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Date: 11/7/2006 3:24 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 307
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Ever hear of "The Cats N'Jammers"     [ "frank mCgurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
      Inner Sanctum and CBS RMT             [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      The Simpsons War of the Worlds        [ Bryan Wright <bryan@[removed]; ]
      Re: Simpsons                          [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
      11-7 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      John Brown and Elliott Lewis          [ "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed] ]
      Archiving on CD and DVD               [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
      Re: Karen Lerner                      [ "Danica L. Stein" <furrygirl@adelph ]
      radio poets                           [ Robert Angus <rangus02@[removed]; ]
      "Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Nig  [ "Scherago" <rscherago@[removed]; ]
      Christopher Glenn                     [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 18:23:09 -0500
    From: "frank mCgurn" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: "The Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Ever hear of "The Cats N'Jammers"

    I hopping the vast resources and knowledge of the OTR Digest can dig up some
    information on a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation program.
    Are there more program available? If there was a sponsor the commercials
    have been cut out.

    Think the title is "The Cat N 'Jammerers" also the name of the band,. The
    date I have is Sunday May 11, 1941 on CBC heard in USA over Mutual. The
    Episode I have is about 25 minutes. It's fast moving musical show. The host
    and The band leader is Erskin Butterfield. He Sings, Plays the piano and
    talks very fast. The Charioteers and Lena Horne each do 2 numbers. The
    Charioteers I assume are the same quartet that were on Bing Crosby's
    programs and the only know of one Lena Horne who is referred to as gorgeous
    and a new comer to The Cats N' Jammers. She does  a great job on "Georgia on
    My Mind" .

    The musicians are really great good HOT Jazz musicians.

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    Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 18:58:25 -0500
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Inner Sanctum and CBS RMT

    Someone wrote:

>     The memorable opening of the show had the creeking door which also was the
>     opening of Inner Santum Mysteries. Was that idea stolen from ISM?

    The idea was not stolen.  Himan Brown produced and directed INNER SANCTUM
    MYSTERY from 1941-1952 and family relatives of his produced the TV series
    from 1953-54 for NBC-TV.  The television series was sold to NBC years later,
    but Brown actually copyrighted the sound of the creaking door.  Registered
    through the Library of Congress on February 17, 1949 under the name "The
    Creaking Door," submitted in the form of a sample radio program.

    The copyright registration was brought on when, in 1946, Warner Bros.
    featured an animated short with Bugs Bunny entitled "Racketeer Rabbit."  In
    the cartoon, Bugs opens a door that features a long squeek and jokes "Inner
    Sanctum" in the cartoon.  Himan Brown sent a letter to executives at Warner
    Bros. (letter is in the WB archives) threatening to sue them because he
    owned the rights to the radio program and they never got permission to crack
    the joke.  They sent a letter back telling him that there was no copyright
    infringement on the grounds that the squeaking door was not copyrighted.

    A couple years later, Brown copyrighted the sound of the creaking door.  The
    NBC Chimes, historically, are the only other copyrighted sounds registered
    through the [removed] Copyright Office.

    When Brown began doing The CBS Radio Mystery Theater in 1974 (actually
    production began in mid-November 1973), he featured the sound of a creaking
    door since he owned the copyrights to that.

    I am not aware of any other attempts to copyright sounds through the
    Copyright Office, nor any other attempts to have an infringement suit filed
    against someone or some entity for using the sound of any creaking door.  I
    am assuming that anyone can use the sound of any creaking door, for any
    radio drama, as long as they are not reproducing the very sound of the
    creaking door from a recording of CBS RMT or INNER SANCTUM MYSTERY.

    Martin Grams Jr.

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    Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 22:08:12 -0500
    From: Bryan Wright <bryan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Simpsons War of the Worlds

    Hi, Stephen and all.

    If you look soon, someone has posted the Simpsons "War of the Worlds"
    segment on YouTube:

    [removed];mode=related&search=

    Don't know ow long it will be there before Fox forces them to take it
    down, but in the meantime, for those who missed it on Sunday, here's
    a chance to see it. Pretty clever, I thought!

    Best,
    Bryan Wright

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    Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 22:09:22 -0500
    From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Simpsons
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    In a message dated 11/6/06 5:18:57 PM Central Standard Time,
    [removed]@[removed] writes:

>     Notwithstanding the fact that "Mercury" and "AnA" were on
>     different networks, "Mercury"/WOTW was on a Sunday, and AnA was broadcast
>     during the week.

    Continuity pretty much goes out the window altogether on the Simpsons
    Treehouse of Horrors episodes and this was no exception.  I was willing to overlook
    those particular "mistakes" to laugh my head off at the show and also
    appreciate, at a time when network executives program almost exclusively to key demos,
    that someone actually mentioned an old time radio program.  Any other show
    doing this and I probably would've groused myself about not getting it right (the
    Gildersleeve thing jumped right out at me).  By the way loved the sound
    effects man gag and the in-joke involving Kane.

    Dixon

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    Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 22:09:32 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-7 births/deaths

    November 7th births

    11-07-1868 - Royal Copeland - Dexter, MI - d. 6-17-1938
    commentator: "Health Talk"; "Fleischmann Hour"
    11-07-1883 - Solomon Lightfoot Michaux - Newport News, VA - d.
    10-20-1968
    preacher: "Elder Michaux's Happiness Church Service"
    11-07-1890 - Phil Spitalny - Odessa, Russia - d. 10-11-1970
    conductor: "Nestles Chocolateers"; "Blue Coal Revue"; "Hour of Charm"
    11-07-1895 - Jerry Belcher - Austin, TX - d. 6-xx-1962
    interviewer: "Vox Pop"; "Our Neighbors"
    11-07-1897 - Herman J. Mankiewicz - NYC - d. 3-5-1953
    screenwriter, producer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-07-1902 - Ed Dodd - Lafayette, GA - d. 5-27-1991
    comic creator: "Mark Trail"
    11-07-1903 - Dean Jagger - Lima, OH - d. 2-5-1991
    actor: "Crisis in War Town"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Cavalcade of America"
    11-07-1906 - Red Ingle - Toledo, OH - d. 9-7-1965
    vocalist: (Spike Jones and his City Slickers) "The Spike Jones Show"
    11-07-1907 - Tom Hanlon - Kansas - d. 9-29-1970
    announcer: "Jane Endicott, Reporter"; "That's My Pop"; "Beulah Show"
    11-07-1910 - Charles Carroll - Jackson, MI - d. 6-xx-1978
    actor: "Margo of Castlewood"; "Valiant Lady"
    11-07-1911 - Dick Stark - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 12-12-1986
    announcer: "It Pays to be Ignorant"; "Perry Mason"; "Walter
    Winchell's Jergens Journal"
    11-07-1913 - Margorie Anderson - London, England - d. 12-14-1999
    disc jockey: "Forces Favourites"; "Woman's Hour"; "Home for the Day"
    11-07-1916 - Joe Bushkin - NYC - d. 11-3-2004
    jazz pianist: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"
    11-07-1917 - Johnnie Stewart - Tonbridge, England - d. 4-29-2005
    sound effects for BBC radio in 1930s, then became a producer
    11-07-1918 - Billy Graham - Charlotte, NC
    preacher: "Hour of Decision"
    11-07-1922 - Al Hirt - New Orleans, LA - d. 4-27-1999
    dixieland trumpeter: "Voices of Vista"; "The Navy Swings"; "Here's to
    Veterans"
    11-07-1926 - Joan Sutherland - Sydney, Australia
    soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"

    November 7th deaths

    01-21-1915 - Alan Hewitt - NYC - d. 11-7-1986
    actor: Ken Martinson "This is Nora Drake"; Karl Dorn "Romance of
    Helen Trent"
    01-21-1925 - Charles Aidman - Frankfort, IN - d. 11-7-1993
    acotr: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    02-19-1902 - Eddie Peabody - Reading, MA - d. 11-7-70
    banjoist: (The Banjo King) "National Barn Dance"
    03-13-1892 - Janet Flanner - Indianapolis, IN - d. 11-7-1978
    reporter: "Listen, The Women"
    03-24-1910 - John V. Ambrose - d. 11-7-1995
    sportscaster: WTAG Worcester, Massachusetts
    03-30-1914 - Stu Novins - Boston, MA - d. 11-7-1989
    writer: "The City"
    04-13-1919 - Howard Keel - Gillespie, IL - d. 11-7-2004
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-17-1905 - John Patrick - Louisville, KY - d. 11-7-1995
    writer: "Theatre Guild On the Air";"Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-25-1898 - Gene Tunney - NYC - d. 11-7-1978
    heavyweight boxing champion: "National Guard Show"; "The Nave is Fit
    to Fight"
    08-15-1903 - Jerry Cady - d. 11-7-1948
    writer: "Major Hoople"
    08-18-1879 - Gus Edwards - Hohensaliza, Germany - d. 11-7-1945
    songwriter: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
    09-16-1927 - Jack Kelly - Astoria, NY - d. 11-7-1992
    actor: "Suspense"
    09-20-1918 - Peg Phillips - Everett, WA - d. 11-7-2002
    actor: "Studio One"; "The Big Show"
    10-10-1911 - George Mathews - NYC - d. 11-7-1984
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    10-11-1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt - NYC - d. 11-7-1962
    commentator: "Eleanor Roosevelt Chats/It's a Woman's World/Talks by
    Eleanor Roosevelt"
    10-16-1900 - Lloyd Corrigan - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-7-1969
    actor: Judge Hunter "One Man's Family"
    10-21-1905 - Carleton Young - NYC - d. 11-7-1994
    actor: Dick Grosvenor "Stella Dallas"; Ellery Queen "Advs of Ellery
    Queen"
    11-05-1885 - Will Durant - North Adams, MA - d. 11-7-1981
    historian: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"
    12-11-1883 - Victor McLaglen - Tunbridge Wells, England - d. 11-7-1959
    actor: Captain Flagg "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt"; Mountie Eric
    Lewis "Red Trails"
    12-14-1915 - Jerry Daniels - d. 11-7-1995
    singer: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots"; "Let's Go
    Nightclubbing"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 10:28:17 -0500
    From: "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  John Brown and Elliott Lewis

      Elliott Lewis who was involved with 937 OTR shows according to
    [removed] and John Brown with 646 shows listed had to be two of the
    most often used actors in old time radio. Know the list at
    [removed] is not complete since it lists only shows they have in
    their database.
      John Brown was in very many OTR shows as a star or featured supporting
    actor. Would be interesting to know how many different shows he was in. Know
    he was in Ozzie and Harriet, Life of Riley, My Friend Irma but know there
    are many more.
      What I am interested in knowing is what other OTR actors were in more
    shows than either of these two men but not counting major stars like Jack
    Benny or Bob Hope.
      Also would like to know if there was ever anyone in OTR with a voice that
    was as easy to detect as Herb Vigran. That is one voice that I recognize
    instantly and can't say that about any other actor in old time radio other
    than the major stars.
      Andrew Godfrey

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    Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 10:29:52 -0500
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Archiving on CD and DVD
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    Hi Folks.
      An interesting article can be found on the net about archiving on CD and DVD.
      Best way to find it is just to search for ' Memory of the World by Kevin
    Bradley ' and it should take you straight to it.
      Cheers !  Graeme Stevenson - Tune into Yesterday newsletter - UK

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    Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 10:30:29 -0500
    From: "Danica L. Stein" <furrygirl@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Karen Lerner

    I read Rick Keating's applause for Ms. Lerner. I am thrilled to hear
    that proper customer service has returned to RS. I gave up on them a
    while back, during the Carl Amari years, because their customer service
    was so dismal. I once called because I had purchased a cassette set,
    then realized I already had most of the tapes in the set. I hadn't
    played the RS tapes, but I had opened the packaging. When I called
    their customer service, I was told flat-out that they would NOT accept
    a return under the circumstances. I said I would be happy with an
    exchange or store credit, but I was told NO, since the package was
    opened they would NOT take the tapes back.  I remember relating the
    story on this very list, and Mr. Amari himself read my post and emailed
    me saying that if he had known about this at the time, he would have
    fired the customer service rep on the spot. OOOOhhh! No offer to
    replace the tapes with something else, no invitation to return the
    tapes, no acknowledgment that perhaps better training is needed in the
    customer-service department. I was not impressed, to say the least. I
    was a regular customer, but after that I never bought anything from
    them again.

    Anyway, I'm glad to hear that the RS experience has improved for those
    of you who continued to patronize them.

    Danica

    Danica L. Stein
    Poultney, VT
    furrygirl@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 10:33:03 -0500
    From: Robert Angus <rangus02@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  radio poets

    In the early 1950s, Bob & Ray had a screamingly funny bit called Charles
    the Poet, a second-rate boozy down-home rhymster.  I can remember
    hearing some of these when I was barely out of diapers---accompanied by
    a Hammond organ, in a 15-minute spot often in late morning or somewhere
    among the afternoon soaps.  One such was Bud Rainey, who worked WTIC in
    Hartford, Conn. in 1939-1941.  Does anybody know where Rainey came from
    or where he went after the WTIC gig?  Was this a southern New England
    phenomenon, or were such poets common throughout daytime radio?  What
    kind of ratings did they get?

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    Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 14:34:02 -0500
    From: "Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  "Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand
     with the Big Bands"

    The latest "Golden Age of Radio" programs with Dick Bertel
    and Ed Corcoran, and "A One Night Stand with the Big Bands"
    with Arnold Dean can be heard at [removed].

    Each week we feature three complete shows in MP3 format
    for your listening pleasure or for downloading; two "Golden
    Age of Radios" and one "One Night Stand." We present new
    shows every week or so. The current three programs will be
    available on line at least until the morning of November 14, 2006.

    Program 8: November, 1970 - William Spier and June Havoc

    William Spier was closely identified with two programs; Sam
    Spade, and Suspense.

    One of the premier programs of the Golden Age of Radio,
    Suspense advertised itself as "radio's outstanding theater of
    thrills." The program began in 1942 under the supervision of
    our guest, William Spier, who is the director most associated
    with "Suspense" in the minds of modern-day enthusiasts.
    It was Spier who established the basic ground rule for the
    series; tightly written thriller stories based not on boogeymen
    but on plausible real-life situations. Spier's "Suspense" tends
    to revolve around ordinary people caught up in circumstances
    beyond their control. Spier's casts were usually headed by
    name stars -- backed by a solid stock company of experienced
    radio actors.

    Spier's wife, June Havoc, began playing bits in silent film
    shorts at age two, appearing in 24 Hal Roach comedies. She
    was earning $1500 a week as a vaudeville headliner by the
    time she was five. In 1944 she won a Donaldson Award for
    Mexican Hayride; she also did much work on TV. She wrote
    and directed the autobiographical Broadway play Marathon
    33 (1963), and authored an autobiography, Early Havoc (1959).
    She was portrayed as a juvenile stage performer in the Broadway
    show Gypsy and its screen version.  ~ All Movie Guide

    Notes from Ms. Havoc's personal assistant, Tana Sibilio, 11/5/06:

    "During one crime melodrama on Sam Spade, perhaps, a sound
    effect gunshot went off too close to Miss Havoc and actually set
    her skirt on fire! Trouper that she was, she kept calmly reading
    her script--of course the show was going out live (although likely
    being transcribed for later broadcast to the "other" coast) while
    the control booth went nuts and the props guy threw some water
    on her. If Bill Spier hadn't been in love with her already, her
    sang-froid  while literally on fire, let alone under it, would have
    sealed the deal! And Miss Havoc says that's what won her
    admission in the special cadre of radio actors." Incidentally,
    Ms. Havoc's birthday is this week - November 8.

    Program 9 - December, 1970 - Richard Dana

    Richard Dana had a long radio career as a free lance writer and
    was also a broadcast program supervisor at Young and Rubicam.
    Mr. Dana recalls his collaboration with Philips H. Lord, and
    "Gangbusters." We'll also hear excerpts from "We the People,"
     "Your Hit Parade," and "Exploring the Unknown."

    "A One Night Stand with the Big Bands" With Arnold Dean

    Program 7 - Pearl Harbor - December 7, 1971

    Arnold Dean commemorates the 30th Anniversary of Pearl
    Harbor with music of the time.

    In the 1970's WTIC decided that there was a market in
    the evening for long-form shows that could be packaged
    and sold to sponsors. Two of those shows were "The
    Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand with the
    Big Bands."

    Dick Bertel had interviewed radio collector-historian
    Ed Corcoran several times on his radio and TV shows,
    and thought a regular monthly show featuring interviews
    with actors, writers, producers, engineers and musicians
    from radio's early days might be interesting. "The Golden
    Age of Radio" was first broadcast in April, 1970; Ed was
    Dick's co-host. It lasted seven years. "The Golden Age
    of Radio" can also be heard Saturday nights on Walden
    Hughes's program on Radio Yesteryear.

    Arnold Dean began his love affair with the big band
    era in his pre-teen years and his decision to study
    the clarinet was inspired by the style of Artie Shaw.
    When he joined WTIC in 1965 he hosted a daily program
    of big band music. In 1971, encouraged by the success
    of his daily program and "The Golden Age of Radio"
    series, he began monthly shows featuring interviews
    with the band leaders, sidemen, agents, jazz reporters,
    etc. who made major contributions to one of the great
    eras of music history.

    Bob Scherago
    Webmaster

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    Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:24:17 -0500
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Christopher Glenn

    Not sure that I saw a death notice on this forum for Christopher Glenn, the
    CBS newsman, and if it was posted I apologize for recalling it to our
    attention.

    Glenn died Oct. 17 in Norwalk, Conn. at 68, having retired from a 35-year
    career with CBS earlier this year.  He was to be inducted into the Radio
    Hall of Fame in Chicago during the week he died.  He anchored the network's
    coverage during the Challenger space shuttle explosion in 1986 and was the
    voice of more than 5,000 celebrated two-and-a-half-minute segments every
    half-hour during weekend children's programming on CBS-TV called "In the
    News" between 1971-84.  He was a floor reporter during the national
    political conventions and became the anchor of CBS Radio's "World News
    Roundup" in 1999, one of the last vestiges of OTR, after spending 11 years
    in the same capacity with another OTR-CBS legend, "The World Tonight."  He
    won the Edward R. Murrow award for best newscast in 2005 given by the
    Radio-Television News Directors Association.  Born in NYC and raised in
    Irvington, N. Y., Glenn held a BA in English from the University of Colorado
    at Boulder.  He was survived by wife Dianne, two daughters and a sister.

    Jim Cox

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