Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #165
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Date: 6/15/2006 10:18 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 165
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  6-15 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Freberg Portugal Joke                 [ James Meadows <walthamus@[removed]; ]
  Re: Announcer from Radio to TV        [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
  Seattle Convention 6/23-24            [ HRRMIKES@[removed] ]
  Re: Stan Freber: Portugal joke        [ "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed]; ]
  Transferring wire recordings          [ "Gareth Tilley" <tilleygareth@hotma ]
  Lanny Ross                            [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
  King Ferdinand                        [ "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@hotm ]

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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:47:09 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  6-15 births/deaths

June 15th births

06-15-1843 - Edvard Grieg - Bergen Norway - d. 9-4-1907
composer: "Against the Storm"; "Life and Love of Dr. Susan"
06-15-1861 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink - Prague, Czechoslovkia - d.
11-17-1936
singer: "Enna Jettick Melodies"; "Hoover Sentinels Serenade"
06-15-1891 - Mento Everitt - Lakeview, MI - d. unknown
actor: Jenny Peabody "Jenny Peabody"
06-15-1894 - Leo Cleary - Massachusetts - d. 4-11-1955
actor: Bailiff "His Honor, the Barber"
06-15-1894 - Robert Russell Bennett - Kansas City, MO - d. 8-19-1981
compser: "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"; "Project Twenty"
06-15-1895 - Morty Howard - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-15-1970
pianist: "The Moylan Sisters"; "Rocking Horse Rhythms"
06-15-1905 - James Robertson Justice - Wigtown, Scotland - d. 7-2-1975
actor: "Star Bill"
06-15-1909 - Joe DeSantis - NYC - d. 8-30-1989
actor: Jim Scott "Under Arrest"; "This Is Nora Drake"
06-15-1909 - Mickey Katz - Cleveland, OH - d. 4-30-1985
clarinetist: (Father of Joel Grey) "The Spike Jones Show"
06-15-1910 - David Rose - London, England - d. 8-23-1990
conductor: "Red Skelton Show"; "David Rose Show"; "Bold Venture"
06-15-1918 - Hal Roach, Jr. - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-29-1972
producer, director: "My Little Margie"
06-15-1918 - Richard Derr - Norristown, PA - d. 5-8-1992
actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
06-15-1921 - Erroll Garner - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-2-1977
jazz muscian: "Jubilee"; "Command Performance"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
06-15-1929 - Lucille Norman - Lincoln, NE
singer: "Time, the Place and the Tune"; "Railroad Hour"

June 15th deaths

04-25-1918 - Ella Fitzgerald - Newport News, VA - d. 6-15-1996
singer: "Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm"; "Jubilee"
05-18-1902 - Meredith Willson - Mason City, IA - d. 6-15-1984
conductor, composer: "Maxwell House Coffee Time"; "Meredith Willson/
Music Room"
05-25-1917 - Steve Cochran - Eureka, CA - d. 6-15-1965
actor: "Voice of the Army"; "Unexpected"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
06-12-1884 - William Austin - Georgetown, British Guiana - d. 6-15-1975
actor: Professor of the English Department "Jack Oakie's College"
07-14-1898 - "Happy" Chandler - Corydon, KY - d. 6-15-1991
governor, baseball commissioner: "University of Chicago Round Table"
07-18-1911 - Hume Cronyn - London, Ontario, Canada - d. 6-15-2003
actor: Ben Marriott "Marriage"
09-01-1925 - Art Pepper - Gardena, CA - d. 6-15-1982
jazz artist: "Jazz Alive"
xx-xx-xxxx - Dr. Julius Klein - d. 6-15-1961
economist: "The World's Business"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Homestate of Richard Lane
Rice Lake, Wisconsin

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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:48:42 -0400
From: James Meadows <walthamus@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Freberg Portugal Joke

Kermyt Anderson asked the meaning of the joke in Stan
Freberg's "United States of America":

King Ferdinand: "Why should Spain sponsor you? Why
don't you go to Portugal?"
Columbus: "I did. They bought 'The Price is Right.'"

  I take it to be a reference to radio and TV
advertisers that once sponsored entire programs (such
as Johnson Wax sponsoring "Fibber McGee and Molly" or
Mutual of Omaha sponsoring "Wild Kingdom"). In those
days the sponsor, instead of the networks, made a lot
of the programming decisions. Producers or performers
competed to persuade sponsors to pick them up. Freberg
imagines Columbus' voyage competing with a game show
for sponsorship.

  But does "Portugal" have another reference, perhaps
as the name of a radio or TV sponsor? I hope someone
else is answering that question, as I write this.

Jim Meadows

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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:52:38 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Announcer from Radio to TV

Michael Hayde updates us on Willard "Bill" Kennedy:

He can be seen in the first season SUPERMAN episode "Crime Wave" as a
radio newscaster.

Wikipedia also reports this:

"In that series [Superman], he [Kennedy] also appeared off-screen
(uncredited) as the wrestling announcer in the 1952
<[removed]; episode called /No Holds Barred/ and
on-screen as the racetrack announcer in the 1955
<[removed]; episode called /Joey/. He also
appears to have provided the voice on the phone for the 1954
<[removed]; episode called /Beware the Wrecker/,
although Denver Pyle <[removed]; played
the part on-screen and had a couple of spoken lines."

Plus, here's a little more on Kennedy though I too see no radio credits:

Began television newscaster career on WWJ and WDIV-TV in Detroit, MI.
Worked at CLKW-TV in Windsor, Canada.
Worked on a weekly movie show "Bill Kennedy at the Movies"
Appeared in "Destination Tokyo" in 1943 as a torpedo gunnery officer
(credit as Bill Kennedy)
Featured in "The Royal Mounted Rides Again" in 1945
Appeared in "Escape in the Desert" in 1945 as Hank Albright (credited as
Bill Kennedy)
Star of "Your Hollywood Host" in 1952
Appeared in "Unchained" in 1955 (uncredited)
Joined WKBD-TV in 1969.
Moved to Florida in 1982 though he continued to produce a weekly show at
WKBD in Detroit.
Has two sons and a daughter plus two step-daughters.  He was born on
6/27/1908.

Probably more than you wanted to know, but easily found.

Jim Widner

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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:18:54 -0400
From: HRRMIKES@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Seattle Convention 6/23-24
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If you live near, or if you're able to be in, Seattle on June 23-24, don't
miss the many OTR performers and others who will be the heart of the fully
packed and very friendly convention.   It's a special gathering!    Details
at
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:15:12 -0400
From: "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Stan Freber: Portugal joke

Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; asked:

However, there's at least one joke left that I still don't get. King
Ferdinand asks Columbus, "Why should Spain sponsor you? Why don't you
go to Portugal?" and Columbus replies, "I did. They bought 'The Price
is Right.'"

This is a gag based on a (non-dirty) double entendre involving the
word "sponsor". King Ferdinand (Jesse White) is referring to the word
in the sense of paying for, and having first call on the fruits of, an
adventure or expedition; Columbus (Freberg) is using the word in the
sense of an entity purchasing advertising rights to a radio (well, by
1960, you could probably substitute that other word here) program.

It doesn't refer to any actual act by Portugal. (And it's really not
very funny. Maybe a brief amused [removed])

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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:22:25 -0400
From: "Gareth Tilley" <tilleygareth@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Transferring wire recordings

Hi

I wondered if anyone had experience of transferring wire recordings to
computer. I have a Webster-Chicago 80-1 wire recorder and wondering which
type cable to use?

Gareth

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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:52:54 -0400
From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Lanny Ross

Hi Everybody,

if you are looking for Lanny Ross radio appearance check with Ted of Radio
Memories at [removed]  Lanny was on 1936 Showboat with Bob Hope,
Your Hit Parade from 1939 with Bea Wain, and Richard Lamparski interview on
Richard series   called What Ever Became of.  Ted might have some of these
shows.  Take care,

Walden Hughes

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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:22:50 -0400
From: "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  King Ferdinand

Kermyt Anderson wrote:

However, there's at least one joke left that I still don't get. King
Ferdinand asks Columbus, "Why should Spain sponsor you? Why don't you
go to Portugal?" and Columbus replies, "I did. They bought 'The Price
is Right.'" I've never understood what that meant. Can anybody
elucidate?

The joke is a based on the deliberate confusion  in the listener's mind of
sponsoring a voyage of discovery in the 15th Century with sponsoring a
television program in the mid-20th Century. You are left with the image of
Columbus "pitching" his concept of an expedition to the King of Portugal at
the same time someone is showing him a pilot of a game show and the King
deciding to invest his money in the game show. In those days most television
(and the few remaining OTR shows) had a single sponsor. The joke is
moderately funny.  Perhaps there is a techincal term for this form of humor,
but it there is I don't know what it is.

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