Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #308
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Date: 10/30/2007 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 308
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Help                                  [ <celticone22-radiodigest@[removed]; ]
      Don Wilson, KFI Sportscaster          [ Randylarson999@[removed] ]
      10-30 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Wired Covers War of the Worlds        [ seandd@[removed] ]
      Salute to Big Bands                   [ seandd@[removed] ]
      Dragnet "The Big Thanksgiving"        [ Trinapreston3@[removed] ]
      Converting tape to MP3 gaget.         [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
      "Dracula" recreation in Kenosha, WI   [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
      "Dracula" recreation in Kenosha, WI   [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:42:30 -0400
    From: <celticone22-radiodigest@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Help

    HI Everyone

    There is a radio program about a man in a hospital.
    He can't talk, has no arms or legs.  I think he was
    injured in the war.  The program is his thoughts.  I
    believe everyone thinks he's in a coma.  Does this
    sound familiar to anyone?  I'm trying to locate this
    show for my son.

    Thanks, in advance, for all help.

    Anne

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    Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:43:28 -0400
    From: Randylarson999@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Don Wilson, KFI Sportscaster
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    With respect to Jim Hilliker's querey about whether the 1931 USC football
    announcer on KFI was THE Don Wilson--it was.  See Don Wilson's interview in
    Mel
    Simons' new book:  "Old-Time Radio Memories" (BearManor Media, c. 2007).
    Although Mel is a friend, the usual disclaimers apply--except that he has been
    known to buy me an adult beverage at the FOTR Convention!

    Mr. Wilson explains in the book (pp. 50-51) that he broadcast the Pacific
    Coast, NBC network football games starting in 1928--29 (color) and from
    1930--33
    (play-by-play).  He was invited to New York in the fall of 1933 to be a sports
    announcer.  Then in the spring of 1934 he was one of many to audition for
    announcer on a radio show, called "The Jack Benny Show."  But that's another
    story.

    Randy Larson

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    Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:31:25 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-30 births/deaths

    October 30th births

    10-30-1751 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Dublin, Ireland - d. 7-7-1816
    writer: (Inventor of the Malaprop) "Great Plays"
    10-30-1879 - Eily Malyon - London, England - d. 9-26-1961
    actor: Lady Greystroke "Tarzan"
    10-30-1885 - Ezra Pound - Hailey, ID - d. 11-1-1972
    poet and traitor: "Italian Propaganda Broadcast"
    10-30-1891 - Bill Brandt - d. 11-18-1963
    sports commentator: "Inside of Sports"
    10-30-1896 - Bill Terry - Atlanta, GA - d. 1-9-1989
    sportscaster: WAGA Atlanta
    10-30-1896 - Ruth Gordon - Wollaston, MA - d. 8-28-1985
    actor: "Lincoln Highway"; "Meet Mr. Weeks"; "Orson Welles Theatre"
    10-30-1898 - Arthur Kohl - Chicago, IL - d. 8-xx-1983
    actor: Fred Andrews "Archie Andrews"; Bob Graham "Bachelor's Children"
    10-30-1901 - Chester Bagg - d. 10-13-1988
    baritone: WCBC Zion, Illinois
    10-30-1906 - Paul J. Smith - Calumet, MI - d. 1-25-1985
    music: "The Eddie Bracken Show"
    10-30-1908 - Patsy Montana - Hot Springs, AK - d. 5-3-1996
    yodeling country singer: "WLS Barn Dance"
    10-30-1910 - Francia White - Greenville, TX - d. 10-22-1984
    singer: "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"; "Fred Astaire Show";
    "Telephone Hour"
    10-30-1911 - Milton Lieberthal - d. 6-5-1989
    writer: "The Sheriff"
    10-30-1911 - Ruth Hussey - Providence, RI - d. 4-19-2005
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-30-1915 - Fred Friendly - NYC - d. 3-3-1998
    writer, director: "Hear It Now"; "Who Said That?"; "Quick and the Dead"
    10-30-1918 - Joan Banks - NYC - d. 1-18-1998
    actor: Arline Harrison Manning, "Portia Faces Life"; Carlotta Lagorro
    Armour, "Today's Children"
    10-30-1918 - William N. Burch - d. 10-1-2005
    producer: "Truth or Consequences"; "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"
    10-30-1923 - Hershel Bernardi - NYC - d. 5-9-1986
    actor: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
    10-30-1924 - Norman Bird - Coalville, England - d. 4-22-2005
    actor: Major Burnaby "The Sittaford Mystery"
    10-30-1927 - Joe Adcock - Coushatta, LA - d. 5-3-1999
    baseball player: "Baseball: An Action History"
    10-30-1939 - Sammy Ogg - Lexington, VA
    actor: Little Beaver "Red Ryder"; Donnie Henderson "Beulah"
    10-30-1951 - Harry Hamlin - Pasadena, CA
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"

    October 30th deaths

    02-06-1899 - Ramon Novarro - Durango, Mexico - d. 10-30-1968
    actor: Freelance
    05-11-1914 - Bob Atcher - Hardin County, KY - d. 10-30-1993
    singer: "Faultless Starch Time"; "WLS Barn Dance"
    05-14-1918 - June Duprez - Teddington, England - d. 10-30-1918
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    06-11-1904 - Allen Roth - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-30-1972
    conductor: "Broadway Matinee"; "So You Think You Know Music"
    08-01-1906 - Judd McMichael - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-30-1989
    singer: (The Merry Macs) "Bing Crosby Show"; "Fred Allen Show"
    08-12-1912 - Sam Fuller - Worcester, MA - d. 10-30-1997
    producer, director: "The Aldrich Family"; "The Jack Carson Show"
    08-28-1924 - Peggy Ryan - Long Beach, CA - d. 10-30-2004
    dancer, actor: "Mail Call"; "Bob Hope Show"; "Proudly We Hail"
    09-09-1873 - Max Reinhardt - Baden, Austria - d. 10-30-1943
    film director: "Texaco Star Theatre"
    10-14-1907 - Pert Kelton - Great Falls, MT - d. 10-30-1968
    actor: Agnes "Magnificent Montague"; Lolita "We Are Always Young";
    "Milton Berle Show"
    10-27-1908 - Josephine Antoine - Boulder, CO - d. 10-30-1971
    singer: "Contented Hour"
    11-24-1911 - Kirby Grant - Butte, MO - d. 10-30-1985
    singer, actor: "Gatewood to Hollywood"; "Hollywood Barn Dance"
    12-05-1886 - Rose Wilder Lane - De Smet, SD - d. 10-30-1968
    writer: (Daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder) "Hallmark Hall of Fame";
    "Helen Hayes Theatre"
    12-26-1921 - Steve Allen - NYC - d. 10-30-2000
    comedian, actor, singer, composer and anything else you might
    mention: "Steve Allen Show"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:59:41 -0400
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Wired Covers War of the Worlds

    Technology/culture magazine Wired salutes "War of the Worlds."

    Yes, it's that time of year [removed]

    [removed]

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:59:37 -0400
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Salute to Big Bands

    Here's a nostalgic salute to big bands from Springfield, Mo's News-Leader.

    [removed]

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:00:19 -0400
    From: Trinapreston3@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Dragnet "The Big Thanksgiving"

    I am trying to find out if the radio show Dragnet did a Thanksgiving show.
    The other day a nostalgia company called Shokus Video sent me a flyer
    advertising TV shows with holiday episodes on them.  Dragnet is one of them
    with a
    Thanksgiving TV episode titled "The Big Thanksgiving" 1955.  Is there a radio
    version by the same title?  If so, can anyone give the air date of the radio
    version if it exist.

                            Trina,

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    Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:30:11 -0400
    From: Rentingnow@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Converting tape to MP3 gaget.

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    Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:30:58 -0400
    From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  "Dracula" recreation in Kenosha, WI

    I haven't seen any mention of this yet (though I know people directly
    involved in it are on this list), so I thought I'd stick in a
    third-party plug for a recreation of the Mercury Theater's version of
    Dracula that's happening on Halloween in Kenosha, WI. My uncle will be
    playing the organ for this one, but otherwise I have no connection to
    this. (And since I live 500 miles away, I can't see it, alas.) It's
    only five bucks, and is preceded by a dramatic reading of Poe's The
    Tell Tale Heart (which my uncle saw a dress rehearsal of, and he tells
    me it's pretty creepy). If you want more info, go to:

    [removed]
    [removed];task=view&id=4551&Itemid=8
    9

    Wish I could be there!
    Kermyt

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    Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:31:36 -0400
    From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  "Dracula" recreation in Kenosha, WI

    I haven't seen any mention of this yet (though I know people directly
    involved in it are on this list), so I thought I'd stick in a
    third-party plug for a recreation of the Mercury Theater's version of
    Dracula that's happening on Halloween in Kenosha, WI. My uncle will be
    playing the organ for this one, but otherwise I have no connection to
    this. (And since I live 500 miles away, I can't see it, alas.) It's
    only five bucks, and is preceded by a dramatic reading of Poe's The
    Tell Tale Heart (which my uncle saw a dress rehearsal of, and he tells
    me it's pretty creepy). If you want more info, go to:

    [removed]

    [removed];task=view&id=4551&Itemid=89

    Wish I could be there!
    Kermyt

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