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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2012 : Issue 139
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
8-25 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history 26 August [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Mel Blanc Bio [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
8-26 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:11:10 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 8-25 births/deaths
August 25th births
08-25-1885 - Chick Sale - Huron, SD - d. 11-7-1936
humorist: "General Motors Family Party"; "RCA Victor Hour"
08-25-1896 - Dick Ryan - Connecticut - d. 8-12-1969
actor: "The Nebbs"
08-25-1901 - Ken Christie - Binghamton, NY - d. 4-xx-1967
choral director: "The Ford Summer Hour"; "Telephone Hour"
08-25-1903 - Michael Bartlett - North Oxford, MA - d. 2-1-1978
singer: "The Jack Benny Program"
08-25-1904 - Alice White - Paterson, NJ - d. 2-19-1983
actor: Blondie Bumstead "Blondie"
08-25-1908 - Walter Burke - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-4-1984
actor: Mark Saber's Assistant "Inspector Mark Saber"
08-25-1909 - Michael Rennie - Bradford, Yorkshire, England - d.
6-10-1971
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-25-1910 - Albert Ward - d. 2-20-2009
director: "Romance"; "Casey, Crime Photographer"; "Columbia Workshop"
08-25-1910 - Ruby Keeler - Halifax, Nova Scotia - d. 2-28-1993
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-25-1911 - Herbert (Edwin) Harris - London, England - d. 4-xx-1995
author: "The Detective's Wife"
08-25-1912 - John Rarig - Washington - d. 1-2-1991
singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
08-25-1912 - Zinn Arthur - d. 3-11-2003
orchestra leader: WFIL Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
08-25-1913 - Bob Crosby - Spokane, WA - d. 3-9-1993
bandleader, singer: "Camel Caravan"; "Bob Crosby Show"; "Jack Benny
Program"
08-25-1914 - Dolores O'Neill - d. 12-12-2006
singer: The Bob Chester Orchestra
08-25-1916 - Guy Hall - NYC - d. 5-10-2009
saxophonist: "Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye"
08-25-1916 - Van Johnson - Newport, RI - d. 12-12-2008
actor: "Request Performance"; "Romance"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"
08-25-1917 - Mel Ferrer - Elberon, NJ - d. 6-2-2008
actor: "Eternal Light"; "Cloak and Dagger"; "MGM Theatre of the Air"
08-25-1918 - Leonard Bernstein - Lawrence, MA - d. 10-14-1990
conductor: "Metropolitan Opera"
08-25-1918 - Richard Greene - Plymouth, England - d. 6-1-1985
actor: "Somerset Maugham Theatre"; "This Is Hollywood"; "Cavalcade of
America"
08-25-1921 - Monty Hall - Winnipeg, Canada
host (communicator) "Monitor"
08-25-1924 - Karl A. Mackey - Cleveland, OH - d. 10-13-2002
actor: "Hodge Podge Lodge"; "Wizard of Music"
08-25-1931 - Hal Fishman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-7-2007
television news anchor: Got start on campus radio at Cornell
08-25-1931 - Regis Philbin - NYC
newscaster: KOGO San Diego
08-25-1943 - Bill Holm - nr: Minneota, MN - d. 2-25-2009
writer: "Prairie Home Companion"
August 25th deaths
01-19-1919 - Ray Eberle - Hoosick Falls, NY - d. 8-25-1979
singer: "Glenn Miller and His Orchestra"; "Glenn Miller's Moonlight
Serenade"
01-22-1920 - William Warfield - West Helena, AR - d. 8-25-2002
bass-baritone singer: "Edgar Bergen Show"; "Beyond Victory"
02-12-1912 - Stan Kenton - Wichita, KS - d. 8-25-1979
bandleader: "Bob Hope Show"; "Stan Kenton Concerts"
02-14-1900 - Eddie Marr - New Jersey - d. 8-25-1987
actor: Press Agent "Jack Carson Show"; "Jack Benny Program"; "I Fly
Anything"
02-22-1932 - Ted Kennedy - Brookline, MA - d. 8-25-2009
[removed] senator: "Meet the Press"
03-06-1934 - Art Blaske - d. 8-25-1997
disk jockey: KFAM St. Cloud, Minnesota
03-28-1896 - Abram E. Borodkin - Russia - d. 8-25-1978
cellist: NBC and CBS networks
04-08-1881 - Arthur B. Allen - Gowanda, NY - d. 8-25-1947
actor: "Snow Village Sketches"; "Kate Smith Show"; Stebbens Boys"
04-10-1927 - Sidney Appleman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-25-1994
string bassist: Clyde McCoy's Band
04-25-1915 - Cliff Bruner - Houston, TX - d. 8-25-2000
fiddle: "The Musical Brownies"
04-25-1916 - Irving Gaynor Neiman - d. 8-25-1996
began career by writing scripts for NBC
04-27-1882 - Herman Bundesen - d. 8-25-1960
health official: "Adventures in Health"
05-21-1923 - Dorothy Hewett - Perth, Western Australia - d. 8-25-2002
writer: "Frost at Midnight"
06-06-1891 - Ted Lewis - Circleville, OH - d. 8-25-1971
singer: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Radio Hall of Fame"
06-18-1914 - [removed] Marshall - Owatonna, MN - d. 8-25-1998
narrator: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
06-22-1919 - Gower Champion - Geneva, IL - d. 8-25-1980
choreographer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Guest Star"
07-23-1908 - Irving Mansfield - d. 8-25-1988
producer: "It's Always Albert"; "The Morey Amsterdam Show"
08-11-1915 - Berne Surrey - d. 8-25-1992
sound effects: "Suspense (Sorry, Wrong Number)"; "Whistler"; "Sam Spade"
08-27-1905 - Frederick O'Neal - Brooksville, MA - d. 8-25-1992
actor: "New World A-Coming"
09-09-1899 - Waite Hoyt - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-25-1984
sportscaster, "Sports Review"; "According to Hoyt"; play-by-play:
Cincinnati Reds
09-22-1895 - Paul Muni - Lemberg, Austria-Hungary - d. 8-25-1967
actor: "Free Company"; "Radio Hall of Fame"
09-26-1929 - Peter Dews - Yorkshire, England - d. 8-25-1997
producer: "The Archers"
09-30-1924 - Truman Capote - New Orleans, LA - d. 8-25-1984
author: "Cather: A Look of Remembrance"
10-03-1918 - Perry Lafferty - Davenport, IA - d. 8-25-2005
producer: "Meet the Music"; "Columbia Workshop"
10-24-1894 - Ted "Kid" Lewis - London, England - d. 8-25-1971
bandleader: "Live Band Remotes"
Ron
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Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:11:16 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 26 August to 1
September
From Those Were The Days
8/26
1939 Arch Oboler's Plays presented the NBC Symphony, for the first
time, as the musical backdrop for the drama, This Lonely Heart.
8/28
1922 The first paid commercial to be broadcast on radio was heard on
WEAF in New York City. Announcer [removed] Blackwell spoke about Hawthorne
Court, a group of apartment buildings in Queens, New York. The
Queensboro Realty Company, of Jackson Heights, bought what was called
Toll Broadcasting. WEAF, owned by AT&T, sold their block programming,
five one minute programs, one a day for five days, for $50 (($[removed] in
2010) plus long distance toll fees. The Queensboro Realty Company paid
$100 ($[removed] in 2010*) for 10 minutes of commercial airtime.
(*[removed])
From The [removed]
1938 The first degree given to a ventriloquist's dummy is awarded to
Charlie McCarthy Edgar Bergen's wooden partner. The honorary degree,
"Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback," is presented on radio by Ralph
Dennis, the dean of the School of Speech at Northwestern University.
8/30
1951 Screen Directors' Playhouse was heard for the final time on NBC.
The program had featured some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.
8/31
1941 The Great Gildersleeve, a spin off of Fibber McGee and Molly,
started on NBC.
1946 "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound ... the caped crusader
returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Superman had been
dropped from the program schedule earlier in the year, but the outrage
of youngsters brought the show back to the airwaves. Wow! The amazing
power of Kryptonite in the hands of kids! Bud Collyer, later of TV's
Beat the Clock, played Clark Kent aka Superman on the series
9/1
1922 The first daily news program on radio was The Radio Digest, on
WBAY. The program, hosted by George F. Thompson, the program's editor,
originated from New York City.
Joe
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Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:11:23 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Mel Blanc Bio
Ran across an hour long bio of Mel Blanc I thought I would pass along.
The main problem I had with it was it focuses on his cartoon voice
overs with only a few minutes of radio work and that is with Jack Benny
and that is nearly all from his tv show. Pity. The man did so much
more than mere voice overs in his career. But then I guess to a lot of
young folk, radio, as WE know it, never existed or they don't care.
==sigh==
It did tell of his terrible auto accident in the early 60s, of which
I was unaware.
[removed];feature=related
Joe
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Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:11:29 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 8-26 births/deaths
August 26th births
08-26-1873 - Lee De Forest - Council Bluffs, IA - d. 6-30-1961
inventor: Audion tube
08-26-1891 - Frayne Baker - d. 8-15-1968
newscaster: KFYR Bismarck, North Dakota
08-26-1896 - Phil Baker - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-30-1963
comedian, emcee: "Honolulu Bound"; "Take It or Leave It"
08-26-1903 - Jimmy Rushing - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory - d.
6-8-1972
blues singer: "Count Basie and His Orchestra"; "Blue Ribbon Guest Night"
08-26-1904 - Chirstopher Isherwood - High Lane, Cheshire, England - d.
1-4-1986
writer: "NBC University Theatre"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
08-26-1905 - George F. Hicks - Tacoma, WA - d. 3-17-1965
announcer: "Metropolitan Echoes"; "Death Valley Days"; "Seth Parker"
08-26-1907 - Jack Berch - Sigel, IL - d. 12-10-1992
singer: "Kitchen Pirate"; "Sweetheart Serenade"; "Jack Berch Show"
08-26-1907 - Lester Lanin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-27-2004
bandleader: "Lester Lanin and His Orchestra"; "Here's to Veterans"
08-26-1911 - Elmer "Slim" Hall - Tennessee - d. 5-5-1971
guitar: "The Swift Jewel Cowboys"
08-26-1911 - Hal Gibney - Woodland, CA - d. 6-5-1973
announcer: "Draget"; "The Six Shooter"; "Tales of the Texas Rangers"
08-26-1912 - Chuck Foster - Jeanette, PA - d. 12-12-2001
bandleader: "Treasury Bandstand"; "One Night Stand"
08-26-1915 - Jim Davis - Edgereton, MO - d. 4-26-1981
actor: "Dangerous Assignment"
08-26-1918 - Dave Barry - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-16-2001
comedian: "Major Bowes and the Original Amateur Hour"
08-26-1919 - Frances Wayne - Boston, MA - d. 2-6-1978
vocalist: "The Woody Herman Show"
08-26-1921 - June Whitley - d. 5-25-2006
actor: Margaret Anderson "Father Knows Best"
08-26-1922 - Irving R. Levine - Pawtucket, RI - d. 3-27-2009
newsman: "World News Roundup"; "News of the World"
08-26-1924 - Gloria Holliday - Billings, MT
actor: Bessie "Great Gildersleeve"; Gloria "Honest Harold"
08-26-1930 - Theodore S. Beardsley, Jr.
host: "Caribbean Music in the [removed]"
08-26-1934 - Gordon Clough - Salford, England - d. 4-6-1996
radio journalist: "The World at One"; "World This Weekend"; "PM"
August 26th deaths
01-07-1898 - Art Baker - NYC - d. 8-26-1966
announcer, emcee: "People Are Funny"; "Dinah Shore Show"
01-11-1917 - Carl Caruso - Boston, MA - d. 8-26-2001
announcer, director: "A. L. Alexander's Goodwill Court"; "The Shadow"
01-13-1903 - Kay Francis - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory - d.
8-26-1968
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
01-17-1904 - Knox Manning - Worcester, MA - d. 8-26-1980
announcer: "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"; "Headlines on Parade"
02-04-1902 - Charles A. Lindbergh - Detroit, MI - d. 8-26-1974
aviator: CBS awards program
03-10-1911 - Warner Anderson - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-26-1976
actor: Patrick Ryan "Terry and the Pirates"
03-23-1899 - Peggy Paige - Ashville, NC - d. 8-26-1974
actor: Sassy "Grits and Gravy"; Nancy "Main Street Sketches"
04-13-1899 - Larry Keating - [removed], MN - d. 8-26-1963
actor, emcee: "Murder Will Out"; "Scramby Amby"; "This Is Your FBI"
04-26-1922 - Mike Kellin - Hartford, CT - d. 8-26-1983
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
05-02-1898 - Edmund Barclay - Gosford, Australia - d. 8-26-1961
writer: "As Ye Sow"
05-22-1898 - Charles Borrelli - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-26-1984
pianist: "Italian Sunday"
05-25-1891 - William McNeary - d. 8-26-1934
juvenile radio programming pioneer: "Man in the Moon"
06-21-1926 - Margaret Potter - Harrow, England - d. 8-26-1998
writer: "Hindleford"; "The Waiting Game"
07-14-1892 - Gene Rouse - Boulder, CO - d. 8-26-1956
announcer/newscaster: "First Nighter"; "Grand Hotel"; "Vanity Fair"
07-14-1903 - Irving Stone - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-26-1989
author: "Cavalcade of America"; "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Arch Oboler's
Plays"
08-19-1917 - Muriel M. Bell - d. 8-26-1997
woman's programming: WBOB Galax, Virginia
08-28-1897 - Charles Boyer - Figeac, France - d. 8-26-1978
actor: Michel "Presenting Charles Boyer"; "Hollywood Playhouse"
09-21-1921 - Gail Russell - Chicago, IL - d. 8-26-1961
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
11-17-1931 - Wayne J. Andre - d. 8-26-2003
trombonist: Benny Goodman Orchestra; Woody Herman Orchestra
11-23-1916 - Julie Stevens - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-26-1984
actor: Helen Trent "Romance of Helen Trent"; Kitty Foyle "Kitty Foyle"
Ron
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