Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #124
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Date: 5/5/2006 9:40 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 124
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      5-5 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Soap operas: from radio to video      [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      You can order now                     [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      Good news for Higby [removed]          [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Night Watch, Sirius Radio, etc.       [ westernfan56@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 01:07:48 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-5 births/deaths

    May 5th births

    05-05-1879 - Max Marcin - Posen, Prussia, Germany - d. 3-30-1948
    writer, producer, director: "Crime Doctor"; "The FBI in Peace and War"
    05-05-1890 - Christopher Morley - Haverford, PA - d. 3-28-1957
    author: "Information, Please"; "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Studio One"
    05-05-1899 - Freeman F. Gosden - Richmond, VA - d. 12-10-1982
    comedian: "Sam 'n' Henry"; Amos Jones "Amos 'n' Andy"
    05-05-1912 - Alice Faye - NYC - d. 5-9-1998
    singer, actor: "Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show"
    05-05-1912 - Bret Morrison - Chicago, IL - d. 9-25-1978
    actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"; Bruce Wayne/Batman "Advs.
    of Superman"
    05-05-1914 - Tyrone Power - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-15-1958
    actor: Dean Edwards "Freedom [removed]"
    05-05-1915 - Ben Wright - London, England - d. 7-2-1989
    actor: Hey Boy "Have Gun, Will Travel"; Nicholas Lacey "One Man's
    Family"
    05-05-1919 - George London - Montreal, Canada - d. 3-23-1985
    singer: "The Voice of Firestone"
    05-05-1921 - Ted Brown - d. 3-20-2005
    announcer: "Magic Carpet"; "Hobby Lobby"; "Scout About Town"
    05-05-1925 - Monica Lewis - Chicago, IL
    singer: "Jan August's Revere Camera Show"
    05-05-1927 - Jim Lowe - Springfield, MO
    disc jockey, host: (King of Trivia) WNEW New York
    05-05-1927 - Pat Carroll - Shrevport, LA
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"; "Fifty Years After Fourteen August"
    05-05-1932 - Will Hutchins - Los Angeles, CA
    actor: Instrumental in keeping OTR alive in these the latter days

    May 5th deaths

    03-31-1896 - Eddie Dunn - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-5-1951
    quizmaster: "True or False"
    06-02-1909 - June MacCloy - Sturgis, MI - d. 5-5-2005
    vocalist: "Griff Williams and Jimmy Walsh and Their Orchestra"
    07-16-1925 - Cal Tjader - St. Louis, MO - d. 5-5-1982
    jazz vibrophonist: "Music for Moderns"; ""Ass-Star Parade of Bands"
    09-04-1891 - Sam Lanin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-5-1977
    bandleader: "Ipana Troubadors"; "Benrus Ticksters"
    09-29-1898 - Doris Hursley - Wisconsin - d. 5-5-1984
    writer: "American Women"; "Cousin Willie"; "Those Websters"; "The
    Truitts"
    10-04-1916 - George Sidney - Long Island City, NY - d. 5-5-2002
    film musical director: "Shell Chateau"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-04-1916 - Lenore Kingston - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-5-1993
    actor: Mercedes Colby "Don Winslow of the Navy"; Jane Daley "Affairs
    of Anthony"
    11-29-1914 - Hal McIntyre - Cromwell, CT - d. 5-5-1959
    bandleader: "Hal McIntyre and His Orchestra"
    12-20-1905 - Albert Dekker - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-5-1968
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Birthplace of Spencer Tracy

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    Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:09:53 -0400
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Soap operas:  from radio to video

    What an opening!

>     Is there any information about daytime soaps, "Guiding
>     Light," etc. that

    started on radio?  I seem to remember talk when I was young
    about soap operas
    on radio, now on tv (around 1966.)

    Wow.

    It so happens that literally any day now my latest tome "The
    Daytime Serials of Television, 1946-1960" will roll from the
    McFarland presses packed with everything you wanted to know
    about the 40 soap operas that were shown on the networks in
    the U. S. during TV's golden age.  A significant number of
    those had their origins in daytime radio.  Chapter 2
    "Bubbles in the Air" is a comprehensive history of the radio
    soap opera.  Chapter 7 "Reincarnations" details the
    carryovers from one medium to the other in themes and
    titles.  Chapter 10 is devoted to "The Guiding Light," the
    most durable of all the serialized narratives.  You will
    find a wealth of information on that show alone.  (There are
    similar focal chapters on five other major properties that
    significantly influenced the form in that embryonic epoch:
    "Search for Tomorrow," "Love of Life," "The Secret Storm,"
    "As the World Turns" and "The Edge of Night.")

    The hardback volume with pictures, a chapter on the
    ancestors of continuing narratives and multiple chapters on
    the television serials, plus three extensive appendices, may
    be ordered right now at $[removed] from McFarland & Company,
    800-253-2187 (Monday through Friday daytime) or at the web
    address:  [removed]

    In addition, to further answer the question raised by the
    reader, extensive sections of several of my earlier works
    provide extensive enlightment on the transition of radio
    serials to television.  Check out:

    "The Great Radio Soap Operas" (McFarland, 1999)
    "Frank and Anne Hummert's Radio Factory:  The Programs and
    Personalities of Broadcasting's Most Prolific Producers"
    (McFarland, 2003)
    "Historical Dictionary of American Radio Soap Operas"
    (Scarecrow Press, 2005)

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 16:33:10 -0400
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  You can order now

    Earlier today I mentioned that "any day" now The Daytime
    Serials of Television, 1946-1960, would be rolling off the
    press.  I've just received word the book is now in stock for
    immediate shipment.  It's priced at $[removed] plus $4 shipping
    & handling.  It isn't carried by the popular book store
    chains in their retail operations (our hobby's audience is
    considered too narrowly focused, I've always been told)
    although the volume may be special ordered from those
    distributors soon, quite likely at the same price.  Or, you
    can get it right now by contacting [removed],
    (800) 253-2187 or fax (336) 246-4403.  The 236-page
    hardbound edition includes three comprehensive appendices,
    photographs, chapter notes, bibliography, index and it
    covers in depth the 40 daytime serials of TV that were on
    the air by 1960.  This one answers a lot of requests I've
    received over the years and I'm very pleased with the cover
    and total design the McFarland staff artists have provided.
    I hope you enjoy it.

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 19:15:34 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Good news for Higby [removed]

    Yesterday I was contacted by Nicola Daval, the prominent Washington, DC
    actress who narrated my book, "Private Eyelashes; Radio's Lady
    Detectives" for the Library of Congress when it was made into a Talking
    Book for the blind and disabled. Nicola wanted to tell me that she had
    just been assigned the narration of Mary Jane Higby's 1968
    autobiography, "Tune In Tomorrow." (According to Ron Sayles, Higby died
    in 1986 at the age of 76.)

     From past experience I know that from the time of assignment until the
    actual release of the tapes by the National Library Service, at least a
    year will have transpired. So it will be some time before Higby's book
    is actually available to the blind and the disabled. However I'm sure
    many of them will be reassured to know it is in progress.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 23:36:43 -0400
    From: westernfan56@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Night Watch, Sirius Radio, etc.
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    Greetings,
    I'm a newcomer to OTR.  Been listening for over a year.  Today I began
    listening to Night Watch.  I noticed on the opening introduction of the
    01/07/54 show, a mention of "Car 54."  Does anyone know if there's a
    connection to the later TV Show Car 54, Where Are You?  Secondly, does anyone
    know whether Satellite Radio hosts any OTR shows?  If you do, would you
    kindly let me know.  I've been interested in this new medium of radio, but
    while looking on their lists of shows, I don't see any nostalgic radio.  I'm
    interested in most OTR, plus 20s - 40s music.
    Thanks.
    Linda in NYC

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