Subject: [removed] Digest V2012 #131
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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 131
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      RE: Tony Marvin et al                 [ "Bob Scherago" <scherago@[removed] ]
      Re: Music organs                      [ <radioaz@[removed]; ]
      8-14 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Re: Dragnet scripts and other Dragne  [ Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:19:57 -0400
    From: "Bob Scherago" <scherago@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: Tony Marvin et al

    Martin Fass  <watchstop@[removed]; wrote:

>     Who would receive YOUR award as the network radio announcer with the
>     niftiest regionalisms in some of his words?

    My vote goes to Milton Cross, who, in addition to being the voice of the
    Metropolitan Opera and "Coast to Coast on a Bus," was also a network staff
    announcer.

    During the opera broadcasts, he would give the network system cue between
    acts - this signaled the local station to give a station ID. He would say,
    rolling his "Rs, "This is the Texaco Metropolitan Opera Radio Netwoik!" When
    I was an engineer at WTIC, and an announcer would be required to read the
    station ID live, many would break up as a result!

    --
    Bob Scherago
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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:20:58 -0400
    From: <radioaz@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re:  Music organs

    Yes, the Hammond Company sold a lot of instruments to radio stations and
    networks.  But did you know that initially it was incorrect to refer to them
    as Hammond ORGANS.  The Hammond company thought their product was quite
    unique when it introduced the drawbar sound generation systems.  They it was
    so unique they did not want them to be called organs.  They wanted them to
    simply be called Hammonds.  Like it was a musical instrument in its own
    right--oboes, trumpets, Hammonds.  However, this was a marketing idea that
    never caught on with the public.  They sounded like an organ and that's what
    they were called.

    That aside, my grandmother lived in a small town in central Minnesota.  She
    was an accomplished piano player, and she wanted to learn to play the organ.
    As most any keyboardist will tell you, a piano and an organ are played quite
    differently.  Grandmother made a deal with a local mortuary that if she
    could come in when there was no public visiting and practice her organ
    playing, she would in turn play for funerals.  She became good at the organ,
    too.  The mortician mentioned it to the one and only local radio station.
    The upshot is the grandmother was invited into  the station sometimes to
    play the Hammond B3 to fill 15 to 30 minutes of unscheduled air time.
    Sometimes I would go with her and wait in the lobby while she played.  I
    could see her through the big glass window.

    One image that has stayed with me since the mid-1940s is walking up the
    steps to the porch of the old house that served as the station's studios and
    offices.  There, in a neat pile much taller than I, were hundreds (it seems
    to me) of egg cartons.  They used them as sound baffling by stapling them to
    the studio walls and ceilings.

    This was station KLIZ in Brainerd, Minnesota.

    Ted

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:21:09 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-14 births/deaths

    August 14th births

    08-14-1863 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer - Lawrence, MA - d. 8-21-1940
    author: "Favorite Story"
    08-14-1867 - John Galsworthy - Kingston Hill, Surrey, England - d.
    1-31-1933
    author Several of his works adapted for radio
    08-14-1870 - Harry Lauder - Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 2-26-1950
    singer: "Sir Harry Lauder"; "The Fourth Christmas"
    08-14-1876 - John Todd (Fred McCarthy) - Crossingville, PA - d.
    7-14-1957
    actor: Tonto "The Lone Ranger"; Mr. Reid "The Green Hornet"
    08-14-1879 - Edna Fisher - NB - d. 4-23-1978
    actor: "The Al Pearce Show"
    08-14-1889 - Robert Woolsey - Oakland, CA - d. 10-31-1938
    actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
    08-14-1892 - Paul Wing - Tacoma, WA - d. 5-29-1957
    producer: "Story Man for Children"
    08-14-1893 - Carl Benton Reid - Lansing, MI - d. 3-16-1973
    actor: Roger Allen "Big Sister"
    08-14-1897 - Lal Chand Mehra - Amritsar, India - d. 10-21-1980
    actor: "I Love A Mystery"; "I Love Adventure"
    08-14-1902 - Harriet Allyn - d. 9-18-1998
    actor: Aggie Horn "In the Case of Aggie Horn"
    08-14-1903 - Millard Mitchell - Havana, Cuba - d. 10-13-1953
    actor: Casey "Mighty Casey"
    08-14-1909 - Ed Herlihy - Dorchester, MA - d. 1-30-1999
    announcer: "Advs. of the Thin Man"; "Just Plain Bill"; "Vic and Sade"
    08-14-1909 - Frank Papp - d. 5-27-1996
    director: "The Bartons"; "Words at War"; "Right to Happiness";
    "Eternal Light"
    08-14-1911 - Ethel Payne - Chicago, IL - d. 5-28-1991
    commentator: "Spectrum"; "Matters of Opinion"
    08-14-1913 - Ferrucio Tagliavini - Reggio Emilia, Italy - d. 1-28-1995
    lyric tenor: "Encores from the Bell Telephone Hour"
    08-14-1913 - Peggy (Craven) Lloyd - d. 8-30-2011
    actor: "Mercury Theatre"
    08-14-1914 - Alyce King - Payson, UT - d. 8-21-1996
    singer: (The King Sisters) "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"; "Al
    Pearce and His Gang"
    08-14-1914 - Andrea Leeds - Butte, MT - d. 5-21-1984
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    08-14-1914 - Bill Downs - Kansas City, MO - d. 5-3-1978
    newscaster: CBS Moscow 1942
    08-14-1917 - Marty Glickman - NYC - d. 1-3-2001
    sprorts broadcaster: "Saturday Night Bandwagon"; "Play Ball"; "Box
    Score Review"
    08-14-1921 - Cobina Wright, Jr. - NYC
    actor: "Your Blind Date"
    08-14-1926 - Alice Ghostly - Eve, MO - d. 9-21-2007
    actor: "Theatre Five"

    August 14th deaths

    01-07-1930 - Douglas Kiker - Griffin, KS - d. 8-14-1991
    nbc newsman: "Meet the Press"
    01-11-1910 - Gene Baker - Portland, OR - d. 8-14-1981
    announcer: "Lum and Abner"; "Queen for a Day"
    02-15-1899 - Gale Sondergaard - Litchfield, MN - d. 8-14-1985
    actor: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
    03-04-1888 - David Frederick Smith - Clarksburg, IN - d. 8-14-1976
    early radio broadcaster: Creator of "March of Time"
    03-18-1911 - Deane Kincaide - Houston, TX - d. 8-14-1992
    saxophonist: "The Bob Crosby Show"
    04-29-1863 - William Randolph Hearst - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-14-1951
    publisher: Owner of several radio stations
    05-11-1922 - Eve Boswell - Budapest, Hungary - d. 8-14-1998
    singer: "The Eve Bosewell Show"
    06-22-1909 - Milton Kaye - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-14-2006
    pianist/arranger: "Roger Kilgore, Public Defender"; "Under Arrest"
    06-25-1895 - Donald Gallagher - Quincy, IL - d. 8-14-1961
    actor: P. Wallace Carver "Houseboat Hannah"; Humble Dickinson "Joan
    and Kermit"
    07-07-1917 - Doris Dudley - NYC - d. 8-14-1985
    actor: Peggy Meek "Meet Mr. Meek"
    07-16-1920 - Edwin Cooper - d. 8-14-1961
    announcer, actor: "The Milt Herth Trio"; "RFD America"
    07-23-1918 - Pee Wee Reese - Ekron, KY - d. 8-14-1999
    baseball great: "Play Ball"; "Box Score Review"; "Feature Project:
    This Game of Baseball"
    07-27-1914 - Ira Avery - Albany, NY - d. 8-14-1984
    director: "We Came This Way"; "Eternal Light"
    08-24-1900 - Ralph Kirbery - Paterson, NJ - d. 8-14-1993
    singer: (The Dream Singer) "Mohawk Treasure Chest"; "Musical Moments
    Revue"
    08-30-1925 - Jack Bivans - Evanston, IL - d. 8-14-2009
    actor: Chuck Ramsey "Captain Midnight"
    09-13-1894 - J. B. Priestley - Bradford, Yorkshire, England - d.
    8-14-1984
    dramatist: "London After Dark"; "Studio One"; "NBC University Theatre"
    09-16-1903 - Joe Venuti - Lecco, Italy - d. 8-14-1978
    jazz violinist: "Friendly Five Footnotes";"Paul Whiteman Show";
    "Jubilee"
    09-26-1914 - Dora McCann - d. 8-14-1975
    host: "McCann Pure Food Hour"
    11-29-1915 - J. G. Weightman - Callerton, Englans - d. 8-14-2004
    translator and announcer in French for the BBC
    12-01-1920 - Mary Wells - Omaha, NE - d. 8-14-2000
    actor: "John Steele, Adventurer"
    12-21-1913 - Louise King - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 8-14-1997
    singer (The King Sisters) "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"; "Al
    Pearce and His Gang"
    12-27-1906 - Oscar Levant - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-14-1972
    panelist, pianist: "Information, Please"; "Kraft Music Hall"

    Ron

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    Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:21:50 -0400
    From: Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Dragnet scripts and other Dragnet questions

    Ron Vickery asked "Did they ever reuse the radio scripts for the television
    episodes or vice-versa?  I would think they could adapt scripts for one media
    to the other with minimal work, and if they aired them far enough apart, they
    probably wouldn't be noticed."

    That is exactly the [removed] (in "Dragnet-speak") used by Jack Webb.  A good 70%
    or so of the TV episodes from the 1951-59 run were based on "Dragnet" radio
    scripts.  The only example of "vice-versa" that I can think of is "The Big
    Little Jesus" (or "The Christmas Story"), where the radio version mostly
    consists of the TV soundtrack, with added narration by Webb.

    Ron also asks if "all of the scripts taken from real-life accounts from the
    LA police records?  Did they ever use crimes from other cities' police
    departments?"  For the most part, the cases were culled from Los Angeles
    [removed] although once again "The Big Little Jesus" is an exception.  That
    case occurred in San Francisco.  A few high-profile cases, such as those of
    Caryl Chessman (the "Red-Light Bandit") and serial killer Harvey Glatman,
    were used, but very rarely were they recognizable by those who knew the
    real-life perps.

    It's at this point that I would ordinarily recommend my 2001 book MY NAME'S
    FRIDAY, which answers all questions about "Dragnet" and Webb's other
    creations.  Unfortunately, it's now officially out-of-print, although some
    opportunistic vendors are selling it on Amazon Marketplace at ridiculously
    exorbitant prices.  I sold every copy I brought to MANC this year.

    Michael

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: It was nice to see Michael [removed] and end.  --cfs3]

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