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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 236
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      10-7 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Broadcast date                        [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
      Relationship between Scott Bishop an  [ "Jim Blackson" <blackj@[removed] ]
      Re: Suspense                          [ Brent Pellegrini <brentpl@rocketmai ]
      Re: This week in radio history 5-11   [ Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]
      10-8-births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Straight Arrow                        [ "Lois" <loiseula@[removed]; ]
      The Magic Radio                       [ Neal Ellis <bstenor@[removed]; ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:54:23 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-7 births/deaths

    October 7th births

    10-07-1853 - James Whitcomb Riley - Greenfield, IN - d. 7-22-1916
    writer: "Way Down Home" a musical tribute drama based on Riley's life
    10-07-1870 - "Uncle Dave" Macon - Smart Station, TN - d. 3-22-1952
    banjo player: "Grand Ole Opry"
    10-07-1888 - Henry Wallace - Adair County, IA - d. 11-18-1965
    vice president: "Free World Theatre"
    10-07-1889 - Clarence Muse - Baltimore , MD - d. 10-13-1979
    singer: "Paducah Plantation"
    10-07-1890 - Marion Bernstein Bearman - d. 4-xx-1985
    singer: WLAG Minneapolis, Minnesota
    10-07-1896 - Phil Ohman - New Britain, CT - d. 8-8-1954
    pianist: "Names of Tomorrow Finding Stardom Today in Hollywood"
    10-07-1898 - Alfred Wallenstein - Chicago, IL - d. 2-8-1983
    conductor: "Virtuosos"; "Voice of Firestone"
    10-07-1900 - Heinrich Himmler - Munich, Germany - d. 5-23-1945
    nazi leader: "This is a Chapter of Glory"
    10-07-1905 - Andy Devine - Flagstaff, Arizona Territory - d. 2-20-1977
    actor: Jingles P. Jones "Wild Bill Hickok"; Mose Muich "Lum and
    Abner"; "Jack Benny Program"
    10-07-1905 - Jean Ellyn - NYC - d. 11-23-1989
    actor: Margie 'Cookie' Cook "Valiant Lady"; Dr. Watson "Strange Dr.
    Karnac"
    10-07-1908 - Richard Caldicot - London, England - d. 10-16-1995
    actor: "The Navy Lark"
    10-07-1910 - Wayne Ackley - d. 10-3-1988
    newscaster: Des Moines, Iowa
    10-07-1911 - Helen Choate - Boston, MA
    actor: Patsy Bowen "Nick Carter, Master Detective"
    10-07-1911 - Vaughn Monroe - Akron, OH - d. 5-21-1973
    singer, bandleader: "Penthouse Party"; "Vaughn Monroe Show"
    10-07-1912 - Sally Vass - Greenville, SC
    singer: (The Vass Family) "The Lady Next Door"; "Kraft Phoenix Program"
    10-07-1913 - Elizabeth Janeway - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-15-2005
    writer: "Information Please"
    10-07-1914 - Alfred Drake - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-25-1992
    singer: "Best Plays"; Broadway Matinee"; "Ford Festival of American
    Music"
    10-07-1914 - Sarah Churchill - London, England - d. 9-24-1982
    actor: (Daughter of Winston Churchill) "Romance"
    10-07-1915 - Francis Hunt - Buffalo, NY - d. 2-6-1993
    vocalist: (Lou Bring Orchestra) "Kraft Music Hall"
    10-07-1916 - Palmer Williams - Tenafly, NJ - d. 1-1-1996
    producer: "Hear It Now"
    10-07-1917 - Helmut Dantine - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-2-1982
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Silver Theatre"; "Theatre of Romance";
    "Suspense"
    10-07-1917 - June Allyson - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-8-2006
    actor: "Hallmark Playhouse"; "NBC Star Playhouse"; "Harold Lloyd
    Comedy Theatre"
    10-07-1922 - Martha Stewart - Bardwell, KY
    vocalist: "Your All-Time Hit Parade"
    10-07-1925 - Fred Collins - Fort Wayne, IN - d. 8-5-2006
    announcer: "Dimension X"; "X-Minus One"; "The Chase"
    10-07-1926 - Diana Lynn - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-18-1971
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    10-07-1927 - Don Rickles - Portland, OR - d. 2-19-1985
    announcer: "Nightbeat"; The Whisperer"; "The Whistler"
    10-07-1931 - Gordon Terry - Dacatur, AL - d. 4-9-2006
    fiddler: "Country Music Time"; "Country Style [removed]"

    October 7th deaths

    01-10-1914 - Polly Rowles - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-7-2001
    actor: Nita's Aunt "Lone Journey"
    01-19-1809 - Edgar Allan Poe - Boston, MA - d. 10-7-1849
    author: Several of his works adapted for radio
    01-31-1921 - Mario Lanza - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-7-1959
    singer: "Mario Lanza Show"
    05-28-1911 - Lynn Biggler - d. 10-7-2003
    newscaster: KWFT Witchita Falls, Texas
    06-01-1921 - Nelson Riddle - Oradell, NJ - d. 10-7-1985
    composer, conductor: "On a Sunday Afternoon"; "Sears Radio Theatre"
    07-27-1905 - Leo Durocher - West Springfield, MA - d. 10-7-1991
    baseball legend: "baseball announcer"; "Double Play with Durocher and
    Day"
    11-02-1911 - Johnny Richards - Schenectady, NY - d. 10-7-1968
    orchestra leader: "The Jack Carson Show"
    11-17-1898 - "Quin" Ryan - d. 10-7-1978
    announcer, actor: "Quin Ryan Reports"; "Uncle Quin"; "Uncle Quin's
    Scalawags"
    11-26-1910 - Cyril Cusack - Durban, South Africa - d. 10-7-1993
    actor: "Great Expectations"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:54:41 -0400
    From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Broadcast date
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           I'm having trouble finding a broadcast date on one episode of "Lights
    Out" from OTR.  The episode is entitled, "And Adam Begot", but I can't seem
    to
    locate it anywhere.  Any help will be appreciated.

    Sincerely,

    Kenneth Clarke

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    Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:58:09 -0400
    From: "Jim Blackson" <blackj@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Relationship between Scott Bishop and Wyllis
     Cooper
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    Hi,

         I could be completely wrong about this, but the Dark Fantasy show "I am
    your Brother" seems like an episode of Quiet Please. The use of music/sound,
    the strong narrative, and the story itself seem to paralell what I've heard
    of Quiet Please. I am not sure that this has been discussed before, but was
    there a relationship between these shows or their authors?

    thanks,
    Jim

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    Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 20:03:11 -0400
    From: Brent Pellegrini <brentpl@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Suspense
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    Here's Suspense on TV. Sounds just like the Radio Show. Same music, organ,
    Autolite commercials. It was still on the radio at the time of this show.
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    Brent Pellegrini
    Private Investigator
    Local and International phone: 206-905-1046 (Skype)

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    [ADMINISTRIVIA: Almost a year ago, we placed an episode of television's
    Suspense on a Fundraiser disc; "The Hunted," aired on June 29th, 1954
    starring Ward Bond and John Kerr. See:

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       Is there interest in additional episodes of the series on upcoming
    Fundraiser discs?  --cfs3]

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    Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 20:04:16 -0400
    From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: This week in radio history 5-11 October

    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];

>     From Those Were The Days --
>     10/5
>     1930 - The New York Philharmonic Orchestra was first heard on the air
>     over CBS from Carnegie Hall. The Sunday afternoon concerts set CBS back
>     $15,000. Not per week, but for the entire season!

    While this might have been the first CBS network broadcast of the NY
    Philharmonic, they had been broadcast weekly on WEAF as far back as 1922 or
    23.  In fact, Western Electric engineers used the audio feed of these
    broadcasts for experimenting with electrical recording in 1923 and 24, some
    of which still exist from as early as Dec 11, 1923.  There is no announcing
    recorded on any of the ones I have.

>     1947 - A small Northern California company got a major boost from Bing
>     Crosby. The first show recorded on tape was broadcast on ABC. 'Der
>     Bingle' was so popular, that his taped show promoted wide distribution
>     of the new magnetic tape recorders that would become broadcast classics
>     -- the venerable Ampex 200.

    Although I previously had several different dates for this broadcast, it now
    seems that it was Oct 1, 1947.  While it was mastered and edited on tape
    (recording date was August 10) the tape was dubbed to disc and aired from the
    disc.  Additionally, the recordings were made on Jack Mullen's reconstructed
    AEG Magnetophons.  The Ampex machines were not yet ready.  The guests on the
    program were Peggy Lee and Gary Cooper.

    Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 20:12:21 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-8-births/deaths

    October 8th births

    10-08-1871 - Albert Edward Wiggam - Austin, IN - d. 4-26-1957
    biologist: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    10-08-1881 - Oscar O'Shea - Peterboro, Canada - d. 4-6-1960
    actor: John Marshall "Those We Love"
    10-08-1890 - Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker - Columbus, OH - d. 7-23-1973
    host, narrator: "The World's Most Honored Flights"
    10-08-1891 - Florence Malone - d. 3-4-1956
    actor: Christy Allen "Against the Storm"; Mrs. Diamond "Advs. of
    Captain Diamond"
    10-08-1897 - Rouben Mamoulian - Tiflis, Georgia, Russia - d. 12-4-1987
    film director: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    10-08-1902 - Gladys Bagwil - d. 12-14-1969
    blues singer: Hot Springs, Arkansas
    10-08-1904 - Wally Brown - Malden, MA - d. 11-13-1961
    actor: "The Jack Kirkwood Show"; "Joan Davis Time"
    10-08-1906 - William N. Robson - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 4-10-1995
    producer, director: "Beyond Tomorrow"; "CBS Radio Workshop"; "Escape"
    10-08-1908 - Albert Maltz - NYC - d. 4-26-1985
    screen writer: (One of Hollywood Ten) "Words at War"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    10-08-1910 - Roswell B. Rogers - d. 8-6-1998
    writer: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Old Gold Show"; "Lum and Abner"
    10-08-1913 - Walter Schumann - NYC - d. 8-21-1958
    composer: "Dragnet"; "Junior Miss"; "Modern Advs. of Casanova"
    10-08-1914 - Mario "Mike" Dinapoli - Roxbury, MA
    pianist, arranger: "Frank Petty Trio"
    10-08-1918 - Ron Randell - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - d.
    6-11-2005
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-08-1919 - Gabriel Dell - Barbados, British West Indies - d. 7-3-1988
    actor: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"
    10-08-1951 - Jenny Boult - Warwickshire, England - d. 11-1-2005
    writer: "Can't Help Dreaming"

    October 8th deaths

    01-09-1915 - Fernando Lamas - Buenos Aires, Argentina - d. 10-8-1982
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    01-26-1913 - William Prince - Nichols, NY - d. 10-8-1996
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Philco Radio Playhouse"
    02-14-1895 - Nigel Bruce - Ensenada, Mexico - d. 10-8-1953
    actor: Doctor John H. Watson "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"
    02-18-1892 - Wendell Willkie - Elwood, IN - d. 10-8-1944
    presidential candidate: "Information, Please"
    03-04-1908 - Lee Allman - d. 10-8-1989
    actor: (Sister of James Jewell) Lenore 'Casey' Case "The Green Hornet"
    03-15-1901 - Madeleine Pierce - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-8-1983
    actor: Wiki "Just Plain Bill"; Rudy Cameron "When A Girl Marries"
    04-10-1897 - Fred Hall - NYC - d. 10-8-1964
    composer, performer: (Hall and Fields) "Old Man of the Mountain"
    04-26-1891 - Paul Hoffmann - Western Springs, IL - d. 10-8-1974
    foreign aid administrator: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"
    04-29-1914 - Derek Guyler - Wallasey, Merseyside, England - d. 10-8-1999
    actor: "It's That Man Again"
    05-01-1933 - Joan Hackett - NYC - d. 10-8-1983
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    05-16-1916 - Zeze Macedo - Rio de Janerio, Brazil - d. 10-8-1999
    brazilian comic: "Home Sweet Home"
    07-23-1908 - Karl Swenson - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-8-1978
    actor: Lorenzo Jones "Lorenzo Jones"; Lord Henry Brinthrope "Our Gal
    Sunday"
    08-02-1900 - Helen Morgan - Danville, IL - d. 10-8-1941
    hostess, singer: "Helen Morgan, Songs"; "Broadway Melodies"; "Fred
    Allen Show"
    08-30-1887 - Eduardo Ciannelli - Island of Ischia, Italy - d. 10-8-1969
    actor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-01-1898 - Lilyan Ariel - d. 10-8-1969
    pianist: KFI Los Angeles, California
    11-06-1886 - Gus Kahn - Koblenz, Germany - d. 10-8-1941
    lyricist: "Good News of 1938"
    12-25-1916 - Oscar Moore - Austin, TX - d. 10-8-1981
    guitar: "The King Cole Trio"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 20:12:30 -0400
    From: "Lois" <loiseula@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Straight Arrow
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    Frank McGurn, re Straight Arrow information:

    The only copies I have of the show are very bad quality, so I cant help there.
    I agree that the Bear Mania book on the show is well done and has lots of
    good, and correct information. It was written by William Harper who has many
    old scripts and has done much research.   No, there is no web site.

    I will be glad to try to answer questions for you, if I can, via email.

    Lois Culver
    (Mrs. Straight Arrow)
    loiseula@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 20:14:46 -0400
    From: Neal Ellis <bstenor@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Magic Radio

    Several years ago Radiola Records released an LP that contained a
    program called "The Magic Radio."  It featured Fibber McGee & Molly.
    Fibber had rigged a radio so that I could tune in shows from
    yesteryear.

    Anyone have any ideas what series this was from or where the recording
    originated.

    Neal Ellis
    Old Time Radio On MP3

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    Vintage TV and Radio News
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    Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 02:12:01 -0400
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
    real-time OTR talk!

    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
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    it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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