Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #217
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Date: 8/11/2006 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 217
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Another Nostalgia Column              [ seandd@[removed] ]
      8-11 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Steel Hour broadcasts                 [ "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@earthli ]
      William Schallert                     [ Christopher Werner <werner1@globalc ]
      Scared by the sound effects           [ Christopher Werner <werner1@globalc ]
      Jack Lester                           [ Bob Hicks <bobdhicks@[removed]; ]
      The Missing Molly Shows               [ "Gary Dixon" <argy@[removed]; ]
      Re: Walgreen's OTR CD's               [ Dan <teac35@[removed]; ]
      Mike Douglas                          [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]

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    Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:41:14 -0400
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Another Nostalgia Column

    This one is a little more cranky and silly in its assumptions than the last
    few, but it does mention a love for Fred Allen and Jack Benny.

    Medford Mass speaks here:
    [removed].

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:30:42 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-11 births/deaths

    August 11th births

    08-11-1867 - Joe Weber - NYC - d. 5-10-1940
    comedian: (Weber and Fields) "The Eveready Hour"; "George Jessel Show"
    08-11-1868 - Edgar Norton - London, England - d. 2-6-1953
    actor: "I Love A Mystery"
    08-11-1891 - Helen Broderick - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-25-1959
    actor: (Mother of Broderick Crawford) "Shell Chateau"
    08-11-1900 - Norma Shearer - Montreal, Canada - d. 6-12-1983
    actor: "Everyman's Theatre"; "Louella Parsons"
    08-11-1902 - Lloyd Nolan - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-27-1985
    actor: Johnny Strange "Results Inc."; Martin Kane "Martin Kane,
    Private Eye"
    08-11-1904 - Jess Stacy - Bird's Point, MO - d. 1-5-1994
    jazz piano player: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
    08-11-1908 - Russell Procope - d. 1-21-1981
    clarinetist, saxophonist: "Duke Ellington and His Orchestra";
    "Ellington at Newport"
    08-11-1911 - Jerome Chodorow - NYC - d. 9-12-2004
    screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-11-1915 - Berne Surrey - d. 8-25-1992
    sound effects: "Suspense (Sorry, Wrong Number)"; "Whistler"; "Sam Spade"
    08-11-1915 - Jean Parker - Deer Lodge, MT - d. 11-30-2005
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-11-1925 - Mike Douglas - Chicago, IL
    singer: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
    08-11-1928 - Arlene Dahl - Minneapolis, MN
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre". Hollywood Stars on Stage"; "Philip Morris
    Playhouse"

    August 11th deaths

    01-24-1862 - Edith Wharton - NYC - d. 8-11-1937
    author: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    04-01-1917 - "Wee" Bonnie Baker - Orange, TX - d. 8-11-1990
    singer: "Your Hit Parade"
    06-24-1904 - Phil Harris - Linton, IN - d. 8-11-1995
    bandleader, singer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show"
    06-29-1914 - Rafael Kubelik - Bychory, Czech Republic - d. 8-11-1996
    conductor: "Musicians Off Stage"
    08-05-1918 - Tom Drake - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-11-1982
    actor: "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Proudly
    We Hail"
    09-08-1913 - Patricia Wilder - Macon, GA - d. 8-11-1995
    actor: Honey Chile "Bob Hope Show"
    12-05-1907 - Reid Kilpatrick - Michigan - d. 8-11-1983
    host: "Quiz of Two Cities"
    12-19-1924 - Rex Barney - Omaha, NE - d. 8-11-1997
    baseball color man: "Game of the Day"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:30:53 -0400
    From: "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@[removed];
    To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Steel Hour broadcasts

    Someone posted me recently about the US Steel Hour, that it was on TV as
    well as radio.

    I was not aware of that. Could someone verify or enlighten me about
    this? Was the US Steel Hour ever on TV?

    Joe Salerno

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    Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:36:52 -0400
    From: Christopher Werner <werner1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  William Schallert

    I curious to know if William Schallert has any radio credits. He
    *has* done animation and commercial voice-over work through the years
    as well as around 200 screen (movie/TV) appearances.

    I'm curious because he keeps showing up in late 50s-early 60s TV
    programs that also feature a venerable who's who of the Radio Actor
    talent pool. Surely with that many friends from the Radio business,
    he must have had some early connections?

    You may know him as the Drug Store Ad man in commercials or the
    seller of Tribbles on vintage Star Trek, or Patty Duke's father, or
    any number of western cowboys and salesmen through the years.

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    Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:37:11 -0400
    From: Christopher Werner <werner1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Scared by the sound effects

    I was listening to and reading the commentary/notes accompanying the
    first episode of the 1963 Doctor Who program today (The Unearthly
    Child/100,000 [removed]) when the director commented on how the BBC forced
    him to remove the 'cabbage head smashed with a heavy object' sound
    from a fight scene between cavemen where one cuts off the head of the
    other. The program was originally marketed to the 8-12 year olds at
    5:15 on a Saturday afternoon.

    So it's ok to use the sound effect in Lights Out in the 40s, but by
    the 60s even the sound is too violent for the censors?

    Any other examples of OTR sound effects banned in the visual medium?

    Chris.

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    Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:49:36 -0400
    From: Bob Hicks <bobdhicks@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Lester

    In the August 10 birthdays, the following listing was given:

    		08-10-1915 - Jack Lester - Oklahoma - d. 9-18-2004
    		actor: Sky King "Sky King"; ""Whistlin' Jimmy Steele"

    Is Jack Lester the radio Sky King or the TV Sky King? Were they the same
    people? I'm certain someone in this group knows.

    Bob Hicks

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    Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:50:00 -0400
    From: "Gary Dixon" <argy@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Missing Molly Shows
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    In an earlier digest, an OTR contributor (Andrew) brought up the fact that he
    had purchased a pair of FIBBER McGEE & MOLLY shows from [removed] that
    Marian Jordan wasn't present on either program.

    According to John Dunning's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OLD -TIME [removed] Jordan
    (aka MOLLY) was off the show from November 15, 1937 through April 18, 1939.
    The generic reason for her absence was fatigue, but Mr. Dunning's book
    indicates the possibility of a nervous breakdown resulting from an
    overabundance of alcohol.  During this period, the show's name was eventually
    changed to Fibber McGee & Company until Marian returned.   So unless there are
    specific dates on the cassette or CD Andrew purchased, there would be no way
    of knowing whether Molly was present or not?

    Most fans of the program automatically assume that the name of the show will
    always be Fibber McGee & Molly.

    Gary Dixon
    "argytunes"

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    Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:56:02 -0400
    From: Dan <teac35@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Walgreen's OTR CD's

     Andrew Wrote:

>     The best part of the show was the interplay between
>     Fibber and Molly and without her in the shows it just
>     wasn't the same.

     I seem to remember a few shows when Molly wasn't on,
    However, I do remember hearing a series called "Fibber
    McGee & Company" that - for obvious reasons - did not
    include Molly. I might still have a copy of that show.

    Dan

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    Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:16:16 -0400
    From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Mike Douglas

    Hi Everybody,

    I understand that Mike Douglas pass away.  He was a big band singer with Kay
    Kyser when Harry Babbitt was in the service.  Take care,

    Walden Hughes

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