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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2010 : Issue 9
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
He was a commentator on MBS during t [ Jonathan Scott <lotus@[removed] ]
Input needed on Suspense find [ rand@[removed] ]
Thoughts on NBC-TV [ Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@sbcgl ]
Full Dress Suit [ "Holm" <cbholm@[removed]; ]
1-16 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history 17-23 Jan [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Marginally [removed] new theme s [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
Heart-Throbs of the Hills [ guyotsmith@[removed] ]
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:28:02 -0500
From: Jonathan Scott <lotus@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: He was a commentator on MBS during the 1940s
My father, Alan Scott, was news commentator on the Mutual Broadcast
System originating out of Chicago during the 1940s with a break, of
course, during the war. Later he returned to his native Philadelphia
where he continued as a local radio commentator and later a TV
personality. His daily commentaries were a forerunner of the type
that Andy Rooney later brought to TV. One of his 1946 commentaries
can be heard on a new web site I've launched. The site also contains
some of his funny and insightful scripts. More to be added.
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-Jonathan Scott
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:29:18 -0500
From: rand@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Input needed on Suspense find
I recently picked up a "Suspense" disc set containing "Overture in Two
Keys" with Joan Bennett from January, 1947.
The set includes two different performances of the program - they're
posted on my blog and I'd appreciate input on what these two versions
might be (on air East coast/West coast, rehearsal, etc).
Thanks!
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rand
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well worth the player space. --cfs3]
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:29:33 -0500
From: Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Thoughts on NBC-TV
This certainly does not qualify in the same category as what Jim Cox referred
to, but I am reminded of the season when Hal Peary left The Great
Gildersleeve, and Willard Waterman took over the role. Peary went to CBS and
starred in his own series, Honest Harold. Because Willard Waterman's voice
was so much like Peary's, I do not think the general public was too aware of
the change. Of course, we radio buffs knew all about the change.
Stuart
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:29:45 -0500
From: "Holm" <cbholm@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Full Dress Suit
I have a question that's off topic, but it was raised by an episode of the
Jack Benny show, so I'm hoping it can skate by.
On an episode of Jack Benny I was listening to lately, Jack is talking on
the phone with Rochester. Jack is looking for his "full dress suit," which
Rochester turns out to be wearing. Jack wants it back, and Rochester
suggests he wear his Tuxedo instead.
My question is what exactly is a full dress suit? Google was initially
unhelpful, suggesting definitions like "a suit consisting of a full dress
jacket," or providing images from the 1800s.
Can someone describe what a full dress suit in the 1940s/late-1930s might
look like, and how it differed from a tuxedo?
Thanks,
Chris Holm
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:29:54 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 1-16 births/deaths
January 16th births
01-16-1878 - Harry Carey, Sr. - NYC - d. 9-21-1947
actor: "Lincoln Highway"; "Suspense"
01-16-1890 - Lloyd Bacon - San Jose, CA - d. 11-15-1955
film director: "Screen Guild Theatre"; " Screen Director's Pla
01-16-1895 - Irene Bordoni - Ajaccio, Corsica, France - d. 3-19-1953
singer: (The Coty Playgirl) "The RKO Hour"
01-16-1895 - John B. Kennedy - Quebec, Canada - d. 7-22-1961
commentator: "Collier's Hour"; "RCA Magic Key"
01-16-1901 - Sid Silvers - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-20-1976
actor: Beetle "Phil Baker Show"; "Jack Benny Program"
01-16-1907 - Alexander Knox - Strathroy, Ontario, Canada - d. 4-25-1995
actor: "Document A/777", BBC
01-16-1907 - John Hiestand - Madison, WI - d. 2-5-1987
announcer: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Cinnamon Bear"; "Feg Murray Show"
01-16-1909 - Ethel Merman - Astoria, NY - d. 2-15-1984
singer" "Ethel Merman Show"; "Home Front Matinee"
01-16-1910 - Dwight Weist - Palo Alto, CA - d. 7-16-1991
actor: Mr. District Attorney "Mr. District Attorney"
01-16-1910 - Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean - Lucas, AR - d. 7-17-1974
baseball broadcaster: (Baseball Hall of Fame) "Game of the Day"
01-16-1914 - Don Ettlinger - Detroit, MI - d. 8-6-2000
writer: "Railroad Hour"; "Our Miss Brooks"; "Doctor Fights"
01-16-1914 - Roger Wagner - Le Puy, France - d. 9-17-1992
chorale director: "It's Time for Johnny Mercer"; "America Sings"
01-16-1916 - Joe McMichael - Minneapolis, MN - d. 2-12-1944
singer: (The Merry Macs) "Bing Crosby Show"; "Fred Allen Show"
01-16-1916 - Norval Taborn - d. 1-23-1990
singer: (The Vagabonds) "The Breakfast Club"
01-16-1917 - Brainerd Duffield - Boston, MA - d. 4-5-1979
writer: "The Ford Theatre"
01-16-1917 - Buddy Lester - Chicago, IL - d. 10-4-2002
comedian: (Brother of Jerry Lester) "Connee Boswell Show"
01-16-1920 - Elliott Reid - NYC
actor: Biff Bradley "Pepper Young's Family"
01-16-1922 - Lina Romay - NYC
latin singer: "The Bing Crosby Show"; "The Dick Haymes Show"
01-16-1923 - Roy Lanham - Corbin, KY - d. 2-14-1991
guitar: "Plantation Boys"
01-16-1924 - Allen Swift - NYC
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
01-16-1924 - Katy Jurado - Guadalajara, Mexico - d. 7-5-2002
actor: "George Fisher Interviews the Stars"
01-16-1928 - Pilar Lorengar - Zaragoza, Spain - d. 6-2-1996
soprano: "Ondas Infantiles"
01-16-1929 - Popeye the Sailor - d. will live forever
cartoon character: "Popeye"
01-16-1947 - Michale Falconer Anderson - Aberdeen, Scotland
author of radio plays
January 16th deaths
02-12-1888 - Victor Kolar - Budapest, Hungary - d. 1-16-1957
conductor: "Ford Sunday Evening Hour"
02-16-1911 - "Curly" Noland - Tennessee - d. 1-16-1993
bass: "The Swift Jewel Cowboys"
03-23-1905 - Sidney Walton - Mississippi - d. 1-16-1958
announcer: "Arthur Tracy, Street Singer"; "Changing Times"
03-24-1907 - Martin Kosleck - Barkotzen, Germany - d. 1-16-1994
actor: "Treasury Star Parade"
03-25-1867 - Arturo Toscanini - Parma, Italy - d. 1-16-1957
conductor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"
04-21-1923 - John Mortimer - London, England - d. 1-16-2009
author: "Rumpole of the Bailey"
05-03-1907 - Earl Wilson - Rockford, OH - d. 1-16-1987
columnist: "Earl Wilson's Broadway Column"
06-13-1908 - Carl Eastman - NYC - d. 1-16-1970
actor: "Mrs. Miniver"; "Renfrew of the Mounted"
06-26-1913 - Jack Moyles - San Francisco, CA - d. 1-16-1973
actor: Major Daggett "Fort Laramie"; Rocky Jordan "A Man Named Jordan/
Rocky Jordan"
07-03-1930 - Robert Robertson - St. Andrews, Scotland - d. 1-16-2001
actor: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
07-20-1911 - Bill Dillard - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-16-1995
jazz trumpeter: "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts"; "Arthur Godfrey Time"
07-31-1892 - Herbert W. Armstrong - Des Moines, IA - d. 1-16-1986
preacher: "Plain Truth"; "The World Tomorrow"
09-01-1907 - Ray Barrett - NYC - d. 1-16-1973
announcer, newscaster: "Monitor"; "Talent Search, Country Style"
09-22-1875 - Guy Bates Post - Seattle, WA - d. 1-16-1968
actor: Ulysses S. Grant "Roses and Drums"
10-06-1908 - Carole Lombard - Fort Wayne, IN - d. 1-16-1942
actor: "The Circle"; "Hollywood Hotel"
10-10-1903 - Vernon Duke - Pskov, Russia - d. 1-16-1969
broadway composer: "Mildred Baily Show"; "Good News of 1940"; "March
of Time"
Ron
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:30:13 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 17-23 January
From Those Were The Days
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.
1/22
1956 Raymond Burr starred as Captain Lee Quince in the Fort Laramie
debut on CBS. The program was said to be in "the Gunsmoke tradition."
1/23
1937 In an article published in Literary Digest, Edgar Bergen
mentioned that he made his dummy pal, Charlie McCarthy, the beneficiary
of a $10,000 trust fund ($14,[removed] in 2007 dollars) to keep him in
serviceable condition and repair.
Joe
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:31:58 -0500
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Marginally [removed] new theme song
Folks;
I have a new personal theme [removed] only mention it here because the
first two lines of the song deal directly with this hobby.
(Who the heck am I [removed] mention it here because I'm mentioning it
everywhere! I mean, c'[removed] theme song!!!)
Check out the blog at [removed] for the bizarre tale of
how I managed to have Jill Sobule write the theme song of my life - scroll
down if it's no longer the top entry, or search for "theme" if you're reading
the archives many years hence. ;)
Charlie
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:07:35 -0500
From: guyotsmith@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Heart-Throbs of the Hills
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For the past 50 years, I have very unsuccessfully sought the possible
whereabouts of a series of at least 52 NBC Program Services transcriptions of
"Heart-Throbs of the Hills," a show created and written by my grandmother,
Ethel Park Richardson. The quarter-hour syndicated series was produced in
1939 and 1940, and was run on various stations throughout the 1940s. In all
these years, I have actually seen only one of the syndicated double-sided
discs, which bore an attractive red, white, and blue label. It was in the NBC
library, along with acetates of three other episodes. This material was
subsequently turned over to the Library of Congress. I've never heard of
the
existence of any other discs from this series.
My grandmother arrived in New York with a letter of recommendation from
WDOD in Chattanooga just as NBC was beginning. She created and wrote a number
of series, remaining connected to NBC for some fifteen years. At the same
time, she did shows on numerous New York stations such as WOR, and briefly
had a series on CBS. Although primarily a writer, she played character parts
on her own shows and also worked on some other shows as an actress.
"Hillbilly Heart-throbs" premiered on NBC in 1933. Each week, my
grandmother dramatized a folk song or a hillbilly piece she had found in her
Appalachian travels. Anne Elstner, Curtis Arnall, Agnes Moorehead, Helen
Clare,
Dick Kollmar, Bud Collyer, and countless others enacted the dramatic roles,
while the musical bridges connecting the stories were sung by the
incomparable Frank Luther Trio. A sustaining series, the title was changed to
"Heart-Throbs of the Hills," in the hope of attracting sponsorship. Still
later,
the title became "Dreams of Long Ago," with the Vass Family providing the
musical settings. After nearly six years as a sustaining series, the
program was retired. In 1939, however, a special series of quarter-hour shows
was
recorded for syndication by NBC. Less impressively produced, the
syndicated series featured Bob Porterfield, Bobby Strauss, The Song Spinners
and
others. Scripts were re-edited from the half-hour network version.
I have lots of 16" transcription sleeves which advertise "Heart-Throbs of
the Hills" as a series available from NBC, but I have only held one of
actual syndicated discs in my hands in my lifetime. Do any copies of these
transcriptions yet exist, outside of the one at the Library of Congress? Were
absolutely all of them scrapped and destroyed? So many programs of that
vintage exist, at least in part, and yet I have never known of a collector
who
ever saw a "Heart-Throbs of the Hills" disc. If any reader has seen or
heard rumors of the existence of any of these syndicated recordings
(excluding the five episodes in the Library of Congress), the news would be
welcomed
with unbridled enthusiasm.
Best regards,
Jonathan
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