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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 352
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      First movie to include radio in the   [ "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@sbcglob ]
      [removed]'s badge [removed]          [ Afanofoldradio@[removed] ]
      Badge 714                             [ Neal Ellis <bstenor@[removed]; ]
      Bing and Bowie                        [ "Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed]; ]
      Benny's theme                         [ <radioaz@[removed]; ]
      Re:Bing and Bowie                     [ mbiel@[removed] ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <jerryhaendiges@cha ]
      So, that's a "mazeltov" with the "Me  [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Young [removed]               [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Billie the Brownie                    [ Mark Higgins <paul_frees_fan@amerit ]

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    Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:54:59 -0500
    From: "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  First movie to include radio in the stroyline??

    Hi.  Forgive me, but I forget if I asked this question before, about two
    years ago.  I learned about a 1925 Our Gang film called "Mary, Queen of
    Tots" which featured a short scene showing Uncle John Daggett of KHJ radio
    in Los Angeles, with the radio station as part of the plot of the movie,
    after the kids turn on a radio. in somebody's home.

    I'm wondering if this may have been the first Hollywood movie to feature
    radio or radio broadcasting as part of the storyline.  Anybody know the
    answer?

    Jim Hilliker
    Monterey, CA

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    Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:39:16 -0500
    From: Afanofoldradio@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  [removed]'s badge [removed]
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    The reason you see "714" on Sgt. Friday's badge is that, from what I
    gathered, Jack Webb liked Babe Ruth and that of course was Ruth's home run
    [removed] Kienzler "The Reel Old-Time Great (ev'rybody luv's 'em) Radio
    Shows  Club"
    Springfield. Illinois  _afanofoldradio@[removed]_
    (mailto:afanofoldradio@[removed])

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    Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:39:38 -0500
    From: Neal Ellis <bstenor@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Badge 714
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    To the best of my knowledge his badge number was not used in the Dragnet
    radio series.  Hpwever,  when the black and white tv shows were first
    syndicated the show  was titled "Badge 714".  Some of these programs are
    circulating among collectors.

      Neal Ellis
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    Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:39:59 -0500
    From: "Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed];
    To: ""old-time radio digest">" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Bing and Bowie

    For the curious about Bing and Bowie's colaboration, it was indeed issued on
    Vinyl in the late 70's or early
    80's.  At least I think that's when it came out.  It was certainly after
    Bing's death.
    It's also been released on CD on at least one Christmas Comp.
    The vinyl version has the Bing and Bowie monolog before the song itself.  I
    don't think the CD version has the
    monolog though.
    If you are interested write me offlist and I can get you a copy of the full
    vinyl version.
    It came out as a 12-inch single.
    Bill

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    Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:40:28 -0500
    From: <radioaz@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Benny's theme

    We all know (I presume) that Jack Benny's theme song was "Love in Bloom."
    But listening to several shows recently, I have concluded that there are
    actually two theme songs.  If you listen carefully, the music starts out
    with one or two bars of George M. Cohan's "I'm A Yankee Doodle Dandy" and
    then neatly segues into "Love in Bloom."  Is this correct?  Does anyone know
    why this was done?

    Ted

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    Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:14:11 -0500
    From: mbiel@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re:Bing and Bowie

    George Tirebiter mentioned that he didn't think that Bing and Bowie's duet of
    "The Little Drummer Boy" was issued as a record.  Boy was it ever!  In 1982
    1t came out as a regular single and a special 12-inch single with a
    super-large label with a picture of the two of them as they appeared during
    the program.  It was a major collectors item because the program had been
    taped on Sept 11, 1977, one month before Bing's death, and was shown only
    after his death, of course.

    Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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    Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:49:32 +0000
    From: Jerry Haendiges <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi Friends,

    Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you may
    listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio
    Theatre," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The Glowing
    Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."  Streamed in high-quality
    audio, on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
    Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at: [removed]
    =======================================

    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    Merry Christmas
    Part 1

    THE HELEN HAYES THEATER
    "TEXTRON THEATER"
    Episode 16    12-22-45    "A Child Is Born"
    Stars: Jose Ferer and Helen Hayes
    CBS TEXTRON
    Saturdays 7:00 - 7:30 pm
    HOST and STAR: Helen Heyes
    ANNOUNCER: Frank Gallup
    DIRECTOR: Lester O'Keefe

    KALTENMEYER'S KINDERGARTEN
    12-12-36    "A Letter To Santa"
    NBC QUAKER CEREAL
    Stars: Bruce Kamman, Johnny Wolf, Thor Ericson, Marian Jordan, Jim Jordan,
    Merrill Fugit, Sidney Ellstrom, Cecil Roy, Billy White, The Escorts and Betty

    FOUNTAIN OF FUN
    Episode 12    12-20-42    "Visit To Santa's Workshop"
    WLW MARS INCORPORATED
    HOST: Bob Jellison
    STARS: Phil Brito, The Thrasher Sisters
    MUSIC: Phil Davis and His Orchestra
    ANNOUNCER: Don Cornell

    THE JACK CARSON SHOW
    Episode 13    12-25-46    "Christmas Preparations"
    CBS CAMPBELL SOUP Wednesdays 7:30 - 8:00 pm
    ANNOUNCER: Del Sharbut
    WITH: Arthur Treacher, Irene Ryan, Dave Willis, Norma Jean Nillson
    MUSIC: Freddie Martin Orchestra
    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

      Merry Christmas

    THE GREAT GILDERSLEEVE
    (NBC)    12/24/49   "Why The Chimes Rang"
    with Harold Peary in what may be his most memorable Christmas story.

    GEORGE BURNS & GRACIE ALLEN
    (NBC) 12/23/41 Gracie takes Herman the Duck to The North Pole to see Santa.
    "The Wicked Witch" is Edna May Oliver. Gracie Sings!!

    RADIO RARITY
    1946 CAPITOL Records presentation of FIBBER McGEE & MOLLY in "The Night
    Before Christmas" direct from original 78 rpm. disks.
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    THE GLOWING DIAL

    Merry Christmas

    Fibber McGee and Molly - "Ringing In The Holidays"
    originally aired December 23, 1941 on NBC
    Starring: Jim and Marian Jordan, Isabel Randolph, Gale Gordon, Harold
    Peary, Martha Tilton, The King's Men, Billy Mills & His Orchestra, Harlow
    Wilcox announcing.
    Sponsor: Johnson's Wax & Johnson's Self-Polishing Glo-Coat

    Amos 'n' Andy - "Andy Plays Santa Claus / The Lord's Prayer"
    originally aired December 23, 1951 on CBS
    Starring: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll, Jeff Alexander's Orchestra &
    Chorus, Harlow Wilcox announcing.
    Sponsor: Rexall

    Author's Playhouse - "Christmas By Injunction"
    originally aired December 21, 1941 on NBC Red
    Starring: Cliff Sabere, Curley Bradley, Sidney Ellstrom, Jerry Spellman,
    Fern Parsons, Harriet Allen, Eva Parnell, Hilda Graham, Dan Bowers,
    Clarence Hartzell, Percy Hemus, Carl Kronke, Michael Romano.
    Music by Roy (Leroy) Shield (Our Gang, Laurel & Hardy).
    Taken from the O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) story of the same name.
    Sustained

    Bob Hope Show - "Greetings From Bob 'Christmas Tree' Hope"
    originally aired December 23, 1941 on NBC
    Starring: Bob Hope, Jerry Colonna, Frances Langford, Six Hits and a Miss,
    Madeline Carroll, Skinnay Ennis, Ben Gage.
    Sponsor: Pepsodent

    CBS Radio Workshop - "All Is Bright" (The story of the song "Silent Night")
    originally aired December 23, 1956 on CBS
    Starring: Rudolph Weiss, Joe Julian, Herm Dinken, Bob Pfeiffer announcing.
    Sustained
    ==================================

    If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

          Jerry Haendiges

          Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
          The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
          Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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    Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:49:59 +0000
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  So, that's a "mazeltov" with the "Merry
      Christmas"!

    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];

     > The surface mailing  address for this list has changed

    As Rochester might've said, "Noted, Boss!'
    -Craig W.

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    Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:50:12 +0000
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Young [removed]

    Tom Turbyfill of Ardmore, AL recently contacted the Metro Washington
    OTR Club for help in determining the significance of some soap opera
    promotional materials he had just acquired.  It consisted of a
    sponsor's 1938 letter to a fan of "Young Widder Jones" together with
    a photo of the cast.

    Few Digesters, 'cept Jim Cox of course, know that "Young Widder
    Brown," which was on NBC from September 1938 to June 1956, actually
    began on Mutual under a different title. In his book, THE GREAT RADIO
    SOAP OPERAS (McFarland, 1999) Jim points out that "Young Widder
    Jones" aired on Mutual from June 6 to September 23, 1938. When
    Sterling Drugs acquired it and moved it to NBC, Frank and Anne
    Hummert, the producers, did not want listeners thinking there might
    be a family connection to "Lorenzo Jones" who occupied a neighboring
    time slot and was sponsored by the same company.  So Ellen Jones got
    her name changed to Ellen Brown and thus began the nearly two decade
    run of "Young Widder Brown."

    The cast photo Turbyfill discovered contains approximately the same
    cast as was featured in the  NBC version, including Florence Freeman,
    House Jameson, and kiddies Tommy Donnelly and Marilyn Erskine. The
    sponsor. located in Wheeling WV, was a children's laxative with the
    long name of "California Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna." In the
    sponsor's letter, signed by Ellen (Young Widder) Jones, listeners
    were reminded that she could not send out all these wonderful
    photographs without the help of her sponsor. She encouraged listeners
    to buy this laxative which "your druggist will have in the big family
    sized bottles that only cost you a small sum."

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:27:02 +0000
    From: Mark Higgins <paul_frees_fan@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Billie the Brownie

    We're back again.  This Christmas Eve, members of the Milwaukee Area Radio
    Enthusiasts will again be doing a live recreation of a Billie the Brownie
    script from 1949 on WTKM.  Billie was a part of the Milwaukee's Christmas
    tradition for 25 years, from 1931 until 1955.
         This year we have a special treat.  The lady who played Mrs. Santa on
    the original shows, Maddy Coogan Pritchard, has agreed to recreate her
    role, and on the 24th, will perform with us in a script that she originally
    performed on November 14, 1949.  She's a charming lady, and we've had great
    fun getting ready for this year's performance.
         Be sure to listen on December 24, between 9:45 [removed] and Noon, to Ron
    Krause's show on WTKM radio ([removed] FM and 1540 AM, or on the internet at
    [removed]).  The show is a call-in program, so you'll be able to be a part
    if you have recollections of Christmas past, or if you have any questions
    for Maddy - she truly was a part of OTR in it's heyday.

    Merry Christmas,
    Mark Higgins

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