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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 2
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      1-1 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      New Years shows                       [ "b. schell" <bschell@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:08:49 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-1 births/deaths

    January 1st births

    01-01-1867 - Lew Fields - NYC - d. 7-20-1941
    comedian: (Weber and Fields) "The Eveready Hour"; "George Jessel Show"
    01-01-1878 - Edwin Franko Goldman - Louisville, KY - d. 2-21-1956
    bandmaster: "The Cities Service Concert"; "The Pure Oil Band"
    01-01-1879 - [removed] Forster - London, England - d. 6-7-1970
    novelist: Many works adapted for radio
    01-01-1889 - Alexander Smallens  - St. Petersburg, Russia - d.
    11-27-1972
    conductor: "Rising Musical Star"
    01-01-1889 - Charles Bickford - Cambridge, MA - d. 11-9-1967
    actor: "Radio Hall of Fame"
    01-01-1889 - Maruice Baron - Lille, France - d. 9-5-1964
    conductor of various symphony orchestras for radio
    01-01-1895 - Art Gillham - St. Louis, MO - d. 6-6-1961
    piano playing vocalist: (Whispering Pianist) Plugged songs to sell
    sheet music
    01-01-1895 - Bernard Schubert - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-4-1988
    writer, producer: "The Falcon"; "Murder and Mr. Malone"
    01-01-1897 - Walter Greaza - St. Paul, MN - d. 6-1-1973
    actor: "Columbia Workshop"; "Suspense"
    01-01-1900 - Xavier Cugat - Tirona, Spain - d. 10-27-1990
    bandleader: (King of the Rhumba) "Camel Caravan"
    01-01-1904 - George Landen Dann - Brisbane, Australia - d. 6-6-1977
    writer: "Funerals for Field Mice"
    01-01-1904 - Lou Kosloff - Chicago, IL - d. 2-12-1986
    orchestra leader: "Blondie"; "Sad Sack"; "Sherlock Holmes"
    01-01-1905 - Dick Aurandt - d. 7-16-1984
    orchestra leader: "Voyage of the Scarlet Queen"; "Steve Canyon"
    01-01-1905 - Richard Keith - NYC - d. 9-16-1976
    actor: Ray Hunt "Myrt and Marge"; Frank W. Brock "Special Investigator"
    01-01-1908 - Bob Russell - Passaic, NJ - d. 1-24-1998
    singer, songwriter: Helped create " Name that Tune"
    01-01-1909 - Dana Andrews - Collins, MS - d. 12-17-1992
    actor: Matt Cevetic "I Was A Communist for the FBI"
    01-01-1909 - Frank Kettering - Monmouth, IL - d. 6-09-1973
    bass player: (Hoosier Hot Shots) "National Barn Dance"
    01-01-1911 - Hank Greenberg - NYC - d. 9-14-1994
    baseball great: "Play Ball"; "We the People"; "Philco Radio Time"
    01-01-1911 - Leona Ledoux - d. 8-16-1987
    actor: Robespierre Higgins "Baby Snooks"; Bumstead Children "Blondie"
    01-01-1913 - Norman Rosten - d. 3-7-1995
    writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "An American in Russia"
    01-01-1915 - Earl Sheldon - NYC - d. 11-14-1977
    orchestra leader: "The Bickersons"; "Jack Smith Show"
    01-01-1915 - Irv Orton - d. 5-xx-1960
    musical director: "Double or Nothing"
    01-01-1916 - Earl Wrightson - Baltimore, MD - d. 3-7-1993
    singer: "Highways in Melody"; "Getting the Most Out of Life"
    01-01-1917 - Shelby Storck - Kansas City, MO - d. 4-5-1969
    actor: Speed Robertson "The Air Advs. of Jimmie Allen"
    01-01-1917 - Ted Cott - Poughkeepsie, NY - d. 6-12-1973
    announcer, emcee: "So You Think You Know Music?"; "Music You Want"
    01-01-1919 - Carole Landis - Fairchild, WI - d. 7-5-1948
    actor: "Warner Brothers Academy Award"; "Command Performance"
    01-01-1922 - Robert De Cormier - Pinelawn, NY
    choral director: "Christmas in Vermont with Countrypoint"
    01-01-1923 - Milt Jackson - Detroit, MI - d. 10-9-1999
    vibraphone: "Modern Jazz Quartet"
    01-01-1928 - Helen Westcott - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-17-1998
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "My Wildest Dream"
    01-01-1938 - Norma Jean Nilsson - Hollywood, CA
    actor: Kathy Anderson "Father Knows Best"; Cookie Bumstead "Blondie"

    January 1st deaths

    01-20-1927 - Dawn Lake - Sydney, Australia - d. 1-1-2006
    singer: "The Jack Davey Program"
    02-04-1908 - Jack Fraser - Lawrence, MA - d. 1-1-2000
    newscaster: "John Gordon Fraser and the News", "Monitor"
    02-15-1907 - Cesar Romero - NYC - d. 1-1-1994
    actor: "Movietone Radio Theatre"
    02-15-1922 - Otis Carney - Chicago, IL - d. 1-1-2006
    writer: "Words at War"
    03-06-1909 - Floyd Holmes - Glasgow, KY - d. 1-1-1970
    singer: (Prairie Ramblers) "Smile-a-While"
    04-17-1915 - Joe Foss - Sioux Falls, SD - d. 1-1-2003
    south dakota governor: "Tops in Sports"
    04-25-1919 - Albert Aley - NYC - d. 1-1-1986
    actor: Hop Harrigan "Hop Harrigan"; Bob James "Stella Dallas"
    05-16-1911 - Margaret Sullavan - Norfolk, VA - d. 1-1-1960
    actor: "Electric Theatre"; "Hollywood Playhouse"
    06-16-1907 - Joan Winters - Dayton, OH - d. 1-1-2001
    actor: Alice Ames "Girl Alone"; Sylvia Bertram "Road of Life"
    06-25-1913 - Cyril Fletcher - Watford, England - d. 1-1-2005
    panelist: "Does the Team Think"
    07-14-1932 - Del Reeves - Sparta, NC - d. 1-1-2007
    country singer: "Grand Ol' Op'ry"
    08-03-1886 - Anna Barbash - d. 1-1-1983
    soprano: "Memories of Jennie Lind"
    08-09-1908 - [removed] Bezzerides - Samsun, Turkey - d. 1-1-2007
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-16-1913 - Joe Lilley - d. 1-1-1971
    orchestra leader: "Drene Time"
    08-17-1899 - Ralph Goll - d. 1-1-1957
    scriptwriter: "The Lone Ranger"
    09-11-1896 - Robert S. Kerr - Ada, Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-1-1963
    governor oklahoma: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    09-12-1888 - Maurice Chevalier - Paris, France - d. 1-1-1972
    actor, singer, host: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "This is Paris"; "Bing
    Crosby Show"
    09-17-1923 - Hank Williams - Georgiana, AL - d. 1-1-1953
    singer: "Louisiana Hayride"; "Grand Ol' Op'ry"; "Health and Happiness"
    09-17-1941 - Robert Takeo Matsui - Sacremento, CA - d. 1-1-2005
    congressman: Democratic response to President's radio address
    10-06-1905 - Helen Wills Moody - Centerville, CA - d. 1-1-1998
    tennis playeer: "Information Please"
    10-07-1916 - Palmer Williams - Tenafly, NJ - d. 1-1-1996
    producer: "Hear It Now"
    12-02-1914 - Ray Walston - New Orleans, LA - d. 1-1-2001
    actor: "The Woolworth Hour"
    12-06-1898 - Jack Beall - Waxahachie, TX - d. 1-1-1963
    newscaster: "News of Tomorrow"; "American Legion Presents"
    12-16-1890 - Jane Morgan - North Platte, NE - d. 1-1-1972
    actor: Mary Lane "Aunt Mary"; Mrs. Margaret Davis "Our Miss Brooks"
    12-25-1902 - Barton Maclane - Columbia, SC - d. 1-1-1969
    actor: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
    12-27-1914 - Jack Latham - Washington - d. 1-1-1987
    announcer: "The Man Called X"; "Wake Up, America"

    Ron

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:09:40 -0500
    From: "b. schell" <bschell@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  New Years shows

    I was disappointed to find the only program available for listening/download
    with a New Year's theme was Fibber McGee and Molly. When I clicked on other
    shows the episodes for sample listening had nothing to do with New Years.
    Bill

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