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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2003 : Issue 352
A Part of the [removed]!
ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Today in radio history [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Radio Replicas [ "Deric J. McCoy" <vigor16@[removed]; ]
Life of Riley mystery [ Osborneam@[removed] ]
Life of Riley dates and sponsorships [ "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed] ]
Re. Radio Program Listing [ Gerald Serrino <gserr@[removed]; ]
EVOLUTION [ "mike kerezman" <philipmarlowe@cfai ]
CD-R's, [removed] [ Wich2@[removed] ]
Re: The Maltese Falcon [ GOpp@[removed] ]
On the Air: Encyclopedia [ "katperrr" <katperrr@[removed]; ]
Re: Bob Steele [ Udmacon@[removed] ]
Re: Radio City Playhouse/Lights Out/ [ Jim Widner <widnerj@[removed]; ]
On a Country Road [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
Phil Harris in the Movies [ Rob Chatlin <rchatlin@[removed] ]
9-27 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Cinnamon Bear Log [ "Kris Stone" <anaheim47@[removed] ]
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:31:04 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Today in radio history
From Those Were The Days --
9/25
1933 - Americaís favorite cowboy, Tom Mix, was heard for the first time
on NBC. The Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters continued on the air until
June 1950.
Joe
--
Visit my homepage: [removed]~[removed]
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:31:30 -0400
From: "Deric J. McCoy" <vigor16@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Radio Replicas
Hi all,
I just purchased a replica of a Crosley 45 console. I respect the list's
opinion. How's the sound? Does it make OTR listening more enhanced?
Have any of you regretted the purchased? If so, let me know what you
regret about it. I am looking at connecting my DVD player into it. Is
there a way of installing an aux in on the replica? Does anybody do that
kind of thing and how would find out about it? Thanks all,
Still loving it,
Deric M.
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:33:20 -0400
From: Osborneam@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Life of Riley mystery
Philip Chavin tried to help with the mystery of "Riley the Bookie", when I
said:
but Pabst didn't take on sponsorship
of the show until 3/10/50 with show 270! So this
date must be wrong! Any ideas?
Phil answered:
According to Dunning ("On The [removed]") Pabst took on sponsorship in 1949
and according to [removed] Pabst sponsored the show by Dec. 23,
1949. So very likely her source for the3/10/50 date, re Pabst, is
incorrect and so it's possible the 02 Dec. 1949 broadcast date is correct.
I checked Dunning but while he stated 1949, I was searching for a more
definitive date (like with a month and day). My other sources were Jerry
Haendiges and Jay Hickerson's 2nd Revised Ultimate History of Circulating
Shows (title shortened by me).
Arlene might listen extra closely to the broadcast for date
clues, especially in the commercials (for example: current
events, "new decade coming soon", etc.),
I have. There is reference in the closing credits to a movie BAGHDAD, which
was released in 1949 with Maureen O'Hara, which might be a clue if it was
released at the end of the year. But show that follows it (12/9/49)is
sponsored by Prell and not Pabst, so I'm still fishing for an accurate date.
As for checking library archives, I'm in a little
town (without a stop light or gas station, BTW) with a small library and NO
archives. The help the very limited staff gives in regard to inter-library
loans or anything else is quite minimal. I doubt if it would be even worth
asking.
I thought someone on the Digest might know, so I tossed out the question.
I appreciate your trying to field it, Phil!
Arlene Osborne
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:34:25 -0400
From: "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Life of Riley dates and sponsorships
Hi friends,
The question was asked:
The title of the show is "Riley the Bookie".
My copy and all the listings in the 5-6 logs
I've checked so far show it was broadcast
on 12/2/49 (show 256). The sponsor is Pabst Blue
Ribbon beer but Pabst didn't take on sponsorship
of the show until 3/10/50 with show 270! So this
date must be wrong!
I think I may be the cause of this confusion. I just discovered that
when
I exported the information from my database to my Internet Log, I
incorrectly coded the first half of the 1949 season. Therefore, although
the information in my database is correct, all shows that should had shown
Prell as the sponsor, should read Pabst for that period. Pabst sponsored
the entire 1949 season beginning 10-7-49. Since all of the other logs were
taken from mine, naturally they are also going to be incorrect. So that is
the correct date for that title :-)
I'd like to thank John Stanley for bringing this issue to my attention.
Sorry for any problems this may have caused.
If you wish to find out more information on the series, you may go to
my
Website, The Vintage Radio Place at <[removed]>. Go down to the "Main
Table of Contents" and click on "Vintage Radio Logs." Then just click on
"Life of Riley," or any of the other over 500 logs listed there to view,
download or print out the log(s). All programs with catalog or location
numbers are available for purchase there also on CD, Cassette and other
formats.
You may also find this series listed in my on-line CD / cassette
catalog
which is located at <[removed]> OTRSite On-Line Catalog. To
use this catalog, your browser must be Frames compliant and you should be
running at a resolution setting of 800x600 or higher for best viewing
(although lower resolution settings may be used).
I hope this helps. If you have any other questions, please feel free to
contact me.
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: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:34:32 -0400
From: Gerald Serrino <gserr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re. Radio Program Listing
Katherine,
The bible for many of us OTR collectors is:
The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio by John Dunning. It
lists programs, dates, times, casts. etc. You may be
able to pick a used one up at [removed] or
[removed]
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:34:47 -0400
From: "mike kerezman" <philipmarlowe@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: EVOLUTION
On the subject on EVOLUTION and Old Time Radio, one that comes to mind is
"The Night The Fog Came" from the HALL OF [removed]'m sure I'm overlooking
quite a number of shows.
Mike Kerezman
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:35:00 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: CD-R's, [removed]
Folks-
Didn't get a response before, so I'll try [removed]
All the talk of deterioration has worried me.
Before I transfer some valuable stuff, can anyone give opinions on the "face
paint" of the recommended Verbatim's & Mitsui's?
There's a new Verbatim out, with a charmingly "old vinyl" -esque
factory-applied "label". Any negatives to same?
Signed,
"Curious"
(Craig Wichman)
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:42:03 -0400
From: GOpp@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: The Maltese Falcon
Someone may have posted something about this already, but I just wanted
to let you know that the wonderful Elliott Reid has joined the cast of
the "Academy Award Theatre: The Maltese Falcon" re-creation at this
year's SPERDVAC Convention.
The re-creation will be presented on November 8, 2003, as part of the
entertainment at the Saturday evening O Convention Banquet for SPERDVAC's
2003 Old-Time Radio Convention, at the Hacienda Hotel, 525 N. Sepulveda,
El Segundo, CA 90245 (just a few blocks south of LAX).
The show, which I am producing and directing, will have an amazingly
talented cast, including Shirley Mitchell, Harold Gould, Elliott Reid,
Gil Stratton, Louis Nye, Hal Stone, and voice actor Tony Pope (as
Humphrey Bogart). Gary Owens will act as announcer, and veteran CBS sound
effects man Bob Mott will provide the sound effects.
For more information or to make reservations, visit [removed], or
call SPERDVAC toll-free at (877) 251-5771.
Take care.
-Gregg Oppenheimer
[removed]
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:44:16 -0400
From: "katperrr" <katperrr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: On the Air: Encyclopedia
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Thanks for your help. In response to my question of where to find a listing of
OTR, a few people suggested:
On the Air : The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio and I was fortunate to find a
good used copy on [removed] I am anxiously awaiting its arrival.
Thanks all
Katherine
[removed] The house next door to mine has been vacant for several years. The
elderly gentleman that lived there left no will and had no children so his
relatives have been fighting about it for years. In his living room is a floor
radio! Some great nephew from out of state came a few years ago and took all
that he considered valuable, but left the radio. You have no idea what a
temptation this radio is. I keep telling myself, it doesn't work, it doesn't
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 23:29:14 -0400
From: Udmacon@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Bob Steele
By the time of his retirement from daily radio in 1991, he had
created the longest running radio show in the [removed]
As much as I admire the longevity and creativity of Bob Steele on Hartford
CT radio, I don't think he can be credited this way.
"Rambling With Gambling," started on WOR in the Spring of 1925 and ran until
a couple of years ago. This means, I believe, the WSM "Grand Ole Opry" is
now the oldest show in radio.
Ironically, there's a Connecticut radio program that's been on the air since
1934; the Victor Zembruski radio show on Waterbury's WATR, still being
conducted by his widow Sophie every Sunday morning!
BILL KNOWLTON
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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 01:39:01 -0400
From: Jim Widner <widnerj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Radio City Playhouse/Lights Out/Wyllis
Cooper
At 03:28 PM 9/18/2003 -0400, Kermyt wrote about my Radio City Playhouse Log:
"His log credits one story, "Three Men" (12/20/48), to Wyllis Cooper."
Then he notes:
the plot summary makes it sound exactly like the Lights Out program "A
Christmas Story" from 12/22/37! I've read that no Lights Out programs from
the original Cooper era have survived although some scripts were recycled
in post-Oboler broadcasts).
Which prompts him to ask:
So, is this really a Cooper story and not an Oboler one? Or did Cooper
simply write a later script that coincidentally sounds a lot like Oboler's
earlier one? Anybody have any answers?
Kermyt - if you get a chance to listen to the RCP version, you will find
that it is the exact same script as best as I can tell - word for
word. The LIGHTS OUT script is a Cooper script, probably, as you say,
recycled during the Oboler years.
However, I will note this - I do have an audio play from LIGHTS OUT from
the Cooper years (at least it is purported to be - I am still trying to
find a log from those years - Library of Congress did not have it - that
give a clue to the Cooper years. This episode has been tentatively titled
"Room For the Night." The opening and closings are missing except for the
tolling of the LIGHTS OUT bell, which is the same tolling you can hear from
the Cooper "Christmas Story" audio copy of LIGHTS OUT.
The title is not listed under any extant LIGHTS OUT log, so here is the
plot - perhaps someone can identify it:
A man and woman show up at the door of a house, one evening and ask for a
room. The man and woman introduce themselves as Lazlo and ????
Drockenstein. The man of the house and his daughter live in the house and
let the couple stay. They gradually come to realize that the couple are
living dead - their car accident a week before killed both of them. The
couple attempt to "feast" on the man and his daughter, but they have
protected themselves with various items, including a crucifix to protect
themselves. In a very scary scene, the couple do attack, but fail ultimately.
The story lacks the audio sound effect trickery that Oboler is noted for
(as does the Christmas story play), but has some very chilling audio
dialogue that is more in keeping with Cooper's more horror-oriented radio
plays.
Jim Widner
jwidner@[removed]
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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:46:52 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: On a Country Road
Christian Blees asked:
after listening to the "country road" episode of SUSPENSE from november
16th, 1950 (starring Cary Grant) I'm wondering if any list member does
recognize a piece of classical music which can be heard over the
couple's car radio. Regarding the credits in Martin Grams' book on
SUSPENSE the music was composed by Lucien Morawek. Can anybody tell me
the tittle of the music piece?
Lucien Moraweck composed the music for most of the broadcast but the
classical piece features on the car radio was not by Moraweck. I have
learned over the years that many musicians would, when required to find a
classical piece of music to feature in a drama, be very choosy so that the
song fit the mood of the show. Example was a radio broadcast I heard when a
couple were stranded in a mountain cabin during a fearce snowstorm and the
music playing on the cabin radio was the famed "Night on Bald Mountain".
That sort of inside music jokes are found quite often on radio programs.
Sorry, I don't know the classical piece played on the broadcast. I listened
to it this morning and it was from the classical period, not the romantic
period if that helps.
Martin
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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:47:06 -0400
From: Rob Chatlin <rchatlin@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Phil Harris in the Movies
A few weeks ago I was flipping around the TV dial,
and was happily surprised to find Phil Harris guest starring on Fantasy
Island, on TV Land.
He played one half of a vaudevillian team hoping to make a comeback.
Unfortunately, I can't recall who played his partner.
rob
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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:23:14 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 9-27 births/deaths
September 27th births
09-27-1887 - Pat "Uncle Ezra" Barrett - Holden, MO - d. 3-25-1959
actor: "National Barn Dance"; Uncle Ezra "Uncle Ezra"
09-27-1893 - Phil Cook - Coldwater, MI - d. 9-18-1958
comedian: "Radio Chief"; "Quaker Oats Man"; "Morning Almanac"
09-27-1920 - Jayne Meadows - Wu Chang, China
actress: "Hollywood Star Preview"
09-27-1920 - William Conrad - Louisville, KY - d. 2-11-1994
actor: Matt Dillon "Gunsmoke"; "Louis Dumont "Jason and His Golden Fleece"
09-27-1923 - Mary McCarthy - Winfield, KS (R: Los Angeles, CA) - d. 4-3-1980
actress: "MGM Musical Comey Theatre"
September 27th deaths
01-12-1896 - Harry Reser - Piqua, OH - d. 9-27-1965
bandleader: "Cliquot Club Eskimos"
05-21-1904 - Robert Montgomery - Beacon, NY - d. 9-27-1981
actor: "The Doctor Fights"; "Suspense"; "This Is War"
07-29-1907 - Clara Bow - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-27-1965
actress: (The It Girl) "Kay Parker in Hollywood"
08-11-1902 - Lloyd Nolan - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-27-1985
actor: Johnny Strange "Results Inc."; Martin Kane "Martin Kane, Private Eye"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Hometown of [removed] Kaltenborn and Mr. District Attorney
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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:57:11 -0400
From: "Kris Stone" <anaheim47@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Cinnamon Bear Log
We all know that the primary cast included:
Judy Barton: Barbara Jean Wong
Mother Barton: Verna Felton
The Cinnamon Bear: Buddy Duncan
The Crazy Quilt Dragon: Joseph Kearns
Snappersnick The Crocodile: Hanley Stafford
Samuel the Seal: Howard McNear
The Cowboy: Slim Pickens
Penelope The Pelican: Elvia Allman
Mr. Presto the Magician: Elliott Lewis
Santa Claus: Lou Merrill
Captain Tin Top: Frank Nelson
Captain Taffy the Pirate: Cy Kendall
Indian Chief: Cy Kendall
Weary Willie the Stork: Gale Gordan
Oliver the Ostrich: Gale Gordan
Professor Whiz the Owl: Ted Osborne
Fee-Fo the Giant: Joe DuVal
The Wintergreen Witch: Martha Wentworth
Fraidy Cat: Dorothy Scott
Assistant Blooto Executioner: Ed Max
Narrator: Bud Heistand
Queen Melissa: Rosa Barcelo
Wesley the Whale, others: Lindsay MacHarrie
However, Jerry Haendiges also lists "Bud Thompson" in his log. I can't seem
to associate him with a specific character on the show and would be curious
if anyone out there has the answer?
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