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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 174
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
      11-5 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Women in radio                        [ Vince Long <vlongbsh@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 23:14:44 -0400
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi Friends,

    Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
    may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
    Radio Theatre," John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane
    Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios," Charlie St George's "Make Believe
    Ballroom Time" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."  Streamed in
    high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    QUIET PLEASE
    Episode 62 8-23-48 "3,000 Words"
    Stars: Don Briggs, Anne Seymour, Kathleen Deday, Lon Clark
    Host: Ernest Chappell
    Created By: Willis Cooper
    Mutual Sustained
    ONE NIGHT STAND
    Episode 353 1944 "Randy Brooks"
    Harry Prime's Orchestra.
    Vocals: Beverly Burns, Harry Prime.

    THE FBI IN PEACE AND WAR
    Episode 472 10-13-54 "One In A Hundred"
    Stars: Martin Blaine, Don Briggs
    Creator: Frederick L. Collins
    Producer/Director: Betty Mandeville
    CBS

    BURNS AND ALLEN SHOW
    Episode 37 6-12-40 "Swiss Family Robinson" Part 2
    Stars: George Burns And Gracie Allen
    With: Frank Parker
    Announcer: Truman Bradley
    Music: Ray Noble's Orchestra
    CBS Hinds Honey And Almond Cream Wednesdays 7:30 - 8:00pm

    THE BURNS AND ALLEN SHOW
    Episode 39 6-26-40 "Final Broadcast For CBS"
    Stars: George Burns And Gracie Allen
    With: Frank Parker
    Announcer: Truman Bradley
    Music: Ray Noble's Orchestra
    CBS Hinds Honey And Almond Cream Wednesdays 7:30 - 8:00pm
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    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

    THE BUSTER BROWN GANG
    (NBC) 9/13/52 Smilin' Ed and all the gang. Story: "Little Fox's Moose Hunt."

    LUKE SLAUGHTER OF TOMBSTONE
    (CBS) 3/25/58 Luke foils a landgrabber. Sam Buffington as Luke.

    CHARLIE CHAN
    (MBS/Synd) Nov. 1936 Conclusion of "Murder In Cabin 13"
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    Our performer for the month is announcer Harlow Wilcox.
    Unfortunately, he died in 1960 and so to our knowledge, no interviews
    exist with his memories of working on so many fine radio shows.

    FIBBER MCGEE AND MOLLY
    from 10/17/44 No Maple Syrup.

    Recently Frank Bresee celebrated his 83rd birthday. He was interviewed
    by the late Chris Emesis and now, we celebrate both Frank's birthday
    plus the memory of Chris Lembesis with this broadcast.
    SPOTLIGHT ON A STAR
    Chris Lembesis 12/11/70 Frank Bresee.

    Recently Mickey Rooney also celebrated his birthday. Born, Joseph Yule
    Jr on 09/23/1920 (age 92) And so we'll hear:
    SHORTY BELL
    starring Mickey Rooney from 06/13/48 Episode (12) Crooked Hero.

    We still have some great Bill Conrad programs left to play. Thanks to
    Jim Taylor for the request of:
    SUSPENSE
    from 11/09/58 Episode (776) Two for the Road. The program stars both
    Bill Conrad and Charles McGraw.
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    CLASSICS & CURIOS

    "Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

    Episode 52

    EDDIE HUBBARD AND THE BROWSERS: "ROUTE 66"

    The Browsers take "Route 66" on this trip of great tunes along with a
    bit of big band history and interesting trivia. In fact one of the
    "cool" trivia questions on this episode is "Can you give the full
    official title of the song "Route 66" and its history? Traveling along
    on this "Route 66" show are some super songs and singers accompanied by
    some of the best big bands. How about names like Benny Goodman, Les
    Brown, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Russ Morgan, Sammy Kaye, Doris Day,
    and Nat King Cole! Then there is comedian Bob Burns accompanied by Bing
    Crosby on drums with a novelty version of "And the Band Played On."
    We'll hear Sammy Kaye play his rendition of a good song but a
    non-million seller, "Till I Kiss You at the Alter," while we try to name
    Sammy's two recordings that did sell a million.

    There's more. Guy Lombardo was famous for his medleys. So a good
    question is, "How many tunes can be included in a medley?" And Bob
    Eberly sings with Jimmy Dorsey on "Blue Champagne." Do you know what
    Bob's brother's name was and which band he sang with? That wonderful
    tune "Just One of Those Things" was performed in several movies. Can you
    name them? Benny Goodman performs Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust" for us
    here, but what two or three other famous big bands recorded it, and
    which versions were million sellers? Was Benny Goodman's band one of
    them? Russ Morgan entertains us with his "The Johnson Rag." Can you name
    the band that recorded it earlier that had a Browser on drums? Can you
    guess the name of the Browser? We all know that Andy Williams made "Moon
    River" "mega" famous, but can you tell where Johnny Mercer got the
    title? After Doris Day sings "Gypsy" can you name two other gal singers
    who also had great recordings of that song? Then we have Phil's Phooler.
    The song is ""You'd Be Surprised," which was a big hit by Bonnie Baker
    with Orrin Tucker in 1940. In this version a very famous actress sings
    the song. Can you identify her?

    Interesting is the performance of Bob Burns playing a unique musical
    instrument accompanied by Bing Crosby who showed his skill (and then
    some) on drums. Burns was a regular on radio shows like Rudy Vallee's
    "The Fleishmann Hour" and later had his own shows in the 1940's. He
    joined the cast of radio's "Kraft Music Hall" in 1936, hosted by Bing.
    Burns played a self-effacing country bumpkin character, but he had
    served in WW II in the marine corps, and as a sergeant he led the Marine
    Corps Jazz Band in Europe where he played the trombone and cornet.
    Earlier at the age of 13 back in Arkansas, he formed a string band, and
    while practicing in a plumbing shop he played around with a loose gas
    pipe and blew into it. Intrigued by the sound, he modified it so it
    played like a primitive trombone. The instrument was to become famous
    along with his hillbilly characterization. He called the instrument --
    and here I give away the answer to a Browsers trivia question -- the
    "bazooka" (from the word "bazoo" (meaning "windy fellow") from the Dutch
    "bazuin" for "trumpet"). So the deadly battlefield weapon called a
    "bazooka" owes it's serious name to a very full-of-life and funny Bob Burns.

    In place of commercials Eddie throws in a few extras such as "After
    You've Gone" by Tommy Dorsey from 1936. Nat King Cole performs "Funny,"
    with its touching lyrics from 1960. Eddie adds "Blacksmith Blues," Ella
    Mae Morse's famous hit from 1952, and "Night Train," with Jimmy
    Forrest's solo saxophone performance on the opening riff. Duke Ellington
    used that piece in the opening of his "Happy-Go-Lucky Local" as part of
    a longer composition called "Deep South Suite." "Night Train" marks the
    end of this journey down "Route 66." Enjoy the musical ride and may God
    bless!

    Again, thank you, "Jerry Haendiges Productions," for adapting Eddie's
    original studio tape for highest quality rebroadcast.
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    Make Believe Ballroom Time

    Episode 5

    In December 1946 Tommy Dorsey was one of eight big band leaders who shut
    down their bands for good. They believed the big band era had come to a
    close. Two tears later, Tommy Dorsey began a come-back aimed at "the
    kids of America who deserved a chance to dance to the big bands again".
    This program starts with the Dorsey band of 1946 with Tommy broadcasting
    from Los Angeles with his special [removed] Ellington. The program
    goes on to 1953 with the Dorsey band "alive and well" in New York City
    broadcasting from The Stattler Hotel on NBC. You'll find all this with
    facts about Tommy and stats about the year [removed] you know the
    microwave oven was introduced at that time? Check us out on " It's Make
    Believe Ballroom Time"
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    If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

          Jerry Haendiges

          Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
          The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
          Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
    the Net

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    Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 23:14:59 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-5 births/deaths

    November 5th deaths

    11-05-1877 - Henry M. Neely - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-1-1963
    actor, writer, director, producer: "Fitch Bandwagon"
    11-05-1879 - Will Hays - Sullivan, IN - d. 3-7-1954
    puritanical censor: "Republican National Convention 1948"; "A Tribute
    to FDR"
    11-05-1885 - Will Durant - North Adams, MA - d. 11-7-1981
    historian: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"
    11-05-1887 - Ralph Moody - St. Louis, MO - d. 9-16-1971
    actor: "Gunsmoke"; "Roy Rogers Show"; "Wild Bill Hickok"
    11-05-1891 - Vinton Freedley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-5-1969
    host: "Theatre USA"
    11-05-1893 - Jean Sothern - d. 4-14-1964
    actor: Edie Gray "Pepper Young's Family"; Connie Rickard "Red Davis"
    11-05-1893 - Theodore von Eltz - New Haven, CT - d. 10-6-1964
    actor: Inspector Fernak "The Saint"
    11-05-1895 - Charles MacArthur - Scranton, PA - d. 4-21-1956
    playwright: "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"; "Chase and Sanborn Hour"
    11-05-1897 - Jan Garber - Norristown, PA - d. 10-5-1977
    bandleader: "Jan Garber Supper Club"
    11-05-1900 - George Watson - d. 8-17-1957
    announcer: "Gateway to Hollywood"; "Song of the City"
    11-05-1901 - Etta Moten - Weimer, TX - d. 1-2-2004
    singer, actress: "The Laff Parade"; Hollywood Spotlight"
    11-05-1902 - Borrah Minevitch - Kiev, Russia - d. 6-26-1955
    harmonica player: (King of the Harmonica) Had own show on NBC Blue
    11-05-1905 - Annunzio Paolo Mantovani - Venice, Italy - d. 3-29-1980
    orchestra leader: "Music In the Air"; "Of These We Sing"
    11-05-1905 - Joel McCrea - South Pasadena, CA - d. 10-20-1990
    actor: Jace Pearson "Tales of the Texas Rangers"
    11-05-1905 - John Whedon - d. 11-21-1991
    writer: "The Great Gildersleeve"
    11-05-1905 - Thomas Freebairn-Smith - Walton-on-Thames, England - d.
    12-31-1985
    writer, producer: "Jonathan Trimble, Esq."; "Al Pearce and His Gang"
    11-05-1911 - Roy Rogers - Cincinnati, OH - d. 7-6-1998
    singer, actor: (King of the Cowboys) "Roy Rogers Show"; "Saturday Nite
    Round-Up"
    11-05-1913 - Vivien Leigh - Darjeeling, India - d. 7-7-1967
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-05-1914 - Jack McVea - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-27-2000
    saxophonist: "One Night Stand"; "Jubilee"
    11-05-1917 - Claus Adam - Sumatra, Indonesia - d. 7-4-1983
    first cellist: WOR New York
    11-05-1919 - Earl Bennett - Kansas City, KS - d. 10-4-2007
    musician, comedian: Sir Fredrick Gas "Spike Jones and His City Slickers"
    11-05-1919 - Myron Floren - Webster, SD - d. 7-23-2005
    accordianist: "Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music"
    11-05-1922 - Roger Albright - Evanston, IL - d. 11-13-1987
    writer, producer: "A Home of Your Own"
    11-05-1927 - Robert Abernathy - Geneva, Switzerland
    newscaster: "News on the Hour"
    11-05-1931 - Ike Turner - Clarksdale MS - d. 12-12-2007
    singer: (Ike and Tina) "Lost and Found Sound"
    11-05-1933 - Donald Madden - NYC - d. 1-22-1983
    actor: "Let's Pretend"
    11-05-1935 - Nicholas Maw - Grantham, England - d. 5-19-2009
    composer: "Odyssey"
    11-05-1937 - Harris Yulin - Los Angles, CA
    actor: "Empire of the Air"
    11-05-1948 - Ruth Welting - Memphis, TN - d. 12-16-1999
    coloratura soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
    11-05-1956 - Jacksondouglas (Douglas Hanford) - Williamsburg, VA
    announcer, producer: "Original Oldies Show"

    November 5th deaths

    01-14-1915 - George Ansbro - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-5-2011
    announcer: "Young Widder Brown"; "Waltz Time"
    01-17-1880 - Mack Sennett - Richmond, Quebec, Canada - d. 11-5-1960
    king of silent comedy: "Hear It Now"; "Biography In Sound"
    01-27-1908 - "Hot Lips" Page - Dallas, TX - d. 11-5-1954
    jazz trumpeter: "Milt Herth Trio"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"
    02-05-1884 - Joan Harvey - Bangalore, India - d. 11-5-1965
    writer: "The Hidden Valley"
    02-05-1911 - Bert Wilson - d. 11-5-1955
    chicago cubs play-by-play announcer 1944-1955
    03-11-1922 - Vinnette Carroll - NYC - d. 11-5-2002
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    03-20-1904 - Bob Chester - Detroit, MI - d. 11-5-1975
    bandleader: "Bob Chester and His Orchestra"
    04-09-1903 - Ward Bond - Denver, CO - d. 11-5-1960
    actor: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    06-19-1902 - Guy Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 11-5-1977
    bandleader: (The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven) "Lombardoland USA"
    06-29-1895 - Paul V. Galvin - Harvard, IL - d. 11-5-1959
    co-founder of Galvin Manufacturing, merged with Motorola
    07-03-1878 - George M. Cohan - Providence, RI - d. 11-5-1942
    composer: "Collier Hour"; "Ed Sullivan Show"; "Free Company"
    08-05-1887 - Reginald Owen - Wheathampton, England - d. 11-5-1972
    actor, writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-30-1908 - Fred MacMurray - Kankakee, IL - d. 11-5-1991
    actor: George Harvey "Bright Star"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-31-1906 - Ruth Weston - Boston, MA - d. 11-5-1955
    actor: Maude Kellogg "Life Can Be Beautiful"
    09-11-1899 - Jimmie Davis - Quitman, LA - d. 11-5-2000
    Louisiana's Singing Governor: "Songs By Sinatra"
    09-28-1901 - William S. Paley - Chicago, IL - d. 11-5-1990
    Founder and president of CBS
    09-28-1909 - Al Capp - New Haven, CT - d. 11-5-1979
    cartoonist: Creator of "Li'l Abner"; "Monitor"
    10-01-1904 - Vladimir Horowitz - Kiev, Ukraine, Russia - d. 11-5-1989
    piano virtuoso: "GuestStar"; "Pictures At An Exhibition"
    10-12-1885 - Vladimir Bakaleinikoff - Moscow, Russia - d. 11-5-1953
    conductor: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; WLW Cincinnati, Ohio
    10-13-1909 - Art Tatum - Toledo, OH - d. 11-5-1956
    pianist: David Rose Orchestra
    10-20-1934 - Eddie Harris - Chicago, IL - d. 11-5-1996
    jazz saxophonist: "Voices of Vista"
    12-15-1916 - Buddy Cole - Irving, IL - d. 11-5-1964
    musician: (Buddy Cole Trio) "Ginny Simms Show"; "Hollywood Showcase"

    Ron

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    Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 23:14:51 -0400
    From: Vince Long <vlongbsh@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Women in radio

    This Thursday I am making a short presentation at our history museum
    about the role of women in the history of radio.  What names should I
    not leave out?

    Vince

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