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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2005 : Issue 72
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
3-6 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Today in radio history 6-12 March [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Michael Arlen [ "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@hotm ]
Single-Story OTR characters [ skallisjr@[removed] ]
oldies or nostalgia on radio [ "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@sbcglob ]
"I Love a Mystery" Quesion [ "Michael Leannah" <mleannah@charter ]
Books [ art-funk@[removed] ]
I Love A Mystery [ "Don and Kathy Dean" <dxk@ezlinknet ]
Re: THE FALCON [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
Ken Burns production [ Michael Berger <intercom1@attglobal ]
Re: satellite radio ad [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
columbia workshop [ "Kurt E. Yount" <blsmass@[removed]; ]
anti satelite ad hardly speaks to th [ <cooldown3@[removed]; ]
REGE CORDIC [ C-NO <voxpop@[removed]; ]
The Falcon [ "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed] ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@VintageRad ]
Adult Westers in Cleveland Plain Dea [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
Re: Satellite radio [ Mikeandzachary@[removed] ]
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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:51:33 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 3-6 births/deaths
March 6th births
03-06-1882 - Guy Kibbee - El Paso, TX - d. 5-24-1956
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-06-1885 - Rosario Bourdon - Longuereil, Quebec, Canada - d.
4-24-1961
conductor: "Cities Service Concert"; "Great Personalities"
03-06-1900 - Jay C. Flippen - Little Rock, AR - d. 2-3-1971
actor: Sergeant "Rookies"
03-06-1906 - Lou Costello - Paterson, NJ - d. 3-3-1959
comedian: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Abbott and Costello Show"
03-06-1914 - Kiril Kondrashin - Moscow, Russia - d. 3-7-1981
conductor: "Van Cliburn Concert"
03-06-1916 - Red Callender - d. 3-8-1992
jazz bass player: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"
03-06-1916 - Rochelle Hudson - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 1-17-1972
actress: "Hollywood Hotel"
03-06-1916 - Virginia Gregg - Harrisburg, IL - d. 9-15-1986
actress: Helen Asher "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"
03-06-1917 - Frankie Howerd - York, England - d. 4-19-1992
comedian: "Frankie Howerd Show"
03-06-1923 - Ed McMahon - Detroit, MI
actor-announcer: Monitor"
03-06-1930 - Lorin Maazel - Paris, France
conductor: "NBC Summer Symphony"
March 6th deaths
02-02-1905 - Ayn Rand - St. Petersberg, Russia - d. 3-6-1982
author: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-26-1904 - George Formby - Lancashire, England - d. 3-6-1961
singer, actor: "Manitoba Flood Relief Show"
06-24-1921 - Peggy DeCastro - On a Sugar Plantation, Dominican
Republic - d. 3-6-2004
singer: (The DeCastro Sisters) "Steve Lawrence Show"; "Here's to
Veterans"
06-29-1901 - Nelson Eddy - Providence, RI - d. 3-6-1967
singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Vicks Open House"; "Chase & Sanborn
Hour"
09-06-1904 - Maxie Rosenbloom - NYC - d. 3-6-1976
light heavyweight boxing champion, actor: "Slapsie Maxie Show"
09-08-1905 - Henry Wilcoxon - Dominica, West Indies - d. 3-6-1984
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-19-1904 - Elvia Allman - Concord, NC - d. 3-6-1992
comedienne: Tootsie Sagwell "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"; Cora
Dithers "Blondie"
10-20-1889 - Margaret Dumont - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-6-1965
actress: "Paramount Movie Parade"
11-23-1888 - Al Bernard - New Orleans, LA - d. 3-6-1949
singer: "Dutch Masters Minstrels"; "Molle Merry Minstrels"
11-26-1907 - Francis Dee - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-6-2004
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:51:41 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Today in radio history 6-12 March
From Those Were The Days --
3/6
1948 - Ralph Edwards created a quiz on Truth or Consequences called The
Walking Man. After ten weeks of guesses by contestants playing the game,
it was finally revealed that Jack Benny was The Walking Man.
3/7
1933 - CBS debuted Marie the Little French Princess which had a run of
two years.
1944 - Norman Corwin hosted a program titled, Columbia Presents Corwin
on the CBS network this day.
3/8
1925 - Bernard McFadden was a physical culturist who had a radio show in
New York City. But not for long. McFadden failed to show up for his
daily morning program, causing a young, studio engineer, John Gambling,
to ad-lib on the air for a solid hour. As a result, the station (WOR)
decided to give Gambling the morning announcer's job. John Gambling
stayed at WOR for many years, then turned the mike over to his son, who,
finally, turned the program over to his son ... all named John. Mr.
Gambling's Rambling with Gambling program attracted tri-state (New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut) audiences in record numbers for over 70 years
on the 50,000 watt talk-radio powerhouse at 710 AM on your radio dial
from New York each morning.
3/9
1945 - Those Websters debuted on CBS. Willard Waterman starred as George
Webster.
3/10
1922 - Variety magazine greeted readers with the front-page headline
that read, "Radio Sweeping Country - 1,000,000 Sets in Use."
1955 - The last broadcast of The Silver Eagle was heard.
3/12
1933 - Eight days after he was inaugurated, [removed] President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt presented his first presidential address to the nation.
It was the first of what were called Roosevelt's famous Fireside Chats.
The name, incidentally, was coined by newsman, Robert Trout. He thought
that the President sounded as if he was sitting with us in living rooms
all over the nation next to a roaring fire, just telling it like it was.
Joe
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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:52:20 -0500
From: "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Michael Arlen
Mike Hobart wrote:
In later years he seems to have stopped writing altogether, but we might
surmise that his royalty cheques from The Falcon helped make ends meet.
I remember reading somewhere that Arlen announced that he was retiring from
writing and did so. This apparantly caused some negative comments from his
fellow authors, many of whom took the position that writing was a profession
that you pursued until death.
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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:52:59 -0500
From: skallisjr@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Single-Story OTR characters
Speaking of The Falcon, Mike Hobart noted,
The amazing thing is that the literary career of The Falcon consists of
one single story published in 1940 in "The Strand" magazine (the home
turf of Conan Doyle and many a famous writer of the day).
The same thing happened with The Cisco Kid. O. Henry wrote a single
short story where the character appeared. The rest is media history.
Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:53:19 -0500
From: "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: oldies or nostalgia on radio
Hello, everyone!
This is an interesting discussion about radio programs that featured old
songs and nostalgia. On a local level, I think this sort of program may
have been on the air almost since radio began!
In the Southern California/Los Angeles area, my research has found that
radio station KFON in Long Beach (later KFOX, now KFRN-1280-AM) had a weekly
'oldies' show in 1928!! It was on Friday nights at 9 [removed] and featured KFON
announcer/singer/piano player Clarence Crary hosting "Ye Olde Song Album",
described as an hour of "old-time" music. In 1928, that old time music
must've been old!
Later, the founder and owner of KFOX in Long Beach, Mr. Hal Nichols, hosted
his own nostalgia music program on his station. Starting in 1943, Nichols
hosted
the nightly "Hal Nichols Melody Room", which later was called "Hal Nichols
Melodies 'n' Memories." It was described by KFOX as a "nostalgic program
of music and reminiscence." The show continued until Nichols' death in
1952.
I'll bet other radio stations around the USA had similar local programs of
nostalgia in the 1920s, '30s and '40s, since people of each generation want
to recall the music and times of their youth.
Jim Hilliker
Monterey, CA
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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:53:31 -0500
From: "Michael Leannah" <mleannah@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: "I Love a Mystery" Quesion
My elderly aunt remembers an episode of "I Love a Mystery" entitled
"Coatsworth Castle"--I might not be spelling "Coatsworth" correctly. I have
been unable to locate this title in any of my catalogs.
Does this title ring a bell with anyone? Could it be she's a little
confused and "Coatsworth Castle" is an episode of "Suspense" or some other
show? Any leads would be greatly appreciated.
Michael Leannah
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:53:49 -0500
From: art-funk@[removed]
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Books
In Digest #71 William Vest asked about books that deal with radio in general
as opposed to ones about particular shows. I've always enjoyed Tune in
Tomorrow by Mary Jane Higby.
Our own Jim Cox writes: "In her delightful treatise, Tune In Tomorrow, which
gives outsiders an introspective look at the performers on radio's daytime
serials, soap queen Mary Jane Higby recalls a geographical patchwork that
offered opportunity for scores of artists to do their thing in several
places throughout the day."
This is excerpted from Jim's copyrighted article "They Spoke Volumes" which
can be found at the following URL which is part of the website of the Radio
Historical Association of Colorado.
[removed]
Regards to all,
Art Funk
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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:54:13 -0500
From: "Don and Kathy Dean" <dxk@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: I Love A Mystery
This comment by Dave Phaneuf in the last Digest on the
I Love A Mystery series brought back a memory to me.
Just got finished listening to the Temple of Vampires,
and am struck with how well done the program was. I've
only had one episode of the series, until recently. I
know now why the series is so loved and has such a
following. Very well done, very entertaining.
I started collecting OTR on reel to reel before 1963 so
by the end of the '60's I had a fair sized collection even then.
The local news did a story on my hobby in the late 60's and
around 1972 a reporter from the Mansfield News Journal
wanted to do a story on me for their Sunday paper. While
here he had mentioned that he remembered listening to I Love
A Mystery when he was younger. What I thought would be
one hour interview or less turned into 4 hours or more. I
played the Temple of Vampires for him and he had to stay
for the entire run of that story. But since ILAM was also my
favorite I sure didn't mind. Thanks Dave for jogging my
memory. Hope you can make the Cincy OTR Con. See
ya' there.
Don Dean - N8IOJ
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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:54:29 -0500
From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: THE FALCON
on 3/5/05 5:20 PM, Mike Hobart at [removed]@[removed] wrote:
The amazing thing is that the literary career of The Falcon consists of one
single story published in 1940 in "The Strand" magazine (the home turf of
Conan Doyle and many a famous writer of the day).
***I thought Michael Arlen's story "The Gay Falcon" was first published in
TOWN AND COUNTRY magazine. I know it appeared in TOWN AND COUNTRY in 1940.
Are you sure about the STRAND connection? Did the story appear in THE
STRAND before its American publication?
The oft-told story is that RKO replaced their Saint series of B-movies with
the very similar Falcon series because they were tired of Leslie Charteris
looking over their shoulder and criticising what they were doing with his
character!
***Leslie Charteris' nitpicking was only part of the reason. Much of the
reason was financial. Charteris was also receiving substantial fees for
each SAINT film. The studio was able to save a lot of money by purchasing
far-cheaper rights to THE FALCON, and then continuing THE SAINT series under
the new name with the same cast and production crew. --ANTHONY TOLLIN***
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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:54:50 -0500
From: Michael Berger <intercom1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Ken Burns production
Several years ago, Ken Burns produced Empire of the
Air, about the development of radio, with a few
interviews related to OTR but mostly focusing on the
inventors and moguls who dominated the early years.
About 25 years ago, PBS produced a show that included
interviews with Jim Jordan, Kenny Delmar and others,
and included an Allen's Alley replay with Parker
Fennelly, Minerva Pious, Delmar and Peter Donald. You
can see it at the Museum of Broadcasting in NY but
don't think it ever was released to the general
public.
Michael Berger
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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:55:19 -0500
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: satellite radio ad
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In a message dated 3/5/05 5:19:50 PM Central Standard Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:
So stick to
your local radio stations, friends, it sez, don't be fooled by the purveyors
of satellite radio.
...which is ironic, considering there are continuous OTR channels in
satellite radio and no such animal I know of in over-the-air radio (and
certainly not
where I live).
Dixon
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Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 10:15:32 -0500
From: "Kurt E. Yount" <blsmass@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: columbia workshop
Apparently there was a post war set of columbia Radio workshop. Does
anybody know how many and if anybody has them on MP3? Thank you. Kurt
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Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 10:16:08 -0500
From: <cooldown3@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: anti satelite ad hardly speaks to the future.
Has anyone on the list seen the transformation planned for AM broadcasting?
[removed]
Cheers,
PAtrick
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Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 10:16:21 -0500
From: C-NO <voxpop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: REGE CORDIC
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HI
Any west coasters out there who remember rege cordic who had
a morning show on knx? i was a kid when i listened to him so
i guess it must have been in the late 40's or early 50's.
does anyone know anything more about his career?
thanx, chet norris
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Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 10:17:28 -0500
From: "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed];
To: "OTR" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: The Falcon
Mike Hobart wrote:
He was created by Michael Arlen (1895-1956), who is remembered today for
only two things: creating the Falcon, and his 1924 bestselling novel "The
Green Hat."
He is remembered for more than that, however, in fact somewhat immortalized
by his son, Michael J. Arlen, an award-winning author who wrote a very
moving biography of his father about 30 years ago, called 'Exiles'. All
these years later I don't remember a lot of details of the book but do
recall the general picture. Michael Arlen was an Armenian, born in
Bulgaria to parents who fled Turkey to escape the atrocities directed
against Armenians in Asia Minor. His family moved to England when he was a
young boy. He abandoned his Armenian ethnicity, changed his name, married
a Greek countess, and his son, Michael J who was also born in England
eventually set out to find out his heretofore unknown 'roots' many years
later resulting in a very fine book, 'Passage to Arrarat'. Any of you who
are or have been readers of the New Yorker should recognize his name.
Michael J, was on the staff of the New Yorker for many years as its
commentator/critic on TV, among other things. He is well published and a
highly regarded writer. In 'Exiles' Michael J spoke of his father's
'writer's block' in his later years. The phenomenal success of 'The Green
Hat' was too hard an act to follow and every attempt at a different literary
genre was met with disappointment, with readers (and critics) wanting more
like 'The Green Hat'.
-Irene
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Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 10:17:40 -0500
From: "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK
Hi friends,
Here is this week's line-up for the week of 3-6-05 on my Olde Tyme
Radio
[removed] Featuring Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio Theatre," Big John
Matthews and Steve Urbaniak's "The Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same
Station" broadcasts, being broadcast on demand 24/7 in high quality
streaming RealAudio at [removed]
Past archived broadcasts are also available there.
We look forward to having you join us!
Jerry
Here's this week's lineup:
SAME TIME, SAME STATION with Jerry Haendiges
THE JENKINS FAMILY
"The Eskimo Pie Program"
Episode 8 1929 "Ulysses' Fake Cold"
CBS IS THERE
Episode 6 8-18-47 "The Alamo"
Stars: Ken Roberts
SUPERMAN
Episode 653 3-2-45 "The First Appearance of Batman"
LUX RADIO THEATER
Episode 107 11-16-36 "Conversation Piece"
Host: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Lily Pons, Adolphe Menjou, Marjorie Gateson, George Sanders, Elsa
Buchanan, Ben Guy Philips, Phyllis Coghlan, Margaret Brayton, Grayce
Hampton, Lou Merrill, Evelyn Beresford, Colin Campbell, Frank Nelson, Ross
Forrester, Charles Emerson, David Kerman
=======================================
HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE with Tom Heathwood
DUFFY'S TAVERN
BLUE 3/7/44
Archie welcomes Colonel Stoopnagle as his guest at the tavern.
THE FAMILY THEATRE
MBS/Synd 5/2/51
Host, James Gleason introduces "Heaven Is Like That" starring Vanessa Brown
and Dan O'Herlihy.
THE AMAZING INTERPLANETARY ADVENTURES OF FLASH GORDON
Synd. August, 1935
Stars Gale Gordon. Dr. Zarkoff builds an invisible ray machine.
========================================
THE GLOWING DIAL with Big John Matthews and Steve Urbaniak
This Week's Glowing Dial Program Schedule:
Jeff Regan, Investigator - "The Gambler and His Lady"
originally aired December 11, 1948 on CBS West Coast
Starring: Jack Webb, Herb Butterfield, Jack Petruzzi, Sidney Miller, Mary
Lansing, Laurette Fillbrandt, Bob Stevenson announcing.
Sustained
Mr. and Mrs. North - "The Wheel of Chance"
originally aired June 30, 1953 on CBS
Starring: Alice Frost, Joseph Curtin, Joe King announcing.
Sponsor: Colgate Palmolive Peet Co.
The Thin Man - "The Adventure of the Passionate Palooka"
originally aired July 6, 1948 on NBC
Starring: Claudia Morgan, Les Tremayne, Ed Herlihy announcing.
Sponsor: Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer
The Saint - "The Schizophrenic Psychiatrist"
originally aired September 18, 1949 on MUTUAL
Starring: Vincent Price, Betty Lou Gerson, Jeanne Bates, Frank Gerstle, Bill
Conrad, Barney Phillips, Merrill Ross announcing.
Sponsor: Ford Motor Company (commercials excised from this episode)
Mr. District Attorney - "The Case of the Desert Killer"
originally aired circa 1952 thru Frederick Ziv Syndication
Starring: David Brian.
Sponsor: varied according to market
====================================
Please feel free to contact me with any questions or requests for upcoming
shows.
Jerry Haendiges CET <Jerry@[removed]; 562-696-4387
[removed] The Vintage Radio Place
Largest source of OTR Logs, Articles and programs on the Net
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Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 10:17:59 -0500
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Adult Westers in Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Cleveland Plain Dealer today compares modern adult Western "Deadwood" to
the original adult western "Gunsmoke." While the article focuses on the TV
version the radio show does get mentioned along with a note about William
Conrad.
Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]
[removed]
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Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 13:01:46 -0500
From: Mikeandzachary@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Satellite radio
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In a message dated 3/5/2005 5:19:52 [removed] Central Standard Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:
So stick to
your local radio stations, friends, it sez, don't be fooled by the purveyors
of satellite radio.
As a subscriber to XM, I submit that there is room for both satellite and
terrestrial radio. Admittedly, XM does have a monthly subscription fee, but I
find the variety it offers well worth the dues. I'm sure that satellite radio
is hurting terrestrial radio since a good portion of XM's service (all their
music stations) is commercial free.
Cable and satellite TV haven't gotten rid of terrestrial broadcasters. I
doubt that satellite radio will bankrupt terrestrial radio. Competition is
good.
(Usual disclaimer: I have a big collection of OTR, and I am a happy XM
subscriber. I have no financial interest in the success of either.)
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