Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #286
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Date: 10/22/2006 6:33 AM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 286
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  10-20 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Strangest of All                      [ "Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed]; ]
  Ms London                             [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
  Fred Allen, icon down the tubes       [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  10-21 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 22-28 Oct  [ "Joe Mackey" <joemackey108@adelphia ]

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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:20:03 +0000
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  10-20 births/deaths

02-13-1877 - Sidney Smith - d. 10-20-1935
comic strip writer: "The Gumps" based on his comic strip
04-17-1901 - Marie Blizard - d. 10-20-1991
writer: Network radio
04-22-1921 - Charlotte Lawrence - California - d. 10-20-1993
actor: Stacy McGill "Advs. of Christopher Wells"; Reba Britten "Just
Plain Bill"
05-18-1908 - Ted Malone - Colorado Springs, CO - d. 10-20-1989
commentator: "Between the Bookends"; "Pilgrimage of Poetry"
05-24-1901 - Lucien Moraweck - d. 10-20-1973
music: "The City"; "Intrigue"; "Passpoet for Adams"; "Suspense"
05-30-1891 - Ben Bernie - Bayonne, NJ - d. 10-20-1943
bandleader: (The Old Maestro) "Ben Bernie Orchestra"; "Musical Mock
Trial"
06-25-1911 - Martin Gosch - d. 10-20-1973
producer, creator, writer: "Abbott and Costello Show"; "Amazing Mr.
Smith"
07-18-1903 - Riza Royce - Lancaster, PA - d. 10-20-1980
actor: Victoria Lorring "Young Widder Brown"
07-24-1890 - Basil Ruysdael - Jersey City, NJ - d. 10-20-1960
announcer: "Beggar's Bowl"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Cavalcade of America"
08-10-1874 - Herbert Hoover - West Branch, IA - d. 10-20-1964
[removed] president: "The People's Platform"
08-23-1925 - Larry Nunn - Marshfield, OR - d. 10-20-1974
actor: Don Bradley "Glorious One"; Peter Bretn "Brenthouse"
09-03-1920 - Jackson Weaver - d. 10-20-1992
actor: "A Bright Tomorrow"
09-06-1894 - Billy Mills - Flint, MI - d. 10-20-1971
conductor: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Great Gildersleeve"; "Amos 'n'
Andy"
09-07-1913 - Anthony Quayle - Ainsdale, England - d. 10-20-1989
actor:  Guest Panelist "[removed]"
10-04-1914 - John Larch - Salem, MA - d. 10-20-2005
actor: (Married to Vivi Janiss) Rocky Starr "Starr ofSpace"
10-14-1896 - Bud Flanagan - Whitechapel, London, England - d. 10-20-1968
singer, actor: Sang signature tune for "Dad's Army"

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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:20:22 +0000
From: "Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Strangest of All

Well I guess this isn't really OTR, but I'm looking for the program that I 
used to hear when I was a kid in the early or mid 60's called "The 
Strangest of All stories.
Anyone know where I could get a good copy of these?
Since it's really not OTR please write me offlist.
I don't want to make Charlie mad at me.  <grin>
Bill

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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:20:54 +0000
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Ms London

 > I believe that Bobby Troup and Julie London were husband and wife. That
 > being stated, did anyone else notice in the 10-18 births/deaths segment that
 > Bobby Troup was born on 10-18-18 and Julie London died on 10-18-2000? One
 > sometimes has to wonder about significance of such occurrences. Sort of
 > like, Abe Lincoln having a secretary named Kennedy and John Kennedy having a
 > secretary named Lincoln. At this time of year, one might go so far as to
 > call it spooky.

Appropos to absolutely nothing, I happened to look at the contents of one 
of Ms London's albums as listed on iTunes. The last cut was, inexplicably, 
the Mickey Mouse March, theme of the old Mickey Mouse Club: M-I-C-K-E-Y, etc.
So I listened to the free thirty-second sample of this, and there she was, 
singing it in the same marvelous slow, sultry voice she applied to the rest 
of her repertoire.
The only explanations I can come up with are (1) she sang it for someone's 
kid or (2) someone bet her that she wouldn't dare sing it.
M Kinsler
devotee of iTunes for historical research

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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:20:55 +0000
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Fred Allen, icon down the tubes

Many of you know of my aversion to those radio icons "Amos 'n' Andy."
I feel nearly the same way about Fred Allen, another icon of old-time
radio. I have many of his shows in my collection, but I have only
listened to a few of them. They are just not funny. It could be
because he is very topical and his humor just doesn't hold up today.
He may have been funnier when originally broadcast, I sure hope
because he certainly isn't funny today.

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:20:55 +0000
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  10-21 births/deaths

October 21st births

10-21-1892 - Gummo Marx - NYC  - d. 4-21-1977
comedian: (Marx Brothers) "American Review"
10-21-1905 - Carleton Young - NYC - d. 11-7-1994
actor: Dick Grosvenor "Stella Dallas"; Ellery Queen "Advs of Ellery
Queen"
10-21-1907 - Jack Holden - Alba, MI - d. 6-xx-1971
announcer: "National Barn Dance"; "Uncle Ezra"
10-21-1908 - Tommy Riggs - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 5-21-1967
comedian: "Fleischmann Hour"; "Quaker Party with Tommy Riggs"; "Tommy
Riggs and Betty Lou"
10-21-1913 - Jack McElroy - Kansas - d. 3-2-1959
announcer, host: "Bride and Groom"; "Breakfast at Sardi"s"
10-21-1917 - Dizzy Gillespie - Cherow, SC - d. 1-6-1993
musician: "This Is Jazz"
10-21-1920 - Hy Averback - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-14-1997
announcer, actor: "Sealtest Village Store"; "Bob Hope Show"; "Take It
or Leave It"
10-21-1923 - Jean Gillespie - Boston, MA
actor: Martha Piper "Tales of Willie Piper"; Inza Burrage "Advs. of
Frank Merriwell"
10-21-1924 - Julie Wilson - Omaha, NE
vocalist: "Hollywood Showcase"
10-21-1927 - Ray Brenner - California - d. 6-5-1995
writer: "The Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"

October 21st deaths

01-03-1918 - Maxene Andrews - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-21-1995
singer: (Andrews Sisters) "Andrews Sisters Revue"
04-25-1900 - Gloria Ann Simpson - Cleveland, OH - d. 10-21-1956
actor: "The NBC University Theatre"
05-03-1910 - Curt Massey - Midland, TX - d. 10-21-1991
singer: "Show Boat"; "Curt Massey Show"
07-04-1888 - Henry Armetta - Palermo, Italy - d. 10-21-1945
actor: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
07-06-1923 - Marie McDonald - Westchester, NY - d. 10-21-1965
actor: "Duffy's Tavern"; "Maxwell House Coffee Time"; "Proudly We Hail"
07-07-1887 - Raymond Hatton - Red Oak, IA - d. 10-21-1971
actor: Football Coach "Jack Oakie's College"
08-14-1897 - Lal Chand Mehra - Amritsar, India - d. 10-21-1980
actor: "I Love A Mystery"; "I Love Adventure"
11-04-1911 - Jack Rose - Warsaw, Russian Empire - d. 10-21-1995
writer: "The Bob Hope Show"
11-25-1893 - Jack Frost - Boston, MA - d. 10-21-1959
producer: "The National Barn Dance"
11-30-1907 - Happy Felton - Bellevue, PA - d. 10-21-1964
actor: "Pot 'O Gold"; "Finders Keepers"; "Stop the Music"
12-06-1904 - Elissa Landi - Venice, Italy - d. 10-21-1948
actor: "I'm An American"; "Lux Radio Theatre"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:19:47 +0000
From: "Joe Mackey" <joemackey108@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 22-28 October

 From Those Were The Days --

10/23

1932 - Fred Allen made his radio debut. His wife, Portland Hoffa, joined 
him on the CBS broadcast. Allen's comedy-variety program was known as The 
Linit Bath Club Revue. It then became The Salad Bowl Revue, then, The Sal 
Hapatica Revue, The Hour of Smiles, Town Hall Tonight, The Texaco Star 
Theatre and finally, someone with just a bit of sense, came up with The 
Fred Allen Show. The comedic legend stayed on radio for 17 years.

10/24

1929 - The Rudy Vallee Show was broadcast for the first time on NBC. 
Actually, the Rudy Vallee show had several different titles over the years, 
all of which were referred to by the public as The Rudy Vallee Show. 
Megaphone-totin' Rudy and his Connecticut Yankees band were mainstays on 
radio into the late 1940s.

10/25

1937 - Stella Dallas made her debut on the NBC Red network. Stella hung out 
on NBC until 1955 with Anne Elstner in the title role for the entire run. 
Stella Dallas was "A continuation on the air of the true-life story of 
mother love and sacrifice, in which Stella saw her own beloved daughter, 
Laurel, marry into wealth and society, and realizing the difference in 
their tastes and worlds, went out of Laurel's life."

10/26

1935 - A talented twelve-year-old sang on Wallace Beery's NBC show. Judy 
Garland delighted the appreciative audience. The young girl would soon be 
in pictures and at the top of stardom. It would be only four years before 
Ms. Garland (George Jessel gave her the name, thinking it would be better 
than her own, Frances Gumm) captured the hearts of moviegoers everywhere 
with her performance as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.

10/27

Marconi, Fessenden, and De Forest were the catalysts. However, it was an 
engineer for Westinghouse Electric who, in 1916, was broadcasting music 
from his garage (in Wilkinsburg, PA, a suburb of Pittsburgh) over a 
wireless (amateur radio station 8XK) who really got the whole thing 
started. A newspaper article about the broadcasts caused such interest that 
the head honchos at Westinghouse decided to build a real radio station.

It took until this day in 1920 for the Westinghouse radio station to 
receive a license to broadcast. The license for KDKA, Pittsburgh came from 
the [removed] Department of Commerce. Although the license was officially issued 
on this day, KDKA did not start their broadcast operations for a week (they 
had to wait until the license was posted in the station). On November 2, 
1920, the station aired the returns of the Harding/Cox election ... the 
first radio programming to reach an audience of any size ... approximately 
1,000 people.

1947 - This is Nora Drake premiered on NBC. Nora solved domestic, social 
and child-raising problems until January 2, 1959.

1947 - "The one, the only Groucho" Marx appeared as quizmaster on You Bet 
Your Life for the first time -- on ABC. George Fenneman was Groucho's 
eternal straight man. Fenneman stayed with Marx during the program's run on 
radio (1948 - 1959) and TV (1950 - 1961). By the way, who is buried in 
Grant's tomb?

10/28

1922 - WEAF in New York broadcast the first collegiate football game heard 
coast to coast. Princeton played the University of Chicago at Stagg Field 
in the Windy City. The broadcast was carried on phone lines to New York 
City, where the radio transmission began. (Princeton 21,

Chicago 18.)

1946 - Our favorite flying cowboy was heard on ABC for the first time. Sky 
King starred Jack Lester, then Earl Nightingale, and finally, Roy Engel, as 
Sky. Beryl Vaughn played Sky's niece Penny; Jack Bivens was Chipper and 
Cliff Soubier was the foreman. Sky King was sponsored by Mars candy.

  Joe

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