Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #209
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 8/2/2006 4:18 PM

To: [removed]@[removed]

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 209
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      correct the correction                [ Clif Martin <martbart@[removed]; ]
      Subject: Franklyn MacCormack/ Cliff   [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
      Re: Greta Garbo                       [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
      8-2 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Re: Boston Blackie                    [ Christopher Werner <werner1@globalc ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      Frank Parker CDs                      [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
      MP3 Player                            [ "Joe Caramella" <packers2006@hotmai ]
      Greta Garbo                           [ "Marcus Antonsson" <[removed] ]
      The Mutual Network and its Ratings d  [ jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed]; ]
      The Andy Griffif Radio Show and Othe  [ jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 19:52:43 -0400
    From: Clif Martin <martbart@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  correct the correction

    Oops, I shoulda double checked before firing off the one re the  Franklyn
    MacCormack question. I didn't
     even single check it.   THAT's the correct spelling.

     Clif Martin

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    Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 22:49:16 -0400
    From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: "The Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Subject:  Franklyn MacCormack/ Cliff Mercer

    I would suggest that you write to Chuck Schaden the host of "Those Were the
    Days" for over 30 years, who knows Chicago radio history better than most,
    and what Chuck doesn't known his side kick Ken Alexander knows.

    If you want to hear great old time radio I strongly suggest that you go on
    line on Saturdays @1 to 5 PM central time to
    [removed] . For a preview of "Those Were the Days" go to web site
    [removed]. The current issue of .the "Nostalgia Digest" has an
    article on Stan Freiberg, by Stece Darnell, also an article "The Golden Age
    of Chicago Radio" a great history of [removed] Alfred Balk.

    Frank McGurn

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    Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 22:49:40 -0400
    From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Greta Garbo
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    In a message dated 8/1/06 5:18:33 PM Central Daylight Time,
    [removed]@[removed] writes:

>     "Something you'll never hear on HOLLYWOOD  [removed]
>         "I'll take Greta Garbo to block."

    ...Although she *did* send Paul Lynde a fan letter once, in care of NBC
    Burbank.  No kidding.

    Dixon

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    Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 22:49:48 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-2 births/deaths

    August 2nd births

    08-02-1886 - Cesare Sodero - Naples, Italy - d. 12-16-1947
    conductor: Series of condensed operas on WEAF New York
    08-02-1890 - Leila Roosevelt - d. 11-xx-1973
    explorer: (cousin of FDR) "So You Want to Be"
    08-02-1892 - Jack L. Warner - London, Ontario, Canada - d. 9-9-1978
    film studio owner" "Jack Benny Program"; "Warner Brothers Academy
    Award Theatre"
    08-02-1892 - John Kieran - The Bronx, NY, New  - d. 12-10-1980
    panelist: "Information, Please"
    08-02-1899 - Earle Larimore - Portland, OR - d. 10-22-1947
    actor: "Alias Jimmy Valentine"; "Life Can Be Beautiful"
    08-02-1900 - Helen Morgan - Danville, IL - d. 10-8-1941
    hostess, singer: "Helen Morgan, Songs"; "Broadway Melodies"; "Fred
    Allen Show"
    08-02-1902 - Guy Repp - d. 11-24-1986
    actor: Dr. Abernathy "County Seat"; Benito Mussoline "Our Secret Weapon"
    08-02-1903 - Victor McLeod - d. 12-12-1972
    writer: "The Bing Crosby Show"; "Stop or Go"
    08-02-1904 - John McClain - Ohio - d. 5-xx-1967
    writer: "Hollywood Hotel"
    08-02-1905 - Myrna Loy - Raidersburg, MT - d. 12-14-1993
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-02-1905 - Ruth Nelson - Saginaw, MI - d. 9-12-1992
    actor: "Arch Obler's Plays"; "Columbia Workshop"
    08-02-1912 - Ann Dvorak - NYC - d. 12-10-1979 - d. 12-10-1979
    actor: "Movietone Radio Theatre"
    08-02-1913 - Hal Block - d. 6-16-1981
    writer, panelist: "Burns and Allen"; "Milton Berle Show"; "What's My
    Line"
    08-02-1914 - Beatrice Straight - Old Westbury, NY - d. 4-7-2001
    actor: "Great Scenes from Great Plays"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    08-02-1915 - Gary Merrill - Hartford, CT - d. 3-5-1990
    actor: Bruce Wayne/Batman "Adventures of Superman"
    08-02-1915 - Johnny Long - Newell, NC - d. 10-31-1972
    bandleader: "The Teen-Timers Show"; "Judy, Joe, and Johnny"
    08-02-1916 - Johnny Coons - d. 7-6-1975
    actor: Chuck Ramsey "Captain Midnight"; Clipper "Sky King"; "Vic and
    Sade"
    08-02-1924 - Joe Harnell - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-14-2005
    jazz arranger: (Joe Harnell Quartet) "The Navy Swings"

    August 2nd deaths

    01-14-1911 - David Gothard - Beardstown, IL - d. 8-2-1977
    actor: Gil Whitney "Romance of Helen Trent"; Nick Charles "The Thin Man"
    02-27-1873 - Enrico Caruso - Naples, Italy - d. 8-2-1921
    tenor: On 12-13-1910 made experimental broadcast with Lee DeForest
    05-27-1921 - Redd Stewart - Ashland City, TN - d. 8-2-2003
    lyricist: "Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys"
    08-06-1894 - Jack Kirkwood - Scotland - d. 8-2-1964
    actor: Jack Williams "Saunders of the Circle X"; Uncle Jim "Hawthorne
    House"
    08-22-1910 - Lesley Woods - d. 8-2-2003
    actor: Mary Wesley "Boston Blackie"; Margo Lane "The Shadow"
    09-06-1930 - Bernard Jaffe - d. 8-2-1993
    science writer: "Information, Please"
    09-13-1913 - Gretchen Davidson - Chicago, IL - d. 8-2-2002
    actor: Carol Kennedy "Carol Kennedy's Romance"
    11-24-1888 - Cathleen Nesbitt - Belfast, Northern Ireland - d. 8-2-1982
    actor: "Philco Radio Playhouse"
    11-27-1915 - Ralph Bell -NYC - d. 8-2-1998
    actor: Travis Rogers "Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator";
    Alfred Drake "This Is Nora Drake"
    11-30-1894 - David Ogden Stewart - Columbus, OH - d. 8-2-1980
    humorist: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-05-1890 - Fritz Lang - Vienna, Austria - d. 8-2-1976
    film director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    12-08-1907 - Frank Faylen - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-2-1985
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    12-12-1919 - Seymour Korman - d. 8-2-1993
    newsman for Mutual

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Agnes Moorehead attended the University of Wisconsin

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    Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 22:51:02 -0400
    From: Christopher Werner <werner1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Boston Blackie

    At 06:18 PM 8/1/2006, Larry Jordan inquired:

>     It surprised me to learn that Kollmar, who apparently committed
>     suicide in January 1971, had played "Boston Blackie" on radio for 10
>     years.

>     Of course I have heard a number of episodes of "Boston Blackie" on
>     such shows as "When Radio Was." But I was very surprised that Kollmar
>     was the actor who played the lead. I am wondering if he was the only
>     one to play that part, or were there others?

    Boston Blackie was played by two actors on Radio.
     From it's debut on 6/23/1944 until 9/15/1944 Chester Morris played
    Blackie (12 episodes).
    Richard Kollmar began on 4/11/1945 and continued until 6/29/1949 220
    episodes later.

    Chronologically:
    Jack Doyle created the character and wrote several short stories that
    appeared in American and Redbook magazines from 1912 to 1916. He then
    gathered the stories together to publish the book 'Boston Blackie' in 1919.

    The book helped make the character popular enough for Hollywood to
    create 8 silent Boston Blackie movies from 1918 to 1927. The earliest
    ones re-told the short stories familiar to the audience.

    In 1941 Chester Morris began a series of 14 Boston Blackie movies
    most of which include George E. Stone as Runt his sidekick and
    Richard Lane as Inspector John Farraday. I would comment here that my
    wife and I have found the movies to be very entertaining. Good moving
    plots, reasonable mystery, and a good cast of running characters from
    film to film.

    The popularity of the movies resulted in Chester Morris getting the
    part of Blackie when the radio series began. Richard Kollmar took
    over in the second 'season'.

    There are also 2 seasons of a Boston Blackie TV show from 1951-1953
    when TV was very young. Kent Taylor played the roll in the 1/2 hour
    adventure stories. I have them, but haven't watched [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 02:12:00 -0400
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
    real-time OTR talk!

    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
    others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
    range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
    it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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    Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:50:54 -0400
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Frank Parker CDs

    Folks;

       Received this request on the website; can anyone help?

    - ---

    From: budonwheels <budonwheels@[removed];

    I am looking to buy cd's of Frank Parker. He was on Arthur Godfrey show. Can
    you  tell me where to [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 13:39:48 -0400
    From: "Joe Caramella" <packers2006@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  MP3 Player

>     OK, so now I have four CD-sized discs with old radio shows in MP3
>     format. What do I do with them?  They will run on my DVD player and on my
>     computer,but neither one of them are very portable.

    Ted,

    Early last year I purchased at Walmart a Durabrand radio that plays all my
    OTR MP3 disc's for $[removed]  I have a Sony radio/MP3 boombox that plays about
    75% of them and it cost $[removed] Some of my disc's have between 100-125 shows
    on them and they all play with no problem on the Durabrand. It is also a nice
    size for carrying around. 12w-8d-6h. I have purchased over 6000 programs on
    dozens of disc's over the past 2 1/2  years and every show I have listened to
    plays perfectly.

    Joe

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    Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:31:10 -0400
    From: "Marcus Antonsson" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Greta Garbo

    Hi all,
    I only know of one radio recording of Greta Garbo. When she came back to
    visit Sweden in 1946 (after she'd left the movies for good) Swedish reporter
    Karl-Axel
    Arvidson managed to ask her a few questions when she'd just gone a shore.
    You can hardly hear what she answers though. I think she suffered from mike
    fright.
    I have that recording somewhere, but I don't know when or where I can find
    it.
    Whether there are any American broadcasts with her, I don't know, but I
    doubt it. She was obviosly a very shy person, despite her success. Hope this
    helps
    you a little!
    Take care!
    Marcus Antonsson
    Sweden

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    Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 15:39:39 -0400
    From: jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Mutual Network and its Ratings during the
     Golding Age of Radio

    August 2, 2006

    Dear Old Time Radio Digest readers:

    In several recent postings the subject of the Mutual
    Broadcasting System and its affiliates came up.

    The fact that M B S was for the most part aired on
    smaller and weaker stations led me to wonder about
    network's ratings through out radio's golden age.

    Did Mutual ever have any radio programs in the top ten
    or even the top 20?  Did M B S ever lead its time
    period in a four network race?  When M B S aired the
    popular mystery and detective programs such as the
    Shadow and Nick Carter Master Detective on Sunday
    afternoon did these programs boost the network's
    ratings?  The same question applies for the M B S
    after school adventure programs especially when the
    Blue/ABC Network also aired adventure programs at the
    same time?  When the Lone Ranger aired on M B S did it
    lead in its time slot?  When the Lone Ranger moved
    from M B S to Blue/ABC in May 1942, did this move
    boost the Ranger's ratings?  Why did the Lone Ranger
    change networks?  Was this a decision made by General
    Mills or Gorge W. Trindel or was it a Matter of Money
    since the Lone Ranger was the primary reason for
    Mutual's founding?
    Many thanks for your help.

    Jim Taylor

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    Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:24:55 -0400
    From: jim taylor <bettylouson@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Andy Griffif Radio Show and Other CBS
     comidy shows during 59' and 60'

    August 2, 2006

    Dear Old Time Radio Digest Readers:

    While listening to some C B S Radio programs from 1959
    such as The Couple Next Door Yours Truly Johnny Dollar
    and Have Gun Will Travel I heard some promos for B B S
    Radio programs which aired week nights.

    These included the Andy Griffif Show and Burns and
    Allen as well as The Amish and Andy Music Hall and Bob
    and Ray as part of a comity hour.

    What is known about the Andy Griffif radio show, did
    Andy do his standup routines such as "What It Was, Was
    Foot Ball or did he perform skits written for radio
    How long did his radio program run? Are their any
    recordings?   did it air until November 25, 1960 when
    the A and A music Hall and the other C B S Radio Day
    Time programs left the air?  Or did the program go off
    the air June 24, 1960 the day Bob and Ray left the
    Air?

    What is known about the Burns and Allen show which
    aired on C B S Radio in 1959 and 1960 before Bob and
    Ray, were these highlights from their Old Time Radio
    program from the 1940s or clips from their television
    show

    I have also heard promos for the A and A Music Hall.
    In 1958 the program aired Monday through Friday nights
    and in the day time Saturdays.  Did the Saturday
    program air until November 1960?  Was the Saturday
    program a best of the week or was it a new program for
    Saturday Listeners?

    Many Thanks for your Help.

    Jim Taylor

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