Subject: [removed] Digest V2010 #1
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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 1
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      January 1910 births                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      1-1 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      L & H; traditions; radio to TV        [ Andy Blatt <asajb2000@[removed]; ]
      1-2 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      "Shoe-Button Eyes"???                 [ "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 3-9 Janua  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Isn't it [removed]                [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:08:16 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  January 1910 births

    01-04-1910 - Ann Jamison - Belfast, Ireland - d. 4-16-1961
    singer: "An Evening with Romberg"; "The Packard Hour"
    01-05-1910 - Lumpy Brannum - Sandwich, IL - d. 4-19-1987
    bass: "Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians"
    01-07-1910 - Joe Bigelow - d. 2-20-1976
    writer, producer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    01-08-1910 - Dick Jurgens - Sacremento, CA - d. 10-5-1995
    orchestra leader: "Summer Spotlight Revue"
    01-08-1910 - Fabian Andre - La Crosse, WI - d. 3-30-1960
    arranger for dance orchestras on NBC
    01-08-1910 - Richard Cromwell - Los Angeles, CA - d. 10-11-1960
    actor: Kit Marshall "Those We Love"
    01-11-1910 - Betty Miles - Santa Monica, CA - d. 6-9-1992
    actor: Millie Anderson "A Day in the Life of Dennis Day"
    01-11-1910 - Donald 'Red' Barry - Houston, TX - d. 7-17-1980
    actor: "All-Star Western Theatre"; "Forecast"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    01-11-1910 - Gene Baker - Portland, OR - d. 8-14-1981
    announcer: "Lum and Abner"; "Queen for a Day"
    01-11-1910 - Izler Soloman - Minneapolis, MN - d. 12-6-1987
    conductor: "Design for Living"; "Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra!
    01-11-1910 - Richard Kendrick - Vermillion, SD - d. 2-10-1987
    actor: Bill Baker "Portia Faces Life"
    01-12-1910 - Luise Rainer - Vienna, Austria or Dusseldorf, Germany
    actor: "Linclon Highway"; "Yesterday's Children"
    01-12-1910 - Patsy Kelly - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-24-1981
    comedian: "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    01-13-1910 - Jack Mercer - d. 12-4-1984
    actor: Popeye "Popeye the Sailor"
    01-16-1910 - Dwight Weist - Palo Alto, CA - d. 7-16-1991
    actor: Mr. District Attorney "Mr. District Attorney"
    01-16-1910 - Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean - Lucas, AR - d. 7-17-1974
    baseball broadcaster: (Baseball Hall of Fame) "Game of the Day"
    01-17-1910 - Tex Fletcher - Harrison, NY - d. 3-14-1987
    actor: Tex Mason "Songs of the B-Bar-B"
    01-18-1910 - Arthur Howard - London, England - d. 6-18-1995
    actor: "Whack-O!)
    01-19-1910 - Jaime Del Valle - d. 9-16-1981
    producer, director: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Count of Monte
    Cristo"
    01-23-1910 - Django Reinhardt - Belgium - d. 5-16-1953
    jazz artist: "Djanjo Reinhardt and the Quintet of the Hot Club France"
    01-23-1910 - Dorothy Arbuckle - Eldred, IL - d. 11-14-1982
    radio journalist
    01-25-1910 - Portland Hoffa - Portland, OR - d. 12-25-1990
    comedian: (Wife of Fred Allen) "Fred Allen Show"
    01-28-1910 - Arnold Moss - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-15-1989
    actor: Philip Cameron "Against the Storm"; Reed Bannister "Big Sister"

    Ron

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    Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:08:22 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-1 births/deaths

    January 1st births

    01-01-1867 - Lew Fields - NYC - d. 7-20-1941
    comedian: (Weber and Fields) "The Eveready Hour"; "George Jessel Show"
    01-01-1878 - Edwin Franko Goldman - Louisville, KY - d. 2-21-1956
    bandmaster: "The Cities Service Concert"; "The Pure Oil Band"
    01-01-1879 - [removed] Forster - London, England - d. 6-7-1970
    novelist: Many works adapted for radio
    01-01-1889 - Alexander Smallens  - St. Petersburg, Russia - d.
    11-27-1972
    conductor: "Rising Musical Star"
    01-01-1889 - Charles Bickford - Cambridge, MA - d. 11-9-1967
    actor: "Radio Hall of Fame"
    01-01-1889 - Maurice Baron - Lille, France - d. 9-5-1964
    conductor of various symphony orchestras for radio
    01-01-1895 - Art Gillham - St. Louis, MO - d. 6-6-1961
    piano playing vocalist: (Whispering Pianist) Plugged songs to sell
    sheet music
    01-01-1895 - Bernard Schubert - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-4-1988
    writer, producer: "The Falcon"; "Murder and Mr. Malone"
    01-01-1897 - Walter Greaza - St. Paul, MN - d. 6-1-1973
    actor: "Columbia Workshop"; "Suspense"
    01-01-1900 - Xavier Cugat - Tirona, Spain - d. 10-27-1990
    bandleader: (King of the Rhumba) "Camel Caravan"
    01-01-1904 - George Landen Dann - Brisbane, Australia - d. 6-6-1977
    writer: "Funerals for Field Mice"
    01-01-1904 - Lou Kosloff - Chicago, IL - d. 2-12-1986
    orchestra leader: "Blondie"; "Sad Sack"; "Sherlock Holmes"
    01-01-1905 - Dick Aurandt - d. 7-16-1984
    orchestra leader: "Voyage of the Scarlet Queen"; "Steve Canyon"
    01-01-1905 - Richard Keith - NYC - d. 9-16-1976
    actor: Ray Hunt "Myrt and Marge"; Frank W. Brock "Special Investigator"
    01-01-1908 - Bob Russell - Passaic, NJ - d. 1-24-1998
    singer, songwriter: Helped create " Name that Tune"
    01-01-1909 - Dana Andrews - Collins, MS - d. 12-17-1992
    actor: Matt Cevetic "I Was A Communist for the FBI"
    01-01-1909 - Frank Kettering - Monmouth, IL - d. 6-09-1973
    bass player: (Hoosier Hot Shots) "National Barn Dance"
    01-01-1911 - Hank Greenberg - NYC - d. 9-14-1994
    baseball great: "Play Ball"; "We the People"; "Philco Radio Time"
    01-01-1911 - Leona Ledoux - d. 8-16-1987
    actor: Robespierre Higgins "Baby Snooks"; Bumstead Children "Blondie"
    01-01-1913 - Norman Rosten - d. 3-7-1995
    writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "An American in Russia"
    01-01-1915 - Earl Sheldon - NYC - d. 11-14-1977
    orchestra leader: "The Bickersons"; "Jack Smith Show"
    01-01-1915 - Irv Orton - d. 5-xx-1960
    musical director: "Double or Nothing"
    01-01-1916 - Earl Wrightson - Baltimore, MD - d. 3-7-1993
    singer: "Highways in Melody"; "Getting the Most Out of Life"
    01-01-1917 - Shelby Storck - Kansas City, MO - d. 4-5-1969
    actor: Speed Robertson "The Air Advs. of Jimmie Allen"
    01-01-1917 - Ted Cott - Poughkeepsie, NY - d. 6-12-1973
    announcer, emcee: "So You Think You Know Music?"; "Music You Want"
    01-01-1919 - Carole Landis - Fairchild, WI - d. 7-5-1948
    actor: "Warner Brothers Academy Award"; "Command Performance"
    01-01-1922 - Robert De Cormier - Pinelawn, NY
    choral director: "Christmas in Vermont with Countrypoint"
    01-01-1923 - Milt Jackson - Detroit, MI - d. 10-9-1999
    vibraphone: "Modern Jazz Quartet"
    01-01-1928 - Helen Westcott - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-17-1998
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "My Wildest Dream"
    01-01-1938 - Norma Jean Nilsson - Hollywood, CA
    actor: Kathy Anderson "Father Knows Best"; Cookie Bumstead "Blondie"
    01-01-1939 - Ray Bellew - Montreal, Canada - d. 10-10-2006
    announcer for CBC radio
    01-01-1947 - Neil Munro - Musselburgh, Scotland - d. 7-13-2009
    actor: Quentin Nickles "Investigations of Quentin Nickles"

    January 1st deaths

    01-20-1927 - Dawn Lake - Sydney, Australia - d. 1-1-2006
    singer: "The Jack Davey Program"
    02-04-1908 - Jack Fraser - Lawrence, MA - d. 1-1-2000
    newscaster: "John Gordon Fraser and the News", "Monitor"
    02-15-1907 - Cesar Romero - NYC - d. 1-1-1994
    actor: "Movietone Radio Theatre"
    02-15-1922 - Otis Carney - Chicago, IL - d. 1-1-2006
    writer: "Words at War"
    03-06-1909 - Floyd Holmes - Glasgow, KY - d. 1-1-1970
    singer: (Prairie Ramblers) "Smile-a-While"
    04-17-1915 - Joe Foss - Sioux Falls, SD - d. 1-1-2003
    south dakota governor: "Tops in Sports"
    04-25-1919 - Albert Aley - NYC - d. 1-1-1986
    actor: Hop Harrigan "Hop Harrigan"; Bob James "Stella Dallas"
    05-16-1911 - Margaret Sullavan - Norfolk, VA - d. 1-1-1960
    actor: "Electric Theatre"; "Hollywood Playhouse"
    06-16-1907 - Joan Winters - Dayton, OH - d. 1-1-2001
    actor: Alice Ames "Girl Alone"; Sylvia Bertram "Road of Life"
    06-25-1913 - Cyril Fletcher - Watford, England - d. 1-1-2005
    panelist: "Does the Team Think"
    07-14-1932 - Del Reeves - Sparta, NC - d. 1-1-2007
    country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    08-03-1886 - Anna Barbash - d. 1-1-1983
    soprano: "Memories of Jennie Lind"
    08-09-1908 - [removed] Bezzerides - Samsun, Turkey - d. 1-1-2007
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-16-1913 - Joe Lilley - d. 1-1-1971
    orchestra leader: "Drene Time"
    08-17-1899 - Ralph Goll - d. 1-1-1957
    scriptwriter: "The Lone Ranger"
    09-11-1896 - Robert S. Kerr - Ada, Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-1-1963
    governor oklahoma: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    09-12-1888 - Maurice Chevalier - Paris, France - d. 1-1-1972
    actor, singer, host: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "This is Paris"; "Bing
    Crosby Show"
    09-17-1923 - Hank Williams - Georgiana, AL - d. 1-1-1953
    singer: "Louisiana Hayride"; "Grand Ole Opry"; "Health and Happiness"
    09-17-1941 - Robert Takeo Matsui - Sacremento, CA - d. 1-1-2005
    congressman: Democratic response to President's radio address
    10-06-1905 - Helen Wills Moody - Centerville, CA - d. 1-1-1998
    tennis playeer: "Information Please"
    10-07-1916 - Palmer Williams - Tenafly, NJ - d. 1-1-1996
    producer: "Hear It Now"
    12-02-1914 - Ray Walston - New Orleans, LA - d. 1-1-2001
    actor: "The Woolworth Hour"
    12-06-1898 - Jack Beall - Waxahachie, TX - d. 1-1-1963
    newscaster: "News of Tomorrow"; "American Legion Presents"
    12-16-1890 - Jane Morgan - North Platte, NE - d. 1-1-1972
    actor: Mary Lane "Aunt Mary"; Mrs. Margaret Davis "Our Miss Brooks"
    12-25-1902 - Barton Maclane - Columbia, SC - d. 1-1-1969
    actor: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
    12-27-1914 - Jack Latham - Washington - d. 1-1-1987
    announcer: "The Man Called X"; "Wake Up, America"

    Ron

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    Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:08:45 -0500
    From: Andy Blatt <asajb2000@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  L & H; traditions; radio to TV

    Thanks to Jim Burns for pointing-out the Christmas tradition of Laurel &
    Hardy's March of the Wooden Soldiers, even if it is colorized. My vote vote
    goes to the Yule log, which I think still exists online but not on either
    WGN, Chicago or WPIX in New York.

    I always understood the ONLY radio show to exist on TV first and then debut
    on radio was Have Gun, Will Travel but I know that list also includes My
    Little Margie. Are there any other shows that were on TV first, then aired on
    radio?  Was Have Gun airing sustained by the time the TV version hit the
    airwaves?  Maybe the networks sold a "combo" of a spot on radio
    "thrown-in"for every TV spot bought.  It must have been difficult to interest
    advertisers in radio unless it was really cheap.

    Andy

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    Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:08:53 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-2 births/deaths

    January 2nd births

    01-02-1865 - William Lyon Phelps - d. 8-21-1943
    author, critic, scholar: "Information Please"
    01-02-1888 - Tito Schipa - Lecce, Italy - d. 12-16-1965
    operatic tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"; "La Rosa Concerts"
    01-02-1892 - Artur Rodzinski - Dalmatia, Yugoslavia - d. 11-27-1958
    concuctor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "Cleveland Symphony Orchestra"
    01-02-1894 - Robert Nathan - NYC - d. 5-25-1985
    writer: "CBS Radio Workshop"
    01-02-1901 - Hugh Ross Williamson - Romsey, England - d. 1-13-1978
    author: "Paul, a Bondslave"
    01-02-1904 - Bernardine Flynn - Madison, WI - d. 3-10-1977
    actor: Sade Gook "Vic and Sade"; Mathilda Barker "Welcome Valley"
    01-02-1904 - James Melton - Moultrie, GA - d. 4-21-1961
    singer" "Palmolive Hour"; "Telephone Hour"; "Harvest of Stars"
    01-02-1905 - Michale Tippett - London, England - d. 1-8-1998
    composer: "Midsummer Marriage"
    01-02-1913 - Anna Lee - Ightham, Kent, England - d. 5-14-2004
    actor: "Soldiers in Greaspaint"; "Lifebuoy Show"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    01-02-1913 - David Levy - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-25-2000
    producer: " We the People"
    01-02-1915 - Nick Fatool - Milbury, MA - d. 9-26-2000
    drummer: (Member of the Big 7 Band) "Pete Kelly's Blues"
    01-02-1917 - Vera Zorina - Berlin, Germany - d. 4-9-2003
    ballet dancer: "Duffy's Tavern"; "I'm An American"
    01-02-1918 - Joan Merrill - Baltimore, MD - d. 5-10-1992
    singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    01-02-1920 - Charles Douglass - Mexico - d. 4-8-2003
    radio engineer for the CBS radio network
    01-02-1920 - Corny Peeples - Oak Park, IL - d. 11-15-1954
    actor: William Snood "Tom Mix"; Bud Fairchild "Stepmother"
    01-02-1920 - Isaac Asimov - Petrovich, Russia - d. 4-6-1992
    Author: "I, Robot"; "Nightfall"
    01-02-1920 - Richard Lewis - NYC - d. 5-25-2009
    director, writer: "The Falcon"; "Suspense"
    01-02-1923 - Mary Elizabeth Smith - Ft. Worth, TX
    associate radio producer: "Wide, Wide World"
    01-02-1925 - Larry Harmon - Toledo, OH - d. 7-3-2008
    actor: "The Great Gildersleeve"
    01-02-1925 - Richard Jessup - d. 10-22-1982
    writer: "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
    01-02-1928 - Howard Caine - Nashville, TN - d. 12-29-1993
    actor: "The Brighter Day"; "The Guiding Light"
    01-02-1930 - Julius LaRosa - Brooklyn, NY
    singer: "Arthur Godfrey Time"
    01-02-1931 - Renee Roy - Buffalo, NY - d. 7-30-2005
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    01-02-1932 - Peter Redgrove - Kingston-on-Thames, England - d. 6-16-2003
    writer: "The Nature of Cold Weather"

    January 2nd deaths

    01-12-1906 - Tex Ritter - Murvaul, TX - d. 1-2-1974
    singer: "Lone Star Rangers"; "Grand Ole Opry"
    01-13-1914 - Osa Massen - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 1-2-2006
    actor: "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Columbia Workshop"
    02-07-1896 - Earl Burtnett - Harrisburg, PA - d. 1-2-1936
    orchestra leader: KHJ Los Angeles, California
    02-09-1902 - Fred Harman, Sr. - St. Joseph, MO - d. 1-2-1982
    cartoonist: Creator of Red Ryder
    02-19-1915 - Dick Emery - London, England - d. 1-2-1983
    comedian: "Educating Archie"
    02-20-1920 - Frank Muir - Ramsgate, England - d. 1-2-1998
    comedy writer: "Take It from Here"; "Bedtime with Braden"
    03-08-1918 - Alan Hale, Jr. - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-2-1990
    actor: "Smiths of Hollywood"
    03-30-1883 - Jo Davidson - NYC - d. 1-2-1952
    sculptor: "Information Please"
    04-14-1915 - Richard Hart - Providence, RI - d. 1-2-1951
    actor: "Family Theatre"
    05-04-1913 - Joe Aleman - d. 1-2-1996
    disk jockey: KPRL Paso Robles, California
    06-15-1921 - Erroll Garner - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-2-1977
    jazz muscian: "Jubilee"; "Command Performance"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    08-23-1906 - Harriet Parsons - Burlington, IA - d. 1-2-1983
    commentator: (Daughter of Louella Parsons) "Hollywood Hotel"
    08-25-1912 - John Rarig - Washington - d. 1-2-1991
    singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
    09-08-1902 - Milton Watson - Salinas, CA - d. 1-2-1982
    vocalist: "Burns and Allen"
    10-20-1897 - Adolph Deutsch - London, England - d. 1-2-1980
    arranger, conductor, composer: "Kraft Program"; "This Is Hollywood"
    10-27-1910 - Jack Carson - Carmen, Canada - d. 1-2-1963
    comedian: "Jack Carson Show"; "New Sealtest Village Store"
    11-02-1921 - Shep Menken - NYC - d. 1-2-1999
    actor: "Six Shooter"; "NBC Presents: Short Story"; "Four-Star Playhouse"
    11-05-1901 - Etta Moten - Weimer, TX - d. 1-2-2004
    singer, actress: "The Laff Parade"; Hollywood Spotlight"
    11-14-1904 - Dick Powell - Mountain. View, AR - d. 1-2-1963
    actor: Richard Diamond "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"; Richard
    Rogue "Rogue's Gallery"
    11-19-1897 - Bud Green - Austria - d. 1-2-1981
    lyricist: "Great Moments to Music"
    12-02-1880 - Fred A. Sullivan - Zionsville, IN - d. 1-2-1951
    actor: Kirby Willoughby "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"; Mitchell Frazier
    "Story of Mary Marlin"
    12-10-1903 - Una Merkel - Covington, KY - d. 1-2-1986
    actor: Adeline Fairchild "Great Gildersleeve"; "Johnny Presents";
    "Texaxo Star Theatre"

    Ron

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    Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:09:39 -0500
    From: "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed];
    To: "[The Old-Time Radio Mailing List]" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  "Shoe-Button Eyes"???

    This is the VERY LAST question I'll be asking about Cinnamon Bear this
    year (I promise!)   :)

    What are "shoe-button eyes" ???

    It occurs to me that I've lived fifty years upon planet Earth, but I've
    never see shoes with buttons! What do shoe buttons LOOK like??? Are they
    any different from any other buttons???

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: Please respond directly to the poster, unless you can relate
    button-closed shoes to Old [removed]  --cfs3]

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    Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:09:47 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 3-9 January

     From Those Where The Days

    1/4

    1928   NBC debuted one of radio's first variety shows. The Dodge Victory
    Hour starred Will Rogers, Paul Whiteman and his orchestra and singer Al
    Jolson. The cost to produce this one show was $67,600 ($842,[removed] in
    2008 dollars).

    1932   NBC Red presented The Carnation Contented Hour. The show
    continued on network radio for 19 years as a showcase for top singers
    and musicians.

    1935   Bob Hope was first heard on network radio as part of The Intimate
    Revue with Jane Froman, James Melton and the Al Goodman Orchestra.

    1/5

    1935   We proudly remind you that Phil Spitalny's All Girl Orchestra was
    featured on CBS this day on the program, The Hour of Charm.  (ed  And
    who can ever forget Evelyn and her magic violin?)

    1940   The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) got its very first
    demonstration of FM radio. The new medium, free of interference, static,
    and noise in thunderstorms, was developed by Major [removed] Armstrong. The
    first FM transmitter was put in operation in 1941.

    1/6

    1941   A young actor appeared for the first time in a new program on CBS
    titled, The Home of the Brave. Along with others in the cast, this was
    Richard Widmark's radio debut.

    1950   Ronald Coleman starred as the president of Ivy College in The
    Halls of Ivy.

    1974   CBS radio returned to dramatic programming at night with the
    first broadcast of Radio Mystery Theatre, hosted by [removed] Marshall. The
    program debuted on 218 CBS network stations.

    1/7

    1926   A famous marriage that endured for many years is remembered this
    day. It's the wedding anniversary of George Burns and Gracie Allen who
    were married by a Justice of the Peace in Cleveland, Ohio.

    1940   The gate to Gene Autry's Melody Ranch opened. "The singing
    cowboy" would entertain on CBS radio for the next 16 years, other than
    1942-45 when he was in the Army Air Corps.

    1941   The NBC Blue network presented the first installment of Inner
    Sanctum.

    1950   Ernest Tubb made his first appearance at The Grand Ole Opry in
    Nashville, TN. Ernest also did a 15 minute radio program each day that
    became very popular in West Texas. So popular, in fact, that he bought
    the radio station that had aired the program for years and years: KGKL
    in San Angelo, Texas.

    Joe

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    Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:10:14 -0500
    From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Isn't it [removed]

    Isn't it wonderful that we can still live in the golden age of radio?  Art
    Chimes on NPR told the story.  Actually old time radio didn't die in 1962.
    Himan Brown resurrected it from 1974-1982 on his CBS Radio Mystery Theater.
    And Theater 5 was on the air in 1964-65.  And Mutual had the Sears and
    Mutual Radio Theaters in 1979-1980.  Rod Serling's Twilight Zone was on
    radio, too.

    And thru the diligence of some, we still have some Internet style radio,
    here and on CDs.  But the sad part is that we cannot turn on our radios and
    find the good stuff anymore.  I think the exceptions are Imagination Theater
    and Unshackled, for those who can hear these shows.  Unshackled has been on
    the air since 1950, Pacific Garden Mission.  And if you have satellite, I
    understand you can listen to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the
    Metropolitan Opera.

    So radio isn't completely dead.  I have the hope that someday radio will be
    re-discovered.  And sports, news, talk, weather will have to share the
    airwaves with radio drama, comedy, live concerts and things like "Meet the
    press" and "Face the nation" and "Issues and answers."

    I guess you can call me an old dreamer who lives in the hope that real radio
    will come back.

    Ted Kneebone. 1528 S. Grant St., Aberdeen, SD 57401. Phone: 605-226-3344.
    Old Time Radio: [removed]

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