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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2013 : Issue 49
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  This week in radio history 28 April   [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Doo Wah Ditty                         [ "Laura Leff" <president@[removed] ]
  Jack Benny & Jerry Seinfeld Similari  [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
  Updated and New Series Broadcast Log  [ Stewart Wright <otrwash@[removed]; ]
  George Burns similarities to Jack Be  [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]

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Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 17:40:48 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 28 April to 4 May

 From Those Were The Days

4/28

1947   Studio One on CBS was first broadcast. The show was full of great
stars, but no sponsors. CBS dropped Studio One after a year on the air.

4/30

1945   "How would you like to be queen for a day!" That opening line,
delivered by host, Jack Bailey, was first heard on Mutual on this day.
The first Queen for a Day was Mrs. Evelyn Lane.

1945   Arthur Godfrey began his CBS morning show. His theme was Seems
Like Old Times. Arthur Godfrey Time ran until this very same day in
1972. Godfrey's show used live talent and not records. His popularity
with listeners was the major reason that several sponsors gave Godfrey
the freedom to ad lib their commercials and, from time to time, joke
about the products as well.

5/1

1931   Singer Kate Smith began her long and illustrious radio career
with CBS on this, her birthday. The 22 year old Smith started out with
no sponsors and a paycheck of just $10 a week ($148 in 2012 dollars) for
the nationally broadcast daily program. However, within 30 days, her
salary increased to a more respectable $1,500 a week ($22,345 in 2012
dollars).

Joe

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Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 17:41:05 -0400
From: "Laura Leff" <president@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Doo Wah Ditty

whose relative lives in Doo Wah Ditty?

*Whistling and walking in the other [removed]*

--Laura Leff
President, IJBFC
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Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 17:41:12 -0400
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Jack Benny & Jerry Seinfeld Similarities

I have to disagree. Jerry & George were good friends, Buddies. Jack
Benny was always the boss. He was addressed as Mr. Benny by Dennis and
Rochester. Yes they added to humor and success of the program as Mary,
Dom and Phil [removed]

If you are looking similar situations take a listen to "The Phis
Harris/Alice Faye Show. Frankie Remilly and Phil were good friends and
go into situations like Jerry and George.

I bet that is Phil Harris had a Seinfeld Script and Jerry had a Harris
script they could be broadcast with a few minor changes

Frank McGurn

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Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 17:41:36 -0400
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

Hi Friends,

Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
Radio Theatre," John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane
Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios," Charlie St George's "Make Believe
Ballroom Time" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics." Streamed in
high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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Many new additions to our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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Check our our Transcription Disc scans at:
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

STAND BY FOR ADVENTURE
Episode 34 1950 "Shadows"

PRINCESS PAT PLAYS
"Play Of The Week"
5-16-37 "Cupid With A Gun"
Stars: Joan Blaine, Robert Stone, Douglas Hope, Isabel Randolph, Seymour
Young.
Announcer: Harlow Wilcox
NBC Princess Pat Cosmetics

CHANDU, THE MAGICIAN
Episode 1 3-7-32 "Frank Returns To America And Meets Betty And Bob"
Stars: Gayne Whiteman, Margaret Macdonald, Bob Bixby, Betty Webb
Music: Felix Mills, Raymond Page.
Writer: Vera Oldham
Mutual-Don Lee, KHJ Original Serial. Monday-Friday

BOSTON BLACKIE
Episode 161 5-19-48 "Corpse That Wouldn't Stay Dead"
Stars: Richard Kollmar, Lesley Woods, Maurice Tarplin
Ziv Syndication

PROBE
Episode 1 "Space Laboratory" Artransa Science Fiction serial

CASEBOOK OF GREGORY HOOD
Episode 1 10-15-49 "Carnival Of Death
Stars Jackson Beck
ABC Sustained
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

THE GREAT GILDERSLEEVE
(NBC) 9/6/42 "The Golf Tournament"
Gildy and a bandleader compete.

LES MISERABLES
(WOR/MBS) 7/23/37 The first Program of a 7-program series - adapted from
Victor Hugo's great novel. "The Bishop" Orson Welles

BIG JON & SPARKY
(ABC/SYND) Jon Arthur from the early 50's. A strange kid's show!
"Prisoners of Love"
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION

Our actor of the month is Elliott Lewis. This versatile performer acted,
directed and wrote during his career in radio.
This week we'll hear him in:

THE WHISTLER from 10/08/45 Episode (176) Death Laughs Last.

The remainder of our show will be saluting those who celebrate birthdays
during the later part of April.

Bea Wain, birth name Beatrice Weinsier Was born 04/30/1917. So she will
celebrate her 96 birthday.

We wil hear her in the very first program to be aired on.

"COMMAND PERFORMANCE" from 03/01/42 Episode (001) Eddie Cantor Bea Wain,
Ambassadors Quartet, Joe Louis-Buddy Baer Fight audio clip, Dinah Shore,
Danny Kaye, Merle Oberon and more.

Lionel Barrymore was born 04/28/1878. This program of "Mayor Of The
Town" aired on his65th birthday.

"MAYOR OF THE TOWN" from 04/28/43 Episode (31) Mayor Recalls Scenes Of
Love. Guest Lionel Stander.

And finally we'll hear from a very young Betty Lou Gerson who worked as
an actress in New York, Chicago, and later Hollywood. Born on 04/14/1920.

In New York she starred in this program from:
"INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES" from 02/05/46 Skeleton Bay.
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Episode 77

MELODY HOUR: "THE BUDDY CLARK SHOW"

Buddy Clark takes the spotlight again this week as we feature "The Buddy
Clark Show" from the "Melody Hour" series of broadcasts, this episode
from August 4,1947. This particular show is really "Fine and Dandy,"
which is also the title of the first song Buddy performs.

After my Frankie Laine Tribute broadcast in March of this year on this
network, a listener suggested a tribute for Buddy as well. Buddy
certainly deserves a tribute, not that he had the longevity that Frankie
enjoyed but that he was so great in the short time that he lived. While
Frankie died at the age of 93, Buddy was killed in a plane crash in 1949
at the age of 37. Buddy's big band career began in 1934 with Benny
Goodman on the "Let's Dance" radio program. In 1936 Buddy sang on "Your
Hit Parade" and had a top-20 hit record with "Spring Is Here." As great
as he was, his next hit didn't come until later in 1946 with "Linda,"
which turned out to be his signature song. His top hits include "Peg O'
My Heart," "I'll Dance at Your Wedding," and duets with Doris Day, such
as "Somebody Loves Me" and "My Darling, My Darling," and with Dinah
Shore, such as "Baby, It's Cold Outside." He did a CBS "Club 15" radio
show with the Andrews Sisters (filling in for Dick Haymes) on which he
and the 3 sisters gave a comic performance of "Baby Face," with Buddy
doing an excellent impression of Al Jolson. That broadcast was completed
shortly before the plane crash, and "A Dreamer's Holiday," a great song
that he had recorded earlier, hit the charts a month after he was killed.

On this broadcast of "Melody Hour," Buddy sings a song he had just
recorded in 1947, namely, "I Kiss Your Hand, Madame." Then Buddy chooses
the song that later became the song that still means so much to my wife
and me: 1939's "All the Things You Are" by Jerome Kern and Oscar
Hammerstein. Buddy points out that this is a song which says, "I love
you" without actually saying those words specifically. The lyrics are so
poetic that I almost wrote a whole chapter about this love song in a
recent book (with the subtitle Singing & Soaring on Paths of Joy). Buddy
sings, as a multitude of performers before and after him, "You are the
promised kiss of springtime/That makes the lonely winter seem long/You
are the breathless hush of evening/That trembles on the brink of a
lovely song." The song was from the Kern-Hammerstein broadway show "Very
Warm for May."

Finally, Buddy performs a song new at the time called "They're Mine,
They"re Mine, They're Mine," which he, Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines, and
others recorded. Buddy's smooth, relaxed introductions and phrasing
remind me a bit of Bing Crosby and cause me, first, to appreciate him as
a special performer of promise and to wonder what further outstanding
recordings he might have blessed us with if he had lived as long as
Frankie Laine.

Buddy's guests on this program are "The Three Suns," who hit gold with
"Twilight Time." They perform fine renditions of "Who's Sorry Now?" and
their hit "Peg O' My Heart." Percy Faith's orchestra, which accompanies
Buddy on each "Melody Hour" program, performs its versions of songs like
"When I'm Not Near the One I love, I Love the One I'm Near" and "I Got
Plenty of Nothin'" from "Porgy and Bess."

The closing theme song caresses the radio microphone with Percy Faith's
subtle symphonic arrangement of "Stardust," the perfect lyrical
complement to "All the Things You Are" with the "angel glow that lights
a star."

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"Melody Ho
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Make Believe Ballroom Time

Episode 6

Today, BBSS is featuring Chuck Foster and his "Music in the Foster
Fashion" They are broadcasting from the Hotel New Yorker in NY City. The
New Yorker Hotel is located in Manhattan's Garment Center, central to
Pennsylvania Station, Madison Square Garden, Times Square and the Empire
State Building. An early ad for the building boasted that the hotel's
"bell boys were 'as snappy-looking as West Pointers'" and "that it had a
radio in every room with a choice of four stations" It was a New Yorker
bellboy who served as tobacco company Phillip Morris' pitchman for
twenty years, making famous their "Call for Phillip Morris" advertising
campaign.

Throughout the 1940s and 1950s the hotel was among New York's most
fashionable and hosted many popular Big Bands, such as Benny Goodman and
Tommy Dorsey, while notable figures such as Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford
and Fidel Castro stayed there. The New York Observer noted that in the
building's heyday, "actors, celebrities, athletes, politicians,
mobsters, the shady and the luminous-the entire Brooklyn Dodgers roster
during the glory seasons-would stalk the bars and ballrooms, or romp
upstairs".

Some say the Foster band copied the style of Guy Lombardo's successful
and popular Royal [removed] Reed player Chuck Foster began his career
as a bandleader in 1938, bringing the sweet (and sometimes syrupy)
sounds of his band to such sizeable venues as San Francisco's Mark
Hopkins Hotel and the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel's famous Biltmore Bowl.

With radio remotes routinely being broadcast from both locations, the
band hit its stride early and quickly achieved popularity with the help
of talented pianist Hal Pruden and a raft of popular vocalists.

The Foster band is appearing on BBSS in a remote broadcast from the
Hotel New Yorker in NY City. It's mid-August 1945 just prior to Chuck
Foster being drafted into the WWII military.
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If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

Jerry Haendiges

Jerry@[removed] 562-696-4387
The Vintage Radio Place [removed]
Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 17:42:01 -0400
From: Stewart Wright <otrwash@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Updated and New Series Broadcast Logs

6 Updated and 2 New Series Broadcast Logs will be posted in a few days at
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The Updated logs are for various Jim French Productions series.
They are:
Harry Nile,
Imagination Theatre,
Jim French Shows (Seattle),
Kerides, The Thinker,
Sherlock Holmes, The Classic Adventures of,
and
Sherlock Holmes, The Further Adventures of,

The 2 New Broadcast Logs are for the Old-Time Radio series
Rogers Of The Gazette
and
Jeff Regan, Investigator.

These two broadcast logs are the result of extensive research
that included a wide-range of sources:
all copies of the broadcast known to be in circulation,
interview recordings of people associated with series,
episode scripts, related network and other documentation,
newspapers and periodicals,
  daily radio programming listings
  magazines
and
articles I have written.

To obtain the Most Accurate Information on these two series,
travel to an archive where Primary Sources (scripts, network
documents, and other related-materials) reside was required.
Only a handful of Old-Time Radio researchers go to this expense.
Viewing and extracting information from each script and document
for a series is time-consuming.

I make this information available to the Old-Time Radio community
in broadcast logs and articles with no expectation recovering
my research costs.

I conduct my research to satisfy my own curiosity and
increase the body of Accurate Old-Time Radio knowledge

I only ask that those who make use of the information I have uncovered
and published give me acknowledgement.  Some do, but many don't.

SIDEBAR:
Two articles based on information I compiled during my March, 2013
research trip will be published in upcoming issues of the RADIO RECALL,
the newsletter of the Metro Washington Old-Time Radio Club:
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These articles are:
"Debunking The Myths About Jeff Regan, Investigator:  An Exercise
in Old-time Radio Research."
and
"The 1955 Auditions For the Role of Johnny Dollar"

Signing off for now,

Stewart Wright
An INDEPENDENT Old-Time Radio researcher

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Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 17:42:33 -0400
From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  George Burns similarities to Jack Benny

        George Burns performed with his wife Gracie Allen. Jack Benny performed
with his wife Mary Livingston.

        George Burns used Harry von Zell as the foil for many of his jokes.
Jack
used Don Wilson for the same reason.

        George Burns used his career as the basis for his show. Jack Benny did
the same thing.

        George Burns used a cigar as the prop of choice in his show. Jack
Benny
used his violin.

        Later, both George Burns and Jack Benny brought their shows to a new
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       Both George and Jack used to joke about their lives as children
(before they
went into show business) in their respective shows.

        Both performed on stage in comedy roles. George with his wife Gracie
Allen.
Jack in "Charley's Aunt".

        Both appeared on the "Tonight Show".

        Can you think of any others?

Kenneth Clarke

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