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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 132
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      5-1 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Anyone got George the Mouse from Cin  [ Booksteve@[removed] ]
      Newscasts                             [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
      Spirit of 78s program                 [ "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed]; ]
      "The Golden Age of Radio"             [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed] ]
      Cincy OTR and The Halls of Ivy on TV  [ "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed] ]
      Radio firings                         [ "Scott A Eberbach" <saeberbach@eart ]
      Groucho Marx                          [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed] ]
      Off the air                           [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
      5-2 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:26:32 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-1 births/deaths

    May 1st births

    05-01-1888 - Anna Appel - Bucharest, Romania - d. 11-19-1963
    actor: Mrs. Cohen "Abie's Irish Rose"
    05-01-1892 - Howard Barlow - Plain City, OH - d. 1-31-1972
    conductor: "March of Time"; "Voice of Firestone"
    05-01-1894 - Sam McGee - d. 8-21-1975
    guitarist: (Performed with the "Fruit Jar Drinkers") "Grand Ole Opry"
    05-01-1906 - Rose Hobart - NYC - d. 8-29-2000
    actor: "Nightbeat"
    05-01-1906 - "Little" Jackie Heller - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 7-15-1988
    singer: "Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro"
    05-01-1907 - Kate Smith - Washington [removed] - d. 6-17-1986
    singer, emcee: (Songbird of the South) "Kate Smith Revue"; Kate Smith
    Speaks"
    05-01-1913 - Louis Nye - Hartford, CT - d. 10-9-2005
    comedian: "Louis Nye Show"; "Official Detective"
    05-01-1916 - Glenn Ford - Quebec, Canada - d. 8-30-2006
    actor: Christopher London "Advs. of Christopher London"
    05-01-1918 - Jack Paar - Canton, OH - d. 1-27-2004
    comedian: "Jack Paar Show"; "Take It or Leave It"
    05-01-1919 - Dan O'Herlihy - Wexford, Ireland - d. 2-17-2005
    actor: Nicholas Lacey "One Man's Family"
    05-01-1919 - John Meredyth Lucas - d. 10-19-2002
    film director, producer: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    05-01-1922 - Katy Abraham - Wayland, NY - d. 5-25-2005
    gardening expert: "The Green Thumb"
    05-01-1924 - Art Fleming - The Bronx, NY - d. 4-25-1995
    host/announcer: "When Radio Was"
    05-01-1933 - Joan Hackett - NYC - d. 10-8-1983
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    May 1st deaths

    02-03-1907 - Paul Laven - d. 5-1-1950
    writer: "The Bob Hope Show"
    02-07-1866 - George Ade - d. 5-1-1944
    humorist: WJZ New York City
    03-06-1913 - Ella Logan - Glasgow, Scotlans - d. 5-1-1969
    singer: "The Chase and Sanborn Hour"; "Kraft Music Hall"
    05-12-1910 - Gordon Jenkins - Webster Groves, MO - d. 5-1-1984
    conductor, composer: "Everything for the Boys"; "Bob Burns Show"
    06-30-1904 - Glenda Farrell - Enid,  Oklahoma Territory - d. 5-1-1971
    opposing pitcher: "Quizzer's Baseball"
    09-15-1919 - Nelson Giddings - NYC - d. 5-1-2004
    writer: "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon"
    11-05-1877 - Henry M. Neely - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-1-1963
    actor, writer, director, producer: "Fitch Bandwagon"
    12-14-1911 - Spike Jones - Long Beach, CA - d. 5-1-1965
    bandleader: "Bob Burns, The Arkansas Traveler"; "Spike Jones Show"
    12-17-1906 - Martin Skiles - d. 5-1-1981
    music: "Mr. Aladdin"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Paul L. Barrett - d. 5-1-1984
    actor: "Covered Wagon Days"

    Ron Sayles

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    Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:58:10 -0400
    From: Booksteve@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Anyone got George the Mouse from Cincy on
     Tape?
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    If anyone can get me a tape of the Friday night X MINUS ONE performance of
    CHAIN OF COMMAND at Cincy, please contact me off-list at _Booksteve@[removed]_
    (mailto:Booksteve@[removed]) . All weekend long I heard  marvelous things about
    my
    performance as the intelligent talking mouse but  I was too busy giving it to
    notice it and I'd love to hear what all the fuss was  about! Especially since
    I was down with laryngitis the next few days after the  convention.
    Thanks,
    SteveT

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    Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 00:06:07 -0400
    From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Newscasts

    Raymond Druian asks:

>     I just had a thought and I wonder if there are any recordings
>     available of radio newscasts, from the likes of Edward R. Murrow,
>     Lowell Thomas, Gabriel Heatter, or even HV Kaltenborn?

    Go to [removed] and you can hear most of those plus
    a few more.

    Jim Widner

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    Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 07:58:12 -0400
    From: "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Spirit of 78s program

    Ian Grieve asks if anyone knows where there are more episodes of the show
    "Spirit of 78's" with host Don Chichester.  Sure, I know where ALL of them
    are.  In Don's home.  In fact, I expect to see Don in a couple of days if he
    is coming to the ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections)
    Conference in Milwaukee this week.  His email address is  <dnjchi@[removed];
    and he often posts on the 78-L.  I'll tell him he's got a fan in Australia.

    Michael Biel   mbiel@[removed]

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    Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 15:16:09 -0400
    From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  "The Golden Age of Radio"

    A couple of days ago I announced that "The Golden Age
    of Radio" and "A One Night Stand with the Big Bands" has
    a new web address,. and that all 89 "The Golden Age of
    Radio" shows and all 44 "A One Night Stand with the Big
    Bands" are available at all times at
    [removed]

    Thanks to an alert listener/downloader, I found
    that several shows had not uploaded properly. I
    believe I have corrected that problem, and all
    133 programs are now available. Now you can
    download all the programs to your I-Pod or
    MP3 player, or just listen on your computer.

    If you discover a broken link please contact
    me at webmaster@[removed]

    Thank you
    Bob Scherago

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    Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 15:21:28 -0400
    From: "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Cincy OTR and The Halls of Ivy on TV

    In #129, Bob Burchett wrote:

>     Slow, but sure I'm making a come back from my cancer surgery.
>     Next year the hotel will be a Double Tree (Hilton) Hotel. This may help
>     improve some of the problems.

    I am very glad to hear that Bob is on the mend.

    I'm also glad to hear that a different hotel is planned for next year.
    My one complaint from this year's convention is that the hotel seemed
    really sketchy this year.  I don't know if it's new owners, or something
    else, but it really seems to have gone down hill.

    I've just started going through all the tapes, books, DVDs, CDs, and
    mp3s I bought at this year's convention, and I'm already anxious to go
    back next year!

    Halls of Ivy on TV

    At Cincy, I got a chance to talk to Martin Grams for quite a while
    (always a pleasure and a wealth of knowledge), and I asked him the Halls
    of Ivy TV show.  He didn't know the complete story, but it seems like
    there were quite a few episodes filmed, but there only seems to be a few
    in circulation.

    I love the Halls of Ivy radio show, and I picked up an episode of the TV
    show to check out, but I'd like to know more about the show.  Anybody
    out there know about the Halls of Ivy TV show?  Could you answer a few
    questions:

    1) Various searches list 38 episodes, is this correct?
    2) Were the scripts unique, or recycled radio scripts?
    3) Why are so few shows in circulation?  Are they lost, or just hoarded
    somewhere?

    Thanks,
    -chris holm

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: Visit the "company store" at [removed] and
    check out the 200602 Fundraiser Disc - there's an episode of the Halls of Ivy
    TV series on that disc, along with a bunch of OTR shows. While you're there,
    browse the other discs and tapes, and remember your purchase goes directly to
    keeping the Digest server running.  --cfs3]

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    Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 15:17:44 -0400
    From: "Scott A Eberbach" <saeberbach@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Radio firings
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    Hi All,

    In response to Derek's query about radio firings I know of a couple of
    firings that occurred on WABC in 1967 and in 1969 when WABC was the hottest
    top 40 station in the country. Especially with that 50,000 watt signal that
    would cover 30 plus states during the clear channel days.

    Bob Dayton, a WABC disc jockey was fired for noting the 20th anniversary of
    the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6th 1965 by saying "in tribute to
    that day." plays the opening of "Sixteen Candles" by the Crests that starts
    off with "happy birthday, happy birthday baby."

    Roby Yonge, another WABC disc jockey was another one who lost his job for
    what he did on the air. In 1969 Yonge had already been let go (maybe his
    contract had not been renewed), but during his final show he spent a portion
    of the show speculating on the rumor that Paul McCartney was dead. Rick
    Sklar, the program director at WABC, had him taken off the air during that
    final show for that. WABC received thousands of calls in response to that
    stunt and the rumors and "clues" spilled into the press for months after
    that.

    Air checks can be found on the [removed]
    <[removed];  site. The Bob Dayton one can be found on the
    link under bloopers and parodies section and the Roby Yonge air check can be
    found on the link about the relationship WABC had with the Beatles.

    Happy Listening!

    Scott

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    Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 17:56:27 -0400
    From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Groucho Marx
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    Wikipedia says this about Groucho:

      In the mid 1940s, during a depressing lull in his career, Groucho was
    scheduled to appear on a radio show with Bob Hope. Annoyed that he was made
    to wait in the waiting room for 40 minutes, Groucho went on the air in a foul
    mood. Hope started by saying, "Why, it's Groucho Marx, ladies and gentlemen.
    (applause) Groucho, what brings you here from the hot desert?" Groucho
    retorted, "Hot desert my foot, I've been standing in the cold waiting room
    for 40 minutes." Groucho continued to ignore the script, and although Hope
    was a formidable ad-libber in his own right, he couldn't begin to keep up
    with Groucho, who lengthened the scene well beyond its allotted time slot
    with a veritable onslaught of improvised wisecracks.

      Does anyone know if this is true and if so, whether this show still exists
    in recorded form?

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    Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 17:56:22 -0400
    From: Rentingnow@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Off the air

    <<I cannot, for the life of
    me, think  of any instances from the OTR era in which somebody was abruptly
    and
    irrevocably taken off the air or fired for something that was said over  the
    [removed];>

    I can.  If my memory is correct I was in  the fourth grade.  I base that on a
    memory of hearing or telling about it  at recess.  This would be 1950 or 51.
    I believe that Bob Hope told some  kind of joke about "pocket pool". Don't
    know what the joke was but he was  supposedly removed from the air for it.

    Don't remember much else about  it.  But in a 10 year old eyes it would seem
    to be a dirty joke.

    I  still think of it and, depending on the group, mention it when explaining
    to  grooms and groomsmen how to pull down their shirts by reaching in their
    tux  pants pockets and feeling for their shirts through the hole in the top.

    Of course most of these whipper snappers haven't even heard of Bob Hope.
    Such is how fleeting fame is.

    Lets face it.  Life is full of big and  small lessons. The tux pants pocket
    lesson is one of the smaller if not  miniscule ones.

    Larry Moore

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    Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 23:37:55 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-2 births/deaths

    May 2nd births

    05-02-1878 - Roy Atwill - Syracuse, NY - d. 2-6-1962
    actor, comedian, composer: "The Fred Allen Show"; "The Fred Waring Show"
    05-02-1885 - Hedda Hopper - Hollidaysburg, PA - d. 2-1-1966
    actor, columnist: Portia Brent "Brenthouse"; "Hedda Hopper Show"
    05-02-1892 - Bruno Wick - Krefeld, Germany - d. 11-xx-1979
    actor: Ming the Merciless "Flash Gordon"; Mr. Fowler "The Goldbergs"
    05-02-1895 - Lorenz Hart - NYC - d. 11-22-1943
    lyricist: "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"; "Chase and Sanborn Hour";
    "Railroad Hour"
    05-02-1902 - Brian Aherne - King's Norton, England - d. 2-10-1986
    actor: Simon Templar "The Saint"
    05-02-1902 - Erin O'Brien-Moore - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-3-1979
    actor: Elsa Banning "Big Sister"
    05-02-1903 - Sylvan Levin - Baltimore, MD - d. 8-10-1996
    conductor: "Sinfonietta"; "Brownstone Theatre"; "Let's Go to the Opera"
    05-02-1904 - J. Anthony Hughes - NYC - d. 2-11-1970
    actor: Bob Drake "Betty and Bob"
    05-02-1905 - Sidney Skolsky - NYC - d. 5-3-1983
    newspaper columnist: "Songs by Arlen, Stories by Skolsky"; "Bromo
    Seltzer Program"
    05-02-1907 - Pinky Lee - St. Paul, MN - d. 4-3-1993
    comedian: "Hoagy Carmichel Show"; "Carefree Carnival"
    05-02-1911 - Myron Niesley - d. 11-xx-1985
    singer: "Carefree Carnival"
    05-02-1915 - Van Alexander - NYC
    bandleader: "The Callihans"; "Fitch Bandwagon"
    05-02-1916 - Robert Grapperhaus - d. 12-xx-1960
    sound effects: "One Man's Family"; "Fitch Bandwagon"; "Duffy's Tavern"
    05-02-1916 - Two Ton Baker - Chicago, IL - d. 5-4-1975
    singer, pianist: "Tip Top Lunch Program"
    05-02-1918 - Frank Milano - d. 12-15-1962
    animal sounds: "Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders"
    05-02-1924 - Theodore Bikel - Vienna, Austria
    actor: "Eternal Light"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    05-02-1952 - Campbell McComas - Melbourne, Australia - d. 1-8-2005
    regular performer on Australia's ABC radio

    May 2nd deaths

    01-21-1902 - Smith Ballew - Palestine, TX - d. 5-2-1984
    singer: "The Ipana Troubadors"; "Shell Chateau"
    01-30-1911 - Hugh Marlowe - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-2-1982
    actor: Ellery Queen "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; Jim Curtis "Brenda Curtis"
    01-30-1933 - Louis Rukeyser - NYC - d. 5-2-2006
    economic commentator: "Rukeyser's World"; "College Quiz Bowl"
    02-01-1908 - George Pal - Cegled, Austria-Hungary - d. 5-2-1980
    film producer, director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
    02-25-1899 - Wini Shaw - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-2-1982
    actor: Air Trailers "Good News of 1935 and In Caliente"
    03-20-1918 - Jack Barry - Lindenhurst, NY - d. 5-2-1984
    actor: "It's the Barrys"
    04-05-1905 - William Andrews - Oakland, CA - d. 5-2-1985
    announcer: "One Man's Family"
    04-30-1926 - Lou Cioffi - d. 5-2-1998
    news reporter: "The Warning Bell"; "Big News of 1957/58"
    08-17-1909 - Larry Clinton - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-2-1985
    bandleader: "Larry Clinton's Musical Sensations"; "Tommy Riggs and
    Betty Lou"
    09-15-1899 - Dr. Milton Eisenhower - Abilene, KS - d. 5-2-1985
    doctor: (Brother of Ike) "Second Seagram's Symposium"; "Meet the Press"
    09-23-1913 - Robert Hudson Ballard - Nyack, NY - d. 5-2-1992
    violinist, arranger: "Phil Harris Orchestra"
    10-03-1911 - Michael Hordern - Berkhamsted, England - d. 5-2-1995
    actor: Gandolf "The Lord of the Rings"
    10-07-1917 - Helmut Dantine - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-2-1982
    actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Silver Theatre"; "Theatre of Romance";
    "Suspense"
    10-28-1895 - Herb Butterfield - Rhode Island - d. 5-2-1957
    actor: Clarence Wellman "Halls of Ivy"; Hunter Glenn "One Man's Family"
    11-14-1908 - Joseph McCarthy - Appleton, WI - d. 5-2-1957
    despotic senator: "Meet the Press"
    xx-xx-1903 - Dudley Williamson - Above Discovery, AK - d. 5-2-1948
    emcee: "What's the Name of the Song?"; "Queen for a Day"
    xx-xx-1918 - Don Hughes - d. 5-2-1990
    juvenile actor: Rollo "Daddy and Rollo"; "Helen and Mary"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Katherine Carrington - d. 5-2-1953
    vocalist: "Evening in Paris"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Lula Vollmer - Keyser, NC - d. 5-2-1955
    writer: "Moonshine and Honeysuckle"

    Ron Sayles

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