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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 265
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Memories of Bill Murtough             [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
      Bill Murtough                         [ "Arthur Funk" <art-funk@[removed]; ]
      2 shows                               [ "EDWARD J. CARR" <edcarr@[removed] ]
      OTR books made into talking books     [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      9-30 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Bill Murtaugh                         [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      JFK Assassination                     [ "Bob Watson" <crw934@[removed]; ]
      Greenberg on Third                    [ tomheston@[removed] (Irish Tom) ]
      This week in radio history 1-7 Octob  [ "Joe Mackey" <joemackey108@adelphia ]
      No death dates October                [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:05:31 -0400
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Memories of Bill Murtough
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    "Our Gal Sunday," Barbara Watkins wrote about the recent passing of Bill
    Murtough:

>     He had a million stories about his days in radio and shared them with anyone

    who took the time to listen.

    Amen to that! About five years ago, I had the pleasure of interviewing Mr.
    Murtough for a One-on-One panel at FOTR. He had such a remarkable memory for
    every facet of OTR with which he was involved and was always able to give
    great insight from the perspective of  a greatly under-acknowledged segment of
    OTR--the sound engineers. Bill could talk non-stop about his days in radio--in
    fact, he didn't even need me as moderator as he was able to carry the panel
    with one story melding into another.   I believe the ancient Chinese had a
    saying to the effect that when an old person dies, such is akin to a library
    burning down. And to me, that saying describes Bill Murtough. Not just
    fantastic memories of the OTR days, but also of sharing time with Bill and
    Lucille at OTR conventions.

    My deepest condolences to Bill's widow Lucille as well as to the Murtoughs'
    very close friends, Lee and Charlotte Munsick.

    Sadly in the ether--

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:06:07 -0400
    From: "Arthur Funk" <art-funk@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Bill Murtough
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    Dear Fellow OTR Digesters,

    It saddened me to read B. J. Watkins' post in Digest No. 264 re Bill's
    passing.  While I never met Bill I always enjoyed his interesting and
    informative posts on this Digest.  Only this week I wondered why we hadn't
    heard from him in recent months.  His is another voice from among the
    broadcasting pioneers that is stilled.  He will be missed.

    Regards to all,
    Art Funk

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    Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:06:17 -0400
    From: "EDWARD J. CARR" <edcarr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  2 shows

    hi
    is there anyone familar with "leatherneck jamboree"  or "harlem hospitality
    club"
    or am i overlooking info somewhere
    thanks, ed

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    Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:06:53 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR books made into talking books

    Glen Schroeder commented:

>     I'm in the middle of reading Private Eyelashes by Jack French and I sure am
>     enjoying it.  I'm reading it on Talking Book from the National Library
>     Service for the Blind.  I wish they would record more otr books than they
>     do.

    Anyone who has ever had a book copyrighted has the option to check a section
    on the form granting permission to the Copyright Office/Library of Congress
    to make the published work put into a Talking Book form.  If the National
    Library Service does not have a book you want to listen to, send them a
    request.  They do take the requests and if enough requests are given to
    them, they will look into the possibility of having it put into Talking Book
    form.

    Anyone who is presently writing a book and has never filled out a Copyright
    Registration form before, keep this in mind when you do.  You are performing
    a favor to those who otherwise wouldn't be able to read the book under
    normal circumstances. Check yes.

    Martin Grams Jr.

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    Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:50:28 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  9-30 births/deaths

    September 30th births

    09-30-1891 - Fabien Sevitzky - d. 2-3-1967
    director: "The Indianaoplis Symphony Orchestra"
    09-30-1895 - Lewis Milestone - Odessa, Russia - d. 9-25-1980
    film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    09-30-1896 - Fred Howard - San Diego, CA - d. 2-7-1990
    actor: "The Saint"; "Dearest Mother"; "We Are Four"
    09-30-1896 - Fred Wright - San Diego, CA - d. 7-2-1990
    writer, actor: "Lights Out"; "Mystery is My Hobby"; "Ma Perkins"
    09-30-1905 - Michael Powell - Bekesbourne, Kent, England - d. 2-19-1990
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-30-1908 - Jay Michael - NYC
    actor: Butch Cavendish "The Lone Ranger"
    09-30-1911 - Jerry Scoggins - Mount Pleasant, TX - d. 12-7-2004
    singer: (Member of the Cass County Boys) "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"
    09-30-1912 - Kenny Baker - Monrovia, CA - d. 8-10-1985
    singer, comedian: "Jack Benny Program"; "Glamour Manor"; "Kenny Baker
    Show"
    09-30-1916 - Wendell Noble - Mesa, AZ - d. 2-10-1988
    singer, actor: "Bride and Groom"; "Listener's Digest"
    09-30-1921 - Deborah Kerr - Helensburgh, Scotland
    actor: "Hollywood Calling"; "Hollywood Star Playhouse"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    09-30-1922 - Lamont Johnson - Stockton, CA
    actor: Tarzan "Tarzan"; Mark Douglas "Wendy Warren and the News"
    09-30-1922 - Oscar Pettiford - Okmulgee, OK - d. 9-8-1960
    jazz composer, bass player: "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Esquire Jazz
    Concert"
    09-30-1924 - Truman Capote - New Orleans, LA - d. 8-25-1984
    author: "Cather: A Look of Remembrance"
    09-30-1930 - Ben Cooper - Hartford, CT
    actor: Brad Burton "Second Mrs. Burton"; Scotty "Mark Trail"
    09-30-1935 - Jill Corey - Avonmore, PA
    singer: "Jill Corey Show"; "Stop the Music"
    09-30-1935 - Johnny Mathis - Gilomer, TX
    singer: "Star Carousel"
    09-30-1939 - Lou Cariou - Winnipeg, Canada
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    September 30th deaths

    01-04-1919 - Al "Jazzbeaux" Collins - NYC - d. 9-30-1997
    disc jockey: "Collins on a Cloud"; "Happy Al"
    02-08-1931 - James Dean - Byron, IN - d. 9-30-1955
    actor: "Hallmark Playhouse"
    02-16-1903 - Edgar Bergen - Chicago, IL - d. 9-30-1978
    ventriloquist: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    03-18-1886 - Edward Everett Horton - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-30-1970
    actor, host: "Shell Chateau"; "Kraft Music Hall"
    04-19-1907 - Lin Basquette - San Mateo, CA - d. 9-30-1994
    actor: "Whatever Became of  . . . "
    05-23-1912 - Marius Goring - Newport, Isle of Wight, England - d.
    9-30-1998
    actor: Sir Percy Blakeney/Scarlet Pimpernel "Scarlet Pimpernel"
    06-08-1905 - Ruth Bailey - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 9-30-1989
    actor: "First Nighter"; "Kitty Keene, Inc."; "Guiding Light"
    06-10-1911 - Mary Lansing - Louisiana - d. 9-30-1988
    actor: Betty Crane "The Greatest of These"; Julie Collins "The
    Guiding Light"
    07-18-1920 - Charlie McCarthy - Chicago, IL - d. 9-30-1978
    dummy: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    07-30-1890 - Casey Stengel - Kansas City, MO - d. 9-30-1975
    hall of fame baseball manager: "DiMaggio Farewell"; "Witness!"; "Tops
    in Sports"
    08-09-1892 - Joe Emerson - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 9-30-1969
    gospel singer: "Hymns of All Churches"; "Hymn Time"
    11-25-1896 - Virgil Thomson - Kansas City, MO - d. 9-30-1989
    composer: "Columbia Workshop"
    12-09-1906 - Freddy Martin - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-30-1983
    bandleader: "Penthouse Serenade"; "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Jack Carson Show"
    12-18-1913 - Alfred Bester - NYC - d. 9-30-1987
    writer: "Charlie Chan"; "Nick Carter, Master Detective"; "The Shadow"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:21:56 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Bill Murtaugh

    Does anyone know the birth date and birth place of Bill Murtaugh, I
    am going to include him in my list.

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:21:23 -0400
    From: "Bob Watson" <crw934@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  JFK Assassination

    Not quite OTR, but I hope folks will endulge me this once.  Was the CBS
    radio coverage of the JFK assassination a simucast of the CBS TV coverage?
    Or did the radio news staff do the reporting?

    Thanks,

    Bob

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    Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:09:18 -0400
    From: tomheston@[removed] (Irish Tom)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Greenberg on Third

    Hank Greenberg was a real ball player.  For some reason I mentally
    associate  "And Greenberg's on third" with the phrase "...and the winner
    is -- Beetlebaum."  That takes me right back to Jack Benny.  Ah, them
    were the days, eh, lads?

                   Tom Heston

      Slan agus Go n-eiri an bothar leat.

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    Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:31:57 -0400
    From: "Joe Mackey" <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: "otrd" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 1-7 October

    >From Those Were The Days --
    10/1

    1942 - People Are Funny went on the air with host Art Baker.

    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.
    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)

    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.

    Joe

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    Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:35:06 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  No death dates October

    October birthdays with no death date

    10-01-1921 - James Whitmore - White Plains, NY
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-01-1927 - Tom Bosley - Chicago, IL
    host: "Sears Adventure Theatre"
    10-01-1935 - Julie Andrews - Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England
    singer: "Music As You Like It"; "Heartbeat of Broadway"
    10-02-1915 - Bonnie Kay - Iowa City, IA
    actor: "Barton Family"; "Mary Nobel, Backstage Wife"
    10-02-1934 - Peggy Joan Moylan - Sag Harbor, NY
    singer: (The Moylan Sisters, Angels of the Airwaves) "Moylan Sisters"
    10-03-1907 - Paul Nugent - Brooklyn, NY
    actor: Paul Strong "Mother O' Mine"; "Just Plain Bill"
    10-04-1908 - Patricia Calvert - London, England
    actor: "Just Plain Bill"; "Our Gal Sunday"
    10-04-1924 - Charlton Heston - Evanston, IL
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Kaleidoscope"
    10-04-1932 - Felicia Farr - Westchester County, NY
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    10-05-1930 - Skip Homeier - Chicago, IL
    actor: "Let's Pretend"; Dickie Blake "Portia Faces Life"; "Reg'lar
    Fellers"
    10-07-1911 - Helen Choate - Boston, MA
    actor: Patsy Bowen "Nick Carter, Master Detective"
    10-07-1922 - Martha Stewart - Bardwell, KY
    vocalist: "Your All-Time Hit Parade"
    10-10-1909 - Kathleen Niday - Boise, ID
    actor: "Death Valley Days"; "Mr. District Attorney"
    10-10-1918 - Bobby Byrne - Columbus, OH
    trombonist, bandleader: big band remote from Glen Island
    10-10-1930 - Harold Pinter - London, England
    writer, actor: "Focus on Football Pools"
    10-10-1946 - Ben Vereen - Miami, FL
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"
    10-10-1946 - Chris Tarrant - Reading, England
    writer, presenter: "Tiswas"; "OTT"
    10-11-1926 - Earle Hyman - Rocky Mount, NC
    actor: "Story of Ruby Valentine"
    10-12-1912 - Robert Mitchell
    choir director: (Robert Mitchell Boy Choir) "Nobody's Children"
    10-12-1935 - Luciano Pavarotti - Modena, Italy
    tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"
    10-12-1936 - Tony Kubek - Milwaukee, WI
    baseball announcer for the New York Yankees
    10-13-1917 - Laraine Day - Roosevelt, UT
    talk show hostess, actor: "Laraine Day Show"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-13-1927 - Lee Konitz - Chicago, IL
    alto saxophonist: "Artistry in Rhythm"
    10-15-1912 - Vivian Fridell - Milwaukee, WI
    actor: Mary Noble "Mary Noble, Backstage Wife"; "Road of Life"
    10-16-1920 - Sharon Douglas - Stevens County, OK
    actor: Mildred Anderson "A Day in the Life of Dennis Day"; "Joan
    Davis Time"
    10-16-1925 - Angela Lansbury - London, England
    actor: "NBC University Theatre"; "Suspense"
    10-16-1925 - Lenka Peterson - Omaha, NE
    actor: "Theatre Five"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    10-17-1917 - Marsha Hunt - Chicago, IL
    actor: Blanche Bickerson "Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Document A/777"
    10-17-1921 - Tom Poston - Columbus, OH
    comedian: "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    10-17-1926 - Julie Adams - Waterloo, IA
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-18-1912 - Gerta Rozan - Vienna, Austria-Hungary
    actor: Eleta "Terry and the Pirates"
    10-18-1914 - David W. Dole - Minneapolis, MN
    sound effects, animal imitator: "Bob Becker's Chats About Dogs"
    10-19-1917 - Evelyn Kaye Klein - NYC
    violinist: (Evelyn and Her Magic Violin) "Hour of Charm"
    10-19-1920 - Harry Alan Towers - London, England
    producer: "The Black Museum"; "Horatio Hornblower"; "The Scarlet
    Pimpernel"
    10-19-1945 - John Lithgow - Rochester, NY
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    10-20-1925 - Art Buchwald - Mount Vernon, NY
    humorist: "Monitor"
    10-21-1923 - Jean Gillespie - Boston, MA
    actor: Martha Piper "Tales of Willie Piper"; Inza Burrage "Advs. of
    Frank Merriwell"
    10-21-1924 - Julie Wilson - Omaha, NE
    vocalist: "Hollywood Showcase"
    10-22-1915 - Laurette Fillbrandt - Zanesville, OH
    actor: "Girl Alone"; "Affairs of Anthone"; "One Man's Family"
    10-22-1917 - Joan Fontaine - Tokyo, Japan
    actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"
    10-22-1938 - Sir Derek Jacoby - Leytonstone, London, England
    actor:  Renaissance Theatre Company in association with BBC Radio Drama
    10-22-1939 - Jim Cox - Pineville, KY
    author: "Radio Crime Fighters"; "Great Radio Soap Operas"
    10-22-1939 - Tony Roberts - NYC
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    10-23-1918 - Augusta Dabney - Berkeley, CA
    actor: "Theatre Five"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    10-23-1922 - Coleen Gray - Staplehurst, NE
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-24-1925 - Teri Keane - NYC
    actor: Hope Evans "Big Sister"; Terry Burton "Second Mrs. Burton"
    10-24-1936 - David Nelson - NYC
    actor: "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
    10-25-1927 - Barbara Cook - Atlanta, GA
    actor: Julie Boyd "Great Merlini"
    10-25-1928 - Marion Ross - Albert Lea, MN
    actor: Lux Radio Theatre
    10-27-1920 - Nanette Fabray - San Diego, CA
    singer, actor: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
    10-27-1924 - Ruby Dee - Cleveland, OH
    actor: "Story of Ruby Valentine"; "Story Hour"
    10-27-1939 - John Cleese - Weston-Super-Mare, England
    comedian: Basil Fawlty "Fawlty Towers"
    10-28-1934 - Johnny Western - Two Harbors, MN
    singer, actor, songwriter: (Ballad of Paladin) Daily show on KFDI
    Wichita, KS
    10-29-1909 - Virginia Clark - Peoria, IL
    actor: Helen Trent "Romance of Helen Trent"
    10-29-1925 - Robert Hardy - Cheltenham, England
    actor, writer: "The Leopard and the Lillies"
    10-29-1933 - Douglas Cameron - Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
    presenter: "Today"; "double act"
    10-30-1939 - Sammy Ogg - Lexington, VA
    actor: Little Beaver "Red Ryder"; Donnie Henderson "Beulah"
    10-30-1951 - Harry Hamlin - Pasadena, CA
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"
    10-31-1931 - Dan Rather - Wharton, TX
    newscaster: Houston Radio
    10-31-1942 - David Ogden Stiers - Peoria, IL
    actor: "Empire of the Air"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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