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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 79
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Bob Edwards and Harry Shearer talk O  [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
      5-21 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 22-28 May  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      5-22 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 12:46:10 -0400
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Bob Edwards and Harry Shearer talk OTR

    Folks;

       There's a mildly-complicated story about how I ended up with tape of a
    conversation between Harry Shearer and Bob Edwards discussing Old-Time Radio,
    but it all comes down to me being a real nooge pestering a producer. Senior
    Producer Chad Campbell was awesome enough to provide to me the tape they
    couldn't use in their radio piece about Harry's documentary about the
    disaster aftre Hurricane Katrina, "The Big Uneasy," and it's posted on the
    Nostalgic Rumblings blog at [removed] - you can listen
    on-line just by clicking the play button on the embedded player, or download
    the show to your MP3 player. If you subscribe to the podcast feed, you can
    get these podcasts downloaded automatically.

       It was awesome fun to produce even a short segment of a Bob Edwards
    interview; any flaws in the production mine, not the fault of the satellite
    radio program.

             Charlie

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    Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 12:46:19 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-21 births/deaths

    May 21st births

    05-21-1894 - Kenyon Nicholson - Crawfordsville, IN - d. 12-19-1986
    writer: "Theatre Guild on the Air"
    05-21-1901 - Fred Cole - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1964
    writer: "Double or Nothing"
    05-21-1901 - Horace Heidt - Alameda, CA - d. 12-1-1986
    bandleader: "Horace Heidt Brigadiers"; "Pot o' Gold"; "Treasure Chest"
    05-21-1904 - Robert Montgomery - Beacon, NY - d. 9-27-1981
    actor: "Doctor Fights"; "Suspense"; "This Is War"
    05-21-1904 - Thomas "Fats" Waller - NYC - d. 12-15-1943
    pianist, singer: "Columbia Variety Hour"; "Saturday Night Swing Club"
    05-21-1906 - Marie Joan Callahan - Chicago, IL - d. 8-6-1984
    assistant director, director, producer and creator
    05-21-1912 - Lucille Manners - Newark, NJ
    singer: "Cities Service Concert"
    05-21-1912 - Stephen Estaban Kelen - Budapest, Hungary - d. 5-1-2003
    writer: "Fifty Years from Farrer"
    05-21-1915 - Kathleen Cordell - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-19-1997
    actor: Marion Burton Sullivan "Second Mrs. Burton"; Monica Brewster
    "Valiant Lady"
    05-21-1916 - Dennis Day - The Bronx, NY - d. 6-22-1988
    singer, comedian: "Jack Benny Program"; "Day in the Life of Dennis Day"
    05-21-1917 - Raymond Burr - New Westminster, Canada - d. 9-12-1993
    actor: Lee Quince "Fort Laramie"; Ed Backstrand "Dragnet"
    05-21-1918 - Anthony Alfred Ambrose - New Alexandria, PA - d. 3-16-2003
    composer/singer: WHJB Greensburg, Pennsylvania
    05-21-1918 - Jeanne Bates - Berkeley, CA - d. 11-28-2007
    actor: Teddy Lawson "One Man's Family"; "Gunsmoke"
    05-21-1920 - Bill Barber - Hornell, NY - d. 6-18-2007
    jazz tuba player: "Claude Thornhill and his Orchestra"
    05-21-1920 - James Plunkett - Dublin, Ireland - d. 5-28-2003
    writer: "Dublin Fusilier"
    05-21-1923 - Dorothy Hewett - Perth, Western Australia - d. 8-25-2002
    writer: "Frost at Midnight"
    05-21-1923 - Rick Jason - NYC - d. 10-15-2000
    actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"

    May 21st deaths

    01-04-1907 - Floyd Christy - NYC - d. 5-21-1962
    writer: "The Johnson Family"
    01-14-1929 - Billy Walker - Ralls, TX - d. 5-21-2006
    c/w singer: "Columbia's Country Caravan", "Country Music Time"
    03-04-1913 - John Garfield - NYC - d. 5-21-1952
    actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"; "Free Company"; "Treasury
    Star Parade"
    03-13-1913 - Rolf McPherson - Providence, RI - d. 5-21-2009
    preacher: KFSG Los Angeles
    03-22-1892 - Charlie Poole - Randolph County, NC - d. 5-21-1931
    country music: "Charlie Poole and his North Carolina Ramblers"
    03-24-1928 - Vanessa Brown - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-21-1999
    panelist: "Quiz Kids"
    03-29-1888 - Earle Ross - Illinois - d. 5-21-1961
    actor: Judge Horace Hooker "Great Gildersleeve"; J. R. Boone, Sr.
    "Meet Millie"
    04-14-1904 - John Gielgud - London, England - d. 5-21-2000
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    04-16-1915 - Joan Alexander - St. Paul, MN - d. 5-21-2009
    actor: Lois Lane "Advs. of Superman"; Ellen Deering "Philo Vance"
    05-30-1911 - Douglas Fowley - NYC - d. 5-21-1998
    actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
    06-04-1906 - Vinton Haworth (Hayworth) - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-21-1970
    actor: Fred Andrews "Archie Andrews"; Michael Shayne "Michael Shayne"
    08-14-1914 - Andrea Leeds - Butte, MT - d. 5-21-1984
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    09-04-1925 - Howard Morris - NYC - d. 5-21-2005
    comedian: "Those Good Old Days"
    09-09-1905 - Ulric Cole - NYC - d. 5-21-1992
    composer, conductor: "NBC String Symphony"
    10-06-1907 - Owen Davis, Jr. - NYC - d. 5-21-1949
    actor: Allen McCrea "Those We Love"
    10-07-1911 - Vaughn Monroe - Akron, OH - d. 5-21-1973
    singer, bandleader: "Penthouse Party"; "Vaughn Monroe Show"
    10-21-1908 - Tommy Riggs - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 5-21-1967
    comedian: "Fleischmann Hour"; "Quaker Party with Tommy Riggs"; "Tommy
    Riggs and Betty Lou"
    11-02-1897 - Dennis King - Coventry, England - d. 5-21-1971
    announcer: "When a Girl Marries"
    12-23-1922 - Jack Lloyd - Duisburg, Germany - d. 5-21-1976
    actor: "Armstrong Theatre of Today"; "The Joan Davis Show"
    12-24-1928 - Norman Rossington - Liverpool, England - d. 5-21-1999
    comic actor: "Big Jim and the Figaro Club"

    Ron
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    Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 12:46:32 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 22-28 May

     From Those Were The Days -

    5/22

    1955 - Jack Benny signed off his last first run network radio broadcast
    after a run of 23 years.  The show continued in repeats for several more
    years.

    5/ 23

    1922 - The first debate to be heard on radio was broadcast on WJH in
    Washington, DC. The two debaters argued about the topic of Daylight
    Saving Time with the audience acting as the judge.

    5/26

    1940 - "Invitation to Learning" was first heard on CBS radio. The
    educational radio program ran for 15 years on the network.

    5/28

    1931 - WOR radio in New York City premiered "The Witch's Tale". The
    program was broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System (of which WOR
    was the flagship station) where it aired until 1938.

    Joe

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    Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 12:46:40 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-22 births/deaths

    May 22nd births

    05-22-1859 - Arthur Conan Doyle - Edingurgh, Scotland - d. 7-7-1930
    author: Many of his works were adapted for radio
    05-22-1879 - Alla Nazimova - Yalta in the Crimea - d. 7-13-1945
    actor: " I'm An American"; "Towards the Century of the Comman Man"
    05-22-1891 - Parks Johnson - Sheffield, AL - d. 10-4-1970
    emcee, interviewer: "Vox Pox"
    05-22-1898 - Charles Borrelli - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-26-1984
    pianist: "Italian Sunday"
    05-22-1903 - Ward Wilson -Trenton, NJ - d. 3-21-1966
    actor, announcer: Mr. DeHaven "Aldrich Family"; Beetle "Phil Baker Show"
    05-22-1906 - Harry Ritz - Newark, NJ - d. 3-29-1986
    comedian: (The Ritz Brothers) "Hollywood Hotel"
    05-22-1907 - Laurence Olivier - Dorking, England - d. 7-11-1989
    actor: "Biography in Sound"; "Document A/777"; "Hour of Mystery"
    05-22-1910 - Johnny Olson - Windom, MN - d. 10-12-1985
    emcee, announcer: "Ladies Be Seated"; "Get Rich Quick"
    05-22-1911 - John W. Neher - Shelbyville, IL - d. 3-16-1972
    singer, actor: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Cavalcade of America"
    05-22-1914 - Ken Powell - d. 3-11-1976
    announcer: "Chick Carter, Boy Detective"; "Nick Carter, Master
    Detective"
    05-22-1916 - Rupert Davies - Liverpool, England - d. 10-22-1976
    actor: "Afternoon Theatre"
    05-22-1918 - Herb Arrasmith - d. 6-22-1985
    disk jockey: KERN Bakersfield, California
    05-22-1923 - Bill Andrick - d. 6-14-1981
    disk jockey: WPAR Parkersburg, West Virginia
    05-22-1925 - James King - d. 11-20-2005
    operatic tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"
    05-22-1934 - Peter Nero - Brooklyn, NY
    socialite pianist: "Voices of Vista"
    05-22-1938 - Susan Strasberg - NYC - d. 1-21-1999
    actor: Emily Marriott "Marriage"

    May 22nd deaths

    02-01-1902 - Langston Hughes - Joplin, Mo - d. 5-22-1967
    writer: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"
    02-06-1914 - Thurl Ravenscroft - Norfolk, NE - d. 5-22-2005
    singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
    02-27-1915 - Donald Curtis - Cheney, WA - d. 5-22-1997
    actor: Michael Shayne "Michael Shayne"
    03-15-1909 - John Roeburt - d. 5-22-1972
    writer: "Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator"; "Inner Sanctum
    Mysteries"
    03-27-1921 - Fletcher Markle - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - d. 5-22-1991
    actor, director, producer: "Columbia Workshop"; "Studio One"
    04-04-1902 - Bernice Berwin - Bay Area, CA - d. 5-22-2002
    actor: Hazel Barbour "One Man's Family"
    04-28-1938 - Connie Marshall - NYC - d. 5-22-2001
    actor: "Hallmark Playhouse"
    05-11-1892 - Margaret Rutherford - London, England - d. 5-22-1972
    actor: "Wisdon of Miss Marple"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    06-19-1912 - Martin Gabel - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-22-1986
    actor: John Wayne "Big Sister"; Gregory Hood "Casebook of Gregory Hood"
    06-29-1907 - Joan Davis - St. Paul, MN - d. 5-22-1961
    comedian: "Sealtest Village Store"; "Joan Davis Show"
    07-04-1884 - George Trendle - Norwalk, OH - d. 5-22-1972
    executive: WXYZ Detroit; Original idea for "The Lone Ranger"
    07-10-1909 - Bernard Katz - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-22-1992
    pianist: (Cousin of Mel Blanc) "Katz on the Keys"
    07-12-1919 - Earl Blessey - d. 5-22-1990
    sportscaster, disk jockey: WVMI Biloxi, Mississippi
    07-23-1937 - Robert W. Morgan - Galion, OH - d. 5-22-1998
    host (communicator) "Monitor"
    08-12-1926 - John Derek - Hollywood, CA - d. 5-22-1998
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-30-1917 - Dan Enright - d. 5-22-1992
    producer: "Put Up or Shut Up"; "Brain Train"; "Juvenile Jury"; "Life
    Begins at 80"
    10-13-1892 - Albert Sonn - d. 5-22-1968
    pioneer radio personality "Man On the Moon"

    Ron
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