Subject: [removed] Digest V2002 #55
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 2/12/2002 9:03 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2002 : Issue 55
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Frank Bresee                          [ Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed]; ]
      Re: Steve Allen                       [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
      glenn miller,[removed]             [ jao@[removed] (Joseph Onorato) ]
      Gildy book is here!                   [ "Ben Ohmart" <bloodbleeds@[removed] ]
      BOB CLAYTON                           [ HERITAGE4@[removed] ]
      Re:Mormon Tabernacle Choir            [ Eric J Cooper <ejcooper2002@[removed] ]
      THE JOY BOYS                          [ HERITAGE4@[removed] ]
      Kay Thompson                          [ "Paul M. Thompson" <beachcomber@com ]

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    Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:27:44 -0500
    From: Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Frank Bresee

    Norm and Roger--I have a few still-sealed copies of the Frank Bresee
    2-album set about OTR.  Is that what you were talking about when you
    mentioned Frank and Steve Allen?

    ---Dan Hughes

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    Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:59:59 -0500
    From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject: Re: Steve Allen

    Hello, again --
    On the subject of Steve Allen, mentioned in Digest V2002 #54, I had the
    opportunity to see Steve at the Paramount Arts Theater in Aurora IL five or
    six years ago; it was a recreation of his early TV Tonight Show, and
    included Louis Nye -- still one of the funniest people around, IMHO --- and
    Bill Dana. He began by reading and answering several questions the large
    audience had submitted on index cards, and my wife Dalia was one of the
    lucky ones to have hers chosen. Her question: Of all the different fruit
    juices you used to swig on the 1962-64 late night TV show, which was your
    favorite?" To which Steve replied, "the juice of the juniper berry." This
    was doubly funny because Steve was basically a teetotaller (sp?); on another
    TV program in the late sixties, Foster Brooks challenged him to a drinking
    contest, which Steve said he would do only to show the evils of drink.
    Within fifteen minutes after he had a couple of highballs he was totally out
    of it, with slurred speech and laughing at the slightest thing that anyone
    said.
    I really miss Steve Allen's wit and versatility. Smock! Smock!
    Jan Bach

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    Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:36:08 -0500
    From: jao@[removed] (Joseph Onorato)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: glenn miller,[removed]

    if you want to go with this never ending [removed] go to [removed]
    serch engine.  type in  'glenn miller's death'
    click google search (not I feel lucky) and
    then spend the next two months on related [removed] of which
    qualify as scandals, sex and intrigue.  better be in the mood for this
    [removed] lasted [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:01:13 -0500
    From: "Ben Ohmart" <bloodbleeds@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Gildy book is here!

    FINally got the Gildy books from the printer today. So, all ye who've ordered
    already,
    they go out in the morning. Anyone else interested, please visit
    [removed]
    Thanks much!

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    Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:03:53 -0500
    From: HERITAGE4@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: BOB CLAYTON

    Despite his correction of my announcement of the passing of Bob Clayton, I must
    respectfully correct my good friend, Russ Butler.  Bob Clayton of WHDH radio
    fame never worked as a TV host on CONCENTRATION.  There was another Bob Clayton
    who had worked as Hugh Downs' announcer, and he became the second host and
    later the host for 4 years on the show.
    Not nit-picking Russ, but we want to keep our departed friend's history
    correct.
    <<Tom Heathwood>>

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    Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:04:18 -0500
    From: Eric J Cooper <ejcooper2002@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Re:Mormon Tabernacle Choir

    Bill Murtough and others should be aware that the RADIO broadcasts of the
    Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not dead. They still form part of the
    schedule at what's left of CBS Radio/Westwood One (or what ever they're
    calling it this year!!) and are syndicated via satellite as well. The
    broadcasts still originate at KSL Radio in Salt Lake City every Sunday
    morning.

    Eric Cooper

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    Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 23:10:16 -0500
    From: HERITAGE4@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: THE JOY BOYS

    Wow - a lot of interest in THE JOY BOYS. We'll try and run one of the WRC
    shows
    on Heritage Radio Theatre on next week's show.  [removed]
    They were often compared to BOB & RAY from here in Boston of which we made
    the original dubs from the WHDH transcriptions.
    The JOY BOYS recordings came from the Washington DC area, but that was a long
    time ago.  Anyway, we'll find one and put it on starting Sunday.
    Tom Heathwood

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    Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 00:03:59 -0500
    From: "Paul M. Thompson" <beachcomber@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject: Kay Thompson

    Amanda recently inquired about radio shows that Kay Thompson took
    part in. In addition to Tune Up Time in the late 40's, Dunning also credits
    her with Your Hit Parade (1935-37),  The Chesterfield Show (1936-37)
    and early Fred Waring. The now defunct Radio Yesteryear also listed
    The Kay Thompson Show (1941-42) with one available. As a vocalist
    there were probably a number of guest appearances especially in the
    forties.

    She is probably best remembered as an author of a series of books
    about a poor little rich girl who was 6 years old and named Eloise.
    In addition to her radio work she was also a musical arranger,
    composer and dance choreographer in Hollywood and also had a
    nightclub act for awhile. She appeared in several movies such as
    Funny Face, co-starring with Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn.

    She died in mid 1998 and was in her nineties. She was once married
    to William Spier, who at the time was producing and directing Suspense
    and Sam Spade. It's been said that Howard Duff got the role of Spade
    because of her insistance that he was the right one for the role.

    Kay Thompson was Liza Minnelli's Godmother (and Spier was her
    Godfather) as a result of a close friendship with Vincente Minnelli
    and Judy Garland, having worked with both of them both in Hollywood.
    If I remember correctly, she was living with Liza when she died.

    Paul Thompson  (not related)

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