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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 139
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      8-25 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 26 August  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Mel Blanc Bio                         [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      8-26 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:11:10 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-25 births/deaths

    August 25th births

    08-25-1885 - Chick Sale - Huron, SD - d. 11-7-1936
    humorist: "General Motors Family Party"; "RCA Victor Hour"
    08-25-1896 - Dick Ryan - Connecticut - d. 8-12-1969
    actor: "The Nebbs"
    08-25-1901 - Ken Christie - Binghamton, NY - d. 4-xx-1967
    choral director: "The Ford Summer Hour"; "Telephone Hour"
    08-25-1903 - Michael Bartlett - North Oxford, MA - d. 2-1-1978
    singer: "The Jack Benny Program"
    08-25-1904 - Alice White - Paterson, NJ - d. 2-19-1983
    actor: Blondie Bumstead "Blondie"
    08-25-1908 - Walter Burke - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-4-1984
    actor: Mark Saber's Assistant "Inspector Mark Saber"
    08-25-1909 - Michael Rennie - Bradford, Yorkshire, England - d.
    6-10-1971
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-25-1910 - Albert Ward - d. 2-20-2009
    director: "Romance"; "Casey, Crime Photographer"; "Columbia Workshop"
    08-25-1910 - Ruby Keeler - Halifax, Nova Scotia - d. 2-28-1993
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-25-1911 - Herbert (Edwin) Harris - London, England - d. 4-xx-1995
    author: "The Detective's Wife"
    08-25-1912 - John Rarig - Washington - d. 1-2-1991
    singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
    08-25-1912 - Zinn Arthur - d. 3-11-2003
    orchestra leader: WFIL Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    08-25-1913 - Bob Crosby - Spokane, WA - d. 3-9-1993
    bandleader, singer: "Camel Caravan"; "Bob Crosby Show"; "Jack Benny
    Program"
    08-25-1914 - Dolores O'Neill - d. 12-12-2006
    singer: The Bob Chester Orchestra
    08-25-1916 - Guy Hall - NYC - d. 5-10-2009
    saxophonist: "Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye"
    08-25-1916 - Van Johnson - Newport, RI - d. 12-12-2008
    actor: "Request Performance"; "Romance"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"
    08-25-1917 - Mel Ferrer - Elberon, NJ - d. 6-2-2008
    actor: "Eternal Light"; "Cloak and Dagger"; "MGM Theatre of the Air"
    08-25-1918 - Leonard Bernstein - Lawrence, MA - d. 10-14-1990
    conductor: "Metropolitan Opera"
    08-25-1918 - Richard Greene - Plymouth, England - d. 6-1-1985
    actor: "Somerset Maugham Theatre"; "This Is Hollywood"; "Cavalcade of
    America"
    08-25-1921 - Monty Hall - Winnipeg, Canada
    host (communicator) "Monitor"
    08-25-1924 - Karl A. Mackey - Cleveland, OH - d. 10-13-2002
    actor: "Hodge Podge Lodge"; "Wizard of Music"
    08-25-1931 - Hal Fishman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-7-2007
    television news anchor: Got start on campus radio at Cornell
    08-25-1931 - Regis Philbin - NYC
    newscaster: KOGO San Diego
    08-25-1943 - Bill Holm - nr: Minneota, MN - d. 2-25-2009
    writer: "Prairie Home Companion"

    August 25th deaths

    01-19-1919 - Ray Eberle - Hoosick Falls, NY - d. 8-25-1979
    singer: "Glenn Miller and His Orchestra"; "Glenn Miller's Moonlight
    Serenade"
    01-22-1920 - William Warfield - West Helena, AR - d. 8-25-2002
    bass-baritone singer: "Edgar Bergen Show"; "Beyond Victory"
    02-12-1912 - Stan Kenton - Wichita, KS - d. 8-25-1979
    bandleader: "Bob Hope Show"; "Stan Kenton Concerts"
    02-14-1900 - Eddie Marr - New Jersey - d. 8-25-1987
    actor: Press Agent "Jack Carson Show"; "Jack Benny Program"; "I Fly
    Anything"
    02-22-1932 - Ted Kennedy - Brookline, MA - d. 8-25-2009
    [removed] senator: "Meet the Press"
    03-06-1934 - Art Blaske - d. 8-25-1997
    disk jockey: KFAM St. Cloud, Minnesota
    03-28-1896 - Abram E. Borodkin - Russia - d. 8-25-1978
    cellist: NBC and CBS networks
    04-08-1881 - Arthur B. Allen - Gowanda, NY - d. 8-25-1947
    actor: "Snow Village Sketches"; "Kate Smith Show"; Stebbens Boys"
    04-10-1927 - Sidney Appleman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-25-1994
    string bassist: Clyde McCoy's Band
    04-25-1915 - Cliff Bruner - Houston, TX - d. 8-25-2000
    fiddle: "The Musical Brownies"
    04-25-1916 - Irving Gaynor Neiman - d. 8-25-1996
    began career by writing scripts for NBC
    04-27-1882 - Herman Bundesen - d. 8-25-1960
    health official: "Adventures in Health"
    05-21-1923 - Dorothy Hewett - Perth, Western Australia - d. 8-25-2002
    writer: "Frost at Midnight"
    06-06-1891 - Ted Lewis - Circleville, OH - d. 8-25-1971
    singer: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Radio Hall of Fame"
    06-18-1914 - [removed] Marshall - Owatonna, MN - d. 8-25-1998
    narrator: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    06-22-1919 - Gower Champion - Geneva, IL - d. 8-25-1980
    choreographer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Guest Star"
    07-23-1908 - Irving Mansfield - d. 8-25-1988
    producer: "It's Always Albert"; "The Morey Amsterdam Show"
    08-11-1915 - Berne Surrey - d. 8-25-1992
    sound effects: "Suspense (Sorry, Wrong Number)"; "Whistler"; "Sam Spade"
    08-27-1905 - Frederick O'Neal - Brooksville, MA - d. 8-25-1992
    actor: "New World A-Coming"
    09-09-1899 - Waite Hoyt - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-25-1984
    sportscaster, "Sports Review"; "According to Hoyt"; play-by-play:
    Cincinnati Reds
    09-22-1895 - Paul Muni - Lemberg, Austria-Hungary - d. 8-25-1967
    actor: "Free Company"; "Radio Hall of Fame"
    09-26-1929 - Peter Dews - Yorkshire, England - d. 8-25-1997
    producer: "The Archers"
    09-30-1924 - Truman Capote - New Orleans, LA - d. 8-25-1984
    author: "Cather: A Look of Remembrance"
    10-03-1918 - Perry Lafferty - Davenport, IA - d. 8-25-2005
    producer: "Meet the Music"; "Columbia Workshop"
    10-24-1894 - Ted "Kid" Lewis - London, England - d. 8-25-1971
    bandleader: "Live Band Remotes"

    Ron

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    Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:11:16 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 26 August to 1
     September

     From Those Were The Days

    8/26

    1939   Arch Oboler's Plays presented the NBC Symphony, for the first
    time, as the musical backdrop for the drama, This Lonely Heart.

    8/28

    1922   The first paid commercial to be broadcast on radio was heard on
    WEAF in New York City. Announcer [removed] Blackwell spoke about Hawthorne
    Court, a group of apartment buildings in Queens, New York. The
    Queensboro Realty Company, of Jackson Heights, bought what was called
    Toll Broadcasting. WEAF, owned by AT&T, sold their block programming,
    five one minute programs, one a day for five days, for $50 (($[removed] in
    2010) plus long distance toll fees. The Queensboro Realty Company paid
    $100 ($[removed] in 2010*) for 10 minutes of commercial airtime.
    (*[removed])

      From The [removed]

    1938    The first degree given to a ventriloquist's dummy is awarded to
    Charlie McCarthy  Edgar Bergen's wooden partner. The honorary degree,
    "Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback," is presented on radio by Ralph
    Dennis, the dean of the School of Speech at Northwestern University.

    8/30

    1951   Screen Directors' Playhouse was heard for the final time on NBC.
      The program had featured some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.

    8/31

    1941   The Great Gildersleeve, a spin off of Fibber McGee and Molly,
    started on NBC.

    1946   "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"
    Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound ... the caped crusader
    returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Superman had been
    dropped from the program schedule earlier in the year, but the outrage
    of youngsters brought the show back to the airwaves. Wow! The amazing
    power of Kryptonite in the hands of kids! Bud Collyer, later of TV's
    Beat the Clock, played Clark Kent aka Superman on the series

    9/1

    1922   The first daily news program on radio was The Radio Digest, on
    WBAY. The program, hosted by George F. Thompson, the program's editor,
    originated from New York City.

    Joe

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    Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:11:23 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Mel Blanc Bio

       Ran across an hour long bio of Mel Blanc I thought I would pass along.
       The main problem I had with it was it focuses on his cartoon voice
    overs with only a few minutes of radio work and that is with Jack Benny
    and that is nearly all from his tv show.  Pity.  The man did so much
    more than mere voice overs in his career.  But then I guess to a lot of
    young folk, radio, as WE know it, never existed or they don't care.
    ==sigh==
       It did tell of his terrible auto accident in the early 60s, of which
    I was unaware.
       [removed];feature=related
       Joe

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    Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:11:29 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-26 births/deaths

    August 26th births

    08-26-1873 - Lee De Forest - Council Bluffs, IA - d. 6-30-1961
    inventor: Audion tube
    08-26-1891 - Frayne Baker - d. 8-15-1968
    newscaster: KFYR Bismarck, North Dakota
    08-26-1896 - Phil Baker - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-30-1963
    comedian, emcee: "Honolulu Bound"; "Take It or Leave It"
    08-26-1903 - Jimmy Rushing - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory - d.
    6-8-1972
    blues singer: "Count Basie and His Orchestra"; "Blue Ribbon Guest Night"
    08-26-1904 - Chirstopher Isherwood - High Lane, Cheshire, England - d.
    1-4-1986
    writer: "NBC University Theatre"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
    08-26-1905 - George F. Hicks - Tacoma, WA - d. 3-17-1965
    announcer: "Metropolitan Echoes"; "Death Valley Days"; "Seth Parker"
    08-26-1907 - Jack Berch - Sigel, IL - d. 12-10-1992
    singer: "Kitchen Pirate"; "Sweetheart Serenade"; "Jack Berch Show"
    08-26-1907 - Lester Lanin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-27-2004
    bandleader: "Lester Lanin and His Orchestra"; "Here's to Veterans"
    08-26-1911 - Elmer "Slim" Hall - Tennessee - d. 5-5-1971
    guitar: "The Swift Jewel Cowboys"
    08-26-1911 - Hal Gibney - Woodland, CA - d. 6-5-1973
    announcer: "Draget"; "The Six Shooter"; "Tales of the Texas Rangers"
    08-26-1912 - Chuck Foster - Jeanette, PA - d. 12-12-2001
    bandleader: "Treasury Bandstand"; "One Night Stand"
    08-26-1915 - Jim Davis - Edgereton, MO - d. 4-26-1981
    actor: "Dangerous Assignment"
    08-26-1918 - Dave Barry - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-16-2001
    comedian: "Major Bowes and the Original Amateur Hour"
    08-26-1919 - Frances Wayne - Boston, MA - d. 2-6-1978
    vocalist: "The Woody Herman Show"
    08-26-1921 - June Whitley - d. 5-25-2006
    actor: Margaret Anderson "Father Knows Best"
    08-26-1922 - Irving R. Levine - Pawtucket, RI - d. 3-27-2009
    newsman: "World News Roundup"; "News of the World"
    08-26-1924 - Gloria Holliday - Billings, MT
    actor: Bessie "Great Gildersleeve"; Gloria "Honest Harold"
    08-26-1930 - Theodore S. Beardsley, Jr.
    host: "Caribbean Music in the [removed]"
    08-26-1934 - Gordon Clough - Salford, England - d. 4-6-1996
    radio journalist: "The World at One"; "World This Weekend"; "PM"

    August 26th deaths

    01-07-1898 - Art Baker - NYC - d. 8-26-1966
    announcer, emcee: "People Are Funny"; "Dinah Shore Show"
    01-11-1917 - Carl Caruso - Boston, MA - d. 8-26-2001
    announcer, director: "A. L. Alexander's Goodwill Court"; "The Shadow"
    01-13-1903 - Kay Francis - Oklahoma City,  Oklahoma Territory - d.
    8-26-1968
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    01-17-1904 - Knox Manning - Worcester, MA - d. 8-26-1980
    announcer: "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"; "Headlines on Parade"
    02-04-1902 - Charles A. Lindbergh - Detroit, MI - d. 8-26-1974
    aviator: CBS awards program
    03-10-1911 - Warner Anderson - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-26-1976
    actor: Patrick Ryan "Terry and the Pirates"
    03-23-1899 - Peggy Paige - Ashville, NC - d. 8-26-1974
    actor: Sassy "Grits and Gravy"; Nancy "Main Street Sketches"
    04-13-1899 - Larry Keating - [removed], MN - d. 8-26-1963
    actor, emcee: "Murder Will Out"; "Scramby Amby"; "This Is Your FBI"
    04-26-1922 - Mike Kellin - Hartford, CT - d. 8-26-1983
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    05-02-1898 - Edmund Barclay - Gosford, Australia - d. 8-26-1961
    writer: "As Ye Sow"
    05-22-1898 - Charles Borrelli - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-26-1984
    pianist: "Italian Sunday"
    05-25-1891 - William McNeary - d. 8-26-1934
    juvenile radio programming pioneer: "Man in the Moon"
    06-21-1926 - Margaret Potter - Harrow, England - d. 8-26-1998
    writer: "Hindleford"; "The Waiting Game"
    07-14-1892 - Gene Rouse - Boulder, CO - d. 8-26-1956
    announcer/newscaster: "First Nighter"; "Grand Hotel"; "Vanity Fair"
    07-14-1903 - Irving Stone - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-26-1989
    author: "Cavalcade of America"; "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Arch Oboler's
    Plays"
    08-19-1917 - Muriel M. Bell - d. 8-26-1997
    woman's programming: WBOB Galax, Virginia
    08-28-1897 - Charles Boyer - Figeac, France - d. 8-26-1978
    actor: Michel "Presenting Charles Boyer"; "Hollywood Playhouse"
    09-21-1921 - Gail Russell - Chicago, IL - d. 8-26-1961
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    11-17-1931 - Wayne J. Andre - d. 8-26-2003
    trombonist: Benny Goodman Orchestra; Woody Herman Orchestra
    11-23-1916 - Julie Stevens - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-26-1984
    actor: Helen Trent "Romance of Helen Trent"; Kitty Foyle "Kitty Foyle"

    Ron

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