Subject: [removed] Digest V2002 #22
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Date: 1/22/2002 9:03 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2002 : Issue 22
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Godfrey and Larosa                    [ leemunsick@[removed] ]
      Arthur Godfrey and FDR Cortege        [ "Russ Butler" <oldradio@[removed] ]
      Dates for Gangbusters Episodes        [ Kubelski@[removed] ]
      Ladies Be Seated                      [ otrbuff@[removed] ]
      WOLF - 1490, Syracuse Historical Sit  [ Duane Wadsworth <dwadsworth@wadswor ]
      Re: Ladies Be Seated                  [ "Philip Chavin" <philchav@[removed] ]
      Gildersleeve the Guardian             [ "welsa" <welsa@[removed]; ]
      RE: FAKE SEGMENTS ON I CAN HEAR IT N  [ "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed]; ]
      Today in radio history                [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Re: MP3 Files                         [ chascav <chascav@[removed]; ]
      More Great Suspense Episodes          [ Kubelski@[removed] ]
      Phil Harris on CD                     [ "ecrasez" <ecrasez@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 19:42:55 -0500
    From: leemunsick@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Godfrey and Larosa

    I'm happy to see the material about Mr. Godfrey.

    But in all fairness in discussing the Larosa "incident",
    could we at least say "ALLEGED firing"?

    The media said---and thus the lemmings believe.

    Fact is, Mr. Godfrey did NOT fire Julius Larosa.  Period.

    He released Julie from their verbal agreement AT LAROSA'S REQUEST!

    Period!

    Lee Munsick

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    Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 19:44:49 -0500
    From: "Russ Butler" <oldradio@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject: Arthur Godfrey and FDR Cortege

     Chris Chandler perhaps questioned the authenticity of  Arthur Godfrey
    reporting of the passing FDR
    funeral cortege:  I'm listening again now to Arthur's final, fifteen minute
    radio broadcast (his first one was in 1945).

    He plays the except and describes his emotions,his relationship with FDR,
    etc. and it does sound like he was in tears on the audio excerpt from Ed
    Morrow's disc.  He even sounds emotional saying good by on his final
    broadcast (4/30/71) on CBS.

    Russ Butler  oldradio@[removed]

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    Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 19:44:39 -0500
    From: Kubelski@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Dates for Gangbusters Episodes

    Thanks to everyone who helped me identify a missing date for The Falcon last
    week.

    Since that worked so well, does anyone have dates for the following episodes
    of Gangbusters, also recently aired on WFUV in New York's "Classic Radio"
    series.

    Sean Dougherty
    Kubelski@[removed]

    Gangbusters Two-time Bandits
    Gangbusters Case of Joe MacLean

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    Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:01:18 -0500
    From: otrbuff@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Ladies Be Seated

    Russ Butler asks for the name of the host of Ladies Be Seated and if it
    originated in Chicago.  It's best recalled hosts were Johnny Olsen along
    with his wife, Penny.  You may remember Johnny as the infamous
    round-faced, bespectacled man with the grin in his voice who originated
    that time-honored phrase "Come on down!"  And he presided over this 1940s
    audience participation clambake each day in New York.

    Olsen was born at Windom, Minn. in 1910.  His broke into radio as the
    Buttermilk Kid on a Madison, Wis. station.  He advanced to KGDA in
    Mitchell, S. D., not only managing, selling, announcing and singing but
    preaching, too, on a daily devotional series.  He became chief announcer
    at Milwaukee's WTMJ next and then went off to Hollywood for a year.  When
    he returned to Milwaukee he hosted an audience participation show that
    quickly became an early trademark, Johnny Olsen's Rumpus Room.

    In 1944 he left Milwaukee permanently to join ABC in New York as a staff
    announcer.  Over the years he warmed up audiences prior to introducing
    Beat the Clock, Get Together, On Stage Everybody, Prince Charming,
    Swingshift Frolics and True or False.  He was one of several
    announcers/hosts of Break the Bank.  Olsen was MC on a myriad of game
    shows, too:  Get Rich Quick and Whiz Quiz, plus two more for which he is
    better remembered in radio--The Johnny Olsen Show, running at various
    times between 1946 and 1957 on ABC and MBS under the added monikers of
    Johnny Olsen's Luncheon Club and The Johnny Olsen Rumpus Room (also
    appearing on Dumont TV, 1949-52); plus Ladies Be seated, co-hosted with
    his spouse Penny Olsen on ABC from 1946-49.  In early 1945 the couple
    starred in a five-week televised trial run of Ladies Be Seated on the
    Dumont network.  It was one of the earliest attempts by anybody to
    videocase an audience participation program.

    Olsen emceed ABC-TV's Fun for the Money and from 1951-53 he was a
    principal in the cast of Kids and Company, a Saturday morning children's
    show on Dumont TV.  His most prominent role, however--the one for which
    he is still recalled by millions--was as the announcer on CBS-TV's The
    Price is Right.  He appeared there from the show's inception on Nov. 26,
    1956 throughout its first run, ending Sept. 3, 1965.  He returned for a
    second run from Sept. 4, 1972 until his death at age 75 on Oct. 12, 1985
    in Santa Monica, Calif.

    Ladies Be Seated was scripted for awhile by someone you'd most likely not
    think of in that capacity, Walt Framer, who at one time coproduced Break
    the Bank and went on to create a signature project, Strike It Rich.
    Earlier in his career he penned scripts for at least four radio
    series--The Black Hood, Break the Bank, Glamour Manor and Ladies Be
    Seated.

    Ladies Be Seated actually began under the banner of Ed East and Polly (an
    earlier show); when the Easts left in 1946 it was taken over by Johnny
    and Penny Olsen, and later by Tom Moore, who conducted games, sing-alongs
    and interviews.

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:06:50 -0500
    From: Duane Wadsworth <dwadsworth@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: WOLF - 1490, Syracuse Historical Site

    Anyone out there that had anything to do with the great 1490 in Syracuse,
    New York should check out:

    [removed]

    Bob Mitchell of Mitchell Productions has given us old timers a great
    nostalgia site worthy of checking out.  When I worked there 1954-1858
    (part-time from college) WOLF came in with Hopper Ratings that would be the
    envy of any station in the country.  What a station, what a [removed]

    -DUANE WADSWORTH-
    Menlo Park, California

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    Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:11:07 -0500
    From: "Philip Chavin" <philchav@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Re: Ladies Be Seated

       Russ B. has asked us about Ladies Be Seated ('40s, audience
    participation).
       Yes, that radio show originated in Chicago.  The first(?) host was Johnny
    Olsen; by Sept. 1947 it was Tom Moore.  There's some info on the program in
    Jay Hickerson's book.  At least two broadcast recordings are available. I
    believe Dick Judge sells both; possibly Chuck Schaden, too, for example.
       In '46 I sat in the studio audience of a LBS broadcast, probably the only
    kid there. At the Merchandise Mart.  I remember Johnny Olsen going around,
    before the broadcast, testing several ladies' singing voices in the audience
    (probably to select one or more women for a stunt on the broadcast) and
    making funny comments about the women's vocal efforts.
      -- Phil C.

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    Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 06:58:25 -0500
    From: "welsa" <welsa@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject: Gildersleeve the Guardian

    Some time back there was a discussion about how Throckmorton Gildersleeve
    wound up in Summerfiled as guardians of his niece and nephew.  I also
    remember talk about whether or not he was married while in Wistful Vista.
    I'm not sure how it was all resolved.

    However, this past weekend on its regular Sunday old time radio night,
    Wisconsin Public Radio played the first episode of Gildy.  In it, he was
    taking the train from Wistful Vista to Summerfield to become administrator
    of his brother-in-law's estate.  He only expected to be gone a few days.

    As I see it, you have a brother-in law by one of two ways--either he is your
    wife's brother, or your sister's husband.  There is no mention of a wife
    anywhere in this episode.  But why would he be administering only the
    brother-in-law's estate?  Why not the BIL's wife's estate, too?  This small
    detail is not explained at all.

    Suffice it to say that while on the train he manages to antagonize another
    passenger who turns out to be Judge Hooker who is the judge hearing the
    estate case.  He is so mad at Gildy he winds ordering him to stay in
    Summerfield and become guardian for Margery and Leroy.

    OK, so this mesaage raises more questions than it answers--except that the
    show itself did not answer them, either.

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    Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 06:58:53 -0500
    From: "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: RE: FAKE SEGMENTS ON I CAN HEAR IT NOW

    The posting about the recreation of actual news events on Murrow's I Can
    Hear It Now reminds me of the one of "the final broadcast from the
    Phillipines,"  with the telegraph clicking and the voice repeating what the
    message said.  This obviously WAS a recreation.  It was later revealed that
    either Murrrow or the producers of the album contacted the original operator
    who sent that message to re-create it for the album.  I know there were more
    on that album that were recreated.  Can anyone think of any?

    I understand the Godfrey segment was an actul broadcast taken from the CBS
    transcription or tape of the Funeral. Yes?

    Owens [removed]

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    Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 06:59:04 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-net <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject: Today in radio history

      From Those Were The Days --

    1956 - Raymond Burr starred as Captain Lee Quince in the Fort Laramie
    debut on CBS.

      From a long time subscriber --

    1933 - Twenty-Thousand Years in Sing Sing, a radio crime drama starring
    Lewis E. Lawes, Warden of Sing Sing, premieres over the Blue network.

    1946 - The Philip Morris Follies of 1946 premieres over NBC.

      Joe

    --
    Visit my home page:
    [removed]~[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 08:17:08 -0500
    From: chascav <chascav@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Re: MP3 Files

      You might consider one of the premium news servers.  I use easynews
    [removed]. they retain binaries for about two weeks and put the
    files together for you. You can zip up the files for download in large
    bunches if you want.
    Charles

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    Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:50:03 -0500
    From: Kubelski@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: More Great Suspense Episodes

    I'm working from memory here, but I can recall at least two other Suspense
    episodes as good as those flagged by Ryan in today's digest.

    1. Commuter Ticket - For anyone who's ridden the rails in and out of New York
    on a regular basis, as I did from 1989-1991, this plot was classic.  It
    basically depends on a killer's knowing that no one ever notices anyone else
    on the commuter train.  Then after committing a murder, he gets on the train
    and gets roped into a poker game.  He gets a straight flush.  He runs into
    someone he knew from school, and a bunch of other stuff like that.  The twist
    is classic and rings to true to anyone who's been a commuter.

    2. Hmm.  I'm having trouble remembering the title of the next one, but it
    starred Frank Lovejoy as an air-traffic controller trying to talk down the
    world's dumbest recreational pilot.  The guy in the plane is lost and needs
    to be talked down through a storm and it's clear that he just doesn't have
    the skill to save himself.

    The tension builds throughout the episode as Lovejoy's desperate attempts to
    get the guy down are consistently undone by pilot error.  There is another
    twist revealed about half-way through the show that made it even worse.

    Update:  The episode is The Long Night and aired 11-18-56.

    Sean Dougherty
    Kubelski@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:52:05 -0500
    From: "ecrasez" <ecrasez@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Phil Harris on CD

>     Anyone out there know of a CD of Phil Harris songs that are

    availabe? I've been listening to lots of Harris-Faye shows lately,
    and I really enjoy his songs.

    There are several out there.

    The Thing About Phil Harris (1935-1942) - ASV
    Southern Gentleman of Song - Collectors Music
    My Kind of Country (1940-1947) - Flapper
    His Original and Greatest Hits (1940-1950) - Jasmine
    Echoes from the Cocoanut Grove (1932-1933) - Take Two

    You can find them through [removed] by searching
    on his name. I have no connection to this company, but I've ordered
    many cds from them without a single problem.

    Bob S.

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