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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2011 : Issue 142
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
9-6 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
9-7 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Old Time Radio Club Of Buffalo [ John Olsen <jrolsen2@[removed]; ]
9-8 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Ronald Reagan and Radio [ Brian Johnson <chyronop@[removed] ]
Re: Making old radio programs more " [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
RE: A remarkable achievement [ "Paula Keiser" <pkeiser1@[removed]; ]
RE: Don Dean [ Kathleen Dean <kayteedean@[removed] ]
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 22:11:39 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 9-6 births/deaths
September 6th births
09-06-1881 - Charlie Dale - NYC - d. 11-16-1971
comedian: (Smith and Dale) "Al Jolson"; "Kate Smith"
09-06-1885 - Otto Kruger - Toledo, OH - d. 9-6-1974
actor: "Nobody's Children"
09-06-1888 - Joseph P. Kennedy - East Boston, MA - d. 11-18-1969
ambassador to Great Britain: "Ambassador Joseph Kennedy"
09-06-1889 - John Charles Thomas - Meyersdale, PA - d. 12-13-1960
singer: "John Charles Thomas Program"; "Westinghouse Program"
09-06-1889 - Louis Silvers - NYC - d. 3-26-1954
music director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-06-1894 - Billy Mills - Flint, MI - d. 10-20-1971
conductor: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Great Gildersleeve"; "Amos 'n'
Andy"
09-06-1899 - Billy Rose - NYC - d. 2-10-1966
creator-stager: "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"
09-06-1900 - Charles Kemper - Oklahoma Territory - d. 5-12-1950
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
09-06-1901 - Joseph Vitale - NYC - d. 6-5-1994
actor: "Great Plays"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
09-06-1902 - Morgan Beatty - Little Rock, AR - d. 7-4-1975
newscaster: "News of the World"
09-06-1904 - Maxie Rosenbloom - NYC - d. 3-6-1976
light heavyweight boxing champion, actor: "Slapsie Maxie Show"
09-06-1904 - Mildred Baker - Atlanta, GA - d. unknown
actor: "Roses and Drums"; "Cavalcade of America"; "By Kathleen Norris"
09-06-1904 - Ted Royal Dewar - Skedee, Oklahoma Territory - d. 3-27-1981
orchestrator: "Wayne King and His Orchestra"; Ted Weems and His
Orchestra"
09-06-1908 - Paul Lavalle - Beacon, NY - d. 6-24-1997
conductor: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"; "Dinah Shore
Show"
09-06-1909 - Michael Gordon - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-29-1993
film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
09-06-1911 - Eleazar Lipsky - d. 2-14-1993
district attorney, writer: "Indictment"
09-06-1914 - Ken Vogt - Wisconsin - d. 10-10-2002
disk jockey: WMIL; WFOX; WRIT Milwaukee, Wisconsin
09-06-1915 - Kleve Kirby - d. 3-5-1949
actor: John Murray "Today's Children"
09-06-1916 - Marie Green - Antrim, NH
vocalist: "Everything Goes"; "Hobby Lobby"; "Alec Templeton Time"
09-06-1917 - John Berry - The Bronx, NY - d. 11-29-1999
director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
09-06-1918 - Jay Stewart - Summitville, IN - d. 9-17-1989
announcer: "Great Gildersleeve"; "Hollywood Barn Dance"; "Spotlight on
Music"
09-06-1919 - John Mitchum - Bridgeport, CT - d. 11-27-2001
actor: (Brother of Robert Mitchum) "This Is Your FBI"
09-06-1925 - Jimmy Reed - Dunleith, MS - d. 8-29-1976
blues singer, guitarist, harmonica playere: "One Night Stand"
09-06-1927 - Waring Jones - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-10-2008
announcer: Armed Forces Radio
09-06-1930 - Bernard Jaffe - d. 8-2-1993
science writer: "Information, Please"
09-06-1934 - Jody McCrea - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-4-2009
host" Armed Forces Radio Channel
09-06-1939 - Ray Barfield - Thomasville, GA
producer, host: "Shakespeare Scene by Scene"
September 6th deaths
01-22-1914 - Dick Willard - d. 9-6-2000
announcer, emcee: "The Strange Dr. Weird"; "Take it Easy Time"
02-07-1903 - Graeme Lorimer - Wyncote, PA - d. 9-6-1983
writer: "Maudie's Diary"
02-09-1914 - Ernest Tubb - Crisp, TX - d. 9-6-1984
singer: (The Texas Troubador) "Grand Ole Opry"
02-15-1910 - Vladimir Selinsky - Kiev, Russia - d. 9-6-1984
music: "The Doctor Fights"; "The FBI in Peace and War"; "The Electric
Theatre"
03-05-1881 - Toby Gremmer - Bainbridge, GA - d. 9-6-1981
actor: Hermit "The Hermit's Cave"
03-23-1910 - Akira Kurosawa, Tokyo, Japan - d. 9-6-1998
film director: NHK Tokyo, Japan
05-04-1886 - Shelton Brooks - Amesburg, Ontario - d. 9-6-1975
composer, author, pianist: "Cavalcade of Music"
06-27-1911 - Dr. Jay Morton - Hollywood, CA - d. 9-6-2003
Best know for the catchphrase "Look; up in the sky, etc." on "Superman"
07-04-1900 - Gertrude Lawrence - London, England - d. 9-6-1952
singer, actor: "Royal Gelatin Hour"; "Campbell Playhouse"; "Radio
Reader's Digest"
07-11-1914 - Tommy Bartlett - Milwaukee, WI - d. 9-6-1998
emcee: "Welcome Travlers"
07-18-1918 - Jane Frazee - Duluth, MN - d. 9-6-1985
vaudeville act with sister
09-06-1885 - Otto Kruger - Toledo, OH - d. 9-6-1974
actor: "Nobody's Children"
09-07-1908 - Max Kaminsky - Brockton, MA - d. 9-6-1994
jazz musician: :This Is Jazz"
09-26-1875 - Edmund Gwenn - Glamorgan, Wales - d. 9-6-1959
actor: Ebenezer Scrooge "Christmas Carol"; "Lux Radio Theatre
10-02-1909 - Alexander Raymond - New Rochelle - d. 9-6-1956
cartoonist: Created Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim
10-12-1935 - Luciano Pavarotti - Modena, Italy - d. 9-6-2007
tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"
11-14-1920 - Johnny Desmond - Detroit, MI - d. 9-6-1985
singer: "I Sustain the Wings"; "Philip Morris Frolics"; "Songs for Sale"
Ron
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 22:12:05 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 9-7 births/deaths
September 7th births
09-07-1886 - Alan Devitt - d. 1-28-1955
actor: "Famous Jury Trial"; "The March of Time"
09-07-1888 - Alec Harford - London, England - d. 3-31-1955
actor: "Escape"; "NBC University Theatre"; "Romance"
09-07-1891 - Roscoe Karns - San Bernadino, CA - d. 2-6-1970
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
09-07-1900 - Emerson Treacy - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-10-1967
actor: Fred Thompson "One Man's Family"
09-07-1903 - Margaret Landon - Somers, WI - d. 12-4-1993
author: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-07-1903 - Milton Brown - Stephenville, TX - d. 4-13-1936
singer: "The Musical Brownies"
09-07-1905 - Ivy Maude Baker Priest - Kimberly, UT - d. 6-23-1975
treasurer of the united states: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
09-07-1907 - Johnny McAfee - d. 10-18-1982
vocalist: (Harry James Band) "Chesterfield Time"
09-07-1908 - Max Kaminsky - Brockton, MA - d. 9-6-1994
jazz musician: :This Is Jazz"
09-07-1908 - Paul Brown - Norwalk, OH - d. 8-5-1991
football coach: "Greatest Sports Thrills"
09-07-1909 - Elia Kazan - Constantinople, Turkey - d. 9-28-2003
film director, actor: "Free Company"; "Philip Morris Playhouse"
09-07-1910 - Don Ried - d. 9-16-1996
vocalist: "The Jack Kirkwood Show"
09-07-1913 - Anthony Quayle - Ainsdale, England - d. 10-20-1989
actor: Guest Panelist "[removed]"
09-07-1918 - Al Christy - Kansas City, KS - d. 3-3-1995
started his career in radio
09-07-1919 - Louise Bennett - Kingston, Jamaica - d. 7-26-2006
poet, folklorist: commented on social matters as Aunty Roachy
09-07-1920 - Mende Brown - d. 2-2-2002
director: "The Affairs of Peter Salem"
09-07-1921 - Art Ferrante - NYC - d. 9-19-2009
pianist: (Ferrante and Teicher) "The Zero Hour"; "Hollywood Radio
Theatre"
09-07-1923 - Peter Lawford - London, England - d. 12-24-1984
actor: "Radio Reader's Digest"; "Suspense"
09-07-1927 - Don Messick - Buffalo, NY - d. 10-24-1997
actor: "Let George Do It"; "Horizons West"; "NBC University Theatre"
09-07-1929 - [removed] McKenna - Mullagh, Ireland - d. 2-13-2011
actor: "Ballylenon"
09-07-1930 - Sonny Rollins - Harlem, NY
jazz saxophonist: "White House Jazz Festival"
09-07-1936 - Buddy Holly - Lubbock, TX - d. 2-3-1959
singer: "Sunday Party"; "Buddy and Bob Show"
September 7th deaths
01-04-1896 - Everett Dirksen - Pekin, IL - d. 9-7-1969
[removed] senator: "Meet the Press"; "American Forum on the Air"
03-15-1916 - Frank Coghlan, Jr. - New Haven, CT - d. 9-7-2009
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Doctor Christian"
03-29-1919 - Robert Enders - Pennsylvania - d. 9-7-2007
producer: "Our Land Be Right"
05-04-1923 - Godfrey Quigley - Jerusalem - d. 9-7-1994
producer: "The Kennedys of Castleross"
05-18-1912 - John Campbell Crosby - Milwaukee, WI - d. 9-7-1991
radio critic: New York Herald Tribune
05-20-1934 - Ken Boyer - Liberty, MO - d. 9-7-1982
baseball player: "Tops in Sports"
05-29-1911 - Vivi Janiss - Nebraska - d. 9-7-1988
actor: (Married to John Larch) Kit Calvert "Aunt Mary"
06-06-1917 - Maria Montez - Barahona, Dominican Republic - d. 9-7-1951
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-20-1924 - Billie Lou Watt - St. Louis, MO - d. 9-7-2001
actor: "Land of the Free"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
07-29-1892 - Horace Braham - London, England - d. 9-7-1955
actor: Charles Lang "Wendy Warren and the News"; Ernest Benning "Big
Sister"
09-14-1918 - Mike Stokey - Shreveport, LA - d. 9-7-2003
announcer: "One Night Stand"
09-24-1900 - Ham Fisher - Wilkes-Barre, PA - d. 9-7-1955
cartoonist: (Creator of Joe Palooka) "Raleigh Room"; "Philco Radio Time"
09-26-1889 - Frank Crumit - Jackson, OH - d. 9-7-1943
singer, emcee: "Blackstone Plantation"; "Battle of the Sexes";
"Singing Sweethearts"
10-13-1900 - Georgia Backus - Columbus, OH - d. 9-7-1983
actor: Peg Riley "Life of Riley"; Portia Brent "Brenthouse"; Doris
Foster "A Date with Judy"
10-17-1893 - Spring Byington - Colorado Springs, CO - d. 9-7-1971
actor: Lily Ruskin "December Bride"
11-07-1906 - Red Ingle - Toledo, OH - d. 9-7-1965
vocalist: (Spike Jones and his City Slickers) "The Spike Jones Show"
11-27-1890 - Gladys Rice - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-7-1983
singer: "Roxy's Gang"; "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Voice of
Firestone"
12-17-1900 - Norman Cloutier - Hartford, CT - d. 9-7-1962
orchestra leader: "Cloutier Calling"; "Cosmopolitan Melodies"
12-20-1920 - Dennis Morgan - Prentice, WI - d. 9-7-1994
actor, singer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Screen Guild
Theatre"
Ron
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 22:13:12 -0400
From: John Olsen <jrolsen2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Old Time Radio Club Of Buffalo
Is the "Old Time Radio Club Of Buffalo" still around? I've found their
web-site ( [removed] ) missing. An email to their
president (Jerry Collins) went unanswered (after a dozen days).
Do I have the right person as president? Do I have the right web-site
address? Can someone give me current contact information? Google has
let me [removed] hopefully some reader here can help.
John
--
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"
The wonderful old pulp mystery stories are all reviewed at:
[removed]~deshadow/
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 22:13:19 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 9-8 births/deaths
September 8th births
09-08-1877 - Bide Dudley - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-4-1944
drama critic: "Around Little 'Ol Broadway"
09-08-1889 - Robert A. Taft - Cincinnati, OH - d. 7-31-1953
us senator: "American Forum of the Air"; "The People's Platform"
09-08-1896 - Howard Dietz - NYC - d. 7-30-1983
song lyricist: "The Gibson Family"
09-08-1897 - Jimmie Rodgers - Meridian, MS - d. 5-26-1933
singer: "The Singing Brakeman"
09-08-1902 - Milton Watson - Salinas, CA - d. 1-2-1982
vocalist: "Burns and Allen"
09-08-1902 - Welcome Lewis - d. 3-25-1999
singer: "Singo"; "The Singing Bee"
09-08-1905 - Henry Wilcoxon - Dominica, West Indies - d. 3-6-1984
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-08-1906 - Orlo Bagley - d. 7-2-1986
sportscaster: KOMB Cottage Grove, Oregon
09-08-1907 - Eleanor Phelps - Baltimore, MD - d. 9-29-2001
actor: Susan Chandler "Life and Loves of Doctor Susan"
09-08-1907 - Tom McAvity - d. 10-1-1972
producer, director: "A Date with Judy"; "Rudy Vallee Show"; "The Saint"
09-08-1908 - John Griggs - Chesterfield, SC - d. 2-25-1967
actor: Capt. Randy Claymore of the Confederacy "Roses and Drums"
09-08-1910 - Joe Bolton - Flushing, NY - d. 8-13-1986
announcer: "The 1937 Radio Show"
09-08-1911 - Christine Johnson - Hopkinsville, KY - d. 6-9-2010
singer, actress: "The Squibb Show"
09-08-1913 - Patricia 'Honeychile' Wilder - Macon, GA - d. 8-11-1995
actor: "Maxwell House Showboat"; "Atlantic Family"; [removed] Jive"
09-08-1914 - Hillary Brooke - Astoria, NY - d. 5-25-1999
actor: "Suspense"
09-08-1915 - Frank Cady - Susanville, CA
actor: "Gunsmoke"
09-08-1921 - Harry Secombe - Swansea, Wales - d. 4-12-2001
comedian: Neddie Seagoon "Goon Show"
09-08-1922 - Sid Caesar - Yonkers, NY
comedian: "Voice of the Army"; "Tex and Jinx Show"
09-08-1925 - Peter Sellers - London, England - d. 7-24-1980
comedian: Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, Major Dennis Bloodnok, others
"Goon Show"
09-08-1932 - Patsy Cline - Gore, VA - d. 3-5-1963
country singer: "Country Hoedown"; "Grand Ole Opry"
September 8th deaths
01-03-1898 - Freddie Rich - Warsaw, Poland - d. 9-8-1956
bandleader: "Friendly Five Footnotes"; "Freddie Rich's Penthouse Party"
02-28-1915 - Zero Mostel - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-8-1977
comedian: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
05-18-1932 - Walter Anglin - d. 9-8-2001
disk jockey: WJLD Birmingham, Alabama
05-28-1919 - Frank Middlemass - Stockton-on-Tees, England - d. 9-8-2006
actor: "Too the Manor Born"
06-18-1908 - Clayton "Bud" Collyer - NYC - d. 9-8-1969
actor, announcer: Clark Kent/Superman "Advs. of Superman"; "Cavalcade
of America"
09-30-1922 - Oscar Pettiford - Okmulgee, OK - d. 9-8-1960
jazz composer, bass player: "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Esquire Jazz
Concert"
10-09-1905 - Norman Gottschalk - Chicago, IL - d. 9-8-1979
actor: Joe Palooka "Joe Palooka": "Captain Midnight"
10-10-1870 - J. V. Barborka - Bohemia, Austria - d. 9-8-1936
harpist: KMA Shenandoah, Iowa
11-09-1922 - Dorothy Dandridge - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-8-1965
actor, writer: "Beulah Show"
11-27-1882 - Norman Baker - Muscatine, IL - d. 9-8-1958
vaudevillian: "Mr. Baker Himself"
12-06-1913 - Oswald Hoffman - Nebraska - d. 9-8-2005
preacher: "The Lutheran Hour"
Ron
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 22:17:27 -0400
From: Brian Johnson <chyronop@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Ronald Reagan and Radio
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Ron Sayles assertions that Ronald Reagan's role in radio was pedestrian and
therefore undeserving of a Hall of Fame nod is demonstrates little knowledge
of the role radio played in getting Reagan the Presidency. Between 1975 and
1979 Reagan recorded over 600 radio commentaries that were syndicated to 286
stations throughout the United States.
These commentaries, all written by Reagan himself in longhand, now form the
basis of a historically important book, "Reagan, in His Own Hand" and the
companion CD, "In His Own Voice."
Furthermore, it was President Reagan who, in 1982, introduced the concept of
the weekly Presidential Radio Address that has been continued by all four of
his successors. And whether one agrees or disagrees with his policies and
politics, Reagan's appointment of Mark Fowler as Chairman of the FCC and his
insistence on backing the Chairman's elimination of the Fairness Doctrine may
well have saved AM radio as a viable medium.
Besides, it's not the Old Time Radio Hall of Fame, it's the RADIO Hall of
Fame. And there, with fellow inductee Franklin D. Roosevelt, politics gets
checked at the door.
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 22:23:02 -0400
From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Making old radio programs more "accessible"
Hello again (after a long absence) --
While I too marvel at the time that was taken, even with a computer
animating program , for Toyuki 1 to complete the entire "My Favorite
Husband" episode, and while it may be a novelty to see one of these programs
made visible by adding sight to sound, I have to argue, with no hard
feelings please, that this cartoon doesn't help a new generation discover
the charm of old radio programs; au contraire, it helps them further
appreciate the charm of cartoons! Once animation has been added, the Lucille
Ball program no longer suggests images to the listener; it tells them what
to see.
I suspect that the charm of many old radio programs, for me and for many of
the OTRists out there, was the very lack of visual elements -- that each
person listening to a radio show imagined their own version of what each
actor looked like based on their voice, the so-called "theater of the mind."
Of course, we already knew what Lucille Ball and Richard Denning looked
like, so that much had been a "given" for us. But there was another
difference between the sound track to a cartoon and the flow of a radio
program: the actors on radio had to tell you somehow, with dialogue or sound
effects, what they were doing when they walked across a room, when they
kissed goodbye, when they had to explain that they were knitting because
there was no way to know this from the audio alone. Once we see Lucy
knitting, her dialogue has no need to describe the action!
I don't think that animated cartoons based on radio dialogue is the way to
win a new generation of enthusiasts for the golden age of radio. To
appreciate the old programs, the newbies have to listen to them free of the
distractions of visual elements, in other words, just as they were
originally broadcasted fifty or sixty years ago. To add animation to the
radio dialogue deprives the listener of a very important parameter: the full
use of his/her visual imagination.
One added note: Where radio dialogue is concerned, I like to contrast
Shakespeare's plays to those of Harold Pinter (whose "Homecoming" is playing
in NYC at this very minute): Shakespeare translates very well to radio
because, lacking scenery and many of the necessary props in his plays, his
characters had to explain what they were doing -- much as a radio program's
actors did. The BBC's production of "King Lear" with John Guilgud many years
ago was a great example. Harold Pinter's many "pregnant pauses," and his use
of mime, or stage movement where no dialogue occurs. in contrast, would have
been totally useless, confusing, and meaningless if used as the dialogue of
a radio program.
yOurs TRuly,
Jan Bach
Editor: you may wish to shorten this response somewhat.
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 22:27:52 -0400
From: "Paula Keiser" <pkeiser1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: RE: A remarkable achievement
That([removed])was probably the most
remarkable adaptation of OTR I have ever seen! Thanks to you, Tate, for
guiding us to it.
Paula Keiser
Topeka, KS
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 22:28:58 -0400
From: Kathleen Dean <kayteedean@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: RE: Don Dean
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My dear husband Don Dean (ORCATS) passed away on August 30, 2011. He was a
big OTR fan and attended many of the conventions both in OH and NJ. We miss
him greatly. You may check out his obit at:
[removed] Love you sweetheart.
Kathleen Dean
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