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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 179
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      11-16 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      11-17 birth/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 18-24 Nov  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      11-18 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:07:48 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-16 births/deaths

    November 16th births

    11-16-1873 - W. C. Handy - Florence, AL - d. 3-28-1958
    jazz trumpeter, composer: "Cavalcade of Music";"Freedom's People"
    11-16-1887 - Arthur Krock - Glasgow, KY - d. 4-12-1974
    journalist: "Information Please"
    11-16-1889 - George S. Kaufman - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-2-1961
    panelist: "Information, Please"; "This Is Broadway"; "Who Said That?"
    11-16-1890 - George Seldes - Alliance, NJ - d. 7-2-1995
    journalist: His book "A Disease Called Fascism" adapted for "Words at
    War"
    11-16-1895 - Michael Arlen - Rustchuk, Bulgaria - d. 6-23-1956
    creator: "The Falcon"
    11-16-1896 - Jim Jordan - Peoria, IL - d. 4-1-1988
    comedian: Mickey Donavan, "Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten"; "Fibber McGee
    "Fibber McGee and Molly"
    11-16-1896 - Lawrence Tibbett - Bakersfield, CA - d. 7-15-1960
    singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Golden Voices"
    11-16-1899 - Mary Margaret McBride - Paris, MO - d. 4-7-1976
    commentator: "Mary Margaret McBride"; "Martha Deane"
    11-16-1905 - Eddie Condon - Goodland, IN - d. 8-4-1973
    guitarist, host: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
    11-16-1907 - Burgess Meredith - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-9-1997
    actor: "Red Adams/Red Davis "Red Adams/Red Davis" (the precursor to
    "Pepper Young's Family")
    11-16-1911 - Sonny Dunham - Brockton, MA - d. 7-9-1990
    trumpeter, bandleader: "One Night Stand"; "Spotlight Bands"
    11-16-1912 - George O. Petrie - New Haven, CT - d. 11-16-1997
    actor: Michael Waring "The Falcon"; John J. Malone "Amazing Mr. Malone"
    11-16-1912 - Paul Dudley - Massachusetts - d. 5-18-1959
    writer: "Pot o' Gold"; "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
    11-16-1913 - Jack "Smilin' Jack" Smith - Bainbridge Island, WA - d.
    7-3-2006
    singer: "Breezing Along"; "Prudential Family Hour"; "Jack Smith Show"
    11-16-1916 - Daws Butler - Toledo, OH - d. 5-19-1988
    actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"; "Stan Freberg Show"; "That's Rich"
    11-16-1919 - Marion Bell - St. Louis, MO - d. 12-14-1997
    actor, singer: "The Railroad Hour"
    11-16-1919 - Ronald (Harold) Hardy - d. 10-xx-1991
    wrote plays for radio and television
    11-16-1920 - Colin Thiele - Eudunda, Australia - d. 9-4-2006
    writer: "Burke and Wills"
    11-16-1921 - Evelyn Goodkin - d. 9-5-2005
    actor: Marge Minter "Myrt and Marge"; Penny Latham "Dan Harding's Wife"
    11-16-1927 - Barbara Payton - Cloquet, MN - d. 5-8-1967
    actor: "Pepsodent Show starring Bob Hope"
    11-16-1938 - Walter J. Learning - Quidi Vidim, New Foundland, Canada
    wrote scripts for the CBC

    November 16th deaths

    02-01-1901 - Clark Gable - Cadiz, OH - d. 11-16-1960
    actor: "So Proudly We Hail"; "Silver Theatre"
    02-03-1899 - Doris Speed - Manchester, England - d. 11-16-1994
    actor: "Remember It All"
    02-28-1919 - David Marshall Cox - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 11-16-1998
    producer for WNAC Boston Massachusetts
    03-04-1904 - Joseph Schmidt - Davideny, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary - d.
    11-16-1942
    singer: "General Motors Concerts"
    04-17-1918 - William Holden - O'Fallon, IL - d. 11-16-1981
    actor: "Hour of Mystery"; "Smiths of San Fernando"; "So Proudly We Hail"
    04-21-1930 - Kirby Ayres - d. 11-16-2005
    disk jockey: "Bob and Ray Present the CBS Radio Network"
    05-07-1906 - Jack Johnstone - Vineland, NJ - d. 11-16-1991
    writer, producer, director: "Buck Rogers"; "CBS Radio Workshop"; "Six
    Shooter"
    05-24-1916 - Tony Barrett - NYC - d. 11-16-1974
    actor: Charlie Dyer "This Life is Mine"; Biff Bradley "Pepper Young's
    Family"
    06-01-1930 - Edward Woodward - Croydon, Surrey, England - d. 11-16-2009
    actor: "Price of Fear"
    06-06-1900 - Arthur Askey - Liverpool, England - d. 11-16-1982
    comedian: "Band Waggon"; "Music Hall"; "Does the Team Think"
    06-13-1913 - Ralph Edwards - Merino, CO - d. 11-16-2005
    host, announcer: "Truth or Consequences"; "This Is Your Life";
    "Original Amateur Hour"
    07-31-1912 - Milton Friedman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-16-2006
    economist: Radio Australia
    08-04-1905 - Frank Luther - Lakin, KS - d. 11-16-1980
    singer: "Luther-Layman Singer"; "Frank Luther Show"; "Happy Wonder
    Bakers Trio"
    08-05-1912 - Clyde Barrie - d. 11-16-1987
    baritone: CBS 1935-1937; KUOA Siloam Springs, Arkansas
    08-15-1914 - Eve Alwyn - Christ Church, New Zealand - d. 11-16-2005
    actor: WEAT West Palm Beacg, Florida
    09-06-1881 - Charlie Dale - NYC - d. 11-16-1971
    comedian: (Smith and Dale) "Al Jolson"; "Kate Smith"
    09-21-1915 - Mac Benoff - NYC - d. 11-16-1972
    writer: "The Mel Blanc Show"
    09-27-1885 - Harry Blackstone, Sr. - Chicago, IL - d. 11-16-1965
    magician: "Harry Blackstone, the Magic Detective" based on him.
    09-28-1903 - Boake Carter - Baku, Russia - d. 11-16-1944
    news commentator: "Night newscast for CBS"
    10-24-1916 - Ray Singer - NYC - d. 11-16-1992
    writer: "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Charlotte
    Greenwood Show"
    12-04-1910 - Mary Hunter - Bakersfield, CA - d. 11-16-2000
    actor: Marge "Easy Aces"; "Against the Storm"
    12-20-1914 - Patti Pickens - Macon, GA - d. 11-16-1995
    singer: (Pickens Sisters) "The Pickens Sisters"; "The Magic Key"

    Ron

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    Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:07:53 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-17 birth/deaths

    November 17th births

    11-17-1878 - Grace Abbott - d. 7-19-1939
    talks for mothers: "Your Child"
    11-17-1897 - Frank Fay - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-25-1961
    actor: "Jack Oakie's College"; "Rudy Vallee Show"
    11-17-1898 - "Quin" Ryan - d. 10-7-1978
    announcer, actor: "Quin Ryan Reports"; "Uncle Quin"; "Uncle Quin's
    Scalawags"
    11-17-1899 - Toscha Seidel - Odessa, Ukraine - d. 11-15-1962
    violin virtuoso: Staff musician for CBS
    11-17-1902 - Ricky Craig, Jr. - NYC - d. 11-28-1933
    monologist: "Blue Ribbon Malt Jester"
    11-17-1905 - Josef Marais - Sir Lowey's Pass, South Africa - d.
    4-26-1978
    singer: "African Trek/Sundown on the Veld"; "Meredith Willson Show"
    11-17-1905 - Mischa Auer - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 3-5-1967
    actor: "Mischa the Magnificent"
    11-17-1907 - L. Sprague de Camp - NYC - d. 11-6-2000
    science fiction writer: "X-Minus One"; "Future Tense"
    11-17-1911 - Jack Lescoulie - Sacramento, CA - d. 7-22-1987
    announcer, emcee: "Grouch Club"; "Meet the Champions"
    11-17-1916 - Bill Rogers - Thompsonville, MI - 5-28-1993
    commentator, announcer: "Bill Rogers and the News"; "Hoot'nanny"
    11-17-1916 - Frank Maxwell - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-5-2004
    actor: Uthas P. Garvey "Colonel Humphrey Slack"
    11-17-1917 - Byron Keith - Illinois - d. 1-19-1996
    Started his career in radio in Boise, Idaho in the 1930s
    11-17-1917 - Harry Worth - Tankersley, Yorkshire, England - d. 7-20-1989
    actor: "New to You"
    11-17-1918 - Paul Crabtree - Pulaski, VA - d. 3-9-1979
    actor: David Naughton "Claudia and David"
    11-17-1922 - Jack Farren - NYC - d. 6-25-1997
    announcer: "Under Arrest"
    11-17-1925 - Rock Hudson - Winnetka, IL - d. 10-2-1985
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-17-1931 - Wayne J. Andre - d. 8-26-2003
    trombonist: Benny Goodman Orchestra; Woody Herman Orchestra
    11-17-1935 - Audrey (Grace) Thomas - Binghamton, NY
    writer: "Once Your Submarine Cable is Gone"
    11-17-1936 - John Wells - Ashford, Kent, England - d. 1-11-1998
    actor, writer: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
    11-17-1937 - Peter Cook - Devonshire, England - d. 1-9-1995
    satirist, writer, comedian: "Why Bother"

    November 17th deaths

    01-17-1914 - Irving Brecher - NYC - d. 11-17-2008
    writer, producer: "Community Sing"; "The Life of Riley"
    01-30-1928 - Ruth Brown - Portsmouth, VA - d. 11-17-2006
    singer: "Newport Jazz Festival"
    02-01-1894 - James P. Johnson - New Brunswick, NJ - d. 11-17-1955
    pianist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"; "This is Jazz"
    02-06-1902 - George Brunis - New Orleans, LA - d. 11-17-1984
    trombonist: "This Is Jazz"; "Tennessee Ernie Show"
    04-14-1916 - Emerson Buckley - NYC - d. 11-17-1989
    conductor: "Two Thousand Plus"; "Murder By Experts"
    05-17-1896 - Ruth Donnelly - Trenton, NJ - d. 11-17-1982
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-01-1887 - Clive Brook - London, England - d. 11-17-1974
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"
    06-15-1861 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink - Prague, Czechoslovkia - d.
    11-17-1936
    singer: "Enna Jettick Melodies"; "Hoover Sentinels Serenade"
    06-19-1909 - Maurice Zimm - Waterloo, IA - d. 11-17-2005
    writer: "The Man Who Sang"
    06-19-1912 - Jerry Jerome - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-17-2001
    musician: "Eileen Barton Show"; "Mirth and Madness"
    07-14-1919 - Claude Trenier - Mobile, AL - d. 11-17-2003
    singer: "Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra"
    07-24-1916 - Bob Eberly - Mechanicville, NY - d. 11-17-1981
    singer: (Jimmy Dorsey Band)
    08-19-1903 - Claude Dauphin - Corbeil, France - d. 11-17-1978
    actor: "As Easy as [removed]"
    09-15-1904 - Sheilah Graham - Leeds, England - d. 11-17-1988
    gossip commentator: "Heinz Magazine of the Air"; "Sheilah Graham"
    10-05-1903 - Jimmy Ritz - Newark, NJ - d. 11-17-1985
    comedian: (The Ritz Brothers) "Hollywood Hotel"
    11-22-1895 - Alexander Laszlo - Budapest, Hungary - d. 11-17-1970
    orchestra leader: "This Is Your Life"
    11-24-1900 - Ireene Wicker - Quincy, IL - d. 11-17-1987
    actor: (The Singing Lady) Sylvia Bertram "Road of Life"; Eileen Moran
    "Today's Children"
    11-26-1913 - Bill Baldwin - Pueblo, CO - d. 11-17-1982
    announcer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Mario Lanza Show"
    12-18-1888 - Gladys Cooper - Lewisham, England - d. 11-17-1971
    actor: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"

    Ron

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    Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:07:58 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 18-24 November

     From Those Were The Days

    11/18

    1307   The story of William Tell shooting the apple off of his young
    son's noggin is said to have taken place on this day.

    (If it hadn't been for Tell there would have been no opera, if there had
    been no opera there would have been no overture, if there had been no
    overture the Lone Ranger wouldn't have had the theme music we know.
    (that's a joke son, I say that's a joke).

    11/20

    1929 - The first broadcast of The Rise of the Goldbergs, with Gertrude
    Berg as Molly, was heard on the NBC Blue network. Later, the title would
    be shortened to The Goldbergs. Mrs. Berg, incidentally, wrote the first
    scripts for the 15-minute program and starred in the show -- for $75 a
    week. ($930 in 2009 dollars). The program continued until 1945 (it
    returned for one season in 1949-1950). Gertrude Berg entertained
    audiences with New York style, motherly phrases like, "Button up your
    neck. It's cold outside."

    11/21

    1938   WBOE in Cleveland, OH became the first school operated radio
    station (owned by a municipality) to receive a license from the FCC.
    WBOE went on the air as a 500 watt AM station and later became an FM
    station.

    1938   The first broadcast of Central City was heard. It was an
    adventure mystery show set at the newspaper in, you guessed it, Central
    City. Elspeth Eric played the part of crime reporter Emily Olson; and
    Van Heflin was crime reporter Bob Shellenberger (later, the part was
    played by Myron McCormick). Central City aired until 1941.

    1944   "Happy trails to you, until we meet [removed]" The Roy Rogers
    Show was first heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Singing along
    with Roy (The King of the Cowboys'), were the Whippoorwills and The Sons
    of the Pioneers.

    11/22

    1906   Delegates attending the Berlin Radiotelegraphic Conference in
    Germany voted to use SOS (...   ...) as the letters for the new
    international signal. The international use of "SOS" was ratified in
    1908. Its meaning? No, not "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" as many
    believe. Its only meaning was as a distress signal, quick to transmit by
    Morse code and not easily misread. It is not an acronym. Incidentally,
    how did SOS pads come to use the same initials? They're named after a
    patented process, Soap on Steel.

    11/23

    1929   Shirley Booth and Ed Gardner were married on this day. Miss Booth
    was famous for her television acting role ("Hazel"); but we remember
    when she and her husband played Miss Duffy and Archie on Duffy's Tavern.

    1958   One of the last drama programs on radio debuted. It was unusual
    in that it followed the TV show of the same name. Have Gun Will Travel
    was broadcast on CBS and starred John Dehner as Paladin.

    11/24

    1937   Music from the Raymor Ballroom in Boston, Massachusetts was
    beamed coast to coast on NBC. The special guests during this broadcast
    were Glenn Miller and his orchestra.

    Joe

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    Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:08:03 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-18 births/deaths

    November 18th births

    11-18-1836 - William S. Gilbert - London, England - d. 5-29-1911
    composer: (Gilbert and Sullivan) "Several works adapted for radio"
    11-18-1860 - Jan Ignace Paderewski - Kurilovka. Poland - d. 6-21-1941
    concert pianist, statesman: "Paderewski's Eightieth Birthday Tribute"
    11-18-1885 - James Brennan - Boston, MA - d. 8-24-1956
    composer, pianist: "The Sachs Program"
    11-18-1888 - Frances Marion - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-12-1973
    screen writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-18-1891 - Sigmund Anker - Bern, Switzerland - d. 4-23-1958
    violinist: KFRC San Francisco, California
    11-18-1899 - Eugene Ormandy - Budapest, Hungary - d. 3-12-1985
    conductor: "Roxy's Gang"; "Phildelphia Orchestra"
    11-18-1900 - Don Quinn - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 12-30-1967
    writer: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Halls of Ivy"
    11-18-1901 - Dr. George Gallup - Jefferson, IA - d. 7-26-1984
    statistician: "Living 1948"
    11-18-1907 - Gwen Meredith - Orange, Australia - d. 10-3-2006
    writer: "Blue Hills"; "The Lawsons"
    11-18-1908 - Imogene Coca - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-2-2001
    comedian: "Big Show"
    11-18-1909 - Johnny Mercer - Savannah, GA - d. 6-25-1976
    singer: "Camel Caravan"; "Johnny Mercer's Music Shop"; "Dinah Shore
    Show"
    11-18-1912 - Arthur Peterson - Mandan, ND - d. 10-31-1996
    actor: Reverend John Rutledge "The Guiding Light"; "World's Great
    Novels"
    11-18-1919 - Georgia Carroll - Bloomington Grove, TX - d. 1-14-2011
    singer: (Wife of Kay Kyser) "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
    11-18-1923 - Alan Shepard - Derry, NH - d. 7-21-1998
    astronaut: "NASA Audio News"; "Space Story"
    11-18-1924 - Les Lye - Toronto, Canada - d. 7-21-2009
    emcee: CFRA Ottawa; CKEY Toronto
    11-18-1926 - Dorothy Collins - Windsor, Ontario, Canada - d. 7-21-1994
    singer: "Your Hit Parade"
    11-18-1928 - Mickey Mouse - Hollywood, CA
    cartoon character: "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"
    11-18-1936 - Don Cherry - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 10-19-1995
    jazz trumpeter: "Manhattan Melodies"
    11-18-1939 - Brenda Vaccaro - Brooklyn, NY
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"
    11-18-1945 - Glenn Walken - Queens, NY
    actor: (Brother of Christopher) Michael Bauer "The Guiding Light"

    November 18th deaths

    03-13-1913 - Harold J. Stone - NYC - d. 11-18-2005
    actor: Sergeant Waters "21st Precinct"
    03-30-1902 - Ted Heath - Wandsworth, London, England - d. 11-18-1969
    bandleader: "Ted Heath and His Orchestra"
    05-01-1888 - [removed] Armstrong - Waverley, Australia - d. 11-18-1973
    writer: "Drought"
    05-29-1924 - Bob Corley - Macon, GA - d. 11-18-1971
    actor: Beulah "Beulah"
    06-07-1907 - Tom Slater - Parkersburg, WV - d. 11-18-1961
    announcer: "Kitty Keen"; "Jack Berch Program"; "For Men Only"
    06-14-1929 - Cy Coleman - NYC - d. 11-18-2004
    jazz pianist, composer: "Cy Coleman at the Piano"; "Voices of Vista"
    06-18-1893 - Gladys Gooding - Macon, MO - d. 11-18-1963
    organist, singer: organist at Madison Square Garden
    07-06-1910 - Dorothy Kirsten - Montclair, NJ - d. 11-18-1992
    singer: "Keepsakes"; "Kraft Music Hall"; "Light Up Time"
    07-11-1894 - Walter Wanger - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-18-1968
    film producer: "Information, Please"; "Hollywood Fights Back"; "Lux
    Radio Theatre"
    07-14-1880 - Donald Meek - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 11-18-1946
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-29-1916 - Max Bice - d. 11-18-2002
    newscaster: KMO Seattle, Washington
    09-06-1888 - Joseph P. Kennedy - East Boston, MA - d. 11-18-1969
    ambassador to Great Britain: "Ambassador Joseph Kennedy"
    09-18-1948 - Ken Brett - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-18-2003
    part of the Los Angeles Dodgers broadcast team
    09-21-1916 - Zinovy Gerdt - Sebezh, Russia - d. 11-18-1996
    actor: Read poetry and prose on radio
    10-07-1888 - Henry Wallace - Adair County, IA - d. 11-18-1965
    vice president: "Free World Theatre"
    10-15-1900 - Fritz Feld - Berlin, Germany - d. 11-18-1993
    actor: "NBC Uinversity Theatre"; "Nightbeat"; "Advs. of the Saint"
    10-30-1891 - Bill Brandt - d. 11-18-1963
    sports commentator: "Inside of Sports"
    11-29-1894 - H. Leslie Atlass - d. 11-18-1960
    Chicago radio pioneer, CBS executive
    12-12-1909 - Louis G. Cowan - Chicago, IL - d. 11-18-1976
    producer: "The Quiz Kids"; "Murder at Midnight"
    12-12-1913 - Hal Dickinson - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-18-1970
    organized Modernaires: "Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra"
    xx-xx-1919 - Walter McGraw - d. 11-18-1978
    director: "Believe It or Not"; "The Chase"

    Ron

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