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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2004 : Issue 347
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      10-28 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Nightwatch                            [ soonersam@[removed] (Sam Bliss) ]
      KGU RADIO                             [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
      KGU MYSTERY                           [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
      Re: Who was KGU                       [ Ken Dahl <kdahl@[removed]; ]
      Shadowskidiboomboom                   [ KENPILETIC@[removed] ]
      Elizabeth McLeod on BBC               [ "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed] ]
      Yesterday USA will broadcast at the   [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
      Re: Edgar Farr Russell's father       [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]
      Old-Time Radio on Ham Radio           [ Bill Jaker <bilj@[removed]; ]
      Red Sox and radio                     [ Richard Carpenter <sinatra@ragingbu ]
      10-29 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Re: Thanx, Bobb!                      [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
      Henry Morgan and MAD                  [ Bhob <bhob2@[removed]; ]
      Obnoxious audience members            [ OzRadio <ozradio1@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:51:34 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-28 births/deaths

    October 28th births

    10-28-1886 - Ruth Gates - Denton, TX - d. 5-23-1966
    actress: Mrs Lenord "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
    10-28-1895 - Herb Butterfield - RI - d. 5-2-1957
    actor: Clarence Wellman "Halls of Ivy"; Hunter Glenn "One Man's Family"
    10-28-1896 - Howard Hanson - Wahoo, NB - d. 2-26-1981
    conductor, composer: "New York Philharmonic"; "ASCAP World's Fair Concert"
    10-28-1897 - Edith Head - San Bernardino, CA - d. 10-24-1981
    costume designer: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-28-1902 - Elsa Lanchester - Lewisham, England - d. 12-26-1986
    actress: "Arch Oboler's Plays"; "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Everyman's
    Theatre"
    10-28-1907 - Lew Parker - d. 10-27-1972
    comedian: John Bickerson "The Bickersons"; "Mennen Shave Time with Lew Parker"
    10-28-1913 - Ruth Peterson - Wauwatosa, WI - d. 2-2-1985
    actress: Linda Carroll "Hawthorne House"
    10-28-1917 - Ron Rawson - d. 7-18-1994
    announcer: "Right to Happiness"; "Advs. of Topper"; "Advs. of the Thin Man"
    10-28-1934 - Johnny Western - Two Harbors, MN
    singer, actor, songwriter: (Ballad of Paladin) Daily show on KFDI Wichita, KS

    October 28th deaths

    04-01-1917 - Leon Janney - Ogden, UT - d. 10-28-1980
    actor: Danny Stratford "Life of Mary Sothern"; Richard Parker "Parker Family"
    07-27-1918 - Veola Vonn - NYC - d. 10-28-1995
    actress: Dimples Wilson "Blondie"; Princess Nadji "Chandu the Magician"
    08-29-1913 - Sylvia Fine - NYC - d. 10-28-1991
    writer: (Wife of Danny Kaye) "Danny Kaye Show"; "Forecast"; "Bud's Bandwagon"
    09-16-1919 - Larry Dobkin - NYC - d. 10-28-2002
    actor: Archie Goodwin "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; Ellery Queen "Advs. of Ellery
    Queen"
    09-17-1907 - Alice Yourman - d. 10-28-2000
    actress: Mary Andrews "Archie Andrews"; [removed] Aldrich "Aldrich Family"
    10-06-1899 - Mitchell Leisen - Menominee, MI - d. 10-28-1972
    director: Lux Radio Theatre
    11-02-1892 - Alice Brady - NYC - d. 10-28-1939
    actress: "Hollywood Hotel"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:47:40 -0400
    From: soonersam@[removed] (Sam Bliss)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Nightwatch

    I'm new here, and thrilled that such a forum exists!
    I've been listening to old time radio programs on tape/cd for many years
    (mainly thanks to Radio Spirit) and enjoy the medium immensly.
    One comment I have, since crime drama is my favorite.  The show
    'Nightwatch,' live police action via 'crime recorder' Don Reed, who tags
    along with detectives from the Culver City, California police
    department, is a real gem.  Almost a radio version of television's COPS,
    if you love Dragnet and Gangbusters, this is a show for you.
    The MP3 CDs (48 half hour shows) are fairly available on eBay.
    Thanks again for the newsletter!

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    Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:48:44 -0400
    From: PURKASZ@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  KGU RADIO
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    A grand and glorious radio station it was and I believe still  is, though I
    could be wrong.
        It is in Honolulu, Hawaii and was the station that  first broadcast the
    live reports on the attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
        When I was in radio there in 1965 it was in the  newspaper building and
    one of the great old broadcast booths in the  business.
        I was on KPOI at the time and we were Top-40.
        KGU was middle-of-the-road with some talk and a  great morning man named
    Hal Lewis who had been there since WW2 and known as "J.  Aku-Head Pupule."
        Don't ask me what it meant. Don't think many  knew.
        Hawaiians said it meant crazy.
        Kinda wished I had worked there.
                    Michael  C. Gwynne

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    Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:48:32 -0400
    From: PURKASZ@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  KGU MYSTERY
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    Chris:
        Just saw the photo you mentioned. Should have  looked before I posted my
    letter.
        I am perplexed as well but I did send the photo off  to several friends
    in the Islands who are or have been in radio for many years  in Honolulu.
        We should have an answer very soon.
        I feel like Charlie Chan.
                        Michael  C. Gwynne

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    Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:47:27 -0400
    From: Ken Dahl <kdahl@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Who was KGU

    I went to [removed]  typed KGU in the appropriate box and
    came up with Honolulu, Hawaii as the location of the station.

    Regards,
    Ken Dahl

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    Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 19:30:14 -0400
    From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Shadowskidiboomboom
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    Hi Gang -

    Recently somebody asked about Alfred E. Newman in Mad Comics.
    I graduated Grade School in 1951.   When I was in either 7th or 8th
    grade I purchased my first copy of Mad Comics.  Alfred E. Newman
    was pictured in Mad Comics during that era (1949 thru 1951), but
    he didn't have a name.  There was his picture, with "What, Me Worry"
    written under.  Apparently he was given a real name a few years later.

    The Radio [removed]   In those early issues of Mad, there were several
    radio programs [removed]
    I remember "The Adventures of Superduperman"   and
    "The Invisable Shadowskidiboomboom".
    There were others that I don't remember.

    My small stack of Mad Comics was thrown out, along with other
    insignificant junque, by my mother.  That small stack would probably
    bring a small fortune today.

    Happy Taping -  Ken Piletic - Streamwood, Illinois
    kenpiletic@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 19:31:45 -0400
    From: "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed];
    To: "OTR" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Elizabeth McLeod on BBC

    I recently listened to a 2-part documentary about Amos 'n Andy produced and
    broadcast by the BBC.

    Elizabeth was a big part of this program.   I just want to tell her what a
    media natural she is, very relaxed, great voice, clear and informed
    presentation, etc.   I'm sure this is known to many of you but this is the
    first time for me that Elizabeth was a voice and not a message.

    Great job!

    -Irene

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    Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:25:32 -0400
    From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Yesterday USA will broadcast at the SPERDVAC
     convention

    Hi Everybody,

    if you can,t make the SPERDVAC convention but would like to caught some of
    the flavor Yesterday USA will be broadcast from the SPERDVAc convention this
    year.  Right now Frank Bresee and I will go live from the dealer room
    Saturday 11-13-04 from 11 AM to 1 PM west coast time.  You can go to
    [removed] to hear the live broadcast.  Take care,

    Walden Hughes

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    Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:28:50 -0400
    From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Edgar Farr Russell's father
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    Many of you know Edgar Russell. He is a member of the MWOTRC and his play
    was the winning entry at FOTR this year. I just received the follow email
    from our club president, Chuck Langdon.

    I share with you sad news. Edgar Farr Russell's father, Captain Edgar F.
    Russell, Jr. US Naval Reserve (Ret) passed away Sunday in New
    Jersey.  Edgar, his brother Frazier and their father were attended the FOTR
    convention.  On Sunday morning Captain Russell was hospitalized.  I do not
    have further details or arrangements at this time.  Edgar's telephone
    number is 202-333-8456. His address is 3705 Reservoir Road, NW, Washington
    DC 20007-2112. I spoke with Edgar. He asked that I share this news with
    members of our club.  I will forward more information as it is received

    Fred

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    Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:29:09 -0400
    From: Bill Jaker <bilj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Old-Time Radio on Ham Radio

    All amateur radio operators who also enjoy old-time (broadcast) radio
    are invited to join in with the ORCATs Net Sunday morning at 8:00
    o'clock Eastern Standard Time (that extra hour of sleep this Sunday
    should make it especially easy to be up and on the air by that hour).
    The Old-Time Radio Collectors and Traders Society meets on 7238 kHz in
    the 40-meter band.  This Sunday's topics will include the just-completed
    Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention in Newark.

    SWLs are also welcome to tune in and boost our ham Hooperating.

                                                        --73 from Bill
    Jaker, WB8RAE

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    Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:29:32 -0400
    From: Richard Carpenter <sinatra@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Red Sox and radio
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    Long before there was televised baseball with instant replays, slo-mo,
    diamond cams, and every other kind of technical wizardry, you could listen to
    the Boston Red Sox on the radio -- something my father did whenever he could.
    I can envision him alternately cheering and groaning as he listened to Curt
    Gowdy delivering the play-by-play and letting our imaginations take us out to
    the ball game. If my dad wasn't the number one Sox fan, he was certainly
    high up there. How I wish he could have been here tonight.

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    Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:29:40 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-29 births/deaths

    October 29th births

    10-29-1891 - Fanny Brice - NYC - d. 5-29-1951
    comedienne: Baby Snooks Higgins, "Baby Snooks"
    10-29-1894 - Jack Pearl - NYC - d. 12-25-1982
    comedian: Baron Munchausen "Baron and the Bee, Jack and Cliff, Jack Pearl Show"
    10-29-1897 - Hope Emerson - Hawarden, IA - d. 4-24-1960
    actress: Henrietta Topper "Advs. of Topper"; Elsie the Cow "Happy Island"
    10-29-1901 - Akim Tamiroff - Baku, Russia - d. 9-17-1972
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-29-1916 - Hadda Brooks - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-21-2002
    pianist: "Jubilee"
    10-29-1921 - Ed Kemmer - Reading, PA
    actor: Buzz Corey "Space Patrol"
    10-29-1925 - Geraldine Brooks - NYC - d. 6-19-1977
    actress: "Hollywood Fights Back"; "Voice of the Army"

    October 29th deaths

    02-18-1890 - Adolphe Menjou - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-29-1963
    host: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Eternal Light"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
    02-18-1917 - Jack Slattery - MO - d. 10-29-1979
    announcer: "House Party"; "You Bet Your Life"
    04-08-1921 - Franco Corelli - Ancona, Italy - d. 10-29-2003
    operatic tenor: "Gala Performance"
    05-16-1913 - Woody Herman - Milwaukee, WI - d. 10-29-1987
    bandleader: (The Thundering Herd) "Wildroot Show"
    06-14-1908 - John Scott Trotter - Charlotte, NC - d. 10-29-1975
    conductor: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Philco Radio Time"
    07-04-1885 - Louis B. Mayer - Minsk, Byelorussia, Russian Empire - d.
    10-29-1957
    film executive: "Good News of 1938/39"; "Songs By Sinatra"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-06-1894 - Myra Marsh - ME - d. 10-29-1964
    actress: Dora Foster "A Date with Judy"; Mother "My Friend Irma"
    11-05-1906 - Joel McCrea - South Pasadena, CA - d. 10-29-1990
    actor: Jace Pearson "Tales of the Texas Rangers"
    12-14-1912 - Morey Amsterdam - Chicago, IL - d. 10-29-1996
    comedian: "Morey Amsterdan Show"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:26:47 -0400
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Thanx, Bobb!

    On 10/27/04 2:51 PM [removed]@[removed] wrote:

>     I just want to be among the first to say, "welcome back, Elizabeth!"

    Well, thank you very much! I'm very glad to be here! (Under the circs,
    I'm glad to be *anywhere!*)

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:27:33 -0400
    From: Bhob <bhob2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Henry Morgan and MAD

    MAD certainly popularized Alfred E. Neuman with its full-color painting
    by Norman Mingo in the mid-1950s, but the actual image of "the kid" has
    been traced back to the 19th Century, and there were various advertising
    cards with both the image and the phrase "Me worry?" and "What – me
    worry?" around 1910 to [removed]'s also an association of the character
    with the Henry Morgan radio show.

    Harvey Kurtzman launched MAD as an EC comic book in 1952, and two years
    later, Ballantine Books decided to do a B&W paperback reprint of MAD
    stories. Visiting the office of Ballantine editor Bernard Shir-Cliff,
    Kurtzman was intrigued by a card with the "What – me worry?" character
    on Shir-Cliff's bulletin board and decided to use the character on the
    cover of Ballantine's THE MAD READER paperback reprint (December 1954).
    Next came a tiny head on the cover of MAD 21 (March 1955), a satire of
    the Johnson-Smith novelty catalog. In MAD 24 (the first issue as a
    magazine) the character was called Melvin Coznowski, and in issues 25
    and 28, he was known as Mel Haney. Kurtzman left MAD after issue 28. The
    Neuman name was also used in issue 24, and it became the final choice
    with MAD 30 (December 1956) when the Mingo painting appeared.

    The name MAD settled on derived from Henry Morgan's radio show, which
    featured a satire or running gag about the Hollywood composer Alfred L.
    Newman. Some sources say that Alfred Newman was the name of a character
    on the Morgan radio show. Does anyone know what this Henry Morgan joke
    was? I have never seen it documented anywhere. It remains a mystery
    unless someone here can supply the answer.

    Here is my speculation: Laird Cregar portrayed Sir Henry Morgan in the
    movie THE BLACK SWAN (1942) with Tyrone Power. The Oscar-nominated score
    for this film was by Alfred Newman (1901-1970), who also composed the
    20th Century Fox opening fanfare theme. Certainly THE BLACK SWAN, from
    Sabatini, was ripe for satire. So did the gag about Alfred Newman on
    Henry Morgan's radio show have anything to do with Sir Henry Morgan in
    that movie? I'd love to know the answer to this one. Henry Morgan, btw,
    was a contributor to MAD 33.

    Bhob @ FUSEBOX COMIC ART @ [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:24:29 -0400
    From: OzRadio <ozradio1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Obnoxious audience members

    In an episode of Great Gildersleeve (43-04-18) the
    listener can hear the obnoxious laugh of an audience
    member. Goldin, in his index, describes it as a
    "braying mule" and that's a fair assessment. It
    actually becomes difficult to listen to the show
    because I start anticipating this man's laugh. I know
    this was not an uncommon occurance and am wondering if
    the performers were ever distracted by such audence
    members. Anyone familiar with how the actors and
    actresses responded in such situations? Or were they
    even very aware of the audience?
    Thanks,
    Ryan

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