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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2006 : Issue 144
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
SPEAKING OF [removed] [ "IT'S ME~!" <voxpop@[removed]; ]
Re: favorite OTR moment? [ "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed] ]
Re: Favorite OTR moments [ "jazmaan@[removed]" <dmf273@ya ]
WXYZ's radio heyday [ "Dave Adams" <daveadams-hollywood@c ]
Radio Moments [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
RE: Hornet Moment [ "Gordon Robson" <g-robson@[removed] ]
Scarce OTR Shows [ Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed]; ]
RE: Houdini [ "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed] ]
Favorite OTR moment [ "David Ballarotto" <balla@earthlink ]
Anne Francis' OTR career [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
Amos 'n' Andy show dates [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]
5-25 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
favorite moment of vic and sade [ Grams46@[removed] ]
Ray Eberly and Helen O'Connell [ <austhaus1@[removed]; ]
Re: Studio Orchestras [ Hal Stone <otrjug@[removed]; ]
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 13:25:17 -0400
From: "IT'S ME~!" <voxpop@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: SPEAKING OF [removed]
does anyone recall the episode with claude rains where he does a monologue
as a museum curator. i believe he was the only one in the cast. i would love
to know if a copy of that is available [removed] don't remember the name
of the show.
someone mentioned the suspense show where frank lovejoy was talking down
a distressed [removed] believe the pilot was my friend byron kane.
chet norris
Ave atque vale
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 14:11:16 -0400
From: "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: favorite OTR moment?
My favorite OTR moment would have to be the "Your Money or Your Life"
episode of the Jack Benny Show when he is held up and asked "your money or
your life?" and he answers I'm [removed]'m thinking. It is such a totally
unexpected answer and may be one of the best lines ever written.
Andrew Godfrey
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 14:12:18 -0400
From: "jazmaan@[removed]" <dmf273@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Favorite OTR moments
1. Peter Lorre breaking the third wall in "The Horla" by saying "Yes I know
this is only a radio
show, but still I must destroy myself!"
2. The end of "The Thing on the Fourble Board" when you find out who the
narrator is living with.
3. The rats climbing the lighthouse walls in Vincent Price's "Three Skeleton
Key"
4. The plane crashing into the protoplasm at the end of "Chicken Heart".
Ok, these are all favorite horror moments. Next time I'll post some comedy
moments.
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 14:12:56 -0400
From: "Dave Adams" <daveadams-hollywood@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: WXYZ's radio heyday
Sad to note the passing of Cy Feuer, but credit for the music used in the
old Republic Pictures westerns must be shared with Alberto Columbo, Karl
Hajos and Bill Lava. In fact, the majority of the great musical cues that
Republic shipped to George Trendle at WXYZ to use in the radio version of
the Lone Ranger were Columbo cues.
Jim or anyone who might [removed]
I grew up around WXYZ and understand that in it's heyday it was a radio
drama powerhouse.
Sadly I was born in '55, too late to have heard original Lone Rangers or
Green Hornets. I've read that
the 2 characters are "related". The TV alter ego of WXYZ (WXYZ Channel 7)
showed Soupy Sales
when I was a lad and I seem to remember that some of the shows may have
originated locally.
Does anyone know of a good, in depth accout of WXYZ's radio days that I
mught find on the web?
Although I'm in [removed], working in film/TV, I'm interested in the local
(Detroit) history and what I missed.
Thanks!
-Dave
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 14:35:40 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Radio Moments
On 5/24/06 12:18 PM [removed]@[removed] wrote:
Something to ponder on. What is your favorite moment in Olde Tyme
Radio?
A few years back, I came up with a hundred such moments that I thought
had a certain [removed]
[removed]
Elizabeth
[ADMINISTRIVIA: Also available, with additional entries in her Retro-Views
series, at [removed] --cfs3]
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 15:39:52 -0400
From: "Gordon Robson" <g-robson@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: RE: Hornet Moment
What is the date of the Green Hornet episode in which old Dan Reid tells his
son Britt about the legacy of crime fighting handed down by his great-uncle,
The Lone Ranger?
Thanks
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 15:40:08 -0400
From: Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Scarce OTR Shows
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Does any one out there know where I might obtainthe following OTR on mp3
format: Wormwood Forest, Howie Wing, and more shows of the early "Fitch
Bandwagon" shows that has the old Fitch Shampoo theme song being sung by a
group, please?I read there is at least 16 of the Wormwood Forest shows.
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 18:09:52 -0400
From: "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: RE: Houdini
I managed to see both of the Houdini movies. The first one kinda bugged me,
because it suggested that Houdini was a real magician, [removed], there was some
supernatural force that he used to practice his magic. It suggested that he
didn't personally know the mechanism for his tricks. Also, I remember Janet
Leigh addressing Houdini's mother as "Mrs. Houdini."
The second movie, Glazer, I think was a TV movie and never appeared in
theaters. I don't think there is much of an effort to produce VHS/DVDs of TV
movies from that era.
Thanx,
B. Ray
W9KEE
[removed]@[removed]
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 18:28:47 -0400
From: "David Ballarotto" <balla@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Favorite OTR moment
There are many, including some great bloopers. I love a moment in the
Chase and Sanborn Hour that aired the same night as "War of the Worlds"
where you hear this loud BONK! when Charlie McCarthy's head either fell off
or hit the microphone, prompting some ad-libbing.
There's also the extremely long laugh Andy Devine gets at the end of a Jack
Benny program where instead of saying on "the current Jell-O series," he
says "the current Jelly series."
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 21:58:24 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Anne Francis' OTR career
On Thursday, May 18, 2006, at 10:53 PM, Irene Heinstein wrote:
Actress Anne Francis (75) is being honored in SF this Friday and there
was a
lengthy interview with her in last Sunday's paper. Am I the only one
unaware of her radio work as a kid?
"Born Ann Marvak in Ossining, [removed], her career started at age 5."
"I grew up in New York working in the radio soap opera 'When a Girl
Marries,' " she says. "The reason I got the job: I had strep throat and
sounded like the kid actor they were replacing. I did hundreds of radio
shows after that, including 'Let's Pretend.' Then the Broadway stage
entered
my life." [at age 11]
Anne was active as a kid actor in the Golden Age of Radio, but every
time she recalls her career, she changes it just a titch. In a 1996
interview with Cary O'Dell, then archivist for the Museum of Broadcast
Communications, she said her show biz career began at age 6, not as an
actor but a model with the Powers Agency. A few years later, she became
part of the cast of "Coast to Coast on a Bus." She said that later she
got occasional roles on "Let's Pretend", "Big Town", "Rosemary", and
"Aunt Jenny's True Life Stories.' By the time she got the role of
"Kathy Cameron" on "When a Girl Marries", she claimed the media was
calling her "The Little Queen of the Soaps." She also told O'Dell she
was on "over 3,000 radio broadcasts" in her career. (I suspect
"hundreds" is probably more correct.)
Moreover she didn't get that role on "When a Girl Marries" until she
was a teenager. Radio Mirror magazine of March 1946 reported she was 15
and in her second year on that soap opera. in August 1946, at age 16,
she was signed to a 7 year contract with MGM and left that radio
series. Radio Mirror put her on the cover of their March 1947 issue,
with a lengthy interview of her and her mother about their progress in
Hollywood. There is no mention in the O'Dell interview nor the 1947
Radio Mirror piece that indicates that the "Broadway stage" entered her
life after her radio career.
And, if we may mention television, Anne also told O'Dell she had a CBS
daily 15 minute afternoon TV show beginning in 1941 (at which time she
was 10 years old) and Burl Ives got his start on her TV show. She did
not name this TV series.
Incidentally, Derek Tague has been trying to get her to FOTR in Newark
for some time, but only polite declinations have resulted.
Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:01:37 -0400
From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Amos 'n' Andy show dates
Today at a thrift shop I bought two cassettes with a total of four A 'n'A
shows. They were put out by an outfit called GAA Corporation.
In checking the show logs against the titles on the tapes, I am not finding
dates. For two of them I may have found something close, but am not sure.
I know sometimes show titles are arbitrarily created by these distributors.
So, here are the four they show:
Two Brides for Andy
Kingfish Throws a Picnic
The Broken Clock
Andy, the Actor
In the online logs I find a 5/6/51 episode called the Annual Lodge Picnic.
THere is a 5/5/44 episode called the Lectric Clock Caper and an [removed]
episode called Andy's Actress Girlfriend. But nothing with the same titles
as on my tapes.
There are a lot of shows regarding Andy being engaged and getting married,
but none specifically listing two brides.
Can anyone help with possble clues or clarifications?
Thanks.
Ted
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:01:45 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 5-25 births/deaths
May 25th births
05-25-1877 - Billy Murray - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-17-1954
singer: "The National Barn Dance"
05-25-1892 - Bennett Cerf - NYC - d. 8-27-1971
narrator, panelist: "Biography in Sound"; "What's My Line?"
05-25-1898 - Gene Tunney - NYC - d. 11-7-1978
heavyweight boxing champion: "National Guard Show"; "The Nave is Fit
to Fight"
05-25-1905 - Joseph C. Harsch - Toledo, OH - d. 6-3-1998
news commentator: "A Closer Look at the News"; "Emphasis"
05-25-1907 - Barbara Luddy - Helena, MT - d. 4-1-1979
actor: Carol Evans "Road of Life"; Janet Munson Adams "Woman in White"
05-25-1908 - Linda Watkins - Boston, MA - d. 10-31-1976
actor: Dot "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"; "Big Guy"; "Fat Man"
05-25-1912 - Eddie Maxwell - Detroit. MI - d. 11-21-1999
writer: "The Spike Jones Show"
05-25-1913 - Richard Dimbleby - Richmond onThames, England - d.
12-22-1965
BBC's first-ever radio news reporter: "Down Your Way"; "Twenty
Questions"
05-25-1915 - Van Alexander - NYC
bandleader: "The Callihans"; "Fitch Bandwagon"
05-25-1916 - Ginny Simms - San Antonio, TX - d. 4-4-1994
singer: "Ginny Simms Show"; "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
05-25-1916 - Kevin O'Morrison - St. Louis, MO
actor: Charlie Wild "Charlie Wild, Private Detective"
05-25-1917 - Steve Cochran - Eureka, CA - d. 6-15-1965
actor: "Voice of the Army"; "Unexpected"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
05-25-1918 - Henry Calvin - Dallas, TX - d. 10-6-1975
actor: Joshua Sharpe "Big Guy"
05-25-1919 - Lindsey Nelson - Campbellsville, TN - d. 6-10-1995
sportscaster: "Monitor Preview"; "Biography In Sound"
05-25-1921 - Kitty Kallen - Philadelphia, PA
singer: "Kitty Kallen Calling"; "Harry James and His Music Makers"
05-25-1923 - Eddie Ryan - Brooklyn, NY
actor: "The Charlotte Greenwood Show"; "Let's Pretend"
05-25-1925 - Jeanne Crain - Barstow, CA - d. 12-14-2003
actor: "Screen Guild Players"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
05-25-1927 - William "Rosko" Mercer - NYC - d. 8-1-2000
disc jockey, announcer: CBS Network
05-25-1929 - Beverly Sills - Brooklyn, NY
singer: "Major Bowes Capitol Family"
May 25th deaths
01-02-1894 - Robert Nathan - NYC - d. 5-25-1985
writer: "CBS Radio Workshop"
01-06-1918 - Buddy Weed - Ossining, NY - d. 5-25-1997
musician: "Old Gold Party Time"; "Lanny Ross Show"
01-22-1894 - Rosa Ponselle - Meriden, CT - d. 5-25-1981
opera soprano: "Atwater Kent Hour"; "Metropolitan Opera"
04-18-1880 - Donald Crisp - Aberfeldy, Scotland - d. 5-25-1974
actor: Jonathan Trimble "Jonathan Trimble, Esquire"
08-27-1926 - Pat Coombs - London, England - d. 5-25-2002
comedian: Nola "Hello Playmates"
09-08-1914 - Hillary Brooke - Astoria, NY - d. 5-25-1999
actor: "Suspense"
09-11-1909 - Kenneth Banghart - Paramus, NJ - d. 5-25-1980
announcer: "Archie Andews"; "Lora Lawton"; "Robert Shaw Chorale"
10-09-1907 - Henry Hunter - Rahway, NJ - d. 5-25-1985
actor: Anthony J. Marleybone "Affairs of Anthony"; Terry Regan
"Attorney at Law"
11-06-1899 - Francis Lederer - Prague, Czechoslovakia - d. 5-25-2000
actor: Guest Armchair detective: Ellery Queen
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Birthplace of Nancy Olson
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Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 08:25:04 -0400
From: Grams46@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: favorite moment of vic and sade
vic, sade, and rush are sitting on their porch waiting for the beef punkels
to finish cooking and reading their mail.
after scanning a letter from lodge headquarters (the sacred stars of the
milky way), vic explains that headquarters has decreed vacationing lodge
brothers and their traveling companions can stay at other lodge brothers'
homes
instead of paying for a motel.
vic is all for it until sade "puts the kibosh" on the scheme. sade details
the numerous problems associated with opening her home to strangers.
my favorite moment is when vic realizes that sade is right and agrees to
write headquarters a letter declining the opportunity.
peace from kathy
support our troops; end the war
john 3:16
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Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 08:25:40 -0400
From: <austhaus1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Ray Eberly and Helen O'Connell
My friend Sandy asked how many duets did Ray Eberly and Helen O Connell do
together.
The answer is none! It was Bob Eberly and Helen who were in the Jimmy Dorsey
band and recorded those great hits.
I'm sure it was just a momentary slip for Sandy had the spelling of Bob's
last name right. Even though they were brothers, Ray who sang with the great
Glenn Miller orchestra, kept the original spelling of the family name.
Bob Eberly joined [removed] in 1935 and Helen OConnell joined in 1939.
As far as how many of those duets were recorded I can't be positive but I
think the list below is pretty complete.
Amampola 1941
Yours "
In the Hush of Night "
Green Eyes "
Time Was "
Jim "
Tangerine 1942
Brazil "
The musicians strike of July 1942[removed](for Decca Records) interupted the
string of hits that they had going. Helen, who had married in 1941, left to
have a baby in late 1942. She was replaced in the band by Kitty Kallen who
also recorded some duets with Bob.
I's entirely possible that I have missed a recording or two, but this is what
I was able to cull from my record collection.
George Aust
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Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 09:15:40 -0400
From: Hal Stone <otrjug@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Studio Orchestras
Christopher Werner asked about the size of OTR studio orchestras.
I can't speak for anyplace other than the NBC Network studios in NY.
The Orchestras could range from "Symphony" size, down to a simple organist.
Much depended on the need for musical accompaniment, particularly if the
show featured singers. Other factors that determined the size of a studio
orchestra was cost. if it was sponsored, the client wound up paying for the
Musicians, so size was no problem. If it was sustaining, the group was
smaller in order to hold down production costs. And if they could get away
with simply using an organ (for musical bridges),,, so much the better.
Think of daytime [removed] how organ music, "stings", etc. was used to
enhance dramatic effect.
When the "Archie Andrews" first began on NBC, we had some of the NBC Studio
Orchestra musicians as backup. I recall it was about 12 to 15 pieces, under
the Direction of Milt Katims (Spelling)... and all these guys were on staff.
I think NBC figured that as long as they were paying them weekly salaries,
they might as well use them.
I'm not sure if they also played in the Symphony orchestra as well, or if
they entire huge symphony orchestra was kept on the payroll. I would think
so, considering the amount of rehearsing that the Maestro required.
We eventually eased out the orchestra and went with the great George Wright
on organ for most of the programs run.
Hal (Harlan) Stone'Jughead
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