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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2013 : Issue 65
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
Peter Fugitive [ KENPILETIC@[removed] ]
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:53:39 -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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Check out 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
MOLLE' MYSTERY THEATER
Episode 11 12-21-45 "The Doctor, His Wife, And The Clock"
Host: Bernard Lenrow As "Geoffrey Barnes; Connoisseur Of Mysteries"
NBC Molle' Fridays 9:00 - 9:30 pm
JEFF REGAN, INVESTIGATOR
Episode 13 (Final episode) 9-30-50 "The British Are Coming"
Stars: Frank Graham As "The Lion's Eye" And Frank Nelson As The Lion
Director/Producer: Sterling Tracy
Music: Dick Aurandt
Writers: William Froug And William Fifield
CBS Sustaining
MERV GRIFFIN SHOW
"Merv Griffin Sings"
3-14-47
Stars: Merv Griffin, Lyle Bardo's Orchestra
Mutual Sustained
THE JAMES MELTON SHOW
"Texaco Star Theater"
8-11-53 "Cactus Pete Rides Again"
Stars: Jack Carson, Lillian Leigh, George Wright, Lee Albert
Announcer: Steve Dunne
Mutual Colgate
THE LISTENING POST
10-13-48 "Scandalous Conduct"
Dramatized stories from the Saturday Evening Post
Host: Paul Luther
ABC Saturday Evening Post Tuesday-Friday 10:45 - 11:00 Am
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE
THE ADV. OF RIN TIN TIN
(MBS) 11/13/55 "The Ambassador" Lee Aaker is "Rusty"
THE FAT MAN
(ABC) 10/13/47 "A Window For Murder" stars: J. Scott Smart
MARY NOBLE/BACKSTAGE WIFE
(NBC) 8/8/47 Mary & Larry are temporarily separated - upsetting Larry, Jr.
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
Our actor of the month for June is Tommy Cook.
BLONDIE 10/08/44 Episode (xx) Guest-Fannie Bryce.
May 30 would have been Mel Blanc's birthday. He would have been 105
years of age. He died 07/10/1989. Recently on May 31, Walden Hughes and
John and I spoke to Mel's son Noel.
We bring you that interview plus several songs Mel recorded for Capital
records over the years.
"ESCAPE" from 03/18/54 Episode (206) Violent Night.
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This Week's Classics & Curios Show:
"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"
Episode 78
"STAR TIME" FEATURING DJ FRANK BRESEE
This week we highlight a show produced by the legendary Frank Bresee
back in 1953. Frank is still a radio hero for me and, of course, has
been for countless other OTR fans for well over 50 years. Perhaps he is
most famous for his "Golden Days of Radio" on the AFRS Network for over
a quarter of a century and will soon be returning to The Olde Tyme Radio
Network with that great series.
Frank's show for this episode is called "Star Time" and was an audition
show on radio KPOL in Los Angeles. For the format of "Star Time" Frank
planned frequently to have a popular guest artist to introduce a current
hit recording and would also arrange with popular performers to record
introductions to their own hits. Recorded appearances of artists on this
trial show in February of 1953 included Vaughn Monroe, Frankie Laine,
and Billy May. Vaughn introduced his "Tenderly" recording; Billy May
brought "My Silent Love;" and Frankie Laine had "Wonderful, Wasn't It?"
Upon first hearing this delightful show I found Frankie's song
pleasantly new and fresh after I thought I'd heard all of his many
recordings through several decades. (See my "Frankie Laine Tribute" on
Episode 72.)
Now as you listen, you'll hear The Modernaires perform a new "Juke Box
Saturday Night" with their renditions of songs by Don Cornell, The Four
Aces, Les Paul & Mary Ford, and Johnnie Ray. The show's crescendo is
Joni James' number 1 hit at the time of my high-school graduation in
1953: "Why Don't You Believe Me?"
Of all the great songs on this "Star Time" my favorite is probably "Glow
Worm" by the Mills Brothers. Not only is the song and performance great,
with outstanding new and clever lyrics written by Johnny Mercer, but
this tune is dear to my heart for a special reason. It was also one of
my song choices on my brief "DJ of the Day," "audition" which I produced
for Eddie Hubbard and which he played on ABC radio. After my retirement
from The University of Texas at Arlington that was my first "fantasy"
venture into producing shows for conventional and internet radio which
soon led me to Bill Bragg's YesterdayUSA and most recently to Jerry
Haendiges' Olde Tyme Radio Network.
Frank's in-person guest on this show is Eddie Fisher, who was about to
leave for Germany for his army commitment. Eddie talks about
entertaining the troops and about his new recording "Lady of Spain" with
Hugo Winterhalter's fine orchestra.
Frank signs off with "Keep well till I see you tomorrow on KPOL." Frank,
however did not "see" his radio audience "tomorrow" because KPOL in a
major blunder failed to pick up the show. Radio KPOL audiences in 1953
were -- and current listeners on The Olde Tyme Radio Network are -- the
losers of more wonderful additional shows that could have been produced
and aired as part of the continuing Golden Days of Radio, celebrated in
Frank's book "Radio's Golden Years" (with artist Bobb Lynes).
Thank you, Frank, for blessing us with so much radio joy, and thank you,
Lord, for blessing us with Frank Bresee, "Mr. Old Time Radio."
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Special thanks to Jerry Haendiges for the meticulous restoration of
"Star Time." This show is available for purchase from Jerry Haendiges
Productions. .
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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: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:55:28 -0400
From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Peter Fugitive
Hi Folks - July 10, 2013 - Monday - 1 PM cdt
In OTRDIGEST V2013#53, Steve Salaba wrote regarding "Peter Fugitive" in
part:
I found a brief tidbit on the web about this show ... but I wonder if
anyone remembers it and may have recordings. ... DJ Art Roberts featured a
radio serial entitled "The Wild Adventures of Peter Fugitive" featuring WLS
Production Director Ray Van Steen.
"Peter Fugitive" was WLS's answer to WCFL's "Chickenman" (Chickenman" is in
general circulation). Although Peter Fugitive was not widely known outside the
Chicago area, it did have a rather large listening audience.
By chance yesterday I chatted via Ham Radio with a former engineer at WLS, and I
asked him about 'Peter Fugitive'. He told me that someone (Van Steen?) has recordings
of all the episodes. This person was advised by his son to not put these shows into
circulation (we don't know why). My friend spoke to the gentleman who has the programs
and told him to reconsider, because interest in that program is waning, and it would be a
shame to have them wind up in the dumpster. My ham-buddy will contact the "rights holder"
again and will let me know if he can convince him to release the programs.
The Rights Holder is retired and now lives in California. I'll let the digest know if I learn
anything else.
Happy Taping - Ken Piletic - Streamwood, Illinois and Alma, Arkansas
kenpiletic@[removed]
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