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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2010 : Issue 43
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  3-4 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  3-5 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  "The Old Time Radio Express" Schedul  [ Mark Wuellner <mwuellne@[removed] ]
  Fleischer SUPERMAN cartoons           [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
  Tape Speed                            [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]
  Re: Off-speed programs                [ Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]
  The Vintage Vault                     [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
  Re: Clark Kent phone booth            [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  otr                                   [ "ken lanza" <klanza@[removed]; ]

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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 22:39:22 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  3-4 births/deaths

March 4th births

03-04-1880 - Channing Pollack - Washington [removed] - d. 8-17-1946
lecturer, author: "America's Town Mettking of the Air"; "Wake Up
America"
03-04-1888 - David Frederick Smith - Clarksburg, IN - d. 8-14-1976
early radio broadcaster: Creator of "March of Time"
03-04-1888 - Fred Smith - Clarksburg, IN - d. 8-15-1976
announcer: (America's first Ambassador of the Radio) "Newsacting"
03-04-1888 - Knute Rockne - Voss, Norway - d. 3-31-1931
football coach: "Biography in Sound"
03-04-1892 - Helen Van Tuyl - Iowa - d. 8-22-1964
actor: Ellen Collins "Bachelor's Children"
03-04-1896 - George Shelton - NYC - d. 2-12-1972
comedian: "Sunday Night Party"; "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
03-04-1903 - Harold Berens - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 5-10-1995
actor: "Ignorance Is Bliss"
03-04-1904 - Dorothy Page - Northampton, PA - d. 3-26-1961
vocalist: "Paducah Plantation"
03-04-1904 - Joseph Schmidt - Davideny, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary - d.
11-16-1942
singer: "General Motors Concerts"
03-04-1907 - Edgar Barrier - NYC - d. 6-20-1964
actor: Simon Templar "The Saint"
03-04-1907 - Pat McGeehan - Steelton, PA - d. 1-3-1988
announcer, actor: "Abbott and Costello"; "The Red Skelton Show"
03-04-1908 - Lee Allman - d. 10-8-1989
actor: (Sister of James Jewell) Lenore 'Casey' Case "The Green Hornet"
03-04-1909 - Harry Elders - d. 11-25-1993
actor: Dr. Bill Evans "Road of Life"; David Houseman "Stepmother"
03-04-1910 - Margaret Wood - Great Yarmouth, England - d. 2-xx-2002
scripwriter for BBC radio schools
03-04-1910 - Miriam Kressyn - Poland - d. 10-28-1996
Was the most popular Yiddish artist on radio of her day
03-04-1913 - John Garfield - NYC - d. 5-21-1952
actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"; "Free Company"; "Treasury
Star Parade"
03-04-1914 - Ward Kimball - Minneapolis, MN - d. 7-8-2002
disney animator: "Here's to Veterans"
03-04-1916 - William Alland - Delmare, DE - d. 11-10-1997
actor: "Mercury Theatre"; "Doorway to Life"; "Frontier Gentleman"
03-04-1920 - Alan MacNaughtan - Bearsden, Scotland - d. 8-29-2002
actor: "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
03-04-1921 - Harry Besse - d. 1-29-1994
disk jockey: KSWI Council Bluffs,Iowa
03-04-1921 - Joan Greenwood - London, England - d. 2-28-1987
actor: "Stagestruck"
03-04-1922 - Martha O'Driscoll - Tulsa, OK - d. 11-3-1998
actor: "Your Blind Date"
03-04-1932 - Miriam Makeba - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 11-10-2008
click singer: "The World of Folk Music"
03-04-1934 - Barbara McNair - Racine, WI - d. 2-4-2007
singer/actor: "America Swings"
03-04-1934 - John Dunn - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 11-28-2004
announcer, newsreader: "Roundabout"; "Housewive's Choice"; "Breadfast
Special"
03-04-1944 - Edwin Drake - Grand Rapids, MI
composer: "Back to God Hour"

March 4th deaths

01-06-1927 - Jack Voorhies - Sheffield, AL - d. 3-4-2008
radio personality: (Voice of the Shoals) Created Luther Appleby and
his mule Chilton
04-13-1907 - Harold E. Stassen - West St. Paul, MN - d. 3-4-2001
presidential candidate: "Meet the Press"; "The People's Platform"
04-21-1911 - Leonard Warren - The Bronx, NY - d. 3-4-1960
singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Telephone Hour"
05-06-1911 - Artie Bland - d. 3-4-2002
disk jockey: KWBU Corpus Christi, Texas
05-18-1900 - Lew White - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-4-1955
organist: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Break the Bank"; "Betty
Moore"
05-29-1935 - Bryar Martin - Ulverston, Cumbrio, England - d. 3-4-2009
newsreader: BBC Radio 4
06-04-1920 - Fedoro Barbieri - Trieste, Italy - d. 3-4-2003
opera singer: "Metropolitan Opera"
06-06-1872 - Arthur H. Adams - Lawrence, New Zealand - d. 3-4-1936
his stage play "Mrs. Pretty and the Premier" was adapted for radio
07-09-1907 - Eddie Dean - Posey, TX - d. 3-4-1999
actor: Larry Burton "Modern Cinderella"
08-05-1908 - Don Albert - d. 3-4-1980
orchestra leader: WGN Chicago, Illinois 1935
08-23-1908 - Natalie Bodanya - NYC - d. 3-4-2007
opera soprano: "The Metropolitan Opera"
09-20-1924 - Michael Hardwick - Leeds, England - d. 3-4-1991
author: Adapted Sherlock Holmes for radio
10-08-1891 - Florence Malone - d. 3-4-1956
actor: Christy Allen "Against the Storm"; Mrs. Diamond "Advs. of
Captain Diamond"
10-25-1912 - Minnie Pearl - Centerville, TN - d. 3-4-1996
comedian: (Queen of Country Comedy) "Grand Ole Opry"
11-14-1904 - Art Hodes - Nikoliev, Russia - d. 3-4-1993
jazz pianist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"; "This Is Jazz"; "WNYC
Jazz Festival"
11-15-1909 - Sydney Smith - d. 3-4-1978
actor: Abie Levy "Abie's Irish Rose"; Ellery Queen "Advs. of Ellery
Queen"
11-20-1883 - Edwin August - d. 3-4-1964
drama critic on KFI Los Angeles, California
11-25-1909 - Verne Smith - NYC - d. 3-4-1978
announcer: "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
12-03-1873 - Atwater Kent - Burlington, VT - d. 3-4-1949
inventer and radio manufacturer: Maker of Atwater Kent radios
12-11-1905 - Pare Lorentz - Clarksburg, WV - d. 3-4-1992
writer: "Columbia Workshop"
12-17-1911 - Richard Sale - NYC - d. 3-4-1993
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"

Ron

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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 22:39:27 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  3-5 births/deaths

March 5th births

03-05-1881 - Toby Gremmer - Bainbridge, GA - d. 9-6-1981
actor: Hermit "The Hermit's Cave"
03-05-1882 - Eustace Wyatt - Bath, Somerset, England - d. 10-25-1944
actor: Lord Percy "Our Gal Sunday"
03-05-1891 - Chic Johnson - Chicago, IL - d. 2-28-1962
comedian: "Olsen and Johnson"; "Rudy Vallee Show"
03-05-1892 - Paul Wing - Sandwich, MA - d. 5-29-1957
actor/emcee: "The Story Man"; "Uncle Toddy"; "Youth vs. Age"
03-05-1893 - Dorothy Sands - Cambridge, MA - d. 9-11-1980
actor: Mary Ann Clarke "Barry Cameron"; Margot "Backstage Wife"
03-05-1894 - Henry Daniell - London, England - d. 10-31-1963
actor: "Theatre Guild of the Air"
03-05-1898 - Bud Selvin - d. 7-15-1980
bandleader: "Devoe Redskins"; "Kolster Radio Hour"
03-05-1900 - Martin Magner - Stettin, Germany - d. 1-25-2002
director: "Under Arrest"; "Wooden Fish"
03-05-1900 - Sam Hearn - Jersey City, NJ - d. 10-27-1964
comedian: Schlepperman "Jack Benny Program, Glamour Manor"
03-05-1903 - Minerva Pious - Odessa, Russia - d. 3-16-1979
commedienne: Mrs. Pansy Nussbaum "Fred Allen Show"
03-05-1906 - Aileen Carlyle - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-3-1984
vocalist: "Spike Jones and His City Slickers"
03-05-1906 - Harry Lubin - d. 7-21-1977
music: "Glamour Manor"; "Burns and Allen"; "Blondie"
03-05-1908 - Rex Harrison - Huyton, England - d. 6-2-1990
actor: Rex Saunders "Private Files of Rex Saunders"
03-05-1911 - Joseph Tometty - Ireland - d. 6-7-1995
writer: "The McCooeys"
03-05-1913 - Dick Whittinghill - Montana - d. 1-24-2001
disk jockey: "Did you Whittinghill This Morning?"
03-05-1920 - Virginia Christine - Stanton, IA - d. 7-24-1996
actor: "Confession"; "Gunsmoke"
03-05-1921 - Milt Kamen - Hurleyville, NY - d. 2-24-1977
satirist: "Voices of Vista"; "Here's to Veterans"
03-05-1922 - Robert Burr - Jersey City, NJ - d. 5-13-2000
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
03-05-1925 - Lucy Gilman - Chicago, IL - d. 11-23-2006
actor: "(Sister of Toni Gilman) "I Love A Mystery"; Welcome Valley"
03-05-1925 - Nora Dugon - Northern Ireland
writer: "Can't You Hear Me Talking to You?"
03-05-1927 - Jack Cassidy - NYC - d. 12-12-1976
singer, actor: "Stars for Defense"; "Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP"
03-05-1927 - Rachel Gurney - Eton, England - d. 11-24-2001
actor: BBC Home Service; Emma Woodhouse "Emma"
03-05-1936 - Dean Stockwell - North Hollywood, CA
actor: "Hallmark Hall of Fame"

March 5th deaths

02-18-1907 - Billy de Wolf -  Wollaston, MA - d. 3-5-1974
actor: "Ginny Simms Show"; "Philco Radio Playhouse"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-03-1939 - Sam Chu Lin - Mississippi - d. 3-5-2006
newscaster, actor: "Empire of the Air"
03-07-1880 - Sidney Scott Booth - Birmingham, England - d. 3-5-1946
radio performer
03-17-1879 - Sid Grauman - Indianapolis, IN - d. 3-5-1950
theatre owner: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-19-1930 - Joan Fox - Ottawa, Canada - d. 3-5-2009
film reviewer: "The Arts This Week"
03-21-1943 - Vivian Stanshall - Shillingford, England - d. 3-5-1995
pop musician: "Viv Stanshall's Radio Flashes"
03-31-1922 - Richard Kiley - Chicago, IL - d. 3-5-1999
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
04-08-1896 - Yip Harburg - NYC - d. 3-5-1981
lyricist: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
04-18-1889 - Gene Carroll - Chicago, IL - d. 3-5-1972
comedian: Lena, the maid "Fibber McGee and Molly"
05-02-1908 - Wilms Herbert - Chicago, IL - d. 3-5-1951
actor: Sergeant Otis Ludlum "Richard Diamond, Private Detctive"
05-12-1894 - Leora Thatcher - Logan, UT - d. 3-5-1984
actor: Mrs. Kramer "Right to Happiness"
07-06-1875 - Roger Babson - d. 3-5-1967
economist: "Babson Reports"
07-15-1913 - Cowboy Copas - Muskogee, OK - d. 3-5-1963
singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Country Music Time"
07-29-1892 - William Powell - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 3-5-1984
actor: Father "My Mother's Husband"
07-29-1909 - Bernard Mackey - d. 3-5-1980
singer, guitarist: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots";
"Let's Go Nightclubbing"
08-02-1915 - Gary Merrill - Hartford, CT - d. 3-5-1990
actor: Bruce Wayne/Batman "Adventures of Superman"
08-03-1886 - Russ Westover - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-5-1966
writer: Creator of the comic strip "Tillie the Toiler"
08-23-1869 - Edgar Lee Masters - Garnett, KS - d. 3-5-1950
author: "Cavalcade of America"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
09-04-1898 - Harry Salter - Bucharest, Romania - d. 3-5-1984
conductor: "It Pays to Be Ignorant"; "Lanny Ross Show"; "Stop the Music"
09-06-1915 - Kleve Kirby - d. 3-5-1949
actor: John Murray "Today's Children"
09-08-1932 - Patsy Cline - Gore, VA - d. 3-5-1963
country singer: "Country Hoedown"; "Grand Ole Opry"
09-19-1921 - Michael Noonan - Christchurch, New Zealand - d. 3-5-2000
writer: "The Man Who Changed the Wind"
09-26-1915 - Tony Romano - Fresno, CA - d. 3-5-2005
guitarist: "The Bob Hope Show"
09-29-1918 - James Wood - Elgin, Scotland - d. 3-5-1984
author of radio plays
10-26-1910 - Clarence Hartzell - Huntington, WV - d. 3-5-1988
actor: Uncle Fletcher "Vic and Sade"; Pappy Yokum "Li'l AAbner"; "Ben
Withers "Lum and Abner"
11-07-1897 - Herman J. Mankiewicz - NYC - d. 3-5-1953
screenwriter, producer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-12-1929 - Jim Backlin - d. 3-5-1981
disk jockey: KCJB Minot, North Dakota; KFYR Bismarck, North Dakota
11-17-1905 - Mischa Auer - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 3-5-1967
actor: "Mischa the Magnificent"
12-02-1906 - Donald Woods - Brandon, Manitoba, Canada - d. 3-5-1998
actor: Leslie Foster "Those We Love"; "Woolworth Hour"
12-22-1921 - Hawkshaw Hawkins - Huntingdon, WV - d. 3-5-1963
singer: "Country Style [removed]"; "Country Music Time"

Ron

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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 22:39:46 -0500
From: Mark Wuellner <mwuellne@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  "The Old Time Radio Express" Schedule - Sunday,
 7:00pm EST
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 Please join us this Sunday, March 7th from 7:00-8:00pm EST for more great old
time radio & discussion on "The Old Time Radio Express."

 This week:

"Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show" with guest Fred Allen, from November
2, 1947

"Lights Out!" with "Alley Cat" (aka "Cat Wife"), from January 19, 1943

Stream us live at [removed] or download the show after the fact
at [removed].

Mark Wuellner
Host
The Old Time Radio Express

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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:17:43 -0500
From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Fleischer SUPERMAN cartoons

 From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];

I'm  sure everyone knows that Clayton "Bud" Collier and Joan Alexander,
the radio  Supes and Lois Lane, also provided the voices for the Fleischer
cartoons

And Craig Wichman replied:

Alas, not for all of them; and Collyer's replacement is not up to his
level:

Actually, Bud Collyer did voice Superman/Clark Kent in ALL of the Fleischer
SUPERMAN cartoons. He was replaced for the later Famous Studios cartoons,
after Dave and Max Fleischer were deposed. Fans routinely (and incorrectly)
refer to all 17 cartoons as "Fleischer" cartoons, though as I recall only
the first eight (with Bud Collyer) were technically Fleischer productions.
--Anthony Tollin

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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:17:53 -0500
From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Tape Speed

I got my first tape recorder in 1952. A Pentron model 9T3C. I still
have it and it kind of still works.

Anyway, soon after I started making recordings, a local recording
studio showed me an item to buy. It was a strobe unit that would show
you the speed that your tape was moving, the same way you can see the
speed of a turntable.

My only comment was, okay, so what if the recording is going too fast
or slow, how can I adjust it. It was years before I got my first
recorder that had an adjustable speed playback control.

The one thing I did find out about the Pentron was that at 7 1/2 ips,
it was accurate.

Fred
Check us out for old time radio & TV shows & Movie Serials
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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:18:03 -0500
From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Off-speed programs

Jan Bach discussed judging the proper reproduction speed of a program by the
pitch and key of classical music used as themes in the program.  This is
something that has long been discussed by record collectors, because rarely
were pre-1930 records recorded at the advertised speed.  Victor advertised 78
but usually recorded at 76.  Columbia advertised 80 but usually recorded at
78.  Why the companies advised users to play the records slightly sharp has
been the object of discussion for 50 years -- while collectors work to play
them back at their accurate speed.  It is much more difficult for popular
music, and a prime example concerned the chimes played by pioneer announcer
Lambdin Kay of WSB on a January 1925 Columbia record by Ed and Grace
McConnell.  I had long played it at 78 making Kay's WSB station
identification a high pitched monotone song.  But when Michael Shoshani was
putting the recording into the NBC Chimes Museum site, he discovered the
pitch of the chimes was too high.  We know exactly what model chimes Kay used
because they are on display in the lobby of WSB, and Michael has one of the
exact same chime set.  In order for the pitch of the chimes to match, the
recording has to be brought way down in speed, down to around 72 RPM!  This
makes Kay's station identification a carefully enunciated monotone chant. We
have found no other contemporary recording of Kay yet, but this does pull
McConnell's voice down closer to the Smilin' Ed we remember from 20 years
later.  But this has implications for all the other records Columbia made
during their remote sessions in Atlanta from 1925 into 1927, but those
records are too rare for us to have checked them out.

I might add that if you are now thi nking you can pitch NBC programs by the
chimes, remember that the ONLY chimes that are G-E-C are the Rangertone
Electronic Chimless-Chimes.  All hand-struck chimes are likely to be other
notes.  Michael Shoshani is the expert on what the notes probably are -- he
has the exact chime models to compare them with.  Check it out at
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Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:18:10 -0500
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The Vintage Vault
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Hi Folks.

Jonathan Marks has put some old editions of the English language Media Network
programme from Radio Netherlands onto the net. Best way is just to Google
'Media Network Vintage Vault'.
Cheers !  Graeme  ( ORCA / UK )

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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:18:46 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Clark Kent phone booth

   A. Joseph Ross wrote --

My big question was why he always whipped off his glasses =before=
he went into the supply room.

   I recall watching the tv show as a kid there was a scene were Kent
was awakened one night by a phone call.  I wondered why if he were
Superman he needed/wanted to sleep?  Why wasn't he on the other side of
the world doing good stuff.  :)

And why the hallway was always empty and nobody was ever in the
supply room.

   Well, since apparently the Daily Planet had only about four employees
(the chief, Jimmy, Lois and Clark) the odds are the supply room/hallway
would be empty most of the time.  :)
   Joe

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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:20:28 -0500
From: "ken lanza" <klanza@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  otr

Friday, March 19, and Saturday, March 20, at 8[removed],the Equity
professional East Lynne Theater Company presents Sir Arthur
 [removed]  Conan Doyle's
"Sherlock Holmes' Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" in the style of a radio
broadcast, complete with live sound effects and commercials, just like the
Sherlock Holmes' radio series on NBC that premiered in 1930.

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