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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2010 : Issue 78
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
4-27 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Myles Wilder [ Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed]; ]
New OTR book on sale [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
4-28 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Tune into Yesterday newsletter [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
The Lone Ranger on Radio Once More F [ Ken Stockinger <bambino032004-otr@y ]
Allen Swift obit in NY Times [ IreneTH@[removed] ]
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:45:36 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 4-27 births/deaths
April 27th births
04-27-1882 - Herman Bundesen - d. 8-25-1960
health official: "Adventures in Health"
04-27-1892 - Marjorie Mills - Waterville, ME - d. 4-5-1979
columnist: "The Girl from Maine"
04-27-1896 - Rogers Hornsby - Winters, TX - d. 1-5-1963
hall of fame baseball player: "Play Ball"; "Tops in Sports"
04-27-1898 - George McCall - Renton, Scotland - d. 11-28-1952
host: "Man About Hollywood"
04-27-1898 - Ludwig Behelmans - Meran, Austria-Hungary - d. 10-1-1962
author, panelist: "Author, Author"
04-27-1899 - Ned Wever - NYC - d. 5-6-1984
actor: Dick Tracy "Dick Tracy"; Anthony Loring "Young Widder Brown"
04-27-1902 - Harry Stockwell - Kansas City, MO - d. 7-19-1984
singer: "Broadway Matinee"
04-27-1907 - Matty Matlock - Paducah, KY - d. 6-14-1978
jazz musician: (Member of the Big 7 Band) "Pete Kelly's Blues"
04-27-1918 - Robert Mitchell - Casper, WY - d. 10-13-1992
writer: "The Advs. of Philip Marlowe"
04-27-1919 - Les Kreiter - Seattle, WA - d. 4-14-2009
sportscaster: "Big Five Basketball"
04-27-1923 - Peggy Knudsen - Duluth, MN - d. 7-11-1980
actor: Karen Adams "Woman in White"; Lois "Bill Goodwin Show"
04-27-1927 - Connie Kay - NYC - d. 11-30-1994
jazz drummer: "The Modern Jazz Quartet"; "Guest Star"
04-27-1931 - James Barrett - Detroit, MI - d. 6-4-2006
actor: Dan Reid "The Lone Ranger"; The Green Hornet"
04-27-1933 - Casey Kasem - Detroit, MI
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
04-27-1937 - Sandy Dennis - Hastings, NE - d. 3-1-1992
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
April 27th deaths
02-15-1896 - Arthur Shields - d. 4-27-1970
actor: (Brother of Barry Fitzgerald) "Cavalcade of America"
02-16-1905 - Carleton D. Smith - d. 4-27-1984
announcer/executive: "Fireside Chat with FDR"
03-18-1926 - Margery Manners - Coventry, England - d. 4-27-1997
singer: "Big Bill Campbell and His Rocky Mountain Rhythm"; "Worker's
Playtime"
03-25-1899 - Bella Spewack - Bucharest, Romania - d. 4-27-1990
writer: "The Radio Guild"
04-06-1909 - Denver Darling - Cumberland County, IL - d. 4-27-1981
country music artist: "Right to Happiness, as commercial spokesman"
04-07-1915 - Stanley Adams - NYC - d. 4-27-1977
writer: "My Friend Irma"
04-10-1905 - Paul "Hezzie" Trietsch - Muncie, IN - d. 4-27-1980
musician-singer: "National Barn Dance"; "Uncle Ezra"
04-13-1902 - Godfrey Kenton - London, England - d. 4-27-1998
actor: "Waiting for Godot"; "Paradise Lost"
04-25-1908 - Edward R. Murrow - Pole Cat Creek, NC - d. 4-27-1965
newscaster: (This is London) "Edward R. Murrow with the News"
06-28-1908 - Alan Bunce - Westfield, NJ - d. 4-27-1965
actor: Albert Arbuckle "Ethel and Albert"; Jerry Malone "Young Dr.
Malone"
07-31-1854 - Charles Goodell - Dudley, MA - d. 4-27-1937
clergyman: (The Shepard of the Air) "Sabbath Reveries"
08-21-1908 - Tom Tully - Durango, CO - d. 4-27-1982
actor: Charles Martin "Stella Dallas"
08-21-1940 - Jim Frank - Chicago, IL - d. 4-27-2007
newscaster in Chicago, WBBM, WIND, WMAQ
11-07-1922 - Al Hirt - New Orleans, LA - d. 4-27-1999
dixieland trumpeter: "Voices of Vista"; "The Navy Swings"; "Here's to
Veterans"
Ron
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:55:51 -0400
From: Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Myles Wilder
TV sitcom writer Myles Wilder (and nephew of Hollywood giant Billy Wilder) has
died at age 77 from complications from diverticulitis. The below link mentions
that he got his start as a writer for radio's "The Whistler" started writing
for popular radio during his years at UCLA theater school.
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That's it from the ether,
Derek Tague
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:56:00 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: New OTR book on sale
Amazonkindle now has my newest release available at a 63 percent savings off
the paperback price. In less than 60 seconds you can receive "American
Radio Networks" for $[removed] delivered wirelessly via Amazon Whispernet, "the
next chapter in wireless reading," Amazon touts. The cover price of the
printed version is $45.
"American Radio Networks" includes the history of commercial radio
broadcasting in the [removed] The four transcontinental webs are covered in
depth along with local and regional hookups from the inception of radio in
the 1920s into the 21st century. The text also focuses on the impact of TV,
rise of the disc jockey, the transition to all-talk formatting, implications
of satellite technology and consolidation of networks and local stations.
An appendix details networks now out of business. The 228-page text is
illustrated with photographs.
If you have a Kindle wireless reading device, here's a method of saving on
OTR book purchases.
You can see this book at
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Jim Cox
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:56:05 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 4-28 births/deaths
April 28th births
04-28-1874 - Sidney Toler - Warrensburg, MO - d. 2-12-1947
actor: "Southern California WPA Symphony Orchestra"; "It's Time to
Smile"
04-28-1878 - Lionel Barrymore - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-15-1954
actor: Leonard Gillispie "Dr. Kildare"; Ebenezzer Scrooge "A Christmas
Carol"
04-28-1882 - Henry Bellamann - Fulton, MO - d. 6-16-1945
author: "King's Row" based on his novel
04-28-1892 - Joseph Dunninger - NYC - d. 3-9-1975
mentalist: (Master Mind of Mental Mystery) "Dunninger Show"
04-28-1896 - Edith Evanson - Tacoma, WA - d. 11-29-1980
actor: Helmi "Myrt and Marge"
04-28-1900 - Val Gielgud - London England - d. 11-30-1981
writer: (Brother of John Gielgud) "The Columbia Workshop"
04-28-1905 - Paul Rhymer - Fulton, IL - d. 10-26-1964
writer: "Vic and Sade"
04-28-1907 - Rudy Bundy - Quaker City, OH - d. 8-1-2000
orchestra leader: WHAS Louisville, Kentucky
04-28-1908 - Michael Fitzmaurice - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1967
actor: Clark Kent/Superman "Advs. of Superman"; Dick Grosvenor "Stella
Dallas"
04-28-1911 - Lee Falk - St. Louis, MO - d. 3-13-1999
writer: "Mandrake the Magician"
04-28-1914 - Esther Allan - Suvalke, Poland - d. 7-21-1985
pianist/organist: All girl band on local radio in Michigan
04-28-1916 - Rena Craig Waxman - Denver, CO - d. 1-26-2003
actor: "School of Charm"
04-28-1917 - Robert Anderson - NYC - d. 2-9-2009
writer: "Cavalcade of America"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
04-28-1917 - Robert Cornthwaite - St. Helens, OR - d. 7-20-2006
actor: worked in radio in Southern California
04-28-1920 - Nan Merriman - Pittsburgh, PA
singer: "Serenade to America"; "Music of the New World"
04-28-1922 - Phil Tate - Bramley, England - d. 12-9-2005
host: "Non-Stop Pop"
04-28-1924 - Blossom Dearie - East Durham, NY - d. 2-7-2009
singer: "Woody Herman Orchestra"
04-28-1928 - Richard Baer - NYC - d. 2-22-2008
actor: "Campbell Playhouse"
04-28-1929 - Carolyn Jones - Amarillo, TX - d. 8-3-1983
actor: "Dragnet"; "Survivors"
04-28-1938 - Connie Marshall - NYC - d. 5-22-2001
actor: "Hallmark Playhouse"
04-28-1939 - Morton Kondracke - Chicago, IL
commentator: "All Things Considered"
April 28th deaths
01-29-1913 - Joe Parker - Venice, CA - d. 4-28-1970
director: "Sara's Private Caper"
02-16-1915 - Dorothy Lovett - Providence, RI - d. 4-28-1998
actor: Libby Collins "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-16-1925 - Lane Nakano - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-28-2005
actor: "The Big Show"
03-17-1905 - Meredith C. Beckman - d. 4-28-1980
tenor: KMOX St. Louis, Missouri
03-18-1914 - Ben Gage - Chicago, IL - d. 4-28-1978
actor: Jimmy Gale "Modern Cinderella"
03-25-1901 - Ed Begley - Hartford, CT - d. 4-28-1970
actor: Walt Levinson "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"
04-09-1913 - George Lowther - NYC - d. 4-28-1975
narrator, writer: "Advs. of Superman"; "Terry and the Pirates"
06-18-1902 - Tom Breneman - Waynesboro, PA - d. 4-28-1948
emcee: "Breakfast at Sardi's/in Hollywood"; "My Secret Ambition"
07-02-1916 - Ken Curtis - Lamar, CO - d. 4-28-1991
singing cowboy: "Hollywood Barn Dance"
07-08-1913 - Ann Thomas - Newport, RI - d. 4-28-1989
actor: Sharon O'Shaughnessy "Bob Burns Show"; Barbara Weeks "We Love
and Learn"
07-31-1894 - John Mayo - Providence, RI - d. 4-28-1974
announcer: Staff announcer for both CBS and NBC
08-08-1922 - Rory Calhoun - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-28-1999
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-09-1885 - Billy Curtis - Lowell, MA - d. 4-28-1954
writer of radio scripts
09-13-1916 - Norm Lenhardt - d. 4-28-1993
announcer: WXYZ Detroit
09-19-1899 - Ricardo Cortez - Vienna, Austria-Hungary - d. 4-28-1977
actor: "Shell Chateau"; "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"; "Treasury Hour"
10-14-1905 - Gene Stone - d. 4-28-1997
writer: "The Great Gildersleeve"
10-15-1908 - John Kenneth Galbraith - Iona Station, Canada - d.
4-28-2006
economist: "University of Chicago Round Table"; "Meet the Press"
10-29-1925 - Paul Daneman - London, England - d. 4-28-2001
actor: "The Hobbit"
Ron
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:56:21 -0400
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Tune into Yesterday newsletter
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Readers of the Digest in the UK might like to know that Issue 59 of Tune into
Yesterday newsletter is now available from ORCA. The main article is about
Saturday Night Theatre by Roger BIckerton and Bob Cook. Other articles include
the future of OTR collecting, and the transferring of 16'' discs. The
Supplement with this issue carries an article called 'Why Collect ?' by Phil
Gries, plus a selection of current news from around the archives. A further
selection of old programmes is also available to members on CD and mp3 CD.
Annual membership is 6 pounds UK, and a sample copy is one pound and fifty
pence. All cheques payable to 'ORCA' : PO Box 1922, Dronfield, England, S18
8XA
Membership Secretary is John Wolstenholme
Cheers ! Graeme Stevenson ( Editor TIY )
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:56:28 -0400
From: Ken Stockinger <bambino032004-otr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Lone Ranger on Radio Once More Friday Night
Hi Everyone,
Ok, well The Lone Ranger himself won't be on Radio Once More this Friday
night April 30th at 9pm ET, but we'll be pretty close. Please join Neal Ellis
and myself for a very special edition of "The Live Show". Our special guests
will be Terry "Mr. WXYZ" Salomonson and Fran Striker, Jr., whose father
created The Lone Ranger and co-created The Green Hornet.
Also, there will be a few special guests garnered from Terry's very
impressive Rolodex.
So, join us this Friday at 9pm ET for "The Live Show" on Radio Once
More([removed]). Hi [removed], you know the rest.
Ken Stockinger
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:56:49 -0400
From: IreneTH@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Allen Swift obit in NY Times
Allen Swift, Voice Actor for Radio and TV, Dies at 87
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