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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2006 : Issue 109
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
4-18 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Re:My Major Computer Problem [ Martin Fass <watchstop@frontiernet. ]
MIke Walllace [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
"This is the Army" [ Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed] ]
Wistful Vista [ "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed] ]
World War II Music Videos [ wboenig@[removed] ]
The Williams Brothers [ "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed] ]
War Songs [ Richard Fish <fish@lodestone-media. ]
before the were famous [ tedshumaker@[removed] ]
Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed] ]
Wistful Vista which iz it?? [ Ed Kindred <kindred@[removed]; ]
Reel to reel [removed] [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
Re: Don Pasquale Met Broadcast [ Martin Fass <watchstop@frontiernet. ]
#OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig [ charlie@[removed] ]
4-19 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Cincinnati [removed] [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:44:05 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 4-18 births/deaths
April 18th births
04-18-1857 - Clarence Darrow - Kinsman, OH - d. 3-13-1938
lawyer: " Scopes "Monkey" trial, WGN Chicago"
04-18-1880 - Donald Crisp - Aberfeldy, Scotland - d. 5-25-1974
actor: Jonathan Trimble "Jonathan Trimble, Esquire"
04-18-1881 - Arthur B. Allen - Gowanda, NY - d. 8-25-1947
actor: "Snow Village Sketches"; "Kate Smith Show"; Stebbens Boys"
04-18-1882 - Leopold Stokowski - London, England - d. 9-13-1977
conductor: "NBC Symphony/Symphony of the Air"
04-18-1887 - Bill Hay - Dumfires, Scotland - d. 10-12-1978
announcer: "Amos 'n' Andy"
04-18-1889 - Gene Carroll - Chicago, IL - d. 3-5-1972
comedian: Lena, the maid "Fibber McGee and Moly"; "Quaker Early
Birds"; "Gene and Glenn"
04-18-1900 - Irra Petina - Petrograd, Russia - d. unknown
singer: "The Railroad Hour"
04-18-1902 - Harry Owens - O'Neil, NE - d. 12-12-1986
bandleader: "Hawaii Calls"; "Sweet Leilani Time"; Harry Owens and His
Orchestra"
04-18-1904 - Pigmeat Markham - Durhan, N - d. 12-13-1981
comedian: (Originated phrase "order in the court ' cuz here come da
judge) "Jubilee"
04-18-1907 - Miklos Rozsa - Budapest, Hungary - d. 7-27-1995
composer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-18-1911 - Louis Vittes - d. 4-21-1969
writer: "Advs. of The Thin Man"; "Affairs of Peter Salem"; "The Lone
Wolf"
04-18-1912 - Wendy Barrie - Hong Kong, China - d. 2-2-1978
hostess, actor: "Detect and Collect"; "Jack Haley Show"; "Star for a
Night"
04-18-1913 - Al Hodge - Ravenna, OH - d. 3-19-1979
actor: Britt Reid/Green Hornet "Green Hornet"; "Columbia Workshop"
04-18-1918 - Page Gilman - San Francisco, CA
actor: Jack Barbour "One Man's Family"; "Memory Lane"
04-18-1918 - Tony Mottola - Kearney, NJ - d. 8-9-2004
jazz guitarist: "Gordon MacRae Gulf Spray Show"; "Burl Ives Sings"
04-18-1922 - Barbara Hale - DeKalb, IL
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "This Is Hollywood"
04-18-1924 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Vinton, LA - d. 9-10-2005
singer, guitarist: "Newport Jazz Festival"
04-18-1925 - Bob Hastings - Brooklyn, NY
actor: Archie Andrews "Archie Andrews"; Jerry "Sea Hound"
April 18th deaths
02-28-1893 - Ben Hecht - NYC - d. 4-18-1964
panelist, writer: "Information, Please"; "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"
03-14-1879 - Albert Einstein - Ulm, Germany - d. 4-18-1955
physicist: "The Quick and the Dead"
04-04-1901 - Gay Seabrook - Seattle, WA - d. 4-18-1970
actor: Susabelle "Joe Penner Show"
04-09-1916 - Ann Morrison - Sioux City, IA - d. 4-18-1978
actor: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Escape"
07-04-1911 - Olga Druce - d. 4-18-2004
director: "House of Mystery"; "When a Girl Marries"
08-03-1900 - Ernie Pyle - Dana, IN - d. 4-18-1945
world war II correspondent: "Words at War"; "Cavalcade of America"
10-09-1888 - Irving Cummings - NYC - d. 4-18-1959
host: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-25-1897 - Willie 'The Lion' Smith - Goshen, NY - d. 4-18-1973
jazz pianist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
12-06-1888 - Will Hay - Stockton-on-Tees, England - d. 4-18-1949
comedian: British Radio
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:44:11 -0400
From: Martin Fass <watchstop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re:My Major Computer Problem
I'm afraid I am not the person to supply specifics about Let's Pretend
cast listings, but I can tell you with no doubt whatsoever that "Billy
Redfield" did have a period of appearances on the program. If it helps
at all, I could suggest a range of years from 1942 to '47.
--Martin Fass
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:44:29 -0400
From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "The Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: MIke Walllace
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Mike (Myron) Wallace was a Staff announcer at WMAQ (NBC) in Chicago's
Merchandise Mart studio. During the 1940's. as was Hugh Downs. In about 1947
Mars Candy [removed] "Curtain Time". The brother of a friend of mine
worked for Mars and was able to get ten tickets for the program. So on a
Saturday night we took our dates the radio program. Myron Wallace was the
Announcer for Mars Inc. The stars were Harry Elders and Nannette Sergeant
and Patrick Allen was the Host. Every one in the cast wore evening clothes.
The 10 of us 16 year olds had the time of our lives and got candy bars too.
I forgot the name of the play but it was probably a romantic comedy.
In about 1950 Mike Wallace was married to Buffy Cobb, daughter of a Chicago
newspaper columnist Irvin Cobb. The Mike & Buffy team was born to do a late
night radio talk/interview show from Chicago's very popular Chez Pirie(some
thing like Paris) night club. All the big night club acts appeared in the
club.
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:45:33 -0400
From: Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "This is the Army"
--- in the [removed]@[removed]
Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed]; wrote:
Irving Berlin had a musical show about Army life.
I Think it was called "Your in the Army Now" that
have a lot songs Like "O How I Hate to Get Up In the
Morning".It played allover the country.
I believe Frank is confusing Irving Berlin's 1943
movie musical "This is the Army" a story about a World
War I soldier who writes a broadway musical
commemorating the solders fighting that war and whose
son later does the same thing for the soldiers of
World War II. Berlin sings his "Oh, How I Hate to Get
Up In the Morning" in the film which has Ronald
Reagan was in it as well. It was the film seen all
over during the war.
Conrad Binyon
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conradab@[removed] (Conrad A. Binyon)
Encino, CA
Home of the Stars who loved Ranches and Farms
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:45:47 -0400
From: "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Wistful Vista
In #108, John Mayer asks:
...I'd always thought Wistful Vista the name of their
street, not their town. So: what WAS the name of
their street?
I believe that both street and town were named Wistful Vista. I
remember one episode where FM&M are at the department store buying
something and Molly asks that the store deliver it to 79 Wistful Vista,
Wistful Vista.
It might have been the Christmas Episode where they buy a replacement
radio/phonograph, but I'm not sure.
-chris holm
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:46:07 -0400
From: wboenig@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: World War II Music Videos
I wasn't going to mention this, but I didn't expect the topic of WWII
music to reflect as much interest as it obviously has.
I have a few long-since-out-of-print VHS tapes of music VIDEOS from the
World War II era, which I have assembled into a 75-minute DVD. I
forget the exact count of songs, but it is approximately 25, including
war-themed classics such as "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and "Oh, How I
Hate To Get Up In The Morning" to lesser-known productions by military
performing troups. Other performers include names such as Bing Crosby,
Spike Jones, Betty Hutton, Judy Garland, Dinah Shore, Kate Smith, Leha
Horne and Harry James. The DVD also includes occasional short newreel
clips of FDR, Truman and Eisenhower making speeches and statements to
the press.
If anyone would like more information on this (I can certainly copy the
disc), e-mail me off-line.
Wayne Boenig
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:46:22 -0400
From: "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: The Williams Brothers
Yes! The Williams brothers did appear together on radio. According to
Wikipedia, The Williams Brothers began performing together on radio in the
late 1930s in the Midwest, first at WHO in Des Moines, Iowa, and later at WLS
in Chicago and WLW in Cincinnati. Here are the broadcast featuring the
brothers that I was able to find:
The National Barn Dance on August 24, 1940 (Andy Williams was just 12 years
old)
Mail Call on September 15, 1943, February 9, March 15, and June 21, 1944
Jubilee on April 17, 1944
California Melodies on May 27, 1944
The Charlie Ruggles Show on June 23, 1944
Philco Radio Time on November 12, 1947
Command Performance on February 10, 1948
Karen Lerner
Radio Spirits, Inc.
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:46:36 -0400
From: Richard Fish <fish@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: War Songs
On the subject of war songs, as a citizen of Bloomington, IN, I can't
forget our own Local Boy Made Good, Hoagy Carmichael. He is said to hold
the record for longest pop song title ever, with his
could-only-be-a-WWII song,
"I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama
with my Honolulu Mama Doing Those Beat-o, Beat-o, Flat on my Seat-o
Hirohito Blues"
And folk singers were writing in the 40s, too. One example is a
recurring motif in Corwin's "On A Note Of Triumph" V-E Day program. He
got Woodie Guthrie and the Almanac singers to write new words to an old
fiddle tune, "Old Joe Clark," and it became "Round And Round Hitler's
Grave."
Later in the Viet Nam era, of course, Woodie's son Arlo was writing folk
songs to protest the war. This may be -- anybody know another? -- the
only example of a father & son who both wrote wartime songs.
Richard Fish
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:12:26 -0400
From: tedshumaker@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: before the were famous
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DeForrest Kelly of Star Trek fame appeared as the lead in an episode of
Suspense.
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:30:10 -0400
From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands
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Does anyone know for what years this show ran as Victory Parade of Spotlight
Bands, and what years it was known as Spotlight Bands?
Visit [removed] for OTR program title and date corrections
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:06:26 -0400
From: Ed Kindred <kindred@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Wistful Vista which iz it??
[removed] gives us several answers
on the size of
the town/city/village of Wistful Vista. But the opening of the show gives
79 Wistful Vista.
That sounds like an address but then a town of 79 Wistful Vista is
possible. In the state of
Maryland within the loosely undefined unincorporated gathering of
residences and
businesses of Bethesda is the incorporated town Chevy Chase Section Four.
Go figure.
Ed Kindred
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:39:35 -0400
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Reel to reel [removed]
My friend has a reel-to-reel machine that needs repairs. He has the
technician, but needs some parts and a manual. The recorder is a Pioneer RT
909. Thanks for your help.
Ted Kneebone / 1528 S. Grant St. / Aberdeen, SD 57401
Democrats: http://.[removed]
Kids o/t New Century: [removed]
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 01:12:30 -0400
From: Martin Fass <watchstop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Don Pasquale Met Broadcast
A repetition of the request from a few days ago, hoping that one of you
or someone you know has made a recording of the April 14th Metropolitan
Opera broadcast.
Many thanks.
--Martin Fass
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 02:12:00 -0400
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!
A weekly [removed]
For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
Network, the channel name is #OldRadio. We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
real-time OTR talk!
Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
it's always a good time!
For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
week and every week!
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:01:27 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 4-19 births/deaths
April 19th births
04-19-1897 - Vivienne Segal - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-29-1992
actor: "Jantzen Radio Program"
04-19-1900 - George O'Brien - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-23-1985
actor: "Anchors Aweigh"
04-19-1907 - Lin Basquette - San Mateo, CA - d. 9-30-1994
actor: "Whatever Became of . . . "
04-19-1908 - Parke Levy - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-8-1993
creator, writer, director: "December Bride"; "My Friend Irma"
04-19-1913 - Sylvia Froos - New York - d. 3-28-2004
singer: "Sylvia Froos Show"; "Fred Allen Show"
04-19-1914 - Betty Winkler - Berwick, PA
actor: Joyce Jordan "Joyce Jordan, [removed]"; Rosemary Levy "Abie's Irish
Rose"
04-19-1920 - Frank Fontaine - Cambridge, MA - d. 8-4-1978
comedian: John L. C. Sivoney "Jack Benny Program"
04-19-1937 - Elinor Donahue - Tacoma, WA
actor: "The Search"
April 19th deaths
01-05-1910 - Lumpy Brannum - Sandwich, IL - d. 4-19-1987
bass: "Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians"
03-06-1917 - Frankie Howerd - York, England - d. 4-19-1992
comedian: "Frankie Howerd Show"
04-22-1900 - Joan Blaine - Fort Dodge, IA - d. 4-19-1949
actor: Joan Houston "Tale of Today"; Mary Marlin "Story of Mary Marlin"
04-29-1897 - Charles Seel - NYC - d. 4-19-1980
actor: "Romance"; "Four-Star Playhouse"; "The Halls of Ivy"
05-13-1907 - Daphne du Maurier - London, England - d. 4-19-1989
author: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Matinee Theatre"; "Romance"; "Escape"
06-18-1910 - Russ Hodges - Dayton, TN - d. 4-19-1971
sportscaster: NY/SF Giants play-by-play
09-05-1914 - Nancy Ordway - Fort Warden, WA - d. 4-19-2005
actor: Helen Holden "Helen Holden, Government Girl"
09-10-1907 - Alvin Childress - Meridian, MS - d. 4-19-1986
actor: "New World A-Coming"
10-30-1914 - Ruth Hussey - Providence, RI - d. 4-19-2005
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:50:53 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Cincinnati [removed]
Folks;
This is the week for the Cincinnati Old-Time Radio and Nostalgia
Convention. I'm taking way too much equipment to the convention, what with
the computers, printers, video cameras, still cameras, cell phones, satellite
radios, etc., etc., so if I look a little weighed-down (I mean with other
than my portly frame), don't be surprised.
I'll get photos from the event posted to the blog at
[removed] as quickly as humanly possible, although we all
know how that goes - ask Brian Gari or Craig Wichman how speedy I am getting
photos posted. I'm also taking a USB telephone; while your chances of finding
me on Skype are pretty slim, still, if you aren't going to be at the Con and
use Skype, look me up by name.
I will have a few of the 2005/02 OTR fundraiser discs with me, and some of
the DVD fundraiser discs as well (serial chapter, cartoon, and the feature,
"It's a Joke, Son!" starring Kenny Delmar and featuring a young June
Lockhart), neither of which I've gotten posted to the store yet, but no hard
sell I promise. So if you're going to be at the convention, look me up and
say hello. I'll be even easier to find this year, since a good bit of the
time I'll be next to the cutest seven-year-old redhead you've ever seen.
Charlie
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