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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2012 : Issue 52
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
3-22 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Jack Webb doing comedy [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
Radio Sound Effects [ "Bob Scherago" <scherago@[removed] ]
3-23 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
3-24 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history 25-31 Mar [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:11:45 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 3-22 births/deaths
March 22nd births
03-22-1886 - Chico Marx - NYC - d. 10-11-1961
comedian: Emmanuel Revelli "Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel"
03-22-1886 - Thomas J. Cowan - Newark, NJ - d. 11-11-1969
announcer: First voice heard over WJZ
03-22-1887 - William Royale - Rochester, NY - d. 8-9-1940
actor: "Jack Benny Program"; "Eddie Cantor Show"
03-22-1892 - Charlie Poole - Randolph County, NC - d. 5-21-1931
country music: "Charlie Poole and his North Carolina Ramblers"
03-22-1893 - Tito Vuolo - Italy - d. 9-14-1962
actor: Uncle Carlo "The Goldbergs"
03-22-1895 - Joseph Schildkraut - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-21-1964
actor: "Intrigue"; "Best Plays"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Hollywood Hotel"
03-22-1899 - Douglas Stanbury - Canada - d. 12-6-1980
baritone: "Roxy's Gang"; "Kraft Music Hall"
03-22-1904 - Bob Elson - Chicago, IL - d. 3-10-1981
sportscaster, interviewer: White Sox, "Bob Elson Aboard the 20th
Century"
03-22-1905 - Don Dowd - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-21-1977
annoouncer: "Moon River"; "Don McNeill's Breakfast Club"
03-22-1906 - Miff Campbell - Indianapolis, IN - d. 4-2-1995
singer: (The Ink Spots) "Four Ink Spots"; "Jubilee"; "Ink Spots"
03-22-1907 - Bernice Claire - Oakland, CA - d. 1-17-2003
vocalist: "Waltz Time"
03-22-1910 - Bob Kendrick - d. 5-11-1998
fiddle, clarinet, sax, mandolin: "Bob Skyles and His Skyrockets"
03-22-1912 - Karl Malden - Chicago, IL - d. 7-1-2009
actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Our Gal Sunday"; "Aldrich Family"
03-22-1913 - James Westerfield - Nashville, TN - d. 9-20-1971
actor: "Mystery Theatre"; "Gunsmoke", "Have Gun,Will Travel"
03-22-1914 - Antonio Alfonso - d. 1-xx-1987
sportscaster: WIAC San Jose, Puerto Rico
03-22-1916 - George Wyle - NYC - d. 5-3-2003
songwriter: "Alan Young"
03-22-1917 - Virginia Grey - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-31-2004
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-22-1918 - Fred Crane - New Orleans, LA - d. 8-21-2008
actor: "Doctor Christian"
03-22-1920 - Ross Martin - Grodek, Poland - d. 7-3-1981
actor: Soap Opera "Janice Grey"
03-22-1924 - Bill Wendell - NYC - d. 4-14-1999
announcer: "Ten Troubled Years"; "Biography In Sound"
03-22-1927 - Karl Hardman - Pittsuburgh, PA - d. 9-22-2007
actor: Louie the Garbage Man, Roquefort O. Lafarge "Cordie and Company"
03-22-1931 - Tedd Seelye - Lum, MI - d. 6-27-2010
annoncer, actor: "Unshackled"
03-22-1931 - William Shatner - Montreal, Canada
actor: "The Curse"; "No Love Lost"; "The Secretariat"
03-22-1933 - [removed] McCarthy - NYC - d. 8-16-1995
One of the Great Voices of the Great Lakes at WJR Detroit
03-22-1937 - Andy Badale - Brooklyn, NY
composer of radio commercials
03-22-1946 - Jonathan James-Moore - d. 11-20-2005
produced comedy series for BBC radio
03-22-1955 - Veleka Gray - New Orleans, LA
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
03-22-1962 - Trish Cooke - Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
writer: "We Expect Respect"
March 22nd deaths
02-07-1918 - Eugene Cines - NYC - d. 3-22-2004
manager of CBS Music Library
02-08-1893 - Ed Fitzgerald - Troy, NY - d. 3-22-1982
host: "The Fitzgeralds"
02-15-1912 - Howard Harris - d. 3-22-1986
writer: "Abbott and Costello Show"; "Amazing Mr. Smith"; "Mr. and Mrs.
North"
03-08-1918 - Sam Donahue - Detroit, MI - d. 3-22-1974
saxaphonist, bandleader: dance band remotes
05-18-1923 - Bill Macy - Revere, MA - d. 3-22-2004
actor: "Earplay"
06-22-1907 - Mike Todd - Minneapolis, MN - d. 3-22-1958
film producer: "Closing the New York World's Fair"
07-13-1906 - Harry Sosnick - Chicago, IL - d. 3-22-1996
conductor: "Pennzoil Parade"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Beat the Band"
07-17-1915 - Cass Daley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-22-1975
comedian: "New Fitch Bandwagon"; "Cass Daley Show"; "Maxwell House
Coffee Time"
07-23-1891 - Everett Glass - Bangor, ME - d. 3-22-1966
actor: spokesman for "the 21 old men of 10 grammercy park: "I Love
Adventure"
09-05-1908 - Gloria Holden - London, England - d. 3-22-1991
actor: Janet Archer "Meet Corliss Archer"
09-11-1912 - Charles Stark - Reading, PA - d. 3-22-1992
announcer: "Gene Autry's Melody Rance"; "Our Gal Sunday"
10-01-1910 - Paul Baron - Baltimore, MD - d. 3-22-1985
bandleader: "Hildegard's Campbell Room"; "Frank Parker Show"
10-04-1878 - Arthur Hopkins - Cleveland, OH - d. 3-22-1950
producer: "Arthur Hopkins Presents"
10-07-1870 - "Uncle Dave" Macon - Smart Station, TN - d. 3-22-1952
banjo player: "Grand Ole Opry"
10-11-1918 - Olive Deering - NYC - d. 3-22-1986
actor: Nita Bennett "Lone Journey"
10-26-1877 - Dr. Max Mason - Madison, WI - d. 3-22-1961
president university of chicago: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
11-14-1905 - Wilbur "Budd" Hulick - Asbury Park, NJ - d. 3-22-1961
comedian: "Stoopnagle and Budd"; Mortimer Meek "Meet Mr. Meek"
11-27-1907 - Betty Hopkins - d. 3-22-1996
writer: "This Is My Best"; "Trouble Is My Business"
12-16-1900 - Jesse Block - NYC - d. 3-22-1983
comedian: appeared with wife Eve Sully on radio
Ron
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:15:02 -0500
From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Jack Webb doing comedy
Here's one of Jack Webb and Harry Morgan as Sgt. Friday and Officer
Gannon interrogating Jack Benny.
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[ADMINISTRIVIA: Um, before we all start posting links to YouTube videos,
remember that all anyone needs to do is search the site for anyone or
anything interesting, be it "Jack Webb," "Jack Benny," or "Jack Rabbit."
Also, remember to reject cookies, and don't sign-in with your Google account
unless you want your video views to be added to your Google profile for
advertising and other purposes. --cfs3]
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:15:09 -0500
From: "Bob Scherago" <scherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Radio Sound Effects
Michael Berger <[removed]@[removed]; wrote about radio sound effects.
You might be interested in this interview Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran did
with Ham O'Hara, CBS sound effects man, for WTIC's "Golden Age of Radio" in
1973.
When Mr. O'Hara retired from CBS, he was able to take home with him an
entire sound effects console and associated recordings. We met him in his
studio in the basement of his Connecticut home where he demonstrated all
manner of recorded and "live" sound effects. Go to [removed]
and listen to Program #38, one of 89 one-hour programs in the series. At the
same site, enjoy 42 one-hour programs in the series "A One Night Stand with
the Big Bands," where host Arnold Dean interviews some of the biggest names
in music of the era.
--
Bob Scherago
Former WTIC engineer and webmaster for
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:15:16 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 3-23 births/deaths
March 23rd births
03-23-1874 - Fiddlin' John Carson - Cobb County, GA - d. 12-11-1949
fiddler: Made debut on station WSB Atlanta, Georgia
03-23-1891 - Dr. [removed] DeHaan - Zeeland, MI - d. 12-13-1965
evengelist: "Radio Bible Class"
03-23-1892 - Nadea Dragonette Loftus - d. 10-23-1982
Sister and business manager of Jessica Dragonette
03-23-1893 - Arnold Johnson - Chicago, IL - d. 7-25-1975
bandleader: "The Majestic Theatre Hour"; "True Story Time"
03-23-1898 - David Newell - Chicago, IL - d. 9-26-1986
outdoorsman: "Fishing and Hunting Club of the Air"
03-23-1899 - Peggy Paige - Ashville, NC - d. 8-26-1974
actor: Sassy "Grits and Gravy"; Nancy "Main Street Sketches"
03-23-1905 - Joan Crawford - San Antonio, TX - d. 5-10-1977
actor: "Arch Oboler's Plays"; "Everyman's Theatre"; "Screen Guild
Theatre"
03-23-1905 - Sidney Walton - Mississippi - d. 1-16-1958
announcer: "Arthur Tracy, Street Singer"; "Changing Times"
03-23-1906 - Richard L. Evans - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 11-1-1971
announcer: "Music and the Spoken Word" (Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
03-23-1910 - Akira Kurosawa, Tokyo, Japan - d. 9-6-1998
film director: NHK Tokyo, Japan
03-23-1910 - Paula Winslowe - Grafton, ND - d. 3-7-1996
actor: Peg Riley "Life of Riley"; Jill "Joe E. Brown Show"
03-23-1911 - Herbert Rudley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-9-2006
actor: "Helen Hayes Theatre"; "Great Plays"; "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
03-23-1912 - Francis DeSales - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-25-1988
actor: Bill Weigand "Mr. and Mrs. North"; Parris Mitchell "King's Row"
03-23-1915 - Louis Quinn - Chicago, IL - d. 9-15-1988
actor: "Studio One"
03-23-1917 - Josef Locke - Londonderry, Northern Ireland - d. 10-15-1999
actor: "Variety Fanfare"
03-23-1917 - Oscar Shumsky - Philadelphia, PA - d. 7-24-2000
violinist: "Voice of Firestone"
03-23-1920 - Alfred Palca - Manhattan, NY - d. 6-18-1998
writer: Wrote for NBC radio while still in college
03-23-1920 - Maurice Marsac - La Croix, France - d. 5-6-2007
actor: French Teacher "Our Miss Brooks"
03-23-1926 - Martha Wright - Seattle, WA
actor: "Stars for Defense"
03-23-1938 - Christopher Glenn - NYC - d. 10-17-2006
news correspondent: "World News Roundup"; "The World Tonight"
03-23-1957 - Amanda Plummer - NYC
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
March 23rd deaths
02-06-1917 - Raymond Katz - NYC - d. 3-23-2000
director, creator: "Navy Hour"; "Maisie"; "Woman of the Year"
02-13-1920 - Eileen Farrell - Willimantic, CT - d. 3-23-2002
singer: "Eileen Farrell Sings"; "Prudential Family Hour"
02-14-1901 - Peggy Allenby - NYC - d. 3-23-1966
actor: Susan Price "David Harun"; Mary Andrews "Archie Andrews"
02-16-1910 - Jerry Lester - Chicago, IL - d. 3-23-1995
comedian: "The Jerry Lester Show"; "Kraft Music Hall"
02-22-1920 - Giulietta Masina - San Girogio di Piano, Italy - d.
3-23-1994
actor: Pallina "Terzoglio"
02-27-1932 - Dame Elizabeth Taylor - London, England - d. 3-23-2011
actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-25-1920 - Howard Cosell - Winston-Salem, NC - d. 3-23-1995
sportscaster: "Speaking of Sports"
04-25-1907 - Paula Trueman - NYC - d. 3-23-1994
actor: "Great Plays"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
05-05-1919 - George London - Montreal, Canada - d. 3-23-1985
singer: "The Voice of Firestone"
05-10-1889 - Mae Murray - Portsmouth, VA - d. 3-23-1963
actor: "Your Unseen Friend"
06-03-1905 - Paulette Goddard - Whitestone Landing, Long Island, NY -
d. 3-23-1990
actor: "Cresta Blanca Players"
06-26-1904 - Peter Lorre - Rozsahegy, Hungary - d. 3-23-1964
actor: [removed] Moto "Mr. Moto"; "Creeps By Night"; "; "Mystery in the Air"
07-20-1918 - Cindy Walker - Mart, TX - d. 3-23-2006
songwriter: "National Barn Dance"; "Spike Jones"; "Lifebouy Show"
09-09-1918 - Blanche Thebom - Monessen, PA - d. 3-23-2010
mezzo-soprano: "Bell Telephone Hour"; "Metropolitan Opera"; "Railroad
Hour"
09-30-1923 - Donald Swann - Llanelli, Wales - d. 3-23-1994
composer, pianist: "Third Programme with Henry Reed"
10-03-1910 - Gwen Davenport - Colon, Canal Zone, Panama - d. 3-23-2002
author: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-31-1905 - Dewey Cole - d. 3-23-1991
sound effects: "The Lone Ranger"; "Challenge of the Yukon"
11-12-1917 - Henry Jerome - NYC - d. 3-23-2011
bandleader: "Dinner at the Green Room"
12-07-1916 - Dorothea Brooking - Buckinghamshire, England - d. 3-23-1999
announcer for the BBC
Ron
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:15:22 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 3-24 births/deaths
March 24th births
03-24-1867 - Harry Neville - Launceston, Tasmania - d. 1-25-1945
actor: "Sherlock Holmes"; "John's Other Wife"
03-24-1885 - Joseph Granby - Boston, MA - d. 9-22-1965
actor: Mead Connors "We Are Always Young"
03-24-1892 - Roy Harvey - Monroe County, WV - d. 7-11-1958
guitarist: "Charlie Poole and his North Carolina Ramblers"
03-24-1893 - Jane Seymour - Hamilton, Canada - d. 1-30-1956
actor: Mrs. Brown "Claudia and David"
03-24-1895 - Paul Specht - d. 4-11-1954
bandleader: Made very first broadcast of dance Music 9-20-1920 WWJ
Detroit
03-24-1902 - Sir Lancelot - Cumuto, Trinidad, West Indies - d. 3-12-2001
calypso singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"
03-24-1902 - Thomas E. Dewey - Owosso, MI - d. 3-16-1971
presidential candidate: "Jack Benny Program"; "Racketbusters Roundtable"
03-24-1906 - Julian Funt - d. 4-8-1980
writer: "Young Doctor Malone"
03-24-1907 - Martin Kosleck - Barkotzen, Germany - d. 1-16-1994
actor: "Treasury Star Parade"
03-24-1910 - John V. Ambrose - d. 11-7-1995
sportscaster: WTAG Worcester, Massachusetts
03-24-1910 - Richard Conte - Jersey City, NJ - d. 4-15-1975
actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Hollywood
Star Playhouse"
03-24-1911 - Enrique Jorda - San Sebastian, Spain - [removed]
conductor: "San Francisco Symphony Orchestra"
03-24-1915 - Bill Bivens - Wadesboro, NC - d. 1-15-1984
announcer: "Fred Waring Show"; "Vox Pox"
03-24-1916 - David M. Bohme - Poland - d. 1-6-2004
on staff of WLS and WGN radio
03-24-1918 - Bill Aya - d. 10-28-1985
sportscaster: KEVE Seattle, Washington
03-24-1925 - Duncan Wood - Bristol, England - d. 1-11-1997
producer: "Hancock's Half Hour"
03-24-1928 - Sue Bennett - Indianapolis, IN - d. 5-8-2001
vocalist: "Your Hit Parade"
03-24-1928 - Vanessa Brown - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-21-1999
panelist: "Quiz Kids"
March 24th deaths
01-10-1882 - Olive Higgins Prouty - Worcester, MA - d. 3-24-1974
writer: "Stella Dallas" based on Prouty's novel without her approvals
02-02-1918 - Imogen Carpenter - Hot Springs, AR - d. 3-24-1993
actor: "Command Performance"
02-03-1910 - Nelson Case - Long Beach, CA - d. 3-24-1976
announcer: "Hour of Charm"; "New Carnation Contented Hour"
02-08-1828 - Jules Verne - Nantes, France - d. 3-24-1905
pioneering science fiction writer: Several of his works adapted for
radio
03-08-1891 - Sam Jaffe - NYC - d. 3-24-1984
actor: "Fannie Hurst Presents"; "New World A-Coming"; "Cavalcade of
America"
03-10-1927 - Dick Alarie - d. 3-24-2000
sortscaster: WPCT Putnam, Connecticut
03-18-1893 - Jean Goldkette - Patras, Greece - d. 3-24-1962
bandleader: "The Studebaker Champion Program"
03-20-1922 - Ray Goulding - Lowell, MA - d. 3-24-1990
comedian: "Bob and Ray Show"
03-21-1893 - Aileen Stanley - d. 3-24-1982
vocalist: (The Victrola Girl) "RCA Thesaurus Music Hall Varieties"
04-01-1914 - Philip Yordan - Chicago, IL - d. 3-24-2003
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-26-1907 - Holland Engle - Wheeling, WV - d. 3-24-1988
announcer, emcee: "Ladies Fair"; "Variety Fair"
06-17-1914 - John Hersey - Tientsin, China - d. 3-24-1993
author: "Bell for Adano"; "Hiroshima"
06-25-1939 - Harold Melvin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-24-1997
lead singer: (Blue Notes) "Music On Deck"; "Join the Navy"
07-30-1914 - John Meston - Pueblo, CO - d. 3-24-1979
writer: "Gunsmoke"; "Escape"; "Fort Larmie"
08-04-1890 - Carson Robison - Oswego, KS - d. 3-24-1957
singer: "Eveready Hour"; "Dutch Masters Minstrels"
08-16-1930 - Robert Culp - Oakland, CA - d. 3-24-2010
actor: "Philip Morris Playhouse on Broadway"
08-23-1922 - George Kell - Swifton, AR - d. 3-24-2009
baseball announcer: Detroit Tigers
09-03-1876 - Dick Teela - Wisconsin - d. 3-24-1971
singer: "The Breakfast Club"
10-26-1904 - Igor Gorin - Ukraine, Russia - d. 3-24-1982
singer: "The Voice of Firestone"
11-15-1881 - Franklin Pierce Adams - Chicago, IL - d. 3-24-1960
panelist: "Information, Please"
11-22-1906 - Howard Petrie - Beverly, MA - d. 3-24-1968
announcer: "Jimmy Durante Show"; "Judy Canova Show"
12-26-1914 - Richard Widmark - Sunrise, MN - d. 3-24-2008
actor: Neil Davison "Home of the Brave"; Alan Webster "Joyce Jordan,
[removed]"
Ron
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:15:32 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 25-31 March
From Those Were The Days
3/25
1943 Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore premiered on network radio. The
pair replaced the popular Abbott and Costello following Lou Costello's
heart attack. Durante and Moore stayed on the air for four years.
3/27
1943 Blue Ribbon Town was first heard on CBS.
3/28
1941 Louella Parsons hosted Hollywood Premiere for the first time on
CBS. The gossip columnist introduced famous guests who appeared in
dramatized stories.
1944 WQXR in New York City, owned by The New York Times newspaper,
banned singing commercials from its airwaves as of this day.
Understandable, since the station has always been the classical music
voice of Manhattan and t here aren't many classical singing commercials.
3/29
1932 Jack Benny appeared on radio for the first time. He agreed to
join then newspaper columnist, Ed Sullivan, on his interview show.
1937 The serial, Our Gal Sunday, debuted. The question, "Can this girl
from a small mining town in the West find happiness as the wife of a
wealthy and titled Englishman?" was asked each day for next 22 years.
3/30
1936 The serial Backstage Wife made a move across the dial from the
Mutual Broadcasting System to NBC. Once there, the program continued to
air for the next 23 years.
1945 The Dreft Star Playhouse was heard for the final time. The show
had been paying up to $3,000 per week ($35,948 in 2010 dollars) to
attract name talent.
1946 Academy Award was heard for the first time. The first dramatized
story was titled, Jezebel and starred actress Bette Davis.
3/31
1937 Phil Harris recorded one of his best-known songs, That's What I
Like About the South.
1953 Cavalcade of America was heard for the final time on network
radio. It had been the longest running show of its kind. Cavalcade of
America presented dramatized events in American history for 18 years.
Joe
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