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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2009 : Issue 226
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  to be sure, to be sure                [ Grams46@[removed] ]
  11-25 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Bill Cosby "The Brown Hornet"         [ David Fairweather <dmf273@[removed] ]
  Groucho's radio debut                 [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  11-26 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:45:06 -0500
From: Grams46@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  to be sure, to be sure

pchavin@[removed] asks:

Do any of you remember or know who (besides  Penner) regularly said "To be
sure, to be sure" in 1940s radio?

victor rodney gook of vic and sade used this phrase  occasionally.

peace from kathy
support our troops; end the war in  iraq
john 3:16

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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:45:15 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-25 births/deaths

November 25th births

11-25-1871 - Kate McComb - Sacramento, CA - d. 4-15-1959
actor: Mrs. Kerrigan "The Goldbergs"; Nannie "Lora Lawton"
11-25-1886 - Rex Maupin - St. Joseph, MO - d. 7-28-1966
orchestra leader: "Breakfast Club"; "National Farm and Home Hour"
11-25-1887 - William Steinke - Slatinton, PA - d. 1-29-1958
host: "Jolly Bill and Jane"; "No School Today"
11-25-1893 - Jack Frost - Boston, MA - d. 10-21-1959
producer: "The National Barn Dance"
11-25-1894 - Laurence Stallings - Macon, GA - d. 2-28-1968
writer: "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt" based on his play "What
Price Glory?"
11-25-1896 - Virgil Thomson - Kansas City, MO - d. 9-30-1989
composer: "Columbia Workshop"
11-25-1897 - Willie 'The Lion' Smith - Goshen, NY - d. 4-18-1973
jazz pianist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
11-25-1899 - Kay Strozzi - Swan's Point Plantation, VA - d. 1-18-1996
actor: Shelia Blade "I Love Linda Dale"; Victoria Lorring "Young
Widder Brown"
11-25-1899 - Pierre Andre - d. 7-21-1962
announcer: "Little Orphan Annie"; "Captain Midnight"
11-25-1900 - Helen Gahagan Douglas - Boonton, NJ - d. 6-28-1980
actor: (Wife of Melvin Douglas) "Hollywood Fights Back"; "A Report to
the Nation"
11-25-1904 - Jessie Royce Landis - Chicago, IL - d. 2-2-1972
actor: "We Are Always Young"
11-25-1905 - Will Osborne - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-22-1981
bandleader, singer: "Abbott and Costello"
11-25-1908 - Ray Carter - Chicago, IL - d. 9-xx-1982
composer, conductor: "The Goal Beyond"
11-25-1909 - Verne Smith - NYC - d. 3-4-1978
announcer: "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
11-25-1912 - Francis Durbridge - Hull, Yorkshire, England - d. 4-11-1998
writer: Creator of Paul Temple
11-25-1912 - Henry Denker - NYC
writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "Greatest Story Ever Told"
11-25-1914 - Joe DiMaggio - Martinez, CA - d. 3-8-1999
baseball superstar: "Joe DiMaggio Show"
11-25-1919 - Norman Tokar - Newark, NJ - d. 4-6-1979
actor: Henry Aldrich "The Aldrich Family"
11-25-1920 - Ricardo Montalban - Mexico City, Mexico - d. 1-14-2009
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "As Easy as [removed]"
11-25-1922 - Patricia Foy - London, England - d. 7-26-2006
vocalist: "Shep Fields Orchestra"
11-25-1925 - Jeffrey Hunter - New Orleans. LA - d. 5-27-1969
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-25-1926 - Poul Anderson - Bristol, PA - d. 4-1-2001
scifi author: Works adapted for "X Minus One" "Exploring Tomorrow"

November 25th deaths

01-04-1927 - John Drury - Peoria, IL - d. 11-25-2007
staff announcer: WTMJ Milwaukee, Wisconsin
02-22-1879 - Philip F. Lord - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-25-1968
actor: Pop Gunn "Great Gunns"; Frazier Mitchell "Mary Marlin"
03-04-1909 - Harry Elders - d. 11-25-1993
actor: Dr. Bill Evans "Road of Life"; David Houseman "Stepmother"
04-04-1914 - Rosemary Lane - Indianola, IA - d. 11-25-1974
singer: (The Lane Sisters) "Fred Waring Show"; "Your Hollywood Parade"
04-13-1916 - Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner - Kansas City, MO - d.
11-25-2006
writer of radio soap operas
04-29-1912 - Richard Carlson - Albert Lea, MN - d. 11-25-1977
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-16-1907 - Jack Albertson - Malden, MA - d. 11-25-1981
actor: "Milton Berle Show"; "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Cavalcade
of America"
07-13-1889 - Frank M. Thomas - St. Joseph, MO - d. 11-25-1989
actor: Police Captain "Martin Kane, Private Eye"
07-20-1908 - Fritz Littlejohn - Paculet, SC - d. 11-25-2005
news writer/supervisor for NBC radio (1945-1952)
07-30-1912 - Edward L. Bliss - Fizhou, China - d. 11-25-2002
cbs news correspondent: (One of Morrow's Boys) CBS News Twentieth
Century Roundup"
08-01-1918 - Bill Shipley - Ottawa, KS - d. 11-25-1996
announcer: "The Jimmy Dorsey Show"; "Look Your Best"
08-28-1895 - H. Norman Schwarzkopf - Newark, NJ - d. 11-25-1958
narrator: "Gangbusters"
09-21-1930 - John Morgan - Aberdale, Wales - d. 11-25-2004
writer: "It's All in the Mind of John Morgan"
11-19-1905 - Eleanor Audley - NYC - d. 11-25-1991
actor: Elizabeth Smith "Father Knows Best"
11-30-1931 - Teddy Wilburn - Hardy, AR - d. 11-25-2003
country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Country Style [removed]"
12-08-1933 - Flip Wilson - Jersey City, NJ - d. 11-25-1998
comedian: "Voices of Vista"
12-25-1907 - Matt Brooks - NYC - d. 11-25-1990
writer: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
12-31-1913 - Ted Meyers - d. 11-25-1996
announcer: "People Are Funny"; "Yarns for Yanks"; "Calling All Cars"

Ron

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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:45:34 -0500
From: David Fairweather <dmf273@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Bill Cosby "The Brown Hornet"

Today I was listening to a vintage 1970 broadcast of San Francisco radio
station KYA.  Apparently they had a daily feature of "Bill Cosby presents
'The Brown Hornet & Leroy'"   It was a serialized send up of the "Green
Hornet" with Cosby doing all the voices.  It had corny sound fx and
melodrama.   It was cool to hear Cosby doing another OTR tribute besides his
well known tribute to Lights Out "Chicken Heart".

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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:45:52 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Groucho's radio debut

Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:07:41 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];

11/28
1932   Groucho Marx performed on radio for the first time.

In reply to my inquiry on the Marx Brothers list, someone replied
that this was "Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel"
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However, Groucho had prior guest appearances.  His first seems to
have been in October 1930.

[removed]#guest

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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:45:58 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-26 births/deaths

November 26th births

11-26-1889 - H. I. Phillips - Connecticut - d. 3-15-1965
writer, composer: "Information Please"
11-26-1891 - Anne Nichols - Dales Mill, GA - d. 9-15-1966
writer: "Abie's Irish Rose"
11-26-1905 - Emlyn Williams - Mostyn, Flintshire, Wales - d. 9-25-1987
actor: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
11-26-1907 - Frances Dee - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-6-2004
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-26-1907 - Henry "Hot Lips" Levine - London, England - d. 5-6-1989
trumpeter, conducter: "Chamber Music of Lower Basin Street"; "Strictly
from Dixie"
11-26-1908 - Lefty Gomez - Rodeo, CA - d. 2-17-1989
baseball pitcher: "Information Please"
11-26-1910 - Cyril Cusack - Durban, South Africa - d. 10-7-1993
actor: "Great Expectations"
11-26-1911 - Robert Donley - Carmichaels, PA - d. 1-20-2004
actor: "Lieutenant Carpenter "Front Page Farrell"
11-26-1912 - Eric Sevareid - Velva, ND - d. 7-9-1992
correspondent: "Eric Sevaried and the News"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
11-26-1913 - Bill Baldwin - Pueblo, CO - d. 11-17-1982
announcer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Mario Lanza Show"
11-26-1915 - Earl Wild - Pittsburgh, PA
pianist: KDKA Pittsburgh; "NBC Symphony Orchestra"
11-26-1917 - Adele Jergens - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-22-2002
actor: Carol Curtis "Stand By For Crime"
11-26-1919 - Frederick Pohl - NYC
writer: "X-Minus One"
11-26-1922 - Terry Ryan - Cleveland, OH - d. 5-5-2001
comedy writer: "Fred Allen Show"
11-26-1933 - Louis Turenne - Montreal, Canada
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
11-26-1933 - Robert Goulet - Lawrence, MA - d. 10-30-2007
singer-actor: "Guard Session"; "Voices of Vista"

November 26th deaths

01-26-1922 - Michael Bentine - Watford, Hertfordshie, England - d.
11-26-1996
comedian: "Goon Show"
02-04-1909 - Robert Coote - London, England - d. 11-26-1982
actor: "Campbell Playhouse"
02-26-1915 - Eddie Gallaher - Washington, [removed] - d. 11-26-2003
disc jockey: "Moon Dial"; "On a Sunday Afternoon"
02-28-1879 - Julian Noa - d. 11-26-1958
actor: Perry White "Advs. of Superman"; Judge Scott "The O'Neills"
04-03-1913 - Mel Tolkin - Odessa, Russia - d. 11-26-2007
comedy writer: wrote jokes for Bob Hope
04-12-1902 - John White - d. 11-26-1992
country/western singer: Lonesome Cowboy "Death Valley Days"
05-06-1906 - Mathilde Ferror - d. 11-26-1990
writer: "Lorenzo Jones"
05-23-1910 - Benjamin "Scatman" Crothers - Terre Haute, IN - d.
11-26-1986
jazz musician: early radio into the 40s
06-14-1913 - Stanley Black - London, England - d. 11-26-2002
conductor: BBC Dance Orchestra
06-18-1885 - Ernie Adams - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-26-1947
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
07-23-1883 - Albert Warner - Poland - d. 11-26-1967
co-founder of warner brothers: "Warner Brothers Academy Theatre"
09-23-1908 - Tiny Bradshaw - Youngstown, OH - d. 11-26-1958
orchestra leader: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"
10-15-1898 - Ransom Sherman - Appleton, WI - d. 11-26-1985
actor: Uncle Dennis "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Hap Hazard "Hap Hazard"
10-16-1903 - "Wild Bill" Elliott (Gordon Nance) - Pattonsburg, MO - d.
11-26-1965
actor: Wild Bill Elliott "Wild Bill Elliott"
11-19-1905 - Tommy Dorsey - Shenandoah, PA - d. 11-26-1956
bandleader: "Jack Pearl Program"; "Fame and Fortune"; "Tommy Dorsey
Show"
12-01-1904 - Jimmy Lytell - NYC - d. 11-26-1972
bandleader, clarinetist: "Cavalcade of America"; "Songs by Morton
Downey"
12-09-1932 - Bill Hartack - Ebensburg, PA - d. 11-26-2007
jockey: "Tops in Sports"

Ron

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