Subject: [removed] Digest V2008 #271
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Date: 11/26/2008 10:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 271
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      John Michael Hayes 1919-2008          [ Afanofoldradio@[removed] ]
      11-26 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      Re:Weird Circle                       [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
      re: Pinkerton discs and Weird Circle  [ rand@[removed] ]
      Irving Brecher Tribute - Huffington   [ seandd@[removed] ]
      The Weird Circle                      [ Karen Lerner <kareneflerner@[removed] ]
      Re: Weird Circle                      [ Peter Boe <boe5650@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:34:22 -0500
    From: Afanofoldradio@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  John Michael Hayes 1919-2008

    I found this in the Chicago Tribune on [removed]  Michael Hayes, a
    screenwriter nominated for an Academy Award for the movie "Rear  Window" and
    who
    also wrote for the "Sam Spade" and "My Favorite Husband"  radio shows,  died
    at
    the age of 89 in Concord, [removed] on November [removed]  kienzler springfield,
    illinois   _afanofoldradio@[removed]_ (mailto:afanofoldradio@[removed])

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    Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:34:29 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  11-26 births/deaths

    November 26th births

    11-26-1889 - H. I. Phillips - Connecticut - d. 3-15-1965
    writer, composer: "Information Please"
    11-26-1891 - Anne Nichols - Dales Mill, GA - d. 9-15-1966
    writer: "Abie's Irish Rose"
    11-26-1905 - Emlyn Williams - Mostyn, Flintshire, Wales - d. 9-25-1987
    actor: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
    11-26-1907 - Frances Dee - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-6-2004
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    11-26-1907 - Henry "Hot Lips" Levine - London, England - d. 5-6-1989
    trumpeter, conducter: "Chamber Music of Lower Basin Street"; "Strictly
    from Dixie"
    11-26-1908 - Lefty Gomez - Rodeo, CA - d. 2-17-1989
    baseball pitcher: "Information Please"
    11-26-1910 - Cyril Cusack - Durban, South Africa - d. 10-7-1993
    actor: "Great Expectations"
    11-26-1911 - Robert Donley - Carmichaels, PA - d. 1-20-2004
    actor: "Lieutenant Carpenter "Front Page Farrell"
    11-26-1912 - Eric Sevareid - Velva, ND - d. 7-9-1992
    correspondent: "Eric Sevaried and the News"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
    11-26-1913 - Bill Baldwin - Pueblo, CO - d. 11-17-1982
    announcer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Mario Lanza Show"
    11-26-1915 - Earl Wild - Pittsburgh, PA
    pianist: KDKA Pittsburgh; "NBC Symphony Orchestra"
    11-26-1917 - Adele Jergens - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-22-2002
    actor: Carol Curtis "Stand By For Crime"
    11-26-1919 - Frederick Pohl - NYC
    writer: "X-Minus One"
    11-26-1922 - Terry Ryan - Cleveland, OH - d. 5-5-2001
    comedy writer: "Fred Allen Show"
    11-26-1933 - Louis Turenne - Montreal, Canada
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    11-26-1933 - Robert Goulet - Lawrence, MA - d. 10-30-2007
    singer-actor: "Guard Session"; "Voices of Vista"

    November 26th deaths

    01-26-1922 - Michael Bentine - Watford, Hertfordshie, England - d.
    11-26-1996
    comedian: "Goon Show"
    02-04-1909 - Robert Coote - London, England - d. 11-26-1982
    actor: "Campbell Playhouse"
    02-26-1915 - Eddie Gallaher - Washington, [removed] - d. 11-26-2003
    disc jockey: "Moon Dial"; "On a Sunday Afternoon"
    02-28-1879 - Julian Noa - d. 11-26-1958
    actor: Perry White "Advs. of Superman"; Judge Scott "The O'Neills"
    04-03-1913 - Mel Tolkin - Odessa, Russia - d. 11-26-2007
    comedy writer: wrote jokes for Bob Hope
    04-12-1902 - John White - d. 11-26-1992
    country/western singer: Lonesome Cowboy "Death Valley Days"
    05-06-1906 - Mathilde Ferror - d. 11-26-1990
    writer: "Lorenzo Jones"
    05-23-1910 - Benjamin "Scatman" Crothers - Terre Haute, IN - d.
    11-26-1986
    jazz musician: early radio into the 40s
    06-14-1913 - Stanley Black - London, England - d. 11-26-2002
    conductor: BBC Dance Orchestra
    06-18-1885 - Ernie Adams - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-26-1947
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-23-1883 - Albert Warner - Poland - d. 11-26-1967
    co-founder of warner brothers: "Warner Brothers Academy Theatre"
    09-23-1908 - Tiny Bradshaw - Youngstown, OH - d. 11-26-1958
    orchestra leader: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"
    10-15-1898 - Ransom Sherman - Appleton, WI - d. 11-26-1985
    actor: Uncle Dennis "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Hap Hazard "Hap Hazard"
    10-16-1903 - "Wild Bill" Elliott (Gordon Nance) - Pattonsburg, MO - d.
    11-26-1965
    actor: Wild Bill Elliott "Wild Bill Elliott"
    11-19-1905 - Tommy Dorsey - Mahanoy Plane, PA - d. 11-26-1956
    bandleader: "Jack Pearl Program"; "Fame and Fortune"; "Tommy Dorsey
    Show"
    12-01-1904 - Jimmy Lytell - NYC - d. 11-26-1972
    bandleader, clarinetist: "Cavalcade of America"; "Songs by Morton
    Downey"
    12-09-1932 - Bill Hartack - Ebensburg, PA - d. 11-26-2007
    jockey: "Tops in Sports"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:12:01 -0500
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

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    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
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    week and every week!

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    Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:07:58 -0500
    From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re:Weird Circle

    Rick Keating writes about the Weird Circle:

>     I have eight episodes
>     of that series, which based on context clues from some of those episodes, may
>     have been a Canadian series. It appears to have aired from at least 1945 to
>     at least Sept. 29, 1947.

    The Weird Circle was a syndicated radio series recorded at the NBC
    Recording Division recorded in New York City and you can hear many of
    the stable of New York radio actors. Some of the transcription discs
    identify episodes as an NBC Syndication. The earliest premier episode
    appears to have been on July 8, 1943 according to newspapers in the
    Chicago area. At one time, it was thought to have been a ZIV
    syndication, but that doesn't bear up as it is not listed in any of the
    ZIV Archive materials that were provided when the collection was donated
    to Heritage Media in Cincinnati.    It does appear that there are at
    least 78 episodes that exist.

    The series dramatized classic horror and ghost stories of many
    nineteenth century horror writers mostly from France and Great Britain
    including Wilkie Collins, Theophile Gautier, Amelia Edwards, Fitz
    James-O'Brien and others. Very possibly they were chosen as they were in
    public domain by that time.

    Given the quality of the actors and the quality of the adaptations, this
    really was a very good series and worth a listen.

    Jim Widner

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    Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:10:07 -0500
    From: rand@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  re: Pinkerton discs and Weird Circle

    Al asks about the Miss Pinkerton audition discs he has:

>     Why would Radio Recorders press a flubbed version?  Were audition discs as
>     a
>     rule actually broadcast by networks or local radio stations?

    My "Miss Pinkerton" disc is two-sided with matrix numbers 7499 and 7500-D,
    like yours.

    The single sided pressing you have of part 2, matrix 7500, may be a test
    pressing.  You have to remember that generally a side of one of these
    discs was recorded in one "take" - if the performers messed up, they'd
    have to cut the side over again.

    So, the advertising agency or whoever commissioned the audition, may have
    been sent a test pressing of the show and rejected it because of the
    telephone flub.

    The question is whether the side you have, matrix 7500, contains the same
    performance as 7500-D or not.  They could have hauled in all the actors
    again to recut the side or did another take of the side at the time of the
    original recording session.  Or they may have made a dub of the original
    take and gotten the engineer to "dub in" the correct sound effect.  (I'm
    leaning towards the latter, since the "corrected" version has a "D" in the
    matrix number.)

    Audition programs would be broadcast as part of a series if it were picked
    up.  I have an almost complete run of "The Adventures of Frank Race".
    Program 1 in the series is clearly marked "Audition" in the vinyl and it
    uses a slightly different opening and announcer than the other shows in
    the series.

    A company putting together a series for syndication would sometimes record
    an audition, have it pressed up, and send it out to ad agencies and/or
    stations to see if they could sell it.  If they got contracts for a full
    series, they'd haul everyone back into the studio to do recording sessions
    for the series.  It still works the same way in television, but the
    audition or "pilot" might not make it to air since they usually make many
    changes to the show before it goes to series.

    And, in another posting ...

    Rick posts about a show he has called "Weird Circle", where he has some
    episodes from a Radio Spirits release.  The show is sponsored Ogden's
    tobacco and he thinks it may be Canadian.

    I don't know if it's the same series, but NBC syndicated a show called
    "Weird Circle" in the 1940s.  I have a couple of episodes released in a
    Murray Hill lp release in the 1970s taken from the Goldin collection.  The
    episodes are "Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Frankenstein".

    NBC syndicated several radio series, such as "Five Minute Mysteries"; I
    have some discs for one series called "Your Playhouse of Favorites".  On
    the original sleeves for Orthacoustic discs used for many NBC/RCA
    pressings, such as Thesaurus music library discs, they'd advertise the
    availability of their syndicated series, including "Weird Circle".

    The thing I always thought was funny about NBC's syndicated "Weird Circle"
    is that they actually don't use the name of the show in the opening; they
    just include an announcer doing an intro to the episode.  (Something like
    "Out of the past, out of the fog, comes the classic [removed]
    Frankenstein!" with bells, wind and wolf howling in the background.)

    So, I'm assuming the show came with cue sheets and the local announcer
    would do the intro with the name of the show - perhaps it was broadcast
    under different names in local markets.

    _______________
    Randy A. Riddle
    Mebane, NC

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    Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:10:25 -0500
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Irving Brecher Tribute - Huffington Post
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    Online news website The Huffington Post today published an extensive
    remembrance of Irving Brecher, complete with video links to movies and songs
    he wrote.  Didn't notice any audio clips from Life of Riley but interesting
    just the
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    [removed] DoughertySeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:10:44 -0500
    From: Karen Lerner <kareneflerner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Weird Circle
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    With regards to The Weird Circle [removed]

    I don't usually promote Radio Spirits products on the list, but it seems worth
    mentioning that we currently have two collections of this series available:

    Weird Circle - 3 Hour Collector's Edition - CD # 27942 (or Cassette # 27944)
    Episodes Include: The House and the Brain 9-5-43, The Vendetta 9-12-43, The
    Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym 9-19-43, Declared Insane 9-26-43, A Terribly
    Strange Bed 10-3-43, and What Was It? 10-10-43

    Weird Circle - 2 Hours - CD # 50018
    The Ghost"s Touch 9-17-44, The Evil Eye 10-1-44, The Doll 12-24-44, and The
    Shadow 4-15-45

    Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!
    Karen Lerner
    Radio Spirits

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    Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:10:58 -0500
    From: Peter Boe <boe5650@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Weird Circle

    [removed] has the complete series available, some
    78 episodes, most by far of which are very good.

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