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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2012 : Issue 153
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Remember Wenn                         [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  9-21 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  9-22 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 23-29 Sep  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  9-23 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:26:50 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Remember Wenn

The websites that are "cookie cutter format," as someone described, are all
owned by the same company. The discs come from China, not the USA, and are
known for having frequent problems, bad burns, incomplete burns, labels not
centered on the discs and awful picture quality. This company is actually
based in the Carribean Islands and while the
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order -- you'll have the DVDs arriving in paper sleeves in a clamshell
case with different art work. Apparently they are out of [removed]
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 open new ones looking similar to the others. They are popularly known by DVD
TV fans who collect TV shows on DVD. This "company" has been talked about on
multiple message boards for years and I'm surprised they are only now being
talked about on the OTR Digest after all this time.

In short, if you REALLY want to get them instead of the authorized limited
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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:26:56 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  9-21 births/deaths

September 21st births

09-21-1866 - H. G. Wells - Bromley, England - d. 8-13-1946
science fiction author: "A Discussion Between H. G. Wells and Orson
Welles"
09-21-1901 - Lloyd Shaffer - Ridgeway, PA - d. 5-28-1999
orchestra leader: "Chesterfield Supper Club"; "Time to Shine"
09-21-1901 - Talitha Botsford - Millport, NY - d. 1-30-2002
composer and violinist
09-21-1902 - Dymphna Cusak - Wyalong, Australia - d. 10-19-1981
writer: "Shoulder the Sky"
09-21-1903 - Westbrook Van Voorhis - New Milford, CT - d. 7-13-1968
announcer, narrator: "March of Time"
09-21-1907 - Jack Mather - California - d. 8-15-1966
actor: Cisco Kid "Cisco Kid"
09-21-1909 - Nathaniel Curtis - NYC - d. 4-6-1983
writer: "You Can't Take It With You"
09-21-1913 - Janet Ertel - Sheboygan, WI - d. 11-22-1988
singer: (The Chordettes) "Arthur Godfrey Time"
09-21-1914 - Geoffrey Clarkson - Yonkers, NY - d. 3-10-2009
pianist: "Les Brown and his Band of Renown"
09-21-1915 - Mac Benoff - NYC - d. 11-16-1972
writer: "The Mel Blanc Show"
09-21-1916 - Zinovy Gerdt - Sebezh, Russia - d. 11-18-1996
actor: Read poetry and prose on radio
09-21-1921 - Gail Russell - Chicago, IL - d. 8-26-1961
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
09-21-1927 - Jeanne Elaine Starcrystal Mazure - Melbourne, Australia
writer: "Across 22"
09-21-1930 - John Morgan - Aberdale, Wales - d. 11-25-2004
writer: "It's All in the Mind of John Morgan"
09-21-1935 - Sigrid Valdis - Bakersfield, CA - d. 10-14-2007
actor: "Shaken, Not Stirred"
09-21-1944 - Susan Fleetwood - St. Andrews, England - d. 9-29-1995
actor: "King Priam"
09-21-1945 - Hazel Edwards - Melbourne, Australia
writer: " 'L' of a Difference"
09-21-1967 - Christopher Price - Norfolk, England - d. 4-22-2002
radio journalist: "BBC News 24"

September 21st deaths

01-16-1878 - Harry Carey, Sr. - NYC - d. 9-21-1947
actor: "Lincoln Highway"; "Suspense"
03-17-1915 - Joel Cranston - Iowa - d. 9-21-1977
actor: "Fort Laramie"; "Gunsmoke"; "Escape"; "Have Gun, Will Travel"
04-06-1903 - Charles R. Jackson - d. 9-21-1968
writer: "The Columbia Workshop"; "Sweet River"
04-15-1907 - Theodore Granick - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-21-1970
moderator: "American Forum of the Air"
05-15-1916 - Bill Williams - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-21-1992
actor: "Eternal Light"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-16-1892 - Osgood Perkins - West Newton, MA - d. 9-21-1937
stage actor: "Flying Red Horse Tavern"
06-13-1924 - Lee Millar - Oakland, CA - d. 9-21-1980
actor: Bob Regent "Chandu the Magician"; "On Stage"; "NBC Presents:
Short Story"
07-09-1912 - John McQuade - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 9-21-1979
actor: Charlie Wild "Charlie Wild, Private Detective"; Steve Lansing
"Our Gal Sunday"
07-15-1908 - Lee Erwin - Cincinnati, OH - d. 9-21-2000
organist, arranger: Moneybags Erwin "Arthur Godfrey Show"
07-25-1894 - Walter Brennan - Swampscott, MA - d. 9-21-1974
actor: Grandpa Vanderhof "You Can't Take it with You"; Judge Roy Bean
"Law West of the Pecos"
08-08-1914 - Pete King - Greenville, OH - d. 9-21-1982
conductor: (Pete King Chorale) "Bing Crosby Show"; "Doris Day Show"
08-14-1926 - Alice Ghostly - Eve, MO - d. 9-21-2007
actor: "Theatre Five"
08-20-1918 - Jacqueline Susann - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-21-1974
actor: Lola the Cigarette Girl "Morey Amsterdam Show"
08-24-1905 - Charles C. Alsup - d. 9-21-1987
sportscaster: KICS Clovis, New Mexico
11-06-1910 - Donald Dickson - Clairton, PA - d. 9-21-1972
singer: "Sealtest Party"; "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Blue Ribbon Town"
11-10-1920 - Jennifer Holt - Dorset, England - d. 9-21-1997
actor: "Family Theatre"; "Curtain Time"; "All-Star Western Theatre"
12-14-1909 - "Symphony Sid" Torin - NYC - d. 9-21-1984
disk jockey specializing in jazz. Worked for several New York stations

Ron

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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:27:08 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  9-22 births/deaths

September 22nd births

09-22-1870 - Arthur Pryor - St. Joseph, MO - d. 6-18-1942
bandmaster, trombonist: "Cremo Military Band Program"; "Goodyear
Program"
09-22-1875 - Guy Bates Post - Seattle, WA - d. 1-16-1968
actor: Ulysses S. Grant "Roses and Drums"
09-22-1881 - Joe Parsons - Indianapolis, IN - d. 12-22-1947
singer: Edelweiss Joe "The Sinclair Minstrels"; "The Yeast Foamers"
09-22-1885 - George Gaul - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-6-1939
actor: Jeb Stuart "Roses and Drums"; "Grits and Gravy"
09-22-1891 - Alfred Shirley - d. 7-24-1967
actor: Dr. John Watson "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"
09-22-1895 - Paul Muni - Lemberg, Austria-Hungary - d. 8-25-1967
actor: "Free Company"; "Radio Hall of Fame"
09-22-1900 - Hanley Stafford - Hanley, Staffordshire, England - d.
9-9-1968
actor: Mr. Higgins "Baby Snooks Show"; Julius C. Dithers "Blondie"
09-22-1902 - John Houseman - Bucharest, Romania - d. 10-31-1988
writer, producer: "Mercury Theatre on the Air"; "Campbell Playhouse"
09-22-1904 - Clarence Nash - Watonga,  Oklahoma Territory - d. 2-20-1985
actor: (voice of Donald Duck) "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"
09-22-1907 - Sheppard Strudwick - Hillsboro, NC - d. 1-15-1983
actor: "Family Theatre"; "Odyssey of Homer"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-22-1910 - Del Courtney - Oakland, CA - d. 2-11-2006
bandleader: "Kodak Camera Show"
09-22-1913 - Chuck Acree - St. Louis, MO - d. 11-4-1991
emcee: "Hint Club"; We, the Wives"; Ladies Be Seated"
09-22-1914 - Martha Scott - Jamesport, MO - d. 5-28-2003
actor: Alice Blair "Career of Alice Blair"; "Somerset Maugham Theatre"
09-22-1915 - Arthur Lowe - Hayfield, Derbyshire, England - d. 4-15-1982
actor: Captain George Mainwaring "Dad's Army"
09-22-1915 - Vincent Donehue - Whitehall, NY - d. 1-17-1966
actor: Neil Davison "Home of the Brave"
09-22-1917 - Richard C. Hottelet - Brooklyn, NY
news correspondent: CBS news correspondent in Europe and New York
09-22-1918 - Betty Wragge - NYC
actor: Peggy Davis "Red Davis"; Peggy Young "Pepper Young's Family
09-22-1925 - William Franklyn - London, England - d. 10-31-2006
actor: Sexton Blake "Sexton Blake"
09-22-1926 - Sybil Trent - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-5-2000
actor: "Let's Pretend"; Thelma "As the Twig is Bent/We Love and Learn"
09-22-1932 - Allen Actor - d. 1-12-2004
disc jockey: Orlando, Florida

September 22nd deaths

01-11-1888 - Charles Previn - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-22-1973
conductor, pianist: "Sea Romances"; "Silken Strings"
01-20-1919 - Tony Shryane - St. Austell, England - d. 9-22-2003
BBC radio producer
01-20-1921 - Connie Haines - Savannah, GA - d. 9-22-2008
singer: "Abbott and Costello Show"; "Rhapsody in Rhythm"
01-23-1899 - Joseph Nathan Kane - NYC - d. 9-22-2002
writer: "Break the Bank"
02-14-1916 - Bill Murtaugh - Chagrin Falls, OH - d. 9-22-2006
CBS sound engineer from 1944 to 1981
03-14-1900 - Bernie Cummins - Akron, OH - d. 9-22-1986
bandleader: "Coca-Cola Spotlight Bands Program"; "Fitch Bandwagon"
03-22-1927 - Karl Hardman - Pittsuburgh, PA - d. 9-22-2007
actor: Louie the Garbage Man, Roquefort O. Lafarge "Cordie and Company"
03-24-1885 - Joseph Granby - Boston, MA - d. 9-22-1965
actor: Mead Connors "We Are Always Young"
04-09-1904 - Mickey Alpert - d. 9-22-1965
orchestra leader: "Amalgamated Broadcasting System Inaugural Program"
04-11-1893 - Lou Holtz - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-22-1980
comedian: "Fleischmann Hour"; "Kraft Music Hall"
05-11-1888 - Irving Berlin - Temum, Russia - d. 9-22-1989
composer: "Ed Sullivan Show"; "People's Platform"
05-14-1917 - Norman Luboff - Chicago, IL - d. 9-22-1987
choir director: (The Norman Luboff Choir) "The Railroad Hour"
07-08-1928 - Royce Baerg - d. 9-22-2002
disk jockey: KNEX McPherson, Kansas
07-21-1920 - Isaac Stern - Kreminiecz, Ukraine, USSR - d. 9-22-2001
violinist: "Jack Benny Program"; "New York Philharmonic"
07-25-1903 - Percy Angwin - d. 9-22-1985
sportscaster: WSKI Montpelier, Vermont
08-10-1928 - Eddie Fisher - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-22-2010
singer: "Stars in Khaki 'n' Blue"; "Eddie Fisher Show"
09-13-1914 - Leonard Feather - London, England - d. 9-22-1994
composer: "Esquire Jazz Concert"; "Mildred Bailey Show"; "One Night
Stand'
09-30-1902 - Harold Bechtel (Uncle Harry) - d. 9-22-1971
actor: "Candy Matson"
10-01-1898 - Curtiss Arnall - Cheyenne, WY - d. 9-22-1964
actor: Buck Rogers, "Buck Rogers"
11-11-1923 - Willie Cook - Tangipahoa, LA - d. 9-22-2000
jazz trumpeter: "Voice of America"
12-10-1914 - Dorothy Lamour - New Orleans, LA - d. 9-22-1996
singer, actor: "Dorothy Lamour Show"; "Sealtest Variety Show"
12-21-1910 - Mary Orr - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-22-2006
author: "Radio City Playhouse"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
12-24-1893 - Harry Warren - NYC - d. 9-22-1981
composer: "Good News of 1940"; "Great Moments to Music"

Ron

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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:27:13 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 23-29 September

 From Those Were The Days -

9/24

1942   Glenn Miller ended his Moonlight Serenade series on CBS. It was
time for Miller to go to war. The show had aired three times a week for
Chesterfield Cigarettes.

9/25

1933   America's favorite cowboy, Tom Mix, was heard for the first time
on NBC. The Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters continued on the air until
June 1950.

9/27

1933   NBC debuted Waltz Time, featuring the orchestra of Abe Lymon. The
program continued on the network until 1948.

1938   Thanks for the Memory was heard for the first time on The Bob
Hope Show on the NBC Red network.

9/28

1936   Bachelor's Children debuted on CBS (at 9:45 [removed]) in addition to
its schedule on the Mutual Network (at 10:15 [removed]). The show's theme
song, Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, opened the 15 minute, critically
acclaimed, daily serial. Bachelor's Children became very popular because
of its natural dialogue which made folks think they were hearing a real
event. Bachelor's Children ... brought to you by Old Dutch Cleanser,
Palmolive Peet Soap, Colgate Toothpaste and Wonder Bread.

1939   The final broadcast of The Fleischmann Hour was heard. The star
of the show, Rudy Vallee, wrapped things up after a decade of
entertaining radio before moving on to other sponsors.

9/29

1920   Radios for 10 bucks! That's what Joseph Horne Company's
department store in Pittsburgh, PA was selling. The radios were
advertised in The Pittsburgh Sun for $10 ($106 in 2009 dollars)  and up.
One could get a ready made radio in a box with headphones and tuning
knob. This way, one could do away with the Quaker Oats round box and the
cat's whisker wire, which was a pain to tune.

1930   "This is Lowell Thomas." Those words were spoken for the first
time as a young Lowell Thomas made his debut on CBS. He replaced Floyd
Gibbons on the nightly (6:45 [removed]), 15 minute newscast. Thomas, who
started as a reporter for the New York Daily News (at age 19), was heard
on the radio for the next 46 years.

1930   "Ba, ba, ba, boo. I will, ba ba ba boo ... marry you!" Bing
Crosby, America's premier crooner for decades, married Dixie Lee.

1940   Double or Nothing was first heard on Mutual. Each time
contestants answered questions correctly, their winnings would double
from $20 to $40 to the big payoff of $80. ($302, $605 and $605 in 2009
dollars: [removed]) If they gave an incorrect
answer, they were gone! Nobody bet on long how long the show would last.
Good thing. It kept going for a dozen years. Among the sponsors: Feen A
Mint, Chooz breath candy and Campbell's soup.

1946   Mystery fans remember when The Adventures of Sam Spade debuted on
CBS this Sunday night. (It had aired in the summer of 1946 on ABC on
Friday nights.) The Adventures of Sam Spade, with Howard Duff playing
Spade, became a big hit in the Sunday night radio lineup. And now a word
from our sponsor: "Use Wildroot Cream Oil, Charlie ... it keeps your
hair in [removed]"

Joe

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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:27:56 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  9-23 births/deaths

September 23rd births

09-23-1884 - Bill Lawrence - East St. Louis, IL - d. 2-14-1973
producer, director: "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
09-23-1889 - Don Bestor - Longford, SD - d. 1-13-1970
bandleader: "Nestle Program"; "Jack Benny Program"
09-23-1893 - Louis Sorin - NYC - d. 12-14-1961
actor: Pan Pancho "Cisco Kid"
09-23-1897 - Walter Pidgeon - East St. John, New Brunswick, Canada -
d. 9-25-1984
actor: "Hollywood Calling"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-23-1901 - Frederick Hazlitt Brennan - d. 6-30-1962
writer: "Shorty Bell" based on Brennan's stories
09-23-1905 - Charlie Arlington - d. 1-9-1986
announcer: "Michael Shayne, Private Detective"; "Voyage of the Scarlet
Queen"
09-23-1907 - Jarmila Novatana - Prague, Czechoslovakia - d. 2-9-1994
lyric soprano: "The Pause that Refreshes"; "The Celanese Hour"
09-23-1907 - Rudd Weatherwax - Engel, Sierra County, NM - d. 2-25-1985
dog trainer: "Lassie"
09-23-1908 - Sammy Forsmark - Georgia - d. 8-21-1961
steel guitar: "The Radio Cowboys"
09-23-1908 - Tiny Bradshaw - Youngstown, OH - d. 11-26-1958
orchestra leader: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"
09-23-1910 - Elliott Roosevelt - NYC - d. 10-27-1990
commentary for the Mutual Network (Son of FDR) "Information Please"
09-23-1913 - Helen Hiett - Tazewell, IL - d. 8-22-1961
correspondent, newscaster: "Helen Hiett News"; "News Roundup"
09-23-1913 - Robert Hudson Ballard - Nyack, NY - d. 5-2-1992
violinist, arranger: "Phil Harris Orchestra"
09-23-1913 - Stanley Kramer - NYC - d. 2-19-2001
film director: "Jack Benny Program"; "Stagestruck"
09-23-1914 - Aileen Burke - d. 3-xx-1992
author: "Reflex Action"
09-23-1919 - Ruth Sprague - San Francisco, CA
actor: "I Love a Mystery"; "Death Valley Days"; "Dog Dramas"
09-23-1920 - Mickey Rooney - Brooklyn, NY
actor: Andy Hardy "Hardy Family"; Ralph J. 'Shorty' Bell "Shorty Bell"
09-23-1927 - Richard Seff - NYC
actor/writer: "Aldrich Family"; "Brighter Day"; "Road of Life"
09-23-1927 - Virginia McDowall - London, England - d. 12-8-2006
actor: "Family Theatre"; "NBC University Theatre"
09-23-1934 - Chiyoko "Pat" Suzuki - Cressy, CA
singer: "Army Bandstand"; "Manhattan Melodies"

September 23rd deaths

01-24-1881 - Earl Godwin - Washington, [removed] - d. 9-23-1956
newsman: "Watch the World Go By"
02-16-1914 - Jimmy Wakely - Mineola, AR - d. 9-23-1982
country singer: "All-Star Western Theatre"; "Hollywood Barn Dance"
02-27-1909 - Carl Frank - Weehawken, NJ - d. 9-23-1972
actor: Jerry Malone "Young Dr. Malone"; Bob Drake "Betty and Bob"
03-01-1869 - Edward Bell - near Terre Haute, IN - d. 9-23-1943
commentator WMAQ during the 1920s
03-11-1909 - Phil Leslie - St. Louis, MO - d. 9-23-1988
writer: "Fibber McGee and Molly"
03-30-1858 - DeWolf Hopper - NYC - d. 9-23-1935
host-narrator: (Husband of Hedda Hopper) "Roses and Drums"
04-05-1917 - Robert Bloch - Chicago, IL - d. 9-23-1994
writer: "Stay Tuned for Terror"
04-17-1910 - Ivan Goff - Perth, Australia - d. 9-23-1999
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-19-1900 - George O'Brien - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-23-1985
actor: "Anchors Aweigh"
05-07-1890 - Billy House - Mankato, MN - d. 9-23-1961
actor, comedian: "Al Pearce and His Gang"; "The Laugh Liner"
06-20-1893 - Edwin Wolfe - d. 9-23-1983
actor: Curt Bradley "Pepper Young's Family"
07-16-1887 - Floyd Gibbons - Washington, [removed] - d. 9-23-1939
commentator: "Headline Hunter"; "World Adventures"; "Nash Program"
09-12-1894 - Billy Gilbert - Louisville, KY - d. 9-23-1971
actor: "NYA Varieties"; "Rudy Vallee Rehearsal"
10-19-1930 - Wally Flaherty - The Bronx, NY - d. 9-23-1998
host: "Open Line"
10-27-1918 - Bill Ballance - Peoria, IL - d. 9-23-2004
talk show host: "Feminine Forum"; "Bill Ballance Show"
12-28-1905 - Cliff Arquette - Toledo, OH - d. 9-23-1974
comedian, actor: Thaddeus Cornfelder, "Myrt and Marge"
12-28-1910 - Murray Burnett - d. 9-23-1997
writer: "True Detectives Mysteries"

Ron

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