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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2009 : Issue 2
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
1-1 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
New Years shows [ "b. schell" <bschell@[removed]; ]
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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:08:49 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 1-1 births/deaths
January 1st births
01-01-1867 - Lew Fields - NYC - d. 7-20-1941
comedian: (Weber and Fields) "The Eveready Hour"; "George Jessel Show"
01-01-1878 - Edwin Franko Goldman - Louisville, KY - d. 2-21-1956
bandmaster: "The Cities Service Concert"; "The Pure Oil Band"
01-01-1879 - [removed] Forster - London, England - d. 6-7-1970
novelist: Many works adapted for radio
01-01-1889 - Alexander Smallens - St. Petersburg, Russia - d.
11-27-1972
conductor: "Rising Musical Star"
01-01-1889 - Charles Bickford - Cambridge, MA - d. 11-9-1967
actor: "Radio Hall of Fame"
01-01-1889 - Maruice Baron - Lille, France - d. 9-5-1964
conductor of various symphony orchestras for radio
01-01-1895 - Art Gillham - St. Louis, MO - d. 6-6-1961
piano playing vocalist: (Whispering Pianist) Plugged songs to sell
sheet music
01-01-1895 - Bernard Schubert - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-4-1988
writer, producer: "The Falcon"; "Murder and Mr. Malone"
01-01-1897 - Walter Greaza - St. Paul, MN - d. 6-1-1973
actor: "Columbia Workshop"; "Suspense"
01-01-1900 - Xavier Cugat - Tirona, Spain - d. 10-27-1990
bandleader: (King of the Rhumba) "Camel Caravan"
01-01-1904 - George Landen Dann - Brisbane, Australia - d. 6-6-1977
writer: "Funerals for Field Mice"
01-01-1904 - Lou Kosloff - Chicago, IL - d. 2-12-1986
orchestra leader: "Blondie"; "Sad Sack"; "Sherlock Holmes"
01-01-1905 - Dick Aurandt - d. 7-16-1984
orchestra leader: "Voyage of the Scarlet Queen"; "Steve Canyon"
01-01-1905 - Richard Keith - NYC - d. 9-16-1976
actor: Ray Hunt "Myrt and Marge"; Frank W. Brock "Special Investigator"
01-01-1908 - Bob Russell - Passaic, NJ - d. 1-24-1998
singer, songwriter: Helped create " Name that Tune"
01-01-1909 - Dana Andrews - Collins, MS - d. 12-17-1992
actor: Matt Cevetic "I Was A Communist for the FBI"
01-01-1909 - Frank Kettering - Monmouth, IL - d. 6-09-1973
bass player: (Hoosier Hot Shots) "National Barn Dance"
01-01-1911 - Hank Greenberg - NYC - d. 9-14-1994
baseball great: "Play Ball"; "We the People"; "Philco Radio Time"
01-01-1911 - Leona Ledoux - d. 8-16-1987
actor: Robespierre Higgins "Baby Snooks"; Bumstead Children "Blondie"
01-01-1913 - Norman Rosten - d. 3-7-1995
writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "An American in Russia"
01-01-1915 - Earl Sheldon - NYC - d. 11-14-1977
orchestra leader: "The Bickersons"; "Jack Smith Show"
01-01-1915 - Irv Orton - d. 5-xx-1960
musical director: "Double or Nothing"
01-01-1916 - Earl Wrightson - Baltimore, MD - d. 3-7-1993
singer: "Highways in Melody"; "Getting the Most Out of Life"
01-01-1917 - Shelby Storck - Kansas City, MO - d. 4-5-1969
actor: Speed Robertson "The Air Advs. of Jimmie Allen"
01-01-1917 - Ted Cott - Poughkeepsie, NY - d. 6-12-1973
announcer, emcee: "So You Think You Know Music?"; "Music You Want"
01-01-1919 - Carole Landis - Fairchild, WI - d. 7-5-1948
actor: "Warner Brothers Academy Award"; "Command Performance"
01-01-1922 - Robert De Cormier - Pinelawn, NY
choral director: "Christmas in Vermont with Countrypoint"
01-01-1923 - Milt Jackson - Detroit, MI - d. 10-9-1999
vibraphone: "Modern Jazz Quartet"
01-01-1928 - Helen Westcott - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-17-1998
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "My Wildest Dream"
01-01-1938 - Norma Jean Nilsson - Hollywood, CA
actor: Kathy Anderson "Father Knows Best"; Cookie Bumstead "Blondie"
January 1st deaths
01-20-1927 - Dawn Lake - Sydney, Australia - d. 1-1-2006
singer: "The Jack Davey Program"
02-04-1908 - Jack Fraser - Lawrence, MA - d. 1-1-2000
newscaster: "John Gordon Fraser and the News", "Monitor"
02-15-1907 - Cesar Romero - NYC - d. 1-1-1994
actor: "Movietone Radio Theatre"
02-15-1922 - Otis Carney - Chicago, IL - d. 1-1-2006
writer: "Words at War"
03-06-1909 - Floyd Holmes - Glasgow, KY - d. 1-1-1970
singer: (Prairie Ramblers) "Smile-a-While"
04-17-1915 - Joe Foss - Sioux Falls, SD - d. 1-1-2003
south dakota governor: "Tops in Sports"
04-25-1919 - Albert Aley - NYC - d. 1-1-1986
actor: Hop Harrigan "Hop Harrigan"; Bob James "Stella Dallas"
05-16-1911 - Margaret Sullavan - Norfolk, VA - d. 1-1-1960
actor: "Electric Theatre"; "Hollywood Playhouse"
06-16-1907 - Joan Winters - Dayton, OH - d. 1-1-2001
actor: Alice Ames "Girl Alone"; Sylvia Bertram "Road of Life"
06-25-1913 - Cyril Fletcher - Watford, England - d. 1-1-2005
panelist: "Does the Team Think"
07-14-1932 - Del Reeves - Sparta, NC - d. 1-1-2007
country singer: "Grand Ol' Op'ry"
08-03-1886 - Anna Barbash - d. 1-1-1983
soprano: "Memories of Jennie Lind"
08-09-1908 - [removed] Bezzerides - Samsun, Turkey - d. 1-1-2007
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-16-1913 - Joe Lilley - d. 1-1-1971
orchestra leader: "Drene Time"
08-17-1899 - Ralph Goll - d. 1-1-1957
scriptwriter: "The Lone Ranger"
09-11-1896 - Robert S. Kerr - Ada, Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-1-1963
governor oklahoma: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
09-12-1888 - Maurice Chevalier - Paris, France - d. 1-1-1972
actor, singer, host: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "This is Paris"; "Bing
Crosby Show"
09-17-1923 - Hank Williams - Georgiana, AL - d. 1-1-1953
singer: "Louisiana Hayride"; "Grand Ol' Op'ry"; "Health and Happiness"
09-17-1941 - Robert Takeo Matsui - Sacremento, CA - d. 1-1-2005
congressman: Democratic response to President's radio address
10-06-1905 - Helen Wills Moody - Centerville, CA - d. 1-1-1998
tennis playeer: "Information Please"
10-07-1916 - Palmer Williams - Tenafly, NJ - d. 1-1-1996
producer: "Hear It Now"
12-02-1914 - Ray Walston - New Orleans, LA - d. 1-1-2001
actor: "The Woolworth Hour"
12-06-1898 - Jack Beall - Waxahachie, TX - d. 1-1-1963
newscaster: "News of Tomorrow"; "American Legion Presents"
12-16-1890 - Jane Morgan - North Platte, NE - d. 1-1-1972
actor: Mary Lane "Aunt Mary"; Mrs. Margaret Davis "Our Miss Brooks"
12-25-1902 - Barton Maclane - Columbia, SC - d. 1-1-1969
actor: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
12-27-1914 - Jack Latham - Washington - d. 1-1-1987
announcer: "The Man Called X"; "Wake Up, America"
Ron
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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:09:40 -0500
From: "b. schell" <bschell@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: New Years shows
I was disappointed to find the only program available for listening/download
with a New Year's theme was Fibber McGee and Molly. When I clicked on other
shows the episodes for sample listening had nothing to do with New Years.
Bill
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