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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2005 : Issue 51
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
January 2005 necrology [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
WTIC's Golden Age of Radio - New Fea [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed]; ]
Kenneth Horne [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
Underrated series [ "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed] ]
More OTR movies on TCM [ "Don and Kathy Dean" <dxk@ezlinknet ]
Miller and Ireland [ "Mike Jensen" <mikejensen16@hotmail ]
Baseball on OTR/Munsick [ donskuce@[removed] ]
OTR memory accuracy [ Philip Chavin <pchavin@[removed]; ]
Mysterious Traveler [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
Superman [ "Don Frey" <alanladdsr@[removed] ]
HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE Schedule [ HERITAGE4@[removed] ]
"Exit stage [removed]" [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:45:50 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: January 2005 necrology
January 2005 deaths
06-29-1915 - Ruth Warrick - St. Joseph, MO - d. 1-15-2005
actress: "Joyce Jordan, [removed]"; "Myrt and Marge"
11-30-1920 - Virginia Mayo - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-17-2005
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-17-1918 - Bill Felton - Greenland, MI (Raised: Appleton, WI) - d. 1-20-2005
newscaster, disc jockey: "Valley Varieties"; "Recreation Room"
xx-xx-1915 - Bob Dwan - San Francisco, CA - d. 1-21-2005
director: "You Bet Your Life"
xx-xx-1922 - Mort Fega - d. 1-21-2005
long time jazz disc jockey in New York
08-21-1916 - Consuelo Velazquez - Ciudad Guzman, Mexico - d. 1-22-2005
songwriter: (Besame Mucho) Oversaw classical music programs for station XEQ
10-23-1925 - Johnny Carson - Corning, IA (Raised: Norfolk, NE) - d. 1-23-2005
announcer, disc jockey: "Johnny Carson Show"
11-01-1933 - Art Stamper - nr. Hindman, Knott County, KY - d. 1-23-2005
bluegrass fiddler: Performed with Stanley Brothers and Bill Monroe's
Bluegrass Boys
xx-xx-1925 - Bill Simmons - d. 1-24-2005
southern gospel musician: (Light Crust Doughboys)
xx-xx-1916 - George "Doc" Abraham - Wayland, NY - d. 1-27-2005
gardner, host: "The Green Thumb"
xx-xx-1909 - [removed] "Bill" Shadel - Milton, WI - d. 1-29-2005
newscaster: Reported the D-Day landings for CBS
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:25:19 -0500
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: WTIC's Golden Age of Radio - New Feature
In the 1970's Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran created The
Golden Age of Radio for WTIC in Hartford, CT. The idea
came to Dick after he interviewed radio collector-historian
Ed Corcoran a number of times on his radio show. The
first broadcast was in April, 1970; Ed was his co-host.
For the next seven years the program featured interviews
with radio actors, writers, producers, engineers and
musicians from radio's early days. In addition, each
show featured excerpts from Ed's collection.
Dick recently interviewed his co-host, Ed Corcoran.
The interview can be heard, along with this week's
two programs, at [removed]
Bob Scherago
Webmaster
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:25:36 -0500
From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Kenneth Horne
Just a quick correction to Ron's excellent list of OTR birthdays and
obits:
02-27-1907 - Kenneth Horne - England - d. 2-14-1969
comedian: "Around the Horne"; "Ack Ack Beer Beer"; "Beyond Our Ken"
The correct name for the first series you've listed is "Round the
Horne." Kenneth Horne was really the straight man around whom the rest
of the cast (all high caliber comedians) spun their comedic webs; I
don't know if it's really accurate to call Horne himself a comedian
(though he did get the odd joke in occasionally).
Kermyt
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:41:38 -0500
From: "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Underrated series
A few underrated shows that come to mind are Boston Blackie which is not
only a good detective OTR show but has a humorous slant as Blackie and
Inspector Faraday constantly bicker back and [removed] there is Our Miss
Brooks in which Eve Arden, Jeff Chandler, Gale Gordon and Richard Crenna all
do great jobs on the [removed] also the This Is The FBI stories which
make you feel like you are there with both the criminals and the FBI agents
as the stories unravel.
Andrew Godfrey
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:42:04 -0500
From: "Don and Kathy Dean" <dxk@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: More OTR movies on TCM
For those of you who have never seen these movies, here's your chance.
These are being shown on Turner Classic Movies in sequence on Wednesday
March 16 beginning at 1:30 PM with Look Who's Laughing (1941) starring
Edgar Bergen, Jim & Marion Jordan, Lucille Ball. And at 3:00 PM they will
be showing Here We Go Again (1942) starring Edgar Bergen, Jim & Marion
Jordan.
Don Dean - N8IOJ
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:42:50 -0500
From: "Mike Jensen" <mikejensen16@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Miller and Ireland
If I may offer a friendly correction to:
The Columbia Workshop - "William Ireland's Confession" - October 19,
1939. The first work for radio by Arthur Miller. A dramatization of the
true story of the young man who could write as well as Shakespeare.
Arthur Miller (author).
The tip off is the assertion this is a true story about someone who wrote as
well as Shakespeare. Riiiiight.
I have not been able to track down a copy of this show, darn it, but given
what I know about William Henry Ireland, it is difficult to believe this
description is correct. I hope these few comments will be of interest even
if the description proves accurate.
Ireland was an 18th century teenager who craved his father's approval, and
that was not easy to get. He got it by forging dozens of documents
supposedly about and by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare was all the rage at
that time, quite like the Beatles in 1965, so many people, including the
stern Mr. Ireland, embraced the forgeries. If fact the phony documents were
so unlike Shakespeare's style and spelling that the great scholar Edmund
Malone readily showed them to be fakes. Young William also forged a
supposedly lost play and even managed to get in to the stage as by William
Shakespeare. It was so obviously not, and so howlingly bad, it was booed off
the boards.
Possibly Miller changed history in his first radio drama by making Ireland
Shakespeare's equal, but are you sure?
all the best,
Mike Jensen
Author site:
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:43:32 -0500
From: donskuce@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Baseball on OTR/Munsick
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Group,
Lee Munsick wrote
My dad was something of a baseball fan, and he chided when listening to Mel
Allen's "reporting", or game coverage. He never could exactly say why Mr.
Allen annoyed him so much that he routinely added an "S" to Allen's first
name when referring to him."
Mel Allen was absolutely a "homer" for the N Y Yankees. I, however, did
enjoy his style, if not his accuracy. My personal favorite for baseball
broadcasting was the late, and very great Red Barber.
I also recall hearing baseball "recreations", particularly after the Brooklyn
Dodgers moved to left coast. They were, as Mr. Munsick wrote, predictable
and boring.
I sure do miss Red Barber though.
Don Skuce
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:17:40 -0500
From: Philip Chavin <pchavin@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OTR memory accuracy
This is a follow-up to my posting in #44 ("Confirming
OTR memories") re the accuracy of very senior
citizens' memories of items they heard on the radio in
the 1920s--1950s. That posting specifically dealt
with my memory of hearing "Whi-i-zz, best nickel candy
there izz" on 1940s commercials.
The catalog page image (on the Website I linked to)
that proved the above slogan's exact wording has since
been confirmed to be from 1949 (from a clue seen on
another page of the catalog).
If by some miracle any of you good Digesters have --
or will find out about -- a sound recording of that
1940s Whiz candy commercial, I'd be grateful if you'd
let me or us know. (By the way, recordings of the 1948
radio show "Whiz Quiz" -- sponsored by the makers of
Whiz candy, the Beich Co. -- seem to be non-existent.
How I've searched for same!)
I'd be interested in reading postings from other
Digesters about their OTR memory confirmation (or
disproof) experiences.
-- Phil C.
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:58:22 -0500
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Mysterious Traveler
Larry asked:
Wasn't there also a "Mysterious Traveler Book Club"? Or am I confusing this
with a different mystery anthology?
Crime Club and Inner Sanctum (among others) had a mystery book of the month
club for quite a while. Though I am not aware of any MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER
book club, Robert Arthur, who penned and co-penned the Mysterious Traveler
scripts was the editor of dozens of anthologies that were "supposedly"
edited by Alfred Hitchcock (such as "Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories Too
Frightening for Children") but it was never Hitchcock, it was Robert Arthur.
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:58:38 -0500
From: "Don Frey" <alanladdsr@[removed];
To: "OTR" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Superman
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One more response to "where he put his civies."
My son who considers himself a comic expert writes:
"That is [removed] them in a pouch." But he adds:
"In early issues of Action and Superman, he just left them somewhere.
Once they were found by a curious snoop."
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:59:59 -0500
From: HERITAGE4@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE Schedule
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The HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE shows for the week of February 13th can be heard
24/7 in nice quality streaming audio at:
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1. BOSTON BLACKIE (Synd. /MBS from WOR,NYC) 6/25/47 Kollmer stars in "Joe
Nelson's Pet Shop Gambling Scheme"
2. BROADWAY IS MY BEAT CBS 7/7/49 1st Show from Hollywood - stars
Larry Thor
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:25:35 -0500
From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "Exit stage [removed]"
Something which was written on a recent posting
didn't sound right to me. I mentioned that I seemed
to recall the voice of "Top Cat" belonging to actor
Arnold Stang. Someone else said that character was
known for saying "Exit, stage right".
My memory may be a bit faulty at times, bit I
remember "Top Cat" saying, "Heavens to Mergatroid!"
and having a shorter cat friend named Benny (who
referred to Top Cat as [removed]). "Exit, stage right"
was Snagglepuss, wasn't it? I think both cartoons
were part of the Hanna-Barbera bunch.
Another OTR Fan,
Kenneth Clarke
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