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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2013 : Issue 25
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Elaine Hyman                          [ "Trent Clifton" <trent@[removed]; ]
      Ends and odds                         [ Robert Paine <wthtamfm@[removed]; ]
      SummersTime posted to [removed]         [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
      Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto #1         [ "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@ ]
      New Old Time Radio website            [ ramble512@[removed] ]
      Jack Benny                            [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 3-9 March  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 09:47:54 -0500
    From: "Trent Clifton" <trent@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Elaine Hyman

    Elaine Hyman was a child actor on The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, and
    Sergeant Preston.  I'm trying to help track down information about specific
    episodes that she appeared in.  I found one episode listed in Dave Goldin's
    database, but am having no luck finding more than that.  Anybody have any
    ideas?

    Thanks a bunch!

    -Trent

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    Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 09:48:05 -0500
    From: Robert Paine <wthtamfm@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Ends and odds
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      My take on Eddie Anderson being billed as Rochester is that most people
    didn't know him by his given name. I was a kid when Benny was on TV and I
    always knew him by Rochester, although I knew it was a character and he did
    have a real name and never believed he was really who he played. IMO, one of
    the best actors ever and the show would not have been complete without him.
    And though he played a "servant" he was in every way a match for and equal to
    Benny's character. From what I've read about Jack Benny, that's probably the
    way he planned it.
     Jack, if I may call him by his first name, made himself
    the butt of the jokes. I also read that when he went on a USO tour to - I
    think - the mid-East and Africa, he declined to take Eddie Anderson along. The
    reason was sound as Benny was in a canteen when a soldier asked if he had
    brought Rochester along. When he said he hadn't, the guy said something to the
    effect that he'd walk a long distance just to see that and used the "n" word.
    Jack said the reason he didn't bring Anderson was because of people like him,
    got up, left his chicken sandwich and walked out. There are other stories
    about how Jack insisted Anderson be treated as an equal to the rest of the
    cast - which again IMO - he was. Make me love and respect Benny even more.
     About the Piano Concerto in B flat minor (I'm not going through the whole
    title - we're a little late, folks), it was the theme for Orson Welles Mercury
    Theater on the Air. It was the theme of bandleader Freddie (or Freddy) Martin,
    who used the title (and I'm hoping I have it right) "Tonight We Love." Spike
    Jones may have [removed], PARODIED it, as he did some recordings under
    the guise of Fleddy Martin, and I hope that wasn't done to make fun of folks
    from the far East. If it is in today's society, I sincerely apologize.
     I may
    get around to posting some questions about The Lone Ranger sometime. BTW, for
    fans of Andre Rieu, his Johann Strauss orchestra did a killer version of the
    finale of the William Tell Overture when it appeared in Cortona, Italy. Seemed
    SPOT ON to the original, at least to me. My script just changed - don't know
    why. I was going to say I was disappointed there were no OTR fans there - no
    one yelled "HI-YO Silver!" after the opening notes.

    Bob Paine

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    Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:09:55 -0500
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  SummersTime posted to [removed]

    Folks;

       Recent episodes of SummersTime (the OTR show on Radio Once More hosted by
    my daughter Katie and me) may be of interest to subscribers. In the January
    28th episode, I play two episodes of Captain Midnight, with information
    provided by our resident expert, Stephen A. Kallis. And on the February 4th
    edition, I play an episode of Dear Abby, the CBS 5-minute weekdaily program
    announced by Friend-of-the-Digest Harry Bartell. Just hit
    [removed] to listen; you can download to your MP3 player, or
    play right on-the-page with the included player! And subscribing to the RSS
    feed with a podcast client or iTunes will automatically deliver archived
    editions of the program as they are posted!

       You can hear SummersTime each week at various times on
    [removed] - schedule is posted there as well as at
    [removed] where you'll also find info on
    upcomming/archived shows, and pictures of Katie, our announcer and friend
    Michael C. Gwynne, our mascot Mr. Cinders, and even yours truly.

       And Kate and I are always looking for suggestions on what to play; just
    drop a note to summerstime@[removed] with your requests and
    suggestions!

             Charlie

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    Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:10:43 -0500
    From: "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
    To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto #1

    also known as the theme from Mercury Theater of the Air. but without
    [removed]
    --
    Joe Salerno

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    Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:10:51 -0500
    From: ramble512@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  New Old Time Radio website
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    OLD TIME RADIO MAGIC

    Old Time Radio Magic provides free OTR program downloads, weekly OTR trivia,
    old music downloads, and OTR links.

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    Samuel Baker
    Rome, GA

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    Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:11:20 -0500
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Benny

>     Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:58:03 -0500
>     From: "Don A. Holshuh" <marathondon@[removed];

>     She also mentioned that she was
>     often questioned about the "heavily guarded safe" in the basement. She
>     was surprised that so many people thought that what was portrayed on
>     the program was actually a representation of Jack Benny's home.

    Which reminds me of when Phil Harris died, somewhere in his 90s.  I saw
    it and told my mother about it.  She was surprised he had lived that
    long because "he was a boozer."  I had to point out that the character
    he portrayed was a boozer, but that he may have been no more a boozer
    than Jack was a cheapskate.  She readily accepted that.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]| 92 State Street| Suite 700| Boston, MA 02109-2004
    [removed]|[removed]| [removed]

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    Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:11:27 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 3-9 March

     From Those Were The Days

    3/4

    1877    Emile Berliner came up with something called the microphone.

    1925   Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office in Washington DC. The
    presidential inauguration was broadcast on radio for the very first time.

    1930 - "The Redhead", Red Barber, began his radio career this day.
    Barber broadcast on WRUF at the University of Florida in Gainsville. He
    soon became one of the best known sports voices in America.

    1942   Shirley Temple had a starring role in Junior Miss on CBS. The
    show, heard for the first time, cost $12,000 a week ($166,759 in 2012
    dollars) to produce and stayed on the airwaves until 1954.

    1951   Sir John Gielgud, starring as Hamlet, was heard on The [removed] Steel
    Hour on the NBC.

    1952   President Harry Truman dedicated the Courier, the first seagoing
    radio broadcasting station, in ceremonies in Washington, DC.

    3/6

    1948   Ralph Edwards created a quiz on Truth or Consequences called The
    Walking Man. After ten weeks of guesses by contestants playing the game,
    it was finally revealed that Jack Benny was The Walking Man.

    3/7

    1933   CBS debuted Marie the Little French Princess which had a run of
    two years.

    1944   Norman Corwin hosted a program titled, Columbia Presents Corwin
    on the CBS network this day.

    3/8

    1925   Bernard McFadden was a physical culturist who had a radio show in
    New York City. But not for long. McFadden failed to show up for his
    daily morning program, causing a young, studio engineer, John Gambling,
    to ad lib on the air for a solid hour. As a result, the station (WOR)
    decided to give Gambling the morning announcer's job. John Gambling
    stayed at WOR for many years, then turned the mike over to his son, who,
    finally, turned the program over to his son ... all named John. Mr.
    Gambling's Rambling with Gambling program attracted tri state (New York,
    New Jersey, Connecticut) audiences in record numbers for over 70 years
    on the 50,000 watt talk radio powerhouse at 710 AM on your radio dial
    from New York each morning.
    3/9

    1945   Those Websters debuted on CBS. Willard Waterman starred as George
    Webster.

    Joe

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