Subject: [removed] Digest V2010 #21
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Date: 2/3/2010 10:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 21
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      2-2 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Chico Marx Orch                       [ "Riedstra, Daniel D (Dan)" <daniel. ]
      Jack Benny Month on Those Were The D  [ Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed] ]
      Morman Tabernacle Choir program on C  [ "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@sbcglob ]
      2-3 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 02:12:01 -0500
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

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    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
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    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
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    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, 3 Feb 2010 10:04:59 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-2 births/deaths

    February 2nd births

    02-02-1875 - Fritz Kreisler - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-29-1962
    violinist, composer: "Telephone Hour"; "Concert Hall"; "Gospel In Song"
    02-02-1877 - Charles Hanson Towne - Louisville, KY - d. 2-28-1949
    poet/actor: Quarter hour weekly conversational program on CBS
    02-02-1882 - Geoffrey O'Hara - Chatham, Canada - d. 1-31-1967
    tenor: "Roxy and His Gang"
    02-02-1882 - James Joyce - Dublin, Ireland - d. 1-13-1941
    author: "NBC University Theatre"
    02-02-1888 - Frank Lloyd - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 8-10-1960
    film director: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Robert Arden Round Table
    Discussion"
    02-02-1888 - Lee Millar - Vancouver, Canada - d. 12-24-1941
    actor: (Husband of Verna Felton) Appeared on various radio shows
    02-02-1893 - Len Doyle - Toledo, OH - d. 12-6-1959
    actor: Harrington "Mr, Distric Attorney"
    02-02-1895 - George Halas - Chicago, IL - d. 10-31-1983
    football coach: "Tops in Sports"
    02-02-1898 - William Costello - Rhode Island - d. 10-9-1971
    actor: Freddie Frog "Betty Boop Fables"
    02-02-1899 - Benny Rubin - Boston, MA - d. 7-15-1986
    comedian: Tout "Jack Benny Program"; "Benny Rubin's Whirligig Revue"
    02-02-1901 - Jascha Heifetz - Vilnius, Lithuania - d. 12-10-1987
    classical violinist: "Telephone Hour"; "Soldiers in Greaspaint";
    "Concert Hall"
    02-02-1903 - Larry Walker - Manning, SC - d. 3-xx-1986
    accompanist: "The Johnson Family Singers"
    02-02-1905 - Ayn Rand - St. Petersberg, Russia - d. 3-6-1982
    author: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-02-1905 - Jesse Johnson - Cumnock, NC - d. 5-16-1989
    singer: "The Johnson Family Singers"
    02-02-1908 - Cal Tinney - Pontotoc County, OK - d. 12-2-1993
    actor: Binnacle Barnes "Robinson Crusoe, Jr."
    02-02-1909 - Frank Albertson - Fergus Falls, MN - d. 2-29-1964
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-02-1909 - Purv Pullen - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-18-1992
    bird and animal imitator: Horatio G. Birdbath "The Spike Jones Show"
    02-02-1911 - Everett Freeman - NYC - d. 1-24-1991
    writer: "The Baby Snooks Show"; "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    02-02-1911 - Jussi Bjorling - Stora Tuna, Sweden - d. 9-9-1960
    singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    02-02-1912 - Burton Lane - NYC - d. 1-5-1997
    composer: "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Voices of Vista"
    02-02-1912 - Stefan Schnabel - Berlin, Germany - d. 3-11-1999
    actor: Herbert Yost "Joyce Jordan, [removed]"
    02-02-1914 - Beverly Freeland - Bristow, OK
    singer: "Brezzing Along"; "Heinz Magazine of the Air"
    02-02-1915 - Frank Telford - d. 5-19-1987
    producer: "This Is Our Enemy"
    02-02-1918 - Imogen Carpenter - Hot Springs, AR - d. 3-24-1993
    actor: "Command Performance"
    02-02-1920 - Hughie Green - London, England - d. 5-3-1997
    host: "Opportunity Knocks"
    02-02-1922 - Norman Marrgraff - Wisconsin - d. 4-30-2006
    disk jockey: "Fritz the Plumber"
    02-02-1923 - Bonita Granville - Chicago, IL - d. 10-11-1988
    actor: "Continental Celebrity Club"; "Stars Over Hollywood"
    02-02-1923 - Haleloke Kahuaolapus - Hilo, Hawaii Territory - d.
    12-16-2004
    singer: "Hawaii Calls"; "Arthur Godfrey Time"
    02-02-1936 - Arthur Lyman - Kauai, HI - d. 2-24-2002
    vibes: Won talent contest on Honolulu  radio, station KGMB
    02-02-1940 - Sir David Jason - London, England
    actor: "Week Ending  . . . "; "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

    February 2nd deaths

    03-26-1920 - Junior Blizzard - d. 2-2-2005
    disk jockey: WMJM Cordele, Georgia
    03-29-1923 - Remo Palmieri - The Bronx, NY - d. 2-2-2002
    guitartist: "Music 'Til Midnight"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    04-18-1912 - Wendy Barrie - Hong Kong, China - d. 2-2-1978
    hostess, actor: "Detect and Collect"; "Jack Haley Show"; "Star for a
    Night"
    04-22-1915 - Dick Dudley - Louisville, KY - d. 2-2-2000
    announcer: "Archie Andrews"; "Believe It or Not"
    05-16-1916 - Bernard Braden - Vancouver, Canada - d. 2-2-1993
    actor: "The Gracie Fields Show"
    06-10-1918 - Barry Morse - London, England - d. 2-2-2008
    actor: "Odyssey of Honor"; "George Orwell: A Radio Biography"
    07-13-1903 - Milo Boulton - Ohio - d. 2-2-1989
    host: "We, the People"
    08-23-1912 - Gene Kelly - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-2-1996
    actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"; "Star for a Night"; "Suspense"
    08-29-1914 - Willard Waterman - Madison, WI - d. 2-2-1995
    actor: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve "Great Gildersleeve"; Roger Barton
    "The Guiding Light"
    09-01-1877 - Frank Tours - London, England - d. 2-2-1963
    orchestra leader: "Will Rogers"; "The Vince Program"
    09-07-1920 - Mende Brown - d. 2-2-2002
    director: "The Affairs of Peter Salem"
    09-09-1905 - Elsie Park Gowan - Helensburgh, Scotland - d. 2-2-1999
    writer: "New Lamps for Old"
    09-11-1878 - Charles Harrison - d. 2-2-1965
    tenor: CBS Staff 1927-1928, had musical program on NBC 1935
    09-15-1894 - Edwin Cooper - Illinois - d. 2-2-1984
    actor: "The Eddie Bracken Show"
    09-28-1905 - Max Schmelling - Klein Luckow, Brandenburg, Germany - d.
    2-2-2005
    nazi propagnadist: Radio Berlin
    10-02-1896 - Bob Burns - Van Buren, AR - d. 2-2-1956
    comedian: (The Arkansas Traveler) "Kraft Music Hall"; "Bob Burns Show"
    10-02-1904 - Godfrey Baseley - Alvechurch, England - d. 2-2-1997
    creator: "The Archers"
    10-05-1919 - Donald Pleasance - Worksop, England - d. 2-2-1995
    actor: "21st Century Blues"
    10-11-1913 - Sunny Skylar - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-2-2008
    singer/songwriter: "Sunny Skylar Serenade"; "Mary Small Revue"
    10-22-1885 - Giovanni Martinelli - Montagnana, Italy - d. 2-2-1969
    operatic tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"; "Magic Key"; "Shell Show"
    10-28-1913 - Ruth Peterson - Wauwatosa, WI - d. 2-2-1985
    actor: Linda Carroll "Hawthorne House"
    11-23-1887 - Boris Karloff - London, England - d. 2-2-1969
    actor, host: "Starring Boris Karloff"; "Creeps by Night"
    11-25-1904 - Jessie Royce Landis - Chicago, IL - d. 2-2-1972
    actor: "We Are Always Young"
    12-02-1893 - William Gaxton - San Franciso, CA - d. 2-2-1963
    actor, singer: "Broadway Showtime"
    12-30-1914 - Bert Parks - Atlanta, GA - d. 2-2-1992
    emcee, announcer: "Break the Bank"; "Stop the Music"; "Double or
    Nothing"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:05:42 -0500
    From: "Riedstra, Daniel D (Dan)" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Chico Marx Orch
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    Michael Browning wrote:

>     That is new to me and I was wondering if there is anyone out there  that
>     knows anything about Chico and his orchestra.

     Michael, while I don't have a history of the band, I can tell you there
    is a clip or possibly a full show of Chico Marx and his Orch on the
    Fitch Bandwagon about 1943.

    Dan

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    Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:05:52 -0500
    From: Steve Darnall <fvpress@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Benny Month on Those Were The Days!

    For the 32nd consecutive year, February is Jack Benny Month on "Those Were
    the Days," the weekly showcase devoted to the Golden Age of Radio. All month
    long we'll tune in to Jack and a bevy of guest stars, including (this week)
    George Burns, Edward G. Robinson (in a rare broadcast from 1933!), Orson
    Welles, and Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Colman. Plus, we'll hear Jack as a guest on
    Orson Welles' "Campbell Playhouse" in George S. Kaufman's "June Moon."

    The fun begins this Saturday at 1:00 pm on WDCB-FM ([removed] for you Chicagoans;
    [removed] for everyone else). Hope to hear you there!

    Steve

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    Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:06:27 -0500
    From: "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Morman Tabernacle Choir program on CBS

    Interesting to read about the Sunday morning program on CBS radio featuring
    the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.  I was about to send in a comment on this show.
    I had forgotten about it, but had heard it recently.  It airs on KNX-1070 in
    Los Angeles from 5:30-6:00 [removed] each Sunday.  I enjoyed a program they did
    in November for Veteran's Day and a couple of the December Christmas
    programs.  I noticed that the announcer said that the program was in its
    81st year on the air on CBS and had originated with KSL-1160 in Salt Lake
    City.  Is this now the oldest continuous program still on network radio?

    Jim Hilliker
    Monterey, CA

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    Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:06:32 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-3 births/deaths

    February 3rd births

    02-03-1883 - Clarence Mulford - Streator, IL - d. 5-10-1956
    creator of Hopalong Cassidy
    02-03-1884 - Maude Davis - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-20-1946
    vaudevillian: (Clark Sisters) "Eddie Cantor"; "Kate Smith"
    02-03-1890 - Charles Correll - Peoria, IL - d. 9-26-1972
    actor: Andrew Brown "Amos 'n' Andy"
    02-03-1890 - Larry MacPhail - Cass City, MI - d. 10-1-1975
    baseball executive: "Information, Please"; "Bill Stern Colgate Sports
    Newsreel"
    02-03-1894 - Norman Rockwell - NYC - d. 11-8-1978
    artist: "The Breakfast Club"
    02-03-1895 - Carl F. Kroenke - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-3-1956
    actor: Alec Furguson "Houseboat Hannah"; Dr. Glassman "Ma Perkins"
    02-03-1895 - Nick Kenny - Astoria, NY - d. 12-1-1975
    columnist, songwriter: Reader of inspirational verse
    02-03-1899 - Doris Speed - Manchester, England - d. 11-16-1994
    actor: "Remember It All"
    02-03-1902 - Lillian Hardin Armstrong - Memphis, TN - d. 8-27-1971
    pianist: "New Orleans Creole Jazz Band"
    02-03-1903 - Martin Block - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1967
    announcer, disc jockey: "Make-Believe Ballroom"; "Chesterfield Supper
    Club"
    02-03-1907 - James Michener - NYC - d. 10-16-1997
    author: "You and the World"
    02-03-1907 - Paul Laven - d. 5-1-1950
    writer: "The Bob Hope Show"
    02-03-1910 - Nelson Case - Long Beach, CA - d. 3-24-1976
    announcer: "Hour of Charm"; "New Carnation Contented Hour"
    02-03-1915 - Bill Miller - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-11-2006
    piano, conductor: "Frank Sinatra"; "Jim Hawthorne Show"
    02-03-1915 - Helen Hall - d. 2-15-1984
    hostess: "One Woman's New York"
    02-03-1916 - Andy White - d. 3-29-1999
    writer: "The Great Gildersleeve", "Fred Waring Show"
    02-03-1918 - Gene Baldridge - d. 6-18-1988
    disk jockey: WSIP Paintsville, Kentucky
    02-03-1918 - Joey Bishop - The Bronx, NY - d. 10-17-2007
    actor: "Monitor's Salute to Jimmy Durante"
    02-03-1918 - Stanley Earl Cowan - NYC - d. 12-13-1991
    director: "Club Hollywood"
    02-03-1919 - Dolly Dawn - Newark, NJ - d. 12-11-2002
    bandleader: "Dolly Dawn and Her Dawn Patrol"
    02-03-1922 - Russell Arms - Berkely, CA
    singer, actor: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
    02-03-1924 - Leslie Stevens - Washington, [removed] - d. 4-24-1998
    film director: "Stagestruck"
    02-03-1925 - John Fiedler - Platteville, WI - d. 6-25-2005
    actor: Homer Brown "The Aldrich Family"
    02-03-1926 - Shelley Berman - Chicago, IL
    actor: "Family Theatre"
    02-03-1928 - Frankie Vaughan - Liverpool, England - d. 9-17-1999
    singer: "Al Jolson Centenary"
    02-03-1932 - Peggy Ann Garner - Canton, OH - d. 10-16-1984
    actor: Esther Smith "Meet Me in St. Louis"
    02-03-1933 - Suzan Ball - Jamestown, NY - d. 8-5-1955
    actor: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-03-1950 - Morgan Fairchild - Dallas, TX
    actor: Kate Wakefield "Faces of Love"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    February 3rd deaths

    01-03-1905 - Anna May Wong - Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA - d. 2-3-1961
    actor: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Hollywood Hotel"
    01-04-1916 - Lionel Newman - New Haven, CT - d. 2-3-1989
    conductor, composer: (Brother of Alfred) "Hollywood Star Time"
    01-05-1893 - Ace Brigode - Illinois - d. 2-3-1960
    bandleader: "White Rose Gasoline Show"; "Jersey Cereal Show"
    01-18-1896 - Art Kassel - Chicago, IL - d. 2-3-1963
    bandleader: "Kassels in the Air"; "Elgin Campus Revue"
    01-28-1911 - Donald Briggs - Chicago, IL - d. 2-3-1986
    actor: Frank Merriwell "Advs. of Frank Merriwell"
    02-08-1891 - Edward Bierstadt - d. 2-3-1970
    writer: "The Shadow"; "Empire Builders"
    02-08-1922 - Morley Meredith - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 2-3-2000
    baritone: "Metropolitan Opera"
    02-08-1924 - Audrey Meadows - Wu Chang, China - d. 2-3-1996
    actor: "The Honeymooners" (TV sound track on radio)
    02-17-1888 - William Balhatchet - d. 2-3-1971
    singer: WHT Chicago, Illinois
    02-17-1915 - Norman Thomson - Massachusetts - d. 2-3-2000
    actor: (Founding member of "Meercury Theatre) "The War of the Worlds"
    03-06-1900 - Jay C. Flippen - Little Rock, AR - d. 2-3-1971
    actor: Sergeant "Rookies"
    03-15-1874 - Harold Ickes - Frankstown, PA - d. 2-3-1952
    secretary of interior: "Information Please"
    03-18-1916 - Jody Gilbert - Fort Worth, TX - d. 2-3-1979
    actor: Rosa "Life with Luigi"
    03-20-1909 - Doris C. Frankel - Manhattan, NY - d. 2-3-1994
    writer: "Ma Perkins"; "Romance of Helen Trent"
    04-01-1904 - Sid Field - Birmingham, England - d. 2-3-1950
    comedian: Freelance
    04-01-1922 - Sonny King - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-3-2006
    singer: "Arthur Godrey's Talent Scouts"
    04-25-1916 - Davy Kaye - London, England - d. 2-3-1998
    british comic actor who worked in radio during the war
    04-30-1910 - Al Lewis - NYC - d. 2-3-2006
    actor: hosted weekly radio program on WBAI-FM New York
    05-26-1893 - Edward MacHugh - Dundee, Scotland - d. 2-3-1957
    singer: "Gospel Singer"
    05-29-1902 - Dr. Harry Hagen - New Haven, CT - d. 2-3-1986
    emcee: "True or False"; "Bob Emery's Show"
    06-14-1900 - June Walker - Chicago, IL - d. 2-3-1966
    actor: (Mother of actor John Kerr) "The Rudy Vallee Show"
    07-18-1913 - Joe Ripley - d. 2-3-1993
    announcer: "Armstrong Circle Theatre"; "Dorothy Dix on the Air"
    09-07-1936 - Buddy Holly - Lubbock, TX - d. 2-3-1959
    singer: "Sunday Party"; "Buddy and Bob Show"
    09-30-1891 - Fabien Sevitzky - d. 2-3-1967
    director: "The Indianaoplis Symphony Orchestra"
    10-23-1921 - James Blackwood - Ackereman, MS - d. 2-3-2002
    singer: (Blackwood Brothers Quartet) "Songs of the Gospel"
    10-24-1930 - J. P. "Big Bopper" Richardson - Sabine Pass, TX - d.
    2-3-1959
    Early Rock and Roll disc jockey
    11-21-1902 - Frank Hursley - d. 2-3-1989
    writer: "American Women"; "Cousin Willie"; "Those Websters"; "The
    Truitts"
    11-30-1890 - Ramsey Hill - Georgetown, Guyana - d. 2-3-1976
    actor: "Escape"; "NBC University Theatre"
    12-10-1925 - Jean Byron - Paducah, KY - d. 2-3-2006
    singer on radio in her native Kentucky
    12-16-1895 - Andy Razaf - Washington, D. C. - d. 2-3-1973
    lyricist: "Music for Millions"

    Ron

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