Subject: [removed] Digest V2012 #7
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Date: 1/18/2012 2:35 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2012 : Issue 7
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
  Re: Pseudonyms and Radio Scripts      [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
  Children's non-serials on the radio   [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
  Chandu and Sky King                   [ Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed]; ]
  Lights Out fan clubs?                 [ "Matthew Killmeier" <mkillmeier@usm ]
  1-14 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  AFRTS                                 [ Michael Berger <[removed]@yaho ]
  This week in radio history 15-21 Jan  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  The Lone Ranger                       [ "Jim Kitchen" <jkitchen@[removed]; ]
  1-15 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:12:02 -0500
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

A weekly [removed]

For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
real-time OTR talk!

Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
it's always a good time!

For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
week and every week!

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:31:59 -0500
From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Pseudonyms and Radio Scripts

Often, scriptwriters employed as producer-director or staff writer on one
radio series had to use pseudonyms when moonlighting on competing shows. (A
similar thing occurred in comics during the 1960s when longtime DC Comics
freelancers Gene Colan, Frank Giacoia and Mike Esposito began moonlighting
at Marvel Comics under various pseudonyms, since DC frowned upon freelancers
working for the competition.)

Alfred Bester utilized his "John Lennox" pseudonym on some 1950s SHADOW
radio scripts, while Jerry Devine's 1940 SHADOW script "Death in a Minor
Key" carried his "Tom Wilson" pseudonym when it was rebroadcast in 1946, at
a time when he was producing THIS IS YOUR FBI.

When producer-director Bob Steel personally wrote two 1944 holiday SHADOW
scripts (in violation of agency policy), they were credited under his wife's
maiden name, Catherine B. Stemler (which made it easy to cash the freelance
check).

And next year in a revised and expanded edition of THE SHADOW SCRAPBOOK,
I'll be revealing how the "Robert Arthur" byline on two 1954 SHADOW radio
scripts masked another radio scriptwriter's identity. (Had Arthur actually
written the scripts, both would have carried the "Robert Arthur and David
Kogan" joint byline, since Arthur and Kogan were still business partners
contractually committed to shared bylines regardless of which one wrote the
actual script, ala the later songwriting team of Lennon and McCartney.
--Anthony Tollin

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:32:09 -0500
From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Children's non-serials on the radio

Hello again --

When I was a ten-year-old kid, my favorite Saturday radio program was The
Adventures of Frank Merriwell, a student at Yale University in the
horse-drawn days of the last century, who excelled at everything . . .
sports, debates, student theater, science and math classes, etc. . . . and
was caught up in some dastardly plot or other in every episode. A couple of
the actors who made brief appearances in the series were Tony Randall and
the early talkies film star Sir C. Aubrey Smith. From the time I heard that
program I wanted to be just like Frank, and I was determined to go to Yale
for college; the best I could manage was getting a music scholarship on
French horn for the 1960 Yale Summer School. And there was not one student
on that campus who resembled the Frank Merriwell of my imagination. What a
disappointment (not really)!
Gil Patton admitted that his original stories -- far removed from those
written for the radio series --were absurdities, but among the more than
50,000 letters he received, many were from young boys that hoped to go to
Yale. So I was not alone.

Jan Bach
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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:32:28 -0500
From: Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Chandu and Sky King
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Both the early 1930's "Chandu The Magician" and the 1949 versions were
serials, and some of "Sky King" serials from 1946 were serialised, but I
believe the final ones were in a 30 minute program format.     Best Regards,
 Bob Slate

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:32:33 -0500
From: "Matthew Killmeier" <mkillmeier@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Lights Out fan clubs?

I recently read a 1940 profile of Arch Oboler in The Christian Science
Monitor that claimed Lights Out had "some hundred fan clubs around the
country." Does anyone have any personal knowledge of such clubs, or know of
sources that would corroborate them.

Thanks,

Matthew Killmeier

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:32:40 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-14 births/deaths

January 14th births

01-14-1863 - R. F. Outcault - Lancaster, OH - d. 9-25-1928
writer: Buster Brown based on Outcalt's comic strip
01-14-1882 - Hendrick Van Loon - Rotterdam, Holland - d. 3-11-1944
journalist: "Very Truly Yours"; "Information Please"
01-14-1891 - Maurice Black - Queens, NY - d. 1-18-1938
tuba: "The Clicquot Club Eskimos"
01-14-1892 - Hal Roach - Elmira, NY - d. 11-2-1992
film producer, actor: Hollywood Hotel"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
01-14-1894 - Mary "Bubbles" Kelly - Chicago, IL - d. 6-7-1941
actor: (Ex Jack Benny girlfriend) "Honolulu Bound"
01-14-1896 - Seymour Simons - Detroit, MI - d. 2-12-1949
orchestra leader: "Romantic Rhythm"
01-14-1899 - Carlos P. Romulo - Camiling, Tarlac, Philippines - d.
12-15-1985
diplomat: "Information Please"
01-14-1901 - Bebe Daniels - Dallas, TX - d. 3-16-1971
actor: "Life with the Lyons"; "Louella Parsons"
01-14-1904 - George McCoy - d. 12-22-1976
1930's broadcaster: (Pioneered the radio talk show)
01-14-1906 - William Bendix - NYC - d. 12-14-1964
actor: Chester A. Riley "Life of Riley"
01-14-1908 - Russ Columbo - Camden, NJ - d. 9-2-1934
singer, bandleader: "Russ Columbo Show"
01-14-1909 - Brenda Forbes - London, England - d. 9-11-1996
actor: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Theatre Guild on the Air"
01-14-1909 - Joseph Losey - La Crosse, WI - d. 6-22-1984
director: "Words at War"
01-14-1910 - Spencer Bentley - NYC - d. 11-27-1963
actor: Barry Cameron "Barry Cameron"; Bob "Betty and Bob"
01-14-1911 - David Gothard - Beardstown, IL - d. 8-2-1977
actor: Gil Whitney "Romance of Helen Trent"; Nick Charles "The Thin Man"
01-14-1913 - Mary Rita Stewart - d. 8-19-1995
dancer, singer: (The Three Debutantes) "Irene"
01-14-1914 - Harold Russell - North Sydney, Canada - d. 1-29-2002
world war II hero, actor: "A Salute to the [removed]"; "NBC University
Theatre"
01-14-1915 - George Ansbro - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-5-2011
announcer: "Young Widder Brown"; "Waltz Time"
01-14-1915 - Mark Goodson - Sacramento, CA - d. 12-18-1992
producer, director: "Portia Faces Life"; "Stop the Music"
01-14-1917 - Billy Butterfield - Middletown, OH - d. 3-18-1988
bandleader: "The Dixieland Music Shop"; "Eddie Condon"s Jazz Concert"
01-14-1919 - Andy Rooney - Albany, NY - d. 11-4-2011
writer: "Red Skelton Show"; "Arthur Godfrey"
01-14-1920 - George Herman - NYC - d. 2-8-2005
newsman: CBS news writer
01-14-1923 - Shirley (Ione) Cowell - Tulsa, OK - d. 10-29-1997
singer: "The Shirley Cowell Show"
01-14-1929 - Billy Walker - Ralls, TX - d. 5-21-2006
c/w singer: "Columbia's Country Caravan", "Country Music Time"
01-14-1930 - Johnny Grande - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-2-2006
pianist: (Bill Haley and The Comets) "Stars for Defense"
01-14-1931 - Caterina Valente - Paris, France
singer: "Guard Session"
01-14-1934 - Richard Briers - Raynes Park, England
actor: Bertie Wooster "Jeeves"
01-14-1937 - Billy Jo Spears - Beaumont, TX - d. 12-14-2011
country singer: "Louisiana Hayride"
01-14-1938 - Jack Jones - Hollywood, CA
singer: "Steve Lawrence Show"; "Guest Star"; "Stars for Defense"
01-14-1943 - Holland Taylor - Philadelphia, PA
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

January 14th deaths

01-27-1921 - Donna Reed - Dennison, IA - d. 1-14-1986
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Star and the Story"; "Silver Theatre"
02-13-1916 - Albert Harris - London, England - d. 1-14-2005
conductor, composer: "Four-Star Playhouse"; "NBC University Theatre"
02-24-1904 - Tim Graham - Kansas - d. 1-14-1979
actor: "Plays for Americans"
03-10-1924 - Wally Stott (Angela Morley) - Leeds, England - d. 1-14-2009
conductor, composer, arranger: "The Goon Show"
04-13-1886 - Willie Howard - Paramus, NY - d. 1-14-1949
comedian: (Howard Brothers) "Folies De Paris"; "The Royal Vagabonds"
05-15-1918 - Margaret Lipper - Oliver, PA - d. 1-14-2004
actor: Hazel Toumey "Career of Ann Blair"; Patsy Curtis "Brenda Curtis"
06-12-1919 - Uta Hagen - Gottingen, Germany - d. 1-14-2004
actor: "Big Show"
06-14-1917 - Paul Monash - NYC - d. 1-14-2003
writer: "Molle Mystery Theatre"
06-18-1903 - Jeanette MacDonald - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-14-1965
singer: "Nobody's Children"; "Vicks Open House"; "Campbell Playhouse"
08-19-1889 - Don "Uncle Don" Carney - St. Joseph, MO - d. 1-14-1954
host: "Uncle Don"; "Friendship Village"; "Dog Chats"
08-20-1935 - Justin Tubb - San Antonio, TX - d. 1-14-1998
singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
08-21-1896 - Marie Blake - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-14-1978
actor: (Sister of Janette MacDonald) "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-22-1922 - Shelley Winters - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-14-2006
actor: "Hollywood Star Preview"
09-17-1902 - Esther Ralston - Bar Harbor, ME - d. 1-14-1994
actor: Martha Jackson "Woman of Courage"; Kathy Marsh "Portia Faces
Life"
09-17-1915 - John Witty - Bristol, England - d. 1-14-1990
Began radio broadcasting for the BBC in 1944
09-28-1916 - Peter Finch - London, England - d. 1-14-1977
actor: Australian Radio
10-05-1924 - Barbara Kelly - Vancouver, Canada - d. 1-14-2007
actor: "Vanity Fair"; "Breakfast with Braden"
11-18-1919 - Georgia Carroll - Bloomington Grove, TX - d. 1-14-2011
singer: (Wife of Kay Kyser) "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
11-25-1920 - Ricardo Montalban - Mexico City, Mexico - d. 1-14-2009
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "As Easy as [removed]"
12-11-1910 - Samuel Kurtzman - d. 1-14-1998
writer: "The Bob Hope Show"
12-25-1899 - Humphrey Bogart - NYC - d. 1-14-1957
actor: Slate Shannon "Bold Venture"; "Stars in the Air"; "Streamlined
Shakespeare"

Ron

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:32:50 -0500
From: Michael Berger <[removed]@[removed];
To: otr <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  AFRTS

In 1961, I was stationed at AFRTS in Hollywood, working as a film editor. All
the TV shows we edited, including sports events, had the CMs edited out. That
was my job.  Can't guarantee that a few might have gotten through with CMs
but feel pretty sure the overwhelming majority of material, both TV and radio
shows, were CM free. Even the live programming, mostly sportscasts, was
CM-free, as in those days, AFRTS had its own sportscasters and shortwaved
Dodgers' and Rams' games. On the TV side, we produced 'info spots' - plugs
for upcoming shows, and inserted them in place of CMs.

Ironically, I served later on Ranger [1961-63] and saw some of the same shows
I had edited previously.

Michael Berger

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:32:55 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history  15-21 January

 From Those Were The Days -

1/15

1945   Art Linkletter starred on the CBS debut of House Party. The show
continued on the air for 22 years, including a long stint on CBS t-------n.

1/16

1939   The shrill siren call of radio's I Love a Mystery was heard for
the first time as the show debuted on NBC's West Coast outlets.

1/17

1938   Francis X. Bushman was the star of the program, Stepmother, which
debuted on CBS. The show continued on the air for the next four years.

1/18

1929   New York Daily Mirror columnist Walter Winchell made his debut on
radio, broadcasting a blend of political commentary and celebrity gossip
to "Mr. and Mrs. [removed]" His quick jabbing, penetrating manner
became his trademark. And so did wearing his fedora hat.

1937   CBS introduced listeners to Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories for
the first time. A complete story was told in five, 15 minute episodes
which aired Monday thru Friday each week. Aunt Jenny was played by Edith
Spencer and later, by Agnes Young. The show continued on radio until
1956 and was sponsored over the years by Spry shortening and Lux soap.
Aunt Jenny's whistling canary, for those of you ready to inquire, was
played by animal imitator, Henry Boyd.

1/20

1954   The National Negro Network was formed on this date. Some 40 radio
stations were charter members of the network.

1/21

1927   The first opera to be broadcast over a national radio network was
presented in Chicago, IL. Listeners heard selections from Faust.

1946   The Fat Man debuted on ABC. J. Scott Smart, who played the portly
detective, weighed in at 270 pounds in real life.

Joe

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:34:21 -0500
From: "Jim Kitchen" <jkitchen@[removed];
To: "old time radio digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The Lone Ranger

I think Jim Harmon was being sarcastic when he wrote that Trendle
compromised!

Jim Kitchen

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:34:28 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-15 births/deaths

January 15th births

01-15-1882 - Henry Burr - St. Stephen, Canada - d. 4-6-1941
singer: "National Barn Dance"; "Uncle Ezra"
01-15-1899 - Goodman Ace - Kansas City, MO - d. 3-25-1982
comedian, writer: "Easy Aces"
01-15-1906 - Sully Mason - Durham, NC - d. 11-27-1970
singer: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
01-15-1909 - Gene Krupa - Chicago, IL - d. 10-16-1973
drummer: "Rhythm Masters"; "Benny Goodman and His Orchestra"
01-15-1909 - Gloria Grafton - Yakima, WA - d. 12-29-1994
actor: Mickey Considine "The Jumbo Fire Chief Program"
01-15-1911 - Cy Feuer - NYC - d. 5-17-2006
music: "Escape"; "Ford Sunday Evening Hour"; "Shorty Bell"
01-15-1911 - Kathleen Wilson - Girard, KS - d. 7-20-2005
actor: Claudia Barbour "One Man's Family"; I Love a Mystery"
01-15-1913 - Alvin Robinson - Apache, OK
NBC staff announcer
01-15-1913 - Frank Derrick - Maywood, IL - d. 5-26-1999
member of staff orchestra WBBM Chicago, Illinois
01-15-1913 - Lloyd Bridges - San Leandro, CA - d. 3-10-1998
actor: "Suspense"; "Arch Oboler's Plays"
01-15-1913 - Stephen Courtleigh - NYC - d. 12-15-1967
actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"
01-15-1914 - Carlos Ramirez - Tocaim, Colombia - d. 12-11-1986
vocalist: "Grapevine Rancho"
01-15-1915 - Ann Sheperd - Chicago, IL
actor: Betty Fairchild "Jack Armstrong"; Joyce Jordan "Joyce Jordan,
Girl Interne"
01-15-1915 - Rod MacLeish - Bryn Mawr, PA - d. 7-1-2006
writer: "Six By Corwin"
01-15-1918 - Jerry Wald - Newark, NJ - d. 9-xx-1973
bandleader: "The Robert Q. Lewis Show"
01-15-1920 - Yvonne King - Ephriam, UT - d. 12-13-2009
singer: (King Sisters) "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"
01-15-1922 - Thelma Carpenter - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-17-1997
singer: "Eddie Cantor Show"
01-15-1923 - Ivor Cutler - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 3-3-2006
poet: BBC's Home Service
01-15-1928 - Joanne Linville - Bakersfield, CA
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
01-15-1929 - Martin Luther King - Atlanta, GA - d. 4-4-1968
civil right leader: "Monitor"
01-15-1933 - Al Lohman - Sergeant Bluff, IA - d. 10-13-2002
co-host: "Lohman and Barkley"
01-15-1937 - Margaret O'Brien - San Diego, CA
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"

January 15th deaths

01-09-1939 - Susannah York - London, England - d. 1-15-2011
actor: BBC Radio 4 "I Had a Misery"
01-10-1904 - Ray Bolger - Dorchester, MA - d. 1-15-1987
singer, dancer: "Ray Bolger Show"
01-13-1927 - Delores Hawkins - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-15-1987
singer: "Nick Kenny's Children's Follies"
01-18-1912 - Bob Sabin - Illinois - d. 1-15-1959
announcer: "Modern Romances"
01-31-1922 - William Sylvester - Oakland, CA - d. 1-15-1995
actor: Jay Gatsby "Gatsby"
02-04-1931 - Marion Ryan - Leeds, England - d. 1-15-1999
pop singer: "Ray Ellington Quarter"
02-20-1906 - Jack Jackson - Horsley, England - d. 1-15-1978
disc jockey: "Record Round-Up"; "Rooftop Rendezvous"; "Cabaret Crusie"
02-27-1912 - Ralph Camargo - Glendale, CA - d. 1-15-1992
actor: "X-Minus One"; "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
02-27-1921 - E. Jack Neuman - Ohio - d. 1-15-1998
writer: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Advs. of Sam Spade"; "Escape"
03-14-1922 - Les Baxter - Mexia, TX - d. 1-15-1996
arranger/conductor: "Bob Hope Show"; "California Melodies"; "Swingtime"
03-24-1915 - Bill Bivens - Wadesboro, NC - d. 1-15-1984
announcer: "Fred Waring Show"; "Vox Pox"
03-25-1921 - Nancy Kelly - Lowell, MA - d. 1-15-1995
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Free Company"; "Suspense"
05-17-1920 - Harriet Van Horne - Syracuse, NY - d. 1-15-1998
newspaper columnist: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"
05-26-1918 - John Dall - NYC - d. 1-15-1971
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Voice of the Army"
06-09-1903 - Marcia Davenport - NYC - d. 1-15-1996
auther: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-18-1913 - Sammy Cahn - NYC - d. 1-15-1993
lyricist: "You Bet Your Life"; "Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP"; "Monitor"
06-21-1882 - William Afsprung - d. 1-15-1976
reader: WLW Cincinnati, Ohio
06-29-1915 - Ruth Warrick - St. Joseph, MO - d. 1-15-2005
actor: "Joyce Jordan, [removed]"; "Myrt and Marge"
07-31-1894 - Roy Bargy - Newaygo, MI - d. 1-15-1974
conductor: "Jimmy Durante Show"; "Kraft Music Hall"; "Rexall Summer
Theatre"
08-11-1907 - Andrew Allan - Arbroath, Scotland - d. 1-15-1974
writer of radio plays: "Mistress Nell"
08-20-1905 - Jack Teagarden - Vernon, TX - d. 1-15-1964
trombonist: "Eddie Condon"s Jazz Concert"; "Paul Whiteman Show"
09-01-1901 - Clyde Lucas - Minneapolis, KS - d. 1-15-1982
bandleader: "Spotlight Bands"; "Rendezvous Music"
09-10-1902 - Jim Crowley - Chicago, IL - d. 1-15-1986
football all-american: (One of the Four Horsemen) "Kate Smith Hour"
09-22-1907 - Sheppard Strudwick - Hillsboro, NC - d. 1-15-1983
actor: "Family Theatre"; "Odyssey of Homer"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-25-1905 - Red Smith - Green Bay, WI - d. 1-15-1982
sportscaster: "Al Schacht Sports Show"; "Bill Stern Sports News"
10-05-1919 - Robin Bailey - Hucknall, Nottingham, England - d. 1-15-1999
actor: "Tales from a Long Room"
10-07-1913 - Elizabeth Janeway - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-15-2005
writer: "Information Please"
11-01-1923 - Victoria de los Angeles - Barcelona, Spain - d. 1-15-2005
operatic soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
11-27-1902 - J. Scott Smart - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-15-1960
actor: Senator Bloat "Fred Allen Show"; Brad Runyon "Fat Man"
12-02-1898 - Peter Goo Chong - Miu, China - d. 1-15-1985
actor: "Collier's Hour"; "Eddie Cantor Show"; "This Day Is Ours"
12-09-1934 - Junior Wells - Memphis, TN - d. 1-15-1998
harmonica player: Muddy Waters Band
12-19-1923 - Gordon Jackson - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 1-15-1990
Freelance actor for the BBC
12-25-1885 - Doc Kendrick - Texas - d. 1-15-1975
guitar: "Bob Skyles and His Skyrockets"

Ron

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