Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #19
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 1/18/2005 2:17 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 19
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      1935 Lone Ranger Movie Discovery?     [ Randy Collins <rlcollins1@adelphia. ]
      now don't start with Gloria Gooseby!  [ benohmart@[removed] ]
      Listening habits                      [ "Rick Botti" <rbotti@[removed]; ]
      Number 1 Songs                        [ JayHick@[removed] ]
      What they REALLY look like            [ danhughes@[removed] ]
      August Heat                           [ Ruk77@[removed] ]
      HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE                [ HERITAGE4@[removed] ]
      [removed]                           [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
      Phil Harris and the "Thing"           [ "Tony and Kelly B." <tkb3@columbus. ]
      Dum-Dah-Dah                           [ skallisjr@[removed] ]
      Re: How we imagine radio stars        [ "Rodney W Bowcock" <[removed]@ ]
      WTIC's Golden Age of Radio for Janua  [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed]; ]
      Andy Clyde                            [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
      Fw: Marshall Bullard a widower?!      [ "Rodney W Bowcock" <[removed]@ ]
      [removed] mean Rumson Bullard       [ "Rodney W Bowcock" <[removed]@ ]
      Re: OTR Listening Habits              [ Laura Eaton <chatgroups@indebookwor ]
      Listening Habits                      [ lawrence albert <albertlarry@yahoo. ]
      Novelty Songs                         [ Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed]; ]
      1-19 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:47:17 -0500
    From: Randy Collins <rlcollins1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  1935 Lone Ranger Movie Discovery?

    I've just located on ebay a supposed five-minute film made in 1935 of the
    Lone Ranger. This film would pre-date the Republic serial by three years.
    According to the seller, who is asking a minimum of $15,000 for the short
    film, this film was found in the estate of James Jewell, producer/director of
    the Lone Ranger radio series from its beginning at WXYZ Detroit. There is a
    rather long and detailed description of the film, including eight or more
    stills from it. The seller hints that this film gives some idea of the
    content of the earliest Lone Ranger radio shows. Here is some of the text
    from their description:
     Appearing in the film are:
    Scenes filmed at WXYZ Studios at the Maccabees Building, Detroit, MI. At the
    mike or in the studio:
    Earl Grazer - playing the Lone Ranger
    John Todd - playing Tonto
    James Jewell - as himself, producer/director
    Brace Beamer - as narrator
    Ted Robertson - as announcer
    Harold True - commercial for Silvercup Bread
    Felix Holt - as a writer at typewriter
    Helen Hall - as James Jewell's secretary
    The Jewell Players - including Jack Lawrence, Fred Reto, Margorie Richmond,
    Malcolm McCoy, and others

    On location and in character at Brace Beemer's farm in Oxford, MI:
    Brace Beamer - as the Lone Ranger
    John Todd - as Tonto
    White Gold (a mare) - as Silver
    James Jewell - as the "Stranger from the East" and later as the first horse
    thief
    Felix Holt - as the second horse thief

    Some very notable scenes:
    [removed] the most amazing clip is that occurring near the beginning as the
    start of a radio show at WXYZ is filmed in action. Earl Grazer and James
    Jewell are standing together near a microphone. At Jewell's cue, Grazer steps
    up to the mike and delivers his famous "Hi-Yo Silver, Awaaaaaaay!" As he
    delivers the word "Away," he literally runs away from the mike, thus creating
    the distancing effect. This signature line was so strongly identified with
    the stirring beginning of the show that for years after Grazer's death, the
    show used his recorded voice to deliver this one important phrase.
    [removed] (a shirtless John Todd) riding bareback behind the Ranger on Silver.
    Tonto got his own virtual radio horse Scout after September 1935 when a
    sponsor suggested that he thought it just a little weird that Tonto was
    horseless. This clip, showing Todd in costume riding behind a masked Brace
    Beemer with leafless trees in background and no breath condensation,
    plausibly dates the film to a warm day in the early spring (March) of 1935.
    As previously stated, it was also the time when Trendle's objecting eye was
    removed to warmer climes.
    3. Brace Beamer seen in costume as the LR unmasked.

    My questions to the Lone Ranger experts on the digest would be is this a
    major new discovery, a fraud, or something already known to exist? I've no
    connection to the seller, I just posted due to the interesting nature of the
    claims, photos and info in the ad.

    Randy Collins

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    Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:44:18 -0500
    From: benohmart@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  now don't start with Gloria Gooseby!

    Hate to disillusion ya, but Gloria WAS heard on the Bickersons once. When Blanche
    and John stayed over with the Goosebys one night, Leo and John doubled up (good
    joke there), but the snoring drove Leo back to Gloria's room.

    On the subject of listening to shows at work, I have to say that the fantastic BBC Radio
    4 broadcast via the internet enlightens my every day with a load of new comedies and
    panel games, while I do the busy work of editing radio books and filling orders.

    Ben Ohmart

    Old radio. Old movies. New books.
    [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:44:30 -0500
    From: "Rick Botti" <rbotti@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Listening habits

    I started listening to OTR over K101 FM in San Francisco around 1968, they
    got me hooked on the Lone Ranger and Mystery shows. Then for many years I
    collected cassettes, but by the time I got a round to Reels, everyone else
    had abandoned that format.

    Over the past few years I switched to CD, I tried mp3 format but really
    hated listening to OTR on my computer so I focused on CDs. Now all of that
    changed with the introduction of Apple's IPod! I have the [removed] started by
    downloading 117 episodes of X Minus One and the little thing still had room
    for 200 hundred more shows, plus regular music. So now CDs are a thing of
    the past, I just store all of the OTR on my IPod and listen in the car.
    While I'm at home, I plug it into a small FM transmitter and listen on the
    radio, but for the full effect, I own a 1936 Stromberg-Carlson console radio
    with a 1946 FM converter, I just place the IPod and transmitter near by and
    listen to OTR the way it was originally broadcast.
    Rick Botti

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    Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:44:45 -0500
    From: JayHick@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Number 1 Songs

    >From 1940 through 1960 there are at least 5 songs that reached #1, according
    to Joel Whitburn's books, that don't have the title in the lyrics:
    Anniversary Song (1947); The Thing (1950); Unchained Melody (1955); The
    Chipmunk Song
    (1958); The Three Bells (1959).  Jay

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    Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:45:40 -0500
    From: danhughes@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  What they REALLY look like

>     Have any readers been surprised when you actually saw a radio

    personality,

>     compared with your impression?  Or did they "measure up" to your

    imagination?

    I was born in 1947, and I saw many of the radio stars on TV before I
    heard their radio shows.  I didn't even know Jack Benny had BEEN on
    radio, even though I watched his TV series all through the fifties and
    sixties.  So generally, I knew the faces before I heard the OTR programs.

    But there are a few notable exceptions:

    I've listened to John Lewis a lot (Digger O'Dell and Gillis on The Life
    of Riley, the narrator on the Damon Runyon Theater), and finally saw him
    for the first time about two weeks ago in a Burns and Allen TV show.
    Could not BELIEVE this was the man who played those radio parts!

    And my first view of Frank Lovejoy (Randy Stone on Nightbeat) stunned me,
    too.

    I'm still waiting to find a photo or video appearance of Elliot Lewis--I
    can't wait to see what Frank Remley looks like!

    My daughter listened to Burns and Allen radio shows when she was very
    small, and one night I brought home a Burns and Allen TV show.  I plugged
    it into the VCR and Karen (4 or 5 years old) watched for a few seconds,
    wide-eyed, then abruptly pulled her blanket over her head.  "Karen?
    What's wrong?" I asked.  She loudly moaned, "THEY DON'T  LOOK LIKE THAT!"

    ---Dan

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    Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:25:16 -0500
    From: Ruk77@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  August Heat
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    should we tell him? One of the most shocking/suprising and creepy endings of
    all Suspence [removed]
    maybe you should hear it for [removed] me & I will send an episode
    in its entirety!
    It will be worth the wait!!!

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    Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:27:03 -0500
    From: HERITAGE4@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE
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    Here's our lineup for this week (thru Saturday) at The Olde Tyme Radio
    Network:
    1. The Black Museum - BBC/Mutual 1952-53  Orson Welles in:
         "A Pair of Spectacles"
    2. THE VOYAGE OF THE SCARLET QUEEN -  MBS - 7/3/47    Elliott
         Lewis stars in "Shanghai Secret"
    3. TARZAN -  (aka TARZAN OF THE APES)  2/11/33 - Syndicated
         by World Broadcasting)  Very early episode includes Edgar Rice
         Burroughs daughter, Joan playing the role of "Jane"

    Tom Heathwood

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    Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:27:26 -0500
    From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  [removed]

    Yes: Linda Kay is Paul Henning's daughter.
    But I'm surprised on how no one's mentioned the cast changes, during the
    show, including early on, with the gals playing Kate/Bea Benaderet's
    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:27:35 -0500
    From: "Tony and Kelly B." <tkb3@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Phil Harris and the "Thing"

    Hi all,

    If this has already been answered, a thousand apologies for the
    duplication.

    Phil Harris sings about the "Thing" in one of his many songs.

    Great song, great lyrics, but does anybody know what the "thing" refers
    to?

    thanks in advance.

    Tony

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    Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:28:10 -0500
    From: skallisjr@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Dum-Dah-Dah

    Michael Leannah, speaking of Phil Harris' song, "The Thing," notes,

>     I don't remember all the details, but "The Thing" was featured in the
>     column because it is one of only two or three songs to have the following
>     distinctions: a) it made it to number one on the charts, and b) its title
>     is not in the lyrics of the song

    My admiration for the Phil Harris - Alice Faye program is still very
    high: the shows are as good today as when they were first aired.  As for
    the song, it went white hot for a while.  An early TV show, Garroway At
    Large, flashed images of various things whose names utilized the
    three-syllable "dim-dah-dah" beat that represented whatever was in the
    box.  My favorite was an image of a Form 1040, for "Income Tax."

    Phil Harris sang a lot of his songs on the show, such as "The Old Master
    Painter."  I suspect his gave him  edge in exposure.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:42:22 -0500
    From: "Rodney W Bowcock" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: How we imagine radio stars

    After listening to the Jack Benny program for a couple of years when I was
    a kid, I found a picture of him in one of my grandmother's magazines and I
    can safely say that he didn't look *anything* like what I had
    [removed] much older!  I also found Mary to be not nearly as
    attractive as I imagined.  Of course, in the insuing years, I've gotten
    used to it, and after watching many episodes of the TV show, I can't
    imagine them looking any other way.

    I heard somewhere about going to see the Universal 'Life of Riley' movie in
    1948 and bringing a camera to take pictures of the actors, and being very
    disapointed with the appearance of them.  I can't remember if I read that
    here, or if someone in our local club told me about it.

    Rodney Bowcock

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    Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:52:51 -0500
    From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  WTIC's Golden Age of Radio for January 18,
     2005

    The current  "WTIC's Golden Age of Radio" programs
    with Dick Bertel and Ed  Corcoran feature Goodman
    Ace and Rosa Rio. They can be heard at

    [removed]

    Program 10
    January, 1971
    Goodman Ace
    A journalism major from the Kansas City Polytechnic Institute,
    Goodman Ace switched from theater critic for the Kansas City
    Post to a gag writer for Jack Benny. Eventually he got his own
    local radio show, Ace Goes to the Movies, which included film
    reviews and comedy patter with his wife, Jane.

    Response to the Aces was wild, and in 1932 they switched to
    network radio. In 1933 they came to New York for a fifteen
    minute show three times a week. They made a comedy short,
    Easy Aces in 1935, and also starred in a series of short
    documentaries and travelogues, offering brief introductions.

    In 1943 their radio show's format changed to a standard half
    hour. Like Burns and Allen, Goodman and Jane were a straight
    man-dizzy lady duo. Jane's brand of silliness was mainly
    malapropisms. Her classics were: "we're all cremated equal,"
    "you could've knocked me down with a fender," "we're
    insufferable friends" and "time wounds all heels."

    The radio show's initial run was from 1932-1945. It returned for
    1948 and 49, and then in December of 1949 came to television
    on the Dumont network. Jane retired in 1950 after the short run
    of the "Easy Aces" television series.

    Program 11
    February, 1971
    Rosa Rio, radio organist. The program you will hear was
    recorded at her home.

    The radio programs for which she provided the music:

    Between the Bookends with Ted Malone; Cavalcade of America;
    Chaplain Jim; Court of Missing Heirs; Deadline Drama; Dunninger
    Show; Ethel & Albert; Front Page Farrell; Gospel Singer with
    Edward McHugh; Hannibal Cobb Lorenzo Jones; My True Story;
    Myrt & Marge; Mystery Chef The Shadow; Town Hall Tonight;
    When A Girl Marries; and Rosa Rio Rhythms.

    In the 1970's Dick Bertel created the program for
    WTIC in Hartford, CT. The idea came  to  Dick
    after he interviewed radio collector-historian Ed
    Corcoran a few times. It was  first broadcast in April,
    1970; Ed was his co-host.

    For the next seven years the program featured interviews
    with radio actors, writers, producers, engineers and
    musicians from radio's early days. In addition, each
    show featured excerpts from Ed's collection.

    Bob Scherago
    Webmaster

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    Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:53:02 -0500
    From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Andy Clyde

         I just listened to a couple of eps of "Hopalong
    Cassidy".  The credits at the end of the program
    mentioned that the role of California Carlson was
    played by an actor named Andy Clyde.  Wasn't there an
    actor in silent films by the same name?  Was it the
    same actor?  I saw a caricature of Bill Boyd as Hopalong
    Cassidy and an older man with a bushy mustache by
    Al Hirschfeld once.  Could the older man have been Andy
    Clyde?

    Another OTR Fan,

    Kenneth Clarke

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    Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:53:11 -0500
    From: "Rodney W Bowcock" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Fw: Marshall Bullard a widower?!

    As I mentioned a few days ago, I've been listening to the Great
    Gildersleeve show in chronological order.  In the last couple of seasons,
    I've heard quite a few romantic leads get dropped very quickly (like
    Adeline Fairchild and the teacher played by Bea Benederet, who's name
    escapes me), but I've never encountered a plot hole such as this.  In the
    12/28/1950 episode, Marshall Bullard announces that he is a widower, and
    has been for 7 years.  I distinctly recall hearing Mrs. Bullard on at least
    a few occasions in earlier seasons.  Is this just one of those OTR things
    that never get explained?

    Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the show very, very, much.  This is just
    one thing that struck me as odd.

    Rodney Bowcock

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    Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:53:22 -0500
    From: "Rodney W Bowcock" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  [removed] mean Rumson Bullard

    Before anyone calls me out on it, I realized my typo after I sent the
    message.  I meant Rumson Bullard!

    rodney

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    Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:53:42 -0500
    From: Laura Eaton <chatgroups@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: OTR Listening Habits

    I own my own business and I am in front of a computer for a good portion of the
    day.  I listen to OTR almost nonstop while I work.  I have many shows on my
    hard
    drive in mp3 format and listen to those.  I also subscribe to Live365 and
    listen
    to their 28 or so OTR stations.  (I think you can listen for free as well, but
    you get pop-ups if you don't subscribe)
    link to their OTR stations if interested:
    <[removed];genre=old%20time%
    20radio>

    I also belong to several OTR download sites and use them in the morning to
    download a days worth of listening.

    I don't think I could get through a day of doing nothing but listing books if
    it
    was not for OTR. I mainly listen to comedies and detective shows, occasionally
    through in a good drama.

    Laura Eaton, Sole Proprietor
    indeBookworm, member IOBA
    [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:53:52 -0500
    From: lawrence albert <albertlarry@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Listening Habits
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    I have found over the years that the best way for me to listen to OTR or NTR
    is while I'm driving. I have to be doing something otherwise I'll fall
    asleep. Driving and listening is the perfect combination for me.

     How do I pick what I listen to? Not very systematicaly. Generally I carry a
    a small bin stuffed to the gills with MP3 s, cassettes or CDs and I hear what
    I grab. If I don't really care for the program that's come up I'll stay with
    it just because. I listen to the whole show because I really do enjoy the
    credits and if the cast is listed I like to see if I guessed right on the
    name behind the voice.

     Larry Albert

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    Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:54:11 -0500
    From: Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Novelty Songs
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    Speaking of Novelty Songs, especially the 1940's, does everybody remember
    this corker? "One Meatball!" Wasn't that by Spike Jones And His Cityslickers?

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    Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:54:19 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-19 births/deaths

    January 19th births

    01-19-1809 - Edgar Allan Poe - Boston, MA - d. 10-7-1849
    author: "Columbia Workshop";"World's Greatest Short Stories"; "Weird Circle"
    01-19-1866 - Harry Davenport - NYC - d. 8-9-1949
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Family Theatre"
    01-19-1887 - Alexander Woollcott - Phalanx, NJ - d. 1-23-1943
    commentator: "Early Bookworm"; "Town Crier"
    01-19-1905 - Anne Schumacher Ashenhurst Hummert - Baltimore, MD - [removed]
    producer: "Backstage Wife"; "Lorenzo Jones"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
    01-19-1906 - Lanny Ross - Seattle, WA - d. 4-25-1988
    singer: "Lanny Ross Program"; "Maxwell House Show Boat"
    01-19-1908 - Ish Kabibble (Merwyn Bogue) - Erie, PA - d. 6-4-1994
    comedian: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
    01-19-1919 - Ray Eberle - Hoosick Falls, NY - d. 8-25-1979
    big band singer: "Glenn Miller and His Orchestra"; "Glenn Miller's Moonlight
    Serenade"
    01-19-1922 - Guy Madison - Pumpkin Center, CA - d. 2-6-1996
    actor: Wild Bill Hickok "Wild Bill Hickok"
    01-19-1931 - Robert MacNeil - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    newscaster: CBC Canada
    01-19-1932 - George Mann MacBeth - Lanarkshire, Scotland - d. 2-16-1992
    poet, producer: BBC Radio
    01-19-1935 - Tippi Hedren - New Ulm, MN
    actress: "World's Fair Holiday"
    01-19-1939 - Phil Everly - Chicago, IL
    singer: (The Everly Brothers) "March of Dimes"; "Country Hoedown"

    January 19th deaths

    04-22-1920 - Hal March - San Francisco, CA - d. 1-19-1970
    comedian: Matt Henshaw "December Bride"; Mr. Cook "Too Many Cooks"
    05-26-1884 - Charles Winninger - Athens, WI - d. 1-19-1969
    actor: Captain Henry "Show Boat"; Uncle Charlie "Uncle Charlie's Tent Show"
    05-31-1904 - Clifton Utley - Chicago, IL - d. 1-19-1978
    newsman: (Father of Garrick) "University of Chicago Round Table"; "Comments by
    Clifton Utley"
    07-08-1917 - Glenn Langan - Denver, CO - d. 1-19-1991
    actor: "Chuck Morgan "Stand By For Crime"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-11-1887 - Gus Arnheim - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-19-1955
    orchestra leader: "Woodbury Soap Show"
    10-18-1913 - Martin Blaine - IL - d. 1-19-1989
    actor: Adam Sheppard "FBI in Peace and War"; Scott 'Tubby' Truman "Valiant
    Lady"
    11-09-1913 - Hedy Lamarr - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-19-2000
    actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-28-1887 -  Charles Dingle - Wabash, IN - d. 1-19-1956
    actor: Employer "Meet the Dixons"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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