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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 33
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      2-17 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Take back your rhumba, Ay!            [ Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed]; ]
      2-18 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:15:20 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-17 births/deaths

    February 17th births

    02-17-1871 - Donald Brian - St. John's, Canada - d. 12-22-1948
    singer, actor: "The Philco Hour"
    02-17-1881 - Arthur Judson - d. 1-28-1975
    executive: Founder of the Columbia Broadcasting System
    02-17-1888 - William Balhatchet - d. 2-3-1971
    singer: WHT Chicago, Illinois
    02-17-1889 - H. L. Hunt - near Vandalia, IL - d. 11-29-1974
    established Facts Forum which produced radio programs
    02-17-1897 - Ben Alley - West Virginia - d. 2-8-1970
    singer: (the Golden Tenor) "Melody Lane"; "Sweethearts Of the Air"
    02-17-1897 - Harry Tugend - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-11-1989
    writer: "The Fred Allen Show"
    02-17-1905 - Kuda Bux - Kashmir, India - d. 2-5-1981
    magician: "Believe It or Not"
    02-17-1906 - Virginia Mansfield - Covington, KY - d. 2-16-2001
    singer: "Andy and Virginia"; "Turn Back the Clock"
    02-17-1907 - Charlie Spivak - Kiev, Ukraine - d. 3-1-1982
    orchestra leader: "Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel"; Million Dollar
    Band"
    02-17-1908 - Staats Cotsworth - Oak Park, IL - d. 4-9-1979
    actor: Casey "Casey, Crime Photographer"; David Farrell "Front Page
    Farrell"
    02-17-1908 - Walter "Red" Barber - Columbus, MS - d. 10-22-1992
    sportscaster: (The Old Redhead) "Schaefer Star Revue"
    02-17-1910 - Marc Lawrence - NYC - d. 11-28-2005
    actor: "Let George Do It"; "This Is Your FBI"; "Scout About Town"
    02-17-1910 - Mark Hawley - New Jersey - d. 9-5-1986
    announcer: Guy Lombardo's New Year's Eve broadcast
    02-17-1911 - Orrin Tucker - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-9-2011
    bandleader: "Orrin Tucker and His Orchestra"; "One Night Stand"
    02-17-1912 - Clifford Evans - Senghenydd, Wales - d. 6-9-1985
    Producer and director on Welsh radio
    02-17-1914 - Arthur Kennedy - Worcester, MA - d. 1-5-1990
    actor: "Best Plays"
    02-17-1914 - Larry Douglas - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-15-1996
    actor, singer: "Here's to Romance"
    02-17-1914 - Wayne Morris - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-14-1959
    actor: "Radio Reader's Digest"; "NBC university Theatre of the Air"
    02-17-1915 - Norman Thomson - Massachusetts - d. 2-3-2000
    actor: (Founding member of "Meercury Theatre) "The War of the Worlds"
    02-17-1919 - Kathleen Freeman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-24-2001
    actor: California Artists Radio Theatre"
    02-17-1921 - Ken Platt - Lancashire, England - d. 10-2-1998
    comedian: "Fanfare"; "Worker's Playtime"; "Hit the Road"
    02-17-1923 - Buddy De Franco - Camden, NJ
    bandleader: "Glenn Miller Orchestra"
    02-17-1924 - Margaret Truman - Independence, MO - d. 1-29-2008
    coloratura: "The Big Show"; "The Railroad Hour"; "Authors in the News"
    02-17-1924 - Mel Welles - NYC - d. 8-19-2005
    worked as a radio disc jockey before moving to Hollywood in the 1950s
    02-17-1925 - Hal Holbrook - Cleveland, OH
    actor: Grayling Dennis "Brighter Day"
    02-17-1929 - Patricia Routledge - Birkenhead, Cheshire, England
    actor: "Saturday Play"
    02-17-1941 - Gene Pitney - Hartford, CT - d. 4-5-2006
    singer: "Voices of Vista"
    02-17-1948 - Blanquita Cullum - Ventura, CA
    talk show host: "BQ View"; "Live from the Capitol"
    02-17-1949 - Don Scardino - NYC
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    02-17-1962 - Lou Diamond Phillips - Subic Bay Naval Station, Philippines
    actor: "Twilight Zone"

    February 17th deaths

    01-10-1896 - Frances Lockridge - d. 2-17-1963
    writer: "Mr. and Mrs. North"
    02-09-1922 - Kathryn Grayson - Winston-Salem, NC - d. 2-17-2010
    singer: "Mail Call"
    02-12-1904 - Joseph Kearns - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 2-17-1962
    actor, host: Melvyn Foster "A Date with Judy"; Man in Black "Suspense"
    03-13-1908 - Paul Stewart - NYC - d. 2-17-1986
    actor: Gyp Mendoza "Life Can Be Beautiful"; Richard Rogue "Rogue's
    Gallery"
    03-15-1904 - Verree Teasdale - Spokane, WA - d. 2-17-1987
    actor: (Wife of Adolph Menjou) "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    03-17-1901 - Alfred Newman - New Haven, CT - d. 2-17-1970
    composer, conductor: "Hollywood Star Time"; "Radio Hall of Fame";
    "Silver Theatre"
    05-01-1919 - Dan O'Herlihy - Wexford, Ireland - d. 2-17-2005
    actor: Nicholas Lacey "One Man's Family"
    06-17-1922 - Jerry Fielding - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-17-1980
    conductor: "Hardy Family"; "Jack Paar Show"; "You Bet Your Life"
    07-16-1906 - Asakusa Ichimaru (Mitsue Goto) - Japan - d. 2-17-1997
    singer: "Mitsukoshi Calendar of Songs"
    07-17-1905 - William Gargan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-17-1979
    actor: Martin Kane "Martin Kane, Private Eye"; Barrie Craig "Barrie
    Craig, Private Investigator"
    09-15-1876 - Bruno Walter - Berlin, Germany - d. 2-17-1962
    conductor: "Salzburg Music Festival"; "Word from the People"; "New
    York Philharmonic"
    10-15-1918 - Bob Sherry - Chattanooga, TN - d. 2-17-2003
    announcer: "Archie Andrews"; "Author Meets the Critics"
    11-20-1887 - Eck Robinson - Delaney, AR - d. 2-17-1975
    fiddler: "Three Fidders"
    11-26-1908 - Lefty Gomez - Rodeo, CA - d. 2-17-1989
    baseball pitcher: "Information Please"
    11-27-1881 - C. Mildred Thompson - Atlanta, GA - d. 2-17-1975
    historian, educator, feminist: "Information Please"
    12-31-1884 - Georgette Harvey - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-17-1952
    female bass singer: "New World A' Coming"; "Free Company"
    xx-xx-1848 - Uncle Jimmy Thompson - Baxter, TN - d. 2-17-1931
    fiddler: WSM carried a 2-hour program of his fiddling

    Ron

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    Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:16:06 -0500
    From: Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Take back your rhumba, Ay!

    Awesome Aussie Ian Grieve wrote about working on Martin Grams's "Shadow" book:

>     South America instead of South Australia.
>     How could a mistake like that slip through?  Probably because I didn't
>     notice it.  My apologies and I am sure it will be replaced by an even bigger
>     mistake next time :)

    So in essence, Ian is saying, to quote an OTR song: "South America? Take it
    away!"

    (I once heard an "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts" radio show from the late
    1940s in which one of the contestants was a post-Let's Pretender Gwen Davies
    who sang a pretty good version of this song).

    That Derek

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    Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:16:13 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-18 births/deaths

    February 18th births

    02-18-1890 - Adolphe Menjou - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-29-1963
    host: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Eternal Light"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
    02-18-1890 - Edward Arnold - NYC - d. 4-26-1956
    actor: President "Mr. President"
    02-18-1892 - Wendell Willkie - Elwood, IN - d. 10-8-1944
    presidential candidate: "Information, Please"
    02-18-1893 - Bruce Kamman - Cincinnati, OH - 10-18-1969
    actor: August Kaltenmeyer "Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten"
    02-18-1894 - Andres Segovia - Linares, Spain - d. 6-2-1987
    classical guitarist: "The Magic Key"; "Theatre [removed]"; "Concert Hall"
    02-18-1900 - Zeno Klinker - d. 1-22-1985
    writer: "Edgar Bergen/.Charlie McCarthy Show"
    02-18-1901 - Wayne King - Savannah, IL - d. 7-16-1985
    bandleader: (The Waltz King) "Lady Esther Serenade"
    02-18-1903 - George Givot - Ekatarinaslav, Russia - d. 6-7-1984
    dialectitian: (Greek Ambassador of Good Will) "George Givot Show)
    02-18-1903 - Jacques Fray - Paris, France - d. 1-20-1963
    pianist, disc jockey: "Fray and Braggiotti"
    02-18-1905 - Queenie Leonard - London, England - d. 1-17-2002
    actor: "NBC University Theatre"
    02-18-1907 - Billy de Wolf -  Wollaston, MA - d. 3-5-1974
    actor: "Ginny Simms Show"; "Philco Radio Playhouse"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-18-1907 - Griffing Bancroft - d. 2-5-1999
    newscaster: "The Big News of 1957"
    02-18-1907 - L. A. "Speed" Riggs - Silverdale, NC - d. 2-1-1987
    tobacco auctioneer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Kay Kyser Show"
    02-18-1912 - Earl George - Donora, PA - d. 1-30-2004
    actor: "Curtain Time"; "Girl Alone"; "Mortimer Gooch"
    02-18-1914 - Pee Wee King - Abrams, WI - d. 3-7-2000
    singer, songwriter, accordionist: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Pee Wee King Show"
    02-18-1917 - Jack Slattery - Missouri - d. 10-29-1979
    announcer: "House Party"; "You Bet Your Life"
    02-18-1919 - Jack Palance - Lattimer Mines, PA - d. 11-10-2006
    actor: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    02-18-1920 - Bill Cullen - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 7-7-1990
    host, announcer: "Winner Take All"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    02-18-1920 - Howard Rodman - New York - d. 12-5-1985
    writer: "The American School of the Air"
    02-18-1922 - Allan Melvin - Kansas City, MO - d. 1-17-2008
    actor: "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts"; "Arthur Godfrey Time"
    02-18-1922 - Ruth Dean Rickaby - d. 10-26-1973
    actor: "The Lone Ranger"
    02-18-1924 - Sam Rolfe - NYC - d. 7-10-1993
    writer, creator: "Suspense"; "Have Gun, Will Travel"
    02-18-1925 - George Kennedy - NYC
    actor: "Suspense"; "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
    02-18-1930 - John Patton, Jr. - Garland City, AR - d. 4-18-2005
    tenor: Hosted a popular radio program in Los Angeles
    02-18-1931 - Ned Sherrin - Somerset, England - d. 10-1-2007
    broadcaster; producer: "Loose Ends"; "Counterpoint"
    02-18-1933 - Mary Ure - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 4-3-1975
    actor: Won the Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award for Radio Drama acting in
    1954.
    02-18-1944 - George American Horse
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"
    02-18-1944 - Michael Riordan - Montreal, Canada
    writer: "The Other Cheek"
    02-18-1951 - Mark Higgins - Milwaukee, WI
    actor: Santa Claus "Billie the Brownie"

    February 18th deaths

    01-31-1904 - Cliff Nazarro - New Haven, CT - d. 2-18-1961
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    02-01-1903 - Donald Thompson - Albia, IA - d. 2-18-1989
    actor/announcer: "The Right to Happiness"; "Those Happy Gilmans"
    02-09-1914 - Bob Hite - Decatur, IN - d. 2-18-2000
    announcer: "Challenge of the Yukon"; "Green Hornet"; "Casey, Crime
    Photographer"
    03-14-1919 - Harry Caray - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-18-1998
    baseball announcer: St. Louis Cardinals; Chicago Cubs
    03-16-1908 - Robert Rossen - NYC - d. 2-18-1966
    film director: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    04-23-1895 - Ngaio Marsh - Christchurch, New Zealand - d. 2-18-1982
    author: "Final Curtain"
    05-03-1911 - Yank Lawson - Trenton, MO - d. 2-18-1995
    trumpet: "The Bob Crosby Show"
    05-27-1902 - Cedric Adams - Magnolia, MN - d. 2-18-1961
    commentator: In 1953 filled in for Arthur Godfrey for 13 weeks
    05-31-1938 - Johnny Paycheck - Greenfield, OH - d. 2-18-2003
    country singer: "Country Sessions"
    06-07-1917 - Kathleen Hite - d. 2-18-1989
    writer: "Sam Spade"; "Escape"; "Gunsmoke"; "Rogers of the Gazette";
    "Romamce"
    06-16-1919 - Mason Jones - Hamilton, NY - d. 2-18-2009
    horn player: Philadelphia Orchestra
    07-07-1914 - Robert Luff - Bedford, England - d. 2-18-2009
    impresario: produced series of weekly shows for Radio Normandie
    08-09-1894 - Kathleen Lockhart - Southsea, England - d. 2-18-1978
    actor: "The Nebbs"; "Abroad with the Lockharts"
    08-24-1903 - Claude Hopkins - Alexandria, VA - d. 2-18-1984
    bandleader: "Jubilee"; "Let's Go Nightclubbing"
    10-06-1917 - Rosella Qualey - Donnelly, MN - d. 2-18-2007
    home economist: KWLM-FM Willmar, Minnesota
    10-13-1931 - Eddie Mathews - Texarkana, TX - d. 2-18-2001
    baseball player: "Baseball: An Action History"
    10-28-1902 - Catherine Shepherd - Zimbabwe - d. 2-18-1976
    writer: "The Golden Cockerel"
    11-03-1928 - Dick Bennick - North Carolina - d. 2-18-1995
    worked as an advertising director for a Florida radio station
    12-11-1894 - Eddie Dowling - Woonsocket, RI - d. 2-18-1976
    host: "We, the People"; "Ziegfeld Follies of the Air"
    12-21-1872 - Albert Payson Terhune - Newark, NJ - d. 2-18-1942
    dog expert: "Dog Dramas"
    12-22-1947 - Brian Daley - Rockleigh, NJ - d. 2-18-1996
    writer: "Star Wars"; "Empire Strikes Back"; "Return of the Jedi"
    12-25-1889 - Nat Shilkret - Queens, NY - d. 2-18-1982
    conductor: "Eveready Hour"; "Music That Satisfies"; "Palmolive Beauty
    Box Theatre"

    Ron

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