Subject: [removed] Digest V2002 #398
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Date: 10/10/2002 10:27 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2002 : Issue 398
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      KEHE- KECA Los Angeles                [ "Russ Butler" <oldradio@[removed] ]
      new reader                            [ jazzbo free <jazzbo46chat@[removed] ]
      CHNR in Manitoba                      [ Peter Appleyard <pappleyard_ca@yaho ]
      Cisco Kid fans: VCR alert for Oct. 9  [ "Jan Willis" <jlwillis@[removed]; ]
      Twombley                              [ John Henley <jhenley@[removed] ]
      Re: Doc Savage                        [ "Jan Willis" <jlwillis@[removed]; ]
      Ovaltine Update and Classic Music Mu  [ Kubelski@[removed] ]
      Today in radio history                [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Arthur Godfrey/WOIO Canton, Ohio      [ "TIM LONES" <tallones@[removed]; ]
      Re: Superman DVD                      [ Fred Berney <berney@[removed]; ]
      Station KEHE Los Angeles              [ "Lois Culver" <lois@[removed]; ]
      Photo request                         [ otrbuff@[removed] ]
      The Honorable Archie                  [ "Philip Crookes" <philip@[removed] ]
      HOUR NOT HOUSE OF MYSTERY             [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Kennedy on radio                      [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      godfrey theme                         [ Michael Berger <intercom1@attglobal ]
      Perhaps some jukebox info here        [ "Matthew Bullis" <MatthewBullis@run ]
      Today in radio history                [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 15:53:12 +0000
    From: "Russ Butler" <oldradio@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  KEHE- KECA Los Angeles

    <Bryan asked about KEHE and KECA in Los [removed];

    In 1936, KEHE was located at 133-141 North Vermont Avenue in the KEHE
    Building with that identifiable "Streamline" architure of the 1930's,
    including a theater-style marquee with call letters in the recognizable,
    Broadway-1930's type font.  It became the Morgan, Walls and Clements
    building, (who were architects of many landmarks around LA including The
    Wiltern, Mayan and El Capitan Theaters and Malibu's Adamson House). Then the
    LA Unified School District wanted the property demolished for a school
    playground.  (There is a b/w photo of the 1936 KEHE Building in a Google
    search.)

    In Barry Mishkind's LA Radio History for 1937, he lists KEHE as a share-time
    station that merged with KELW to get full-time hours at 780AM.  As the
    1930's ended, KECA (owned by auto dealer Earl C. Anthony because auto dealer
    Don Lee owned a competing radio station) moved from 1430 to 780,
    consolidating with and taking over the facilities of KEHE-780.  Today, there
    is no station at 780AM on the LA radio dial.

    Russ Butler oldradio@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 15:52:49 +0000
    From: jazzbo free <jazzbo46chat@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  new reader
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    My first post-hope I do it right-Does my heart good to see all you
    affecianados at [removed] am new DRAGNET fan /APPRRECIATE any info on
    it - Broadcasts, links [removed] I only (so far) have heard OTR over
    [removed] I also recently heard the Sound Effects Man discussed
    before (cute)...Thanks [removed] jazzbo46@[removed]

    Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos, & more
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    Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 15:54:08 +0000
    From: Peter Appleyard <pappleyard_ca@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  CHNR in Manitoba

    I was very happy to hear that radio station CKVN the
    FM station here in the Manitoba area has now been
    granted its permanent licence to braodcast under the
    call letters of CHNR and at [removed] FM Stereo. I
    understand that the goal is to have the station on the
    air by the middle or end of October this year. It will
    be broadcasting at a power of 1300 watts, thats almost
    100 times the power that they were allowed before.
    The format of the station will also be the same as
    before, that is music from the 20's, 30's, 40's 50's
    and of course the 60's. Along with this I cant forget
    to mention the BIG BAND music the station is famous
    for playing.  They will also have OLD TIME RADIO SHOWS
    on the air every night from 10pm to midnight.
    The fight to get this station on the air has been a
    long and hard battle and we owe a lot of thanks to Lee
    Smith for all his work not to mention the money he has
    sunk into this venture to bring OLD TIME RADIO back to
    this area.
    The N and R in the call letters stand for Nostalgic
    Radio.
    Should one wish to see an application to get a station
    like this going they can go to [removed] and
    you can see the one Mr Smith had to make out.
    Now last but not least, thank you to the CRTC
    Peter Appleyard

    Post your free ad now! [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 15:54:57 +0000
    From: "Jan Willis" <jlwillis@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Cisco Kid fans: VCR alert for Oct. 9

      Just in case department, for Cisco Kid fans:
      Tonight, on Cinemax, the 9th,
    (7pm, EST / 6pm, CST), their Reel Life documentary series
    premieres:
    _The Bronze Screen:  100 years of the Latino Image in Hollywood Cinema_
    [removed]
      It will briefly touch on Cisco. Probably very briefly.
       For those with dishes, it repeats on the Cinemax-West
    feed tonight, at 10pm EST / 9pm CST.
       It then gets an encore, on October 28th.
    To read more, including reallllllllllllly detailed
    information on its contents, check:
    [removed]
    and an overview at:
    [removed]

    Jan Willis

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    Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 15:54:44 +0000
    From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Twombley

    Bryan asked

>     If my memory is correct was not Gene Twombly married to Bea Benadaret and
>     passed away around 1968 just shortly after she died from Cancer?

    It's a sad thing - Gene Twombley was married to Bea Benadaret and
    he did pass away within 48 to 72 hours of her funeral in 1968.
    Death was attributed to "heart attack."

    John Henley

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    Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 15:53:40 +0000
    From: "Jan Willis" <jlwillis@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Doc Savage

    Mark Lambert mentioned:

>     A guy named Will Murray (who wrote the 1990s
>     Doc Savage novels) compiled Lester Dent's old
>     radio scripts and published them in a book or
>     two back in the late 70s, I think.  You'll find
>     them offered on e-bay every now and then.

       Yes. In fact, one is on eBay right now, with a very reasonable
    "buy it now" price of $25, at least in contrast to the verrrrrry high
    prices out of print book dealers are asking for purchases of their copies.
    [removed];item=1568288882
      The optimistic use by Will Murray of "volume 1," as seen in the eBay
    description, didn't come to pass, as far as I know.
      (( As someone who discovered Lester Dent/Kenneth Robeson in my teens,
    during the '70s' paperback reprint era, I faithfully waited for years and
    years for volume two to come out and I don't think it ever did.  [removed] I
    think I prepaid for volume 2, in fact!... hey, what the ...))
       If the original poster would like to just read a copy, not
    necessarily purchase one, borrow it through interlibrary
    loan. Just give this information to your librarian:
    Title: _The incredible radio exploits of Doc Savage_
    Author:  Kenneth Robeson (offically, with Will Murray getting an "editor"
    credit).
    Odyssey, 1982
    OCLC id number [needed for interlibrary loaning]: 10641473
      6 libraries have notified OCLC that they own it, including one public
    library - in
    Toledo-Lucas County,Ohio, where it's sitting on the shelf, right this
    minute, waiting to be borrowed.
    [removed]
      Just do a Title search, using their "Tiger" online catalog, and you will
    see it's there at one of their branches.

    Jan Willis

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    Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 15:53:55 +0000
    From: Kubelski@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Ovaltine Update and Classic Music Musing

    Legendary sponsor of Old Time Radio Ovaltine has been sold again.

    Go to Article from The Guardian
    [removed],3604,807213,[removed]

    Also, page B1 article in The Wall Street Journal this morning reporting on
    the financial troubles of symphonies and the role that the diminishing
    presence of classic music on broadcast radio has in that.

    While not directly relevant to OTR, it did make me think of the problems we
    have in keeping our interest in audio drama alive.  NTR, in general, is a lot
    more expensive and a lot less quality than OTR (please don't e-mail me with
    all the exceptions - but understand that Cap Cod Radio Mystery Theater is
    never going to be Escape or I Love a Mystery and leave it at that).  With so
    few fans, it has to be expensive.  With so few fans, the big stars and
    talented writers who worked in OTR aren't attracted to the medium.

    Can this be happening with classical music as well?  Is it getting to a point
    where performances will have to be special ordered by a diminishing group of
    fans? Or will be relegated to channels on satellite radio?  Are Beethoven
    fans going to face what Jack Benny fans have faced during the past 30 years?

    Sean Dougherty
    Kubelski@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 15:52:03 +0000
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Today in radio history

     >From Those Were The Days --

    1935 - Cavalcade of America was first broadcast on radio this day. The
    CBS show featured some of Hollywood and Broadway's most famous stars in
    leading roles in the half hour radio dramas. Thomas Chalmers narrated
    the stories about obscure incidents and people in American history. The
    orchestra was led by Donald Voorhees. The show aired from 1935 to 1953,
    changing from CBS to NBC in 1939; with one sponsor for its entire
    duration. The DuPont Company introduced its slogan on Cavalcade of
    America ... "Better things for better living through [removed]"

    1943 - ABC presented Land of the Lost for the first time. The opening
    phrase for the show was, "In that wonderful kingdom at the bottom of the
    [removed]" This children's adventure-fantasy serial took the audience
    underwater where the main characters, Isabel and Jimmy, were guided by
    their friend, a red fish named Red Lantern and played at first by Junius
    Matthews and later, by Art Carney. Land of the Lost found a large
    audience and remained on the air until 1948.

       Joe

    --
    Visit my home page:
    [removed]~[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 15:54:23 +0000
    From: "TIM  LONES" <tallones@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Arthur Godfrey/WOIO Canton, Ohio

    I have vague memories of Arthur Godfrey's later TV work but my biggest
    memory was in his last radio days when his show was broadcast over WOIO AM
    1060 in Canton Ohio [removed] from 12:30-1PM. To me it was the last vestige
    of OTR(a show that began in the OTR era) except for possibly the Grand Ole
    Opry.  This station from about 1967-73 was a pioneer in all live talk news
    radio at least for its market [removed] 5kw daytimer carried most of the CBS
    shows at the time including Dialogue, the Osgood File and Dear Abby  (The
    station is now WRCW with a bland "adult music" format with some talk).  This
    is the station that  first got me interested in radio listening in a large
    scale.  The call leters WOIO are now used for Channel 19, the CBS-TV
    affiliate in Cleveland

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    Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 15:53:30 +0000
    From: Fred Berney <berney@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Superman DVD

    For all you Superman fans, we have just completed a special DVD I'm calling
    The Superman Collection. It contains just about every time of audio or
    video media that Superman has appeared in. I have not had a chance to list
    it on our web page yet, but it will be for sale in NJ at the FOTR convention.

    I'm really excited about this. It was our first attempt at doing a full
    authoring production on DVD. There are audio links, as well as video links.
    Ellen did a first class job on the cover. It people like it, we will be
    producing a number of similar DVDs on different subjects.

    Those attending will also get a free audio cassette. See our ad in the FOTR
    program.

    Fred
    [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 15:51:12 +0000
    From: "Lois Culver" <lois@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Station KEHE Los Angeles

    Yes, KEHE was early-on in the Los Angeles radio scene.  It belonged to Earle
    C. Anthony, as did  later KFI, where I worked, and where Harry Bartell
    mentioned being at First and Vermont on the trolley lines.  KEHE was in
    downtown Los Angeles, and KFI (and later KECA) were in the First and Vermont
    building a few years later.     I was there just about the time the red and
    blue networks split, so suddenly we were not only KFI but also KECA (blue
    and red), housed in the same building for awhile until KECA moved into
    Hollywood.

    Lois Culver
    KWLK Radio (Mutual) Longview, WA 1941-44
    KFI Radio (NBC) Los Angeles CA 1945-47, 50-53
    Widow of Howard Culver, actor

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    Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 15:52:27 +0000
    From: otrbuff@[removed]
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Photo request

    Some of you collect photos of radio personalities and I suspect may have
    some rare prizes among your collections.  I'm looking for pictures of
    Frank and Anne Hummert, the producers who created more radio programs
    than anybody else.  They were a couple of reclusive birds who shyed away
    from publicity and the public as well.  Both have been dead for a number
    of years.  In many years of studying the two I recall seeing only one
    picture of Frank Hummert, from a 1939 newspaper with the same picture
    reprinted in a subsequent book, and only two or three of her included in
    various books.  Family members have been of no help in supplying a need
    for these and Photofest, a company that has tens of thousands of
    entertainers' pictures, has none.  That's why I'm turning to anyone who
    might have one or more such treasures tucked away in a private
    collection.  I need to borrow, buy or rent such photos.  Could anybody
    help or offer a suggestion?  I'm truly in need of your assistance if you
    can provide it.  Thanks.

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:22:29 +0000
    From: "Philip Crookes" <philip@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Honorable Archie

    Who can tell memwhere I could find episodes of this OTR series from the 30s.
    I've successfully ordered two cassettes from Steven kelez - now I'm keen to
    find more. I found a log file suggesting that the fitrst eight or ten should
    be around, but I coldn't find any ordering info.

      I first heard these shows more than 30 years ago when a local radio station
    in Auckland New Zealand decided to showcase some old programs they's had on
    their shelves since the 30s. I seem to recall it was announced as 'A
    Japanese Houseboy and His Employer' but I believe in the US it went out as
    'Frank Watanabe and the Honorable Archie'

      Actually the station (1ZM Auckland, later 1YD, later ZM-FM - how radio has
    changed!) was operated by US Armed Forces during the Pacific war - the NZ
    owners offered it to the Yanks for the benefit of US troops in Auckland on
    R&R. So maybe the programs were a relic of those war years - but that's way
    too early for me to remember.

    Any pointers gratefully received.

    Philip Crookes
    philip@[removed]

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    Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:19:28 +0000
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  HOUR NOT HOUSE OF MYSTERY

    Ric Ross wrote:

     > Any chance that a copy of the show dated Jun 23, 1946 might
    exist?  Please advise, Ric Ross

    Sadly, according to Jay Hickerson's ULTIMATE GUIDE book, no, the episode
    does not exist.  But if it will help Ric, there was no broadcast of HOUSE
    OF MYSTERY dated June 23, 1946.  The last episode of HOUSE OF MYSTERY's
    second season was broadcast on June 8, 1946, episode #39 of the second season.

    To clarify a mistake being repeated on the Digest (sorry, Sandy), the Frank
    Sinatra mystery drama that keeps being brought up was HOUR OF MYSTERY, not
    HOUSE OF MYSTERY.  Two totally different programs.

    THE HOUR OF MYSTERY was sponsored by the United States Steel, and was a
    short-run summer series of hour-long mysteries based on popular novels, a
    summer replacement of THEATER GUILD ON THE AIR.  Broadcast over ABC, Sunday
    evenings from 10 to 11 [removed], EST.  Only thirteen episodes aired, and a
    broadcast log is included below.  (Sadly, episode #3, that everyone keeps
    bringing up, is not known to exist.  Only episodes 1 and 7 are known to exist.)

    1.  "Journey Into Fear"  (6/9/46) Laurence Olivier
    2.  "The Black Angel" (6/16/46)  Geraldine Fitzgerald
    3.  "Turn on the Heat"  (6/23/46)  Frank Sinatra
    4.  "Above Suspicion"  (6/30/46)  Brian Aherne and Wendy barrie
    5.  "The Glass Key"  (7/7/46)  Ralph Bellamy
    6.  "The Burning Court"  (7/14/46)  John Beal
    7.  "The Singapore Exile Murder"  (7/21/46)  Roger Pryor
    8.  "Murder, My Sweet"  (7/28/46)  William Holden
    9.  "The Lucky Stiff"  (8/4/46)  William Bendix
    10.  "Death in the Mind"  (8/11/46)  John Loder
    11.  "The Phantom Lady"  (8/18/46)  Franchot Tone
    12.  "The Case of the Lame Canary"  (8/25/46)  Victor Jory
    13.  "The Thirty-Nine Steps"  (9/1/46)  David Niven

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    Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:22:05 +0000
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Kennedy on radio

    Jim Widner recalled something I had in my collection.  During the
    mid-sixties, after the assassination, a company released an LP that
    offered, among all things, radio broadcasts of Kennedy's famed speeches
    including the speech he made, directed toward our "neighbors overseas"
    regarding our position during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and radio reports
    of Kennedy's assassination and death.  The LP was fairly common during the
    mid-sixties, entitled (this is off the top of my head so it may not be 100%
    accurate) JOHN F. KENENDY: A MEMORIAL.

    My father used to have a record and about a year ago I had it put to audio
    cassette form, not wanting to use the record player as much.  It is
    fascinating, hearing the reports of John F. Kennedy's assassination, his
    speeches, and so forth.  I was wondering if there was any other releases
    that might offer much more than 30 minutes' worth of radio sound [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:22:17 +0000
    From: Michael Berger <intercom1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  godfrey theme

    I recall that the trombonist in the Bleyer band for several years
    who'd  play  that  slow  opener that Lee Munsick described was Cy
    Shaffer  [sp?],  who  also  had one of the most infectious laughs
    around, often  heard in the background after a Godfrey quip.

    Michael Berger

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    Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:21:13 +0000
    From: "Matthew Bullis" <MatthewBullis@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Perhaps some jukebox info here

    Hello, perhaps if you were to join the jukebox e-mail list, you could get
    some info about these machines you were speaking of. It's a low-traffic
    list, so you shouldn't be bombarded by e-mail from it. Go to:
    [removed]

    Thanks a lot.
    Matthew

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    Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:22:38 +0000
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Today in radio history

     >From Those Were The Days --

    1932 - Two of radio's earliest efforts at soap operas were heard for the
    first time. Judy and Jane, sponsored by Folger's Coffee, and Betty and
    Bob, sponsored by General Mills, had listeners glued to their radios
    into the early 1940s.

    1933 - Dreft, the first synthetic detergent, went on sale. Ten years
    later, Dreft was the sponsor of The Dreft Star Playhouse.

    1937 - The Mutual Broadcasting System debuted Thirty Minutes in
    Hollywood. 48 sponsors shared the cost of the program that aired in 72
    cities nationwide. It was the first Mutual co-op radio show. George
    Jessel and Norma Talmadge starred. Music was provided by the Tommy
    Tucker Orchestra.

       Joe

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