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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2003 : Issue 221
A Part of the [removed]!
ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
theme music [ "Roby McHone" <otr_alaska@[removed] ]
Another Bob Hope Tribute [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
Re: Indy 500 On Radio [ Twizoner@[removed] ]
Million Dollar Band? [ George Aust <austhaus1@[removed] ]
Re; Let George [ eric_cooper@[removed] ]
Keeping abreast of [removed] [ Wich2@[removed] ]
Today in radio history [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
June 1st birthdays [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Galloping along [ otrbuff@[removed] ]
Being Whelmed Over [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
Huck wasn't Godfrey [ benohmart@[removed] ]
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Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 23:07:03 -0400
From: "Roby McHone" <otr_alaska@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: theme music
Lately, I've been listening to The Raleigh Show with Red Skelton and have a
question for my fellow digesters. What it the theme music for "The Mean
Widdle Kid"? Not the Brahms piece that is played before he comes on but the
next one. Sounds like something that Liszt or Suppe would have written.
Thanks in advance.
Roby McHone
Fairbanks, Alaska
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Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 23:07:23 -0400
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Another Bob Hope Tribute
Here's another Bob Hope tribute article, this one from essayist Mark Steyn.
He again singles out hope for recognizing his writers forgetting that Jack
Benny was there first but again, another nice overview of his career.
There are some blue passages herein in reference to Mr. Hope's alleged
dalliances, so the more sensitive minded will wish to pass.
[removed]
Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]
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Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 23:07:31 -0400
From: Twizoner@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Indy 500 On Radio
ESPN aired an excellent hour long documentary on the radio coverage of "The
Greatest Spectacle In Racing". I believe it aired last year and was made
available for purchase. For years I listened to the live race coverage on the
radio and then watched the delayed television broadcast at night.
Unfortunately
my local stations stopped carrying the radio coverage a number of years ago.
I miss listening to the radio broadcast which in many ways provided a grander
and better coverage of this great American tradition.
Mike K
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Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 23:39:50 -0400
From: George Aust <austhaus1@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Million Dollar Band?
Joe Mackey posted
The Million Dollar Band was heard for the first time on NBC
How has it happened that I've never heard of this band? I am very
familiar with Charlie Spivak, and have heard of Barry Wood, but never
The Million Dollar Band.
Would somebody please enlighten me?
George Aust
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Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 00:27:43 -0400
From: eric_cooper@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re; Let George
Let George Do It was better in its original sitcom format.
Just my two cents
Eric Cooper
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Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 00:29:57 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Keeping abreast of [removed]
From: "Michael Hayde"
I guess than one was a bust, but I wanna tell [removed]
(BOY, SOMETIMES THE FOLKS ON THIS LIST ARE JUST A BUNCH OF
BOOBS!) "AND SAY, HOW ABOUT THAT JOEY HEATHERTON? RIGHT HERE!"
-CRAIG W.
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Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 13:11:00 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-net <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Today in radio history
From Those Were The Days --
1943 - A comic strip came to radio, as Archie Andrews was heard on the
Mutual Broadcasting System for the first time.
1949 - A crowd of 35,000 people paid tribute to radio personality Mary
Margaret McBride at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. McBride was celebrating
her 15th year in radio.
Joe
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Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 13:11:59 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: June 1st birthdays
June is a new month of birthdays. Rose is the flower and Pearl is the
birthstone.
June 1st birthdays are:
06-00-1931 - Harlan "Hal" Stone - Whitestone, Long Island, NY
(do not know day of birth) actor: Jughead Jones "Archie Andrews"
06-01-1887 - Clive Brook - London, England - d. 11-17-1974
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"
06-01-1890 - Frank Morgan - NYC - d. 9-18-1949
actor: Thaddeus Q. Tweedy "Fabulous Dr. Tweedy"
06-01-1898 - Edward "Cookie" Fairchild - NYC - d. 2-20-1975
conductor: "Johnny Presents Ginny Simms"; "Eddie Cantor Show"
06-01-1898 - Molly Picon - NYC - d. 4-5-1992
actress: "I Give You My Life"; "Molly Picon's Parade"
06-01-1905 - Robert Newton - Shaftesbury, England - d. 3-25-1956
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-01-1909 - Ray Heatherton - Jersey City, NJ - d. 8-15-1997
singer, host: "Old Gold Hour"; "Musical Cruise with Spearmint Crew"
06-01-1917 - Donald Dame - Titusville, PA - d. 1-21-1952
singer: "Music for an Hour"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
06-01-1926 - Andy Griffith - Mount Airy, NC
host comedy night: "Sears Radio Theatre"
06-01-1926 - Marilyn Monroe - Los Angeles, CA - d. 8-5-1962
actress: "Hollywood Star Parade"; "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
06-01-1934 - Pat Boone - Jacksonville, FL
singer: "Arthur Godfrey Time"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Hometown of [removed] Kaltenborn and Spencer Tracy
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Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 13:12:16 -0400
From: otrbuff@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Galloping along
Derek Tague asks a reasonable question: is current hot topic Frank
Gallop still alive? I dunno. He's not in any obits or lists of the
deceased I've perused (although I've not checked the web). He was born
in Boston June 30, 1910 so he could very well still be among us. Will
Ron Sayles be listing this birthday boy's name shortly?
Jim Cox
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Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 13:13:21 -0400
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Being Whelmed Over
Elizabeth McLeod, discussing whether she might be induced into writing a
book on Amos & Andy, discussed the "cons" of doing such a work.
Then too, I don't want to commit to putting my work between hard covers
until I'm confident that I've considered and explored the topic as
thoroughly, as accurately, and as completely as possible. Studying A&A is
like peeling an onion -- there's just layer after layer after layer, and
just when you think you've gotten to the center, some new information
appears that suggests there's even more to be learned. Once the work is
in print, it's fixed for all time -- but web publication gives me the
flexibility to add this new information, this new research as it becomes
available.
The sentiment is valid for *any* specialty, yet books on subjects are
printed all the time. Many not just for sales. Although books are
"fixed for all time" [save for corrections in subsequent editions] they
have the virtue of being hard copy and available for those without access
to the web. Besides reaching those who might not rely on the net, their
very existence introduces their subjects to new audiences, and can help
dispel urban legends.
Most important, a competent book on any specialized subject can act as a
solid foundation for newcomers to a unique area of knowledge, and as a
springboard for further scholarship. One has to start somewhere, and
starting from the best source will prevent a lot of misconceptions.
I can walk into any library or bookstore and pull out any number of
error-laden, distortion-filled volumes -- and that's just on topics in
which I have some level of knowledge.
True enough. I've been there myself. But, IMHO, that's all the more
reason to have a good reference work -- a primer, if you will -- that can
put a person in a position to appreciate what's somewhat oxymoronically
been called "the true facts." Such a book is also a good way to refute
common misconceptions and falsehoods.
There's an awful lot of this in the OTR world -- think of how
desperately people hold onto such myths as the Uncle Don story, the
Nelson Eddy Tuneout, the "Decoder Ring," "The Lone Ranger Founded
Mutual," "Arthur Godfrey Fired Julius LaRosa Out Of Spite," and so forth,
even though each of these has been thoroughly debunked many times.
It can be frustrating. I have several serious cryptological books that
speak of Decoder Rings as radio premiums. _Secret Messages_, by William
S. Butler and L. Douglas Keeney (Simon & Schuster, 2001) goes so far as
to say, "A Captain Midnight decoder ring in good condition will today
bring five hundred dollars at auction." Admittedly, that's an extreme
case; most just touch on the idea, albeit erroneously. (My response to
that would be to write an article: in fact, an editor of an
Intelligence-related subjects is interested in me doing so.)
I think Elizabeth would be doing everyone a great service with a book on
the fundamentals of A&A.
Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 15:02:24 -0400
From: benohmart@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Huck wasn't Godfrey
I told Lee about this, but thought the rest of you might be interested.
Huckleberry Hound
had nothing to do with Arthur Godfrey. Daws Butler, the voice of Huck,
himself said that
Huck was based on the neighbor of the woman he was courting (whom Daws ended
up
marrying). This was the deep south, y'all. That neighbor was a dentist who
sounded
Just like Huck, and Daws, the master impressionist, kept that sound in mind.
Ben
The Walter Tetley book
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