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Date: 11/27/2011 10:57 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 188
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      JAY HICKERSON'S BIRTHDAY              [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
      11-26 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      TV to Radio                           [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Be Sociable, Kay                      [ Jandpgardner@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 27 Novemb  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Burns and Allen                       [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
      11-27 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:53:14 -0500
    From: PURKASZ@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  JAY HICKERSON'S BIRTHDAY

    May I  shout a very Happy  Birthday wish to Jay Hickerson on this day and
    from this  pulpit?
    I usually see him in my Buddy List when he is  on  line and the fact that I
    have not seen him lately must mean he is  still  undergoing therapy after
    that nasty fall so here's wishing him  and his lovely  wife a hopeful and
    uplifting Happy Birthday!
    On this day after Thanksgiving I realize that Gina and  I  have so much to
    thank him for over the many years that he has been  kind enough  to include
    us
    in the invites and myself in the marvelous  reenactments at FOTR in  Newark.
    Thanks Jay and have a great Day   pal.
    Onwards all.
    Can next year be  far behind?
    Michael C.  Gwynne & Gina

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    Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:53:20 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-26 births/deaths

    November 26th births

    11-26-1889 - H. I. Phillips - Connecticut - d. 3-15-1965
    writer, composer: "Information Please"
    11-26-1891 - Anne Nichols - Dales Mill, GA - d. 9-15-1966
    writer: "Abie's Irish Rose"
    11-26-1905 - Emlyn Williams - Mostyn, Flintshire, Wales - d. 9-25-1987
    actor: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
    11-26-1907 - Frances Dee - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-6-2004
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-26-1907 - Henry "Hot Lips" Levine - London, England - d. 5-6-1989
    trumpeter, conducter: "Chamber Music of Lower Basin Street"; "Strictly
    from Dixie"
    11-26-1908 - Lefty Gomez - Rodeo, CA - d. 2-17-1989
    baseball pitcher: "Information Please"
    11-26-1910 - Cyril Cusack - Durban, South Africa - d. 10-7-1993
    actor: "Great Expectations"
    11-26-1911 - Robert Donley - Carmichaels, PA - d. 1-20-2004
    actor: "Lieutenant Carpenter "Front Page Farrell"
    11-26-1912 - Eric Sevareid - Velva, ND - d. 7-9-1992
    correspondent: "Eric Sevaried and the News"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
    11-26-1913 - Bill Baldwin - Pueblo, CO - d. 11-17-1982
    announcer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Mario Lanza Show"
    11-26-1915 - Earl Wild - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-23-2010
    pianist: KDKA Pittsburgh; "NBC Symphony Orchestra"
    11-26-1917 - Adele Jergens - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-22-2002
    actor: Carol Curtis "Stand By For Crime"
    11-26-1919 - Frederick Pohl - NYC
    writer: "X-Minus One"
    11-26-1922 - Terry Ryan - Cleveland, OH - d. 5-5-2001
    comedy writer: "Fred Allen Show"
    11-26-1933 - Louis Turenne - Montreal, Canada
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    11-26-1933 - Robert Goulet - Lawrence, MA - d. 10-30-2007
    singer-actor: "Guard Session"; "Voices of Vista"

    November 26th deaths

    01-26-1922 - Michael Bentine - Watford, Hertfordshie, England - d.
    11-26-1996
    comedian: "Goon Show"
    02-04-1909 - Robert Coote - London, England - d. 11-26-1982
    actor: "Campbell Playhouse"
    02-26-1915 - Eddie Gallaher - Washington, [removed] - d. 11-26-2003
    disc jockey: "Moon Dial"; "On a Sunday Afternoon"
    02-28-1879 - Julian Noa - d. 11-26-1958
    actor: Perry White "Advs. of Superman"; Judge Scott "The O'Neills"
    04-03-1913 - Mel Tolkin - Odessa, Russia - d. 11-26-2007
    comedy writer: wrote jokes for Bob Hope
    04-12-1902 - John White - d. 11-26-1992
    country/western singer: Lonesome Cowboy "Death Valley Days"
    05-06-1906 - Mathilde Ferror - d. 11-26-1990
    writer: "Lorenzo Jones"
    05-23-1910 - Benjamin "Scatman" Crothers - Terre Haute, IN - d.
    11-26-1986
    jazz musician: early radio into the 40s
    06-14-1913 - Stanley Black - London, England - d. 11-26-2002
    conductor: BBC Dance Orchestra
    06-18-1885 - Ernie Adams - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-26-1947
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-23-1883 - Albert Warner - Poland - d. 11-26-1967
    co-founder of warner brothers: "Warner Brothers Academy Theatre"
    09-23-1908 - Tiny Bradshaw - Youngstown, OH - d. 11-26-1958
    orchestra leader: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"
    10-15-1898 - Ransom Sherman - Appleton, WI - d. 11-26-1985
    actor: Uncle Dennis "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Hap Hazard "Hap Hazard"
    10-16-1903 - "Wild Bill" Elliott (Gordon Nance) - Pattonsburg, MO - d.
    11-26-1965
    actor: Wild Bill Elliott "Wild Bill Elliott"
    11-19-1905 - Tommy Dorsey - Shenandoah, PA - d. 11-26-1956
    bandleader: "Jack Pearl Program"; "Fame and Fortune"; "Tommy Dorsey
    Show"
    12-01-1904 - Jimmy Lytell - NYC - d. 11-26-1972
    bandleader, clarinetist: "Cavalcade of America"; "Songs by Morton
    Downey"
    12-09-1932 - Bill Hartack - Ebensburg, PA - d. 11-26-2007
    jockey: "Tops in Sports"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:53:25 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  TV to Radio

    Doctor Joe Webb posts that he can only remember two shows going from
    TV to radio: Tales of Tomorrow and Have Gun, Will Travel.

    This topic has been re-visited several times on the Digest, but I
    guess one more time won't hurt.

    Disregarding the fudge factor of those shows that were simulcast on
    both venues (Two For the Money, George Gobel Show, etc.) there still
    were a number of TV programs that spawned a true radio version. I
    even conducted a presentation on this very topic at a long-ago FOTR.

    Other than the ones Dr. Webb mentions, the others were: Hopalong
    Cassidy, My Little Margie, Howdy-Doody, What's My Line ?, Wild Bill
    Hickok, and Space Cadet.  Regarding Howdy Doody, Bob Smith did a
    radio show, "Triple B Ranch" which had a character named "Elmer"
    whose expression was "Well, Howdy Doody." Eventually Smith got his TV
    show and had Howdy Doody created as a puppet in 1948 and that TV show
    spun off a radio version in 1951.

    To really split hairs, Ray Milland's TV show "Meet Mr. McNutley"
    debuted on 9-17-53, the same day as a radio version of that show did.
    However since CBS ran the TV show one hour earlier, technically we
    could say the show was on TV before it was on radio. (That TV show
    also ran a year longer than the radio version, Sept 55 vrs. June 54.)

    And, as Greg Oppenheimer has pointed out, "I Love Lucy" came close to
    spinning off a radio version, but it was never got off the ground. It
    came about when Hal Hudson, a CBS executive, was watching "I Love
    Lucy" in February 1952 when they lost the picture but followed the
    episode with just the sound. Next day, Hudson phoned Jess Oppenheimer
    and told him to make a radio show from the TV soundtrack. One episode
    was recorded a few weeks later, with Desi adding some necessary
    narration. But this show was never broadcast and the idea was put
    aside permanently.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:53:30 -0500
    From: Jandpgardner@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Be Sociable, Kay
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    I have been listening to some "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" episodes from
    early 1960 and  the "Be Sociable" Pepsi jingle is sung by  someone who is
    only referred to as "Kay". Does anyone know if this is Kay  Thompson, Kay
    Starr
    or some other Kay? Even John Abbott's amazing volumes  on YTJD do not
    provide the answer to this and a "google" search has not revealed  the lady's
    identity.

    John Gardner

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    Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:53:37 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 27 November to 3
     December

     From Those Were The Days

    11/27

    1930   Broadcasting from "...the little theatre off Times Square,"
    according to the show's introduction, The First Nighter was first heard.
    The program, which actually originated from Chicago, then from
    Hollywood, aired for 23 years and featured dramas and comedies.

    11/28

    1932   Groucho Marx performed on radio for the first time.

    11/29

    1950   "I Fly Anything", starring singer Dick Haymes in the role of
    cargo pilot Dockery Crane, premiered on ABC. With a title like that, is
    it any wonder the show only lasted one season? Haymes went back to
    singing and did very well, thank you.

    11/30

    1940   Lucille Ball and Cuban musician Desi Arnaz were married.

    12/2

    1932   The Adventures of Charlie Chan was first heard on the NBC Blue
    network.

    12/3

    1928   The first broadcast of The Voice of Firestone was heard. The
    program aired each Monday evening at 8. The Voice of Firestone became a
    hallmark in radio broadcasting. It kept its same night, time (in 1931
    the start time changed to 8:30) and sponsor for its entire run.
    Beginning on September 5, 1949, the program of classical and
    semiclassical music was also seen on television.

    Joe

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    Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:54:49 -0500
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Burns and Allen

>     Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:11:43 -0500
>     From: "Martin Grams, Jr."<mmargrajr@[removed];

>     GEORGE BURNS AND GRACIE ALLEN stopped doing the half-hour radio program when
>     they made the transition to television in 1950, but they did continue
>     producing five-minute radio shorts up to 1959 for CBS, so they were on both
>     mediums at the same time.

    Not quite.  By that time, they had been concluding each TV show by
    coming back on to do one of their vaudeville routines for about five
    minutes.  Those routines from the TV show were used on radio in the
    early evening, in a block that followed the Amos & Andy Music Hall and
    also included an Andy Griffith routine and the Bob & Ray Show.  So
    George and Gracie were on both media at the same time, but the radio one
    was a rerun of part of the television show.

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                     [removed]
    92 State Street, Suite 700          Fax: [removed]
    Boston, MA 02109-2004     [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:54:58 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-27 births/deaths

    November 27th births

    11-27-1881 - C. Mildred Thompson - Atlanta, GA - d. 2-17-1975
    historian, educator, feminist: "Information Please"
    11-27-1882 - Norman Baker - Muscatine, IL - d. 9-8-1958
    vaudevillian: "Mr. Baker Himself"
    11-27-1890 - Gladys Rice - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-7-1983
    singer: "Roxy's Gang"; "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Voice of
    Firestone"
    11-27-1893 - Harry Foster Welch - Annapolis, MD - d. 8-16-1973
    actor: "Shell Show"
    11-27-1897 - Vera Allen - NYC - d. 8-10-1987
    actor: Grace Doblen "Hilltop House"; Mother Malone "Young Dr. Malone"
    11-27-1898 - Eddie Kay - NYC - d. 12-22-1973
    composer, conductor: "Those We Love"
    11-27-1899 - Silvio Coscia - Milan, Italy - d. 9-15-1977
    co-principal horn: "Metropolitan Opera Orchestra"
    11-27-1901 - Ted Husing - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-10-1962
    announcer, sportscaster: "Sportslants"; "March of Time"; "Radio
    Reader's Digest"
    11-27-1902 - J. Scott Smart - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-15-1960
    actor: Senator Bloat "Fred Allen Show"; Brad Runyon "Fat Man"
    11-27-1904 - Florence Lake - Charleston, SC - d. 4-11-1980
    actor: (Sister of Arthur Lake) Tess Terwilliger "David Harum"
    11-27-1907 - Betty Hopkins - d. 3-22-1996
    writer: "This Is My Best"; "Trouble Is My Business"
    11-27-1907 - Joe Bishop - Monticello, AR - d. 5-12-1976
    composer, arranger, tuba and flugehorn: "Comedy Capers"
    11-27-1908 - George Hogan - Kansas City, MO - d. 6-xx-1979
    announcer: "Luncheon at Sardi's"; "Snow Village Sketches"
    11-27-1910 - Ray  Herbeck - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-17-1989
    bandleader: "Ray Herbeck and His Orchestra"
    11-27-1911 - Charles Wood - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 11-10-1997
    announcer: "The Green Hornet"; "The Lone Ranger"
    11-27-1912 - Maurice "Muzzy" Marcellino - California - d. 6-11-1997
    singer: "Ted Fio Rito and His Orchestra"; "Lady Esther Serenade"
    11-27-1915 - Ralph Bell -NYC - d. 8-2-1998
    actor: Travis Rogers "Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator"; Alfred
    Drake "This Is Nora Drake"
    11-27-1916 - Chick Hearn - Buda, IL - d. 8-5-2002
    sportscaster: "Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts"; "Los Angeles Lakers play-by
    play"
    11-27-1917 - Buffalo Bob Smith - Buffalo, NY - d. 7-30-1998
    actor: Howdy Doody "Howdy Doody"
    11-27-1917 - Dick Hogan - d. 8-18-1995
    actor, singer: "Cavalcade of America"; "Favorite Story"; Voice of the
    Army"
    11-27-1925 - Ernie Wise - Leeds, England - d. 3-21-1999
    comedian: "The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Radio Show"; "Bandwagon"
    11-27-1925 - Marshall Thompson - Peoria, IL - d. 5-18-1992
    actor: "Free World Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-27-1925 - Michael Tolan - Detroit, MI - d. 1-31-2011
    actor: Kato "Green Hornet"

    November 27th deaths

    01-01-1889 - Alexander Smallens  - St. Petersburg, Russia - d.
    11-27-1972
    conductor: "Rising Musical Star"
    01-02-1892 - Artur Rodzinski - Dalmatia, Yugoslavia - d. 11-27-1958
    concuctor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "Cleveland Symphony Orchestra"
    01-08-1909 - George D. Crothers - Fort Morgan, CO - d. 11-27-1998
    moderator: "Invitation to Learning"
    01-10-1918 - Alan Woods - The Bronx, NY - d. 11-27-2008
    writer: "The Abbott and Costello Show"
    01-14-1910 - Spencer Bentley - NYC - d. 11-27-1963
    actor: Barry Cameron "Barry Cameron"; Bob "Betty and Bob"
    01-15-1906 - Sully Mason - Durham, NC - d. 11-27-1970
    singer: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
    02-05-1906 - John Carradine - NYC - d. 11-27-1988
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-12-1928 - William Edward Olvis - Hollywood, CA - d. 11-27-1998
    opera singer: "Metropolitan Opera"
    04-15-1910 - Eddie Mayo - Holyoke, MA - d. 11-27-2006
    major league baseball player: "World Series Preview"
    06-02-1928 - Bob Amsberry - Boring, OR - d. 11-27-1957
    actor: KEX Portland, Oregon
    06-18-1938 - Don "Sugarcane" Harris - Pasadena, CA - d. 11-27-1999
    rock violinist: (Squires) "Stars for Defense"
    07-06-1927 - Alan "Fluff" Freeman - Melbourne, Australia - d. 11-27-2006
    announcer, singer: "Records Around Five"; "Pick of the Pops"
    07-14-1909 - Walter Gross - NYC - d. 11-27-1967
    composer, pianist: "Piano Playhouse"; "Carnation Contented Hour"
    07-14-1910 - Boris Aplon - Chicago, IL - d. 11-27-1995
    actor: Ivan Shark "Captain Midnight"
    07-19-1891 - Raymond Bramley - Independence, OH - d. 11-27-1977
    actor: Burton York "Howie Wing"; Silas Finke "David Harum"
    08-03-1925 - Billy James Hargis - Texarkana, TX - d. 11-27-2004
    preacher: Broadcast his ministry on more than 500 radio stations.
    08-09-1906 - Gunnar Back - Escanaba, MI - d. 11-27-1983
    newscaster: "CBS Morning News Roundup"; "Headline Addition"
    08-10-1878 - Louis Esson - Sydney, Australia - d. 11-27-1943
    writer: "Lola, the Lorelei"
    08-10-1922 - Al Alberts - Chester, PA - d. 11-27-2009
    singer: (Member of the Four Aces) "Horn and Hardart Children's Hour"
    09-04-1903 - Phillip Arkansas - d. 11-27-1969
    saxophonisst: WWNC Ashville, North Carolina
    09-06-1919 - John Mitchum - Bridgeport, CT - d. 11-27-2001
    actor: (Brother of Robert Mitchum) "This Is Your FBI"
    10-16-1888 - Eugene O'Neill - NYC - d. 11-27-1953
    playwright: "NBC Presents Eugene O'Neill"; "Pulitzer Prize Plays";
    "Best Plays"
    11-04-1910 - Abby Lewis - Mesilla Park, NM - d. 11-27-1997
    actor: Telephone Operator "House in the Country"
    12-16-1892 - Cameron Prud'homme - Auburn, CA - d. 11-27-1967
    actor: Governor Bradley "Little Herman"; David Harum "David Harum"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:55:14 -0500
    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," Bob Bro's "The Old Time Radio Show," 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 [removed]
    Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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    =======================================

    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    SERGEANT PRESTON OF THE YUKON
      Episode 962 12-18-51 "Sins of the Father"
      Stars Paul Sutton as Sergeant Preston
      Narrator/Announcer: Jay Michael (The original Sergeant Preston).
      Mutual Quaker Cereal

    HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL
      Episode 48 10-18-59 "Brother Lost"
      Stars: John Denher as Paladin.
      With: Ben Wright, Virginia Gregg, Walter Stocker, Vic Perrin
      Announcer: Hugh Douglas
      CBS Multi-sponsored

    LUX RADIO THEATER
      Episode 227 7-10-39 "Ruggles of Red Gap"
      Charles Laughton's first dramatic radio appearance in America.
      Stars: Charles Laughton, ZaSu Pitts, Charles Ruggles
      Host: Cecil B. DeMille
      Music: Louis Silvers
      CBS LUX Soap
    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

    THE ADVENTURES OF ELLERY QUEEN
      (ABC) 04/29/48 "The 3 Frogs:" Lawrence Dobkin as Ellery.

    THE FAMILY THEATER
      (MBS) 11/06/47 "Journey Home" starring Darryl Hickman and Preston Foster

    THE UNEXPECTED
      (Synd.) 1948 Pgm. #103 "Finale" starring Lurene Tuttle.
    ====================================

    THE OLD TIME RADIO SHOW

    ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE (CBS)
      Title: Heir for a G-String
      Original Air: 8/25/51
      Starring: Gerald Mohr

    I LOVE A MYSTERY (MUTUAL)
      Title: Battle of the Century --- Episode 13
      Original Air: 2/15/50
      Starring: Russell Thorson, Jim Boles, Tony Randall

    GUNSMOKE (CBS)
      Title: Kick Me
      Original Air: 11/28/53
      Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis
    ====================================

    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    DEATH VALLEY DAYS
      from 06/17/38 Episode (398) Burro Who Had No Name.

    ED WYNN SHOW
      from 01/15/45 Episode (20) Lawsuit Between A Radio Crooner And A Rado
    Commedian

      After our OTR Calendar we will hear
    HUSBANDS AND WIVES
      from 02/12/36 Flirting.
      The show is definitely scripted with both Husbands and Wives answering
    questions posed by the moderator. Heard on WOR New [removed]

    HOLLYWOOD STAR PLAYHOUSE
      from 02/05/51 Episode (042) Calculated Risk. It stars Vincent Price.
    ====================================
    CLASSICS & CURIOS

    "Echoes and Songs and Laughter"
      Episode 2. "Featuring Kay Kyser And Amos And Andy"

    ====================================

    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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