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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 172
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      Buddy Blattner, RIP                   [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      MICKEY ROONEY SIGHTING 1989           [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
      Well, it isn't THAT [removed]!           [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      9-8 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
      RE: script for "Chicken Heart"        [ Michael Ogden <michaelo67@[removed] ]
      The Secret Source of Colllyer's Secr  [ Lance Grider <rangegrider@[removed] ]
      Re: Johnny Dollar and Rockabilly      [ Brent Pellegrini <brentpl@rocketmai ]
      YTJD and correction                   [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      SUPERMAN                              [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Green Hornet photos                   [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]

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    Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 02:12:01 -0400
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
    real-time OTR talk!

    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
    others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
    range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
    it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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    Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 21:03:06 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Buddy Blattner, RIP

    Longtime sportscaster Buddy Blattner died September 4 in
    Chesterfield, MO at the age of 89.  A former major league baseball
    player, Blattner became a well-known sportscaster, first on radio and
    then on television.

    Born Robert Garnett Blattner in St. Louis, MO on Feb 8, 1920 he began
    his athletic career in table tennis, winning the state championship
    at age 15 and the next two years he was on the [removed] team which won
    world championships held in Austria and Czechoslovakia. In 1938 in
    the summer before his senior year in high school, he was signed by
    the St. Louis Cardinals and played AAA ball for their farm teams
    until called up to the majors in 1942. He played 19 games with the
    Cardinals as an infielder and then enlisted in the [removed] Navy.

    He spent most of WW II on Guam, where he began his radio broadcasting
    career. After the war, he played two years with the NY Giants and
    another year (1949) with the Phillies. He then went into broadcasting
    full-time and was a sports announcer for the St. Louis Browns, the
    Kansas City Royals, and the California Angels. In 1953 he was paired
    with Dizzy Dean on "Baseball's Game of the Week" on ABC-TV for two
    years and then on CBS-TV for another four. Their program was also
    heard on radio via Mutual and the Liberty Network.

    Blattner retired from broadcasting in 1975 and went on to play
    professional tennis on the senior's circuit. Survivors include his
    wife of 68 years, Barbara, three daughters, seven grandchildren, and
    a great grandson.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 21:03:31 -0400
    From: PURKASZ@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  MICKEY ROONEY SIGHTING 1989
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    Penny Yingling writes:

    He's up there with the ranks of George
    Burns - just keeps ticking,  even tho' not so loudly.

        Mickey Rooney?
        "Not Loudly?"
        Not hardly.
        Why he even huffs and puffs louder than anyone of  his stature or build
    I've ever known.
        I was walking downstairs from the third floor at  Goldwyn Studios in
    Hollywood many years ago and I could hear very clearly a loud  clumping
    ascending from below accompanied by heavy breathing.
        I knew whoever it was would be visible to me when  they turned the
    corner at the flight below me and I was curious what large sort  of person
    could
    be making such voluble sounds.
        We both reached the landing at the same time.
        There he was!
        Red-faced and angry.
        Mickey Rooney!!!
        We passed.
        He nodded.
        I nodded.
        I think he farted.
        It made my day.
                                Michael  C. Gwynne

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    Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 21:03:47 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Well, it isn't THAT [removed]!

>     From: Penny Yingling <bandpy@[removed];

    Once they (the  stars
    of yore) are ALL gone,  who's going to entertain us as they did  all those
    years?!!!<

    My goodness, Penny.

    No disrespect to you; and with all the respect to Old Pros (who I generally
     admire, and one of which I hope to be) -

    - but Talent will not disappear from the Earth with their passing!

    Those of Mickey Rooney's era - the birth of Sound Film - are indeed  going
    to their Rewards. But gifted Comedians, Actors, Singers, et  al, dating from
    the TV Era are still with us.

    Younger ones than that, too.

    Best,
    -Craig W.

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    Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 21:03:55 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  9-8 births/deaths

    September 8th births

    09-08-1877 - Bide Dudley - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-4-1944
    drama critic: "Around Little 'Ol Broadway"
    09-08-1889 - Robert A. Taft - Cincinnati, OH - d. 7-31-1953
    us senator: "American Forum of the Air"; "The People's Platform"
    09-08-1896 - Howard Dietz - NYC - d. 7-30-1983
    song lyricist: "The Gibson Family"
    09-08-1897 - Jimmie Rodgers - Meridian, MS - d. 5-26-1933
    singer: "The Singing Brakeman"
    09-08-1902 - Milton Watson - Salinas, CA - d. 1-2-1982
    vocalist: "Burns and Allen"
    09-08-1902 - Welcome Lewis - d. 3-25-1999
    singer: "Singo"; "The Singing Bee"
    09-08-1905 - Henry Wilcoxon - Dominica, West Indies - d. 3-6-1984
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-08-1906 - Orlo Bagley - d. 7-2-1986
    sportscaster: KOMB Cottage Grove, Oregon
    09-08-1907 - Eleanor Phelps - Baltimore, MD - d. 9-29-2001
    actor: Susan Chandler "Life and Loves of Doctor Susan"
    09-08-1907 - Tom McAvity - d. 10-1-1972
    producer, director: "A Date with Judy"; "Rudy Vallee Show"; "The Saint"
    09-08-1908 - John Griggs - Chesterfield, SC - d. 2-25-1967
    actor: Capt. Randy Claymore of the Confederacy "Roses and Drums"
    09-08-1910 - Joe Bolton - Flushing, NY - d. 8-13-1986
    announcer: "The 1937 Radio Show"
    09-08-1913 - Patricia 'Honeychile' Wilder - Macon, GA - d. 8-11-1995
    actor: "Maxwell House Showboat"; "Atlantic Family"; [removed] Jive"
    09-08-1914 - Hillary Brooke - Astoria, NY - d. 5-25-1999
    actor: "Suspense"
    09-08-1915 - Frank Cady - Susanville, CA
    actor: "Gunsmoke"
    09-08-1921 - Harry Secombe - Swansea, Wales - d. 4-12-2001
    comedian: Neddie Seagoon "Goon Show"
    09-08-1922 - Sid Caesar - Yonkers, NY
    comedian: "Voice of the Army"; "Tex and Jinx Show"
    09-08-1925 - Peter Sellers - London, England - d. 7-24-1980
    comedian: Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, Major Dennis Bloodnok, others
    "Goon Show"
    09-08-1932 - Patsy Cline - Gore, VA - d. 3-5-1963
    country singer: "Country Hoedown"; "Town and Country Time"

    September 8th deaths

    01-03-1898 - Freddie Rich - Warsaw, Poland - d. 9-8-1956
    bandleader: "Friendly Five Footnotes"; "Freddie Rich's Penthouse Party"
    02-28-1915 - Zero Mostel - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-8-1977
    comedian: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
    05-18-1932 - Walter Anglin - d. 9-8-2001
    disk jockey: WJLD Birmingham, Alabama
    05-28-1919 - Frank Middlemass - Stockton-on-Tees, England - d. 9-8-2006
    actor: "Too the Manor Born"
    06-18-1908 - Clayton "Bud" Collyer - NYC - d. 9-8-1969
    actor, announcer: Clark Kent/Superman "Advs. of Superman"; "Cavalcade
    of America"
    09-30-1922 - Oscar Pettiford - Okmulgee, OK - d. 9-8-1960
    jazz composer, bass player: "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Esquire Jazz
    Concert"
    10-09-1905 - Norman Gottschalk - Chicago, IL - d. 9-8-1979
    actor: Joe Palooka "Joe Palooka": "Captain Midnight"
    10-10-1870 - J. V. Barborka - Bohemia, Austria - d. 9-8-1936
    harpist: KMA Shenandoah, Iowa
    11-09-1922 - Dorothy Dandridge - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-8-1965
    actor, writer: "Beulah Show"
    11-27-1882 - Norman Baker - Muscatine, IL - d. 9-8-1958
    vaudevillian: "Mr. Baker Himself"
    12-06-1913 - Oswald Hoffman - Nebraska - d. 9-8-2005
    preacher: "The Lutheran Hour"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 21:04:00 -0400
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    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," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The
    Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."  Streamed in
    high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
    Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    THE FOURTH ESTATE
    Audition Show    6-27-46   "The Tip Off"
    Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Jack Adams
    NBC Syndicated
    Host: Mark Hellinger
    Producer/Director: Homer Canfield
    Music: Roger Vance
    Writer: Warren Lewis

    THE BIG STORY
    Episode 113    6-8-49    "The Bitterest Man On Earth"
    Richmond News Leader (Julien C. Houseman)
    NBC Pall Mall Cigarettes Wednesdays 10:00 -10:30 Pm
    Narrator: Bob Sloan
    Announcer: Ernest Chappell
    Directors: Tom Victor And Harry Ingram
    Producer: Barnard J. Prockter
    Sound Effects: Al Scott
    Writers: Gail Ingram, Arnold Pearl, Max Ehrlich

    THE ADVENTURES OF THE SCARLET CLOAK
    Audition Show    2-15-50   "Parents Revenge"
    Stars: Wendell Niles as Brad Lava
    Director: Dee Engleback
    Script: Joel Murcott
    Music: Lynn Murray
    Producer: Vic Hunter

    PHILO VANCE
    Episode 51 6-28-49 "Motor Murder Case"
    SYNDICATED by ZIV PRODUCTIONS
    STARS: Jackson Beck as Philo Vance, Joan Alexander as his secretary
    Ellen Dearing, George as District Attorney Markem
    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    GOOD NEWS OF 1938
    (NBC) 5/5/38 This is a 71 year old ptogram taken from 78 RPM disks with:
    Robert Young, Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks, Hanley Stafford, Una Merkel,
    Frank Morgan, Judy Garland, and Special guest: Clark Gable.

    CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT
    (MBS) 1/17/44 1st Chapter of "Suicide Squadron" - Ending of story will
    be heard 9/13 and 9/20. Hear announcer tell how Ovaltine is good for the
    flu !
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    THE GLOWING DIAL

    Challenge of the Yukon - episode # 303  "Return to the Crime"
    originally aired October 1, 1943 on WXYZ, Detroit, The Michigan Radio
    Network
    and via Transcription
    Starring: Jay Michael as Sgt. Preston, Dewey Cole as Yukon King, Bill
    Morgan announcing.
    Sustained
    Special Note: Audio restoration on "Challenge of the Yukon" was done by
    Jerry Haendiges.

    The Lone Ranger - "Trouble on the Railroad" aka "Trestle of Death"
    originally aired January 27, 1939 on WXYZ, Detroit and MUTUAL
    Starring: Earle Graser as The Lone Ranger, John Todd as Tonto, Brace
    Beemer announcing.
    Sponsors: Silvercup Bread (most of the [removed]), Gingham Bread (Western
    [removed]), Merita Bread (Southern [removed])

    The Green Hornet - "Death in the Dark"
    originally aired August 31, 1946 on WXYZ, Detroit and ABC
    Starring: Bob Hall as The Green Hornet, Rollon Parker, Lee Allman, Gil
    Shea, Paul Hughes, Bill Saunders, Elaine Alpert, John Todd, Bob Hite
    announcing.
    Sustained

    The Hermit's Cave aka The Little Theatre of the Air - "Spirit Vengeance"
    originally aired between 1935 and the mid-40's on WJR, Detroit and via
    Transcription
    Starring: Detroit Acting Troupe "The Mummers".
    Sponsor: Olga Coal

    Show World - "Edward Everett Horton is interviewed"
    originally aired January 8, 1940 on WXYZ, Detroit and The Michigan Radio
    Network
    Starring: Dick Osgood hosts, Edward Everett Horton is special guest,
    Fielden Farrington announcing.
    Sustained
    Special Note: Audio restoration on "Show World" was done by Jerry Haendiges.

    Challenge of the Yukon - episode # 304  "King Spots Murder"
    originally aired October 8, 1943 on WXYZ, Detroit, The Michigan Radio
    Network
    and via Transcription
    Starring: Jay Michael as Sgt. Preston, Dewey Cole as Yukon King, Bill
    Morgan announcing.
    Sustained
    ==================================

    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: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 21:04:31 -0400
    From: Michael Ogden <michaelo67@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: script for "Chicken Heart"

    Jack French mentioned difficulties in locating a copy of the complete
    "Chicken Heart" script. The Gotham Players did a re-creation of it in 1999,
    broadcasting over WBAI, so probably Steve Lewis, Bill Nadel or any of the
    others associated with this group would be able to provide Jack with a copy
    of the script. Failing this, I know that Jerry Haedinges offers a recording
    of the WBAI re-creation in his listings, and a written script could
    presumably be patched together from this recording.

    Hope this is helpful, and good luck to the Metro Club in bringing the
    "Chicken Heart" back to life (pun intended). To me, the most interesting
    aspect of the story is that, as I'm sure many Digest readers know, it was
    based on actual fact. Well, [removed] the part about the heart growing and
    eventually destroying the [removed] scientists did keep a chicken heart
    alive for decades, only finally pulling the plug on it, as I remember, in the
    late Forties. (I guess they just eventually "chickened" out :)

    Mike Ogden

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    Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 21:07:16 -0400
    From: Lance Grider <rangegrider@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Secret Source of Colllyer's Secret Identity
     Myth?

    As I sent a letter to this digest way back in January of 2007 challenging the
    'Bud Collyer/Superman secret identity to 1946 myth", I feel I too have a nag
    in this race.
    Several posters, including Mr. Jack French, have recently done due diligence
    to provide evidence dispelling the myth of Collyer's on-air identity as
    Superman "a secret kept until 1946," so I won't repeat them here. What I will
    suggest is the probable source of this myth: Oxford University Press's John
    Dunning's On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio. On pages 14-15,
    under the entry for The Adventures of Superman, Dunning writes:
    "The producers went to great lengths to protect the identity of the hero,
    onstage and off".It was also insisted that the identity of Clayton Bud
    Collyer, the actor who gave voice to the Man of Steel, be kept secret. Only
    in 1946 did Collyer emerge in an interview with Time to promote a Superman
    campaign against racial and religious intolerance.
    Given the almost sacrosanct esteem Mr. Dunning's work is generally accorded
    among OTR fans, I submit this entry is the likely source of a lot of the
    Babel on Kal-El, including, some "mis-remembering" by our older members.
    And, though I bow to Mr Dunning's superlative research skills, the rise of
    the internet has allowed some rapid fact-checking unavailable to him a mere
    10 years ago when he finished his encyclopedia: Like Time magazine archives.
    Ironically, Dunning's expensive and hard-to-find work is currently itself
    available, at least in excerpt, on Google Books.
    Take heart: Himan Brown lives!
    Lance Grider

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    Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 21:07:37 -0400
    From: Brent Pellegrini <brentpl@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Johnny Dollar and Rockabilly
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    I recently heard a great old Rock a billy tune called "Action Packed" (as in
    expense account) recorded in 1957 by a  Creek Indian named John Washington
    Dollar who was born in a tent in Kilgore Texas. He commited suicide in 1986.

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    Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 21:08:15 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  YTJD and correction

       Stewart Wright wrote --

>        "However, many OTR fans do not know that AT LEAST TWENTY-TWO of these
>     multi-part stories were based on previously-written scripts from YOURS
>     TRULY,JOHNNY DOLLAR and other series."

       Thanks Stewart.  I was beginning to think I was somewhat losing what
    little mind I have left.  I started with the first YTJD and am currently
    part way though the first season of the five parters.  I often thought,
    "Wasn't that done already?" and wonder if I only thought I had heard it
    or it as another program, since some scripts were used again by various
    shows over time.
       I also want to thank everyone for correcting me on the
    Superman/Collyer/Time magazine issue.  From henceforth the sentence
    about Time will be stricken from the record, as they say in court
    dramas.  :)
       Joe

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    Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 21:08:26 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  SUPERMAN

    Jack French recommended Michael Hayde's recent book on SUPERMAN, titled
    "Flights of Fantasy."

    I would like to chime in and second the motion. I recently read the book from
    cover to cover and it truly gives a breakdown month by month, year by year of
    the entire history of the radio and television series. Behind-the-scenes
    stories, production details and recollections from cast and crew. Of the 25
    plus books I read this year (and my wife will swear I read too much), this
    was one of the two best books of the year.
    Martin

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    Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 21:10:21 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Green Hornet photos

    The Green Hornet movie is under production. While photos of Seth Rogen as The Green Hornet have not yet surfaced, photos of him as Britt Reid is on the web. And yes, that's Cameron Diaz as Miss Case (or "Casey" as Axford refers).
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