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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2013 : Issue 58
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      More on Doo Wah Diddy                 [ Ann Marie Hendrickson <ratgirl@rcn. ]
      Smilin' Ed McConnell                  [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 22:23:38 -0400
    From: Ann Marie Hendrickson <ratgirl@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  More on Doo Wah Diddy

     From Zora Neale Hurston's entry for the WPA Florida State guidebook (1938):

    Diddie Wa Diddie (Diddy-Wah-Diddy):  This is the largest and best
    known of the Negro mythical places. Its geography is that it is "way
    off somewhere."  It is reached by a road that curves so much that a
    mule pulling a wagon-load of fodder can eat off the back of the wagon
    as he goes. It is a place of no work and no worry for man and beast.
    A very restful place where even the curbstones are good
    sitting-chairs. The food is even already cooked. If a traveller is
    hungry all he needs to do is to sit down on the curbstone and wait
    and soon he will hear something hollering "Eat me! Eat me! Eat me!"
    and a big baked chicken will come along with a knife and fork stuck
    in its sides. He can eat all he wants and let the chicken go on to
    the next on that needs something to eat.  By that time a big deep
    sweet potato pie is pushing and shoving to get in front of the
    traveller with a knife all stuck up in the middle of it so he just
    cuts a piece off of that and so on until he finishes his snack.
    Nobody can ever eat it all up. No matter how much you eat it grows
    that much faster. It is said "Everybody would live in Diddy-Wah-Diddy
    if it wasn't so hard to find and so hard to get to after you even
    know the way."  Everything is on a large scale there. Even the dogs
    can stand flat-footed and lick the crumbs off heaven's table.  The
    biggest man there is known as the Moon-Regulator because he reaches
    up and starts and stops it at his own convenience. That is why there
    are some dark nights when the moon does not shine at all. He did no
    feel like putting it out that night."

    Ann-Marie Hendrickson, Gotham Radio Players

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    Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 22:16:01 -0400
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Smilin' Ed McConnell

>     Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 16:48:23 -0400
>     From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];

>     5/30

>     1922 -"Smilin" Ed McConnell debuted on radio, smiling and playing his
>     banjo. McConnell quickly became a legend in the medium.

    For his work in radio, he got a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And
    he continued on television from 1950 until his death of a heart attack
    in 1954.  Andy Devine then took over the show for another couple of
    years, and "Smilin' Ed's Gang" became "Andy's Gang."

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    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]| 92 State Street| Suite 700| Boston, MA 02109-2004
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