Subject: [removed] Digest V2004 #3
From: <[removed]@[removed]>
Date: 1/4/2004 11:59 AM

To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2004 : Issue 3
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Seeking Eggleston's Air Checks        [ Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@erols ]
      Re: Film Music and "The Perfect Song  [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
      A Little Code-O-Graph History         [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
      new shows                             [ "Ed Carr" <edcarr@[removed]; ]
      Horlick's                             [ "Michael Leannah" <mleannah@charter ]
      new feature on Sunday night show on   [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
      Lone Ranger questions                 [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
      Info about Fred Nahas?                [ JackBenny@[removed] ]
      Comments/Questions/Tapes to give awa  [ "Harry Machin Jr" <harbev5@earthlin ]
      "The Invaders"                        [ Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed] ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed] ]
      Chat                                  [ "Caldwell, Wayne" <b-caldwell1@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:23:14 -0500
    From: Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Seeking Eggleston's Air Checks

    This is one of those good news/ bad news messages.

    A few weeks ago, I was contacted by Dick Bertel who is currently in
    Maryland, but in the early 1970s he hosted a program on WTIC in
    Hartford, CT entitled "The Golden Age of Radio." He played excerpts
    from OTR shows and interviewed their stars. In March 1972, he
    interviewed Shirley Eggleston, who brought to the studio about a half
    dozen air checks of shows she had in which she had a prominent role.
    These included "Crime Letter from Dan Dodge" (sole copy in existence),
    "I Was a Convict (only one other eps. in circulation), "Bill Stern
    Show", and "Whispering Streets." Bertel sent me a copy of that 55
    minute show, in which he played excerpts from all these programs.

    Through Jay Hickerson, I was recently able to telephone Eggleston in
    Brookfield, CT, and asked her if she still had those air checks so we
    could get them into circulation among the OTR community. She told me
    she had saved all the air checks and brought the disks to her first
    Newark FOTR convention, in 1998.  Jay suggested she loan them to a
    fellow from Massachusetts who would dub them and get them into
    circulation, as well as send her dubs on cassettes. She never heard
    from the Massachusetts man again and she lost all his contact
    information a few years ago when she changed residences. Neither she
    nor Jay remember the name of the person who ended up with her disks.

    If any of our Digesters know who the Mysterious Massachusetts Man may
    be, please contact him and let him know Eggleston wants to get in touch
    with him. He can contact her through me or Jay.

    On the plus side, we do have at least the opening three minutes of
    "Crime Letter From Dan Dodge" which is enroute to Jim Widner, who will
    be reformatting it for his web site so that anyone of you so inclined
    can download this rare segment for your own archives. Jim will explain
    later how and when to do this, just as he did with that other rare
    fragment, "Affairs of Peter Salem."

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    [removed]

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    Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:04:57 -0500
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Film Music and "The Perfect Song"

    On 1/3/04 4:39 PM [removed]@[removed] wrote:

>     No doubt selection of musical numbers such as "The Perfect Song" and
>     "Old Ironsides" for radio use had roots in their existing familiarity to
>     radio listeners.

    "The Perfect Song" ended up being chosen as "Amos 'n' Andy's" theme by
    WMAQ musical director Joseph Gallicchio in 1929 in part because it
    *wasn't* a particularly well-known piece of music. While it had been part
    of Joseph Briell's original score for "Birth of a Nation" in 1915, it
    hadn't had a particularly successful life apart from that: although it
    had been published as popular sheet music in 1915, it wasn't really a
    popular hit -- except among conductors of film music.

    Gallicchio had been the concertmaster for the Chicago Theatre, one of
    Chicago's plushest film palaces, before getting into radio in the
    mid-twenties, and had become familiar with Briell's score, occasionally
    cannibalizing it for use in other film accompaniments, and he also
    prepared a salon-orchestra arrangement of the piece for use on the air.
    As it happened, on the day that Gallicchio was scheduled to meet with
    executives of Lord and Thomas and The Pepsodent Company to discuss music
    for A&A, his ensemble had performed "The Perfect Song" in its morning
    WMAQ broadcast -- and the arrangement was still in his briefcase when he
    sat down with the executives that afternoon.

    The executives -- and Correll and Gosden -- specifically *didn't* want a
    popular song, a spiritual, an "old favorite," or any other song which
    would instantly remind the listener of something else. And despite its
    prior association with "Birth of a Nation," "The Perfect Song" by 1929
    was obscure enough and yet distinctive enough to suit everyone.

    Although the music became indelibly associated with Amos 'n' Andy, The
    Pepsodent Company also claimed a proprietary interest in the piece --
    thru the early thirties, Pepsodent and Lord and Thomas strongly
    discouraged performances of the selection on any other radio program, and
    required that a specially-prepared recording by Gallicchio's ensemble be
    used as the theme music for any program the company sponsored on a local
    basis. And the popular sheet music for the composition, in an edition
    still available as late as the 1970s, identified "The Perfect Song" as
    "the musical theme of The Pepsodent Hour, Featuring Amos 'n' Andy."

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:13:32 -0500
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  A Little Code-O-Graph History

    Bob Reynolds notes,

>     I will never forget in 1942 a friend of mine down the street & I ordered our
>     decoders the same day.  He got his before I received mine and I refused to
>     listen to apt. Midnight for about 2 weeks, when I did receive mine.  He used
>     to kid me each day about knowing the secret decoded messages.

    Well, the 1942 Code-O-Graph was that with the longest service life of any
    Captain Midnight cryptological premium -- three seasons.  It was
    manufactured in 1941 prior to the Pearl Harbor attack.  After the [removed]
    entered World War II, restrictions were put on various materials, notably
    copper (those old enough will never forget the 1943 steel pennies, which
    looked like dimes when new, causing a lot of confusion in daily
    transactions).  These restrictions put a hold on the manufacture of
    metallic radio premiums, most of which were made of brass.  Although
    Little Orphan Annie distributed paper "decoders," Ovaltine decided to
    curtail the manufacture of Code-O-Graphs during the "critical materials"
    phase, and thus the 1942 unit, fortunately undated, was used during the
    1943 and 1944 seasons. It thus had the longest service life of any
    Code-O-Graph, and a couple of weeks lag in three seasons isn't a lot of
    time.

    The 1945 Code-O-Graph, the only one manufactured during the war, was the
    first dated one, and its body was made of stamped sheet steel overcoated
    with "gold" paint.  There has been some discussion of when Ovaltine
    shifted from tins to glass jars.  I suspect that it was in 1944, where
    the metal usually reserved for the manufacture of tins may have been
    partially diverted to the manufacture of Code-O-Graph badge bodies (not
    all of it: jars need caps).  The 1945 Code-O-Graph was manufactured in
    limited quantities: in one of the surviving recordings of the program,
    the announcer begged people to stop sending in for them: they'd run out.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 20:57:40 -0500
    From: "Ed Carr" <edcarr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  new shows
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    hi everyone
     i have the following shows
    that are uncirculated
    1 night stands
    1729
    1525
    1348
    85
    557
    1323
    1938
    2032
    1906
    1903
    2099
    2035
    infomation please 1944
    5/1/44

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    Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 20:58:29 -0500
    From: "Michael Leannah" <mleannah@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Horlick's

        I am another one who is curious about Horlick's malted milk powder and
    tablets. I love listening to the early Lum and Abner shows when Horlick's
    was the sponsor. My kids and I enjoy listening to pitchman Carlton Brickert
    go on and on about Horlick's. My daughter has said more than once, "Dad,
    we've got to get some of that."
        How can anyone resist Horlick's? Supposedly, it tastes great, is full of
    nutrition, makes one sleep well, and keeps one's mood even and pleasant. Not
    only that, it makes scrawny babies hearty and healthy and overweight adults
    slim and trim. Wow.
        Unfortunately I have not found a source yet here in Wisconsin. I saw on
    the Internet that the tablets are available at quite a cost. We'll have to
    keep looking.
        I am interested in people's opinions on how Horlick's compares with
    Ovaltine, Carnation, etc. Someone said Horlick's isn't as sweet as the
    others. Fact is, you don't see sugar listed on the ingredient label of any
    malted milk powder.
        Yesterday in an antique store here in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, I saw a
    25-pound cannister of Horlick's malted milk in mint condition. It was
    selling for $69, empty of course. I wonder how much it sold for in the
    1930s, full? The cannister came from a Horlick's company in  New Jersey.
    Horlick's was originally made in Racine, Wisconsin. Today, there are three
    high schools in Racine, one of which is named Horlick.

    Mike

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    Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:00:47 -0500
    From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  new feature on Sunday night show on YUSA

    Hi Everybody,

    I am happy to announcing a new feature on the Sunday night show on Yesterday
    USA.  I hope starting on Sunday 1-11-04 Laura Leff and I will have a
    recorded discussion about Jack Benny show before I play it on the air.  We
    will start with 1937.  If you have any question or idea about this new
    feature please email me.  You can here it on [removed]  Take
    care,

    Walden Hughes

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    Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:02:15 -0500
    From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lone Ranger questions

    Happy New Year to all.

    I have some questions about the Lone Ranger, most of
    which stem from the Radio Spirts 60 episode collection
    "The Lone Ranger on Radio."

    First, tape 5 of the collection has episodes described
    as "Paroled Man," "Lawless Lawman" and "Best Laid
    Plans" with airdates of Dec. 15, 18, and 20, 1952,
    respectively. The episode descriptions in the booklet
    for the first two don't match what actually occurs in
    the episodes. My question is were the wrong episodes
    inadventently subsituted for the ones that should've
    been used, or was the wrong text description-- perhaps
    intended for a different collection-- inadvertently
    used in the "Lone Rager on Radio" booklet?

    Second, that same booklet indicates that in the early
    days, local actors at stations in Buffalo and Omaha
    portrayed the Lone Ranger, using the same script Fran
    Striker had sent to the Lone Ranger's home station of
    WXYZ Detroit. What isn't clear is how long this
    practice continued. I would imagine it ended when the
    nascent Mutual Network was formed, but did it? For
    that matter, how common was it for different stations
    to air independent versions of the same show, complete
    with their own stars?

    Third, I've seen the Feb. 2, 1933 air date mentioned
    before, but have also seen Jan. 30, 1933 as well (and
    more often) Has Feb. 2 been definitely established, or
    does the actual date remain a matter of debate?

    Finally, I know there has been debate regarding
    whether to accept the Lone Ranger's first name as John
    (or perhaps Jon), but was surprised to read that the
    name was first used in "The Legend of the Lone
    Ranger." Somehow I'd always thought it had appeared
    earlier somewhere, and the movie accepted it as
    accurate. Interesting.

    Which leads me to my last question: given that the
    1938 Republic serial gave the Ranger the name of Allen
    King, how widely accepted was the Reid name when it
    was introduced on radio in 1942? Yes, the radio show
    was around first, but I can imagine fans of the late
    30s and early 40s arguing the point.

    Rick

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    Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:22:18 -0500
    From: JackBenny@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Info about Fred Nahas?
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    Hello all,

    Posting a query for a friend and relative of Benny Rubin.  Can anyone provide
    additional information about Fred Nahas?:

    "My grandfather's name was "Fred Nahas" and I forgot the Radio Station he
    worked for. But I remember the Opening of the Shamrock

    [removed]~sgriffin/houstonhistory/[removed]

    "On the picture he's on the right. Its kinda hard to see b/c there aren't
    many pix online of him.

    "Dear Ann Landers: I read your column every day, and this morning, I was
    surprised to see an article that was written by my deceased husband, Fred
    Nahas of
    Houston. This article is "Seven-Tenths of a Second." It was printed in your
    column on April 9.
    Fred wrote, recorded and broadcast this on KXYZ radio in Houston. He was
    part-owner of this station at the time. I have a tape and newspaper articles
    of
    "Seven-Tenths of a Second." It has received much attention, but no one ever
    made
    known the author. I would appreciate it if you would let the world know.
    -- Eve Nahas
    "Dear Eve: Thank you for your letter. I believe in giving credit where it is
    due. Until now, I never knew who wrote that excellent piece. And now, the
    world knows it was your husband, Fred Nahas."
    --Laura Leff
    President, IJBFC
    [removed]

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    Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 22:50:52 -0500
    From: "Harry Machin Jr" <harbev5@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Comments/Questions/Tapes to give away!

    First:  As Mark Justice and another writer pointed out,
    the driver of the "Truck of Terror" did have bodily parts,
    although you never saw all of him.  I seem to remember
    that Dennis Weaver saw him get out of the truck, but only
    saw the legs and cowboy boots, since Weaver was looking
    under the truck at the time.  Weaver then, I seem to recall,
    went into the truckstop cafe looking for the man, but got
    into trouble with the patrons there, and then saw the Truck
    pulling away from the station.  No ghost.  But, at the end of
    the film, when the Truck crashed over the cliff, there was a
    terriffic groaning sound, as if the Truck was itself screaming.

    Second: On the subject of Ovaltine ------ dreadful tasting stuff!
    Another writer echoed my own experience of begging my
    mother to buy some so I could send for the premium.  She
    gave me the same argument ("you won't drink it").  I did
    cajole her into buying the stuff, and I drank it (except what
    I could manage to throw away).  I don't think anyone wrote
    to this digest saying how much they liked the stuff.

    Third: I have a reel to reel tape of "The Eleventh Hourl"
    Can anyone tell me if the show is worth listening to?  I
    would have to get out my old R to R tape player to hear
    it.  I have many such tapes that I must get rid of, since I'm
    moving to a smaller home, which leads me to

    Fourth:  I have a little over a hundred reels of tape, all
    recordings of the CBS Mystery Theater, tapes that I have
    never listened to.  These are off-the-air recordings. I have
    several hundred other boxes of R to R tapes of various
    shows that I acquired from the days when tape swapping
    was on reels.  We would tape shows on each of the two
    tracks, in different directions.  Four CBSRMT shows taped
    at 3 3/4 ips on each tape, using both tracks of a stereo
    recorder.  Half-hour shows would total eight shows per tape,
    of course.  I have to get rid of these tapes, and I am willing
    to give them to an OTR fan who wants to transfer them to MP3
    CDs and will make such copies to me in payment.  I cannot
    claim that I have a full run of CBSRMT, but I have a "whole big
    bunch" of them.  Surely, somewhere, there is a fan of that show
    who can help me out here.  Please contact me personally if
    such a person exists.

    Addendum:  I also have a couple of hundred other boxes of
    various shows (on R to R, of course).  For interested persons,
    contact me personally and I'll give you some idea of what I
    have.  I don't want to give these shows up, but my new home
    just won't accomodate them.  Tapes that I give away, I would
    ask for the recipient to abide by my requests for copies on
    MP3 CDs and pay shipping costs.  I hope my offer finds some
    OTR fan like myself eager to acquire a "treasure drove" of
    radio shows.

    Harry Machin Jr
    harbev5@[removed]

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    Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 00:33:45 -0500
    From: Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  "The Invaders"

    The discussion about Richard Matheson reminds me of my favorite "Twilight
    Zone" episode, "The Invaders," which originally  aired January 27, 1961.

    Matheson wrote the script.  Director Douglas Heyes hired Agnes Moorehead,
    primarily because she had done her famous, often  repeated, role in Lucille
    Fletcher's "Sorry, Wrong Number," on SUSPENSE.  Heyes was impressed that on
    the radio show, Moorehead used nothing but her voice.
    "Here's a half-hour tour de force where the woman doesn't use her voice at
    all." [THE TWILlIGHT ZONE COMPANION, Bantam Books, 1982, p. 172].

    Author Marc Scott Zicree notes that Matheson didn't like the episode at
    all. "I never liked it. For one thing, I think it is incredibly
    slow-moving. My script had twice as much incident as they used in the final
    version; it moved like a shot.  The teaser alone, of the woman cutting
    vegetables and then hearing the noise, it seems like it takes her forever
    to get up to the roof." [p. 176]

    On the contrary, I have always thought that radio and television melded
    perfectly in "The Invaders." It showed, in a very special way, how
    Moorehead's radio experience added depth to her characterization of yet
    another woman facing terror. She used the visual medium,  except for her
    grunts and groans, in the same way she used her voice as the doomed woman
    in "Sorry, Wrong Number."  Her facial expressions carried the day!

    Dennis Crow

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    Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 09:09:40 -0500
    From: "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi friends

    Here is this week's line-up for the week of 1-4-04 on my Olde Tyme Radio
    [removed] Featuring Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio Theatre," Big John
    Matthews and Steve Urbaniak's "The Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same
    Station" broadcasts, being broadcast on demand 24/7 in high quality
    streaming RealAudio at [removed]

    Past archived broadcasts are also available there.

    We look forward to seeing you there!

    	Jerry

    Here's this week's lineup:

    SAME TIME, SAME STATION with Jerry Haendiges

    Salute to Jerry Devine

    THIS IS YOUR FBI
    Episode 379    7-4-52    "The Five Fathom Stick-up"
    Stars: Stacy Harris
    Narrator: William Woodson
    With: Walter Catlett, Whitfield Connor, Sam Edwards, Georgia Ellis, Barney
    Philips
    Producer/Director/Writer: Jerry Devine

    THIS IS OUR HERITAGE
    Audition Show    1-18-51    "George Washington's Army"
    Stars: Parley Baer, Walter Catlet, Dick Crenna, Ed Gargan, Lamont Johnson,
    Jeanette Nolan, Victor Rodman and Carlton Young
    Narrator: Vernon Rich
    Music: Fred Steiner
    Producer/Director/Writer: Jerry Devine

    MILLIONS FOR DEFENSE
    Episode 5    7-30-41
    Produced by the US Treasury Department
    Master of Ceremonies: Tyrone Power
    Announcer: Barry Woods
    Stars: Don Ameche, Jack Benny, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, Jane Froman
    and Marry Livingstone Music: Ray Block's Choir and Al Goodman's Orchestra
    - --------------------------------------------------

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE with Tom Heathwood

    THE GREEN HORNET
    NBC   - 11-23-39    "The Smuggler Signs His Name"
    Stars: Al Hodge

    THE SHADOW
    NBC   3-13-38    "The Silent Avenger"
    Stars: Orson Welles

    ROCKY FORTUNE
    NBC   3-14-54    "Little Voice of Murder"
    Stars: Frank Sinatra
    - -------------------------------------------------

    THE GLOWING DIAL with Big John and Matthews and Steve Urbaniak

    It's detective time on The Glowing Dial featuring:

    Nightbeat
    NBC     8/21/50     # 29  "Stay Of Execution"

    I Was A Communist For The [removed]
    SYNDICATED     6/3/53     # 59  "The Crossed Heart"

    The Lives Of Harry Lime (aka The Third Man)
    MUTUAL     5/23/52     # 43  "Murder On The Riviera"

    The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
    MUTUAL     11/2/47     "The Adventure Of The Copper Beeches"

    The Whistler
    CBS     12/25/49     # 398  "Letter From Cynthia"
    - ----------------------------------------------------

    Please feel free to contact me with any questions or requests for upcoming
    shows.

                Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];

      [removed]  The Vintage Radio Place
      Largest source of OTR Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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    Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 13:39:47 -0500
    From: "Caldwell, Wayne" <b-caldwell1@[removed];
    To: "'Old Radio'" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Chat
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    Hope this is allowed here. I would like to start a chat session on my
    website. Times and dates to be decided by visitors. Subject to be only OTR.

    Wayne Caldwell
    oldtimer@[removed]
    [removed]

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    [ADMINISTRIVIA: There is, of course, a weekly chat on IRC (Internet Relay
    Chat) on the Starlink network every Thursday night. Check the OTR Digest
    every Wednesday for instructions on how to participate.  --cfs3]

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