Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #336
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 11/29/2006 8:07 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 336
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Airwaves                              [ "[removed]" <asajb2000@ ]
      CBS in Louisville                     [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      Re: 2006 Hallmark Ornament            [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
      Radio awards                          [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      johnny dollar                         [ Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
      11-29 births/deaths                   [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Jim Bachus                            [ RADIORUBLE@[removed] ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
      RE: Lustre-Creme                      [ "Belpedio, Dr. James" <[removed] ]
      Halls of Ivy                          [ "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed] ]
      Question about Christmas shows        [ Trinapreston3@[removed] ]
      Radio Exhibit at the Library of Amer  [ <mlhenry@[removed]; ]
      WHAS, Clear Channel radio, etc.       [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
      Re: Halls of Ivy                      [ "Candy Jens" <candyj@[removed]; ]
      Re: Johnny Dollar                     [ "John Abbott" <mraastro@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:33:26 -0500
    From: "[removed]" <asajb2000@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Airwaves
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    Jerry Chapman and Joe Webb did indeed start Airwaves in the 1970's and I went
    on to co-edit the publication with Jerry when Joe became associated with Bob
    Burnham in a publication called Collector's Corner.  Actually, the "news"
    column was a more tpoical, more timely approach to new items surfacing.  It
    may have been the beginning of what was to be adopted later and developed
    more fully by Jay Hickerson in the list of circulating shows.  I believe when
    Airwaves ended, we may have been up to maybe "D" or "E" of existing show,
    as/or 1978-1979.

    Andy Blatt

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    Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:34:27 -0500
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  CBS in Louisville

    I believe I have died and gone to heaven!

>     It is with great joy that I announce the Columbia Broadcasting System will
>     be heard once again in Louisville on a regular basis. As of December 1st,
>     2006 Clear Channel Station WKJK 10,000 watts omnidirectional daytime at
>     1080 kc will clear all CBS Radio News Hourlies 24/7. They will clear the
>     hourly format broadcast consisting of 3 minutes of news and one minute of
>     commercial.

    Thank you, Fr. Mike Paraniuk, for keeping on top of these developments and
    earnestly seeking to restore CBS to Louisville after a far-too-lengthy
    absence dating to the late 1990s, I'm thinking.  No metropolitan area of a
    million residents (16th largest) should be without a CBS outlet.  While
    there are probably some more deserving cities that remain disinfranchised, I
    think many of our local residents (and OTR club members especially) will
    rejoice.

    It's an answer to prayer, Pastor Paraniuk!  May miracles of faith, hope and
    charity continue to transpire in a season filled with good wishes for all.

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:35:03 -0500
    From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: 2006 Hallmark Ornament

    Our esteemed digest keeper commented:

>     This isn't the first cathedral radio "Keepsake Ornament" Hallmark has
>     produced;

    However, despite their seemingly nostalgic reminders the company seems
    to have lost any sense of its radio history. I contacted them one time
    about the Hallmark Hall of Fame on radio after seeing nothing on their
    web site and they knew nothing about it. They were well aware of their
    television history, but it seemed to stop there.
    Too bad.

    Jim Widner

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    Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:35:24 -0500
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Radio awards

    My good pal Ron Sayles observes:

>     no awards for best comedy, best drama, best western, best
>     daytime drama, or soap operas if you prefer, etc. Is there a reason
>     for this? Or was it just an oversight.

    I'm thinking there may have been awards in some or all of these categories
    in Radio Mirror, aka Radio-TV Mirror, aka TV-Radio Mirror.  I know there
    were for the personalities, like "Best Soap Opera Heroine," "Best Daytime
    Emcee," etc.  They were voted on by readers of this important fanzine.
    Maybe citations weren't handed out on the ether but appearing in print such
    designations carried a lot of weight with networks and advertisers and, I'm
    sure, with performers at contract renewal negotiation time.

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:35:47 -0500
    From: Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  johnny dollar

    perhaps the radiogoldindex page can help
    [removed]+Truly,+Johnny+Dolla
    r

    it sounds like it might be "the clinton matter"

    jww

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    Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:35:55 -0500
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-29 births/deaths
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    November 29th births

    11-29-1895 - Busby Berkeley - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-14-1976
    choreographer: "Gulf Screen Theatre"; "Whatever Became Of . . . ?"
    11-29-1895 - Yakima Canutt - Colfax, WA - d. 5-24-1986
    actor, stuntman: "Daredevils of Hollywood"; "Hollywood Rodea"
    11-29-1900 - Mildred "Axis Sally" Gillars - Portland, ME - d. 6-25-1988
    propagandist: Radio Berlin "Vision of an Invasion"
    11-29-1905 - Chester Erskine - Hudson, NY - d. 4-7-1986
    film director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-29-1905 - Mario Braggiotti - Florence, Italy - d. 5-18-1996
    pianist, composer: "Fray and Braggiotti"
    11-29-1906 - Luis Van Rooten - Mexico City, Mexico - d. 6-17-1973
    actor: George Priestly "County Seat"; John Perry "John's Other Wife";
    Nero Wolfe "Nero Wolfe"
    11-29-1910 - Al Schwartz - Passaic, NJ - d. 3-25-1988
    writer: "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Bob Hope Show"
    11-29-1912 - Alan Courtney - NYC - d. 9-16-1978
    host: "Calling All Girls"; "Korn Kobblers"
    11-29-1913 - Harry Bartell - New Orleans, LA - d. 2-26-2004
    actor: Archie Goodwin "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; "Adv of Sherlock
    Holmes"; "Gunsmoke"
    11-29-1914 - Hal McIntyre - Cromwell, CT - d. 5-5-1959
    bandleader: "Hal McIntyre and His Orchestra"
    11-29-1917 - George Walsh - Cleveland, OH - d. 12-5-2005
    announcer: "Gunsmoke"; "Music Til Dawn"
    11-29-1917 - Merle Travis - Muhlenberg County, KY - d. 10-20-1983
    singer, guitarist: "Hollywood Barn Dance"
    11-29-1921 - Virginia Egnor "Dagmar" - Huntington, WV - d. 10-9-2001
    dumb blonde: "Stars On Parade"; "Says Who?"
    11-29-1926 - Naomi Stevens - Trenton, NJ
    actor: Irene Franklin "One Man's Family"; Daphne Royce "Brenthouse"
    11-29-1927 - Vin Scully - The Bronx, NY
    sportscaster (Baseball's Poet Laurate) Play-by Play announcer for the
    Dodgers
    11-29-1932 - John Gary - Watertown, NY - d. 1-4-1998
    singer: "Christmas Music - Spots for the National Guard"

    November 29th deaths

    01-18-1904 - Cary Grant - Bristol, England - d. 11-29-1986
    actor: Jim Blandings "Mr. and Mrs. Blandings"
    02-26-1933 - Godfrey Cambridge - NYC - d. 11-29-1976
    actor: "Voices of Vista"
    04-28-1896 - Edith Evanson - Tacoma, WA - d. 11-29-1980
    actor: Helmi "Myrt and Marge"
    05-03-1898 - George H. Combs - Lee's Summit, MO - d. 11-29-1977
    congressman, commentator: "Now You Decide"; "Spotlight, New York"
    05-29-1897 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Brno, Czechoslovakia - d.
    11-29-1957
    "composer: "Contemporary Composers Concerts"; "Railroad Hour"
    06-05-1910 - Herb Vigran - Fort Wayne, IN - d. 11-29-1986
    actor: Sad Sack "Sad Sack"; Hector Smith "Father Knows Best"
    06-17-1904 - Ralph Bellamy - Chicago, IL - d. 11-29-1991
    actor: "These Are Our Men"
    07-19-1912 - Frank Kane - d. 11-29-1968
    writer: "The Shadow"
    07-20-1938 - Natalie Wood - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-29-1981
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-27-1890 - Judith Lowry - Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory - d.
    11-29-1976
    actor: Emma Stevie' Stevens "Valiant Lady"; Emmy Fergusson "Welcome
    Valley"
    09-05-1916 - Frank Yerby - Augusta, GA - d. 11-29-1991
    author: "Best Seller"
    09-20-1869 - George Robey - London, England - d. 11-29-1954
    music hall singer: "Music Hall"
    10-04-1900 - Robert Shayne - Yonkers, NY - d. 11-29-1992
    actor: Walter Manning "Portia Faces Life"
    11-03-1909 - George Wells - NYC - d. 11-29-2000
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-22-1917 - Gene Rayburn - Christopher, IL - d. 11-29-1999
    announcer, comedian: "Rayburn and Finch"
    12-26-1902 - Irene Handl - London, England - d. 11-29-1987
    actor: "Hello Playmates"

    Ron Sayles

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    Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:35:03 -0500
    From: RADIORUBLE@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jim Bachus

    Do any readers know about a novelty song by Jim Bachus entitled  "Delicious"?

    It is a real hoot but just contains dialog between a man and woman.  I
    wondered if Jim did both voices ala Stan Freberg's "John and Marsha".

    Anyone know?

    Thanks.

    Bob Ruble

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    Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:12:01 -0500
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
    real-time OTR talk!

    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
    others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
    range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
    it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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    Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:48:59 -0500
    From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi Friends,
    NOTE: Because of the many requests we've received, we are now making "Same
    Time, Same Station" available as a free Podcast through iTunes by going to
    our new website at: [removed]

    Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you may
    listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio
    Theater," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The Glowing
    Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."  Streamed in high-quality audio,
    on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
    Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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    =======================================

    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    UNDER ARREST
    Episode 22    5-8-49    "Blackmail Setup"
    MUTUAL SUSTAINING
    STARS Joe Desantis, Craig McDonnell

    THE AMAZING MR. MALONE
    Episode 1    05-25-51    "A Strong Offense Is The Best Defense"
    STARS: George Petrie as John J. Malone

    KFI FM AND TELEVISION TRANSMITTER GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONIES
    11-29-44
    Features: Mayor Fletcher Bowron and Lee DeForest

    STRANGE AS IT SEEMS
    Episode 6
    "How America Was Named" and "The Mystery Airplane"

    HILDEGARDE
    Episode 45    5-15-45
    Guests: Patsy Kelly, Clifton Webb, Xavier Cugat, Marcia Davenport

    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    THIS IS YOUR FBI
    (ABC)    4/27/45    "Escaped Prisoners of War"
    narrated by Frank Lovejoy.

    NICK CARTER, MASTER DETECTIVE
    (MBS)    11/05/44   "Death In the Pool" or "Nick Carter in The Mystery of
    the Mink Coat"
    Stars: Lon Clark.

    POLICE HEADQUARTERS
    (NBC/Synd)    1932 "Wagner Hotel Murder" - a complete mystery in 15 minutes.

    ====================================

    THE GLOWING DIAL

    Featuring: Alfred Hitchcock

    Forecast presents an audition for a proposed new series ...
    Suspense - "The Lodger"
    originally aired July 22, 1940 on CBS
    Starring: Herbert Marshall, Edmund Gwenn.
    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
    Sustained

    Information Please - "special guest Alfred Hitchcock"
    originally aired January 22, 1943 on NBC
    Starring: Clifton Fadiman, Oscar Levant, John Kieran, Alfred Hitchcock.
    Sponsor: Lucky Strike

    The Screen Guild Players - "Rebecca"
    originally aired November 18, 1948 on NBC
    Starring: Loretta Young, John Lund, Verne Smith announcing.
    Sponsor: Camel Cigarettes

    Screen Director's Playhouse - "Spellbound"
    originally aired January 25, 1951 on NBC
    Starring: Joseph Cotton, Mercedes McCambridge, Herbert Butterfield, Bill
    Tracy, Jim Nusser, Howard McNear, Jimmy Wallington announcing.
    Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman performing on the Theremin.
    Sponsors: Anacin, RCA Victor

    ==================================

    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 the Net

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    Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:52:56 -0500
    From: "Belpedio, Dr. James" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: Lustre-Creme

    Hello.

    In response to the last OTR, the shampoo was spelled  Lustre-Creme, complete
    with the hyphen. It was a Colgate Palmolive product. It was promoted as a way
    to turn ordinary girls into "dream girls." It had the requisite "secret
    ingredients" and "gentle lanolin." I think it is still being marketed as a
    natural, herbal product.

    Dream girl, dream girl,
    Beautiful Lustre-Cream girl
    You'll owe your crowning glory to
    A Lustre-Creme shampoo!

    JBelpedio
    Worcester, MA

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    Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:27:52 -0500
    From: "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Halls of Ivy

    In #334, Henry asked:

>     Does anyone know ..."Halls of Ivy" theme song?
>     if there was ever a single or an album with
>     the song on it?

    The theme was released on a single.  Ed Walker drags it out occasionally
    on WAMU's The Big Broadcast, usually in the fall when school starts up.
    If you listen to the Big Broadcast ([removed]), and there's no reason
    you shouldn't be listening anyway, you might try hassling them to play
    it this spring during graduation season.

    I should say that Halls of Ivy is one of my favorite OTR shows, up there
    with Lum & Abner, Gunsmoke, and one or two others.  I love that it's a
    "smart" comedy that's not at all sitcomy.

    -chris holm

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    Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:28:43 -0500
    From: Trinapreston3@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Question about Christmas shows
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    Last year I bought a OTR collection of Christmas shows titled "Golden age of
    Radio, "Radio's All time greatest Christmas Shows" The company that put this
    collection together is Reader's Digest/Dove audio.  The only problem I have is
    the collection never listed the episode and dates of the shows just the names
    of the shows.  I was hoping some of the readers may have purchased this
    collection and know of the names of the episodes on this collection.  Some of the
    shows on this collection is Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, Charlie McCarthy,
    Fibber Mcgee and Molly, Hopalong Cassidy, Sherlock Holmes, Abbott and Costello, Six
    Shooter, and Dragnet.  I liked one shows on this collection it was Burns and
    Allen.  In this episode Gracie was working at a department store counter to
    earn money to by George a Christmas present.  Can any of the readers know of the
    name of that episode?  Please share what you know.

     Trina,

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    Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:28:29 -0500
    From: <mlhenry@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Radio Exhibit at the Library of American
     Broadcasting

    For any Digest'ers interested in the history of antique radios from the
    1920's and 1930's, the Library of American Broadcasting and the Radio &
    Television Museum in Bowie, Maryland have installed a large exhibit called
    "Radio Enters the Home". The exhibit features antique radios, horn speakers,
    cone speakers, and other artifacts that tell the story of radio entering the
    home in the 1920's and 1930's.

    To celebrate the exhibit, the LAB is hosting a reception on Monday December
    18 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. The reception will take place in the Hornbake
    Library Building on the University of Maryland campus in College Park, MD,
    the same building that houses the LAB and the exhibit.

    For more information about the exhibit and the reception:
    [removed]

    For more information about the Radio & Television Museum:
    [removed]

    -Michael Henry
    Library of American Broadcasting

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    Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:43:53 -0500
    From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  WHAS, Clear Channel radio, etc.

    The following excerpt from the company's press release might be of some
    interest to radio fans:

    ................
    SAN ANTONIO - November 16, 2006 - Clear Channel Communications, Inc.
    (NYSE:CCU) today announced plans to sell 448 of its 1,150 radio stations,
    all located outside the top 100 [removed] media markets, as well as the company's
    42-station Television Group.  Collectively, these properties contributed
    less than 10 percent of the company's revenues last year.
    .............

    There's actually more, apparently.  The Wall Street Journal said that CC
    realized too late that they'd made a mistake in standardizing their stations
    and expanding the advertising.  And it looks like they might be selling more
    stations: I'm fairly sure Columbus is in the top 100 markets, and they've
    sold two stations here, big ones.

    This can only be good for radio fans, and OTR fans who hope for OTR shows on
    radio stations in their area.  Clear Channel always struck me as about as
    arrogant as a firm could get, expressing surprise and resentment when
    criticized for their bland fare and predatory business methods.  It was only
    when they began losing money to satellite and on-line radio that they
    realized the error of their ways.  I think we can look forward to some
    further re-alignments, such as the new CBS news at WHAS.

    Mark Kinsler

    512 E Mulberry St. Lancaster, Ohio USA 43130 740-687-6368
    [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:16:52 -0500
    From: "Candy Jens" <candyj@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Halls of Ivy

    Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians made a 45 album "College Memories" which
    includes "Halls of Ivy."  Probably every college glee club in the nation has
    made a recording at some time or other<g>.

    If you Google
     "Halls of Ivy" song

    one result is a list of H of I programs for sale, one of which includes the
    full song played on the air.  I didn't check beyond that.

    Fred Waring's choruses sang every word clearly and crisply - a pleasure to
    listen to!

    Candy

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    Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:23:10 -0500
    From: "John Abbott" <mraastro@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Johnny  Dollar

    The YTJD program that Scott Livingston referenced is "The Clinton Matter",
    which aired on 3/12/1956.

    This program was also done on 4/4/1950 by Edmond O'Brien as "The Story Of
    The Big Red Schoolhouse".

    In both stories Johnny calls in additional agents to investigate corruption
    in the building of a school building.

    John C. Abbott

    Note:
    No Trees were harmed in sending this message.
    However, some electrons along the way were inconvenienced.

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