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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2011 : Issue 63
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Cincy Convention Schedule Posted! [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
Dennis's Pay, Nightflight 760 [ Keith Houdeshell <khowdy@[removed] ]
4-21 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:39:05 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Cincy Convention Schedule Posted!
Folks;
Check out the blog at [removed] for the schedule of next
month's Cincinnati Old-Time Radio and Nostalgia Convention!
Charlie
[removed] Also, watch there in the next day or three for my thoughts about this
year's final Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention.
Me
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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:54:51 -0400
From: Keith Houdeshell <khowdy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Dennis's Pay, Nightflight 760
David
Dennis Days salary was supposed to be $35 a week but Jack explained
that since his song only lasted 3 minutes it was equivalent to $7000 an hour.
I to listened to WJR's nightflight, remember that about 3:00 they
would land and then return to [removed]
Keith
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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:55:00 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 4-21 births/deaths
April 21st births
04-21-1891 - Dr. Howard W. Haggard - d. 4-22-1959
alcoholism expert: "Devils, Drugs and Doctors"
04-21-1891 - Will Donaldson - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-16-1954
composer, arranger, musician: "The Wonder Bakers Orchestra"
04-21-1895 - Max Jordan - San Remo, Italy - d. 11-28-1977
correspondent: "NBC News"
04-21-1898 - King Calder - Maryland - d. 6-28-1964
actor: James Anderson "Second Mrs. Burton"; Will Stevenson "Barry
Cameron"
04-21-1905 - Ted Osborne - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 2-12-1987
actor: Dr. Carough "Dr. Kildare"; Professor Whiz the Owl "Cinnamon Bear"
04-21-1907 - Beatrice Kay - The Bronx, NY - d. 11-8-1986
singer: "Gaslight Gayeties"; "Beatrice Kay Show"
04-21-1907 - Wade Mainer - Weaversville, NC
country: (Mainer's Crazy Mountaineers) "Crazy Water Crystals Barn Dance"
04-21-1911 - Leonard Warren - The Bronx, NY - d. 3-4-1960
singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Telephone Hour"
04-21-1914 - Norman Panama - Chicago, IL - d. 1-13-2003
writer: "Pepsodent Show starring Bob Hope"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-21-1915 - Anthony Quinn - Chihauha, Mexico - d. 6-3-2001
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Your Radio Theatre"
04-21-1916 - Hunter D. Hancock - Uvalde, TX - d. 8-4-2004
disk jockey: Early rhythm and blues rock 'n' roll platter spinner
04-21-1919 - Don Cornell - NYC - d. 2-23-2004
singer: "Sammy Kaye's Sunday Serenade"; "One Night Stand"; "The Big
Show"
04-21-1920 - Jim Nabbie - d. 9-12-1992
lead tenor: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots"; "Let's
Go Nightclubbing"
04-21-1921 - Betty Jane Rhodes - Rockford, IL
vocalist: "Meet Me at Parky's"; "The Packard Hour"
04-21-1923 - John Mortimer - London, England - d. 1-16-2009
author: "Rumpole of the Bailey"
04-21-1923 - Tex Antoine - d. 1-12-1983
announcer: "The Eternal Light"; "Jane Pickens Show"
04-21-1927 - Jose Miguel Agrelot - San Juan, Puerto Rico - d. 1-28-2004
comedian: Torito "The College of Happiness"
04-21-1930 - Alec Gregonzi - London, England - d. 6-4-2006
actor: Fred "Hancock's Half Hour"
04-21-1930 - Kirby Ayres - d. 11-16-2005
disk jockey: "Bob and Ray Present the CBS Radio Network"
04-21-1932 - Elaine May - Philadelphia, PA
comedian: "Mike Nicholes and Elaine May"; "Monitor"
04-21-1933 - Jim Harmon - Mount Carmel, IL - d. 2-16-2010
author: "The Great Radio Heroes"
April 21st deaths
01-02-1904 - James Melton - Moultrie, GA - d. 4-21-1961
singer" "Palmolive Hour"; "Telephone Hour"; "Harvest of Stars"
02-21-1933 - Nina Simone - Tyron, NC - d. 4-21-2003
singer: "Voices of Vista"
03-03-1890 - Edmund Lowe - San Jose, CA - d. 4-21-1971
actor: Sergeant Quirt "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt"
04-18-1911 - Louis Vittes - d. 4-21-1969
writer: "Advs. of The Thin Man"; "Affairs of Peter Salem"; "The Lone
Wolf"
05-03-1902 - Walter Slezak - Vienna, Austria - d. 4-21-1983
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Best Plays"; "Studio One"; "Columbia
Workshop"
06-09-1890 - Leslie Banks - West Derby, England - d. 4-21-1952
actor: "Theatre of Romance"
06-25-1915 - Peter Lind Hayes - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-21-1998
actor: "Jack Benny Program"; "Texaco Town"; "Ford Show"; "Lum and Abner"
07-07-1927 - Gloria Mann - New York - d. 4-21-1961
actor: Veronica Lodge "Archie Andrews"
07-22-1894 - Major George Fielding Eliot - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-21-1971
cbs military analyst during World War II
08-13-1904 - Charles "Buddy" Rogers - Olathe, KS - d. 4-21-1999
bandleader, actor: (America's Boyfriend) "Twin Stars"; "Pick-A-Date"
08-21-1908 - Bob Jellison - Des Moines, IA - d. 4-21-1980
actor: Oswald Ching "Story of Mary Marlin"; Buster Gunn "Great Gunns"
08-29-1906 - Joe Sawyer - Guelph, Canada - d. 4-21-1982
actor: Sergant 'Biff' O'Hara "Rin-Tin-Tin"
09-19-1916 - Helen Ward - NYC - d. 4-21-1998
jazz singer: (Benny Goodman's Band) "Let's Dance"
09-29-1890 - Nils Thor Granlund - Korpibomboia, Lapland, Sweden - d.
4-21-1957
broadway producer: "[removed] and His Girls"
10-12-1930 - Cyril Tawney - d. 4-21-2005
folk singer: "Folkspin"; "Alan Lomax Show"
10-21-1892 - Gummo Marx - NYC - d. 4-21-1977
comedian: (Marx Brothers) "American Review"
10-26-1897 - Louis Castellucci - Italy - d. 4-21-1988
trombonist, composer: "Dragnet"
10-26-1929 - Neal Matthews - Nashville, TN - d. 4-21-2000
singer: (Jordonaires) "Grand Ole Opry"; "Jim Reeves Show"
10-31-1909 - Thelma Boardman - Panama Canal Zone - d. 4-21-1978
actor: Minnie Mouse "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"
11-05-1895 - Charles MacArthur - Scranton, PA - d. 4-21-1956
playwright: "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"; "Chase and Sanborn Hour"
Ron
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