Subject: [removed] Digest V2009 #93
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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 93
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      5-17 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Irv Brecher Book Review               [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
      Looking for book                      [ JE Purvis <jerry@[removed]; ]
      5-18 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Re: orchestra vs. organ               [ Gary Konas <wurli@[removed]; ]
      RE: Hindenberg Crash                  [ LBiel <[removed]@[removed]; ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 17:14:10 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-17 births/deaths

    May 17th births

    05-17-1878 - Conway Tearle - NYC - d. 10-1-1939
    announcer: "Streamlined Shakespeare"
    05-17-1883 - Ethel Intropidi - NYC - d. 12-18-1946
    actor: Phyllis Welby "Pretty Kitty Kelly"
    05-17-1889 - Harriett Gustin - d. 4-xx-1975
    co-host of a children's amateur hour on WEEI, Boston, Massachusetts
    05-17-1890 - Harry Balogh - d. 8-16-1961
    boxing ring announcer during the 1930s and 1940s
    05-17-1890 - Philip James - Jersey City, NJ - d. 11-1-1975
    conductor, composer: "Bamberger Little Symphony"; "Wellsprings of Music"
    05-17-1895 - Gayelord Hauser - Tubingen, Germany - d. 12-26-1984
    nutritionist: "Look Younger and Live Longer"
    05-17-1896 - Ruth Donnelly - Trenton, NJ - d. 11-17-1982
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-17-1897 - Fletcher Wiley - d. 1-26-1966
    commentator: "Your Home Front Reporter"
    05-17-1902 - Fausto Cleva - Trieste, Italy - d. 8-6-1971
    conductor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "Metropolitan Opera Auditions"
    05-17-1903 - Artie Auerbach - NYC - d. 10-3-1957
    actor: Mr. Kitzel "Jack Benny Program"
    05-17-1905 - John Patrick - Louisville, KY - d. 11-7-1995
    writer: "Theatre Guild On the Air";"Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-17-1906 - Carl McIntire - Ypsilanti, MI - d. 03-19-2002
    evangelist: "Twentieth Century Reformation Hour"
    05-17-1906 - John Cannon - Chicago, IL - d. 6-22-2001
    announcer, actor: "City Hospital"; "Jack Armstrong, the All-American
    Boy"
    05-17-1907 - Horace McMahon - South Norwalk, CT - d. 8-17-1971
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
    05-17-1907 - Jack Petruzzi - Cleveland, OH - d. 3-1-1967
    actor: "Ann Worth, Housewife"; "The Lone Ranger"; "Joe Palooka"
    05-17-1908 - Joe Grant - NYC - d. 5-6-2005
    writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-17-1911 - Maureen O'Sullivan - Boyle, Ireland - d. 6-23-1998
    actor: "Dreft Star Playhouse"; "Family Theatre"
    05-17-1912 - Grant Turner - Abilene, TX - d. 10-19-1991
    announcer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    05-17-1916 - Jameson Brewer - Sentinel Butte, ND - d. 9-11-2003
    writer: "The Hardy Family"
    05-17-1918 - Birgit Nilsson - Vastra Karup, Skane Ian, Sweden - d.
    12-25-2005
    singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"
    05-17-1920 - Harriet Van Horne - Syracuse, NY - d. 1-15-1998
    newspaper columnist: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"
    05-17-1923 - Alice Backes - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 3-15-2007
    actor: "This Is Your FBI"; "The Whistler"; "Family Theatre"
    05-17-1925 - Ira Tucker - Spartanburg, SC - d. 6-24-2008
    gospel singer: (The Dixie Hummingbirds) WCAU Philadelphia, PA

    May 17th deaths

    01-08-1903 - Roger Bower - NYC - d. 5-17-1979
    announcer, emcee: "Can You Top This?"; "Stop Me If You Heard This One"
    01-09-1886 - Arthur "Bugs" Baer - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-17-1969
    writer: "The Eveready Hour"
    01-12-1920 - Theodor Uppman - San Jose, CA - d. 5-17-2005
    operatic baritone: "Bell Telephone Hour"
    01-15-1911 - Cy Feuer - NYC - d. 5-17-2006
    music: "Escape"; "Ford Sunday Evening Hour"; "Shorty Bell"
    01-15-1922 - Thelma Carpenter - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-17-1997
    singer: "Eddie Cantor Show"
    02-26-1920 - Tony Randall - Tulsa, OK - d. 5-17-2004
    actor: Reggie York "I Love A Mystery"
    03-11-1903 - Lawrence Welk - Strasburg, ND - d. 5-17-1992
    bandleader: "Lawrence Welk Orchestra"
    03-15-1877 - Montague Love - Portsmouth, England - d. 5-17-1943
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Suspense"
    05-29-1897 - F. Hugh Herbert - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-17-1958
    writer: "Meet Corliss Archer"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-30-1900 - Frank Gallop - Boston, MA - d. 5-17-1988
    announcer: "Milton Berle Show"; "Gangbusters"; "Stella Dallas"
    07-06-1910 - Alexander Kendrick - d. 5-17-1991
    correspondent: "Years In Crisis"; "As Europe Sees the Marshall Plan"
    07-10-1877 - Caroline Crockett Ellis - d. 5-17-1963
    actor: Mary Ward "Travels of Mary Ward"; "Caroline's Golden Store"
    07-26-1921 - John de Lancie, Sr. - Berkeley, CA - d. 5-17-2002
    principle oboist: "Phildelphia Symphony Orchestra"
    10-18-1920 - Willis Conover - Buffalo, NY - d. 5-17-1996
    jazz producer: "Voice of America Music USA"
    12-06-1898 - Gunnar Myrdal - Gustafs, Sweden - d. 5-17-1987
    1974 nobel prize winner in economics: "United Nations Today"
    12-18-1910 - Abe Burrows - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-17-1985
    writer: "Abe Burrows Show"; "Danny Kaye Show"; "Duffy's Tavern"
    xx-xx-1916 - Gary Stevens - d. 5-17-2004
    broadcast executive: Produced 20 Questions

    Ron

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    Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 17:14:24 -0400
    From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Irv Brecher Book Review

    A review of Irving Brecher postumous autobiography can be found here:

    [removed]

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 18:41:37 -0400
    From: JE Purvis <jerry@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Looking for book

    Hi gang --
    This might be an impossible mission, but friend and fellow OTR lover has
    been looking for an affordable copy of "Heavenly Days" by Charles Stumph
    and Tom Price. Do any of you know if such a creature exists? Thanks in
    advance for any info you can provide.
    Jerry Purvis

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    Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 12:04:30 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-18 births/deaths

    May 18th births

    05-18-1892 - Ezio Pinza, Rome, Italy - d. 5-9-1957
    singer: "Telephone Hour"; "Ezio Pinza's Children Show"; "Stagestruck"
    05-18-1894 - Raymond Paige - Wausau, WI - d. 8-7-1965
    conductor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Musical Americana"; "Stage Door Canteen"
    05-18-1897 - Frank Capra - Bisacquino, Sicily - d. 9-3-1991
    film director: "Gulf Screen Theatre"; "NBC Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-18-1900 - Joyce Barthelson - d. 12-1-1986
    pianist: KGO Oakland, California
    05-18-1900 - Lew White - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-4-1955
    organist: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Break the Bank"; "Betty
    Moore"
    05-18-1902 - Meredith Willson - Mason City, IA - d. 6-15-1984
    conductor, composer: "Maxwell House Coffee Time"; "Meredith Willson/
    Music Room"
    05-18-1904 - Fred Shields - Kansas City, MO - d. 6-30-1974
    actor: Bill Fraser "Tarzan"
    05-18-1904 - Jacob K. Javits - NYC - d. 3-7-1986
    [removed] senator new york: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    05-18-1907 - Clifford Curzon - London, England - d. 9-2-1982
    pianist: "March of Dimes"
    05-18-1908 - Alastair McBain - d. 12-xx-1980
    author: "Cloak and Dagger"
    05-18-1908 - Del King - Kansas City, KS - d. 8-22-1964
    announcer: "Avalon Time"; "Tommy Dorsey's Kool Show"
    05-18-1908 - Lorene Scott - d. 4-19-1983
    actor: Maria Hawkins "Young Widder Brown"
    05-18-1908 - Ted Malone - Colorado Springs, CO - d. 10-20-1989
    commentator: "Between the Bookends"; "Pilgrimage of Poetry"
    05-18-1908 - Tommy Tucker - Souris, ND - d. 7-13-1989
    bandleader: "Lucky Strike Show with Walter Winchell"; "George Jessel
    Show"
    05-18-1912 - John Campbell Crosby - Milwaukee, WI - d. 9-7-1991
    radio critic: New York Herald Tribune
    05-18-1912 - Perry Como - Canonsburg, PA - d. 5-12-2001
    singer: "Perry Como Program"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
    05-18-1913 - Charles Trenet - Creteil, France - d. 1-18-2001
    singer: "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Discoparade"
    05-18-1922 - Bill Macy - Revere, MA
    actor: "Earplay"
    05-18-1922 - Kai Winding - Aarhus, Denmark - d. 5-7-1983
    musician: "Stan Kenton and His Orchestra"; "One Night Stand"; "Jubilee"
    05-18-1924 - Jack Whitaker - Philadelphia, PA
    disc jockey, sportscaster: "Jack the Bachelor"; "Sports Shots"
    05-18-1931 - Robert Morse - Newton, MA
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    05-18-1932 - Walter Anglin - d. 9-8-2001
    disk jockey: WJLD Birmingham, Alabama
    05-18-1936 - Joel Kupperman - Chicago, IL
    panelist: "Quiz Kids"

    May 18th deaths

    02-06-1888 - Lucille Gleason - Pasadena, CA - d. 5-18-1947
    actor: "Jimmy Gleason's Diner"
    03-21-1893 - Sidney Franklin - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-18-1972
    film producer, director: "Academy Awards Program"; "Screen Guild
    Theatre"
    03-25-1892 - Andy Clyde - Blaingowrie, Scotland - d. 5-18-1967
    actor: California Carlson "Hopalong Cassidy"
    05-03-1919 - Doris Rich - Canada - d. 5-18-1971
    actor: Hannah O'Leary" Houseboat Hannah"; Miss Daisey "Portia Faces
    Life"
    05-10-1910 - Louis Buck - Bessemer, AL - d. 5-18-1971
    announcer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Sunday Down South"
    06-13-1890 - Elmer Davis - Aurora, IN - d. 5-18-1958
    newscaster: "Elmer Davis and the News"
    06-18-1919 - Ed Simmons - d. 5-18-1998
    writer, director: "The Martin and Lewis Show"; "The Quiz Kids"
    06-29-1908 - Leroy Anderson - Cambridge, MA - d. 5-18-1975
    composer, arranger: " Contemporary Composers Concerts"; "Must for
    America"
    08-31-1908 - William Saroyan - Fresno, CA - d. 5-18-1981
    writer: "Columbia Workshop"; "The Free Company"; "Biography in Sound"
    09-09-1927 - Elvin Ray Jones - Pontiac, MI - d. 5-18-2004
    jazz drummer: "Newport Jazz Festival"
    10-12-1906 - Daniel Saidenberg - d. 5-18-1997
    conductor: "Alec Templeton Time"
    10-29-1902 - Lillian Lee - d. 5-18-1987
    actor: (Wife of Jack Kirkwood) "Jack Kirkwood Show"; "Fibber McGee and
    Molly"
    11-01-1923 - Charles Dugdale - Lincoln, NE - d. 5-18-1985
    actor: "Heartbeat Theatre"
    11-16-1912 - Paul Dudley - Massachusetts - d. 5-18-1959
    writer: "Pot o' Gold"; "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
    11-23-1912 - Tyree Glenn - Corsicana, TX - d. 5-18-1974
    trombonist, vibraphonist: "Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concert"
    11-27-1925 - Marshall Thompson - Peoria, IL - d. 5-18-1992
    actor: "Free World Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-29-1905 - Mario Braggiotti - Florence, Italy - d. 5-18-1996
    pianist, composer: "Fray and Braggiotti"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 12:04:38 -0400
    From: Gary Konas <wurli@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: orchestra vs. organ

>     Stereo vs Mono?  Orchestra vs Organ?

    This line of inquiry, which strayed from OTR, piqued my curiosity. I'm
    a theatre organist and devotee of the Mighty Wurlitzer. During silent
    film days, there was a similar question of piano vs. organ vs. full
    orchestra accompaniment. But in the pre-Hammond days (before ca.
    1935), radio studios often had pipe organs installed and voiced for
    their confined studio space. Many--perhaps most--of you already know
    that Gaylord Carter (the king of silent film accompaniment) played
    "The Perfect Song" theme for Amos and Andy, and Fats Waller played for
    WLW's Moon River. Joe Kearns bought the "Amos and Andy" organ for his
    home in Hollywood. Again, this may be common knowledge on the group,
    but I remember the organ fondly, as I played it once when I was 14, by
    which time Bob Carsons owned the home. It was a favorite recording
    instrument for theatre organists seeking an intimate sound.

    Anyway, I have the definitive book THE WURLITZER PIPE ORGAN: AN
    ILLUSTRATED HISTORY, which includes info on every Wurlitzer ever
    built. If anyone is curious and wants info on their favorite studio
    Wurli, let me know and I'll try to find it. Or if you remember a
    favorite organist ([removed], Korla Pandit, who died not that long ago),
    I'd love to hear what you liked about him or her. Rosa Rio, who turns
    107 on June 2, is still active; you can see her playing on YouTube!

    Gary

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    Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 12:04:43 -0400
    From: LBiel <[removed]@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  RE: Hindenberg Crash

    Bill Harris has kindly repeated the old saw that was told by [removed] Schecter in
    his interesting book "I Live On Air".

>     Morrison was making a recording of the Hindenberg landing for
>     the WLS Chicago sound effects and transcription library.

    That is so far from the truth that it is laughable.  Schecter either did not
    know what he is talking about or else he is covering up for his department's
    rejection of Herb Morrison's offer of help and an early on-the-scene report,
    and how he and his staff almost screwed up such an important story.  If
    Morrison was there to record sound effects WHY WAS HE DOING SO MUCH
    TALKING?????????????  And actually, if Morrison and Nielson were there to
    record sound effects, why was an announcer needed??  Charlie, the engineer,
    could have done it all by himself.

    Bill or Abe goes on:

>     He certainly was not there to make a recording for news broadcast,
>     as NBC had a rule against using recordings for such broadcast",

    Morrison was not an employee of NBC, he worked for the independently owned
    affiliated station WLS.  Non-owned and operated stations did not have any
    rules against the use of recordings, only the network had that asinine rule.

    Again continuing from the quote

>     and the landing of the Hindenberg was not particularly a news worthy
>     event, as it had landed in the [removed] other times before.

    This was the first landing of the second season of flights, and as Morrison's
    friend Bill Jaker has already posted numerous times, Morrison was a pilot and
    an expert in the field of avaition.  There was a chance that WLS might have
    been able to sell a series to American Airlines that might have included
    interviews with passengers much like the newsreels interviewed celebrities on
    arriving on ocean liners.  Morrison was doing this recording as a potential
    audition.

    No, Abe Schector's fairy-tale is not worthy of him.  But thanks for Bill
    alerting us to this fable and giving us a chance to hopefully put it to
    a final and well deserved rest.

    Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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    Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 12:04:48 -0400
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi Friends,

    Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at 150

    THE MAN WHO WAS SHERLOCK HOLMES
    BBC tribute to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    ESCAPE
    Episode 6    8-11-47   "The Ring of Thoth"
    Stars: Jack Webb
    By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    Episode 7   11-16-54    "The Second Stain"
    BBC Light Programme Sustained
    Tuesdays 9:00 - 9:30 Pm
    Stars: John Gielgud As Sherlock Holms And Ralph Richardson As Dr. Watson
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    Producer: Harry Alan Towers
    Director: Martyn C. Webster

    THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    8-21-62    "Adventure of The Abbey Grange"
    Stars Norman Shelley as Sherlock Holmes and Carlton Hobbs as Dr. Watson
    BBC Production
    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    A LIFE IN YOUR HANDS
    (NBC) 7/18/50 Written by Earle Stanley Gardner. "Bill Nelson Story"

    IT PAYS TO BE IGNORANT
    (CBS/AFRS) 5/11/45 Tom Howard, George Shelton and all in a zany quiz.

    OUT OF THE [removed] VANDIS & HIS ORCHESTRA
    (ABC) 4/28/45 Live Big Band Show from The Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago.
    ====================================

    THE GLOWING DIAL

    Bob Hope Show - "Chico Marx"
    originally aired November 8, 1938 on NBC
    Starring: Bob Hope, Jerry Colonna, Six Hits and a Miss, Skinnay Ennis
    and his Orchestra, Chico Marx, Bill Goodwin announcing.
    Sponsor: Pepsodent

    Bob Hope Show - "Basil Rathbone"
    originally aired January 28, 1941 on NBC
    Starring: Bob Hope, Jerry Colonna, Six Hits and a Miss, Skinnay Ennis
    and his Orchestra, Art Baker announcing the commercials, Bill Goodwin
    announcing the program.
    Sponsor: Pepsodent

    Bob Hope Show - "New Bandleader Desi Arnaz"
    originally aired September 24, 1946 on NBC
    (first show of 9th season for Pepsodent)
    Starring: Bob Hope, Jerry Colonna, Carol Richards, The Starlighters,
    Barbara Jo Allen as Vera Vague, Desi Arnaz and his Orchestra, Wendall
    Niles announcing.
    Sponsor: Pepsodent

    Bob Hope Show - "Jack Benny"
    originally aired November 9, 1948 on NBC
    Starring: Bob Hope, Irene Ryan, Jack Kirkwood, Doris Day, Bill Farrell,
    Four Hits and a Miss, Les Brown and his Band of Renown, Hy Averback
    announcing.
    Sponsor: Swan Soap

    Bob Hope Show - "Jack Webb, Dragnet Parody"
    originally aired February 4, 1953 on NBC
    Starring: Bob Hope, Bill Johnstone, Jane Morgan, Margaret Whiting, Les
    Brown and his Band of renown, Bill Goodwin announcing.
    Sponsor: Jell-O
    ==================================

    If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

          Jerry Haendiges

          Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
          The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
          Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
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