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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2013 : Issue 23
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Jack Benny minutiae                   [ <radioaz@[removed]; ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:20:11 -0500
    From: <radioaz@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Jack Benny minutiae

    Listened to several Benny episodes while on the road recently, and two
    things have me curious.

    First, the theme strikes me as the comingling of two songs.  The first few
    bars sound like they come from George M. Cohan's "I'm a Yankee Doodle
    Dandy."  Then it segues smoothly into "Love in Bloom."  Is that what it
    actually was, or is there some other explanation for they way it sounds?

    Second, at the beginning of the show Don Wilson always introduced the cast
    by saying "starring Jack Benny, with Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day,
    Rochester, Phill Harris and me, Don WIlson."  Everybody gets listed by their
    name except Eddie Anderson, he gets billed by the name of his character.
    Anyone know why that was done?

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    Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:20:16 -0500
    From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
    To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi Friends,

    Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
    may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
    Radio Theatre," John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane
    Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios," Charlie St George's "Make Believe
    Ballroom Time" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics." Streamed in
    high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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    OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

    *The Radio Detectives*

    ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE
    Episode 72 2-21-51 "The Ladies Night"
    Stars: Gerald Mohr
    CBS Sustained

    YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR
    Episode 607 9-28-58 "The Gruesome Spectacle Matter"
    Stars: Bob Bailey
    CBS Sustaining

    RICHARD DIAMOND, PRIVATE DETECTIVE
    Episode 47 3-26-50 "Sidewalk Photographer - Card & The Negative"
    STARS: Dick Powell
    NBC Sustained

    THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE
    Episode 4 8-2-46 "Sam And The Psyche"
    STARS: Howard Duff, Lurene Tuttle
    ABC Sustained
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    HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

    THE LINEUP
    (CBS) 10/08/52 Bill Johnstone stars with Raymond Burr, Virginia Gregg
    and a swell cast in a kidnapping story.

    MY FRIEND IRMA
    (CBS/AFRS) 05/07/51 Marie Wilson is Irma. Complex plot with dogs and
    secretaries looking for help.

    HERE'S TO VETERANS
    (VA Synd) 1950 Frankie Carle and His Orch. >From a 1st gen. disk. Franie
    introduces a brand-new song.

    EXTRA
    The NET does a spoof on KRAFT Theatre commercials. "The Heritage 4th of
    July Loaf" using lots of good KRAMP lube!!
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    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    We continue to feature Ellvia Allman as our performer of the month.
    Here is a show that was heard only on the Armed Forces Radio network.

    GI JOURNAL
    from 01[removed] Episode) (077) Guest - Jack Carson.

    We next look at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as we listen to 3 stories he
    wrote. Two were about Sherlock Holmes and the other was equally suspenseful.

    ESCAPE
    from 02/12/49 Episode (055) Lost Special.

    SHERLOCK HOLMES
    from 10/03/48 Episode (004) Frightened Bookkeeper. It stars John Stanley.

    SHERLOCK HOLMES
    starring Ben Wright and Eric Snowden, from 03/22/50 Episode) (27) The
    Duke Of Hollywell.
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    CLASSICS & CURIOS

    "Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

    Episode 68

    CLASSICS & CURIOS PRESENTS A JULIUS LA ROSA INTERVIEW

    This week let's do an interview with one of the finest song phrasing
    vocalists since Frank Sinatra: Julius La Rosa. This is an interview
    which originally aired on [removed] in the year 2006. The
    interviewers are Bill Bragg and Walden Hughes, with a call-in from yours
    truly.

    The first 20 minutes or so focuses on a clip from the Arthur Godfrey
    radio show in 1953, the show on which Arthur fires Julius, that
    unpretentious kid from Brooklyn, while the show was still on the air!
    Following the clip, Julius fills in many details concerning the firing
    with additional background and also relates what transpired after the
    firing. Of course, Godfrey's character is in the discussion, and Julie
    is gracious as well as frank. He contrasts Godfrey, the man, with
    Godfrey's music director and Julius' mentor Archie Bleyer.

    Julius traces his career from his time with a navy band to the challenge
    of learning his craft and becoming a professional on stage, including a
    bit of advice from Ella Fitzgerald, who later called him "the most
    underrated singer in America."

    He talks about his family, Perry Como, and his recordings, such as
    "Anywhere I Wander," his first, along with "My Lady Loves to Dance" and,
    of course, his popular "Eh Cumpari." Later in the interview we get to
    hear a portion of "Smile" and his entire recording of "Moonriver." In
    between Julius eloquently discusses and illustrates the art of song
    phrasing or the art of making sense and meaning out of musical notes,
    which is a highlight for me.

    Julius closes by declaring that he feels that he fulfilled Godfrey's
    original expectation for him to become a professional performer of note
    in what Julius calls the "Sinatra school." The song "Eh Cumpari," as
    Julie explains on his website, means "Hey, Neighbor, I Want to Sing,"
    and that exactly describes his approach to life, which he calls "Lucky,
    very lucky. I'm talking about my whole life, not merely my professional
    career." On his website Julie says, "I always loved music; I always
    loved singing, and fortunately, I still do." And from me and the fans of
    the "Sinatra school," we love you and the way you have brought so much
    joy to so many with so much charm, enthusiasm, and mastery of your craft. .

    Make Believe Ballroom Time

    Episode 6

    Today, BBSS is featuring Chuck Foster and his "Music in the Foster
    Fashion" They are broadcasting from the Hotel New Yorker in NY City. The
    New Yorker Hotel is located in Manhattan's Garment Center, central to
    Pennsylvania Station, Madison Square Garden, Times Square and the Empire
    State Building. An early ad for the building boasted that the hotel's
    "bell boys were 'as snappy-looking as West Pointers'" and "that it had a
    radio in every room with a choice of four stations" It was a New Yorker
    bellboy who served as tobacco company Phillip Morris' pitchman for
    twenty years, making famous their "Call for Phillip Morris" advertising
    campaign.

    Throughout the 1940s and 1950s the hotel was among New York's most
    fashionable and hosted many popular Big Bands, such as Benny Goodman and
    Tommy Dorsey, while notable figures such as Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford
    and Fidel Castro stayed there. The New York Observer noted that in the
    building's heyday, "actors, celebrities, athletes, politicians,
    mobsters, the shady and the luminous-the entire Brooklyn Dodgers roster
    during the glory seasons-would stalk the bars and ballrooms, or romp
    upstairs".

    Some say the Foster band copied the style of Guy Lombardo's successful
    and popular Royal [removed] Reed player Chuck Foster began his career
    as a bandleader in 1938, bringing the sweet (and sometimes syrupy)
    sounds of his band to such sizeable venues as San Francisco's Mark
    Hopkins Hotel and the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel's famous Biltmore Bowl.

    With radio remotes routinely being broadcast from both locations, the
    band hit its stride early and quickly achieved popularity with the help
    of talented pianist Hal Pruden and a raft of popular vocalists.

    The Foster band is appearing on BBSS in a remote broadcast from the
    Hotel New Yorker in NY City. It's mid-August 1945 just prior to Chuck
    Foster being drafted into the WWII military.
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    If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

    Jerry Haendiges

    Jerry@[removed] 562-696-4387
    The Vintage Radio Place [removed]
    Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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