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Date: 8/8/2005 4:01 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 239
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  MIRACLE ON 34th STREET                [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
  OLDE TIME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@VintageRad ]
  Lum and Abner - History of Party Lin  [ "William D. Clark" <wclark4121@stic ]
  Re: Hybrid-CD/MP3                     [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
  Re: Lum and Abner                     [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Mildred Bailey                        [ "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@m ]
  Re: Edgar Guest                       [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
  can anyone help?                      [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
  Trivia Question                       [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  8-8 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Frances Langford question             [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  Lum and Abner                         [ "erest@[removed]" <erest@bel ]

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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 19:31:57 -0400
From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  MIRACLE ON 34th STREET

Might interest you Randy, George Seaton, who wrote and directed Miracle,
was the first Lone Ranger waaaaaay back, when.

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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 19:32:20 -0400
From: "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TIME RADIO NETWORK

Hi Friends,

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," Lee Michael's "The RADIO Show" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."
Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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Before I get into the schedule, I want to welcome a new broadcaster to our
Network.  Beginning this week,  Lee Michael brings his "The RADIO Show" to
The Olde Tyme Radio Network ... Welcome Lee!
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION

A Tribute to Joe Cook,
"Radio's Most Versatile Performer"

THE COLGATE HOUSE PARTY
"The Joe Cook Show"
9-24-34 "Fishing Story"
Joe Cook's first radio starring role

CIRCUS NIGHT IN SILVERTOWN
5-24-35    "The Masked Marvel"
Stars Joe Cook as The Barker

SHELL CHATEAU
Episode 4 1-23-37
Host and Star: Joe Cook
Featuring: Jones and Hare, Rube Goldberg, Eleanor Holm, Art Jarret and The
Memphis Five
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

THE ADVENTURES OF OZZIE & HARRIET
NBC    1/23/48   "The Argument"

JEFF REGAN - INVESTIGATOR
CBS   10/2/48   Jack Webb stars in "The Man With the Key"

VIC AND SADE
NBC    11/20/42    "Rush's Haircut" features Billy Idelson and Art Van
Harvey.
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THE GLOWING DIAL

 Lady Esther Screen Guild Players - "Yankee Doodle Dandy"
originally aired October 19, 1942 on CBS
Starring: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Jeanne Cagney, [removed]
Sakall, Richard Whorf, Charles Irwin, Truman Bradley announcing.
Sponsor: Lady Esther Cosmetics

Mr. President - "George Washington"
originally aired July 31, 1949 on ABC
Starring: Edward Arnold, Betty Lou Gerson.
Sustained

Fibber McGee and Molly - "Scrap Drive"
originally aired April 7, 1942 on NBC
Starring: Jim and Marion Jordan, Gale Gordon, Bill Thompson, The King's Men,
Billy Mills and his Orchestra, Harlow Wilcox announcing.
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

Gulf Screen Guild Theatre - "Between Americans"
originally aired December 7, 1941 on CBS
Starring: Orson Welles, Roger Pryor hosting, Bud Easton announcing.
Sponsor: Gulf Oil

The Cavalcade of America - "An American Is Born"
originally aired January 19, 1942 on NBC Red
Starring: Bette Davis, Raymond Edward Johnson, Clayton "Bud" Collyer
announcing.
Written & Directed by Arch Oboler from a story by Peter Packer.
Sponsor: DuPont Chemical Co.
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The RADIO Show

The Adventures of Superman
"The Super Sleuth" Ep. #1016 (Pt 1 of 8)
Starring Clayton "Bud" Collyer, Julian Noa, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck
(narrator), Dan McCullough (announcer). Mutual Broadcasting System, July 22,
1946, sponsored by Kellogg's Pep.

2005 RHOF Pioneer Nominee: "The Great Gildersleeve"
Starring Hal Peary, Earle Ross, Lurene Tuttle, Lillian Randolph, Walter
Tetley. NBC, May 21, 1942, sponsored by Kraft Foods.
===================================

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: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 19:32:39 -0400
From: "William D. Clark" <wclark4121@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Lum and Abner - History of Party Lines
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This is a clip from "Telephone History" referencing Party Line. As a child
in the 60's I never heard of a party line until I visited and aunt in Houma,
LA who had a party line. I could never figure out which special ring was
her's and kept picking up the phone on each call.

Quote:
Party lines for non-business subscribers were the rule before World War II,
not the exception. In cities and country, most people shared a line with two
to ten to twenty people. You could talk only five minutes or so before
someone else wanted to make a call. And anyone on the party line could pick
up their receiver and listen in to your conversation. I think single line
service, which took until the early 1970s to become nearly universal, has
allowed the telephone to fully develop into what we know it today

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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 20:05:21 -0400
From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Hybrid-CD/MP3

Don, pardon what I;m pretty sure will be my ignorance here, but on this
Walmart unit, can you pick the "shows"  you want to hear--are they
seperated--the same way you could automatically pick, or advance to, say
the different tracks, on a CD (the third song, for [removed])

Thanks! I'm completely stupid of MP3s!

Best, Jim

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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:54:44 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re:  Lum and Abner

   Melanie asked --

 > The plots which include getting on the "party line" makes me wonder
when party lines where phased out.  I know they were around in the late
60's and early 70's.

    I had a party line here in Huntington, WV until the mid-1980s.
    At first it was a four party line then reduced to a two party.  I
can only recall rarely ever picking up the phone and the other party was
on the line.  Maybe once a year.
    Joe

--
Visit my home page: [removed]~[removed]

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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:56:43 -0400
From: "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@[removed];
To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Mildred Bailey
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It may be of interest to "Albert" and others that there was another Mildred
Bailey in
OTR - she was a crippled lady who did a daily woman's show on  the (then) ABC
AM & FM
outlet in Boston, WCOP,  in the mid-late 1940's.  As the studio "gopher" in my
teens, I
recall seeing her many times. Her listeners never knew she was handicapped.
Tom Heathwood - Heritage Radio Theatre    8/7/05

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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 01:26:55 -0400
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Edgar Guest
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In a message dated 8/6/05 5:18:21 PM Central Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:

Sez who? Who bestowed such a lofty title like "poet laureate" on this
notorious newspaper doggerelist?

Well, Edgar Guest *did* have a bedroom named after him at Fibber McGee and
Molly's house, at least according to [removed]

Dixon

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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 08:29:02 -0400
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  can anyone help?

I wasn't home to hear David Kenney celebrating "the life and legacy of
Hildegarde on Sunday,
August 7 over WBAI [removed] in New York from 9:00-11:00PM ET. Along with
her recordings, David will air interviews and performance at Carnegie
Hall in 1986, honoring her 80th Birthday and 60th Year in Show Business.
The program streams at [removed]"

Did anyone tape this show that would be willing to make a copy for me? I'd
love to hear it.

Thanks,
Barbara

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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 08:29:38 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Trivia Question

This should be a no brainer for this list, but what was  Gunsmoke's Doc Adams
birth name?
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 08:29:50 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  8-8 births/deaths

August 8th births

08-08- 1900 - Victor Young - Chicago, IL (Raised: Warsaw, Poland) - d.
11-11-1956
conductor, composer: "Shell Chateau"; "Old Gold Don Ameche Show
08-08-1887 - Malcom Keen - Bristol, England - d. 1-30-1970
actor: "Cavalcade of America"
08-08-1895 - Nat Pendelton - Davenport, IA - d. 10-11-1967
actor: "Dr. Kildare"
08-08-1896 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - Washington, [removed] - d. 12-14-1953
novelist: "Stars in the Air"
08-08-1900 - James Pierce - Freedom, IN - d. 12-11-1983
actor: Tarzan "Tarzan"
08-08-1900 - Robert Siodmak - Memphis, TN - d. 3-10-1973
film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
08-08-1904 - Ray Buffum - d. 12-13-1980
writer, director: "A Man Named Jordan"; "Rogue's Gallery"
08-08-1905 - Nino Martini - Verona, Italy - d. 12-9-1976
singer: "Seven Star Revue"
08-08-1905 - Ross Graham - Benton, AR - d. 1-5-1986
bariton-bass: "Cities Service Concert"; "Show Boat"
08-08-1907 - Benny Carter - New York City, NY - d. 7-12-2003
saxaphonist, songwriter (Professor) "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin
Street"
08-08-1910 - Sylvia Sidney - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-1-1999
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Philip Morris
Playhouse"
08-08-1913 - Axel Stordahl - Staten Island, New  - d. 8-30-1963
conductor: "Songs by Sinatra/Frank Sinatra Show"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Coke
Time"
08-08-1921 - Webb Pierce - West Monroe, LA - d. 2-24-1991
singer: "Louisiana Hayride"
08-08-1922 - Rory Calhoun - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-28-1999
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-08-1923 - Esther Williams - Los Angeles, CA
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Tex and Jinx"
08-08-1926 - Richard Anderson - Long Beach, NJ (Raised: Los Angeles, CA)
actor: "Suspense"
08-08-1937 - Dustin Hoffman - Los Angeles, CA
actor: "Soundstage"

August 8th deaths

01-07-1903 - Alan Napier - Birmingham, England - d. 8-8-1988
actor: "Campbell Playhouse"
02-08-1905 - Henry King - d. 8-8-1974
orchestra leader: "Burns and Allen"
02-08-1941 - Martin Huston - Lexington, KY - d. 8-8-2001
actor: Jeep Allison "My Son Jeep"
04-29-1904 - Russ Morgan - Scranton, PA - d. 8-8-1969
bandleader: (Music in the Morgan Manner) "Russ Morgan Orchestra"
07-19-1914 - Lou Krugman - Passaic, NJ - d. 8-8-1992
actor: Tony Griffin "Romance of Helen Trent"; Ulysses Hink "Dear Mom";
"Gunsmoke"
07-26-1899 - Danton Walker - Marietta, GA - d. 8-8-1960
broadway columnist: "Forty-Five Minutes on Broadway"; "Twin Views of the News"
09-10-1907 - Fay Wray - Alberta, Canada (Raised: SLC, UT & LA, CA) - d.
8-8-2004
actress: Rosemary "Keeping Up with Rosemary"
09-14-1908 - Bernard Green - New York City, NY - d. 8-8-1975
orchestra leader: "The Clock"
09-15-1928 - Cannonball Adderley - Tampa, FL - d. 8-8-1975
jazz saxphonist: "Voices of Vista"
10-07-1896 - Phil Ohman - New Britain, CT - d. 8-8-1954
pianist: "Roxy and His Gang"
12-14-1919 - Shirley Jackson - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-8-1965
writer: "NBC Presents: Short Story"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:27:03 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Frances Langford question

In answer to the Frances Langford recording someone brought up, one of two
possible solutions.

a.  The recording could have been replayed for a AFRS rebroadcast in which
case, when the recording was made and when it aired could have been a
different time.  The AFRS would often take a recording and re-edit it for
later playback for troops stationed overseas and this was a common practice.
b.  The date for the recording is wrong, and use internal evidence give a
more accurate date for the recording.

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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 18:02:25 -0400
From: "erest@[removed]" <erest@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Lum and Abner

I was a little disappointed when no one starting saying the date with
Twenty-ought-oneas we entered the new century.  Always got a smile when
some one would says "Hasn't been this cold since 19 ought four"   I do
sometimes greet people with "Wonderful World" but then I say gobye more
often with "Happy Trails"

Rob

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