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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 172
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      George Schackle                       [ "otrbuff" <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 3-9 Octob  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      10-3 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Fire Bugs Or Arson Shows              [ "Louie Johnson" <ljohnson@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:42:18 -0400
    From: "otrbuff" <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  George Schackle

    I'm having a very difficult time identifying an instrumentalist from back in
    the day named George Schackle (that's the spelling I've been given).  A
    source says that at one point he and guitarist Tony Mottola and accordionist
    Charles Magnante were the backup musicians for "the shortest fifteen minutes
    in radio" every weekday starring singer Jack Berch "and His Boys."  At about
    mid-20th century, Schackle, Mottola and Magnante were "the Boys" during that
    long-running matinee feature.  Anybody have a clue what instrument Schackle
    played?  And just perhaps, the years of his birth and death?  I'll take
    instrument only if you can supply it.  Your answer could gladden the heart
    of a stupendously stumped scribe.

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:42:24 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 3-9 October

     From Those Were The Days

    10/3

    1901   The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated on this day.
    After a merger with Radio Corporation of America, RCA Victor became the
    leader in phonographs and many of the records played on them. The famous
    Victrola phonograph logo, with Nipper the dog, and the words "His
    Master=s Voice", appeared on all RCA Victor phonographs and record labels.

    1946   Dennis Day started his own show on NBC. Dennis, a popular tenor
    featured on The Jack Benny Show, played the same (type) naive young
    bachelor he played on the Benny show. A Day in the Life of Dennis Day
    aired for five years.

    10/4

    1948   Gordon MacRae hosted the premiere of a radio classic. The
    Railroad Hour debuted on ABC. The theme song was I've Been Working on
    the Railroad and the show was sponsored by get ready America's Railroads.

    10/5

    1930   The New York Philharmonic Orchestra was first heard on the air
    over CBS from Carnegie Hall. The Sunday afternoon concerts set CBS back
    $15,000 ($190,918 in 2009 dollars).  Not per week, but for the entire
    season!

    1930   This was a big day for CBS. Following the orchestra broadcast
    (above), Father Coughlin, The Fighting Priest was first heard on network
    radio. He lit up the airwaves with oratory that aired into the early
    forties.  He was first heard on WJR Detroit in 1926.

    1934   The first major network radio show to originate from Hollywood
    aired on this day. Hollywood Hotel was heard on CBS and was heavily
    promoted as being the first to broadcast from the West Coast of the [removed]

    1947   A small Northern California company got a major boost from Bing
    Crosby. The first show recorded on tape was broadcast on ABC. "Der
    Bingle" was so popular, that his taped show promoted wide distribution
    of the new magnetic tape recorders that would become broadcast classics
    the venerable Ampex 200.

    1952   After an 11 year run, Inner Sanctum, the legendary mystery
    series, was heard for the final time. We'll never know if they oiled
    that squeaky [removed]  (Of course there is the story of a staffer who did
    actually oil the door before one [removed] ed.)  (PS I have a door
    that creaks just like that one and half the time expect to find Raymond
    lurking around somewhere.  I've never oiled it in the hopes Raymond
    would appear.)

    10/6

    1937   Hobby Lobby debuted on CBS. The host was the dean of American
    hobbyists, Dave Elman. The show's theme was The Best Things in Life are
    Free. Sponsors included Fels Naptha soap, Hudson paper products and
    Colgate Dental Creme.

    10/7

    1922   The first radio network of sorts debuted. It was a network of
    just two stations. WJZ in Newark, NJ teamed with WGY in Schenectady, NY
    to bring the World Series game direct from the Polo Grounds in New York.
    Columnist Grantland Rice was behind the microphone for that broadcast.

    1939   Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy was heard for the first time on CBS
    radio. Tom Hopkins, Kate's husband, was played by eventual Beat the
    Clock host Clayton 'Bud' Collyer. The 15 minute radio drama was written
    by Chester McCraken and Gertrude Berg (writer and Emmy Award winning
    actress of The Goldbergs, a popular radio and TV series in the 1940s &
    1950s). The announcer for the four year run of Angel of Mercy was Ralph
    Edwards of future This is Your Life fame. And the sponsor was Maxwell
    House of coffee fame.

    1940   Portia Faces Life debuted on the NBC Red network. This radio soap
    opera centered around the life of Portia Blake Manning, an attorney and
    a widow with a young son.  Portia Faces Life was extremely popular, and
    therefore, had many sponsors    none of which were soap. The sponsors
    included Post Toasties, Grape Nuts Flakes, Grape Nuts Wheat Meal,
    Maxwell House coffee, Jell-O desserts and La France bleach.

    10/8

    1935   The O'Neills debuted on CBS. The theme song, Londonderry Air,
    opened the 15 minute soap opera. The O'Neills aired Mondays, Wednesdays
    and Fridays at 7:30 [removed] In 1936 it moved to daytime where it stayed
    until 1943 on NBC's Red and Blue networks and on CBS, too. One of
    radio's original soaps, it was sponsored appropriately by Silver Dust,
    Ivory soap and Ivory soap flakes.

    1935   Wedding bells pealed for a singer and a bandleader who tied the
    knot, making radio history together. The bandleader was Ozzie Nelson and
    the singer was Harriet Hilliard. They would make the history pages again
    on this very day nine years later.

    1944   The first broadcast of The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet was
    heard on the CBS network.

    10/9

    1935   Cavalcade of America was first broadcast this very day. The CBS
    show featured some of Hollywood and Broadway's most famous stars in
    leading roles in the half hour dramas. Thomas Chalmers narrated the
    stories about obscure incidents and people in American history. The
    orchestra was led by Donald Voorhees. The show aired from 1935 to 1953,
    changing from CBS to NBC in 1939; with one sponsor for its entire
    duration. The DuPont Company introduced its slogan on Cavalcade of
    America ... "Better things for better living through [removed]"

    1943   ABC presented Land of the Lost. The opening phrase for the show
    was, "In that wonderful kingdom at the bottom of the [removed]" This
    children's adventure fantasy serial took the audience underwater where
    the main characters, Isabel and Jimmy, were guided by their friend, a
    red fish named Red Lantern and played at first by Junius Matthews and
    later, by Art Carney. Land of the Lost found a large audience and
    remained on the air until 1948.

    Joe

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    Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:43:25 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-3 births/deaths

    October 3rd births

    10-03-1873 - Emily Post - Baltimore, MD - d. 9-25-1960
    commentator: "Emily Post"; "Right Thing to Do"
    10-03-1881 - George Moran - Elwood, KS - d. 8-1-1949
    comedian: (Two Black Crows) "Majestic Theatre of the Air"; "Eveready
    Hour"
    10-03-1882 - Ulderico 'Rico' Marcelli - Rome, Italy - d. 8-17-1962
    bandleader: "Fibber McGee and Molly"
    10-03-1890 - Henry Hull - Louisville, KY - d. 3-8-1977
    actor: Honest Abe "Abraham Lincoln"; Nathan Hale "Roses and Drums"
    10-03-1897 - Vincent Sorey - Turin, Italy - d. 3-29-1977
    conductor/violinist: Musical director for WOR New York
    10-03-1898 - Leo McCarey - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-5-1969
    judge: "This Is My Story"
    10-03-1898 - Morgan Farley - Mamaroneck, NY - d. 10-11-1988
    actor: "Escape"
    10-03-1899 - Gertrude Berg - NYC - d. 9-14-1966
    actor: Molly Goldberg, "Goldbergs"
    10-03-1907 - Paul Nugent - Brooklyn, NY - d. unknown
    actor: Paul Strong "Mother O' Mine"; "Just Plain Bill"
    10-03-1908 - Johnny Burke - Antioch, CA - d. 2-25-1964
    composer: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Kraft Music Hall"; "The Big Show"
    10-03-1910 - Gwen Davenport - Colon, Canal Zone, Panama - d. 3-23-2002
    author: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-03-1911 - Michael Hordern - Berkhamsted, England - d. 5-2-1995
    actor: Gandolf "The Lord of the Rings"
    10-03-1912 - Gabriel Julian - Newark, NJ - d. 9-29-2002
    piano: "Bobby Byrne Orchestra"; arranger: "Glenn Miller Orchestra"
    10-03-1913 - Mark Houston - Ohio - d. 5-11-1971
    announcer: "Queen for a Day"
    10-03-1916 - James Alfred "Alf" Wight - Sunderland, England - d.
    2-23-1995
    author: James Herriot Books
    10-03-1918 - Perry Lafferty - Davenport, IA - d. 8-25-2005
    producer: "Meet the Music"; "Columbia Workshop"
    10-03-1924 - Joe Allison - McKinney, TX - d. 8-2-2002
    songwriter: Began his career as a radio disk jockey

    October 3rd deaths

    01-23-1892 - Eleanor Nash - d. 10-3-1969
    beauty and style consultant (Sister of Ogden Nash): "Ask Eleanor Nash"
    01-23-1919 - Millard Lampell - d. 10-3-1997
    co-founder of the Almanac Singers: "Treasury Star Parade"
    02-24-1914 - Zachary Scott - Austin, TX - d. 10-3-1965
    actor: "Suspense"; "Encore Theatre"; "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Screen Guild
    Theatre"
    03-14-1891 - Dr. Dolphe Martin - Poland - d. 10-3-1974
    conductor: "Tydol Jubilee (Music on the Air)
    05-17-1903 - Artie Auerbach - NYC - d. 10-3-1957
    actor: Mr. Kitzel "Jack Benny Program"
    05-19-1919 - Louisa Vass - Greenville, SC - d. 10-3-2000
    singer: (The Vass Family) "The Lady Next Door"; "Kraft Phoenix Program"
    05-26-1915 - Vernon Alley - d. 10-3-2004
    musician, disk jockey: San Francisco area
    06-04-1917 - Charles Collingwood - Three Rivers, MI - d. 10-3-1985
    newscaster: CBS News UN Correspondent/White House Correspondent
    06-13-1911 - Maurice Copeland - Rector, AR - d. 10-3-1985
    actor: Augustus Pendelton "Ma Perkins"; "Curtain Time"; "Hall of
    Fantasy"
    06-27-1920 - Betty Bryant - Bristol, England - d. 10-3-2005
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-30-1893 - Virginia Beberus - Mercer, ME - d. 10-3-1964
    composer/author: conducted a radio program
    07-06-1927 - Janet Leigh - Merced, CA - d. 10-3-2004
    actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players" - Radio Debut
    07-17-1914 - Eleanor Steber - Wheeling, WV - d. 10-3-1990
    singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "[removed] Fox Trappers"
    07-24-1911 - Dudley McCarthy - Sydney, Australia - d. 10-3-1987
    auther of radio plays
    08-27-1900 - Gene Burdette - Chicago, IL - d. 10-3-1968
    producer, director: "Luck of the Irish"
    09-13-1903 - Dave Binder - London, England - d. 10-3-1992
    formed "Jingle Jem Co," to produce radio jingles
    09-17-1928 - Roddy McDowall - London, England - d. 10-3-1998
    panelist: "Keep Up with the Kids"
    09-20-1896 - Si Wills - Pennsylvania - d. 10-3-1977
    writer: (Husband of Joan Davis) "Joan Davis Time"
    09-25-1929 - Ronnie Barker - Bedford, England - d. 10-3-2005
    comedian: "The Floggits"
    10-07-1910 - Wayne Ackley - d. 10-3-1988
    newscaster: Des Moines, Iowa
    11-18-1907 - Gwen Meredith - Orange, Australia - d. 10-3-2006
    writer: "Blue Hills"; "The Lawsons"
    11-30-1913 - John K. M. McCaffrey - Moscow, ID - d. 10-3-1983
    newscaster: "Author Meets the Critics"; "What Makes You Tick?"
    12-22-1891 - Mc Kay Morris - Fort Sam Houston, TX - d. 10-3-1955
    actor: Abe Lincoln "The Abe Lincoln Story"; Gregory Ivanoff "Ma Perkins"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:43:33 -0400
    From: "Louie Johnson" <ljohnson@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Fire Bugs Or Arson Shows
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    I recalled an episode of Nightbeat which dealt with a fire bug, and
    checked Frank Passage's program log at [removed]

    The episode aired on May 15, 1950
    Title: The Night Watchman,
             aka The Fire Bug

     "Marty" <martyd64@[removed]; wrote
    Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:35:16 -0400

    Subject:  Looking for Fire Bug or Arson topic shows

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