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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2005 : Issue 91
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Lucky Strikes [ "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed] ]
Re: Correll's House [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
ted brown [ "Joseph" <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
Eddie Carrol [ OTRadiofan@[removed] (Stuart Lubin) ]
new book re Orson Welles: a review ( [ "HOWARD BLUE" <khovard@[removed]; ]
3-22 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Re: getting in contact [ edcarr@[removed] ]
exceedingly early radio [ BH <radiobill@[removed]; ]
Ted Brown [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:26:52 -0500
From: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Lucky Strikes
I've been watching a lot of old Jack Benny TV shows and have been really
struck by the commercials (which are very similar to the radio show
commerical, giving this post on-topic cover). Specifically, I'm astounded by
all the different slogans and jingles used by Lucky Strike, and how they'd
cram as many of them as possible into one commercial. Slogans/jingles
include:
- LS/MFT
- So round, so firm, so fully packed, so free and easy on the draw.
- It's toasted (to taste better).
- Luckies taste better - cleaner, fresher, smoother.
I'm sure I've missed a couple. Modern advertising seems to take only a
single theme/slogan/jingle in each spot, and it's interesting to compare it
to these Lucky Strike TV/radio commericals that seem to work in every theme
into each spot.
-chris holm
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:27:01 -0500
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Correll's House
On 3/21/05 11:14 AM [removed]@[removed] wrote:
As the house was designed in the 30's for Correll, early radio was
apparently most kind to the "Amos 'n' Andy" star. I would hope the
current buyer respects the property and lights a candle for the great
comedian once in awhile.
I think the most interesting thing about the Holmby Hills house is the
fact that all of the brickwork around the property -- retaining walls,
walkways, patios, etc. -- was laid by Charles Correll himself. As
prosperous as he became over the course of his life, he remained, at
heart, a working-class stonemason from Peoria, and for as long as he
lived he liked nothing better than putting on a pair of overalls and
going out in the yard to lay bricks. Most of this work remains on the
property to this day, including some very attractive tilework made of
Belgian tile which Correll was given during an unpublicized wartime USO
tour.
Elizabeth
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:27:26 -0500
From: "Joseph" <drjoewebb@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: ted brown
ted was also famous for purposely getting drunk on the air on holiday
weekends as a reminder to people to not drink and drive. i don't know how
effective it was, but he seemed to have a good time.
william b williams, who would occasionally jokingly call himself "gulliermo b
gulliermo" had the 10am slot and would have a visit from "the chairman of the
board" which meant he was playing a sinatra record. he was followed in the
afternoon by julius la rosa. funny, arthur godfrey would never be mentioned.
then julie was followed by ted brown in the afternoon. brown was also on wnbc
for a while (which is now wfan, the sports station; wnew is now bloomberg
business news -- the wnew and wnbc am call letters are gone). i think howard
stern replaced ted brown in 1983 on wnbc.
for those who are interested, there is a nice nostalgia site for the old wabc
music station in ny [removed] and also a great site for
cuts of top 40 dj's nationwide at [removed]
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:27:35 -0500
From: OTRadiofan@[removed] (Stuart Lubin)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Eddie Carrol
To those of you who live in the Los Angeles area, Eddie Carrol, the
greatest Jack Benny impersonator ever, will be doing his one man show at
the La Mirada Performing Arts Theater, one day only, Friday, April 8,
2005.
Stuart Lubin
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:27:52 -0500
From: "HOWARD BLUE" <khovard@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: new book re Orson Welles: a review (Part II)
The Medium and the Magician: Orson Welles, the Radio Years, 1934-1952.
(Rowman and Littlefield, 2005) by Paul Heyer (255 pp---- $[removed])
Reviewed by Howard Blue--Part II
(part I of this review appeared in vol. 2005, #90 of the Digest)
Heyer obviously spent many hours listening to tapes of Welles' broadcasts.
His analyses of the shows are often quite insightful. In discussing Welles'
production of Dracula, for example, he writes "The musical segue to [Dr.]
Seward's first speech consists of crashing minor chords accompanied by
chimes. It anticipates the opening sequence of [Citizen] Kane which itself
plays like the introduction to a Gothic horror story."
Heyer does a particularly fine job in showing the continuity of certain
facets of Welles' radio work, for example Welles' masterful use of music and
sound effects. In a passage about an episode of The Shadow, Heyer writes "We
then flash forward to a program of organ music, which is soon interrupted by
news that a doctor has treated the Shadow for a bullet wound . . . then back
to the music, a technique that directly anticipates the first part of the
infamous War of the Worlds broadcast a year later.
Like William Robson, Welles was an innovator with sound. In Les Miserables
which Heyer cites as one of radio's most successful adaptations of a
literary classic, to achieve the right sound of a chase scene through the
sewers of Paris, Welles played the scene in a washroom with the actors at
floor level.
Heyer also makes an interesting contrast between the production of Lux Radio
Theatre and Welles' work. In the Lux productions, there was overt attempt to
give the illusion that radio was transmitting a stage play. "Ladies and
Gentlemen, the curtain is going up," listeners heard from "host" Cecil B.
DeMille. But for Welles, Corwin and other radio greats, radio did not need
to pretend it was merely conveying the work of another medium. No, it
developed its own conventions and was to be accepted in its own right.
As Heyer aptly observes, Welles also transposed to film some important
techniques from radio. Thus the author spends nearly forty pages discussing
Citizen Kane in the light of Welles' learnings about radio, as well as the
relationship between the Mercury Theater and the film.
Some, although not all OTR fans will share my fascination with this
important book. Heyer is an academic and The Medium and the Magician is
more challenging reading than some of the lighter fare aimed at the OTR
hobbyists. But it'snevertheless quite readable. Heyer's discussion of the
Panic Broadcast, for example, was hard to put down, even though I have read
lengthier accounts. A few detailed discussions of some other individual
shows and/or series got a bit tedious. But that was a small price to pay for
the often well-written account of the mutual impact of a unique artistic
genius and the medium of radio.
Some OTR readers of The Medium and the Magician may decry its omission of a
log of shows with which Welles was affiliated. Others, this reviewer
included, would have preferred that Heyer did some of his own interviews for
the book; in particular, although Heyer does briefly discuss the
incomparable Arthur Anderson, a regular at the FOTR Convention in Newark who
worked for Welles beginning when Anderson was 14, he missed the opportunity
to speak to Anderson. But these small complaints aside, Heyer's book has
done broadcasting, Welles, and history a service in publishing The Medium
and the Magician.
[In the interests of full disclosure, I feel the need to mention that
several years ago, Paul Heyer did a review of a book that I wrote. [removed]]
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:35:48 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 3-22 births/deaths
March 22nd births
03-22-1886 - Chico Marx - Yorkville, NY - d. 10-11-1961
comedian: Emmanuel Revelli "Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel"
03-22-1886 - Thomas J, Cowan - Newark, NJ - d. 11-11-1969
announcer: WNYC New York City
03-22-1893 - Tito Vuolo - Italy - d. 9-14-1962
actor: Uncle Carlo "The Goldbergs"
03-22-1895 - Joseph Schildkraut - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-21-1964
actor: "Intrigue"; "Best Plays"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Hollywood
Hotel"
03-22-1913 - James Westerfield - Nashville, TN - d. 9-20-1971
actor: "Mystery Theatre"; "Gunsmoke", "Have Gun,Will Travel"
03-22-1913 - Karl Malden - Chicago, IL
actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Our Gal Sunday"; "Aldrich Family"
03-22-1917 - Virginia Grey - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-31-2004
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-22-1918 - Robert Carroll - NC - d. 11-19-1994
actor: Inspector Mark Sabre "Molle Mystery Theatre"
03-22-1920 - Ross Martin - Grodek, Poland (R; NYC) - d. 7-3-1981
actor: Soap Opera "Janice Grey"
03-22-1924 - Bill Wendell - NYC - d. 4-14-1999
announcer: "Ten Troubled Years"; "Biography In Sound"
03-22-1931 - William Shatner - Montreal, Canada
actor: "The Curse"; "No Love Lost"; "The Secretariat"
March 22nd deaths
06-22-1907 - Mike Todd - Minneapolis, MN - d. 3-22-1958
film producer: "Closing the New York World's Fair"
07-13-1906 - Harry Sosnick - Chicago, IL - d. 3-22-1996
conductor: "Pennzoil Parade"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Beat the Band"
07-17-1915 - Cass Daley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-22-1975
comedienne: "New Fitch Bandwagon"; "Cass Daley Show"; "Maxwell House
Coffee Time"
09-05-1908 - Gloria Holden - London, England - d. 3-22-1991
actress: Janet Archer "Meet Corliss Archer"
10-07-1870 - "Uncle Dave" Macon - Smart Station, TN - d. 3-22-1952
banjo player: "Grand Ole Opry"
10-11-1918 - Olive Deering - NYC - d. 3-22-1986
actress: Nita Bennett "Lone Journey"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:32:44 -0500
From: edcarr@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: getting in contact
hi
i have to use this forum to let everyone know
i am out of the hosp, the operation went well
if i don't contact you please give me a wk
then get back with me and iwill make up with
all who have contacted me.
many thanks
ed
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:34:24 -0500
From: BH <radiobill@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: exceedingly early radio
Mark Kinsler wonders:
Now, I know that the date and place of the first radio broadcast is an
endless subject for discussion, and I'm not concerned with it. What I'd
like to know is the date that the earliest well-known,
presently-broadcasting radio station went on the air and stayed there.
Well for starters, Charles Herrold began transmitting voice from San
Jose in 1909, by 1912 he was maintaining a regular scheduled broadcase.
In 1916 he was assigned the call 6XE which was changed to KQW in 1921
later to become KCBS.
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:40:48 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Ted Brown
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:40:37 -0500
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
I'd like to take this opportunity to comment on and show my
appreciation for the newly deceased Ted Brown, age unreported, who
died yeaterday (20) of long-term complications of a recent stroke.
Was this the same Ted Brown who, as "Bison Bill," hosted the Howdy Doody show
for
several months while Buffalo Bob Smith was recovering from a heart attack?
--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed] [removed]
15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2503 [removed]
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