Subject: [removed] Digest V2010 #2
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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 2
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      1-3 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Another tie to Black Swan Hall fades  [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      Re: radio to TV                       [ grams46@[removed] ]
      YULE LOG                              [ wich2@[removed] ]
      That ain't the way I heered it, Ted.  [ wich2@[removed] ]
      Seeking OTR boombox                   [ "Bruce R. Glazer" <bglazer@[removed] ]
      From Radio to TV                      [ James Meadows <walthamus@[removed]; ]
      1-4 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
      Phil Spitalny                         [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]

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    Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:14:20 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-3 births/deaths

    January 3rd births

    01-03-1886 - Josephine Hull - Newtonville, MA - d. 3-12-1957
    actor: Miss Julia "Miss Julia"; Mrs. Kayden "The O'Neills"
    01-03-1891 - Gaston Anderson - d. 5-xx-1978
    disk jockey: WGWD Gasden, Alabama
    01-03-1892 - Marion Davies - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-25-1961
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "How I Made Up for the Moview"
    01-03-1893 - Gilbert Seldes - Alliance, NJ - d. 9-29-1970
    writer: "Americans All, Immigrants All"
    01-03-1897 - Dorothy Arzner - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-1-1979
    film director: "You Were Meant to be a Star"
    01-03-1898 - Freddie Rich - Warsaw, Poland - d. 9-8-1956
    bandleader: "Friendly Five Footnotes"; "Freddie Rich's Penthouse Party"
    01-03-1898 - John Loder - London, England - d. 12-9-1988
    actor, host: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Silver Theatre"
    01-03-1898 - Zasu Pitts - Parsons, KS - d. 6-7-1963
    comedian: "Lum and Abner"; "Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou"
    01-03-1900 - Cecil Underwood - Vienna, MO - d. 9-27-1976
    producer, director: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Great Gildersleeve"
    01-03-1905 - Anna May Wong - Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA - d. 2-3-1961
    actor: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Hollywood Hotel"
    01-03-1905 - Ray Milland - Neath, Wales - d. 3-10-1986
    actor: Ray McNutley "Meet Mr. McNutley"
    01-03-1909 - Victor Borge - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 12-23-2000
    comedian, pianist: "Victor Borge Show"; "Kraft Music Hall"
    01-03-1911 - Al Sack - NYC - d. 12-6-1947
    orchestra leader: "Beula Show"; "Tony Martin Show"; "Frank Morgan Show"
    01-03-1914 - Carl (Henry) Stewart - Alabama - d. 2-4-1993
    bass: "The Radio Cowboys"
    01-03-1916 - Betty Furness - NYC - d. 4-2-1994
    actor: Anne Williams "Casey, Crime Photographer"
    01-03-1917 - Jay Sommers - NYC - d. 9-25-1985
    writer: "Lum and Abner"; "Joan Davis Time"; "Alan Young Show"
    01-03-1918 - Jesse White - Buffalo, NY - d. 1-8-1997
    actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"; "Sears Radio Theatre"
    01-03-1918 - Maxene Andrews - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-21-1995
    singer: (Andrews Sisters) "Andrews Sisters Revue"
    01-03-1920 - Lester Bashara - d. 2-19-1990
    newscaster: KGFW Kearney, Nebraska
    01-03-1923 - Charles Tingwell - Coogee, Australia - d. 5-15-2009
    actor: "The Clock"
    01-03-1925 - Jill Balcom - London, England - d. 7-18-2009
    actress: "Time for Verse"
    01-03-1927 - William Boyett - Akron, OH - d. 12-29-2004
    actor: Freelance in younger years
    01-03-1930 - Marcel Dube - Montreal, Canada
    author: "Chambres a louer"
    01-03-1942 - John Thaw - West Gorton, England - d. 2-21-2002
    actor: "Peter Pan"

    January 3rd deaths

    01-27-1905 - Howard McNear - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-3-1969
    actor: Doctor Charles Adams "Gunsmoke"
    02-08-1890 - Irving Kaufman - Syracuse, NY - d. 1-3-1976
    singer: "Champion Sparkers"; "Broadway Vanities"
    02-08-1892 - Will Aubrey - Lithuania - d. 1-3-1958
    actor: (The Bard of the Byways) "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
    02-10-1897 - Judith Anderson - Adelaide, Australia - d. 1-3-1992
    actor: Royal Gelatin Hour"
    02-13-1904 - Erwin D. Canham - Auburn, ME - d. 1-3-1982
    news commentator: "Christian Science Monitor Views the News"
    02-20-1874 - Mary Garden - Aberdeen, Scotland - d. 1-3-1967
    singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"
    02-22-1901 - Bess Johnson - d. 1-3-1975
    actor: Bess Johnson "Story of Bess Johnson"; Lady Esther "Lady Esther
    Serenade
    03-03-1948 - Byron MacGregor - Alberta, Canada - d. 1-3-1995
    CKLW radio newsman, recorded narrative "The Americans"
    03-04-1907 - Pat McGeehan - Steelton, PA - d. 1-3-1988
    announcer, actor: "Abbott and Costello"; "The Red Skelton Show"
    03-26-1924 - Jean M. Brooks - Brighton, England - d. 1-3-2003
    writer: "Gregory of the Outback"; "Opal Witch"
    04-02-1907 - Luke Appling - High Point, NC - d. 1-3-1991
    baseball great: "Tops in Sport"
    04-03-1904 - Peter Van Steeden - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - d.
    1-3-1990
    bandleader: "Town Hall Tonight"; "Mr. District Attorney"
    04-16-1897 - Milton J. Cross - NYC - d. 1-3-1975
    announcer, commentator: (The Voice of the Met) "General Motors Concerts"
    04-24-1906 - William "Lord Haw Haw" Joyce - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-3-1946
    propagnadist for Nazi Germany during World War II: Hung for treason
    05-16-1880 - Julius Tannen - Chicago, IL - d. 1-3-1965
    comedian: (Human Chatterbox) "Goldenrod Revue"; "Seven Star Revue"
    05-23-1907 - Kenneth Griffin - Enid, Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-3-1951
    actor: Larry Noble "Mary Noble, Backstage Wife"
    06-06-1923 - Beverly Styles - Richmond, VA - d. 1-3-2005
    violinist, pianist, drummer vocalist
    07-25-1894 - Isabella Beech - d. 1-3-1972
    food editor: Francis Lee Barton "Mother Knows Best"
    08-12-1895 - Carol DeAngelo - Rome, Italy - d. 1-3-1962
    actor, director: "We Love and Learn"; "The Jack Benny Program"
    08-14-1917 - Marty Glickman - NYC - d. 1-3-2001
    sprorts broadcaster: "Saturday Night Bandwagon"; "Play Ball"; "Box
    Score Review"
    09-04-1923 - Graham Archer - d. 1-3-2001
    disk jockey: "Wax Museum"; "The States of the Union"
    10-23-1912 - Floyd Mack - Ava, OH - d. 1-3-1983
    commentator: "Floyd Mack and the News"; "Bell Telephone Hour"
    12-09-1912 - Philip Guest Adams - d. 1-3-1998
    actor: "The Green Hornet"; "Gangbusters"
    12-19-1894 - Tess Gardella - Wilkes-Barre, PA - d. 1-3-1950
    actor: Aunt Jemina "Aunt Jemina"
    12-20-1906 - Marion Talley - Nevada, MO - d. 1-3-1983
    singer: "Ry-Krisp Presents Marion Talley"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Bryna Raeburn - d. 1-3-1986
    actor: "Gangbusters"; "Philo Vance"; "The Big Story"

    Ron

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    Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:15:35 -0500
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Another tie to Black Swan Hall fades

    When stand-up comedienne Jean Carroll died on New Year's Day at White
    Plains, N. Y., she was less than a week away from her 99th birthday.  That's
    amazing in itself for one who worked so much of the time in smoke-filled
    nightclub rooms in the 1940s and 1950s.  She combined a rare talent with
    true beauty as she trailblazed the way for numerous comediennes who came
    after her.

    Her NY Times obit may be found here:

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    What caught my attention about Jean Carroll was not what she did in front of
    an audience but rather what she was doing at the same time behind the
    microphone.  From 1945 to 1959, she was a most important minion within the
    Frank and Anne Hummert camp of radio scribes.  I use the word "important"
    because she rose from a field of hundreds of nameless hacks to be one of a
    handful credited by name on the air.  For years she was identified every day
    as the writer of Our Gal Sunday and over an extended period as author of
    Young Widder Brown.  She also supplied scripts for Lora Lawton and some
    other Hummert-produced washboard weepers.  Not only that, she churned out a
    good bit of dialogue for Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, yet another
    Hummert drama.

    If you were good at what you did, and you hadn't done anything to cross
    Frank or Anne, the possibility existed (and was frequently fulfilled) that
    you could turn up on many or all of their narratives as a writer, actor,
    musician, director, or announcer.  The fact that Jean Carroll not only
    accomplished that but heard her moniker announced for years -- an extremely
    rare feat in Hummert employ -- says all that needs to be said about her
    capabilities.  Said narrator Ed Fleming at the conclusion of each of Gal's
    broadcasts:  "Dialogue by Jean Carroll.  Directed by Arthur Hanna, Vivian
    Smolen plays Sunday, and Karl Swenson is Lord Henry."  Jean Carroll
    obviously became one of the darlings of Frank and Anne Hummert's Radio
    Factory.

    She also wrote most of her own material as a stand-up comic, using everyday
    experiences as her inspiration.  She was something of an anamoly among radio
    wordsmiths.  If Lady Brinthrope hadn't been canned by CBS on January 2,
    1959, the last of Ms. Carroll's dramas, who knows how long her love affair
    with Black Swan Hall might have persisted?

    An incredibly gifted woman in multiple dimensions.

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 18:13:59 -0500
    From: grams46@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: radio to TV

    asajb2000@[removed] asks

>     I always  understood the ONLY radio show to exist on TV first and then debut
>     on radio  was Have Gun, Will Travel but I know that list also includes My
>     Little  Margie. Are there any other shows that were on TV first, then aired
>     on radio?

    kathy replies:
    space patrol was on television first and then  radio.   this web page has
    some info on space  patrol.
    [removed]

    peace from  kathy
    support our troops; end the war in iraq
    john 3:16

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    Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 18:14:19 -0500
    From: wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  YULE LOG
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>     which I think still exists online but not on ... WPIX in New York.

    Actually Andy, I believe it was back there (where it originated?) this year
    for a few hours.

    Happy New Year,
    -Craig W.

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    Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 18:15:15 -0500
    From: wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  That ain't the way I heered it, [removed]
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>     But the sad part is that we cannot turn on our radios and
>     find the good stuff anymore.

    Not true.

    Obviously, the scale is smaller; but - as noted in these pages - our CHRISTMAS
    CAROL and BLUE CARBUNCLE were carried by several Broadcast stations this
    season. In markets as large as [removed], and as far-flung as Alaska. And on a
    Paying basis, too; check out The Public Radio Exchange.)

    Ted, I also concur with your "lifeline" from THEATRE 5, through CBSRMT, and
    PRAIRIE HOME, to the work out there today. No debating the fact that the
    medium changed radically. But to use a Biblical formulation, a "remnant"
    always remained. A spot of yeast to create the new bread.

    That is plain fact, too.

    Happy New Year,
    -Craig W.

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    Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 18:22:57 -0500
    From: "Bruce R. Glazer" <bglazer@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Seeking OTR boombox

    I'm looking to buy a new CD boombox that will play regular (not MP-3)
    OTR and audiobook
    CD's, as follows: It must have a "true resume" feature - so that if
    the player is stopped in the
    middle of a track, it will pick up at the exact point it left off the
    next time "play" is pressed (even
    after the boombox has been shut off and then turned on again).  Does
    anyone know of such a boombox,
    please?

    Bruce

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    Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 18:57:43 -0500
    From: James Meadows <walthamus@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  From Radio to TV

    Andy Blatt asked:

>      Are there any other shows that were on TV first, then aired on
>     radio?

        "I Love Lucy" had a short run on radio after its debut as a TV show. But
    the only episode I've heard used the audio track from one of the TV shows.

      Ted Kneebone mentions the radio version of "The Twilight Zone", which is
    not only derived from the TV series, but uses many of its scripts. Its
    production run is comparable in length to that of the original TV series. The
    radio version launched in 2002, well after radio's golden age, and perhaps
    not quite the context you're thinking of. But I assume the program is
    reaching an audience --- and making money for somebody, since it runs on
    commercial radio.

    Jim Meadows

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    Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 19:47:47 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-4 births/deaths

    January 4th births

    01-04-1881 - Norman Field - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - d. 9-11-1956
    actor: Glen Hunter "One Man's Family"
    01-04-1889 - Pat Kelly - North Queensland, Australia - d. 12-23-1967
    announcer: "Dog Heroes"; "Getting the Most Out of Life"
    01-04-1896 - Everett Dirksen - Pekin, IL - d. 9-7-1969
    [removed] senator: "Meet the Press"; "American Forum on the Air"
    01-04-1905 - Sterling Holloway - Cedartown, GA - d. 11-22-1992
    actor: "Railroad Hour"; "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Suspense"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    01-04-1907 - Floyd Christy - NYC - d. 5-21-1962
    writer: "The Johnson Family"
    01-04-1910 - Ann Jamison - Belfast, Ireland - d. 4-16-1961
    singer: "An Evening with Romberg"; "The Packard Hour"
    01-04-1911 - Fred Killian - d. 4-25-1994
    producer, director: "Those Sensational Years"
    01-04-1916 - Lionel Newman - New Haven, CT - d. 2-3-1989
    conductor, composer: (Brother of Alfred) "Hollywood Star Time"
    01-04-1917 - Jane Wyman - St. Joseph, MO - d. 9-10-2007
    actor: "Dreft Star Playhouse"
    01-04-1918 - Buddy Baker - Springfield, MO - d. 7-26-2002
    musical director: Bob Hope, Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny
    01-04-1918 - Palmer Thompson - Patterson, NY - d. 12-15-1969
    writer: "David Harding, Counterspy"
    01-04-1919 - Al "Jazzbeaux" Collins - NYC - d. 9-30-1997
    disc jockey: "Collins on a Cloud"; "Happy Al"
    01-04-1920 - Rosalie Crutchley - London, England - d. 7-28-1997
    actor: "Advice to a Queen"; "Looking After Ourselves"
    01-04-1925 - Johnny Lujack - Connellsville, PA
    all-american football player, actor: Himself "Johnny Lujack of Notre
    Dame"
    01-04-1927 - Barbara Rush - Denver, CO
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    01-04-1927 - John Drury - Peoria, IL - d. 11-25-2007
    staff announcer: WTMJ Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    01-04-1935 - Floyd Patterson - Waco, NC - d. 5-11-2006
    boxer: "Life and the World"; "Tops in Sports"
    01-04-1936 - David Allen - Birmingham, England
    writer: "Cheapside"

    January 4th deaths

    03-10-1888 - Barry Fitzgerald - Dublin, Ireland - d. 1-4-1961
    actor: Bernard Fitz "His Honor, the Barber"
    03-14-1912 - Les Brown - Reinerton, PA - d. 1-4-2001
    bandleader: (Les Brown and His Band of Renown) "Bob Hope Show"
    03-16-1886 - Howard Pierce - d. 1-4-1973
    Owned a piece of the Lone Ranger
    04-03-1906 - Iron Eyes Cody - Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-4-1999
    actor: "Straight Arrow Pow-Wow
    04-06-1895 - Dudley Nichols - Wapakoneta, OH - d. 1-4-1960
    screenwiriter: "Cavalcade of America"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-09-1895 - Frank H. Anderson, Jr. - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-4-1952
    pianist/singer: had his own program for 8 years
    04-29-1946 - Humphrey Carpenter - Oxford, England - d. 1-4-2005
    writer, disc jockey: BBC radio
    05-26-1909 - Richard Maibaum - NYC - d. 1-4-1991
    screen writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-14-1925 - George Draper Lewis - d. 1-4-1998
    writer: "The Camel Caravan"
    07-25-1899 - Ralph Dumke - South Bend, IN - d. 1-4-1964
    actor: Willie Tompkins "We, the Abbotts"; Pat Plenty "Quality Twins"
    08-12-1909 - Nat Asherton - NYC - d. 1-4-1987
    composer/pianist: Leo Reisman Orchestra, Lester Lanin Orchestra
    08-26-1904 - Chirstopher Isherwood - High Lane, Cheshire, England - d.
    1-4-1986
    writer: "NBC University Theatre"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
    08-31-1912 - Ramon Vinay - Chillan, Chile - d. 1-4-1996
    tenor: "A Critic's Toscanini"
    09-08-1877 - Bide Dudley - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-4-1944
    drama critic: "Around Little 'Ol Broadway"
    09-13-1908 - Mae Questel - The Bronx, NY - d. 1-4-1998
    actor: Betty Boop "Betty Boop Fables"; Olive Oyl "Popeye the Sailor"
    09-24-1901 - Paschal Strong - d. 1-4-1988
    writer: "Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy"
    09-24-1924 - Joan Aiken - Rye, Sussex, England - d. 1-4-2004
    adapter of her short fiction: "Chilredn's Hour"
    09-26-1888 - T. S. Eliot - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-4-1965
    writer: "Columbia Workshop"
    10-16-1912 - Berry Kroeger - San Antonio, TX - d. 1-4-1991
    actor: Michael Waring/The Falcon "The Falcon"; Reed Bannister "Big
    Sister"
    11-29-1932 - John Gary - Watertown, NY - d. 1-4-1998
    singer: "Christmas Music - Spots for the National Guard"

    Ron

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    Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 19:47:59 -0500
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

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    FORECAST
    Episode 7    8-11-41    "Class of `41"
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    Episode 28    9-16-47    "Salute To Radio"
    NBC Philip Morris Cigarettes Tuesdays 8:00 - 8:30 pm
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    SUSPENSE
    CBS    11/17/42    "Menace In Wax"
    An inside look at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum.

    THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM
    CBS    5/25/52
    Jack is preparing for his trip to London.

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    1936   "College Holiday"    with: Jack Benny, Burns & Allen.
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    Original Air Date: 8-17-58
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    Title: "Kite's Reward"
    Sponsor: Ligget & Myers (L&M Cigarettes)
    Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear
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    Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 23:46:39 -0500
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Phil Spitalny

>     Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:09:47 -0500
>     From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];

>     1935   We proudly remind you that Phil Spitalny's All Girl Orchestra
>     was featured on CBS this day on the program, The Hour of Charm.  (ed
>     And who can ever forget Evelyn and her magic violin?)

    I've never heard this, though I think I've heard references to Phil
    Spitalny on Jack Benny and Fred Allen shows.  But here's my question:
     Was Phil Spitalny male or female?  It sounds like a male name, but
    if Phil Spitalny was male, then it wasn't an all-girl orchestra.

    Leaving aside latter-day issues about whether grown women should be
    called "girls."

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     92 State Street, Suite 700                   Fax [removed]
    Boston, MA 02109-2004           	         [removed]

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