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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 34
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      2-13 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      The Whistler                          [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Chester A. Riley                      [ <georgewagner@[removed]; ]
      Green Lantern                         [ Bob Hicks <bobdhicks@[removed]; ]
      Car Sound                             [ "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed] ]

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    Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:19:03 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-13 births/deaths

    February 13th births

    02-13-1877 - Sidney Smith - d. 10-20-1935
    comic strip writer: "The Gumps" based on his comic strip
    02-13-1900 - Wingy Manone - New Orleans, LA - d. 7-9-1982
    orchestra leader: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Young Man with a Band"
    02-13-1904 - Erwin D. Canham - Auburn, ME - d. 1-3-1982
    news commentator: "Christian Science Monitor Views the News"
    02-13-1905 - Fred Jeske - Ferguson, MO - d. 11-24-1957
    actor: Uncle Remus "Uncle Remus"
    02-13-1905 - Michael Durso - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-25-1975
    trombonist: "Eddie Cantor Show"; "Rudy Vallee Show"
    02-13-1908 - Lennie Hayton - NYC - d. 4-24-1971
    conductor: "Your Hit Parade"; "Ipana Troubadors"
    02-13-1908 - Pauline Frederick - Gallitzin, PA - d. 5-9-1990
    newscaster: "News of Tomorrow"; "Pauline Frederick News"; "Second
    Sunday"
    02-13-1911 - Jean Muir - NYC - d. 7-23-1996
    actor: "Great Plays"; "The Magic Key"
    02-13-1912 - Art Rollini - d. 12-31-1993
    saxophone: (The Benny Goodman Orchestra) "Let's Dance"
    02-13-1912 - Margaretta Scott - London, England - d. 4-15-2005
    actor: "The Merchant of Venice"
    02-13-1913 - Frank Phares - d. 12-24-1968
    writer: "This Is Your FBI"
    02-13-1915 - Lyle Bettger - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-24-2003
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Family Theatre"
    02-13-1916 - Albert Harris - London, England - d. 1-14-2005
    conductor, composer: "Four-Star Playhouse"; "NBC University Theatre"
    02-13-1916 - James Griffith - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-17-1993
    actor: "Gunsmoke"
    02-13-1916 - Ruth Batcheller - d. 7-15-1990
    woman's program on WACE Massachusetts
    02-13-1917 - Clara Antonetti - d. 10-27-1995
    broadcaster on WTSA Brattleboro, Vermont
    02-13-1919 - Janet Logan - Eldon, MO - d. 10-23-1965
    actor: Stella Moore "Girl Alone"; Clara Blake "Romance of Helen Trent"
    02-13-1919 - Joan Edwards - NYC - d. 8-27-1981
    singer: "Chesterfield Presents"; "Your Hit Parade"
    02-13-1919 - "Tennessee" Ernie Ford - Bristol, TN - d. 10-17-1991
    singer: "Tennessee Ernie Ford Show"
    02-13-1920 - Eileen Farrell - Willimantic, CT - d. 3-23-2002
    singer: "Eileen Farrell Sings"; "Prudential Family Hour"
    02-13-1923 - Gene Ames - Malden, MA - d. 4-26-1997
    singer,: (Ames Brothers) "Sing It Again"; "Robert Q. Lewis Show"
    02-13-1927 - Jim McReynolds - Carfax, VA - d. 12-31-2002
    guitarist: (Jim and Jesse) "Grand Ole Opry"
    02-13-1930 - Frank Buxton - Wellesley, MA
    author: "Golden Age of Radio"; "KIRO Mystery Playhouse"
    02-13-1932 - Susan Oliver - NYC - d. 5-10-1990
    actor: "Zero Hour"
    02-13-1933 - Kim Novak - Chicago, IL
    actor: "Bud's Bandwagon"

    February 13th deaths

    04-03-1918 - Sixten Ehrling - Malmo Skane Ian, Sweden - d. 2-13-2005
    conductor: "Metropolitan Opera"
    04-12-1898 - Lily Pons - Draguignan, France - d. 2-13-1976
    singer: "Telephone Hour"; "Voice of Firestone"
    05-09-1912 - George T. Simon - NYC - d. 2-13-2001
    jazz critic
    05-29-1914 - Stacy Keach, Sr. - Milwaukee, WI - d. 2-13-2003
    producer-director: "Tales of the Texas Rangers"
    06-04-1900 - Dan Golenpaul - NYC - d. 2-13-1974
    producer: "Information, Please"
    06-04-1923 - Elizabeth Jolley - Birmingham, England - d. 2-13-2007
    writer: "Little Lewis Has Had a Lovely Sleep"
    06-23-1889 - Kajetan Attl - d. 2-13-1976
    harpist: KPO, San Francisco, California
    07-15-1910 - Ken Lynch - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-13-1990
    actor: Lt. Matt King "Twenty-First Precinct"; Christopher Gard "Cafe
    Istanbul"
    08-20-1912 - Gerald Dickler - NYC - d. 2-13-1999
    first legal counsel to the radio's union
    08-22-1917 - Joe Connelly - NYC - d. 2-13-2003
    writer: "Harry Von Zell Show"; "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Frank Morgan Show"
    09-01-1886 - Regina Wallace - Trenton, NJ - d. 2-13-1978
    actor: Alice Aldrich "Aldrich Family"
    10-09-1911 - Michael Allman - Cincinnati, OH - d. 2-13-1989
    arranger for such bands as Mitchell Ayres, Freddy Martin and Harry James
    10-29-1908 - Robert K. Adams - d. 2-13-1981
    actor: "Dr. Susan"; Hilltop House"; Your Family and Mine"
    11-04-1919 - Martin Balsam - NYC - d. 2-13-1996
    actor: "Cloak and Dagger"
    12-24-1910 - John Bagni - NYC - d. 2-13-1954
    writer: Suspense"; "Family Theatre"; "Escape"
    12-25-1908 - Helen Twelvetrees - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-13-1958
    actor: "The Campbell Playhouse"
    12-30-1903 - Owen Crump - d. 2-13-1998
    producer: " The Grouch Club"

    Ron

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    Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:19:35 -0500
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Whistler

    Harry Machin remarked: "When will we get a listing of all Whistler programsor a book on this wonderful OTR show?
    It is one of my three favorite radio shows."

    A book will come along the day someone finds the J. Donald Wilson papers.

    Wilson created the series and brought it to CBS Radio. His archive and collection would reveal a ton of material but
    sadly, no one has yet found it. Bound volumes of scripts have been sold on eBay, including the "lost" episodes that
    don't exist in recorded form. I have a large blue plastic bin in the basement with thousands of sheets of paper with
    material about THE WHISTLER, including files of newspaper clippings of Bill Foreman and papers copied out of other
    archives across the country for script writers who worked on the program, radio directors, etc., but no such book will
    become reality until the Wilson papers are found. A few months ago, my good friend Ben Ohmart of Bear Manor Media was
    in my basement and I gave him a tour of the Batcave. I was showing him the big blue plastic bins and tons of stuff I
    gathered over time and seeing what he wanted for future books. I don't think we ever got to the bottom as I was showing
    him all the stuff that has piled up in the bins.

    I would guess 100 people in the past ten years have asked the same question. And I have kept a list of every name and e-mail
    address for every person who agreed with me that if they ever find the archive, they will contact me, and if I
    find it, I will contact them. I will have no problem telling the 100 or so people on my list that the archives
    have been found and where they are if I learn about them, as 100 or so people are probably still seeking the same.

    Sadly, no one struck gold yet.

    The J. Donald Wilson papers, incidentally, is one of a handful of "collections" that has been on my public "want" list
    and on rare occassions someone has found something on the list. I do pay a finders fee for anyone who can find the
    archives . . . Wilson included. A woman in California who works for a library has contacted me twice in the past week
    seeking an archive on my want list as she appares ready and willing to accept the finders fee and she keeps me up to date.
    If she tires or gives up, I'll pass on J. Donald Wilson and see if she wants to accept that challenge.

    Martin

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    Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:39:18 -0500
    From: <georgewagner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Chester A. Riley

         I've always assumed that Riley (or perhaps his own father before him)
    was named after President Chester A. Arthur, and I believe his middle name
    was "Allan."

         Sincerely,

         George Wagner
         georgewagner@[removed]

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    Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:40:20 -0500
    From: Bob Hicks <bobdhicks@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Green Lantern

    I have a friend who insists that, as a child, he listened to The Green
    Lantern on radio.  I cannot find a listing in Dunning's index. Does
    anyone know if there was such broadcast? Thank you.

    Bob Hicks

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    Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:40:43 -0500
    From: "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Car Sound

    In digest #33, .dan. wrote:

>     Now the specific question.  Auto sound effects were common.
>     There seems to b a standard recording that was used for
>     acceleration and going through gears.  It was widely used
>     and can be heard on many many shows almost to the
>     exclusion of other effects it seems to me.

    I know exactly which one you're talking about.  Once you start "hearing"
    it, you recognize it instantly and realize just how many shows it was
    used it.

    I've always wondered about that car sound.  It must have come out of
    some sound effects library or something.  I was wondering if anyone ever
    researched that sound and has some information on it.  Anybody here know
    anything about it?

    -chris holm

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