Subject: [removed] Digest V2002 #404
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 10/15/2002 9:03 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2002 : Issue 404
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      The Passing Parade                    [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
      Re: A&A Marches On                    [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
      JOHNNY NESBIT/NIBLICK                 [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
      Re: Yours Truly Johny Dollar Last Ep  [ Shenbarger@[removed] ]
      Re: KFWB                              [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
      another sponsor of arthur             [ Jer51473@[removed] ]

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    Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:03:48 -0400
    From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Passing Parade

    You'll find them at TCM [Turner Classic Movies] -- I believe Ted Turner
    owns the complete series, a part of the MGM library he bought a few years
    ago.

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    Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:04:20 -0400
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: A&A Marches On

    On 10/14/02 5:59 PM OldRadio Mailing Lists wrote:

>     Today in the NY Daily News appeared an article about the Sopranos actors
>     being uninvited to the Columbus Day Parade.  The organizers of the parade
>     were adamant that they not march with Mayor Bloomberg.

>     One citizen was quoted -- "How would the African-Americans like it if Amos
>     and Andy were invited to march in their parade."

    Well, there was in fact a case where they proudly marched in just such a
    parade -- in August 1931, Correll and Gosden were invited by the Chicago
    Defender, then the nation's leading black newspaper, to serve as grand
    marshals for the annual Bud Billiken Parade, which was then, as it is
    still today, the largest African-American parade in the United States.
    Following the parade, the performers shared a stage in Washington Park
    with Duke Ellington and Lucky Millender and their Orchestras, for a
    program of music and entertainment attended by an audience of about
    35,000 people.

    The performers were invited to march in the parade again in 1932, but
    were unable to do so because of a theatrical committment. As long as they
    lived in Chicago, however, Correll and Gosden supported the parade and
    other charitable activities promoted by the Defender for Chicago's black
    community.

    But times changed. Twenty years later, Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams,
    and Tim Moore -- the leads in the A&A TV series -- were invited to march
    in the Bud Billiken Parade, but the invitation was withdrawn at the last
    minute in view of the recently-announced NAACP protest of the television
    program. The actors themselves, who had traveled to Chicago from Los
    Angeles especially for the event, were hurt and bewildered by this sudden
    reversal, and ended up watching the parade from the sidewalk with the
    rest of the crowd.

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:32:33 -0400
    From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  JOHNNY NESBIT/NIBLICK

    So The Story Goes was a WBBM, Chicago [and syndicated] radio program that
    was a total rip-off of Johnny Nesbit's The Passing Parade.
    The Chicago host was named Johnny Niblick [hmmmm]...and, even stranger,
    but true, Niblick died when he crashed his private plane into the huge
    golf tee/ball at Tam O'Shanter golf course in Northwest [removed], so
    the story [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:32:56 -0400
    From: Shenbarger@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Yours Truly Johny Dollar Last Episode

    In a message dated 10/14/2002 4:57:16 PM Central Daylight Time, Jim Kitchen
    writes:

>     The last episode on 9/30/62 is not on
>      this disc.  Question:  What matter did Johnny Dollar solve in his final
>      episode?

    The title is "The Tipoff Matter". It is episode # 812 on my set, # 811 on
    some sets - Johnny gets a tip on the location of a $100,000 stash from a con
    who cracked a safe and wound up in prison for it. The con is dying and wants
    to make good on Johny's watching out for the con's younger brother. A bad guy
    has half the combination to the safe where the stash is located. The con has
    the entire combination but dies before he can give it to Johnny. It's a good
    show.

    There is an episode numbering difference right at Christmas 1961. One note
    says the program was preempted by a Bing Crosby special. Is there a show for
    12-24-61 that was never broadcast but maybe exists?

    Some lists have

    "THE PHONY PHONE MATTER"   #  771  12-17-61
    "THE ONE TOO MANY MATTER"  #  772  12-31-61

    Some lists have

    "THE PHONY PHONE MATTER"    #  771  12-17-61
    Title Unknown                               #   772  12-24-61
    "THE ONE TOO MANY MATTER"  #   773  12-31-61

    Don Shenbarger

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    Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:32:48 -0400
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: KFWB

    On 10/14/02 5:59 PM OldRadio Mailing Lists wrote:

>     Really? I had always understood that KFWB and KEWB (San Francisco)
>     and KDWB (Denver? Milwaukee? Anytown?), among others, were
>     Westinghouse stations? Were they  ALL Warner [removed]

    Warners owned KFWB from its founding in 1925 until it was sold in 1950.
    The studios were actualy on the Warner lot, and the station was heavily
    used as a promotional tool for Warner films, with regular appearances by
    various Warner Bros. actors, and musical performances taken from film
    scores. In fact, Jack L. Warner himself performed regularly on the
    station during the late 1920s and early 1930s, singing romantic ballads
    under the fictitious name of "Leon Zuardo."

    One of KFWB's longtime staff announcers was a fellow by the name of
    Robert C. Bruce, whose voice is still very familiar as the narrator of
    many Warner cartoon newsreel and travelogue parodies -- and, indeed,
    whenever a radio microphone appeared in a Warner cartoon, it was certain
    to carry a KFWB flag. Arthur Q. Bryan also worked at KFWB as an
    announcer/continuity writer during the mid-1930s, which led to directly
    to his involvement in Warner cartoon voice work. Another KFWB announcer,
    Lou Marcelle, was recently discovered to have played the role of Fu
    Manchu in that character's 1939 syndicated series.

    KFWB was also renowned for owning the finest theatre organ of any radio
    station in Southern California -- and when "Amos 'n' Andy" permanently
    moved west in 1937, Freeman Gosden personally made a special arrangement
    with Jack Warner to patch the KFWB organ studio into the NBC line, for
    Gaylord Carter's nightly performance of the program's theme music. (The
    KFWB-A&A connection went back to 1928, when the station was the Los
    Angeles outlet for the A&A chainless chain.)

    KFWB was bought in 1950 by Crowell-Collier Broadcasting, which turned it
    into a Top 40 station in the late fifties, and was sold to Westinghouse
    in 1966, assuming its all-news format in 1968.

    KFWB was the only station Warners ever owned.

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:04:10 -0400
    From: Jer51473@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  another sponsor of arthur

    Ill always remember this product because arthur made a big thing of the
    problem of proper announciation. The product was the detergent ALL. Arthur
    would feign a problem of seeming to say "oil" instead of "all". It became a
    sort of standing joke and im sure was by purpose to promote sales. Anyone
    else remember?

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