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