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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 126
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      let george do it                      [ Grams46@[removed] ]
      5-17 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      voice on ma perkins                   [ afanofoldradio@[removed] ]
      Tonto                                 [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Re: Audience Participation Radio Dra  [ rand@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 18-24 May  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Re: National Recording Registry       [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
      Re: "Audience Participation" Radio D  [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
      5-18 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 08:36:21 -0400
    From: Grams46@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  let george do it

    standard oil of california was the sponsor for  all of the let george do it
    programs that i have heard.
    does anyone know who  the sponsor/sponsors were in other parts of the county?

    peace from  kathy
    support our troops; end the war in iraq
    john 3:16

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    Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 08:36:40 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-17 births/deaths

    May 17th births

    05-17-1878 - Conway Tearle - NYC - d. 10-1-1939
    announcer: "Streamlined Shakespeare"
    05-17-1883 - Ethel Intropidi - NYC - d. 12-18-1946
    actor: Phyllis Welby "Pretty Kitty Kelly"
    05-17-1889 - Harriett Gustin - d. 4-xx-1975
    co-host of a children's amateur hour on WEEI, Boston, Massachusetts
    05-17-1890 - Harry Balogh - d. 8-16-1961
    boxing ring announcer during the 1930s and 1940s
    05-17-1890 - Philip James - Jersey City, NJ - d. 11-1-1975
    conductor, composer: "Bamberger Little Symphony"; "Wellsprings of Music"
    05-17-1895 - Gayelord Hauser - Tubingen, Germany - d. 12-26-1984
    nutritionist: "Look Younger and Live Longer"
    05-17-1896 - Ruth Donnelly - Trenton, NJ - d. 11-17-1982
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-17-1897 - Fletcher Wiley - d. 1-26-1966
    commentator: "Your Home Front Reporter"
    05-17-1902 - Fausto Cleva - Trieste, Italy - d. 8-6-1971
    conductor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "Metropolitan Opera Auditions"
    05-17-1903 - Artie Auerbach - NYC - d. 10-3-1957
    actor: Mr. Kitzel "Jack Benny Program"
    05-17-1905 - John Patrick - Louisville, KY - d. 11-7-1995
    writer: "Theatre Guild On the Air";"Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-17-1906 - Carl McIntire - Ypsilanti, MI - d. 03-19-2002
    evangelist: "Twentieth Century Reformation Hour"
    05-17-1906 - John Cannon - Chicago, IL - d. 6-22-2001
    announcer, actor: "City Hospital"; "Jack Armstrong, the All-American
    Boy"
    05-17-1907 - Horace McMahon - South Norwalk, CT - d. 8-17-1971
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
    05-17-1907 - Jack Petruzzi - Cleveland, OH - d. 3-1-1967
    actor: "Ann Worth, Housewife"; "The Lone Ranger"; "Joe Palooka"
    05-17-1908 - Joe Grant - NYC - d. 5-6-2005
    writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-17-1911 - Maureen O'Sullivan - Boyle, Ireland - d. 6-23-1998
    actor: "Dreft Star Playhouse"; "Family Theatre"
    05-17-1912 - Grant Turner - Abilene, TX - d. 10-19-1991
    announcer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    05-17-1916 - Jameson Brewer - Sentinel Butte, ND - d. 9-11-2003
    writer: "The Hardy Family"
    05-17-1918 - Birgit Nilsson - Vastra Karup, Skane Ian, Sweden - d.
    12-25-2005
    singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"
    05-17-1919 - Louisa Vass - Greenville, SC
    singer: (The Vass Family) "The Lady Next Door"; "Kraft Phenix Program"
    05-17-1920 - Harriet Van Horne - Syracuse, NY - d. 1-15-1998
    newspaper columnist: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"
    05-17-1923 - Alice Backes - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 3-15-2007
    actor: "This Is Your FBI"; "The Whistler"; "Family Theatre"

    May 17th deaths

    01-08-1903 - Roger Bower - NYC - d. 5-17-1979
    announcer, emcee: "Can You Top This?"; "Stop Me If You Heard This One"
    01-09-1886 - Arthur "Bugs" Baer - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-17-1969
    writer: "The Eveready Hour"
    01-12-1920 - Theodor Uppman - San Jose, CA - d. 5-17-2005
    operatic baritone: "Bell Telephone Hour"
    01-15-1911 - Cy Feuer - NYC - d. 5-17-2006
    music: "Escape"; "Ford Sunday Evening Hour"; "Shorty Bell"
    01-15-1922 - Thelma Carpenter - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-17-1997
    singer: "Eddie Cantor Show"
    02-26-1920 - Tony Randall - Tulsa, OK - d. 5-17-2004
    actor: Reggie York "I Love A Mystery"
    03-11-1903 - Lawrence Welk - Strasburg, ND - d. 5-17-1992
    bandleader: "Lawrence Welk Orchestra"
    03-15-1877 - Montague Love - Portsmouth, England - d. 5-17-1943
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Suspense"
    05-29-1897 - F. Hugh Herbert - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-17-1958
    writer: "Meet Corliss Archer"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-30-1900 - Frank Gallop - Boston, MA - d. 5-17-1988
    announcer: "Milton Berle Show"; "Gangbusters"; "Stella Dallas"
    07-06-1910 - Alexander Kendrick - d. 5-17-1991
    correspondent: "Years In Crisis"; "As Europe Sees the Marshall Plan"
    07-10-1877 - Caroline Crockett Ellis - d. 5-17-1963
    actor: Mary Ward "Travels of Mary Ward"; "Caroline's Golden Store"
    07-26-1921 - John de Lancie, Sr. - Berkeley, CA - d. 5-17-2002
    principle oboist: "Phildelphia Symphony Orchestra"
    10-18-1920 - Willis Conover - Buffalo, NY - d. 5-17-1996
    jazz producer: "Voice of America Music USA"
    12-06-1898 - Gunnar Myrdal - Gustafs, Sweden - d. 5-17-1987
    1974 nobel prize winner in economics: "United Nations Today"
    12-18-1910 - Abe Burrows - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-17-1985
    writer: "Abe Burrows Show"; "Danny Kaye Show"; "Duffy's Tavern"
    xx-xx-1916 - Gary Stevens - d. 5-17-2004
    broadcast executive: Produced 20 Questions

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 08:39:29 -0400
    From: afanofoldradio@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  voice on ma perkins

    the voice on the other end of the oxydol commercials in "ma perkins" though
    not credited, sure doe sound like Jackson Beck? and nobody else.

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    Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 08:39:49 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Tonto

    Does anyone know what tribe Tonto came from.

    Ron

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    Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 09:10:25 -0400
    From: rand@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Audience Participation Radio Drama

    George mentions that Ray Bradbury, in an interview, got the inspiration
    for an audience participation television show from a similar radio program
    he heard as a child.

    I've never heard of such a radio program, but in the late 1950s there was
    a series of albums put out by Roulette records called "Co-Star".  Each
    featured a famous actor or actress performing scenes with empty space for
    you to read the lines of the other character and a script for you to
    follow along.  I used to have a few of these featuring Virginia Mayo,
    Cesar Romero, and Tallulah Bankhead.

    Back in my younger days, I used to have dual 16mm projectors in my
    apartment and a dj setup and, on weekends, groups of friends would come
    over and we'd have a little show each week of films and music.  A couple
    of times, we took two of the Co-Star records and put them on turntables,
    letting the actors feed lines to each other from different plays.  One of
    the best for this was putting Cesar Romero discussing a safe-cracking job
    with a gangster against a scene from the Virginia Mayo disc where she was
    on a beach putting off the advances of a pushy date.

    According to what I've read about Bradbury's "Farenheit 451", it started
    out as a short story published in the late 40s and was expanded to a
    novella, serialized in Playboy in 1954.  Could Bradbury have been also
    inspired by "Winky Dink and You", which went on the air on CBS-TV in 1953?

    Randy

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    Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 10:36:40 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 18-24 May

     From Those Were The Days --

    5/18

    1942 - David Harding, Counterspy was heard on the NBC Blue network for
    the first time.

    5/19

    1921 - The first opera presented in its entirety over the radio was
    broadcast by 9ZAF in Denver, CO.  The opera, "Martha", aired from the
    Denver Auditorium.

    5/22

    1955 - Jack Benny signed off his last live network radio broadcast after
    a run of 23 years.  (His show continued in re-runs for a while longer -ed).

    5/23

    1922 - The first debate to be heard on radio was broadcast on WJH in
    Washington, DC. The two debaters argued about the topic of Daylight
    Saving Time with the audience acting as the judge.

    Joe

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    Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 10:37:21 -0400
    From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: National Recording Registry

>     Could anyone post what was the music performed at the first
>     trans-Atlantic broadcast (March 14, 1925)?

    If this was the broadcast picked up by the RCA Belfast, Maine station,
    here is some info from the newspapers of the day:

    "Listeners heard such music as "My Best Girl," "June Night"..."

    You can hear a partial copy of this though it is faint at
    [removed]

    Jim Widner

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    Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 21:53:50 -0400
    From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: "Audience Participation" Radio Drama

>     Has anyone ever heard of this?

    Have I ever heard of a radio show broadcast with silences so that you
    could play the part of a character yourself as you were listening?

    And the local papers published the scripts so you could read along at
    home?

    Why, certainly.

    Saw something about once it in an old newspaper.

    No, not the scripts. Just a reference to the show. Wanna see it?

    Okay, I'll show it to ya. It's around here somewheres.

    Ah, here it is.

    This here is an excerpt from Paul K. Damai's "Short Circuits" radio
    column in the 11 November 1933 Hammond (IN) Times about a short-lived,
    fifteen-minute-long, local series produced in Chicago:

    ***
    ... WMAQ these nites at [removed] have an innovation called Fifty-Fifty.
    Lines are printed in the paper which you read as part of the dialogue.
    The other characters say theirs from the studio. Everyone, they say,
    wants to be an actor, and this is supposed to be the golden chance and
    right in your own home, too. We tried it once and the stuff wasn't so
    hot but if you have an audience it might be better. We just followed
    the lines mentally and alone.

    But what we wanted to point out in connection with Fifty-Fifty is our
    own adaptation of the game. Supply your own lines that are missing in
    the paper. At a party it affords endless fun by taking turns filling
    in the lines to make a logical (?) story. The story we made out of it
    one night could not be put in print, or we're afraid, offered on the
    air! ...
    ***

    You see, young Bradbury would have been living in Waukegan, IL at this
    time. Not far from Chicago.

    Yeah, he woulda been about twelve years old.

    Funny.

    I wonder what the author of "Fifty-Fifty" would think about having an
    influence on a novel as famous as Fahrenheit 451.

    What's that? You say you don't know the author of "Fifty-Fifty"?

    Oh, sure you do.

    Of course, he's better known for creating a couple of other
    "interactive" drama series.

    The kind of shows where there are long silences.

    And the lead actor frequently speaks to an unheard listener.

    Sure, you've heard of those shows.

    They're called ...

    "Lights Out!" and "Quiet, Please!"

    GONG!

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    Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 22:22:35 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-18 births/deaths

    May 18th births

    05-18-1892 - Ezio Pinza, Rome, Italy - d. 5-9-1957
    singer: "Telephone Hour"; "Ezio Pinza's Children Show"; "Stagestruck"
    05-18-1893 - Jean Goldkette - Patras, Greece - d. 3-24-1962
    bandleader: "The Studebaker Champion Program"
    05-18-1894 - Raymond Paige - Wausau, WI - d. 8-7-1965
    conductor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Musical Americana"; "Stage Door Canteen"
    05-18-1897 - Frank Capra - Bisacquino, Sicily - d. 9-3-1991
    film director: "Gulf Screen Theatre"; "NBC Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-18-1900 - Joyce Barthelson - d. 12-1-1986
    pianist: KGO Oakland, California
    05-18-1900 - Lew White - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-4-1955
    organist: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Break the Bank"; "Betty
    Moore"
    05-18-1902 - Meredith Willson - Mason City, IA - d. 6-15-1984
    conductor, composer: "Maxwell House Coffee Time"; "Meredith Willson/
    Music Room"
    05-18-1904 - Fred Shields - Kansas City, MO - d. 6-30-1974
    actor: Bill Fraser "Tarzan"
    05-18-1904 - Jacob K. Javits - NYC - d. 3-7-1986
    [removed] senator new york: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    05-18-1907 - Clifford Curzon - London, England - d. 9-2-1982
    pianist: "March of Dimes"
    05-18-1908 - Alastair McBain - d. 12-xx-1980
    author: "Cloak and Dagger"
    05-18-1908 - Del King - Kansas City, KS - d. 8-22-1964
    announcer: "Avalon Time"; "Tommy Dorsey's Kool Show"
    05-18-1908 - Lorene Scott - d. 4-19-1983
    actor: Maria Hawkins "Young Widder Brown"
    05-18-1908 - Ted Malone - Colorado Springs, CO - d. 10-20-1989
    commentator: "Between the Bookends"; "Pilgrimage of Poetry"
    05-18-1908 - Tommy Tucker - Souris, ND - d. 7-13-1989
    bandleader: "Lucky Strike Show with Walter Winchell"; "George Jessel
    Show"
    05-18-1912 - John Campbell Crosby - Milwaukee, WI - d. 9-7-1991
    radio critic: New York Herald Tribune
    05-18-1912 - Perry Como - Canonsburg, PA - d. 5-12-2001
    singer: "Perry Como Program"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
    05-18-1913 - Charles Trenet - Creteil, France - d. 1-18-2001
    singer: "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Discoparade"
    05-18-1922 - Bill Macy - Revere, MA
    actor: "Earplay"
    05-18-1922 - Kai Winding - Aarhus, Denmark - d. 5-7-1983
    musician: "Stan Kenton and His Orchestra"; "One Night Stand"; "Jubilee"
    05-18-1924 - Jack Whitaker - Philadelphia, PA
    disc jockey, sportscaster: "Jack the Bachelor"; "Sports Shots"
    05-18-1931 - Robert Morse - Newton, MA
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    05-18-1932 - Walter Anglin - d. 9-8-2001
    disk jockey: WJLD Birmingham, Alabama
    05-18-1936 - Joel Kupperman - Chicago, IL
    panelist: "Quiz Kids"

    May 18th deaths

    01-13-1890 - Elmer Davis - Aurora, IN - d. 5-18-1958
    newscaster, commentator, correspondent: "Elmer Davis and the News"
    02-06-1888 - Lucille Gleason - Pasadena, CA - d. 5-18-1947
    actor: "Jimmy Gleason's Diner"
    03-21-1893 - Sidney Franklin - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-18-1972
    film producer, director: "Academy Awards Program"; "Screen Guild
    Theatre"
    03-25-1892 - Andy Clyde - Blaingowrie, Scotland - d. 5-18-1967
    actor: California Carlson "Hopalong Cassidy"
    05-03-1919 - Doris Rich - Canada - d. 5-18-1971
    actor: Hannah O'Leary" Houseboat Hannah"; Miss Daisey "Portia Faces
    Life"
    05-10-1910 - Louis Buck - Bessemer, AL - d. 5-18-1971
    announcer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Sunday Down South"
    06-13-1890 - Elmer Davis - Aurora, IN - d. 5-18-1958
    newscaster: "Elmer Davis and the News"
    06-18-1919 - Ed Simmons - d. 5-18-1998
    writer, director: "The Martin and Lewis Show"; "The Quiz Kids"
    06-29-1908 - Leroy Anderson - Cambridge, MA - d. 5-18-1975
    compser, arranger: " Contemporary Composers Concerts"; "Must for
    America"
    08-31-1908 - William Saroyan - Fresno, CA - d. 5-18-1981
    writer: "Columbia Workshop"; "The Free Company"; "Biography in Sound"
    09-09-1927 - Elvin Ray Jones - Pontiac, MI - d. 5-18-2004
    jazz drummer: "Newport Jazz Festival"
    10-12-1906 - Daniel Saidenberg - d. 5-18-1997
    conductor: "Alec Templeton Time"
    11-01-1923 - Charles Dugdale - Lincoln, NE - d. 5-18-1985
    actor: "Heartbeat Theatre"
    11-16-1912 - Paul Dudley - Massachusetts - d. 5-18-1959
    writer: "Pot o' Gold"; "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
    11-23-1912 - Tyree Glenn - Corsicana, TX - d. 5-18-1974
    trombonist, vibraphonist: "Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concert"
    11-27-1925 - Marshall Thompson - Peoria, IL - d. 5-18-1992
    actor: "Free World Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-29-1905 - Mario Braggiotti - Florence, Italy - d. 5-18-1996
    pianist, composer: "Fray and Braggiotti"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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