Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #72
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 72
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Fibber's Magic Radio                  [ "erest@[removed]" <erest@bel ]
  Norman Corwin film                    [ "Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed]; ]
  Music till dawn                       [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  3-10 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Weekends with Walden                  [ BryanH362@[removed] ]
  RE: Music Til Dawn                    [ "D. FISHER" <dfisher052@[removed] ]
  RE: "Music 'til Dawn" and Jay Andres  [ "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed] ]
  Corwin - McCalis (sp?)                [ "J. Alec West" <aeiouqwert@speedpos ]

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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 18:27:27 -0500
From: "erest@[removed]" <erest@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Fibber's Magic Radio

Jim Jordan in the Fibber Character also did a series of programs for an
AC company.  I think this was the early 1980's each program had Fibber
tuning a special radio that picks up programs from that day of the
week.  Remember sitting on the front porch listening.

    Rob

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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 18:54:48 -0500
From: "Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed];
To: ""old-time radio digest">" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Norman Corwin film

Hi all,
I don't know if it's still playing here, but the day before the Oscars, all
the short films were playing in an area theater.  I live in the twin cities.
Bill

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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 22:33:52 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Music till dawn

Tim Cronin asks:

Does any 50 KW AM station run an all-night music show anymore? The air
used to be dotted with them.

I haven't stayed up all night lately to listen and therefore could be mistaken
(Bill Knowlton will straighten me out if so), but I do believe WSM -- the
all-music 50 KW AM powerhouse ("clear channel 650") is remaining on for the
truckers and all-night workers in other fields just as it did when I was
tuning
in Ralph Emery in the 1950s while a college student.  I know it's on at 4 and
5
[removed] and still on at midnight, so I assume it continues broadcasting 24 hours,
one of the more successful aural music ventures on the dial.  Does anybody
know
differently?  I'm sure if it persists all night it's one of the very few still
programming records and celebrity interviews on the ether.

Jim Cox

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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 22:34:03 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  3-10 births/deaths

March 10th births

03-10-1888 - Barry Fitzgerald - Dublin, Ireland - d. 1-4-1961
actor: Bernard Fitz "His Honor, the Barber"
03-10-1898 - Cy Kendall - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-22-1953
actor: Captain Tracy "Tarzan"; Fred Thompson "One Man's Family";
"Escape"
03-10-1900 - Peter de Rose - NYC - d. 4-23-1953
pianist, singer: "Sweethearts of the Air"
03-10-1903 - Claire Boothe Luce - NYC - d. 10-9-1987
correspondent: "University of Chicago Round Table"; "Wake Up America"
03-10-1903 - Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke - Davenport, IA - d.
8-7-1931
jazz musician: "Band Remotes"
03-10-1905 - Richard Haydn - London, England - d. 4-25-1985
actor: Professor Lemuel Carp "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
03-10-1909 - Bob Taplinger - d. 11-xx-1975
head of publicity CBS: Credited with idea of Gracie Allen"s lost brother
03-10-1911 - Warner Anderson - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-26-1976
actor: Patrick Ryan "Terry and the Pirates"
03-10-1915 - Ranald MacDougall - Schenectady, NY - d. 12-12-1973
writer: "The Man Behind the Gun"; "Passport for Adams"; "There Was a
Woman"
03-10-1918 - Heywood Hale Broun - NYC - d. 9-5-2001
cbs sports commentator: "Biography In Sound"
03-10-1918 - Pamela Mason - Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, England - d.
6-29-1996
actress: "James Mason and Pamela Mason Show"
03-10-1919 - Lorna Thayer - Boston, MA - d. 6-4-2005
actress: "The Hallmark Hall of Fame"
03-10-1919 - Marion Hutton - Battle Creek, MI - d. 1-10-1987
singer: (Sister of Betty), (Glenn Miller Orchestra) "Moonlight Serenade"
03-10-1920 - Kenneth C. Burns (Jethro) - Georgia - d. 2-4-1989
comedic singer: (Homer and Jethro) "Town and Country Time"
03-10-1921 - Paul Coates - NYC
writer: "Dragnet"
03-10-1923 - Kenny Bowers - Jersey City, NJ
actor: "The Silver Summer Revue"

March 10th deaths

01-02-1904 - Bernardine Flynn - Madison, WI - d. 3-10-1977
actress: Sade Gook "Vic and Sade"; Mathilda Barker "Welcome Valley"
01-03-1905 - Ray Milland - Neath, Wales - d. 3-10-1986
actor: Ray McNutley "Meet Mr. McNutley"
01-13-1913 - Lloyd Bridges - San Leandro, CA - d. 3-10-1998
actor: "Suspense"; "Arch Oboler's Plays"
03-13-1900 - Harry W. Flannery - Greensburg, PA - d. 3-10-1975
newscaster: Foreign correspondent in Berlin for CBS during WWII
03-22-1904 - Bob Elson - Chicago, IL - d. 3-10-1981
sportscaster, interviewer: White Sox, "Bob Elson Aboard the 20th
Century"
03-29-1906 - E. Power Biggs - West Cliff, England - d. 3-10-1977
organist: "Organ Program"
06-20-1904 - Matt Crowley - d. 3-10-1983
actor: Mark Trail "Mark Trail"; Buck Rogers "Buck Rogers"
06-23-1876 - Irvin S. Cobb - Paducah, KY - d. 3-10-1944
humorist: "Gulf Show"; "Paducah Plantation"
07-17-1920 - Helen Walker - Worchester, MA - d. 3-10-1968
actress: "Proudly We Hail"; "Suspense"; "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"
08-03-1907 - Irene Tedrow - Denver, CO - d. 3-10-1995
actress: Janet Archer "Meet Corliss Archer"; Dorothy Regent "Chandu,
the Magacian"
08-08-1900 - Robert Siodmak - Memphis, TN - d. 3-10-1973
film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
08-08-1945 - Percy Granger - Norman, OK - d. 3-10-1997
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
10-25-1901 - Walter T. Butterworth - Wallingford, PA - d. 3-10-1962
emcee: "Molle Merry Minstrels"; "Vox Pox"; "Take a Card"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:50:21 -0500
From: BryanH362@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Weekends with Walden

Here is this weekends schedule for the Walden  Hughes and friends program on
YESTERDAYUSA  RADIO.   Live  streaming can be found on the internet by going
to
[removed].    The program begins at 7:30 Pacific  Time on Friday,
Saturday and Sunday.

Friday  3-10-06

A.  Classic Interview:  Frank  Breesee interview  with Harry James .

Saturday 3-11-06

A.  Dick Bertel and  Ed Corcoran interview with Jackson Beck on their Golden
Age Radio  show.

B.  Martin Grams  monthly spot with Terry Salmonson  talking about the Lone
Ranger

C.  OTR like Lone Ranger, Fibber  McGee and Molly 4-3-51, Great Gildersleeve
1951, Information Please, Lux  Radio Theater from 1954, Phil Harris and Alice
Faye, Our Miss  Brooks.

D.  To celebrate the film on Norman Corwin winning an Oscar  I will play a
radio special with Norman Corwin

Sunday  3-12-06

A.  Laura Leff presents ..... Jack Benny  of   3-10-46

B.  20 minutes with Dr. Mke Biel  .

C.   REPS Sunday Live Show
Featuring a tribute to Rhoda  Williams who passed away March 8th.

D.  Part two of the Same  Time Same Station featuring Amos and Andy

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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:51:36 -0500
From: "D. FISHER" <dfisher052@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE: Music Til Dawn

This is in response to a question from Stuart Lubin regarding who programmed
the music on Music Til Dawn. Well, during 1961 I did. I was a staff Director
at CBS in New York & during all of 1961 I was the director on that show. Bob
Hall (the former Green Hornet) was the announcer. The advertising agency for
American Airlines was located in New York so I assume that's why we did the
programming for the shows out of the New York location. I would select the
music for each hour from our music library at CBS & then send the list for a
weeks worth of shows to the advertising agency (I'm sorry, but after all
these years I don't remember which one it was, but in the back of my mind I
seem to hear either J. Walter Thompson or [removed] &O). They would then make up
a script that included the commercials & the music selections for each hour
& send out the scripts for the next week to all the stations. The format was
usually, easy listening from 11:30 PM to 1:00 AM, Classical till about 5 or
6 AM & then back to easy listening till the show ended. As each station,
which by the way were all of the CBS O & O (Owned & Operated) stations had
their own start & end time the format was sort of flexible. If a station
didn't have a particular recording that was preselected they were free to
make a substitute. As I remember, at the time, there were 8 stations doing
the show from coast to coast.
I think what's interesting is that as most of the stations were 50,000 watt
it's conceivable that you could travel cross country or up & down the east
coast & go from station to station & hear the same music, much like
satellite radio today.

Don Fisher

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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:38:09 -0500
From: "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE: "Music 'til Dawn" and Jay Andres

I first heard "Music 'til Dawn" sometime in 1953 or 1954, and Jay Andres was
already the host. I remember that WBBM kept the program going after American
Airlines ended its sponsorship (anyone remember their "Baggage Expediter"
program, where they claimed that your luggage would get the luggage claim
area before you did?). I left Chicago in 1970 and know little about what
happened there after that date, but I believe that by that time, WFMT had
begun all-night programming. KKHI in San Francisco had an all-night classical
music program on both AM and FM, and I could often listen to their AM station
whenever I was driving all night just about anywhere west of Missoula. By the
time I moved to San Francisco in 1985, they had cut back to a 2:00 AM
signoff. At some point while I was there (from 1985-1991), they revived the
all-night service, and they had petitioned American Airlines for permission
to use the old "Music 'til Dawn" title, which was granted. At one point, they
aired an interview with Jay Andres, who had moved out to the Bay Area. When
one of the regular announcers took a two or three week vacation, they had
Andres fill in for him. It was a wonderful reminder of all the years that I
had listened to him in Chicago. After that vacation replacement gig, he
seemed to again drop off the face of the earth. I understand that after I
left San Francisco, KKHI was sold to a group that changed it to a rock
format. Since that time, the folks who own KMZT (formerly KKGO) in El Lay
started a new KKHI (the new owners of the old station not only changed the
format, but they also changed the call letters), but I doubt that it still
runs 50KW, if it still exists at all. Perhaps someone who lives in the Bay
Area could fill us in about the classical music situation there today.

Thanx,

 B. Ray

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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:04:14 -0500
From: "J. Alec West" <aeiouqwert@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Corwin - McCalis (sp?)

Richard wrote:

I haven't seen "A Note Of Triumph: Norman Corwin's Golden Years" myself,
but I sure want to.

Just a note for persons who do want to see this short-subject ... and
live in the Portland, Oregon area.  It, along with other shorts, will be
shown on 3 days at 7:00PM (Fri. 3/24, Sat. 3/25, & Sun. 3/26).

Guild Theatre
829 [removed] Taylor St.

Tickets are $[removed] ($7 admission + $1 service fee) and can be bought
online at the bottom of this page:

[removed]

or by phone at 503-221-1156 (also $[removed]).  The only way to avoid the $1
fee is to buy tickets at the door 30 minutes before showtime - if there
are any tickets left when you show up.

Now ... a completely different subject.  Back in the 1950s, a man named
Arnold McCalis (sp?) had an OTR show called "Insight" where he
interviewed celebs and other important persons.  But, though I have one
of his shows on MP3, I can't seem to find any info on the show itself
(or on McCalis).  Does anyone know any background on the show or its
host?  And, am I spelling his last name correctly?

The show I have is the the 8/24/58 show where McCalis interviews Ronald
Reagan ... who was on GE Theater at the time (and whose only political
claim to fame was as former President of the Screen Actors Guild).
Anyone who wants to swipe my copy can find it here:

[removed]

Regards,
J. Alec West

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