Subject: [removed] Digest V2004 #315
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Date: 9/30/2004 10:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2004 : Issue 315
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      SCOTT MUNI                            [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
      I just thought I would share this wi  [ "Bob Watson" <crw934@[removed]; ]
      Fibber McGee and Molly Christmas Alb  [ Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed]; ]
      Chimes and the NYTimes                [ "RBB" <oldradio@[removed]; ]
      CORRECTION TIME                       [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
      Freddy Martin death                   [ "Donald & Kathleen Dean" <dxk@ezlin ]
      MP3s and the iPod                     [ Tom Greenli <tom_greenli@[removed]; ]
      Joan Alexander                        [ dougdouglass@[removed] (doug dougla ]
      Elliot Lewis                          [ "George Jennings" <Georgeotr@sbcglo ]
      10-1 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      New meeting place                     [ Richard Olday <raolday@[removed]; ]
      Blog inquiry                          [ "Ivan G. Shreve, Jr." <iscreve@comc ]

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:05:24 -0400
    From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  SCOTT MUNI

    Legendary DJ Scott Muni dead at 74
    Personality dominated New York airwaves for decades
    Wednesday, September 29, 2004

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:06:21 -0400
    From: "Bob Watson" <crw934@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  I just thought I would share this with y'all.

    Kinda off topic here, but here I [removed]

    Last night, I had a very weird dream.  When I woke up, I knew I had dreamed
    up a doozy, and took notes since I thought some on here might find it
    amusing.  While it was interesting, I hope never to have a dream like this
    again.

    LOL

    I dreamt I was watching the movie version of "Sorry, Wrong Number" [removed]
    Even though I have the DVD version, I haven't watched the movie in quite a
    while.  So why I chose to "relive" this movie is beyond me.

    [removed] I got to the climax of the movie, instead of Leona getting
    killed, she jumps up, full of veem and vigor and heads for a secret panel
    behind her bed.  Of course, the killer follows.  Apparently the secret
    passage is a labyrnith of passages where Leona finds either locked doors or
    empty apartments.

    Yeah, I know.  But it gets weirder.

    During this process, poor Leona morphs into someone other than Barbara
    Stanwick.  LOL.  And definitely, not Agnes Moorehead, either.

    Sargent Martin, instead of being at the police station waiting to answer the
    phone, has decided to pay Leona a visit to see if there is anything to the
    phone call she overheard.  Naturally, he finds the secret passage and
    somehow figures out what has happened and is in hot pursuit to prevent a
    killing.  In the meantime, Leona has found herself in what appears to be a
    boarding house.  Unfortunately, the only ones home are a young boy and a
    college aged young fellow.  The kid does something, but I didn't write down
    what, and now I can't remember, oh well.  But the college guy believes Leona
    and piles her into his car to make a fast getaway.  At this point in my
    dream, Leona miraculously becomes an invalid again.  LOL  Anyway, the killer
    is still in hot pursuit and catches the two just as they are about to drive
    off.  He threatens to shoot the two with a pistol, the likes of which I
    haven't the foggest idea where it came from, since he was carrying a knife
    in the movie.  LOL  Anyway, good ol' Sargent Martin arrives just in time to
    dish out some 1940's movie justice.  Meaning he shoots the killer dead as a
    doornail.  Conveniently, Henry Stevenson shows up to explain all and to
    admit his guilt over having hired someone to kill his wife.  Why???  I don't
    know, I guess my dream was coming to an end and I needed to tie up loose
    ends.  And poor Henry, he wasn't the man he was at the beginning of the
    movie either, as he doesn't look anything like Burt Lancaster.  Think
    Wallace Wimple of Fibber McGee and Molly.  Not Bill Thompson, but but what
    you may have imagined Wallace Wimple to look like.  Anyway as the movie
    fades out, Leona and the young college stud are contemplating life
    [removed] out there.

    Weird, just plain weird.  I hope I never do that again.

    But another reason I'm sharing this is to [removed] any of you out there
    changed movies or radio endings in dreams that you can remember??

    After I thought about this one, I couldn't stop laughing.

    Hope you enjoyed my little flight of nocturnal fantasy.

    Bob

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:06:45 -0400
    From: Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Fibber McGee and Molly Christmas Album

>     It is for Fibber McGee and Molly's album "On the
>     Night Before Christmas" on the Capitol Criterion
>     label, recorded on 3 10" 78 RPM discs.

    The matrix numbers on these discs place the recording
    date as the summer of 1945.  The album and record
    numbers, compared with other releases in the Capitol
    Criterion series, are consistent with 1945.

    Randy

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:09:13 -0400
    From: "RBB" <oldradio@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Chimes and the NYTimes

    <<<Art Chimes posted about his search in the ProQuest full-text data
    [removed];>>

    I'm wondering if there is a way to access old newspaper data base
    information
    to produce their listing of radio stations and old programs.  The NYTimes
    had a permanent block of space on the "radio" page, lower right corner,
    listing call letters and radio frequencies for stations heard in the NYC
    area.  The "radio page" had program titles of all the shows and broadcast
    times on the stations.

    Through the years, the radio page increasingly included more TV show
    listings (again with a block of TV channels and station calls) and then,
    just radio program "highlights" for radio stations were listed. The NYTimes'
    WQXR, of course, had the evening's complete classical concerts described, it
    was their radio station.

    So, now maybe the other cities' newspapers (Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe,
    etc.) have all of this radio info archived online now, in addition to
    microfiche?  How do you find out and how would someone access this archived,
    OTR information like Art Chimes did to find the September 7, 1944,  WEAF
    information about the NBC fourth chime?  I don't about ProQuest that the
    libraries use (but I'll stop in and ask them.)   Thanks for the reply.

    =Russ Butler  oldradio@[removed]

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:09:33 -0400
    From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  CORRECTION TIME

    Guess I have to make a correction to the group--so far, two people who
    think I wrote the Gordon Jenkins book, Goodbye, have written me with
    congratulations.  Gordon's son, Bruce, wrote [removed] just helped with some
    research.  I have read it, and it is great reading for folks like us, who
    remember, or worked with most of the people Gordon worked with and Bruce
    writes about.  I'm just the messenger, and I'll keep you updated on
    publish date, etc.

    Sandy

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:01:07 -0400
    From: "Donald & Kathleen Dean" <dxk@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Freddy Martin death

     Hi Gang::
     In the recent Digest I noticed an obvious slip of the finger in
    Ron Sayles deaths of OTR stars. Would that death date be 1966?
    Thanks to Ron for posting these each day. I really enjoy seeing how
    many OTR stars were from the state of Ohio.

    12-09-1906 - Freddy Martin - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-30-1906
    bandleader: "Penthouse Serenade"; "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Jack Carson Show"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Don Dean - N8IOJ
    Fredericktown, Ohio

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:38:11 -0400
    From: Tom Greenli <tom_greenli@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  MP3s and the iPod

    Bruce asked:

> >     Anyone have experience with OTR MP3's on an iPod?
> >     Specs say 32 is lowest bit rate supported.

    Bruce,

    I concur with Gerry's comments. My 3rd generation iPod
    plays anything I ask it to. I think my lowest bitrate
    files are 24 kbps. and the iPod handles them with
    ease.

    Tom

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:38:34 -0400
    From: dougdouglass@[removed] (doug douglass)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Joan Alexander

    Does anyone know how to contact Joan who was Lois Lane on "Superman"?

    If so, please email me directly.

    Thanks,
    Doug Douglass

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:53:08 -0400
    From: "George Jennings" <Georgeotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Elliot Lewis
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain

    I accidentally ran across an "I Love Lucy" site that contained a biography of
    Mary Jane Croft. It referred to her husband, Elliot Lewis, who died in the
    early 90's. Did Lew divorce Cathy and marry Mary Jane, and is the death date
    approximately correct?

    George Jennings

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:53:18 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-1 births/deaths

    October 1st births

    10-01-1889 - Ralph W. Sockman - Mount Vernon, OH - d. 8-29-1970
    preacher: "National Radio Pulpit"
    10-01-1890 - Stanley Holloway - London, England - d. 1-30-1982
    actor, singer: "Music As You Like It"
    10-01-1898 - Curtiss Arnall - Cheyenne, WY - d. 9-22-1964
    actor: Buck Rogers, "Buck Rogers"
    10-01-1903 - George Coulouris - Manchester, England - d. 4-25-1989
    actor: Hugh Drummond "Bulldog Drummond"; Frank Harrison "As the Twig Is Bent"
    10-01-1904 - Vladimir Horowitz - Kiev, Ukraine, Russia - d. 11-5-1989
    piano virtuoso: "GuestStar"; "Pictures At An Exhibition"
    10-01-1909 - Everett Sloane - NYC - d. 8-6-1965
    actor: Frank Kennelly, "21st Precinct"; Alfred Drake "This Is Nora Drake"
    10-01-1921 - James Whitmore - White Plains, NY
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-01-1926 - George Peppard - Detroit, MI - d. 5-8-1994
    actor: "MGM Air View"
    10-01-1927 - Tom Bosley - Chicago, IL
    host: "Sears Adventure Theatre"
    10-01-1935 - Julie Andrews - Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England
    singer: "Music As You Like It"; "Heartbeat of Broadway"

    October 1st deaths

    02-03-1890 - Larry MacPhail - Cass City, MI - d. 10-1-1975
    baseball executive: "Information Please"; "Bill Stern Colgate Sports Newsreel"
    02-12-1898 - Roy Harris - Lincoln County, Oklahoma Territory - d. 10-1-1979
    composer: "New York Philharmonic"; "Comtemporary Composers Concerts"
    02-27-1894 - Frank Munn - The Bronx, NY - d. 10-1-1953
    singer (The Golden Voice of Radio) Paul Oliver "Palmolive Hour"
    06-21-1900 - Jack Arthur - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-1-1980
    singer, emcee: "Echoes of New York"; "Family Time"; "Jack Arthur Show"
    06-26-1900 - Richard Crooks - Trenton, NJ - d. 10-1-1972
    singer: "Voice of Firestone"
    07-26-1911 - Buddy Clark - Dorchester, MA - d. 10-1-1949
    singer: "Your Hit Parade"; "New Carnation Contented Hour"
    09-26-1901 - Donald Cook - Portland, OR - d. 10-1-1961
    actor: John Morrison "Mother O' Mine"; "Robert Allison "My Son Jeep"
    12-01-1911 - Walter Alston - Venice, OH - d. 10-1-1984
    baseball manager: "Tops In Sports"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:11:17 -0400
    From: Richard Olday <raolday@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  New meeting place

    The Old Time Radio Club will meet Monday at St.
    Aloysius Gonzaga Church in Cheektowaga (suburb of
    Buffalo, NY). The church is on the southwest corner of
    Cleveland Dr. & Century Rd. Meetings begin at 7:30 PM.
    Guests are always welcome. Coffee & Doughnuts will be
    available after the meeting. Hope to see many
    newcomers there. Enter into the school building next
    to the church using the rear door.

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:11:23 -0400
    From: "Ivan G. Shreve, Jr." <iscreve@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest (Plain Text Only)" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Blog inquiry

    This lady saw a blurb on my webblog on the passing on Anne DeMarco, and has
    asked for information that I do not have:

    Hi Ivan,

    I saw a messsage on your blog about the Anne Demarco's death.  I'm
    researching my family history (my great grandmother's family were Demarco's)
    and have been trying to find an address for the living Demarco sisters or
    their brother.  My great uncle claimed that they are our cousins, and I
    would like to confirm if this is true.

    Thanks for any help

    Carol Heppner

    Can anyone on the list help this lady out?  Please feel free to contact me
    off-list at iscreve@[removed].

    Thanks!
    Ivan

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    Yesteryear! [removed]

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