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Date: 2/18/2007 9:09 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 56
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: Tonto Saves the Day               [ Rob Chatlin <rchatlin@[removed] ]
      Mel [removed]                          [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
      Biding their time                     [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      Harry Houdini                         [ Nathan Parker <njparker@[removed]; ]
      WSJ Article on the History of Radio   [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
      Columbia Workshop                     [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
      Vic & Sade anncr's cont'd             [ "Jay Manarky" <jayman@[removed]; ]
      Superman and the KKK                  [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
      Joseph Kearns                         [ Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed]; ]
      Mel Allen                             [ Michael Berger <makiju@[removed]; ]
      Clear Channel [removed]                [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
      2-18 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Look Who's Laughing                   [ "Mike Hobart" <zines50@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:39:30 -0500
    From: Rob Chatlin <rchatlin@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Tonto Saves the Day

    Although I can't recall the title/date of the show,
    in one episode involving  gun smugglers and the Army,
    Tonto recognizes smoke signals being sent by
    a spy, and this sets the Lone Ranger on his way to
    bringing the villians to justice.

    rob

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    Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:44:36 -0500
    From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Mel [removed]

    For more info, there's also the recently published biography, HOW ABOUT
    THAT?--

    Extremely well researched, but a bit lacking on a full scope of personal
    details.

    Allen was THE classic voice, of sports in America, for decades.

    (By the way, all the while pursuing his law degree, Allen was active in
    his college's, and other, sports stints.)

    Jim Burns

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    Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:45:07 -0500
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Biding their time

>     2/19

>     1922 - Ed Wynn became the first big-name vaudeville talent to sign on as

    a radio talent. Previously, top talent had not considered radio a
    respectable medium.

    I just ran across these published insights this week:

    Most vaudeville performers had disregarded radio in the 1920s because it
    paid so little or nothing and was equipped with microphones rather than
    appreciative live audiences.  Vaudevillians were normally nomads, having
    little time to remain stationary for broadcast gigs.  As recognized
    entertainment figures, the "stars" of the period wouldn't and couldn't
    accept roles that ignored their personae.  It was the early 1930s before the
    bulk of vaudevillians began to replace recording artists as the new
    entertainers of radio.  By then, radio recognized them as the stars they had
    been.

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:36:12 -0500
    From: Nathan Parker <njparker@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Harry Houdini

    Hello All,
    This is my first time submitting a question.

    I was wondering, does anyone have a copy of the last
    Harry Houdini Seance?  It was aired in 1936/37 and I
    would like to obtain a copy.  Can anyone help? Thanks!

    Nathan (OTR Fan)

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    Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:34:23 -0500
    From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  WSJ Article on the History of Radio

    Today's (February 17) issue of The Wall Street Journal has an article on the
    op-ed page about the history of innovation in America that devotes several
    paragraphs to the beginnings of radio, [removed] and [removed]

    David Sarnoff gets a fairly serious rasberry, with the writer saying that he
    was most innovative when creating myths about himself and taking credit for
    other people's work.

    The article may be accessible here and was on page A9 of the print edition.

    [removed];etMailToID=665880460

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:34:33 -0500
    From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Columbia Workshop

    Does the Columbia Workshop episode "Jenny, the Bus Nobody Loved" from
    02-01-42 exist?

    Thanks,
    Barbara

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    Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:16:27 -0500
    From: "Jay Manarky" <jayman@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Vic & Sade anncr's cont'd
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          -Thanks to Jim Cox & Jan  Bach for their input to the Vic & Sade
    announcer query.

          I've heard interviews with Ed Roberts-- in which he was referred to as
    THE
          Vic and Sade announcer. I can only guess, but it seems he regarded that
    assignment as the pinnacle of his career.

          I believe it was he who once said (paraphrasing here) "I would love to
    have, inscribed on my tombstone, that I was once the announcer for Vic and
    Sade radio program".

          As Jan Bach observed, many V & S announcers went on to bigger and better
    things. I knew of most of the announcers but Mike Wallace came as a surprise.
    Thanks.

          I think  Mel Allen's "V&S" voice was  far superior to his "Yankee
    voice". Why the drawl?  Maybe he heard the Yankees were looking for an
    announcer who sounded southern. Let's not forget that the announcers were
    versatile.   And so being ,could
          adjust to whatever the sponsor (owner in NYY case) wanted.

           I am hard pressed to think of any OTR show that did not have an
    announcer's voice that perfectly matched the program.

          Jim Cox's response was very informative and in no way a stretch.  I
    intend to purchase the book "Radio Speakers".  OTR announcers were such a
    special breed!  They must never be forgotten.

          Jay Manarky

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    Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:17:05 -0500
    From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Superman and the KKK

    (On Mr. Stetson Kennedy)

>     In the 1940s, his infiltration of the KKK resulted in the sensational book,
>     The Klan Unmasked. Around the same time, he used his role as a consultant
>     on the Superman radio series to expose the Klan's secret codes and rituals.

    I believe that there was at least one Superman episode about the KKK.
    Presumably it was fictionalized, but would some of the secret codes and
    rituals have been exposed there?

    Mark Kinsler

    512 E Mulberry St. Lancaster, Ohio USA 43130 740-687-6368
    [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:10:26 -0500
    From: Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Joseph Kearns

    Reading Ronald Sayles listings I noticed Joseph Kearns name, and that
    reminded me of a short, (but I think, interesting) story:
    Lurene Tuttle decided she was going to give all of her scripts and
    radio recordings to the PPB Radio Archives. She brought down
    many boxes of material. As we were going through her collection she
    brought up Joseph Kearns. She smiled and said,
    "What a wonderful man. You know, we worked together on a number of
    radio shows. Whenever he got a script where he knew I
    was listed to perform on the same show, he would call me up and we
    set up hours in the evenings, after work, when we could rehearse
    our parts. By the time the actual rehearsals were called, Joe and I
    would be completely prepared for the broadcast. It was always a
    delight working
    with him."
    i also found out that Joseph Kearns had a large Hammond organ in his
    living room and was an accomplished organist. Though he did not perform
    in public, he often played the organ for friends or neighbors. And no
    one objected, because he was truly an excellent musician!

    Ken Greenwald

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    Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:10:37 -0500
    From: Michael Berger <makiju@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Mel Allen

    Some of Mel Allen's earliest work for CBS was as
    announcer on the popular Madhatten Room remotes of the
    Benny Goodman band in the mid-late 1930s, as well as
    an occasional appearance on the later Camel Caravan
    broadcasts featuring BG and others.

    Michael Berger

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    Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:10:53 -0500
    From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Clear Channel [removed]

    This has probably been covered, but I will ask it anyway.
    Whatever happened to the so called "clear channel" radio stations?  They had
    frequencies assigned that no other stations had when other went off at
    sunset, and most were 50,000 watt stations.  Are there any left?  Are they
    still "clear channel" or do other stations interfere with their reception?

    I haven't done any DXing for quite awhile, but your answers may get me back
    to listening again.

    Ted Kneebone / 1528 S. Grant St. / Aberdeen, SD 57401
    [removed]~stmarkch/

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    Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:11:10 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-18 births/deaths

    February 18th birthdays

    H A P P Y  B I R T H D A Y  M A R K  H I G G I N S

    02-18-1890 - Adolphe Menjou - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-29-1963
    host: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Eternal Light"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
    02-18-1890 - Edward Arnold - NYC - d. 4-26-1956
    actor: President "Mr. President"
    02-18-1892 - Wendell Willkie - Elwood, IN - d. 10-8-1944
    presidential candidate: "Information, Please"
    02-18-1894 - Andres Segovia - Linares, Spain - d. 6-2-1987
    classical guitarist: "The Magic Key"; "Theatre [removed]"; "Concert Hall"
    02-18-1899 - Bruce Kammen - Cincinnati, OH - d. unknown
    actor: August Kaltenmeyer "Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten"
    02-18-1900 - Zeno Klinker - d. 1-xx-1985
    writer: "Edgar Bergen/.Charlie McCarthy Show"
    02-18-1901 - Wayne King - Savannah, IL - d. 7-16-1985
    bandleader: (The Waltz King) "Lady Esther Serenade"
    02-18-1903 - George Givot - Ekatarinaslav, Russia - d. 6-7-1984
    dialectitian: (Greek Ambassador of Good Will) "George Givot Show)
    02-18-1903 - Jacques Fray - Paris, France - d. 1-20-1963
    pianist, disc jockey: "Fray and Braggiotti"
    02-18-1907 - Billy de Wolf -  Wollaston, MA - d. 3-5-1974
    actor: "Ginny Simms Show"; "Philco Radio Playhouse"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    02-18-1912 - Earl George - Donora, PA - d. 1-30-2004
    actor: "Curtain Time"; "Girl Alone"; "Mortimer Gooch"
    02-18-1914 - Pee Wee King - Abrams, WI - d. 3-7-2000
    singer, songwriter, accordionist: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Pee Wee King Show"
    02-18-1917 - Jack Slattery - Missouri - d. 10-29-1979
    announcer: "House Party"; "You Bet Your Life"
    02-18-1919 - Jack Palance - Lattimer Mines, PA - d. 11-10-2006
    actor: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    02-18-1920 - Bill Cullen - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 7-7-1990
    host, announcer: "Winner Take All"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    02-18-1920 - Howard Rodman - New York - d. 12-5-1985
    writer: "The American School of the Air"
    02-18-1922 - Ruth Dean Rickaby - d. 10-xx-1973
    actor: "The Lone Ranger"
    02-18-1924 - Sam Rolfe - NYC - d. 7-10-1993
    writer, creator: "Suspense"; "Have Gun, Will Travel"
    02-18-1925 - George Kennedy - NYC
    actor: "Suspense"; "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
    02-18-1930 - John Patton, Jr. - Garland City, AR - d. 4-18-2005
    tenor: Hosted a popular radio program in Los Angeles
    02-18-1933 - Mary Ure - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 4-3-1975
    actor: Won the Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award for Radio Drama acting in
    1954.
    02-18-1944 - George American Horse
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"
    02-18-1951 - Mark Higgins - Milwaukee, WI
    actor: Santa Claus "Billie the Brownie"

    February 18th deaths

    01-31-1904 - Cliff Nazarro - New Haven, CT - d. 2-18-1961
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    02-09-1914 - Bob Hite - d. 2-18-2000
    announcer: "Challenge of the Yukon"; "Green Hornet"; "Casey, Crime
    Photographer"
    03-14-1919 - Harry Caray - St. Louis, MO - d. 2-18-1998
    baseball announcer: St. Louis Cardinals; Chicago Cubs
    03-16-1908 - Robert Rossen - NYC - d. 2-18-1966
    film director: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    05-03-1911 - Yank Lawson - Trenton, MO - d. 2-18-1995
    trumpet: "The Bob Crosby Show"
    05-27-1902 - Cedric Adams - Magnolia, MN - d. 2-18-1961
    commentator: In 1953 filled in for Arthur Godfrey for 13 weeks
    05-31-1938 - Johnny Paycheck - Greenfield, OH - d. 2-18-2003
    country singer: "Country Sessions"
    06-07-1917 - Kathleen Hite - d. 2-18-1989
    writer: "Sam Spade"; "Escape"; "Gunsmoke"; "Rogers of the Gazette";
    "Romamce"
    07-11-1881 - Clarence Budington Kelland - Portland, MI - d. 2-18-1964
    writer: "Scattergood Baines"
    08-09-1894 - Kathleen Lockhart - Southsea, England - d. 2-18-1978
    actor: "The Nebbs"; "Abroad with the Lockharts"
    08-24-1903 - Claude Hopkins - Alexandria, VA - d. 2-18-1984
    bandleader: "Jubilee"; "Let's Go Nightclubbing"
    10-13-1931 - Eddie Mathews - Texarkana, TX - d. 2-18-2001
    baseball player: "Baseball: An Action History"
    12-11-1894 - Eddie Dowling - Woonsocket, RI - d. 2-18-1976
    host: "We, the People"; "Ziegfeld Follies of the Air"
    12-21-1872 - Albert Payson Terhune - Newark, NJ - d. 2-18-1942
    dog expert: "Dog Dramas"
    12-25-1889 - Nat Shilkret - Queens, NY - d. 2-18-1982
    conductor: "Eveready Hour"; "Music That Satisfies"; "Palmolive Beauty
    Box Theatre"

    Ron Sayles

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    Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:52:00 -0500
    From: "Mike Hobart" <zines50@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Look Who's Laughing

    Can't help Stephen Davies with the internet availability of this movie with
    old radio comedians, but ABC TV Australia have a print and run it every year
    or so.     It was on saturday afternoon about six months ago.

    They have half a dozen movies starring old radio stars that crop up every
    now and again.

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