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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 180
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  worldwide OTR subscribers             [ "david rogers" <david_rogers@hotmai ]
  REPS 2006 -- Some pictures            [ "origami" <origami@[removed]; ]
  Re: Independence Day Programs         [ Bethany Rutledge <bsr_mmr@[removed] ]
  A detective on Radio that has a wife  [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
  This week in radio history 2-8 July   [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Radio Showcase Reel Collection        [ "Steven Kelez" <otrsteve@[removed]; ]
  Re: Butterfly On Jack Benny           [ "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed]; ]
  David B.'s Question Butterfly McQuue  [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
  Florida                               [ JayHick@[removed] ]
  thank you                             [ "Ed Walker" <edhwalker@[removed]; ]
  Arch Oboler radio play                [ <vzeo0hfk@[removed]; ]
  Re: Archie Andrews theme music        [ Hal Stone <otrjug@[removed]; ]
  7-2 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 07:59:29 -0400
From: "david rogers" <david_rogers@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  worldwide OTR subscribers

In response to a posting I recently made I got messages from the Czech
Republic and Germany -- which makes me wonder how many countries are
"represented" on the digest. Do we have a little UN here?

Well I am English but I live in Korea.

"Come in Australia".  Actually that reminds me of British radio show called
"Family Favorites" when I was a kid.  It was radio requests for the British
troops serving overseers.  Also if memory serves there is a Round the Horne
sketch where Kenneth Williams parodies it.

"This is for Sapper Loomis, here is Kathy Kirby's latest number - we've all
got her [removed]"

....or words to that effect.

Love, David

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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 10:53:37 -0400
From: "origami" <origami@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  REPS 2006 -- Some pictures

What a great show REPS puts on!
This time I took along my sons, who were born the very years
that
OTR died, and we all had a great time.

I missed some great shots, like the one of Hal Stone
directing while standing on a chair, but here are some:
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(Click on "Next" to go through them.)

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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:41:53 -0400
From: Bethany Rutledge <bsr_mmr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Independence Day Programs

Muchas gracias to all those who provided the dates and
titles of what turned out to be a nice long list of
Fourth of July radio programs! There are several that
I've already got in my small [removed] My
grandmother (who may have listened to these shows the
first time around) will be in town on July 5th and
6th, so I'll have something ready to cue up in case we
need to be indoors!

It sounds as though picnics were a very popular theme
for Independence Day episodes, and "Man Without a
Country" was dramatized by several programs on or
around the Fourth of July. I've only heard the Kraft
Music Hall version, but it was a very stirring story.

Thanks again, and best wishes to all for a festive
celebration on Tuesday!

Bethany

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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 14:08:25 -0400
From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "The Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  A detective on Radio that has a wife

The question as Karen Lerner presents a query from a customer: A married
detective?
I stayed a wake to try to find an answer so I opened my data base and looked
at detectives on radio.

Boston Blackie not married, but I'll bet he fooled around.
Adv of Sam Spade no wife just a sectary
Adv by Morse, Jack, Skip & Doc. no .wives there.
Adv  of Ellery Queen he had Nikki maybe they played  house
Adv of Father Brown,  not married
Adv of Phillip Marlowe, he was a loner but like girls
Adv of the Thin Man MARRIED, But Nora didn't cook because the drank
Martinis & he was a retire detective
Adv of Charlie Chan yes he was married, had #1 son but never head or saw his
wife
Adv Nero Wolfe no, had Archie
Bull Dog Drummond, He had Denny
Paul Barns no wife
Crime Files Of Flamond No wife  (Mike Wallace)
Dick Tracy wife Tess Truheart
The Falcon - no wife
The Fat Man   Who would have him.
I Love a mystery Same as Adv By Morse no wives.
It' a Crime Mr. . Collins - yes he had a wife, Gail a jealous wife, don't
know about dinner.
Jeff Regan, Investigator - No wife
Mr. .Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons - He had an assistant, no wife
Pat Novak, For Hire - no wife
Private Fires of Rex Saunders - no wife
Richard Diamond had a rich girlfriend he sang to.
Rogue's Gallery - no Wife but Dick Powell had June Allison or Was it Ann
Southern in real life.
The Saint - A Playboy why get married
The Shadow - was he detective ? no wife, but Lemont had the lovely Margo
Lane for years "Friend".
Sherlock Holmes no  wife, but  had Dr. Watson
Johnny Dollar - no wife traveled to much

Well that's my data base and I conclude that mostly all detectives were
single. and none that, in my collection, have were on seen on Radio.
I surly would like to the brand of Radio That you can see OTR,  so I cold
buy one.

Frank McGurn
Playing Detective

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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 14:08:33 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 2-8 July

 From Those Were The Days --

7/2

1939 - The Aldrich Family debuted on NBC.

1946 - CBS signed Arthur Godfrey to do a weekly nighttime show.

1951 - NBC presented Bob and Ray (Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding) on a
network show.

7/3

1939 - Chic Young's comic strip character, Blondie was first heard on CBS.

1940 - The legendary comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello debuted
with their network show on NBC.

1945 - Victor Borge was first heard on NBC. The network gave the
comedian/pianist the summer replacement slot for Fibber McGee and Molly.

7/4

1943 - The Rhythm Boys, Bing Crosby, Al Rinker and Harry Barris, were
reunited for the first time since the 1930s on Paul Whiteman Presents on
NBC.

1951 - Jack Webb did a summer switch -- from his Dragnet role of Sgt.
Joe Friday to that of Pete Kelly. Pete Kelly's Blues, a crime drama, was
the summer replacement on NBC for Halls of Ivy (with Ronald Colman and
Benita Hume).

7/5

1943 - The Adventures of Nero Wolfe debuted on the NBC Blue network.
Nero Wolfe was "the detective genius who rates the knife and fork the
greatest tools ever invented by man." The 'gargantuan gourmet' continued
on the air until 1951.

1948 - My Favorite Husband, with Lucille Ball, became the gifted
redhead's first regular radio program on CBS. Lee Bowman, and later,
Richard Denning, co-starred with Lucy as "two people who live together
and like it."

1951 - The Silver Eagle debuted on ABC as a entry into radio's
action-adventure lineup. Jim Ameche starred as Jim West.

7/6

1943 - Judy Canova, the 'Queen of the Hillbillies', began a weekly
comedy show on CBS.

1947 - A hidden microphone eavesdropped on unsuspecting people for the
first time this night, as Candid Microphone hit the ABC airwaves.

7/7

 From The History Net --

1927 -- Christopher Stone becomes the first British 'disc jockey' when
he plays records for the BBC.

 From Those Were The Days --

1920 - A device known as the radio compass was used for the first time
on a [removed] Navy airplane near Norfolk, Virginia.

1943 - For the first time, Flashgun Casey was heard on radio. Not much
later, the name of the program was altered to Casey, Crime Reporter, and
became much more popular.

1949 - Dragnet was first heard on NBC.

7/8

1950 - Joel McCrea appeared in the lead role of Tales of the Texas
Rangers on NBC.

Joe

--
Visit my homepage: [removed]~[removed]

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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 15:50:28 -0400
From: "Steven Kelez" <otrsteve@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Radio Showcase Reel Collection

It is with sadness that I must report that I will be disposing of my 3000
plus reel collection of OTR which I have collected over the past 28 years.
These are all the reels that provided the source recordings for the Radio
Showcase cassette library that at one time brought in over $50,000 in annual
sales. I only bring this up to give you an idea of the quality of the
recordings that would have produced this level of success in the
marketplace. We all know that times have changed, including the technology,
and sales aren't what they used to be. It has now become impossible to
continue to store this collection. This is more unfortunate because I will
no longer be able to transfer the thousands of programs untouched in the
collection to digital media. This includes a lot of single source material
that may not be in general circulation.

Approximately 500 reels of the collection also consists of a collection I
purchased about 15 years ago from a collector who began collecting in the
1960s. Most of that material is very low generation since he was dealing
with people who had the discs. And a portion of the material consists of one
of a kind shows, maybe one or two episodes each. A lot of this material was
never put into the Radio Showcase catalog because I couldn't make up a
complete 60 minute cassette. Other recordings in this collection include low
generation episodes of I Love A Mystery (no, nothing new), and a reel of
Superman episodes that I don't think are in circulation.

I would like to sell everything. This would help me out a lot, but if this
isn't possible the collection will be disposed of at the end of July. To get
an idea of what's in the collection all you need to do is go the Radio
Showcase web site, [removed] and look through the
indexes and try a few searches. Remember, what you find there only
represents about half of the reel collection.

I'd like to think this collection would present the opportunity for some
enterprising entrepreneur or a group interested in preservation a foundation
to create a good source of MP3 recordings that would one day replace all the
poorly encoded MP3s that have been hastily compiled from mediocre sources.

That's my plight and that's my pitch. If anyone is interested in making me a
reasonable offer please contact me off list (otrsteve@[removed]) or
phone me at (707) 525-0825. Mornings or evenings are the best time to phone.
One other requirement I need to mention. You will have to provide the means
to transport this massive collection. I live in Northern California so plan
accordingly.

Selling the collection does not infer that I am closing Radio Showcase. It
does mean that if one of the cassette masters goes bad I won't be able to
replace it from the source reel.

Steven Kelez

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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 15:51:00 -0400
From: "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Butterfly On Jack Benny

To the Digester*** who asked about the possibility
of a Jack Benny/GWTW McQueen convergence, the
answer is, yes, there was indeed the same Butterfly
effect on both media properties. (Although she would
not have been "the little girl" in GWTW, being in
her late twenties when the film [removed] well, -filmed-.)

Ms. McQueen's Wikipedia article gives some of her
other radio highlights, as well as a bit of
background on the woman behind the voice:

[removed]

***(Regardless of how funny a parenthetical here
  might be, I politely and tastefully refrain. :)

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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 17:07:49 -0400
From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "The Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  David B.'s Question Butterfly McQuuen

Butterfly McQueeb 1911- 1995

Butterfly was the younger maid in "Gone With The Wind" (1939) and Hattie
McDaniel was the older maid. Eddie Anderson was also in the cast. She had
parts in about 20 good movies.
She was on several radio shows. In late 1943 and early 1944  She was in 6 or
7 episodes of " The Jack Benny Program" cast as Mary Livingstone's [removed] In
1946 She was in the cast of "The Danny Kaye Show", and between 1947 and 1953
she appearances on "The Beulah Show" working with Hattie McDaniel again. She
was well educated a degree in Political Science Born in Tampa, Fl and died
in Agusta Ga.
I never heard or read that she was related to Eddie Anderson.

Frank McGurn

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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 18:26:22 -0400
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Florida
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We arrived yesterday.   I invested in a wireless Mac Laptop and am send this
from the community house.   Use my new address and phone from now on.   Jay

As of July 1, 2006

Jay Hickerson
27436 Desert Rose Ct
Leesburg, FL 34748

Phone: 352-728-6731

FAX:   352-326-2506

Email: Jayhick@[removed]

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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 18:26:36 -0400
From: "Ed Walker" <edhwalker@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  thank you

I would like to thank all the readers for sending me recordings of
Seabiscuit races.  I think I have enough, now.  I received a CD, yesterday,
but unfortunately I lost the address.  So, I am taking this opportunity to
thank everyone.

Ed Walker

Ed Walker
edhwalker@[removed]

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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 20:13:42 -0400
From: <vzeo0hfk@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Arch Oboler radio play

In response to the question about "Suffer the Little Children," I am
providing the following adaptation of a passage in my book, WORDS AT WAR
(Scarecrow Press, 2002)

Arch Oboler's radio play, "Suffer the Little Children," described bias
against a group of refugee children en route to the US aboard a ship. The
play which featured Katharine Hepburn, was inspired by an attempt in Congress
to pass a bill that would have allowed 20,000 children from Germany to come
to the United States for temporary refuge from Nazism. As a result of
Kristalnacht, the Netherlands, Belgium and Britain had each opened their
borders to thousands of children whose parents in Germany had seen the
handwriting on the wall. In the United States, several months after
Kristalnacht, New York Senator Robert F. Wagner, a German born Christian,
tried . . . to secure Congressional passage of a bill to bring the US into
the rescue effort.

Among the supporters of the bill was the American Friends Service Committee
(AFSC), a Quaker organization. The AFSC prepared an elaborate plan to
implement the Wagner proposal if it passed. It also assisted in planning of
the broadcast of Oboler's play, hoping the play would help drum up support
for the bill. But the American Legion and other opponents of the bill
scuttled the bill and Wagner was forced to withdraw it. It was perhaps a sign
of the times that even though most of the  children whom the bill would have
affected were Jews, the play avoided even using the word "Jew."

Howard Blue
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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 21:14:20 -0400
From: Hal Stone <otrjug@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Archie Andrews theme music

My "cuddle bug" friend Lois Culver recently responded to a question

Regarding the question about who played the music for  Archie Andrews, My
guess would be George [removed](SNIP) I would not be
surprised if the music was something straight out of George's talented
fingers.

Lois is partially right. George did play the organ on our show for the last
8 years of it's existence.

But the theme music was not something that George dreamed up one day.

On this same subject, Ted Meland asked me if I knew the name of the music.

I suppose the name written across the top of the sheet music would [removed] the
"Archie Andrews" theme.

Little know fact. When the program first aired on NBC, radio was in its
prime, and NBC decided to jazz up the early years of the show with a live
studio [removed] seem to recall 10 or 12 pieces, and they set up right
behind the performers. This orchestra was initially under the direction of
Leo Kampinski. He was the head of the NBC studio musicians. And it was Mr.
Kampinski that composed and arranged the theme music expressly for our
program.

Later on, he turned the leadership of our orchestra over to Milt Katims
(Spelling). I was informed that Milt went on to become a Symphony Conductor.
It might have been in Seattle.

Anyway, it was the job of these musicians to not only play the opening and
closing theme, but to play the composed the musical "bridge's" between
scenes.

They were fun times. The musicians were a good audience for us, and we
developed quite a few friendships among them.

Hal(Harlan)Stone
Jughead

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Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 01:01:16 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  7-2 births/deaths

July 2nd births

07-02-1892 - Jack Hylton - Great Lever, England - d. 1-29-1965
bandmaster: CBS 1935-1936 Sundays at 10:30 PM Standard Oil
07-02-1910 - Earl Robinson - d. 7-20-1991
composer: "The Pursuit of Happiness"
07-02-1910 - Jeff Alexander - Whidbey Island, WA - d. 12-23-1989
conductor: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Light Up Time"; "Tums Hollywood Theatre"
07-02-1916 - Barry Gray - Red Lion, NJ - d. 12-21-1996
talk show host: "Barry Gray on Broadway"; "Scout About Town"
07-02-1916 - Ken Curtis - Lamar, CO - d. 4-28-1991
singing cowboy: "Hollywood Barn Dance"
07-02-1927 - Brock Peters - NYC - d. 8-23-2005
actor: Darth Vader "Star Wars"; "Earplay"
07-02-1928 - John Timpson - Harrow, England - d. 11-19-2005
presenter: "Today"

July 2nd deaths

01-17-1875 - Minetta Ellen - Cleveland, OH - d. 7-2-1965
actor: Francis 'Fanny' Barbour "One Man's Family"
01-31-1927 - Norman Prescott - Boston, MA - d. 7-2-2005
producer: Boston radio
03-27-1914 - Snooky Lanson - Memphis, TN - d. 7-2-1990
singer: "Snooky Lanson Show"; "Your Hit Parade"
05-05-1915 - Ben Wright - London, England - d. 7-2-1989
actor: Hey Boy "Have Gun, Will Travel"; Nicholas Lacey "One Man's
Family"
05-08-1910 - Nathan Van Cleave - Bayfield, WI - d. 7-2-1970
music: "The Man Behind the Gun"; "This Is Your FBI"
05-15-1910 - Walter Cassel - Council Bluffs, IA - d. 7-2-2000
baritone: "General Motors Concerts"; "Calling America"
05-20-1908 - Jimmy Stewart - IN, PA - d. 7-2-1997
actor: Britt Ponset "Six Shooter"
06-09-1905 - Martha Boswell - Kansas City, MO - d. 7-2-1958
singer: (The Boswell Sisters) "The Boswell Sisters"; "Woodbury Soap
Show"
06-15-1905 - James Robertson Justice - Wigtown, Scotland - d. 7-2-1975
actor: "Star Bill"
07-09-1910 - Alfred Kreymborg - NYC - d. 7-2-1991
writer: "The Columbia Workshop"
07-10-1926 - Fred Gwynne - NYC - d. 7-2-1993
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
07-21-1899 - Ernest Hemingway - Oak Park, IL - d. 7-2-1961
author: "NBC University Theatre"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Screen Guild
Theatre"
07-23-1936 - Don Drysdale - Van Nuys, CA - d. 7-2-1993
baseball announcer: California Angels, Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles
Dodgers
07-24-1898 - Amelia Earhart - Atchinson, KS - d. 7-2-1937
aviatrix: "Amelia Earhart", "Cities Service Concerts"
09-30-1896 - Fred Wright - San Diego, CA - d. 7-2-1990
writer, actor: "Lights Out"; "Mystery is My Hobby"; "Ma Perkins"
10-13-1926 - Ray Brown - d. 7-2-2002
jazz bassist: "Bands for Bonds"; "Here's to Veterans"; "White House
Jazz Festival"
11-05-1919 - Hy Zaret - Syracuse, NY - d. 7-2-2004
writer: "Sing It Again"
11-09-1909 - Kay Thompson - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-2-1998
singer: "Fred Waring Show"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Tune-Up Time"
12-18-1916 - Betty Grable - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-2-1973
actor: "Hollywood Showcase"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "So You Want to
Lead a Band"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Home state of Raymond Edward Johnson
Kenosha, Wisconsin

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