Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #171
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Date: 6/22/2006 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 171
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      re: Arnold Stang and Top Cat          [ Kenneth Schwartz <kschwar@[removed] ]
      Last years of network radio & FBI ad  [ jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed]; ]
      Lum and Abner movies                  [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed] ]
      6-22 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      LIVE OTR debuts Saturday night, June  [ Nita Hunter <otradiogrl@[removed]; ]
      Benny On Top Cat                      [ "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed]; ]
      OTR medical shows                     [ "theharness" <theharness@[removed] ]
      Spin and Marty on radio??             [ "theharness" <theharness@[removed] ]
      Re: Old Radio Help                    [ Cliff Marsland <cliff_marsland@yaho ]
      Lum and Abner Movies                  [ Allen Hamner <ahamner@[removed]; ]
      More Burma                            [ "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed] ]
      Johnny Dollar Question/Old Song Ques  [ "Ron Vickery" <RVICKERY@anchorwall. ]

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    Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:26:44 -0400
    From: Kenneth Schwartz <kschwar@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  re: Arnold Stang and Top Cat

    In response to Kenneth Clarke, Benny on the "Top Cat" series was voiced
    by Maurice Gosfield aka Private Doberman of "The Phil Silvers Show" fame

    Ken Schwartz

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    Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:28:28 -0400
    From: jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Last years of network radio & FBI additiuds
     towards "The FBI in Peace and War"

    June 21, 2006,

    Dear old time radio digest readers:

    Like several digest readers who have posted messages I
    am fascinated by the last years of network radio.  I
    agree that Jim Cox did a wonderful job in his book on
    the subject. I only wish the book had been three or
    four hundred pages longer.   In looking back on these
    years, when drama and news and other programs reached
    a new maturity did the pres give these radio programs
    attention at the time?

    In other words did the media critics even write about
    such westerns as Fort Laramie and Frontier Gentleman
    and the Six Shooter crime programs such as Night Beat
    Broadway is My Beat and indictment and science fiction
    programs like x-1 and Exploring Tomorrow have any
    stories written about them?  So that new listeners
    might turn away from television, and try these new
    radio programs.  Or as I suspect these guardians  of
    public taste were so enamored with television that
    they were not even awair of innovative radio programs.

    Comments from readers would be most welcomed.

    June 21, 2006

    Dear old time radio digest readers:
    While
    Listening to the two best known radio programs  about
    the FBI I recall something that was said at an O T R
    convention several years ago.  A radio writer stated
    that FBI director J Edger Hoover utterly detested "The
    FBI in Teac and Wore"
    I know that the FBI in Peace and Wore went on the air
    several months before the oafishly indorsed "This Is
    Your FBI."

    Before peace and wore went on the air did C B S try to
    get Bureau endorsement

    Did the A B C program come about because of FBI
    dissatisfaction with peace and wore?

    Fredric L Collins author of the book "the FBI in Peace
    and Wore" attended FBI field classes and Mr. Hoover
    wrote the forward to the book so what was the FBI's
    position about peace and wore?
    Did the FBI have any thoughts about the program "I was
    a Commonest for the FBI"
    Many thanks
    Jim Taylor

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    Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:30:17 -0400
    From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lum and Abner movies
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    There were 7 Lum and Abner movies . See [removed]

    Visit [removed] for OTR program title and date corrections

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    Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:37:55 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-22 births/deaths

    June 22nd births

    06-22-1901 - Charlie Agnew - Illinois - d. 10-22-1978
    bandleader: "Yeast Foam Program"; "Armandes Face Cream Program"
    06-22-1901 - Jack Whiting - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-15-1961
    singer: "MGM Radio Club"
    06-22-1902 - Phil Duey - Macy, IN - d. 4-7-1982
    singer: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Leo Reisman Orchestra";
    "Happy Bakers"
    06-22-1903 - Ben Pollack - Chicago, IL - d. 6-7-1971
    bandleader: Bib band remotes - became the Bob Crosby Orchestra
    06-22-1903 - Glenhall Taylor - d. 12-28-1997
    producer, director: "Blondie"; "Sherlock Holmes"; "Dinah Shore Show";
    "Ozzie and Harriett"
    06-22-1906 - Billy Wilder - Sucha, Austria-Hungary - d. 3-27-2002
    screenwriter, film director: "Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre"; "Lux
    Radio Theatre"
    06-22-1907 - Mike Todd - Minneapolis, MN - d. 3-22-1958
    film producer: "Closing the New York World's Fair"
    06-22-1912 - June Carroll - Detroit, MI - d. 5-16-2004
    composer: "New Faces of 1948"
    06-22-1915 - Robert Soderberg - Ohio - d. 4-9-1996
    writer: "Junior Miss"
    06-22-1916 - Johnny Jacobs - Milwaukee, WI - d. 2-8-1982
    announcer: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Frontier Gentleman";
    "Granby's Green Acres"
    06-22-1919 - Gower Champion - Geneva, IL - d. 8-25-1980
    choreographer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Guest Star"
    06-22-1920 - Paul Frees - Chicago, IL - d. 11-1-1986
    actor: Jethro Dumont/Green Lama "Green Lama"; Robert Aladdin "Mr.
    Aladdin"
    06-22-1922 - Joe Siracuso - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-5-1997
    drummer: "The Spike Jones Show"
    06-22-1930 - Roy Drusky - Atlanta, GA - d. 9-24-2004
    singer: "Grand Old Opry"
    06-22-1932 - Prunella Scales - Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England
    actor: Sybil Fawlty "Fawlty Towers"; Sarah France "After Henry"
    06-22-1949 - Meryl Streep - Summit, NJ
    actor. "Earplay"

    June 22nd deaths

    01-14-1909 - Joseph Losey - La Crosse, WI - d. 6-22-1984
    director: "Words at War"
    01-26-1899 - Wyllis Cooper - Pekin, IL - d. 6-22-1955
    producer, writer, director: "Lights Out"; "Quiet Please"
    03-30-1905 - Don Hollenbeck - Lincoln, NE - d. 6-22-1954
    news commentator: "CBS Views the Press"; "You Are There"
    05-03-1897 - Charlie Lung - England - d. 6-22-1974
    actor: Paul Sycamore "You Can't Take It with You"; "Wild Bill
    Hickok"; "Escape"
    05-10-1899 - Fred Astaire - Omaha, NE - d. 6-22-1987
    dancer, actor: "Fred Astaire Show"
    05-10-1902 - David O. Selznick - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-22-1965
    film producer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Bud's Bandwagon"
    05-10-1907 - Pee Wee Hunt - Mount Healthy, OH - d. 6-22-1979
    composer: "The Hoagy Carmichael Show"
    05-21-1916 - Dennis Day - The Bronx, NY - d. 6-22-1988
    singer, comedian: "Jack Benny Program"; "Day in the Life of Dennis Day"
    06-07-1896 - Hope Summers - Mattoon, IL - d. 6-22-1979
    actor: Clara "Girl Alone"
    06-10-1922 - Judy Garland - Grand Rapids, MN - d. 6-22-1969
    singer, actor: Romantic Interest "The Hardy Family"; "Good News of 1938"
    08-10-1902 - Venezuela Jones - d. 6-22-1995
    actor: Susie Robinson "Our Gal Sunday"
    10-18-1908 - Rene Garriguenc - d. 6-22-1998
    composer: "Rogers of the Gazette"; "Advs. of Sam Spade, Detective"
    12-09-1927 - Benny Green - Leeds, England - d. 6-22-1998
    musician, conversationalist, writer: ""Stop the Week"; "Kaleidoscope"
    12-28-1896 - Rose Franken - Gainesville, TX - d. 6-22-1988
    writer: "Claudia and David" based on her stories
    12-29-1892 - Emory Parnell - St. Paul, MN - d. 6-22-1979
    actor: Grouch "Grouch Club"; "Eddie Bracken Show"; "Lux Radio Theatre"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Home state of Milt Herth
    Kenosha, Wisconsin

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    Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 23:59:26 -0400
    From: Nita Hunter <otradiogrl@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  LIVE OTR debuts Saturday night, June 24
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    WGTD Radio brings you the BEST of classic Old Time Radio LIVE the 4th
    Saturday of each month from 9 until 11 [removed]  Join host Steve Brown as he
    revisits the Golden Age of Radio airing your favorite comedies, dramas,
    mysteries and science fiction shows from the 30's, 40's, and 50's.

      This exciting new radio show can be heard live on the Internet at
    [removed]

      Listen in as Steve invites special guests to recount their memories of OTR
    and a time before TV was king!  Interactive emails and telephone call-ins
    will enhance the web-cast.

      JUNE 24TH Program Line-Up:  Special guest: Jack Bivans, who starred in such
    classics as "Captain Midnight", "Sky King" and "Jack Armstrong: All American
    By."
      "The Shadow" and "The Black Museum," starring Wisconsin native, Orson Welles
       Fibber McGee and Molly

     __________________________________________________

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    Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 02:25:56 -0400
    From: "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Benny On Top Cat
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    Benny the Ball was voiced by character actor Maurice Gosfield, who was also
    known as Private Duane Doberman on the Phil Silvers "Bilko" [removed] "Top
    Cat" was based upon

    Tim Lones

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    Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 02:26:10 -0400
    From: "theharness" <theharness@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OTR medical shows
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    Hi.  I have quite a few episodes of Dr. Kildare, Dr. Christian, and Family
    Doctor.  Are there episodes of other medical shows available?  How about Road
    of Life or This Is Nora Drake?  Were they about hospital life, or about
    doctors and nurses in love?  The reason I ask is that the only episode of Road
    of Life I have features Jim Brent preparing to ask Maggie to marry him ...
    except that his former wife, Carol might still be alive.  Thanks.  Devon
    Wilkins.

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    Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 02:27:32 -0400
    From: "theharness" <theharness@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Spin and Marty on radio??
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    Hi, folks.  I asked this question a few weeks ago on the Radio Out of The Past
    Thursday night chat, and I think I'll ask it here, too.  Remember the series
    on the Mickey Mouse Club called Spin and Marty?  Was it ever on radio?
    Thanks.  Devon Wilkins.

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    Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:14:30 -0400
    From: Cliff Marsland <cliff_marsland@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Old Radio Help

    That particular Firestone model number doesn't appear
    in Stein's book of pre-war consoles.  It seems to be
    post-war though.  Post-war consoles are generally
    worth very little monetarily, but if restored could be
    a great radio to broadcast OTR to.

    I'm a recent Zenith convert.  I love my 9-S-262
    (1938).  It's one of 7 pre-war consoles (and seems to
    be growing every month).  OTR (broadcast through the
    SSTRAN AM transmitter sounds ok on the RCA and
    Westinghouse, but sparkling on the Zenith.

    Firestone, was of course, the house brand to the tire
    company.  They contracted other radio manufacturers to
    make the radios.

    Firestone model numbers seem to be 7425-xx (xx being a
    number).  I couldn't find that particular one.

    To the original poster, try registering at the Antique
    Radios Forum.  [removed]  They
    should know about the model, and who would be local.

    Trav

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    Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:43:39 -0400
    From: Allen Hamner <ahamner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lum and Abner Movies

    Lum and Abner made seven movies.  They are:

    Lum and Abner Abroad
    Partners in Time
    Goin to Town
    Two Weeks to Live
    So This is Washington
    The Bashful Bachelor
    Dreaming Out Loud

    Posters for the L&A movies can be seen at
    [removed]

    Newt Hamner

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    Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:44:06 -0400
    From: "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  More Burma

    On Monday, David Rogers asked:

>     Is it a big leap to go from "The Murder of the Burma-Shave Poet" to The
>     Goons "The Phantom Head Shaver (of Brighton)"?

    Keeping this thread alive, though I'm not sure there's any real connection, I
    thought I might mention that I just came across an episode of Calling All
    Cars titled "The Burma White Case" (12/6/33).  Plus, there was a second
    Calling All Cars episode that features a character named Burma White called
    "The Moran Jewel Robbery".  I'm pretty sure there's a murder in there
    somewhere!

    Karen Lerner
    Radio Spirits, Inc.

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    Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:18:16 -0400
    From: "Ron Vickery" <RVICKERY@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Johnny Dollar Question/Old Song Question

    Hi all!!

    I finally (since I fell behind in January) got caught up on my reading
    of the OTR Digest.  Now that I am caught up, I have a question on a
    subject I've often wondered about.  Has anyone ever kept track of the
    expenses listed on Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar to see if they matched the
    grand total at the end?  I know sometimes (but not every time) they
    would add something at the end of the episode, such as "Plane fare and
    incidentals back to Hartford, $[removed]"  I've always been too lazy to
    actually keep track of his expenses, but I wonder if checking the total
    against the expenses was something they did as part of the writing of
    the script.

    On to my second question.  About 20 years ago, when I was working my
    first job at Hardee's, we would listen to Dr. Demento on Sunday nights
    after we closed.  One show I recorded (I've since lost the tape) had a
    song on it  from "a long time ago" (according to the good Dr.) entitled
    "I've Got A Cold In My Nose".  The only reference I can find on the
    internet sent me to two sites (IMDB and the Big Cartoon Database)
    listing it as being sung by Betty Boop (Mae Questel) in a cartoon called
    Betty Boop's Ker-Choo from 1933.  According to these sites, it was
    written by Scott Bradley, with lyrics by Joseph Hanna.  However, the
    version I remember didn't sound like Betty Boop to me (however, my
    memory may be wrong).

    Now, to bring it on topic to OTR, how often did songs from cartoons or
    movies ever get played on the radio?  When they did, were they the
    original artist from the movie/cartoon or were they re-recorded?  The
    voice I remember from this tape was trying (very successfully) to sound
    like a little girl, but you could tell she had a good voice, especially
    if she held a note.  Also, can anyone point me to an .mp3 file of this
    song?

    Thanks,

    Ron

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