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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 225
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  8-3 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  TV vs. Radio; MP3's                   [ "[removed]" <asajb2000@ ]
  The Shadow - Last Broadcast?          [ Gord J L <lepsegj@[removed]; ]
  Hour-long Suspense and other things.  [ Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
  Tune into Yesterday newsletter        [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
  Ed Clute                              [ JayHick@[removed] ]
  Heinlein on Famous Authors [removed]    [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
  [removed]                           [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
  Dick Todd vs Richard Todd             [ Stephen Davies <SDavies@[removed]; ]
  8-4 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 23:11:11 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  8-3 births/deaths

August 3rd births

08-03-1885 - Arthur Sinclair - Dublin, Ireland - d. 12-14-1951
actor: John A. Considine "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"
08-03-1886 - Anna Barbash - d. 1-xx-1983
soprano: "Memories of Jennie Lind"
08-03-1886 - Russ Westover - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-5-1966
writer: Creator of the comic strip "Tillie the Toiler"
08-03-1894 - Harry Heilmann - San Francisco, CA - d. 7-9-1951
sportscaster: WXYZ Detroit
08-03-1896 - Wendell Hall - St. George, KS  - d. 4-4-1969
singer: (The Red Headed Music Maker) "Eveready Hour"; "Red Headed
Music Maker"
08-03-1900 - Ernie Pyle - Dana, IN - d. 4-18-1945
world war II correspondent: "Words at War"; "Cavalcade of America"
08-03-1903 - John S. Young - Springfield, MA - d. 1-12-1976
announcer: Foreign news for NBC in Nyw York
08-03-1904 - Clifford Simak - Millville, WI - d. 4-24-1988
writer: "Dimension X"
08-03-1905 - Dolores Del Rio - Durango, Mexico - d. 4-11-1983
actor: "Hollywood on the Air"
08-03-1905 - Gaylord Carter - Wiesbaden, Germany - d. 11-20-2000
organist: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Breakfast in Hollywood"
08-03-1906 - Robert Emmett Dolan - Hartford, CT - d. 9-26-1972
music maestro: "The Circle"; "Birdseye Open House"
08-03-1907 - Adrienne Ames - Fort Worth, TX - d. 5-31-1947
film star: WHN New York, New York
08-03-1907 - Irene Tedrow - Denver, CO - d. 3-10-1995
actor: Janet Archer "Meet Corliss Archer"; Dorothy Regent "Chandu,
the Magacian"
08-03-1908 - Irma Glen - Chicago, IL - d. xx-xx-1982
organist: "Irma Glen Lovable Music"; "Vic and Sade"
08-03-1911 - Ken Patterson - Montana - d. 2-16-1990
actor: "Dragnet"
08-03-1915 - Hugh Douglas - Chicago, IL - d. 9-1-1993
announcer: "Have Gun, Will Travel"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
08-03-1916 - Horace Logan - d. 10-13-2002
creator of "The Louisana Hayride"
08-03-1917 - Charlie Shavers - NYC - d. 7-8-1971
jazz trumpeter: "Jump Time"; "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Tommy Dorsey Show"
08-03-1918 - Larry Haines - Mt. Vernon, NY
actor: Carl Ward "Young Dr. Malone"; Fred Molina "This is Nora Drake"
08-03-1918 - Les Elgart - New Haven, CT - d. 7-29-1995
bandleader: "Let's Go to Town"; "Manhattan Melodies"
08-03-1920 - Marilyn Maxwell - Clarinda, IA - d. 3-20-1972
singer, actor: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Abbott and Costello Show"; "Bob
Hope Show"
08-03-1923 - Jean Hagen - Chicago, IL - d. 8-29-1977
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Stars in the Air"
08-03-1925 - Billy James Hargis - Texarkana, TX - d. 11-27-2004
preacher: Broadcast his ministry on more than 500 radio stations.
08-03-1926 - Tony Bennett - NYC
singer: "[removed] Woolworth Hour"; "Songs for Sale"; "Stepping Out"
08-03-1927 - Gordon Scott - Portland, OR - d. 4-30-2007
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"

August 3rd deaths

01-25-1920 - Fred Pinkard - d. 8-3-2004
actor: "Destination Freedom"; "Hello, Sucker"
02-04-1918 - Ida Lupino - London, England - d. 8-3-1995
panelist, actor: "Hollywood Byline"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
04-28-1929 - Carolyn Jones - Amarillo, TX - d. 8-3-1983
actor: "Dragnet"; "Survivors"
08-06-1923 - William B. Williams - Babylon, NY - d. 8-3-1986
disc jockey: Leading New York DJ for more than 40 years at WNEW
08-12-1892 - Alfred Lunt - Milwaukee, WI - d. 8-3-1977
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Treasury
Star Parade"
10-13-1925 - Lenny Bruce - Mineola, NY - d. 8-3-1966
comedian: "Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts"; "Why Did Lenny Bruce Die?"
12-03-1857 - Joseph Conrad - Kiev, Russian Empire - d. 8-3-1924
author: "Escape"; "This Is My Best"
12-09-1915 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Jarotschin, Posen, Germany - d.
8-3-2006
singer: Austrian Radio
12-19-1912 - Frank Holliday - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-3-1948
singer: (The Rockaway Four) "The Gay Nineties Revue"
12-29-1894 - Harry Lang - NYC - d. 8-3-1953
actor: Mr. Fuddle "Blondie"; Pan Pancho "Cisco Kid"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:39:20 -0400
From: "[removed]" <asajb2000@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  TV vs. Radio; MP3's
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TV programs have a disadvantage over radio.  You no longer fill in the blanks
and imagine in your mind's eye what someone looks like or the entire scenario
or appearance of the places you hear about on the radio.  TV in its infancy
had a distinct disadvantage because it was very expensive to try to simulate
or imitate and to try to convey the same thing that radio allowed you to do
(of your own device).  In the early 1950's, the budgets of most TV stations
was not very impressive and the production values suffered because of the
expense of TV and also because it was of its time and special effects and
simpler, cheaper, easier ways of doing things had not yet been perfected.
Live broadcasts were done and when something was recorded it was done either
on film or kinescopes.  When an actor was replaced on TV, the networks
generally found someone that looked like the previous actor (Dick York and
Dick Sargent as Darrin on Bewitched).  Later on (Mash, for instance)
characters
 were replaced with new actors and new characters and the old ones were
written out (died, moved, etc.)  Only when an actor was so totally different
that the networks replaced them with someone else and did not pretend it was
the same person (Mr. Wilson on Dennis the Menace was Joseph Kearns and then
(I forget) his brother, Gale Gordon?)  On radio, as long as you got someone
who sounded similar, it usually was enough.  Doesn't Willard Waterman sound
like Hal Peary as the Great Gildersleeve?  It is much cheaper to simply plug
someone into the cast, rather than write a whole new [removed]'s, as far
as I am concerned, are simply a means to an end.  By this, I mean they are
simpy a form of archiving, portability.  I know people who have transferred
all their otr into MP3's and that's all they have.  I would suggest that you
leave it in the unadulterated form (wave files?) and then save it ALSO in MP3
to put on your MP3 player, but you still have it in the original format.
 The quality of MP3's relies on several things:  quality of the original
material (the better the sound the better the MP3) as well as the sampling
rate.  The higher the rate, the fewer problems you might encounter.  The
problem is, many people want to spend as little as possible and want quantity
as opposed to quality and to achieve maximum quantity, if you use a smaller
sampling rate, each file is smaller and you can fit more on a cd or dvd and
therefore the people who wants LOTS of otr for the money are happy.  The
smaller the file, the more compressed it is and the likelihood is greater
that the show will sound like a weak am station.
I like to use 96 or 128 for a sampling rate and have started to use DVD's in
order to put a decent number on a disc without compromising sound quality.  I
would compare today's mediocre MP3's to my earliest foray into reel
recording, when I wa in high school and reels were still about $5 a reel
(Radio Shack) or more.  I recorded at 1 7/8 [removed], quarter-tracked.  There
is no high end, but plenty of bass and that is sometimes the problem with the
cheap MP3's.     Andy Blatt

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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:39:43 -0400
From: Gord J L <lepsegj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Shadow - Last Broadcast?

Hi there,
I have a copy of The Shadow broadcast Can the Dead Talk, sponsored by Blue
Coal. It is the last one of that season and the announcer indicates that the
show may not be back, urging listeners to write Blue Coal to express their
interest in the show. Does anyone know what the last original Shadow episode
was called and when it was first broadcast? When I was listening to The
Shadow in the early 50s, they were most likely re-broadcasts?
Thanks,
Gord

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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:41:00 -0400
From: Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Hour-long Suspense and other [removed]

I've been listening to the series and I do find that the short period where
Suspense was an hour-long show from January 3, 1948 to May 15, 1948, that it
was one of the more disappointing parts of the run.

It's easy to see why they did [removed] they had a hot series and they thought
they could take advantage of that popularity. Unlike Lux, which was quite
padded with interviews and information about the movie being dramatized, and
all of the glamour fluff that comes with Hollywood, Suspense was not like
that. The half-hour format required Suspense's writing to be quite tight, and
the time limit made the show all the more exciting.

The Kandy Tooth episode is somewhat of an enigma. It had already been done on
the Spade series, so why do it on Suspense? Were they short a script and this
was an easy way out? Did the Spade series need the extra promotion?

I have not found any background on this part of the Suspense run and why
their decision to go with the hour format was made, and why they cut it off
and started the half-hour shows again in July.

That point is one of my favorite parts of the run. Tony Leader was better at
selecting "suspenseful" scripts than Spier, who obviously had a different
vision for the series. The run from July 1948 to 1951 is my favorite, and I
think the best of the series. As radio budgets started to slip in favor of
television and there were more canned music used in all radio series, both
Gunsmoke and Suspense faltered in the mid-fifties. That 1948-51 period was
particularly strong for radio overall, in my mind.

Regards to all
Joe Webb

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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:43:09 -0400
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Tune into Yesterday newsletter
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Readers of the Digest in the UK might like to know that Issue 51 of Tune into
Yesterday is now back from the printers and will be posted out to ORCA
members later in August. Articles in the new issue include 'Recollections on
the Golden Age of BBC Radio', 'Radio SEAC Re-Visited', 'Lord Haw-Haw and
Bethnal Green' and 'The Lost Discs of I Love A Mystery' . Members also have
access to the lending library of old programmes.
  A sample copy is available for one pound & fifty pence from :
  John Wolstenholme, PO Box 1922, Dronfield, England, S18  8XA
  Cheques payable to ' ORCA ' .

  Graeme Stevenson  Editor : Tune into Yesterday  ORCA / UK

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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:47:50 -0400
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Ed Clute
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Ed Clute needs someone to cue him at the FOTR convention.   The person
doesn't have to read music but should be familiar with the convention and the
directors.   Ed needs to know who can do this before he comes to the
convention.
If he can't find anyone, he will not be able to come.   If you can help call
Ed
at 607-535-2010 and also contact me (Jay Hickerson) at <Jayhick@[removed];.
There will be some financial consideration.

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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:48:08 -0400
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Heinlein on Famous Authors [removed]

Thanks to A. Joseph Ross for his Heinlein information.  Additional
information is available at the Famous Authors website, URL is
[removed]

Here is the list from that site:

    Green hills of earth / CBS radio workshop, 7/21/57
    Green hills of earth / X minus one, 2/23/75
    Requiem / Beyond tomorrow, 4/?/50
    Requiem / Dimension X, 9/22/51
    Roads must roll / X minus one, 1/4/56
    Universe / X minus one, 5/15/55

Frank Passage, Lou Genco, and I put this site together a few years ago. If
anyone has further information, please go to the site and add your
citations.

Ted Kneebone / 1528 S. Grant St. / Aberdeen, SD 57401
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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:58:57 -0400
From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  [removed]

Heinlein was also involved--more as a consultant, I think--with the
development of TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET.

It would have been even better, had they listened to more of his ideas!

;-)

As I write this, the following just popped into my head:

Weren't there also BBC radio adaptations of some of Heinlein's stories?
I seem to recall a RED PLANET [removed]

Best, Jim Burns

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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 17:36:04 -0400
From: Stephen Davies <SDavies@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Dick Todd vs Richard Todd

I noticed in June that there was some confusion / conflation of two
performers with the same name.

SINGER:
Dick Todd (1914 - [removed]) was the "Canadian Crosby", and considered to have
been a local boy here in Calgary where he grew up.  He enjoyed a successful
American radio career as a singer pre- and post-war, having taken time out
for service duty.  Unfortunately, he fell into obscurity in his later years
and simply disappeared one day in New York.

ACTOR:
Oscar nominee Richard Todd was born in Ireland in 1919.  After war-service,
he was prominent in  films starting in 1948 and he is still acting.

Stephen D
Calgary

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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 23:55:27 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  8-4 births/deaths

August 4th births

08-04-1792 - Percy Shelley - Field Place, England - d. 7-8-1822
poet: "Moon River"
08-04-1889 - William Keighley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-24-1984
host: Lux Radio Theatre
08-04-1890 - Carson Robison - Near Chetopa, KS - d. 3-24-1957
singer: "Eveready Hour"; "Dutch Masters Mimstrels"
08-04-1897 - Abe Lyman - Chicago, IL - d. 10-23-1957
bandleader: "Jack Pearl Show"; "Lavender and New Lace"; "Waltz Time"
08-04-1898 - Hugh O'Connell - d. 1-19-1943
actor, comedian: "Vanity Fair"
08-04-1901 - Louis Armstrong - New Orleans, LA - d. 7-6-1971
trumpeter: "Pursuit of Happiness"; "Sealtest Village Store"; "Story
of Swing"
08-04-1903 - Helen Kane - The Bronx, NY - d. 9-26-1966
actor: (The Boop-Boop-a-Doop Girl) "Today's Children"
08-04-1904 - Alice Bahman - d. 6-xx-1970
woman's program: (Mother of Jonathan Winters) WIZE Springfield, Ohio
08-04-1904 - Phil Clark - London, England - d. 9-27-1985
actor: Mr. Keen "Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persosn"
08-04-1904 - Theodore Newton - Lawrenceville, NJ - d. 2-28-1963
actor: Christopher Parker "Joyce Jordan, [removed]"
08-04-1905 - Frank Luther - Lakin, KS - d. 11-16-1980
singer: "Luther-Layman Singer"; "Frank Luther Show"; "Happy Wonder
Bakers Trio"
08-04-1905 - Luther Roundtree - d. 4-30-1990
banjo player: "The Bob Burns Show"
08-04-1908 - Wally Maher - Cincinnati, OH - d. 12-27-1951
actor: Dan Murray "One Man's Family"; Archie Goodwin "Advs. of Nero
Wolfe"
08-04-1909 - Alan Kent - Chicago, IL - d. 12-4-1993
announcer, emcee, writer: "Duffy's Tavern"; "Career of Alice Blair"
08-04-1913 - Wesley Addy - Omaha, NB - d. 12-31-1996
actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Great Plays"
08-04-1914 - Dick Todd - Montreal, Canada - d. 5-xx-1975
singer: "Avalon Time"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Rinso-Spry Vaudeville
Theatre"
08-04-1915 - William Keene - Pennsylvania - d. 5-23-1992
actor: Red Lantern "Land of the Lost"
08-04-1921 - Herb Purdum - d. 4-16-1993
writer: "Gunsmoke"
08-04-1952 - Kristoffer Tabori - Malibu, CA
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

August 4th deaths

01-01-1895 - Bernard Schubert - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-4-1988
writer, producer: "The Falcon"; "Murder and Mr. Malone"
01-29-1915 - Victor Mature - Louisville, KY - d. 8-4-1999
actor: "Hollywood Star Playhouse"
02-14-1907 - Art Hern - Mannington, WV - d. 8-4-1997
actor: Ichabod Mudd "Captain Midnight"; "Richard Stone "Today's
Children"
04-05-1901 - Melvyn Douglas - Macon, GA - d. 8-4-1981
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-10-1894 - Haven MacQuarrie - Boston, MA - d. 8-4-1953
emcee: "Do You Want to be an Actor"
04-15-1918 - John Baragrey - Haleyville, AL - d. 8-4-1975
actor: "X Minus One"; "There Is No Night"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
04-19-1920 - Frank Fontaine - Cambridge, MA - d. 8-4-1978
comedian: John L. C. Sivoney "Jack Benny Program"
04-21-1916 - Hunter D. Hancock - Uvalde, TX - d. 8-4-2004
disk jockey: Early rhythm and blues rock 'n' roll platter spinner
06-18-1911 - Babe Russin - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-4-1984
tenor sax: "The Ipana Troubadors"
06-25-1913 - John Pickard - Lascossas, TN - d. 8-4-1993
actor: Grant Thursday "Pretty Kitty Kelly"; Bruce Barrett "My Son and I"
08-25-1908 - Walter Burke - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-4-1984
actor: Mark Saber's Assistant "Inspector Mark Saber"
10-25-1909 - True Boardman - Seattle, WA - d. 8-4-2003
writer, narrator: "Silver Theatre"; "Favorite Story"
11-16-1905 - Eddie Condon - Goodland, IN - d. 8-4-1973
guitarist, host: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
12-30-1927 - Bernie Barrow - NYC - d. 8-4-1993
actor: "Golden Door"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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