Subject: [removed] Digest V2001 #409
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 12/25/2001 9:03 PM
To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2001 : Issue 409
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  The Father of Radio                   [ "jacques boudreault" <jackb67@hotma ]
  "The Cinnamon Bear"                   [ Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed] ]
  Ralph Bellamy                         [ Larry Gassman <lgassman@[removed] ]
  Re: Chicago World's Fair Footage      [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
  e-mail address problem corrected      [ Martin Grams <mmargrajr@[removed] ]
  Re: Kitchen capers                    [ Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]
  Looking for My Favorite Husband       [ "[removed]" <swells@[removed]; ]
  Reveille with Beverly                 [ SSmith/MHanley <MarkVII@[removed] ]
  Merry Christmas                       [ "Robert Paine" <macandrew@[removed] ]
  Bill Green )whdh)                     [ "dick wamser" <snapp@[removed]; ]
  Today in Radio History                [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  MULE TRAIN/HITPARADE                  [ "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed]; ]
  Famous named streets                  [ leemunsick@[removed] ]

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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 22:59:15 -0500
From: "jacques boudreault" <jackb67@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Father of Radio

On Dec. 26 at 12 noon the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation will broadcast
"Radio 101", a 2 hour radio program on Reginald Fessenden. The item reads,
"On December 23, 1900, Fessenden's experiments for the [removed] National Weather
Service led to the first spoken words on radio. Yet, the Canadian inventor
is far less known today than his life-long radio rival, Guglielmo Marconi."
The program will include interviews and recreations to highlight this
historic moment. This should be an
interesting twist on conventional acceptance of radio history.

The very best to list members and their family with sincere hope for peace
and health in 2002.

Regards,

Jacques Boudreault

Ottawa, Canada

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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 22:59:37 -0500
From: Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: "The Cinnamon Bear"

Dear Readers:

For those of you finishing "The Cinnamon Bear" with your children tonight,
let me thank you for keeping this delightful show alive.

For those of you who haven't heard CB, I sincerely hope that next year,
you, too, are able to thrill to the adventures of Paddy O'Cinnamon.  The
tapes of the 26 episodes are readily available.

Nothing even remotely comparable to "The Cinnamon Bear" has been produced
for children in recent years, certainly not on the radio, where dreams are
formed.  Somewhere, out there, maybe, is another writer like Glan Heisch,
who will transport us to equally magical realms through the glory of
imaginative sound.  May he be discovered in all of our lifetimes, and may
he receive the attention he deserves.

I leave you with the song sung by the Crazyquilt Dragon (played by Joseph
Kearns) and written by Glanville and Elizabeth Heisch, published by BEAR
FACTS [Cinnamon Bear Brigade, December, 1991].

"Don't ever say 'Boo" to a Crazyquilt Dragon
In hopes he'll turn tail and run.
There aren't many words that will make him go crazy
But 'Boo' is decidedly one.
You can say 'Cheese it' or 'Scat' if you please
It will certainly bother him none.
Now 'Shoo' or Skiddoo,' Sir,
Would not be taboo, Sir,
But booing is just never done.
Don't ever say 'Boo' to a Crazyquilt Dragon
No, never, not even in fun.
Remember a Crazyquilt's colors are fast
And are guaranteed never to run."

Have a wonderful holiday, everybody.

Dennis Crow

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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 23:00:35 -0500
From: Larry Gassman <lgassman@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Ralph Bellamy

Hi,
Can anyone help with this request?
Larry

DPeters@[removed]  writes:
I am looking for any information that I can find on a radio show that may
have starred Ralph Bellamy as the host and as a detective that played in
Chicago and the Midwest in the 50-60s.  I am not certain that Ralph Bellamy
was he host or the detective, but that is what some listeners seem to
remember.   Anything assistance you can provide would be greatly
appreciated.   Thanks very much.

Also, I received the following from MICHAEL HOAGLAN::

H Hoaglan" <snoorton@[removed];
Hi,
  My Mother, was married to an early radio show host,, named dick frost or
Richard frost, he worked with a Clint Stanley or was it chuck Stanley?
and Danny Thomas ....
  any info??? my mom passed away [removed]
MICHAEL HOAGLAN

Dorcas

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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 23:00:43 -0500
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Chicago World's Fair Footage

Michael Hayde wrote:

Wha-a-a-t?  No extant newsreel footage?  Given the significance of the
event, and the massive popularity of A&A during that time, surely some
newsreel org at least had a "stringer" there.

Point acknowledged -- and in fact, the 6/21/33 release of Paramount Sound
News ("The Eyes and Ears of the World," issue number PSN-94) includes a
segment called "Meet Amos 'n' Andy," in which the dedication ceremonies
for the Sky Ride towers are documented. There are also shots of the cars
that rode the cable between the towers -- and you can see, in fact, that
each individual car carries the name of an A&A character: Amos, Andy,
Kingfish, Lightning, and Madam Queen. (No "Brother Crawford" or "Ruby
Taylor" cars are shown in the film, but they may have existed as well.)
This footage can be probably still be found deep in the Sherman Grinberg
Film Libraries stock footage collection, who were, last I knew, the
owners of the Paramount News archive.

What surprises me is that there doesn't seem to be much surviving *radio*
coverage of the 1933-34 Fair. There were many broadcasts from the grounds
over the two years of the event, but very little seems to have survived.
I'd be especially interested in hearing the two weeks' worth of A&A
episodes devoted to the fair, but evidently none of them were recorded by
NBC or by the Fair administration. (A&A's trip to the 1939 New York
World's Fair *does* exist, however, at the LOC -- and makes for
fascinating listening, as Amos and Andy visit the Perisphere, and get a
guided lecture from Fair president Grover Whalen.)

On the other hand, a number of recordings made for exhibits at the
1933-34 Fair survive, and do turn up among transcription collections from
time to time. Fred Allen, for example, recorded a five-minute comic sales
talk for the Bristol-Myers exhibit, and at least one copy of this disc,
recorded by RCA Victor, is known to survive. The disc was played thru a
loudspeaker mounted in the mouth of a larger-than-life animated
paper-mache Fred Allen head, which probably frightened many small
children away from the [removed]

Elizabeth

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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 23:01:36 -0500
From: Martin Grams <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: e-mail address problem corrected

My appologies for driving everyone in circles, but my problem with hotmail
and my server has been corrected.  This new address will be closed in a
couple days, and my old e-mail address, mmargrajr@[removed] is back open
on a regular basis.  Sorry about the confusion, a friend who is
knowledgeable with computers helped me out.  I just find posting an e-mail
address correction on the OTR Digest covers about 80% of the people I chat
with every week/month.  To repeat, my e-mail address is now back to
normal,
mmargrajr@[removed].

Have a merry Christmas everyone!
Martin

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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 23:01:48 -0500
From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re:  Kitchen capers

Jim Cox wrote about:
Betty Crocker, a woman who didn't even exist!

What!!  Next you'll be telling us that there is no Santa Claus. (Sorry,
Charlie.)  What's after that?  The Easter Bunny?  Cleveland?

Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 23:02:52 -0500
From: "[removed]" <swells@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Looking for My Favorite Husband

Chad wrote last time:
I've been trying to complete my "My Favorite Husband"
collection for some time now, and I was hoping some fellow MFH fan could
help me out.   I'm still searching for about 65 of the episodes, and the
I Love Lucy Radio Show "Lease Breakers".

    Accordin to Hickerson, you may have a vary difficult time tracking them
down. He states that only 63 known episodes are in circulation. Now that
doesn't mean that, that is all that exist, but it would render any that are
not circulating rather difficult to obtain.
    I would say that you more than likely have the shows that are in
circulation.
    Shawn

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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 23:00:54 -0500
From: SSmith/MHanley <MarkVII@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Reveille with Beverly

I thought a lot of you would enjoy this story from yesterday's Los
Angeles Times.

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lines%2Dliving

Happy holidays to you all,

Steve Smith

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Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 01:28:39 -0500
From: "Robert Paine" <macandrew@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Merry Christmas

Going back to my days in the military, I want to wish everyone season's
greetings as they were passed along from official channels (it even showed
up in Reader's Digest):

"TO: ALL PERSONNEL

SUBJECT: Season's Greetings

You are hereby authorized the following:

 Christmas, Merry, Merry;  1 each."

Listened a bit to the annual WAMU-FM OTR Christmas programs. Ed Walker had a
lot of good shows as usual. The Greatest Story Ever Told and the 1939
Campbell's Playhouse "A Christmas Carol" were outstanding.

To everyone, a safe and happy holiday season. May you have joy, love and
lots of people at your holiday table.

 Macandrew

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Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 02:20:07 -0500
From: "dick wamser" <snapp@[removed];
To: "otr" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Bill Green )whdh)

Hello all: thanks to Elizabeth for the interesting comments about Carlton
Brickert.  This time, I've got another person to ask about.

While listening to some Bob and Ray from December of 1949, I was very
impressed by the pianist Bill Green.  He seemed quite versatile, but also
perhaps was playing in a restricted manner. He could easily have immitated a
player piano, but I am sure he was much more talented than that.

He certainly had a strong New England accent, so he must have spent most if
his playing career in the Boston area.  Does anyone have any more
information on him?  Thanks in advance.

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Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 11:31:07 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-net <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Today in Radio History

  From Those Were The Days --

1931 - Lawrence Tibbett was the featured vocalist as radio came to the
Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. The first opera was Hansel
und Gretel, heard on the NBC network of stations. In between acts of the
opera, moderator Olin Downes would conduct an opera quiz, asking
celebrity guests opera-related questions. The program’s host and
announcer was Milton Cross. He worked out of the Met’s Box 44.

1937 - Arturo Toscanini conducted the first broadcast of Symphony of the
Air over NBC radio.

1939 - The Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, was read by
Lionel Barrymore on The Campbell Playhouse on CBS radio. The reading of
the tale became an annual radio event for years to come.

1942 - The longest, sponsored program in the history of broadcasting was
heard on NBC radio’s Blue network. The daylong Victory Parade’s
Christmas Party of Spotlight Bands was heard over 142 radio stations.
The marathon broadcast was sponsored by Coca-Cola.

>From a long time subscriber --

December 25, 1936 - The Singing Lady Musical Plays premieres on the Blue
network, sponsored by Kelloggs.

  Joe

--
Visit my home page:
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Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 13:36:21 -0500
From: "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: MULE TRAIN/HITPARADE

In digest #401, I stated that The Yiddish Mule Train was on the Hit Parade
fo a great number of weeks.  What I ment to say was that the original
version had a long run on that show, due to the Hit record of Frankie Laine.
(I think he made it to a Gold One).  Sorry for the mix-up.

Owens

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Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 13:36:56 -0500
From: leemunsick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Famous named streets

We moved June 2000 to "South Side" Virginia, the home of Patrick Henry,
summer home of Thomas Jefferson, etc.

A few miles from us, Route 47 is called Thomas Jefferson Highway.  Another
route is called Patrick Henry Highway.  In some locations, the latter is
also named "Lawyer's Road".

A local wag opined that this was indeed a perfect appellation, because as
he put it, "It's the crookedest road in the whole durned state!"

Charlie, thanks so much for reproducing "Yes, Virginia".  Within the hour
we were remarking that none of the nearby newspapers carried this.  Used to
be, every newspaper carried it every Christmas.

My wife Charlotte thought it would have been in the New York Times, as
that's where it originated.  I said, "Baltimore Sun"...remember, "Daddy
says if it's in The Sun, it must be true".

Well, we were both partly right.  New York, yes.  The Sun, yes.  But it was
the New York Sun, whose name last saw the light of day about 40 years ago
as part of "The World Telegram and Sun".

All things come to those who [removed] extinction!

Best wishes to all, for a New Year of good health and happiness.

Lee Munsick

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