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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 346
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: Somethin' in the pot, boy!        [ Al Girard <24agirard24@[removed] ]
      12-10 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Buster Brown Gang's New Years Eve Pr  [ KENPILETIC@[removed] ]
      HELP - A dare for Night Beat          [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
      Dice Game and Jack Benny Show         [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed] ]
      Need another for "Eerie Stories"      [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
      A tangled Webb Yule actually might e  [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 19:10:31 -0500
    From: Al Girard <24agirard24@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re:   Somethin' in the pot, boy!

    Another great line that Jack Kirkwood used went something like this:

    Someone in the cast:  "Bob Hope's missing.  How could something like this
    happen?"

    Kirkwood :  "Oh I don't know . . . just lucky, I guess!"

    Al Girard

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    Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 23:24:31 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-10 births/deaths

    December 10th births

    12-10-1889 - Arthur Vinton - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-26-1963
    actor: Killer Kane "Buck Rogers"; Commissioner Weston "The Shadow"
    12-10-1889 - Ray Collins - Sacramento, CA - d. 7-11-1965
    actor: Doc Will Hackett, "County Seat"; member of The Mercury Theatre
    12-10-1903 - Una Merkel - Covington, KY - d. 1-2-1986
    actor: Adeline Fairchild "Great Gildersleeve"; "Johnny Presents";
    "Texaxo Star Theatre"
    12-10-1906 - Harold Adamson - Greenville, NJ - d. 8-xx-1980
    song writer: "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood"
    12-10-1908 - Bill Spargrove - Belle Plaine, IA - d. 9-xx-1984
    announcer: "Hollywood Byline"
    12-10-1911 - Chet Huntley - Cardwell, MT - d. 3-20-1974
    newscaster, producer: "Chet Huntley and the News"
    12-10-1913 - Jean Dickenson - Montreal, Canada - d. 1-26-2007
    singer: (Nightingale of the Airwaves) "American Album of Familiar Music"
    12-10-1913 - Morton Gould - Richmond Hill, NY - d. 2-21-1996
    conductor: "Music for Today"; "Original Amateur Hour"; "Cresta Blanca
    Carnival"
    12-10-1914 - Dorothy Lamour - New Orleans, LA - d. 9-21-1996
    singer, actor: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Front and Center"; "Sealtest
    Variety Show"
    12-10-1919 - Alexander Courage - Philadelphia, PA
    music: "Broadway Is My Beat"; "Hollywood Soundstage"; "Romance"
    12-10-1923 - Michael Gill - Winchester, England - d. 10-20-2005
    producer: Joined BBC in 1954
    12-10-1960 - Kenneth Branagh - Belfast, North Ireland
    actor: Renaissance Theatre Company in association with BBC Radio Drama

    December 10th deaths

    02-02-1901 - Jascha Heifetz - Vilnius, Lithuania - d. 12-10-1987
    classical violinist: "Telephone Hour"; "Soldiers in Greaspaint";
    "Concert Hall"
    02-25-1932 - Faron Young - Shreveport, LA - d. 12-10-1996
    country singer: "Town and Country Time"; "Country Style [removed]"
    03-11-1900 - Andy Sannella - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-10-1962
    bandleader: "Campbell Soup Orchestra"; "Gillette Community Sing"
    03-14-1869 - Algernon Blackwood - d. 12-10-1951
    author: "Escape"
    03-26-1907 - Leigh Harline - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 12-10-1969
    music: "Eddie Bracken Show"; "Ford Festival of American Music"
    03-29-1916 - Eugene McCarthy - Watkins, MN - d. 12-10-2005
    [removed] senator: "Meet the Press"
    05-05-1899 - Freeman F. Gosden - Richmond, VA - d. 12-10-1982
    comedian: "Sam 'n' Henry"; Amos Jones "Amos 'n' Andy"
    05-08-1895 - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen - El Paso, IL - d. 12-10-1979
    preacher: "Catholic Hour"
    06-13-1894 - Mark Van Doren - Hope, IL - d. 12-10-1972
    pulitzer prize winning poet: "NBC University Theatre"; "Invitation to
    Learning"
    07-15-1919 - Eve McVeagh - Ohio - d. 12-10-1997
    actor: Harriet Beatty "Clyde Beatty Show"
    07-19-1913 - Charlie Teagarden - Vernon, TX - d. 12-10-1984
    trumpet: (Brother of Jack) "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
    08-02-1892 - John Kieran - The Bronx, NY, New  - d. 12-10-1980
    panelist: "Information, Please"
    08-02-1912 - Ann Dvorak - NYC - d. 12-10-1979 - d. 12-10-1979
    actor: "Movietone Radio Theatre"
    08-05-1915 - Peter Lisagor - Keystone, WV - d. 12-10-1976
    chicago daily news [removed] bureau chief: "Meet the Press"
    08-26-1907 - Jack Berch - Sigel, IL - d. 12-10-1992
    singer: "Kitchen Pirate"; "Sweetheart Serenade"; "Jack Berch Show"
    09-26-1908 - Sylvia Marlowe - NYC - d. 12-10-1981
    harpsichord virtuoso: "Lavender and New Lace"; "Sylvia Marlowe and
    Richard Dyer-Bennet"
    10-04-1884 - Damon Runyon - Manhattan, KS - d. 12-10-1946
    short story writer: "Good News of 1940"; "Damon Runyon Theatre"
    10-13-1903 - Patsy Moran - Pennsylvania - d. 12-10-1968
    actor: Martha Hoople "Major Hoople"; Hilda "Junior Miss"
    11-01-1915 - Bob Garred - Walla Walla, WA - d. 12-10-1956
    announcer: "The Stanford Hour"; "I Want a Divorce"
    11-06-1887 - Walter Johnson - Humboldt, KS - d. 12-10-1946
    baseball great: Play-by-Play Washington Senators
    12-11-1914 - Marie Windsor - Marysville, UT - d. 12-10-2000
    actor: "Escape"; "Suspense"; "Lux Radio Theatre"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:37:11 -0500
    From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Buster Brown Gang's New Years Eve Program

    Hi Gang

    I asked this before, but during the past few years many additional
    collectors have joined this group, so I thought I might ask again.

    Every year around New Year's Eve, Smilin' Ed McConnell told this same story
    on his "Buster Brown Gang" program.   The story had to do with a  Grandfather
    Clock which had a rotating disc instead of a pendulum.  On this  clock were
    little statues that chased each other round-and-round.

    These statues were actually characters in the story of witches, sorcerers,
    magic, dragons, treasure, and soforth.  The little boy in the story was the
    hero and he had some kind of quest that brought him to a strange land where
    the
    story takes place.

    The clock itself played a role in the story, and the story ends with all  the
    characters becoming part of the clock, and they were to chase each  other
    around the disc forever.

    This was a strange story which I heard several years in a row.  I did  not
    have a tape recorder then, so I could not preserve it for re-telling.   I'm
    hoping that somebody might have a recording of this  broadcast.  It's a very
    good
    tale, and of course the rest of the  broadcast was also a classic.  Froggy the
    Gremlin and the rest of the  Buster Brown characters played their parts as
    usual.

    If you have a copy of this yearly broadcast, please let us all  know.  It's
    worth having in everybody's collection.

    Happy Taping, Ken Piletic - Streamwood, Illinois and Alma, Arkansas

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    Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:37:34 -0500
    From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  HELP - A dare for Night Beat

    In my quest for perfection, I need the date of a "Night Beat" Episode.
    I have named it  "Dollie Graham Framed" Dollie, in jail for
    manslaughter, writes to reporter Randy Stone asking for his help to
    prove that a car accident she was involved in, that caused the death of
    Mrs Thompson, was not her fault. Mrs Thompson is the wife of  Paul
    Thompson is running for State Senate. Stone proves she was framed.

    I have looked in several logs and have had no success. I know the OTR
    collectors  can find anything  to do with OTR.

    Frank McGurn

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    Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:08:47 -0500
    From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Dice Game and Jack Benny Show
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    I believe that some years ago I heard an episode of Jack Benny in which
    someone (Rochester?) was playing craps (the dice game). I believe Jack used a
    term for the game which involved the word dominoes and another word which
    would not be approved of today. I hope this is not too obscure of a
    reference, but does anyone know of such a Jack Benny episode?

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    Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:09:04 -0500
    From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Need another for "Eerie Stories"

    Have a fifteen minute episode of "Eerie Stories" a syndicated from the
    1930' S  named "The Case of the Disappearing Professors" hosted by
    Sidney Mason. The story is a weird guy kills 4 professors but keeps
    their heads alive. Can someone furnish me a date?
    Since there is only one episode is available we may never get a date.

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    Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:10:06 -0500
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  A tangled Webb Yule actually might enjoy
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     Happy Holidays, [removed]

    ....and speaking of which, I noticed an irregularity concerning Jack Webb,
    "Dragnet," and Stan Freberg in the book "Merry Christmas, Baby: Holiday Music
    from Bing to Sting" (1993, published by Little, Brown and Company) written by
    rock-'n'roll historians Dave Marsh and Steve Propes. Said book is a fun read,
    but I personally did not care for an obviously off-the-cuff remark these
    wise-guys authors hazarded.

    On page 23, there is a sidebar/box titled "Ten Best Christmas Novely Records"
    which lists as # 4:
    "Stan Freberg, 'Christmas Dragnet,' aka 'Yulenet'" accompanied by the comment
    "(Any record that p---es off Jack Webb has to be great)" [Please note: this
    post-er was the one who euphemised the objectionable word in the foregoing].

    I just don't get it. "Dragnet" authority Michael Hayde wrote in his excellent
    book "My Name's Friday" [more disclaimers: I did some research on this volume
    for my pal "Mr. Dragnet"] explains that Freberg received full co-operation
    from Jack Webb for the first parody record "St. George and the Dragonet" and
    that Webb gave it an enthusiastic thumbs-up to the point that the ordinarily
    tight-scheduled Webb held up production so that the cast and crew could listen
    to it

    So, why would Jack Webb have any objections to "Yulenet?" But, then I remember
    the last time I quoted Dave Marsh on this forum years ago. There had been a
    thread about celebrities who were the sons and daughters of  OTR actors.
    Marsh's "The Book of Rock Lists" (c. 1982) had a similar list about "rockers
    with famous parents," where he and his co-author Kevin Stein mentioned that
    Billy Preston was the son of Ernestine "Sapphire Stevens" Wade from "Amos 'n'
    Andy."

    At the time, the indomitable Elizabeth McLeod  dispelled that myth by saying
    that what Preston meant when he said his mother "WAS Sapphire," was that she
    exhibited the same traits as the character.

    Therefore, I truly don't believe that the "Yulenet" record really p---ed off
    Jack [removed], one never knows.

    Takers?

    Stand-by: here comes the inevitable joke: Maybe [removed] should've checked
    "just the facts" about both Billy Preston and Stan Freberg. Not to do so is
    plain ol' "dum-de-dum-dumb." But then again, most people call them "green
    onions" when they're actually "scallions."

    Yours in the wreath-er,

    Derek Tague,
    Mayor of Etherville

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