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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2008 : Issue 125
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Radio Newsweek - anyone have program [ Chargous@[removed] ]
national recording registry [ "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@earthli ]
5-16 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Deep Cleaning (three times!) [ Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@sbcgl ]
John Gambling [ Bill Knowlton <udmacon1@[removed] ]
"Audience Participation" Radio Drama [ George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@hotmai ]
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Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 21:49:03 -0400
From: Chargous@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Radio Newsweek - anyone have program numbers?
I transferred a reel containing a couple of 15 minute Radio Newsweek
programs, dramatized news. Unfortunately, the label for the reel was not
present. Some of the news stories can be dated to Nov/Dec. 1935. Does
anyone have the program numbers and/or dates for this? I tried the usual
references, both book and online, and no luck.
Travis
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Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 21:49:13 -0400
From: "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: national recording registry
Could anyone post what was the music performed at the first
trans-Atlantic broadcast (March 14, 1925)?
Thanks
Joe Salerno
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Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 22:52:31 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 5-16 births/deaths
May 16th births
05-16-1880 - Julius Tannen - Chicago, IL - d. 1-3-1965
comedian: (Human Chatterbox) "Goldenrod Revue"; "Seven Star Revue"
05-16-1881 - Henry Harlan Smith - Izard County, AR - d. 10-14-1931
emcee: "Hoss Hair Pullers"
05-16-1882 - Mary Gordon - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 8-23-1963
actor: Mrs. Emmett "Those We Love"; Mrs. Hudson "Sherlock Holmes"
05-16-1886 - Norman Ross - Portland, OR - d. 6-19-1953
05-16-1890 - Kenneth Perkins - d. 6-7-1951
writer: "Hawk Larabee"
05-16-1891 - Richard Tauber - Linz, Austria-Hungary - d. 1-8-1948
opera singer: "General Motors Concert"
05-16-1892 - Osgood Perkins - West Newton, MA - d. 9-21-1937
stage actor: "Flying Red Horse Tavern"
05-16-1904 - Ruth Coleman Bilchick - d. 2-11-1989
singer and pianist on radio
05-16-1905 - Henry Fonda - Grand Island, NE - d. 8-12-1982
actor: "Eyes Aloft"; "Romance"; "Suspense"
05-16-1905 - Sol Balsom - d. 10-xx-1968
newscaster: WCNW Brooklyn, New York
05-16-1908 - Ed Prough - d. 4-9-1993
announcer: WXYZ Detroit
05-16-1911 - Margaret Sullavan - Norfolk, VA - d. 1-1-1960
actor: "Electric Theatre"; "Hollywood Playhouse"
05-16-1912 - Studs Terkel - The Bronx, NY
journalist, sometimes actor: "Destination Freedom"; "Ma Perkins"
05-16-1913 - Woody Herman - Milwaukee, WI - d. 10-29-1987
bandleader: (The Thundering Herd) "Wildroot Show"
05-16-1916 - Adriana Caselotti - Bridgeport, CT - d. 1-19-1997
singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
05-16-1916 - Bernard Braden - Vancouver, Canada - d. 2-2-1993
actor: "The Gracie Fields Show"
05-16-1916 - Zeze Macedo - Rio de Janerio, Brazil - d. 10-8-1999
brazilian comic: "Home Sweet Home"
05-16-1919 - Liberace - West Milwaukee, WI - d. 2-4-1987
pianist, singer: "Stars for Defense"
05-16-1940 - Keith Miles - Cardiff, Wales
writer: "Just for the Day"; "Athlete"
05-16-1947 - Bob Edwards - Louisville, KY
newscaster: "All Things Considered", "Morning Edition"; "Bob Edwards
Show"
May 16th deaths
01-23-1910 - Django Reinhardt - Belgium - d. 5-16-1953
jazz artist: "Djanjo Reinhardt and the Quintet of the Hot Club France"
02-04-1909 - Charles Simon - Tettenhall Wood, England - d. 5-16-2002
actor: "Mrs. Dale's Diary"
02-27-1913 - Irwin Shaw - NYC - d. 5-16-1984
author: "Columbia Workshop";"Studio One"; "The Gumps"
03-29-1890 - Joe Cook - Evansville, IN - d. 5-16-1959
comedian: "House Party"; "Shell Chateau"
04-04-1904 - John Brown - Hull, England - d. 5-16-1957
actor: Digby "Digger" O'Dell "Life of Riley"; Melvyn Foster "A Date
with Judy"
06-22-1912 - June Carroll - Detroit, MI - d. 5-16-2004
composer: "New Faces of 1948"
07-02-1921 - Paul Atkerson - d. 5-16-1988
newscaster: KPHO Phoenix, Arizona
07-11-1906 - Fred Feibel - Union City, NJ - d. 5-16-1978
organist: "Between the Bookends"; "Organ Reveille"
09-26-1912 - Al Helfer - Elrama, PA - d. 5-16-1975
sportscaster: "Game of the Day"; "We Want a Touchdown"
11-08-1918 - Paul Barnes - Chicago, IL - d. 5-16-1983
actor: Red Albright/Captain Midnight "Captain Midnight"
11-23-1922 - Maze Jackson - North Carolina - d. 5-16-1996
evangelist: "The Truck Drivers Special"
11-24-1905 - Vee Lawnhurst - NYC - d. 5-16-1992
pianist, singer: "The Van Huesen Program"
12-09-1902 - Margaret Hamilton - Cleveland, OH - d. 5-16-1985
actor: Aunt Effie "Couple Next Door"; "The Free Company"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 07:14:32 -0400
From: Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@[removed];
To: Time Radio Digest Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Deep Cleaning (three times!)
Regarding Charlie North's Oxydol question, that is
definitely Jackson Beck. No one else sounds like him.
I don't think anyone can successfully imitate
him---even though, admittedly, I have tried. My main
regret in not attending FOTR until recently was that I
never met Mr. Beck. Incidentally, getting back to "Ma
Perkins", the announcer for Oxydol, which sponsored
the show from its beginnings, called himself Charlie
Warren, but his real name was Dan Donaldson. I believe
P&G's purpose was to make believe he was a character
in the show, albeit announcer.
Stuart
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Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:19:22 -0400
From: Bill Knowlton <udmacon1@[removed];
To: "radio, oldtime" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: John Gambling
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I don't know if anybody's reported this (I've been offline for two weeks) but
John R. Gambling has returned to the three generation Gambling Family
nest--WOR, New York--as its morning man.
Thus the Gambling legacy on WOR continues, with a time out for WABC--since
1925.
Congratulations, Mr. Gambling!! BILL KNOWLTON, "Bluegrass Ramble," Sundays:
9 pm to midnight (EDST) over WCNY-FM ([removed]) Syracuse, WUNY ([removed]) Utica, WJNY
([removed]) Watertown NY, also: [removed]
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Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 18:06:41 -0400
From: George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: "Audience Participation" Radio Drama
In Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian science fiction novel FAHRENHEIT 451
(1953) the characters can "participate" in insipid television programs by
following along in a script and, when the character they are supposidly
"playing" has a line the television sound goes silent and the viewer can say
the line aloud. Although some things were changed from the book in the 1960s
movie version I think this was included (it's been a long time since I've
seen the movie).
I've just been reading a 50th Anniversary edition of FAHRENHEIT which
contains an interview with Bradbury in which he discusses where some of his
ideas for the book came from. I was surprised to read the following:
"But I remember when I was a kid, about twelve years old, they published
radio scripts in the local newspaper for radio plays that would be broadcast
with silences so that you could play the part of a character yourself as you
were listening. I carried that into the future of 451."
Has anyone ever heard of this? It certainly was news to me. Bradbury was born
in 1920, so he would have been 12 in 1932-33. It sounds more like something
that would have been done on a juvenile program, rather than one intended for
adults. And I wonder if these were complete 30 minute- or even 15 minute -
shows (the scripts of which would have taken up a lot of newspaper column
inches) or just short sketches of a few minutes.
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