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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2012 : Issue 191
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  12-12 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Teller of Tales                       [ Mike Thomas <thomaspilgrims@[removed] ]
  12-13 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  The Hayloft Gang                      [ Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@sbcglo ]
  12-14 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:56:11 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  12-12 births/deaths

December 12th births

12-12-1886 - Violet Kemble Cooper - London, England - d. 8-16-1961
actor: "School for Scandal"
12-12-1893 - Edward G. Robinson - Bucharest, Romania - d. 1-26-1973
actor: Steve Wilson "Big Town"
12-12-1898 - Noreen Gammill - Missouri - d. 12-21-1988
actor: Sister Dinwiddie "Bill Goodwin Show"; Cathy "Opie Cates Show"
12-12-1902 - Helen Menken - NYC - d. 3-27-1966
actor: Brenda Cummings "Second Husband"
12-12-1904 - Pete Pumiglio - d. 10-20-1996
musician: "The Ipana Troubadors"
12-12-1907 - Allen Massey - Midland, TX - d. 3-3-1983
singer: (Louise Massey and the Westerners) "National Barn Dance";
"Show Boat"
12-12-1907 - Jean Anderson - Eastbourne, England - d. 4-1-2001
actor: "Front Line Family (The Robinsons)"
12-12-1908 - Hank Ladd - Chicago, IL - d. 6-9-1982
actor: Beetle "Phil Baker Show"
12-12-1908 - Mary Lou Cook - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-27-1944
singer: (The Merry Macs) "Bing Crosby Show"; "New Old Gold Show"
12-12-1908 - Victor Babin - Moscow, Russia - d. 3-1-1972
concert pianist with a career in radio
12-12-1909 - Karen Morley - Ottumwa, IA - d. 3-8-2003
blacklisted actor: "War Town"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-12-1909 - Louis G. Cowan - Chicago, IL - d. 11-18-1976
producer: "The Quiz Kids"; "Murder at Midnight"
12-12-1910 - Morris Mamorsky - d. 3-12-2003
composer, musical director: "The Eternal Light"; "Wanted"; "Words at
War"
12-12-1911 - Jules Dassin - Middletown, CT - d. 3-31-2008
writer: "Kate Smith"; Yiddish Theatre
12-12-1913 - Hal Dickinson - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-18-1970
organized Modernaires: "Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra"
12-12-1913 - Winston Burdette - Buffalo, NY - d. 5-19-1993
newscaster: (protege of Edward R. Murrow) "CBS World News Round Up"
12-12-1914 - Buzzy Bavasi - NYC - d. 5-1-2008
baseball executive: "Monitor"; "Top In Sports"
12-12-1915 - Bea Fontane - New Milford, NJ - d. 3-25-2002
singer: (The Fontane Sisters) "Chesterfield Supper Club"
12-12-1915 - Frank Sinatra - Hoboken, NJ - d. 5-14-1998
singer, actor: (The Voice), "Your Hit Parade"; "Frank Sinatra Show";
Rocky Fortune "Rocky Fortune"
12-12-1916 - Acrivy Fukuzawa - Constantinople, Turkey
opera singer: "Radio Paris"; "Radio Strassbourg"
12-12-1917 - Richard Martin - Spokane, WA - d. 9-4-1994
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-12-1918 - Joe Williams - Codele, GA - d. 3-29-1999
blues singer: "Count Basie and His Orchestra"; "Stars for Defense"
12-12-1919 - Seymour Korman - d. 8-2-1993
newsman for Mutual
12-12-1923 - Bob Barker - Darrington, WA
disc jockey: "Bob Barker Show"
12-12-1929 - John Osborne - London, England - d. 12-24-1994
dramatist: "Danger"
12-12-1938 - Connie Francis - Newark, NJ
singer: "Horn and Hardart Children's Hour"
12-12-1950 - Louis Nowra - Melbourne, Australia
writer: "Albert Names Edward"
12-12-1950 - Stephanie McCarthy - Mildura, Australia
writer: "Out of Mind"

December 12th deaths

01-31-1902 - Tullulah Bankhead - Huntsville, AL - d. 12-12-1968
actor, hostess: "Johnny Presents"; "Big Show"
02-27-1891 - David Sarnoff - Minsk, Russia - d. 12-12-1971
executive: National Broadcasting Company"
02-27-1907 - Mildred Bailey - Tekoa, WA - d. 12-12-1951
singer: (Rockin' Chair Lady) "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Camel Caravan"
03-05-1927 - Jack Cassidy - NYC - d. 12-12-1976
singer, actor: "Stars for Defense"; "Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP"
03-10-1915 - Ranald MacDougall - Schenectady, NY - d. 12-12-1973
writer: "The Man Behind the Gun"; "Passport for Adams"; "There Was a
Woman"
04-12-1919 - Ivor Barry - South Wales, UK - d. 12-12-2006
actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"
04-18-1902 - Harry Owens - O'Neil, NE - d. 12-12-1986
bandleader: "Hawaii Calls"; "Sweet Leilani Time"; Harry Owens and His
Orchestra"
05-07-1923 - Anne Baxter - Michigan City, IN - d. 12-12-1985
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-11-1913 - John Weigel - Springfield, MO - d. 12-12-2002
announcer: "The Chicago Theatre of the Air"; "Meet the Meeks"
05-23-1883 - Douglas Fairbanks - Denver, CO - d. 12-12-1939
commentator: "KHJ Los Angeles 1921"
07-04-1898 - Johnny Lee - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-12-1965
actor: Algonquin J. Calhoune "Amos 'n' Andy"
07-25-1922 - Earl Gillespie - Chicago, IL - d. 12-12-2003
sportscaster: voice of the Milwaukee Braves
08-02-1903 - Victor McLeod - d. 12-12-1972
writer: "The Bing Crosby Show"; "Stop or Go"
08-08-1906 - Richard Cunliffe - McKeesport, PA - d. 12-12-1968
composer, arranger: "Ted Weems and His Orchestra"
08-25-1914 - Dolores O'Neill - d. 12-12-2006
singer: The Bob Chester Orchestra
08-25-1916 - Van Johnson - Newport, RI - d. 12-12-2008
actor: "Request Performance"; "Romance"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"
08-26-1912 - Chuck Foster - Jeanette, PA - d. 12-12-2001
bandleader: "Treasury Bandstand"; "One Night Stand"
08-29-1916 - George Montgomery - Brady, MT - d. 12-12-2000
actor: "Hollywood Star Time"; "NBC University Theatre of the Air"
09-05-1893 - George Sokolsky - Utica, NY - d. 12-12-1962
news commentator: 15-minute weekly series on ABC
09-24-1915 - Larry Gates - St. Paul, MN - d. 12-12-1996
actor: "Radio City Playhouse"
10-01-1902 - Joe Rines - Boston, MA - d. 12-12-1986
jack of all trades: (Married to Portland Hoffa) "Joe Rines Show"
11-05-1931 - Ike Turner - Clarksdale MS - d. 12-12-2007
singer: (Ike and Tina) "Lost and Found Sound"
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"

Ron

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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:56:18 -0500
From: Mike Thomas <thomaspilgrims@[removed];
To: digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Teller of Tales
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Hello,

Has anyone here ever heard of a show (otr) called "Teller of Tales"?

Thanks

Mike

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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:56:26 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  12-13 births/deaths

December 13th births

12-13-1887 - Alvin York - Pall Mall, TN - d. 12-2-1964
world war I hero: "We the People"; "What Are We Fighting For?"
12-13-1890 - Marc Connelly - McKeesport, PA - d. 12-21-1980
writer: "Free Company"; "Security Workshop"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-13-1894 - Olin Landick - d. 3-26-1972
actor: Cassandra Drinkwater "Cousin Cassie"
12-13-1897 - Drew Pearson - Evanston, IL - d. 9-1-1969
investigative reporter: "Listen America"; "Drew Pearson Comments"
12-13-1901 - Jay Jostyn - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-25-1976
actor: Max Tilley "Life of Mary Sothern"; Mr, District Attorney "Mr.
District Attorney"
12-13-1904 - George Baxter - Paris, France - d. 9-10-1976
announcer: "Grand Central Station"; "The Career of Alice Blair"
12-13-1906 - H. C. Danby - Hull England - d. 9-xx-1975
author: "Remember It All"
12-13-1910 - Lillian Roth - Boston, MA - d. 5-12-1980
singer, speaker: "Pleasant Sunday Afternoon"
12-13-1910 - Van Heflin - Walter, OK - d. 7-23-1971
actor: Bob Drake "Betty and Bob"; "Philip Marlowe "Advs. of Philip
Marlowe"
12-13-1912 - Herb Sheldon - Connecticut - d. 10-27-1964
announcer, host: "Honeymoon in New York"; "Luncheon at the Latin
Quarter"
12-13-1913 - Archie Moore - Benoit, MS - d. 12-9-1998
light heavyweight boxing champion: "Tops in Sports"
12-13-1913 - Jimmy Carroll - NYC - d. 3-19-1972
singer: "Pot O' Gold"
12-13-1914 - Larry Parks - Olathe, KS - d. 4-13-1975
actor: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Faith for Tomorrow"; "Guest Star"
12-13-1914 - Tiger Haynes - Fredriksted, St. Croix - d. 2-5-1994
guitarist: (The Three Flames) "Scout About Town"; "Peter Donald Show"
12-13-1915 - Mark Stevens - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-15-1994
actor: "This Is Hollywood"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Suspense"
12-13-1917 - David Street - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-3-1971
actor, singer: "Music Depreciation"
12-13-1917 - Wesley Tuttle - Lamar, CO - d. 9-29-2003
country singer: "Wesley Tuttle and His Coon Hunters"
12-13-1920 - Don Taylor - Freeport, PA - d. 12-29-1998
actor: "Indiana School of the Sky"; "Family Theatre"; "Hollywood Star
Preview"
12-13-1925 - Dick Van Dyke - West Plains, MO
host: "Flair"
12-13-1925 - Elsa Nilsson - Wichita Falls, KS
singer: (Nilsson Twins) "Furlough Fun"
12-13-1926 - Carl Erskine - Anderson, IN
baseball pitcher: "Baseball: An Action History"; "Dr. Norman Vincent
Peale"
12-13-1939 - Moe Keale - Niihau, HI - d. 4-15-2002
local disc jockey

December 13th deaths

01-15-1920 - Yvonne King - Ephriam, UT - d. 12-13-2009
singer: (King Sisters) "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"
02-03-1918 - Stanley Earl Cowan - NYC - d. 12-13-1991
director: "Club Hollywood"
02-15-1908 - Hugh Wedlock, Jr. - d. 12-13-1993
writer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Lum and Abner"; "That's My Pop"
02-23-1913 - Jon Hall - Fresno, CA - d. 12-13-1979
actor: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Silver Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
02-27-1873 - Enrico Caruso - Naples, Italy - d. 8-2-1921
tenor: On 12-13-1910 made experimental broadcast with Lee DeForest
03-17-1916 - Mollie Hardwick - Manchester, England - d. 12-13-2003
author: "Madam, Will You Walk"; "Casting the Ruins"
03-18-1911 - Audrey Marsh - NYC - d. 12-13-2009
actor: Esther " Harve and Esther"
03-23-1891 - Dr. [removed] DeHaan - Zeeland, MI - d. 12-13-1965
evengelist: "Radio Bible Class"
04-18-1904 - Pigmeat Markham - Durhan, N - d. 12-13-1981
comedian: ("order in the court ' cuz here come da judge) "Jubilee"
05-02-1916 - Robert Grapperhaus - d. 12-13-1966
sound effects: "One Man's Family"; "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Duffy's Tavern"
07-18-1908 - Martha Mears - Mexico, MO - d. 12-13-1986
singer: "G. I. Laffs"
07-19-1906 - "Tiny" Hill - Sullivan, IL - d. 12-13-1971
orchestra leader: "Tiny" Hill and His Orchestra"
08-08-1904 - Ray Buffum - d. 12-13-1980
writer, director: "A Man Named Jordan"; "Rogue's Gallery"
09-06-1889 - John Charles Thomas - Meyersdale, PA - d. 12-13-1960
singer: "John Charles Thomas Program"; "Westinghouse Program"
09-17-1914 - Charles Isaacs - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 12-13-2002
witer: "Al Pearce and His Gang"; "The Texaco Star Theatre"
09-20-1921 - Dan Barton - Chicago, IL - d. 12-13-2009
actor: "This Is Your FBI", "Horizons West"
09-28-1913 - Alice Marble - Beckworth, CA - d. 12-13-1990
tennis player: "Information Please"
11-24-1905 - Harry Barris - NYC - d. 12-13-1962
singer (member of The Rhythm Boys) "Paul Whiteman Presents"
12-03-1923 - Moyra Fraser - Sydney, Australia - d. 12-13-2009
actor: "As Time Goes By"
12-07-1908 - Beatrice Churchill - d. 12-13-2006
actor: Betty Drake "Betty and Bob"

Ron

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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:56:35 -0500
From: Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Hayloft Gang

I have not seen this project mentioned in OTR Digest but believe some of
you might like to be aware of it. The Hayloft Gang was produced for PBS
broadcast and is a complete one-hour documentary film about the National
Barn Dance radio show. It premiered on PBS in the fall of 2011 and was
produced and directed by Stephen Parry and narrated by Garrison Keillor.

One objective of the project has been to make the documentary available
on DVD. That task requires a separate funding to pay for rights to the
music, etc. for such a purpose. There is a funding project underway that
will expire this month on the 31st. At that time, if the funding goal is
not achieved, it will be scratched. The goal is $20,000 and at this time
the funds donated are $4,315.

I encourage those interested to take a look at the project and consider
making a donation.

[removed]

I am not myself involved in this project in any way other than as a donor.

Regards,
Don Shenbarger

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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:56:47 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  12-14 births/deaths

December 14th births

12-14-1884 - Jane Cowl - Boston, MA - d. 6-22-1950
actor: "Great Plays"; "Brownstone Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-14-1893 - Carl Brisson - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 9-26-1958
singer, actor: "A Voice In the Night"
12-14-1894 - Theo Goetz - d. 12-29-1972
actor: Papa Bauer "The Guiding Light"
12-14-1898 - Lillian Randolph - Louisville, KY - d. 9-12-1980
actor: Birdie Lee Coggins "Great Gildersleeve"; Sapphire's Mama "Amos
'n' Andy"
12-14-1899 - DeFord Bailey - Smith County, TN - d. 7-2-1982
harmonica soloist: "WSM's Barn Dance"; "Grand Ole Opry"
12-14-1899 - James Kelly - NYC - d. 5-13-1961
actor: Mike Clancy "Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons"
12-14-1903 - Harry Birrell - d. 6-6-1995
disk jockey: WBVP Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
12-14-1909 - "Symphony Sid" Torin - NYC - d. 9-21-1984
disk jockey specializing in jazz. Worked for several New York stations
12-14-1910 - Erskine Johnson - Racine, WI - d. 6-14-1984
columnist: "Hollywood News"; "Let's Talk Hollywood"
12-14-1911 - Spike Jones - Long Beach, CA - d. 5-1-1965
bandleader: "Bob Burns, The Arkansas Traveler"; "Spike Jones Show"
12-14-1912 - Gurney Bell - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-26-1976
singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
12-14-1912 - Morey Amsterdam - Chicago, IL - d. 10-29-1996
comedian: "Morey Amsterdan Show"
12-14-1915 - Dan Dailey - NYC - d. 10-16-1978
singer, actor: "King's Men"; "Philip Morris Playhouse"
12-14-1915 - Jerry Daniels - d. 11-7-1995
singer: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots"; "Let's Go
Nightclubbing"
12-14-1919 - Shirley Jackson - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-8-1965
writer: "NBC Presents: Short Story"
12-14-1922 - Don Hewitt - NYC - d. 8-19-2009
producer: "Further Details with Robert Trout"
12-14-1923 - Janet Brown - Rutherglen, Scotland - d. 5-27-2011
actor: Margeret Thatcher "The News Huddlines"
12-14-1927 - Richard Cassilly - Washington, D. C. - d. 1-30-1998
tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"
12-14-1932 - Abbe Lane - Brooklyn, NY
singer: (Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra) "Let's Go To Town"; "One
Night Stand"
12-14-1932 - George Furth - Chicago, IL - d. 8-11-2008
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
12-14-1934 - Johnny Moore - d. 12-30-1998
lead singer: (Member of The Drifters) "Camel Rock and Roll Party"
12-14-1939 - John Baxter - Sydney, Australia
script writer: "Revolution 24 Times a Second"; "Kaleidoscope"
12-14-1939 - Linda Sutter - Greenwich, CT - d. 12-18-1995
producer: "Monitor"
12-14-1944 - Bill Garner - Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
writer: "Locked Room"
12-14-1947 - Patty Duke - Elmhurst, NY
actor: "Zero Hour"

December 14th deaths

01-14-1906 - William Bendix - NYC - d. 12-14-1964
actor: Chester A. Riley "Life of Riley"
01-14-1937 - Billy Jo Spears - Beaumont, TX - d. 12-14-2011
country singer: "Louisiana Hayride"
01-17-1874 - Edna Wallace Hopper - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-14-1959
Gave beauty tips on the networks 1930-1932
02-22-1732 - George Washington - Pope's Creek Estate, VA - d. 12-14-1799
[removed] president: Many works on radio dedicated to his life
02-25-1914 - John Arlott - Basingstoke, England - d. 12-14-1991
BBC radio cricket commentator
02-26-1875 - Emma Dunn - Cheshire, England - d. 12-14-1966
actor: "The Eveready Hour"
03-11-1909 - Ramona - Lockland, OH - d. 12-14-1972
singer, pianist: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Paul Whiteman's Musical Varities"
04-05-1894 - Bradbury Foote - Fairfield, IA - d. 12-14-1995
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"
04-18-1929 - Walt Levinsky - New Jersey - d. 12-14-1999
clarinetist: Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra; Benny Goodman and His
Orchestra
04-20-1897 - Gregory Ratoff - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 12-14-1960
panelist: "Information, Please"
05-25-1925 - Jeanne Crain - Barstow, CA - d. 12-14-2003
actor: "Screen Guild Players"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
06-04-1906 - Richard Whorf - Winthrop, MA - d. 12-14-1966
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Jack Benny
Program"
06-29-1911 - Milt Josefsberg - NYC - d. 12-14-1987
writer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Bob Hope Show"
07-12-1927 - Conte Candoli - Mishawaka, IN - d. 12-14-2001
trumpeter: "Artistry in Rhythm"
07-18-1908 - Lupe Velez - San Luis Potosi, Mexico - d. 12-14-1944
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Speed Show"
07-20-1890 - Verna Felton - Salinas, CA - d. 12-14-1966
actor: Blossom Blimp "Sealtest Village Store"; Liz Pierce "Judy Canova
Show"
07-23-1894 - Arthur Treacher - Brighton, England - d. 12-14-1975
actor: "Philco Radio Playhouse"; "Philip Morris Playhouse on Broadway"
08-02-1905 - Myrna Loy - Raidersburg, MT - d. 12-14-1993
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-03-1885 - Arthur Sinclair - Dublin, Ireland - d. 12-14-1951
actor: John A. Considine "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"
08-06-1903 - Henry Burbig - d. 12-14-1980
dialect comedian: "Burbig's Syncopated History"; "Vitaphone Hour"
08-08-1896 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - Washington, [removed] - d. 12-14-1953
novelist: "Stars in the Air"
08-29-1924 - Dinah Washington - Tuscaloosa, AL - d. 12-14-1963
blues singer: "Jubilee"; "Bob Hope Show"; "One Night Stand"
09-23-1893 - Louis Sorin - NYC - d. 12-14-1961
actor: Pan Pancho "Cisco Kid"
10-08-1902 - Gladys Bagwil - d. 12-14-1969
blues singer: Hot Springs, Arkansas
10-10-1911 - Marion Shockley - Kansas City, MO - d. 12-14-1981
actor: Rosemary Levy "Abie's Irish Rose"; Nikki Porter "Advs. of
Ellery Queen"
11-07-1913 - Margorie Anderson - London, England - d. 12-14-1999
disc jockey: "Forces Favourites"; "Woman's Hour"; "Home for the Day"
11-11-1918 - Stubby Kaye - NYC - d. 12-14-1997
comic, singer, actor: "The Heartbeat of Broadway"
11-16-1919 - Marion Bell - St. Louis, MO - d. 12-14-1997
actor, singer: "The Railroad Hour"
12-01-1892 - Charlie Bachman - Chicago, IL - d. 12-14-1985
football coach: "Football Predictions"

Ron

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