Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #216
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Date: 8/10/2006 4:19 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 216
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Mr Chameleon                          [ Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
      The Two WHBI's                        [ "Doug Douglass" <dougdouglass@[removed] ]
      8-10 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Re: Re: WHBI                          [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
      Walgreens OTR CD's                    [ "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed] ]
      M. Chameleon                          [ "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed] ]
      Radio in the Cold War                 [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
      Walgreen's OTR CD's                   [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]

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    Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 20:01:12 -0400
    From: Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Mr Chameleon

    I have posted a zip file of the two circulating shows as mp3 files. It is
    downloadable at the below address for 10 days.

    [removed];ufid=8AA271E52F75F37F&rcpt
    =drjoewebb@[removed]

    [ADMINISTRIVIA: I'll add these two files to the OTR podcast available at the
    Nostalgic Rumblings blog; [removed] - if you need help with
    how to automatically receive the files, drop me a note. If you're already
    receiving the Jonathan Thomas and his Christmas on the Moon, you'll
    automatically receive these files.

    Also note the files Joe made available a few weeks ago are still available on
    the blog; simply do a search on "Joe Webb" when you're there.  --cfs3]

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    Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:23:11 -0400
    From: "Doug Douglass" <dougdouglass@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Two WHBI's

    Shared-time WHBI 1280 AM and WHBI-FM [removed],  which began in the early '60s.

    First FM studio and tower at the 37-story  Raymond-Commerce building in
    Newark, currently being converted to condos.

    Second studio and antenna at Ritz Tower Hotel, Park Avenue and 57th Street in
    Manhattan.  Later to the basement studios Jim Burns mentioned (now a
    voice-over training school) at the Riverside Tower Hotel,  Riverside Drive and
    80th Street with antenna at 515 Madison Avenue on the tower built by Allen B.
    DuMont for WABD-Channel 5.

    [removed] (now WCAA) is currently in third floor studios at the former CBS
    Building, 485 Madison Avenue with co-owned WADO-1280.  1280 and [removed] together
    again.  Station is still licensed to Newark, NJ.

    Doug Douglass

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    Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:23:19 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  8-10 births/deaths

    August 10th births

    08-10-1874 - Herbert Hoover - West Branch, IA - d. 10-20-1964
    [removed] president: "The People's Platform"
    08-10-1887 - Hugh Herbert - Binghamton, NY - d. 3-12-1952
    actor: Pop "That's My Pop"; "Rudy Vallee Hour"; "Family Theatre"
    08-10-1895 - Harry Richman - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-3-1972
    singer, dancer, actor: "Harry Richman Dodge Program"; "Chase and
    Sanborn Hour"
    08-10-1896 - Walter Lang - Memphis, TN - d. 2-7-1972
    film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
    08-10-1899 - Jack Haley - Boston, MA - d. 6-6-1979
    comedian: "Log Cabin"; "Wonder Show"; "Sealtest Village Store"
    08-10-1902 - Curt Siodmak - Dresden, Saxony, Germany - d. 9-2-2000
    film writer: "Suspense"
    08-10-1902 - Louise Massey - Midland, TX - d. 6-20-1983
    singer: (Louise Massey and the Westerners) "National Barn Dance";
    "Show Boat"
    08-10-1902 - Venezuela Jones - d. 6-22-1995
    actor: Susie Robinson "Our Gal Sunday"
    08-10-1908 - Jane Pickens - Macon, GA - d. 2-21-1992
    singer: (Pickens Sisters) "Gulf Headliners"; "Evening in Paris";
    "Jane Pickens Show"
    08-10-1909 - Claude Thornhill - Terre Haute, IN - d. 7-1-1965
    bandleader: "The Judy 'N Jill 'N Johnny Show"
    08-10-1910 - Roy Ringwald - d. 7-11-1995
    singer: "The Fred Waring Show"
    08-10-1910 - Sigmund Miller - d. 8-5-1998
    writer: "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"
    08-10-1913 - Noah Beery, Jr. - NYC - d. 11-1-1994
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    08-10-1914 - Jeff Corey - NYC - d. 8-16-2002
    actor: "Nightbeat"; "Escape"; "NBC Presents: Short Story"
    08-10-1915 - Jack Lester - Oklahoma - d. 9-18-2004
    actor: Sky King "Sky King"; ""Whistlin' Jimmy Steele"
    08-10-1923 - Rhonda Fleming - Hollywood, CA
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-10-1924 - Martha Hyer - Fort Worth, TX
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    08-10-1927 - Jimmy Martin - Sneedville, TN - d. 5-14-2005
    actor: "Grand Ole Opry"
    08-10-1928 - Eddie Fisher - Philadelphia, PA
    singer: "Stars in Khaki 'n' Blue"; "Eddie Fisher Show"
    08-10-1928 - Jimmy Dean - Plainview, TX
    singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    08-10-1935 - Marshall Borden - Howell, MI
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    August 10th deaths

    02-02-1888 - Frank Lloyd - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 8-10-1960
    film director: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Robert Arden Round Table
    Discussion"
    04-23-1915 - James Fleming - Baraboo, WI - d. 8-10-1996
    announcer: "Front Page Farrell"; "Get Thin to Music"; "Our Gal Sunday"
    05-02-1903 - Sylvan Levin - Baltimore, MD - d. 8-10-1996
    conductor: "Sinfonietta"; "Brownstone Theatre"; "Let's Go to the Opera"
    05-06-1914 - Ken Englund - Chicago, IL - d. 8-10-1993
    writer: "Three Sheets to the Wind"
    05-20-1894 - Adela Rogers St. Johns - Los Angeles, CA - d. 8-10-1988
    novelist: Commentator on NBC 1936-1937
    06-18-1910 - Dick Foran - Flemington, NJ - d. 8-10-1979
    singer: (The Singing Cowboy) "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"
    07-03-1915 - Jerry Gray - Boston MA - d. 8-10-1976
    bandleader: "I Sustain the Wings"; "Philip Morris Frolics"; "Club 15"
    07-10-1913 - Joan Marsh - Porterville, CA - d. 8-10-2000
    actor: "Calling All Cars"; "Good News of 1939"
    07-17-1917 - Lou Boudreau - Harvey, IL - d. 8-10-2001
    sportscaster: Chicago Cubs
    08-07-1910 - Freddie Slack - Westby, WI - d. 8-10-1965
    pianist, bandleader: "Kraft Music Hall"
    08-20-1911 - Robert Riley Crutcher - Missouri - d. 8-10-1974
    writer: "Fabulous Dr. Tweedy"; "Eddie Bracken Show"
    08-23-1900 - John Nesbitt - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - d.
    8-10-1960
    commentator: "Passing Parade"
    09-20-1898 - Charlie Dressen - Decatur, IL - d. 8-10-1966
    baseball manager: "Tops in Sports"; "Brooklyn Dodgers Locker Room
    Interviews"
    09-30-1912 - Kenny Baker - Monrovia, CA - d. 8-10-1985
    singer, comedian: "Jack Benny Program"; "Glamour Manor"; "Kenny Baker
    Show"
    10-27-1890 - Bob Becker - Terryville, SD - d. 8-10-1962
    commentator: "Fireside Chats About Dogs/Pet Parade"
    11-13-1903 - Conrad Thibault - Northbridge, MA - d. 8-10-1983
    singer: "Show Boat"; "Packard Hour"; "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"
    11-17-1901 - Ted Husing - The Bronx, NY - d. 8-10-1962
    announcer, sportscaster: "Sportslants"; "March of Time"; "Radio
    Reader's Digest"
    11-27-1897 - Vera Allen - NYC - d. 8-10-1987
    actor: Grace Doblen "Hilltop House"; Mother Malone "Young Dr. Malone"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Sheila Barrett - d. 8-10-1980
    impersonator, mimic: "Fred Allen Show"; "Time of Your Life"; "Magic Key"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:56:14 -0400
    From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Re: WHBI

    'Just to be clear--

    And I was amazed to read how FAR BACK the history of WHBI went!

    The station still had its Manhattan studios, at least as late as the
    very early 1980s.

    Jim Burns

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    Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:49:57 -0400
    From: "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Walgreens OTR CD's

        Bought a Fibber McGee and Molly CD for $1 at Walgreens and was very
    disappointed that the 2 shows didn't include Molly. With over 700 shows
    available it amazes me they would put 2 shows on the CD without Molly.

       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.

       The sound wasn't too good on the first show but the second show played OK
    with no extraneous noise.

    Andrew Godfrey

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    Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:50:41 -0400
    From: "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  M. Chameleon

    Jim Bourg wrote:

>     It was a series in the mode of "Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons". It was
>     one of my favorites growing up, I preferred it to Mr. Keen. I am only aware
>     of two existing episodes: "The Case of Murder and the Million Dollar Smile"
>     4/23/53  & "The Perfect Maid Murder Case" 12/19/48. They used to be available
>     from Radio Spirits and might still be. I hope someone informs us that more
>     episodes  have been found.

    The Radio Spirits collection that these episodes appeared in was CBS's 60
    GREATEST OLD TIME RADIO SHOWS.  Unfortunately, this item has been
    discontinued for some time, and I can't seem to find any other episodes of
    this series here in house.

    Karen Lerner
    Radio Spirits, Inc.

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    Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:51:06 -0400
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Radio in the Cold War
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    For those of you in the USA who can download BBC Radio 4, you might be
    interested in a documentary about radio jamming in the Cold War era. It is
    called 'Political Interference' and will be on at 2000 - 2030 hrs UK time on
    Thursday 17th August.

      Graeme Stevenson, Scotland.

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    Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:51:25 -0400
    From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Walgreen's OTR CD's
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           I checked out the old time radio cd's at my neighborhood Walgreen's,
    and found that they had a wide range of programs and genres.  I purchased
    5 different programs and each one had surprisingly good sound quality.
    I'd suggest that, especially for anyone just starting out, this would be a
    great
    deal!  Some of the titles I found were: "Casey, Crime Photographer", "Fibber
    McGee and Molly", "Dick Tracy", "Father Knows Best", "Dimension X",
    "The Great Gildersleeve", "The Fred Allen Show", "Burns and Allen", "The
    Adventures of Michael Shayne" and "The Jack Benny Show".   I'm certain that
    there are others.  But for $1 a piece, and having the sound quality that these
    had,
    it's quite a bargain!

    Another OTR Fan,

    Kenneth Clarke

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