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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 155
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      10-1 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 2-8 Octob  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Other names                           [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
      More on OTR News Broadcasts           [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 12:16:08 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-1 births/deaths

    October 1st births

    10-01-1885 - Louis Untermeyer - NYC - d. 12-18-1977
    writer: "Information Please"
    10-01-1889 - Ralph W. Sockman - Mount Vernon, OH - d. 8-29-1970
    preacher: "National Radio Pulpit"
    10-01-1890 - Stanley Holloway - London, England - d. 1-30-1982
    actor, singer: "Music As You Like It"
    10-01-1893 - Faith Baldwin - d. 3-18-1978
    novelist: Guest on "The Second Mrs. Burton"
    10-01-1898 - Curtiss Arnall - Cheyenne, WY - d. 9-22-1964
    actor: Buck Rogers, "Buck Rogers"
    10-01-1898 - Lilyan Ariel - d. 10-8-1969
    pianist: KFI Los Angeles, California
    10-01-1899 - Rupert LaBelle - d. 8-9-1972
    actor: Rufus Kane "Story of Joan and Kermit"
    10-01-1902 - Joe Rines - Boston, MA - d. 12-12-1986
    jack of all trades: (Married to Portland Hoffa) "Joe Rines Show"
    10-01-1903 - George Coulouris - Manchester, England - d. 4-25-1989
    actor: Hugh Drummond "Bulldog Drummond"; Frank Harrison "As the Twig
    Is Bent"
    10-01-1904 - Vladimir Horowitz - Kiev, Ukraine, Russia - d. 11-5-1989
    piano virtuoso: "GuestStar"; "Pictures At An Exhibition"
    10-01-1905 - Wallace Magill - d. 8-12-1973
    producer, director: "The Telephone Hour"
    10-01-1909 - Everett Sloane - NYC - d. 8-6-1965
    actor: Frank Kennelly, "21st Precinct"; Alfred Drake "This Is Nora
    Drake"
    10-01-1910 - Bonnie Parker - Rowena, TX - d. 5-23-1934
    outlaw, murderess: Subject on "Gang Busters"
    10-01-1910 - Paul Baron - Baltimore, MD - d. 3-22-1985
    bandleader: "Hildegard's Campbell Room"; "Frank Parker Show"
    10-01-1911 - Irwin Kostal - Chicago, IL - d. 11-23-1994
    staff arranger for nbc: "Design for Listening"
    10-01-1914 - Donald Wollheim - NYC - d. 11-2-1990
    science fiction writer: "Dimension X"
    10-01-1921 - James Whitmore - White Plains, NY - d. 2-6-2009
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-01-1922 - Ernest Altschuler - NYC - d. 5-11-1973
    composer/author/engineer: "Voice of America"
    10-01-1926 - George Peppard - Detroit, MI - d. 5-8-1994
    actor: "MGM Air View"
    10-01-1927 - Tom Bosley - Chicago, IL - d. 10-19-2010
    host: "General Mills Adventure Theatre"
    10-01-1935 - Julie Andrews - Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England
    singer: "Music As You Like It"; "Heartbeat of Broadway"
    10-01-1949 - Merle Kessler - Milbank, SD
    social critic: Ian Shoales "Morning Edition"

    October 1st deaths

    01-03-1897 - Dorothy Arzner - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-1-1979
    film director: "You Were Meant to be a Star"
    02-03-1890 - Larry MacPhail - Cass City, MI - d. 10-1-1975
    baseball executive: "Information, Please"; "Bill Stern Colgate Sports
    Newsreel"
    02-12-1898 - Roy Harris - Lincoln County, Oklahoma Territory - d.
    10-1-1979
    composer: "New York Philharmonic"; "Comtemporary Composers Concerts"
    02-18-1931 - Ned Sherrin - Somerset, England - d. 10-1-2007
    broadcaster; producer: "Loose Ends"; "Counterpoint"
    02-27-1894 - Frank Munn - The Bronx, NY - d. 10-1-1953
    singer (The Golden Voice of Radio) Paul Oliver "Palmolive Hour"
    03-02-1913 - Marjorie Weaver - Crossville, TN - d. 10-1-1994
    actor: "Sally, Irene and Mary"
    03-18-1953 - Milwaukee Braves - Boston, MA - d. 10-1-1965
    Only franchise in the history of sport never to have had a losing season
    04-01-1907 - Stanley Joseloff - d. 10-1-1989
    writer: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    04-07-1897 - Royal Foster - d. 10-1-1971
    writer: "Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy"; "Ken Murray"
    04-27-1898 - Ludwig Behelmans - Meran, Austria-Hungary - d. 10-1-1962
    author, panelist: "Author, Author"
    05-17-1878 - Conway Tearle - NYC - d. 10-1-1939
    announcer: "Streamlined Shakespeare"
    05-23-1907 - Carlyne Stevens - Parkhill, Canada - d. 10-1-1961
    announcer: "Cavalcade of America"; "Roxy's Gang"; "Atlantic Family"
    06-18-1925 - Bob Arthur - Aberdeen, WA - d. 10-1-2008
    actor: "The Bob Arthur Show"
    06-21-1900 - Jack Arthur - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-1-1980
    singer, emcee: "Echoes of New York"; "Family Time"; "Jack Arthur Show"
    07-26-1912 - Buddy Clark - Dorchester, MA - d. 10-1-1949
    singer: "Your Hit Parade"; "New Carnation Contented Hour"
    08-05-1899 - Sam Beckwith - d. 10-1-1983
    disk jockey: KEEN San Jose, California
    09-08-1907 - Tom McAvity - d. 10-1-1972
    producer, director: "A Date with Judy"; "Rudy Vallee Show"; "The Saint"
    09-16-1921 - Korla Pandit (Juan Rolando) - St. Louis, MO- d. 10-1-1998
    organ: "Chandu the Magician", "Jubilee"
    09-26-1901 - Donald Cook - Portland, OR - d. 10-1-1961
    actor: Dr. Allison "My Son Jeep"; Charlie "Charlie and Jessie"
    10-25-1918 - Chubby Jackson - NYC - d. 10-1-2003
    bassist: (Woody Herman Band) "The Woody Herman Show"
    10-30-1918 - William N. Burch - d. 10-1-2005
    producer: "Truth or Consequences"; "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"
    11-09-1914 - Alan Caillou - d. 10-1-2006
    writer: "Sears Radio Theatre"
    12-01-1911 - Walter Alston - Venice, OH - d. 10-1-1984
    baseball manager: "Tops In Sports"
    12-27-1916 - Noel Johnson - Birmingham, England - d. 10-1-1999
    actor: Dick Barton "Dick Barton, Special Agent"; Dan Dare "Dan Dare:
    Pilot of the Future"

    Ron

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    Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 12:16:22 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 2-8 October

     From Those Were The Days

    10/3

    1901   The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated on this day.
    After a merger with Radio Corporation of America, RCA Victor became the
    leader in phonographs and many of the records played on them. The famous
    Victrola phonograph logo, with Nipper the dog, and the words "His
    Master=s Voice", appeared on all RCA Victor phonographs and record labels.

    1946   Dennis Day started his own show on NBC. Dennis, a popular tenor
    featured on The Jack Benny Show, played the same (type) naive young
    bachelor he played on the Benny show. A Day in the Life of Dennis Day
    aired for five years.

    10/4

    1948   Gordon MacRae hosted the premiere of a radio classic. The
    Railroad Hour debuted on ABC. The theme song was I've Been Working on
    the Railroad and the show was sponsored by, get ready, America's Railroads.

    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 ($190,918 in 2009 dollars). Not per week, but for the entire season!

    1930   This was a big day for CBS. Following the orchestra broadcast
    (above), Father Coughlin, The Fighting Priest was first heard on network
    radio. He lit up the airwaves with oratory that aired into the early
    forties.  He was first heard on WJR Detroit in 1926.

    1934   The first major network radio show to originate from Hollywood
    aired on this day. Hollywood Hotel was heard on CBS and was heavily
    promoted as being the first to broadcast from the West Coast of the [removed]

    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.

      1952   After an 11 year run, Inner Sanctum, the legendary mystery
    series, was heard for the final time. We'll never know if they oiled
    that squeaky [removed]  (Of course there is the story of a staffer who did
    actually oil the door before one [removed] ed.)  (PS I have a door
    that creaks just like that one and half the time expect to find Raymond
    lurking around somewhere.  I've never oiled it in the hopes Raymond
    would appear.)

    10/6

    1937   Hobby Lobby debuted on CBS. The host was the dean of American
    hobbyists, Dave Elman. The show's theme was The Best Things in Life are
    Free. Sponsors included Fels Naptha soap, Hudson paper products and
    Colgate Dental Creme.

    10/7

    1922   The first radio network, of sorts, debuted. It was a network of
    just two stations. WJZ in Newark, NJ teamed with WGY in Schenectady, NY
    to bring the World Series game direct from the Polo Grounds in New York.
    Columnist Grantland Rice was behind the microphone for that broadcast.

    1939   Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy was heard for the first time on CBS
    radio. Tom Hopkins, Kate's husband, was played by eventual Beat the
    Clock host Clayton 'Bud' Collyer. The 15 minute radio drama was written
    by Chester McCraken and Gertrude Berg (writer and Emmy Award winning
    actress of The Goldbergs, a popular radio and TV series in the 1940s &
    1950s). The announcer for the four year run of Angel of Mercy was Ralph
    Edwards of future This is Your Life fame. And the sponsor was Maxwell
    House of coffee fame.

    1940   Portia Faces Life debuted on the NBC Red network. This radio soap
    opera centered around the life of Portia Blake Manning, an attorney and
    a widow with a young son.  Portia Faces Life was extremely popular, and
    therefore, had many sponsors, none of which were soap. The sponsors
    included Post Toasties, Grape Nuts Flakes, Grape Nuts Wheat Meal,
    Maxwell House coffee, Jell-O desserts and La France bleach.

    10/8

    1935   The O'Neills debuted on CBS. The theme song, Londonderry Air,
    opened the 15 minute soap opera. The O'Neills aired Mondays, Wednesdays
    and Fridays at 7:30 [removed] In 1936 it moved to daytime where it stayed
    until 1943 on NBC's Red and Blue networks and on CBS, too. One of
    radio's original soaps, it was sponsored appropriately by Silver Dust,
    Ivory soap and Ivory soap flakes.

    1935   Wedding bells pealed for a singer and a bandleader who tied the
    knot, making radio history together. The bandleader was Ozzie Nelson and
    the singer was Harriet Hilliard. They would make the history pages again
    on this very day nine years later.

    1944   The first broadcast of The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet was
    heard on the CBS network.

    Joe

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    Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 12:19:46 -0400
    From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Other names

    Back in the 1980s and 90s I used to write down the names of cast members when
    recording a show for my collection. I've never seen William Conrad's other
    last name in print before this past week on the Digest. I used to write it as
    Julius Crowbine because that's how I heard it. Does anyone have a definitive
    spelling? Other actors who used different names were Parley Baer (Waldo
    Epperson) and Vic Perrin (Richard Perkins). I used to kid Parley about his
    name. I seem to recall that he told me he used to know someone by the name
    Waldo Epperson. Great name!

    Barbara Sunday

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    Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 13:08:49 -0400
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  More on OTR News Broadcasts

    Folks;

       A month or so ago, I posted about OTR news broadcasts, wondering if other
    folks here on the Net had OTR news shows (like the CBS World News Today
    program); I mentioned I was trying to gather mine together to make them
    available to folks here on the Digest. I [removed] replies
    whatsoever.

       Undaunted, I gathered those I already have together in preperation for
    distribution. I thought I would use this as a test of a new file-sharing
    system, Minus. The company is giving away 10 Gigabytes of storage to anyone
    who signs up at:

    [removed]

       I should tell you that URI above is a "referer link;" anyone who signs up
    through that link receives an extra 1 Gigabyte of storage (for an opening
    total of 11 Gigabytes), and so do I, up to an extra 50G. That means if fifty
    of you sign up through that link, I'll end up with 60 Gigabytes to use for
    Old-Time Radio. That's a whole lot, so I'd appreciate it if even if you don't
    think you'll be sharing files, you'd give it a quick sign-up. (They only ask
    for a user ID and [removed] an email address is optional, so you don't
    have to give them _any_ personal information!)

       After you sign up, you can "follow" me (apparently it's a little like
    Twitter for file sharing, although I'm still learning about it myself); my
    sharing page, which you should be able to see and use whether you join Minus
    or not, is at:

    [removed]

       ...and it currently has a file list of the OTR News shows I'll be making
    available. I need to tweek the list a little bit (it doesn't have quite
    enough information on it yet) and will update it when I do in-place. I am
    uploading the files as I find time, but they are and will remain in a
    "private" area - once I get the files up, I'll post the link here for Digest
    subscribers. The list, though, is "public," and can be downloaded by pretty
    much anyone on the planet. It's an RTF (Rich Text Format) file, so pretty
    much every operating system should be able to read it - Windows users can use
    WordPad, Mac users TextEdit, linux folks the default text editor for your
    GUI, all of the above can read it with [removed] there are even RTF
    readers for iOS and Android.

       I don't know if I'll continue to use Minus or not, since as I mentioned
    I'm just learning about how it works, but it seems a really promising way to
    post collections of files for sharing. I'm hoping to get at least the first
    set available before the upcoming Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention (more
    about that in the coming weeks).

       And if you have news programs in your collection I don't list, whether
    downloaded from the newsgroups or encoded from your personal collection,
    please contact me directly so I might add the files to the distribution. I'm
    particularly interested in knowing whether the first CBS News "roundup" show
    broadcast on 3/13/1938 exists and is in circulation, but I'd be interested in
    adding ANY news or news-related program to the collection.

             Charlie

       [removed] Speaking of Twitter, if you use it don't forget to follow CFSummers
    to keep track of my tweets. The info is at the bottom of every Digest issue
    in that footer no one ever looks at should you forget.  ;)

             Me
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