Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #57
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 2/20/2005 7:06 PM
To: [removed]@[removed]

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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 57
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: One Meat Ball                     [ Jordan Young <jyoung@[removed]; ]
  Re: One Meat Ball                     [ "jazmaan@[removed]" <dmf273@ya ]
  Springfield                           [ skallisjr@[removed] ]
  My radio play                         [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
  FRC --> FCC                           [ danhughes@[removed] ]
  Springfield is where?                 [ Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@erols ]
  2-20 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Lone Ranger dissertation              [ "Linda T" <nemesis@[removed]; ]
  ONE [removed] SPAGHETTI           [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:14:45 -0500
From: Jordan Young <jyoung@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: One Meat Ball

MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music indicates "One Meat Ball" was
performed at Cafe Society Uptown in [removed], pantomimed by Jimmy Savo
and sung by blues/folk singer Josh White, who later recorded it for
Elektra. Since White had shows in the '40s on NBC (with the
Southernaires) and on WNEW--according to the same source--he very
possibly performed the song on radio.

However--I have a piece of sheet music, which pictures Savo and White
individually, and indicates the song was "featured by" White at Cafe
Society Downtown, and "featured by" Savo at Cafe Society Uptown--and
yes, there were two clubs.

Spike Jones had nothing to do with "One Meat Ball," as supposed by
one poster, but there may a connection-- it was written by Hy Zaret
and Lou Singer (1944), and a percussionist named Lou Singer (the
same?) can be heard on Spike's "Charleston" album and other
recordings.

Anyone for spaghetti and meat ball?

Jordan R. Young
"Spike Jones Off the Record"
[removed]

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:32:56 -0500
From: "jazmaan@[removed]" <dmf273@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: One Meat Ball

"On top of spaghetti" is an entirely different song than "One Meat Ball".
(And not nearly as
interesting either!)

"One Meatball" is kind of bluesy, kind of funny, kind of sad.   I'd put it in
the same category of
depression era songs about being poor as "Brother Can You Spare a Dime".

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:59:54 -0500
From: skallisjr@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Springfield

Richard Carpenter noted, anent "Father Knows Best that the action was set
in "Springfield."  He added,

I don't believe either show ever mentioned what state its Springfield
was in, but because I live
in Massachusetts, I like to think it is Springfield, Mass.

I once read that each of the 48 contiguous states of the Union had a
"Springfield."  I don't doubt it.  I know that several states have a
"Hudson," making it more difficult to pinpoint where Jack Armstrong used
to live.

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 21:00:10 -0500
From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  My radio play

For anyone in the listening area of radio station WMUK
[removed] FM in Kalamazoo, an original radio play called
"Real Men", written by yours truly and performed by
actors from Don Ramlow's All Ears Theatre, will be
broadcast at 5:30 [removed] on Feb. 27.

Rick

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 21:00:39 -0500
From: danhughes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  FRC --> FCC

Ron says,

1927 - Calvin Coolidge ...created the Federal Radio [removed] The
name was changed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on July
1, 1934.

This is misleadingly oversimplified, I'm afraid.  The FRC was to the FCC
as the Articles of Confederation were to the Constitution--the first
experiment at legislation that soon was found to be grossly inadequate.

The Federal Radio Commission had little power (it could not regulate
advertising, for example), and it was REPLACED by the FCC, a regulating
body with much more power than the FRC ever had.

---Dan

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 21:01:07 -0500
From: Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Springfield is where?

Richard Carpenter tells us:

I don't believe 'Father Knows Best' ever
mentioned what state its Springfield was in, but because I live in
Massachusetts, I like to think it is Springfield, Mass.

As many geography trivia fans know, every one of our 50 states has a
town named Springfield. Supposedly the next most common one, in second
place with 38 states, is Centerville.

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
www. [removed]

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 21:01:17 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  2-20 births/deaths

February 20th births

02-20-1906 - Gale Gordon - NYC - d. 6-30-1995
actor: Mayor LaTrivia "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Osgood Conklin "Our Miss
Brooks"
02-20-1906 - Jack Jackson - Horsley, England - d. 1-15-1978
disc jockey: "Record Round-Up"; "Rooftop Rendezvous"; "Caberet Crusie"
02-20-1906 - Richard Himber - Newark, NJ - d. 12-11-1966
bandleader: "Studebaker Champions"; "Your Hit Parade"
02-20-1907 - Nadine Conner - Compton, CA - d. 3-1-2003
singer: "Show Boat"; "Kraft Music Hall"; "Bell Telephone Hour"
02-20-1909 - Barry Wood - New Haven, CT - d. 7-19-1970
singer, host: "Million-Dollar Band"; "Your Hit Parade"
02-20-1913 - Tommy Henrich - Massillon, OH
sportscaster: "Tommy Henrich Show"
02-20-1914 - John Charles Daly - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 2-25-1991
newscaster, emcee: "What's My Line"; "CBS Is There"; "Columbia Workshop"
02-20-1919 - Dick Wesson - ID - d. 1-27-1979
announcer: "Space Patrol"
02-20-1929 - Amanda Blake - Buffalo, NY - d. 8-16-1989
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Escape"
02-20-1937 - Nancy Wilson - Chillicothe, OH
singer: "Here's to Veterans"; "Spots for the National Guard"

February 20th deaths

02-14-1906 - John Goldwater - NYC - d. 2-20-1999
Created "Archie"
02-24-1885 - Chester Nimitz - Fredericksburg, TX - d. 2-20-1966
admiral of the Navy: "Navy Day Program"; "We the People"; "This is the Navy"
03-13-1914 - Bob Weiskopf - Chicago, IL - d. 2-20-2001
writer: "The Fred Allen Show"
04-07-1897 - Walter Winchell - NYC - d. 2-20-1972
news-gossip caster: "Lucky Strike Dance Hour"; "Jergens Journal"
06-01-1898 - Edward "Cookie" Fairchild - NYC - d. 2-20-1975
conductor: "Johnny Presents Ginny Simms"; "Eddie Cantor Show"
07-08-1882 - Percy Grainger - Melbourne, Australia - d. 2-20-1961
composer: "Prudential Family Hour"; "The Pause that Refreshes."
09-04-1928 - Dick York - Fort Wayne, IN - d. 2-20-1992
actor: Billy Fairfield "Jack Armstrong/Armstrong of the SBI"
09-22-1904 - Clarence Nash - Watonga,  Oklahoma Territory - d. 2-20-1985
actor: (voice of Donald Duck) "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"
10-07-1905 - Andy Devine - Flagstaff, Arizona Territory - d. 2-20-1977
actor: Jingles P. Jones "Wild Bill Hickok"; Mose Muich "Lum and Abner"; "Jack
Benny Program"
11-08-1913 - Robert Strauss - NYC - d. 2-20-1975
actor: Doc Prouty "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; Pa Wiggs "Mrs. Wiggs of the
Cabbage Patch"
11-14-1910 - Rosemary De Camp - Prescott, Arizona Territory - d. 2-20-2001
actress: Nurse Judy Price, "Dr. Christian"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 21:01:53 -0500
From: "Linda T" <nemesis@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Lone Ranger dissertation

Back in 1955 I wrote a [removed] dissertation on THE LONE RANGER  - and
fancied that I knew "all about the Masked Man" --and now 50 years
later I'm building a neat sequence on the Ranger in my VIDEO
documentary on OTR.

Mr. Parker--I had the pleasure of reading your dissertation on microfiche a
few years ago!  It came to Kern County (CA) all the way from (I think) Mo.
LInda Thuringer

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 21:02:58 -0500
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  ONE [removed] SPAGHETTI
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    Reader Chris delights us but dates himself as a child of the 50s when he
quotes the "Meatball" song as being sung to the tune of "On Top of Old Smokey"
a big hit from the early 50s.
    The original song, I am almost sure, refers to the early 40s hit, "One
Meat Ball" which I haven't heard in a long time but was fond of singing to
myself when making my famous spaghetti and meatballs for my son-in-law down in
Florida last Christmas.
    As I remembered it then the lyrics refer to a guy in the depression era
who tried to get just ONE meatball due to a money lack and the guy behind the
counters responds in a descending bass voice,
    "Ya gets no bread with ONE meatball."
    Sounds like it might have been a Louis Jordan kinda tune.
    Anyway, the kid loved [removed] dinner too!
    Anyone?
                        Michael C. Gwynne

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