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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2007 : Issue 180
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
6-19 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Re: rip, edit, and transfer mp3 file [ fangle <fangle@[removed]; ]
Bringing new listeners into the fold [ "Dave Adams" <dave@[removed]; ]
That Radio Program [ "wayne_johnson" <wayne_johnson@mind ]
Music Through the Night [ <verotas@[removed]; ]
Jack Armstron & Armstrong of The SBI [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
The ghost of Billy Mills asks for yo [ Wich2@[removed] ]
re: Philip Rapp [ Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed]; ]
Duffy's Tavern Scripts [ "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed] ]
Radio Station [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
Pamela Britton [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
Live OTR in Kenosha, WI [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:07:21 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 6-19 births/deaths
June 19th births
06-19-1863 - William A. Brady - San Francisco, CA - d. 1-6-1950
theatrical producer: heard twice weekly on CBS during 1934-1935
06-19-1865 - May Whitty - Liverpool, England - d. 5-29-1948
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-19-1892 - Mishel Piastro - Kertz, Russia - d. 4-10-1970
violinist, conductor: "Longines Symphonette"; "General Motors Concerts"
06-19-1893 - Frank Banyard - d. 6-xx-1971
baritone: WOR Newark, New Jersey
06-19-1894 - Emil Coleman - Odessa, Russia - d. 1-26-1965
orchestra leader: "Penthouse Party"; "Gulf Headliners"
06-19-1897 - Moe Howard - Bensonhurst, NY - d. 5-4-1975
original stooge: (Three Stooges) "Whatever Became of . . . .?"
06-19-1899 - Francis Drake "Pat" Ballard - d. 10-26-1960
writer of radio scripts in Troy, Pennsylvania
06-19-1901 - Frederic Tozere - d. 8-5-1972
actor: Stephen Dallas "Stella Dallas"
06-19-1902 - Ed Thorgerson - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 12-22-1997
announcer/sportscaster: "A&P Gypsies"; "The Elgin Football Revue"
06-19-1902 - Guy Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 11-5-1977
bandleader: (The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven) "Lombardoland USA"
06-19-1903 - Lou Gehrig - NYC - d. 6-2-1941
baseball iron man: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-19-1908 - Mildred Natwick - Baltimore, MD - d. 10-25-1994
actor: "Starring Boris Karloff"; "Best Plays"; "Campbell Playhouse"
06-19-1909 - Maurice Zimm - Waterloo, IA - d. 11-17-2005
writer: "The Man Who Sang"
06-19-1910 - Virginia Payne - Cincinnati, OH - d. 2-10-1977
actor: Ma Perkins "Ma Perkins"; Kerry Carter "Carters of Elm Street"
06-19-1912 - Jerry Jerome - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-17-2001
musician: "Eileen Barton Show"; "Mirth and Madness"
06-19-1912 - Martin Gabel - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-22-1986
actor: John Wayne "Big Sister"; Gregory Hood "Casebook of Gregory Hood"
06-19-1915 - Pat Buttram - Addison, AL - d. 1-8-1994
actor: (Sage of Winston County) "National Barn Dance"
06-19-1917 - Robert Karnes - Kentucky - d. 12-4-1979
announcer: Started his career in his native Kentucky
06-19-1919 - E. S. Madden - Melbourne, Australia
author: Wrote for radio in his native Australia
06-19-1919 - Louis Jourdan - Marseilles, France
actor: "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "U. S. Steel Hour"
06-19-1919 - Pauline Kael - Sonoma County, CA - d. 9-3-2001
film critic: Broadcast for Pacifica radio station
06-19-1922 - Gwen Davies - NYC
actor: "Advs. of Helen and Mary"; "Let's Pretend"
06-19-1923 - Estelle Levy - NYC
actor, singer: "Grand Central Station"; "Rudy Vallee Show"
06-19-1925 - Charlie Drake - South London, England - d. 12-24-2006
comedian: "Jigsaw"
06-19-1925 - Robert Barager - d. 4-17-2004
disk jockey: WNBZ Saranac Lake, New York
06-19-1928 - Barry Took - London, England - d. 3-31-2002
writer, comedian: "Round the Horne"; "We're In Business"
06-19-1928 - Nancy Marchand - Buffalo, NY - d. 6-18-2000
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "A Private Space"
06-19-1932 - Pier Angeli - Cagliaru, Saradinia - d. 9-10-1971
actor: "Louella Parsons Show"
June 19th deaths
01-18-1915 - Lesley Midgley - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 6-19-2002
producer cbs news: "The Twentieth Century"
03-26-1894 - Will Wright - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-19-1962
actor: Ed Kremer "Fibber McGee and Molly"; George Honeywell "My
Little Margie"
04-07-1918 - Peanuts Hucko - Syracuse, NY - d. 6-19-2003
jazz clarinetist: "Swing Shift"; "I Sustain These Wings"; "Doctor Jazz"
04-23-1893 - Frank Borzage - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 6-19-1962
film director: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
05-09-1860 - James M. Barrie - Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland - d.
6-19-1937
author: "Great Plays"
09-26-1898 - Richard Lockridge - St. Joseph, MO - d. 6-19-1982
writer: "Mr. and Mrs. North"
10-17-1905 - Jean Arthur - NYC - d. 6-19-1991
actor: "Ford Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-26-1920 - Eleanor Rella - d. 6-19-2003
actor: Billie Devere "Myrt and Marge"
10-29-1925 - Geraldine Brooks - NYC - d. 6-19-1977
actor: "Hollywood Fights Back"; "Voice of the Army"
11-09-1886 - Ed Wynn - Philadelphia, PA, - d. 6-19-1966
comedian: (The Perfect Fool) Fire Chief "Ed Wynn Show"; King Bubbles
"Happy Island"
xx-xx-1890 - Prosper Buranelli - d. 6-19-1960
writer: Assistant to Lowell Thomas
xx-xx-1917 - Al "Red" Benson - d. 6-19-1966
quizmaster: "Take A Number"
Ron Sayles
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:08:24 -0400
From: fangle <fangle@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: rip, edit, and transfer mp3 files
At 12:20 AM 6/12/2007 -0400, you wrote:
I'm now looking for some software (and I don't mind paying if it's
good) to rip CDs, edit tags, and load my MP3 player. I'm looking at
one program that Wayne Johnson recommended (thanks for all your
help, Wayne!), but I'm entertaining other suggestions, so if anyone
else has suggestions, please let me know.
I'm not familiar with your player, but can it be viewed like any other disk
directly from the operating system? Many of the players just look like
another drive and you sinmply copy and paste or drag and drop. For ripping
audio files to mp3 I like CDEX. Works well and is free. 8^)
[removed]
I edit tags inside Winamp while I'm playing the files.
FWIW,
Ed
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:09:28 -0400
From: "Dave Adams" <dave@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Bringing new listeners into the fold
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I am still curious as to what everyone has been doing to introduce new
people in OTR.
Hello Roger,
My son Marcus, now 28, started listening to OTR with me as a young lad on
long drives to visit Grandma. Over the years I played a mixed bag of Superman,
The Shadow, Sherlock Holmes and even the first 3 Firesign Theater albums
(George Tirebiter may appreciate that). The Firesign Theater bent his teenage
mind (in a good way) but having Dad explain the socio-political import of the
then current events made them too much work for him. He loved the corniest
conventions of OTR the best. The organ vamps and stingers, especially after a
dramatic statement "He's not your son, Adolph!" "Stop torturing me Ethel!" duh
duh DUUHHHH! made us both giggle and when you are giggling you're bonding.
He especially loved the commercial breaks on the Sherlock Holmes stories
with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The spots were mock interviews with the
show announcer and Mr. Bruce and for Marc, the humor revolved around how Nigel
could manage to bring any topic around to his love of Petri wine in 10 seconds
flat. He developed a pretty fair Nigel Bruce imitation, full of bluster
without forming any actual sentences, and always perked up when doing
imitations. He developed a knack for impersonations and his Arnold
Swartzeneggar still puts his Mom and I on the floor, it's hilarious. Some of
what he absorbed transfered over to film and Marc will often sit down in front
of a Nigel Bruce movie and start the "Well, argHuff-harf-mumble-Oh I say
Holmes, it's well brog-I, weulf harrumph harrumph!"
He and I loved Superman too, Supes is an old friend, always welcome at our
house. The Shadow was a little dry for Marc unless it was Orson Welles doing
his Lamont Cranston, which is such a skillful and unique mixture of
sleepwalking casualness and rapid fire dialogue delivery that it's high
comedy. How Welles ever kept a straight face doing that character I'll never
know.
Fortunately I can laugh at the shows I love, which helped him get into them,
as he wasn't being forced, or pummeled with "Now listen to this darn it, you
should like it!" That, I think, is the key to sharing your enjoyment of
something with your family- to not take it or yourself so seriously that they
dread the pressure of you watching them out of the corner of your eye, willing
them to enjoy it as much as you do.
My wife has a strange mix between enjoyment and tolerence for my OTR shows,
Superman is not a favorite, due in large part to the high pitched flying sound
effect. Sensitive to high pitched sound, she has a hard time with the
frequency responce range of OTR (I should say of poorly preserved OTR) and
gets Audio Fatigue from many shows. She loves The Six Shooter with Jimmy
Stewart, I Love a Mystery (depending on the supporting cast) Gunsmoke and
Gangbusters (if it's not a screechy [removed] always have to audition
the machine gun sound effect in the opening to make sure there is enough
bass/low mids in there to keep her hair from standing on end.) She does her
best to enjoy them with me, God bless her, but many of my favorites (I can
tell, she wouldn't say so) she finds unlistenable; Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers,
Supes, The Shadow, but I can always win her over with a well recorded Lux
Radio Theater of one of her favorite older films (those films are our shared
passion as well). She tries to be enthusiastic, but I never make her listen to
more than 2 episodes of my favorites at a sitting.
I have several friends in the business I'm in (special FX/CG Animation for
film) who love OTR and whom I've opened a whole new world of collecting to.
They were opportunist listeners, only catching shows in the 9pm spot on KNX in
Los Angeles when we'd work late (very often in this business). Now they have
their MP3 collections and XM radio.
Wrote a book, I did! Sorry, it's a favorite topic. How lucky I am to have
found this resource full of my type of OTR folks.
I'd like to attend a Con sometime. Is [removed] home to any?
-Dave Adams
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:09:51 -0400
From: "wayne_johnson" <wayne_johnson@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: That Radio Program
I've been listening to a bit of YTJD with Mandel Kramer and noticed a lot of
comments of: "Johnny Dollar? From the radio program?" as part of the
dialog.
Does anyone know when the radio program started being included as part of
the storyline? Even the last episode ("The Tip Off Matter" 09/30/62)
includes:
Jimmy: "Listen, I've been thinking; your name is Dollar, huh? Johnny
Dollar, that investigator? Man, I think that you are the 'most'!
$$$: Look, Jimmy, if Johnny Dollar was around here ... if he was setting a
trap for some crook ... and if anyone blabbed about it to anyone, Johnny
Dollar might end up very dead."
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:10:21 -0400
From: <verotas@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Music Through the Night
Dave Adams' reference to Nightflight on WJR jiggled some gray matter upstairs
here. In the 1960s I worked on marketing programs around the country for the
Sheraton Hotels. The first year I flew, but then had the fun of driving from
coast to coast, and Maine to Texas. It was a wonderful opportunity and I
loved it.
Back in New Jersey, I had grown used to the American Airlines "Music Through
the Night" offerings - wonderful, beautiful recordings of what I suppose
could be called MOR Classical. At one point they offered an LP selection
which I quickly obtained - I don't know if there were more issued than that
one.
In my travels I found the same program on the same network stations in
pretty much every city I worked - obviously my destinations coincided with
AAL's.
Oddly enough it did not occur to me for many months that this was not a
network program, as the live (?) announcements clearly referred to flights
into and out of that particular city. Nor was it the same host in each city.
I think at least for some period of time, Bob Hite hosted in New York, and I
believe it is he on my LP. For it to take so long for me to realize they
were different on-air chaps, they surely must have sounded very much alike -
probably quite deliberate on the part of the sponsor, to make their travelers
feel at home and 'with American' regardless of where they were those
particular nights.
Very low key and pleasant listening - and I thought a terrific gimmick, a
kindly gesture for travelers who probably had difficulty in accustoming
themselves to a different city, hotel and bed so often, perhaps nightly.
Fortunately, I stayed in each city for a month if not more. Kindly gesture
indeed; air travel has certainly changed! All the great airlines of the 20th
century now seem to be either gone or should be.
I wonder if anyone here has a list of the cities and the names of the various
hosts, and perhaps an idea of what years the program aired?
Best to all - Lee Munsick
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:10:39 -0400
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Jack Armstron & Armstrong of The SBI
Oh boy , I made my second mistake of Monday in my info On Jack of SBI .
My first mistake was getting out bed. The Episode of April 20, 1948 "The
House of Darkness" was billed as "The famous Jack Armstrong Champion
adventure stories" it was still Jack Armstrong the All- American Boy.
These Episodes were heard on ABC at 5:30 PM CST until 600 PM on
Mon., Wed., & Fri.
Sky King was heard on Tues., & [removed] The nest week Jack was on Tues &
[removed] cast and same sponsor Wheaties.
Then in September. of 1950 Jack , Billy & Betty grew up and Jack went
to work at the Scientific Bureau of Investigation and the show moved to
7:30 PM CST on ABC "Armstrong of the [removed], America's foremost
scientific detective brought to by Wheaties Breakfast of Champions"
The Episode I have stars Rye Billssbury (AKA Michael Rye) titled
"Deadliest of the Species" Friday June 28, 1951, 7:30 CDT.
My excuse for misspelling words is my special mthhod of typing called"
Two Index Finger Hunt and Peck", and bing in a hurry, Because I was
reading the OTR Digest at [removed] and had to get to the senoir center by
9:30 and didn't do enough reseach of my Armstrong Episodes
I'm a volunteer teacher of basic computers to seniors and I had to get
to the Sr. Center It doen't look good for the teacher to be late for
Classs. Sorry about yesterday posting.
Frank McGurn
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:52:53 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The ghost of Billy Mills asks for your help!
From: _[removed]@[removed]_ ([removed]@[removed])
What have everyone else been doing to interest other people in OTR?"
Dear Roger, & gang-
Well, the Defiance (Ohio) Public Library has asked Quicksilver Radio
Theater, in the persons of your obedient servant & his spouse (with an
assist for
local radio personality Rusty Hoops) to present a little lecture/demo on just
that subject this July 11th.
(All are welcome!)
I'll even cover MAD a bit as well; the hope is that the young adults in
attendance will be inspired to "put on a show" of their own at a later [removed]
One part of the evening will be a live FIBBER excerpt. Can anyone point me
in the direction of a modern, or CLEAN (w/o applause or [removed]) old, copy of
the
"Wing to Wing" theme?
Also: was they any specific music used most frequently at the close of the
show?
Thanks in advance,
-Craig Wichman
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:07:13 -0400
From: Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: re: Philip Rapp
Someone just asked about Philip Rapp. I've been
working on a biography of him, off and on, since 2001,
when I was loaned the Entire Rapp output from his son.
That amazing collection is what became my 3 Bickersons
books - 2 script books and the biography of the
Bickersons (foreword by Frances Langford, who also
signed hundreds of book postcards for me before she
died; what a super [removed]). But the Rapp bio is going
to be even bigger than the Bix bio. I also have enough
material for 5 more Baby Snooks script books, a Hiram
Holiday script book, and misc. radio scripts. Oh, and
I almost forgot 2 other books that came from that
collection: Philip Rapp's Joke File, and The
Television Scripts of Philip Rapp, containing scripts
for Joan Davis, Ben Blue and the Marx Bros.
I'm trying to finish up the Rapp bio this year, so it
can be out early next year. But it's a lot of work.
Right now I'm also trying to finish up Judy Canova,
Mel Blanc, Tim Kelly and Buddy Baker by the end of the
year! Getting close!
Ben Ohmart
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:07:44 -0400
From: "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest (E-mail)" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Duffy's Tavern Scripts
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Hi all,
Just yesterday I came in to possession of a very interesting volume and I'm
hoping that someone here can help me figure out exactly what it is or where it
may have come from.
It is a brown, bound volume (looks a bit like an encyclopedia) and the only
words on the outside are on the spine - at the very bottom, it says "Ed
Gardner". There is something of a table of contents - it's a list of 106
"Duffy's Tavern Vignettes Produced for NBC "Monitor" Radio 1958" The numbers
next to the episodes start with 331 and end with 437.
The pages are scripts with notes on them in pencil. At the top of some of the
pages are the names (also in pencil) of "R. Goodman", "B. Ziff", and
"Klinker".
This volume is pretty beat up. It's probably been lying around the office for
years. Someone gave it to me when an old office was being cleaned out.
Where might this have come from? Who would have bound these pages? Why is Ed
Gardner's name on the spine? Were Goodman, Ziff, and Klinker writers on
Duffy's Tavern? If anyone has any information about what this might be, I
would be really interested.
Regards,
Karen Lerner
Radio Spirits
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:07:59 -0400
From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Radio Station
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I've heard several times on this site about some radio stations which
regularly re-broadcast some OTR programs. Since I moved here to Kansas,
I haven't had the opportunity to check and see if there are any such
stations in my state. Is there anyone out there who knows how I could get
further information on such stations so I can tune in to them? If so,
please contact me offlist.
Sincerely,
Kenneth Clarke
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:08:09 -0400
From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Pamela Britton
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I just need some clarification on this point. I noticed the name of
Pamela Britton on the birth/death list recently. Was she related in any
way to actress Barbara Britton who appeared on "Mr. and Mrs. North"
opposite Richard Denning? If so how?
If anyone has any further information on "Rocky Jordan", it sure would
be appreciated. For some reason or another, those people I've asked keep
getting it confused with another radio program, "Rocky Fortune". Wasn't
"Rocky Jordan" set in Cairo. Seems to me it was. I could be wrong.
Was he a private investigator even?
ANY info would help!
Another OTR Fan,
Kenneth Clarke
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:18:59 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Live OTR in Kenosha, WI
OTR fans from southeastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois are invited
to a special event at the Public Museum in Kenosha, WI to begin at 1
PM on Saturday, June 30, 2007. Entitled "Private Eyelashes," it will be
a tribute to radio's lady detectives. Admission is free and doors will
open at 12:15 PM. Since this day begins Independence Week, free
American flags will be distributed to all and [removed] veterans will be
given preferential seating for this production.
Two re-creations will be performed live on stage: "Candy Matson, YU
2-8209" starring Viki DuMez and "Rebecca Diamond. Private Eye" with
Leslie Utech in the title lead. The latter program is an original
script by Nita Hunter which recently won an Honorable Mention Award at
the prestigious National Audio Theater Festival <[removed]>
I have been invited to give a brief history of radio's feminine sleuth
genre at this event and I also will be introducing the "Rebecca
Diamond" portion of the tribute. I look forward to seeing my OTR
friends in the area, including members of the Milwaukee Area Radio
Enthusiasts.
This entertaining affair is an RC Production event, in association with
Actor's Craft. The museum is located at 5500 1st Avenue in Kenosha,
just a stone's throw from Orson Welles' childhood home. For more
information, go to <[removed]>
Jack French
Author of "Private Eyelashes; Radio's Lady Detectives"
<[removed]>
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