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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2008 : Issue 3
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
ISO Christmas episodes [ Robert Paine <ka3zci@[removed]; ]
1-4 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
Here's the [removed] [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
Walking Man Contest [ James Yellen <clifengr3@[removed] ]
Unknown Lone Ranger 1940 discs to be [ "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed]; ]
Scrooges, and non-Scrooges [ Wich2@[removed] ]
(-burp-) [ Wich2@[removed] ]
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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 19:12:02 -0500
From: Robert Paine <ka3zci@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: ISO Christmas episodes
Does anyone know if AFRS episodes of the following
programs exist?
Life of Riley "Christmas Bonuses".
Riley inadvertently incurs the ire of his co-workers
when they see him get a "Christmas bonus.
Our Miss Brooks "The Magic Christmas Tree"
Gunsmoke "Beeker's Barn". 1952? (first) production.
Bob Hope Christmas Show - early 50's. Remote from a
veteran's hospital. Bob and Bill Goodwin go shopping
at Hubert Updike III's department store. With Jim
Backus, Frank Nelson, Margaret Whiting and, I believe,
"The Tout" Sheldon Leonard.
A friend presented me with a tape of these shows some
years ago. They're among my most favorite holiday
episodes. He's passed on and the tape broke.
Thanks, Bob KA3ZCI
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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 22:29:53 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 1-4 births/deaths
January 4th births
01-04-1881 - Norman Field - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - d. 9-11-1956
actor: Glen Hunter "One Man's Family"
01-04-1889 - Pat Kelly - North Queensland, Australia - d. 12-23-1967
announcer: "Dog Heroes"; "Getting the Most Out of Life"
01-04-1905 - Sterling Holloway - Cedartown, GA - d. 11-22-1992
actor: "Railroad Hour"; "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Suspense"; "Lux Radio
Theatre"
01-04-1907 - Floyd Christy - NYC - d. 5-21-1962
writer: "The Johnson Family"
01-04-1910 - Ann Jamison - Belfast, Ireland - d. 4-16-1961
singer: "An Evening with Romberg"; "The Packard Hour"
01-04-1911 - Fred Killian - d. 4-25-1994
producer, director: "Those Sensational Years"
01-04-1916 - Lionel Newman - New Haven, CT - d. 2-3-1989
conductor, composer: (Brother of Alfred) "Hollywood Star Time"
01-04-1917 - Jane Wyman - St. Joseph, MO - d. 9-10-2007
actor: "Dreft Star Playhouse"
01-04-1919 - Al "Jazzbeaux" Collins - NYC - d. 9-30-1997
disc jockey: "Collins on a Cloud"; "Happy Al"
01-04-1925 - Johnny Lujack - Connellsville, PA
all-american football player, actor: Himself "Johnny Lujack of Notre
Dame"
01-04-1927 - Barbara Rush - Denver, CO
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
01-04-1935 - Floyd Patterson - Waco, NC - d. 5-11-2006
boxer: "Life and the World"; "Tops in Sports"
January 4th deaths
03-10-1888 - Barry Fitzgerald - Dublin, Ireland - d. 1-4-1961
actor: Bernard Fitz "His Honor, the Barber"
03-14-1912 - Les Brown - Reinerton, PA - d. 1-4-2001
bandleader: (Les Brown and His Band of Renown) "Bob Hope Show"
04-03-1906 - Iron Eyes Cody - Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-4-1999
actor: "Straight Arrow Pow-Wow
04-06-1895 - Dudley Nichols - Wapakoneta, OH - d. 1-4-1960
screenwiriter: "Cavalcade of America"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-09-1895 - Frank H. Anderson, Jr. - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-4-1952
pianist/singer: had his own program for 8 years
04-29-1946 - Humphrey Carpenter - Oxford, England - d. 1-4-2005
writer, disc jockey: BBC radio
05-26-1909 - Richard Maibaum - NYC - d. 1-4-1991
screen writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
07-25-1899 - Ralph Dumke - South Bend, IN - d. 1-4-1964
actor: Willie Tompkins "We, the Abbotts"; Pat Plenty "Quality Twins"
08-26-1904 - Chirstopher Isherwood - High Lane, Cheshire, England -
d. 1-4-1986
writer: "NBC University Theatre"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
09-08-1877 - Bide Dudley - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-4-1944
drama critic: "Around Little 'Ol Broadway"
09-13-1908 - Mae Questel - The Bronx, NY - d. 1-4-1998
actor: Betty Boop "Betty Boop Fables"; Olive Oyl "Popeye the Sailor"
09-24-1901 - Paschal Strong - d. 1-4-1988
writer: "Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy"
09-26-1888 - T. S. Eliot - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-4-1965
writer: "Columbia Workshop"
10-16-1912 - Berry Kroeger - San Antonio, TX - d. 1-4-1991
actor: Michael Waring/The Falcon "The Falcon"; Reed Bannister "Big
Sister"
11-29-1932 - John Gary - Watertown, NY - d. 1-4-1998
singer: "Christmas Music - Spots for the National Guard"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 08:37:17 -0500
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Here's the [removed]
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Professor Biel wrote about FOTR attendees Arthur Anderson and the late Parley
Baer, who voiced, respectively, Lucky the "Lucky Charms" Leprechaun and Ernie
(not "Ollie"), the "Keebler Cookies" Elf. Mike wondered:
whether anybody ever set up a Battle of the Junkfood Mythical Midgets.
As long as we're talking mascots, I remember once standing on the FOTR banquet
buffet queue behind both Mr. Anderson AND Dick Beals, the voice of Speedy
Alka-Seltzer, whose product might've come in handy given the quality of the
food.
In a more cereal tone, recent FOTR's have included the indomitable Chuck
McCann, the original voice of Sonny, the "Cocoa Puffs" cuckoo bird,. One year
(1999), the Trix Rabbit himself was in attendance in the persona of his
alter-ego Russell Horton, who appeared in many episodes of "The CBS Radio
Mystery Theatre," and who is best remembered as the insufferable "expert" on
the works of Marshall McLuhan in a brief scene in Woody Allen's "Annie Hall"
(poetaster Henry Gibson once offered up a couplet on "Rowan & Martin's
Laugh-In" that queried "Marshall McLihan/What are you doin'?").
Other FOTR attendees/OTR personages known for latter-day cartoon mscot
voice-over work include Ralph Bell, who for many years voiced the cartoon
stork who hawked Vlasic Pickles (didn't they have to tone down his Groucho
Marx sound-alike-ness after Groucho's companion Erin complaoned?), and Arnold
Moss, who told us that Hebrew National frankfurters had to "answer to a higher
authority."
How 'bout Bob Elliott & Ray Goulding as Bert and Harry Piel for Piel Bros.
Beer. That configuration of "Bob and Ray" never attended FOTR, but the beloved
sound-effects team of "Bob (Mott) and Ray (Erlenborn) " were mainstays for
many years.
Let's not even get into the myriad cartoon pitchmen given life by the prolific
Mel Blanc, the most notorious being the Frito Bandido. Ai-yi-yi-yi.
"Th-that's ether, folks!"
Derek Tague
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Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 08:37:47 -0500
From: James Yellen <clifengr3@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Walking Man Contest
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Jim Cox brings up the Walking Man contest on Truth or Consequences.
My father listened to all the radio quiz shows and the Walking Man contest was
one that he paid particular attention to. First he thought it was J. Edger
Hoover, but then he changed to Fred Allen. He actually thought that Ralph
Edwards would call our house. He waited for the phone to ring.
If you want to know "the rest of the story" I invite you to go to my on-line
novel, "The Wistful Radio Chronicles" and check out Chapter 3 THE GREAT RADIO
GIVEAWAY DISASTER.
Thanks for tuning in.
Jim Yellen
Here's the linky dinky
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Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 09:07:16 -0500
From: "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Unknown Lone Ranger 1940 discs to be aired
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Lone Ranger fans -- be sure to listen to YesterdayUSA at 10:30 Eastern on
Sunday night. This week we will be airing for the first time what seems to be
a pair of previously unknown Lone Ranger related recordings from WXYZ in early
1940. Joining Walden Hughes and me will be Lone Ranger expert Terry
Salomonson. You will hear for the first time, directly off the original WXYZ
discs, two short 1940 patriotic addresses to the "Safety Rangers" by Earl
Graser in the role of the Lone Ranger.
To give us more time, and to make things more convenient for Terry, we will be
starting at the beginning of Walden's program at 10:30 Eastern, rather than at
my usual time of 11:30. So whether or not you are a member of the Safety
Rangers -- and especially if you know anything ABOUT the Safety Rangers -- be
sure to listen to the "Lone Ranger Pow-Wow" on Sunday nite.
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Michael Biel mbiel@[removed]
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Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:48:01 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Scrooges, and non-Scrooges
Dear Kurt-
From: Kurt Yount <blsmass@[removed];
Subject: campbell playhouse 38 and 39
Do copies exist before 1938?
Not that I've ever [removed] Several of Lionel's later ones are out there
(though most or all are 30m. cuts, I think; and that's too short to do real
justice to the story.)
If anyone HAS an earlier Barrymore "Scrooge," please tell us?
Why does the 1938 version begin with a reading from the bible,
(Well, Dickens' story HAS been called "The Fifth Gospel.")
Welles tended to drop a bit of scripture into whatever Christmas show he had
in a given year.
since that is the only version I have ever heard in any production that does.
Likely true - though there are many overtly "religious" lines/moments in the
Dickens, that are often left out by "bland-izing" adapters.
I am assuming 1939 was the last year.
Perhaps Houseman did it again, in his "non-Welles" Campbells' season?
And lastly, I must go from pseudointelligent from my last post to a
question, who is Arthur Anderson?
What Charlie said earlier - a talented actor, good director, and nice guy
with a nice wife, both of whom Bernadette and I are blessed to call "friends."
Happiest of New Years,
-Craig
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Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:12:43 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: (-burp-)
Battle of the Junkfood Mythical Midgets during the times that
Parley Bear, the voice of the Keebler Elf, Ollie, was attending FOTR
If so, I hope it was a year when Dick Beals was there to bat [removed]
-Craig W.
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