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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2011 : Issue 16
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This ain't my Green Hornet [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
1-22 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
AP posting Ozzie and Harriet [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
The Lone Ranger "reboot" [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
This week in radio history 23-29 Jan [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
"booth" announcers [ Andy Blatt <asajb2000@[removed]; ]
This is NBC the National Broadcastin [ Michael Shoshani <mshoshani@sbcglob ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
50's westerns [ Keith Houdeshell <khowdy@[removed] ]
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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:55:26 -0500
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This ain't my Green Hornet
A review in today's local newspaper underscores my decision to avoid
the new GH movie:
"Canadian Seth Rogen co-wrote the script so it isn't surprising he's
given the story a bad-boy edge, stuffing the film full of sexual
innuendo and cursing. The profanity-laced dialogue and the portrayal
of boozy nights out implies that Britt Reid has serial one-night
stands. While the mayhem has a comic tilt, it's also quite intense
with point-blank shootings and violent fights."
'Nuff [removed] this film is aimed at the core group of
[removed] year old boys.
Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:55:32 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 1-22 births/deaths
January 22nd births
01-22-1859 - Sondra Gair - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-31-1977
actor: "Chicago Theatre On the Air"; "Meet Miss Sherlock"; "Suspense"
01-22-1872 - Beatrice Fairfax - Washington, [removed] - d. 11-28-1945
writer: "Advice to the Lovelorn"
01-22-1875 - D. W. Griffith - La Grange, KY - d. 7-23-1948
movie producer-director: "Brooklyn Mark Strand Stage and Studio Program"
01-22-1878 - Constance Collier - Windsor, Berkshire, England - d.
4-25-1955
actor: Jessie Atwood "Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy"
01-22-1893 - Conrad Veidt - Potsdam, Germany - d. 4-3-1943
actor: "Free World Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
01-22-1893 - Fulton Oursler - Baltimore, MD - d. 5-24-1952
writer: "The Greatest Story Ever Told"; "Thatcher Colt Mysteries"
01-22-1894 - Rosa Ponselle - Meriden, CT - d. 5-25-1981
opera soprano: "Atwater Kent Hour"; "Metropolitan Opera"
01-22-1895 - Ethel (Everett) Remey - d. 2-28-1979
actor: Kathleen Norris "By Kathleen Norris"
01-22-1897 - Linda Carlon - Stuttgart, Germany - d. 6-xx-1985
actor: Mary Sothern "Life of Mary Sothern"
01-22-1899 - Anne Elstner - Lake Charles, LA - d. 1-29-1981
actor: Stella Dallas "Stella Dallas"; Mary Weston "Wilderness Road"
01-22-1906 - Guy Savage - d. 8-31-1981
announcer: "Play Broadcast"
01-22-1907 - Douglas 'Wrong-Way' Corrigan - Galveston, TX - d. 12-9-1995
intrepid pilot: "Believe It or Not"
01-22-1909 - Ann Sothern - Valley City, ND - d. 3-15-2001
actor: Maisie Revere "Maisie"
01-22-1911 - Arnold Robertson - Chicago, IL - d. 7-xx-1969
comedian: Ed Potts "Scattergood Baines"; Dr. Jensen "This Is Nora Drake"
01-22-1914 - Dick Willard - d. 9-6-2000
announcer, emcee: "The Strange Dr. Weird"; "Take it Easy Time"
01-22-1914 - Joy Hodges - Des Moines, IA - d. 1-19-2003
vocalist; "The Joe Penner Show"
01-22-1916 - Howard Teichmann - Chicago, IL - d. 7-7-1987
writer: "Road of Life"; "Theatre USA"; "Valiant Lady"
01-22-1920 - Herman Alexander Baron - NYC - d. 9-xx-1984
staff composer with NBC 1943-1948
01-22-1920 - William Warfield - West Helena, AR - d. 8-25-2002
bass-baritone singer: "Edgar Bergen Show"; "Beyond Victory"
01-22-1924 - J. J. Johnson - d. 2-4-2001
jazz trombonist: "Arthur Godfrey Show"; "One Night Stand"
01-22-1932 - Piper Laurie - Detroit, MI
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "NBC Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
01-22-1934 - Bill Bixby - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-21-1993
actor: "We Hold These Truths"
01-22-1935 - Dave Holland - Raleigh, NC - d. 11-14-2005
author: "From Out of the Past: A Pictorial History of the Lone Ranger"
01-22-1951 - Steve J. Spears - Adelaide, Australia - d. 10-16-2007
writer: "King Richard"; "Maggie's Ear"
January 22nd deaths
01-09-1879 - Alfred McCann - d. 1-22-1931
host: "McCann Pure Food Hour"
01-21-1922 - Telly Savalas - Garden City, NY - d. 1-22-1994
actor: "[removed] Story"
01-29-1913 - Daniel Taradash - Louisville, KY - d. 1-22-2003
film writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
01-31-1929 - Jean Simmons - London, England - d. 1-22-2010
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "A Christmas Carol"
02-10-1892 - Alan Hale, Sr. - Washington, [removed] - d. 1-22-1950
actor:"Lux Radio Theatre"
02-18-1900 - Zeno Klinker - d. 1-22-1985
writer: "Edgar Bergen/.Charlie McCarthy Show"
03-02-1905 - Marc Blitzstein - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-22-1964
author: "Mercury Theatre On the Air"
03-03-1911 - Henry Gladstone - Boston, MA - d. 1-22-1995
announcer: "White Owl Reporter"
03-09-1912 - Ray Darby - Edmonton, Canada - d. 1-22-1982
radio script writer: "American School of the Air"
04-10-1911 - Victor Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 1-22-1994
musician: (Guy Lombardo's Orchestra) "Lady Esther Serenade"
04-12-1919 - Ann Miller - Chireno, TX - d. 1-22-2004
dancer, actor: "Forecast"; "Hollywood Hotel"
05-13-1938 - Anna Cropper - Brierfield, England - d. 1-22-2007
actor: "Sherlock Holmes"
05-23-1890 - Herbert Marshall - London, England - d. 1-22-1966
actor: Ken Thurston "Man Called X"
05-25-1926 - Milt Bernhart - Valpariso, IN - d. 1-22-2004
trombonist: "One Night Stand"
06-23-1895 - Pick Malone - nr. Dallas, TX - d. 1-22-1962
comedian: "Show Boat"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
07-21-1901 - Allyn Joslyn - Milford, PA - d. 1-22-1981
actor: "Island Boat Club"; "Page of Romance"; "Show Boat"
08-21-1916 - Consuelo Velazquez - Ciudad Guzman, Mexico - d. 1-22-2005
songwriter: (Besame Mucho) Oversaw classical music programs for
station XEQ
08-27-1908 - Lyndon Baines Johnson - nr. Stonewall, TX - d. 1-22-1973
[removed] president: "Meet the Press"; "World's Fair Holiday"
09-10-1879 - Jess Pugh - Andersonville, IN - d. 1-22-1962
actor: Scattergood Baines, "Scattergood Baines"
10-22-1891 - Parker Fennelly - Northeast Harbor, ME - d. 1-22-1988
actor: Titus Moody, "Fred Allen Show"; Dan Tucker, "Lawyer Dan Tucker"
10-28-1908 - David LeWinter - NYC - d. 1-22-1976
orchestra leader: Late night dance band remotes
10-29-1921 - Bill Mauldin - Mountain Park, NM - d. 1-22-2003
cartoonist: "Command Performance"; "Armed Forces V-J Program"
11-05-1933 - Donald Madden - NYC - d. 1-22-1983
actor: "Let's Pretend"
11-10-1916 - Billy May - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-22-2004
orchestra leader: "Music Depreciation"; "Stan Freberg Show"
12-07-1920 - Frances Gifford - Long Beach, CA - d. 1-22-1994
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
Ron
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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:56:26 -0500
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: AP posting Ozzie and Harriet
Max Schmid stated:
The AP issued a correction to this misinformation on 1/18, stating
that the bad info came from the family of David Nelson. The correction
stated that the show started on the radio in 1944 as "The Adventures
of Ozzie and Harriet". They also corrected another point about the TV
show - the original story said that it was shot in the Nelsons' own
home, while the correction stated that only a shot of the exterior of
the house was used for the TV show. I wonder how many papers/broadcasts
that run the bad story ever issue the correction??
I doubt many. Many readers of newspapers don't know what (AP) stands for, and
the papers, already hurting and in desperate need for advertising space, won't
likely consider printing a correction, in fear readers might assume the newspaper
itself made the error.
I've seen tons of obituaries printed in the paper for celebrities, obviously issued
by the family (or a legal representing the family) that had mistaken information.
One other oddity -- newspapers were not and still are not reliable to print an
obit immediately following the death. This ultimately leads to the wrong death
date in reference guides. For example: The June 24 issue of the NEW YORK TIMES
might report the following actor's obit:
Washington, June 23 -- (AP) The last actor to play the Teddy Ruxpin on television,
died yesterday of heart failure at Mt. Sinai Hospital. Family relatives were
next to him, along with the producer of the children's TV program. Born in
Brooklyn, NY, Joe Smith got the acting bug on radio in 1935 when he filled in
for an announcer. In 1949, he was hired by George Pal Studios to play the
role of a talking Teddy Bear, lasting a career of thirty years. Burial services
have not yet been announced. He was survived by his wife, Andrea, and two
sons. He was 97.
Now, this is where the common and repeated problem lies. People do write-ups and report the
date of death is June 23. Why? Because it's the June 24 issue of the NEW YORK TIMES
and it says "died yesterday." But the Associated Press reports June 22. Note they
issued the press released on the 23rd, stating "yesterday." I have seen so many
mistakes with date of death in books that it isn't funny. So when you read an obit,
make sure you note the date on the press release. And if possible, acquire a
death certificate and/or the funeral card or memorial card that reports the
date of death. It's morbid, but one sure fire way to ensure the accurate date.
In my next book, at the printers now, I added three footnotes throughout the book
reflecting and correcting the date of death, because I saw mistakes in published reference
guides including Dunning's, a number of magazine articles and two Radio Spirits
booklets. In fact, one of my footnotes correcting that appears on the bottom of page
one! Normally I don't like listing the date of death unless it's necessary, and
correcting errors that have been reprinted multiple times is necessary.
Martin
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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:57:47 -0500
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Lone Ranger "reboot"
Folks;
For those of you apoplectic over the Seth Rogen "Green Hornet" film (I
mean, c'[removed] [removed] exactly did you expect?), I posted to the
blog (you _do_ follow my blog, right?) a link to a CNN article about the Lone
Ranger "reboot" in the works, with Johnny Depp as Tonto. He says the script
is really funny, so you may be looking back at the Green Hornet film as not
being so bad after all.
[removed]
Charlie
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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:21:24 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 23-29 January
From Those Were The Days
1/23
1937 In an article published in Literary Digest, Edgar Bergen
mentioned that he made his dummy pal, Charlie McCarthy, the beneficiary
of a $10,000 trust fund ($147,835 in 2009 dollars) to keep him in
serviceable condition and repair.
1/24
1930 Ben Bernie (Benjamin Anzelwitz) began a weekly remote broadcast
from the lovely Roosevelt Hotel in NYC.
1942 - Abie's Irish Rose was first heard on NBC this day replacing
Knickerbocker Playhouse. The program was based on the smash play from
Broadway that ran for nearly 2,000 performances. Sydney Smith played the
part of Abie. Rosemary Murphy was played by Betty Winkler.
1/25
1937 NBC presented the first broadcast of The Guiding Light.
1944 The character, a black maid named Beulah and played by a white
man, Marlin Hurt, aired for the first time on Fibber McGee and Molly.
The spinoff, Beulah, became a radio series in 1945.
1/26
1947 The Greatest Story Ever Told was first heard on ABC.
1/27
1931 NBC introduced listeners to Clara, Lu 'n' Em on its Blue network.
The show became the first daytime network radio serial when it was moved
from its original nighttime slot.
1948 Wire Recording Corporation of America announced the first
magnetic tape recorder. The "Wireway" machine with a built-in oscillator
sold for $[removed] ($[removed] in 2009).
1956 The CBS Radio Workshop was heard for the first time. This first
broadcast featured Aldous Huxley narrating his classic, Brave New World.
1/28
1940 Beat the Band made its debut on NBC, with the Ted Weems band. Beat
the Band was where listeners' questions were selected in the hopes of
stumping the band. If a listener's question was chosen, he or she
received $10 ($[removed] in 2009 dollars) The questions were posed as
riddles: What song title tells you what Cinderella might have said if
she awoke one morning and found that her foot had grown too large for
her glass slipper? If the band played the correct musical answer, Where
Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?, the listener lost.
When Raleigh cigarettes sponsored Beat the Band, the listener who beat
the band won $50 ($[removed] in 2009) and two cartons of cigarettes ...
Raleigh's, of course. When the sponsor changed to General Mill's Kix
cereal, if the listener beat the band, he/she won twenty bucks ($[removed]
in 2009) and a case of Kix cereal.
1934 As a result of a compliment paid on this day, by Walter Winchell,
in his newspaper column; a local disc jockey began receiving several
offers from talent scouts and producers. The DJ became known as the
Redhead, adored by thousands in Washington, DC and, later, by millions
across the country on CBS radio and TV. His trademark (strumming a
ukulele and delivering down home patter) endeared him to fans for many
years. We remember the broadcasting legend, Arthur Godfrey. "I wanna go
back to my little grass [removed]"
Joe
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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:23:09 -0500
From: Andy Blatt <asajb2000@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "booth" announcers
NBC was the network (at least I remember in the case of NBC when they were
owned by NBC) that they would have a recognizable bunch of people who were
live and standing-by as booth or general announcers and they almost always
announced their names as well. Nowadays, sometimes networks have outside
talent or announcers and much of it is voice-tracked or pre-recorded. I
remember several announcers, such as Donald Rickles, Fred Facey, Don Pardo
(who is exclusively associated with Saturday Night Live now). In TV's early
days, the TV announcers were oftentimes radio announcers doing extra duty.
Not sure if anyone has produced any written material about any of the
radio-TV announcers, but this is what I have pieced together from what I have
seen and experienced.
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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:23:32 -0500
From: Michael Shoshani <mshoshani@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: This is NBC the National Broadcasting Company
Dr Torch wrote:
It has seemed to me after 30 years of listening to OTR that NBC was
always more particular about having a "booth man" either ready for an
away-studio announcer commercial or an announcer who seemed to me to
be ready (in Hollywood, anyway) to voice the final "This is NBC, the
[removed]" traditional sign off before the three tones. Don
Pardo started at NBC Radio in NYC that way, he once told me, and
further mentioned that they also did bulletins, which he hated. CBS
seemed more prone to have the program announcer sign off as did
Mutual.
For 10 years, after almost any Hollywood based NBC program, I believe
that I am hearing the same booth man. In the early '40's, he is rather
flat; as the 40's went on, he seemed to pick up a bit of gusto.
Does anyone know if this was a coveted job, or was it just part of
being an announcer at KFI?
To answer the second question first, it had nothing to do with being an
announcer at KFI. But that also answers the first question.
NBC's practice from the beginning was that the NBC network announcer was
the one in charge of his particular broadcast. It was the NBC network
announcer who actually joined his studio to the network (by means of an
elaborate console known as "the Announcer's Delight" or "Delite Box"),
it was the NBC network announcer who cued the engineering staff that the
program was on the air, it was the NBC network announcer who gave the
NBC system cue - and it was the NBC network announcer who then rang the
NBC chimes and disconnected his studio from the network, freeing "the
wire" for the next NBC announcer to join his studio to the network.
That's why it was a separate announcer, rather than the program
announcer, giving the "This is NBC/the National Braodcasting Company"
system cue, because NBC staff announcers held certain responsibilities
and functions that announcers in other networks did not necessarily
have.
KFI and KECA were the radio stations in Hollywood who carried NBC's
programs, but unlike every other city whose studios were network points
of origin, KFI and KECA were NOT owned by NBC. They were owned by
automobile dealer Earle C. Anthony, who refused to sell his radio empire
to NBC. Thus, KFI announcers were not NBC announcers, and in fact NBC
Hollywood programming originated from separate facilities that were not
connected at all to the Anthony stations. (Other NBC studios of origin
in New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Washington DC and San Francisco, also
housed the studios and offices of that city's NBC owned-and-operated
radio stations.)
Michael Shoshani
Chicago
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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:23:50 -0500
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK
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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," Bob Bro's "The Old Time Radio Show," John and Larry
Gassman's "Same Time Station" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."
Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS
**Memorial Tribute to
Dorothy Warenskjold
1921 - 2010**
VOICE OF FIRESTONE
7-7-51 Guest Star: Dorothy Warenskjold
NBC Firestone
Music: Howard Barlow and the Firestone Orchestra
Announcer: Hugh James
RAILROAD HOUR
Episode 193 6-9-52 "Swedish Nightingale"
Stars: Dorothy Warenskjold as Jenny Lynn and Gordon MacRae as [removed] Barnum
Host/Star: Gordon MacRae
CANDY MATSON, YUKON 28209
Episode 15 11-10-49 "The Devil In The Deep Freeze"
Guest Star: Dorothy Warenskjold as Dorothy Warenskjold
Stars: Natalie Masters
Creator/Producer/Director: Monty Masters
CONCERT HALL
Episode 220 11-8-48 Guest: Dorothy Warenskjold
Host: Lionel Barrymore
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE
ADVENTURES OF OZZIE & HARRIET
(CBS) 4/24/44
2nd week in which David and Ricky played themselves on the program.
First was an Easter show the preceding week. David tries to impress a
girl. In memory of David Nelson who passed away January 12th.
GANG BUSTERS
(ABC) 5/11/46 "The Battle of Alcatraz"
The emerging story from just the week before the broadcast.
GUEST STAR
(Synd. Treasury Bonds) Host, Ralph Bellamy introduces crooner, Buddy Clark.
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THE OLD TIME RADIO SHOW
FORT LARAMIE (CBS)
Title: The Captain's Widow
Original Air: 2/26/56
Starring: Raymond Burr, Vic Perrin
I LOVE A MYSTERY (Mutual)
Title: The Million Dollar Curse, Episode 3
Original Air: 11/12/49
Starring: Russell Thorson, Jim Boles, and Tony Randall
GUNSMOKE (CBS)
Title: Kitty Lost
Original Air: 12/25/54
Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Georgia Russell
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
This week's show is devoted to four people who were performing artists
in radio who are no longer with us.
Before he wrote for screen and for television, Blake Edwards also wrote
for radio. We sample his work in an episode of "RICHARD DIAMOND PRIVATE
DETECTIVE"
Starring Dick Powell as Diamond from 05/15/49 episode (004) entitled:
Ralph Chase Case.
Next we hear an episode from the very successful radio series, "THE
ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET"
From 03/06/49 Episode (187) The Crystal Ball. We believe that this is
the First appearance of both David And Ricky Nelson in the show. They
were both played by other radio actors prior to this episode.
This famous operatic star appeared many times on THE RAILROAD HOUR
We hear Dorothy Warenskjold during the summer show with Gordon McCray
from 08/25/52 Episode (204) Fantasy Impromptu.
And lastly, we listen to the versatile actress Margot Stevenson starring
as "The lovely" Margot Lane opposite Orson Welles during the 1938 summer
series of "THE SHADOW"
Episode (127) is from 07/03/38 Voice Of the Trumpet.
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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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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:24:01 -0500
From: Keith Houdeshell <khowdy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: 50's westerns
Ted Kneebone sugested I post this question to the digest so here
goes. I'm planning a program for a local history club about radio
westerns, what shows besides Gunsmoke should I use from the 50's?
Keith Houdeshell
Arlington, Ohio
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