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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2008 : Issue 294
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Transcribed [ KENPILETIC@[removed] ]
12-24 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
WGN--TV Xmas [ etorch@[removed] ]
Partially Treas scribed [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
It's a Wonderful Life radio play on [ James Meadows <walthamus@[removed]; ]
It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio [ Cynthia Heimsoth <chibibarako@hotma ]
12-26 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
12-27 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
OTR Las Vegas broadcasts 2008 [ jerrymyrnajena@[removed] ]
This week in radio history 28 Decemb [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:33:35 -0500
From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Transcribed
Hi Gang -
Regarding transcribed programs, Once in a while the announcer would say,
"The following program is Mechanically Reproduced". I kinda like that.
Merry Christmas. Ken Piletic - Streamwood, Illinois and Alma, Arkansas
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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:35:08 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 12-24 births/deaths
December 24th births
12-24-1881 - Charles Wakefield Cadman - Johnston, PA - d. 12-30-1946
Composed "At Dawning," used as theme for "The Brighter Day."
12-24-1886 - Michael Curtiz - Budapest, Hungary - d. 4-10-1962
film director: "Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre"; Screen Director's
Playhouse"
12-24-1887 - Lucrezia Bori - Valencia, Spain - d. 5-14-1960
opera singer: "Telephone Hour"; "Ford Sunday Evening Hour"
12-24-1893 - Harry Warren - NYC - d. 9-22-1981
composer: "Good News of 1940"; "Great Moments to Music"
12-24-1895 - Ruth Chatterton - NYC - d. 11-24-1961
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-24-1901 - Nola Luxford - New Zealand - d. 10-10-1994
broadcast journalist: "1932 Olympic Games"
12-24-1906 - Chuck Webster - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-14-1983
actor: "The Green Hornet"; "The Lone Ranger"; "True Detective Mysteries"
12-24-1906 - Franz Waxman - Konigshutte, Germany - d. 2-24-1967
composer-conductor: "Good News of 1939"
12-24-1910 - Fritz Leiber - Chicago, IL - d. 9-5-1992
science fiction writer: "X Minus One"; "Future Tense"; "Audion Theatre"
12-24-1910 - John Bagni - NYC - d. 2-13-1954
writer: Suspense"; "Family Theatre"; "Escape"
12-24-1910 - Mitchell Ayres - Milwaukee, WI - d. 9-5-1969
bandleader: "Dunninger Show"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
12-24-1910 - Tony Labriola - d. 6-17-1999
actor: Oswald "The Ken Murray Show"
12-24-1913 - Herb Allen - San Francisco, CA
announcer: "The Guiding Light"; "Sherlock Holmes"
12-24-1913 - Myrtle 'Lulubelle' Wiseman - Boone, KY - d. 2-8-1999
singer: (Lulubelle and Scotty) "The National Barn Dance"
12-24-1914 - Abram S. Ginnes - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-20-2006
adapter: "The Big Story"
12-24-1914 - Ralph Marterie - Naples, Italy - d. 10-10-1978
bandleader: "Marlboro Cigarettes Show"
12-24-1915 - Helen Brown - Washington - d. 9-9-1994
actor: Miss Foster "Big Town"
12-24-1916 - Morton Fine - d. 3-7-1991
writer: "Bold Venture"; "Broadway Is My Beat"; "The Front Page"
12-24-1920 - John Barron - London, England - d. 7-3-2004
actor: "Dad's Army"; "Brothers In Law"
12-24-1921 - Phillip Grenville Mann - Manly, Australia - d. 6-19-1990
writer: "The Sergeant at Burralee"
12-24-1922 - Ava Gardner - Grabtown, NC - d. 1-25-1990
actor: "So Proudly We Hail"; "Prudential Family Hour of Stars"
12-24-1928 - Norman Rossington - Liverpool, England - d. 5-21-1999
comic actor: "Big Jim and the Figaro Club"
12-24-1974 - Ryan Seacrest - Atlanta, GA
disk jockey: "Live from the Lounge of Ryan Secreast"
December 24th deaths
01-27-1899 - Milton Rettenberg - NYC - d. 12-24-1986
pianist/conductor: "Chesterfield Presents"; "Cities Service Concerts"
02-02-1888 - Lee Millar - Vancouver, Canada - d. 12-24-1941
actor: (Husband of Verna Felton) Appeared on various radio shows
02-07-1915 - Arthur Kurland - d. 12-24-1992
producer: "Keep 'Em Rolling"
02-13-1913 - Frank Phares - d. 12-24-1968
writer: "This Is Your FBI"
02-25-1912 - David Roberts - Jacksonville, FL - d. 12-24-1996
NBC staff announcer
03-10-1886 - Clarence Adler - d. 12-24-1969
pianist: Member of the New York Trio
03-20-1908 - Frank Stanton - Muskegon, MI - d. 12-24-2006
president of cbs 1946-1971
04-09-1910 - Alan Melville - Berwick-upon-Tweed, England - d. 12-24-1983
scriptwriter: "BBC Radio Newsreel"; "London Column"
05-26-1895 - Norma Talmadge - Jersey City, NJ - d. 12-24-1957
actor: "Thirty Minutes in Hollywood"
05-31-1898 - Norman Vincent Peale - Bowersville, OH - d. 12-24-1993
preacher: "Art of Living"
06-10-1910 - Julie Haydon - Oak Park, IL - d. 12-24-1994
actor: "Suspense"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
06-19-1925 - Charlie Drake - South London, England - d. 12-24-2006
comedian: "Jigsaw"
06-26-1924 - Bob Maxwell - Custer, KY - d. 12-24-2002
actor: "The Lone Ranger"
06-29-1911 - Bernard Herrmann - NYC - d. 12-24-1975
conductor, composer: "Columbia Workshop"; "Mercury Theatre on the Air/
Campbell Playhouse"
07-08-1898 - Melville Ruick - Boise, ID - d. 12-24-1972
actor, announcer: "Cavalcade of America"; "Quiet Please"; "Suspense"
09-07-1923 - Peter Lawford - London, England - d. 12-24-1984
actor: "Radio Reader's Digest"; "Suspense"
11-23-1888 - Nana Bryant - Cincinnati, OH - d. 12-24-1955
actor: Miss Tilsey "Fabulous Dr. Tweedy"
12-01-1885 - Frazier Hunt - Rock Island, IL - d. 12-24-1967
newscaster: Weekday morning newscast on Mutual
12-12-1929 - John Osborne - London, England - d. 12-24-1994
dramatist: "Danger"
Ron
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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:35:18 -0500
From: etorch@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: WGN--TV Xmas
This may have been covered (I've been out of town) in the digest but it looks
as though WGN TV will be showing an extensive program titled "Yule Log" over
the holiday which seems to focus for several hours on OTR X-Mas shows!
Evan Torch, MD
Atlanta
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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:36:13 -0500
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Partially Treas scribed
On October 28th 2002, Rod Serling's Emmy-Award winning television series
The Twilight Zone made its transition to radio!
Carl Amari made a deal with Rod Sterling's widow to change the TV Show
into a modern using to days actors. In Chicago it is broadcast @
midnight on [removed] you google "Twilight Zone you will find it on
radio stations all over the USA and even out side the USA. The are very
good look them up. They are partially Transcribed, Just don't say it.
Frank McGurn
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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:36:25 -0500
From: James Meadows <walthamus@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: It's a Wonderful Life radio play on stage
I was interested to read the message about the on-stage radio
dramatization of "It's a Wonderful Life" in Asheville, North Carolina.
There's was a production here in Champaign, Illinois, last weekend. Bright
Lights, a community theatre group working with the park district here, put on
a production of the Joe Landry adaptation at a local church. I did not see
it, but a friend of mine who did said he was impressed by the sound effects.
However, he thought some of the romantic scenes between George Bailey and his
future wife didn't translate well to radio.
By the way, a newspaper article promoting this particular production said
it was being recorded for possible broadcast on a local radio station --- if
the performance was considered good enough. I wonder if this brings up a who
snarl of rights issues, but I'd be interested to see who this on-stage radio
drama translates to actual radio.
Jim Meadows
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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:36:53 -0500
From: Cynthia Heimsoth <chibibarako@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
*klunks herself on head* I didn't think to post here . . .
Riverview Theatre Company of McHenry IL just ran that earlier in December.
[removed]
(Yours truly was Ma Bailey, Mrs. Davis and Helen in this year's production,
and Sound Designer for last year's version.)
And a professional company is running it in Chicago.
[removed]
Cynthia "ChibiBarako"
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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:37:02 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 12-26 births/deaths
December 26th births
12-26-1874 - Leon Rothier - Rheims, France - d. 12-6-1951
opera singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"
12-26-1891 - Tony Wons - Menasha, WI - d. 7-1-1965
host: "Tony Wons Scrapbook"; "House by the Side of the Road"; "Camel
Quarter Hour"
12-26-1893 - Vladimir Golschmann - Paris, France - d. 3-1-1972
conductor: New York Philharmonic
12-26-1900 - Charles Perry - NYC - d. 2-26-1967
producer, sports announcer: WHN New York
12-26-1902 - Irene Handl - London, England - d. 11-29-1987
actor: "Hello Playmates"
12-26-1905 - Robert Magidoff - d. 2-xx-1970
NBC newscaster
12-26-1906 - Ashley Buck - d. 2-6-1980
writer: "We Are Always Young"
12-26-1906 - Catherine Turney - Chicago, IL - d. 9-9-1998
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-26-1908 - Carmine Anthony - d. 6-xx-1981
disk jockey: WOC Davenport, Iowa; WJJD Chicago, Illinois
12-26-1911 - Hal Bourne - Chicago, IL - d. 2-25-2000
musical director: "A Date with Judy"
12-26-1912 - Oscar Saul - NYC - d. 5-23-1994
writer: "Health for America"
12-26-1914 - Richard Widmark - Sunrise, MN - d. 3-24-2008
actor: Neil Davison "Home of the Brave"; Alan Webster "Joyce Jordan,
[removed]"
12-26-1914 - Robert Metzler - d. 2-23-1998
scriptwriter: "Count of Monte Cristo"; "Phillip Marlowe"
12-26-1921 - Steve Allen - NYC - d. 10-30-2000
comedian, actor, singer, composer and anything else you might mention:
"Steve Allen Show"
12-26-1922 - Harry Choates - Rayne Arcadia Parish, LA - d. 7-17-1951
performer: "Jesse James and His Gang"
12-26-1924- Jimmy Blaine - Greenville, TX - d. 3-18-1967
announcer: "Lanny Ross Show"; "Ladies Be Seated"
December 26th deaths
01-13-1913 - Jeff Morrow - NYC - d. 12-26-1993
actor: "Electric Theatre"
02-14-1894 - Jack Benny - Chicago, IL - d. 12-26-1974
comedian: "Jack Benny Program"
04-05-1929 - Nigel Hawthorne - Coventry, England - d. 12-26-2001
actor: Acted for his college radio station at the University of Cape
Town
04-08-1923 - Jimmie Osborne - Winchester, KY - d. 12-26-1958
singer: "WLS Barn Dance"; "WLW Midwestern Hayride"
04-09-1905 - Brewster Morgan - d. 12-26-1960
director: "Columbia Workshop"; "Men Against Death"; "Report to the
Nation"
05-08-1884 - Harry S Truman - Lamar, MO - d. 12-26-1972
[removed] president: "Milestones on the Road to Peace"; "World Food Crisis"
05-17-1895 - Gayelord Hauser - Tubingen, Germany - d. 12-26-1984
nutritionist: "Look Younger and Live Longer"
06-03-1942 - Curtis Mayfield - Rosewell, GA - d. 12-26-1999
soul singer, songwriter: "Voices of Vista"
07-14-1913 - Gerald R. Ford - Omaha, NE - d. 12-26-2006
accidental [removed] president: "Meet the Press"
07-22-1922 - Jason Robards, Jr. - Chicago, IL - d. 12-26-2000
actor: "Pepper Young's Family"
07-31-1924 - Garard Green - Madras, India - d. 12-26-2004
actor: "Sherlock Holmes"
08-12-1911 - Dr. Olan Downes - West Roxbury, MA - d. 12-26-2001
musicologist: "Texaco Metropolitan Opera"; "New York Philharmonic"
08-22-1851 - Daniel Frohman - Sandusky, OH - d. 12-26-1940
broadway producer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-28-1902 - Elsa Lanchester - Lewisham, England - d. 12-26-1986
actor: "Arch Oboler's Plays"; "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Everyman's
Theatre"
12-10-1910 - Abraham Polonsky - NYC - d. 12-26-1999
writer: "Mecury Theatre on the Air"
Ron
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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:37:10 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 12-27 births/deaths
December 27th births
12-27-1879 - Sidney Greenstreet - Sandwich, England - d. 1-18-1954
actor: Nero Wolfe "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; "Hollywood Star Preview"
12-27-1891 - Martha Backes Bardill - d. 3-xx-1976
soprano: KYW Chicago, Illinois
12-27-1893 - Ann Pennington - Camden, NJ - d. 11-4-1971
actor: "Good News of 1938"
12-27-1896 - Arch Ward - Irwin, IL - d. 7-9-1955
sports journalist: Weekly program of sports news with Harry Wismer
12-27-1896 - Louis Bromfield - Mansfield, OH - d. 3-18-1956
author: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
12-27-1898 - Hilda Vaughn - Baltimore, MD - d. 12-28-1957
actor: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
12-27-1900 - Pauline Alpert - d. 4-11-1988
"Whirlwind Pianist": "Log Cabin Inn"; "Rhythm and Rhyme"
12-27-1901 - Marlene Dietrich - Berlin, Germany - d. 5-6-1992
actor: Mlle. Madou, "Cafe Istanbul"
12-27-1906 - Oscar Levant - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 8-14-1972
panelist, pianist: "Information, Please"; "Kraft Music Hall"
12-27-1910 - Bob Arnold - Asthall, England - d. 8-27-1998
actor: "In the Cotswolds"; "The Archers"
12-27-1910 - Harry Saz - d. 6-9-1994
director: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
12-27-1911 - Anna Russell - London, England - d. 10-18-2006
opera singer: "The Nutcraker Suite"
12-27-1914 - Jack Latham - Washington - d. 1-1-1987
announcer: "The Man Called X"; "Wake Up, America"
12-27-1916 - Cathy Lewis - Spokane, WA - d. 11-20-1968
actor: Jane Stacy "My Friend Irma"; Kathryn Milford "Great Gildersleeve"
12-27-1916 - Johnny Frigo - Chicago, IL - d. 7-4-2007
violin, bass: "National Barn Dance"
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"
12-27-1924 - Virginia Eiler - d. 1-5-2004
actor: "Family Theatre"; "Let George Do It"; "Yours Truly, Johnny
Dollar"
12-27-1941 - Joe Lake - Drasenhofen, Austria
writer: "Gustav Weindorfer of Tasmania's Cradle Mountain"
December 27th deaths
02-19-1902 - Kay Boyle - St. Paul, MN - d. 12-27-1992
writer: "NBC Presents: Short Story"
02-26-1891 - Alan Bridge - Pennsylvania - d. 12-27-1957
actor: "The Eddie Bracken Show"
05-16-1915 - Chuck Cabot - d. 12-27-2007
bandleader: "The Fitch Bandwagon"
07-04-1888 - Otto Rauhut - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-27-1986
director: "Otto Rauhut Violin Ensemble" KPO San Francisco, California
07-22-1908 - Amy Vanderbilt - Staten Island, NY - d. 12-27-1974
etiquette expert: "Jack Benny Program"
08-04-1908 - Wally Maher - Cincinnati, OH - d. 12-27-1951
actor: Dan Murray "One Man's Family"; Archie Goodwin "Advs. of Nero
Wolfe"
09-27-1917 - James Andelin - Provo, UT - d. 12-27-2006
actor: "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"; Og, Son of Fire"; "Houseboat Hannah"
11-05-1914 - Jack McVea - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-27-2000
saxophonist: "One Night Stand"; "Jubilee"
11-11-1930 - Hank Garland - Cowpens, SC - d. 12-27-2004
guitarist: "Jim Reeves Show"; "Country Music Time"; "Country Style
[removed]"
11-22-1899 - Hoagy Carmichael - Bloomington, IN - d. 12-27-1981
singer, composer: "Hoagy Carmichael Show"; "King's Men"
12-07-1905 - Leonard Goldenson - Scottsdale, PA - d. 12-27-1999
owner of the ABC network
Ron
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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:37:20 -0500
From: jerrymyrnajena@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OTR Las Vegas broadcasts 2008
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For most of the Christmas broadcast day in Las Vegas, NV there were three, yes
3 local AM radio stations that aired OTR Christmas shows. B Also, WGN in
Chicago television was airing OTR shows late night while showing a fireplace
and old radio on the tube. B WOW! B OTR collectors rejoyce! B I'm calling and
writing our local stations here to let them know how much this programing in
appreciated.
Jerry Boehm, Las Vegas B B B jerrymyrnajena@[removed]
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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:37:28 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 28 December to 3
January
From Those Were The Days --
12/28
1941 - The Helen Hayes Theater, on CBS, was called the first casualty of
World War II. Lipton Tea dropped sponsorship of the program as it
prepared for shortages in tea imports from India.
12/29
1945 - The mystery voice of Mr. Hush was heard for the first time on
Truth or Consequences, hosted by Ralph Edwards. The feature was intended
as a spoof of giveaway shows. However, the idea was taken seriously and
lasted five weeks before fighter Jack Dempsey was identified as Mr. Hush
-- for a prize of $13,500.
12/30
1936 - The famous feud between Jack Benny and Fred Allen was ignited.
After a 10-year-old performer finished a violin solo on The Fred Allen
Show, Mr. Allen said, "A certain alleged violinist should hide his head
in shame for his poor fiddle playing." It didn't take long for Mr. Benny
to respond. The humorous feud lasted until Allen's death in 1956.
(The exact words that Allen said on the West Coast broadcast (which Jack
would have heard) remain a mystery. This section of the show (the Town
Hall Varieties) was completely unscripted, so the original script
provided no help other than the following word:
[VARIETIES]
Allen's comment on the East Coast broadcast was, "What do you know,
Murray? A little fella in the fifth grade at school and already he plays
better than Jack Benny." This got four seconds of laughter, and the
show moved on.)
1942 - Mr. and Mrs. North debuted on NBC. Joseph Curtin played Jerry
North and Alice Frost played Pam. A typical Mr. and Mrs. North episode
would find Pam leading Jerry on what seemed to be a wild-goose chase as
they tracked down criminals. Pam always ended up being right and leading
police to the criminals. The theme song for the show was The Way You
Look Tonight. Sponsors included Woodbury soap, Jergens lotion and Halo
shampoo.
12/31
1940 - As a result of a dispute between the radio networks and ASCAP
(the American Society of Composers and Publishers), the radio industry
was prevented from playing any ASCAP-licensed music. The ban lasted for
ten months. An ASCAP competitor, BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) made
giant strides, expanding to include 36,000 copyrights. Many radio
stations had to resort to playing public domain songs, such as marches
and operas, to keep their stations on the air. Even kids songs were
played over and over again until the ban was lifted. One of the most
popular songs to be played was Happy Birthday to You; which was
performed in many different languages just to get past the ban. The
original song is now, in fact, a copyrighted piece of music, though it
wasn't at the time.
1947 - Roy Rogers, 'the King of the Cowboys', and Dale Evans were
hitched in marriage. They rode off into that sunset together for over
fifty years.
1/1
1923 - The very first radio broadcast of the Rose Bowl was beamed in Los
Angeles over KHJ.
1925 - Lucrezia Bori and John McCormack of the famous Metropolitan Opera
in New York City made their singing debuts on radio this day. The
broadcast over WEAF encouraged others to sing on radio.
1927 - The very first coast-to-coast network radio broadcast of the Rose
Bowl was made. Graham McNamee provided the play-by-play on NBC.
1930 - The Cuckoo Hour, was heard for the first time on the NBC Blue
network.
1/2
1921 - The first religious broadcast on radio was heard, as Dr. [removed] Van
Etten of Calvary Episcopal Church preached on KDKA radio in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
1959 - CBS dropped the curtain on four soap operas. Our Gal Sunday, This
is Nora Drake, Backstage Wife and Road of Life all hit the road for good.
Joe
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