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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2012 : Issue 171
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      OLDE TYME RADIO CLASSICS              [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
      10-29 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      10-30 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Happy WOZTW Day, Everybody!           [ Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:55:48 -0400
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO CLASSICS

    Hi Friends,

    Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
    may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
    Radio Theatre," John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane
    Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios," Charlie St George's "Make Believe
    Ballroom Time" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics." Streamed in
    high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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    Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    *Halloween Special*

    MOVING STORIES OF LIFE
    Episode 83 10-29-36 "A Method Of Murder"
    Author: Eugene Carmen.
    Stars: Barbara Luddy, Charles Carroll, John Gibson, Ralph Scott.

    BOSTON BLACKIE
    Episode 81 10-29-46 "Granny's Witchcraft"

    CASEY, CRIME PHOTOGRAPHER
    Episode 81 10-28-45 "Witchcraft"

    ARCHIE ANDREWS
    Episode 379 10-30-48 "Halloween Party"
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    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

    *Halloween Special*

    DARK VENTURE
    (ABC) 12/10/46 "The Man in Room 206" Chilling tale.

    THE HAUNTING HOUR
    (NBC/Synd) 4/21/45 "A Corpse, There Was"

    THE STRANGE DR. WEIRD
    (MBS) 4/24/45 "The Ghost Ship"
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    Our actor of the month is Bill Conrad.

    RICHARD DIAMOND
    from 08/09/53 Episode (151) The Ice Pick Murder Case

    GUNSMOKE
    12/27/52 Episode (036) The Cabin.

    We recently spoke with Christopher Conrad, son of Bill Conrad and we'll
    hear that interview on this week's show.

    SALUTE TO HEART SUNDAY
    from 10/15/47 Episode (029) The Bobby-Sox Kid from Bayonne.
    ====================================

    CLASSICS & CURIOS

    "Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

    Episode 51

    ALL ABOARD "THE ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL"

    This "Classics & Curios" show brings some great American train songs,
    beginning with perhaps the most famous one, "The Orange Blossom
    Special," performed here by Charlie McCoy. Probably the next most famous
    train song, "The Wabash Cannonball," follows and is sung in classic
    style by Country Hall of Famer Roy Acuff. One of the oldest recordings
    about trains is also featured, one called "The 5:15," performed in 1915
    by the versatile Billy Murray and the American Quartet. Until
    microphones were used for electrical recording in the 1920's, recordings
    had to be done acoustically by the use of a horn, and with Billy's
    strong lungs and fast delivery his recordings were acoustically
    successful and popular, many becoming best-sellers. He was talented and
    versatile and even played right field in exhibition baseball games with
    the Highlanders (later to become the New York Yankees). Among more
    recent train recordings is Johnny Mercer's "The Atchison, Topeka, and
    the Santa Fe." This song is from the 1946 movie "The Harvey Girls" and
    won the academy award for best song that year. Johnny does another train
    song, a cute novelty called, "My Cutie's Due at 2:22." Johnny sings it
    with Bobby Darin and Billy May's orchestra. And there was a really great
    train tune that hit the charts for 14 weeks in 1941-1942, and 2 of those
    weeks were at number 1. That, of course, would be the hit recording by
    Glenn Miller which featured Paula Kelly and the Modernaires and Tex
    Beneke: "Chattanooga Choo Choo." It was a huge production number in the
    1941 film "Sun Valley Serenade."

    A Classics & Curios Extra is the curio recording "Civilization,"
    popularly known as "Bongo, Bongo." This fun recording is from the 1947
    broadway musical "Angel in the Wings" and is done by the Andrews Sisters
    and Danny Kaye. It basically tells about a fellow from the Congo who is
    happy right where he is and refuses to leave the quiet and peaceful
    Congo for civilization's noise, false teeth, landlords, shotguns and
    such, including the atom bomb. The song mentions a missionary whose
    mission seems to be to convince (or "coax") the fellow to accept
    civilization with its penthouses, bathtubs, taxis, golf clubs,
    doorbells, and a mere two weeks vacation to swim and to fish and to
    enjoy a life that the Congo man enjoys all year long. The tune was
    covered by several artists, including Woody Herman, Louis Prima,
    "Smilin'" Jack Smith, and Ray McKinley, but Danny and the Andrews
    Sisters definitely had the most fun and success with it. The Andrews
    Sisters made their mark in the late 1930's with their close harmonic
    blend and with loud singing almost like harmonizing trumpets. Some big
    band leaders, such as Artie Shaw, resented their style, feeling it took
    focus away from the band. Some of their recordings were even smuggled
    into Nazi Germany under the title "Hitler's Marching Songs." One of
    those recordings, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen," was especially popular until
    the Nazis discovered the composer was a Jew. It's said that the song was
    secretly sung in concentration camps. These amazing gals made over 600
    recordings and had 113 charted hits, 46 reaching top ten status (more
    than Elvis or the Beatles).

    The last train song on this edition is a great one. It's the Irving
    Berlin song from 1947 "The Freedom Train" which gave some super
    performers an opportunity to demonstrate their patriotism during World
    War II. Contributing their talents were Johnny Mercer, Margaret Whiting,
    Peggy Lee, Benny Goodman, the Pied Pipers, and the Paul Weston band. The
    train toured the USA with national treasures such as the Declaration of
    Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Iwo
    Jima flag, the Gettysburg Address, and also even the 1215 Magna Carta.
    The train made stops in 322 cities in the then existing 48 states.

    President Truman supported plans of the American Heritage Foundation and
    Attorney General Tom Clark for the Freedom Train to display the
    foundations of our nation, such as the Bill of Rights, about which
    President Truman declared, "The fundamental basis of this nation's law
    was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of
    Rights comes from the teaching we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from
    Isaiah and St. Paul. I don't think we emphasize that enough these days.
    If we don't have the proper fundamental moral background, we will
    finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in
    the right for anybody except the state."

    So let's get aboard great American trains and celebrate our freedom
    blessings in song!
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    Make Believe Ballroom Time

    Episode 5

    In December 1946 Tommy Dorsey was one of eight big band leaders who shut
    down their bands for good. They believed the big band era had come to a
    close. Two tears later, Tommy Dorsey began a come-back aimed at "the
    kids of America who deserved a chance to dance to the big bands again".
    This program starts with the Dorsey band of 1946 with Tommy broadcasting
    from Los Angeles with his special [removed] Ellington. The program
    goes on to 1953 with the Dorsey band "alive and well" in New York City
    broadcasting from The Stattler Hotel on NBC. You'll find all this with
    facts about Tommy and stats about the year [removed] you know the
    microwave oven was introduced at that time? Check us out on " It's Make
    Believe Ballroom Time"
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    If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

    Jerry Haendiges

    Jerry@[removed] 562-696-4387
    The Vintage Radio Place [removed]
    Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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    Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:56:02 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-29 births/deaths

    October 29th births

    10-29-1873 - Walter C. Kelly - Mineville, NY - d. 1-6-1939
    actor: (The Virginia Judge) "The Eveready Hour"
    10-29-1880 - Gleason L. Archer - Great Pond, ME - d. 6-28-1966
    lecturer: "Laws That Safeguard Society"
    10-29-1883 - William K. Wells - NYC - d. 4-17-1956
    writer: "Under Arrest"
    10-29-1889 - Anna Case - Clinton, NJ - d. 1-7-1984
    singer/actor: WJZ New York City
    10-29-1891 - Fanny Brice - NYC - d. 5-29-1951
    comedian: Baby Snooks Higgins, "Baby Snooks"
    10-29-1894 - Jack Pearl - NYC - d. 12-25-1982
    comedian: Baron Munchausen "Baron and the Bee, Jack and Cliff, Jack
    Pearl Show"
    10-29-1897 - Hope Emerson - Hawarden, IA - d. 4-24-1960
    actor: Henrietta Topper "Advs. of Topper"; Elsie the Cow "Happy Island"
    10-29-1901 - Akim Tamiroff - Baku, Russia - d. 9-17-1972
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-29-1902 - Lillian Leigh - d. 5-18-1987
    actor: (Wife of Jack Kirkwood) "Jack Kirkwood Show"; "Fibber McGee and
    Molly"
    10-29-1903 - Olive Pell - Kalgoorlie, Australia - d. 1-xx-2002
    writer: "Then Came the Day They Came"
    10-29-1905 - Herbert Lateau - d. 3-xx-1984
    producer: "The National Farm and Home Hour"
    10-29-1908 - Robert K. Adams - d. 2-13-1981
    actor: "Dr. Susan"; Hilltop House"; Your Family and Mine"
    10-29-1908 - Ruth Russell - Peoria, IL
    actor: Nancy Donovan "Just Plain Bill"; Kathy "Our Gal Sunday"
    10-29-1909 - Virginia Clark - Peoria, IL
    actor: Helen Trent "Romance of Helen Trent"
    10-29-1910 - Lew Parker - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-27-1972
    actor: John Bickerson "The Bickersons" "Mennen Shave Time with Lew
    Parker"
    10-29-1916 - Hadda Brooks - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-21-2002
    pianist: "Jubilee"
    10-29-1921 - Bill Mauldin - Mountain Park, NM - d. 1-22-2003
    cartoonist: "Command Performance"; "Armed Forces V-J Program"
    10-29-1921 - Ed Kemmer - Reading, PA - d. 11-9-2004
    actor: Buzz Corey "Space Patrol"
    10-29-1922 - Neal Hefti - Hastings, NE - d. 10-11-2008
    composer, et al: "Woody Herman Show"; "Manhattan Melodies"
    10-29-1925 - Geraldine Brooks - NYC - d. 6-19-1977
    actor: "Hollywood Fights Back"; "Voice of the Army"
    10-29-1925 - Paul Daneman - London, England - d. 4-28-2001
    actor: "The Hobbit"
    10-29-1925 - Robert Hardy - Cheltenham, England
    actor, writer: "The Leopard and the Lillies"
    10-29-1933 - Douglas Cameron - Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
    presenter: "Today"; "double act"

    October 29th deaths

    01-14-1923 - Shirley (Ione) Cowell - Tulsa, OK - d. 10-29-1997
    singer: "The Shirley Cowell Show"
    02-18-1890 - Adolphe Menjou - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-29-1963
    host: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Eternal Light"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
    02-18-1917 - Jack Slattery - Missouri - d. 10-29-1979
    announcer: "House Party"; "You Bet Your Life"
    02-29-1888 - Tess Sheehan - Ann Arbor, MI - d. 10-29-1972
    actor: Dorrie Warren "Wendy Warren and the News"
    03-08-1909 - Anthony Donato - Prague, NE - d. 10-29-1990
    composer: "Surprise Serenade"
    03-12-1905 - Milton Merlin - California - d. 10-29-1996
    writer: "The Halls of Ivy"; "The Man Called X"; "Presenting Charles
    Boyer"
    03-17-1896 - Billy Artzt - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-29-1949
    orchestra leader: "Blondie"; "Myrt and Marge"; "Shirley Temple Time"
    04-08-1921 - Franco Corelli - Ancona, Italy - d. 10-29-2003
    operatic tenor: "Gala Performance"
    04-12-1907 - Hubert Fincher - Waldo, AR - d. 10-29-1979
    country music: "Crazy Water Crystals Barn Dance"
    04-23-1924 - Norman Painting - Leamington Spa, England - d. 10-29-2009
    actor: Phil Archer "The Archers"
    05-16-1913 - Woody Herman - Milwaukee, WI - d. 10-29-1987
    bandleader: (The Thundering Herd) "Wildroot Show"
    06-07-1897 - Mann Holiner - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-29-1958
    producer, director: "Baby Snooks Show"; "Frank Sinatra Show"; "Jubilee"
    06-14-1908 - John Scott Trotter - Charlotte, NC - d. 10-29-1975
    conductor: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Philco Radio Time"
    07-03-1919 - Fred Maddox - Boaz, AL - d. 10-29-1992
    bass: "The Maddox Brothers and Rose"
    07-04-1885 - Louis B. Mayer - Minsk, Byelorussia, Russian Empire - d.
    10-29-1957
    film executive: "Good News of 1938/39"; "Songs By Sinatra"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    07-06-1894 - Myra Marsh - Maine - d. 10-29-1964
    actor: Dora Foster "A Date with Judy"; Mother "My Friend Irma"
    07-13-1946 - Robert Caswell - Rockhampton, Australia - d. 10-29-2006
    writer: "Little Lunches"; "The Phone Friend"
    07-29-1924 - Lloyd Bochner - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-29-2005
    actor: "The Chase"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    08-20-1908 - Al Lopez - Tampa, FL - d. 10-29-2005
    baseball hall of fame: "Greatest Sports Thrills"; "Tops In Sports"
    10-23-1922 - Ewell Blackwell - Fresno, CA - d. 10-29-1996
    baseball pitcher: "Babe Didrickson Zaharius Sports Show"
    12-14-1912 - Morey Amsterdam - Chicago, IL - d. 10-29-1996
    comedian: "Morey Amsterdan Show"

    Ron

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    Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:56:10 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-30 births/deaths

    October 30th births

    10-30-1751 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Dublin, Ireland - d. 7-7-1816
    writer: (Inventor of the Malaprop) Some performers made use of the
    malaprop
    10-30-1879 - Eily Malyon - London, England - d. 9-26-1961
    actor: Lady Greystroke "Tarzan"
    10-30-1885 - Ezra Pound - Hailey, ID - d. 11-1-1972
    poet and traitor: "Italian Propaganda Broadcast"
    10-30-1891 - Bill Brandt - d. 11-18-1963
    sports commentator: "Inside of Sports"
    10-30-1896 - Bill Terry - Atlanta, GA - d. 1-9-1989
    sportscaster: WAGA Atlanta
    10-30-1896 - Ruth Gordon - Wollaston, MA - d. 8-28-1985
    actor: "Lincoln Highway"; "Meet Mr. Weeks"; "Orson Welles Theatre"
    10-30-1898 - Arthur Kohl - Chicago, IL - d. 8-29-1983
    actor: Fred Andrews "Archie Andrews"; Bob Graham "Bachelor's Children"
    10-30-1901 - Chester Bagg - d. 10-13-1988
    baritone: WCBC Zion, Illinois
    10-30-1906 - Paul J. Smith - Calumet, MI - d. 1-25-1985
    music: "The Eddie Bracken Show"
    10-30-1907 - Renzo Cesana - Rome, Italy - d. 11-8-1970
    creater: "The Steve Allen Show"
    10-30-1908 - Patsy Montana - Hot Springs, AK - d. 5-3-1996
    yodeling country singer: (Prairie Ramblers) "Nationial Barn Dance"
    10-30-1910 - Francia White - Greenville, TX - d. 10-22-1984
    singer: "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"; "Fred Astaire Show";
    "Telephone Hour"
    10-30-1911 - Milton Lieberthal - d. 6-5-1989
    writer: "The Sheriff"
    10-30-1911 - Ruth Hussey - Providence, RI - d. 4-19-2005
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-30-1912 - Preston Lockwood - Leyton, England - d. 4-24-1996
    actor: "Sherlock Holmes"
    10-30-1915 - Fred Friendly - NYC - d. 3-3-1998
    writer, director: "Hear It Now"; "Who Said That?"; "Quick and the Dead"
    10-30-1918 - Harvey Lowe - Victoria, Canada - d. 3-11-2009
    host: "Call of China"
    10-30-1918 - Jerry Adler - d. 3-13-2010
    harmonica" Paul Whiteman Orchestra
    10-30-1918 - Joan Banks - NYC - d. 1-18-1998
    actor: Arline Harrison Manning, "Portia Faces Life"; Carlotta Lagorro
    Armour, "Today's Children"
    10-30-1918 - William N. Burch - d. 10-1-2005
    producer: "Truth or Consequences"; "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"
    10-30-1922 - Jane White - NYC - d. 7-24-2011
    actor: Cloak and Dagger"; CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    10-30-1923 - Hershel Bernardi - NYC - d. 5-9-1986
    actor: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
    10-30-1924 - Norman Bird - Coalville, England - d. 4-22-2005
    actor: Major Burnaby "The Sittaford Mystery"
    10-30-1926 - Charles Woolf - California - d. 6-18-1994
    actor: "Life of Riley"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-30-1927 - Joe Adcock - Coushatta, LA - d. 5-3-1999
    baseball player: "Baseball: An Action History"
    10-30-1939 - Sammy Ogg - Lexington, VA
    actor: Little Beaver "Red Ryder"; Donnie Henderson "Beulah"
    10-30-1951 - Harry Hamlin - Pasadena, CA
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"

    October 30th deaths

    02-06-1899 - Ramon Novarro - Durango, Mexico - d. 10-30-1968
    actor: Freelance
    02-10-1903 - Lewis Allan - NYC - d. 10-30-1986
    writer for theatre, radio, television and films
    04-08-1915 - Carlyle Austin - d. 10-30-1985
    sportscaster: KEVR Seattle, Washington
    05-11-1914 - Bob Atcher - Hardin County, KY - d. 10-30-1993
    singer: "Faultless Starch Time"; "WLS Barn Dance"
    05-14-1918 - June Duprez - Teddington, England - d. 10-30-1918
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    06-11-1904 - Allen Roth - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-30-1972
    conductor: "Broadway Matinee"; "So You Think You Know Music"
    06-15-1918 - Grace McDonald - Boston, MA - d. 10-30-1999
    actor: "Treasury Star Parade"; "Hollywood Personals"
    06-16-1903 - Louis Raderman - d. 10-30-1974
    musician: "The Ipana Troubadors"
    06-19-1921 - Buddy Brees - NYC - d. 10-30-1994
    singer: "Art Mooney and his Orchestra"; "Bob Chester and his Orchestra"
    08-01-1906 - Judd McMichael - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-30-1989
    singer: (The Merry Macs) "Bing Crosby Show"; "Fred Allen Show"
    08-12-1912 - Sam Fuller - Worcester, MA - d. 10-30-1997
    producer, director: "The Aldrich Family"; "The Jack Carson Show"
    08-28-1924 - Peggy Ryan - Long Beach, CA - d. 10-30-2004
    dancer, actor: "Mail Call"; "Bob Hope Show"; "Proudly We Hail"
    09-09-1873 - Max Reinhardt - Baden, Austria - d. 10-30-1943
    film director: "Texaco Star Theatre"
    10-14-1907 - Pert Kelton - Great Falls, MT - d. 10-30-1968
    actor: Agnes "Magnificent Montague"; Lolita "We Are Always Young";
    "Milton Berle Show"
    10-27-1908 - Josephine Antoine - Boulder, CO - d. 10-30-1971
    singer: "Contented Hour"
    11-24-1911 - Kirby Grant - Butte, MO - d. 10-30-1985
    singer, actor: "Gatewood to Hollywood"; "Hollywood Barn Dance"
    11-26-1933 - Robert Goulet - Lawrence, MA - d. 10-30-2007
    singer-actor: "Guard Session"; "Voices of Vista"
    12-05-1886 - Rose Wilder Lane - De Smet, SD - d. 10-30-1968
    writer: (Daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder) "Hallmark Hall of Fame";
    "Helen Hayes Theatre"
    12-26-1921 - Steve Allen - NYC - d. 10-30-2000
    comedian, actor, singer, composer and anything else you might mention:
    "Steve Allen Show"

    Ron

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    Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:56:15 -0400
    From: Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Happy WOZTW Day, Everybody!

    It's probably safe to assume that any celebrations marking today's (Oct.
    30th) 74th anniversary of "The Mercury Thaetre of the Air's" "The War of the
    Worlds" broadcasr in the Princeton/West Windsor/Grovers' Mill area of New
    Jersey have been cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath.
    Regardless, I'd like to wish everybody a HAPPY 'WAR OF THE WORLDS' DAY!a
    Why hasn't this hobby ever proclaimed a "NAtional Old Time Radio Day"? If it
    ever came down to commemorating such on one particular day, proclaiming
    October 30th, the date when the most famous OTR broadcast of them all
    transpired in 1938, would be my choice -- a "no-brainer" if you will.

    Yours in the ether and about four miles from Newark main thoroughfare Raymond
    Boulevard (which is mentioned in WOTW),

    Derek Tague

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