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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 332
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Wallichs Music City Jingle            [ Gregg Oppenheimer <gopp@[removed]; ]
      Willard Waterman's radio start        [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]
      Re: Superman, Kryptonite              [ Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed]; ]
      Christmas                             [ "Leslie Feagan" <lfeagan@actorsfcu. ]
      RE: Mebbe, mebbe not?                 [ "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@worldn ]
      Re:Christmas Show Favorites           [ Robert Everest <erest@[removed]; ]
      Waterman, Gildy, and Chicago          [ "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed]; ]
      Christmas Show                        [ Radioclass <radioclass@[removed] ]
      Edward VIII items                     [ Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
      Christmas Favorites                   [ Mark Higgins <paul_frees_fan@amerit ]
      Great Dog Stories?                    [ Jim Erskine <homeway@[removed]; ]
      11-25 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      radio spirits                         [ "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@earthli ]

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    Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:38:01 -0500
    From: Gregg Oppenheimer <gopp@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Wallichs Music City Jingle
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    The recent posts about Robert Hall commercials brought to mind the
    Wallichs Music City commercials, which I heard all the time on the
    radio when I was a kid. The store's jingle, "It's Music City, Sunset
    and Vine" (sung to the tune of "Rock-a-bye Baby"), was recorded by
    everybody from Frank Sinatra to Jerry Lewis , and I heard them all
    the time on the radio when I was a kid. My Mom was manager of the
    Wallichs Music City popular records department during World War II
    (she used to select the records to play on the Office of War
    Information's "[removed] Jill" radio program), and that's where she met my
    father, who was in the Coast Guard at the time. I know Mom would get
    a kick out of hearing one of these jingles. Does anybody have any
    idea where I could find a recording of one of them?

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    Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:38:20 -0500
    From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Willard Waterman's radio start

    Someone mentioned that Willard Waterman got his start in radio in Chicago.
    Technically, that is not correct.  He got his NETWORK start there.

    His first radio gigs were in his hometown of Madison, Wisconsin.  He
    appeared frequently on WHA in Madison.  He did multiple voices in various
    shows, mostly children's stuff, and worked the sound effects
    simoultaneously.

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    Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:40:11 -0500
    From: Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Superman, Kryptonite

    Two digests ago, I wrote:

>     when the show began its lengthy run on the Mutual
>     Network (titled "Adventures of Superman") on August
>     30, 1942, it was broadcast live.  While most of these
>     episodes survive, a good number (some 300 or so) only
>     exist in script format.

    Surprisingly, I didn't catch flack for this in the
    subsequent digest.  In fact, of the 1,592 episodes
    from the 5x weekly, 1942-49 MBS run, approximately 815
    are in circulation; the rest exist only as scripts.

    Michael

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    Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:22:26 -0500
    From: "Leslie Feagan" <lfeagan@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Christmas

    Seems each year the topic of favorite Christmas show pops up.  I always
    recommend the TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES where Ralph Edwards, through the magic
    of radio, transports a paraplegic soldier from his veterans' hospital bed to
    his hometown in Tennessee where he can celebrate with his high school chums
    and church. It can't be topped for sentimentality.
    Happy listening,
    Leslie Feagan

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    Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:02:02 -0500
    From: "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: Mebbe, mebbe not?

    In Volume 2007 : Issue 331 of The Old-Time Radio Digest!

    Craig W. asked

>     Weren't all GUNSMOKES transcribed? In which case, it wasn't on-air, but
>     during recording, and not as risky?

    	While the vast majority of GUNSMOKE episodes were transcribed, only
    about a quarter of the episodes from its first year, 1952, were
    transcription broadcasts.  The majority of the 1952 episodes were broadcast
    live.
    Sources:  GUNSMOKE 1952 scripts.

    	The episode with the doctored opening that has been discussed in
    several recent Digests starting with Issues 324 and 325, "Claustrophobia,"
    was from the 1953-1954 season. Its broadcast date (without the doctored
    opening) was 06/26/1954.  By that time, GUNSMOKE was normally aired via
    transcription.

    Signing off for now,

    Stewart

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    Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:52:50 -0500
    From: Robert Everest <erest@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re:Christmas Show Favorites

    I'd like to add my annual mention of the Bing Crosby Xmas show featuring
    the short play
    "The Small One".  Also Richard Diamond did a version of the Xmas Carol
    featuring the regular cast thats a lot of fun.

    Rob

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    Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:20:20 -0500
    From: "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Waterman, Gildy, and Chicago

    From: Frank McGurn

>     I went to my vault

    (watch out for the alligators in the moat)

>     and dug out my tape of Chuck Schaden's 48
>     minute, March1984, interview with Willard
>     Waterman, and he said he did Gildy for 9 years.

    Did he specifically state the years, including 1959, as previous posters
    indicated.  If he started in 1950, then nine years can include up to 1958,
    not necessarily extending thru 1959.

    It is also interesting to see the 1935 list of Chicago stations from the
    interview, including the unlikely (at first glance) mention of only WCFL as
    the NBC Blue station in Chicago.

>     In those Chicago had live radio on WGN (Mutual),
>     WCFL (NBC Blue), WMAQ (NBC Red),
>     WBBM (CBS)  amd WIND (local) and several
>     others.   He had worked at all of then.

    Of course it would normally be assumed that the NBC Blue listing should be
    the shared-time stations WLS/WENR.  And looking in the 1937 Broadcasting
    Yearbook (the most conveniently reached station listing from that era near
    my computer) those two stations are listed as NBC Blue, with WMAQ as NBC
    Red.  But they also DO list WCFL as NBC with no color indication.  I hadn't
    noticed that before.  I would guess that they were authorized to take any
    NBC program from either network that was bypassed by the other three
    stations, and sure enough, the network map in the yearbook shows WCFL
    intersecting both network lines, just as there is a connecting line to both
    networks for WTMJ Milwaukee and from there on to WIBA Madison.  But although
    there is a rate card listing for adding those two Wisconsin stations, there
    is no indication of how WCFL would affect advertising rates -- I would think
    there should be a notice of a discount for using WCFL instead of the more
    powerful WLS, WENR, or WMAQ.  Actually WCFL might be a holdover from when
    WMAQ was a CBS station.

    Perhaps someone ought to post these network affiliation rate cards, first
    from the Standard Rate and Data Service monthlies and then from the
    Broadcasting Yearbook once it commenced with this 1937 issue.  (I don't have
    immediate access to many of them, and they're not on microfilm.)

    Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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    Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:20:37 -0500
    From: Radioclass <radioclass@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Christmas Show

    If you want a real heart tugger, listen to Grand
    Central Station's program "A Miracle for Chritmas".
    Mason Adams performed in this classic at least six
    times.  I always get a lump in my throat at the end of
    this program.  Old Time Radio Researchers' log has a
    date of Dec 24, 1949.  I have two copies of this
    program, one dated Dec 19, 1951 and the other just
    dated 1940"s, both copied from Chuck Schaden's Those
    Were the Days.

    Anne

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    Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:23:15 -0500
    From: Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Edward VIII items

    I received e-mails from many of the readers of this newsletter about my
    request concerning the search for audio materials about Edward VIII's
    abdication. Some have requested the recording of his speech (link to a good
    copy is below) and I have some other things of interest noted below.

    Wikipedia biography

    [removed]

    Text of the speech

    [removed]

    Audio of the speech

    [removed]
    .mp3

    It's mentioned in the NBC Recollections at 30 series, only briefly as an
    audio clip is played

    I have posted the file (the link expires in a week) at

    [removed]

    I can find no other recordings. If anyone has anything, please contact me.

    Regards
    JWW

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    Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:23:29 -0500
    From: Mark Higgins <paul_frees_fan@[removed];
    To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Christmas Favorites

    Regarding Sue Hamilton's request, I have to agree with Craig Wickman that
    Dragnet's "Big Little Jesus", with the infant Jesus statue stolen from the
    Nativity scene is one of the best (both on radio and TV, with Harry Bartel).
    Also, I have to put in my vote for "Home for Christmas" from Suspense, with
    Raymond Burr and Howard McNear.  That one always brings a tear to my eye.  I
    make a point of listening to both each year.

    Mark Higgins

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    Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:23:46 -0500
    From: Jim Erskine <homeway@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Great Dog Stories?

    Can anyone recommend any OTR programs about dogs? I've got a young
    listener who loves dog stories, but I'm having a hard time coming up
    with anything but Sgt. Preston and a few Lassie episodes. It doesn't
    look like there's much beyond that. Any suggestions would be much
    appreciated!

    kylistener

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    Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:23:51 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-25 births/deaths

    November 25th births

    11-25-1871 - Kate McComb - Sacramento, CA - d. 4-15-1959
    actor: Mrs. Kerrigan "The Goldbergs"; Nannie "Lora Lawton"
    11-25-1886 - Rex Maupin - St. Joseph, MO - d. 7-28-1966
    orchestra leader: "Breakfast Club"; "National Farm and Home Hour"
    11-25-1887 - William Steinke - Slatinton, PA - d. 1-29-1958
    host: "Jolly Bill and Jane"; "No School Today"
    11-25-1893 - Jack Frost - Boston, MA - d. 10-21-1959
    producer: "The National Barn Dance"
    11-25-1894 - Laurence Stallings - Macon, GA - d. 2-28-1968
    writer: "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt" based on his play "What
    Price Glory?"
    11-25-1896 - Virgil Thomson - Kansas City, MO - d. 9-30-1989
    composer: "Columbia Workshop"
    11-25-1897 - Willie 'The Lion' Smith - Goshen, NY - d. 4-18-1973
    jazz pianist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
    11-25-1899 - Kay Strozzi - Swan's Point Plantation, VA - d. 1-18-1996
    actor: Shelia Blade "I Love Linda Dale"; Victoria Lorring "Young
    Widder Brown"
    11-25-1899 - Pierre Andre - d. 7-21-1962
    announcer: "Little Orphan Annie"; "Captain Midnight"
    11-25-1900 - Helen Gahagan Douglas - Boonton, NJ - d. 6-28-1980
    actor: (Wife of Melvin Douglas) "Hollywood Fights Back"; "A Report to
    the Nation"
    11-25-1904 - Jessie Royce Landis - Chicago, IL - d. 2-2-1972
    actor: "We Are Always Young"
    11-25-1905 - Will Osborne - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-22-1981
    bandleader, singer: "Abbott and Costello"
    11-25-1909 - Verne Smith - NYC - d. 3-4-1978
    announcer: "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
    11-25-1912 - Henry Denker - NYC
    writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "Greatest Story Ever Told"
    11-25-1914 - Joe DiMaggio - Martinez, CA - d. 3-8-1999
    baseball superstar: "Joe DiMaggio Show"
    11-25-1919 - Norman Tokar - Newark, NJ - d. 4-6-1979
    actor: Henry Aldrich "The Aldrich Family"
    11-25-1920 - Ricardo Montalban - Mexico City, Mexico
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "As Easy as [removed]"

    November 25th deaths

    02-22-1879 - Philip F. Lord - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-25-1968
    actor: Pop Gunn "Great Gunns"; Frazier Mitchell "Mary Marlin"
    03-04-1909 - Harry Elders - d. 11-25-1993
    actor: Dr. Bill Evans "Road of Life"; David Houseman "Stepmother"
    04-04-1914 - Rosemary Lane - Indianola, IA - d. 11-25-1974
    singer: (The Lane Sisters) "Fred Waring Show"; "Your Hollywood Parade"
    04-13-1916 - Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner - Kansas City, MO - d.
    11-25-2006
    writer of radio soap operas
    04-29-1912 - Richard Carlson - Albert Lea, MN - d. 11-25-1977
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-16-1907 - Jack Albertson - Malden, MA - d. 11-25-1981
    actor: "Milton Berle Show"; "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Cavalcade
    of America"
    07-13-1889 - Frank M. Thomas - St. Joseph, MO - d. 11-25-1989
    actor: Police Captain "Martin Kane, Private Eye"
    07-20-1908 - Fritz Littlejohn - Paculet, SC - d. 11-25-2005
    news writer/supervisor for NBC radio (1945-1952)
    07-30-1912 - Edward L. Bliss - Fizhou, China - d. 11-25-2002
    cbs news correspondent: (One of Morrow's Boys) CBS News Twentieth
    Century Roundup"
    08-01-1918 - Bill Shipley - Ottawa, KS - d. 11-25-1996
    announcer: "The Jimmy Dorsey Show"; "Look Your Best"
    08-28-1895 - H. Norman Schwarzkopf - Newark, NJ - d. 11-25-1958
    narrator: "Gangbusters"
    11-19-1905 - Eleanor Audley - NYC - d. 11-25-1991
    actor: Elizabeth Smith "Father Knows Best"
    12-25-1907 - Matt Brooks - NYC - d. 11-25-1990
    writer: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    12-31-1913 - Ted Meyers - d. 11-25-1996
    announcer: "People Are Funny"; "Yarns for Yanks"; "Calling All Cars"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:22:05 -0500
    From: "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
    To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  radio spirits

    I checked the web site at [removed] and found that the web
    site is up and operating. You can download programs, request a catalog,
    and find the radio show. In Texas 4 stations are listed, none of them in
    my area. They look like they are small markets. I also thought they were
    [removed] for the tip.

    joe salerno

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