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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 113
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  A celebrated anniversary              [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  5-3 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 4-10 May   [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Scarecrow Press, etc.                 [ Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed]; ]
  High prices for [removed]              [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
  The Lost Special - Now Online         [ rand@[removed] ]
  4-4 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Ghost Corps                           [ "Sammy Jones" <sjones69@[removed] ]
  Lawrence Welk on the radio            [ Larry Jordan <midtod@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 10:26:27 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  A celebrated anniversary

He was the radio newsman who started it all.  At 15, Douglas Edwards was on
the air over Troy, Alabama's 100-watt WHET.  But long before that, while
living in Silver City, N. M., he was "transfixed by broadcasts I could bring
in from faraway places" on a crystal radio set.  To say Edwards hadn't fixed
his eye on where he wanted to go in life quite early would be to misread the
signals.  The allure of broadcasting carried him to Dothan's WAGF in 1935,
Atlanta's WSB the following year, Detroit's WXYZ in 1938 (where he subbed as
announcer for The Lone Ranger), back to WSB in 1940 and -- two years
later -- to his air castle Zion, CBS in New York.  For the next 46 years
he'd have opportunities to establish records that most other aspirants could
only dream of.

He was tutored by future competitor John Charles Daly.  He served in the
closing months of the Second World War on the London staff of legendary
newscaster guru Edward R. Murrow.  In the postwar era, he was anchor of the
CBS World News Roundup.  For 11 years, weekdays at noon he offered the
headlines on the soap opera Wendy Warren and the News.  For 18 years he
presided over a five-minute newscast weekday afternoons on CBS-TV.

But Edwards is best recalled for a circumstance that began 60 years ago on
May 3, 1948.  On that day his chain inaugurated "CBS TV News," a
quarter-hour evening summary of global events, renamed "Douglas Edwards with
the News" in 1950.  He was the first so signified; John Cameron Swayze
didn't arrive until 1949 when rival NBC-TV cranked up its own nightly news
program.

"The truth is," pontificated Gary Paul Gates, a chronicler of CBS News,
"[Walter] Cronkite and all the other TV anchormen who have come along since
are the direct descendants of Douglas Edwards."  Gates persisted:  "For
fourteen years, from 1948 to 1962, Doug Edwards was the face and voice of
CBS on its evening news show."

After the coaxial cable linked all of the nation's TV watchers in September
1951, the pioneering electronic journalist introduced his daily quarter-hour
with "Good evening, everyone, from coast to coast."  In 1955 he won a George
Foster Peabody Award for his acclaimed reportage.

Edwards retired April 1, 1988, telling The New York Times:  "Next to my
family and friends, broadcasting is my great love, a romance I've carried on
for more than 50 years.  Where else are you going to satisfy your natural
curiosity, be privy to the great events of your time, be a disseminator of
information to a vast audience, be a conduit by which your fellow human
beings understand the world?"  He died at 73 in Sarasota, Fla. on Oct. 13,
1990.  His papers are housed in the Douglas Edwards Archives at St.
Bonaventure (N. Y.) University.

It's been 60 years since the evening news tradition began on the tube.
Working in primitive conditions with unsophisticated equipment, Doug Edwards
was the first in a procession that continues to today.  The legacy of such
pioneers seems particularly worthy of reflection and emulation at this
intersect.

Jim Cox

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Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 10:26:35 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  5-3 births/deaths

May 3rd births

05-03-1874 - Louis Dean - Wilmington, DE - d. 4-8-1933
announcer: "Stoopnagle and Budd"
05-03-1880 - Horace Murphy - Finley, TN - d. 1-20-1975
actor: Buckskin Blodgett "Red Ryder"
05-03-1890 - Nick Dawson - Vineland, NJ - d. 12-28-1957
actor: "Dangerous Paradise"; "Follow the Man"
05-03-1892 - Beulah Bondi - Chicago, IL - d. 1-11-1981
actor: "Free World Theatre"; "NBC University Theatre"
05-03-1897 - Charlie Lung - England - d. 6-22-1974
actor: Paul Sycamore "You Can't Take It with You"; "Wild Bill
Hickok"; "Escape"
05-03-1897 - Larry Puck - d. 10-26-1969
producer: "Arthur Godfrey Time" Was one of Godfrey's many firings
05-03-1898 - Golda Meir - Kiev, Russia - d. 12-8-1978
israeli prime minister: "Meet the Press"
05-03-1898 - John Roy - d. 5-31-1985
actor: Roy Calvert "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
05-03-1899 - George H. Combs - Lee's Summit, MO - d. 11-29-1977
congressman, commentator: "Now You Decide"; "Spotlight, New York"
05-03-1902 - Jack Larue - NYC - d. 1-11-1984
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-03-1902 - Walter Slezak - Vienna,  Austria - d. 4-21-1983
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Best Plays"; "Studio One"; "Columbia
Workshop"
05-03-1903 - Bing Crosby - Tacoma, WA - d. 10-14-1977
singer: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Philco Radio Time"
05-03-1905 - James Nusser - Cleveland, OH - d. 6-8-1979
actor: "Gunsmoke"
05-03-1905 - Sebastian Shaw - Holt, England - d. 12-23-1994
actor: "For Elise"
05-03-1905 - William Brown Meloney - NYC - d. 5-4-1971
writer: "Claudia and David"
05-03-1906 - Anna Roosevelt - Hyde Park, NY - d. 12-1-1975
Daughter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On her mother's programs
05-03-1906 - Mary Astor - Quincy, IL  - d. 9-25-1987
actor: Mary Christmas "Merry Life of Mary Christmas"
05-03-1907 - Degar Lustgarten - Manchester, England - d. 12-15-1978
author: "The Burden Mystery"
05-03-1907 - Earl Wilson - Rockford, OH - d. 1-16-1987
columnist: "Earl Wilson's Broadway Column"
05-03-1909 - Fort Pearson - d. 2-19-1989
announcer: "Beat the Band"; "Queen for a Day"; "Hoosier Hot Shots"
05-03-1910 - Curt Massey - Midland, TX - d. 10-21-1991
singer: "Show Boat"; "Curt Massey Show"
05-03-1910 - Norman Corwin - Boston, MA
writer, director: "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Twenty-Six by Corwin"
05-03-1911 - Yank Lawson - Trenton, MO - d. 2-18-1995
trumpet: "The Bob Crosby Show"
05-03-1919 - Betty Comden - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-23-2006
writer, actor: "Revuers"
05-03-1919 - Doris Rich - Canada - d. 5-18-1971
actor: Hannah O'Leary" Houseboat Hannah"; Miss Daisey "Portia Faces
Life"
05-03-1919 - Pete Seeger - NYC
folk singer, songwriter: "Off the Page"
05-03-1920 - John Lewis - LaGrange, IL - d. 3-29-2001
co-founder of "Modern Jazz Quartet": :Modern Jazz Quartet";
"Listener's Digest"
05-03-1920 - Nina Bara - Buenos Aires, Argentina - d. 8-15-1990
actor: Tonga "Space Patrol"
05-03-1921 - Joe Ames - Malden, MA - d. 12-22-2007
singer: (Ames Brothers) "Sing It Again"; "Robert Q. Lewis Show"
05-03-1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson - Detroit, MI - d. 4-12-1989
pugilist: "Destination Freedom"; "Heat It Now"
05-03-1922 - Elizabeth Lawrence - d. 6-11-2000
actor: Francie Brent "Road of Life"
05-03-1927 - Rosemary Rice - Montclair, NJ
actor: Betty Cooper "Archie Andrews"; Jill Malone "Young Doctor Malone"
05-03-1928 - Dave Dudley - Spencer, WI - d. 12-22-2003
country singer: "Dave Dudley Trio"

May 3rd deaths

02-02-1920 - Hughie Green - London, England - d. 5-3-1997
host: "Opportunity Knocks"
02-19-1899 - Carl Matthews - Oklahoma Territory - d. 5-3-1959
actor: "The Cuckoo Hour"
02-26-1914 - Robert Alda - NYC - d. 5-3-1986
singer: "Rudy Vallee Presents the Drene Show"
03-05-1906 - Aileen Carlyle - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-3-1984
vocalist: "Spike Jones and His City Slickers"
03-12-1923 - Walter Schirra - Hackensack, NJ - d. 5-3-2007
astronaut: "Meet the Press"
03-16-1894 - Elizabeth Lennox - Ionia, MI - d. 5-3-1992
singer: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "American Album of Familiar
Music"
03-22-1916 - George Wyle - NYC - d. 5-3-2003
songwriter: "Alan Young"
04-11-1913 - Millie Good - Mt. Carmel, IL - d. 5-3-1993
singer: (Girls of the Golden West) "National Barn Dance"
04-20-1904 - Bruce Cabot - Carlsbad, NM - d. 5-3-1972
actor: "Hallmark Hall of Fame"; "Hollywood on the Air"
05-02-1902 - Erin O'Brien-Moore - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-3-1979
actor: Elsa Banning "Big Sister"
05-02-1905 - Sidney Skolsky - NYC - d. 5-3-1983
newspaper columnist: "Songs by Arlen, Stories by Skolsky"; "Bromo
Seltzer Program"
05-30-1926 - Christine Jorgenson - The Bronx, NY - d. 5-3-1989
actor: "Whatever Became [removed]"
06-14-1914 - Nat Polen - NYC - d. 5-3-1981
actor: Edward McCormick "Indictment" "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
07-04-1902 - George Murphy - New Haven, CT - d. 5-3-1992
actor, emcee: "Let's Talk Hollywood"; "Hollywood Calling"
08-02-1904 - John McClain - Ohio - d. 5-3-1967
writer: "Hollywood Hotel"
08-13-1908 - Gene Raymond - NYC - d. 5-3-1998
actor: John J. Malone "Amazing Mr. Malone"; "Witness"; "Hollywood Hotel"
08-14-1914 - Bill Downs - Kansas City, MO - d. 5-3-1978
newscaster: CBS Moscow 1942
10-11-1936 - Billy Higgins - Los Angeles, CA - d. 5-3-2001
jazz drummer: "Jazz Alive"
10-30-1908 - Patsy Montana - Hot Springs, AK - d. 5-3-1996
yodeling country singer: (Prairie Ramblers) "Smile-a-While"
10-30-1927 - Joe Adcock - Coushatta, LA - d. 5-3-1999
baseball player: "Baseball: An Action History"
11-30-1903 - Frank Worth - Debrezin, Hungary - d. 5-3-1990
orchestra leader: "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"; Those Websters"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 10:26:42 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 4-10 May

 From Those Were The Days --

5/5

1935 - The program, Rhythm at Eight, made its debut. The star of the
show was 24-year-old Ethel Merman. Though Merman would become a legend
years later, she didn't fare so well on radio. Her show was taken off
the air after 13 weeks and Miss Merman returned to her first love,
Broadway.

5/6

1937 - A student of history, a broadcaster or anyone interested in news
coverage, will remember this day and the words of NBC's Herbert
Morrison. "Oh, the humanities!" Morrison's emotion-filled historic
broadcast of the explosion of the dirigible, Hindenburg at Lakehurst,
NJ, became the first recorded coast-to-coast broadcast as it was carried
on both the NBC Red and NBC Blue networks from New York City.  (I was
listening to a "Ports of Call" recently and in one show from 1936 how
travel had changed in the last few years, and how one could now either
sail to and from Europe by ship or "the fastest way, by lighter than air
ships, such as the Hindenburg".  Little did the writer of that line know
within a year or 18 [removed]  -Ed)

5/8

1959 - The final broadcast of One Man's Family was heard on NBC after
being on the air 27 years. The show had completed 3,256 episodes since
its beginning in 1932.

5/9

1936 - Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy started their own radio show on
NBC -- only months after they had debuted on Rudy Vallee's program. [removed]
Fields, Don Ameche and Dorothy Lamour were a few of the stars that
helped Bergen and the little blockhead, McCarthy, jump to the top of
radio's hit parade.

5/10

1927 - The Hotel Statler in Boston, MA. became the first hotel to
install radio headsets in each of its 1,300 rooms.

Joe

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Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 10:27:26 -0400
From: Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Scarecrow Press, etc.

Well, since no one's talking about the cheaper prices
of BearManor Media's books, I might as well do it
myself. :) We try to keep (radio) books at a Low price
because I've Always said we're selling mainly to
individuals, not libraries. Frankly, I think that's a
reason a lot of authors come to us, and once they've
been dropped by McF, those people come to us too (like
Arthur Anderson). A book is too much work to let fall
out of print, and it's too much work to price out of
reach. The biggest thing we're going to be putting out
soon is the log book for Yours Truly Johnny Dollar,
and even though that's $[removed], we're splitting it into
3 volumes so that the cost - and page count - won't be
outrageous. It's really the # of pages that sets the
cover prices for us.

By the way, the wife and I plan to be at FOTR and
Martin Grams' convention this year. So it'll be nice
to some of you (again). See ya then!

Ben Ohmart
[removed]

Old radio. Old movies. New books.
[removed]

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Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 12:15:29 -0400
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  High prices for [removed]

I wonder if it's time for authors of old time radio/television books to do
their own publishing?  Is publishing an OTR book the sole income of these
authors?  If the spouse works, maybe these authors rely on some
supplementary income?

With affordable computers and many tricks of the trade available at the cost
of good word processing software, I wonder if self-publishing is one
possible answer.  I have spent money on the excellent OTR books, but I
usually draw the line when a single volume costs more than $50.  I look for
a used copy.  Isn't there such a thing as online publishing?  Pay a fee, get
a download, and print your own copy?  Maybe it's already being [removed]

In any case, I want to thank all the OTR authors for their excellent
[removed] keep it up!

Ted Kneebone. 1528 S. Grant St., Aberdeen, SD 57401
Phone:  605-226-3344. Email: tkneebone1@[removed]
OTR:  [removed]

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Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 19:08:56 -0400
From: rand@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Lost Special - Now Online

My two discs came in the mail this morning and I spent the afternoon
cleaning them and doing a transfer.

Indeed, one of the discs is "The Lost Special" from the series "Suspense"
and starring Orson Welles.  You can give it a listen on my podcast/blog:

[removed]

The disc is rather scratchy, unfortunately.  I haven't done any noise
reduction on the transfer, just applying the proper eq.

The show itself has an odd opening, which is done by a staff AFRS
announcer.  Other shows I've heard from this series on AFRS have either an
edited version of the network show opening or a custom one recorded by the
host of the show.

Randy

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Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 23:23:50 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  4-4 births/deaths

April 4th births

04-04-1859 - Willfred Moore - d. 7-14-1939
writer: "Air Advs. of Jimmy Allen"; "Howie Wing"; "Captain Midnight"
04-04-1875 - Pierre Monteux - d. 7-1-1964
conductor: "The NBC Symphony Orchestra"
04-04-1889 - Dorothy Gordon - Odessa, Russia - d. 5-11-1970
moderator: "Dorothy Gordon's Youth Forum"
04-04-1892 - Walter T. Butterworth - Wallingford, PA - d. 3-10-1962
emcee: "Molle Merry Minstrels"; "Vox Pox"; "Take a Card"
04-04-1894 - Ed East - Bloomington, IN - d. 1-18-1952
actor, writer, pianist, composer: "The Ed East and Polly Show"
04-04-1895 - Arthur Murray - NYC - d. 3-3-1991
dance master: "Natural Bridge Dancing Class"
04-04-1896 - Robert Sherwood - New Rochelle, NY - d. 11-14-1955
playwright: "Free Company"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Screen Guild
Theatre"
04-04-1897 - Albert Bagdasarian - d. 8-15-1968
newscaster: WNBZ Saranac Lake, New York
04-04-1897 - Erno Balogh - Budapest, Hungary - d. 6-2-1989
pianist: WEAF New York City
04-04-1900 - Chester Renier - d. 7-13-1965
producer, director: "Mother and Dad"
04-04-1901 - Gay Seabrook - Seattle, WA - d. 4-18-1970
actor: Susabelle "Joe Penner Show"
04-04-1902 - Bernice Berwin - Bay Area, CA - d. 5-22-2002
actor: Hazel Barbour "One Man's Family"
04-04-1904 - John Brown - Hull, England - d. 5-16-1957
actor: Digby "Digger" O'Dell "Life of Riley"; Melvyn Foster "A Date
with Judy"
04-04-1904 - Martin Wolfson - NYC - d. 9-12-1973
actor: Second Brother "Into the Light"
04-04-1906 - Bea Benaderet - NYC - d. 10-13-1968
comedienne: Gertrude Gearshift "Jack Benny Program"
04-04-1906 - John Cameron Swayze - Wichita, KS - d. 8-15-1995
host. panelist: "Monitor"; "Who Said That?"
04-04-1906 - Johnnie Athaide - d. 5-10-1988
tenor: KGB San Diego, California
04-04-1907 - Bob Venables - Woodstock, IL - d. 7-30-1985
announcer: "The Whistler"
04-04-1908 - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey - NYC - d. 11-4-2006
writer: (Cheaper By the Dozen) "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-04-1908 - Ted McMichael - Marshalltown, IA - d. 2-27-2001
singer: (The Merry Macs) "Bing Crosby Show"; "Fred Allen Show"
04-04-1912 - Charles Cliff - Asheville, NC - d. 4-30-2000
orchestra leader: NBC, CBS and MBS
04-04-1914 - Frances Langford - Lakeland, FL - d. 7-11-2005
singer, actor: Blanche Bickerson "Bickersons"; "Bob Hope Show"
04-04-1914 - Richard Coogan - Short Hills, NJ
actor: Robbie Hughes "Young Dr. Malone"; Abie Levy "Abie's Irish Rose"
04-04-1914 - Rosemary Lane - Indianola, IA - d. 11-25-1974
singer: (The Lane Sisters) "Fred Waring Show"; "Your Hollywood Parade"
04-04-1922 - Elmer Bernstein - NYC - d. 8-18-2004
composer: "Coming Home"; "Memos to a New Millenium"
04-04-1932 - Anthony Perkins - NYC - d. 9-12-1992
actor: "Guest Star"; "Listening to Music with Tony Perkins"
04-04-1938 - Susan Luckey
actor: Elizabeth Barbour/Jane Barbour "One Man's Family"
04-04-1943 - Paulette Jiles - Salem, MO
author: "My Mother's Quilt"; "Money and Blankets"

April 4th deaths

01-15-1929 - Martin Luther King - Atlanta, GA - d. 4-4-1968
civil right leader: "Monitor"
01-23-1899 - Margaret Carreau - Bedford, PA - d. 4-4-1997
accompanist to John Charles Thomas
03-11-1909 - Karl Tunberg - Spokane, WA - d. 4-4-1992
film writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-20-1903 - Edgar Buchanan - Humansville, MO - d. 4-4-1979
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-27-1898 - Gloria Swanson - Chicago, IL - d. 4-4-1983
panelist: "Hollywood Byline"; "Suspense"
04-07-1916 - Anthony Caruso - Frankfort, IN - d. 4-4-2003
actor: "This Is Your FBI"
05-25-1916 - Ginny Simms - San Antonio, TX - d. 4-4-1994
singer: "Ginny Simms Show"; "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
06-12-1915 - Priscilla Lane - Indianola, IA - d. 4-4-1995
singer: "Fred Waring Show"
07-17-1918 - Red Sovine - Charleston, WV - d. 4-4-1980
country singer: "Country Music Time"; "Country Hoedown"
08-03-1896 - Wendell Hall - St. George, KS  - d. 4-4-1969
singer: (The Red Headed Music Maker) "Eveready Hour"; "Red Headed
Music Maker"
09-10-1900 - Joseph Bentonelli - Sayre, OK - d. 4-4-1975
operatic tenor: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Vick's Open House"
10-25-1912 - Sherman Marks - d. 4-4-1975
actor, director: Ichabod 'Ichy' Mudd "Captain Midnight"; "Cloak and
Dagger"
12-25-1944 - Kenny Everett - Liverpool, England - d. 4-4-1995
disc jockey: "Kenny 'n' Cash Breakfast Show"
12-31-1892 - Jason Robards, Sr. - Hillsdale, MI - d. 4-4-1963
actor: Chandu "Chandu, the Magician"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 00:54:11 -0400
From: "Sammy Jones" <sjones69@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Ghost Corps

Jim Kitchen says he would like to know more about Ghost Corps.

I'll fill in what little I know from listening to some of the series.  It
was obviously syndicated on disc in the early '30s to local stations with
commercials to be read by local announcers or played from separate
recordings.

I recognized at least one voice, Hanley Stafford, so it was probably
recorded in Los Angeles.

The haunting theme music is from Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade suite (mvt.
2 - The Story of the Kalendar Prince).

It seems likely that only 26 episodes were made, but  I'd like to be proved
wrong.

Oh, if only OTR collectors kept the disc information with the shows that
they traded!  If we knew the info on the disc labels, we'd know the
recording company, and with the matrix number we might even be able to date
the recording sessions for each episode.  So much early syndication history
was lost this [removed]

Sammy

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Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 10:52:53 -0400
From: Larry Jordan <midtod@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Lawrence Welk on the radio

Tonight's broadcast of the "Lawrence Welk Show" on public television
was a b&w episode from 1958, and it reminded me of the wonderful
stars Welk had then. Chief among them was
"champagne lady" Alice Lon, who had a rich voice and very smooth
delivery. What a singer and lovely personality! I remember seeing her
in person when they all came to my town when I was about three years
old, and my big claim to fame is she blew me a kiss and my Mother
held me up above the crowd to wave at her! Another favorite was Larry
Dean, an underrated young crooner, who on tonight's show did a
beautiful duet with Diane Lennon. Welk's program was brimming over
with talent.

Although we watched his weekly broadcasts on our local ABC TV
affiliate, I also seem to recall hearing Welk on the radio when we
used to go and visit my aunt and uncle on the farm in the 1950s. They
had a big old Zenith console, and would tune in to listen to Welk. I
remember being surprised to learn that he not only had a show on
television, but on radio too.

But now I'm not sure exactly what I was hearing. It seemed like it
was actual broadcasts, and not just songs off LPs.

Does anybody on the OTR list know for sure whether Welk was doing any
regular radio broadcasts after he launched his TV show in 1955? In
recent years, I saw some transcription disks being offered for sale
on ebay, featuring some of Lawrence Welk's radio broadcasts, and I
even know that some of them featured my favorite Alice Lon. But I
lost the auctions and haven't seen any since.

I would really love to get ahold of any radio shows that featured
Welk and especially Miss Lon. Perhaps some collector out there could
point me in the right direction.

Thanks,
Larry Jordan

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