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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 68
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
      4-23 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:23:23 -0400
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[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," John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane
    Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."
    Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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    Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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    Check our our Transcription Disc scans at:
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    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    THREE HUNDRED PARTY
      4-27-46
      Mutual, "World's Largest Network" welcomes its 300th affiliate, WKRZ,
    Oil City, Pennsylvania.
      Hosts: Tiny Ruffner and Elsa Maxwell.
      Features: Xavier Cugat, Harry Savoy, Jack Dempsey, Bert Lahr, Randolph
    Scott, Donald Crisp, Dick Powell, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Parker
    Fennelly.
      Mutual Sustained
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    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

    ON YOUR MARK
      (WOR, NYC) 10/06/48 Live audience quiz at WOR in NYC. Bud Collyer.

    THAT'S RICH
      (CBS) Audition Show 11/21/53 Stars Stan Freberg. "Bird Lovers" -
    Listen for Marvin Miller and Dawes Butler.

    JACK ARMSTRONG, THE ALL-AMERICAN BOY
      (ABC/Blue) 08/07/43 Wartime episode of the Black Vulture and
    counterfeit ration stamps. Charles Flynn is Jack.
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    We begin with programs featuring our actors of the month, Lum And Abner.

    LUM AND ABNER
      from 02/28/38 First Show For Postum.

    LUM AND ABNER
      05/26/41 First Show Since They Closed The Store In March 1940 FIRST
    Show For MILES Labs.

    HOLLYWOOD BYLINE
      from 12/10/49 Episode (01) Guest-Georgie Jessel

    MYSTERY IS MY HOBBY
      episode (001) June-January Marriage Spells Trouble.

    SUSPENSE
      from 05/24/55 Episode (599) I Saw Myself Running
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    CLASSICS & CURIOS

    "Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

    Episode 24

      It's Bob Hope's 1st Pepsodent Show & Maxwell House Coffee Time with
    Francis Langford
      From 1938, the year of the debut of "Thanks for the Memory," in the
    film "The Big Broadcast of 1938" we hear highlights of Bob's first
    broadcast for Pepsodent. Skinnay Ennis sings "Change Partners," and
    actress Constance Bennett drops by with quips about Charlie McCarthy.
    (Later in the 1940's, Constance was to be honored by the armed forces
    for her post war entertainment of troops stationed in Europe.) Bob plays
    a "tough" detective in the "Tisket Tasket, Yellow Basket" case mystery.
    Following Bob's "Thanks for the Memory" theme comes the "Burns & Allen"
    1947 NBC summer replacement "Maxwell House Coffee Time with Francis
    Langford." Conductor for "Coffee Time" was Carmen Dragon who also
    conducted on radio shows like the "Railroad Hour and produced the most
    widely used symphonic arrangement of "America, the Beautiful." Francis
    Langford was known as the "Sweetheart of the Fighting Front," and her
    sponsor Maxwell House Coffee billed her show as "Part of the American
    Scene," which was part of an ad campaign done beautifully in 1947 with
    paintings of vacation spots in the USA. Maxwell House's commercials were
    skillfully and tastefully integrated into the music of the program,
    embellished by Carmen Dragon's skillful arranging with his 25 piece
    orchestra. Take special note of the clever commercials, as announcer
    Tobe Reed softly compares the melodic blending of musical composition
    and orchestral scoring of instruments to the creative blending of
    Maxwell House coffee production. "Coffee Time" was well-written,
    wholesome, patriotic, light, amusing, and excellently directed, scored,
    and performed: truly "a collectable gem from The Golden Age of American
    Radio." Even the show's theme was gentle and soothing: "Let's Have
    Another Cup of Coffee." Francis sings great songs like "It's a Good
    Day," "Carolina in the Morning," and "The Best Things in Life Are Free."

    Legendary Ladies
      Francis Langford was a legendary singer, and we continue now with a
    few more legendary ladies of song, ladies like Margaret Whiting, Martha
    Tilton, Helen Forrest, and more. And I include a mystery gal who sang on
    Ben Bernie's radio show and then with Xavier Cugat for a time. But she
    failed in auditions for Benny Goodman and also the Dorseys. She went on
    her own to become a star on radio, TV, in movies, and on great
    recordings. Radio show spotlights included those with Eddie Cantor and
    Paul Whiteman. She was once introduced on radio as the singer "who
    lights a fire by rubbing 2 notes together." DJ Martin Block was
    responsible -- by chance -- for her stage name as we know it, which was
    the title of a hit recording she often sang at auditions. "TV Guide"
    ranked her at number 16 on its top 50 TV stars ever. She sings here her
    1942 hit recording, "Blues in the Night," which was on "Your Hit Parade"
    for 13 weeks, 2 at number 1. So now can you name this wonderful
    energetic performer (who was also a pretty fair golfer and talk show host)?
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    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, 22 Apr 2012 23:23:57 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-23 births/deaths

    April 23rd births

    04-23-1564 - William Shakespeare - Stratford-upon-Avon, England - d.
    4-23-1616
    playwright, poet: Several of his works adapted for radio
    04-23-1879 - Talbot Mundy - London, England - d. 8-5-1940
    writer: "Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy"
    04-23-1884 - Edwin C. Hill - Aurora, IN - d. 2-12-1957
    news commentator: "Human Side of the News"; "Your News Parade"
    04-23-1893 - Frank Borzage - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 6-19-1962
    film director: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    04-23-1895 - Ngaio Marsh - Christchurch, New Zealand - d. 2-18-1982
    author: "Final Curtain"
    04-23-1898 - Lee Vines - Texas - d. 12-28-1987
    announcer: "CBS Radio Workshop"; "Burns and Allen"
    04-23-1901 - George Harmon Coxe - Olean, NY - d. 1-30-1984
    novelist: "Casey, Crime Photographer" based on his novels
    04-23-1910 - Simone Simon - Bethune, Pas-de-Calais, France - d.
    2-22-2005
    actor: "Inner Sanctum"
    04-23-1915 - James F. Fleming - Baraboo, WI - d. 8-10-1996
    announcer: "Vic and Sade"; "Get John's Other Wife"
    04-23-1918 - Oliver Treyz - Willewemoe, NY - d. 6-14-1998
    director of ABC radio
    04-23-1919 - Clifford Kendrick - d. 9-17-1996
    drums: "Bob Skyles and His Skyrockets"
    04-23-1921 - Janet Blair - Altoona, PA - d. 2-19-2007
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre", "Abbott and Costello"
    04-23-1921 - Warren Spahn - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-24-2003
    hall of fame pitcher: "Tops in Sports"
    04-23-1922 - Jack May - Henley-on-Thames, England - d. 9-19-1997
    actor: "The Archers"; "Sherlock Holmes"
    04-23-1924 - Norman Painting - Leamington Spa, England - d. 10-29-2009
    actor: Phil Archer "The Archers"
    04-23-1925 - Elena DaVinci - d. 11-10-2006
    host: "Magazine of the Air"
    04-23-1928 - Shirley Temple - Santa Monica, CA
    actor: Judy Graves "Junior Miss"
    04-23-1931 - Tom Pettit - d. 12-22-1995
    nbc reporter: "Meet the Press"
    04-23-1932 - Ed Walker - Forrest, IL
    co-host: "The Joy Boys of Radio"

    April 23rd deaths

    01-08-1908 - William Hartnell - London, England - d. 4-23-1975
    actor: The Doctor "Doctor Who"
    02-07-1908 - Larry "Buster" Crabbe - Oakland, CA - d. 4-23-1983
    actor: "George Jessel Show"; "Hollywood Showcase"
    02-12-1898 - Curt Peterson - Albert Lea, MN - d. 4-23-1980
    announcer: "Jones and Hare"; "The Pure Oil Band"
    02-15-1905 - Harold Arlen - Buffalo, NY - d. 4-23-1986
    composer: "Songs By Arlen"; "Kraft Program"; "Good New of 1940"
    03-10-1900 - Peter de Rose - NYC - d. 4-23-1953
    pianist, singer: "Sweethearts of the Air"
    03-19-1907 - Kent Smith - NYC - d. 4-23-1985
    actor: "NBC University Theatre of the Air";"Radio Reader's Digest"
    04-10-1919 - Bruce Buell - Santa Ana, CA - d. 4-23-1996
    annoucer: "California Caravan"; "Mystery is My Hobby"
    04-15-1921 - Art Ford - NYC - d. 4-23-2006
    emcee, disk jockey: "Monitor"
    04-23-1564 - William Shakespeare - Stratford-upon-Avon, England - d.
    4-23-1616
    playwright, poet: Several of his works adapted for radio
    05-07-1903 - Samuel Herbert Herman - Bronxwood, NY - d. 4-23-1995
    xylophone player: Staff musician for NBC
    05-11-1909 - Ocie Stockard - Crafton, TX - d. 4-23-1988
    bango: "The Musical Brownies"
    05-19-1894 - Henry Busse - Magdeburg, Germany - d. 4-23-1953
    orchestra leader: "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Spotlight Bands"
    05-24-1914 - Vernon (Vern) Carstensen - Clinton, IA - d. 4-23-1999
    announcer, actor: "Box 13"; "Damon Runyon Theatre"
    06-23-1944 - "Jolly Joe" Truszkowski - Warrior Run, PA - d. 4-23-2009
    polka bandleader: WICK-AM Wilkes Barre, PA
    07-04-1907 - Tommy Carr - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-23-1997
    actor: Jerry Hall "Magic Island"
    07-21-1911 - Alice Cornett Asherman - Plant City, FL - d. 4-23-2002
    singer: Had own program five times weekly on NBC
    07-24-1917 - Robert Farnon - Toronto, Canada - d. 4-23-2005
    conductor: "AEFP Farewell Party"; "Songs for America"
    07-29-1916 - Albert Lewin - NYC - d. 4-23-1996
    writer: "Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy"; "Eddie Cantor Show"
    08-14-1879 - Edna Fisher - NB - d. 4-23-1978
    actor: "The Al Pearce Show"
    09-13-1883 - Lewis E. Lawes - Elmira, NY - d. 4-23-1947
    commentator: "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing"
    10-12-1915 - Mike Moser - Spokane, WA - d. 4-23-1953
    producer, director: "Space Patrol"
    10-24-1879 - Benjamin Albert "[removed]" Rolfe - Brasher Falls, NY - d.
    4-23-1956
    conductor: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Believe It or Not"
    11-06-1904 - Selena Royle - NYC - d. 4-23-1983
    actor: Hilda Hope "Hilda Hope, [removed]"; Kathy Marsh "Portia Faces Life"
    11-18-1891 - Sigmund Anker - Bern, Switzerland - d. 4-23-1958
    violinist: KFRC San Francisco, California
    12-05-1906 - Otto Preminger - Vienna, Austria - d. 4-23-1986
    actor, film producer, director: "Fun In Print"; "Listen to the People"
    12-17-1902 - House Jameson - Austin, TX - d. 4-23-1971
    actor: Sam Aldrich "Aldrich Family"; Inspector Douglas Renfrew
    "Renfrew of the Mounted"

    Ron

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