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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 196
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Beverly Sills                         [ "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@hotm ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
      OTR on MP3 dvds                       [ "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@run ]
      Summer Ramblings                      [ "randy story" <hopharrigan@centuryt ]
      Long John Nebel                       [ Default <swl2010@[removed]; ]
      Imagination Theatre                   [ lawrence albert <albertlarry@yahoo. ]
      7-5 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Ball game Recreations                 [ chris chandler <chrischandler84@yah ]
      Jack Benny Actress to Visit Tillsonb  [ seandd@[removed] ]
      RE: Long John Nebel                   [ "kierniesky" <kierniesky@[removed] ]

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    Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 23:55:43 -0400
    From: "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Beverly Sills

    In addition to her appearances with Major Bowes and the RINSO commercials,
    the NY Times obit for Ms. Sills mentions that she also appeared in 36
    episodes of "Our Gal Sunday".

    [removed];_r=1&ref=obituaries

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    Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 23:56:07 -0400
    From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
    To: <[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
    Theater," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The Glowing
    Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."  Streamed in high-quality audio,
    on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
    Many new titles added to our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
    [removed]
    =======================================

    SAME TIME, SAME STATION

    Independence Day Celebration

    THE TELEPHONE HOUR
    7-2-45   Guest: Bing Crosby
    Featuring Donald Voorhees and the Bell Telephone Hour orchestra

    BELIEVE IT OR NOT
    Episode 50 7-5-38 "Independence Day In July"
    NBC General Foods
    Tuesday's 10:00 - 10:30 pm
    HOST: Robert Ripley
    MUSIC: [removed] Rolfe Orchestra, Linda Lee

    YOU ARE THERE
    Episode 37    7-4-48   "The Declaration of Independence" July 4th, 1776

    DOUBLE OR NOTHING
    7-3-42    Guest: Pat Rooney
    Special Independence Day Program
    MUTUAL FEEN-A-MINT
    Fridays 9:30 - 10:00 pm
    HOST: Walter Compton

    ==================================

    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    CAVALCADE OF AMERICA
    CBS    3/4/36 - "Songs That Inspired America" - Did you know Stephen Foster
    was born on the 4th of July?

    LUKE SLAUGHTER OF TOMBSTONE
    CBS    3/28/58 "The Homesteader" - stars: Sam Buffington as Luke.

    BOOKSHELF REVIEW
    Fred Waring by his wife, Virginia.
    Hear the song about the Statue of Liberty, included in the book.

    RADIO PREVIEWS THE MOVIES
    1935 - MGM "Leo Is On The Air" previews the Ted Lewis movie, "Here Comes the
    Band"

    ====================================

    THE GLOWING DIAL

    Lux Radio Theatre - "So Proudly We Hail"
    originally aired November 1, 1943 on CBS
    Starring: Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts,
    Les Tremayne, Regina Wallace, Catherine Craig, Trudy Morrison, Dorothy
    Scott, Marjorie Davies, Fred MacKaye, Leo Cleary, Boyd Davis, Charles Seel,
    Norman Field, Howard McNear, Ed Emerson.  John Milton Kennedy announcing.
    Cecil B. DeMille hosting.
    Based on the Paramount film directed by Mark Sandrich.
    Sponsor: Lux Soap

    Cal Stewart as Uncle Josh Weathersby in "The Fourth Of July At Pun'kin
    Center"
    originally released July, 1911
    on Edison Amberol Cylinder 4M-734

    Cal Stewart as Uncle Josh Weathersby in "Uncle Josh At The Statue Of
    Liberty"
    originally released in 1898
    probably on a Berliner 7" Disc

    Lux Radio Theatre - "Salute To The Marines"
    originally aired November 8, 1943 on CBS
    Starring: Wallace Beery, Fay Bainter, Noah Beery, Keye Luke, Louise Arthur,
    Alex Havier, Charlie Lung, Robert Harris, Paula Winslowe, Tommy Cook, Dix
    Davis, Fred MacKaye, Charles Seel, Stanley Farrar, Jack Mather, Ed Emerson,
    Howard McNear, Cliff Arnett, Tyler McVey, Eddie Marr.  John Milton Kennedy
    announcing.  Cecil B. DeMille hosting.
    Based on the MGM film directed by S. Sylvan Simon.
    Sponsor: Lux Soap

    ==================================

    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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    Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 23:56:30 -0400
    From: "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OTR on MP3 dvds

    Hello, the sound quality on mp3 dvd is no worse nor better than the quality
    of the actual mp3 itself. The dvd is just a bigger storage medium. You can
    fit about six and a half discs worth of stuff, any kind of data, onto a dvd.
    So if you had six cd-roms of documents, they could all fit onto one dvd. The
    reason most collectors don't list the dates for shows on mp3 dvd is because
    you're usually getting the whole series. If the whole series doesn't fit
    onto one dvd, such as Suspense, then you'd just get the second dvd of the
    series. It sure cuts down on disc storage, or space in those cd books.
    However, be aware that most dvd players, except newer or high-end ones,
    won't play dvds which have mp3s on them, but may do just fine with mp3 cds.
    Hopefully a seller of these dvd collections has the good sense to keep the
    folder structure, so that if you need to burn mp3 cds from the dvds, you can
    just burn the disc 1 folder, and so on. Otherwise, you have to manually
    select each file to burn to a disc. I hope this answers your questions in a
    thorough manner.
    Thanks a lot.
    Matthew

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    Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 23:56:59 -0400
    From: "randy story" <hopharrigan@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Summer Ramblings
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    Hi-ho, radio fans.
    Just a few items this time around.
    I was reading the recent posting about the show called "Long John Nebel" and
    was wondering if anyone could tell me about it. Sounds like something I would
    be interested in hearing.
    I heard the wonderful Greg Bell mention on the XM radio OTR channel that a new
    book about Lum and Abner is coming this September! Can anyone tell me about
    this or direct me to a source that can provide me with information about its
    publication(costs, etc.)?
    Finally, I am still looking for some "Hopalong Cassidy" radio scripts to use
    in recreations and such. I am also looking for either reprinted(or
    inexpensive) copies of comic books that were based on radio shows and
    vice-versa.
    Contact me through email off-digest if you can help me with any of these
    things.
    I'm of for now. I just spent my Independence Day mowing my lawn with a push
    mower; the rider mower gave up the ghost Monday. It is [removed] degrees and very
    humid and my body is telling me to stop acting like a kid!
    *Sigh*
    Gettin' ole ain't fer sissies, younguns' :(

    Bye all,
    Randy Story

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    Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 00:00:51 -0400
    From: Default <swl2010@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Long John Nebel

    Long John Nebel was an utterly fascinating character.  He started as an
    Atlantic City huckster on the boardwalk selling small tin orange juicers
    which he made himself in his rented room at night for pennies and sold
    for a decent profit.  "You squeeze a little, you get a little - you
    squeeze a lot - you get a lot!"   If he was one thing, he was a salesman
    and he could sell anything to anyone.

    Before radio he had an auction house in New Jersey called "Long John's
    Auction House," where; like many auction houses of the day he would talk
    up cheap items and inflate the prices.  He ran afoul of the police who
    claimed an auction house was illegal.  He then proclaimed the business
    "Long John's Action House," in the media and business went on as usual.
    This was a man who could think on his feet.

    The story goes that a WOR executive had heard of him and knew he could
    talk a good talk.  At the time WOR had just fired Jean Shepherd from the
    all night show (1956 I believe) for the infamous "Sweetheart Soap,"
    affair ( [removed] ).
    The station needed a quick replacement and Long John was hired.

    He broadcast out of the old WOR transmitter shack in Carteret, NJ.  I
    have not heard any of those programs and do not believe any exist but
    from later recounting including Nebel himself he primarily broadcast
    program with fringe weirdos, UFO fanatics and the like.  Later he
    gradually began integrating more mainstream topics into his programs.

    In the early sixties WNBC had started building one of the early all-talk
    radio stations and expressed interest in Nebel.  For some reason he
    didn't want to leave WOR so before his meeting with WNBC he went in to
    management and told them about the meeting and asked for a twenty-five
    dollar raise.  WOR balked and said no and Nebel met with the WNBC exec's
    and to his shock was offered a sizable amount of money - far more than
    he was making at WOR.  For all his street smarts he apparently did not
    understand his worth or of the sizable audience he had attracted.

    Nebel went to WNBC and I discovered him shortly after he arrived there.
    He did five hours of talk from  midnight to five am six nights a week
    with a taped rerun on Sundays.  His program had developed a significant
    following.  He was a charismatic, cultish personality.  Once you started
    listening to him you got hooked quickly.  He began to have a nightly
    panel of fans of his program who had contacted him and several appeared
    as regulars for years afterwards - people from advertising, insurance
    sales, and other businesses maintained their successful full-time
    careers, catching a few hours sleep and then spending five nights a week
    on this fascinating talk show.

    He had many interesting and weired guests on his program including famed
    pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht, Jean Shepherd, and many others who not
    notable were great guests (I cannot remember others - it's been quite a
    long time).  Two come to mind Father Gomar Depauw, who founded the
    Catholic Traditionalist movement once gave a verbal picture of hell that
    kept this (then) twelve year old up for nights - not unlike Jonathan
    Edwards famous sermon.  The other is the incredible program with Betty
    and Barney Hill, the famous couple who claimed they were abducted by
    aliens (this was well before the book and subsequent movie).  If you
    were a Nebel guest you would be there for hours.  I'm not sure about Art
    Bell, but Nebel was a skeptic and an atheist.  He never let that show.
    He practiced all he learned huckstering on the boardwalk and made you
    believe he took all of this seriously.

    Nebel became a valuable personality to WNBC.  At one point, besides his
    six night five-hour program he did a nightly show called "Long John
    Nebel [removed]" at 8:00 pm, the Long John Nebel Addio Show at 10:30 pm
    and I beleive he may have done a saturday evening program as well.

    Divorced, in the sixties he lived in Manhattan and took his meals
    nightly in a restaurant, a practice he continued after marrying former
    model and alleged ex-CIA spy Candy Jones (she claims after having
    hypnosis that she was brain washed by the CIA and forced to spy).  His
    personal life always seemed very dysfunctional to me.

    Nebel was at his best when he sold the advertisers products.  For years
    he sold a certain brand of locks that supposedly were pick-proof.  I
    believed it until one day a locksmith told me they were were junk.  He
    also sold a brand of spring water.  He would create these word-pictures
    about the products using key words.  This water at the time was only
    available through delivery in five-gallon bottles.  When he talked about
    it you got thirsty.  A few years after advertising the water company
    started selling water in stores.  I bought a bottle and it was mediocre
    at best.  But the images he conjured.  This was a master salesman.

    Probably the most infamous commercial he did was for a "Sand Dollar"
    pendent.  These commercials went on for three or four minutes.  In all
    his boardwalk splendor this atheist spoke of the spiritual and religious
    benefits of owning and wearing this Sand Dollar.  He would finish the
    commercial:  "Would you do me a personal [removed] you purchase the
    Sand Dollar and wear it and if you experience life changing events, if
    you are blessed, would you please write me and let me know.  I would
    appreciate it very much?"

    WNBC changed to music in 1970 and by 1972 Nebel had gone to WMCA where
    he hosted his show along with his new wife Candy Jones.  In the
    mid-seventies Mutual had picked-up Nebel,s show and syndicated it.
    Unfortunately Nebel was diagnosed with Cancer and he passed away.
    Mutual replaced him with Larry King (if I have my history correct) who
    was at the time a local radio host.

    I cannot tell you what a unique, infectious and addicting personality
    Nebel was.  This post doesn't do him justice and he is all but forgotten.

    Your library may have this book:  "Long John Nebel: Radio Talk King ,
    Master Salesman, Magnificent Charlatan," by Donald Bain.  You can get it
    cheap used on Amazon.

    DR

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    Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 00:02:35 -0400
    From: lawrence albert <albertlarry@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Imagination Theatre
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    I have the best job an actor who happens to be a collector of OTR can have in
    this world. I spend 40 to 50 hours a week producing, with my friend and
    Seattle radio legend Jim French. One of the best things about this job is the
    level of acceptance around the country for what we do. Oh, and before I
    forget I'm going to reveal a truly badly kept secret. We don't produce the
    show in Seattle, actually we do most of it in our studio in Bellevue and four
    times a year in the neighboring community of Kirkland. We haven't recorded a
    show in Seattle for many years. Don't tell anyone.

       Because we use many of the techniques that were first established in the
    Golden Age we are often compared with OTR, sometimes favorably sometimes not.
    It really doesn't matter because we know we're not trying to emulate OTR. Our
    goal is to tell good stories, with the best actors we can hire and by using
    sound effects and music to help paint the picture in the minds of the
    listeners. Wait! Isn't that what went on during the Golden years? Yes it was,
    just the films of today have the same basic goals as those of yesterday, to
    entertain, to make us think on occasion and finally and really most
    importantly, to make money, lots of money.

       The difference between OTR and what we do is how we do it and what type of
    stories we select to record. True many of the our scripts do have the
    familiar taste of OTR to them but many of them would never have been approved
    by the censors of old. Recently we did a murder mystery where one of the
    victims was a child abuser, a pedophile. The character was dead before the
    show started and we didn't do any flashbacks to show him in any light
    whatsoever. To top that off he was murdered along with one of his latest
    victims at the same time. Why kill the victim of an abuser? Because she
    happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. what was the goal of the
    murderer? She wanted to kill the monster who had driven her little sister to
    suicide and to have the blame placed on the abuser's wife to punish her for
    not stopping this evil man's actions. This is definitely not a show that
    would have played on OTR. It was one of our highest rated shows and we're
    very proud of it.

        Not every script we do has such power, we're not here to enlighten people
    we do what we do to entertain, for the most part. However, unlike much of OTR
    we can take on such subjects with only our own sense of what will play and
    what won't to guide us. My mantra is "The only thing you can't or shouldn't
    do on radio is a mime act."

      If any one has any questions they like answered then write me off the
    digest. By the way on our website we have set up a forum page for those of
    you who want to talk about anything we do or about Sherlock Holmes or Harry
    Nile etc, etc. Just go to [removed] . Thanks to Charlie for the use
    of the hall.
      Larry Albert

    Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha!

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    Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 00:02:42 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-5 births/deaths

    July 5th births

    07-05-1879 - Wanda Landowska - Warsaw, Poland - d. 8-16-1959
    harpsichordist: "New York Philharmonic"
    07-05-1898 - Richard P. Condie - d. 12-22-1985
    director mormon tabernacle choir: "Music and the Spoken Word"
    07-05-1899 - Tim Ryan - Bayonne, NJ - d. 10-22-1956
    actor: "Tim and Irene Show"
    07-05-1902 - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. - Nahant, MA - d. 2-27-1985
    [removed] senator: "Information Please"
    07-05-1903 - Hester Sondergaard - Minnesota - d. 2-26-1994
    actor: (Sister of Gale Sondergaard) "Columbia Presents Corwin";
    "Studio One"
    07-05-1904 - Don Goddard - Binghamton, NY - d. 3-20-1994
    news commentator: "The Goodyear Rubber Company's Farm Radio News"
    07-05-1905 - John Abbott - London, England - d. 5-24-1996
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-05-1908 - Don Dunphy - NYC - d. 7-22-1998
    boxing play-by-play broadcaster: "Joe Louis vs. Billy Conn
    6-18-1941"; "Navy Relief Program"
    07-05-1911 - Richard Newton - Vancouver, Canada - d. 1-13-2006
    actor: "Now Hear This"
    07-05-1921 - Mort Fega - d. 1-21-2005
    long time jazz disc jockey in New York
    07-05-1928 - Beverly Tyler - Scranton, PA - d. 11-23-2005
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-05-1930 - Tommy Cook - Duluth, MN
    actor: Little Beaver "Red Ryder"; Alexander Busmtead "Blondie";
    Chester A. Riley, Jr. "Life of Riley"
    07-05-1934 - Katherine Helmond - Galveston, TX
    actor: [removed] Theatre Works "Night Mother"
    07-05-1936 - Shirley Knight - Goessel, KS
    Sang with the Horace Heidt Orchestra on Wichita Radio at the age of 8
    07-05-1940 - Curcy H. (Bud) Andrews, Jr.
    musical director: KSEL Lubbock, TX

    July 5th deaths

    01-01-1919 - Carole Landis - Fairchild, WI - d. 7-5-1948
    actor: "Warner Brothers Academy Award"; "Command Performance"
    01-10-1919 - Amzie Strickland - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 7-5-2006
    actor: "The Fat Man"; "The Shadow"; "Brownstone Theatre"
    01-16-1924 - Katy Jurado - Guadalajara, Mexico - d. 7-5-2002
    actor: "George Fisher Interviews the Stars"
    01-19-1905 - Anne Hummert - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-5-1996
    producer: "Backstage Wife"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
    01-25-1901 - Mildred Dunnock - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-5-1991
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    03-15-1916 - Harry James - Albany, GA - d. 7-5-1983
    bandleader: "Spotlight Bands"; "Call for Music"
    05-26-1911 - Ben Alexander - Goldfield, NV - d. 7-5-1969
    actor: Frank Smith "Dragnet"; Bashful Ben "Great Gildersleeve"
    08-30-1918 - Ted Williams, San Diego, CA - d. 7-5-2002
    baseball superstar: Several interview shows
    10-03-1898 - Leo McCarey - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-5-1969
    judge: "This Is My Story"
    12-08-1915 - Ernest Lehman - NYC - d. 7-5-2005
    writer: "Forecast"
    12-25-1914 - Peter Kalischer - NYC - d. 7-5-1991
    correspondent, writer: "CBS News"; "Cavalcade of America"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 08:20:22 -0400
    From: chris chandler <chrischandler84@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Ball game Recreations

    Hey [removed]

    I've come across discs of a October, 1947 Professional
    Basketball League game (Louisville Colonels versus
    Springfield Squires!).  There's no crowd noise, no
    buzzer, no ref's whistle.  However, there *is* clearly
    a teletype two or three feet from where the
    announcer's sitting.  Me strongly suspects the
    announcer isn't really at the game.

    I've never researched it or thought about it much, but
    I personally would have guessed 1947 was kinda late to
    to pulling the old "recreation" setup, or for
    listeners to fall for it.  Yes?  No?  Anybody have
    info on how widespread this practice was, and how
    late?

    Chris

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    Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 10:09:05 -0400
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Benny Actress to Visit Tillsonberg, Ontario

    Kate Phillips, an actress in the "Buck Benny Rides Again" film that featured
    the Jack Benny Show cast, will visit Tillsonburg Ontario tonight, July 5, to
    meet fans.

    Details are below.

    [removed]

    In other Canadian Jack Benny news, a Canadian TV fan website reports that the
    sixth season of "Make Room for Daddy" starring Danny Thomas will shortly be
    on DVD.  That season features a guest appearance by Benny.  If its the
    episode I've seen, Jack reveals he sold his soul to the devil in order for
    audiences to find all of his minimalist catch-phrases (Yipe, Well, etc.)
    hysterical.

    The devil makes the same deal with Danny Thomas, who thence is granted "Gee,"
    as a similar opportunity.  I saw the show at MOTR in New York several years
    ago and only remember it so well, but my impression at the time was that
    Thomas' writers weren't up to writing for Benny and that it was an
    average-at-best episode.  Benny's guest appearance on Here's Lucy, which was
    written by a veteran of Benny's own writing staff, was a lot better.

    [removed]

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 11:39:58 -0400
    From: "kierniesky" <kierniesky@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: Long John Nebel

    Bob Davis wrote:

>     Recently I came across an Old Time Radio paranormal show called "Long John
>     Nebel". Are there many of these shows available to the public today? The
>     show sounds like a precurser to todays Art Bell and some others.
>     Any opinions or information about Long John?

    John Nebel is indeed considered by many to the precursor to all night talk
    shows about weird topics (beyond weird politics!).  Donald Bain wrote a
    biography, Long John Nebel, in 1974 that you might track down. Long John
    wrote his own book, The Way Out World, in 1961.   Schmidco has tapes for
    sale of Long John's programs about flying saucers. I know of bits and pieces
    of other shows that are available, but I also would like to know if other
    extensive Long John program libraries are available.  This material kept me
    up at nights, during my misspent youth.

    Others on this site know much about Long John. I believe at least one of
    them used to work for him.

    -Nik Kierniesky
    Gettysburg

    "Most people my age are dead at the present time, and you could look it up."
    ----Casey Stengel

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