Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #26
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Date: 1/24/2006 9:56 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 26
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Various Follow-Ups                    [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
      Cincy and the [removed]                 [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
      Raymond! (no, not of the Creaking Do  [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Re: Odd show--anyone have a date?     [ stevenl751@[removed] ]
      Flash Gordon / Jungle Jim             [ "Steven Kelez" <otrsteve@[removed]; ]
      Radio Guide                           [ "Karl Schadow" <bluecar91@[removed] ]
      Andrews Sisters song                  [ "WEH" <nbcblue@[removed]; ]
      Old Time Radio Books in Florida       [ JJiovanazz@[removed] ]
      Mrs. Calabash                         [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
      Happy Birthday, Marla!                [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      "The Brigadooning of the Night"       [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
      Jim and Flash                         [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Good Health to All - From Rexall      [ "Phil Stallings" <redrydertexas@sbc ]
      Congo Bartlett in Ethiopia            [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Repeats                               [ "Roger Keel" <rlkeel@[removed]; ]
      re: TWTD in Scottsdale                [ "Marty" <md64@[removed]; ]
      Re: Little Bo Peep                    [ "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:27:55 -0500
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Various Follow-Ups
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    In the mid-1980s, the NYC-area classical music station WQXR-AM played OTR
    reruns of "The Jack Benny Program" with most of the Lucky Strikes commercials
    edited out.  I found it ironic that every show QXR played ended with Jack
    saying "We're a little late, so 'Good night,'"--leading me to believe that one
    particular ending was pasted on to every show in the package.

    Why do I bring this up? Because I'm now about to resort to an introductory
    line that has becomed repetive & cliched dor [removed]'m a few Digests behind, so
    here goes:

    DORIAN JOHNSTONE: Cinnamon Bear folks like Mike Ogden and Dennis Crow believe
    that they have finally put a name to the voice of "Jimmy Barton," viz. Dorian
    Johnston. I'll attempt to see if he has a  file folder at Billy Rose. My
    question is (not that this would have any bearing on anything): was the "T" in
    "Johnston" voiced or not. Some "Johnstons" are pronounced "Johnson" as in the
    upscale shoe chain "Johnston & Murphy."

    SID FIELDS: Jerry Seinfeld has often spoke of how "The Abbott & Costello" TV
    show was a great influence on his "Seinfeld" series. In one episode of
    "Seinfeld," there's an elderly man named "Sid Fields" whom Jerry befriends.
    This fellow believes his nurse is trying to poison him  & owns a valuable jazz
    LP collection that Kramer and Newman con him out of. Another elderly  gellow
    in the story was played by OTR/Talking Bookm veteran Robert Donley (d. 2004).

    DIRTY WORD: My pal & fellow New Jersey John Eccles, Jr., when referring to
    A&C's TV show used the word "t--------n" to which Listmaster Charlie
    rejoindered [ADMINISTRIVIA: Let's please stop this silly feigned aversion to
    the word, "television."  --cfs3]. I used to do this, but Charlie read me the
    riot act. In general, I've respected his wishes, but, d---it, I still think
    rendering the  word "televison" with the intermittent dashes & treating it
    like a dirty word in a Victorian-era novel is STILL funny.

    DEFUNCT AND LINGERING PRODUCTS: I'm well aware that "Phillip Morris" is the
    name of a Big Tobacco firm; but do they still market a brand called "Phillip
    Morris" as in "Calll for Phillip Mor- reeees!"?  The only reason I ever buy
    Barbasol Shaving Cream is because of its OTR connections  via "Singing Sam,
    the Barbasol Man."  Another defunct brand: the Mutual Broadcasting System.

    Pass the Molle'--whatever that was!

    IPANA TOOTHPASTE: CBC performer, cartoon voice-man, & OTR convention perennial
    Carl Banas told me he was the voice of the Ipana toothpaste mascot "Bucky
    Beaver" in  a series of TV ads in the late-1950s. Thanks to the popularity of
    the film musical "Grease," his work lives on being that there's a scene where
    one of these ads is playing on a TV during a slumber party scene.  Like most
    other fans of annual Christmas cartoons, I look forward to hearing Carl doing
    the voice of the head elf bellowing "Why weren't you at elf practise?!"
    whenever "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" rolls around.

    Best always from the ether!

    D---k T---e

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    Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:33:55 -0500
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Cincy and the [removed]

    Folks;

       Bob Burchett, he of the Cincy Convention "Bobs," emailed the pre-flyer
    flyer which includes prelim info on the convention to your obedient servant,
    who posted it to the Nostalgic Rumblings blog at [removed]
    (AOL-friendly link below). Of course, _everyone_ here monitors the Nostalgic
    Rumblings blog, where I post all such objects, but just in case you're new
    here and don't know how wonderfully useless the blog is, there you go.

             Charlie

    <a href="[removed]">[removed]</a>

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    Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:21:22 -0500
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Raymond! (no, not of the Creaking Door, but
     the Scratching Pen)

    From: "RadioAZ@[removed]"  radioAZ@[removed]

>     I have just finished listening to the
>     strangest  conglomeration of a show I have ever heard.  It starts out as
>     "Jungle  Jim."  But soon, a strange object lands in the jungle and who
>     should
>     emerge from it but Flash Gordon, Dale and Dr.  Zharkov

    Dear ?-

    That sounds like a hoot! As to its source,  I have a [removed]

    It sure is a LEGAL meeting; the characters are all  children of artist Alex
    Raymond, and "wards" of King Features  Syndicate.

    I'm shooting blind [removed] but might the source be a  children's lp of the
    '60's or '70's? Thematically, that would make sense; also,  you seem to imply
    no
    identifying open and close, and that would be the case  there.

    (Anthony? Martin?)

    Best,
    -Craig

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    Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:43:47 -0500
    From: stevenl751@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Odd show--anyone have a date?
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>     It starts out as "Jungle Jim."  But soon, a strange object lands in the
>     jungle and who > should emerge from it but Flash Gordon, Dale and Dr.
>     Zharkov.

    A weekly 15-minute Flash Gordon series started airing on 4/27/35 and ran for
    26 episodes/weeks.  At some point it was decided, I guess by the sponsor, to
    end the Flash Gordon series and start a Jungle Jim series.  So in the final
    episodes of "The Adventures of Flash Gordon", in October 1935, Flash and his
    companions take off in their rocket ship from Mongo and end up crashing in
    the jungle on Earth where they are discovered by Jungle Jim.  For the next
    several episodes the series is titled "The Adventures of Flash Gordon and
    Jungle Jim" and features both characters.  Then Flash and his companions
    return to civilization, leaving Jungle Jim to continue the radio show on his
    own.  The final episode with Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim together aired on
    10/26/35, and "The Adventures of Jungle Jim" begins the following week, on
    11/2/35.

    It's actually kind of a cool transition between the two radio series.  They
    might have also switched writers at the same time, since (in my opinion) the
    Flash Gordon series is not very good but the Jungle Jim series is one of my
    favorites.

    Steve Lewis

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    Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:31:53 -0500
    From: "Steven Kelez" <otrsteve@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Flash Gordon / Jungle Jim

>     It starts out as "Jungle Jim."  But soon, a strange object lands in
>     the jungle and who should emerge from it but Flash Gordon, Dale and
>     Dr. Zharkov.

    The answer to the Flash Gordon - Jungle Jim question sounds like the
    final episode to the syndicated Hearst Flash Gordon series, which was
    sort of adapted from the Sunday newspaper strip by Alex Raymond. The
    program was changed to Jungle Jim (another strip by Alex Raymond) at
    that point, and begins/ends with Flash, Dale and Zarkoff returning to
    Earth where Flash and Dale get married in the jungle (of course this
    never ever happened in the newspaper strip). The following week the
    first Jungle Jim serial began with the Batwoman of the Jungle story
    line. The date I have for this episode is 10/19/35.

    There were only 26 episodes to this first Flash Gordon series. There was
    another series produced a bit later about Flash's adventures on
    Atlantis, but I have no information on that one, other than the 4
    episodes that are known to exist.

    For a log of the Hearst series go to my favorite place,
    [removed]. You can find the listing by using either
    the search or catalog links.

    Steven Kelez

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    Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:32:31 -0500
    From: "Karl Schadow" <bluecar91@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Radio Guide

    If you have issues of Radio Guide from 1937, 1938 or 1939 that list
    radio stations in the Southwest, Texas, or Gulf States areas, please
    contact me off-line. I'm seeking information on BLACK NIGHT, a horror
    program produced by WBAP in Fort Worth. Thanks.
    Karl Schadow

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    Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:32:46 -0500
    From: "WEH" <nbcblue@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Andrews Sisters song

     Alan Chapman  comments:

>     A friend, who collects military army jeeps, has been trying to find an
>     old song by the Andrews Sisters which was, "Little Bow Peep has lost her
>     Jeep."

    Spike Jones and Horace Heidt recorded it, but can't find anywhere the Andrew
    Sisters did. They did record a song titled "Six Jerks in a Jeep".

    See here for Spike Jones
    [removed]

    and here for Horace Heidt and Andrew Sisters (tape #4)

    [removed]#TAPE%20#4

    Bill H.

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    Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:33:03 -0500
    From: JJiovanazz@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Old Time Radio Books in Florida
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    Hello all Radio Fans Living In Florida,

    I would like all Old Time Radio fans in South Florida  to know that I  have
    donated my entire collection of old time radio books to the Unitarian
    Universalist Fellowship of Boca Raton.  The Fellowship is having a flee
    market sale
    on Saturday, the 28th fro 8 in the morning till 1:00 in the  afternoon.  the
    address is 2601 St. Andrews Blvd.
                                                Boca Raton, Fl. 33434
                                                Ph. (561) 482-2001
    It is a great collection and too many to list.  Thanks.

    Jim Jiovanazzo
    (5610 330-0225.

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    Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:30:54 -0500
    From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Mrs. Calabash
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           There's always been some speculation regarding exactly who
    "Mrs. Calabash" actually was.  Some of them include: one of Jimmy
    Durante's old girlfriends, a  woman who broke his heart, an unnamed
    actress with whom he'd had an affair, a waitress who'd provided him
    with good service, and (the most plausible, IMHO) a general shout out
    to all of the lonely people who listened to his program personified.  I doubt
    we'll ever really know who he was referring to.  One person even suggested
    it might have been a figment of Jimmy's imagination.  Whatever the
    case, it sure has been the subject of much speculation over the years.

    Another OTR Fan,

    Kenneth Clarke

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    Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:31:30 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Happy Birthday, Marla!

    As most Digesters know, Marla Slosberg is in rehab-care in the NYC
    area, following a serious head injury which occurred the day before the
    Newark FOTR convention began last October. She is the daughter of OTR
    star, Charlie Cantor, and she has been a frequent attendee at the FOTR
    convention for past several years. She is also a member of Metro
    Washington Old Time Radio Club.

    I have been forwarding messages from her son, Lee, regarding her
    condition, goals and needs. Today I received the following from him:

    +++++++++++++++++++

    Mother has been steadily improving in all phases of her recovery. With
    the various physical therapy sessions, her spirits are better. While it
    is too early to determine when she can return home, we are now aiming
    for latter February or early March.

    Personal visits of any friends in the NYC area would be very beneficial
    and are most welcome. In addition, cards, flowers, and notes of support
    can be sent to her at:

    Park Terrace Care Center, 59-20 Van Doren Street, Room 215-A, Rego
    Park, NY 11368.

    Mother's birthday is this Sunday, January 29th so birthday cards from
    her OTR friends are greatly encouraged, both to raise her spirits and
    improve her memory.

    I would like to thank all of her OTR family for their concern, support
    and prayers.  I look forward to meeting you all later this year at the
    Newark convention.

    Lee Slosberg

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:32:05 -0500
    From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  "The Brigadooning of the Night"

    Some of you, in the area, might want to check out a few Broadway
    "joints," that are shuttering, over the next few [removed]  (A couple of
    these, will be gone, after Sunday.) They've been a lynchpin of the
    Broadway community for years, and a couple of the locales go back to the
    radio days, and were no doubt hangouts, or at least destinations, for
    some of that era's veterans.

    Here's a short piece I wrote, that also woundup being paraphrased,
    during an appearance, last week, on [removed]

    Jim Burns

    "When Runyon's Shadows, Shadow"
    The Loss of a Few Great Broadway Joints

    Perhaps it was being at the sensational, record-breaking performance of
    PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, that has put me in a nostalgic mood, but I don't
    think there's ever anything foolish about celebrating the past,
    particularly if it has a pleasant foothold, on the future.

    Monday night saw the closing of McHales, on 46th at 8th, a tavern famous
    for food that was as plentiful, and good, as it was inexpensive--and a
    haven for actors and stagehands.

    By the end of the month, we will have lost several other Broadway
    institutions, to the vagaries of "redevelopment."

    Barrymore's on 45th, is the only place I can think of where actors are
    still known to be-- consciously--partying at 3 AM, while doubling for
    the rest of the day as a meeting place for the neigborhood's endless
    stream of theatre folk, tourists, and "locals."

    The loss of that street's Frankie and Johnny's (part of which goes back
    to Damon Runyon's speakeasy days), Sam's, and Puleo's, is no less sad,
    for their patrons.

    Progress, generally, isn't supposed to mean the end of something that
    already works. And I can't help but think that at some point in the
    future, a theme park entrepeneur will decide to construct a "Broadway
    block," of themed bars, and eateries.

    It's fascinating that for the not too many-remaining moments, such a
    magic corridor, already exists.

    And secret labyrinths beneath our city's streets aside, I will miss
    these oases, of the night.

    James H. Burns
    January, 2006

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    Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:33:37 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jim and Flash

    On Tuesday, January 24, 2006, at 08:33 AM, Radio AZ wrote:

>     This odd show starts out as "Jungle Jim."  But soon, a strange object lands
>     in the jungle and who should emerge from it but Flash Gordon, Dale and Dr.
>     Zharkov.  Anyone have any idea of a date for this mess?

    John Dunning explains this episode as the transition between two
    series, both based on Hearst Syndicate comic strips. He says the Flash
    Gordon radio show ended after 26 weeks in February 1936 with his space
    ship crashing into Jim's jungle. With this episode, Jungle Jim became
    the new Hearst serial on the air as Flash gradually disappeared.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL

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    Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:51:29 -0500
    From: "Phil Stallings" <redrydertexas@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Good Health to All - From Rexall

    Since I mentioned the Rexall sign-off of the Jimmy Durante Show, several
    folks have commented on other shows that Rexall sponsored .. Stephen
    mentioned Phil Harris-Alice Faye ... Charlie mentioned Amos N Andy ....
    Rexall sponsored Jimmy Durante from 4/6/1945 to 6/27/1947 ... Phil
    Harris-Alice Faye from 1948 thru 1950 ... Richard Diamond - Private
    Detective in the Fall of 1950 .... Amos N Andy in 1953 .... Rexall also
    sponsored the Peggy Lee Show, but I don't have those dates at hand ....
    there may have been other shows they sponsored, but I'm on the road and
    don't have access to my library out here ...

    Phil Stallings
    redrydertexas@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:52:01 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Congo Bartlett in Ethiopia

    Conquest Alliance was a major syndication company in the 30s and 40s
    and among their offerings was an adventure series called "Congo
    Bartlett in Ethiopia."  To my knowledge no audio copies have ever
    surfaced.

    A doctor in Rhode Island, after reading my article on the history of
    Syndicated Radio, which appeared in the Jan issue of the Old Time Radio
    Times at <[removed]> sent me the below email, which
    I'll post for her.  If you can help, you can email her directly and
    also post your reply on the Digest so the rest of us will know.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL

    +++++++++++++++++++++++

    Do you know where I can locate any audio copies of "Congo Bartlett in
    Ethiopia"? I am very interested in listening to them, from both an OTR
    personal standpoint as well as academic reasons. I'm crossing my
    fingers that this series is not lost in everything but name.

    Dr. Marilyn H. Fetterman
    Foster, RI
    401-647-3268
    email:  <ngari@[removed];

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    Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:45:24 -0500
    From: "Roger Keel" <rlkeel@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Repeats

    Hi.

    I would like to expand and clarify my post on repeat shows. My first post
    was sent while I was winding down from a long trip attending a series of
    meeting relating to my job and I guess that I was not that clear on what I
    asked.

    When I listed the four categories of show repeats that I have noticed while
    listening to OTR in my last post I didn't explain them very well.

    The four categories were:

    1.	A direct repeat of the original transcription disk complete with
    original
    commercials.  Did the producers of the various radio shows keep the master
    copy of the transcription disk for any amount of time?  I have an idea that
    the repeats of various episodes that were done within a year of each other
    are just copies from the master disk. At least, they sound that way to me.

    2.	A repeat of the original transcription disk with new commercials
    added.
    Could this have been done?

    3.	A new version with the same cast.  Not much to clarify here. I am
    able to
    identify these repeats very easily. The timing and how the script was read
    differ from episode to episode.

    4.	A whole new version with a new cast.  Duh!!! I don't really call this
    a
    repeat, more like a remake.  Hollywood is quite big on this.

    I am more curious about the first two categories that I have listed. Did
    this happen? I am especially curious about Suspense --- Sorry, Wrong Number
    with Agnes Moorehead. Did Ms. Moorehead perform the show each and every time
    or do some of the broadcasts fall in to the first two categories on my list.

    Thanks

    Roger Keel

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    Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:06:19 -0500
    From: "Marty" <md64@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  re: TWTD in Scottsdale

>     My long-running (35+ years) vintage radio program, "Those Were The Days"
>     will be broadcast from the House of Broadcasting Radio & Television Museum,
>     7150 E. Fifth Avenue, Scottsdale, Arizona, during February, March and
>     April of
>     this year.

    Chuck,
    Have a safe trip and travels while in Arizona.   Be sure to use your
    sunscreen!

    We'll be listening back here in Chicagoland and on the internet, so we'll
    still be with each other
    on Saturday afternoons.

    Take care and enjoy the Valley of The Sun.

    Marty

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    Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:46:11 -0500
    From: "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Little Bo Peep

    Alan Chapman <[removed]@[removed]; inquired:

>     A friend, who collects military army jeeps, has been trying to find an
>     old song by the Andrews Sisters which was, "Little Bow Peep has lost her
>     Jeep."

>     If anyone has a copy or knows where we can get one, please drop me an
>     email off-line.

    While it's possible that the Andrews Sisters recorded this song (or
    performed it on some radio program or other), Spike Jones is the artist most
    generally associated with it (though other similar outfits, like Horace
    Heidt's and Kay Kyser's, cut their own versions that can be found with a
    little digging -- and there's even a LaserLight disc of =Glenn Miller's=
    band covering the track!), and performed it on his own program and on shows
    like the Kraft Music Hall.

    Proper Box UK's Spike Jones "Strictly For Music Lovers" set contains one
    version of the tune and can be had (for a ridiculously low price) at Amazon
    US (which site can be searched for title and author).

    There is also (the somewhat less budget-minded) Collectors' Choice's "Not
    Your Standard Spike Jones Collection" (again, Amazon US can be searched,
    though other sites may have it for less), the last track of which is the
    dittie in question.

    DISCLAIMER: I am not associated with Proper Box UK, Collectors' Choice or
    [removed] (though I =do= wish I'd been fortunate enough as to have been
    associated with Spike Jones, durnit).

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