Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #132
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 132
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Frankie Thomas is gone                [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
  WLS "Stand By"                        [ "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed] ]
  An up date on OTR collection          [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
  Documentary of Interest               [ "Barbara Harmon" <jimharmonotr@char ]
  visualization, Vin Scully & baseball  [ Popup22nd@[removed] ]
  BORN AND SHOT DOWN IN MAY             [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
  5-13 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Color or black and white              [ "Jack Feldman" <qualitas@millenicom ]
  'color radio'                         [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]

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Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 14:47:50 -0400
From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Frankie Thomas is gone

Hi Everybody,

just got an email from Jan Merlin Frankie Thomas died on Thursday night
after suffering a stoke.  He was a very nice man and I had him as a guest on
Yesterday USA.  Thus Tom Corbit has left us,

Walden Hughes

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Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 15:27:38 -0400
From: "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  WLS "Stand By"

I'm within eight issues of WLS's "Stand By" weekly for a complete run.
Please contact me off list if you have any for sale or know where I can find
them. Naturally I'll list the specific issues.

Thanks!

Bill Knowlton
udmacon1@[removed]

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Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 16:29:28 -0400
From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "The Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  An up date on OTR collection

An update on my friend Ed and OTR collection. Ed and his wife are retired
teachers so they talked to the local school district and are donating the
collection to the schools. and some to a local nursing home. Thanks again
for the responses

On another topic:

I started listening to radio in the early 1930's and I never even thought
about color or black and white, and today I still don't.
If someone says the grass is green, I know what grass is and it's green, but
my minds eye doesn't consciously see green or any black or white. Is my mind
a blank???? Don't answer.

Frank McGurn

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Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 16:30:12 -0400
From: "Barbara Harmon" <jimharmonotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Documentary of Interest
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Readers of the Digest and my books on Old Time Radio may be interested to
hear of the release of a new film documentary by my old friend, Don Glut,
about his early student films, "I was a Teen-Age Movie Maker".  The 1 hour,
forty-four minute film condenses his early life in this field.  It features
his films about many characters known to radio fans, as well of those of
movies and comic books.  Included are contributions by myself, Jim Harmon,
featuring some secondary on-screen commentary by myself, and a cameo as The
Shadow in broad-brimmed hat and turned-up collar, and from another amateur
film, my role of a Roy Barcroft-type villain in Don's version of Spider-Man.
There are also appearances of such radio characters as Superman and Dracula.

The film were soon appear on a commercial DVD available from Frontline
Entertainment(Google it) and many other sources. A complete set of ALL of
Don's early complete short films will also be made available for fans and
students.   Don Glut is currently producing a series of horror films
influenced by the old Universal features and appearing on DVDs, the USA
cable network and elsewhere.

            I was saddened to hear of the death of Frankie Thomas.  I
appeared with him on several panels over the years, and talked with him on
numerous occasions and felt he was a friend.  How fast the generation of
great radio (and TV) actors are going.  Now we are losing even those who
played children or teen-agers in our best loved medium.

            Anthony Tollin got there first, and with more than I knew, but I
was about to offer that George Lowther was the narrator on "Superman" before
Jackson Beck took over.  He was of course the writer of the series,
following Jack Johnstone.

Earlier he had written "Dick Tracy" and he went on to write the last five
years of "Tom Mix"

            Tom Mix joins Jack Armstrong in one radio-type epic adventure
among many in "It's That Time Again, Vol. 3" edited by myself and available
from me, BearManor, or Amazon.

            JIM HARMON

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Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 16:30:42 -0400
From: Popup22nd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  visualization, Vin Scully & baseball play by
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I don't listen to that much radio drama, but when I have heard it, I can't
say that I visualize scenes.  As I am typing this I am listening to a Cubs
game.
 They are playing at Wrigley, and I have been there, but I don't "see"
Wrigley as I am listening to the play by play.

I feel as though I have a pretty good grasp of the game and can follow it in
my mind without "seeing it on the radio" to steal a line from a song by Terry
Cashman. If the broadcaster is really good (Vin Scully in his prime, and some
others) I actually prefer baseball as narrative on the radio to the picture on
the TV. I have heard people praise Vin by saying that he paints a word
picture of what is happening on the field.  He does do that, but I think his
greatest strength is his ability to tap into the flow of a game and convey
both by
tone of voice and the words he uses the drama of the game as it [removed]
games without much drama it does not hurt that Vin is a master storyteller.
With
the demise of radio drama, there is not much opportunity for radio as
narrative
anywhere except in a baseball play by play booth.  Sadly, not that many
baseball broadcasters today have the talent or inclination to be  dramatists
or
radio storytellers. The prevailing play by play baseball broadcast style today
sounds distressingly like sport talk radio rather than the tradition of radio
drama that I imagine formed Vin  before he ever set foot in a baseball
broadcast
booth.

Stan from Tacoma

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Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 18:33:15 -0400
From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  BORN AND SHOT DOWN IN MAY

The Gordon Jenkins book, Goodbye, is now at your favorite bookseller.

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Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 23:26:22 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  5-13 births/deaths

May 13th births

05-13-1842 - Arthur Sullivan - London, England - d. 11-22-1900
composer: (Gilbert and Sullivan) "The Railroad Hour"
05-13-1902 - David Broekman - Leiden, The Netherlands- d. 4-1-1958
conductor: "Mobil Magazine"; "Texaco Star Theatre"
05-13-1907 - Daphne du Maurier - London, England - d. 4-19-1989
author: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Matinee Theatre"; "Romance"; "Escape"
05-13-1909 - Ken Darby - Hebron, NE - d. 1-24-1992
singer, choral conductor: (The King's Men) "Fibber McGee and Molly"
05-13-1911 - Maxine Sullivan - Homestead, PA - d. 4-7-1987
vocalist: "Night Life"
05-13-1912 - Helen Craig - San Antonio, TX - d. 7-20-1986
actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
05-13-1914 - Joe Louis (The Brown Bomber) - Lafayette, AL - d. 4-12-1981
heavyweight boxing champ: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"; "Fred Allen
Show"; "Freedom's People"
05-13-1915 - Ruth Doering Reynolds - Chicago, IL
singer: (Doring Sisters) "Contented Hour"

May 13th deaths

02-27-1902 - Gene Sarazen - Harrison, NY - d. 5-13-1999
golf legend: "Tops in Sports"
03-05-1922 - Robert Burr - Jersey City, NJ - d. 5-13-2000
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
05-30-1896 - Whispering Jack Smith - The Bronx, NY - d. 5-13-1950
singer: "Whispering Jack Smith"
07-24-1875 - Frank Moulan - NYC - d. 5-13-1939
comedian: :Roxy and His Gang"
12-23-1924 - Floyd Kalber - Omaha, NE - d. 5-13-2004
news correspondent: NBC; News Anchor for WMAQ and WLS in Chicago

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Birthplace of Bob Uecker

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Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 10:05:24 -0400
From: "Jack Feldman" <qualitas@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Color or black and white

In THIRTEEN FOR CORWIN, Jerome Lee tells of an eight year old's take on OTR.

The eight year old son of a friend of ours was confined to a dark room
recently because of measles. He was deprived of the glaring light of his all
demanding, ever-present babysitter, television. His devoted father arranged
for a tape player and broadcasts of some radio plays, including Corwin's MY
CLIENT CURLEY, and THE ODYSSEY OF RUNYON JONES and the Columbia Workshop
production of INSIDE A KID'S HEAD. When the measles had disappeared, the
eight-year-old announced: "I like radio more than I do television."

"Oh?" his father said. ?And why is that?"

"The pictures are so much better,"..

Jack

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Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 12:47:48 -0400
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  'color radio'

Back in the 60's or 70's, one of the networks broadcast what they
called "color radio". I haven't listened to it in years. I remember
recording it because it sound interesting. I pull it out and send in
a report in a few days.

It was my impression that this was something of a joke; a promotion based on
the fact that most television stations and shows in the 1960's were
advertising their conversion to color broadcasting.  Cathy O'Connell always
maintained that radio is inherently in color.

M Kinsler

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