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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 354
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Jack Benny Themes                     [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed] ]
  Radio as part of the storyline        [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
  Sgt Friday's Badge number             [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
  Jack Benny in the News                [ seandd@[removed] ]
  12-19 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
  Jack Benny Theme                      [ "Belpedio, Dr. James" <[removed] ]
  Merry Christmas, Norman Corwin!       [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]

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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:50:39 -0500
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Jack Benny Themes

Recent discussion about Jack Benny's theme song reminded
me that you can hear an interview with the great comedian
himself along with excerpts from his radio show at
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There you'll find 89 full-hour programs of old-time radio
interviews and excerpts, and 42 full-hour programs of big-
band personality interviews  produced in the 1970's at
WTIC in Hartford. This is a free site with no pop ups or
registration requirements. Check it out.

--
Bob Scherago
Webmaster and former WTIC Engineer
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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:42:26 -0500
From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Radio as part of the storyline
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       It might not have been a major part of the storyline, but I recall
a scene in "Woman of the Year" with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer
Tracy, where Tracy's character goes into a bar and listens to an episode
of "Information, Please" which is playing on the bar's radio at the time.
This fact was even brought out on the "Information, Please" program
as a question from time to time starting in the late 1940's (1948, I think).

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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:42:50 -0500
From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Sgt Friday's Badge number
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     Sgt. Friday's badge number was 714.  It seems the only way I can
remember this fact is by hearing the show's theme.

Sincerely,

Kenneth Clarke

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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:27:46 -0500
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Jack Benny in the News
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A few small notes on Jack Benny in the news [removed] internet radio
station actually got mentioned for playing holiday OTR in The Baltimore Sun:
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story From the Florida Times Union in Jacksonville, FL comes word that Jack
Benny holds an honorary degree there.
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here, comedian Steve Martin cites Jack Benny as a mentor he never met:
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aper/2007/12/16[removed] Sean
DoughertySeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:11:29 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  12-19 births/deaths

December 19th births

12-19-1882 - Bronislaw Huberman - Czestochowa, Poland - d. 6-17-1947
violinist: "A Tribute to . . . ."
12-19-1888 - Fritz Reiner - Budapest, Hungary - d. 11-15-1963
conductor: "Curtis Institute Musicale"; "Ford Sunday Evening Hour"
12-19-1888 - Mabel Brownell - Cincinnati, OH - d. 1-26-1972
actor: "Polly witha Past"
12-19-1894 - Ford Frick - Wawaka, IN - d. 4-8-1978
baseball comissioner: "Baseball: An Action History"; "Play Ball";
"Tribute to Babe Ruth"
12-19-1902 - Ralph Richardson - Cheltenham, England - d. 10-10-1983
actor: Doctor John H. Watson, "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"
12-19-1907 - Ray Noble - Brighton, England - d. 4-3-1978
bandleader: "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"; "Chase & Sanborn Hour"
12-19-1908 - Paul Luther - Aylesburg, Canada - d. 11-xx-1978
actor, announcer: "The Man Behind the Gun"; "Inside Story"
12-19-1909 - Ed Auxer - d. 8-21-2004
disk jockey: WSBT South Bend, Indiana
12-19-1911 - Clark Dennis - Roscommon, MI - d. 11-15-1992
singer: "Breakfast Club"; "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Chesterfield
Presents"
12-19-1912 - Frank Holliday - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-3-1948
singer: (The Rockaway Four) "The Gay Nineties Revue"
12-19-1915 - Edith Piaf - Paris, France - d. 10-11-1963
singer: "The Big Show"
12-19-1916 - Owen Babbe - Council Bluffs, IA - d. 6-25-1996
announcer: "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"
12-19-1919 - Benedict Freedman - NYC
writer: "The Red Skelton Show"
12-19-1923 - Gordon Jackson - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 1-15-1990
Freelance actor for the BBC
12-19-1924 - Rex Barney - Omaha, NE - d. 8-11-1997
baseball color man: "Game of the Day"
12-19-1933 - Cicely Tyson - NYC
host: "Sears Radio Theatre"; Thursday, Love and Hate Night

December 19th deaths

01-12-1912 - Sara Berner - Albany, NY - d. 12-19-1969
actor: Mable Flapsaddle "Jack Benny Program"
02-01-1922 - Renata Tebaldi - Pesaro, Italy - d. 12-19-2004
lyric soprano: "Bell Telephone Hour"; "Metropolitan Opera
02-24-1895 - May Singhi Breen - NYC - d. 12-19-1970
singer: (The Ukulele Lady) "Sweethearts of the Air"
02-25-1912 - Wally Ausley - d. 12-19-1994
play-by-play for the North Carolina State Wolfpack
04-16-1913 - Les Tremayne - London, England - d. 12-19-2003
actor: Nick Charles "Advs. of the Thin Man"; Michael Waring "The Falcon"
05-21-1894 - Kenyon Nicholson - Crawfordsville, IN - d. 12-19-1986
writer: "Theatre Guild on the Air"
06-01-1901 - John Van Druten - London, England - d. 12-19-1957
writer: "Radio Guild"; "Chase and Sanborn Hour"; "Theatre Guild On
the Air"
06-23-1910 - Milt Hinton - Vicksburg, MS - d. 12-19-2000
jazz bassist: "Town Hall Concert"; "Monsanto Night: Benny Goodman"
06-27-1912 - Audrey Christie - Chicago, IL - d. 12-19-1989
actor: Assistant to Peter Standish "Peter Standish, Medical Examiner"
07-31-1902 - Robert E. Griffin - Hutchinson, KS - d. 12-19-1960
actor: Wilbur Ramage "Story of Holly Sloan"; Michael West "Bright
Horizon"
09-12-1914 - Desmond Llewelyn - Newport, South Wales - d. 12-19-1999
actor: Archdeacon Erabazori "Nemesis"
09-25-1875 - Clyde Fillmore - McConnelsville, OH - d. 12-19-1946
actor: Sam Aldrich "The Aldrich Family"
10-02-1900 - Barton Yarborough - Goldthwaite, TX - d. 12-19-1951
actor: Ben Romero "Dragnet"; Doc Long "I Love A Mystery/Adventure"
11-10-1915 - Bob Shepard - NYC - d. 12-19-1993
announcer: "Pot O' Gold"; "Counterspy"; "Break the Bank"; "You Can"t
Take it with You"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:12:01 -0500
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

A weekly [removed]

For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
real-time OTR talk!

Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
it's always a good time!

For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
week and every week!

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:29:39 -0500
From: "Belpedio, Dr. James" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Jack Benny Theme
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Many of the Jack Benny programs also use "Hooray for Hollywood" as a theme,
usually, but not exclusively , at the end of the program.

I have heard also, that piano  fingering exercise that was used as an intro to
"Love in Bloom" also as an intro to both "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "Hooray for
Hollywood," and sometimes in combination with "Love in Bloom"

I assume that the intro to "Love in Bloom" and "Love in Bloom" itself were so
universally associated with Jack Benny that any of the above combinations
created audience interest and satisfaction, the program's location in LA, and
, during the forties, the subtle association of Benny with the presumed
patriotic feelings among the listening audience. Or maybe not. Sometimes a
cigar is just a cigar.

JBelpedio
Becker College

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:33:20 -0500
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Merry Christmas, Norman Corwin!
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It being the Christmas season, one is likely to hear Christmas songs and
carols wherever one goes, especially when "it's Christmas time in the city."
However, I'd like to take this opportunity to correct an outstanding
oversight. I'd like for everybody to wish the great Norman Corwin, the man who
gave us "The Plot to Overthrow Christmas," a very Merry Christmas and a happy
holiday season. My reasoning is [removed]

...I just heard a version of the immortal "The Christmas Song," written by Mel
Torme, popularised by Nat "King" Cole, and known also by its opening line
"Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire." Y'see, the song concludes with the lyric
"So, I'm offering a simple phrase/ For kids from one to ninety-two/ .... Merry
Christmas to you." Norman Corwin is 97 (going on 98 next May). With him
falling outside the parameters of being aged "from one to ninety-two,"
I just wanted to assure him and all other OTR nonagenarians that I -- and I'm
sure the entire Digest readership -- want to wish them all a very joyous
holiday season (with a belated "Happy Chanukah" to Himan Broiwn, who is also
97).

Yes, I'm aware that when Mr. Torme wrote the song that folks living into their
90's was a rare occurrence, that he chose the number 92 for prosodic purposes,
and that he probably used "one to ninety-two" as a poetic way of expressing
"young and old" especially given the fact that they're really aren't any
ninety year-old "kids." But just in case, I still want to to wish the great
Norman Corwin continued good health and prosperity into the New Year.

BTW, Rod Serling named his down-and-out Santa Claus character played by Art
Carney in the Christmas-themed "Twilight Zone" episode "Night of the Meek"
after Mr. Corwin, Serling's mentor. So, it's all relative.

That's about the size of it.

Derek Tague
Mayor of Etherville

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