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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2009 : Issue 247
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Programs on [removed]                    [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
  Arnold Stang 1918-2009                [ Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@sbcgl ]
  Re: traditional Christmas shows that  [ grams46@[removed] ]
  Arnold Stang                          [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed] ]
  Another Fessenden-related Christmas   [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
  12-24 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Re: Christmas Carol                   [ <georgewagner@[removed]; ]

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:33:34 -0500
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Programs on [removed]

Besides turning over the ETs of recorded programs, one program (Frontier
Town) recorded the first 15:00 on one side of an ET, then used another ET
for the 2nd 15:00.  That way whoever played the program didn't have to turn
over the disc.  There was space for commercials on those discs.  The ones I
used at Yankton College were red vinyl.  And they came in a neat album.

I had an interesting experience while broadcasting my classical music
program one Sunday at the Bemidji State University station, KBSB.  My wife
called and said she needed to go to the hospital for some sort of emergency.
I was on the (10 watt) FM station, and a college kid was doing a rock DJ
show on the closed circuit AM station that broadcast to the dormitories.  As
the college DJ was playing a tune, I asked him to stop in at the FM studio
in about 20 minutes and turn over the disc of a Beethoven 'Cello sonata.  No
announcement, just turn it over.  So as I was taking my wife to the
hospital, we listened to the radio.  Fortunately, I got back to the studio
before side 1 ended.  It was sort of like racing to beat the clock, but we
didn't break any speed laws.

Ted Kneebone. 1528 S. Grant St., Aberdeen, SD 57401. Phone: 605-226-3344.

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:33:52 -0500
From: Stuart Lubin <stuartlubin6686@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Arnold Stang  1918-2009

A legend of radio and other media has died: Arnold Stang.

Here is the obituary in the [removed] Times, on December 23rd.

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As a boy under seven growing up and listening to local NY radio, I was fascinated early-on with Arnold Stang's antics on the Henry Morgan Show.

Stuart

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:34:22 -0500
From: grams46@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: traditional Christmas shows that you always
 listen to faithfully every year

_tony@[removed]_ (mailto:tony@[removed]) :

.... are there  any
traditional Christmas shows that you always listen to faithfully every  year
besides the Cinnamon Bear? ....

from kathy:
i don't listen to the cinnamon bear ever.
but, during advent, i make of point of listening to the Christmas day 1941
vic and sade program.   it has been dubbed "north dakota river bottom
revel".    one of paul rhymer's best imho.
merry Christmas and  peace from kathy
support our troops; end the war in iraq
john 3:16

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:35:07 -0500
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Arnold Stang

It was reported in the Washington Post today that Arnold Stang died on
December 20 in a Boston area hospital, where he was being treated for
pneumonia. He was 91.

As one of American radio's busiest and best-known character actors during
the 1930s and '40s, Stang almost single-handedly invented the modern comic
persona now popularly called a "nerd," years before that term was coined.

Stang was born in the Boston suburb of Chelsea, the son of a lawyer. At the
age of nine he impulsively sent a postcard to the producers of his favorite
radio show, Let's Pretend, and was astonished to receive an invitation to
audition for the show. The youngster promptly took a bus to New York City,
where he auditioned at CBS headquarters and was hired on the spot. "I knew
nothing about radio," Stang recalled, "except that I felt I ought to be on
that show. I guess I was just this strange little kid, and they decided I'd
be an interesting addition to the show."   Although his parents didn't share
young Arnold's enthusiasm for show business, they agreed to let him move in
with relatives in New York and join the cast of Let's Pretend.

During the '40s Stang was also a fixture on Milton Berle's top-rated radio
show. Berle branched out into television in 1948, but Stang was reluctant to
follow. He finally relented in 1953, and went on to chalk up hundreds of
appearances in TV comedies, dramas, and commercials over the next four
decades.

You can hear an interview with Arnold Stang on WTIC's "Golden Age of Radio"
recorded in 1974, along with excerpts from his many radio appearances, at
[removed] - select Program #51.

--
Bob Scherago
Webmaster and former WTIC Engineer
[removed]

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:35:58 -0500
From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Another Fessenden-related Christmas tale

This might be the one hundredth anniversary of Reginald Fessenden's alleged
holiday broadcasts. Or it might not.

In a 1932 letter, Fessenden recalled making the broadcasts from Brant Rock,
MA in 1906 to Navy (and United Fruit Company) ships equipped with his
wireless apparatus and that he reached Norfolk, VA on Christmas Eve and the
West Indies on New Year's Eve. In his letter, Fessenden insists there should
be a record of the broadcasts "in the logs of the U. S. Navy war vessels and
United Fruit vessels" for 1906-07. Researchers Donna L. Halper, Christopher
H. Sterling and James E. O'Neal started looking into the matter a few years
ago and could find no conclusive evidence to confirm or refute the dates.

Perhaps logs for 1909-10 might reveal something because there's some
circumstantial evidence that suggests the broadcasts may have occurred three
years later. In December 1909, newspapers reported that Fessenden had
equipped two U. S. Navy scout cruisers, the Birmingham and the Salem, with
his wireless apparatus for a scheduled series of tests on the Atlantic. By
Christmas Eve, the Birmingham was in Norfolk, having just been in the West
Indies.

And what was the Birmingham doing in Norfolk just before Christmas? Well,
here's a nice story, from the December 24, 1909 Baltimore Sun. It doesn't
shed any light on Fessenden's work but it seemed appropriate for the season
so I thought I'd share it.

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"HANDS ACROSS THE SEA"

Uncle Sam's Jackies Raise Purse For Shipwrecked Britons.

RESCUED FROM SINKING TUG

Pitiable Condition Of Crew Of Bulldog Touches Hearts Of Cruiser Birmingham's
Men.

[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.]

Norfolk, Va., Dec. [removed] enlisted men of the United States cruiser
Birmingham were so impressed with the pitiable condition of the five men they
rescued at sea last Sunday morning that they have raised a purse of $300
which will be presented tomorrow morning as a Christmas gift.

The five men were taken from the British salvage tug Bulldog in the teeth of
a terrific storm off the coast of Bermuda. Their clothing was frozen to their
bodies and they were nearly starved to death, and the American jackies gave
up their own clothes to their English cousins and made them warm and happy.
They were rigged out from head to foot in American sailor clothes when they
landed in Norfolk on Wednesday from the Birmingham and spoke in grateful
terms of the Yankee tars.

The Britons lost everything. When this became known to the sailors they got
together and passed around the hat. Every man of them contributed, and the
Christmas spirit in the air, as well as the awful plight of the shipwrecked
men, sent the American dollars on a good-will mission to relieve and gladden.

When the Englishmen were told of the sailors' gift tonight one of them said:

"The American jacks are tiptop. I've 'arf a mind to be one of them."

The British Vice-Consul, Barton Myers, has supplied the men with extra
clothing and is taking care of them. He will send them to London on the first
London-bound ship which leaves here.

Captain Fletcher, commanding the Birmingham, has reported the rescue also,
telling of how he fired upon the tug to remove her as a menace to navigation.

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:36:03 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  12-24 births/deaths

December 24th births

12-24-1881 - Charles Wakefield Cadman - Johnston, PA - d. 12-30-1946
Composed "At Dawning," used as theme for "The Brighter Day."
12-24-1886 - Michael Curtiz - Budapest, Hungary - d. 4-10-1962
film director: "Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre"; Screen Director's
Playhouse"
12-24-1887 - Lucrezia Bori - Valencia, Spain - d. 5-14-1960
opera singer: "Telephone Hour"; "Ford Sunday Evening Hour"
12-24-1893 - Harry Warren - NYC - d. 9-22-1981
composer: "Good News of 1940"; "Great Moments to Music"
12-24-1895 - Ruth Chatterton - NYC - d. 11-24-1961
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-24-1901 - Nola Luxford - New Zealand - d. 10-10-1994
broadcast journalist: "1932 Olympic Games"
12-24-1906 - Chuck Webster - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-14-1983
actor: "The Green Hornet"; "The Lone Ranger"; "True Detective Mysteries"
12-24-1906 - Franz Waxman - Konigshutte, Germany - d. 2-24-1967
composer-conductor: "Good News of 1939"
12-24-1910 - Fritz Leiber - Chicago, IL - d. 9-5-1992
science fiction writer: "X Minus One"; "Future Tense"; "Audion Theatre"
12-24-1910 - John Bagni - NYC - d. 2-13-1954
writer: Suspense"; "Family Theatre"; "Escape"
12-24-1910 - Mitchell Ayres - Milwaukee, WI - d. 9-5-1969
bandleader: "Dunninger Show"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
12-24-1910 - Tony Labriola - d. 6-17-1999
actor: Oswald "The Ken Murray Show"
12-24-1912 - Jay Bennett - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-27-2009
script writer: "Miracle of Christmas"
12-24-1913 - Herb Allen - San Francisco, CA
announcer: "The Guiding Light"; "Sherlock Holmes"
12-24-1913 - Myrtle 'Lulubelle' Wiseman - Boone, KY - d. 2-8-1999
singer: (Lulubelle and Scotty) "The National Barn Dance"
12-24-1914 - Abram S. Ginnes - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-20-2006
adapter: "The Big Story"
12-24-1914 - Ralph Marterie - Naples, Italy - d. 10-10-1978
bandleader: "Marlboro Cigarettes Show"
12-24-1915 - Helen Brown - Washington - d. 9-9-1994
actor: Miss Foster "Big Town"
12-24-1916 - Morton Fine - d. 3-7-1991
writer: "Bold Venture"; "Broadway Is My Beat"; "The Front Page"
12-24-1920 - John Barron - London, England - d. 7-3-2004
actor: "Dad's Army"; "Brothers In Law"
12-24-1921 - Phillip Grenville Mann - Manly, Australia - d. 6-19-1990
writer: "The Sergeant at Burralee"
12-24-1922 - Ava Gardner - Grabtown, NC - d. 1-25-1990
actor: "So Proudly We Hail"; "Prudential Family Hour of Stars"
12-24-1928 - Norman Rossington - Liverpool, England - d. 5-21-1999
comic actor: "Big Jim and the Figaro Club"
12-24-1974 - Ryan Seacrest - Atlanta, GA
disk jockey: "Live from the Lounge of Ryan Secreast"

December 24th deaths

01-27-1899 - Milton Rettenberg - NYC - d. 12-24-1986
pianist/conductor: "Chesterfield Presents"; "Cities Service Concerts"
02-02-1888 - Lee Millar - Vancouver, Canada - d. 12-24-1941
actor: (Husband of Verna Felton) Appeared on various radio shows
02-07-1915 - Arthur Kurland - d. 12-24-1992
producer: "Keep 'Em Rolling"
02-13-1913 - Frank Phares - d. 12-24-1968
writer: "This Is Your FBI"
02-25-1912 - David Roberts - Jacksonville, FL - d. 12-24-1996
NBC staff announcer
03-10-1886 - Clarence Adler - d. 12-24-1969
pianist: Member of the New York Trio
03-20-1903 - Sarah Burton - London, England - d. 12-24-1994
actor: Mrs. Bixby "Mrs. Miniver"; Lisa "Against the Storm"
03-20-1908 - Frank Stanton - Muskegon, MI - d. 12-24-2006
president of cbs 1946-1971
04-09-1910 - Alan Melville - Berwick-upon-Tweed, England - d. 12-24-1983
scriptwriter: "BBC Radio Newsreel"; "London Column"
05-26-1895 - Norma Talmadge - Jersey City, NJ - d. 12-24-1957
actor: "Thirty Minutes in Hollywood"
05-31-1898 - Norman Vincent Peale - Bowersville, OH - d. 12-24-1993
preacher: "Art of Living"
06-10-1910 - Julie Haydon - Oak Park, IL - d. 12-24-1994
actor: "Suspense"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"
06-19-1925 - Charlie Drake - South London, England - d. 12-24-2006
comedian: "Jigsaw"
06-26-1924 - Bob Maxwell - Custer, KY - d. 12-24-2002
actor: "The Lone Ranger"
06-29-1911 - Bernard Herrmann - NYC - d. 12-24-1975
conductor, composer: "Columbia Workshop"; "Mercury Theatre on the Air/
Campbell Playhouse"
07-08-1898 - Melville Ruick - Boise, ID - d. 12-24-1972
actor, announcer: "Cavalcade of America"; "Quiet Please"; "Suspense"
09-07-1923 - Peter Lawford - London, England - d. 12-24-1984
actor: "Radio Reader's Digest"; "Suspense"
09-29-1915 - Derwood Brown - Texas - d. 12-24-1978
singer: "The Musical Brownies"
10-10-1930 - Harold Pinter - Hackney, England - d. 12-24-2008
writer, actor: "Focus on Football Pools"; "A Slight Ache"
11-23-1888 - Nana Bryant - Cincinnati, OH - d. 12-24-1955
actor: Miss Tilsey "Fabulous Dr. Tweedy"
12-01-1885 - Frazier Hunt - Rock Island, IL - d. 12-24-1967
newscaster: Weekday morning newscast on Mutual
12-12-1929 - John Osborne - London, England - d. 12-24-1994
dramatist: "Danger"

Ron

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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:36:19 -0500
From: <georgewagner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Christmas Carol

Craig, I'm fairly certain there was also a Carol broadcast in December, 1948.
I was sick as a dog for most of that school year (I was seven) and Dad tried
to cheer me up with the broadcast. Dad sat on the edge of the bed and
listened with me until I fell asleep (which seems to have happened rather
quickly).

     It was the first time I'd ever heard of Carol, Dickens or Barrymore.

     Sincerely,

     George Wagner
     georgewagner@[removed]

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