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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2009 : Issue 99
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
  5-27 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Jack Benny's violin                   [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
  Jack Benny's violin                   [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  Tony Martin still - or again perform  [ "Irene Theodore Heinstein" <IreneTH ]
  Re: Heavenly Days                     [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
  "Heavenly Days" book                  [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
  Re: Help identifying a radio product  [ ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed]; ]
  Help identifying a radio product      [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
  Well, it all depends on how ya "sees  [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  About Casite motor additives          [ George Laun <georgelaun@[removed] ]

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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 02:12:01 -0400
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

A weekly [removed]

For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
real-time OTR talk!

Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
it's always a good time!

For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
week and every week!

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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 08:51:59 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  5-27 births/deaths

May 27th births

05-27-1880 - Joseph C. Grew - Boston, MA - d. 5-25-1965
[removed] ambassador to japan: "Report from Tokyo"; "Cavalcade of America"
05-27-1894 - Dashiell Hammett - St. Mary's County, MD - d. 1-10-1961
author: "Fat Man"; "Adventures of Sam Spade"
05-27-1902 - Cedric Adams - Magnolia, MN - d. 2-18-1961
commentator: In 1953 filled in for Arthur Godfrey for 13 weeks
05-27-1904 - Marlin Hurt - Du Quoin, IL - d. 3-21-1946
actor: Beulah "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Bill Jackson "Beulah"
05-27-1910 - Sidney Slon - Chicago, IL - d. 1-21-1995
actor: Solly "The Goldbergs"; Mr. Trent "Valiant Lady"
05-27-1911 - Evelyn Morin - Dunn, IN - d. 9-10-2000
singer: (Morin Sisters) "World of Music"; "Breakfast Club"
05-27-1911 - Herb Meadow - d. 3-1-1995
creator, writer: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
05-27-1911 - Hubert H. Humphrey - Wallace, SD - d. 1-13-1978
politician: "Meet the Press"; "University of Chicago Round Table"
05-27-1911 - Vincent Price - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-25-1993
actor: Simon Templar "The Saint"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-27-1912 - John Cheever - Quincy, MA - d. 6-18-1982
writer: "NBC Presents: Short Story"
05-27-1912 - Slammin' Sammy Snead - Ashwood, VA - d. 5-23-2002
golf legend: "Kraft Music Hall"
05-27-1915 - Frank Crane - d. 7-25-1992
one time president of the Southern California Broadcasters Association
05-27-1915 - Herman Wouk - NYC
writer: "Town Hall Tonight"; "Fred Allen Show"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-27-1916 - Analee Whitmore - Price, UT - d. 2-5-2002
panelist: (Wife of Clifton Fadiman) "Information Please"
05-27-1919 - Ray Montgomery - d. 6-4-1998
actor: Noel Chandler "Dear John"
05-27-1921 - Franklin Adams, Jr. - Chicago, IL
actor: Skippy "Skippy"; Davy Jones "Davy Jones"
05-27-1921 - Redd Stewart - Ashland City, TN - d. 8-2-2003
lyricist: "Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys"
05-27-1924 - Eric Lauder - Rugby, England - d. 10-28-1999
actor: "Violent Shore"
05-27-1925 - Tony Hillerman - Sacred Heart, OK
writer: "The Zero Hour"
05-27-1926 - Peter Ling - Croydon, Surrey, England - d. 9-14-2006
adapter: "Casebook of Sherlock Holmes"; "Return of Sherlock Holmes"
05-27-1928 - Jack Baker - d. 4-26-2002
disk jockey: "Sunday Sound Stage"
05-27-1934 - Harlan Ellison - Cleveland, OH
writer: "[removed] 68"

May 27th deaths

02-05-1908 - Bob Dunn - Fort Gibson, OK - d. 5-27-1971
steel guitar: "The Musical Brownies"
02-16-1915 - Leah Ray - Norfolk, VA - d. 5-27-1999
vocalist: (The Phil Harris Band) "Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou"
02-16-1932 - Gretchen Wyler - Bartlesville, OK - d. 5-27-2007
singer-actor: "Sounds of Freedom"
03-11-1930 - Lana Morris - Ruislip, England - d. 5-27-1998
actor: "The Forces Show"
05-29-1916 - Forrest Perrin - d. 5-27-2005
host: "Piano Playhouse"
07-03-1908 - Robert B. Meyner - Phillipsburg, NJ - d. 5-27-1990
governor new jersey: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
08-07-1904 - Herbert Colin Rice - Guilford, England - d. 5-27-1991
creator, writer, producer: "Bobby Benson"
08-12-1904 - Kay Campbell - d. 5-27-1985
actor: Evey Perkins Fitz "Ma Perkins"
08-14-1909 - Frank Papp - d. 5-27-1996
director: "The Bartons"; "Words at War"; "Right to Happiness";
"Eternal Light"
09-13-1895 - Ruth McDevitt - Coldwater, MI - d. 5-27-1976
actor: Jane Channing "This Life is Mine"; Mother "Keeping Up with
Rosemary"
09-13-1918 - Ernie Winstanley - England - d. 5-27-1992
actor, sound effects: Scrub Troy "Secretary Hawkins' Fair and Supper
Club"; "The Lone Ranger"
09-27-1927 - Red Rodney - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-27-1994
jazz trumpeter: "Saturday Night Swing Session"
10-10-1909 - Florida Friebus - Auburndale, MA - d. 5-27-1988
actor: "Great Plays"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
10-12-1900 - Ted Collins - NYC - d. 5-27-1964
announcer, host: (longtime manager of Kate Smith) "Kate Smith Speaks"
11-07-1902 - Ed Dodd - Lafayette, GA - d. 5-27-1991
comic creator: "Mark Trail"
11-25-1925 - Jeffrey Hunter - New Orleans. LA - d. 5-27-1969
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-28-1925 - Robert Readick - NYC - d. 5-27-1985
actor: (Son of Frank) Bill Roberts "Rosemary"; Don Cornwell "Second
Mrs. Burton"
12-02-1895 - Jesse Crawford - Woodland, CA - d. 5-27-1962
organist: "Paramount Publix Hour"; "Counterspy"
12-03-1889 - Ferdinand Munier - San Diego, CA - d. 5-27-1945
actor: Rene Michon "Count of Monte Cristo"
12-19-1910 - Thelma Bernstein - NYC - d. 5-27-2006
singer: (Wife of Harry Einstein) Sang on radio
12-25-1893 - Robert L. Ripley - Santa Rosa, CA - d. 5-27-1949
emcee: "Colonial Beacon Light"; "Baker's Broadcast"; "Believe It or Not"

Ron

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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 08:52:07 -0400
From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Jack Benny's violin

Hello again --
It was quite a few years ago, but in the pages of this digest there was a
discussion of the very topic you are writing about: did Jack Benny play his
violin during his radio broadcasts?
As I remember, the answer was yes. Someone in the know mentioned, as Joe
surmised, that the audience would have been very disappointed to see one of
Phil Harris' band members play the instrument instead of Benny. If the OTR
Digest archives are still available on the internet, they would yield a lot
of questions and answers about Benny.
I was privileged to be playing horn in the Tampa Philharmonic back in the
spring of 1966, when Jack Benny was brought in as a guest to help sell
tickets for the upcoming season. He played the last movement of the
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto and did a good job. He didn't sound as good as
Heifetz, of course, but he certainly sounded a lot better than he ever
played on his show! And his bow arm showed training; you can't fake a good
grasp on a violin bow.
Strangely, Jack seemed very uptight during the rehearsal and the
performance, but when he put the violin down and started telling jokes about
George Burns, you could see all the tension leave his body -- after all,
standup was what Jack did best.
yOurs TRuly,
Jan Bach

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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 08:52:49 -0400
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Jack Benny's violin

Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 21:43:24 -0400
From: "Joe" <jpostove@[removed];

During the radio run of Jack Benny, was it Jack actually playing the
violin when called for in the script, or was it a band member? The
mechanics would have called for Jack to put down his script and pick
up the violin in order to do this (and then either have the script
held for him or (goodness no!) Jack would have to ad-lib or act from
memory.

I don't know, but I do think that music stands existed in those days,
and Jack could have put his script on one while playing the violin.
And he could have had a small table on which to place the violin
while he wasn't using it.  Or he could have memorized a few lines of
script.

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

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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 08:53:07 -0400
From: "Irene Theodore Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Tony Martin still - or again performing

I meant to post a link to this  fine article in the SF Chronicle in Jan 2009 
when Tony appeared at the Hotel Nikko in SF.

[removed]

Irene 

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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 09:29:44 -0400
From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Heavenly Days

Hello again --

I'm confused about Martin Grams' postscript to Kenneth Clarke's mention of
Bear Manor Press and another OTR contributor's search for "Heavenly Days,"
the biography of Fibber McGee and Molly. Perhaps I don't know how to use the
site; when I went there I tried typing "Heavenly Days" and "Fibber McGee"
into Bear Manor's search engine and got only a series of links to other
sites where there were articles about the McGees and places where their
recordings could be purchased. The only link I found to the book itself took
me to Amazon where they had three copies of the book beginning at $[removed]!
Google would probably have given me as good a search for McGee materials as
the Bear Press website's. I was pleased, however, to find a recent "Fibber
McGee's Scrapbook" (buried within Bear Manor's many links with "Jim Jordan"
as the key words) and will probably order it . . I've had my copy of
"Heavenly Days" for many years.

Jan Bach

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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 15:42:47 -0400
From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  "Heavenly Days" book
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      To the person looking for the book, "Heavenly Days": You might want to
check
out the Half Price Books site.  Just go to Google and type in Half Price
Books.  This
will bring up a listing for Half Price Book Stores in various cities.  Select
the one nearest
you and see if they have it available.  I did, and several of them had the
book in stock.
(I assume you're looking for the book about Fibber McGee and Molly.)  I don't
know
what price range you're looking at, but various prices for this book were
available.

      Just another thought.  I hope this helps.

As always,

Kenneth

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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 15:46:55 -0400
From: ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Help identifying a radio product

It sounds like Kaysight.
Though it could be Case-ite, or K-site, or some other variation.

I remember the product line, but not the spelling.  It sounded like "case
ite".  It was sold at many outlets including department stores in the
automotive sections.  As the two items you mention indicate, these were
fixes in a can for mechanical problems such as oil use and a "dirty motor"
which like gastric problems was said to be the cause of many problems for
sluggish performance etc. and gas mileage.

                                XB
                                 IC|XC

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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 15:47:01 -0400
From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Help identifying a radio product

Here's a little Casite history:

[removed]

Here's a print ad for Casite, from Popular Science (December '57):

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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 15:47:37 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Well, it all depends on how ya "sees" [removed]

 From: "Joe" jpostove@[removed]

During the  radio run of Jack Benny, was it Jack actually playing the violin
when called  for in the script, or was it a band member?

Better experts can be  more definitive here - but I'd bet it was Jack?

The mechanics  would
have called for Jack to put down his script and pick up the violin in  order
to do this

Music stands existed long before radio  broadcasting, and hold scripts very
[removed]

Did all they get, in most  radio
shows, just a script reading, and really no physical acting among the
cast?

Joe, folks here who actually were blessed to attend Network Era  shows can
chime in - but a fair amount of physicality can still be a part of an  audio
performance: entrances, exits, approopriate gesticulation, etc.

I'd  bet that the in-studio audience rarely felt cheated? Considering the
fact that  they knew they were coming to a radio show, not a stage play - and
that  admission was free!

Best,
-Craig W.

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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 22:05:57 -0400
From: George Laun <georgelaun@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  About Casite motor additives

I remember Casite products being advertised in the '50's.  Motor Honey
being the one I remember most.  Go to [removed].

George Laun

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