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Volume 2011 : Issue 172
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
Born 100 years ago in November [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
10-31 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
11-1 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:49:49 -0400
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK
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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" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."
Streamed in high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS
*Halloween Special*
Part 2
FAVORITE STORY
Episode 59 10-28-47 "Bottle Imp"
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson.
Favorite of Ed Wynn.
Host: Jeff Corey.
Stars: Jeff Corey, Mary Jane Croft, Earle Ross, Edmund MacDonald,
David Ellis, Lou Krugman, Herb Butterfield.
Announcer: Lyle Bond.
KFI Syndicated and Produced by Lawrence and Lee for Bullocks
Tuesdays 9:00 - 9:30 pm
THE HAUNTING HOUR
Episode 7 7-2-45 "Breakdown"
Director: Edwin Wolfe
Syndicated
THE HUMAN ADVENTURE
Episode 81 10-28-45 "Witchcraft" Mutual WGN University of Chicago
production. Sundays 9:00 - 9:30 pm
THE WEIRD CIRCLE
Episode 66 3-4-45 "The Thing In The Tunnel"
Author: Charles Dickens
NBC Syndicated by ZIV
HALL OF FANTASY
Episode 40 8-24-53 "The Sea Phantom"
Stars: Eloise Kummer
Mutual Sustained
Writer/Producer: Richard Thorne.
Director: Leroy Olliger
MUSIC: Harold Turner
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE
*Halloween Special*
THE HALL OF FANTASY
(Synd.) 05/18/53 "The Crawling Thing"
THE SHADOW
(MBS) 01/19/38 "The Poison Death" Orson Welles/Agnes Moorehead
INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES
*CBS) 08/24/52 "No Rest For The
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THE OLD TIME RADIO SHOW
THE SIX SHOOTER (NBC)
Title: The Capture of Stacy Gault
Original Air: 11/8/53
Starring: Jimmy Stewart
LUX RADIO THEATER (CBS)
Title: Key Largo
Original Air: 11/28/49
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Edmond O'Brien, Claire Trevor
GUNSMOKE (CBS)
Original Air: 11/6/54
Title: Smoking Out the Beedles
Starring: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, and Georgia Ellis
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
*Halloween Special*
THE COLUMBIA WORKSHOP
from 10/26/41 Episode (024) Odyssey Of Runyan Jones.
We begin our Halloween salute with
CRIME CLASSICS
08/24/53 (11) Alsop Family. How they diminished and grew again.
THE QUIZ KIDS
10/1/48 lots of Halloween related questions
LIGHTS OUT
12/15/42 (011) Knock at the D
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If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.
Jerry Haendiges
Jerry@[removed] 562-696-4387
The Vintage Radio [removed]
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Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:50:11 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Born 100 years ago in November
11-02-1911 - Johnny Richards - Schenectady, NY - d. 10-7-1968
orchestra leader: "The Jack Carson Show"
11-04-1911 - Dixie Lee Crosby - Harriman, TN - d. 11-1-1952
actor: (Wife of Bing) "Shell Chateau"; "Bing Crosby Show"
11-04-1911 - Jack Rose - Warsaw, Russian Empire - d. 10-21-1995
writer: "The Bob Hope Show"
11-04-1911 - Josephine Huston - d. 10-19-1967
vocalist: "Take a Note"
11-05-1911 - Roy Rogers - Cincinnati, OH - d. 7-6-1998
singer, actor: (King of the Cowboys) "Roy Rogers Show"; "Saturday Nite
Round-Up"
11-07-1911 - Dick Stark - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 12-12-1986
announcer: "It Pays to be Ignorant"; "Perry Mason"; "Walter Winchell's
Jergens Journal"
11-09-1911 - Dick Janaver - NYC - d. 2-8-1999
actor: Lee Kirby "Myrt and Marge"; "Our Gal Sunday"; "Just Plain Bill"
11-11-1911 - Patric Knowles - Horsforth, Yorkshire, England - d.
12-23-1995
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-12-1911 - Buck Clayton - Parsons, KS - d. 12-8-1991
trumpet: "Count Basie and His Orchestra"; "Doctor Jazz"
11-12-1911 - Claudia Morgan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-17-1974
actor: Carolyn Allen Walker Kramer Nelson MacDonald; "Right to
Happiness"
11-12-1911 - Clay Bryant - Madison Heights, VA - d. 4-9-1999
baseball analyst: "Baseball with Clay Bryant"
11-16-1911 - Sonny Dunham - Brockton, MA - d. 7-9-1990
trumpeter, bandleader: "One Night Stand"; "Spotlight Bands"
11-17-1911 - Jack Lescoulie - Sacramento, CA - d. 7-22-1987
announcer, emcee: "Grouch Club"; "Meet the Champions"
11-18-1836 - William S. Gilbert - London, England - d. 5-29-1911
composer: (Gilbert and Sullivan) "Several works adapted for radio"
11-22-1911 - Ernie Caceres - Rockport, TX - d. 1-10-1971
clarinet, saxophone: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
11-22-1911 - Frank Graham - Detroit MI - d. 9-2-1950
actor: Diogenes Smith "Lum and Abner"; Jeff Regan "The Lion's Eye"
11-23-1911 - Edward Breuder - Hoboken, NJ - d. 10-15-1989
director of CBS radio network music division
11-24-1911 - Kirby Grant - Butte, MO - d. 10-30-1985
singer, actor: "Gatewood to Hollywood"; "Hollywood Barn Dance"
11-26-1911 - Robert Donley - Carmichaels, PA - d. 1-20-2004
actor: "Lieutenant Carpenter "Front Page Farrell"
11-27-1911 - Charles Wood - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 11-10-1997
announcer: "The Green Hornet"; "The Lone Ranger"
Ron
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Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:50:37 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 10-31 births/deaths
October 31st births
10-31-1886 - Courtney Ryley Cooper - Kansas City, MO - d. 9-29-1940
writer: "The Gibson Family"
10-31-1887 - Chiang Kai-Shek - Hsikow, Chekiang, China - d. 4-5-1975
world leader: "Free World Theatre"
10-31-1896 - Ethel Waters - Chester, PA - d. 9-1-1977
blues singer: "American Revue"; "Command Performance"; "Jubilee"
10-31-1900 - Neal Bliss Enslen - Delphos, OH - d. 5-23-1938
opera singer, announcer: "The Baldwin Concert"; "The Slumber Hour"
10-31-1901 - Eric Hatch - d. 7-4-1973
commentator: "Cresta Blanca Carnival of Music"
10-31-1905 - Dewey Cole - d. 3-23-1991
sound effects: "The Lone Ranger"; "Challenge of the Yukon"
10-31-1909 - Thelma Boardman - Panama Canal Zone - d. 4-21-1978
actor: Minnie Mouse "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"
10-31-1910 - Donovan Joyce - Melbourne, Australia - d. 10-16-1980
writer, producer, director: "T-Men"
10-31-1912 - Dale Evans - Uvalde, TX - d. 2-7-2001
actor, singer: (Queen of the Cowgirls) "Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Roy
Rogers Show"
10-31-1915 - Chris Griffin - d. 6-18-2005
trumpet: (Benny Goodman's Orchestra) "Camel Caravan"
10-31-1915 - Jane Jarvis - Vincennes, IN - d. 1-25-2010
organist: Staff organist for WTMJ Milwaukee; Organist for Milwaukee
Braves
10-31-1916 - James Broom-Lynne - London, England - d. 12-1-1995
writer: "Charlie and Duke"; "Return Visit"
10-31-1917 - Don Hughes - d. 5-2-1990
juvenile actor: Rollo "Daddy and Rollo"; "Helen and Mary"
10-31-1922 - Barbara Bel Geddes - NYC - d. 8-8-2005
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Ford Theatre"; "[removed] Steel Hour";
"Cavalcade of America"
10-31-1922 - Illinois Jacquet - Broussard, LA - d. 7-23-2004
jazz saxophonist: "One Night Stand"; "Command Performance"; "Jubilee"
10-31-1926 - Shirley Dinsdale - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-9-1999
ventriloquist: Judy Splinters "Judy in Wonderland, The Eddie Cantor
Show"
10-31-1928 - Cleo Moore - Baton Rouge, LA - d. 10-25-1973
actor: "Bud's Bandwagon"
10-31-1931 - Dan Rather - Wharton, TX
newscaster: Houston Radio
10-31-1942 - David Ogden Stiers - Peoria, IL
actor: "Empire of the Air"
October 31st deaths
01-28-1914 - Arthur Gary - NYC - d. 10-31-2005
announcer: "The Amazing Mr. Malone"; "The Colgate Sports Newsreel"
02-02-1895 - George Halas - Chicago, IL - d. 10-31-1983
football coach: "Tops in Sports"
03-05-1894 - Henry Daniell - London, England - d. 10-31-1963
actor: "Theatre Guild of the Air"
03-06-1918 - Roger Price - Charleston, WV - d. 10-31-1990
writer, actor: "The Comedy Writers Show"
05-16-1912 - Studs Terkel - The Bronx, NY - d. 10-31-2008
journalist, sometimes actor: "Destination Freedom"; "Ma Perkins"
05-25-1908 - Linda Watkins - Boston, MA - d. 10-31-1976
actor: Dot "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"; "Big Guy"; "Fat Man"
06-08-1894 - Charles Frederick Lindsley - Higginsport, OH - d.
10-31-1960
judge: "Noah Webster Says"
06-21-1907 - Charles 'Bud' Dant - Washington, IN - d. 10-31-1999
music: "A Day in the Life of Dennis Day"; "Glamour Manor"
06-21-1921 - Joan Tetzel - NYC - d. 10-31-1977
actor: Sylvia Field "When a Girl Marries"; Jane Brown "The Goldbergs"
06-24-1915 - Jack Sterling - Baltimore, MD - d. 10-31-1991
announcer/emcee: "Make Up Your Mind"
07-16-1882 - Charles Egelston - Covington, KY - d. 10-31-1958
actor: Shuffle Shober "Ma Perkins"; Humphrey Fuller "Just Plain Bill"
07-27-1913 - Liam Redmond - Limerick, Ireland - d. 10-31-1989
actor: "Great Plays"
08-02-1915 - Johnny Long - Newell, NC - d. 10-31-1972
bandleader: "The Teen-Timers Show"; "Judy, Joe, and Johnny"
08-13-1913 - Rita Johnson - Worcester, MA - d. 10-31-1965
actor: Martha Curtis "John's Other Wife"; Joyce Jordan "Joyce Jordan,
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08-14-1889 - Robert Woolsey - Oakland, CA - d. 10-31-1938
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
08-19-1915 - Ring Lardner, Jr. - Chicago, IL - d. 10-31-2000
screenwriter: (Member of the Hollywood Ten) "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-15-1896 - Julia Hoyt - d. 10-31-1955
actor: Conducted a fashion program for NBC
09-22-1902 - John Houseman - Bucharest, Romania - d. 10-31-1988
writer, producer: "Mercury Theatre on the Air"; "Campbell Playhouse"
09-22-1925 - William Franklyn - London, England - d. 10-31-2006
actor: Sexton Blake "Sexton Blake"
09-24-1916 - Johnny Catron - Boston, MA - d. 10-31-1998
bandleader: "The Union Oil Company Show"
10-02-1902 - Percy Crawford - Minnedosa, Canada - d. 10-31-1960
evangelist: "Young People's Church of the Air"
10-18-1906 - Adele Ronson - NYC - d. 10-31-2000
actor: Wilma Deering "Buck Rogers"; Sally Gibson "Gibson Family"
10-23-1943 - Roger Scott - London, England - d. 10-31-1989
disc jockey: "Three O'Clock Thrill"; "Hitline"
10-26-1907 - Tony Pastor - Middletown, CT - d. 10-31-1969
bandleader: "Tony Pastor and His Orchestra"
11-01-1879 - Merle Thorpe - Brimfield, IL - d. 10-31-1955
businessman: "How's Business"; "The New Business World"
11-18-1912 - Arthur Peterson - Mandan, ND - d. 10-31-1996
actor: Reverend John Rutledge "The Guiding Light"; "World's Great
Novels"
12-06-1916 - Elmore Balthis - d. 10-31-1989
newscaster: KCOK Tulare, California
12-09-1906 - Ken Niles - Livingston, MT - d. 10-31-1988
announcer: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Rudy Vallee Show"; "A Date with Judy"
12-28-1915 - Dick Joy - Putnam, CT - d. 10-31-1991
announcer: "My Secret Ambition"; "The Saint"; "Advs of Sam Spade"
xx-xx-1925 - Merna Barry - NYC - d. 10-31-1976
singer: (Barry Sisters) "Yiddish Swing"; "Molly Picon's Parade"
Ron
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Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:50:44 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 11-1 births/deaths
November 1st births
11-01-1871 - Stephen Crane - Newark, NJ - d. 6-5-1900
author: Some of his works were adapted for radio
11-01-1879 - Merle Thorpe - Brimfield, IL - d. 10-31-1955
businessman: "How's Business"; "The New Business World"
11-01-1880 - Grantland Rice - Murfreesboro, TN - d. 7-13-1954
sportscaster: "Sports Stories"
11-01-1887 - Frank E. Butler - d. 1-6-1948
co-inventor, with Lee DeForest, of the audion tube
11-01-1904 - Ray Sinatra - Gergenti, Sicily - d. 11-1-1980
musical director: "The Bob Burns Show"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Mario
Lanza Show"
11-01-1908 - Felix Knight - Macon, GA - d. 6-18-1998
singer: "Schaefer Revue"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
11-01-1908 - Harry Ellis Dickson - Cambridge, MA - d. 3-29-2003
first violinist: "Boston Symphony Orchestra"; "Boston Symphony
Rehearsal"
11-01-1914 - Barry McKinley - Ft. Wayne, IN - 5-2-1990
baritone: "Dreams Come True"; "Radiotron Party"
11-01-1914 - Charles Lee - London, England - d. 10-18-1992
writer: "Bob Hope Show"
11-01-1915 - Bob Garred - Walla Walla, WA - d. 12-10-1956
announcer: "The Stanford Hour"; "I Want a Divorce"
11-01-1915 - Michael Denison - Doncaster, England - d. 7-22-1998
actor: "The Robinsons"
11-01-1919 - John Secondari - Rome, Italy - d. 2-8-1975
novelist: "As Europe Sees the Marshall Plan"; "Prologue"
11-01-1921 - Harp McGuire - Tennessee - d. 10-21-1966
announcer: "T-Men"
11-01-1922 - George S. Irving - Springfield, MA
actor, singer: "Screen Guild Theatre"
11-01-1923 - Anne DeMarco - d. 7-27-2004
singer: (The DeMarco Sisters) "The Fred Allen Show"; "Texaco Star
Theatre"
11-01-1923 - Charles Dugdale - Lincoln, NE - d. 5-18-1985
actor: "Heartbeat Theatre"
11-01-1923 - Gordon R. Dickson - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - d.
1-31-2001
science fiction writer: "X-Minus One"; "Exploring Tomorrow"
11-01-1923 - Victoria de los Angeles - Barcelona, Spain - d. 1-15-2005
operatic soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
11-01-1926 - Betsy Palmer - East Chicago, IL
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
11-01-1933 - Art Stamper - nr. Hindman, Knott County, KY - d. 1-23-2005
bluegrass fiddler: Performed with Stanley Brothers and Bill Monroe's
Bluegrass Boys
11-01-1933 - Russ Butler - Boston, MA
host: VPR "Ella, Frank and Friends"; Vermont ETV; Songbook America"
11-01-1942 - Michael Zaslow - Inglewood, CA - d. 12-6-1998
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
November 1st deaths
01-13-1895 - Campbell Arnoux - d. 11-1-1966
announcer: Uncle Billy "Uncle Billy"
01-27-1918 - Skitch Henderson - Birmingham, England - d. 11-1-2005
bandleader: "Philco Radio Time"; "Songs by Sinatra"
02-07-1908 - Bill Johnstone - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-1-1996
actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"; Sam Young "Pepper Young's
Family"
02-08-1894 - King Vidor - Galveston, TX - d. 11-1-1982
film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"; "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood"
02-23-1915 - Paul Tibbets - Quincy, IL - d. 11-1-2007
on 8-6-1945 dropped Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan: "Morning Edition"
03-23-1906 - Richard L. Evans - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 11-1-1971
announcer: "Music and the Spoken Word" (Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
05-11-1911 - Phil Silvers - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-1-1985
comedian: "Phil Silver's Show"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Suspense"
05-17-1890 - Philip James - Jersey City, NJ - d. 11-1-1975
conductor, composer: "Bamberger Little Symphony"; "Wellsprings of Music"
05-24-1883 - Elsa Maxwell - Keokuk, IA - d. 11-1-1963
society mistress: Roma Wine spokesperson for Suspense; "Texaco Star
Theatre"
07-14-1898 - Pat C. Flick - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-1-1955
actor: Pablo Ittheptiches "Fred Allen Show"
08-10-1913 - Noah Beery, Jr. - NYC - d. 11-1-1994
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
10-08-1951 - Jenny Boult - Warwickshire, England - d. 11-1-2005
writer: "Can't Help Dreaming"
10-14-1906 - Benita Hume - London, England - d. 11-1-1967
actor: Victoria Cromwell Hall "Halls of Ivy"; "General Electric Theatre"
10-30-1885 - Ezra Pound - Hailey, ID - d. 11-1-1972
poet and traitor: "Italian Propaganda Broadcast"
11-01-1904 - Ray Sinatra - Gergenti, Sicily - d. 11-1-1980
musical director: "The Bob Burns Show"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Mario
Lanza Show"
11-04-1911 - Dixie Lee Crosby - Harriman, TN - d. 11-1-1952
actor: (Wife of Bing) "Shell Chateau"; "Bing Crosby Show"
11-13-1932 - Buddy Killen - Florence, AL - d. 11-1-2006
bass player: "Grand Ole Opry"; "March of Dimes"
11-24-1888 - Dale Carnegie - Maryville, MO - d. 11-1-1955
author, lecturer: "How to Win Friends and Influence People"
12-23-1903 - Helen Troy - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-1-1942
actor: Sally "Cecil and Sally"
Ron
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