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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 56
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      2-19 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      WGTD to launch audio drama program    [ "Ken Lanza" <klanza@[removed]; ]
      Re: One Meat Ball                     [ Christopher Werner <werner1@globalc ]
      CAN YOU HELP                          [ Dave Parker <dave@[removed] ]
      Re: One Meat Ball                     [ "HARLAN ZINCK" <zharlan@[removed]; ]
      2-20 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Springfield                           [ Richard Carpenter <newsduck@[removed] ]
      Re; Magnificent Montague              [ eric hardy <latriv@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 20-26 Feb  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Our Miss Brooks auditions             [ "Alan R. Betz" <arbetz@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:29:20 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-19 births/deaths

    February 19th births

    02-19-1893 - Sir Cedric Hardwicke - Stourbridge, England - d. 8-6-1964
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "BBC Home Theatre"; Winston Churchill "These Four Men"
    02-19-1895 - Louie Calhern - NYC - d. 5-12-1956
    actor: "Radio Reader's Digest"
    02-19-1896 - Eddie Jackson - d. 7-16-1980
    comic: "Jimmy Durante Show"; "Mail Call"; "Big Show"
    02-19-1901 - William Post, Jr. - d. 9-26-1989
    actor: John Perry "John's Other Wife"
    02-19-1902 - Eddie Peabody - Reading, MA - d. 11-7-70
    banjoist: (The Banjo King) "National Barn Dance"
    02-19-1911 - Merle Oberon - Calcutta, India  - d. 11-23-1979
    actress: "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Stars Over Hollywood"
    02-19-1915 - Dick Emery - London, England - d. 1-2-1983
    comedian: "Educating Archie"
    02-19-1915 - Fred Freilberger - NYC - d. 3-2-2003
    writer: "Suspense"; "Family Theatre"
    02-19-1922 - Sandy Becker - NYC - d. 4-9-1996
    actor, announcer: Jerry Malone "Young Dr. Malone"; "Backstage Wife"; "The
    Shadow"
    02-19-1924 - Lee Marvin - NYC - d. 8-29-1987
    actor: "Dragnet"

    February 19th deaths

    02-22-1915 - Jules Munshin - NYC - d. 2-19-1970
    actor: "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
    04-14-1913 - John Howard - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-19-1995
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Hollywood Hotel"
    07-17-1902 - Edward Gargan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-19-1964
    actor: "This Is Your [removed]"; "This Is Our Heritage"
    08-17-1900 - Quincy Howe - Boston, MA - d. 2-19-1977
    newscaster: "Quincy Howe: Comment"
    08-25-1904 - Alice White - Paterson, NJ - d. 2-19-1983
    actress: Blondie Bumstead "Blondie"
    09-05-1892 - Joseph Szigeti - Budapest, Austria-Hungary - d. 2-19-1973
    violinist: "Camel Caravan"; "Elgin Christmas Party"; "Concert Hall"
    09-23-1913 - Stanley Kramer - NYC - d. 2-19-2001
    film director: "Jack Benny Program"; "Stagestruck"
    09-30-1905 - Michael Powell - Bekesbourne, Kent, England - d. 2-19-1990
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-20-1913 - "Grandpa" Jones - Niagra, KY - d. 2-19-1998
    country singer, banjoist: "Grand Ole Opry"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:30:55 -0500
    From: "Ken Lanza" <klanza@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  WGTD to launch audio drama program

    WGTD to launch program in the style of old-time radio plays
    By Brent Killackey
    RACINE - Steve Brown wants to bring radio drama back on the local airwaves.
    Brown, a part-time news producer with Gateway Technical College-owned WGTD
    ([removed] FM), has created the [removed] Players to regularly perform radio dramas
    and comedies on the public radio station. The troupes' name is reference to
    the public radio station's place on the radio dial.
    "Obviously we have a diverse listening audience at WGTD and a lot of people
    remember old-time radio, so it's the whole thing of going back to the
    nostalgia and introducing younger people to what radio drama used to be
    like," Brown said.
    Auditions for the radio theater troupe will be held at 9 [removed] Saturday, Feb.
    26 in room 121 of BioCATT, 3520 30th Ave., Kenosha. Male and female actors
    of all ages are needed. Applicants will be asked to read a few lines from a
    script.
    The first drama, "Time and Time Again," will be broadcast Saturday, April 30
    at 11:15 [removed] Six other broadcasts are planned through the end of the year.
    Initially, the programs were going to be taped, but WGTD General Manager
    David Cole insisted on live broadcasts.
    "I think there's a greater sense of adventure," Cole said. "I would wager
    that the players might be a little sharper. It's like being on stage, they
    have once to get it right."
    "And essentially that's how it was done years ago," Cole said.
    Going live also creates an opportunity for people to come witness the making
    of the broadcasts. The audience can gather in the BioCATT building. Cafe
    [removed] will be open to serve beverages and food.
    Brown, whose full-time job is a professor at Northeastern University in
    Illinois, will serve as producer, director and head writer for the group.
    "I think that radio certainly gives people the opportunity to use their
    imagination as they're listening to a particular story," Brown said.
    He's adapted the first script from a program that originally aired in 1951
    as part of the NBC Radio series "Dimension X." The original scriptwriter,
    Ernest Kinoy, will answer questions following the performance of Brown's
    adapted script. That will be followed by a broadcast of the original
    program, Brown said.
    Other programs to air later in the year will include an adaptation of a
    Sherlock Holmes story, a detective mystery, a newly adapted story for "The
    Shadow" and a drama about three women who serve as American spies during
    World War Two.
    During those months when it airs, the radio drama will pre-empt the local
    public affairs program, "Community Matters."
    Cole said finding airtime was challenging because the station was
    contractually obligated to carry most Wisconsin Public Radio programming.

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    Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:31:17 -0500
    From: Christopher Werner <werner1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: One Meat Ball

    Sorry, folks. I guess I didn't spot the reference in the original article
    (before the subject was changed)...

    Is 'One Meat Ball' the song that goes:

    On top of spaghetti
    All covered with cheese,
    I lost my poor meatball
    When somebody sneezed.

    It rolled off the table
    And onto the floor
    Then my poor meatball
    Rolled out of the door

    It rolled in the garden
    And under a bush
    Then my poor meatball
    Was nothing but mush.

    ????

    If so, I learned it from the version by the same guy who did 'Hello Mudder,
    Hello Fadder' ... to the tune of the Dance of the Comedians.

    Or are y'all referring to some other song???

    (He asks as he leaves to go to a non-Lent oriented Spaghetti
    dinner/fundraiser down at the [removed])

    Just askin'

    Chris

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    Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:32:07 -0500
    From: Dave Parker <dave@[removed];
    To: OLD TIME RADIO <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  CAN YOU HELP

    Back in 1955 I wrote a [removed] dissertation on THE LONE RANGER  - and
    fancied that I knew "all about the Masked Man" --and now 50 years
    later I'm building a neat sequence on the Ranger in my VIDEO
    documentary on OTR.

    BUT -TO  MY DISMAY I can no longer find my copies of Dave Rothel's
    "WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN?" --and the neat book about Fran Striker
    "HI'S TYPEWRITER WORE SPURS" --or was it "HIS TYPEWRITER GREW SPURS"?

    Can anyone help me????  If so --I'd be big time grateful.

    To whet your appetite about Fran --once I asked him his "secret" for
    turning out such prodigious quantities of great fiction.  He told me
    (with a laugh - which makes me wonder if he was kidding) --"Dave,
    here's how I do it.  I buy a western pulp magazine like "All Star
    West" - and I read a story half- way through.  Then I toss the
    magazine and write the story's finish myself.  Then I go back and
    re-write the beginning and behold --a Ranger episode."

    Hummmmmmmm. But it's a great story from a great writer --and I'm gonna use it.

    			Hi Yo Silver

    			dave parker

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    Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:33:44 -0500
    From: "HARLAN ZINCK" <zharlan@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: One Meat Ball

    At some point, I imagine that Charlie will finally call a halt to this
    meatball discussion, but until he does, here's a few facts about the song:

    The best remembered version of the song is by the Andrews Sisters (Decca
    18636), which charted in the Top 20 in early 1945. It was written in 1944 by
    Lou Singer and Hy Zaret, who adapted an 1855 George Martin Lane poem titled
    "The Lay of the Lone Fish Ball":

    There was a man went up and down,
    To seek a dinner thru' the town.
    What wretch is he who wife forsakes,
    Who best of jam and waffles makes!

    He feels his cash to know his pence,
    And finds he has but just six cents.
    He finds at last a right cheap place,
    And enters in with modest face.

    The bill of fare he searches through,
    To see what his six cents will do.
    The cheapest viand of them all,
    Is "Twelve and a half cents for two Fish-ball."

    The waiter he to him doth call,
    And gently whispers - "One Fish-ball."
    The waiter roars it through the hall,
    The guests they start at "One Fish-ball!"

    The guest then says, quite ill at ease,
    "A piece of bread, sir, if you please."
    The waiter roars it through the hall,
    "We don't give bread with one Fish-ball."

    Who would have bread with his Fish-ball,
    Must get it first, or not at all.
    Who would Fish-ball with fixin's eat,
    Must get some friend to stand a treat.

    Zaret, who also composed the lyrics to the better-remembered Top 10
    favorite, "Unchained Melody," rewrote it thusly:

    A little man walked up and down,
    He found an eating place in town,
    He read the menu through and through,
    To see what fifteen cents could do.

    One meatball, one meatball,
    He could afford but one meatball.

    He told the waiter near at hand,
    The simple dinner he had planned.
    The folks were startled, one and all,
    To hear that waiter loudly call, "What,

    "One meatball, one meatball?
    Hey, this here gent wants one meatball."

    The little man felt ill at ease,
    Said, "Some bread, sir, if you please."
    The waiter hollered down the hall,
    "You gets no bread with one meatball.

    "One meatball, one meatball,
    Well, you gets no bread with one meatball."

    The little man felt very bad,
    One meatball was all he had,
    And in his dreams he hears that call,
    "You gets no bread with one meatball.

    "One meatball, one meatball,
    Well, you gets no bread with one meatball."

    For folk music buffs, the song is most often associated with Josh White, for
    whom it became something of a signature tune. He performed it often in live
    concerts and also sang it in "The Crimson Canary," a 1945 Universal
    production that also featured musicians Coleman Hawkins and Oscar Pettiford.

    And now, back to our regularly scheduled radio discussion.

    Harlan Zinck

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: Two sets of probably-copyrighted lyrics within a few
    [removed], please, let's get off lunch and back to OTR.  --cfs3]

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    Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:27:40 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2-20 births/deaths

    02-14-1906 - John Goldwater - NYC - d. 2-20-1999
    Created "Archie"
    02-24-1885 - Chester Nimitz - Fredericksburg, TX - d. 2-20-1966
    admiral of the Navy: "Navy Day Program"; "We the People"; "This is the Navy"
    03-13-1914 - Bob Weiskopf - Chicago, IL - d. 2-20-2001
    writer: "The Fred Allen Show"
    04-07-1897 - Walter Winchell - NYC - d. 2-20-1972
    news-gossip caster: "Lucky Strike Dance Hour"; "Jergens Journal"
    06-01-1898 - Edward "Cookie" Fairchild - NYC - d. 2-20-1975
    conductor: "Johnny Presents Ginny Simms"; "Eddie Cantor Show"
    07-08-1882 - Percy Grainger - Melbourne, Australia - d. 2-20-1961
    composer: "Prudential Family Hour"; "The Pause that Refreshes."
    09-04-1928 - Dick York - Fort Wayne, IN - d. 2-20-1992
    actor: Billy Fairfield "Jack Armstrong/Armstrong of the SBI"
    09-22-1904 - Clarence Nash - Watonga,  Oklahoma Territory - d. 2-20-1985
    actor: (voice of Donald Duck) "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"
    10-07-1905 - Andy Devine - Flagstaff, Arizona Territory - d. 2-20-1977
    actor: Jingles P. Jones "Wild Bill Hickok"; Mose Muich "Lum and Abner"; "Jack
    Benny Program"
    11-08-1913 - Robert Strauss - NYC - d. 2-20-1975
    actor: Doc Prouty "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; Pa Wiggs "Mrs. Wiggs of the
    Cabbage Patch"
    11-14-1910 - Rosemary De Camp - Prescott, Arizona Territory - d. 2-20-2001
    actress: Nurse Judy Price, "Dr. Christian"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:28:04 -0500
    From: Richard Carpenter <newsduck@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Springfield

      While listening to "Father Knows Best," it dawned on
    me that both the Andersons of old-time radio and the
    Simpsons of new-time radio both live in a  community
    named Springfield. My, how the inhabitants -- and the
    times -- have changed!

       [removed] I don't believe either show ever mentioned
    what state its Springfield was in, but because I live
    in Massachusetts, I like to think it is Springfield,
    Mass.

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    Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:28:13 -0500
    From: eric hardy <latriv@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re; Magnificent Montague
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    The Montague show started in 1950. 11-10-50 to be exact. I have 25 shows.
    I don't know if that was the full run or not.

    Eric Hardy
    Gervais, OR

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    Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 00:52:37 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 20-26 February

     From Those Were The Days --

    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 homepage: [removed]~[removed]

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    Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 00:53:11 -0500
    From: "Alan R. Betz" <arbetz@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Our Miss Brooks auditions

>     I am currently researching and trying to put together a collection of Our
>     Miss brooks and came across a copy of a pilot done by Shirley Booth. The
>     treatment of Boynton was as a throw-away character and the entire episode
>     had a quite different feel to it.

>     Can anyone  tell me if there were other auditions for this show besides this
>     one?

       There are two audition shows for "Our Miss Brooks" on Jerry
    Haendiges' Same Time, Same Station archive at:
    [removed]
       Click on the archived program for February, 2003, and select
    the show from 2-16-2003.  The first is the 1946 Shirley Booth
    version you referred to and the second is with Eve Arden and Will
    Wright as Osgood Conklin, from 6-23-48.  Both use essentially the
    same script.
       Alan

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