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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2006 : Issue 52
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
A Review on That AMOS AND ANDY Play. [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
The Ranger's Range [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@j ]
2-18 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Rochester [ Cecil <cecil@[removed]; ]
Lone Ranger's travels [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
RCA Mikes [ "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@m ]
Lone Ranger travels [ "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed] ]
This week in radio history [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
band leader Franky kaye [ "Robert Acosta" <boacosta@[removed] ]
Black Radio [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
The Lone Ranger visits Indiana and N [ KENPILETIC@[removed] ]
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:15:07 -0500
From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: A Review on That AMOS AND ANDY [removed]
Ode to 'Amos' doesn't offend -- [removed]
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:15:53 -0500
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Ranger's Range
A. Joseph Ross, [removed], noting that The Lone Ranger was a traveler,
observes,
I wonder just how far did the Lone Ranger travel. He was supposed to
have been a Texas Ranger (though he speaks like a Northerner), so I
assume that Texas (a pretty big place in itself) was the center of
his operations. A lot of the towns he rode into seemed pretty generic
Western towns, with no state or territory identified. Just how far away
from Texas did he go?
Well, we know during his transcontinental telegraph adventure (one of my
favorites), he accompanied the Western Union construction crew, at least
through Utah, possibly to California. In the same episode, President
Lincoln mentions that he's heard of a mysterious masked rider in "the
West" whose activities were helping the country. Obviously, "the West"
is more than just Texas; otherwise, Mr. Lincoln would have just said,
"Texas." The implication is that The Lone Ranger "ranged" over much of
the West.
Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:33:46 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 2-18 births/deaths
February 18th births
02-18-1890 - Adolphe Menjou - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-29-1963
host: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Eternal Light"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
02-18-1890 - Edward Arnold - New York, NY - 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"
02-18-1900 - 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
actor: "Curtain Time"; "Girl Alone"; "Mortimer Gooch"
02-18-1913 - Dane Clark - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-11-1998
actor: Perry 'Quiz' Quisinberry "Passport for Adams"; Flamond "Crime
Files of Flamond"
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, PA
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
actress: "The Lone Ranger"
02-18-1924 - Sam Rolfe - New York, NY - d. 7-10-1993
writer, creator: "Suspense"; "Have Gun, Will Travel"
02-18-1925 - George Kennedy - New York, NY
actor: "Suspense"; "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
02-18-1933 - Mary Ure - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 4-3-1975
actress: Won the Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award for Radio Drama acting
in 1954
February 18th deaths
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 - New York, NY - 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"
05-31-1938 - Johnny Paycheck - Greenfield, OH - d. 2-18-2003
country singer: "Country Sessions"
08-09-1894 - Kathleen Lockhart - Southsea, England - d. 2-18-1978
actress: "The Nebbs"; "Abroad with the Lockharts"
08-24-1903 - Claude Hopkins - Alexandria, VA - d. 2-18-1984
bandleader: "Jubilee"; "Let's Go Nightclubbing"
12-11-1894 - Eddie Dowling - Woonsocket, RI - d. 2-18-1976
host: "We, the People"; "Ziegfeld Follies of the Air"
12-25-1889 - Nat Shilkret - Queens, NY - d. 2-18-1982
conductor: "Eveready Hour"; "Music That Satisfies"; "Palmolive Beauty
Box Theatre"
xx-xx-xxxx - Kathleen Hite - d. 2-18-1989
writer: "Sam Spade"; "Escape"; "Gunsmoke"; "Rogers of the Gazette";
"Romamce"
Ron Sayles
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:33:33 -0500
From: Cecil <cecil@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Rochester
Someone was asking about The Rochester Show and The Private Life of
Rochester Van Jones. Both of these unsold audition episodes are
available on a package from Nostalgia Ventures. The package is entitled
"Old Time Radio Shows - Laughter on the Air".
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 02:31:21 -0500
From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Lone Ranger's travels
on 2/17/06 4:13 PM, [removed]@[removed] at
[removed]@[removed] wrote:
I wonder just how far did the Lone Ranger travel. He was supposed to
have been a Texas Ranger (though he speaks like a Northerner), so I
assume that Texas (a pretty big place in itself) was the center of
his operations. A lot of the towns he rode into seemed pretty
generic Western towns, with no state or territory identified. Just
how far away from Texas did he go?
In the Christmas 1942 storyline that introduced the Lone Ranger's nephew
Dan Reid, the Lone Ranger and Tonto journey to one of the northernmost
states and also briefly into Canada ... which would place them at least
1600 miles from San Antonio, TX. BTW, the teenaged Dan Reid was portrayed
in that storyline (and subsequent 1943 broadcasts) by James Lipton, who
later produced President Jimmy Carter's inaugural gala and a dozen of
Bob Hope's annual TV specials ... and today hosts Bravo's INSIDE THE
ACTORS' STUDIO interview series. --Anthony Tollin
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 02:31:27 -0500
From: "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@[removed];
To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: RCA Mikes
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If interested in RCA broadcast mikes, write me off-line.
Tom Heathwood HeritageRadio@[removed]<mailto:HeritageRadio@[removed];
2/17
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 05:07:57 -0500
From: "Jim Nixon" <ranger6000@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Lone Ranger travels
Attorney Ross has raised a very interesting point in asking how far the Lone
Ranger traveled during his long radio career. Well, he went as far as
California, not only for the long California series, which began in
November, 1943, and featured the masked man smashing a gang of pirates
committing nefarious deeds from a ship anchored in San Francisco harbor, but
earlier
in a Graser episode from 3/11/38 in which he comes to the aid of California
settlers menaced by a Spanish Grandee with an old land grant.
He ventures into Mexico many times, the most notable in the Mexico
three-part series from Sept. 18, 1939.
The farthest north he goes is Canada, in the Dan Reid series from December,
1942, where Mounties help him capture a criminal. And the farthest east
that I can find is when he visits Robert E. Lee following the Civil War at
William and Mary college in Virginia. This is the adventure titled, "A
Conference With General Lee", No. 3132.
You can find him in Indiana in the Sam Bass episode, 3/24/1944.
Too bad frequent flyer miles weren't available then.
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:33:52 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history
From Those Were The Days --
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.
2/22
1954 - ABC radio's popular Breakfast Club, program with longtime host,
Don McNeill, was simulcast on TV beginning this day. The telecast of the
show was a bomb, but the radio program went on to break records as the
longest-running program on the air.
2/23
1927 - [removed] President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill into law that
created the Federal Radio Commission, "to bring order out of this
terrible chaos." The president was speaking, of course, of the nation's
then unregulated radio stations. The commission assigned frequencies,
hours of operation and power allocations for radio broadcasters across
the [removed] The name was changed to the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) on July 1, 1934.
2/24
1942 -- It was an historic day in radio broadcasting, as the Voice of
America (VOA) signed on for the first time on this day.
Joe
--
Visit my home page: [removed]~[removed]
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:05:29 -0500
From: "Robert Acosta" <boacosta@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: band leader Franky kaye
Does anyone know about a Canadian band leader named Franky Kaye who played
in the 40's. i am asking this question for a friend.
Robert Acosta, Helping hands for the Blind
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:05:56 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Black Radio
Hi Everybody,
I was contacted by a company who want to produce a special on Blacks in
radio. They would like some help to know any history of blacks owning
radio stations, black radio stations, DJS, and radio stars. If you have any
contact that would be great too. Take care,
Walden Hughes
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:06:48 -0500
From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Lone Ranger visits Indiana and North
Dakota
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Hi Gang -
In issue 51, [removed] Ross (writing about the Lone Ranger) asked:
...A lot of the towns he rode into seemed pretty generic Western towns,
with no state or territory identified. Just how far away from Texas did he
go? ...
Yesterday on XM's "Turn Back The Clock" broadcast, in The Lone Ranger story
about outlaw Sam Bass, The Daring and Resourceful Masked Rider of the Plains
was in Indiana (for some unexplained reason). From there he went to North
Dakota.
See You In Cincinnati -
Ken Piletic - Streamwood, Illinois -- Alma, Arkansas
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