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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2005 : Issue 186
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 19-25 Jun [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Re: Scariest Show [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]
Kind of gives a guy a sick feeling [ Pete <pappleyard_ca@[removed]; ]
Re: Scariest Show [ "Alan R. Betz" <arbetz@[removed]; ]
they probably already told you [ "Kurt E. Yount" <blsmass@[removed]; ]
Re: Oscar Wilde on radio [ John Mayer <mayer@[removed]; ]
6-18 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:45:59 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 19-25 June
From Those Were The Days --
6/19
1934 - The [removed] Congress established the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC). The task of the commission was to regulate radio
broadcasting.
6/23
1933 - The Pepper Pot program welcomed a new host. Don McNeill took over
the show and renamed it The Breakfast Club. The show, a huge success for
the NBC Blue and later, ABC, became one of the longest-running radio
programs in history. The show aired with McNeill as host until December
27, 1968. The Breakfast Club was a morning show that had its share of
corny jokes, visiting celebrities and lots of audience participation.
1941 - Front Page Farrell was heard for the first time on Mutual. In
1942, the program moved to NBC and stayed on the air until 1954. Sally
and David Farrell were the central characters.
1947 - Wendy Warren and the News debuted on CBS. The broadcasts
continued until 1958. No, the program was not a newscast, in the
traditional sense. It was a serial -- one of many of the time. The
unique thing about this particular show, however, was that Wendy Warren
and the News did utilize a real three-minute newscast to open the show.
The newscaster, delivering the news as part of the show, chose not to
stay in the entertainment side of radio, but continued to be a true
journalist and a legend at CBS. That newsman was Douglas Edwards.
6/24
1960 - The Romance of Helen Trent was heard for the last time. Helen and
her boy-toy, Gil Whitney, were about to be married, but the loving
couple never made it to the altar -- just in case the show would ever be
renewed. Helen Trent and her romance aired for 27 years -- a total of
7,222 episodes -- on the CBS.
6/25
1942 - The first broadcast of It Pays to Be Ignorant was aired on WOR
and the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Joe
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Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:46:47 -0400
From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Scariest Show
This sounds like the story The Lottery. I first saw it on a TV show called
The Web back in the 50's. Then I read the story in it's original in a
collection of science fiction stories. It is written by Shirley Jackson.
It may have been done on radio. I think that the Twilight Zone of TV, also
performed it.
Fred
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Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 02:37:48 -0400
From: Pete <pappleyard_ca@[removed];
To: submit item <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Kind of gives a guy a sick feeling
Bye-bye, cassettes
The music cassette, which ruled for decades, is nearly
dead. It peaked in the mid-1980s, when 900 million
were sold per year. Few are sold today. The cassette's
real last bastion is bookstores. A third of all audio
books are still sold on cassette.
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Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 02:38:00 -0400
From: "Alan R. Betz" <arbetz@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Scariest Show
A modified version of "The Lottery" was performed on Theatre
Five under the title,, "Congratulations, Mr. Mayor."
Regards, Alan
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Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 06:07:59 -0400
From: "Kurt E. Yount" <blsmass@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: they probably already told you
The story was the lottery, I heard it on NBC short story, but I am sure
it was done somewhere else. The really chilling thing I remember about
the original story was that one of the woman's children threw one of the
first stones. Kurt
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Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 06:09:01 -0400
From: John Mayer <mayer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Oscar Wilde on radio
Does anyone know of any Plays by Oscar Wilde that have been adapted
for radio and have available scripts?
Well, if you know someone good at shorthand, you can find four radio
dramatizations from the BBC on cassette at [removed]:
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062-3337453 . Also, the CBS Radio Mystery Theater did _Dorian Gray_ in
1974.
Some South African gent named Willoughby has written a more recent
audio script; you can probably find more about it with an AltaVista
search. And an MT Cozzola has written another radio script, probably
available somewhere around
[removed]. BTW, there are
also a couple of brand new Shadow shows at that location. No idea if
they're any good, but hope that gives you a start.
~John Mayer
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Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:18:35 +0000
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 6-18 births/deaths
June 18th births
06-18-1885 - Ernie Adams - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-26-1947
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-18-1897 - Alan MacAteer - d. 6-xx-1986
actor: Pop, the stage doorman "Backstage Wife"
06-18-1897 - Henry Wadsworth - Maysville, KY - d. 12-5-1974
actor: Alabama Randall "Jane Arden"
06-18-1898 - Carleton Hobbs - Farnborough, England - d. 7-31-1978
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Saturday Night Theatre, Children's Hour"
06-18-1898 - Francis 'Dink' Trout - Beardstown, IL - d. 3-26-1950
actor: Binney Waldo "Life of Riley"; Mr. Anderson "A Day in the Life of
Dennis Day"
06-18-1902 - Tom Breneman - Waynesboro, PA - d. 4-28-1948
emcee: "Breakfast at Sardi's/in Hollywood"; "My Secret Ambition"
06-18-1903 - Jeanette MacDonald - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-14-1965
singer: "Nobody's Children"; "Vicks Open House"; "Campbell Playhouse"
06-18-1904 - Keye Luke - Canton, China - d. 1-12-1991
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Image Minorities"
06-18-1906 - Kay Kyser - Rocky Mt., NC - d. 7-23-1985
bandleader, emcee: (The Old Perfessor) "Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
06-18-1906 - Ray Bauduc - New Orleans, LA - d. 1-8-1988
drummer, composer: "The Bob Crosby Show"
06-18-1908 - Clayton "Bud" Collyer - NYC - d. 9-8-1969
actor, announcer: Clark Kent/Superman "Advs. of Superman"; "Cavalcade of
America"
06-18-1908 - Elmore Vincent - d. 3-27-2000
actor: Phineas Peabody "Lum and Abner"
06-18-1910 - Betty Mandeville - Minneapolis, MN - d. 6-14-2001
producer, director: "The FBI in Peace and War"; "Take It or Leave It"
06-18-1910 - Dick Foran - Flemington, NJ - d. 8-10-1979
singer: (The Singing Cowboy) "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"
06-18-1910 - [removed] Marshall - Owatonna, MN - d. 8-25-1998
narrator: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
06-18-1910 - Ray McKinley - Fort Worth, TX - d. 5-7-1995
band leader, vocalist: Co-leader of the Glen Miller Band
06-18-1910 - Russ Hodges - d. 4-19-1971
announcer, sportscaster: "Madame Chaing Kai-Shek"; NY/SF Giants play-by-play
06-18-1913 - Sammy Cahn - NYC - d. 1-15-1993
lyricist: "You Bet Your Life"; "Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP"; "Monitor"
06-18-1917 - Richard Boone - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-10-1981
actor: "Dragnet"
06-18-1919 - Mel Brandt - Brooklyn, NY
announcer: "Advs. of Frank Merriwell"
June 18th deaths
03-19-1923 - Pamela Britton - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-18-1974
actress: "Luncheon at Sardi's"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-15-1923 - Doris Dowling - Detroit, MI - d. 6-18-2004
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-27-1912 - John Cheever - Quincy, MA - d. 6-18-1982
writer: "NBC Presents: Short Story"
06-01-1922 - Joan Caulfield - East Orange, NJ - d. 6-18-1991
actress: "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Great Scenes from Great Plays"
06-17-1894 - Harold Levey - NYC - d. 6-18-1967
composer, conductor: "Theatre Guild on the Air"
06-19-1928 - Nancy Marchand - Buffalo, NY - d. 6-18-2000
actress: "Cavalcade of America"; "A Private Space"
07-10-1905 - Thomas Gomez - NYC - d. 6-18-1971
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-15-1879 - Ethel Barrymore - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-18-1959
actress: Hattie Thompson "Miss Hattie"
08-21-1924 - Jack Buck - Holyoke, MA - d. 6-18-2002
baseball broadcaster: St. Louis Cardinals
09-25-1926 - John Ericson - Dusseldorf, Germany - d. 6-18-1972
actor: "Stars On Parade"
11-01-1908 - Felix Knight - Macon, GA - d. 6-18-1998
singer: "Schaefer Revue"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
12-01-1917 - William Tracy - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-18-1967
actor: Roosty "Roosty of the AAF"
12-05-1892 - Al Boasberg - Buffalo, NY - d. 6-18-1937
writer: "Jack Benny Program"
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Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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