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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 83
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      5-5 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      5-6 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Play By Play I Saw It On The [removed]  [ Afanofoldradio@[removed] ]

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    Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:31:34 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-5  births/deaths

    May 5th births

    05-05-1879 - Max Marcin - Posen, Prussia, Germany - d. 3-30-1948
    writer, producer, director: "Crime Doctor"; "The FBI in Peace and War"
    05-05-1890 - Christopher Morley - Haverford, PA - d. 3-28-1957
    author: "Information, Please"; "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Studio One"
    05-05-1899 - Freeman F. Gosden - Richmond, VA - d. 12-10-1982
    comedian: "Sam 'n' Henry"; Amos Jones "Amos 'n' Andy"
    05-05-1907 - Benny Baker - St. Joseph, MO - d. 9-20-1994
    character actor: "Jack Benny Program"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-05-1912 - Alice Faye - NYC - d. 5-9-1998
    singer, actor: "Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show"
    05-05-1912 - Bret Morrison - Chicago, IL - d. 9-25-1978
    actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"
    05-05-1914 - Tyrone Power - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-15-1958
    actor: Dean Edwards "Freedom [removed]"
    05-05-1915 - Ben Wright - London, England - d. 7-2-1989
    actor: Hey Boy "Have Gun, Will Travel"; Nicholas Lacey "One Man's
    Family"
    05-05-1915 - T. A. G. Hungerford - Perth, Australia
    writer: "Help Me Cut Up the Cat"; "Looking After Bert"
    05-05-1918 - Alden Aaroe - d. 7-7-1993
    newscaster: Charlottesville, Virginia
    05-05-1919 - George London - Montreal, Canada - d. 3-23-1985
    singer: "The Voice of Firestone"
    05-05-1919 - Seymour Kapetansky - Michigan - d. 2-9-2001
    sriter: "Duffy's Tavern"
    05-05-1921 - Sydney Walker - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-30-1994
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"; "War of the Worlds 1988"
    05-05-1921 - Ted Brown - Collingwood, NJ - d. 3-20-2005
    announcer, emcee: "Bulldog Drummond"; "Lawrence Welk High Life Revue"
    05-05-1925 - Monica Lewis - Chicago, IL
    singer: "Jan August's Revere Camera Show"
    05-05-1927 - Pat Carroll - Shrevport, LA
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"; "Fifty Years After Fourteen August"
    05-05-1932 - Will Hutchins - Los Angeles, CA
    actor: Instrumental in keeping OTR alive in these the latter days

    May 5th deaths

    01-18-1914 - Rod O'Connor - Houston, TX - d. 5-5-1964
    announcer: "Red Skelton Show"; "Duffy's Tavern"; "Count of Monte Cristo"
    03-31-1896 - Eddie Dunn - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-5-1951
    quizmaster: "True or False"
    06-02-1909 - June MacCloy - Sturgis, MI - d. 5-5-2005
    vocalist: "Griff Williams and Jimmy Walsh and Their Orchestra"
    06-26-1923 - Syd Lawrence - Shutton, England - d. 5-5-1998
    orchestra leader: "American Patrol"
    07-12-1912 - Jim McClain - d. 5-5-2004
    host: Dr. [removed] "Dr. [removed]"; Dr. [removed] "Dr. [removed] Jr."
    07-16-1925 - Cal Tjader - St. Louis, MO - d. 5-5-1982
    jazz vibrophonist: "Music for Moderns"; ""All-Star Parade of Bands"
    08-10-1917 - Kathleen Claypool - Aylesworth, IN - d. 5-5-2003
    actor: "Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy"
    09-04-1891 - Sam Lanin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-5-1977
    bandleader: "Ipana Troubadors"; "Benrus Ticksters"
    09-29-1898 - Doris Hursley - Wisconsin - d. 5-5-1984
    writer: "American Women"; "Cousin Willie"; "Those Websters"; "The
    Truitts"
    10-04-1916 - George Sidney - Long Island City, NY - d. 5-5-2002
    film musical director: "Shell Chateau"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-04-1916 - Lenore Kingston - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-5-1993
    actor: Mercedes Colby "Don Winslow of the Navy"; Jane Daley "Affairs
    of Anthony"
    11-26-1922 - Terry Ryan - Cleveland, OH - d. 5-5-2001
    comedy writer: "Fred Allen Show"
    11-29-1914 - Hal McIntyre - Cromwell, CT - d. 5-5-1959
    bandleader: "Hal McIntyre and His Orchestra"
    12-16-1918 - Murray Kempton - Baltimore, MD - d. 5-5-1997
    commentator: "Spectrum"
    12-20-1905 - Albert Dekker - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-5-1968
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Diane Pendelton - d. 5-5-1989
    singer" Kay Kyser's Band

    Ron

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    Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:31:58 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-6 births/deaths

    May 6th births

    05-06-1882 - William E. Scripps - Michigan - d. 6-12-1952
    Founded WWJ in Detroit, Michigan
    05-06-1899 - Billy Cotton - London, England - d. 3-25-1969
    bandleader: "Wakey Wakey!!"
    05-06-1900 - Dave Elman - Park River, ND - d. 12-5-1967
    emcee: (The Dean of American Hobbyists) "Hobby Lobby"
    05-06-1906 - Mathilde Ferror - d. 11-26-1990
    writer: "Lorenzo Jones"
    05-06-1908 - Parkyakarkus (Harry Einstein) - Boston, MA - d. 11-24-1958
    comedian: "Eddie Cantor Show"; "Al Jolson Show"; "Meet Me at Parkys"
    05-06-1910 - Alice Reinheart - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-10-1993
    actor: Anne Williams "Casey, Crime Photographer"; Jean Abbott "Abbott
    Mysteries"
    05-06-1911 - Artie Bland - d. 3-4-2002
    disk jockey: KWBU Corpus Christi, Texas
    05-06-1911 - Frank Nelson - Denver, CO - d. 9-12-1986
    actor, comedian: Anthony J. Lyon "Jeff Regan"; nemisis "Jack Benny
    Program"
    05-06-1912 - Bill Quinn - NYC - d. 4-29-1994
    actor: Guy Aldis "Against the Storm"; Tom Davis "When a Girl Marries"
    05-06-1913 - Carmen Cavallaro - NYC - d. 10-12-1989
    bandleader: (The Poet of the Piano) "Schaeffer Revue"; "Tums Tune Time"
    05-06-1913 - Douglas Stewart - Eltham, New Zealand - d. 2-14-1985
    writer: "The Fire On the Snow"
    05-06-1913 - Stewart Granger - London, England - d. 8-16-1993
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    05-06-1914 - Arline Blackburn - NYC - d. 12-17-1994
    actor: Kitty Kelly "Pretty Kitty Kelly"; Eileen Turner "The O'Neills"
    05-06-1914 - Ken Englund - Chicago, IL - d. 8-10-1993
    writer: "Three Sheets to the Wind"
    05-06-1915 - Orson Welles - Kenosha, WI - d. 10-10-1985
    actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"; "Mercury Theatre on the Air"
    05-06-1917 - Bob Murphy - Bismarck, ND - d. 10-25-1959
    announcer: "The Breakfast Club"
    05-06-1926 - Marguarite Piazza - New Orleans, LA
    singer: "Encore"
    05-06-1928 - Doreen Clarke - Middleton, England
    writer: "Oh, The Apple Tree"; "The Name of Your Uncle"
    05-06-1941 - Ghena Dimitrova - Sofia, Bulgaria - d. 7-11-2005
    operatic soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
    05-06-1945 - Richard Eyer - Santa Monica, CA
    actor: Bobby "My Friend Irma"

    May 6th deaths

    01-24-1909 - Ann Todd - Hartford, Cheshire, England - d. 5-6-1993
    actor: Amy Foster "Those We Love"
    03-23-1920 - Maurice Marsac - La Croix, France - d. 5-6-2007
    actor: French Teacher "Our Miss Brooks"
    04-02-1911 - Bill Days - St. Louis, MO - d. 5-6-2002
    singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
    04-27-1899 - Ned Wever - NYC - d. 5-6-1984
    actor: Dick Tracy "Dick Tracy"; Anthony Loring "Young Widder Brown"
    05-12-1903 - Wilfrid Hyde-White - Bourton-on-the-Water, England - d.
    5-6-1991
    actor: Roland Hamilton-Jones "Men of the Ministry"
    05-13-1907 - Warren Angell - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-6-2006
    singer: "Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians"
    05-17-1908 - Joe Grant - NYC - d. 5-6-2005
    writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-31-1900 - Hugh Studebaker - Ridgeville, IN - d. 5-6-1978
    actor: Ichabod Mudd "Captain Midnight"; Silly Watson "Fibber McGee and
    Molly"
    06-23-1925 - Larry Blyden - Houston, TX - d. 5-6-1975
    actor: "Radio City Playhouse"; "Cavalcade of America"
    07-04-1909 - Al Jarvis - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 5-6-1970
    disc jockey, songwriter: "Make-Believe Ballroom"
    07-15-1923 - Herb Sargent - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-6-2005
    writer: Wrote for radio in the 1940s
    08-09-1901 - Charles Farrell - Onset Bay, Cape Cod, MA - d. 5-6-1990
    actor: Verne Albright "My Little Margie"
    08-17-1888 - Monte Woolley- NYC - d. 5-6-1963
    actor: Edwin Montague "Magnificent Montague"
    09-20-1908 - Lowell Hawley - Lynden, WA - d. 5-6-2003
    screenwriter: "Art Baker's Notebook"
    09-26-1901 - Ted Weems - Pitcairn, PA - d. 5-6-1963
    bandleader: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Sunday Matinee"; "Beat the Band"
    10-06-1893 - Milton Ager - Chicago, IL - d. 5-6-1979
    composer of many songs broadcast on radio
    10-10-1910 - Don Hancock - Anderson, IN - d. 5-6-1980
    announcer: "The Goldbergs"; "Ellery Queen"; "Vox Pop"
    10-17-1923 - Barney Kessel - Muskogee, OK - d. 5-6-2004
    jazz guitarist: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"; "Just Jazz"
    11-09-1916 - Norwood Anderson - d. 5-6-2005
    disk jockey: "Town and Party Line" WFTC Kingston, North Carolina
    11-26-1907 - Henry "Hot Lips" Levine - London, England - d. 5-6-1989
    trumpeter, conducter: "Chamber Music of Lower Basin Street"; "Strictly
    from Dixie"
    12-27-1901 - Marlene Dietrich - Berlin, Germany - d. 5-6-1992
    actor: Mlle. Madou, "Cafe Istanbul"

    Ron

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    Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:32:06 -0400
    From: Afanofoldradio@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Play By Play I Saw It On The [removed]
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    For those of us whose interest in OTR extends farther than comedy drama
    [removed] go to You-tube and type in the words you see in the subject line
    and listen to a great song about radio broadcasters including the late
    Ernie  Harwell written and performed by Terry Cashman  I have it on a CD and
    have  owned IT for years-it is a treasured song ....God Bless You  Ernie
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