
    science fiction writer: "X-Minus One"; "Exploring Tomorrow"
    11-08-1909 - Scotty Wiseman - Ingalls, NC - d. 1-31-1981
    singer: (Lulu Belle and Scotty) "National Barn Dance"; "Boone County
    Jamboree"
    11-22-1875 - Elizabeth Patterson - Savannah, TN - d. 1-31-1966
    actor: Maid "Halls of Ivy"
    12-18-1890 - Edwin H. Armstrong - NYC - d. 1-31-1954
    inventor: FM radio

    Ron
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    Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:10:40 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Born 100 Years Ago in February

    02-02-1911 - Everett Freeman - NYC - d. 1-24-1991
    writer: "The Baby Snooks Show"; "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    02-02-1911 - Jussi Bjorling - Stora Tuna, Sweden - d. 9-9-1960
    singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    02-05-1911 - Bert Wilson - d. 11-5-1955
    chicago cubs play-by-play announcer 1944-1955
    02-06-1911 - John Allen Wolfe - Louisville, KY - d. 6-6-1996
    announcer: "Capitol Family Hour"; "Our Gal Sunday"; "Woman of Courage"
    02-06-1911 - Ronald "Dutch" Reagan - Tampico, IL - d. 6-5-2004
    panelist, actor: Hollywood Byline"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-08-1911 - Judith Allen - NYC - d. 10-5-1996
    actor: Margo Lane "The Shadow"
    02-09-1911 - Harry Kramer - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-23-1996
    announcer: "Alfred Antonini Orchestra"; "Mike and Buff's Mailbag"
    02-13-1911 - Jean Muir - NYC - d. 7-23-1996
    actor: "Great Plays"; "The Magic Key"
    02-16-1911 - Hal Porter - Thornbury, Australia - d. 9-29-1984
    writer: "The Forger"
    02-16-1911 - "Curly" Noland - Tennessee - d. 1-16-1993
    bass: "The Swift Jewel Cowboys"
    02-17-1911 - Orrin Tucker - St. Louis, MO
    bandleader: "Orrin Tucker and His Orchestra"; "One Night Stand"
    02-19-1911 - Merle Oberon - Tasmania, Australia - d. 11-23-1979
    actor: "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Stars Over Hollywood"
    02-20-1911 - Paul Tripp - NYC - d. 8-29-2002
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    02-22-1911 - Vaughn Taylor - Boston, MA - d. 4-26-1983
    actor: "National Travel Club"; "There is No Night"
    02-26-1911 - Warren M. Lewis - d. 3-28-1997
    producer: "Silver Theatre"; "Stars Over Hollywood"
    02-28-1911 - Gene O'Donnell - Iowa - d. 11-22-1993
    actor: " I Want A Divorce"; "Lux Radio Theatre"

    Ron
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    Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:15:45 -0500
    From: Bill Knowlton <udmacon1@[removed];
    To: oldtime radio <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  WWVA's Doc Williams RIP
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    WSM's Eddie Stubbs has just given me the sad news that Doc Williams has died
    at age 96. Doc ann his band, the Border Riders, joined Wheeling WV's WWVA
    Jamboree in 1937! Doc also owned Wheeling Records, starting out with 78s in
    the mid 40s. "The Parlor Is A Pleasant Place To Sit In Sunday Night," recorded
    by Doc with his late wife Chickie as vocalist, has opened and closed my
    "Bluegrass Ramble" radio show since 1973.

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    Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:15:52 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-1 births/deaths

    February 1st births

    02-01-1859 - Victor Herbert - Dublin, Ireland - d. 5-24-1924
    composer: Compositions used on many programs
    02-01-1891 - Alexander Kipnis - Schitomir, Ukraine - d. 5-14-1978
    wagnerian basso profundo: "Outpost Concert Series"; "Metropolitan Opera"
    02-01-1894 - James P. Johnson - New Brunswick, NJ - d. 11-17-1955
    pianist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"; "This is Jazz"
    02-01-1895 - John Ford - Cape Elizabeth, ME - d. 8-31-1973
    director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    02-01-1901 - Clark Gable - Cadiz, OH - d. 11-16-1960
    actor: "So Proudly We Hail"; "Silver Theatre"
    02-01-1902 - Langston Hughes - Joplin, Mo - d. 5-22-1967
    writer: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"
    02-01-1903 - Donald Thompson - Albia, IA - d. unknown
    actor/announcer: "The Right to Happiness"; "Those Happy Gilmans"
    02-01-1904 - S. J. Perelman - NYC - d. 10-17-1979
    humorist: "Information, Please"; "Author! Author!"; "Railroad Hour"
    02-01-1905 - Joan Morgan - Kent, England - d. 7-22-2004
    actor: "21st Precinct"
    02-01-1906 - Hildegarde - Adell, WI - d. 7-29-2005
    singer, pianist: (The Dear that Made Milwaukee Famous) "Hildegard
    Program"
    02-01-1908 - George Pal - Cegled, Austria-Hungary - d. 5-2-1980
    film producer, director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    02-01-1912 - Clete Roberts - Portland, OR - d. 9-30-1984
    news correspondent: Covered both World War II and Korea
    02-01-1915 - Alan Burgess - Birmingham, England - d. 4-10-1998
    author: wrote a series for the BBC on war heroes
    02-01-1916 - Helen Walpole - Birmingham, AL - d. 5-26-1992
    actor: Sylvia Bardine "Just Plain Bill"; Frances "Lorenzo Jones"
    02-01-1920 - Walter Stone - Dunellen, NJ - d. 10-20-1999
    comedy writer: "Robert Q. Lewis"
    02-01-1922 - Miriam Wolfe - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-29-2000
    actor: Nancy "Witch's Tale"
    02-01-1922 - Renata Tebaldi - Pesaro, Italy - d. 12-19-2004
    lyric soprano: "Bell Telephone Hour"; "Metropolitan Opera
    02-01-1924 - Bill Comstock - Rockbridge, OH
    singer: (Four Freshmen) "The Four Freshmen"; "Music for Moderns"
    02-01-1926 - John Blashill - d. 2-21-2006
    disk jockey: KVOE Santa Ana, California
    02-01-1926 - Nancy Gates - Dallas, TX
    actor: "Masquerade"; "Orson Welles Theatre"
    02-01-1926 - Stuart Whitman - San Francisco, CA
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"
    02-01-1937 - Don Everly - Brownie, KY
    singer: (The Everly Brothers) "March of Dimes"; "Country Hoedown"
    02-01-1941 - Marian Hailey - Portland, OR
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    February 1st deaths

    02-18-1907 - L. A. "Speed" Riggs - Silverdale, NC - d. 2-1-1987
    tobacco auctioneer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Kay Kyser Show"
    02-21-1881 - Dr. Jonah B. Wise - Cincinnati, OH - d. 2-1-1959
    preacher: "Message of Israel"
    02-25-1912 - Richard Wattis - Wednesbury, England - d. 2-1-1975
    actor: "Brothers In Law"
    04-16-1895 - Mischa Mischakoff - Proskourov, Russia - d. 2-1-1981
    violinist: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "NBC String Trio"
    05-02-1885 - Hedda Hopper - Hollidaysburg, PA - d. 2-1-1966
    actor, columnist: Portia Brent "Brenthouse"; "Hedda Hopper Show"
    05-25-1915 - Betty Ruth Smith - d. 2-1-2008
    actor: Helen Trent "Romance of Helen Trent"; Catherine Monroe
    "Backstage Wife"
    05-30-1892 - Raymond Clapper - LaCygne, KS - d. 2-1-1944
    commentator: (Killed During WWII) "News and Commentary for White Owl
    Cigars"
    06-10-1920 - Anne Burr - Boston, MA - d. 2-1-2003
    actor: Regina Rawlings "Backstage Wife"; "Nona Marsh "Wendy Warren and
    the News"
    06-29-1915 - Mary Jane Higby - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-1-1986
    actor: Joan Davis "When a Girl Marries"; Nora Drake "This is Nora Drake"
    07-07-1911 - Gian Carlo Menotti - Cadegliano, Italy - d. 2-1-2007
    opera composer: "Best of All"
    07-23-1908 - Ernest Dudley - Dudley, England - d. 2-1-2006
    writer: "Enter Sexton Blake"; "Dr. Morelle"
    08-12-1921 - Marjorie Reynolds - Buhl, ID - d. 2-1-1997
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Silver Theatre"
    08-16-1888 - Marion Sayle Taylor - Louisville, KY - d. 2-1-1942
    advisor: "Voice of Experience"
    08-25-1903 - Michael Bartlett - North Oxford, MA - d. 2-1-1978
    singer: "The Jack Benny Program"
    08-30-1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - London, England - d. 2-1-1851
    creator of Frankenstein
    09-15-1907 - Jack Bailey - Hampton, IA - d. 2-1-1980
    emcee: "Queen for a Day"; "Truth or Consequences"
    10-04-1895 - Buster Keaton - Piqua, KS - d. 2-1-1966
    comedian: "Shell Chateau"; "Voices from the Hollywood Past"
    11-03-1928 - Wanda Hendrix - Jacksonville, FL - d. 2-1-1981
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Stars Over Hollywood"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    12-01-1918 - Thomas Hayward - Kansas City, MO - d. 2-1-1995
    singer: "Serenade to America"; "Name Speaks"
    12-28-1909 - Olan Soule - La Harpe, IL - d. 2-1-1994
    actor: Sam Ryder "Bachelor's Children"; Kermit Hubbard "Joan and Kermit"

    Ron
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    Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:16:41 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Feb issue of RADIO RECALL

    The February 2011 full-color issue of RADIO RECALL has just been
    emailed to subscribers in PDF format. The black & white hard copy
    will be mailed out in two weeks to the rest of our subscribers.

    This issue leads off with Part I of the history of radio's horror
    show from Oklahoma City station WKY which aired over NBC Red Network
    in the 40s: "Dark Fantasy." The author is esteemed OTR historian,
    Karl Schadow, whose second home in at the Library of Congress. A
    second lengthy piece is sound engineer Fred Berney's observations on
    the recent (and scary) Library of Congress report on the future of
    audio files.

    Lone Ranger fan Mark Bush writes a tribute to Fred Foy and repeats
    Fred's favorite story about a blooper at WXYZ on "Challenge of the
    Yukon" that ends with an actor saying: "Those eyes, that fur, those
    [removed]'s my wife." The complete results of the awards
    recently issued by the internet's "Radio Once More" are set forth in
    this issue, including the selectees to the Hall of Fame, four of whom
    are members of Metro Washington OTR Club.

    Ryan Ellette, who has a reputation as a great OTR researcher, has an
    article on the career of radio writer and cowboy singer, Gomer Cool.
    David Menefee follows with a piece on the 1929 "mike fright" that
    struck Hollywood performers trying to read a radio script live on the
    air.

    All this plus: letters to the editor, news of upcoming OTR
    conventions, and a plea to locate lost recordings of silver screen
    stars who were briefly on radio. Our back cover features a 1951
    advertisement from Australian radio advertising two of America's top
    comedies being aired with Australian actors: "My Friend Irma" and
    "Chipper Malloy and Connie." Ian Grieve, our friend from "Down-Under"
    who provided this ad to us, explains the mystery of the second titled
    series.

    For subscription information, or to read articles from back issues,
    go to our website:

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    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL

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