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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 277
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      TARZAN                                [ Pete <pappleyard_ca@[removed]; ]
      IS IT TRUE WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT (AL)   [ David Siegel <otrdsiegel@[removed] ]
      WGN To Air Nine Hours of OTR on Chri  [ seandd@[removed] ]
      12-4 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Don Hollenbeck                        [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
      MORE Suspense recycling               [ Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
      Golden Age of Radio shows             [ "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:30:57 -0500
    From: Pete <pappleyard_ca@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  TARZAN

    While going through some old tapes I have come across a tape with the program
    " Valley Of The Talking Gorilla "
    Does anyone have a date for this show ???
    Thanks Pete
    pappleyard_ca@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:31:02 -0500
    From: David Siegel <otrdsiegel@[removed];
    To: OTR DIGEST <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  IS IT TRUE WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT (AL) JOLSON?

       In  his time few people would challenge Jolson's  title as The
    Worlds Greatest Entertainer. Fewer still, who knew the man,
    would  take issue with his reputation as a mean spirited egotistical
    tight fisted SOB.
         Having read much about Jolson and being an admirer of his vocal
    renditions I admit to being more than a little surprised to have come
    upon the audio of a four to five minute private (home) recording made
    some time in the mid 1930's when Ruby Keeler, Jolson's third wife,
    was hospitalized (for reasons not known to me).
          The voice on the recording is unquestionably that of Al Jolson
    . He begins (as though he were leaving a message on her answering
    machine) by telling her how much he loves her. Proceeds to mention
    the calls he made to the hospital, being told that she was sleeping.
    At about this point, his remarks become more and more offensive.
          He talks about his plans for her that do not involve her in
    show business. She is to be a stay at home wife and meet his every
    need. She is to ignore affairs he may be rumored  to have had with
    other women. His warning that she should expect him to give her a
    dose of corporal punishment (in my view,goes over the top even for
    folks who may excuse his verbal abuse disguised as a GET WELL DARLING
    [removed] just Jolson  trying to be funny funny.   In the
    words of a famous otr wife: IT AINT FUNNY MCGEE.
        If any reader has knowledge of the origin (history) of the
    recording I would appreciate hearing from you.

    DAVE SIEGEL

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    Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:31:11 -0500
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  WGN To Air Nine Hours of OTR on Christmas

    The Golden Age of Radio is getting a holiday comeback from WGN Television in
    Chicago, which recently announced a nine-hour slate of Yule Log programming,
    including Jack Benny, Gildersleeve, Fibber McGee & Molly, Burns & Allen, It's
    a Wonderful Life and more.  The shows will air behind video of a burning log.

    While it is unlikely too many list members won't have heard the programs
    selected, it's nice to know someone still sees value in putting them on the
    air.  Chicago-based Radio Spirits is providing the programming.

    Here's an announcement from Multichannel News -

    [removed]

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:31:18 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-4 births/deaths

    December 4th births

    12-04-1887 - Louise Ballman - d. 2-25-1970
    violinist on experimental staation 5ACW Fort Smith, Arkansas
    12-04-1889 - Buck Jones - Vincennes, IN - d. 11-30-1942
    actor: "Hoofbeats"
    12-04-1889 - Isabel Randolph - Chicago, IL - d. 1-11-1973
    actor: Rhoda Harding "Dan Harding's Wife"; Mrs. Abigail Uppington
    "Fibber McGee and Molly"
    12-04-1897 - Doc Whipple - d. 2-28-1963
    orchestra leader: "Ma Perkins"; "The Mysterious Traveler"
    12-04-1903 - Cornell Woolrich - NYC - d. 9-25-1968
    writer: "Radio City Playhouse"; "Starring Boris Karloff"
    12-04-1910 - Mary Hunter - Bakersfield, CA - d. 11-16-2000
    actor: Marge "Easy Aces"; "Against the Storm"
    12-04-1914 - Morton Lawrence - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-27-1967
    announcer, actor: "High Adventure"; "Quiet Please"
    12-04-1915 - Allan Jackson - Hot Springs, AR - d. 4-26-1976
    newscaster for the CBS network for 32 years
    12-04-1921 - Deanna Durbin - Winnipeg, Canada
    singer: "Eddie Cantor Show"
    12-04-1930 - Harvey Kuenn - West Allis, WI - d. 2-28-1988
    baseball great: "Tops in Sports"
    12-04-1931 - Wally George - Oakland, CA - d. 10-5-2003
    producer, host: "The Sam Yorty Show"; "The Wally George Show

    December 4th deaths

    01-13-1910 - Jack Mercer - d. 12-4-1984
    actor: Popeye "Popeye the Sailor"
    03-07-1925 - Richard Vernon - Reading, England - d. 12-4-1997
    actor: Slartibartfast "Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
    04-12-1911 - Joseph Blazak - d. 12-4-1993
    newscaster: KGFJ Los Angeles, California
    06-14-1902 - Carl Esmond - Vienna, Austria-Hungary - d. 12-4-2004
    actor: "Mayor of the Town"
    06-19-1917 - Robert Karnes - Kentucky - d. 12-4-1979
    announcer: Started his career in his native Kentucky
    06-20-1897 - Bob Howard - W. Newton, MA - d. 12-4-1986
    pianist-singer: "Calsodent Presents Bob Howard"; "Sing It Again"
    07-02-1910 - Jeff Alexander - Whidbey Island, WA - d. 12-4-1989
    conductor: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Light Up Time"; "Tums Hollywood Theatre"
    08-04-1909 - Alan Kent - Chicago, IL - d. 12-4-1993
    announcer, emcee, writer: "Duffy's Tavern"; "Career of Alice Blair"
    08-13-1895 - Bert Lahr - NYC - d. 12-4-1967
    comedian: "Hildegarde's Raleigh Room"; "Manhattan at Midnight"; "Royal
    Vagabonds"
    08-31-1922 - John Hanson - Ontario, Canada - d. 12-4-1998
    singer, actor: "Children's Hour"; "Songs from the Shows"; "Variety
    Bandbox"
    09-01-1887 - William Daly - Cincinnati, OH - d. 12-4-1936
    condctor: "Raleigh Review"; "Voice of Firestone"
    09-07-1903 - Margaret Landon - Somers, WI - d. 12-4-1993
    author: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-12-1916 - Ed Binns - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-4-1990
    actor: "This Is My Story"
    10-08-1897 - Rouben Mamoulian - Tiflis, Georgia, Russia - d. 12-4-1987
    film director: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    11-22-1913 - Benjamin Britten - Lowestoft, Suffolk, England - d.
    12-4-1976
    composer: "Columbia Workshop"; "An American in England"
    11-23-1894 - Rosetta Duncan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-4-1959
    singer: (Topsy and Eva) "Wireless Vaudeville"
    12-03-1916 - Rabon Delmore - Elmount, AL - d. 12-4-1952
    guitar, singer: "Grand Ole Opry"

    Ron

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    Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 10:51:02 -0500
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Don Hollenbeck

    Folks;

       Received this request from a friend, and would appreciate replies directly
    to me off-list and I will happily summarize (any information and audio
    supplied will be shared with the entire class via the blog, I promise). I'm
    personally interested in hearing his NBC report from the beaches of Salerno,
    but any and all audio of Mr. Hollenbeck and any Marlin commercials would be
    greatly appreciated.

             Charlie

    - ---
    I'm interviewing Loren Ghiglione who's written a biography of CBS reporter
    Don Hollenbeck, a man best known for killing himself while under the pressure
    of much red-baiting by Hearst columnist Jack O'Brien.    Before going to work
    for Murrow, Hollenbeck had been fired by both NBC and ABC.   ABC fired him
    because he called the Marlin razor blade commercial an "atrocity," on-air.
    It was one of those silly jingles of the early 1950's that promised you'd get
    women if you used the product.

    Do you have any audio of a Marlin commercial?   Do you have audio of
    Hollenbeck?

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    Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 10:51:57 -0500
    From: Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  MORE Suspense recycling

    Thank you Martin and Randy for your
    help and insights.

    Randy's linkages sent me over to
    RadioGoldindex to search for "Roeburt" who penned the Inner
    Sanctum and the Suspense scripts that were reused. This is the only
    one in that data base that does not match up:
    Suspense. May 20, 1962. CBS net.
    "Dagger Of The Mind". Sponsored by: Marlboro Cigarettes. A
    woman who is going mad decides that her husband is unfaithful and is
    lying to her. Claire Niesen, Leon Janney, Ralph Camargo, Evie Juster,
    Guy Repp, John Roeburt (writer), Stuart Metz (announcer), Bruno
    Zirato Jr. (producer, director), Ethel Huber (music supervisor)

    Any idea which Inner Sanctum this one
    probably is?

    My newly updated list is still at
    [removed]

    As best I can determine the only two
    Inner Sanctums that are circulating that were re-done on Suspense
    are:
    5/7/46 You Could Die Laughing
    5/28/51 Unforgiving Corpse

    The missing ones are
    07/12/48 Death Is a Magician
    05/02/49 Deadly Double
    12/18/50 Murder by Consent
    12/26/49, 12/25/50 The Enchanted Ghost

    Does anyone have any of these?

    Regards and sincerest thanks [removed]
    JWW

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    Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 10:52:41 -0500
    From: "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Golden Age of Radio shows

    Just a further encouragement to newer list members to accept Bob
    Scherago's invitation to listen to the old WTIC "Golden Age of
    Radio" shows of the 1970s.

    The program itself was a pioneer in OTR reminiscence. There may
    be a number of misstatements along the way, but there simply
    wasn't the in-depth research then that today's hosts have to fall
    back on, thanks to the efforts of many members of this list.

    Also, you'll find the memories of the personalities a little
    askew in some cases, but overall it was a great program with lots
    to choose from, depending on your particular interest. I'm
    particularly fond of the interview with Robert Anderson and his
    comments on writing for radio.

    Bob Cockrum

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