Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #318
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Date: 11/15/2006 10:06 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 318
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  11-15 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
  Under [removed] [removed] memories        [ <drwgl@[removed]; ]
  The Met                               [ Sammy Jones <sjones69@[removed] ]
  radio recreations & Norman Corwin     [ Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed]; ]
  The Clithero Kid                      [ "John A. Davies" <john@[removed]. ]
  Gunsmoke Review                       [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
  Norman Corwin                         [ <vzeo0hfk@[removed]; ]
  Nash with a bed                       [ "James Yellen" <clifengr3@[removed] ]
  "Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Nig  [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed] ]
  Complete Broadcast Days               [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed] ]
  Number of appearances of Jack Benny   [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed] ]
  Turkey prices                         [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]

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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:07:45 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-15 births/deaths
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November 15th births

11-15-1879 - Lewis Stone - Worcester, MA - d. 9-12-1953
actor: Judge James Hardy "Hardy Family"
11-15-1881 - Franklin Pierce Adams - Chicago, IL - d. 3-24-1960
panelist: "Information, Please"
11-15-1885 - Herbert Rawlinson - Brighton, England - d. 7-12-1953
actor: Edgar, the courthouse guard "The Amazing Mr. Tutt"; "Escape";
"Twelve Players'
11-15-1890 - Samuel Ornitz - NYC - d. 3-11-1957
hollywood ten screen writer: "House Unamerican Activities Committee"
11-15-1893 - Grover Jones - Rosedale, IN - d. 9-24-1940
writer: "Silver Theatre"
11-15-1907 - Bill Anson - Chicago, IL - d. 6-18-1983
quizmaster: "The Hirsch Telephone Quiz"
11-15-1908 - Bill Anson - Chicago, IL - d. 6-18-1983
actor, composer: "Paul Whiteman"; "Play Broadcast"
11-15-1909 - Sydney Smith - d. 3-4-1978
actor: Abie Levy "Abie's Irish Rose"; Ellery Queen "Advs. of Ellery
Queen"
11-15-1919 - Carol Bruce - Great Neck, NY
singer: "Ben Bernie Orchestra"; "Carton of Cheer"
11-15-1923 - Robert Barron - NYC - d. 5-28-2002
actor: Flint Blackbeard "Jack Armstrong"
11-15-1925 - Gordon Hinkley - Port Edwards, WI
announcer, host: "Ask Your Neighbor"; "Invitation to Beauty"; "HotShots"
11-15-1929 - Ed Asner - Kansas City, MO
actor: "Odyssey of Homer"; "We Hold These Truths"
11-15-1932 - Petula Clark - Ewell, Surrey, England
singer: "Vanity Bandbox"; "Guard Session"; "It's All Yours"
11-15-1946 - Janet Lennon - Culver City, CA
singer: (The Lennon Sisters) "Music on Deck"; "Voices of Vista";
"Guest Star"

November 15th deaths

01-16-1890 - Lloyd Bacon - San Jose, CA - d. 11-15-1955
film director: "Screen Guild Theatre"; " Screen Director's Playhouse"
01-25-1924 - Speedy West - Springfield, MO - d. 11-15-2003
steel guitarist: "Grand Old Opry"; "Tennessee Ernie FordShow"
02-22-1890 - Enid Markey - Dillon, CO - d. 11-15-1981
actor: Lillian Burke "Woman of Courage"
04-05-1912 - John Le Mesurier - Bedford, England - d. 11-15-1983
actor: Sergeant Arthur Wilson "Dad's Army"
04-28-1878 - Lionel Barrymore - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-15-1954
actor: Leonard Gillispie "Dr. Kildare"; Ebenezzer Scrooge "A
Christmas Carol"
05-05-1914 - Tyrone Power - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-15-1958
actor: Dean Edwards "Freedom [removed]"
05-28-1920 - Gene Levitt - NYC - d. 11-15-1999
writer: "Advs. of Philip Marlowe"
06-10-1897 - Boris Kroyt - d. 11-15-1969
violinist: (Member of the Budapest String Quaratet) "Library of
Congress Concert"
06-16-1914 - Edward Gruskin - d. 11-15-2005
writer: "Nick Carter, Master Detective"; "Rendezvous in Paris"
08-18-1878 - Harry C. Browne - North Adams, MA - d. 11-15-1954
actor: Hank Simmons, Henry Clinton "Hank Simmon's Showboat"
08-28-1898 - Charlie Grimm - St. Louis, MO - d. 11-15-1983
Sportscaster:(Jolly Cholly) WBBM Chicago
10-18-1913 - Evelyn Venable - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-15-1993
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Stars of Tomorrow 1934"
12-19-1888 - Fritz Reiner - Budapest, Hungary - d. 11-15-1963
conductor: "Curtis Institute Musicale"; "Ford Sunday Evening Hour"

Ron Sayles

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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:12:01 -0500
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, 15 Nov 2006 07:47:50 -0500
From: <drwgl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Under [removed] [removed] memories

I'll turn 50 in less than a year, but have no memory of the last OTR shows.

I do remember listening the "The Breakfast Club" while home sick in the
early 60's.

"Monitor" on weekends while making trips to grandparents.

My third grade teacher had us listen to Paul Harvey's noon show each day
before lunch.

About 1970 or 71 the local rock station (WJDX-FM, Jackson, MS) started
running "The Shadow" and "Lone Ranger" at 10:00 [removed] each night.  This is
what really started my love of OTR. I remember sitting around the campfire
with my scout troop listening to a Shadow episode. It was a perfect setting,
in the middle of the woods with shadows dancing everywhere.  Even our
scoutmasters, who usually hated us bringing radios, sat and enjoyed it.

In 1980, I was in grad school at Duke and a local station played "Lum and
Abner" every morning.

I started buying tapes soon after.

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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:48:24 -0500
From: Sammy Jones <sjones69@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The Met

Somebody brought up the Met broadcasts in the last Digest, and that reminded
me that I'd made a terrible error in my previous post about listening to OTR.

Of course the Met is live OTR--it's been on continously since the early '30s!
I listen religiously, and I really missed Peter Allen when he left as host a
few years ago.  I imagine other listeners felt the same way when Allen
replaced Milton Cross in the '70s (who had been the host of the Met since the
very first broadcast!).

I must mention that recently a fellow Met fan loaned me a reel to reel tape
that he recorded off the air in the 1950s of a live Met broadcast of Boris
Godunov featuring Peter London (with Milton Cross announcing).  It also
features Charles Anthony as the Simpleton.  Anthony can still be heard
regularly on the Met broadcasts, and has the distinction of being the
performer who has appeared the most times on stage at the Met.  I copied the
broadcast to CD, and it remains a real treasure in my collection.

Any other Met fans or collectors out there on the list?

Sammy Jones

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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:17:24 -0500
From: Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  radio recreations & Norman Corwin

Frank Mcgum mentions that he doesn't particularly care for some radio
recreations. He prefers the originals. I agree. And here's why:
I've seen and been involved in a number of radio show recreations,
and I have to say that the fans who put these recreations on, really
do not know what it was like being an actor in radio. Those days are
gone, and with it are gone the inner ability to really know how to
act on radio; the timing, the pausing, the knowing when to end a
sentence by dropping the end words or leaving them straight. There's
more. When radio was alive, everyone was trained in knowing how to
adjust their voice for every emotion, every subtle nuance. Todays
radio actors are mostly fans who love the idea of doing a recreation.
But they really don't know the subtle ins and outs of radio acting.
Don't misunderstand [removed] I think any radio recreation is fun and
enjoyable, especially when it is done well. But those actors who are
still alive from the Golden Age REALLY know how to deliver a line and
an emotion. They know how to express in words and rhythm the meaning
of the character. That's what the listener picks up and that's what
carries him/her along during the radio show. I have found that, when
you put some radio acting fans together with an old time original
radio actor, it's the old time original radio actor that stands out
in the performances. Like a sore thumb. It's because they know,
instinctively, the right cadence and the right rhythm for the words
to express the character. I believe that is what Frank senses he
misses when he listens to a recreation.
I've arrived at this conclusion because I hired such actors as Parley
Baer, Harry Bartell, Lou Krugman, Peggy Webber and Elliott Reid to
act in the introductions I wrote for the Sherlock Holmes radio
releases that are now being distributed. You simply can't beat them
for their ability to know exactly how to do radio acting. They were
there when EVERYONE was doing radio and it was a natural thing for
them -- either that, or you simply were not hired. The producers, the
directors, the writers, the actors ---- ALL of them knew there was a
right way and a wrong way to put together a radio show; and that 's
exactly how they did it!

I realize I may be throwing a monkey wrench into the works and
probably will get blasted for the above, but I DO believe you cannot
compare a present day recreation with the amazing ability of those
who did radio in the Golden Age.

About Norman Corwin:  Derek Tague is correct about Norman. I know the
man and have worked with him; helped him do a special event for the
Friars Club. There is one thing that most people forget when they
talk about [removed] that he is the only radio writer/producer/
director who ever had a broadcast of one of his shows on ALL of the
radio networks simultaneously! Yes, Corwin was so well respected
(still is), so well loved and so brilliant in radio that when it came
time to broadcast "WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS," and "ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH,"
those shows were broadcast on all the networks at the same time
throughout this entire country. No other writer can say that. Only
Corwin. If that doesn't show the power of the man and his words, I
don't know what does.

Ken Greenwald

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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:20:58 -0500
From: "John A. Davies" <john@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Clithero Kid

Hello everyone,
In response to Edward J Carrs contribution on the Clithero Kid I have a
small person addicted to the program here.  My Grand daughter at the age
of 10 heard an episode of the Kid on BBC7.  She badgered me to find more
episodes for her and I have managed to get most of those available.  She
now listens to them every day after school and never seems to get tired
of them.  I have tried to get her interested in other OTR shows ,both
kids shows and comedies but it is always The Clithero Kid she goes back
to.  There must be something these shows that modern kids can empathies
with and I still enjoy them as well.

John Davies, in the UK.
John

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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:21:08 -0500
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Gunsmoke Review

This review of a "Gunsmoke" DVD collection includes a brief reference to the
radio series as well as a lengthy article on the television series.

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:21:22 -0500
From: <vzeo0hfk@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Norman Corwin

Norman Corwin's status in American history? Derek made a good case. I suggest
anyone who wants to find out about the merit's of Norman's work need just
listen to (or read) On A Note of Triumph-- even just the first page tell you
volumes about it!

Howard Blue

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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:21:38 -0500
From: "James Yellen" <clifengr3@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Nash with a bed

Since I started this thread about the Nash automobile with the seat that
folds down to a bed, I thought that I should do a little research. Here's a
link to a site with photos of the 1951 Nash Ambasador and/or Statesman
showing the seats folded down and a family enjoying a snooze.

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In the 1951 models  both the driver and passenger seats were capable of
being folded down. This is the 1951 model in the photos, but I think the Our
Miss Brooks episode wherein I heard the joke reference was dated 1949. I'll
have to check.

Jim Yellen

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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:01:48 -0500
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  "Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand
 with the Big Bands"

The latest "Golden Age of Radio" programs with Dick Bertel
and Ed Corcoran, and "A One Night Stand with the Big Bands"
with Arnold Dean can be heard at [removed].

Each week we feature three complete shows in MP3 format
for your listening pleasure or for downloading; two "Golden
Age of Radios" and one "One Night Stand." We present new
shows every week or so. The current three programs will be
available on line at least until the morning of 11/21/06.

Program 10 - January, 1971 - Goodman Ace

Goodman Ace was a radio actor and writer. Teamed with his
wife Jane to play in the comedy radio program "Easy Aces"
from 1931 to 1945. His character was be the straightman and
her character was "Mistress Misspeack". He also wrote material
for the likes of Milton Berle and Perry Como.

Goodman Ace was born Asa Goodman in Kansas City, Missouri,
in 1899. He was the son of a haberdasher; consequently, his first
job was as a hat salesman. He soon switched to newspapering and
became a columnist on the Kansas City Journal Post. Jane Sherwood
saw the light of day in the same city one year later. The two were
married in Kansas City on November 16, 1924.

Goodman Ace was the long-suffering, hard-working real estate
sales executive (later an advertizing executive) who groaned "Isn't
that awful!" when Jane tossed off her fractured epigrams or
revealed her hairbrained schemes.

Program 11 - February, 1971 - Rosa Rio

One of the most common methods of establishing mood in radio
was simply music. An orchestra (or more likely, a transcription
of one) could be employed, but usually for economy and
convenience, many OTR shows relied on the services of one
talented organist. Rosa Rio was on more soaps than she can
remember.  In addition to her radio work, Ms. Rio was a world-
reknowned organist who, as far as we know, lives in Florida is
still performing.

Ms. Rio invited us to her home in Connecticut, where we recorded
and were entertained by her musical talents. You'll hear this program,
which departs from the usual format in that there are no excerpts;
just music from shows such as The Shadow, Ethel & Albert, Front
Page Farrell, Lorenzo Jones, My True Story & When A Girl Marries,
and conversation.

"A One Night Stand with the Big Bands" With Arnold Dean

Program 8 - Charlie Barnet - January, 1972

Millionaire playboy and bandleader Charlie Barnet is one of the
more colorful figures in jazz history. Nicknamed ''Mad Mab,'' he
was married more times than you can count on both hands. He
was also a champion of racial equality, hiring many black singers
and musicians at a time when other bands were segregated. His
use of African-American performers kept his orchestra out of
several hotels and ballrooms and was also probably the reason
why he was never picked for any big commercial radio series.
His music and arrangements were admittedly influenced by
Duke Ellington. So dedicated to the Duke was he that when
he built a fallout shelter after the war he stocked it with a
collection of Ellington recordings.

In the 1970's WTIC decided that there was a market in
the evening for long-form shows that could be packaged
and sold to sponsors. Two of those shows were "The
Golden Age of Radio" and "A One Night Stand with the
Big Bands."

Dick Bertel had interviewed radio collector-historian
Ed Corcoran several times on his radio and TV shows,
and thought a regular monthly show featuring interviews
with actors, writers, producers, engineers and musicians
from radio's early days might be interesting. "The Golden
Age of Radio" was first broadcast in April, 1970; Ed was
Dick's co-host. It lasted seven years. "The Golden Age
of Radio" can also be heard Saturday nights on Walden
Hughes's program on Radio Yesteryear.

Arnold Dean began his love affair with the big band
era in his pre-teen years and his decision to study
the clarinet was inspired by the style of Artie Shaw.
When he joined WTIC in 1965 he hosted a daily program
of big band music. In 1971, encouraged by the success
of his daily program and "The Golden Age of Radio"
series, he began monthly shows featuring interviews
with the band leaders, sidemen, agents, jazz reporters,
etc. who made major contributions to one of the great
eras of music history.

Bob Scherago
Webmaster

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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:05:02 -0500
From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Complete Broadcast Days
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I recent poster said that no one ever replies to posts asking if there are
complete broadcast days available. She probably missed seeing this message
sent in last month from Elizabeth McLeod:

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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:30:18 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Complete Broadcast Days

On 10/27/06 4:38 PM [removed]@[removed] wrote:

Is anyone aware of recordings of complete broadcast days aside from the
ones I know of Sep 21, 1939 & June 6, 1944 that were recorded and are
available?

Memovox recordings exist of the entire output of NBC Red and Blue from
2pm on December 7, 1941 thru the full day of December 8. Most of these
were issued on cassette by Radio Yesteryear in the mid-1990s.

Some others that exist, but aren't in general circulation --

NBC recorded everything aired over WEAF from June 6, 1944 to August 16,
1944, and this over two-month-long continuous recording survives, give or
take the occasional broken disc, at the Library of Congress. Only the
first 40 hours or so have ever been circulated.

The Federal Communications Commission had recordings made of the entire
broadcast days of all six stations active in Washington DC on July 6, 1945,
for use in a study of the percentage of time devoted to advertising in a
typical broadcast day. These recordings were analyzed and discussed in
"Public Service Responsibility of Broadcast Licensees," the famous "Blue
Book" report released by the commission in 1946. It's not known if these
recordings still exist in some deep-storage National Archives file box, or
even the format in which they were made -- it's likely they were not
high-quality discs, but rather Memovoxes or some such low-grade system.

Elizabeth

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Visit [removed] for OTR program title and date corrections

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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:05:43 -0500
From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Number of appearances of Jack Benny
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I want to remind people of an excellent resource for researching OTR:
[removed] is a site that lists 88,259 programs.

  This site does not list every OTR show that ever existed but it is very
helpful. You can search the site by show name or performer name. For the Jack
Benny listing be aware that some of the later entries are records, audio from
TV shows and rebroadcasts.

Visit [removed] for OTR program title and date corrections

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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:34:57 -0500
From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Turkey prices

I was listening to a Thanksgiving episode of The Great Gildersleeve from
1942.  Birdie was lamenting the fact that turkey was 48-cents a pound.  Then I
opened one of our local grocery ads from this week, and turkey is 47-cents a
pound.  So much for inflation!

Ted

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