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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2012 : Issue 99
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  6-15 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Tune In - A High School Musical       [ rand@[removed] ]
  6-16 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Walter Tetley's height                [ "Bob C" <rmcblc@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 17-23 Jun  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  A new OTR volume                      [ "otrbuff" <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  6-17 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 14:19:55 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  6-15 births/deaths

June 15th births

06-15-1843 - Edvard Grieg - Bergen Norway - d. 9-4-1907
composer: Some of his compositions used as themes
06-15-1861 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink - Prague, Czechoslovkia - d.
11-17-1936
singer: "Enna Jettick Melodies"; "Hoover Sentinels Serenade"
06-15-1872 - Johanna Gadski - Anclam, Poland - d. 2-23-1932
operatic singer: WJZ New York City
06-15-1891 - Mento Everitt - Lakeview, MI - d. 4-22-1952
actor: Jenny Peabody "Jenny Peabody"
06-15-1894 - Leo Cleary - Massachusetts - d. 4-11-1955
actor: Bailiff "His Honor, the Barber"
06-15-1894 - Robert Russell Bennett - Kansas City, MO - d. 8-19-1981
compser: "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"; "Project Twenty"
06-15-1895 - Morty Howard - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-15-1970
pianist: "The Moylan Sisters"; "Rocking Horse Rhythms"
06-15-1905 - James Robertson Justice - Wigtown, Scotland - d. 7-2-1975
actor: "Star Bill"
06-15-1909 - Joe DeSantis - NYC - d. 8-30-1989
actor: Jim Scott "Under Arrest"; "This Is Nora Drake"
06-15-1909 - Mickey Katz - Cleveland, OH - d. 4-30-1985
clarinetist: (Father of Joel Grey) "Here's to Veterans"
06-15-1910 - David Rose - London, England - d. 8-23-1990
conductor: "Red Skelton Show"; "David Rose Show"; "Bold Venture"
06-15-1918 - Grace McDonald - Boston, MA - d. 10-30-1999
actor: "Treasury Star Parade"; "Hollywood Personals"
06-15-1918 - Hal Roach, Jr. - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-29-1972
producer, director: "My Little Margie"
06-15-1918 - Michael Dunn - NYC
singer: "This Is Fort Dix"
06-15-1918 - Richard Derr - Norristown, PA - d. 5-8-1992
actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
06-15-1919 - Alvin Boretz - NYC - d. 7-22-2010
writer: "American School of the Air"; "The Big Story"; "Treasury Salute"
06-15-1921 - Erroll Garner - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-2-1977
jazz muscian: "Jubilee"; "Command Performance"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
06-15-1921 - Lucille Norman - Lincoln, NE - d. 4-1-1998
singer: "Time, the Place and the Tune"; "Railroad Hour"
06-15-1929 - Nigel Pickering - Pontiac, MO - d. 5-5-2011
guitarist" "The Midwesternaires"
06-15-1947 - Paul Walters - Wheathampstead., England - d. 10-21-2006
producer: ""Wake Up with Wogan"

June 15th deaths

02-20-1898 - Amedeo De Filippi - Ariano, Italy - d. 6-15-1990
orchestrator: Judson Radio Program Company
04-25-1918 - Ella Fitzgerald - Newport News, VA - d. 6-15-1996
singer: "Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm"; "Jubilee"
05-18-1902 - Meredith Willson - Mason City, IA - d. 6-15-1984
conductor, composer: "Maxwell House Coffee Time"; "Meredith Willson/
Music Room"
05-25-1917 - Steve Cochran - Eureka, CA - d. 6-15-1965
actor: "Voice of the Army"; "Unexpected"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
06-01-1919 - Kathleen Norris - Newark, OH - d. 6-15-2005
writer, announcer: "By Kathleen Norris"; "Bright Horizon"
06-12-1884 - William Austin - Georgetown, British Guiana - d. 6-15-1975
actor: Professor of the English Department "Jack Oakie's College"
06-23-1935 - Maureen Bailey - Lancaster, CA - d. 6-15-2010
actor/singer: "Radio Schoolhouse"; The Lone Ranger"; Make Way for Youth"
06-27-1886 - Dr. Julius Klein - d. 6-15-1961
economist: "The World's Business"
07-14-1898 - "Happy" Chandler - Corydon, KY - d. 6-15-1991
governor, baseball commissioner: "University of Chicago Round Table"
07-18-1911 - Hume Cronyn - London, Ontario, Canada - d. 6-15-2003
actor: Ben Marriott "Marriage"
08-02-1899 - Charles Bennett - d. 6-15-1995
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Radio City Playhouse"
08-15-1921 - Bob Banner - Ennis, TX - d. 6-15-2011
director: "John Brown's Body"
08-27-1911 - Paul West - Nebraska - d. 6-15-1998
scriptwriter: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-01-1905 - Bertram Tanswell - Blandford, England - d. 6-15-1984
actor/director: "Commandos"; "Second Husband"; "Stage Door Canteen"
09-01-1925 - Art Pepper - Gardena, CA - d. 6-15-1982
jazz artist: "Jazz Alive"

Ron

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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 14:19:59 -0400
From: rand@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Tune In - A High School Musical

I'd like to draw your attention to a blog that a friend of mine has going.
 He collects high school musicals.  No, it doesn't have anything to do
with the Disney franchise - it's original musicals created for performance
by school kids before the days when they'd do reduced versions of Broadway
shows.

The entry that would be of interest here is for "Tune In", published in
1934, a send-up of period radio.  The show was written by Don Wilson, who
composed several of these high school musicals in the 30s and 40s; he's
not the same person as the "Jack Benny Show" announcer.

I wonder if some enterprising group might want to do a reading or
performance of "Tune In" at an otr or nostalgia convention.  It sounds
like fun:

[removed]

He's run into others that poke fun at the movie business and other topics
of the period.  I knew he'd run into an old time radio themed show
eventually.

rand

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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 14:20:29 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  6-16 births/deaths

June 16th births

06-16-1885 - Tom Howard - County Tyrone, Ireland - d. 2-27-1955
comedian: "It Pays to Be Ignorant"; "Sunday Night Party"
06-16-1890 - Bertha Brainard - South Orange, NJ - d. 6-11-1946
manager of the commercial program division of NBC in 1937
06-16-1890 - Stan Laurel - Ulverston, England - d. 2-23-1965
comedian: "Ruth Lyons Show"
06-16-1892 - Al Llewelyn - d. 4-6-1964
comedian, singer: (Brad and Al) Heard over CBS and NBC
06-16-1895 - Murray Leinster - Norfolk, VA - d. 6-8-1975
writer: "Dimension X"
06-16-1898 - Harold McClinton - d. 6-29-1977
producer: "This Is War"
06-16-1899 - Frank X. Capano - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-10-1956
singer and program director
06-16-1899 - Helen Traubel - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-28-1972
singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Telephone Hour"; "Jimmy Durante Show"
06-16-1903 - Louis Raderman - d. 10-30-1974
musician: "The Ipana Troubadors"
06-16-1903 - Ona Munson - Portland, OR - d. 2-11-1955
actor: Lorelei Kilbourne "Big Town"
06-16-1907 - Jack Albertson - Malden, MA - d. 11-25-1981
actor: "Milton Berle Show"; "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Cavalcade
of America"
06-16-1907 - Joan Winters - Dayton, OH - d. 1-1-2001
actor: Alice Ames "Girl Alone"; Sylvia Bertram "Road of Life"
06-16-1907 - Stuart Allen - NYC - d. 10-xx-1978
baritone: (Richard Himber Orchestra) "The Monday Night Show"
06-16-1908 - Grace Albert - d. 4-9-2003
singer: "The Honeymooners"; "Time Out"; "Cavalcade of America"
06-16-1912 - Ilona Massey - Budapest, Hungary - d. 8-20-1974
actor: Mata Hari-style operative in World War II "Top Secret"; "Screen
Guild Theatre"
06-16-1914 - Edward Gruskin - d. 11-15-2005
writer: "Nick Carter, Master Detective"; "Rendezvous in Paris"
06-16-1916 - Stanley Niss - Illinois - d. 7-21-1969
writer, director: "Counterspy"; "Gang Busters"; "Twenty-First Precinct"
06-16-1919 - Al Viola - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-21-2007
guitarist: "Elgin Thanksgiving Day Greeting to America"
06-16-1919 - Mason Jones - Hamilton, NY - d. 2-18-2009
horn player: Philadelphia Orchestra
06-16-1920 - Amy Sedell - NYC
actor: "Pretty Kitty Kelly"; "Gangbusters"; "Big Sister"
06-16-1924 - Ernie Johnson - Brattleboro, VT - d. 8-12-2011
baseball commentator for the Atlanta Braves nee Milwaukee Braves
06-16-1958 - Mark Lewisohn - London, England
radio news administrator: "The Beeb's Lost Beetle Tapes"

June 16th deaths

01-02-1932 - Peter Redgrove - Kingston-on-Thames, England - d. 6-16-2003
writer: "The Nature of Cold Weather"
01-06-1914 - George Reeves - Woolstock, IA - d. 6-16-1959
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Crime Does Not Pay"
02-10-1905 - Chick Webb - d. 6-16-1939
bandleader: "Chick Webb and His Orhestra"
02-11-1905 - Liebert Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 6-16-1993
musician: (Guy Lombardo's Orchestra) "Lady Esther Serenade"
02-14-1913 - Mel Allen - Birmingham, AL - d. 6-16-1996
sportscaster, announcer: "White Owl Sports Smoker"; "Truth or
Consequences"
02-16-1937 - Gary Barkdoll - d. 6-16-2001
disk jockey: WAYZ Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
02-29-1920 - Arthur Franz - Perth Amboy, NJ - d. 6-16-2006
actor: In radio following WWII
03-12-1924 - Betty Barclay - Macon, GA - d. 6-16-2000
singer: (Sammy Kaye Band) "So You Want to Lead a Band"
04-01-1908 - Bob Nolan - New Brunswick, Canada - d. 6-16-1980
singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) "The Roy Rogers Show"
04-03-1921 - George Bauer - d. 6-16-2004
announcer, newscaster: "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
04-28-1882 - Henry Bellamann - Fulton, MO - d. 6-16-1945
author: "King's Row" based on his novel
07-07-1922 - Artie Malvin - NYC - d. 6-16-2006
vocalist: "Moonlight Serenade"; "I Sustain These Wings"; "Wehrmact Hour"
08-02-1913 - Hal Block - d. 6-16-1981
writer, panelist: "Burns and Allen"; "Milton Berle Show"; "What's My
Line"
08-04-1904 - Alice Bahman - d. 6-16-1970
woman's program: (Mother of Jonathan Winters) WIZE Springfield, Ohio
08-07-1911 - Nicholas Ray - Galesville, WI - d. 6-16-1979
director: Free lance
08-16-1891 - Harry V. "Pappy" Cheshire - Emporia, KS - d. 6-16-1968
actor: "The Old Corral"
10-13-1884 - Jack McLaren - Fitzroy, Australia - d. 6-16-1954
writer: "The Ghost of the Cabaret"
10-13-1896 - Jack Shilkret - NYC - d. 6-16-1964
orchestra leader: "Bond Bread Show"; "Let's Be Charming"; "Tea Time
Tunes"
11-20-1891 - Reginald Denny - Richmond, Surrey, England - d. 6-16-1967
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Texaco Star
Theatre"
12-17-1909 - Murray Brody - d. 6-16-2004
producer: KOH Reno, Nevada

Ron

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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 14:20:36 -0400
From: "Bob C" <rmcblc@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Walter Tetley's height

I suspect Jim Amash's wondering about Walter Tetley's height was
prompted by taking Chuck Schaden up on one of his recent
invitations to visit his site and finding on the home page
interviews with the cast of The Great Gildersleeve.  I did the
same and was floored by the statement of Shirley Mitchell (Leila
Ransom) that Tetley was "a tall man."

Huh? Jim mentions the "Gildersleeve on Broadway" movie in which
Tetley plays a hotel bellboy. It's readily apparent he is wearing
extremely high platform shoes or short stilts. The camera never
shows his feet and where his knees are is out of proportion to
where they should be for someone of that height. In Ben Ohmart and
Charles Stumpf's "Walter Tetley: For Corn's Sake," Willard
Waterman is quoted as saying Tetley was "about five-foot-three."

Thank goodness for radio researchers, because there are a lot of
bad memories around. With each passing year, mine is not so hot,
either.

Bob Cockrum

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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 14:20:42 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 17-23 June

 From Those Were The Days

6/18

1939   CBS aired The Adventures of Ellery Queen for the first time. An
interesting twist came near the end of the program when the show was
stopped to allow a panel of experts to guess the solution of the night's
mystery.

1961   Gunsmoke was broadcast for the last time on CBS. The show had
been on for nine years. It was called the first adult Western. The star
was William Conrad.

6/19

1934   The [removed] Congress established the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC). The task of the commission was to regulate radio
broadcasting.

6/23

1933   The Pepper Pot program welcomed a new host. Don McNeill took over
the show and renamed it The Breakfast Club. The show, a huge success for
the NBC Blue and later, ABC, became one of the longest running radio
programs in history. The show aired with McNeill as host until December
27, 1968. The Breakfast Club was a morning show that had its share of
corny jokes, visiting celebrities and lots of audience participation.

1941   Front Page Farrell was heard for the first time on Mutual. In
1942, the program moved to NBC and stayed on the air until 1954. Sally
and David Farrell were the central characters.

1947   Wendy Warren and the News debuted on CBS. The broadcasts
continued until 1958. No, the program was not a newscast, in the
traditional sense. It was a serial    one of many of the time. The
unique thing about this particular show, however, was that Wendy Warren
and the News did utilize a real three minute newscast to open the show.
The newscaster, delivering the news as part of the show, chose not to
stay in the entertainment side of radio, but continued to be a true
journalist and a legend at CBS. That newsman was Douglas Edwards.

Joe

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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 14:20:48 -0400
From: "otrbuff" <otrbuff@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  A new OTR volume

"Musicmakers of Network Radio:  24 Entertainers, 1926-1962" is the title of
a just-released 370-page volume with profiles of 24 radio personalities
accompanied by some heretofore unpublished images of every legend.  The
softcover edition includes 25 pages of extensive notes, bibliography, and
36-column index.  McFarland is selling it for $45 at [removed] and
800-253-2187 and it's also similarly priced at [removed],
[removed], and other major retailers.  Included in the featured
biographies are these individuals and groups:

Steve Allen, Howard Barlow, Jack Berch, Archie Bleyer, Rosemary Clooney, Bob
Crosby, Jan Davis, Johnny Desmond, Morton Downey, Percy Faith, Red Foley,
Wilbur Hatch, Jerome Hines, The Ink Spots, The King's Men, Robert Q. Lewis,
Vincent Lopez, Smilin' Ed McConnell, Vaughn Monroe, Lanny Ross, Jack Smith,
Jo Stafford, Martha Tilton, and Helen Traubel.

When you have finished reading them all you will know who wed the same
spouse twice, who was stabbed by a spouse, who married a spouse that had
been previously widowed by murder, which one's spouse committed suicide
following the entertainer's affair, which one never married, which was
arrested for murder, which stayed wed to the same partner 66 years, and
which stayed wed more than a half-century after discovering the right spouse
on the third try.  And then there is all that business about their
professional lives.  While it isn't intended as a tell-all book, the
revelations are honestly portrayed, objectively, and passionately.  Their
tales provide intriguing, yet comprehensive answers, much of it never before
published, and offer a compelling summer read.

Jim Cox

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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 14:20:53 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  6-17 births/deaths

June 17th births

06-17-1874 - Robert Boice Carson - Rossville, IN - d. 8-22-1941
director of the Apollo Orchestra on KVOO Tulsa, Oklahoma
06-17-1877 - Charles Coburn - Savannah, GA - d. 8-30-1961
actor: "Roses and Drums"; "Song of Liberty"
06-17-1882 - Igor Stravinsky - Oranienbaum, Russia - d. 4-6-1971
composer: "Columbia Work Shop"; "New York Philharmonic"
06-17-1894 - Harold Levey - NYC - d. 6-18-1967
composer, conductor: "Theatre Guild on the Air"
06-17-1897 - Vivian Duncan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1986
singer: (Topsy and Eva) "Wireless Vaudeville"
06-17-1899 - Benny Krueger - Newark, NJ - d. 4-29-1967
bandleader: "The Rudy Vallee Show"; "Side Walk Cafe"
06-17-1904 - Ralph Bellamy - Chicago, IL - d. 11-29-1991
actor: "These Are Our Men"
06-17-1905 - Anne Teeman - New York - d. 8-18-1991
actor: Sally Gibson "The Gibson Family"; Joyce "The Goldbergs"
06-17-1905 - Frank Cunkle - Ft. Smith, AR - d. 2-4-1986
arranger: "The Fred Waring Show"
06-17-1910 - Red Foley - Blue Lick, KY - d. 9-19-1968
singer: "National Barn Dance"; "Grand Ole Opry"; "Red Foley Show"
06-17-1913 - Bob Allen - Allendale, OH - d. 4-24-1989
singer: (Hal Kemp Band) "Phil Baker Show"; "Calling America"
06-17-1914 - John Hersey - Tientsin, China - d. 3-24-1993
author: "Bell for Adano"; "Hiroshima"
06-17-1916 - Terry Gilkyson - Mont Clare, PA - d. 10-15-1999
singer, songwriter: "Solitary Singer"; "America Sings"; "Here's to
Veterans"
06-17-1919 - Beryl Reid - Hereford, England - d. 10-13-1996
actor: Monica "Educating Archie"
06-17-1919 - Gene De Paul - NYC - d. 2-27-1988
composer, arranger, pianist: "Bud's Bandwagon"
06-17-1920 - Aaron "Red" Doff - Washington, D. C. - d. 6-13-1997
actor: "Uncle Whoa Bill"
06-17-1921 - Ben Morris - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 8-18-1982
actor: Pat Novak "Pat Novak for Hire"
06-17-1921 - Earl Hammond - NYC - d. 5-19-2002
actor: "Coounterspy"; "Martin Kane, Private Eye"
06-17-1921 - Tony Scott - Morristown, NJ - d. 3-28-2007
jazz clarinetist: American Armed Forces Radio
06-17-1922 - Jerry Fielding - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-17-1980
conductor: "Hardy Family"; "Jack Paar Show"; "You Bet Your Life"
06-17-1923 - Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch - Wausau, WI - d. 1-28-2004
pro football hall of fame, host: "Elroy Hirsch Sports Show";
"Touchdown Tips"
06-17-1924 - Sir Edward Downes - Birmingham, England - d. 7-10-2009
conductor: "BBC Philharmonic"; "Netherlands Radio Philharmonic"

June 17th deaths

02-19-1913 - Jack Leonard - NYC - d. 6-17-1988
singer: (Tommy Dorsey's Band) "Meet the Music"
03-08-1921 - Cyd Charisse - Amarillo, TX - d. 6-17-2008
actor, dancer: Guest: "Spike Jones Show"
03-30-1892 - Floyd Odlum - Union City, MI - d. 6-17-1976
owner of rko studios: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"
04-14-1905 - Bob Stanton - Minneapolis, MN - d. 6-17-1977
nbc staff announcer: "Bob Stanton Sports"
05-01-1907 - Kate Smith - Greenville, VA - d. 6-17-1986
singer, emcee: (Songbird of the South) "Kate Smith Revue"; Kate Smith
Speaks"
06-07-1913 - Tom Collins - Chicago, IL - d. 6-17-1973
actor: Chandu "Chandu the Magician"; Nicholas Lacey "One Man's Family"
08-29-1916 - "Georgia Slim" Rutland - Tilton, GA - d. 6-17-1969
fiddler: "Three Fiddlers"
09-29-1909 - Beryl Wallace - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-17-1948
actor: "Furlough Fun"
10-13-1915 - Hugh James - The Bronx, NY - d. 6-17-2001
announcer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Three Star Final"; "Big Town"
11-07-1868 - Royal Copeland - Dexter, MI - d. 6-17-1938
commentator: "Health Talk"; "Fleischmann Hour"
11-14-1915 - Billy Bauer - The Bronx, NY - d. 6-17-2005
jazz guitarist: "Band for Bonds"
11-29-1906 - Luis Van Rooten - Mexico City, Mexico - d. 6-17-1973
actor: George Priestly "County Seat"; John Perry "John's Other Wife";
Nero Wolfe "Nero Wolfe"
12-02-1908 - Hy Gardner - NYC - d. 6-17-1989
columnist, author, host: Celebrity Interviews
12-09-1919 - Gil Rodin - Russia - d. 6-17-1974
saxophone: "The Bob Crosby Show"
12-15-1918 - Jeff Chandler - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-17-1961
actor: Michael Shayne, "Michael Shayne, Detective"; Philip Boynton,
"Our Miss Brooks"
12-19-1882 - Bronislaw Huberman - Czestochowa, Poland - d. 6-17-1947
violinist: "A Tribute to . . . ."
12-24-1910 - Tony Labriola - d. 6-17-1999
actor: Oswald "The Ken Murray Show"

Ron

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