Subject: [removed] Digest V2011 #133
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Date: 8/22/2011 9:11 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 133
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      8-20 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 21-27 Aug  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Science Fiction Theatre & The Big Sh  [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Captain Midnight Premiums Reconstruc  [ Zane <intraverse@[removed]; ]
      8-21 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Paul Frees recordings                 [ Michael Berger <[removed]@yaho ]
      "I Love Lucy: An American Legend" at  [ Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed] ]
      Dodge City [removed]                 [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      New I Love A Mystery update anyone?   [ Edmund Zebrowski <starlightexp@hotm ]
      OTR type broadcasts today             [ LMooreRN@[removed] ]

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    Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:06:55 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-20 births/deaths

    August 20th births

    08-20-1881 - Edgar Guest - Birmingham, England - d. 8-5-1959
    poet: (Poet Laureate of Radio) "Edgar Guest in Welcome Valley"; "It
    Can Be Done"
    08-20-1888 - Julia Sanderson - Springfield, MA - d. 1-27-1975
    singer, emcee: "Blackstone Plantation"; "Battle of the Sexes"; "Let's
    Be Charming"
    08-20-1905 - Jack Teagarden - Vernon, TX - d. 1-15-1964
    trombonist: "Eddie Condon"s Jazz Concert"; "Paul Whiteman Show"
    08-20-1906 - Floyd Neal - Iowa - d. 12-22-1985
    announcer: "Uncle Don"; "Vienese Night"
    08-20-1907 - Alan Reed (aka Teddy Bergman) - NYC - d. 6-14-1977
    actor: Falstaff Openshaw "Fred Allen Show"; Pasquale "Life with Luigi"
    08-20-1908 - Al Lopez - Tampa, FL - d. 10-29-2005
    baseball hall of fame: "Greatest Sports Thrills"; "Tops In Sports"
    08-20-1908 - Andre Baruch - Paris, France - d. 9-15-1991
    announcer, disc jockey: "Your Hit Parade"; "Kate Smith Program"; "Myrt
    and Marge"
    08-20-1911 - Robert Riley Crutcher - Missouri - d. 8-10-1974
    writer: "Fabulous Dr. Tweedy"; "Eddie Bracken Show"
    08-20-1912 - Gerald Dickler - NYC - d. 2-13-1999
    first legal counsel to the radio's union
    08-20-1915 - Virginia Vass - Greenville, SC
    singer: (The Vass Family) "The Lady Next Door"; "Kraft Phoenix Program"
    08-20-1916 - Bernard Archard - London, England - d. 5-1-2008
    actor: "The Murder of Walter Raleigh"
    08-20-1917 - Catherine McCune - Honolulu, Hawiian Territory
    actor: Clara Potts "Scattergood Baines"; "Joe Penner Show"
    08-20-1918 - Henry Leff - NYC - d. 8-12-2007
    actor: Ray Mallard "Candy Matson, YU2-8209"
    08-20-1918 - Jacqueline Susann - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-21-1974
    actor: Lola the Cigarette Girl "Morey Amsterdam Show"
    08-20-1920 - Stefan Hatos - Aurora, IL - d. 3-2-1999
    producer, writer, announcer: "Beulah"; "The Green Hornet"
    08-20-1923 - Jim Reeves - nr. Galloway, Panola County, TX - d. 7-31-1964
    country singer: "Jim Reeves Show"; "Grand Ole Opry"; "Country Style
    [removed]"
    08-20-1929 - Frank Bresee - Los Angeles, CA
    actor: Little Beaver "Red Ryder"
    08-20-1933 - Ted Donaldson - NYC
    actor: Bud Anderson "Father Knows Best;" "Screen Guild Theatre"
    08-20-1935 - Fran Halpern - NYC
    host: "Literary Lunch with Fran Halpern"
    08-20-1935 - Justin Tubb - San Antonio, TX - d. 1-14-1998
    singer: "Grand Ole Opry"

    August 20th deaths

    01-16-1901 - Sid Silvers - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-20-1976
    actor: Beetle "Phil Baker Show"; "Jack Benny Program"
    01-21-1919 - Louis Innis - Seymour, IN - d. 8-20-1982
    guitar: "Plantation Boys"
    03-12-1908 - William Lally - New York - d. 8-20-1956
    actor: "The NBC University Theatre"
    03-16-1916 - Walter Reed - Fort Ward, Bainbridge Island, WA - d.
    8-20-2001
    actor: "The Bombadier"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-16-1912 - Ilona Massey - Budapest, Hungary - d. 8-20-1974
    actor: Mata Hari-style operative in World War II "Top Secret"; "Screen
    Guild Theatre"
    08-23-1905 - Rags Ragland - Louisville, KY - d. 8-20-1946
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    10-15-1912 - Vivian Fridell - Milwaukee, WI - d. 8-20-1998
    actor: Mary Noble "Mary Noble, Backstage Wife"; "Road of Life"
    11-11-1897 - James Goss - Chicago, IL - d. 8-20-1976
    actor: Uncle Jim Fairfield "Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy"
    12-19-1925 - Lillian Clark - Scranton, PA - d. 8-20-1996
    singer: (Clark Sisters) "Jack Smith Show"; "Spotlight Revue"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:07:01 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 21-27 August

       Due to connection and mail problems, last weeks edition was lost to
    the ether.  I am sure many were weeping, wailing and gnashing their
    teeth over this loss.  Others are probably asking "there's a history
    column?" However, I'm re-sending it in this week column.

     From Those Were The Days

    8/14

    1933   WLW in Cincinnati, OH premiered Ma Perkins. Just four months
    later, Ma moved to WMAQ in Chicago and was heard over the entire NBC
    network. Virginia Payne was 23 years old when she started in the title
    role. Ma Perkins operated a lumberyard in Rushville Center. Her children
    were Evey, Fay and John (who was killed in the war). One of the other
    characters in the show was Shuffle Shober. Virginia Payne played Ma
    Perkins for 27 years    and 7,065 episodes.

    1942   Garry Moore hosted a new program on NBC. The Show Without a Name
    was an effort to crack the morning show dominance of Arthur Godfrey
    (CBS) and Don McNeil's Breakfast Club (ABC). A prize of $500 was offered
    to name the show and Someone came up with the title, Everything Goes.

    1945   CBS began the series, Columbia Presents Corwin. Orson Welles did
    a special reading about the fall of Japan, titled, Fourteen August.

    8/15

    1911   Procter & Gamble Company of Cincinnati, OH introduced Crisco
    hydrogenated shortening.  (Where would all those shows have been with
    Crisco as a sponsor?  And remember, its digestible!  ed)

    8/16

    1922   WEAF began broadcasting from new studios atop the Western
    Electric Building in New York City.

    1939   Lights Out, radio's "ultimate horror show," was heard for the
    last time on NBC. In 1942, Arch Obler brought the show back to life on
    CBS. The show's most familiar trademark, guaranteed to put you under the
    covers on a dark night was, "Lights out, everybody!", followed by 12
    chimes of a clock.

    8/19

    In 1929, Amos and Andy, starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll,
    made its network debut on NBC.

    8/22

    1947   After many years as a 15 minute daily serial, Jack Armstrong, the
    All American Boy, was heard for the first time as a 30 minute feature on
    ABC. Remember, if you want to grow up to be big and strong like Jack
    Armstrong, keep these three rules in mind: Get plenty of sleep, fresh
    air and exercise. Make a friend of soap and water, because dirt breeds
    germs    and germs can make people sickly and weak. And for sound
    nourishment and keen flavor, eat a big bowlful of Wheaties, the
    Breakfast of Champions, with plenty of milk or cream and some type of fruit.

    8/23

    1950 - The summer replacement radio show for "Suspense", titled
    "Somebody Knows", was heard for the final time on radio. The program
    offered a reward of $5,000 ($44,075 in 2009 dollars) for information
    that led to the solving of crimes. "Somebody Knows" began with the
    introduction, "You out there. You, who think you have committed the
    perfect crime -- that there are no clues, no witnesses -- listen.
    Somebody knows."

    8/24

    1950 - The summer replacement radio show for "Suspense", titled
    "Somebody Knows", was heard for the final time on radio. The program
    offered a reward of $5,000 for information that led to the solving of
    crimes. "Somebody Knows" began with the introduction, "You out there.
    You, who think you have committed the perfect crime -- that there are no
    clues, no witnesses -- listen. Somebody knows."

    8/25

    1949   NBC debuted Father Knows Best. The Thursday night program aired
    for five years. Robert Young played the role of Jim Anderson, the ever
    patient father. The rest of the family included wife Margaret, son Bud
    and lovely daughters Betty (the eldest) and Kathy. The family lived on
    Maple Street in Springfield.

    1939   Arch Oboler's Plays presented the NBC Symphony, for the first
    time, as the musical backdrop for the drama, This Lonely Heart.

    Joe

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    Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:08:22 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Science Fiction Theatre & The Big Show

    Some of you are going to love the last [removed]
    A number of people already pre-ordered their SCIENCE FICTION THEATRE book but
    for those who have not yet done so, they are supposedly arriving from the
    printers in about three weeks. For those who are not aware of it, SCIENCE
    FICTION THEATRE was a television anthology from 1955 to 1957, hosted by radio
    news commentator (and radio announcer for SUSPENSE Roma Wines broadcasts,
    GEORGE BURNS AND GRACIE ALLEN, and JACK ARMSTRONG). There is a chapter in the
    book focusing on the career and life of Truman Bradley, written by my good
    friend Jim Cox. Another chapter in the book focuses on Frederic Ziv, who was
    among the pioneers of syndication for radio broadcasts during the 1930s, 40s
    and 50s (responsible for THE CISCO KID, FAVORITE STORY, BOLD VENTURE, BOSTON
    BLACKIE, etc.), written by Patrick Lucanio, editor of SPERDVAC's "Radiogram."
    Other radio connections are included in the book.

    Anyway, now that the book is at the printers, and turned out larger than
    anticipated, the retail price went up. When the number of pages grow, so does
    the printing cost, thus the retail price as well. If you already pre-paid for
    your book, have no fear, it's paid for in full and in the mail in a few
    weeks. If you have not pre-paid for your copy, you can still save postage.
    Check out my web-site for details and ordering information (and you can get
    your copy autographed if you order through my web-site). [removed]

    The book will be available at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention for those
    planning on attending next month. A sample from the book will be posted on my
    blog, [removed], this Friday (August 26). (If you have not
    checked out my blog lately, you might want to do so. My recent posting offers
    an episode guide for the "lost" 1951 radio broadcasts of THE BIG SHOW, and it
    is detailed!

    Martin Grams

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    Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:08:31 -0400
    From: Zane <intraverse@[removed];
    To: Charlie Summers <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Captain Midnight Premiums Reconstruction - Plus
     Radio Scripts

    The premiums issued by Ovaltine's Captain Midnight radio program led
    me to engineer what I consider more "authentic" original
    reconstructions, from which the radio-show premiums would have been
    developed and had thus been described as "souvenirs."

    For example, a reconstruction of the 1942 Pocket Locator was not done
    from a premium, because the radio program's producers (and the [removed]
    Government, for that matter) considered it simply an unfeasible
    'science-fiction' idea for the 1940s.  But we've since proven it
    could be engineered and built with 1940s technology, and Tooru
    Kawabata and I did so, as described on this League of Heroes
    thread:
    [removed]
    n-CQ-Magazine#.Tk6fgl1fHFE

    Then there are a couple rings:  The Captain Midnight 1946 Aztec
    Sun-God Ring, and the 1948 "Initial Stamping" Ring inspired by the
    "Signet Ring" of the Queen of Sheba.  Photos of the radio premium
    rings and my current reconstructions are shown on this
    Website:  [removed]

    Moreover, 582 scripts of the original Ovaltine-sponsored Captain
    Midnight radio program were discovered in 2010.  This equals about 31
    percent of the 1,851 total programs sponsored by Ovaltine, in the
    1940s.  The discovery is described on this Website, which requires
    joining the Radio Premium Exchange Forum to access:
    [removed]

    Leonard Zane

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    Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:08:42 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-21 births/deaths

    August 21st births

    08-21-1882 - Helen Carew - Kansas - d. 3-7-1980
    actor: Vera Johnson "Stella Dallas"; "Mrs. Mitchell "Barry Cameron"
    08-21-1890 - Bill Henry - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-24-1970
    commentator: Chief CBS Correspondent
    08-21-1895 - Benny Davis - NYC - d. 12-20-1979
    lyricist: "Benny Davis Stardust"
    08-21-1896 - Marie Blake - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-14-1978
    actor: (Sister of Janette MacDonald) "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-21-1900 - Ken Carpenter - Avon, IL - d. 10-16-1984
    announcer: "Kraft Music Hall"; "One Man's Family"; "Edgar Bergen/
    Charlie McCarthy Show"
    08-21-1904 - William Allen "Count" Basie - Red Bank, NJ - d. 4-26-1994
    bandleader: "Command Performance"; "Jubilee"
    08-21-1907 - Carlton Kadell - Danville, IL - d. 3-14-1975
    announcer, actor: Tarzan "Tarzan"; Red Ryder "Red Ryder"
    08-21-1907 - Hy Zaret - Syracuse, NY - d. 6-29-2007
    composer: "Music for Millions"; "I Love You Joe"
    08-21-1908 - Bob Jellison - Des Moines, IA - d. 4-21-1980
    actor: Oswald Ching "Story of Mary Marlin"; Buster Gunn "Great Gunns"
    08-21-1908 - Tom Tully - Durango, CO - d. 4-27-1982
    actor: Charles Martin "Stella Dallas"
    08-21-1911 - Anthony Boucher - Oakland, CA - d. 4-29-1968
    writer: "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"; "Advs. of Ellery Queen; "Gregory
    Hood"
    08-21-1913 - John Faulk - Austin, TX - d. 4-9-1990
    humorist, writer: "Forecast"; "Says Who?"; "Hootenanny"
    08-21-1916 - Consuelo Velazquez - Ciudad Guzman, Mexico - d. 1-22-2005
    songwriter: (Besame Mucho) Oversaw classical music programs for
    station XEQ
    08-21-1916 - Jackson Gillis - Kalama, WA - d. 8-19-2010
    writer: "The Whistler"; "Jeff Reagan, Invesitgator"; "Let George Do It"
    08-21-1919 - Billy Idelson - Forest Park, IL - d. 12-31-2007
    actor: Rush Gook "Vic and Sade"; Henry Herbert Murray "One Man's Family"
    08-21-1923 - Chris Schenkel - Bippus, IN - d. 9-11-2005
    sportscaster: "Campy's Corner"; "11:30 Clubhouse"
    08-21-1924 - Jack Buck - Holyoke, MA - d. 6-18-2002
    baseball broadcaster: St. Louis Cardinals
    08-21-1927 - Barry Foster - Beeston, England - d. 2-11-2002
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"
    08-21-1938 - Kenny Rogers - Houston, TX
    country/western singer: "Here's to Veterans"
    08-21-1940 - Jim Frank - Chicago, IL - d. 4-27-2007
    newscaster in Chicago, WBBM, WIND, WMAQ

    August 21st deaths

    01-02-1865 - William Lyon Phelps - d. 8-21-1943
    author, critic, scholar: "Information Please"
    03-22-1918 - Fred Crane - New Orleans, LA - d. 8-21-2008
    actor: "Doctor Christian"
    04-09-1914 - Frank Bingham - Athens, OH - d. 8-21-1988
    announcer: "Straight Arrow"; "Phantom Pilot"
    04-30-1903 - Fulton Lewis, Jr. - Washington, [removed] - d. 8-21-1966
    commentator: "News and Comments"
    06-02-1934 - John E. Carter - Chicago, IL - d. 8-21-2009
    singer: (The Dells; The Flamingoes) "Camel Rock and Roll Dance Party"
    06-18-1922 - Buck Page - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-21-2006
    guitarist: (Riders of the Purple Sage) "The Roy Rogers Show"
    08-14-1863 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer - Lawrence, MA - d. 8-21-1940
    author: "Favorite Story"
    08-14-1914 - Alyce King - Payson, UT - d. 8-21-1996
    singer: (The King Sisters) "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"; "Al
    Pearce and His Gang"
    09-23-1908 - Sammy Forsmark - Georgia - d. 8-21-1961
    steel guitar: "The Radio Cowboys"
    10-08-1913 - Walter Schumann - NYC - d. 8-21-1958
    composer: "Dragnet"; "Junior Miss"; "Modern Advs. of Casanova"
    11-28-1907 - Rose Bampton - Cleveland, OH - d. 8-21-2007
    singer: "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"
    12-01-1904 - Jean Paul King - North Bend, NE - d. 8-21-1965
    annoucer: "Clara, Lu, and Em"; "Music of the Haydns"
    12-09-1918 - George Heinemann - d. 8-21-1996
    creator: "Faces in the Window"
    12-19-1909 - Ed Auxer - d. 8-21-2004
    disk jockey: WSBT South Bend, Indiana
    12-25-1915 - Richard Wilson - McKeesport, PA - d. 8-21-1991
    actor, writer, director: Co-founded The Mercury Theatre with Orson
    Welles

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:10:00 -0400
    From: Michael Berger <[removed]@[removed];
    To: otr <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Paul Frees recordings

    Paul Frees narrated the great Stan Freberg's United States of America album
    and also recorded Freberg's 'Money'.

    Michael Berger

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    Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:10:10 -0400
    From: Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed];
    To: OTRDIGEST <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  "I Love Lucy: An American Legend" at LOC

    The Library of Congress which holds memorabilia from Jess Oppenheimer,
    Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz have an exhibition, "I Love Lucy:  An
    American Legend."

    FREE  from [removed], 2011 - January 28, 2012

    8:30 [removed] - 5:00 [removed] Monday - Friday

    foyer outside the Performing Arts Reading Room
    lst floor
    James Madison Building
    101 Independnce Ave. [removed], Washington, [removed]

    So if you're in the area, check it out.

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    Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:10:25 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Dodge City [removed]

    As reported in the August issue of RADIO RECALL, the "Gunsmoke"
    series of radio and TV has not been forgotten in present-day Dodge
    City, Kansas. The convention bureau of that western cow town now has
    as its motto: "Get the heck INTO Dodge." True West Magazine recently
    named Dodge City as a Top Ten True Western Town. Here you can see
    Boot Hill, the Dodge House Hotel, and the Gunfighter's Wax Museum.

    The Boot Hill Museum has the largest gun collection in the west and
    visitors there are entertained by Miss Kitty and her dancing girls.
    More info at <[removed]>

    Jack French
    Editor
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:10:46 -0400
    From: Edmund Zebrowski <starlightexp@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  New I Love A Mystery update anyone?
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative
    X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain

    I know back in 09 the website started but it's been dead ever since. Do we
    think that the project died with the economy?Anyone have any word on it?Shade
    and Sweet waterEdmund

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    Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:11:03 -0400
    From: LMooreRN@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR type broadcasts today

    They do love them evidenced by the  appreciation of my then 9 year old
    granddaughter's appreciation of "Archie  Andrews".  Like anything historical
    kids just need to be  introduced.

    Larry Moore

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