Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #43
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Date: 2/10/2006 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2006 : Issue 43
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Willard Waterman on Amos n Andy?      [ "Arthur Funk" <art-funk@[removed]; ]
      Tarzan's Yeller! (Well, "Host," actu  [ Wich2@[removed] ]
      Cliff Carpenter commercial            [ <vzeo0hfk@[removed]; ]
      regarding the Sousa inquiry           [ Joemartelle@[removed] ]
      Jack Benny's violin playing (Digest   [ Art Chimes <[removed]@[removed] ]
      RE: Benny's violin [removed]         [ "Kirby, Tom" <Kirby@[removed]; ]
      Country Music Historian Charles Wolf  [ "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed] ]
      Jack's Violin                         [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]

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    Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 19:30:49 -0500
    From: "Arthur Funk" <art-funk@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Willard Waterman on Amos n Andy?

    Hello, Fellow Listeners!

    While traveling home from out of town yesterday I was listening to some A n
    A tapes.  They were from January 1949.  On three of the four episodes I
    heard a supporting part played by someone who sounded to my ear like Willard
    Waterman.  However, he wasn't credited.  The episode with the most dialogue
    involving the WW sound-alike was one in which the Kingfish was hearing his
    conscience chiding him for scheming (as usual) to beat Andy out of some
    green.

    I wonder if anyone on the Digest can confirm that Willard Waterman did bit
    parts on Amos n Andy.  These particular episodes would be the year before he
    took over the Gildersleeve role.

    Best regards to all,
    Art Funk

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    Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 19:31:42 -0500
    From: Wich2@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Tarzan's Yeller! (Well, "Host," [removed])

    From: "MICHAEL BIEL" mbiel@[removed]

>     I  will be forever sad that I never got to meet Lon Clark because I  started
>     going to Cincinnati the year after he died.  Everybody has told  me how nice
>     he was

    Dear Michael-

    I had the  pleasure.

    At about the time I joined the Episcopal Actor's Guild, Lon was  just
    stepping down from a long reign as boss. I saw him do a NICK CARTER  recreation there
    - with sfx by the estimable Barney Beck! Silly script, but a  heck of a fun
    production.

    Around then, he also hosted a reading of a  potential COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
    musical that The Wife was in, at the  Player's.

    He was indeed a nice guy. As many of the board-trodders of his  generation,
    he was a bit florid of phrase, long of wind, and full of  "and  THEN, I
    did"[removed] but he truly seemed to be a Good Joe.

    Best,
    -Craig

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    Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:24:11 -0500
    From: <vzeo0hfk@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Cliff Carpenter commercial

    Yes indeed -- as Sean reported, Cliff is doing commercials. The Lending Tree
    one is national -- I saw it here in New York within twenty minutes of seeing
    another one in which he appeared. Cliff was flown to California to do the
    Lending Tree one.

    Now that's my idea of a role model. Soon I have to find a job and keep
    working into my nineties too! For one thing it keeps the grey matter healthy!

    Howard Blue

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    Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:25:35 -0500
    From: Joemartelle@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  regarding the Sousa inquiry

        regarding the Sousa inquiry and his recorded [removed]   according to
    Sousa biographer, Paul E. Bierley, the voice portion of the  recording by
    Sousa was recorded in an NBC studio in New York City on November  6th
    [removed] happened to be Sousa's 75th birthday. There's an NBC publicity
    photo floating around somewhere showing the conductor/composer standing in
    front  of a mike, with  baton in hand.     As for the Sousa band's actual
    performance of 'The Stars and Stripes  Forever,' which follows  Sousa's voice
    on the recording--Sousa fans agree that it comes from one of  three radio
    broadcasts in 1929. Namely, October 7th, 14th or the 21st. The band  actually
    performed the patriotic march on each of those three dates in a series  of
    Monday night programs sponsored by General Motors.     The special Sousa
    'Thanksgiving Day broadcast of 1929 was a two hour  special and was carried
    by over 35 radio stations. The sponsor was the General  Baking Company, known
    to Americans everywhere as the 'Bond Bakers,' because they  baked Bond
    bread.  Therefore the reference in Sousa's remarks regarding the  Bond
    Bakers.'   Please allow me to step up on the Sousa Bandbox for a
    [removed],  during these troubled times, it would do each of us alot
    of good to get a  patriotic shot in the left ear by listening  to a few of
    Sousa's stirring  marches, like The Washington Post March, The Stars and
    Stripes Forever and  as a former Marine, my favorite Sousa [removed]
    Fidelis!   Semper Fi!   Joe Martelle Mesa, Colorado

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    Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:29:14 -0500
    From: Art Chimes <[removed]@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Benny's violin playing (Digest #41)

    I have a wonderful recording, on a generally-dreadful 2-LP set, of Jack
    playing at something called the Honor America Day rally at the Lincoln
    Memorial in 1970.

    (The record, which I got for free and was well worth the price, also includes
    a smashing Kate Smith version of God Bless America ... plus a lot of
    anti-antiwar, anti-dissent, and anti-counterculture feeling at a time of
    intense Vietnam-era hatefulness.)

    His song? "Sweet Georgia Brown" of all things, and it sounded pretty good to
    me. Maybe Mischa Elman could have played better, and maybe Jack couldn't have
    made it past a blind audition for the philharmonic, but it certainly was not
    the scratchings we heard in his lessons with Prof. LeBlanc.

    And speaking of which -- and I'm sure Laura will know this -- did Jack himself
    play during the radio broadcasts? Or was that another musician? I wonder if
    there were union rules, or maybe just custom or some technical reason that
    might have required that "Jack's" playing actually come from a member of the
    house orchestra.

    -Art-

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    Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:30:07 -0500
    From: "Kirby, Tom" <Kirby@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: Benny's violin [removed]

    Ted writes:

>     Someone asked about Jack Benny's violin playing.  I remember seeing a video
>     or kinescope of Jack playing the Bach double violin concerto in D minor with
>     Isaac Stern.  This was a fund-raising concert.  Jack did amazingly well.  No
>     goofing around; he played it straight.

    If it's the same clip I remember seeing, the only goofing around he did is when
    he explained how this fund raiser worked: The cheap seats were up front, the more
    expensive seats were farther back, the really expensive seats were all the way
    in the back, and if you gave enough money, you didn't have to come at all! 8^)

    -- Tom Kirby

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    Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:15:17 -0500
    From: "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Country Music Historian Charles Wolfe Dies

    I received this unexpected message this afternoon. Charles Wolfe was THE
    historian of oldtime country music. One of his many priceless books is "A
    Good Natured Riot," the early years of the WSM Grand Ole [removed]

    Colleagues:

         With sadness I wish to inform you that we lost Charles Wolfe
    tonight.  Charles passed away at MTMC at approximately 9:00 pm, after an
    extended battle with diabetes and attendant complications, with his
    wife, Mary Dean, and his daughters Stacey and Cindy and Cindy's husband
    Mark at his side.  Charles was a gentle giant, a prolific scholar and
    beloved colleague whose presence in the English Department and in the
    University gave new and unique meaning to the term "professor."
    Certainly with his prolific productivity, including  nineteen scholarly
    books (with others still in the offing) and hundreds of articles on
    music, folklore, and popular culture, Charles could have gone to any
    institution in the land.  But his feet were deep in the Tennessee soil.
    He was Missouri born and bred--and Blue Raider to the core, having
    joined MTSU in 1970, where he remained until his retirement just this
    past year.  Though nationally and internationally known for his
    accomplishments, Charles never ventured far from heart and home, from
    family and friends.   Unpretentious, dedicated, mentor to countless
    students and friend to all who knew him, Charles has left an indelible
    imprint.  He will be missed by those who did not know him personally,
    and even so much more by those who did.

    John McDaniel

    Dean, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro

    Charles Wolfe visitation and funeral arrangements
    Woodfins Funeral Home
    1488 Lascassas Pike (Hwy 96 East)
    Murfreesboro, Tn
    Visitation
    4 - 8 [removed] (Saturday, Feb. 12)
    Funeral
    1:30 (Sunday, Feb. 13)
    (615) 893 1515 -- funeral home telephone
    Wolfe mailing address:
    Mary Dean Wolfe
    1210 Bond Court
    Murfreesboro, TN 37129

    BILL KNOWLTON, WCNY-FM, SYRACUSE NY

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    Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:52:00 -0500
    From: Rentingnow@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack's Violin

    I read in a book by George Burns that Jack auctioned his violin for a
    benefit.  Where is it now?

    Larry Moore

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