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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2013 : Issue 124
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Who was on the air                    [ "Bob C" <rmcblc@[removed]; ]
  William Tell Overture                 [ "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 24-30 Nov  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Elliott Lewis and Frankie Remley      [ KENPILETIC@[removed] ]

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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 00:34:41 -0500
From: "Bob C" <rmcblc@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Who was on the air

As coverage of the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy
assassination rolls on, I have a "disappointment report."

In the adaptation of Bill O'Reilly's book, "Killing
Kennedy," on the National Geographic channel, about 90
minutes into the show, I believe it is Jack Ruby depicted
listening to his car radio and hearing the Kennedy bulletin.
The newscaster -- Walter Cronkite! This is the kind of
inaccuracy that drives me nuts about shows such as this.

Unless it can be documented that for some reason KRLD Radio
opted to carry CBS Television's coverage (from its sister TV
station) rather than CBS Radio's, it would have been Alan
Jackson that would have been heard ... and Jackson's reading
of the first UPI and AP bulletins certainly are just as
dramatic as anything Cronkite said: "... Mrs. Kennedy, who
was riding with him, jumped up and grabbed Mr. Kennedy and
cried 'Oh, no!' The motorcade sped on." And it was Jackson
who reported the president's death well ahead of any
confirmation from the wire services.

Bob Cockrum

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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 00:34:50 -0500
From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  William Tell Overture

After reading Reg Jones' marvelous book, "The Mystery of the Masked Man's
Music" a few decades ago, I first began to wonder what would the Lone Ranger
sound like if there were no William Tell overture on which to draw for the
introductory theme.  We know from discussions recollected at the time that
Suppe's Light Cavalry Overture was also under consideration, but that music
doesn't begin to convey the same spirit that the Rossini music does.  It's
my belief that, absent William Tell, the creators might have turned to
Ambrose Thomas' Raymond Overture for their theme.  Anyone else have a
thought?

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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 00:34:59 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 24-30 November

 From Those Were The Days

11/24

1937   Music from the Raymor Ballroom in Boston, Massachusetts was
beamed coast to coast on NBC. The special guests during this broadcast
were Glenn Miller and his orchestra.

11/25

1920   The first play by play coverage of a football game was broadcast
by WTAW in College Station, TX. Texas University beat the Aggies of
Texas A&M, 7 3.

1944   CBS presented The FBI in Peace and War for the first time. It
became one of the longest running crime shows on radio lasting 14 years.

1945   A spoof of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic, [removed] Pinafore, was
broadcast on The Fred Allen Show. The spoof was titled, The Brooklyn
Pinafore.  Joining actress Shirley Booth in the skit was baseball great
Leo 'The Lip' Durocher.

1960   Radio actors were put out of work when CBS axed five serials
(soap operas) from the airwaves. We said so long to The Second Mrs.
Burton (after 14 years), Young Doctor Malone, Whispering Streets (after
8 years), Right to Happiness (after 21 years) and Ma Perkins (after 27
wonderful years.) In 1940, the high point for these radio programs,
there were as many as 45 on the air each day!

11/26

1945   Bride and Groom, debuted on the NBC Blue network. It is estimated
that 1,000 newly wed couples were interviewed on the program before it
left the airwaves in 1950.

11/27

1930   Broadcasting from "...the little theatre off Times Square,"
according to the show's introduction, The First Nighter was first heard.
The program, which actually originated from Chicago, then from
Hollywood, aired for 23 years and featured dramas and comedies.

11/28

1932   Groucho Marx performed on radio for the first time.

11/29

1950   "I Fly Anything", starring singer Dick Haymes in the role of
cargo pilot Dockery Crane, premiered on ABC. With a title like that, is
it any wonder the show only lasted one season? Haymes went back to
singing and did very well, thank you.

11/30

1940   Lucille Ball and Cuban musician Desi Arnaz were married.

Joe

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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 00:35:06 -0500
From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
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Subject:  Elliott Lewis and Frankie Remley
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Hi Gang

During a recent ORCATS Net (on Ham Radio) there was a discussion about  the
character "Frankie Remley" on the Phil Harris Alice Faye radio  program.
Most OTR digesters already know that when the radio program  changed sponsors
to RCA, Phil's buddy "Frankie Remely" became "Elliott Lewis"  (the actor's
real name).  The question is why the name change.

There are two essential reasons circulating.  (1) The 'real' Frank  Remley
no longer wished his name to be used as a character.  Apparently  this
resulted in an argument (suit?) after which Ellott Lewis began to use his  own
name for the character;  and (2) The name "Frankie Remley" was the  'property'
of CBS after Jack Benny changed networks and could not be used  anywhere
else.

Assuming that (the real) Frank Remley argued for the change, was it about
money, about slander, or some other reason.  Can anybody  reading this
digest shed any light on this?  Or assuming  that the CBS 'ownership' of the
character name was the reason,  can anybody confirm this (unlikely)
reasoning?

Happy Taping (Happy Digitizing?)  - Ken Piletic - Streamwood,  Illinois
and  Alma, Arkansas

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