Subject: [removed] Digest V2003 #221
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 5/31/2003 9:03 PM

To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2003 : Issue 221
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      theme music                           [ "Roby McHone" <otr_alaska@[removed] ]
      Another Bob Hope Tribute              [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
      Re: Indy 500 On Radio                 [ Twizoner@[removed] ]
      Million Dollar Band?                  [ George Aust <austhaus1@[removed] ]
      Re; Let George                        [ eric_cooper@[removed] ]
      Keeping abreast of [removed]        [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Today in radio history                [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      June 1st birthdays                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Galloping along                       [ otrbuff@[removed] ]
      Being Whelmed Over                    [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
      Huck wasn't Godfrey                   [ benohmart@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 23:07:03 -0400
    From: "Roby McHone" <otr_alaska@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  theme music

    Lately, I've been listening to The Raleigh Show with Red Skelton and have a
    question for my fellow digesters.  What it the theme music for "The Mean
    Widdle Kid"?  Not the Brahms piece that is played before he comes on but the
    next one.  Sounds like something that Liszt or Suppe would have written.
    Thanks in advance.

    Roby McHone
    Fairbanks, Alaska

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    Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 23:07:23 -0400
    From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Another Bob Hope Tribute

    Here's another Bob Hope tribute article, this one from essayist Mark Steyn.
    He again singles out hope for recognizing his writers forgetting that Jack
    Benny was there first but again, another nice overview of his career.

    There are some blue passages herein in reference to Mr. Hope's alleged
    dalliances, so the more sensitive minded will wish to pass.

    [removed]

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 23:07:31 -0400
    From: Twizoner@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Indy 500 On Radio

    ESPN aired an excellent hour long documentary on the radio coverage of "The
    Greatest Spectacle In Racing".  I believe it aired last year and was made
    available for purchase.  For years I listened to the live race coverage on the
    radio and then watched the delayed  television broadcast at night.
    Unfortunately
    my local stations stopped carrying the radio coverage a number of years ago.
    I miss listening to the radio broadcast which in many ways provided a grander
    and better coverage of this great American tradition.

    Mike K

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    Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 23:39:50 -0400
    From: George Aust <austhaus1@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Million Dollar Band?

    Joe Mackey posted

>     The Million Dollar Band  was heard for the first time on NBC

    How has it happened that I've never heard of this band?  I am very
    familiar with Charlie Spivak, and have heard of Barry Wood, but never
    The Million Dollar  Band.

    Would somebody please enlighten me?

    George Aust

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    Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 00:27:43 -0400
    From: eric_cooper@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re; Let George

    Let George Do It was better in its original sitcom format.

    Just my two cents

    Eric Cooper

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    Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 00:29:57 -0400
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Keeping abreast of [removed]

>     From: "Michael Hayde"

>     I guess than one was a bust, but I wanna tell [removed]

     (BOY, SOMETIMES THE FOLKS ON THIS LIST ARE JUST A BUNCH OF
     BOOBS!) "AND SAY, HOW ABOUT THAT JOEY HEATHERTON? RIGHT HERE!"
     -CRAIG W.

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    Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 13:11:00 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-net <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Today in radio history

       From Those Were The Days --

    1943 - A comic strip came to radio, as Archie Andrews was heard on the
    Mutual Broadcasting System for the first time.

    1949 - A crowd of 35,000 people paid tribute to radio personality Mary
    Margaret McBride at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. McBride was celebrating
    her 15th year in radio.

    Joe

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    Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 13:11:59 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  June 1st birthdays

    June is a new month of birthdays. Rose is the flower and Pearl is the
    birthstone.

    June 1st birthdays are:

    06-00-1931 - Harlan "Hal" Stone - Whitestone, Long Island, NY
    (do not know day of birth) actor: Jughead Jones "Archie Andrews"

    06-01-1887 - Clive Brook - London, England - d. 11-17-1974
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"
    06-01-1890 - Frank Morgan - NYC - d. 9-18-1949
    actor: Thaddeus Q. Tweedy "Fabulous Dr. Tweedy"
    06-01-1898 - Edward "Cookie" Fairchild - NYC - d. 2-20-1975
    conductor: "Johnny Presents Ginny Simms"; "Eddie Cantor Show"
    06-01-1898 - Molly Picon - NYC - d. 4-5-1992
    actress: "I Give You My Life"; "Molly Picon's Parade"
    06-01-1905 - Robert Newton - Shaftesbury, England - d. 3-25-1956
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-01-1909 - Ray Heatherton - Jersey City, NJ - d. 8-15-1997
    singer, host: "Old Gold Hour"; "Musical Cruise with Spearmint Crew"
    06-01-1917 - Donald Dame - Titusville, PA - d. 1-21-1952
    singer: "Music for an Hour"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
    06-01-1926 - Andy Griffith - Mount Airy, NC
    host comedy night: "Sears Radio Theatre"
    06-01-1926 - Marilyn Monroe - Los Angeles, CA - d. 8-5-1962
    actress: "Hollywood Star Parade"; "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    06-01-1934 - Pat Boone - Jacksonville, FL
    singer: "Arthur Godfrey Time"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Hometown of [removed] Kaltenborn and Spencer Tracy

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    Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 13:12:16 -0400
    From: otrbuff@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Galloping along

    Derek Tague asks a reasonable question:  is current hot topic Frank
    Gallop still alive?  I dunno.  He's not in any obits or lists of the
    deceased I've perused (although I've not checked the web).  He was born
    in Boston June 30, 1910 so he could very well still be among us.  Will
    Ron Sayles be listing this birthday boy's name shortly?

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 13:13:21 -0400
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Being Whelmed Over

    Elizabeth McLeod, discussing whether she might be induced into writing a
    book on Amos & Andy, discussed the "cons" of doing such a work.

>     Then too, I don't want to commit to putting my work between hard covers
>     until I'm confident that I've considered and explored the topic as
>     thoroughly, as accurately, and as completely as possible. Studying A&A is
>     like peeling an onion -- there's just layer after layer after layer, and
>     just when you think you've gotten to the center, some new information
>     appears that suggests there's even more to be learned. Once the work is
>     in print, it's fixed for all time -- but web publication gives me the
>     flexibility to add this new information, this new research as it becomes
>     available.

    The sentiment is valid for *any* specialty, yet books on subjects are
    printed all the time.  Many not just for sales.  Although books are
    "fixed for all time" [save for corrections in subsequent editions] they
    have the virtue of being hard copy and available for those without access
    to the web.  Besides reaching those who might not rely on the net, their
    very existence introduces their subjects to new audiences, and can help
    dispel urban legends.

    Most important, a competent book on any specialized subject can act as a
    solid foundation for newcomers to a unique area of knowledge, and as a
    springboard for further scholarship.  One has to start somewhere, and
    starting from the best source will prevent a lot of misconceptions.

>     I can walk into any library or bookstore and pull out any number of
>     error-laden, distortion-filled volumes -- and that's just on topics in
>     which I have some level of knowledge.

    True enough.  I've been there myself.  But, IMHO, that's all the more
    reason to have a good reference work -- a primer, if you will -- that can
    put a person in a position to appreciate what's somewhat oxymoronically
    been called "the true facts."  Such a book is also a good way to refute
    common misconceptions and falsehoods.

>     There's an awful lot of this in the OTR world -- think of how
>     desperately people hold onto such myths as the Uncle Don story, the
>     Nelson Eddy Tuneout, the "Decoder Ring," "The Lone Ranger Founded
>     Mutual," "Arthur Godfrey Fired Julius LaRosa Out Of Spite," and so forth,
>     even though each of these has been thoroughly debunked many times.

    It can be frustrating.  I have several serious cryptological books that
    speak of Decoder Rings as radio premiums.  _Secret Messages_, by William
    S. Butler and L. Douglas Keeney (Simon & Schuster, 2001) goes so far as
    to say, "A Captain Midnight decoder ring in good condition will today
    bring five hundred dollars at auction."  Admittedly, that's an extreme
    case; most just touch on the idea, albeit erroneously.  (My response to
    that would be to write an article: in fact, an editor of an
    Intelligence-related subjects is interested in me doing so.)

    I think Elizabeth would be doing everyone a great service with a book on
    the fundamentals of A&A.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 15:02:24 -0400
    From: benohmart@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Huck wasn't Godfrey

    I told Lee about this, but thought the rest of you might be interested.
    Huckleberry Hound
    had nothing to do with Arthur Godfrey. Daws Butler, the voice of Huck,
    himself said that
    Huck was based on the neighbor of the woman he was courting (whom Daws ended
    up
    marrying). This was the deep south, y'all. That neighbor was a dentist who
    sounded
    Just like Huck, and Daws, the master impressionist, kept that sound in mind.

    Ben

    The Walter Tetley book
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