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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2004 : Issue 347
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  10-28 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Nightwatch                            [ soonersam@[removed] (Sam Bliss) ]
  KGU RADIO                             [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
  KGU MYSTERY                           [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
  Re: Who was KGU                       [ Ken Dahl <kdahl@[removed]; ]
  Shadowskidiboomboom                   [ KENPILETIC@[removed] ]
  Elizabeth McLeod on BBC               [ "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed] ]
  Yesterday USA will broadcast at the   [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
  Re: Edgar Farr Russell's father       [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]
  Old-Time Radio on Ham Radio           [ Bill Jaker <bilj@[removed]; ]
  Red Sox and radio                     [ Richard Carpenter <sinatra@ragingbu ]
  10-29 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Re: Thanx, Bobb!                      [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
  Henry Morgan and MAD                  [ Bhob <bhob2@[removed]; ]
  Obnoxious audience members            [ OzRadio <ozradio1@[removed]; ]

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:51:34 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  10-28 births/deaths

October 28th births

10-28-1886 - Ruth Gates - Denton, TX - d. 5-23-1966
actress: Mrs Lenord "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
10-28-1895 - Herb Butterfield - RI - d. 5-2-1957
actor: Clarence Wellman "Halls of Ivy"; Hunter Glenn "One Man's Family"
10-28-1896 - Howard Hanson - Wahoo, NB - d. 2-26-1981
conductor, composer: "New York Philharmonic"; "ASCAP World's Fair Concert"
10-28-1897 - Edith Head - San Bernardino, CA - d. 10-24-1981
costume designer: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-28-1902 - Elsa Lanchester - Lewisham, England - d. 12-26-1986
actress: "Arch Oboler's Plays"; "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Everyman's
Theatre"
10-28-1907 - Lew Parker - d. 10-27-1972
comedian: John Bickerson "The Bickersons"; "Mennen Shave Time with Lew Parker"
10-28-1913 - Ruth Peterson - Wauwatosa, WI - d. 2-2-1985
actress: Linda Carroll "Hawthorne House"
10-28-1917 - Ron Rawson - d. 7-18-1994
announcer: "Right to Happiness"; "Advs. of Topper"; "Advs. of the Thin Man"
10-28-1934 - Johnny Western - Two Harbors, MN
singer, actor, songwriter: (Ballad of Paladin) Daily show on KFDI Wichita, KS

October 28th deaths

04-01-1917 - Leon Janney - Ogden, UT - d. 10-28-1980
actor: Danny Stratford "Life of Mary Sothern"; Richard Parker "Parker Family"
07-27-1918 - Veola Vonn - NYC - d. 10-28-1995
actress: Dimples Wilson "Blondie"; Princess Nadji "Chandu the Magician"
08-29-1913 - Sylvia Fine - NYC - d. 10-28-1991
writer: (Wife of Danny Kaye) "Danny Kaye Show"; "Forecast"; "Bud's Bandwagon"
09-16-1919 - Larry Dobkin - NYC - d. 10-28-2002
actor: Archie Goodwin "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; Ellery Queen "Advs. of Ellery
Queen"
09-17-1907 - Alice Yourman - d. 10-28-2000
actress: Mary Andrews "Archie Andrews"; [removed] Aldrich "Aldrich Family"
10-06-1899 - Mitchell Leisen - Menominee, MI - d. 10-28-1972
director: Lux Radio Theatre
11-02-1892 - Alice Brady - NYC - d. 10-28-1939
actress: "Hollywood Hotel"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:47:40 -0400
From: soonersam@[removed] (Sam Bliss)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Nightwatch

I'm new here, and thrilled that such a forum exists!
I've been listening to old time radio programs on tape/cd for many years
(mainly thanks to Radio Spirit) and enjoy the medium immensly.
One comment I have, since crime drama is my favorite.  The show
'Nightwatch,' live police action via 'crime recorder' Don Reed, who tags
along with detectives from the Culver City, California police
department, is a real gem.  Almost a radio version of television's COPS,
if you love Dragnet and Gangbusters, this is a show for you.
The MP3 CDs (48 half hour shows) are fairly available on eBay.
Thanks again for the newsletter!

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:48:44 -0400
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  KGU RADIO
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A grand and glorious radio station it was and I believe still  is, though I
could be wrong.
    It is in Honolulu, Hawaii and was the station that  first broadcast the
live reports on the attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
    When I was in radio there in 1965 it was in the  newspaper building and
one of the great old broadcast booths in the  business.
    I was on KPOI at the time and we were Top-40.
    KGU was middle-of-the-road with some talk and a  great morning man named
Hal Lewis who had been there since WW2 and known as "J.  Aku-Head Pupule."
    Don't ask me what it meant. Don't think many  knew.
    Hawaiians said it meant crazy.
    Kinda wished I had worked there.
                Michael  C. Gwynne

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:48:32 -0400
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  KGU MYSTERY
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Chris:
    Just saw the photo you mentioned. Should have  looked before I posted my
letter.
    I am perplexed as well but I did send the photo off  to several friends
in the Islands who are or have been in radio for many years  in Honolulu.
    We should have an answer very soon.
    I feel like Charlie Chan.
                    Michael  C. Gwynne

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:47:27 -0400
From: Ken Dahl <kdahl@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Who was KGU

I went to [removed]  typed KGU in the appropriate box and
came up with Honolulu, Hawaii as the location of the station.

Regards,
Ken Dahl

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 19:30:14 -0400
From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Shadowskidiboomboom
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Hi Gang -

Recently somebody asked about Alfred E. Newman in Mad Comics.
I graduated Grade School in 1951.   When I was in either 7th or 8th
grade I purchased my first copy of Mad Comics.  Alfred E. Newman
was pictured in Mad Comics during that era (1949 thru 1951), but
he didn't have a name.  There was his picture, with "What, Me Worry"
written under.  Apparently he was given a real name a few years later.

The Radio [removed]   In those early issues of Mad, there were several
radio programs [removed]
I remember "The Adventures of Superduperman"   and
"The Invisable Shadowskidiboomboom".
There were others that I don't remember.

My small stack of Mad Comics was thrown out, along with other
insignificant junque, by my mother.  That small stack would probably
bring a small fortune today.

Happy Taping -  Ken Piletic - Streamwood, Illinois
kenpiletic@[removed]

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 19:31:45 -0400
From: "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed];
To: "OTR" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Elizabeth McLeod on BBC

I recently listened to a 2-part documentary about Amos 'n Andy produced and
broadcast by the BBC.

Elizabeth was a big part of this program.   I just want to tell her what a
media natural she is, very relaxed, great voice, clear and informed
presentation, etc.   I'm sure this is known to many of you but this is the
first time for me that Elizabeth was a voice and not a message.

Great job!

-Irene

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:25:32 -0400
From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Yesterday USA will broadcast at the SPERDVAC
 convention

Hi Everybody,

if you can,t make the SPERDVAC convention but would like to caught some of
the flavor Yesterday USA will be broadcast from the SPERDVAc convention this
year.  Right now Frank Bresee and I will go live from the dealer room
Saturday 11-13-04 from 11 AM to 1 PM west coast time.  You can go to
[removed] to hear the live broadcast.  Take care,

Walden Hughes

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:28:50 -0400
From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Edgar Farr Russell's father
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Many of you know Edgar Russell. He is a member of the MWOTRC and his play
was the winning entry at FOTR this year. I just received the follow email
from our club president, Chuck Langdon.

I share with you sad news. Edgar Farr Russell's father, Captain Edgar F.
Russell, Jr. US Naval Reserve (Ret) passed away Sunday in New
Jersey.  Edgar, his brother Frazier and their father were attended the FOTR
convention.  On Sunday morning Captain Russell was hospitalized.  I do not
have further details or arrangements at this time.  Edgar's telephone
number is 202-333-8456. His address is 3705 Reservoir Road, NW, Washington
DC 20007-2112. I spoke with Edgar. He asked that I share this news with
members of our club.  I will forward more information as it is received

Fred

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:29:09 -0400
From: Bill Jaker <bilj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Old-Time Radio on Ham Radio

All amateur radio operators who also enjoy old-time (broadcast) radio
are invited to join in with the ORCATs Net Sunday morning at 8:00
o'clock Eastern Standard Time (that extra hour of sleep this Sunday
should make it especially easy to be up and on the air by that hour).
The Old-Time Radio Collectors and Traders Society meets on 7238 kHz in
the 40-meter band.  This Sunday's topics will include the just-completed
Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention in Newark.

SWLs are also welcome to tune in and boost our ham Hooperating.

                                                    --73 from Bill
Jaker, WB8RAE

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:29:32 -0400
From: Richard Carpenter <sinatra@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Red Sox and radio
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Long before there was televised baseball with instant replays, slo-mo,
diamond cams, and every other kind of technical wizardry, you could listen to
the Boston Red Sox on the radio -- something my father did whenever he could.
I can envision him alternately cheering and groaning as he listened to Curt
Gowdy delivering the play-by-play and letting our imaginations take us out to
the ball game. If my dad wasn't the number one Sox fan, he was certainly
high up there. How I wish he could have been here tonight.

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:29:40 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  10-29 births/deaths

October 29th births

10-29-1891 - Fanny Brice - NYC - d. 5-29-1951
comedienne: Baby Snooks Higgins, "Baby Snooks"
10-29-1894 - Jack Pearl - NYC - d. 12-25-1982
comedian: Baron Munchausen "Baron and the Bee, Jack and Cliff, Jack Pearl Show"
10-29-1897 - Hope Emerson - Hawarden, IA - d. 4-24-1960
actress: Henrietta Topper "Advs. of Topper"; Elsie the Cow "Happy Island"
10-29-1901 - Akim Tamiroff - Baku, Russia - d. 9-17-1972
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-29-1916 - Hadda Brooks - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-21-2002
pianist: "Jubilee"
10-29-1921 - Ed Kemmer - Reading, PA
actor: Buzz Corey "Space Patrol"
10-29-1925 - Geraldine Brooks - NYC - d. 6-19-1977
actress: "Hollywood Fights Back"; "Voice of the Army"

October 29th deaths

02-18-1890 - Adolphe Menjou - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-29-1963
host: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Eternal Light"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
02-18-1917 - Jack Slattery - MO - d. 10-29-1979
announcer: "House Party"; "You Bet Your Life"
04-08-1921 - Franco Corelli - Ancona, Italy - d. 10-29-2003
operatic tenor: "Gala Performance"
05-16-1913 - Woody Herman - Milwaukee, WI - d. 10-29-1987
bandleader: (The Thundering Herd) "Wildroot Show"
06-14-1908 - John Scott Trotter - Charlotte, NC - d. 10-29-1975
conductor: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Philco Radio Time"
07-04-1885 - Louis B. Mayer - Minsk, Byelorussia, Russian Empire - d.
10-29-1957
film executive: "Good News of 1938/39"; "Songs By Sinatra"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
07-06-1894 - Myra Marsh - ME - d. 10-29-1964
actress: Dora Foster "A Date with Judy"; Mother "My Friend Irma"
11-05-1906 - Joel McCrea - South Pasadena, CA - d. 10-29-1990
actor: Jace Pearson "Tales of the Texas Rangers"
12-14-1912 - Morey Amsterdam - Chicago, IL - d. 10-29-1996
comedian: "Morey Amsterdan Show"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:26:47 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Thanx, Bobb!

On 10/27/04 2:51 PM [removed]@[removed] wrote:

I just want to be among the first to say, "welcome back, Elizabeth!"

Well, thank you very much! I'm very glad to be here! (Under the circs,
I'm glad to be *anywhere!*)

Elizabeth

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:27:33 -0400
From: Bhob <bhob2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Henry Morgan and MAD

MAD certainly popularized Alfred E. Neuman with its full-color painting
by Norman Mingo in the mid-1950s, but the actual image of "the kid" has
been traced back to the 19th Century, and there were various advertising
cards with both the image and the phrase "Me worry?" and "What – me
worry?" around 1910 to [removed]'s also an association of the character
with the Henry Morgan radio show.

Harvey Kurtzman launched MAD as an EC comic book in 1952, and two years
later, Ballantine Books decided to do a B&W paperback reprint of MAD
stories. Visiting the office of Ballantine editor Bernard Shir-Cliff,
Kurtzman was intrigued by a card with the "What – me worry?" character
on Shir-Cliff's bulletin board and decided to use the character on the
cover of Ballantine's THE MAD READER paperback reprint (December 1954).
Next came a tiny head on the cover of MAD 21 (March 1955), a satire of
the Johnson-Smith novelty catalog. In MAD 24 (the first issue as a
magazine) the character was called Melvin Coznowski, and in issues 25
and 28, he was known as Mel Haney. Kurtzman left MAD after issue 28. The
Neuman name was also used in issue 24, and it became the final choice
with MAD 30 (December 1956) when the Mingo painting appeared.

The name MAD settled on derived from Henry Morgan's radio show, which
featured a satire or running gag about the Hollywood composer Alfred L.
Newman. Some sources say that Alfred Newman was the name of a character
on the Morgan radio show. Does anyone know what this Henry Morgan joke
was? I have never seen it documented anywhere. It remains a mystery
unless someone here can supply the answer.

Here is my speculation: Laird Cregar portrayed Sir Henry Morgan in the
movie THE BLACK SWAN (1942) with Tyrone Power. The Oscar-nominated score
for this film was by Alfred Newman (1901-1970), who also composed the
20th Century Fox opening fanfare theme. Certainly THE BLACK SWAN, from
Sabatini, was ripe for satire. So did the gag about Alfred Newman on
Henry Morgan's radio show have anything to do with Sir Henry Morgan in
that movie? I'd love to know the answer to this one. Henry Morgan, btw,
was a contributor to MAD 33.

Bhob @ FUSEBOX COMIC ART @ [removed]

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:24:29 -0400
From: OzRadio <ozradio1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Obnoxious audience members

In an episode of Great Gildersleeve (43-04-18) the
listener can hear the obnoxious laugh of an audience
member. Goldin, in his index, describes it as a
"braying mule" and that's a fair assessment. It
actually becomes difficult to listen to the show
because I start anticipating this man's laugh. I know
this was not an uncommon occurance and am wondering if
the performers were ever distracted by such audence
members. Anyone familiar with how the actors and
actresses responded in such situations? Or were they
even very aware of the audience?
Thanks,
Ryan

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