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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 201
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
      Harveytoons                           [ Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@yahoo. ]
      Collecting in the early [removed]        [ "Michael Muderick" <michael@muderic ]
      Re: Harveytoons                       [ "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed]; ]
      Re: Harveytoons!                      [ Ljk2476@[removed] ]
      Ellery Queen in Baltimore             [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Collecting                            [ "Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed]; ]
      Collecting & trading [removed]           [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
      Sniffles?                             [ illoman@[removed] ]
      Blondie music                         [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      July 9th births/deaths                [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Re: The Way You Look Tonight          [ "Irene Theodore Heinstein" <IreneTH ]
      Sniffles the Mouse                    [ "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 08:55:59 -0400
    From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME 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" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."  Streamed in high-quality audio,
    on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
    Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
    [removed]
    =======================================

    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    PHIL HARRIS-ALICE FAYE SHOW
    Episode 39    6-26-49    "Concerned About Contract Renewal"
    NBC REXALL DRUGS
    Sundays 7:30 - 8:00 pm
    STARS: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Elliott Lewis, Walter Tetley, Jeanine Rose,
    Anne Whitfield
    PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Paul Phillips
    MUSIC: Walter Scharf Orchestra
    ANNOUNCER: Bill Forman

    THE JACK BENNY SHOW
    "THE JELL-O PROGRAM"
    Episode 1    10-4-36    "Phil Harris Introduced"
    NBC RED - 60 Stations JELL-O
    Sundays 7:00 - 7:30pm
    ANNOUNCER: Don Wilson
    ORCHESTRA LEADER: Phil Harris
    CAST: Mary Livingstone

    LUX RADIO THEATER
    Episode 266    06-03-40    "Alexander's Ragtime Band"
    Stars: Alice Faye, Ray Milland, Robert Preston Herbert Marshall
    Host: Cecil B. DeMille
    CBS LUX Soap

    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    DIMENSION X
    CBS NBC 4/8/50 "The Outer Limit"

    DUFFY'S TAVERN
    BLUE 3/7/44 Stars: Ed Gardner welcomes Guest: Colonel Stoopnagle.

    RADIO PREVIEWS THE MOVIES
    We continue with the year 1935 and the MGM "Leo Is On The Air" preview of
    the historic film, "Mutiny on the Bounty" w/Charles Laughton/ C. Gable.

    ====================================

    THE GLOWING DIAL

    Lux Radio Theatre - "So Proudly We Hail"
    originally aired November 1, 1943 on CBS
    Starring: Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts,
    Les Tremayne, Regina Wallace, Catherine Craig, Trudy Morrison, Dorothy
    Scott, Marjorie Davies, Fred MacKaye, Leo Cleary, Boyd Davis, Charles Seel,
    Norman Field, Howard McNear, Ed Emerson.  John Milton Kennedy announcing.
    Cecil B. DeMille hosting.
    Based on the Paramount film directed by Mark Sandrich.
    Sponsor: Lux Soap

    Cal Stewart as Uncle Josh Weathersby in "The Fourth Of July At Pun'kin
    Center"
    originally released July, 1911
    on Edison Amberol Cylinder 4M-734

    Cal Stewart as Uncle Josh Weathersby in "Uncle Josh At The Statue Of
    Liberty"
    originally released in 1898
    probably on a Berliner 7" Disc

    Lux Radio Theatre - "Salute To The Marines"
    originally aired November 8, 1943 on CBS
    Starring: Wallace Beery, Fay Bainter, Noah Beery, Keye Luke, Louise Arthur,
    Alex Havier, Charlie Lung, Robert Harris, Paula Winslowe, Tommy Cook, Dix
    Davis, Fred MacKaye, Charles Seel, Stanley Farrar, Jack Mather, Ed Emerson,
    Howard McNear, Cliff Arnett, Tyler McVey, Eddie Marr.  John Milton Kennedy
    announcing.  Cecil B. DeMille hosting.
    Based on the MGM film directed by S. Sylvan Simon.
    Sponsor: Lux Soap

    ==================================

    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, 8 Jul 2007 10:47:27 -0400
    From: Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Harveytoons

    That H with the jack in the box that you remember
    wasn't on the cartoons when they were originally
    released into theaters.  That was added when Paramount
    sold the cartoons to Harvey for TV airings.  As far as
    I'm concerned, the one good thing about the set is
    that it contains the proper openings, and I can
    finally get rid of many of my old Harvey prints of
    these cartoons.

    The other cartoons you're thinking of involve
    Sniffles.  They were released by Warner Brothers.

    Rodney

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:06:31 -0400
    From: "Michael Muderick" <michael@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Collecting in the early [removed]

    I remember trading with Allen Rockford, in Syracuse, NY.   We established
    contact a couple of years after I got my masters in 1969, TV-Radio at
    Syracuse- around 71-72.   His company was Double-R-Radio.  I still have his
    catalogs; we traded alot.  Unfortunately he was very ill at that time, and I
    heard that he passed away.  I have a number of other catalogs from that era
    as well- I was into collecting 16 mm films; Blackhawk films was a major
    player at that time.

    Michael Muderick

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:07:11 -0400
    From: "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed];
    To: Old-Time Radio Mailing List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Harveytoons

    On 08-Jul-07 at 7:32am -0700, <pasttense_78@[removed]; wrote:

     > That H with the jack in the box that you remember
     > wasn't on the cartoons when they were originally
     > released into [removed]

    Well, I never SAW the cartoon in [removed]

     > ...That was added when Paramount sold the cartoons
     > to Harvey for TV airings.

    And that's just where I saw them: on [removed]!   :)

     > As far as I'm concerned, the one good thing about
     > the set is that it contains the proper [removed]

    By which you mean "with the Paramount logo on them"?
    If so, thanks for the warning!   :)

     > The other cartoons you're thinking of involve
     > Sniffles. They were released by Warner Brothers.

    "Sniffles" -- I recall, but vaguely! Strange that
    it should be a WB cartoon, though; from what I
    can recall it doesn't seem to be the WB style
    (compare Bugs Bunny).

    Speaking whereof -- can you explain the sudden
    dearth -- nay, complete and total ABSENCE --
    of Warner Brothers cartoons on [removed] lately? I
    haven't seen a Bugs Bunny cartoon in AGES!!!

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:08:06 -0400
    From: Ljk2476@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Harveytoons!
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    My old animation teacher - the late Gordon Sheehan - told me that he did  the
    animation for the Paramount "Noveltoon" jack-in-the-box that an animator for
    HARVEYTOONS re-worked into their logo for the reissued cartoons from the
    '60s.  The "Noveltoon" cartoons came out in the early 1940s, and Gordon
    believed
    this  was one of the last things he animated before leaving the studio c.
    1943.
    He  worked under Dave Tendlar's unit at the time, but worked for Wilard
    Bowsky's  unit - beginning sometime about 1934 to the time Bowsky enisted in
    World
    War II  and was killed in the infamous "Battle of the Bulge" in Europe. He
    loved working  for the Fleischer brothers (despite the growing feud between
    Max
    and Dave  Fleischer), but his enthusiasm drained as the studio became Famous
    Studio and  the high level of creativity became dulled, and the animators
    cranked out more  and more "formula" cartoons as the years went by.

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:08:30 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Ellery Queen in Baltimore

    An ameatur Ellery Queen radio drama will be dramatized on stage at a
    convention specializing in "stage performers" towards the end of July.  The
    performance is part of many events that is NOT open for the public.  To
    attend you have to be a member of the society (and the annual fee is
    expensive).  I will be attending as my father is a member of the society, so
    anyone within driving distance who wants to attend and watch the
    performance, drop me a line and I will tell my father I'm bringing a
    "guest."  They do allow "guests" of society members.  Date if I am not
    mistaken is July 25, Wednesday late-afternoon/early evening.
    Martin

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:08:52 -0400
    From: "Bill Scherer" <bspro@[removed];
    To: ""old-time radio digest">" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Collecting

    Hi all,
    Bill Scherer here and I thought I'd chime in on my collecting beginnings.
    I started collecting in the 70's when I was in 9 or 10th grade.  My interest
    started when I was in 3rd or 4th
    grade while I was attending the North Dakota State School for the Blind.  Our
    local University station, KFJM
    in Grand Forks North Dakota, ran Theater 5.
    It came on at 6 PM and our study hall was at 6:15. I had to miss a lot of
    endings since the show ended at
    6:20 or I walked V
    E E R Y slowly with my transistor in my shirt pocket and an earphone in my
    left ear.
    I wonder how many times I got in to trouble because I was 5 minutes late.  <g>
    I loved that show.  Our local CBS affiliat carried Hous Party and the Godfrey
    show but it wasn't the same as
    hearing actual stories dramatized. Then somewhere in the next few years on
    Mutual I heard the adds for the
    Longine disks.  I seem to remember that the first set I heard about was about
    $14 and I asked my parents
    to get them for me for my birthday.  It didn't happen.
    I have such a vivid memory of those adds because they were always on the 9:30
    PM Mutual Newscasts.  I
    would tune in just hoping to hear the adds so I could hear Molly say, "don't
    open that door Mcgee!" Then
    when I was in high school, the Teem Electronics Store down the street from me
    started carrying the
    cassettes from Radio Reruns, I believe.
    The thought of actually trading shows never occurred to me since I didn't
    have money to buy enough to
    trade.  My Friend Steve and I got hooked though.  Then we discovered that
    KFJM was running a show
    playing OTR on Sundays hosted by the Chairman of the history department.
    It didn't take me long to get up the courage
    to call his office and talk with him about where he got all his shows.  He
    gave me a catalog from a dealer
    who's name I can't remember anymore.  I think that it was out of Washington
    state.
    Wow! I could buy whole reels of shows instead of paying $5 or $6 for 2 shows.
    Plus the good Professor was also willing to lend me tapes and also let me go
    to the OTR mini courses he
    taught at the University for free.
    When I got in to college I was a Speech major with an emphasis in broadcasting.
    While I was there they needed someone to engineer Doctor Tweeton's show.
    Well I made sure that that guy
    was me.
    Well this has gone on way too long, but that's how I got started.  My jids
    love it too.
    Bill

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:09:26 -0400
    From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Collecting & trading [removed]

        I suppose I got started collecting old time radio by accident.  I
    borrowed tape recorders from early 1950s until I bought my own in about
    1966.  My first interest was in getting symphony concerts off the air.
    Sometimes I borrowed a Wilcox-Gay Recordio disc recorder, and sometimes it
    was a WebCor tape recorder from school.  First attempts were pretty poor,
    using a microphone in front of the radio speaker.  Had no patch cord.  The
    Recordio allowed me to record directly off the air, but by then my home disc
    recorder (bought from Allied) was in service, but the connection was poor --
    and the results were mostly surface noise.  After buying my Lafayette tape
    recorder, the results were better.  Still have some of the reels I recorded.
    Fast forward from 1966 to 1994.  That's when I bought my first computer.  I
    was connected to Prodigy at high expense.  Located "old time radio" on one
    of their sites and discovered that people actually traded cassettes and
    reels!  I had been keeping a catalog of sorts on recipe cards, and one day I
    discovered something called a "database."  What a discovery!  Now I could
    catalog and keep track of as many shows as a reel or a cassette would hold.
    I was in seventh heaven!  In those days, I either printed out my short
    catalog or put it on a floppy and exchanged catalogs with other traders.
    Prodigy was too expensive, so when I got my next computer, I got a local
    server that gave me cheap access to the internet.  Another revelation:  I
    could now send my catalog over email to other traders.  What started out as
    a catalog of a few hundred titles has now grown into a collection of 7000+
    titles.  That doesn't include some cassettes and CDs yet to be cataloged.  I
    traded furiously!  Over time my trading has slowed down.  But I still
    consider myself a collector and a trader of "real radio" -- "old time
    radio."  Part of my catalog includes several copies of the same title -- in
    an attempt to get better and better sound quality.
    I have offered my cassettes to the local state university.  The library
    director has accepted my gift.  I'll start gradually taking my tapes to that
    library.  I insisted that these cassettes be made available to the students
    and faculty.  Just to make sure we understood each other, I recalled to the
    director the fate of the large collection of Fred Allen recordings that
    still languish at the Boston Public Library.

    Ted Kneebone / 1528 S. Grant St. / Aberdeen, SD 57401
    [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:10:04 -0400
    From: illoman@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Sniffles?

>     Dost happen to remember
>     a series of cartoons where the main characters were a very naive and
>     talkative mouse (who I'm pretty sure wore a cap) with a (non-speaking)
>     worm companion, who always seemed to be meeting up with a hungry owl or
>     similar predator?

    Glenn, you may be referring to Sniffles, the Chuck Jones creation. I recall a
    couple episodes, one where he met the worm (who may have been a book worm)
    and they had adventures with various characters from Literature.

    The other episode I recall is a very warm Christmas show with Sniffles trying
    very hard to stay awake to meet Santa. It has always been one of my
    favorites.

    As far as where to obtain them, I'm not sure. I recorded a couple off TCM a
    while back.

    Mike

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 22:37:26 -0400
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Blondie music

    This should be easy for somebody.  I'm desperately in need of the name of
    the piece (or pieces) of music which opened and closed "Blondie" on radio.
    It came right after "uh-uh-uh ... don't touch that dial ...."  Can anybody
    help a desperate man?  Today?  I surely would be grateful if you'd zip it to
    me.  If you can provide composer's name(s) that would be even better.  I
    really need this as quickly as possible.  Thanks for trying, folks!

    Jim Cox
    otrbuff@[removed]

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 22:37:34 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  July 9th births/deaths

    July 9th births

    07-09-1878 - Hans Von  "[removed]" Kaltenborn - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-14-1965
    commentator: "Current Events"; "Editing the News"
    07-09-1881 - Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel - Stillwater, MN - d. 1-13-1936
    emcee: "Roxy's Gang"; "Roxy Revue"
    07-09-1894 - Alan Lipscott - d. 11-20-1961
    writer: "The Life of Riley"
    07-09-1894 - Dorothy Thompson - Lancaster, NY - d. 1-30-1961
    commentator: "Commentary"
    07-09-1901 - Jester Hairston - Belews, NC - d. 1-18-2000
    calypso singer: King Moses "Bold Venture"
    07-09-1907 - Eddie Dean - Posey, TX - d. 3-4-1999
    actor: Larry Burton "Modern Cinderella"
    07-09-1910 - Alfred Kreymborg - NYC - d. 7-2-1991
    writer: "The Columbia Workshop"
    07-09-1912 - John McQuade - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 9-21-1979
    actor: Charlie Wild "Charlie Wild, Private Detective"; Steve Lansing
    "Our Gal Sunday"
    07-09-1915- Joan Tompkins - d. 1-29-2005
    actor: Nora Drake "This Is Nora Drake"; Siri Allen "Against the Storm"
    07-09-1917 - Kay Aldredge - Tallahassee, FL - d. 1-12-1995
    actor: "Maxwell House Coffee Time"
    07-09-1917 - Ted Steele - Hartford, CT - d. 10-15-1985
    bandleader: "Ted Steele's Studio Club"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
    07-09-1925 - Alan Dale - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-20-2002
    singer, actor: "Sing It Again"
    07-09-1927 - Ed Ames - Malden, MA
    singer,: (Ames Brothers) "Sing It Again"; "Robert Q. Lewis Show"
    07-09-1955 - Mia Dillon - Colorado
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    July 9th deaths

    02-13-1900 - Wingy Manone - New Orleans, LA - d. 7-9-1982
    orchestra leader: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Young Man with a Band"
    02-16-1904 - James Baskett - Indianapolis, IN - d. 7-9-1948
    actor: Gabby Gibson "Amos 'n' Andy"
    02-22-1905 - Robert Weede - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-9-1972
    singer: "Great Moments in Music"; "For America We Sing"
    03-19-1891 - Earl Warren - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-9-1974
    governor, supreme court justice: "Edgar bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    05-30-1901 - Cornelia Otis Skinner - Chicago, IL - d. 7-9-1979
    actor: Mary "Johnny Presents"
    06-06-1902 - Paul W. White - Pittsburg, KS - d. 7-9-1955
    Organized CBS New Bureau; Vice president of CBS News
    08-03-1894 - Harry Heilmann - San Francisco, CA - d. 7-9-1951
    sportscaster: WXYZ Detroit
    08-22-1930 - Don Parcher - d. 7-9-2006
    newscaster: WTMJ Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    10-20-1911 - Will Rogers, Jr. - NYC - d. 7-9-1993
    actor: Will Rogers "Rogers of the Gazette"
    11-16-1911 - Sonny Dunham - Brockton, MA - d. 7-9-1990
    trumpeter, bandleader: "One Night Stand"; "Spotlight Bands"
    11-26-1912 - Eric Sevareid - Velva, ND - d. 7-9-1992
    correspondent: "Eric Sevaried and the News"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
    12-27-1896 - Arch Ward - Irwin, IL - d. 7-9-1955
    sports journalist: Weekly program of sports news with Harry Wismer

    Ron Sayles

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 23:14:22 -0400
    From: "Irene Theodore Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed];
    To: "OTR" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re:  The Way You Look Tonight

    Whoever else might have used 'The Way you Look Tonight' as a theme song I
    will always associate it with a favorite program of mine - Mr. and Mrs.
    North - I have never forgotten that.  It's probably the first time I heard
    that song and loved it then and now.
    Irene

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    Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 07:10:50 -0400
    From: "Tim Lones" <tlones1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Sniffles the Mouse

    The Cartoons about the talkative mouse and the "bookworm" were Warner
    Brothers' Sniffles [removed] think maybe 2-3 were done with Chuck Jones as
    director.  There were several other solo "Sniffles" Cartoons.  The best of
    these was "Bedtime for Sniffles" ..The entire cartoon is Sniffles trying to
    stay awake for Santa on Christmas [removed] comection: The voice of the radio
    "announcer" broadcasting over Sniffles' Radio actually uses the line "This
    is KFWB signing off" KFWB was and is a real radio station in Hollywood which
    was owned by Warner Brothers at the time of "Bedtime for Sniffles"

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