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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 64
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
  Were Sam and Vic Perrin related?      [ "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@run ]
  iPOD and OTR                          [ Tom Barnett <[removed]@earthlink. ]
  RE: Question : "Hello, Joe. Al."      [ "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed] ]
  ILAM questions                        [ "Edmund Zebrowski" <starlightexp@ho ]
  the OTR connection to "Death of a Sc  [ "J. Alec West" <aeiouqwert@speedpos ]
  OTR in OTR Era Films                  [ "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@hotm ]
  3-2 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  KFI special                           [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
  Various                               [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]

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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 09:06:43 -0500
From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

Hi Friends,

Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you may
listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio
Theater," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The Glowing
Dial," Lee Michael's "The RADIO Show" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."
Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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There are several new additions to our mp3 catalog at
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION

MARRIED FOR LIFE
5-11-47    "Circus Love
Host Todd Russell

THE BETTER HALF
9-23-49
Host: Tiny Ruffner

THE RUDY VALLEE HOUR
"THE ROYAL DESSERTS HOUR"
Episode 92 5-5-06 "Danse Macabre" Stars: Rudy Vallee, Boris Karloff, Eddie
East & Ralph Dumke, Tommy Riggs & Betty Lou Adaptor: Arch Oboler

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HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

THE THEATRE GUILD ON THE AIR
ABC   10/28/45    "At Mrs. Beams"
starring Paulette Goddard and Burgess Meredith.
A comedy by [removed] Monroe.

FIBBER McGEE & MOLLY
NBC    10/6/53
2nd program in the 1953 NBC 15-minute series.
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THE GLOWING DIAL

The Jack Benny Program - "Orson Welles guest hosts, Phil Returns After 3
Months"
originally aired March 14, 1943 on NBC
Starring: Orson Welles, Dennis Day, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Don Wilson,
Phil Harris, Frank Nelson, Verna Felton.
Special Note: Audio restoration on "The Jack Benny Program" was done by
Jerry Haendiges.

 The Jack Benny Program - "Orson Welles guest hosts, Mary Returns"
originally aired March 21, 1943 on NBC
Starring: Orson Welles, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Eddie "Rochester"
Anderson, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Frank Nelson, Verna Felton.
Special Note: Audio restoration on "The Jack Benny Program"  was done by
Jerry Haendiges.

The Jack Benny Program  - "Orson Welles guest hosts, Too Much Mayonnaise"
originally aired March 28, 1943 on NBC
Starring: Orson Welles, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Eddie "Rochester"
Anderson, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Bill Morrow & Eddie Beloin (Benny's
writers), Verna Felton.
Special Note: Audio restoration on "The Jack Benny Program" was done by
Jerry Haendiges.

The Jack Benny Program - "Orson Welles guest hosts, Little Red Riding Hood"
originally aired April 4, 1943 on NBC
Starring: Orson Welles, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Eddie "Rochester"
Anderson, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Andy Devine, Bill Morrow & Eddie Beloin
(Benny's writers), Verna Felton.
Special Note: Audio restoration on "The Jack Benny Program" was done by
Jerry Haendiges.

The Jack Benny Program - "Orson Welles, Jack Returns After a 5 Week Illness"
originally aired April 11, 1943 on NBC
Starring: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Eddie
"Rochester" Anderson, Don Wilson, Frank Nelson, Orson Welles, Verna Felton.
Special Note: Audio restoration on "The Jack Benny Program"  was done by
Jerry Haendiges.
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The RADIO Show

SPEED GIBSON OF THE INTERNATIONAL SECRET POLICE
Another Speed Gibson Special, as we accelerate the storyline with the next
four episodes of The Atlantian Syndicate Adventure

A Word from Our Sponsor:

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"The Gentleman Of Golf" starring Bill Cosby with Frank Buxton (Syndicated
for Coca-Cola, 1968)
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If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

     Jerry Haendiges

     Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
     The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
     Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 09:06:55 -0500
From: "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Were Sam and Vic Perrin related?

Hello, I've always wondered if Sam and Vic Perrin were related. Sam wrote
for the Jack Benny show, and was fifteen years older than Vic, the radio
actor. Anyone know the answer?
Thanks a lot.
Matthew

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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:58:32 -0500
From: Tom Barnett <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  iPOD and OTR

I realize that by even posting this I am late to the party. However, I want
to let everyone know my experience with OTR and my iPod Nano. I received the
iPod for Christmas,and was into January before having time to make it work.
What a difference!

I don't get new technology too often but I do find the iPod facinating. I can
store hundreds of radio programs on it. For example, I am listening
concurrently to the entire 1944 calendar year of

- The Jack Benny program
- Fibber McGee and Molly
- DDay invasion news
- The Shadow
- The Whistler
- Suspense
- Fred Allen

I mostly listen when I am at work, walking the dog or settling down at night.
The combination of OTR in MP3 formats and a player in which I can carry
100-200 programs at a time is the best thing to happen to OTR since casettes
(?)

This has renewed a whole new interest in OTR for me because I can listen to a
selection of programs from a particular week or month which is a whole new
way of listening for me.

Just my 2 cents . . . .

Disclaimer: I do not work for Apple and hold no interest in any vendor of MP3
technologies or an OTR vendor. Just an avid fan.

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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:58:58 -0500
From: "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE: Question : "Hello, Joe. Al."

If I remember correctly, that was John Brown as Irma's boyfriend, Al, on the
"I Love Irma" show.

BTW, I first started listening to that show when I was about 8 or 9. The way
Marie Wilson voiced the character, I thought that Irma was about 10 or 12
years old -- until I saw a picture of Ms. Wilson in "Radio Mirror" magazine.

Thanx,

 B. Ray

   W9KEE

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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:00:31 -0500
From: "Edmund Zebrowski" <starlightexp@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  ILAM questions

Over the past few years I have managed to get a good sized collection of
scripts to the missing episodes and have always wondered what is stopping
the estate from publishing them for collectors. I know that one was out for
a very short time there and that is among my collection but what was the
reason for ending the publication of them?

Shade and Sweet water
Edmund

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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:15:31 -0500
From: "J. Alec West" <aeiouqwert@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  the OTR connection to "Death of a Scoundrel"

Folks,

In 1956, George Sanders starred in the film, "Death of a Scoundrel,"
involving a corrupt stock manipulator.  According to the NY Times,
Sanders' character, Clementi Sabourin, was loosely based on the life of
notorious stock manipulator, Serge Rubenstein.

A year before the film, NBC Radio aired a one-hour documentary on
Rubenstein titled, "The Case of Serge Rubenstein."  I have the program
in MP3 format.  But, I was wondering if there's any online bio of
Rubenstein that anyone's aware of ... and if there's more than an
anecdotal linkage between Charles Martin's screenplay and the OTR broadcast.

Regards,
J. Alec

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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 18:23:38 -0500
From: "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR in OTR Era Films

On Tuesday I saw a "Crime Does Not Pay" short from the 1940s called "The
Luckiest Guy in the World" on TCM (TCM said 1946; IMDb says 1947). There is
a scene where the bad guy is riding in a car at night with an innocent guy
the audience knows he is about to murder.  The car radio is on and they are
listening to Red Skelton (whether this is a bit of an actual broadcast or
something Skelton made for the short I know not).  It struck me how unusual
it was to see fictional characters in a 1940s film listening to an actual
1940s OTR personality.  From the time films acquired sound in the late 20s
until, say, the mid-50s, there are plenty of scenes of folks listening to
the radio, but usually what they are listening to music from an unspecified
band or to some news bulletin or similar thing that serves to advance the
plot in some way.  Can anyone think of other films from this era where
fictional characters listen to actual OTR programs? I'm only referring to
films actually made in the OTR era, I know there are countless films made in
recent decades but set in the OTR era which include bits of actual OTR on
the soundtrack.

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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 23:18:14 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  3-2 births/deaths

March 2nd births

03-02-1890 - Paul De Kruif - Zeeland, MI - d. 2-28-1971
writer: "Men Against Death" based on De Kruif's book
03-02-1900 - Kurt Weill - Dessau, Germany - d. 4-3-1950
composer: "Der Lindergflug"; "Towards the Century of the Common Man";
"This Is War"
03-02-1902 - Flora Robson - Brighton, England - d. 7-7-1984
actress: BBC Radio "Streets of Pompeii"
03-02-1902 - Moe Berg - New York, NY - d. 5-29-1972
major league baseball player, world war 2 spy: "Information, Please"
03-02-1904 - Leonard Levinson - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-30-1974
writer: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Great Gildersleeve"; "Jack Carson
Show"
03-02-1904 - Theodor "Dr. Suess" Geisel - Springfield, MA - d. 9-24-1991
children's book author: "American School On the Air"; "Columbia
Workshop"
03-02-1905 - Marc Blitzstein - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-22-1964
author: "Mercury Theatre On the Air"
03-02-1909 - Mel Ott - Gretna, LA - d. 11-21-1958
sportscaster: Play-by-Play Detroit Tigers; "Babe Ruth Show"
03-02-1914 - Martin Ritt - New York, NY - d. 12-8-1990
film director, teacher: "Coming Home"
03-02-1917 - Desi Arnaz - Santiago, Cuba - d. 12-2-1986
actor, bandleader: Ricky Ricardo "I Love Lucy"; "Bob Hope Show"
03-02-1918 - Elmira Roessler - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-30-1975
actress, singer: Jennifer Davis "Backstage Wife"; Tweetsie
Herringbone "Ma Perkins"
03-02-1919 - Jennifer Jones - Tulsa, OK
actress: "Radio Hall of Fame"
03-02-1923 - Jean Metcalfe - Reigate, England - d. 1-28-2000
announcer, presenter: "Forces Favourites"; "Two-Way Family
Favourites"; "Woman's Hour"
03-02-1949 - Randy Paar - Los Angeles, CA
disc jockey: (Daughter of Jack Paar) "The Jack Paar Show"

March 2nd deaths

01-23-1898 - Randolph Scott - Orange County, VA (Raised: Charlotte,
NC) - d. 3-2-1987
actor: "Academy Award Theatre"; "Campbell Playhouse"
02-06-1897 - Erna Sack - Spandau-Berlin, Germany - d. 3-2-1972
singer: (The German Nightingale) "General Motors Concerts"
02-08-1902 - Lyle Talbot - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 3-2-1996
actor: "Your Hollywood Informer"; "Calling All Cars"; "The Unexpected"
02-14-1908 - Lonnie Glosson - Judsonia, AR - d. 3-2-2001
country music harmonica player: "Grand Ole Opry"
02-19-1915 - Fred Freilberger - New York, NY - d. 3-2-2003
writer: "Suspense"; "Family Theatre"
03-16-1916 - Mercedes McCambridge - Joliet, IL - d. 3-2-2004
actress: Sunny Richards "I Love A Mystery"; Martha Ellis Bryant
"Defense Attorney"
04-05-1911 - Martin Denny - New York, NY - d. 3-2-2005
orchestra leader: Live radio show for Alaskan Air Force Command Radio
07-24-1913 - Hollace (Vivien) Shaw - Fresno, CA - d. 3-2-1976
singer: "Blue Velvet"; "Vic Damone and Hollace Shaw Show"
10-16-1917 - Rowena Clark - Staten Island, NY - d. 3-2-2004
actress: "Gateway to Hollywood"
10-21-1913 - Jack McElroy - Kansas - d. 3-2-1959
announcer, host: "Bride and Groom"; "Breakfast at Sardi"s"

Ron Sayles

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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 00:16:42 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  KFI special

Hi Everybody,

I need some help on a project.  On 4-16-72 KFI celebrated its 50 birthday by
having a 12 hour special.  Many segment was hosted by the radio
personalities of the Golden Days.  Did any one recorded the complete
broadcast day of 24 hour  that day.  I have a friend who has copies of all
the segments from the KFI masters and he tells me that it sounds great.  He
would like to put them in the correct broadcast order.  I have given him
copies of air check of both broadcast cycles of that 12 hour special.  We
believe it was played twice on that day, but both copies I have are short.
There are parts missing in both runs.  I believe that there was a baseball
game that day and KFI might have cut out part of the second run.  Frank
Bresee produce the special but his schedule that he gave to the station was
not followed  by KFI.  Does any one recall if KFI took out a add in the [removed]
Times that day Sunday 4-16-72 to give the run down or was it mention in the
paper.  My friend also have the Le Brown band remote heard on KFI that week
end.  I am guessing that the remote   came on Saturday night 4-15-72 at
11-30 PM and then Ralph Edwards first spot came on at 12-04 AM Sunday
morning 4-16-72.  I could really  use some help on this project.  It would
be nice to put the complete special in order in great sound.  Take care,

Walden Hughes

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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:33:03 -0500
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Various
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NOBODY KNOWS IT'S "WINDY:

Our man in Metro-Washington  Jack French posted about Don Knotts::

Let's see if even one obituary mentions his show-biz start in radio,
playing the old geezer at the B-Bar-B Ranch on "Bobby Benson" which
Mutual resurrected in 1949.

I myself didn't see much about Knotts's radio career in the obits I read &
it's a shame. TVLand is scrapping the "Sandford & Son" marathon originally
planned for this coming weekend in favour of a 48-hour tribute to Don Knotts
in  episodes of "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Three's Company."

CROSBY, STILLS, [removed]

Folks here know I rarely go to the movies, but I did see one last weekend with
a reference to Arthur Godfrey. It's the documentray performance film "Neil
Young: Heart of Gold"  directed by Jonathan Demme. At one point, Neil Young is
telling a backstory about how his father once brought home for him an Arthur
Godfrey plastic ukulele when  the younger Young was growing up in the Calgary
area.

TOO MANY AL LEWISES:

Can somebody straighten out how many famous show-biz people named Al Lewis
there are? I've counted four: 1) the recently departed "Grandpa" Al Lewis of
"The Munsters" fame; 2) the WLW/Cincinatti radio & TV personality "Uncle" Al
Lewis; 3) the scriptwriter Al Lewis who wrote episodes of "Our Miss Brooks";
and 4) the Al Lewis who wrote songs for Maurice Chevalier in the late 1920s
with his partner Al Sherman [who I do know is not to be confused with 1960s
song satirist Allan Sherman; this Al Sherman was the father of Disney
songwriters Robert and Richard Sherman].

Yours always in the ether,

Derek Tague

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