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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 24
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Wheeling Jamboree To Return           [ Bill Knowlton <udmacon1@[removed] ]
      Lone Ranger on YouTube                [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
      OTR Talking Books                     [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
      1-26 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 27 Januar  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:27:56 -0500
    From: Bill Knowlton <udmacon1@[removed];
    To: "radio, oldtime" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Wheeling Jamboree To Return
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    The Wheeling Jamboree, which started on WWVA in 1933, is returning to the air
    on April 12th. Off the pair for the past two years, the Jamboree is now being
    operated by a non-profit group of local Wheeling citizens determined to make
    it the tourist attraction it once was.

    The premier show will honor country veteran Doc Williams who first joined what
    was then the "WWVA Jamboree" in the late 1930s.

    WWVA is 1170 on the dial and at night is strongly heard throught the
    northeastern United States (including NYC), and Eastern Canada to include
    Newfoundland and Labrador.

    BILL KNOWLTON, "Bluegrass Ramble," Sundays: 9 pm to midnight (EDST) over
    WCNY-FM ([removed]) Syracuse, WUNY ([removed]) Utica, WJNY ([removed]) Watertown NY, also:
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    Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:38:20 -0500
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Lone Ranger on YouTube
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    Hey, it's almost time for the 75th anniversary of the Lone Ranger. I've been
    informed that Tv actor/comic Jay Thomas recently told a funny LR story on
    Letterman & that one can watch it on YouTube

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    Hi-ho, Silver!

    Derek

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    Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:39:13 -0500
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OTR Talking Books
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    My audio-book colleague  Jim Cox wrote re: Bookshare & elctronic versions of
    OTR books:

>     No one, to my knowledge, is routinely taking any of McFarland's 300+ new

    releases annually and recording them.
    Let me emphasize "to my knowledge" for it could be happening somewhere somehow
    for some limited few.  I'm simply
    not aware of it.

    There is one such McFarland book I know of that was recently recorded as a
    Talking Book: "Arthir Godfrey" by Art Singer. I saw this book listed in an
    issue of "Talking Book Topics," about 2-3 years ago. For the unitiated, TBT is
    a catalogue of new Talking Book releases  sent to subscribers to the service,
    and is available in various formats (I used to produce the audio version). The
    Godfrey bio is the only McF I know of optioned as a Talking Book.  Ditto Jack
    French's "Private Eyelashes" (discloser time: I'm in the acknowledgments) --
    his is the only BearManor/Ben Ohmart release I know of given the Talking Book
    treatment.

    If  blind and physically handicapped fans who also dig OTR want NLS (the
    National Library service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped branch of
    Library of Congress which oversees the production and distribution of Talking
    Books) to commission more OTR books and/or if one has a particular book in
    mind, then please inform the NLS in Washington.  OTR folks like me at
    suppliers like AFB (American Foundation for the Blind) would also very much
    like to record them.

    "These books are made for talking!" (Professor Cox really likes this saying),

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:43:16 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-26 births/deaths

    January 26th births

    01-26-1880 - Douglas MacArthur - Little Rock, AR - d. 4-5-1964
    general: "Special Broadcast from Tokyo"
    01-26-1885 - Hugh Barrett Dobbs - d. 2-20-1944
    actor: Captain Dobbsie "Ship of Joy"
    01-26-1892 - Guy Robertson - Denver, CO - d. unknown
    singing host: "Broadway Varieties"
    01-26-1899 - Wyllis Cooper - Pekin, IL - d. 6-22-1955
    producer, writer, director: "Lights Out"; "Quiet Please"
    01-26-1905 - Maria von Trapp - Vienna, Austria-Hungary - d. 3-28-1987
    singer: (Trapp Family Singers) "Christmas Seal Sale"
    01-26-1907 - Eddie Ballentine - Chicago, IL - d. 11-14-1995
    orchestra leader: "Don McNeill's Breakfast Club"
    01-26-1907 - Edward D. Ballantine - Chicago, IL - d. 11-14-1995
    conductor: "Breakfast Club"
    01-26-1907 - Rita Ascot - d. 3-6-1988
    actor: "Fay "Ma Perkins"; "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
    01-26-1913 - Jimmy Van Heusen - Syracuse, NY - d. 2-6-1990
    composer: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Frank Sinatra Show"; "Command Performance"
    01-26-1913 - William Prince - Nichols, NY - d. 10-8-1996
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Philco Radio Playhouse"
    01-26-1914 - Jack de Manio - Hampstead, England - d. 10-28-1988
    announcer: "Today"; "Jack de Manio Precisely"; "Woman's Hour"
    01-26-1914 - Phoebe Ephron - NYC - d. 10-13-1971
    author: "Lux RadioTheatre"
    01-26-1918 - Vito Scotti - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-5-1996
    actor: "Romance"; "Broadway Is My Beat"
    01-26-1919 - Jan Bart - Poland - d. 8-xx-1971
    traveled with Major Bowes for 7 years, had his own radio show
    01-26-1922 - Michael Bentine - Watford, Hertfordshie, England - d.
    11-26-1996
    comedian: "Goon Show"
    01-26-1922 - Page Cavanaugh - Cherokee, KS
    singer: (The Page Cavanaugh Trio) "The Jack Paar Show"
    01-26-1925 - Joan Leslie - Detroit, MI
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    01-26-1927 - Billy Redfield - NYC - d. 8-17-1976
    actor: Grayling Dennis "Brighter Day"; Willie Piper "Tales of Willie
    Piper"
    01-26-1935 - Bob Uecker - Milwaukee, WI
    baseball announcer: "Milwaukee Brewers"

    January 26th deaths

    01-08-1909 - Jose Ferrer - Santurce, PR - d. 1-26-1992
    actor: Philo Vance "Advs. of Philo Vance"; Minister "We Love and Learn"
    02-14-1897 - Victor Lindlahr - d. 1-26-1969
    commentator: "Talks on Diet"
    04-02-1917 - Gertrude Warner - Hartford, CT - d. 1-26-1986
    actor: Margo Lane "The Shadow"; Christy Allen "Against the Storm"
    04-26-1922 - Eric Sinclair - Burkburnett, TX - d. 1-26-2004
    actor: "Alias Jane Doe"
    05-17-1897 - Fletcher Wiley - d. 1-26-1966
    commentator: "Your Home Front Reporter"
    06-05-1914 - J. Donald Wilson - d. 1-26-1984
    creator, writer, producer: "The Whistler"; "Advs. of Nero Wolfe";
    "Dark Venture"
    06-19-1894 - Emil Coleman - Odessa, Russia - d. 1-26-1965
    orchestra leader: "Penthouse Party"; "Gulf Headliners"
    07-08-1908 - Nelson Rockefeller - Bar Harbor, ME - d. 1-26-1979
    vice president: Helped fund "Hello Americans" with Orson Welles
    08-09-1905 - Leo Genn - London, England - d. 1-26-1978
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-02-1900 - Cecil Roy - St. Paul, MN - d. 1-26-1995
    actor: (Girl of a Thousand Voices) Junior Fitz "Ma Perkins"
    10-17-1912 - Jack Owens - Tulsa, OK - d. 1-26-1982
    vocalist: Cruising Crooner "The Breakfast Club"; "Tin Pan Alley"
    11-06-1892 - Ole Olsen - Wabash, IN - d. 1-26-1963
    comedian: (Olsen and Johnson); "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Breakfast Club"
    12-05-1901 - Grace Moore - Jellico, TN - d. 1-26-1947
    opera singer: "General Motors Concerts"; "Speed Show"; "Vicks Open
    House"
    12-10-1913 - Jean Dickenson - Montreal, Canada - d. 1-26-2007
    singer: (Nightingale of the Airwaves) "American Album of Familiar Music"
    12-12-1893 - Edward G. Robinson - Bucharest, Romania - d. 1-26-1973
    actor: Steve Wilson "Big Town"
    12-15-1915 - Margaret Hayes - Baltimore, MD - d. 1-26-1977
    actor: "Silver Theatre"
    12-19-1888 - Mabel Brownell - Cincinnati, OH - d. 1-26-1972
    actor: "Polly witha Past"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:45:44 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 27 January to 2
     February

     From Those Were The Days --

    1931 - NBC introduced listeners to Clara, Lu 'n' Em on its Blue network.
    The show became the first daytime radio serial when it was moved from
    its original nighttime slot.

    1948 - Wire Recording Corporation of America announced the first
    magnetic tape recorder. The 'Wireway' machine with a built-in oscillator
    sold for $[removed] ($[removed] in 2006 money).

    1956 - The CBS Radio Workshop was heard for the first time. This first
    broadcast featured Aldous Huxley narrating his classic, Brave New World.

    1/28

    It was on this night in 1940 that Beat the Band made its debut on NBC,
    with the Ted Weems band. Beat the Band was where listeners' questions
    were selected in the hopes of stumping the band. If a listener's
    question was chosen, he or she received $10 ( $[removed] in 2006 dollars).
      The questions were posed as riddles: What song title tells you what
    Cinderella might have said if she awoke one morning and found that her
    foot had grown too large for her glass slipper? If the band played the
    correct musical answer, Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?, the
    listener lost.

    When Raleigh cigarettes sponsored Beat the Band, the listener who beat
    the band won $50 ($[removed] in 2006) and two cartons of cigarettes ...
    Raleighs, of course. When the sponsor changed to General Mill's Kix
    cereal, if the listener beat the band, he/she won twenty bucks ($[removed]
    in 2006) and a case of Kix cereal.

    1934 - As a result of a compliment paid on this day, by Walter Winchell,
    in his newspaper column; a local disc jockey began receiving several
    offers from talent scouts and producers. The DJ became known as the
    Redhead, adored by thousands in Washington, DC and, later, by millions
    across the country on CBS radio and TV. His trademark (strumming a
    ukulele and delivering down-home patter) endeared him to fans for many
    years. We remember the broadcasting legend, Arthur Godfrey. "I wanna go
    back to my little grass [removed]"

    1/30

    1933 -- The Lone Ranger was heard for the first time.

    1/31

    1936 - The Green Hornet was introduced by its famous theme song, The
    Flight of the Bumble Bee. The radio show was first heard on WXYZ in
    Detroit, MI on this day. The show stayed on the air for 16 years. The
    Green Hornet originated from the same radio station where The Lone
    Ranger was performed. You may remember that the title character in The
    Green Hornet was really named Britt Reid. He was, in fact, supposed to
    be the great nephew of John Reid, the Lone Ranger. Both popular series
    were created by George Trendle and Fran Striker.

    2/2

    1946 - The Mutual Broadcasting System presented Twenty Questions for the
    first time on radio. Bill Slater was the master of ceremonies.

    Joe

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