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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2004 : Issue 356
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
LOST JOE BUSHKIN [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
Shirley Mitchell [ "Rodney W Bowcock" <[removed]@ ]
Re: What's My Line? [ "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed]; ]
Eddie Carroll as Jack Benny [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
What's My Line. [ William L Murtough <k2mfi@[removed]; ]
11-6 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Shirley Mitchell [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
Stanley Niss [ LSMFTnolonger@[removed] ]
Erratum [ StuartLubin@[removed] (Stuart Lubin ]
RE: Congo Curt [ James Meadows <walthamus@[removed]; ]
telegraph recording [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
Eddie Carroll schedule [ JackBenny@[removed] ]
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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:04:13 -0500
From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: LOST JOE BUSHKIN
Jazz pianist, Joe Bushkin, dies at age 87.
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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:46:19 -0500
From: "Rodney W Bowcock" <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Shirley Mitchell
Tom Barnett asks:
Is Shirley Mitchell (aka Alice Darling, FM&M) still alive?
And I reply:
Yes! In fact she just celebrated a birthday (her 85?) earlier this week.
To my knowledge, she is the only FM&M cast member still with us, and one of
3 Great Gildersleeve cast members still with us (the others being Louise
Erickson and Mary Lou Robb, who both played Marjorie Forrester).
Someone ought to put together a list of regular cast members from popular
shows that are still with us. Heck, maybe I oughta do it!
Rodney Bowcock
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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:28:42 -0500
From: "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: What's My Line?
I'm sure these were just rebroadcasts of the TV audio tracks but in 20
yrs.
of collecting OTR I have never seen this program listed. Has anyone else?
The radio version of "What's My Line?" ran for more than a year, from May,
1952, to July, 1953, using the regular television panelists but, according
to Dunning's first OTR "bible" ("Tune In Yesterday", 1976), the show did
=not= employ the device used by the attempted transfer of "I Love Lucy" to
radio, where the TV audio is brought over whole (with occasional narration
where necessary) or even go with the "You Bet Your Life" format (where a
different edit of the original material is created for radio).
Rather, the radio "What's My Line?" is said to have used fresh contestants
and to have been an entirely different entity from the CBS Television
version. Indeed, the two are considered sufficiently distinct that Arlene
Francis' official website lists separate entries for each in her career
history:
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The Goldin Index, though, does not list any of these shows, which may
indicate that no copies survive. (The Index =does= contain listings for an
AFRS reworking of the televised program, all episodes of which are dated
after the WML? radio run concluded.)
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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:29:09 -0500
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Eddie Carroll as Jack Benny
Just a note that Jack Benny impersonator Eddie Carroll is taking his
one-man
show to Bay City Michigan this Saturday.
And the following week Saturday, November 13 Eddie will be starring in a 30
Minutes to Curtain production at the SPERDVAC convention. We had a
readthrough last Sunday of the "Horn Blows at Midnight" radio script, edited
from the FORD THEATER program, and Eddie was absolutely fantastic! It's a
rare opportunity to see Eddie as Jack Benny acting in another role. A
DEFINITE MUST-SEE! Plus you'll get to see our own Hal Stone have his "ups
and downs". (You'll understand that when you see it.) For the latest
convention schedule, see [removed]
Hope to see you there!
Barbara
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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 16:23:15 -0500
From: William L Murtough <k2mfi@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: What's My Line.
I joined the egineering staff of CBS in1944, in New York. Transferred to
[removed] 1945. Returned to the New York staff in 1951 and was the
vacation relief engineer for the daytime vacation relief engineer on the
daily weekday shows for the summer. In the fall I was assigned as the
regular engineer on the nightime major radio shows including What's My
Line, which was live. I do not recall when it first started on
Television, and I do not recall why it was not "simulcast" but there
could be numerous reasons. I did accidentally wind up on that show but in
a different type of assignment. In that I was regularly assigned to
College Bowl Quiz on Sunday mornings, I was assigned to What's My Line
due to someone calling in sick and Director Frank Heller demanded me on a
reguar basis. meaning a long day and a big chunk of overtime every
Sunday. My boss was extremely displeased but you can't "fight City hall
or Frank Heller". What I am trying to say was that the radio show was not
the "audio" from the TV show. Two different "mediums".
Bill Murtough
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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 16:25:33 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 11-6 births/deaths
November 6th births
11-06-1886 - Gus Kahn - Koblenz, Germany - d. 10-8-1941
lyricist: "Good News of 1938"
11-06-1892 - Ole Olsen - Wabash, IN - d. 1-26-1963
comedian: (Olsen and Johnson); "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Breakfast Club"
11-06-1896 - Frank Readick - Seattle, WA - d. 1965
actor: Knobby Walsh "Joe Palooka"; Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"
11-06-1899 - Francis Lederer - Prague, Czechoslovakia - d. 5-25-2000
guest armchair detective: Ellery Queen
11-06-1901 - Juanita Hall - d. 2-28-1968
actress: "Story of Ruby Valentine"
11-06-1904 - Selena Royle - NYC - d. 4-23-1983
actress: Hilda Hope "Hilda Hope, [removed]"; Kathy Marsh "Portia Faces Life"
11-06-1905 - Isabel Carothers - Mt. Pleasant, IA - d. 1-8-1937
actress: Lu "Clara, Lu and Em"
11-06-1910 - Donald Dickson - Clairton, PA - d. 9-21-1972
singer: "Sealtest Party"; "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Blue Ribbon Town"
11-06-1916 - Ray Conniff - Attleboro, MA - d. 10-12-2002
arranger: Armed Forces Radio during World War II
November 6th deaths
04-14-1914 - John Hubbard - East Chicago, IL - d. 11-6-1988
actor: Willie Faye "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"
08-01-1911 - Fora Campbell - d. 11-6-1978
actress: Jean Forbes Lambert "Brave Tomorrow"; Janice King "Strange Romance of
Evelyn Winters"
11-17-1907 - L. Sprague de Camp - NYC - d. 11-6-2000
science fiction writer: "X-Minus One"; "Future Tense"
11-19-1863 - Billy Sunday - Ames, IA - d. 11-6-1935
preacher: "Back Home Hour"
11-20-1920 - Gene Tierney - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-6-1991
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Great Scenes from Great Plays"; "[removed] Steel
Hour"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 18:26:35 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Shirley Mitchell
Hi Everybody,
a question was ask about Shirley Mitchell being still a live? She is doing
very will. she perform at last year SPERDVAC convention. Shirley has done
some radio commercial over the last 20 years. In fact there was one spot
playing this year in the [removed] market that sound like Shirley voice part of
the cast. Shirley done allot of traveling since her husband Jay passing 2
years ago or so. I am hoping some day she will be able to work in some time
to do a radio interview with Frank Bresee. Shirley got her start in Detroit
radio on the Lone Ranger at age 13 years old. She worked in Chicago radio
before making the move out to Hollywood. Take care,
Walden Hughes
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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 18:27:02 -0500
From: LSMFTnolonger@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Stanley Niss
After watching an episode of "77 Sunset Strip" on the GoodLife TV
Network, I watched another Warner Bros. TV series, "Hawaiian Eye." The
"Hawaiian Eye" episode was made in 1959 and was called "Cloud Over
Koala."
What, you are asking, does this have to do with old-time radio? Well,
the end credits of this "Hawaiian Eye" episode said it was produced by
Stanley Niss with a teleplay by Louis Pelletier based on a radio play by
Stanley Niss.
Unfortunately, no further information was given to help identify the
radio show.
Greg Jackson, Jr.
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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 18:27:15 -0500
From: StuartLubin@[removed] (Stuart Lubin)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Erratum
Several weeks ago I mentioned the erstwhile location of the studio where
the Beulah Show took place on Sunset Boulevard at Gordon St., in
Hollywood. While driving along Sunset this morning, I realized that it
was the southwest corner and not the NW corner, as previously stated
(not that anyone would care that much). Ten lashes for me!
Stuart
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Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 08:15:24 -0500
From: James Meadows <walthamus@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: RE: Congo Curt
Andrew wrote:
There are some shows circulating called "Congo Curt".
They sound modern (1960s or later) and are a parody of
adventure shows. I found an ebay auction for a Congo
Curt album that said they were from WKYC Cleveland.
Does anyone have any more information on this show?
Please reply to list.
I no longer have my Congo Curt album, which I bought
while in high school from a record cutout bin in the
Chicago area in the early 1970s.
I assume the album was a special pressing by a
Cleveland radio station of comedy segments produced
for broadcast by a couple of on-air hosts, or perhaps
someone who worked in the station's spot production
unit. Their names were listed on the album but I don't
remember them now. I DO remember each segment featured
a parody of an adventure serial episode, plus a mock
commercial for special offers from Congo Curt.
My old high school operated a ten-watt student
radio station (WRHS-FM Park Forest IL, now dark) at
the time, where I hosted a half-hour comedy show. I
ran some of the Congo Curt segments on the air, which
may be the only other place they were broadcast
besides on WKYC in Cleveland.
I remember Congo Curt as being clever enough, but
not up to the level of Dick Orkin's Chickenman and
Tooth Fairy spoofs which were syndicated around the
same time.
Jim Meadows
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Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 08:16:35 -0500
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: telegraph recording
If you want to listen to and read about what just might be a recording of
an
aircheck of Morse Code from 1910 go to:
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Well, that's about the spookiest thing I've heard in quite a while. It
really sounds like someone is trying to communicate from the past.
But whether it's a recording of a radio broadcast or not is something else
again. I believe that higher-quality transmitters were in use by 1910.
These had sophisticated spark gaps that resonated with a coil and capacitor
at an audio frequency. They produced a much nicer beep tone at the receiver
than the rough sound we hear in this recording. The spark transmitter shown
in the illustration on the website is an example of something a 1920's
experimenter might build at home as opposed to a commercial transmitter of
the day.
Of course, an older spark-gap transmitter could well have been used, and I
rather hope that the recording is indeed an air check from those days. But
I think it's more likely that someone was experimenting with a code practice
buzzer connected to the microphone of his cylinder recorder, and the text
was something he was reading from the daily newspaper.
M Kinsler
It's still spooky. Perhaps the person who recorded this, likely long
departed by now, somehow knows that we've listened to his efforts a hundred
years later.
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Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 08:16:52 -0500
From: JackBenny@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Eddie Carroll schedule
Sean Dougherty writes:
Just a note that Jack Benny impersonator Eddie Carroll is taking his
one-man
show to Bay City Michigan this Saturday.
If anyone is interested in a listing of all of Eddie's appearances in his
"Laughter in Bloom" one-man tribute to Jack Benny, go to _[removed]_
([removed]) , then click on Events, then Eddie Carroll.
--Laura Leff
President, IJBFC
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