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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2009 : Issue 110
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: Music Appreciation OTR            [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
  Re: Molly's Illness                   [ <georgewagner@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 14-20 Jun  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Norman Corwin's "The Rivalry"         [ Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
  What's New?                           [ PFornatar@[removed] ]
  Lassie                                [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  NRC in Illinois                       [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  6-14 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  "Adventures in - FUTURE (past!) tens  [ Wich2@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:46:39 -0400
From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Music Appreciation OTR

Hello again --
Jim Erskine asks about OTR programs devoted to music appreciation or
education, including stories about composers, famous songs, etc.
Lux Radio Theater dramatized on radio many movies dealing with music in some
form or another, although such movies usually took unbelievable liberties
with the lives of composers; just this morning I listened to its
dramatization of a Stephen Foster biopic, which was worth listening to only
for the music (sung by Al Jolson and Dennis O'Keefe). Milton Cross of the
Metropolitan Opera narrated a tongue-in-cheek program called the "Chamber
Music Society of Lower Basin Street," in which jazz arrangements by Paul
LeVall (of the Band of America) and others were subjected to musical
analysis in their introductions -- not the best way to keep an audience
tuned in, I'm afraid. And I remember hearing a Liberace show on the radio
years ago where among other things he demonstrated various instruments of
the percussion family. That may have been the audio from a tv show, as I
have never heard it again nor can I find it in the various online radio
logs.
I believe the most popular music appreciation series, hardly OTR, was
Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, produced for television but
holding up very well as audio alone. There were fifty-three of these
programs and the first of these was produced in 1958 while radio was still a
viable, if not thriving, medium.

Jan Bach
Composer
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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:47:00 -0400
From: <georgewagner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Molly's Illness

Larry, over the years I've heard no fewer than FOUR reasons given for
"Molly's" illness. None of the four are, of course, mutually exclusive:

     1. She suffered a miscarriage which nearly cost her her life;

     2. She was severely alcoholic;

     3. She suffered from Clinical Depression;

     4. She endured a mental illness.

     Sincerely,

     George Wagner
     georgewagner@[removed]

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:47:06 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 14-20 June

 From Those Were The Days

6/14

1922   A [removed] President was heard on the radio for the first time.
President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Francis Scott Key Memorial and
was heard on WEAR in Baltimore.

1950   Harold Peary played the leading role of The Great Gildersleeve
one final time. Willard Waterman took Peary's place in the role.

6/15

1936   Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler starred in Burlesque on the Lux Radio
Theatre.

6/17

1942   Suspense, known as radio's outstanding theatre of thrills,
debuted on CBS. The program kept millions of loyal listeners in suspense
for the next 20 years (and three months, for the purists <g>  ed)

6/18

1939   CBS aired The Adventures of Ellery Queen for the first time. An
interesting twist came near the end of the program when the show was
stopped to allow a panel of experts to guess the solution of the night's
mystery.

1961   Gunsmoke was broadcast for the last time on CBS. The show had
been on for nine years. It was called the first adult Western. The star
of Gunsmoke was William Conrad.

6/19

1934   The [removed] Congress established the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC). The task of the commission was to regulate radio
broadcasting.

Joe

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:47:34 -0400
From: Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Norman Corwin's "The Rivalry"

Norman Corwin play about Lincoln-Douglas debates is revived in New York

Wall St Journal article mentions Corwin's role in radio and reviews the play
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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:47:40 -0400
From: PFornatar@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  What's New?
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Are we at the end of the line in discovery old time radio programs. I
assume many are still hidden in unknown collector's vaults. Have all the radio
stations of yesteryear cleaned out their vaults as well? I'm wondering what
"new" old time radio has been found or discovered in the last year or so?

Paul Fornatar

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:48:13 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Lassie

Jack French is correct. The collie was used only for publicity purposes. I
have seen radio scripts for the series list the cast and never mentioned
anyone playing the role of Lassie. Before someone decides to tear apart that
sentence and claim that's no verification, allow me to add that a magazine
article in RADIO-TELEVISION magazine in 1949 or 1950 (can't recall when)
featured a biography of a man named Earl Keen who played all the barking
roles for the radio series. The article also revealed that he was paid much
more for a single episode of LASSIE than a recent paycheck from Disney
animated movie in which he was hired to play the role of a dog.

For the television series, that's a different story but for radio, the real
dog was used only for publicity purposes.

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:48:21 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  NRC in Illinois

Does anyone know if Frank C. Pfister is still alive and well? He once owned
the National recording Company in Illinois. I found some papers he might like
to have, dated 1972.
Martin

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:58:40 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  6-14 births/deaths

June 14th births

06-14-1884 - John McCormack - Athone, Ireland - d. 9-16-1945
singer: "The Atwater-Kent Hour"; "The Vince Program"
06-14-1891 - Elaine Sterne Carrington - NYC - d. 5-4-1958
creator-writer: "Pepper Young's Family"; "Rosemary"; "When a Girl
Marries"
06-14-1893 - Joe Forte - England - d. 3-11-1967
actor: Osgood Conklin "Our Miss Brooks"; Horowitz "Life with Luigi"
06-14-1894 - Benny Fields - Milwaukee, WI - d. 8-16-1959
actor: "The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air"
06-14-1894 - George Hall - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-24-1959
orchestra leader: CBS network
06-14-1895 - Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards - Hannibal, MO - d. 7-17-1971
singer: Jiminy Cricket "Fun and Fancy Free"; "Cliff Edwards, Ukulele
Ike"
06-14-1900 - June Walker - Chicago, IL - d. 2-3-1966
actor: (Mother of actor John Kerr) "The Rudy Vallee Show"
06-14-1901 - May Hogan Cambern - Fort Worth, TX - d. 6-25-1988
harpist on radio
06-14-1902 - Carl Esmond - Vienna, Austria-Hungary - d. 12-4-2004
actor: "Mayor of the Town"
06-14-1904 - Karena Shields - d. 9-27-1972
actor: Helen Gregory "Tarzan"
06-14-1905 - Wallace Deuel - d. 5-10-1974
author: "Information Please"
06-14-1906 - Gil Lamb - Minneapolis, MN - d. 11-2-1995
actor: Homer Clinker "The Rudy Vallee Show"
06-14-1906 - Patricia Brox - Winchester, KY - d. 8-27-1988
singer: (Brox Sisters) "A Tribute to Irving Berlin
06-14-1907 - Nappy Lamare - New Orleans, LA - d. 5-19-1988
jazz guitarist: "The Bob Crosby Show"
06-14-1908 - John Scott Trotter - Charlotte, NC - d. 10-29-1975
conductor: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Philco Radio Time"
06-14-1909 - Burl Ives - Hunt Township, IL - d. 4-14-1995
singer: "Columbia County Journal"; "Radio Reader's Digest"
06-14-1911 - Dan Pursuit - d. 12-25-1999
author: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"
06-14-1912 - Peggy Ann Wood - Chiswick, England - d. 5-30-1998
actor: "The Cleverest Man at Oxford"
06-14-1913 - Stanley Black - London, England - d. 11-26-2002
conductor: BBC Dance Orchestra
06-14-1914 - Loretta Lee, New Orleans, LA
band vocalist: "Your Hit Parade"; "Hollywood Hotel"
06-14-1914 - Nat Polen - NYC - d. 5-3-1981
actor: Edward McCormick "Indictment" "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
06-14-1915 - Kay Sutton - Irvington, NJ - d. 3-1-1988
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-14-1917 - Paul Monash - NYC - d. 1-14-2003
writer: "Molle Mystery Theatre"
06-14-1918 - Dorothy McGuire - Omaha, NE - d. 9-13-2001
actor: Sue Evans Miller "Big Sister"; "Joyce Jordan, [removed]"
06-14-1918 - Jon Arthur - New Kensington, PA - d. 2-23-1982
actor: "Big Jon and Sparkie"; "No School Today"
06-14-1919 - Gene Barry - NYC
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-14-1919 - Sam Wanamaker - Chicago, IL - d. 12-18-1993
actor: Ellis Smith "The Guiding Light"; "Lone Journey"
06-14-1924 - Jack Jones - El Paso, TX
writer: "Jason and the Golden Fleece"
06-14-1925 - George Draper Lewis - d. 1-4-1998
writer: "The Camel Caravan"
06-14-1929 - Cy Coleman - NYC - d. 11-18-2004
jazz pianist, composer: "Cy Coleman at the Piano"; "Voices of Vista"
06-14-1930 - David Leeson - d. 2-25-1971
writer: "Young Doctor Malone"

June 14th deaths

03-27-1930 - Jack Adams - Hobart, OK - d. 6-14-2003
singer in nightclubs and radio
04-16-1924 - Henry Mancini - Cleveland, OH - d. 6-14-1994
orchestra leader: "Family Theatre"; "Voices of Vista"
04-23-1918 - Oliver Treyz - Willewemoe, NY - d. 6-14-1998
director of ABC radio
04-27-1907 - Matty Matlock - Paducah, KY - d. 6-14-1978
jazz musician: (Member of the Big 7 Band) "Pete Kelly's Blues"
05-09-1914 - Carlo Maria Giulini - Barletta, Italy - d. 6-14-2005
conductor, musical director: "Chicago Symphony"; "Los Angeles Symphony"
05-22-1923 - Bill Andrick - d. 6-14-1981
disk jockey: WPAR Parkersburg, West Virginia
05-25-1893 - Ernest V. Stoneman - Monorat, VA - d. 6-14-1968
actor: "Irma dn Ezra"
05-29-1874 - G. K. Chesterton - London, England - d. 6-14-1936
creator: "Advs. of Father Brown"
06-18-1910 - Betty Mandeville - Minneapolis, MN - d. 6-14-2001
producer, director: "The FBI in Peace and War"; "Take It or Leave It"
07-09-1878 - Hans Von  "[removed]" Kaltenborn - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-14-1965
commentator: "Current Events"; "Editing the News"
07-21-1914 - Robert Presnell, Jr. - d. 6-14-1986
writer: "The Smiths of Hollywood"
08-07-1914 - Clifford Thorsness - d. 6-14-2002
sound effects: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Edgar Bergen/Charlie
McCarthy Show"
08-20-1907 - Alan Reed (aka Teddy Bergman) - NYC - d. 6-14-1977
actor: Falstaff Openshaw "Fred Allen Show"; Pasquale "Life with Luigi"
08-31-1918 - Alan Jay Lerner - NYC - d. 6-14-1986
writer: "Victor Borge"; "Raleigh Room"; "Philco Hall of Fame"
10-10-1900 - Carlotta Stewart Watson - d. 6-14-2007
Aunt Carrie on WDIA Memphis, Tennessee
10-10-1926 - Richard Jaeckel - Long Beach, NY - d. 6-14-1997
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-11-1900 - Lorayn Brox - Memphis, TN - d. 6-14-1993
singer: (Brox Sisters) "A Tribute to Irving Berlin"
11-12-1933 - Bert Andersen - d. 6-14-1974
disk jockey: KTAC Tacoma, Washington
12-14-1910 - Erskine Johnson - Racine, WI - d. 6-14-1984
columnist: "Hollywood News"; "Let's Talk Hollywood"
12-22-1907 - Peggy Ashcroft - London, England - d. 6-14-1991
actor: BBC "Queen Victoria"
12-31-1908 - John Kirby - Baltimore, MD - d. 6-14-1952
jazz musician: "Duffy's Tavern"; "Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm"

Ron

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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:59:25 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  "Adventures in - FUTURE (past!) tense!"

 From: "John Buxbaum"  sorahl@[removed]

Also, not great [removed] are some vid's I took at the  convention too

Thanks for posting that, John.

Doing Gregg  Oppenheimer's X-! was a real pleasure. Hal Gould was a marvel
in his FOTR debut  as the Doctor; Larry Luckinbill fairly channeled Wendell
Holmes as the Captain;  and I truly enjoyed sacrificing myself as Hinkston
(in STAR TREK  parlance, "Ensign Redshirt.")

Playing Ray Bradbury's text felt, as it  also did with Serling's when I
appeared in the TWILIGHT ZONE radio show, akin to  playing Shakespeare.

Best,
-Craig Wichman

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