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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 66
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Radio Drama on radio                  [ lawrence albert <albertlarry@yahoo. ]
      4-25 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Favorite OTR Streams                  [ Tom Greenli <tom_greenli@[removed]; ]
      Re: Madelyn Pugh Davis                [ Gregg Oppenheimer <gopp@[removed]; ]
      Re: Madelyn Pugh Davis/Sol Saks       [ Jordan Young <jordanyoung50@sbcglob ]
      Chester on Radio Once More            [ "Chris Holm" <cbholm@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:40:02 -0400
    From: lawrence albert <albertlarry@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Radio Drama on radio
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    I can understand some of Charlie's feelings about radio drama being dead as a
    doornail. Radio is no longer the only source for the presentation of full cast
    audio shows what with pod casting Sirius/XM and the internet so term "radio"
    drama is a bit archaic. However it is not quite dead. For over 15 years
    fifty-two weeks a year Imagination Theatre has been producing and syndicating
    full cast shows to a network of commercial radio station much in the way it
    was done in the old days except we send out CD's and not 16 inch transcription
    discs. Plus the station can download the show directly from us. We're not the
    only ones, for several years Carl Amari and The Falcon Pictures Group have
    been producing and syndicating audio versions of "The Twilight Zone." Then
    there is "Adventures in Odyssey" produced by the folks at Focus on the
    Family.
    Charlie is correct when he says that most full cast audio drama in not created
    to be aired on a radio station  and he's right that the shows are not produced
    on a regular basis but he is in error when he says its dead as a door nail
    when it comes to shows being done week in and week out for your local
    commercial station. It's on life support true but hardly [removed] Albert

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    [ADMINISTRIVIA: Let's take this discussion back to the blog [removed]
    comments weren't really designed to create discussion here, where we by
    charter deal only with 1920s-1960's radio drama.  --cfs3]

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    Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:40:09 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-25 births/deaths

    April 25th births

    04-25-1874 - Guglielmo Marconi - Bologna, Italy - d. 7-20-1937
    responsible for the first transtlantic transmission of radio waves in
    1901
    04-25-1887 - Charles E. Fuller - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-18-1968
    preacher: "Old Fashioned Revival Hour"; "Heart to Heart"
    04-25-1899 - Guinn (Big Boy) Williams - Decatur, TX - d. 6-6-1962
    actor: "Biography In Sound"
    04-25-1900 - Gloria Ann Simpson - Cleveland, OH - d. 10-21-1956
    actor: "The NBC University Theatre"
    04-25-1904 - Huey Long - Sealy Austin County, TX - d. 6-10-2009
    jazz guitarist: The Ink Spots
    04-25-1907 - Paula Trueman - NYC - d. 3-23-1994
    actor: "Great Plays"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    04-25-1908 - Edward R. Murrow - Pole Cat Creek, NC - d. 4-27-1965
    newscaster: (This is London) "Edward R. Murrow with the News"
    04-25-1909 - Karl Farr - Rochelle, TX - d. 9-20-1961
    singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) "The Roy Rogers Show)
    04-25-1915 - Cliff Bruner - Houston, TX - d. 8-25-2000
    fiddle: "The Musical Brownies"
    04-25-1916 - Davy Kaye - London, England - d. 2-3-1998
    british comic actor who worked in radio during the war
    04-25-1916 - Irving Gaynor Neiman - d. 8-25-1996
    began career by writing scripts for NBC
    04-25-1918 - Astrid Varnay - Stockholm, Sweden - d. 9-4-2006
    operatic soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"; "Operatic Excerpts"
    04-25-1918 - Ella Fitzgerald - Newport News, VA - d. 6-15-1996
    singer: "Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm"; "Jubilee"
    04-25-1919 - Albert Aley - NYC - d. 1-1-1986
    actor: Hop Harrigan "Hop Harrigan"; Bob James "Stella Dallas"
    04-25-1921 - Robert Q. Lewis - NYC - d. 12-11-1991
    disc jockey, comedian, host: "Arthur Godrey Time"; "Robert Q. Lewis
    Show"

    April 25th deaths

    01-04-1911 - Fred Killian - d. 4-25-1994
    producer, director: "Those Sensational Years"
    01-09-1915 - Anita Louise - NYC - d. 4-25-1970
    actor: "Stars Over Hollywood"
    01-16-1907 - Alexander Knox - Strathroy, Ontario, Canada - d. 4-25-1995
    actor: "Document A/777", BBC
    01-19-1906 - Lanny Ross - Seattle, WA - d. 4-25-1988
    singer: "Lanny Ross Program"; "Maxwell House Show Boat"
    01-22-1878 - Constance Collier - Windsor, Berkshire, England - d.
    4-25-1955
    actor: Jessie Atwood "Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy"
    02-09-1912 - Bob Armstrong - Buffalo, NY - d. 4-25-1994
    orchestra director: NBC 1942
    02-16-1896 - Alexander Brailowsky - Kiev, Ukriane, Russia - d. 4-25-1976
    pianist: "Music America Loves Best"; "New York Philharmonic"
    02-27-1923 - Dexter Gordon - Los Angeles, Ca - d. 4-25-1990
    saxophonist: "Newport Jazz Festival";"White House Jazz Festival"
    03-10-1905 - Richard Haydn - London, England - d. 4-25-1985
    actor: Professor Lemuel Carp "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    03-15-1919 - Merv Baldrica - d. 4-25-2006
    sportscaster: WMIQ Iron Mountain, Michigan
    04-05-1928 - Michael Bryant - London, England - d. 4-25-2002
    character actor: "Bequest to the Nation"
    05-01-1924 - Art Fleming - The Bronx, NY - d. 4-25-1995
    host/announcer: "When Radio Was"
    05-23-1921 - Humphrey Lyttelton - Windsor, England - d. 4-25-2008
    host: "I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue"
    06-08-1907 - Roy Lockwood - Bristol, England - d. 4-25-2002
    director: "Valiant Lady"
    07-01-1912 - Murray Matheson - Casterto, Australia - d. 4-25-1985
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    07-03-1906 - George Sanders - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 4-25-1972
    host: "High Adventure"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "[removed] Steel Hour";
    "Cavalcade of America"
    07-16-1911 - Ginger Rogers - Independence, MO - d. 4-25-1995
    actor: "Star and the Story"; "Packard Hour"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-29-1911 - Florence Freeman - NYC - d. 4-25-2000
    actor: Ellen Brown "Young Widder Brown"; Wendy Warren "Wendy Warren
    and the News"
    08-12-1916 - Dorothy Allen - Oakland, CA - d. 4-25-1996
    singer: "Bob Crosby Show"; "Shep Fields Orchestra"
    08-17-1907 - Bernard Schoenfeld - d. 4-25-1990
    writer: "Brave New World"; "This is Our Eneny"
    09-01-1900 - Don Wilson - Lincoln, NE - d. 4-25-1982
    announcer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Good News of 1941"
    10-01-1903 - George Coulouris - Manchester, England - d. 4-25-1989
    actor: Hugh Drummond "Bulldog Drummond"; Frank Harrison "As the Twig
    Is Bent"
    11-02-1917 - Janette Davis - Memphis, TN - d. 4-25-2005
    singer: "Arthur Godfrey Time"; "Avalon Time"; "Red Skelton Show"
    11-15-1902 - Clyde Kittell - Sayre, PA - d. 4-25-1962
    announcer: "Hello Peggy"; "Name Three"
    11-19-1922 - Dick Wesson - Maine - d. 4-25-1996
    announcer: "Space Patrol"; "Hollywood Open House"

    Ron
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    Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:41:05 -0400
    From: Tom Greenli <tom_greenli@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Favorite OTR Streams

    Hi folks,

     I recently won an iPod Touch as a door prize at a company party. The first
    thing I did was load it up with music and of course lots of OTR programming.
    I'm slowly but surely becoming more and more aware of how powerful this
    little device is. One of the things that I have really been getting into
    lately is streaming radio. I have been an avid shortwave listener for going
    on 50 years. I like the fact that I can stream some of my favorites like the
    BBC, Radio Netherlands, The Voice of Russia, Radio Canada International,
    Deutsche Welle and many other worldwide services in English. Delivered
    wirelessly from my high speed Internet connection to the easy chair in my
    living room.

    There are a couple of OTR streams that I am aware of. I've been listening to
    Antioch AM 1710 and Yesterday USA so far. I also know that there is some OTR
    on Live365 as well as some "apps" specifically for OTR. There must be others.
    Which are your favorites? I'd like to make sure I'm listening to the best OTR
    that this technology has to offer

    Thanks,
    Tom

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    Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:42:17 -0400
    From: Gregg Oppenheimer <gopp@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Madelyn Pugh Davis

    On Apr 23, 2011, at 8:38 PM, I wrote:

>     Billy, who a few years later married Elizabeth
>     McGovern, was also an important creative force as producer-director of
>     "Bewitched", working with Sol Saks.

    I meant, of course, to type "Elizabeth Montgomery."

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    Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:42:50 -0400
    From: Jordan Young <jordanyoung50@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Madelyn Pugh Davis/Sol Saks

>     ...is anybody else still alive from "My Favourite Husband"/"I Love Lucy"?

    Bob Schiller is the last survivor of the "Lucy" writing staff.

>     "Sol Saks, a veteran television writer and playwright who created
>     the classic 1960s sitcom "Bewitched," has died. He was 100."

    There are chapter-length interviews--primarily on their OTR
    work--with both Saks and Schiller in my 1999 book, "The Laugh
    Crafters."

    Jordan R. Young

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    Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:44:01 -0400
    From: "Chris Holm" <cbholm@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Chester on Radio Once More

    Regular readers may remember me asking about particular Gunsmoke episodes a
    few weeks ago.  At the time I mentioned that I was putting together a show
    for Radio Once More, and thanks to the generous help from several digest
    readers, the show is put together and scheduled.

    Chester is frequently portrayed as the affable and not terribly effective
    assistant.  A common plot device has prisoners getting the better of him and
    escaping in the middle of the episode, setting up Matt for the chase and
    final showdown.  However, Chester had another side to him: fiercely loyal,
    resourceful, and occasionally a remorseless killer.  Our concept is to
    examine this other side of Chester.  We'll be listening to and discussing
    episodes of the series which show parts of the character not usually seen.

    Be sure to tune in this Friday, April 29th at 9:00pm EST.  Go to
    [removed] and click on "To Listen Click Here".  We'll also be
    kicking off ROM's Gunsmoke marathon weekend.

    Chris Holm

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