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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2013 : Issue 23
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Jack Benny minutiae                   [ <radioaz@[removed]; ]
  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]

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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:20:11 -0500
From: <radioaz@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Jack Benny minutiae

Listened to several Benny episodes while on the road recently, and two
things have me curious.

First, the theme strikes me as the comingling of two songs.  The first few
bars sound like they come from George M. Cohan's "I'm a Yankee Doodle
Dandy."  Then it segues smoothly into "Love in Bloom."  Is that what it
actually was, or is there some other explanation for they way it sounds?

Second, at the beginning of the show Don Wilson always introduced the cast
by saying "starring Jack Benny, with Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day,
Rochester, Phill Harris and me, Don WIlson."  Everybody gets listed by their
name except Eddie Anderson, he gets billed by the name of his character.
Anyone know why that was done?

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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:20:16 -0500
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

Hi Friends,

Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
Radio Theatre," John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane
Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios," Charlie St George's "Make Believe
Ballroom Time" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics." Streamed in
high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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Check our our Transcription Disc scans at:
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

*The Radio Detectives*

ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE
Episode 72 2-21-51 "The Ladies Night"
Stars: Gerald Mohr
CBS Sustained

YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR
Episode 607 9-28-58 "The Gruesome Spectacle Matter"
Stars: Bob Bailey
CBS Sustaining

RICHARD DIAMOND, PRIVATE DETECTIVE
Episode 47 3-26-50 "Sidewalk Photographer - Card & The Negative"
STARS: Dick Powell
NBC Sustained

THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE
Episode 4 8-2-46 "Sam And The Psyche"
STARS: Howard Duff, Lurene Tuttle
ABC Sustained
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

THE LINEUP
(CBS) 10/08/52 Bill Johnstone stars with Raymond Burr, Virginia Gregg
and a swell cast in a kidnapping story.

MY FRIEND IRMA
(CBS/AFRS) 05/07/51 Marie Wilson is Irma. Complex plot with dogs and
secretaries looking for help.

HERE'S TO VETERANS
(VA Synd) 1950 Frankie Carle and His Orch. >From a 1st gen. disk. Franie
introduces a brand-new song.

EXTRA
The NET does a spoof on KRAFT Theatre commercials. "The Heritage 4th of
July Loaf" using lots of good KRAMP lube!!
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION

We continue to feature Ellvia Allman as our performer of the month.
Here is a show that was heard only on the Armed Forces Radio network.

GI JOURNAL
from 01[removed] Episode) (077) Guest - Jack Carson.

We next look at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as we listen to 3 stories he
wrote. Two were about Sherlock Holmes and the other was equally suspenseful.

ESCAPE
from 02/12/49 Episode (055) Lost Special.

SHERLOCK HOLMES
from 10/03/48 Episode (004) Frightened Bookkeeper. It stars John Stanley.

SHERLOCK HOLMES
starring Ben Wright and Eric Snowden, from 03/22/50 Episode) (27) The
Duke Of Hollywell.
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CLASSICS & CURIOS

"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

Episode 68

CLASSICS & CURIOS PRESENTS A JULIUS LA ROSA INTERVIEW

This week let's do an interview with one of the finest song phrasing
vocalists since Frank Sinatra: Julius La Rosa. This is an interview
which originally aired on [removed] in the year 2006. The
interviewers are Bill Bragg and Walden Hughes, with a call-in from yours
truly.

The first 20 minutes or so focuses on a clip from the Arthur Godfrey
radio show in 1953, the show on which Arthur fires Julius, that
unpretentious kid from Brooklyn, while the show was still on the air!
Following the clip, Julius fills in many details concerning the firing
with additional background and also relates what transpired after the
firing. Of course, Godfrey's character is in the discussion, and Julie
is gracious as well as frank. He contrasts Godfrey, the man, with
Godfrey's music director and Julius' mentor Archie Bleyer.

Julius traces his career from his time with a navy band to the challenge
of learning his craft and becoming a professional on stage, including a
bit of advice from Ella Fitzgerald, who later called him "the most
underrated singer in America."

He talks about his family, Perry Como, and his recordings, such as
"Anywhere I Wander," his first, along with "My Lady Loves to Dance" and,
of course, his popular "Eh Cumpari." Later in the interview we get to
hear a portion of "Smile" and his entire recording of "Moonriver." In
between Julius eloquently discusses and illustrates the art of song
phrasing or the art of making sense and meaning out of musical notes,
which is a highlight for me.

Julius closes by declaring that he feels that he fulfilled Godfrey's
original expectation for him to become a professional performer of note
in what Julius calls the "Sinatra school." The song "Eh Cumpari," as
Julie explains on his website, means "Hey, Neighbor, I Want to Sing,"
and that exactly describes his approach to life, which he calls "Lucky,
very lucky. I'm talking about my whole life, not merely my professional
career." On his website Julie says, "I always loved music; I always
loved singing, and fortunately, I still do." And from me and the fans of
the "Sinatra school," we love you and the way you have brought so much
joy to so many with so much charm, enthusiasm, and mastery of your craft. .

Make Believe Ballroom Time

Episode 6

Today, BBSS is featuring Chuck Foster and his "Music in the Foster
Fashion" They are broadcasting from the Hotel New Yorker in NY City. The
New Yorker Hotel is located in Manhattan's Garment Center, central to
Pennsylvania Station, Madison Square Garden, Times Square and the Empire
State Building. An early ad for the building boasted that the hotel's
"bell boys were 'as snappy-looking as West Pointers'" and "that it had a
radio in every room with a choice of four stations" It was a New Yorker
bellboy who served as tobacco company Phillip Morris' pitchman for
twenty years, making famous their "Call for Phillip Morris" advertising
campaign.

Throughout the 1940s and 1950s the hotel was among New York's most
fashionable and hosted many popular Big Bands, such as Benny Goodman and
Tommy Dorsey, while notable figures such as Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford
and Fidel Castro stayed there. The New York Observer noted that in the
building's heyday, "actors, celebrities, athletes, politicians,
mobsters, the shady and the luminous-the entire Brooklyn Dodgers roster
during the glory seasons-would stalk the bars and ballrooms, or romp
upstairs".

Some say the Foster band copied the style of Guy Lombardo's successful
and popular Royal [removed] Reed player Chuck Foster began his career
as a bandleader in 1938, bringing the sweet (and sometimes syrupy)
sounds of his band to such sizeable venues as San Francisco's Mark
Hopkins Hotel and the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel's famous Biltmore Bowl.

With radio remotes routinely being broadcast from both locations, the
band hit its stride early and quickly achieved popularity with the help
of talented pianist Hal Pruden and a raft of popular vocalists.

The Foster band is appearing on BBSS in a remote broadcast from the
Hotel New Yorker in NY City. It's mid-August 1945 just prior to Chuck
Foster being drafted into the WWII military.
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If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

Jerry Haendiges

Jerry@[removed] 562-696-4387
The Vintage Radio Place [removed]
Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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