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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2014 : Issue 8
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Ed Sullivan radio                     [ "Nicholas Kierniesky" <nkierniesky@ ]
      Re: J. Scott Smart                    [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 16:30:46 -0500
    From: "Nicholas Kierniesky" <nkierniesky@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Ed Sullivan radio

    Steve Salaba said, "To add to a recent post, Jack Benny once said that Ed
    had a sports show of some kind when Jack appeared on it. I don't know how
    accurate Jack's memory was at the time. There may be more to it, at any
    rate."

    I checked several Sullivan biographies, and Ed Sullivan did not have a
    sports radio show.  Sullivan was a newspaper sports reporter in the 1920's,
    but his 1932 radio show was entertainment oriented. Of course, this led to
    the famous feud with Walter Winchell on how to present entertainment gossip.
    Sullivan never achieved Winchell's success in radio reporting.

    -Nik Kierniesky
    Gettysburg

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    Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 16:30:54 -0500
    From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: J. Scott Smart

    Hello again --

    Joe Mackey's mention of J. Scott Smart in his "This Week in Radio History
    19-25" reminded me that I have intended for some time to mention that Mr.
    Smart had a comedy role in Deanna Durbin's second movie "One Hundred Men and
    a Girl," playing the gatekeeper in the concert hall where Leopold Stokowski
    was rehearsing his orchestra. Quite a change of pace for the detective whose
    voice sounded so ominous and no-nonsense on the radio.

    Incidentally, Ms. Durbin, who died in France last April at 91, was the
    highest paid "working" woman in the world in the early forties and an
    enormously popular singing actress during the ten years that she filmed her
    21 movies and a few short "buy war bonds" PSAs before retiring forever at
    age 28. It's unfortunate that she only made a few radio appearances, getting
    her start on the Eddie Cantor show in the late thirties for a couple of
    years (most of those programs are lost), then starring in "Mad About
    Music"on the Lux Radio Theater.

    Jan Bach

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    Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 12:02:05 -0500
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi Friends,

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    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    *Martin Luther King; American Hero!*
    *The Negro in American History*

    MEET THE PRESS
    4-17-60 Guest: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    AMERICANS ALL-IMMIGRANTS ALL
    Episode 6 12-18-38 "The Negro In The United States"
    The story of the only group who came to America against their will.
    CBS DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR SYNDICATION

    THE AMERICAN STORY
    Episode 11 4-29-44 "Bowed Shapes"
    The history of the Negro In America NBC SUSTAINED Saturdays 7:00 - 7:30 pm
    NARRATOR: Archibald MacLeish
    WRITER: Archibald MacLeish
    DIRECTOR: Frank Patt

    DESTINATION FREEDOM
    Episode 55 7-31-49 "The Trumpet Talks"
    The story of Louis Armstrong
    NBC WMAQ, CHICAGO SUSTAINED PRODUCTION. Sundays 5:00 - 5:30pm
    Began as a Civil Rights program, showing the Negro plight, rise, and
    accomplishments in America, using a predominately Negro cast.
    WRITER: Richard Durham
    PRODUCER: Homer Hect
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    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

    COMMAND PERFORMANCE
    (AFRS) 4/7/42 Betty Grable introduces featured guests: Jack Benny and
    his cast; Judy Canova; Robert Benchley with Harry James & His Music
    Makers. Paul Douglas announces.

    THE DEVIL AND MR. O
    (1970's synd.) Repeat of LIGHTS OUT "Revolt of the Worms" Arch Oboler is
    host.

    RADIO PREVIEWS THE MOVIES
    1935 - RKO Radio Pictures presents "Hollywood On The Air" promo of
    "Roberta" with Irene Dunne, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire.
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    The show this week is all about birthdays. George Burns was born on
    01/20/1896. He and Gracie were born on 01/17/1926.

    BURNS AND ALLEN from 01/22/45 Finishing School.

    Danny Kay also celebrated many January birthdays.

    DANNY KAYE from 02/17/49 Episode 003 Photographic Memory.

    Guy Madison appeared in many movies and in the 1950's teamed with Andy
    Devine both on radio and TV in this popular western series.

    WILD BILL HICKOK from 01/18/52 Episode (045) Secret of the Hard Luck Mine.

    Herb Ellis will celebrate his 93rd birthday on Saturday January 18,
    2014. So we'll hear him in this episode of:
    RICHARD DIAMOND PRIVATE DETECTIVE from 08/06/49 Episode (016) The Lynn
    Knight Case.
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    This Week's Classics & Curios Show:

    "Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

    Episode 106

    Eddie Hubbard & the Browsers: Rosemary Wants to Be a Side Man

    Time once again to visit "Eddie Hubbard and the Browsers" in Trivia
    Tower. We'll hear some great performances in this show from April 17,
    1999. And timely trivia questions will cause a little memory testing or
    perhaps rapid computer googling along the way. My favorite recording on
    this program showcases Rosemary Clooney singing "I Want to Be a Side
    Man" with the Count Basie Orchestra. This is a pretty rare piece, and
    Rosie is so cool and complements the Count's swinging arrangement perfectly.

    Among other top performances are Bing Crosby's "Be Careful, It's My
    Heart," Glenn Miller's "American Patrol," the Mills Brothers' "Cab
    Driver," Al Jolson's "Anniversary Song," Tiny Hill's "Ain't She Sweet,"
    and "Besame Mucho" by Bob Eberly and Kitty Kallen with Jimmy Dorsey's
    orchestra.

    Testing our trivia knowledge are questions concerning the origin of "The
    Anniversary Song," the bands that Rosemary Clooney sang with, songs with
    vehicles mentioned in the titles, and the name of the movie in which
    Bing sang "Be Careful, It's My Heart." And an old question asks, "What
    was the name of the song on the "B" side of that recording by Bing?"

    Phil's "Phooler" focuses on a duet performance of the song "I Don't Know
    Why I Love You Like I Do." Bing is easy to identify, of course, but the
    Browsers have a tough time with the female vocalist. Perhaps you should
    skip the next paragraph for the moment while I mention a slight
    controversy about the girl singer and in so doing give away the answer.

    Phil's "Phooler" brings up an interesting issue. In a scene in the 1944
    film "To Have And Have Not" nineteen year old Lauren Bacall sings "How
    Little We Know" with Hoagy Carmichael. Andy Williams in his book Moon
    River and Me: A Memoir notes that he dubbed the singing for her when he
    was 16 years old, although he says he won't argue about it with the
    "formidable Ms. Bacall." She and director Howard Hawks both affirmed
    that she actually did end up doing her own singing. Certainly her fine
    radio duet with Bing in Phil's "Phooler" tends to substantiate Hawks'
    and her claim that she could at least hold her own, especially in view
    of the Browsers' suggesting that the mystery singer perhaps was Judy
    Garland.

    Among the recordings added by Eddie in place of commercials are "Once
    Upon a Time" by John Gary, "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" by Doris
    Day, and a wonderful swing version of "Rose Room" by the Benny Goodman
    Sextette featuring solos by the great Charlie Christian on guitar and
    Lionel Hampton on vibraphone.

    So let our fun musical "history lesson" begin with "Professor" Hubbard
    and his professorial pals the Browsers, and let's give thanks to God for
    the amazing blessings of music and laughter.

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    Special thanks to Jerry Haendiges Productions for remastering the
    original Eddie Hubbard studio tapes for [removed]

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    If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

    Jerry Haendiges

    Jerry@[removed] 562-696-4387
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