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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2006 : Issue 352
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
12-14 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
HAWAIIAN RADIO GUY MOE KEALE [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
Decent set of Amos 'n' Andy? [ "Charles Salt" <charles_salt@hotmai ]
Who's Squeeky? [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
one man's family [ Grams46@[removed] ]
OTR In the News [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
One Man's Family- -plastic Christmas [ Larry Maupin <mpn_lrry@[removed]; ]
12-15 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
November 2006 deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
re: Radio Memories [ Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@yahoo. ]
Shortwave broadcaasts [ matthew cox <mbcox99@[removed]; ]
WW II German Broadcasts [ Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed]; ]
Plastic Christmas Tree on OMF [ Hetitus02@[removed] ]
Re: Radio Memories [ Chargous@[removed] ]
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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:07:29 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 12-14 births/deaths
December 14th births
12-14-1893 - Carl Brisson - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 9-26-1958
singer, actor: "A Voice In the Night"
12-14-1894 - Theo Goetz - d. 12-29-1972
actor: Papa Bauer "The Guiding Light"
12-14-1898 - Lillian Randolph - Louisville, KY - d. 9-12-1980
actor: Birdie Lee Coggins "Great Gildersleeve"; Sapphire's Mama "Amos
n' Andy"
12-14-1910 - Erskine Johnson - Racine, WI - d. 6-14-1984
columnist: "Hollywood News"; "Let's Talk Hollywood"
12-14-1911 - Spike Jones - Long Beach, CA - d. 5-1-1965
bandleader: "Bob Burns, The Arkansas Traveler"; "Spike Jones Show"
12-14-1912 - Gurney Bell - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-xx-1976
singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
12-14-1912 - Morey Amsterdam - Chicago, IL - d. 10-29-1996
comedian: "Morey Amsterdan Show"
12-14-1915 - Dan Dailey - NYC - d. 10-16-1978
singer, actor: "King's Men"; "Philip Morris Playhouse"
12-14-1915 - Jerry Daniels - d. 11-7-1995
singer: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots"; "Let's Go
Nightclubbing"
12-14-1919 - Shirley Jackson - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-8-1965
writer: "NBC Presents: Short Story"
12-14-1932 - George Furth - Chicago, IL
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
12-14-1934 - Johnny Moore - d. 12-30-1998
lead singer: (Member of The Drifters) "Camel Rock and Roll Party"
12-14-1947 - Patty Duke - Elmhurst, NY
actor: "Zero Hour"
December 14th deaths
01-14-1906 - William Bendix - NYC - d. 12-14-1964
actor: Chester A. Riley "Life of Riley"
01-17-1874 - Edna Wallace Hopper - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-14-1959
Gave beauty tips on the networks 1930-1932
02-25-1914 - John Arlott - Basingstoke, England - d. 12-14-1991
BBC radio cricket commentator
02-26-1875 - Emma Dunn - Cheshire, England - d. 12-14-1966
actor: "The Eveready Hour"
03-11-1909 - Ramona - Lockland, OH - d. 12-14-1972
singer, pianist: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Paul Whiteman's Musical Varities"
04-20-1897 - Gregory Ratoff - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 12-14-1960
panelist: "Information, Please"
05-25-1925 - Jeanne Crain - Barstow, CA - d. 12-14-2003
actor: "Screen Guild Players"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
06-04-1906 - Richard Whorf - Winthrop, MA - d. 12-14-1966
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Jack Benny
Program"
06-29-1911 - Milt Josefsberg - NYC - d. 12-14-1987
writer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Bob Hope Show"
07-18-1908 - Lupe Velez - San Luis Potosi, Mexico - d. 12-14-1944
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Speed Show"
07-20-1890 - Verna Felton - Salinas, CA - d. 12-14-1966
actor: Blossom Blimp "Sealtest Village Store"; Liz Pierce "Judy
Canova Show"
07-23-1894 - Arthur Treacher - Brighton, England - d. 12-14-1975
actor: "Philco Radio Playhouse"; "Philip Morris Playhouse on Broadway"
08-02-1905 - Myrna Loy - Raidersburg, MT - d. 12-14-1993
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-03-1885 - Arthur Sinclair - Dublin, Ireland - d. 12-14-1951
actor: John A. Considine "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"
08-06-1903 - Henry Burbig - d. 12-14-1980
dialect comedian: "Burbig's Syncopated History"; "Vitaphone Hour"
08-08-1896 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - Washington, [removed] - d. 12-14-1953
novelist: "Stars in the Air"
08-29-1924 - Dinah Washington - Tuscaloosa, AL - d. 12-14-1963
blues singer: "Jubilee"; "Bob Hope Show"; "One Night Stand"
09-23-1893 - Louis Sorin - NYC - d. 12-14-1961
actor: Pan Pancho "Cisco Kid"
10-10-1911 - Marion Shockley - Kansas City, MO - d. 12-14-1981
actor: Rosemary Levy "Abie's Irish Rose"; Nikki Porter "Advs. of
Ellery Queen"
11-07-1913 - Margorie Anderson - London, England - d. 12-14-1999
disc jockey: "Forces Favourites"; "Woman's Hour"; "Home for the Day"
11-11-1918 - Stubby Kaye - NYC - d. 12-14-1997
comic, singer, actor: "The Heartbeat of Broadway"
11-16-1919 - Marion Bell - St. Louis, MO - d. 12-14-1997
actor, singer: "The Railroad Hour"
Ron Sayles
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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:08:12 -0500
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: HAWAIIAN RADIO GUY MOE KEALE
12-13-1939 - Moe Keale - Niihau, HI - d. 4-15-2002
local disc jockey
The above made me jump.
I was in Hawaiian radio in Honolulu for many years off and on and have never
heard that man's name.
But that's not the real concern I have.
Most people don't know the Island of Niihau because it is known locally as
"The Forbidden Isle" and has been ever since most Hawaiians can remember.
Privately owned by the Robinson family who swore to maintain the original
Hawaiian way of life, the place is totally bereft of any of the inventions of
the 20th Century?
In order to live there a person must be born there and be of pure Hawaiian
ancestry. They live in grass huts and fish and hunt as if time had never
existed there.
If any one of them decides to leave the Island they can never return.
Most know nothing of the outer world [removed] is the [removed] is NO
electricity.
That would seem to preclude any kind of radio station let alone radios at
all.
Please help me with more info if anyone knows.
I'm going to write the King of Hawaiian Radio, Tom Moffat and see what I
can learn.
Slightly off-topic. Sorry.
Michael C. Gwynne
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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:08:42 -0500
From: "Charles Salt" <charles_salt@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Decent set of Amos 'n' Andy?
After the recent conversations, I was wondering if anyone can advise me of a
seller or trader with an accurate and complete as possible set of Amos 'n'
Andy please? Please contact me off the forum as I dont want to take up too
much of the Digest's time.
Many thanks,
Charles Salt
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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:10:38 -0500
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Who's Squeeky?
On Thursday, December 14, 2006, at 06:19 PM, Martin Grams, Jr. wrote:
I just came across an old radio script that actually has a three-word,
spoken one-liner from someone named "Squeekie" and the band then began to
play to the tune of Squeekie. Was there a radio program that had a
character named Squeekie? (Probably CBS).
Martin
Squeeky the Mouse was one of the mythical characters (in addition to
Froggy the Gremlin and Midnight the Cat) on Smilin' Ed's Buster Brown
Gang. All were voiced by Ed McConnell. For most of its run (1944-53) it
was NBC. It was also on TV from 1950 to 1960, although Andy Devine had
taken the place of McConnell, who died in 1955.
Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:12:42 -0500
From: Grams46@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: one man's family
Mahlon Wagner mwagner2@[removed] asks:
A good friend remembers an episode in which Father Barber is somewhat
upset at the prospect of having a plastic Christmas tree. Perhaps he
could read into the future some 20-30 years? Does anyone know if this
episode exists?
there is one with someone trying to sell him a plastic wreath for the front
door. i don't recall one with a plastic tree.
peace from kathy
support our troops; end the war
john 3:16
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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:53:43 -0500
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OTR In the News
This was a big day for Old Time Radio in the news.
Here's another nostalgic column about how those darn kids can't fathom how
times have changed:
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Here's a review of a new book about old Jewish Comedians, that includes Jack
Benny, George Burns and Benny Rubin.
[removed]
Here's another nostalgic article about life in the time of OTR that tries to
capture what it was like for today's reader:
[removed]
[removed]
Imitation Jack Benny Eddie Carroll is taking his act to Montanna:
[removed];issue=364
Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:12:15 -0500
From: Larry Maupin <mpn_lrry@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: One Man's Family- -plastic Christmas tree
episode
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In reply to Mahlon Wagner's question: the Chapter 12, Book 72 episode has
Papa Barbour trying to give away an ugly plastic Christmas wreath for which
he paid eight dollars, but no one will have it. The broadcast date I have is
9/4/50, which seems a little early in the year.
Larry Maupin
mpn_lrry@[removed]
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:12:28 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 12-15 births/deaths
December 15th births
12-15-1873 - Harry Humphrey - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-1-1947
actor: Old Ranger "Death Valley Days"; Horace "Ma and Pa"
12-15-1883 - Marion S. Barney - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-xx-1968
actor: "Red Davis"; "Gangbusters"; "We, The People"
12-15-1888 - Maxwell Anderson - Atlantic, PA - d. 2-28-1959
writer: "Free Company"; "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "O'Neill Cycle"
12-15-1896 - Betty Smith - NYC - d. 1-17-1972
author: "Studio One"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
12-15-1901 - Gail Bonney - Columbus, OH - d. 12-7-1984
actor: "Family Theatre"; "Joan Davis Time"; "NBC University Theatre"
12-15-1907 - Bob Hawk - Creston, IA - d. 7-4-1989
quizmaster: "Take It or Leave It"; "Thanks to the Yanks"; "Bob Hawk
Show"
12-15-1915 - Margaret Hayes - Baltimore, MD - d. 1-26-1977
actor: "Silver Theatre"
12-15-1916 - Buddy Cole - Irving, IL - d. 11-5-1964
musician: (Buddy Cole Trio) "Ginny Simms Show"; "Hollywood Showcase"
12-15-1918 - Jeff Chandler - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-17-1961
actor: Michael Shayne, "Michael Shayne, Detective"; Philip Boynton,
"Our Miss Brooks"
12-15-1926 - Rose Maddox - Boaz, AL - d. 4-15-1998
country singer: "Faron Young Show"; "Country Hoedown"
December 15th deaths
01-15-1913 - Stephen Courtleigh - NYC - d. 12-15-1967
actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"
01-28-1910 - Arnold Moss - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-15-1989
actor: Philip Cameron "Against the Storm"; Reed Bannister "Big Sister"
02-15-1919 - Frank Behrens - Sheboygan, WI - d. 12-15-1986
actor: Billie "Billie the Brownie"; Jack Armstrong "Jack Armstrong"
03-01-1904 - Glenn Miller - Clarinda, IA - d. 12-15-1944
bandleader: "Moonlight Serenade"; "USO Matinee"
05-02-1918 - Frank Milano - d. 12-15-1962
animal sounds: "Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders"
05-21-1904 - Thomas "Fats" Waller - NYC - d. 12-15-1943
pianist, singer: "Columbia Variety Hour"; "Saturday Night Swing Club"
06-03-1904 - Jan Peerce - NYC - d. 12-15-1984
singer: "Music Hall of the Air"; "A & P Gypsies"; "Golden Treasury of
Song"
07-01-1899 - Charles Laughton - Scarborough, England - d. 12-15-1962
actor: "Three Ring Time"; "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Blue Ribbon Town"
07-18-1903 - Chill Wills - Seagoville, TX - d. 12-15-1978
actor: "Armed Forces Radio Theatre"; "Dinner Bell Round-Up Time"
10-13-1885 - Harry Hershfield - Cedar Rapids, IA - d. 12-15-1974
comedian: "Stop Me If You Heard This One"; "Can You Top This?"
11-11-1915 - William Proxmire - Lake Forest, IL - d. 12-15-2005
[removed] senator: "Meet the Press"
12-02-1910 - Sidney Marshall - d. 12-15-1977
writer: "Man Called X"; "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
12-05-1901 - Walt Disney - Chicago, IL - d. 12-15-1966
actor: Mickey Mouse "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:12:34 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: November 2006 deaths
Deaths in November 2006
04-04-1908 - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey - NYC - d. 11-4-2006
writer: (Cheaper By the Dozen) "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-23-1908 - Nelson Bond - Scranton, NJ - d. 11-4-1006
writer: "Hot Copy"; "Suspense"; "Dr. Christian"
03-14-1925 - Sonny Cohn - Chicago, IL - d. 11-7-2006
trupeter: Count Basie Orchestra
06-22-1941 - Ed Bradley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-9-2006
newscaster: WBCS New York, New York
04-29-1908 - Jack Williamson - Bisbee, Arizona Territory - d. 11-10-2006
writer: "Dimension X"; "Future Tense"
02-18-1919 - Jack Palance - Lattimer Mines, PA - d. 11-10-2006
actor: "Bud's Bandwagon"
07-31-1912 - Milton Friedman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-16-2006
economist: Radio Australia
01-30-1928 - Ruth Brown - Portsmouth, VA - d. 11-17-2006
singer: "Newport Jazz Festival"
02-20-1925 - Robert Altman - Kansas City, MO - d. 11-20-2006
writer: "A Man Called X"
03-27-1915 - Robert Lockwood, Jr. - Turkey Scratch, AR - d. 11-21-2006
guiatrist: "KFFA King Biscuit Time"
05-03-1919 - Betty Comden - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-23-2006
writer, actor: "Revuers"
10-18-1919 - Anita O'Day - Kansas City, MO - d. 11-23-2006
jazz singer: "One Night Stand"; "Command Performance"
09-19-1922 - Willie Pep - Middletown, CT - d. 11-23-2006
boxer: "Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts"
04-13-1916 - Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner - Kansas City, MO - d.
11-25-2006
writer of radio soap operas
04-15-1910 - Eddie Mayo - Holyoke, MA - d. 11-27-2006
major league baseball player: "World Series Preview"
07-06-1927 - Alan "Fluff" Freeman - Melbourne, Australia - d. 11-27-2006
announcer, singer: "Records Around Five"; "Pick of the Pops"
Ron Sayles
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:12:54 -0500
From: Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: re: Radio Memories
For those who have not switched to CD
or MP3 or other formats, this comes as a blow and
sad news. Ted is a good friend and he has been very
supportive for the OTR hobby through donations and
other venues.
I've bought an awful lot from Ted, so this is very sad
news. Ted has always been extremely supportive of our
local club and the Cincinnati convention. I think a
lot of Ted, Tom and everyone else involved with the
company. Radio Memories produced a good quality
product, and I have some pretty strong feelings about
the events in the hobby that helped lead to this
happening. I don't know, I guess this sort of thing
is what happens when people start expecting something
for nothing.
Rodney
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:14:00 -0500
From: matthew cox <mbcox99@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Shortwave broadcaasts
Travis has brought up an interesting point which I'm just beginnning
to research. Years ago I lived in Morocco as a Peace Corps
Volunteer. While there I spent lots of time on the rock of Gibraltar
listening to itswonderful broadcasting station. I'm friends with one
of thier radio people who actually has some trancriptions of Radio
Gib during the war. Okay soit is not the BBC but Gib was a huge
military base at the time. Its regular civilians were either in
Tangier then a European protectorate or in London. I'm still trying
to get to hear the broadcasts Travis but when I do I'll post
again. Matt Cox
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:14:34 -0500
From: Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: WW II German Broadcasts
Travis wrote, and I quote:
It would be fascinating to listen to the German
Broadcast Day too, but I doubt the recordings exist anymore.
On the contrary, Travis. The National Archives in Washington, DC has
a vast collection of captured German radio broadcasts.
Don't forget that the Germans invented audio tape, and it was that
medium they used to record a lot of broadcasts during the war.
Many years ago Les Waffen (who works at the National Archives) came
to LA and we had lunch. During that lunch he told me that
the archives has many recordings of Hitler and his general staff
discussing the war and what tactics they were going to us to defeat
the United States. Les said that the tapes are so clean and clear it
sounds like you are standing in the room with Hitler listening to
his plans. Amazing.
Well, maybe not so amazing since Frank Mullin recounted that when he
was in the army and advancing through Germany during the
defeat of Hitler, he would listen to the radio and heard German
concerts playing over the air. And this was after 12 midnight.
He not only could hear the music, but he heard coughing from a live
audience. Who in their right mind would attend a concert in the
middle of the night? And what orchestra would even bother performing?
A few days later the army division he was in reached a radio station
transmitter. There he found a machine that astonished him.
He understood its principles because he was a radio engineer. But he
never saw a machine that played large rolls of tape made
of very thin metal ribbon. Of course he took two of the machines home
after the war. One of those machines he gave to a little
known company which tore the machine down and figured out just what
to do. That little company became the Ampex tape recorder
Co. and the new tape machines were, yes, Ampex recorders. (By the
way, the ex in Ampex stands for EXperimental.)
Anyone wishing to hear any of the German tape recordings made during
WW II would have to get in touch with the National Archives
and try and make some kind of arrangement with them. Probably you
would have to go to the archives themselves to listen, as I do not
believe they allow copies out to the public.
Hope this helps, Travis.
Ken Greenwald
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:14:52 -0500
From: Hetitus02@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Plastic Christmas Tree on OMF
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Maholon Wagner asks about a chapter of One Man's Family involving a plastic
Christmas tree. I am not aware of such a story line, but I am reminded of
the very famous "A Touch of Christmas Spirit" OMF 72:12; December 18, 1948]
which involves Father Barbour buying a plastic wreath from "a nice young man
working his way through college." No one in the family likes the wreath and
Father Barbour finally burns it in the fireplace. OMF 72:12 is widely
available.
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:14:44 -0500
From: Chargous@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Radio Memories
Even though I rarely get cassettes, it is indeed a shock that RM will be
no more. Ted is a really nice guy and he's done a lot for the hobby. I
hope he'll still attend the Cinci convention this year.
Travis
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