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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2006 : Issue 313
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 12-18 Nov [ "Joe Mackey" <joemackey108@adelphia ]
You Know You Are an OTR Fan [removed] [ Crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow) ]
kids shows [ Scott Benson <alchemy541@[removed] ]
Okay. I'll bite. What's the joke? [ Alan Bell <alanlinda43@[removed]; ]
To Jim Cox re Dennis Day Show [ Ben Kibler <ben_kibler48309@[removed] ]
Big Town OTR series [ Ben Kibler <ben_kibler48309@[removed] ]
Robert Lowry on Radio [ "Paul Evans" <cold_type_rules@hotma ]
<FWD> Oral Histories of the First Wo [ Stephen Davies <SDavies@[removed]; ]
A Joke I Don't Get [ "James Yellen" <clifengr3@[removed] ]
OTR fans under 40 [ "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed] ]
Life Of Riley- Comic Books [ "Charles Salt" <charles_salt@hotmai ]
The Dennis Show [ Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed]; ]
11-12 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood [ Michael Berger <makiju@[removed]; ]
It's almost time to start the Bear! [ Chargous@[removed] ]
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:18:16 -0500
From: "Joe Mackey" <joemackey108@[removed];
To: "otrd" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 12-18 November
>From Those Were The Days --
11/14
1921 - KYW radio, Chicago, IL broadcast the first opera by a professional
company. Listeners heard Samson Et Dalila as it was being performed at the
Chicago Auditorium.
(From Today in History at the NY Times -- In 1922, the British Broadcasting
Corp. began its domestic radio service.)
11/15
1926 - Network radio was born. 24 stations carried the first broadcast from
the National Broadcasting Company. The program was a gala 4 1/2-hour
broadcast from the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
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.
<g> --ed)
Joe (that's a joke son, I say that's a joke).
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:59:39 -0500
From: Crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow)
To: [removed]@[removed] (Old Time Radio Digest)
Subject: You Know You Are an OTR Fan [removed]
You know you are an OTR fan when you watched last night's (November 10) "Law
and Order" episode and you immediately thought of Paul Frees when the writer
introduced a character named Samantha Beresford.
Dennis Crow
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:44:35 -0500
From: Scott Benson <alchemy541@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: kids shows
Well I've gone and done it now. I downloaded a few shows I thought my
son might enjoy; turns out he loves them. Archie Andrews, Blondie and
Aldrich Family.
The latest was the Aldrich Family, I suspect because my son is 12 and
can relate to it, regardless of being a 60 year old show. Are there more
than 116 shows available though? I saw that on [removed]
I am also looking for similar shows that he might enjoy. He is a Hardy
Boys junky, likes Nancy Drew as well. Both kids like to watch Burns and
Allen with us.
Thanks,
Scott
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:31:07 -0500
From: Alan Bell <alanlinda43@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Okay. I'll bite. What's the joke?
A couple of issues ago was a story which culminated in
the line,
"Susquehanna Hats!!! My brother was KILLED wearing a
Susquehanna Hat!!"
I'd hoped that maybe someone would ask about it in the
next issue, but nobody did. So I will. What's this
routine?
Alan
_________________
Alan/Linda Bell
Grand Rapids, MI
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:38:05 -0500
From: Ben Kibler <ben_kibler48309@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: To Jim Cox re Dennis Day Show
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Jim,
Hope this [removed]
I found the following listings in the New York Times for "The Dennis Day
Show". Broadcast on Sundays at 5:30pm on WNBC. Guests:
And subsequent listings as follow:
54/09/19 - Guests: Jimmy Durante & Rosemary Clooney (Premiere)
54/09/26 - Guest: Rochester
54/10/03 - Variety and music
54/10/10 - Guests: Peggy Lee & Willard Waterman
54/10/17 - Guests: Cab Calloway & Peggy Constance (station letters changed
to WRCA)
54/10/24 - Guests: Roemary Clooney & Richard Shannon
54/10/31 - Guests: Ken Murray & Corky Hale
54/11/07 - Guests: Patti Andrews & Mel Blanc
54/11/14 - Guests: Phil Harris & Anna Marie Alberghetti
54/11/21 - Comedy, with Cliff Arquette, Beatrice Kay and others, guests
54/11/28 - Comedy variety, with Robert Cummings, Carol Richards
54/12/05 - Comedy variety, with Andy Devine, Margaret Whiting, guests
54/12/12 - Comedy
54/12/19 - Comedy variety
54/12/19 - Comedy variety, with Jimmy Durante and Sara Berner, guests
55/01/02 - Vera-Ellen, Johnny Mercer, guests; drama, comedy, variety
55/01/09 - Comedy variety, with Rosemary Clooney, Jose Ferrer, guests
55/01/16 - Comedy variety, with Margaret Truman and Jack Benny
55/01/23 - Carol Richards, Ken Murray, Guests
55/01/30 - Variety, with Dinah Shore and Jack Kirkwood, guests
55/02/06 - Variety, with the King Sisters and Hans Conreid, guests
55/02/13 - Peter Lorre, Carol Richards, guests
55/02/20 - Anna Marie Alberghetti, Mel Blanc, Guests
55/02/27 - Comedy variety
55/03/06 - Comedy variety
55/03/13 - Comedy variety
55/03/17 - Dennis Day Has Pneumonia (short paragraph - DD was hospitalized)
55/03/20 - NOT IN SCHEDULE (Red Cross Show)
I could find no further listings for the show.
I have saved the PDF files & can send them to you but they are not for
publication as they are copyrighted.
Ben Kibler
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:38:32 -0500
From: Ben Kibler <ben_kibler48309@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Big Town OTR series
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While looking for episode titles for the BIG TOWN series, I found a paragraph
in 'The Lima News' (Lima, Ohio - 12-22-1938) that states "Final drafts of all
'Big Town' scripts are filed in a private library which is accessible to
service organizations and public officials."
Can anybody verify this ???
Thanks in advance,
Ben Kibler
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:40:32 -0500
From: "Paul Evans" <cold_type_rules@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Robert Lowry on Radio
I am a scholar and friend of the late Robert Lowry (1919-1994), a
Cincinnati novelist who enjoyed some prominence and respect in the
years immediately after World War II, until his mental illness (and
its treatment!) destroyed much of his ability to write.
A fellow Lowry enthusiast recently sent me an E-mail about radio shows
on which Lowry appeared as a guest. He has never heard them, but saw
them listed in The New York Times' radio program logs.
This is an excerpt from the E-mail he sent me about this:
On March 18, 1948, from 9 to 930 pm on WEVD-AM (this was a station
owned at the time by a Socialist labor organization - the call letters
stood for Eugene V Debs), Bob appeared on "Authors' Roundtable,"
hosted by Irving Astrachan; the other guest was Edwin Seaver (both now
deceased).
On December 13, 1949, from 8 to 830 pm on WMGM-AM, the Times lists
the following: "Books On Trial: 'Live With Lightning' by Mitchell
Wilson. Robert Lowry, prosecutor. Margaret Halsey, defense. Sterling
North, presiding. Mitchell Wilson, witness."
And on December 20, 1949, same time, same station: "Books On Trial:
'The Big Cage' by Robert Lowry. Merle Miller, prosecutor. Edwin
Seaver, defense. Sterling North, presiding. Robert Lowry, witness."
The format of the show is self-evident. Of those who appeared,
Margaret Halsey (1910-1997) was a comic novelist specializing in
English settings. Mitchell Wilson's (1913-1973) book was about a
scientist. Merle Miller (1919-1986) was at the time Bob's fellow
up-and-coming novelist, but is now best remembered for his bestselling
oral biographies of Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson. Miller was also a
gay guy from Iowa who came out of the closet right after Stonewall - I
remember him from talk shows about his Truman book as a pretty fey
character, in a downhome way - so if these shows exist it would be fun
to hear him spar with Bob. Sterling North (1906-1974) is now
remembered mainly for his children's book about a raccoon, Rascal, but
was in those days a prolific reviewer of adult titles.
Does anyone have recordings of these appearances? If so, please
E-mail privately. Thanks in advance!
PAUL T. EVANS, Columbus, OH, USA--Father, Poet, Bureaucrat
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:44:00 -0500
From: Stephen Davies <SDavies@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: <FWD> Oral Histories of the First World War:
Veterans 1914-1918
These raw interviews were the basis of a CBC radio
series, In Flanders Fields, that simply told it like it was. I was too
young to have paid attention to it in 1964-65 when it originally aired,
but I listened to it avidly on an LP set years later, courtesy of my
local library.
The website is divided into seven sections:
important battles, air warfare, trench warfare, etc. There's an
anglocentric approach to the whole affair, but that may be unavoidable.
The interviews are downloadable and/or transcribed.
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CBC also has a website of video and audio productions about WWI:
[removed]
Stephen D
Calgary
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:44:14 -0500
From: "James Yellen" <clifengr3@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: A Joke I Don't Get
While listening to an episode of Our Miss Brooks this afternoon while raking
leaves, I heard something that reminded me of the recent discussion of jokes
that refer to current events that you don't know about 60 years later, and
therefore don't get the joke.
Here's the one I heard. When Walter Denton gives a correct answer, Connie
Brooks says, "Give that man a new Nash, and new pajamas to drive it in!"
There was an audience laugh.
Whaa? Does anybody know what that refers to? Was there an ad campaign (aka
commercial) where the owner of a new Nash drove it in his pajamas? Maybe the
seats were as comfortable as your bed?
My Uncle Chester owned a Nash, but I don't remember him ever going out in
his pajamas.
Jim Yellen
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:20:02 -0500
From: "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OTR fans under 40
Since the last OTR shows were broadcast in 1962 would like to know how
many OTR fans are reading the OTR Digest are under the age of 40. Anyone
under 40 would have never have heard a live old time radio show so would be
interesting to know how many OTR fans became fans without actually hearing a
live show.
Andrew Godfrey
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:32:06 -0500
From: "Charles Salt" <charles_salt@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Life Of Riley- Comic Books
Someone has now turned up The Life Of Riley 48/11/05 'Comic Books' episode
so I have it if anyone wants me to e-mail it to them. It's worth checking
your Riley set as the Comic Books episode is often mislabelled and is really
47/06/28 Riley and Gillis Spend A Week At The Lake'.
[ADMINISTRIVIA: Charles has made the episode available to everyone on the
Nostalgic Rumblings podcast; go to [removed] to listen to
the show on-line, or download a copy. And add the RSS feed to your podcasting
client, and you can automatically receive future shows - don't miss the
Halls of Fantasy episodes still running on the podcast! --cfs3]
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:24:04 -0500
From: Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Dennis Show
Jim Cox wonders about the radio show that followed "A DAY IN THE LIFE
OF DENNIS DAY."
Dennis Day left recordings of his radio shows and his sheet music in
the care of The Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters Radio Archives.
Many of the transcription discs are damaged (can be played with a
little fixing up). There is also a nice collection of his radio shows
on 10 1/2 inch open reel tapes. What I have discovered is that the
show following A Day in the Life ... is NOT called The Dennis Show.
It is called "THE DENNIS DAY SHOW."
Makes sense to me. The Dennis Day show was a little more variety
show, rather than a comedy show with a specific story line, though it
was filled with comedy. Dennis sang more on this show than on A Day
In the [removed]
Unfortunately, I do not have any exact dates as to when the show
started and when it ended. I have heard some of shows from that
series and it is most enjoyable.
Though Dennis still assumes his "innocent" bumbling type character,
the show is not as endearing as A Day In the Life ... show.
One of the most enjoyable Nostalgia Nights PPB had was when Dennis
Day was a guest. He spoke of his entire career. We played comedy
excerpts for the audience (from Jack Benny to The Dennis Day Show)
and, Dennis actually sang some songs for us.
What a heartwarming time everyone had!
Ken Greenwald
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:24:12 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 11-12 births/deaths
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November 12th births
11-12-1884 - Griff Barnett - Blue Ridge, TX - d. 1-12-1958
actor: Rexall Family Druggist "Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show"
11-12-1903 - Jack Oakie - Sedalia, MO - d. 1-23-1978
comedian: "Jack Oakie's College"
11-12-1911 - Claudia Morgan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-17-1974
actor: Carolyn Allen Walker Kramer Nelson MacDonald; "Right to
Happiness"
11-12-1911 - Clay Bryant - Madison Heights, VA - d. 4-9-1999
baseball analyst: "Baseball with Clay Bryant"
11-12-1914 - Charles Marion - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-29-1980
writer: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
11-12-1917 - Henry Jerome - NYC
bandleader: "Dinner at the Green Room"
11-12-1917 - Jo Stafford - Coalinga, CA
singer: "Tommy Dorsey Show"; "Ford Show"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
11-12-1920 - Richard Quine - Detroit, MI - d. 6-10-1989
actor: "Doctor Christian"; "Mayor of the Town"; "Family Theatre"
11-12-1922 - Kim Hunter - Detroit, MI - d. 9-11-2002
actor: "Medicine USA"; "Philco Radio Playhouse"; "CBS Radio Mystery
Theatre"
11-12-1929 - Grace Kelly - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-14-1982
actor: "Family Theatre"; "Bob Hope Show"
11-12-1933 - Bert Andersen - d. 6-xx-1974
disk jockey: KTAC Tacoma, Washington
November 12th deaths
02-14-1884 - Grace Valentine - Springfield, OH - d. 11-12-1964
actor: Minnie Grady "Stella Dallas"
04-30-1912 - Eve Arden - Mill Valley, CA - d. 11-12-1990
actor: Connie Brooks "Our Miss Brooks"; Libby Collins "Lux Radio
Theatre"
05-20-1911 - Vet Boswell - Birmingham, AL - d. 11-12-1988
singer: (The Boswell Sisters) "The Boswell Sisters"; "Woodbury Soap
Show"
05-30-1917 - Peter Leeds - Bayonne, NJ - d. 11-12-1996
actor: Eugor "Rogue's Gallery"; "Bob Hope Show"; "Stan Freberg Show"
06-01-1888 - Louis Mason - Danville, KY - d. 11-12-1959
actor: Clem Betts "Moonshine and Honeysuckle"
06-08-1918 - Robert Carroll - North Carolina - d. 11-12-1994
actor: Inspector Mark Sabre "Molle Mystery Theatre"
06-23-1917 - Norman Rose - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-12-2004
narrator: "Dimension X"
07-07-1891 - David Ross - NYC - d. 11-12-1975
actor: Bob "Mary and Bob"
07-07-1909 - Eddie Mayehoff - Baltimore, MD - d. 11-12-1992
actor: Waldo Greentree/Nick Scott "Against the Storm"
07-14-1931 - Robert Stephens - Bristol, England - d. 11-12-1995
actor: Aragorn "The Lord of the Rings"
07-29-1910 - Sydney Roslow - d. 11-12-2002
psychologist: "What Makes You Tick?"
08-13-1909 - Dave Willock - Chicago, IL - d. 11-12-1990
actor: Tugwell "Jack Carson Show, Sealtest Village Store"
12-03-1908 - Anna Sten - Kiev, the Ukraine - d. 11-12-1993
actor: "March of Time"; "Stagedoor Canteen"
12-07-1879 - Rudolf Friml - Prague, Bohemia - d. 11-12-1972
operetta composer: "Railroad Hour"; "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
Ron Sayles
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:24:38 -0500
From: Michael Berger <makiju@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Recently came across a series of shows titled Hedda
Hopper's Hollywood, a weekly half hour with no sponsor
on NBC in the 1950-52 period. Most of the shows
feature stars reading from current films or plays,
lots of back-and-forth between Hedda and guests such
as Humphrey Bogart and Mel Torme.
At the end of each show, she sounds like Walter
Winchell for a minute or two, making pronouncements on
political issues such as communist influence in the
entertainment industry, the UN policy on the Korean
War, etc.
One wonders if allowing a gossip columnist such
editorial leeway was NBC's reaction to the political
hysteria of the day.
Anyone know more about this show?
Michael Berger
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 01:25:20 -0500
From: Chargous@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: It's almost time to start the Bear!
I should start the Cinnamon Bear the day after Thanksgiving, right? This
year, I'm going to do it right. I have two sets of the Bear
transcriptions, but the First Gen set is the best dub out there, so that's
what I listen to. I'm going to listen to it as it was intended, on a radio
it would have been listened to on. I'll alternate between the 1937 Zenith
7-D-126 (*), 1938 Zenith console 9-S-262, and 1939 9-S-367 Zenith
Zephyr. Or, I might really get exciting and choose a random non-Zenith
radio. Will it be an RCA? Will it be Westinghouse? Only Paddy O'Cinnamon
knows!
I tried Jump Jump, it was a nice find and a well-done set, and I'm also
going to order Johnathan Thomas And His Christmas on the Moon (I've heard
poor copies of it in the past, it'll be nice to have a nice copy), but in
my opinion, none of the competitors that I've listened to have come close
to the Bear.
(*) I think I'll do most of the listening on the 7-D-126 - probably less
than 1500 of these were made - I found a cannibalized set at a swap meet,
lucked into a decrepit but complete second set, and with a lot of repair
and transferring of parts, it's complete again, just like the Silver
Star! It's one of the "cube" series, a tabletop, looks exactly like the
common 5-S-126, but has a different chassis and speaker.
Travis
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