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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2006 : Issue 181
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
More on Spry & Aunt Jenny: "Rely on [ Herb Harrison <herbop@[removed] ]
future of Media Bay [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
Detectives' Significant Others [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@j ]
Historic July 1st [ Russ Butler <songbook2@[removed]; ]
Re: Butterfly On Jack Benny [ Natalie <nmclain@[removed]; ]
Milton Katims [ "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@earthli ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
Playing Detective [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
Milton [removed] [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
Re: Detectives' Significant Others [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
Inside Detective's Off-Screen Wife [ "Dan Wildt" <dwildt@[removed]; ]
Fred Allen book [ Illoman <illoman@[removed]; ]
7-3 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Re; Old song question [ "Paul F. Murphy" <pfmurphy@[removed]; ]
Milton Katims [ "Russell W. Miller" <rwm@classical7 ]
Fibber McGee- Later Show Tapes [ "Marty" <md64@[removed]; ]
Vicki Vola [ "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@m ]
Peg Lynch radio show from the 1970s [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
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Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:47:10 +0000
From: Herb Harrison <herbop@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: More on Spry & Aunt Jenny: "Rely on Spry"
I'm not sure if this site was mentioned earlier, but you can go to
[removed]'s/Aunt%20Jenny's%20Real%20Life%[removed]
for an overview of the Spry Shortening sponsorship of Aunt Jenny's show.
This is one page of a site that talks about "
Selling Stuff During the Golden Age of Radio":
[removed].
Very interesting.
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Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:47:33 +0000
From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: future of Media Bay
Hi Everybody,
I was reading the last two press release on Media Bay from their web site.
Its look like the next 90 days might be very big for the company. If they
decide to start selling their assets. I hope for the good of the OTR
hobby that they would consider selling their OTR holding to people or clubs
that love the hobby and would make sure the collection would be available
to people down the road. The press release mention that they will try other
ways beside selling their assets to keep the company going. Media Bay is
the parent company of Radio Spirit, Media Bay web site for investor
information is [removed] Take care,
Walden Hughes
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Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:47:41 +0000
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Detectives' Significant Others
Frank McGurn, playing detective, indicated which OTR detectives were
married. Among his observations,
>
>The Fat Man Who would have him.
>
What a slur on Bradford Runyan! Since The Fat Man was captured on film,
it can be seen that he was nattily dressed and a good dancer. The OTR
actor, J. Scott Smart, played the role in the film, thus illustrating
what Brad Runyan looked like.
>
>The Shadow - was he detective ? no wife, but Lamont
>had the lovely Margo Lane for years "Friend".
>
"Friend and companion" or "friendly companion." By the time Brett
Morrison played the role (the definitive Lamont Cranston, IMHO), Lamont
and Margo were addressing each other as "darling." Very good friends,
one presumes.
Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:48:01 +0000
From: Russ Butler <songbook2@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Historic July 1st
July 1st 1941 is reported to be the date of the first, US commercial
television program on Channel One from The Empire State Building in
NYC. The development of TV was interrupted by WWII until 1946 when there
were just 30 TV stations, now there are 1,349 commercial TV stations in the US.
Would anyone know what that first TV program was on NBC, 65 years ago?
Was it a radio broadcast with a TV camera? Did the 1941 NBC radio shows or
other news broadcasts mention the new technology? Fred Allen did later in
the 1940's, of course, on his network programs, annoying the NBC vice
presidents.
=Russ Butler songbook2@[removed]
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Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:48:09 +0000
From: Natalie <nmclain@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Butterfly On Jack Benny
>I never heard or read that she was related to Eddie Anderson.
I don't believe she was related to Eddie Anderson. However, on the
Jack Benny Show, the character Butterfly (Mary's maid) was related to
Rochester. She was his niece.
Natalie McLain
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Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:48:19 +0000
From: "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Milton Katims
In addition to all the things he did on radio as a conductor for many
programs, he also played principle viola with the NBC Symphony under
Toscanini, and in later years was the head of the Shepherd School of Music
at Rice University here in Houston. I don't know his current whereabouts ,
but I have not heard that he passed away either.
joe salerno
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Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:49:15 +0000
From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK
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Independence Day Special
CAVALCADE OF AMERICA
Episode 338 7-5-43 "Listen To the People"
Stars: Ethel Barrymore
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Episode 34 6-30-51 "July Fourth Picnic"
STARS: Monty Woolley, Anne Seymour, Pert Kelton
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Nat Hiken
ANNOUNCER: Don Pardo
ORGANIST: Jack Ward
PAUL WHITEMAN PRESENTS
Episode 5 7-4-43 Guests: The Original Rhythm Boys
Stars: Dinah Shore
The Original Rhythm Boys: Bing Crosby, Harry Barris and Al Rinker
MR. PRESIDENT
Episode 106 7-3-49 "Man Without A Country"
ABC SUSTAINED Sundays 2:30 - 3:00 pm
STARS: Edward Arnold, Betty Lou Gerson, William Conrad
ANNOUNCER: Owen James
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Dick Woolen
SCRIPTS: Jean Holloway, Bernard Dougall
==================================
HERITAGE RADIO THEATER
CONVERSATION
(NBC) 1956 Fred Allen and host, Clifton Fadiman in a broadcast shortly
after Fred's death from a tape of 1954.
ABIE'S IRISH ROSE
(NBC) 2/13/43 Abie is locked in a contract with Flanagan & Rosenberg.
GUEST STAR
(US Treasury/Synd) Host, Les Tremayne, introduces guest, Frank Sinatra
whose songs include: "Great Day" and "You'll Never Walk Alome"
====================================
THE GLOWING DIAL
Big John and Steve do a very dubious celebrity impression
by saying "Judy, Judy, Judy"!
Featuring five shows, all featuring a famous (or not so famous) Judy.
Judy and Jane - [Audition Show] "The Marijuana Plot"
Recorded in 1942 for possible Syndication
No cast information is available however it is known that Jack Brinkley was
the announcer.
The show was written and narrated by Irving Vendig.
Sponsor: none
A Date With Judy - "Frank Sinatra"
originally aired March 20, 1945 on NBC
Starring: Louise Erickson, Richard Crenna, Myra Marsh, John Brown, Dix
Davis, Frank Sinatra, Marvin Miller announcing.
Sponsor: Tums
The Judy Canova Show - "Jailed For Breaking Into Cary Grant's House"
originally aired October 12, 1943 on CBS
Starring: Judy Canova, Ruby Dandridge, Mel Blanc, Eddie Dean, Ken Niles
announcing.
Sponsor: Colgate
The Abbott & Costello Show - "Judy Canova"
originally aired January 6, 1944 on NBC
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Connie Haines, Elvia Allman, Mel Blanc,
Freddie Rich and his Orchestra, Judy Canova, Ken Niles announcing.
Sponsor: Camel Cigarettes
The Bob Hope Show - "Judy Garland"
originally aired March 7, 1939 on NBC
Starring: Bob Hope, Jerry Colonna, Patsy Kelly, Elvia Allman, Skinnay Ennis
and his Orchestra, Judy Garland, Bill Goodwin announcing.
Sponsor: Pepsodent
==================================
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The Vintage Radio Place [removed]
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Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:49:27 +0000
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Playing Detective
Additional info to Frank's posting. These are NOT corrections, these are
just additional info and trivia.
Adv of Sam Spade no wife just a sectary
Spade was engaged once to a woman. Really. True love. Bought her a ring,
she said yes, and later on, after seeing him fight a man violently, she
decided she didn't want to spend her life with someone who could get
violent and start punching a man out of anger, and handed his ring back and
walked out of his life. A recording of that episode does not exist but the
radio script does.
I Love A Mystery, Jack, Skip & Doc. no .wives there.
Jack was involved with a woman (it was "suggested" he was married to her)
when he was in the service, before meeting up with Reggie and Doc, and his
involvement also involved a bad surgical procedure (he had medical
practice) that it was suggested cost the woman's life. This was all
"suggested" in one quick episode of the series, but details given. Jack
got harshly mad and told the talkative to keep quiet and drop it. Matter
never came back up on the series, though he did starting having a fling or
two with women on I Love Adventure.
Adv of Charlie Chan yes he was married, had #1 son but never heard or saw his
wife
His wife did appear in two of the movies and at least one of the radio
episodes that I know of.
The Saint - A Playboy why get married
Wasn't he supposed to be married in one episode for the sake of both money
and solving a mystery but never got married before it was proven that she
was the guilty party? Can anyone give me the name of that episode cause I
know I listened or read the script somewhere . . .
Sherlock Holmes no wife, but had Dr. Watson
There was an episode of THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES in which
"A Scandal in Bohemia", December 10, 1945. Irene Adler, an actress, is the
only person (and only woman) to ever out-smart Holmes to which he concludes
an "admiration" for her.
Wasn't Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) married on the show? Talk about the
sergeant's children came up on occassion in many episodes but not sure by
memory if it was Friday's children or his partner'[removed] Would Friday be
considered a detectve?
Martin Grams
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Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:49:44 +0000
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Milton [removed]
Yes, Hal, Milton Katims was a violist and conductor. My copy of "Symphony
Notes" dated July-August 1944 shows him smoking a pipe. He was guest viola
soloist on several NBC Symphony broadcasts, conducted by Dr. Frank Black
and probably by Arturo Toscanini. He had his own program, "Music for
tonight", and frequently conducted the orchestra on "Serenade to America."
Ted Kneebone / 1528 S. Grant St. / Aberdeen, SD 57401
[removed]~stmarkch/
Democrats: [removed]
Kids o/t New Century: [removed]
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Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:49:52 +0000
From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Detectives' Significant Others
Well Stephen I rally don't know how to answer you mail, but I'll try
without offending you any more any more than I have.
I was not referring to the actor, but the character in the roll of a
detective. My remark "Who would Have him" was his hard boiled [removed]
I assume that author wanted to be I don't think I ever saw a film or
picture of J. Scott Smart. If you say he was a great person and good
dancer. I take your word for it. I have his weight beat by 30 pounds I
never make fun of someone's weight. I like "The Fat Man"and have quite a
few in my collection.
As for the "The Shadow" my favorite shadow was Orsen Wells with Agnes
Moorehead. Le mont Cranston was NOT a professional detective. To quote from
Ken Roberts introduction to the show "The Shadow, Lamont Cranston, a man
of wealth, a student of science and a master of other people's
minds,devotes his life to righting wrongs, protecting the innocent, and
publishing the guilty.
Lemont & Margo were together as friends, companion, sweetheart or what ever
from 30's to 1954. She would risk her life to help the Shadow. I would
think the writers must have felt that there should be some terms of
endearment between them after all those years. Was Margo a kept woman? She
had an apartment she didn't work, how did she pay the rent? in days of
innocents we did not think of things like that.
Just remember that I was responding to question that was kind of humorous.
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:46:54 +0000
From: "Dan Wildt" <dwildt@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Inside Detective's Off-Screen Wife
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Regarding recent posts on OTR Digest on the unseen TV wife of Police
Detective Rocky King of INSIDE DETECTIVE, I find it interesting that Bruce
Geller, one of the writers of the TV version,
later created MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE on TV with another off-camera actor, Bob
Johnson,
providing the Voice on the Tape that assigned "Jim Phelps" to those
impossible tasks. Geller
must have had a thing for off-screen voices.
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:47:01 +0000
From: Illoman <illoman@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Fred Allen book
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I recently purchased a copy of Fred Allen's biography, Much Ado About
Me, and it is missing the dust jacket. Does anyone have a scan of the
dust jacket that they could send me? I would really appreciate it.
thanks,
Mike
illoman@[removed]
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:47:17 +0000
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 7-3 births/deaths
July 3rd births
07-03-1878 - George M. Cohan - Providence, RI - d. 11-5-1942
composer: "Collier Hour"; "Ed Sullivan Show"; "Free Company"
07-03-1881 - Leon Errol - Sydney, Australia - d. 10-12-1951
actor, comedian: WENR Chicago
07-03-1890 - Herbert A. Bell - Rock Valley, IA - d. 1-30-1970
radio manufacturer: Co-founder of Packard-Bell in 1945
07-03-1899 - Herb Polesie - d. 6-8-1979
panelist,director: "Twenty Questions"; "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
07-03-1900 - John Mason Brown - Louisville, KY - d. 3-16-1969
host-critic: "Of Men and Books"
07-03-1903 - John Lake - Leesburg, VA - d. 6-28-1960
actor: "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"; "Twelve Players"
07-03-1903 - Wynne Gibson - NYC - d. 5-15-1987
actor: Amah "Thanks for Tomorrow"; Angie "When a Girl Marries"
07-03-1906 - George Sanders - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 4-25-1972
host: "High Adventure"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "[removed] Steel Hour";
"Cavalcade of America"
07-03-1913 - Dorothy Kilgallen - Chicago, IL - d. 11-8-1965
commentator: "Voice of Broadway"; "Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick"
07-03-1914 - Gertrude Niesen - Mid-Atlantic Ocean - d. 3-27-1975
singer: "Songs by Gertrude Niesen"; "Good News of 1939"
07-03-1915 - Jerry Gray - Boston MA - d. 8-10-1976
bandleader: "I Sustain the Wings"; "Philip Morris Frolics"; "Club 15"
07-03-1920 - Louise Allbritton - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 2-16-1979
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "This Is My Best"; "Cavalcade of America"
07-03-1930 - Pete Fountain - New Orleans, LA
dixieland clarinetist: "New Year's All-Star Parade of Bands"
July 3rd deaths
02-25-1913 - Jim Backus - Cleveland, OH - d. 7-3-1989
comedian: Hubert Updike "Alan Young Show"; Chester Fenwick "Sad Sack"
03-22-1920 - Ross Martin - Grodek, Poland - d. 7-3-1981
actor: Soap Opera "Janice Grey"
03-27-1921 - Harold Nicholas - Winston-Salem, NC - d. 7-3-2000
dancer: (The Nicholas Brothers) "Big Broadcast of 1936"; "Ben Bernie
Show"
05-07-1906 - Irving Reis - NYC - d. 7-3-1953
director: "The Free Company"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Brave New World"
07-28-1901 - Rudy Vallee - Island Pond, VT - d. 7-3-1986
singer, bandleader, emcee: (The Vagabond Lover) "Fleischmann Hour";
Rudy Vallee Show"
10-08-1919 - Gabriel Dell - Barbados, British West Indies - d. 7-3-1988
actor: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"
10-23-1918 - James Daly - Wisconsin Rapids, WI - d. 7-3-1978
actor: "Monitor"
12-22-1885 - Deems Taylor - NYC - d. 7-3-1966
commentator: "Deems Taylor Music Series"; "Prudential Family Hour";
"RCA Victor Show"
12-24-1920 - John Barron - London, England - d. 7-3-2004
actor: "Dad's Army"; "Brothers In Law"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Home state of Bill Shadel
Milton, Wisconsin
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:48:01 +0000
From: "Paul F. Murphy" <pfmurphy@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re; Old song question
After so many months enjoying the list I feel I might finally have
something to contribute
One show I recorded (I've since lost the tape) had a song on it from "a
long time ago" (according to the good Dr.) entitled "I've Got A Cold In My
Nose".
The song sounds like one written by Fred Hall and Arthur Fields and sung by
Fields with Hall's Sugar Babies on record. This maybe the one Demento played.
Check it out at [removed]
An excellent Cd of Hall and fields is available here: worldsrecords. com
item 17737.
all, best, pfm
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:48:38 +0000
From: "Russell W. Miller" <rwm@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Milton Katims
Hal Stone wrote:
> Later on, he [Mr. Kampinski] turned the leadership of our orchestra over
to Milt Katims
> (Spelling). I was informed that Milt went on to become a Symphony Conductor.
> It might have been in Seattle.
The spelling is correct, and he was indeed for some years the conductor of
the Seattle Symphony. Katims, who passed away earlier this year at the age
of 96, also had a distinguished career as a violist, including performances
and recordings as a guest artist with the Budapest Quartet. Musicians who
worked in radio, like their colleagues in the film studios and the "house"
orchestras of the record companies, were expected to work with all styles of
music, and to do it well. My hat's off to these fellows!
Best,
Russell
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:48:59 +0000
From: "Marty" <md64@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Fibber McGee- Later Show Tapes
I understand that the later surviving shows of Fibber McGee and Molly were
recorded by someone at home with a "microphone in front of the radio
speaker" setup. We are thankful that at least we have these recordings to
listen to, if that is all that survived. My question is: Does anyone know
how these private tapes were discovered? How did someone's private tape
recordings end-up getting in circulation? I find it had to believe that
these shows were not recorded in some professional way by some studio.
After all, other shows that were still airing at this later date were being
preserved in some professional way.
Thank you.
Marty
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:49:57 +0000
From: "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Vicki Vola
Hi Gang -
Most of us are familiar with Vicki Volas as "Miss Miller" on Mr. [removed], but a
listener asked if another actress
by the name of Vicki Volante was the same person. As far as I can discover
Ms. Vola of DA fame was still using her radio name when she began her career
in TV on "Search For Tommorow" in 1960.
Happy 4th !!! <<Tom>> Heritage Radio Theatre / The Olde Tyme Radio
Network 7/3
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:55:17 +0000
From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Peg Lynch radio show from the 1970s
Hi Everybody,
are there copies around of Peg Lynch radio series from the mid 1970s? I
would like to compare them to her other two series from the 1940s and 1950s.
Take care,
Walden Hughes
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