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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 49
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
      Kate [removed]                       [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Behind every great announcer          [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      When Kate Smith electrified the nati  [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      Panic in Georgia After a Mock News B  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      3-15 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:18:24 -0500
    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," Bob Bro's "The Old Time Radio Show," Jonn and Larry
    Gassman's "Same Time Station" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."
    Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    St. Patrick's Day Special

    THE DANNY KAYE SHOW
    Episode 11 3-17-45 "One Irishman's Family"
    Guest: Kitty Kallen
    CBS Pabst Blue Ribbon
    Stars: Eve Arden, Lional Stander, Harry James and His Music Makers

    MAN OF MAGIC
    Episode 1 3-16-44 "Smiling Irish Eyes"
    Guest: Wendie Barrie
    Mutual Eichler's Beer
    Stars: Felix Greenfield, A Mind Reader

    THE RAILROAD HOUR
    Episode 24 3-14-49 "Eileen"
    Guest Stars: Cecil Kelloway, Irene Manning, Clark Dennis
    ABC Association Of American Railroads
    Host/Star: Gordon MacRae

    BING CROSBY-ROSEMARY CLOONEY SHOW
    Episode 14 3-17-60 "Did Your Mother Come From Ireland?" CBS General
    Electric Stars: Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Ken Carpenter, The Buddy
    Cole Trio Producers: Bill Morrow and Murdo McKenzie
    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

    TOWN HALL TONIGHT
    (NBC) 3/17/37 starring Fred Allen on his St. Patrick's Day show
    including a Hillbilly sketch, an Irish tenor and a real Irish band.

    THE ADV. OF SUPERMAN
    3/13/40 Trouble on the way to Canyon City.
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    THE OLD TIME RADIO SHOW

    Voyage of the Scarlet Queen (Mutual)
    Original Air: 7/10/47
    Title: "The White Jade Buddha"
    Sponsor: Sustained
    Starring: Elliott Lewis and Ed Maxx

    I Love a Mystery (Mutual)
    Original Air: 10-31-49
    Title: "Thing That Cries in the Night - Episode #1"
    Sponsor: Sustained
    Starring: Russell Thorson, Jim Boles, and Tony Randall

    Our Miss Brooks (CBS)
    Original Air: 7-3-55
    Title: "Hillbilly Heifetz"
    Sponsor: Anacin
    Starring: Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Richard Crenna, and Jane Morgan

    Gunsmoke (CBS)
    Original Air: 3/26/55
    Title: "Horse Deal"
    Sponsor: L & M Cigarettes
    Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, and Georgia Ellis
    Announcer: George Walsh
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    We pay tribute to St Patrick's day

    BURNS AND ALLEN
    03-07-41
    Featuring Burns and Allen as they take in a St. Patrick's day parade.
    This week, from New York City, The show is brought to you by Hormel and
    Spam.
    Cast: George Burns and Gracie Allen, Minerva Pious,
    With Artie Shaw and his orchestra, Songs by the Three Smooties,
    (Announcer) Jimmy Wallington.
    Heard on the NBC Radio Network.

    BEAT THE BAND
    03-17-40.
    NBC General Mills (KIX Cereal)
    With Host Gary More, Music by Ted Weems and his orchestra, Elmo Tanner,
    Red Ingle, Orm Downes, Country Washburn.
    Vocalists were Parker Gibbs, Marvel (Marilyn) Maxwell, and Perry Como.
    Announcer: Fort Pearson.

    THE QUIZ KIDS
    03-11-51. episode 560 St. Patrick's Day Show From Chicago; With the
    Chief Quizzer, Joe Kelly And Quiz Kids, Patrick Owen Conlon, Mike
    Mullin, Announcer: Bob Murphy

    SHERLOCK HOLMES
    03-18-46 Episode 210 "Adventure Of The Blarney Stone"
    Sponsor: Petri Wines.
    With Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce,
    With Paula Winslowe,
    The show was written by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green.
    Announcer: Harry Bartell
    Heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
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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: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:22:14 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Kate [removed]

    Gene Dench wants to know when Kate Smith first sang "God Bless
    America" on radio.

    As reported in the Dec 2009 issue of RADIO RECALL, Kate first sang
    "God Bless America" on her 11-10-38 radio show, which would have been
    a program dedicated to Armistice Day.

    Irving Berlin had originally written this song for a 1918 musical but
    it was cut before the show opened. In 1938 he dug it out of his trunk
    and gave it to Kate, in response to her request that he write her a
    new song for her program. He said he didn't have time, but he
    remembered a song he had composed twenty years earlier and offered it
    instead.

    Of course, it went on the become the most-played song of WW II and
    will be forever associated with Kate. She sang it countless times on
    radio and in concerts, however I do not believe that any recording
    exists of that 1938 show.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:22:25 -0500
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Behind every great announcer

    Ed Kienzler aptly reminds us:

>     The name "Fireside Chats" was first used by Robert Trout from  CBS

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    Correct!  Pay that man 64 silver dollars.  Trout was the first to say it on
    the air.

    Giving more credit where it's due, the "Fireside Chats sobriquet [was]
    inspired by Alexandria, Va. station WJSV honcho Harry Butcher who knew FDR
    spoke from [the] White House Diplomatic Reception Room by [the] fireplace;
    Robert Trout, CBS announcer, used [the] epithet introducing FDR March 12
    [1933]."

    Behind every great announcer stood ... a station or network manager ...
    possibly?

    The excerpt is from This Day in Network Radio at
    [removed].

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:22:30 -0500
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  When Kate Smith electrified the nation

    Gene Dench inquires:

>     I am trying to find out when Kate Smith sang "God Bless America" for the
>     first

    time on radio.

    "November 10, 1938, Smith premiered God Bless America on her 60-minute Kate
    Smith Hour over CBS, a performance critic Leonard Maltin asserted 'made the
    song an anthem overnight.'  The new piece 'electrified the nation' claimed
    another source.  Earlier that same afternoon she had advised noontime
    listeners that the [Irving] Berlin work she was to introduce that night
    'will be timeless -- it will never die -- others will thrill to its beauty
    long after we are gone.'  As she often was, Kate Smith would prove to be
    right.  (Can any who lived through the Smith era dispassionately dismiss her
    rendition of that tune in a contemporary celebration of Independence Day?
    It would likely be difficult for millions to disassociate the two.)"

    There is much more on this topic in an extensive Smith treatise in Music
    Radio:  The Great Performers and Programs of the 1920s through Early 1960s
    at [removed].

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:22:36 -0500
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Panic in Georgia After a Mock News Broadcast

    Folks;

       An independent television station in the republic of Georgia panicked the
    populous by running a satirical "mocumentary" depicting a Russian invasion,
    drawing comparisons to Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast:

    [removed]

             Charlie

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    Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:23:12 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  3-15 births/deaths

    How many of you remember this date as "Tax Day?"

    March 15th births

    03-15-1874 - Harold Ickes - Frankstown, PA - d. 2-3-1952
    secretary of interior: "Information Please"
    03-15-1877 - Montague Love - Portsmouth, England - d. 5-17-1943
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Suspense"
    03-15-1883 - Ernie Hare - Norfolk, VA - d. 3-9-1939
    singer: (The Happiness Boys)
    03-15-1887 - Billy Jones - NYC - d. 11-23-1940
    singer: (The Happiness Boys)
    03-15-1898 - Everett Mitchell - Austin, IL - d. 11-9-1990
    annnouncer, host: "National Farm and Home Hour"; "Voice of the Farm"
    03-15-1901 - Madeleine Pierce - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-8-1983
    actor: Wiki "Just Plain Bill"; Rudy Cameron "When A Girl Marries"
    03-15-1904 - George Brent - Dublin, Ireland - d. 5-26-1979
    actor, moderator: "Doctor Fights"; "Leave It to the Girls"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    03-15-1904 - Pat O'Malley - Burnley, Lancashire, England - d. 3-1-1985
    actor: "Cavalcade of America";"Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-15-1904 - Verree Teasdale - Spokane, WA - d. 2-17-1987
    actor: (Wife of Adolph Menjou) "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    03-15-1905 - Margaret Webster - NYC - d. 11-13-1972
    stage actor, director: "Information Please"
    03-15-1905 - Nat Perrin - New York - d. 5-9-1998
    writer: "The Marx Brothers"
    03-15-1907 - Jimmy McPartland - Chicago, IL - d. 3-13-1991
    jazz artist: "Doctor Jazz"; "Town Hall Concert"
    03-15-1908 - Roland Varno (Varnoux) - Utrecht, Netherlands - d.
    5-24-1996
    character actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "You Were There"
    03-15-1909 - John Roeburt - d. 5-22-1972
    writer: "Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator"; "Inner Sanctum
    Mysteries"
    03-15-1910 - Nick Stewart - NYC - d. 12-18-2000
    actor: "Hollywood Newsreel of the Air"
    03-15-1911 - Abraham A. Albayalde - d. 2-23-1994
    newscaster: KTOH Lihue, Hawaii
    03-15-1913 - Macdonald Carey - Sioux City, IA - d. 3-21-1994
    actor: Jonathan Hillary "Just Plain Bill "; Lee Markham "Woman in White"
    03-15-1915 - David Schoenbrun - NYC - d. 5-23-1988
    news correspondent: CBS News, Paris; "CBS Radio Workshop"
    03-15-1915 - Johnny Frazer - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-11-1945 Died in WWII
    announcer: "Brenthouse"; "The Bob Hope Show"; "The Kool Show"
    03-15-1916 - Frank Coghlan, Jr. - New Haven, CT - d. 9-7-2009
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Doctor Christian"
    03-15-1916 - Harry James - Albany, GA - d. 7-5-1983
    bandleader: "Spotlight Bands"; "Call for Music"
    03-15-1919 - Lawrence Tierney - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-26-2002
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-15-1919 - Merv Baldrica - d. 4-25-2006
    sportscaster: WMIQ Iron Mountain, Michigan
    03-15-1927 - Carl Smith - Maynardville, TN - d. 1-16-2010
    country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Cas Walker's Radio Show"
    03-15-1932 - Ray Aparicio - d. 1-12-2006
    disk jockey: KBUC Corona, California
    03-15-1939 - Robert (Thomas) Nye - London, England
    writer: "Sisters"

    March 15th deaths

    01-22-1909 - Ann Sothern - Valley City, ND - d. 3-15-2001
    actor: Maisie Revere "Maisie"
    03-21-1906 - Helen Deutsch - NYC - d. 3-15-1992
    writer: "Forecast": "Gulf Screen Guild Theatre", "Lux Radio Theatre"
    03-30-1930 - Pepper Barker - d. 3-15-1998
    disk jockey: WCMB Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
    04-13-1906 - Bud Freeman - Chicago, IL - d. 3-15-1991
    tenor sax player: "Camel Caravan"; "Fats Waller Jam School"; "Doctor
    Jazz"
    05-17-1923 - Alice Backes - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 3-15-2007
    actor: "This Is Your FBI"; "The Whistler"; "Family Theatre"
    08-24-1912 - Durward Kirby - Covingnton, KY - d. 3-15-2000
    announcer, emcee: "Club Matinee"; "Honeymoon in New York"
    08-27-1916 - Larry Thor - Lundar, Manitoba, Canada - d. 3-15-1976
    actor: Danny Clover "Broadway Is My Beat"
    08-29-1910 - John Kane - Davenport, IA - d. 3-15-1910
    actor: Tom Jones "Five Star Jones"; Scubby "Nick Carter"
    08-xx-1864 - Clara Lane - Ellsworth, ME - d. 3-15-1952
    singer: WBZ Boston, Massachusetts
    09-13-1910 - Van Amburg - d. 3-15-1990
    sportscaster: KPIX San Francisco, California
    11-11-1898 - Rene Clair - Paris, France - d. 3-15-1981
    film director: "This Week Around Paris"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-26-1889 - H. I. Phillips - Connecticut - d. 3-15-1965
    writer, composer: "Information Please"
    12-21-1908 - Sylvester L. "Pat" Weaver - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-15-2002
    producer: "Fred Allen Show"

    Ron

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