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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2012 : Issue 198
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
12-26 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Cathy and Elliott Lewis [ "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@sbcgl ]
'Lost' Alistair Cooke tapes [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
12-27 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:54:30 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 12-26 births/deaths
December 26th births
12-26-1874 - Leon Rothier - Rheims, France - d. 12-6-1951
opera singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"
12-26-1891 - Tony Wons - Menasha, WI - d. 7-1-1965
host: "Tony Wons Scrapbook"; "House by the Side of the Road"; "Camel
Quarter Hour"
12-26-1893 - Vladimir Golschmann - Paris, France - d. 3-1-1972
conductor: New York Philharmonic
12-26-1900 - Charles Perry - NYC - d. 2-26-1967
producer, sports announcer: WHN New York
12-26-1902 - Irene Handl - London, England - d. 11-29-1987
actor: "Hello Playmates"
12-26-1905 - Robert Magidoff - d. 2-xx-1970
NBC newscaster
12-26-1906 - Ashley Buck - d. 2-6-1980
writer: "We Are Always Young"
12-26-1906 - Catherine Turney - Chicago, IL - d. 9-9-1998
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-26-1911 - Hal Bourne - Chicago, IL - d. 2-25-2000
musical director: "A Date with Judy"
12-26-1912 - Oscar Saul - NYC - d. 5-23-1994
writer: "Health for America"
12-26-1914 - Richard Widmark - Sunrise, MN - d. 3-24-2008
actor: Neil Davison "Home of the Brave"; Alan Webster "Joyce Jordan,
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12-26-1914 - Robert Metzler - d. 2-23-1998
scriptwriter: "Count of Monte Cristo"; "Phillip Marlowe"
12-26-1921 - Steve Allen - NYC - d. 10-30-2000
comedian, actor, singer, composer and anything else you might mention:
"Steve Allen Show"
12-26-1922 - Harry Choates - Rayne Acadia Parish, LA - d. 7-17-1951
performer: "Jesse James and His Gang"
12-26-1924- Jimmy Blaine - Greenville, TX - d. 3-18-1967
announcer: "Lanny Ross Show"; "Ladies Be Seated"
December 26th deaths
01-13-1913 - Jeff Morrow - NYC - d. 12-26-1993
actor: "Electric Theatre"
02-14-1894 - Jack Benny - Chicago, IL - d. 12-26-1974
comedian: "Jack Benny Program"
04-05-1929 - Nigel Hawthorne - Coventry, England - d. 12-26-2001
actor: Acted for his college radio station at the University of Cape
Town
04-08-1923 - Jimmie Osborne - Winchester, KY - d. 12-26-1958
singer: "WLS Barn Dance"; "WLW Midwestern Hayride"
04-09-1905 - Brewster Morgan - d. 12-26-1960
director: "Columbia Workshop"; "Men Against Death"; "Report to the
Nation"
04-21-1921 - Betty Jane Rhodes - Rockford, IL - d. 12-26-2011
vocalist: "Meet Me at Parky's"; "The Packard Hour"
05-08-1884 - Harry S Truman - Lamar, MO - d. 12-26-1972
[removed] president: "Milestones on the Road to Peace"; "World Food Crisis"
05-17-1895 - Gayelord Hauser - Tubingen, Germany - d. 12-26-1984
nutritionist: "Look Younger and Live Longer"
06-03-1942 - Curtis Mayfield - Rosewell, GA - d. 12-26-1999
soul singer, songwriter: "Voices of Vista"
07-14-1913 - Gerald R. Ford - Omaha, NE - d. 12-26-2006
accidental [removed] president: "Meet the Press"
07-22-1922 - Jason Robards, Jr. - Chicago, IL - d. 12-26-2000
actor: "Pepper Young's Family"
07-31-1924 - Garard Green - Madras, India - d. 12-26-2004
actor: "Sherlock Holmes"
08-12-1911 - Dr. Olan Downes - West Roxbury, MA - d. 12-26-2001
musicologist: "Texaco Metropolitan Opera"; "New York Philharmonic"
08-22-1851 - Daniel Frohman - Sandusky, OH - d. 12-26-1940
broadway producer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-28-1902 - Elsa Lanchester - Lewisham, England - d. 12-26-1986
actor: "Arch Oboler's Plays"; "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Everyman's
Theatre"
12-10-1910 - Abraham Polonsky - NYC - d. 12-26-1999
writer: "Mecury Theatre on the Air"
Ron
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Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:54:55 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Cathy and Elliott Lewis
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Hi Everybody,
Does any one know where I can find copies of Cathy and Elliott Lewis
recordings with Ray Noble in 1951 called Happy Holidays and Happy
Anniversary plus Manhaten Towers? Take care,
Walden Hughes
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Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:55:12 -0500
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 'Lost' Alistair Cooke tapes
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Cheers ! Graeme ( ORCA / UK )
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Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:55:19 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 12-27 births/deaths
December 27th births
12-27-1879 - Sidney Greenstreet - Sandwich, England - d. 1-18-1954
actor: Nero Wolfe "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; "Hollywood Star Preview"
12-27-1891 - Martha Backes Bardill - d. 3-xx-1976
soprano: KYW Chicago, Illinois
12-27-1893 - Ann Pennington - Camden, NJ - d. 11-4-1971
actor: "Good News of 1938"
12-27-1896 - Arch Ward - Irwin, IL - d. 7-9-1955
sports journalist: Weekly program of sports news with Harry Wismer
12-27-1896 - Louis Bromfield - Mansfield, OH - d. 3-18-1956
author: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
12-27-1898 - Hilda Vaughn - Baltimore, MD - d. 12-28-1957
actor: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
12-27-1900 - Pauline Alpert - d. 4-11-1988
"Whirlwind Pianist": "Log Cabin Inn"; "Rhythm and Rhyme"
12-27-1901 - Marlene Dietrich - Berlin, Germany - d. 5-6-1992
actor: Mlle. Madou, "Cafe Istanbul"
12-27-1906 - Oscar Levant - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-14-1972
panelist, pianist: "Information, Please"; "Kraft Music Hall"
12-27-1910 - Bob Arnold - Asthall, England - d. 8-27-1998
actor: "In the Cotswolds"; "The Archers"
12-27-1910 - Harry Saz - d. 6-9-1994
director: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
12-27-1911 - Anna Russell - London, England - d. 10-18-2006
opera singer: "The Nutcraker Suite"
12-27-1914 - Jack Latham - Washington - d. 1-1-1987
announcer: "The Man Called X"; "Wake Up, America"
12-27-1916 - Cathy Lewis - Spokane, WA - d. 11-20-1968
actor: Jane Stacy "My Friend Irma"; Kathryn Milford "Great Gildersleeve"
12-27-1916 - Johnny Frigo - Chicago, IL - d. 7-4-2007
violin, bass: "National Barn Dance"
12-27-1916 - Noel Johnson - Birmingham, England - d. 10-1-1999
actor: Dick Barton "Dick Barton, Special Agent"; Dan Dare "Dan Dare:
Pilot of the Future"
12-27-1924 - Virginia Eiler - d. 1-5-2004
actor: "Family Theatre"; "Let George Do It"; "Yours Truly, Johnny
Dollar"
12-27-1941 - Joe Lake - Drasenhofen, Austria
writer: "Gustav Weindorfer of Tasmania's Cradle Mountain"
December 27th deaths
02-19-1902 - Kay Boyle - St. Paul, MN - d. 12-27-1992
writer: "NBC Presents: Short Story"
02-26-1891 - Alan Bridge - Pennsylvania - d. 12-27-1957
actor: "The Eddie Bracken Show"
05-11-1921 - Dorothy Warenskjold - San Leandro, CA - d. 12-27-2010
lyric soprano: "The Railroad Hour"; "Voice of Firestone"; "Candy
Matson, Yukon2-8209"
05-16-1915 - Chuck Cabot - d. 12-27-2007
bandleader: "The Fitch Bandwagon"
07-04-1888 - Otto Rauhut - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-27-1986
director: "Otto Rauhut Violin Ensemble" KPO San Francisco, California
07-22-1908 - Amy Vanderbilt - Staten Island, NY - d. 12-27-1974
etiquette expert: "Jack Benny Program"
08-04-1908 - Wally Maher - Cincinnati, OH - d. 12-27-1951
actor: Dan Murray "One Man's Family"; Archie Goodwin "Advs. of Nero
Wolfe"
08-15-1918 - David Baskerville - Freehold, NJ - d. 12-27-1986
nbc staff composer and conductor: "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"
09-27-1917 - James Andelin - Provo, UT - d. 12-27-2006
actor: "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"; Og, Son of Fire"; "Houseboat Hannah"
11-05-1914 - Jack McVea - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-27-2000
saxophonist: "One Night Stand"; "Jubilee"
11-11-1913 - Jess Oppenheimer - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-27-1988
writer: "The Jack Benny Program"; The Baby Snooks Show"; My Favorite
Husband"
11-11-1930 - Hank Garland - Cowpens, SC - d. 12-27-2004
guitarist: "Jim Reeves Show"; "Country Music Time"; "Country Style
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11-22-1899 - Hoagy Carmichael - Bloomington, IN - d. 12-27-1981
singer, composer: "Hoagy Carmichael Show"; "King's Men"
12-07-1905 - Leonard Goldenson - Scottsdale, PA - d. 12-27-1999
owner of the ABC network
Ron
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