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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 266
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  10-1 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Adventures of Maisie                  [ "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed] ]
  Leatherneck Jamboree                  [ "HARLAN ZINCK" <zharlan@[removed]; ]
  another death                         [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
  JFK Assassination                     [ "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed]; ]
  Bill Murtough                         [ "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@m ]
  Re: Harlem Hospitality Club           [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
  Re: JFK Assassination                 [ Neal Ellis <bstenor@[removed]; ]
  Yiddish radio                         [ Steve Carter <scarter2@[removed]; ]
  Anyone Have The Mercury Theatre's 18  [ "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed]; ]
  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
  RIP George Balzer - 1915 - 2006       [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
  Dale White Remembered                 [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:35:15 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  10-1 births/deaths

October 1st births

10-01-1889 - Ralph W. Sockman - Mount Vernon, OH - d. 8-29-1970
preacher: "National Radio Pulpit"
10-01-1890 - Stanley Holloway - London, England - d. 1-30-1982
actor, singer: "Music As You Like It"
10-01-1893 - Faith Baldwin - d. 3-18-1978
novelist: Guest on "The Second Mrs. Burton"
10-01-1898 - Curtiss Arnall - Cheyenne, WY - d. 9-22-1964
actor: Buck Rogers, "Buck Rogers"
10-01-1899 - Rupert LaBelle - d. 8-9-1972
actor: Rufus Kane "Story of Joan and Kermit"
10-01-1903 - George Coulouris - Manchester, England - d. 4-25-1989
actor: Hugh Drummond "Bulldog Drummond"; Frank Harrison "As the Twig
Is Bent"
10-01-1904 - Vladimir Horowitz - Kiev, Ukraine, Russia - d. 11-5-1989
piano virtuoso: "GuestStar"; "Pictures At An Exhibition"
10-01-1905 - Wallace Magill - d. 8-xx-1973
producer, director: "The Telephone Hour"
10-01-1909 - Everett Sloane - NYC - d. 8-6-1965
actor: Frank Kennelly, "21st Precinct"; Alfred Drake "This Is Nora
Drake"
10-01-1910 - Bonnie Parker - Rowena, TX - d. 5-23-1934
outlaw, murderess: "Gang Busters"
10-01-1914 - Donald Wollheim - NYC - d. 11-2-1990
science fiction writer: "Dimension X"
10-01-1921 - James Whitmore - White Plains, NY
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-01-1926 - George Peppard - Detroit, MI - d. 5-8-1994
actor: "MGM Air View"
10-01-1927 - Tom Bosley - Chicago, IL
host: "Sears Adventure Theatre"
10-01-1935 - Julie Andrews - Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England
singer: "Music As You Like It"; "Heartbeat of Broadway"

October 1st deaths

01-03-1897 - Dorothy Arzner - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-1-1979
film director: "You Were Meant to be a Star"
02-03-1890 - Larry MacPhail - Cass City, MI - d. 10-1-1975
baseball executive: "Information, Please"; "Bill Stern Colgate Sports
Newsreel"
02-12-1898 - Roy Harris - Lincoln County, Oklahoma Territory - d.
10-1-1979
composer: "New York Philharmonic"; "Comtemporary Composers Concerts"
02-27-1894 - Frank Munn - The Bronx, NY - d. 10-1-1953
singer (The Golden Voice of Radio) Paul Oliver "Palmolive Hour"
03-13-1953 - Milwaukee Braves - d. 10-1-1965
Only franchise in the history of sport never to have had a losing season
04-01-1907 - Stanley Joseloff - d. 10-1-1989
writer: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
04-27-1898 - Ludwig Behelmans - Meran, Austria-Hungary - d. 10-1-1962
author, panelist: "Author, Author"
05-17-1878 - Conway Tearzle - New York NY - d. 10-1-1938
narrator: "Streamlined Shakespeare"
06-21-1900 - Jack Arthur - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-1-1980
singer, emcee: "Echoes of New York"; "Family Time"; "Jack Arthur Show"
06-26-1900 - Richard Crooks - Trenton, NJ - d. 10-1-1972
singer: "Voice of Firestone"
07-26-1911 - Buddy Clark - Dorchester, MA - d. 10-1-1949
singer: "Your Hit Parade"; "New Carnation Contented Hour"
09-16-1921 - Korla Pandit (Juan Rolando) - St. Louis, MO- d. 10-1-1998
organ: "Chandu the Magician", "Jubilee"
09-26-1901 - Donald Cook - Portland, OR - d. 10-1-1961
actor: Dr. Allison "My Son Jeep"; Charlie "Charlie and Jessie"
10-25-1918 - Chubby Jackson - NYC - d. 10-1-2003
bassist: (Woody Herman Band) "The Woody Herman Show"
10-30-1918 - William N. Burch - d. 10-1-2005
producer: "Truth or Consequences"; "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"
12-01-1911 - Walter Alston - Venice, OH - d. 10-1-1984
baseball manager: "Tops In Sports"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 00:35:43 -0400
From: "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Adventures of  Maisie

  Have been listening to some Adventures of Maisie episodes and was
wondering if there are others that like the show as much as I do. Ann
Sothern in my book is one of the best female comediennes around back in the
old time radio days but her or her series is not mentioned much in OTR
circles. I compare it to shows like Life of Riley that never are mentioned
in the same breath as Fibber McGee and Molly, Amos N' Andy and Great
Gildersleeve.
Andrew Godfrey

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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 00:36:43 -0400
From: "HARLAN ZINCK" <zharlan@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Leatherneck Jamboree

Ed Carr writes:

is there anyone familiar with "leatherneck jamboree" or "harlem hospitality
club"

"Leatherneck Jamboree" was a 1950s public service show sponsored by the US
Marine Corps. A typical quarter-hour musical show, it had a country-western
flair (performers included Faron Young, Cowboy Copas, George Jones, Ferlin
Husky, Justin Tubb, and others) and was similar to "Navy Country Hoedown,"
"Country Music Time" sponsored by the US Air Force, and "Town and Country
Time" for the US Army. The 16" discs were distributed free to local stations
and were designed to promote military recruitment. Some writing on a few
discs at hand indicate 1958 play dates, but that doesn't necessarily mean
anything in terms of when they were actually produced.

Some quick research indicates a show titled "Harlem Hospitality Club" aired
on Sunday afternoons at 2:00 on Mutual in 1947, but that's all I can tell
you at the moment. (I do have a vague memory of someone on this list
mentioning something about a similarly titled syndicated show for a coffee
company being aired around the same time period, but my memory isn't what it
used to [removed])

Harlan Zinck
First Generation Radio Archives

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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 09:23:54 -0400
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  another death

Hi folks,

Sadly I've learned of another death today. Ted Theodore passed away on
September 6. Ted regularly attended the SPERDVAC and FOTR conventions until
the last couple of years. His afterhours margarita parties he hosted in his
hotel room at the conventions were a gathering place where convention goers
gathered to discuss the events of the day and renew old friendships and form
new ones. (That's where Bobb Lynes and I got to know the etherman, Derek
Teague.)  Old time radio has lost another friend.

Barbara

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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 09:24:49 -0400
From: "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  JFK Assassination

Regarding Bob Watson's inquiry:

Not quite OTR, but I hope folks will endulge me this once.  Was
the CBS radio coverage of the JFK assassination a simucast of the
CBS TV coverage? Or did the radio news staff do the reporting?<

Thank goodness it was close enough to the OTR days that it was
still an astute, capable CBS News staff that did the coverage
with radio getting its own special attention, unlike the mess we
hear on CBS Radio today where they are cutting in and out of CBS
TV audio - the Mid-East wars come to mind.

That isn't to say that at a news conference, perhaps, or the
funeral, that radio used its own microphones at those events ...
they probably picked up the raw TV audio for that. But they had
their own CBS (News) Radio reporters anchoring and reporting from
the scene(s) or the reporter would do double-duty with reports
for both the TV and radio sides.

As you probably know, Alan Jackson broadcast the first bulletin
of the assassination attempt on CBS Radio ... and the word of
President Kennedy's death ... I believe Dallas Townsend and Neil
Strawser also were anchors at various times through the next
several days.

Bill Moyers has been quoted (and I've heard him say) that he
first heard the news of the president's death (as he flew in a
small plane up from Austin) in a report by Robert Trout. I don't
know the time frame, but if that is true, it was sometime after
Alan Jackson had spent more than an hour on the air anchoring the
CBS Radio coverage.

Bob Cockrum

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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 09:24:00 -0400
From: "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@[removed];
To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Bill Murtough
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I think that everyone in old time radio will miss Bill Murtough.  I had the
opportunity to get some very useful information from him about CBS on more
than one occasion. His memory
of the vintage days of broadcasting was truly remarkable, and his thoughts,
here on the
DIGEST, will be greatly missed.
Tom Heathwood - Heritage Radio Theatre

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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 12:20:25 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Harlem Hospitality Club

Ed Carr asked about the Harlem Hospitality Club:

It was an audience participation show coming from the Savoy Ballroom in
Harlem hosted by Willie Bryant, who was a composer, singer and band
conductor in his own right. It was heard over Mutual as a daily program
(Mon-Fri) in early 1947. In May it moved to a weekly program. While it
had a number of musical guests from the likes of Sarah Vaughn and
others, it was like other audience participation shows that asked the
guests about humorous incidents that happened to them. In 1948 it was
picked up for transcription by WNEW.

The name of the show was later changed to "Hospitality Club."  It was
one of the few national shows dedicated to Negroes in the forties and in
fact won MBS several humanitarian awards for its efforts in programming
this type of series.

Bryant went on to host a disc jockey style program in 1948 over WHOM
radio - "After Hour Swing Session"

Hope this helps.

Jim Widner

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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 12:20:49 -0400
From: Neal Ellis <bstenor@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: JFK Assassination
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No, the radio coverage was completely different.  Alan Jackson was the first
anchor for the coverage and was on for most of Friday.  Most of the coverage
from CBS radio and tv are in circulation.  In fact, I played some of the tv
coverage during my presentation at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention a
few weeks ago.
  Neal Ellis
  Vintage TV & Radio News
  [removed]

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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 12:21:59 -0400
From: Steve Carter <scarter2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Yiddish radio

I'm , listening to a discussion about Yiddish Theater on WBAI right now.
There is a little bit in it about old time Yiddish radio as well as a
couple commercials from the day being played.
Here is the link. Scroll down to The Next Hour Oct !, 2006. They keep
things up for a couple weeks:
[removed]
Steve

[ADMINISTRIVIA: Don't forget to check out Max Schmid's Golden Age of Radio
show while you're there.  --cfs3]

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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 15:30:03 -0400
From: "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed];
To: Old-Time Radio Mailing List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Anyone Have The Mercury Theatre's 18th
 Broadcast?

I have Mercury Theatre Broadcast #16 ("Around The World In 80 Days")
and #17 (the world-infamous Panic Broadcast, "The War Of The Worlds"),
and I'd LOVE to have the 18th, to "bracket" the "WOTW" broadcast.

I don't even know what the 18th broadcast IS, let alone where to get
it. Did they even MAKE an 18th broadcast, or did the WOTW put them
out of business immediately?

Can anyone tell me where I might obtain the Mercury Theatre's 18th
broadcast?

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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 15:30:17 -0400
From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

Hi Friends,
NOTE: Because of the many requests we've received, we are now making "Same
Time, Same Station" available as a free Podcast through iTunes by going to
our new website at: [removed]

Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you may
listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio
Theater," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The Glowing
Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same Station."  Streamed in high-quality audio,
on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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=======================================

SAME TIME, SAME STATION

THE GREEN HORNET REVEALED
(Encore Presentation)

Special and very unique three-part mini-series in which The Green Hornet's
true identity is discovered by not one, but two people and the Britt Reid
learns of his Lone Ranger ancestry. Up till this point only Britt Reid's
valet, Kato knew he was the Green Hornet.

All three episodes star Jack McCarthy as The Green Hornet, Michael Tolan as
Kato, Gilly Shea as Michael Axford, Leonore Allman as Reid's secretary,
Lenore Case and John Todd as Dan Reid

THE GREEN HORNET
Episode 830    10-28-47    "Exposed"

THE GREEN HORNET
Episode 831    11-4-47    "Graft Crosses the Bridge"

THE GREEN HORNET
Episode 832   11-11-47    "Too Hot To Handle"

THE LONE RANGER
Episode 1534 11-7-47 "Union Pacific" Part 1 Special four-part serial Stars
Brace Beemer and John Todd

==================================

HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

THE FAT MAN
(ABC)    10/3/47    "A Window For Murder"
Stars: J. Scott Smart

THE THIN MAN
(MBS)    7/6/47    "The Passionate Palooka"
Stars Les Tremayne and Claudia Morgan.

JIM AMECHE - STORY TELLER
(WGN Chicago)    From the early '50's.

EXTRA - BBC's MONTY PYTHON
excerpts from radio

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THE GLOWING DIAL

Suspense - "A Little Piece Of Rope"
originally aired October 14, 1948 on CBS
Starring: Lucille Ball, Barry Kroeger, Paul Frees as the voice of Suspense,
Harlow Wilcox announcing the commercials.
Sponsor: Autolite

 The Abbott & Costello Show - "Lucille Ball's Nylon Stockings"
originally aired November 18, 1943 on NBC
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lucille Ball, Billy Gray, Mel Blanc,
Elvia Allman, Freddie Rich & His Orchestra, Ken Niles announcing.
Sponsor: Camel Cigarettes

Suspense  - "The Red-Headed Woman"
originally aired November 17, 1949 on CBS
Starring: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Elliot Reid, Betty Lou Gerson, Will
Wright, Paul Frees as the voice of Suspense, Harlow Wilcox announcing the
commercials.
Sponsor: Autolite

My Favorite Husband - "Liz In The Hospital"
originally aired May 27, 1949 on CBS
Starring: Lucille Ball, Richard Denning, Ruth Perrott, Gale Gordon, Bill
Johnstone, Florence Halop, Jerry Hausner, Bob Lemond announcing.
Sponsor: Jell-O

I Love Lucy - "Breaking The Lease" aka "Too Much Noise"
originally recorded February 7, 1952 for CBS (never aired)
Starring: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley, Barbara
Pepper.
Additional narration by Desi Arnaz.
Music by Wilbur Hatch conducting the Desi Arnaz Orchestra.
Sponsor: Phillip Morris

==================================

If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

     Jerry Haendiges

     Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
     The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
     Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 19:04:50 -0400
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  RIP George Balzer - 1915 - 2006

Following is an obituary for George Balzer, legendary writer for The Jack
Benny Program, who apparently died last Thursday.

The coverage is from the Los Angeles Daily News.

The obituary credits him for creating the Si, Sy, Sue and Anaheim, Azuza,
Cucamonga routines.

I recall with great fondess seeing him give a presentation on The Jack Benny
program at my very first Friends of Old Time Radio convention in 1994.  It
wasn't much - as I recall he relied heavily on tapes of classic rountines
which were probably well known to most of the people in the room - but it
was great to be able to hear him talk about how the show was put together
and what it was like to work with the cast.

RIP -

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

[removed]

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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 19:05:01 -0400
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Dale White Remembered

Another sorta-on-topic post, an article about Dale White who played Harlow
on Jack Benny's TV Show from the Deseret News.

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

[removed],1249,650194829,[removed]

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