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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2012 : Issue 8
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
  Follow-up on 1927 Rose Bowl story     [ "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@sbcglob ]
  Mr. & Mrs. North                      [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
  The McKinney Sisters                  [ <beachcrows@[removed]; ]
  1-16 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  2012 Cincinnati Convention Reg Form   [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
  1-17 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Gracie profiled on BBC's "Great Live  [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:34:42 -0500
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

Hi Friends,

Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
Radio Theatre," Bob Bro's "The Old Time Radio Show," John and Larry
Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios"
and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."  Streamed in high-quality audio,
on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
*Many new shows have been added* to our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
[removed]
Check our our Transcription Disc scans at:
[removed]
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

GRAND MARQUEE
  Episode 55 9-18-47 "Mexican Interlude"
  Began as a Summer Replacement for the AMOS 'n ANDY SHOW
  Stars: Jim Ameche, Muriel Montel Bremner, Jim Hummerland, Jean
Jubilier, Donald Gallagher, Lucille Garcia.
  Writer: Virginia Safford Lynne.
  Director: Norman Felton
  Announcer: George Stone
  Music: Joseph Gallicchio, Emil Soderstrom
  NBC Sustaining

BILLIE BURKE SHOW
  8-24-46 "The Thousand Dollar Bill"
  Stars: Billie Burke
  With: Lillian Randolph, George Meace, Ken Cristy
  Announcer: Marvin Miller
  CBS Listerine

THE OLD HAG'S HOUR GLASS
  1938 Audition Show
  Stars: Noreen Gammill

COUNTERSPY
  Episode 18 9-14-42 "Recruited Nurse" STARS: Don MacLaughlin, Mandel
Kramer ABC SHUTER CANDY Sundays 5:30 - 6:00 pm

HENRY BUSSE SHOW
  Episode 5 1934 "Down By The River"
==================================

HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

GANG BUSTERS
  (ABC/Synd) 10/11/47 and 10/18/47
  A double feature telling of the later days of George "Bugs" Moran's
criminal life in Chicago.

THE GREEN HORNET
  (NBC-Blue) -5/22/40 Al Hodge as The Hornet aka Britt Reid in: "Sins Of
The Father"
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THE OLD TIME RADIO SHOW

OUR MISS BROOKS (CBS)
  Title: Peanuts, the Great Dane
  Original Air: 5/22/49
  Starring: Eve Arden, Gale Gordon

I LOVE A MYSTERY (MUTUAL)
  Title: Battle of the Century --- Episode 18
  Original Air: 2/22/50
  Starring: Russell Thorson, Jim Boles, Tony Randall

  GUNSMOKE (CBS)
  Title: The Guitar
  Original Air: 12/26/53
  Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Georgia Ellis
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION

This week, by request of Irwin Leventhal, we take a look at the career
of Bob Bailey.

  He began in Chicago and eventually came to Hollywood to make movies.
His radio career in both Chicago and in Hollywood was extensive.

  We begin with an interview that John dunning did on 02/07/82 with
Roberta Goodwin, who was Bailey's daughter.

  We learn about Bob Baily's career an about his daughters thoughts
about him as a radio actor. She also spends time talking about those he
worked with over the years.

  We'll hear about activities from the OTR Calendar, and then we'll hear
LET GEORGE DO IT
  from 10/12/40 Episode (006) Chocolate Soldier. from 09/27/48 Episode
(101) The Little Man Who Was Everywhere.

  And finally we'll hear
YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR
  06/09/57 Episode (540) The Mason-Dixon Mismatch Matter [AFRTS].
====================================
CLASSICS & CURIOS

"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

  Episode 10

  Red Skelton & Janet Blair in the 1949 SCREEN ACTORS GUILD radio
production of the 1948 movie "The Fuller Brush Man." A Special Extra is
Red's classic performance of the "Pledge of Allegiance."

Red Skelton composed some 800 songs. So in recognition of Red's love of
music here are remote clips of great bands such as Red Nichols, Clyde
McCoy, and Jack Teagarden. Included from 1943 is a clip from the Paul
Whiteman radio show with George Burns and Gracie Allen. Presented here
especially in tribute to Red's love of comedy, Gracie performs a
"Concert for Clinker and Scales."
====================================

If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

      Jerry Haendiges

      Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
      The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
      Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
the Net

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:35:34 -0500
From: "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Follow-up on 1927 Rose Bowl story

In my earlier post about NBC's first coast-to coast network broadcast of the
Rose Bowl football game on New Year's Day in 1927, I quoted part of a Los
Angeles Times story from January 1, 1934.  The article included an overview
of Graham McNamee's description of that 1927 game between Stanford and
Alabama.

I wanted to add that the article stated that the national broadcast of the
Rose Bowl on NBC that day in 1934 would be announced by KFI announcer Ken
Carpenter and Don Thompson.  I believe Thompson was working mainly for KPO
in San Francisco at the time.

While working on an article a few years ago on the history of college
football in Los Angeles radio in the 1920s and '30s, I found another source
which says that Jack Benny's future announcer, Don Wilson was also on some
Rose Bowl broadcasts over NBC between 1930 and 1934, while he was with
KFI/KECA in Los Angeles.  Wilson was usually paired with Ken Carpenter on
those Rose Bowl broadcasts. Wilson was also heard in Los Angeles over KFI
between 1932 and 1934 announcing games for USC and UCLA for NBC's West Coast
network.  Wilson began calling college football games for KFI in the fall of
1929.

Finally, after Don Wilson had left his job at KFI and KECA to work on Jack
Benny's program, Ken Carpenter became the chief announcer for KFI in Los
Angeles.  The book The Golden Voices of Football by Ted Patterson says that
Carpenter took over Wilson's job as announcer for the USC and UCLA football
games on NBC's Pacific Coast network through 1935, alternating quarters with
KFI's Tom Hanlon.  Carpenter also did the play-by-play on the Rose Bowl
games for NBC in 1935 and 1936 with Don Thompson from NBC-San Francisco.

Jim Hilliker
Monterey, CA

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:35:46 -0500
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: oldtimeradio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Mr. & Mrs. North

I was listening to the multipart Mr. & Mrs. North "Nightwalk" which
supposedly is a five-parter but at the close of part 5 the announcer invites
us to listen Monday for another chapter of Nightwalk. This may have been
discussed years ago but I don't remember what was concluded. Does anyone have
any information about the series?

Barbara

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:37:10 -0500
From: <beachcrows@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The McKinney Sisters

Evelyn McKinney Stevens of the singing McKinney Sisters died this past
Christmas Eve here in Sacramento at age 87. Evelyn began singing at
age 12 on Alabama radio station WBRC with her sister Dean who was
herself just 14. They went on to sing with the Ted Weems Orchestra,
appeared on The Grand Ole Opry and also with the Sons of the Pioneers.
In 1946 they joined Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys They made many
radio appearances with Wills and his Playboys. After the band settled
in Sacramento they were a regular feature on the local 50,000 watt
powerhouse KFBK heard over a wide area. Evelyn eventually married Bob
Wills younger brother Billy Jack and sister Dean married Wills
mandolin player Tiny Moore. After leaving the Bob Wills band, both
sisters settled in Sacramento. Evelyn continued to perform locally
with Billy Jack's western swing band and Dean's husband Tiny Moore
managed Bob Wills local nightclub Wills Point. After 20 years of
marriage Evelyn and Billy Jack were divorced and she later married
Norman Stevens. Her sister Dean died in 2009 and Tiny Moore died in
1987.

Paul Thompson

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:08:25 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-16 births/deaths

January 16th births

01-16-1878 - Harry Carey, Sr. - NYC - d. 9-21-1947
actor: "Lincoln Highway"; "Suspense"
01-16-1890 - Lloyd Bacon - San Jose, CA - d. 11-15-1955
film director: "Screen Guild Theatre"; " Screen Director's Pla
01-16-1895 - Irene Bordoni - Ajaccio, Corsica, France - d. 3-19-1953
singer: (The Coty Playgirl) "The RKO Hour"
01-16-1895 - John B. Kennedy - Quebec, Canada - d. 7-22-1961
commentator: "Collier's Hour"; "RCA Magic Key"
01-16-1901 - Sid Silvers - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-20-1976
actor: Beetle "Phil Baker Show"; "Jack Benny Program"
01-16-1907 - Alexander Knox - Strathroy, Ontario, Canada - d. 4-25-1995
actor: "Document A/777", BBC
01-16-1907 - John Hiestand - Madison, WI - d. 2-5-1987
announcer: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Cinnamon Bear"; "Feg Murray Show"
01-16-1909 - Ethel Merman - Astoria, NY - d. 2-15-1984
singer" "Ethel Merman Show"; "Home Front Matinee"
01-16-1910 - Dwight Weist - Palo Alto, CA - d. 7-16-1991
actor: Mr. District Attorney "Mr. District Attorney"
01-16-1910 - Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean - Lucas, AR - d. 7-17-1974
baseball broadcaster: (Baseball Hall of Fame) "Game of the Day"
01-16-1914 - Don Ettlinger - Detroit, MI - d. 8-6-2000
writer: "Railroad Hour"; "Our Miss Brooks"; "Doctor Fights"
01-16-1914 - Roger Wagner - Le Puy, France - d. 9-17-1992
chorale director: "It's Time for Johnny Mercer"; "America Sings"
01-16-1916 - Joe McMichael - Minneapolis, MN - d. 2-12-1944
singer: (The Merry Macs) "Bing Crosby Show"; "Fred Allen Show"
01-16-1916 - Norval Taborn - d. 1-23-1990
singer: (The Vagabonds) "The Breakfast Club"
01-16-1917 - Brainerd Duffield - Boston, MA - d. 4-5-1979
writer: "The Ford Theatre"
01-16-1917 - Buddy Lester - Chicago, IL - d. 10-4-2002
comedian: (Brother of Jerry Lester) "Connee Boswell Show"
01-16-1920 - Elliott Reid - NYC
actor: Biff Bradley "Pepper Young's Family"
01-16-1922 - Lina Romay - NYC - d. 12-17-2010
latin singer: "The Bing Crosby Show"; "The Dick Haymes Show"
01-16-1923 - Roy Lanham - Corbin, KY - d. 2-14-1991
guitar: "Plantation Boys"
01-16-1924 - Allen Swift - NYC - d. 4-18-2010
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
01-16-1924 - Katy Jurado - Guadalajara, Mexico - d. 7-5-2002
actor: "George Fisher Interviews the Stars"
01-16-1928 - Pilar Lorengar - Zaragoza, Spain - d. 6-2-1996
soprano: "Ondas Infantiles"
01-16-1929 - Popeye the Sailor - d. will live forever
cartoon character: "Popeye"
01-16-1947 - Michale Falconer Anderson - Aberdeen, Scotland
author of radio plays

January 16th deaths

02-12-1888 - Victor Kolar - Budapest, Hungary - d. 1-16-1957
conductor: "Ford Sunday Evening Hour"
02-16-1911 - "Curly" Noland - Tennessee - d. 1-16-1993
bass: "The Swift Jewel Cowboys"
03-15-1927 - Carl Smith - Maynardville, TN - d. 1-16-2010
country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Cas Walker's Radio Show"
03-23-1905 - Sidney Walton - Mississippi - d. 1-16-1958
announcer: "Arthur Tracy, Street Singer"; "Changing Times"
03-24-1907 - Martin Kosleck - Barkotzen, Germany - d. 1-16-1994
actor: "Treasury Star Parade"
03-25-1867 - Arturo Toscanini - Parma, Italy - d. 1-16-1957
conductor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"
04-21-1923 - John Mortimer - London, England - d. 1-16-2009
author: "Rumpole of the Bailey"
05-03-1907 - Earl Wilson - Rockford, OH - d. 1-16-1987
columnist: "Earl Wilson's Broadway Column"
06-13-1908 - Carl Eastman - NYC - d. 1-16-1970
actor: "Mrs. Miniver"; "Renfrew of the Mounted"
06-26-1913 - Jack Moyles - San Francisco, CA - d. 1-16-1973
actor: Major Daggett "Fort Laramie"; Rocky Jordan "A Man Named Jordan/
Rocky Jordan"
07-03-1930 - Robert Robertson - St. Andrews, Scotland - d. 1-16-2001
actor: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
07-20-1911 - Bill Dillard - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-16-1995
jazz trumpeter: "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts"; "Arthur Godfrey Time"
07-31-1892 - Herbert W. Armstrong - Des Moines, IA - d. 1-16-1986
preacher: "Plain Truth"; "The World Tomorrow"
09-01-1907 - Ray Barrett - NYC - d. 1-16-1973
announcer, newscaster: "Monitor"; "Talent Search, Country Style"
09-22-1875 - Guy Bates Post - Seattle, WA - d. 1-16-1968
actor: Ulysses S. Grant "Roses and Drums"
10-06-1908 - Carole Lombard - Fort Wayne, IN - d. 1-16-1942
actor: "The Circle"; "Hollywood Hotel"
10-10-1903 - Vernon Duke - Pskov, Russia - d. 1-16-1969
broadway composer: "Mildred Baily Show"; "Good News of 1940"; "March
of Time"

Ron

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:46:35 -0500
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  2012 Cincinnati Convention Reg Form

Folks;

   I posted the registration form to the 26th Annual Cincinnati Old-Time
Radio and Nostalgia Convention to the Nostalgic Rumblings Blog at
[removed] - you may have to scroll down a bit if anything
else gets posted between my typing this and you reading. (If you've
subscribed to the podcast, you'll get a copy automatically.)

   Bob Burchett, the fearless leader of this convention, noted in an email
that this year's convention will be the last. (*sigh*) Now it's up to the
west coast groups to keep Old-Time Radio-focused conventions alive for a
little while.

         Charlie

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:47:45 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-17 births/deaths

January 17th births

01-17-1874 - Edna Wallace Hopper - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-14-1959
Gave beauty tips on the networks 1930-1932
01-17-1875 - Minetta Ellen - Cleveland, OH - d. 7-2-1965
actor: Francis 'Fanny' Barbour "One Man's Family"
01-17-1880 - Mack Sennett - Richmond, Quebec, Canada - d. 11-5-1960
king of silent comedy: "Hear It Now"; "Biography In Sound"
01-17-1884 - Noah Beery, Sr. - Kansas City, MO - d. 4-1-1946
actor: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
01-17-1891 - Marjorie Gateson - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-17-1977
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
01-17-1892 - Ernesta Barlow - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-xx-1981
host: "Commander Mary"
01-17-1899 - Nevil Shute - Ealing, England - d. 1-12-1960
novelist: "Lux Radio Theatre"
01-17-1903 - Warren Hull - Gasport, NY - d. 9-14-1974
actor: Jack Hamilton "Gibson Family"
01-17-1904 - Grant Withers - Pueblo, CO - d. 3-27-1959
actor: "Calling All Cars"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
01-17-1904 - Knox Manning - Worcester, MA - d. 8-26-1980
announcer: "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"; "Headlines on Parade"
01-17-1904 - Patsy Ruth Miller - d. 7-16-1995
silent film star: "Arthur Godfrey and His Talent Scouts"
01-17-1905 - Peggy Gilbert - Sioux City, IA - d. 2-12-2007
saxophonist: "The Early Girls and the Three Chirps"
01-17-1908 - Marjorie Anderson - Spokane, WA - d. 12-2-1945
actor: Margo Lane "The Shadow"
01-17-1910 - Tex Fletcher - Harrison, NY - d. 3-14-1987
actor: Tex Mason "Songs of the B-Bar-B"
01-17-1914 - Ann Loring - NYC - d. 7-10-2005
actor: "Casey, Crime Photographer"; "X Minus One"
01-17-1914 - Howard Marion-Crawford - England - d. 11-24-1969
actor: Sherlock Holmes "BBC Home Theatre"
01-17-1914 - Irving Brecher - NYC - d. 11-17-2008
writer, producer: "Community Sing"; "The Life of Riley"
01-17-1915 - Hugh Brundage - Montana - d. 3-31-1972
announcer: "Academy Award Theatre"; "Aunt Mary"
01-17-1916 - Ray Forrest - Germany - d. 3-11-1999
staff announcer for NBC
01-17-1917 - Sam Locke - Peabody, MA - d. 9-18-1998
scriptwriter: "Grand Central Station"; "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"
01-17-1919 - Dallas Townsend - NYC - d. 6-1-1995
newscaster: "CBS World News Roundup"; "World Tonight"
01-17-1921 - Herb Ellis - Cleveland, OH
actor: Archie Goodwin "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"
01-17-1922 - Betty White - Oak Park, IL
hostess: "Betty White on Animals": "The Betty White Show"
01-17-1926 - Moira Shearer - Dunfermine, Scotland - d. 1-31-2006
worked briefly as a radio announcer in the 1980s
01-17-1927 - Eartha Kitt - North, SC - d. 12-25-2008
singer: "Here's to Veterans"
01-17-1930 - Dick Contino - Fresno, CA
accordionist: "Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights"
01-17-1931 - James Earl Jones - Arkabutla, MS
actor: "We Hold These Truths"
01-17-1933 - Shari Lewis - NYC - d. 8-2-1998
ventruloquist: "No School Today"
01-17-1941 - Clive Elvyn Rice (Clyde Campbell) - Haslemere, Surrey,
England
actor: Bobby Benson "Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders"
01-17-1956 - Steve Harvey - Welch, WV
comdian: "Steve Harvey Morning Show"

January 17th deaths

02-18-1905 - Queenie Leonard - London, England - d. 1-17-2002
actor: "NBC University Theatre"
02-18-1922 - Allan Melvin - Kansas City, MO - d. 1-17-2008
actor: "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts"; "Arthur Godfrey Time"
03-06-1916 - Rochelle Hudson - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 1-17-1972
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
03-22-1907 - Bernice Claire - Oakland, CA - d. 1-17-2003
vocalist: "Waltz Time"
03-25-1910 - Jack Carlton - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-17-1991
staff singer, actor, announcer: WCAU Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
08-17-1913 - Guy Della-Cioppa - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-17-2000
director: "An American in Russia"; "The Columbia Workshop"
09-20-1912 - John W. Loveton - d. 1-17-1997
director: "The Shadow"; "Mr. and Mrs. North"; "Court of Missing Heirs"
09-22-1915 - Vincent Donehue - Whitehall, NY - d. 1-17-1966
actor: Neil Davison "Home of the Brave"
09-24-1904 - Jan August - NYC - d. 1-17-1976
pianist, bandleader: "Quarter hour broadcast on Mutual during 1947-48
09-26-1919 - Barbara Britton - Long Beach, CA - d. 1-17-1980
actor: Pamela North "Mr. and Mrs. North"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
10-20-1925 - Art Buchwald - Mount Vernon, NY - d. 1-17-2007
humorist: "Monitor"
10-22-1908 - Frances Drake - NYC - d. 1-17-2000
actor: "Stars of Tomorrow"
11-27-1910 - Ray  Herbeck - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-17-1989
bandleader: "Ray Herbeck and His Orchestra"
11-30-1920 - Virginia Mayo - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-17-2005
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-02-1916 - Charlie Ventura - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-17-1992
tenor sazophonist: "Spotlight Bands"; "Gene Krupa and His Orchestra"
12-06-1924 - Susanna Foster - Chicago, IL - d. 1-17-2009
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Mail Call"
12-15-1896 - Betty Smith - NYC - d. 1-17-1972
author: "Studio One"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
12-18-1916 - Bill McCord - Colville, WA - d. 1-17-2004
announcer: "The Circle Arrow Show"; "Easy Money"
12-22-1908 - Elsa Buchanan - London, England - d. 1-17-2004
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"

Ron

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:47:51 -0500
From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Gracie profiled on BBC's "Great Lives"

Folks,

The BBC Radio 4 weekly documentary/commentary programme "Great Lives" is
profiling Gracie Allen this week. You can download the podcast here:

[removed]

Cheers,
Kermyt

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