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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2006 : Issue 247
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Laugh Crafters IS good [ Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed]; ]
Kenny Delmar/Doc Savage OTR [ "Dave Adams" <daveadams-hollywood@c ]
Re: Little Jack Little [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
Re: Gildersleeve War Bulletin [ "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed] ]
interesting review of OTR book [ <vzeo0hfk@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history [ "Grant Shorten" <shorten@[removed] ]
Subject: script needed [ Larry Groebe <lgroebe@genericradio. ]
Re: Gildersleeve show [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
Re: The Shadow [ Bob <hrkeller@[removed]; ]
9-11 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Was this a Suspense Radio Play? [ Craig Melville <craigmelville@yahoo ]
re: Commissioner Weston [ Rob Chatlin <rchatlin@[removed] ]
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:29:16 -0400
From: Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Laugh Crafters IS good
I'm also a fan of Young's Laugh Crafters book. It and
Chuck's Speaking of Radio are the most entertaining
conversational books on radio I've ever read.
Ben Ohmart
Old radio. Old movies. New books.
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:29:39 -0400
From: "Dave Adams" <daveadams-hollywood@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Kenny Delmar/Doc Savage OTR
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 17:42:34 -0400
From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
I think Commissioner Weston considerably softened during the years that
Kenny Delmar played the role regularly, roughly 1940-44.
<snip>
BTW, I recently obtained the license to reprint Walter Gibson's original
SHADOW pulp novels (and also the DOC SAVAGE novels), and am co-publishing
them with Nostalgia Ventures in double-novel trade paperbacks priced at
just
$[removed]
Anthony,
I seem to recall reading somewhere that Kenny Delmar played a part in the
long lost
Doc Savage OTR series. I think you that originally wrote that in one of the
intros
to a Shadow collection.
Can you confirm that for me? I would just look it up but I have most or all
those collections
and I've not been able to find which one that comment is from.
I've read on several Doc websites that the players from Doc Savage on radio
are unknown.
Are you aware of any other cast members from that show?
I had in mind to share the answer with the FeaRun Yahoo Group (aren't you
also a member?)
By the way, congrats on those Shadow/Doc rights. 'Bout time reprints were
available. I know
they'll be in capable hands.
-Dave
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:29:48 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Little Jack Little
On 9/8/06 9:30 AM [removed]@[removed] wrote:
Jack had very bass voice and he doesn't sing but rather
speaks the lyrics while I'm guessing he plays the piano. Who was he? Matt
"Little Jack" Little was a very popular personality of the Depression era
who became well known as a "talk-singing" pianist, who half-sang,
half-talked the lyrics of his songs in a whispery crooning voice. The
programs you have were recorded for syndication, and distributed on
Columbia transcriptions -- which were of a quality comparable to
commercial phonograph records of the era. The format of these recordings
is basically the same as that used in Little's live broadcasts -- just
Little and a piano for fifteen minutes. The syndications ran a bit short
in order to allow time for the insertion of locally-sold commercials.
This type of intimate one-performer program was very common in pre-1935
radio.
Little was born in England in 1900, and started out with the idea of
becoming a doctor -- but during his college years he became distracted by
music, and began writing songs and playing in campus orchestras. From
there he found his way into vaudeville, and from there into radio, where
he first made a name for himself around 1924 on the "Midnight Frolic" out
of KYW, Chicago. He also continued writing songs -- "There's a Shanty In
Old Shanty Town" is probably his best known accomplishment in that field.
By 1933 Little was leading a dance orchestra which recorded regularly for
Columbia -- and his recordings of "You Oughta Be In Pictures" and "I'm In
The Mood For Love" are likely the definitive versions of those songs. But
by 1939, Little's style was out of date, and he tried to reinvent himself
by leading an unusual novelty orchestra that played all its selections in
"bolero" rhythm. This didn't catch on, and Little's career was
essentially over. He slipped down the ladder thru the forties, and by the
end of the decade he was scraping along as a smalltime disk jockey. He
finally ended up in Florida -- where he committed suicide in 1956.
Elizabeth
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:31:26 -0400
From: "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Gildersleeve War Bulletin
Found this additional information at [removed] about the
Gildersleeve show now that I have the date of the broadcast.
Andrew Godfrey
42112. The Great Gildersleeve. February 25, 1945. NBC net. Sponsored by:
Kraft Parkay, Kraft Dinner. The start of the program is delayed by a war
bulletin from Guam, which is not heard on this recording. Harold Peary and
Walter Tetley are heard telling jokes and fooling around with the audience
instead. It's not possible to determine from this recording whether the
first seven minutes were broadcast as fooling around, or were just recorded
on these discs with the bulletin originating from elsewhere. The bulletin
runs seven minutes before the program starts. Aunt Hattie is proving to be
somewhat of a trial. Harold Peary, Walter Tetley, Louise Erickson, Lillian
Randolph, Noreen Gammill, Earle Ross, Ken Carpenter (announcer), John Whedon
(writer), Sam Moore (writer), Claude Sweeten (music director). 29:45. Audio
condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:31:55 -0400
From: <vzeo0hfk@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: interesting review of OTR book
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A friend recently brought to my attention a new and quite interesting review of WORDS AT WAR, my book about US radio and its role in helping the W WW II effort
Above is the URL for the review. It can also be accessed by Googling WORDS AT WAR and Graham Barnfield (author of the review)
Howard Blue
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:32:24 -0400
From: "Grant Shorten" <shorten@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history
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" Say Johnny, that's a good one but the way I heerd it", Popeye was a real
character who sat on his front porch smoking a corn cob pipe and greeted folks
as they passed by in Mr. Segar's hometown of Chester, Ill near St Louis. I
remember hearing this from a ham radio friend of mine a few years ago who was
also born in Chester . Can anyone from near Chester testify to this?
Grant
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:33:08 -0400
From: Larry Groebe <lgroebe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Subject: script needed
does any one know where I can get a copy of radio script for the
story It,s A Wonderful Life for an upcoming event? Take care,
Hi Walden --
An "It's a Wonderful Life" transcript can be found on our
[removed] website as a Lux Radio Theater broadcast.
Go here: [removed]
Enjoy!
--Larry Groebe
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:33:58 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Gildersleeve show
> The Gildersleeve show in which a war bulletin appeared was December
7,1941.
> Somehow the engineers got some lines crossed and so we didn't catch
> the network feed in the discs but instead got the studio.
Actually, the December 7th show was broadcast but had bulletin
interruptions. The NBC logs at the Library of Congress show the program
broadcasting though it does list the interruptions.
Matthew Bullis had the right show according to what the questioner
originally asked. The battle for the Marianas was going strongly and in
US favor at the time. Then Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, was
giving the public a report on the ongoing events and NBC broke to cover
that report. Meanwhile, due to the report, the show was delayed since
all were assembled. So there was some interaction between Walter Tetley
and Hal Peary who kept repeated asking if they were going on. So little
mini-rehearsals were heard while they all waited along with interaction
with the audience. Finally, the show was allowed to go on.
I believe as Matthew mentioned that an mp3 copy is floating around
called "audience warm-up" but it does not include the complete show.
That is a separate file.
Jim Widner
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:34:27 -0400
From: Bob <hrkeller@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: The Shadow
Let me give a tip of the hat to list member Anthony Tollin for his work on
the Shadow reprints.
I've only read a fraction of the titles because of the cost of originals, and
the fraglity of originals. I've read his first installment and look forward
to the second. Production quality and new intro material is first rate.
Let me also mention the novel "The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril" by Paul
Malmont. I just read it last weekend. Shadow fans should get a kick of out it
as it pits Shadow creator Walter Gibson and Dov Savage creator Lester Dent
(and a cast of other notables) in an adventure that narrowly avoids New York
City being gassed! It is, of course, set with a backdrop of the Shadow being
the king of radio dramas and pulps, and a kind reference to Blue Coal and
Goodyear as sponsors!
Regards from Wisconsin,
Bob Keller
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:20:12 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 9-11 births/deaths
September 11th births
09-11-1862 - O. Henry (Wm. Sydney Porter) - Greensboro, NC - d. 6-5-1910
short story writer: "Alias Jimmy Valentine"; "The Cisco Kid"
09-11-1887 - Gus Arnheim - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-19-1955
orchestra leader: "Woodbury Soap Show"
09-11-1889 - Bill Comstock - Syracuse, NY - d. 6-xx-1979
actor: Tizzy Lish "Mirth Parade"
09-11-1908 - Elisebeth A. Heisch - Madison, WI - d. 8-17-2003
writer: "The Cinnamon Bear"
09-11-1909 - Anne Seymour - NYC - d. 12-11-1988
actor: "Mary Marlin "Story of Mary Marlin"; Francie Nolan "Tree Grows
in Brooklyn"
09-11-1909 - Kenneth Banghart - Paramus, NJ - d. 5-25-1980
announcer: "Archie Andews"; "Lora Lawton"; "Robert Shaw Chorale"
09-11-1915 - Athena Lorde - NYC - d. 5-23-1973
actor: Maggie Sprague "Young Widder Brown"; Sherry "Front Page Farrell"
09-11-1923 - Betsy Drake - Paris, France
actor: Muriel Blandings "Mr. and Mrs. Blandings"
09-11-1926 - Lee Richardson - Chicago, IL - d. 10-2-1999
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
09-11-1928 - Earl Holliman - Delhi, LA
actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
09-11-1936 - Roger Barkley - Minnesota - d. 12-21-1997
actor: "Empire of the Air"
September 11th deaths
01-04-1881 - Norman Field - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - d. 9-11-1956
actor: Glen Hunter "One Man's Family"
02-04-1912 - Erich Leinsdorf - Vienna, Austria - d. 9-11-1993
conductor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "Pioneers of Music"; "Musicians
Off Stage"
02-12-1915 - Lorne Greene - Ottowa, Canada - d. 9-11-1987
host Western Night: "Sears Radio Theatre"
02-16-1901 - Chester Morris - NYC - d. 9-11-1979
actor: Boston Blackie "Boston Blackie"; Great Merlini "Great Merlini"
02-17-1897 - Harry Tugend - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-11-1989
writer: "The Fred Allen Show"
02-18-1913 - Dane Clark - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-11-1998
actor: Perry 'Quiz' Quisinberry "Passport for Adams
03-05-1893 - Dorothy Sands - Cambridge, MA - d. 9-11-1980
actor: Mary Ann Clarke "Barry Cameron"; Margot "Backstage Wife"
04-08-1937 - Bernelda Wheeler - Saskatchewan, Canada - d. 9-11-2005
worked as a disc jockey in Churchill, Manitoba
04-11-1907 - Paul Douglas - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-11-1959
announcer, sportscaster, actor: Lawyer Feldman "Meyer the Buyer"
05-23-1898 - Frank McHugh - Homestead, PA - d. 9-11-1981
actor: Fairchild Finnegan "Phone Again Finnegan"
06-07-1909 - Jessica Tandy - London, England - d. 9-11-1994
actor: Liz Marriott "Marriage"; Mildred Rogers "Of Human Bondage"
07-19-1889 - Max Fleischer - Vienna, Austria - d. 9-11-1972
cartoonist: "Popeye the Sailor"
08-21-1923 - Chris Schenkel - Bippus, IN - d. 9-11-2005
sportscaster: "Campy's Corner"; "11:30 Clubhouse"
09-04-1898 - Charlie Cantor - Worcester, MA - d. 9-11-1966
actor: Clifton Finnegan "Duffy's Tavern"; Levy Soloman "Abie's Irish
Rose"
09-13-1896 - Laidman Browne - Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England - d.
9-11-1961
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Corner in Crime"
09-15-1915 - Al Casey - Louisville, KY - d. 9-11-2005
guitarist: "One Night Stand"; "New World A' Coming"; "Eddie Condon's
Jazz Concert"
10-18-1914 - Louise Fitch - Iowa - d. 9-11-1996
actor: Dale Locke "Manhattan Mother"; Carol Evans Martin Brent "Road
of Life"
11-12-1922 - Kim Hunter - Detroit, MI - d. 9-11-2002
actor: "Medicine USA"; "Philco Radio Playhouse"; "CBS Radio Mystery
Theatre"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:32:57 -0400
From: Craig Melville <craigmelville@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Was this a Suspense Radio Play?
I'm trying to remember the name of a radio play the
life of me I can't recall. These are the details I
remember:
I believe it was a Suspense play and the title was
something like "Still a Cop" or "Always a Detective"?.
The storyline is of an ex-policeman who works as a
library detective tracking down overdue books. The
body of a murder victim is discovered with a scrape of
paper with a number scrawled on it. It is discovered
the number is a library book reference number. At the
request of the detective working the case, the
ex-policeman/library detective, starts investigating
the crime. Suspicion falls on a crooked cop currently
on the force. therefore our hero (ex-policeman/library
detective) can be trusted to bring him to justice.
If this radio play rings any bells, I would love to
hear your thoughts.
Craig
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:42:18 -0400
From: Rob Chatlin <rchatlin@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: re: Commissioner Weston
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As Anthony Tollin wrote:
BTW, I recently obtained the license to reprint Walter Gibson's original
SHADOW pulp novels (and also the DOC SAVAGE novels), and am co-publishing
them with Nostalgia Ventures in double-novel trade paperbacks priced at just
$[removed]
I don't recall seeing it mentioned on the list yet, so I wanted alert
folks to a new novel by author Paul Malmont
called "The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril." It's set during the days of
Pulp fiction, and the two protagonists are Walter Gibson and Lester
Dent, along with numerous other cameos, including Orson Welles.
It's a fun read, and although the characterizations are fictionalized,
it's a great way to get into the heads of these 2 great writers.
rob
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