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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 58
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      4-1 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Current issue: RADIO RECALL           [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
      4-2 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 19:06:30 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-1 births/deaths

    April 1st births

    04-01-1883 - Jules Verne Allen - Ellis, TX - d. 3-19-1942
    cowboy singer: Known as "Lonsome Luke"
    04-01-1884 - Laurette Taylor - NYC - d. 12-7-1946
    actor: "The Everedy Hour"
    04-01-1886 - Wallace Beery - Kansas City, MO - d. 4-15-1949
    host: "Shell Chateau"
    04-01-1889 - Rev. Dr. Leslie Moss - Minneapolis, MN - d. 4-2-1949
    preacher: "At Home in the World"; "This World of Ours"
    04-01-1891 - Harold True - Hornell, NY - d. 2-15-1973
    announcer/narrator: "The Lone Ranger"
    04-01-1893 - Linton Wells - Louisville, KY - d. 1-31-1976
    writer: "The Magic Key"
    04-01-1895 - Alberta Hunter - Memphis, Tn - d. 10-17-1984
    blues singer: "Jazz at the Simthsonian"
    04-01-1895 - Franklin Babcock - d. 1-xx-1963
    newscaster: KTRH Houston, Texas
    04-01-1904 - Sid Field - Birmingham, England - d. 2-3-1950
    comedian: Freelance
    04-01-1907 - Stanley Joseloff - d. 10-1-1989
    writer: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    04-01-1908 - Bob Nolan - New Brunswick, Canada - d. 6-16-1980
    singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) "The Roy Rogers Show"
    04-01-1909 - Eddy Duchin - Cambridge, MA - d. 2-9-1951
    bandleader: (The Ten Magic Fingers of Radio) "Lasalle Style Show"
    04-01-1909 - Fiddlin' Hank Warren - Mount Airy, NC - d. 12-17-1997
    country, bluegrass: "Briarhoppers"
    04-01-1911 - Maurice Tarplin - Boston, MA - d. 5-12-1975
    actor: Mysterious Traveler "Mysterious Traveler"; Inspector Faraday
    "Boston Blackie"
    04-01-1912 - Lou Merrill - Canada - d. 4-7-1963
    actor: Thomas Hyland "Crime Classics"; Aaron Saul "Point Sublime"
    04-01-1914 - Philip Yordan - Chicago, IL - d. 3-24-2003
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-01-1915 - Bob Dwan - San Francisco, CA - d. 1-21-2005
    director: "You Bet Your Life"
    04-01-1917 - Leon Janney - Ogden, UT - d. 10-28-1980
    actor: Danny Stratford "Life of Mary Sothern"; Richard Parker "Parker
    Family"
    04-01-1917 - Mel Shavelson - NYC - d. 8-8-2007
    writer: "The Bob Hope Show"
    04-01-1917 - "Wee" Bonnie Baker - Orange, TX - d. 8-11-1990
    singer: "Your Hit Parade"
    04-01-1920 - Art Lund - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 5-31-1990
    singer, actor: "Benny Goodman and His Orchestra"; "Land's Best Bands";
    "Jubilee"
    04-01-1921 - Charles Peck - d. 7-23-1996
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-01-1922 - Sonny King - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-3-2006
    singer: "Arthur Godrey's Talent Scouts"
    04-01-1922 - William Manchester - Attleboro, MA - d. 6-1-2004
    author, historian: "Meet the Press"; "Biography in Sound"
    04-01-1923 - Bobby Jordan - NYC - d. 9-10-1965
    actor: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"; "Wheatenaville
    Sketches"
    04-01-1925 - Ernest Kinoy - NYC
    nbc staff writer
    04-01-1926 - Jack Grimes - NYC - d. 3-10-2009
    actor: Archie Andrews "Archie Andrews"; Homer Brown "Aldrich Family"
    04-01-1927 - Bob Arbogast - Bellingham, WA - d. 3-21-2009
    host: "Same Time, Same Station"
    04-01-1929 - Jane Powell - Portland, OR
    singer: Judy Foster "A Date with Judy"; "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Stars
    of Tomorrow"
    04-01-1931 - George Baker - Varna, Bulgaria - d. 10-7-2011
    actor: "Saturday Night Theatre"
    04-01-1932 - Debbie Reynolds - El Paso, TX
    actor: "Stars Over Hollywood"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-01-1934 - Don Hastings - Brooklyn, NY
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Studio One"; "Radio City Playhouse"
    04-01-1937 - Jordan Charney
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    April 1st deaths

    01-12-1878 - Ferenc Molnar - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 4-1-1952
    playwright: Several of his compositions used as theme music
    01-17-1884 - Noah Beery, Sr. - Kansas City, MO - d. 4-1-1946
    actor: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    01-18-1902 - Helen Lynd - New Jersey - d. 4-1-1992
    actor: Miss Duffy "Duffy's Tavern"
    01-29-1918 - John Forsythe - Penns Grove, NJ - d. 4-1-2010
    actor: "NBC Star Playhouse"; "Best Plays"
    03-18-1909 - Samson De Brier - China - d. 4-1-1995
    host: "Gangplank"
    05-10-1923 - Herb Carneal - Richmond, VA - d. 4-1-2007
    voice of the Minnesota Twins
    05-11-1894 - Martha Graham - Allegheny, PA - d. 4-1-1991
    choreographer: Miss Hush on "Truth or Consequences"
    05-13-1899 - David Broekman - Leiden, The Netherlands- d. 4-1-1958
    conductor: "Mobil Magazine"; "Texaco Star Theatre"
    05-20-1909 - Jerry Hausner - Cleveland, OH - d. 4-1-1993
    actor: "Lum and Abner"; "Silver Theatre"
    05-25-1907 - Barbara Luddy - Helena, MT - d. 4-1-1979
    actor: Carol Evans "Road of Life"; Janet Munson Adams "Woman in White"
    06-15-1921 - Lucille Norman - Lincoln, NE - d. 4-1-1998
    singer: "Time, the Place and the Tune"; "Railroad Hour"
    06-23-1911 - Eddie Miller - New Orleans, LA - d. 4-1-1991
    saxaphone: "The Bob Crosby Show"
    07-11-1922 - Gene Evans - Holbrook, AZ - d. 4-1-1998
    actor: "Family Theatre"
    07-30-1880 - Robert R. McCormick - Chicago, IL - d. 4-1-1955
    newspaper publisher, commentator: "The Chicago Theatre of the Air"
    11-16-1896 - Jim Jordan - Peoria, IL - d. 4-1-1988
    comedian: Mickey Donavan, "Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten"; "Fibber McGee
    "Fibber McGee and Molly"
    11-22-1922 - Lynn(e) Roberts - El Paso, TX - d. 4-1-1978
    vocalist: "Dorsey Brothers Orchestra"; "Benny Goodman Orchestra"
    11-25-1926 - Poul Anderson - Bristol, PA - d. 4-1-2001
    scifi author: Works adapted for "X Minus One" "Exploring Tomorrow"
    12-12-1907 - Jean Anderson - Eastbourne, England - d. 4-1-2001
    actor: "Front Line Family (The Robinsons)"
    12-15-1873 - Harry Humphrey - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-1-1947
    actor: Old Ranger "Death Valley Days"; Horace "Ma and Pa"
    12-15-1925 - Alfred Bradley - London, England - d. 4-1-1991
    read and selected scripts for the BBC

    Ron

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    Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 19:06:35 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Current issue: RADIO RECALL

    This month's full-color issue of RADIO RECALL went out today via PDF to
    subscribers who chose that venue. Other subscribers, who requested the B & W
    hard copy, will be mailed theirs in about two weeks.

    Featured article, entitled "Five Dollars and Change" is by John C. Abbott,
    the author the 3-volume "Johnny Dollar" series. Abbott, who covered Bob
    Bailey in a prior issue, now discusses the other five Dollars (Charles
    Russell, Edmond O'Brien, John Lund, Bob Readick and Mandel Kramer) and two
    auditionees who didn't make the cut (Dick Powell and Gerald Mohr.)

    OTR author Michael Hayde, who is working on a new book about Hollywood actor,
    Harold Langdon, has an article about the radio work of that star and the
    difficulty of obtaining audio copies of those shows. Also in this issue, Adam
    Roslewicz has a review of "Gunsmoke: The Musical," now in pre-Broadway
    tryouts at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. Prodigious author, JIm
    Cox, relates an usual tale of radio actress Patricia Ryan, whose tragic death
    may have been foretold in a radio play in which she performed years earlier.

    Our "Ask the Expert" column has Clarence Rundeen, Jr. deciphering the riddle
    of "Big Chief Windbag" with which Art Linkletter tortured listeners for 30
    consecutive programs in 1948, until a winner finally won the new house and
    car.

    All this, plus details on upcoming OTR conventions, a thumbnail sketch of
    Jack Benny and Dick Powell in 1934, Letters to the Editor, a special OTR
    quiz, and a reproduction of a 1925 Crosley ad, offering radios for $ 16 and
    up.

    Obviously only MWOTRC members will receive this issue, but if you'd like to
    sample a back issue in PDF format, email me <otrpiano@[removed]; with
    "Sample issue" in the subject line. NOTE: this freebie offer applies only to
    those who have not previously requested a free issue this year. (Thirteen
    folks took us up on a similar offer in February so, alas, they are not
    eligible.)

    Any Digester can go to our web site <[removed]> and view individual
    articles from prior issues. Membership info is available on site in case you
    decide to join.

    Enjoy!

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL

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    Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 19:06:50 -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," Bob Bro's "The Old Time Radio Show," John and Larry
    Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios"
    and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."  Streamed in high-quality audio,
    on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
    Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
    [removed]
    Check our our Transcription Disc scans at:
    [removed]
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    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    *April Fool!*

    ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
      Episode 212 4-1-46 "April Fool's Day Adventure"
      Sherlock Holmes: Basil Rathbone
      Dr. Watson: Nigel Bruce
      Prof. Moriarty: Luis Hector
      Announcer: Harry Bartell
      Producer: Russell Seeds
      Writers: Dennis Green, Bruce Taylor, Anthony Boucher
      Mutual Petri Wine Mondays 8:30 - 9:00 pm

    BLONDIE AND DAGWOOD
      Episode 40 4-1-40 "April Fool's Day"
      Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake
      Announcer: Bill Goodwin
      CBS Camel Cigarettes

    SUSPENSE
      Episode 334 3-31-49 "You Can't Die Twice"
      Stars: Edward G. Robinson
      April Fool's Program

    LIFE WITH LUIGI
      Episode 126 3-27-51 "April Fool's Gag"
      Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Alan Reed, Jody Gilbert, Gil Stratton, Mary
    Shipp, Hans Conried, Joe Forte, Ken Peters
      Creator/Producer: Cy Howard
      CBS Sustained Tuesdays 9:00 - 9:30 pm
    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

    GANG BUSTERS
      (ABC) 11/08/47 "The Jersey Butcher Bandits" with special guest
    narrator, ex Heavyweight World Champion, Jim Braddock.

    THE RADIO CITY PLAYHOUSE
      (NBC) 02/14/49 "Elementals" written by Steven Vincent Binet. A
    startling tale of a fantastic and frightening offer.

    EASY ACES
      (Synd.) 1940's. Jane gets mixed up in her brother's crime expose.
    ====================================

    THE OLD TIME RADIO SHOW

    FRONTIER GENTLEMAN (CBS)
      Title: The Lost Mine
      Original Air: 3/2/58
      Starring: John Dehner

    AMOS 'N' ANDY (NBC)
      Title: Andy Goes to a Psychiatrist
      Original Air: 11/12/43
      Starring: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll

    GUNSMOKE (CBS)
      Title: Old Friend
      Original Air: 3/20/54
      Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    We begin this week's program by talking to Bob Burchett, chairman of the
    Cincinnati Old Time Radio Convention. This will be the last convention.
    It will be held on April 13 and 14, 2012.

      Our actors for the month of April are the gentlemen who played Lum And
    Abner. We will feature two programs that never aired. The shows were
    recorded on disc in case of an emergency.

      "LUM AND ABNER" KEYSTONE Y DISC

      And:

      "LUM AND ABNER" KEYSTONE X DISC

      After our look at the Old Time Radio Calendar, we will play a short
    podcasts. John and I were asked to prepare podcasts with actors who will
    be appearing in Seattle in June at the Radio Enthusiasts Of Puget Sound
    "Showcase 20". We've recorded 3 so far and each podcast will be released at:
      [removed]

      They will be released every two weeks or so.

      Our first guest will be Tommy Cook. The interview was done in 2004 by
    Frank Bresee.

      Next we listen to an interview program.
    "SHOW WORLD" from 01/08/40 Dick Osgood interviews Edward Everet Horton.
    Michigan Radio Network.

      And lastly, a program dealing with the wonderful world of Hollywood.
    JOHN BOLES HOLLYWOOD EXTRA from 1936 And the winner was Betty Jane Rhodes.
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    CLASSICS & CURIOS

    "Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

    Episode 21

      A 1938 Chase & Sanborn Hour episode was part of radio history. This
    was the episode that aired at the same time of the broadcast of Orsen
    Welles' "War of the Worlds." Listeners across the land turned their
    radio dials to hear of the realistic "invasion" of earth (New Jersey).
    Now listen to a sample of the Welles' broadcast along with an edited
    version of the Chase & Sanborn Hour with Edgar Bergen and Charlie
    McCarthy, a show that lost much of its audience on that Halloween night.
    This show gave an amusing ghost story while Welles told a tale of
    terror. And while Martians were "landing" on CBS, on NBC you could hear
    how to get the Charlie McCarthy Radio Game from Chase & Sanborn.

    Eddie Hubbard's Cupboard with more rare radio history made accessible
    now with Jerry Haendiges' help. Eddie Hubbard was my friend and my
    favorite all time radio DJ. Many performers and radio folks agree that
    few if any were better than Eddie Hubbard. This show is presented
    without my on air introductions or comments and is one of many radio
    show tapes Eddie presented to me before he was killed in a car accident
    near Dallas a few years ago. Eddie had a way of making every show
    special. He loved doing radio and as always was his easy- going
    professional and joyful self as he begins his nightly show, this time
    showcasing recordings that were seldom if ever heard before, recordings
    that were unique in some special way and accessible often just to Eddie
    who had unique connections with many performers. This night he played
    songs by a very young Doris Day, Woody Herman before he had his herd,
    and Ted Weems before Elmo Tanner. Also on the show are Ozzie Nelson, Les
    Brown, Harry James, Bea Wain and Larry Clinton, Jimmy Dorsey and more.
    All of a sudden in the midst of these happy songs the San Francisco
    Earthquake struck as the 3rd game of the World Series was about to begin
    in the fall of 1989. Sixty-seven people lost their lives on that night,
    and Eddie and the newsroom of Chicago's WJJD interrupted Eddie's normal
    programming and reported it intermittently. This is for radio historians
    and those who appreciate rare, remarkable, and mostly unheard of
    recordings or transcriptions. The clip ends with a brief news summary of
    the quake, bringing an abbreviated end to Eddie's playlist. No themes or
    closings.
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    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: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 19:06:57 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-2 births/deaths

    April 2nd births

    04-02-1840 - Emile Zola - Paris, France - d. 9-28-1902
    author: Several of his works were adapted for radio
    04-02-1864 - Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly - d. 12-20-1938
    etymologist: Education talks on words; coach for CBS announcers
    04-02-1878 - Leo Curley - NYC - d. 4-11-1960
    actor: Ed Jackson "Backstage Wife"; Mike Shaw "Tom Mix"
    04-02-1884 - Charles M. Courboin - Antwerp, Belgium - d. 4-13-1973
    organ virtuoso: weekly half hour concert broadcast on NBC Red in 1940
    04-02-1892 - Marjorie Child Husted - d. 12-23-1986
    First radio voice of Betty Crocker
    04-02-1907 - Luke Appling - High Point, NC - d. 1-3-1991
    baseball great: "Tops in Sport"; "Dimension X"
    04-02-1908 - Buddy Ebsen - Belleville, IL - d. 7-6-2003
    actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
    04-02-1911 - Bill Days - St. Louis, MO - d. 5-6-2002
    singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
    04-02-1913 - Fran Carlon - Indianapolis, IN - d. 10-4-1993
    actor: Lorelei Kilbourne "Big Town"; Bunny Mitchell "Story of Mary
    Marlin"
    04-02-1914 - Alec Guinness - London, England - d. 8-5-2000
    actor: "Kaleidoscope"
    04-02-1915 - Frederick Cole - Hingham, MA - d. 12-20-1964
    announcer: "Double or Nothing"; "Ethel and Albert"
    04-02-1917 - Gertrude Warner - Hartford, CT - d. 1-26-1986
    actor: Margo Lane "The Shadow"; Christy Allen "Against the Storm"
    04-02-1919 - Tom Hubbard - d. 6-4-1974
    actor: Sergeant Cadet Stripes "Starr of Space
    04-02-1920 - Jack Webb - Santa Monica, CA - d. 12-23-1982
    actor: Joe Friday "Dragnet"; Pete Kelly "Pete Kelly's Blues"
    04-02-1923 - Gloria Henry - New Orleans, LA
    actor: "CBS Radio Workshop"
    04-02-1928 - Rita Gam - Pittsburgh, PA
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    04-02-1934 - Brian Glover - Sheffield, England - d. 7-24-1997
    actor: George Hackett "An American Werewolf in London";
    "[removed]"
    04-02-1950 - Rob George - Mannum, Australia
    writer: Mainly for Australian radio
    04-02-1954 - Bonnie Erbe - NYC
    lawyer and legal affairs corresposdent for Mutual and NBC

    April 2nd deaths

    01-03-1916 - Betty Furness - NYC - d. 4-2-1994
    actor: Anne Williams "Casey, Crime Photographer"
    01-07-1906 - Betty Bolton - England - d. 4-2-2005
    performed on British radio in the 1930s
    03-09-1893 - Ara Gerald - Sydney, Australia - d. 4-2-1957
    actor: Countess Florenza "Our Gal Sunday"
    03-20-1922 - Jack Kruschen - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 4-2-2002
    actor: Sergeant Muggowen " Broadway is My Beat"
    03-22-1906 - Miff Campbell - Indianapolis, IN - d. 4-2-1995
    singer: (The Ink Spots) "Four Ink Spots"; "Jubilee"; "Ink Spots"
    04-01-1889 - Rev. Dr. Leslie Moss - Minneapolis, MN - d. 4-2-1949
    preacher: "At Home in the World"; "This World of Ours"
    05-23-1917 - Murray McLean - Chicago, IL - d. 4-2-1995
    actor: Jimmy Allen "Air Adventures of Jimmy Allen"
    06-12-1927 - Henry Slesar - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-2-2002
    writer: "Voice of the Army"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    06-30-1917 - Buddy Rich - NYC - d. 4-2-1987
    drummer: "Artie Shaw and His Orchestra"; "Tommy Dorsey and His
    Orchestra"
    08-27-1899 - C. S. Forester - Cairo, Egypt - d. 4-2-1966
    poet, biographer, novelist: "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "Words at War";
    "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    10-06-1910 - Lawrence Langner - Swansea, South Wales - d. 4-2-2002
    theatre guild supervisor: "Theatre Guild on the Air"
    10-06-1921 - Cliff White - d. 4-2-1998
    guitarist: (Mills Brothers) "Jubilee"; "Radio Hall of Fame", "Mail Call"
    10-13-1889 - Douglass Dumbrille - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - d.
    4-2-1974
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-13-1913 - Ethel Everett - NYC - d. 4-2-1973
    actor: Elsie Anderson "David Harum"; Mayme Gordon "O'Neills"
    11-21-1913 - Ted Straeter - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-2-1963
    orchestra leader: "Jerry Wayne's Regent Show"; "Kate Smith Show"

    Ron

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