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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 338
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  does NBC, and CBS broadcast of 12-7-  [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
  12-1 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Pabst jingle                          [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  Howdy Doody                           [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  Christmas Show Ideas-Thanks           [ Sue Hamilton <suelhamilton@comcast. ]
  Jack Benny                            [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed] ]
  Well! A new Jack Benny book           [ "Michael Leannah" <mleannah@sbcglob ]
  Note for Techies                      [ "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 2-8 Decem  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Retro Radio Holiday Revue             [ Nita Hunter <otradiogrl@[removed]; ]
  William Conrad                        [ Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed]; ]
  12-2 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 08:24:27 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  does NBC, and CBS broadcast of 12-7-41 exist?

Hi Everybody,

does FDR declarations of War speech on 12-8-41 exist from NBC, or CBS in
collectors hands?  I know Mutual does.  Take care,

Walden

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Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 08:24:40 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  12-1 births/deaths

December 1st births

12-01-1880 - William Arndt - Mayville, WI - d. 2-25-1957
professor: conducted Bible classes on WFUO St. Louis
12-01-1885 - Frazier Hunt - Rock Island, IL - d. 12-24-1967
newscaster: Weekday morning newscast on Mutual
12-01-1886 - Rex Stout - Noblesville, IN - d. 10-27-1975
author: (Creator of Nero Wolfe) Debunker of Axis Propaganda "Our
Secret Weapon"
12-01-1892 - Charlie Bachman - Chicago, IL - d. 12-14-1985
football coach: "Football Predictions"
12-01-1892 - Harry W. Conn - d. 6-8-1960
writer: "The Jack Benny Program"
12-01-1896 - Ethel Shutta - NYC - d. 2-5-1976
singer-comedienne: "Jack Benny Program"
12-01-1896 - Ray Henderson - Buffalo, NY - d. 12-31-1970
composer: "Music for Millions"; "Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP"
12-01-1898 - Cyril Ritchard - Syndey, Australia - d. 12-18-1977
actor: "Best Plays"; "United States Steel Hour"; "NBC Star Playhouse"
12-01-1899 - Tom Shirley - Chicago, IL - d. 1-24-1962
actor, announcer: Sam Aldrich "Aldrich Family"; Advs. of the Thin Man"
12-01-1900 - Ted Hammerstein - d. 10-6-1973
emcee: "The Hammerstein Music Hall"
12-01-1904 - Jean Paul King - North Bend, NE - d. 8-21-1965
annoucer: "Clara, Lu, and Em"; "Music of the Haydns"
12-01-1904 - Jimmy Lytell - NYC - d. 11-26-1972
bandleader, clarinetist: "Cavalcade of America"; "Songs by Morton
Downey"
12-01-1910 - Alicia Markova - London, England - d. 12-2-2004
ballerina: BBC Interview
12-01-1911 - Randy Merriman - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-27-2005
actor: "Doctor [removed]"
12-01-1911 - Walter Alston - Venice, OH - d. 10-1-1984
baseball manager: "Tops In Sports"
12-01-1913 - Mary Martin - Weatherford, TX - d. 11-3-1990
singer: "Lifebuoy Health Soap Program"; "Good News of 1940"; "Kraft
Music Hall"
12-01-1915 - Johnny Johnston - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-6-1996
singer: "Rhapsody in Rhythm"; "Club Matinee"; "Duffy's Tavern";
"Breakfast Club"
12-01-1917 - William Tracy - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-18-1967
actor: Roosty "Roosty of the AAF"
12-01-1918 - Thomas Hayward - Kansas City, MO - d. 2-1-1995
singer: "Serenade to America"; "Name Speaks"
12-01-1920 - Mary Wells - Omaha, NE - d. 8-14-2000
actor: "John Steele, Adventurer"
12-01-1933 - Lou Rawls - Chicago, IL - d. 1-6-2006
singer: "Here's to Veterans"
12-01-1939 - Dianne Lennon - Los Angeles, CA
singer: (The Lennon Sisters) "Music on Deck"; "Voices of Vista";
"Guest Star"
12-01-1939 - Noel Jones - Dublin, Ireland
authored radio plays
12-01-1941 - Ian (David) Slater - Queensland, Australia
writer: ""Black Lion"

December 1st deaths

01-21-1909 - Sid Raymond - NYC - d. 12-1-2006
actor: "X Minus One"
02-03-1895 - Nick Kenny - Astoria, NY - d. 12-1-1975
columnist, songwriter: Reader of inspirational verse
03-11-1915 - Dan Donaldson - St. Louis, MO - d. 12-1-1991
announcer: "Kitty Keene, Inc."; "Ma Perkins"
03-17-1910 - Molly Weir - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 12-1-2004
actor: Tattie McIntosh "It's That Man Again"; Aggie "Life with the
Lyons"
05-03-1906 - Anna Roosevelt - Hyde Park, NY - d. 12-1-1975
Daughter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On her mother's programs
05-08-1921 - Sy Shaffer - d. 12-1-2005
trombonist: "Arthur Godfrey time"
05-21-1901 - Horace Heidt - Alameda, CA - d. 12-1-1986
bandleader: "Horace Heidt Brigadiers"; "Pot o' Gold"; "Treasure Chest"
06-09-1908 - Robert Cummings - Joplin, MO - d. 12-1-1990
actor: David Adair "Those We Love"; "Cavalcade of America"
08-27-1925 - Carter Stanley - Stratton, VA - d. 12-1-1966
bluegrass singer: (The Stanley Brothers) "Farm and Fun Program"
09-16-1925 - Charlie Byrd - Chuckatuck, VA - d. 12-1-1999
jazz guitarist: "Voices of Vista"
10-31-1916 - James Broom-Lynne - London, England - d. 12-1-1995
writer: "Charlie and Duke"; "Return Visit"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 08:24:57 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Pabst jingle

Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:03:41 -0500
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]

Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer ("When bowlers bowl a spare or strike/that
smoother taste is what they [removed]")

The Pabst jingle that I remember was "What'll You Have?  Pabst Blue
Ribbon!  ..."

I remember one morning annoying my dad as he was getting my
breakfast.  He asked, "What'll you have?" and I replied, singing,
"Pabst Blue Ribbon!"  I did that a few times before I finally
answered his question.

--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
 92 State Street, Suite 700                   Fax [removed]
Boston, MA 02109-2004           	         [removed]

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Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 08:26:33 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Howdy Doody

Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:46:35 -0500
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];

A. Joseph Ross points out, correctly, that the greeting "Howdy Doody"
began on Bob Smith's radio show, "Triple B Ranch" from WEAF when the
character "Elmer" (voiced by Smith) would use that phrase.

It was WNBC by the time Bob Smith worked there.

However Howdy on TV (and radio) was not Elmer. The latter was a ranch
hand of indeterminate age who was a dull, rustic yokel. Smith created
an entirely different voice for Howdy since this character was a
bright, even brash, young boy.

The character evolved somewhat over time, but it evolved from the
radio "Elmer."  As previously mentioned, there was no puppet
available for the first show, so Howdy was hiding in a desk drawer,
too bashful to come out.  No recording of the first show is known to
exist, but it is said that Bob Smith described Howdy as the character
that kids had heard on radio in New York.

The first puppet, supplied by Frank Paris, had a very different face
and, initially, the same Mortimer Snerd-ish voice.  Bob Smith changed
the voice because he couldn't sing in the original voice.  But in
some of the early shows that I've seen, Howdy's voice seems deeper,
more the Snerd-ish voice and less the high-pitched voice that is
usually identified with Howdy.

In early 1948, there was a dispute with Frank Paris, and as a result,
Paris walked off the show and took his puppets with him.  In the
story of the show, Howdy had already begun running for President of
the kids, so they quickly wrote into the story that Howdy was out
west, campaigning for the Oregon primary.  Then Howdy decided that he
needed a more handsome face and had plastic surgery.  By the time
Howdy reappeared on the show, he was a random puppet with bandages on
his face.  The new puppet, the Howdy we are familiar with, debuted in
June 1948, in a heavily-promoted show in which the bandages were
removed and Howdy's new face was seen for the first time.

As for the other seven [removed] Bourg has already correctly
identified "Have Gun, Will Travel." There is certainly enough
knowledge among our Digesters that the remaining six will be ferreted
out long before the Cinnamon Bear finds the Silver Star this season.

"My Little Margie" has been mentioned, as well as "Tales of Tomorrow"
and "Wild Bill Hicock."  Others that I know of are "Tom Corbett,
Space Cadet" and "Space Patrol."  The latter is an unusual case,
since Space Patrol actually began as a local television show in Los
Angeles and only later went on the network.  The radio version
apparently started on the network before the television version went
network.  As a result, some people dispute that Space Patrol began on
television.  It did, but as a local show.  Many of the local 15-
minute daily shows are available from Internet vendors.  They have
some of the flavor of a soap opera.

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Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 08:26:48 -0500
From: Sue Hamilton <suelhamilton@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Christmas Show Ideas-Thanks
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Hello All - To everyone, both privately and here on the digest, who
gave me ideas for OTR Christmas shows that my Sunday School teens
might enjoy, I just wanted to say a BIG:

THANKS!

I'm still listening to shows, but I'm narrowing it down.

Happy and Blessed December, Everyone!

Sue

Sue Hamilton
SueLHamilton@[removed]

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Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 10:38:03 -0500
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Jack Benny

Last night I saw a Jack Benny special on WETA;
Washington, DC's public TV outlet. It was an HBO
special, recorded, I think, just after his death, and
featured many people associated with the great
man, most of whom are also dead. It was great,
and I suggest that perhaps it will come to your
local PBS outlet soon. I suggest you watch for it.

Bob Scherago
[removed]

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Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 10:38:26 -0500
From: "Michael Leannah" <mleannah@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Well! A new Jack Benny book
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Hello to All--

With the holidays upon us, I'd like to remind everyone that there's a new book
out from BearManor Media entitled Well! Reflections on the Life and Career of
Jack Benny. The book is a collection of 21 essays, opinions, and personal
reminiscences focusing primarily, though not entirely, on Benny's radio work.

Many of the writers featured in the book are regular contributors to this
Digest--Ron Sayles, Derek Tague, Mark HIggins, and yours truly. Others
involved knew Benny personally. Kay Linaker, for example, writes of her
memories of making movies with Jack: Man About Town (1939) and Buck Benny
Rides Again (1940).

In my humble, though biased, opinion, the book would make a great Christmas
gift.

Michael Leannah
Sheboygan, Wisconsin

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Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 11:08:32 -0500
From: "Bob Scherago" <rscherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Note for Techies

I watched "Flags of our Fathers" on TV last night; I
noticed that a number of RCA 77D microphones
were used, as well as a Shure mic of the time -
don't remember the model.

The interesting thing was that the actors were speaking
into the backs of the mics. This same thing occurred in
the movie, "A Prarie Home Companion." Obviously, it
was done for aesthetic purposes - there's a screw-hole
in the back of the 77 for adjusting the pattern, so that
side is not as pretty as the front, and as for the Shure,
they wanted the cord to be behind the table.

I just think it's fun to find mistakes in period movies -
especially those related to old time radio.

- -------------------------
Bob Scherago
[removed]

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Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 18:55:32 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 2-8 December

 From Those Were The Days --

12/2

1932 - The Adventures of Charlie Chan was first heard on the NBC Blue
network.

12/4

1932 - "Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the
ships at sea. Let's go to press!" The Jergens Journal aka The Walter
Winchell Show and later, Kaiser-Frazer News was first heard on the NBC
Blue network. Winchell kept that gossip show going on the radio for 23
years. It was sponsored at first by Jergens lotion and, later, by Dryad
deodorant, Kaiser-Frazer cars and Richard Hudnut shampoo.

1933 - One of America's great radio shows made the leap to the big time.
Ma Perkins moved from WLW in Cincinnati, OH to the NBC-Red network. The
show proved to be so popular that it was later carried on both CBS and NBC.

12/5

1936 - Bing Crosby took over as host of The Kraft Music Hall. Jimmy
Dorsey (who would later be host, himself) led the Kraft Orchestra.

1952 - Mutual broadcast The Green Hornet for the final time. The show
left the air after 15 years on Mutual, NBC and ABC.

12/6

1923 - The first presidential address to be carried on radio was
broadcast from Washington, DC. President Calvin Coolidge addressed a
joint session of the [removed] Congress.

12/7

1948 - NBC presented the Horace Heidt Youth Opportunity Program for the
first time. The talent show earned Dick Contino, an accordionist, the
$5,000 prize as the program's first national winner. Over the years
Heidt gave some big stars their big starts: Art Carney, Frankie Carle,
Gordon MacRae, the King Sisters, Alvino Rey, Ken Berry, Frank DeVol,
Dick Contino, Al Hirt, Fred Lowrey, Ronnie Kemper, Larry Cotton, Donna
and her Don Juans, Ollie O'Toole and many others.

1952 - My Little Margie, starring Gale Storm and Charles Farrell, made
its debut on CBS. The TV version of the popular show had begun on June
16, 1952. My Little Margie stayed on radio for three years.

Joe

--
Visit my homepage: [removed]~[removed]

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Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 20:39:42 -0500
From: Nita Hunter <otradiogrl@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Retro Radio Holiday Revue
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If you're in or around the Kenosha area next Saturday, December 8th at 1
[removed], RG Productions is presenting another of their free Old Time Radio Shows
to the community.  This time it's a comedy revue "starring" Jack Benny, Burns
& Allen, Fibber McGee & Molly and Bob Hope.  The show is performed in the
beautiful Kenosha Public Museum on the shores of Lake Michigan.

We re-enact the classics with as much authenticity as possible.  Gary Stamm,
who plays Jack Benny in our production, won first place in a Chuck Schaden
Jack Benny contest some years ago!  All of our actors perform theater locally
and share a passion for keeping OTR alive!  We feature live sound effects in
the old time radio style and this show features a four piece swing band, The
Melodaires.

So come on out and celebrate the holidays with your favorite OTR stars.  More
information is available on our website:  [removed]

We'll probably have the show posted for listening a week or so after the
performance.
Happy Holidays!

Nita Hunter, Producer
RG Productions

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Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 21:31:17 -0500
From: Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  William Conrad

I was in Wal-Mart the other night and bought a DVD set from their $[removed]
bin:  TV WESTERNS COLLECTION - .57 CLASSIC EPISODES.

One of those episodes really took me by surprise.  It's a Bat Masterson
show starring William Conrad as a bad guy.  I recognized him by his voice
- he sounded just like the REAL Matt Dillon (not that poser Jim Arness).
But seeing Matt as the head of a lynching party was too much to bear.
Anyway, he was dressed like a cowboy, and he sure looked like the
Gunsmoke publicity photos from the radio show.

The rest of the shows, by the way, include the Cisco Kid, Death Valley
Days, Roy Rogers, Lone Ranger, Range Rider, Champion, and the Rifleman.
Many OTR people in a lot of these episodes.  Not bad at all for five
bucks.

---Dan

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Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 02:29:50 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  12-2 births/deaths

December 2nd births

12-02-1889 - Paul Althouse - d. 2-15-1954
tenor: WEAF New York, New York
12-02-1893 - William Gaxton - San Franciso, CA - d. 2-2-1963
actor, singer: "Broadway Showtime"
12-02-1895 - Jesse Crawford - Woodland, CA - d. 5-28-1962
organist: "Paramount Publix Hour"; "Counterspy"
12-02-1895 - Warren William - Aitkin, MN - d. 9-24-1948
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-02-1898 - Peter Goo Chong - Miu, China - d. 1-15-1985
actor: "Collier's Hour"; "Eddie Cantor Show"; "This Day Is Ours"
12-02-1899 - John Barbirolli - London, England - d. 7-29-1970
conductor: "New York Philharmonic"
12-02-1900 - Joe Rosenfield - Tennessee - d. 11-22-1987
talkshow host: "Happiness Exchange"
12-02-1902 - Howard Koch - NYC - d. 8-17-1995
writer: "War of the Worlds"
12-02-1906 - Donald Woods - Brandon, Manitoba, Canada - d. 3-5-1998
actor: Leslie Foster "Those We Love"; "Woolworth Hour"
12-02-1908 - Hy Gardner - NYC - d. 6-17-1989
columnist, author, host: Celebrity Interviews
12-02-1910 - Robert Paige - Indianapolis, IN - d. 12-21-1987
actor: "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Lux
Radio Theatre"
12-02-1910 - Sidney Marshall - d. 12-15-1977
writer: "Man Called X"; "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
12-02-1913 - Morton Wishengrad - d. 2-12-1963
writer: "The Cavalcade of America"; "The Eternal Light"
12-02-1914 - Ray Walston - New Orleans, LA - d. 1-1-2001
actor: "The Woolworth Hour"
12-02-1915 - Adolph Green - NYC - d. 10-23-2002
songwriter: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
12-02-1915 - Paul Mann - Toronto, Canada - d. 9-24-1985
actor: George Kirby "Advs of Topper"; Perry "Quiz" Quisinberry
"Passport for Adams"
12-02-1916 - Charlie Ventura - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-17-1992
tenor sazophonist: "Spotlight Bands"; "Gene Krupa and His Orchestra"
12-02-1916 - John Bentley - Birmingham, England
singer,announcer: Radio Luxembourg
12-02-1917 - Sylvia Syms - NYC - d. 5-10-1992
actor: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Broadway Is My Beat"; "Suspense"
12-02-1918 - Ezra Stone - New Bedford, MA - d. 3-3-1994
actor: Henry Aldrich "Aldrich Family"
12-02-1918 - Milton Delugg - Los Angeles, CA
orchestra leader: "Music Depreciation"
12-02-1921 - Rita Lynn - Louisiana - d. 1-21-1996
actor: "Dimension X"
12-02-1923 - Maria Callas - NYC - d. 9-16-1977
opera singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"
12-02-1925 - Julie Harris - Grosse Pointe Park MI
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

December 2nd deaths

01-06-1911 - Joey Adams - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-2-1999
host: "Rate Your Mate"
01-27-1924 - Sabu - Mysore, India - d. 12-2-1963
actor: "Confidential Close-Ups"
02-02-1908 - Cal Tinney - Pontotoc County, OK - d. 12-2-1993
actor: Binnacle Barnes "Robinson Crusoe, Jr."
02-24-1916 - Willie Gilbert - Cleveland, OH - d. 12-2-1980
writer: "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
03-02-1917 - Desi Arnaz - Santiago, Cuba - d. 12-2-1986
actor, bandleader: Ricky Ricardo "I Love Lucy"; "Bob Hope Show"
04-16-1904 - Fifi D'Orsay - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - d. 12-2-1983
singer: "Folies De Paris"; "This Is Your Life"
05-08-1901 - Katherine Raht - Chattanooga, TN - d. 12-2-1983
actor: Alice Aldrich "Aldrich Family"; Margaret Allen "Against the
Storm"
08-28-1929 - Roxie Roker - Miami, FL - d. 12-2-1995
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
11-14-1900 - Aaron Copland - NYC - d. 12-2-1990
composer: "Document A/777"
12-01-1910 - Alicia Markova - London, England - d. 12-2-2004
ballerina: BBC Interview
12-05-1903 - Fred Van Deventer - Tipton, IN - d. 12-2-1971
newscaster, panelist: "Vandeventer and the News"; "Twenty Questions"
12-13-1887 - Alvin York - Pall Mall, TN - d. 12-2-1964
world war I hero: "We the People"; "What Are We Fighting For?"
xx-xx-xxxx - John Stanley - London, England - d. 12-2-1982
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes" Jeff Brady "Romance
of Helen Trent"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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