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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2008 : Issue 263
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
speaking of bob and ray [ Grams46@[removed] ]
Re: New Jim Cox Book [ "David C. Tucker" <dcm32@[removed]; ]
need log for "lets go to town" [ EDWARD CARR <edcarr@[removed]; ]
11-14 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Rich Little Profile [ seandd@[removed] ]
RE: The Line-Up [ "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed] ]
RE: The Line-Up [ "Carter, Gay" <CarterG@[removed]; ]
11-15 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
October 2008 deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history 16-22 Nov [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:00:40 -0500
From: Grams46@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: speaking of bob and ray
bob elliot's son is chris elliot. chris' daughter is abby elliot. abby
is a new cast member of saturday night live.
peace from kathy
support our troops; end the war
john 3:16
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:07:49 -0500
From: "David C. Tucker" <dcm32@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: New Jim Cox Book
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Subject: A New Book By Jim Cox
Thanks for the information about Jim Cox's new book. I'm looking forward to
reading it.
I've enjoyed all of his books that I've read, but I think my favorite is "The
Great Radio Sitcoms."
David
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:07:58 -0500
From: EDWARD CARR <edcarr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: need log for "lets go to town"
hi
can anyone out there direct me to a log of
"lets go to town" thats complete
thanks edcarr@[removed]
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:08:07 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 11-14 births/deaths
November 14th births
11-14-1881 - Clayton Hamilton - NYC - d. 9-17-1946
writer: "Radio Guild"; "Great Plays"; "Brownstone Theatre"
11-14-1894 - James Van Dyk - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-17-1951
actor: Clyde Houston "Lora Lawton"; Dick Phillips "Rosemary"
11-14-1900 - Aaron Copland - NYC - d. 12-2-1990
composer: "Document A/777"
11-14-1901 - Morton Downey - Wallingford, CT - d. 10-25-1985
singer: (The Irish Thrush), "Morton Downey Show"; "Songs by Morton
Downey"
11-14-1904 - Art Hodes - Nikoliev, Russia - d. 3-4-1993
jazz pianist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"; "This Is Jazz"; "WNYC
Jazz Festival"
11-14-1904 - Dick Powell - Mountain. View, AR - d. 1-2-1963
actor: Richard Diamond "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"; Richard
Rogue "Rogue's Gallery"
11-14-1905 - Wilbur "Budd" Hulick - Asbury Park, NJ - d. 3-22-1961
comedian: "Stoopnagle and Budd"; Mortimer Meek "Meet Mr. Meek"
11-14-1906 - Mercer McCloud - d. 1-20-1993
actor: Fran Cummings "Second Husband"
11-14-1908 - Joseph McCarthy - Appleton, WI - d. 5-2-1957
despotic senator: "Meet the Press"
11-14-1910 - Rosemary De Camp - Prescott, Arizona Territory - d.
2-20-2001
actor: Nurse Judy Price, "Dr. Christian"
11-14-1913 - George Smathers - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 1-20-2007
[removed] senator from florida: "Meet the Press"
11-14-1914 - Haila Stoddard - Great Falls, MT
actor: Sue Evans Miller "Big Sister"
11-14-1914 - Ken Carson - Colgate, OK - d. 4-7-1994
singer: (Lustre Cream Shampoo commercial) "Day in the Life of Dennis
Day"
11-14-1915 - Billy Bauer - The Bronx, NY - d. 6-17-2005
jazz guitarist: "Band for Bonds"
11-14-1915 - Martha Tilton - Corpus Christi, TX - d. 12-8-2006
singer: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Curt Massey-Martha Tilton Program"
11-14-1916 - Don Ewell - Baltimore, MD - d. 8-9-1983
pianist: "Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra"
11-14-1916 - Hubert Batey - d. 2-8-1980
sportscaster: WGPC Albany, Georgia
11-14-1916 - Sherwood Schwartz - Passaic, NJ
writer: "The Bob Hope Show"; "The Great Gildersleeve"
11-14-1919 - DeWitt Samuel Copp - Connecticut - d. 11-29-1999
writer: "Hallmark Hall of Fame"; "Bell Telephone Hour"
11-14-1919 - Veronica Lake - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-7-1973
actor: "Exploring the Unknown"; "Request Performance"
11-14-1920 - Irving Ravetch - Newark, NJ
writer, adapter: "Escape"
11-14-1920 - Johnny Desmond - Detroit, MI - d. 9-6-1985
singer: "I Sustain the Wings"; "Philip Morris Frolics"; "Songs for Sale"
11-14-1923 - Margaret Courtenay - Cardiff, Wales - d. 2-15-1996
actor: "The Price of Fear"
11-14-1924 - Phyllis Avery - NYC
actor: Peggy McNutley "Meet Mr. McNutley"
11-14-1926 - Leonie Rysanek - Vienna, Austria - d. 3-7-1998
soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
11-14-1928 - Kathleen Hughes - Hollywood, CA
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-14-1951 - Sandahl Bergman - Kansas City, MO
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
November14th deaths
01-01-1915 - Earl Sheldon - NYC - d. 11-14-1977
orchestra leader: "The Bickersons"; "Jack Smith Show"
01-22-1935 - Dave Holland - Raleigh, NC - d. 11-14-2005
author: "From Out of the Past: A Pictorial History of the Lone Ranger"
01-23-1910 - Dorothy Arbuckle - Eldred, IL - d. 11-14-1982
radio journalist
01-26-1907 - Eddie Ballentine - Chicago, IL - d. 11-14-1995
orchestra leader: "Don McNeill's Breakfast Club"
02-04-1889 - Walter Catlett - San Francisco, Ca - d. 11-14-1960
actor: "This Is Your [removed]"; "Escape"; "Campbell Playhouse"
02-07-1915 - Eddie Bracken - Astoria, NY - d. 11-14-2002
comedian: "Eddie Bracken Show"; Dizzy Stevens "Aldrich Family"
02-14-1916 - Eddie Arcaro - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-14-1997
jockey: "Pabst Blue Ribbon Sport of Kings"; "Tops In Sports"
02-27-1894 - Upton Close - Kelso, WA - d. 11-14-1960
commentator: "Events and Trends of the Week"; "Close-Ups of the :News"
04-04-1896 - Robert Sherwood - New Rochelle, NY - d. 11-14-1955
playwright: "Free Company"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Screen Guild
Theatre"
04-08-1916 - Carl Cotner - Indiana - d. 11-14-1986
steel guitar: "Gene Aurty's Melody Ranch"
05-19-1870 - Wright Kramer - Somerville, MA - d. 11-14-1941
actor: Walter Jamison "Showboat"
05-24-1915 - Harvey Bacal - Quebec, Canada - d. 11-14-1993
musical director and arranger
05-28-1912 - Violet Dunn - d. 11-14-1982
actor: Peggy O'Neill "The O'Neill's"
09-01-1879 - Billy Beard - d. 11-14-1954
singer: (Raybestos Twins) "Eddie Cantor Show"; Al Jolson Show"
09-01-1904 - Johnny Mack Brown - Dothan, AL - d. 11-14-1974
actor: "Straight Arrow Pow Wow"
10-02-1911 - Jack Finney - Milwaukee, WI - d. 11-14-1995
writer: "Cloud Nine"
10-15-1909 - Robert Trout - Wake County, NC - d. 11-14-2000
commentator: "Headlines & Bylines"; "Robert Trout with the News Til Now"
10-21-1877 - Floyd Buckley - Chatham, NY - d. 11-14-1956
actor: Popeye: "Popeye the Sailor"
xx-xx-1868 - Mrs. Belloc Lowndes - London, England - d. 11-14-1947
author: "An Unrecorded Instance"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:08:13 -0500
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Rich Little Profile
This profile/interview of impressionist Rich Little reviews his career and
his work with many OTR stars including Jimmy Stewart and Jack Benny.
Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:08:52 -0500
From: "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: RE: The Line-Up
Ben Kibler asked
Subject: The Line-Up
Does anybody know of a definitive log of this series?
Yes. There is a definitive log for THE LINEUP.
Note the spelling of the series title.
It is contained in the book
Radio Series Scripts, 1930-2001
A Catalog of the American Radio Archives Collection
Compiled by Jeanette M. Berard and Klaudia Englund
ISBN 978-0-7864-2469-6
photos, bibliography, indexes
431pp. softcover (7 x 10) 2006
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Price: $[removed]
The log has titles for nearly all of THE LINEUP episodes.
(The first dozen scripts apparently did not have titles.)
The episode titles are from the scripts.
Or if there are scripts available?
The scripts for THE LINEUP reside in
American Radio Archives Collection
Thousand Oaks Library
Thousand Oak, CA
The scripts can be viewed at the above location.
Signing off for now,
Stewart Wright
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:09:06 -0500
From: "Carter, Gay" <CarterG@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: RE: The Line-Up
Ben,
You are right about the mess "The Line-Up" lists and audio files are in.
Your best source for the correct dates and titles is _Radio Series
Scripts, 1930-2001: A Catalog of the American Radio Archives Collection_
by Jeanette M. Berard and Klaudia Englund. The American Radio Archives
Collection is at the Thousand Oaks Public Library in California. They
hold all of the Line-Up scripts but one (the episode where Lt. Guthrie
is kidnapped). In my research on Bill Johnstone, I have taken the time
to match all of the dates to the available files by comparing newspaper
schedules, listening to the files, and consulting this list. I am now in
the process of verifying this work and hope to make a log available in
the future.
Gay E. Carter
CarterG@[removed]
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:02:21 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 11-15 births/deaths
November 15th births
11-15-1879 - Lewis Stone - Worcester, MA - d. 9-12-1953
actor: Judge James Hardy "Hardy Family"
11-15-1881 - Franklin Pierce Adams - Chicago, IL - d. 3-24-1960
panelist: "Information, Please"
11-15-1885 - Herbert Rawlinson - Brighton, England - d. 7-12-1953
actor: Edgar, the courthouse guard "The Amazing Mr. Tutt"; "Escape";
"Twelve Players'
11-15-1890 - Samuel Ornitz - NYC - d. 3-11-1957
hollywood ten screen writer: "House Unamerican Activities Committee"
11-15-1891 - Averell Harriman - NYC - d. 7-26-1986
[removed] ambassador to the soviet union: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy
Show"
11-15-1893 - Grover Jones - Rosedale, IN - d. 9-24-1940
writer: "Silver Theatre"
11-15-1902 - Clyde Kittell - Sayre, PA - d. 4-25-1962
announcer: "Hello Peggy"; "Name Three"
11-15-1907 - Bill Anson - Chicago, IL - d. 6-18-1983
quizmaster: "The Hirsch Telephone Quiz"
11-15-1909 - Sydney Smith - d. 3-4-1978
actor: Abie Levy "Abie's Irish Rose"; Ellery Queen "Advs. of Ellery
Queen"
11-15-1910 - Willard Belote - d. 5-xx-1985
newscaster, sportscaster: WGAF Faldosta, Georgia
11-15-1919 - Carol Bruce - Great Neck, NY - d. 10-9-2007
singer: "Ben Bernie Orchestra"; "Carton of Cheer"
11-15-1920 - Earl Becktel - d. 8-xx-1983
disk jockey: WSNJ Bridgeton, New Jersey
11-15-1923 - Robert Barron - NYC - d. 5-28-2002
actor: Flint Blackbeard "Jack Armstrong"
11-15-1924 - Mike Raven - London, England - d. 4-24-1997
actor: "Raven Around Show"
11-15-1925 - Gordon Hinkley - Port Edwards, WI
announcer, host: "Ask Your Neighbor"; "Invitation to Beauty"; "HotShots"
11-15-1929 - Ed Asner - Kansas City, MO
actor: "Odyssey of Homer"; "We Hold These Truths"
11-15-1932 - Petula Clark - Ewell, Surrey, England
singer: "Vanity Bandbox"; "Guard Session"; "It's All Yours"
11-15-1946 - Janet Lennon - Culver City, CA
singer: (The Lennon Sisters) "Music on Deck"; "Voices of Vista";
"Guest Star"
11-15-1947 - Mark Eugene Blumberg - Detroit, MI
writer of numerous radio commercials
November 15th deaths
01-02-1920 - Corny Peeples - Oak Park, IL - d. 11-15-1954
actor: William Snood "Tom Mix"; Bud Fairchild "Stepmother"
01-16-1890 - Lloyd Bacon - San Jose, CA - d. 11-15-1955
film director: "Screen Guild Theatre"; " Screen Director's Pla
01-25-1924 - Speedy West - Springfield, MO - d. 11-15-2003
steel guitarist: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Tennessee Ernie FordShow"
02-19-1912 - Saul Chaplin - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-15-1997
composer
02-22-1890 - Enid Markey - Dillon, CO - d. 11-15-1981
actor: Lillian Burke "Woman of Courage"
04-05-1912 - John Le Mesurier - Bedford, England - d. 11-15-1983
actor: Sergeant Arthur Wilson "Dad's Army"
04-28-1878 - Lionel Barrymore - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-15-1954
actor: Leonard Gillispie "Dr. Kildare"; Ebenezzer Scrooge "A Christmas
Carol"
05-05-1914 - Tyrone Power - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-15-1958
actor: Dean Edwards "Freedom [removed]"
05-28-1920 - Gene Levitt - NYC - d. 11-15-1999
writer: "Advs. of Philip Marlowe"
05-30-1911 - Louise Campbell - Chicago, IL - d. 11-15-1997
actress: "The Star Maker"
06-10-1897 - Boris Kroyt - d. 11-15-1969
violinist: (Member of the Budapest String Quaratet) "Library of
Congress Concert"
06-12-1915 - Robert Forster - NYC - d. 11-15-2003
announcer: "CBS Radio Workshop"; Gangbusters"; Twenty-First Precinct"
06-16-1914 - Edward Gruskin - d. 11-15-2005
writer: "Nick Carter, Master Detective"; "Rendezvous in Paris"
07-30-1928 - Joe Nuxhall - Hamilton, OH - d. 11-15-2007
baseball annoucer for the Cincinnati Reds
08-18-1878 - Harry C. Browne - North Adams, MA - d. 11-15-1954
actor: Hank Simmons, Henry Clinton "Hank Simmon's Showboat"
08-29-1898 - Charlie Grimm - St. Louis, MO - d. 11-15-1983
Sportscaster:(Jolly Cholly) WBBM Chicago
09-02-1925 - Russ Conway - Trever Stanford in Bristol, England - d.
11-15-2000
pianist: "Billy Cotton Band Show"
09-28-1904 - [removed] Bathe - d. 11-15-1997
announcer: WNAD Norman, Oklahoma
10-18-1913 - Evelyn Venable - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-15-1993
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Stars of Tomorrow 1934"
11-17-1899 - Toscha Seidel - Odessa, Ukraine - d. 11-15-1962
violin virtuoso: Staff musician for CBS
11-19-1924 - J. D. Sumner - Lakeland, FL - d. 11-15-1998
singer: (Blackwood Brothers Quartet) "Songs of the Gospel"
12-19-1888 - Fritz Reiner - Budapest, Hungary - d. 11-15-1963
conductor: "Curtis Institute Musicale"; "Ford Sunday Evening Hour"
12-19-1911 - Clark Dennis - Roscommon, MI - d. 11-15-1992
singer: "Breakfast Club"; "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Chesterfield
Presents"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:02:32 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: October 2008 deaths
Deaths in October 2008
06-18-1925 - Bob Arthur - Aberdeen, WA - d. 10-1-2008
actor: "The Bob Arthur Show"
07-27-1933 - Nick Reynolds - San Diego, CA - d. 10-2-2008
singer: (The Kingston Trio) "Guest Star"; "Guard Session"
06-20-1913 - Al Gallodoro - Birmingham, AL - d. 10-4-2008
jazz saxophonist: "The Paul Whiteman Show"; "The Henry Morgan Show"
xx-xx-1917 - Kim Chan - China - d. 10-5-2008
actor: "Cavalcade of America"
06-02-1922 - Gil Stratton, Jr. - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-11-2008
actor: "Billy Webster "Those Websters"; Jimmy "Life with Luigi";
Freddie "My Little Margie"
10-29-1922 - Neal Hefti - Hastings, NB - d. 10-11-2008
composer, et al: "Woody Herman Show"; "Manhattan Melodies"
11-13-1922 - Jack Narz - Louisville, KY - d. 10-15-2008
announcer: "Meet Corliss Archer"; "Tenneessee Ernie Ford Show"
04-16-1927 - Edie Adams - Kingston, PA-d. 10-15-2008
singer, actor: "Stewart Foster Show"
09-20-1937 - Tom Tresh - Detroit, MI - d. 10-15-2008
baseball player: "Tops In Sports"
05-16-1912 - Studs Terkel - The Bronx, NY - d. 10-31-2008
journalist, sometimes actor: "Destination Freedom"; "Ma Perkins"
06-07-1933 - Herb Score - Rosedale, NY - d. 11-9-2008
baseball broadcaster: Cleveland Indians
03-04-1932 - Miriam Makeba - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 11-10-2008
click singer: "The World of Folk Music"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:50:33 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 16-22 November
From Those Were The Days --
1307 - The story of William Tell shooting the apple off of his young
son's noggin is said to have taken place on this day.
(If it hadn't been for Tell there would have been no opera, if there had
been no opera there would have been no overture, if there had been no
overture the Lone Ranger wouldn't have had the theme music we know.
That's a joke son, I say that's a joke).
11/20
1929 - The first broadcast of The Rise of the Goldbergs, with Gertrude
Berg as Molly, was heard on the NBC Blue network. Later, the title would
be shortened to The Goldbergs. Mrs. Berg, incidentally, wrote the first
scripts for the 15-minute program and starred in the show -- for $75 a
week. ($810 in 2005 dollars). The program continued until 1945 (it
returned for one season in 1949-1950). Gertrude Berg entertained
audiences with New York style, motherly phrases like, "Button up your
neck. It's cold outside."
11/21
1938 - WBOE in Cleveland, OH became the first school-operated radio
station (owned by a municipality) to receive a license from the FCC.
WBOE went on the air as a 500-watt AM station and later became an FM
station.
1938 - The first broadcast of Central City was heard. It was an
adventure-mystery show set at the newspaper in, you guessed it, Central
City. Elspeth Eric played the part of crime reporter Emily Olson; and
Van Heflin was crime reporter Bob Shellenberger (later, the part was
played by Myron McCormick). Central City aired until 1941.
1944 - "Happy trails to you, until we meet [removed]" The Roy Rogers
Show was first heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Singing along
with Roy (The King of the Cowboys'), were the Whippoorwills and The Sons
of the Pioneers.
11/22
1906 - Delegates attending the Berlin Radiotelegraphic Conference in
Germany voted to use SOS (...[removed]) as the letters for the new
international signal. The international use of "SOS" was ratified in
1908. Its meaning? No, not "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" as many
believe. Its only meaning was as a distress signal, quick to transmit by
Morse code and not easily misread. It is not an acronym. Incidentally,
how did SOS pads come to use the same initials? They're named after a
patented process, Soap on Steel.
Joe
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