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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 118
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      7-2 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Groucho, cigars                       [ "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@earthli ]
      Re: Breakfast in Hollywood: The movi  [ Jordan Young <jordanyoung50@sbcglob ]
      7-3 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Converting Reel to Reel               [ Father Ryan Hall <FatherRyan@swifte ]
      Re: H. Copland Robinson Jr.           [ Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1904 11:03:21 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-2 births/deaths

    July 2nd births

    07-02-1892 - Jack Hylton - Great Lever, England - d. 1-29-1965
    bandmaster: CBS 1935-1936 Sundays at 10:30 PM Standard Oil
    07-02-1910 - Earl Robinson - d. 7-20-1991
    composer: "The Pursuit of Happiness"
    07-02-1910 - Jeff Alexander - Whidbey Island, WA - d. 12-4-1989
    conductor: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Light Up Time"; "Tums Hollywood Theatre"
    07-02-1914 - Clint Alley - d. 3-9-1994
    sportscaster: WKOY West Virginia
    07-02-1916 - Barry Gray - Red Lion, NJ - d. 12-21-1996
    talk show host: "Barry Gray on Broadway"; "Scout About Town"
    07-02-1916 - Ken Curtis - Lamar, CO - d. 4-28-1991
    singing cowboy: "Hollywood Barn Dance"
    07-02-1921 - Paul Atkerson - d. 5-16-1988
    newscaster: KPHO Phoenix, Arizona
    07-02-1924 - Bryant Arbuckle - d. 6-27-1976
    disk jockey: WAIR Winston-Salem, North Carolina
    07-02-1927 - Brock Peters - NYC - d. 8-23-2005
    actor: Darth Vader "Star Wars"; "Earplay"
    07-02-1927 - Charlie Kennedy - Staten Island, NY - d. 4-3-2009
    saxophonist: "Gene Krupa's Band"; "Louis Prima's Band"
    07-02-1928 - John Timpson - Harrow, England - d. 11-19-2005
    presenter: "Today"
    07-02-1961 - Maria de Lourdes Hinojosa - Mexico City
    radio journalist: "Latino USA"

    July 2nd deaths

    01-17-1875 - Minetta Ellen - Cleveland, OH - d. 7-2-1965
    actor: Francis 'Fanny' Barbour "One Man's Family"
    01-31-1927 - Norman Prescott - Boston, MA - d. 7-2-2005
    producer: Boston radio
    03-20-1933 - Pasquale Borgomeo - Naples, Italy - d. 7-2-2009
    Director of Vatican Radio
    03-27-1914 - Snooky Lanson - Memphis, TN - d. 7-2-1990
    singer: "Snooky Lanson Show"; "Your Hit Parade"
    04-11-1893 - Pat Flanagan - Clinton, IA - d. 7-2-1963
    sportscaster, announcer: CBS Network, WBBM in Chicago
    05-05-1915 - Ben Wright - London, England - d. 7-2-1989
    actor: Hey Boy "Have Gun, Will Travel"; Nicholas Lacey "One Man's
    Family"
    05-08-1910 - Nathan Van Cleave - Bayfield, WI - d. 7-2-1970
    music: "The Man Behind the Gun"; "This Is Your FBI"
    05-15-1910 - Walter Cassel - Council Bluffs, IA - d. 7-2-2000
    baritone: "General Motors Concerts"; "Calling America"
    05-20-1908 - James Stewart - Indiana, PA - d. 7-2-1997
    actor: Britt Ponset "Six Shooter"
    05-25-1929 - Beverly Sills - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-2-2007
    singer: "Major Bowes Capitol Family"; "Uncle Bob's Rainbow House"
    05-30-1920 - Franklin J. Schaffner - Tokyo, Japan - d. 7-2-1989
    writer, director: "World Security Workshop"; "The March of Time"
    06-03-1927 - Boots Randolph - Paducah, KY - d. 7-2-2007
    saxophonist: "Grand Ole Opry"
    06-09-1905 - Martha Boswell - Kansas City, MO - d. 7-2-1958
    singer: (The Boswell Sisters) "The Boswell Sisters"; "Woodbury Soap
    Show"
    06-10-1919 - Hal Simms - Boston, MA - d. 7-2-2002
    announcer: "The Steve Allen Show"; "Stop the Music!"
    06-15-1905 - James Robertson Justice - Wigtown, Scotland - d. 7-2-1975
    actor: "Star Bill"
    06-23-1884 - Marley R. Sherris - Toronto, Canada - d. 7-2-1956
    announcer: "Midweek Hymn Sing"; "National Vespers"
    07-09-1910 - Alfred Kreymborg - NYC - d. 7-2-1991
    writer: "The Columbia Workshop"
    07-10-1926 - Fred Gwynne - NYC - d. 7-2-1993
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    07-21-1899 - Ernest Hemingway - Oak Park, IL - d. 7-2-1961
    author: "NBC University Theatre"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Screen Guild
    Theatre"
    07-23-1936 - Don Drysdale - Van Nuys, CA - d. 7-2-1993
    baseball announcer: California Angels, Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles
    Dodgers
    07-24-1898 - Amelia Earhart - Atchinson, KS - d. 7-2-1937
    aviatrix: "Amelia Earhart", "Cities Service Concerts"
    08-29-1927 - Marion Williams - Miami, FL - d. 7-2-1994
    gospel singer: "Soundstage"
    09-08-1906 - Orlo Bagley - d. 7-2-1986
    sportscaster: KOMB Cottage Grove, Oregon
    09-30-1896 - Howard Wright - San Diego, CA - d. 7-2-1990
    actor: "Lights Out"; "Mystery is My Hobby"; "Ma Perkins"
    10-04-1916 - Jan Murray - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-2-2006
    emcee: "Songs for Sale"; "Meet Your Match"
    10-13-1926 - Ray Brown - d. 7-2-2002
    jazz bassist: "Bands for Bonds"; "Here's to Veterans"; "White House
    Jazz Festival"
    11-09-1909 - Kay Thompson - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-2-1998
    singer: "Fred Waring Show"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Tune-Up Time"
    11-16-1890 - George Seldes - Alliance, NJ - d. 7-2-1995
    journalist: His book "A Disease Called Fascism" adapted for "Words at
    War"
    12-14-1899 - DeFord Bailey - Smith County, TN - d. 7-2-1982
    harmonica soloist: "WSM's Barn Dance"; "Grand Ole Opry"
    12-18-1916 - Betty Grable - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-2-1973
    actor: "Hollywood Showcase"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "So You Want to
    Lead a Band"
    xx-xx-xxxx - John Walsh - d. 7-2-1945
    actor: Private Homer Stubbs "Dear Mom"; Chuck Blair "Romance of Helen
    Trent"

    Ron

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    Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1904 11:03:35 -0400
    From: "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
    To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Groucho, cigars

    This pertains to Groucho on the radio. I did not need to sign in to read
    it, but I do not know how long it will be up.

    [removed]

    joe salerno

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    Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 22:43:31 -0400
    From: Jordan Young <jordanyoung50@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Breakfast in Hollywood: The movie

    This low-budget indie is a real turkey, but it's a good opportunity
    to see Spike Jones and his City Slickers, with Red Ingle doing
    "Glow-Worm."

    Jordan R. Young
    "Spike Jones Off the Record"

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    Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 22:43:38 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-3 births/deaths

    July 3rd births

    07-03-1878 - George M. Cohan - Providence, RI - d. 11-5-1942
    composer: "Collier Hour"; "Ed Sullivan Show"; "Free Company"
    07-03-1881 - Leon Errol - Sydney, Australia - d. 10-12-1951
    actor, comedian: WENR Chicago
    07-03-1890 - Herbert A. Bell - Rock Valley, IA - d. 1-30-1970
    radio manufacturer: Co-founder of Packard-Bell in 1945
    07-03-1899 - Herb Polesie - d. 6-8-1979
    panelist,director: "Twenty Questions"; "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
    07-03-1900 - John Mason Brown - Louisville, KY - d. 3-16-1969
    host-critic: "Of Men and Books"
    07-03-1903 - John Lake - Leesburg, VA - d. 6-28-1960
    actor: "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"; "Twelve Players"
    07-03-1903 - Wynne Gibson - NYC - d. 5-15-1987
    actor: Amah "Thanks for Tomorrow"; Angie "When a Girl Marries"
    07-03-1906 - George Sanders - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 4-25-1972
    host: "High Adventure"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "[removed] Steel Hour";
    "Cavalcade of America"
    07-03-1908 - Robert B. Meyner - Phillipsburg, NJ - d. 5-27-1990
    governor new jersey: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    07-03-1911 - Pembroke Davenport - Dallas, TX - d. 1-27-1985
    pianist, arranger: "Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians"
    07-03-1913 - Dorothy Kilgallen - Chicago, IL - d. 11-8-1965
    commentator: "Voice of Broadway"; "Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick"
    07-03-1915 - Jerry Gray - Boston MA - d. 8-10-1976
    bandleader: "I Sustain the Wings"; "Philip Morris Frolics"; "Club 15"
    07-03-1919 - Fred Maddox - Boaz, AL - d. 10-29-1992
    bass: "The Maddox Brothers and Rose"
    07-03-1920 - Louise Allbritton - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 2-16-1979
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "This Is My Best"; "Cavalcade of America"
    07-03-1926 - Anne Gerety - NYC - d. 10-25-2003
    actor: Aunt Bery "Star Wars"
    07-03-1930 - Pete Fountain - New Orleans, LA
    dixieland clarinetist: "New Year's All-Star Parade of Bands"
    07-03-1930 - Robert Robertson - St. Andrews, Scotland - d. 1-16-2001
    actor: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
    07-03-1937 - Tom Stoppard - Zlin, Czechoslovakia
    writer: "Earplay Weekday Theatre"; "The Dissolution of Dominic Boot"

    July 3rd deaths

    01-02-1925 - Larry Harmon - Toledo, OH - d. 7-3-2008
    actor: "The Great Gildersleeve"
    02-25-1913 - Jim Backus - Cleveland, OH - d. 7-3-1989
    comedian: Hubert Updike "Alan Young Show"; Chester Fenwick "Sad Sack"
    03-22-1920 - Ross Martin - Grodek, Poland - d. 7-3-1981
    actor: Soap Opera "Janice Grey"
    03-25-1914 - Forrest Bartlett - d. 7-3-2006
    newscaster: KGER Long Beach, California
    03-27-1921 - Harold Nicholas - Winston-Salem, NC - d. 7-3-2000
    dancer: (The Nicholas Brothers) "Big Broadcast of 1936"; "Ben Bernie
    Show"
    05-07-1906 - Irving Reis - NYC - d. 7-3-1953
    director: "The Free Company"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Brave New World"
    07-28-1901 - Rudy Vallee - Island Pond, VT - d. 7-3-1986
    singer, bandleader, emcee: (The Vagabond Lover) "Fleischmann Hour";
    Rudy Vallee Show"
    08-06-1914 - Dorothy Ashmore - d. 7-3-1989
    women's programming: WCAT Orange, Massachusetts
    10-08-1919 - Gabriel Dell - Barbados, British West Indies - d. 7-3-1988
    actor: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"
    10-23-1918 - James Daly - Wisconsin Rapids, WI - d. 7-3-1978
    actor: "Monitor"
    11-02-1899 - Evelyn MacGregor - Pittsfield, MA - d. 7-3-1967
    singer: " American Melody Hour"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
    11-16-1913 - Jack "Smilin' Jack" Smith - Bainbridge Island, WA - d.
    7-3-2006
    singer: "Breezing Along"; "Prudential Family Hour"; "Jack Smith Show"
    12-22-1885 - Deems Taylor - NYC - d. 7-3-1966
    commentator: "Deems Taylor Music Series"; "Prudential Family Hour";
    "RCA Victor Show"
    12-24-1920 - John Barron - London, England - d. 7-3-2004
    actor: "Dad's Army"; "Brothers In Law"

    Ron

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    Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 22:43:51 -0400
    From: Father Ryan Hall <FatherRyan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Converting Reel to Reel

    My aunt has come across several reel to reel tapes, and has no idea how
    to go about converting them to CD or MP3. I thought I would check here
    on this list to see what people recommended. Please feel free to contact
    me directly if you wish.

    Thanks,

    -Ryan

    Brookings, South Dakota

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    Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 22:44:24 -0400
    From: Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: H. Copland Robinson Jr.

    Along with my colleague Jim Cox, I'm saddened to hear of Cope's passing.
    Although I never met him face-to-face, he was a tremendous help to me during
    the writing of MY NAME'S FRIDAY.

    In mid-1949, when Liggett & Myers became disenchanted with the ratings
    performance of CBS's "Tales of Fatima," it was Cope in his role of account
    exec for L&M's then-agency, Newell-Emmett, who directed the client to NBC's
    "Dragnet," with his personal recommendation as the most desirable program on
    the market.  After about a year, Cope went to work directly for L&M and was
    involved with many of their big OTR accounts: Godfrey, Crosby, Hope,
    "Gunsmoke" and "Dragnet."  He wasn't one to spontaneously tell tales of his
    experiences, but whenever I asked him about a specific event, his
    recollections were enormously valuable.

    We had recently become Facebook friends.  I'll miss him.

    Michael J. Hayde

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