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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2013 : Issue 37
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
Herman Wouk [ Robert Davis <bob_d65@[removed]; ]
High Adventure [ Jody Davis <baroygis@[removed]; ]
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:20:23 -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," 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
GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER
Episode 11 9-17-53 "Cyrano De Bergerac"
Stars: James Mason, Pamela Mason
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Jaime del Valle
HOST/ANNOUNCER: Ken Carpenter
MUSIC: Wilber Hatch
CBS GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY Thursdays 8:30 - 9:00 pm
PHILO VANCE
Episode 69 11-1-49 "The Revealing Ring Murder Case"
STARS: Jackson Beck as Philo Vance and Joan Alexander as his secretary
SYNDICATED by ZIV PRODUCTIONS
GANG BUSTERS
Episode 541 8-7-48 "The Golf Course Murder"
Stars: Anne Burr, Frank Readick
ABC
JIMMY FIDLER SHOW
Episode 1 5-21-51 "Gary Cooper"
Syndicated by Starlet Home Permanents
Five minute Hollywood Gossip Show
Host: Jimmy Fidler
Announcer: Harry Von Zell
GRACIE FIELDS SHOW
Episode 10 8-13-44 Guest: Orson Welles
Summer Replacement for the CHARLIE McCARTHY SHOW
Announcer: Bill Goodwin
Music: Lou Bring Orchestra
NBC Chase And Sanborn Sundays 8:00 - 8:30 pm
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE
GANGBUSTERS
(NBC) 4/4/41 "The Case of the Missing Corpse"
WHATEVER BECAME [removed]
January, 1967 - Richard Lamparski talks with cast members, Don
McLaughlin and Bill Dryden.
GABRIEL HEATTER AND THE NEWS
(5/8/45) MBS VE-Day. A moving broadcast from 64 years ago.
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
This week we travel back to the golden year 1992. 20 years ago on
10/04/1992 we were doing the Same time, Same station show heard locally
on KPCC in Pasadena California.
We had been contacted earlier by the production company for the popular
Television show, "America's Most Wanted". They were interested in doing
a show on crime shows of the 1930's and 1940's. They interviewed several
people including Ronald Staley, then head archivist at UCLA.
When they asked us to take part in the broadcast we decided to bring in
some radio veterans who had worked on the "GANG BUSTERS" radio show.
They included Jean Gillespie, Bill Zuckert, and on the phone from New
York, Ralph Bell. Later portions of the radio show aired on "America's
Most Wanted" New Years evening 1993. You will hear that two hour
broadcast this week on Same Time, Same Station.
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Episode 72
A TRIBUE TO FRANKIE LAINE IN 6 PARTS
Introductory Comments The idea for a Frankie Laine Tribute show was
actually conceived back in the year 2004 when I read Frankie's
autobiography "That Lucky Old Son." I soon began collecting interview
and radio clips and recordings, and finally started production. Any
tribute could and perhaps even should play all of Frankie's 21 gold
records and a huge stack of his wonderful recordings which would,
however, extend the show to many hours. With limited time, my tribute's
main goal was to let Frankie talk briefly about his career and as far as
possible to focus on recordings that reflect some of his remarks within
the framework of his remarkable diversity and his passionate "Desire" to
bring joy to our ears, hearts, and souls.
The tribute premier broadcast took the form of a series of 6 shows in
2006 on YesterdayUSA, thanks to Bill Bragg and Walden Hughes. This 2013
broadcast on Jerry Haendiges' network is the premier for all 6 tribute
segments to be broadcast together. So special thanks go to Jerry
Haendiges Productions for making this possible, appropriately in
conjunction with Team Frankie Laine's gala celebration of Frankie's
100th birth date at the Kona Kai Resort on Shelter Island, San Diego on
March 24, 2013. My deep appreciation also extends to Team Frankie Laine,
but most of all my ongoing appreciation to Frankie Laine for his music,
for his interviews, for his kindness, and most of all for calling me his
friend.
TRIBUTE PART 1: THE EARLY YEARS
This first portion of the Frankie Laine Tribute focuses on the early
years of Frankie's career. Frankie talks about his first "real
recording," "Melancholy Madeline," with Oscar Moore and his Three
Blazers, which sold 100,000 copies because, as Frankie explains, many
people thought the singer was really Nat King Cole using "a phony name."
Then came "I May Be Wrong" which, as Frankie says, "started everything."
Band leader Milton DeLugg, who recorded the song with Frankie, tells us
in an interview about the "magic" and "fire" that Frankie had in his
voice and which immediately came across in that recording and continued
throughout his career. Frankie points out that "I May Be Wrong" was
actually on the "B" side of the record. The "A" side featured one of the
regular characters on Jack Benny's program played by Artie Auerbach,
namely, Mr. Kitzel. Frankie shares in detail in his autobiography about
Mr. Kitzel's nervousness during the recording session, how Frankie
played a part in the background for Artie, and how Mr. Kitzel's problem
affected the time left for Frankie to record "I May Be Wrong."
In 1947 came "That's My Desire," the first of his 21 gold records. In
Frankie's autobiography "That Lucky Old Son" Frankie tells exactly what
he told the audience at Billy Berg's night club in Los Angeles before he
performed the song for the very first time, even before he even recorded
it. You'll hear me tell what Billy Berg's audience heard that night.
Bing Crosby, who early on influenced Frankie and many others, often
unselfishly invited contemporary crooners to share the airways with him
on his "Bing Crosby Show," and so he did with Frankie in 1947, when
Frankie sang "Desire" for all America to hear. Frankie was very nervous,
but Bing gives him a great introduction, and they exchange a few words.
On this clip from that "Crosby Show," we'll also hear Bing's "The Old
Chaperone," along with a few words from Bing about the patriotic Freedom
Train touring the country from 1947 to 1949 with the Declaration of
Independence and precious historical documents.
One of Frankie's good friends was Herb Jeffries. Herb was the first
black cowboy in a Hollywood film, appearing in 1939 as "The Bronze
Buckaroo" and later became lead vocalist with Duke Ellington from 1940
to 1942. While Herb's biggest hit recording was "Flamingo," selling over
50 million copies in 1940, one of my favorites, and I think also of
Frankie's, has been "As Time Goes By." So in honor of Frankie's memory
and in honor of Herb, still going strong at the age of 100, we'll enjoy
Herb's excellent recording of that great song about the passage of time
and "the fundamental things."
Part 1 closes with an interview segment in which Frankie looks back at
"how it all got started" back in 1928, and his story will continue in
Part 2 of the tribute with more about the people who influenced him on
his way to stardom.
TRIBUTE PART 2: INFLUENCES IN FRANKIE'S LIFE AND CAREER
This portion of the tribute highlights some of the influences in
Frankie's life and career, including his mother and such performers as
Al Jolson, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Hoagy Carmichael, band leader
Carl Fischer, and even an actor on the old "Dick Van Dyke Show" who sang
jazz songs as a child.
Young Frankie was really impressed with Al Jolson's singing style in
1927's "The Jazz Singer," but Bessie Smith provided the direction of his
jazz style singing with her 1923 "Downhearted Blues," which Bessie sings
on this show segment and which, incidentally, was included among the
(controversial) "Songs of The Century" by the Recording Industry
Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts in 2001.
Hoagy Carmichael was instrumental in getting Frankie's first night club
booking, and we get to hear Hoagy and Satchmo perform "Rockin' Chair"
from 1929, as well as Armstrong alone on 1931's "Sleepy Time Down
South." Mentioned in Frankie's autobiography is a gal who later in life
gained acting fame on the "Dick Van Dyke Show" on TV in the early
1960's. She was known early as "Baby Rosemarie" and even at the age of
nine led Frankie to imitate her style on a particular song. Baby
Rosemarie sings her 1932 recording "Take a Picture of the Moon."
We'll hear Frankie perform his 1948 "monster" million seller called
"Shine" that came a year to the day after "Desire" appeared. Next it's
"On the Sunny Side of the Street," from the 1949 movie "Make Believe
Ballroom" on an edited portion of radio's "Big Show" from 1950. Frankie
also sang that song in the 1951 film of the same name. On the same "Big
Show" is a special treat: a portion of Meredith Willson's composition
"It's Easter Time," a song perfect to reflect Frankie's faith and the
nearness of his March 30 birth date to the holiday of Easter, this year
on March 31.
Finally, on Part 2 of the tribute Frankie tells the story behind the
recording "Music Maestro, Please," conceived and completed in 6 minutes.
On the recording, Frankie talks with the "French waiter" Henry, actually
a member of the Carl Fischer band, and Carl and his piano and Frankie
perform their "Maestro" magic.
Thus Carl Fischer, Al Jolson, Bessie Smith, Hoagy Carmichael, Satchmo,
and even Baby Rosemarie were among many who helped shape Frankie's style
and performances that amazingly carried into his 90's.
TRIBUTE PARTS 3 & 4: FRANKIE & LADIES OF SONG & FRANKIE'S COWBOY &
COUNTRY TOUCH
The "Tribute to Frankie Laine." show continues to embrace some 6 decades
of Frankie's recordings, his amazing diversity, and several songs from
his 21 gold records. While the first 2 tribute parts highlighted early
influences and his rise to stardom, in Part 3 we'll showcase Frankie's
duets with some great ladies of song, including Patti Page, Doris Day,
and Jo Stafford. Frankie performs songs like "Sugarbush" with Doris and
"I Love You for That" with Patti. We'll hear Frankie and Jo on "Hey,
Good Lookin'" and jazz versions of "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" and
"High Society." Fun novelties include "If I Were You I'd Love Me" with
Patti and "How Lovely Cooks the Meat" with Doris.
Then Frankie's unique energetic rendition of classic country tunes takes
center stage in Part 4. Frankie adds his own observations from time to
time, and performers like the late Patti Page and actor Clint Walker
contribute their comments on Frankie. And Frankie shares the hugely
popular theme song from TV's "Rawhide," along with wonderful western
recordings such as "Mule Train," "Midnight Gambler, "The 3-10 to Yuma,"
and "Along the Navajo Trail." In his last decade of performing Frankie
recorded the CD "The Nashville Connection," which has 2 of his final
recordings that are my favorites. The first is "Contagious," which
characterizes all of Frankie's energetic performances and "Father Time,"
which is a touching tune reflecting courage and never giving up in face
of the adversity of passing time and diminishing performance.
Also in Part 4, we get a chance to experience some of Frankie's acting
talent when in 1950 Frankie was a guest on "The Bob Hope Show,"
broadcast from Coronado Island Naval Base near San Diego. Frankie does a
fun and funny cowboy sketch with Bob in which they sing an exaggerated
but delightful duet of "Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie." Frankie "hams
it up," and Bob "stops the show" with an imitation of Frankie doing
"That's My Desire." Earlier in 1949 Frankie joined Peggy Lee on radio's
"The Chesterfield Supper Club." Peggy does "This Can't Be Love," and
Frankie sings "September in the Rain."
In addition we'll hear another song from Frankie's friend Herb Jeffries,
the screen's "Bronze Buckaroo" and Duke Ellington's great jazz vocalist.
This time Herb sings "I'm a Happy Cowboy." That "Happy Cowboy" song
title reflects both Herb's and Frankie's outlook on all of life and
eternity as well. In fact, though Frankie went "Beyond the Blue Horizon"
to the Lord in 2007, right now I can almost hear him saying it's his
"Desire" to remind us of [removed] Lewis' words: "There are far better things
ahead than anything we left behind." And until we have those "better
things," virtually all of his recordings are still available on the Team
Frankie Laine website at [removed]
TRIBUTE PARTS 5 & 6: SONGS OF FAITH & JAZZ
Part 5 of our tribute show features Frankie's recordings that reflect
his fervent faith and positive outlook on life. Among special
performances, we'll hear a segment from a Bob Hope show on which Frankie
sings "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die." A popular favorite is his "This Time
You Gave Me a Mountain," written for Frankie by Marty Robbins. We'll
also hear a portion of Frankie's "Answer Me, Oh My Lord," along with Nat
King Cole's "Answer Me, Oh, My Love," both virtually the same tune, but
only Nat's got radio time and was a commercial success.
After Mitch Miller and Frankie collaborated on "High Noon" Mitch brought
him "I Believe," which was on "Your Hit Parade" for 23 weeks. Frankie
said that to him the song was more of a prayer than a song. Then Frankie
sings "Put Your Hand in the Hand (of the Man from Galilee)," and his
rendition is joyfully upbeat in the finest tradition of southern gospel
tunes. Another gospel great is "Rain, Rain, Rain," with Frank Busseri
and the Four Lads. Frankie ends Part 5 with a prayer expressed by the
song "May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You."
Part 6, devoted to his love of jazz, begins with Frankie telling us who
the artists were who especially influenced his jazz singing style, such
as Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole. A special treat is Louis Armstrong
and his Hot Five performing the 1928 recording of "West End Blues"
followed by Frankie's 1947 version. One of Frankie's best jazz
recordings is "Stars Fell on Alabama" from the album "Jazz Spectacular"
with Buck Clayton, an album often praised by critics as one of the best
jazz collections ever.
Frankie had a special friendship and professional association with Nat
King Cole. Ironically, as he points out in his autobiography Frankie's
first recordings led many to believe he was black, and Nat's led many to
think he was white. It seems appropriate to play Frankie's recording of
"Black and Blue." And interestingly Frankie had hoped to do a new album
called "Black and Blues," but sadly it never happened. He talks about it
among the interview comments on the show.
After Frankie performs on a 1948 Spike Jones' "Spotlight Review"
program, we'll turn to Frankie's songwriting skill which he demonstrated
with such notable composers as Duke Ellington and Hoagy Carmichael.
We'll hear Frankie's best composition, written in 1948 with Carl
Fischer, the touching hit song "We'll Be Together Again." One of Bob
Hope's vocalists talks about it.
Frankie's patriotism, energy, and lifelong love of jazz combine to
produce a wonderful version of "Stars and Stripes Forever." That's a
fitting song as we approach the end of our 6-part tribute journey with
songs that reflect Frankie's very heart and soul, such as "He," "Beyond
the Blue Horizon," "Lucky Old Sun," and "Young at Heart." Our tribute
celebration appropriately comes to a close with Frankie's "That's All." .
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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, 27 Mar 2013 18:20:29 -0500
From: Robert Davis <bob_d65@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Herman Wouk
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The discussion about Old Time Radio books got me to thinking about Herman
Wouk, a present day author who once wrote for Fred Allen. Has he written about
his time in radio? And, does he show up at OTR conventions?
Bob Davis
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:20:44 -0500
From: Jody Davis <baroygis@[removed];
To: OldTime Radio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: High Adventure
Okay. I'm puzzled. My puzzlement has to do with "High Adventure," which ran
from 1947-54 (with a short hiatus in the midst) on Mutual and NBC. I would
like to present an episode on my weekly OTR show. Can any of you fine folks
tell [removed]
...Why there seems to be so few of these episodes extant/available?
...if I'm wrong and they're in some repository which I haven't found?
I don't see the show in the [removed] files, which is the first place I
always look.
Thanks!
Jody Davis
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