Subject: [removed] Digest V2008 #119
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Date: 5/9/2008 10:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 119
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      5-9 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      couple of flea market finds           [ Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed]; ]
      78 RPM RECORDS                        [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
      Gabby Heyes?                          [ "Dick Wamser" <snapp@computerconnec ]
      WROW recordings                       [ Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
      Re: afn collector                     [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
      Re: Something special about "The Los  [ rand@[removed] ]

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    Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 22:52:11 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-9 births/deaths

    May 9th births

    05-09-1860 - James M. Barrie - Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland - d.
    6-19-1937
    author: Some of his works adapted for radio
    05-09-1887 - William P. Adams - Tiffin, OH - d. 9-29-1972
    actor, announcer: Uncle Henry "Collier's Hour"; Uncle Bill "Let's
    Pretend"
    05-09-1895 - Richard Barthelmass - NYC - d. 8-17-1963
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-09-1898 - Edith Meiser - Detroit, MI - d. 9-26-1993
    writer: "Life and Love of Dr. Susan"; "The Shadow"; "Sherlock Holmes"
    05-09-1901 - Fuzzy Knight - Fairmont, WV - d. 2-23-1976
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    05-09-1908 - Joan Kinmont - Port Lincoln, Australia - d. 8-17-1985
    writer: "Firelight"
    05-09-1908 - Leonard Sillman - Detroit, MI - d. 1-12-1982
    producer: "New Faces of 1948"
    05-09-1911 - Harry Simeone - Newark, NJ - d. 2-22-2005
    arranger, choral director: "The Fred Waring Show"; "Columbia Presents
    Corwin"
    05-09-1912 - George T. Simon - NYC - d. 2-13-2001
    jazz critic
    05-09-1912 - Rupert Pray - d. 2-5-1973
    writer: "Forever Ernest"
    05-09-1914 - Carlo Maria Giulini - Barletta, Italy - d. 6-14-2005
    conductor, musical director: "Chicago Symphony"; "Los Angeles Symphony"
    05-09-1914 - Hank Snow - Liverpool, Novia Scotia, Canada - d. 12-20-1999
    country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    05-09-1915 - Hal Goodman - d. 9-3-1997
    comic writer: "Sweeney and March Show"; "Rochester Show"
    05-09-1918 - Mike Wallace - Brookline, MA
    announcer, actor: "Spike Jones Show"; Flamond "Crime Files of Flamond"
    05-09-1919 - Arthur English - Aldershot, Hampshire, England - d.
    4-16-1995
    comedian: "Variety Bandbox"
    05-09-1919 - Eddie Manson - d. 7-12-1996
    harmonica player: "They Shall Be Heard"
    05-09-1920 - Frank Perdue - d. 3-31-2005
    commercial spokesperson for Perdue Farms
    05-09-1920 - Paul D. Brown - North Vernon, IN
    disk jockey: "Ports o' Call"
    05-09-1923 - Byron Kane - Vermont - d. 4-10-1984
    actor: "Gunsmoke"; "Broadway is My Beat"; "Escape"
    05-09-1923 - Connie Russell - NYC - d. 12-18-1990
    vocalist: "The Dave Garroway Show"
    05-09-1923 - Johnny Grant - Goldsboro, NC - d. 1-9-2008
    emcee: (Honorary Mayor of Hollywood) "Jubilee"
    05-09-1930 - Joan Sims - Laindon, Essex, England - d. 6-28-2001
    actor: "Round the Horne"; "Stop Messing About"
    05-09-1936 - Glenda Jackson - Cheshire, England
    actor: Stevie Smith "Stevie"; Guest Panelist "[removed]"
    05-09-1946 - Candice Bergen - Beverly Hills, CA
    actor: (Daughter of Edgar Bergen) "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    05-09-1948 - Tony Strachan - Sydney, Australia
    writer: "Harlequin Shuffle"

    May 9th deaths

    01-20-1878 - Finlay Currie - Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 5-9-1968
    actor: John H. Watson "BBC Home Theatre"
    01-20-1894 - Harold Gray - Kankakee, IL - d. 5-9-1968
    cartoonist: Creater of "Little Orphan Annie"
    02-13-1908 - Pauline Frederick - Gallitzin, PA - d. 5-9-1990
    newscaster: "News of Tomorrow"; "Pauline Frederick News"; "Second
    Sunday"
    02-15-1908 - Hartzell Spence - Clarion, IA - d. 5-9-2001
    writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-24-1924 - Talat Mahmood - Lucknow, India - d. 5-9-1998
    singer: "The Frank Sinatra of India) "All India Radio"
    03-03-1907 - Canada Lee - NYC - d. 5-9-1952
    actor: "New World A' Coming"; "Lest We Forget"; "The Free Company"
    03-15-1905 - Nat Perrin - New York - d. 5-9-1998
    writer: "The Marx Brothers"
    04-16-xxxx - Mark Smith - NYC - d. 5-9-1944
    actor: Jiggs "Bringing Up Father"; "Uria Calwalder "Show Boat"
    05-05-1912 - Alice Faye - NYC - d. 5-9-1998
    singer, actor: "Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show"
    05-18-1892 - Ezio Pinza, Rome, Italy - d. 5-9-1957
    singer: "Telephone Hour"; "Ezio Pinza's Children Show"; "Stagestruck"
    07-10-1888 - Graham McNamee - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-9-1942
    announcer: "Fleischmann Hour"; "Fire Chief"; "Treasury Hour"
    07-28-1910 - Bill Goodwin - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-9-1958
    announcer, actor: "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"; Johnny
    Fletcher "Johnny Fletcher"
    09-10-1915 - Edmund O'Brien - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-9-1985
    actor: Johnny Dollar "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
    10-30-1923 - Hershel Bernardi - NYC - d. 5-9-1986
    actor: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
    10-31-1926 - Shirley Dinsdale - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-9-1999
    ventriloquist: Judy Splinters "Judy in Wonderland, The Eddie Cantor
    Show"
    11-09-1895 - George D. Hay - Attica, IN - d. 5-9-1968
    host: (The Solemn Old Judge) "Barn Dance"; "Grand Ole Opry"
    11-19-1900 - Algernon Black - d. 5-9-1993
    newscaster: WQXR New York, New York
    11-29-1876 - Joseph E. Davies - Watertown, WI - d. 5-9-1958
    ambassador to the soviet union: "Information Please"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 09:15:12 -0400
    From: Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  couple of flea market finds

    Two nifty flea markets finds today: a Charlie McCarthy spoon and a 4" x 5"
    photo of "Eb and Zeb" in costume. "Zeb" is holding a box of Sperry Wheat
    Hearts. A plug for their then-sponsor, I presume.

    Randy

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    Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 09:15:28 -0400
    From: PURKASZ@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  78 RPM RECORDS

    Dear Ones:
    I have opened  Pandora's Box back in Burbank and she has yielded many
    Reel-to-reel tapes of OTR  as I have mentioned in previous postings tho I do
    not have
    them in hand as yet  but what I have seen are boxes of 78 RPM records which
    if I know my taste back  then are probably all jazz and classical.
    Can anyone guide  me to places that may want to take these heavy duty items
    off my  hand.
    Collectors? They are ion a new storage bin here in  NY but I do not want to
    keep them here for long.
    Write me  off line and many  thanks.
    Michael C Gwynne

    favorites at AOL Food.

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    Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 09:15:43 -0400
    From: "Dick Wamser" <snapp@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Gabby Heyes?
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    Hello all: does anyone have any material produced by George "Gabby" Hayes?
    Primarily material produced on commercial LP's in the fifties/ If so, what
    would you want to trade?  Thanks.
    Dick, Donna, SIR CLAYTON OF AVONDALE,
    Bart, Mizzy and Ginger

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    Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 09:15:57 -0400
    From: Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  WROW recordings
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    Many of the recordings in the late 50s and 60s of CBS shows and sports events
    (like baseball games) seem to exist only because a lone radio enthusiast in
    the Albany, NY took the time and spent the money on recording tape to
    preserve the shows.

    Does anyone know who this collector was? Without the effort of this person,
    many Johnny Dollar and Suspense shows would have been forever lost to
    collectors.

    Joe Webb

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    Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 09:16:11 -0400
    From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: afn collector

    Graeme wrote:

>        Hope this link works. You might find it interesting.

    It worked for me, Graeme. All of those potential transcriptions just
    sitting in the storage "for future generations." Too bad someone
    couldn't help get them catalogued, but since they are [removed]

    Jim Widner

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    Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 09:24:23 -0400
    From: rand@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Something special about "The Lost Special"

    [removed] King said:

>     not only did Conan Doyle pointedly include his most notorious
>     fictional character in the short story but Welles cleverly sneaked his
>     own most notorious fictional creation into the radio version. In fact,
>     at one point, it sounds like Welles nearly speaks the character's name.

    I wondered if anyone else would notice that.  If you listen closely, he
    definitely says the first and middle names.

    Randy
    Mebane, NC

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