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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 170
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Norman Corwin                         [ otrguru@[removed] ]
      Re: Joe Mackey and This Wk in Radio   [ Joemartelle@[removed] ]
      10-27 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:18:32 -0400
    From: otrguru@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Norman Corwin

    The death of Norman Corwin at the age of 101 is sad news for all OTR fans and
    historians. My 37-minute interview with him, recorded in his home on August
    6, 1976 (when he was 66) may be heard anytime at [removed] Just
    go to "Interviews" and click on "Norman Corwin." Mr. Corwin and I were among
    the 1993 inductees to the Radio Hall of Fame. Chuck Schaden

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    Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:18:40 -0400
    From: Joemartelle@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Joe Mackey and This Wk in Radio History
     Oct., 25-29
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    In his recent post, our ever hard-working radio historian, Joe Mackey,
    neglected to mention the name of the Westinghouse engineer, who in 1920 was
    broadcasting music and words from his garage in Wilkinsburg, PA. Therefore, it
     allows me to mention his name. Dr. Frank Conrad. It also gives me an
    opportunity, with Charlie's permission, to shamelessly plug my forthcoming
    book,
     Radio Pro (How to be a real air personality-BearManor Media) In Chapter
    1, Learn from the Masters, there is a detailed account of how Dr. Frank
    obtained records for his broadcasts from the Hamilton Music store in
    Wilkinsburg. In exchange for the records, he gave the music store on-air
    mentions.
    Thereby, Dr. Conrad gave the world one of radio's first advertisers,  and by
    spinning the records on his program became one of radio's first  dee-jays.
    Joe Martelle
    Mesa, CO.

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    Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:18:45 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-27 births/deaths

    October 27th births

    10-27-1890 - Bob Becker - Terryville, SD - d. 8-10-1962
    commentator: "Fireside Chats About Dogs/Pet Parade"
    10-27-1896 - Eric Dressler - NYC - d. 8-12-1978
    actor: "Scattergood Baines"; "Young Widdr Brown"
    10-27-1898 - Kathryn Cravens - Burkett, TX - d. 8-29-1991
    newscaster: "News Through a Woman's Eye"
    10-27-1898 - Richard Carroll - Cambridge, MA - d. 3-11-1959
    writer: "Shorty Bell"
    10-27-1901 - David Stone - Savannah, GA - d. 8-31-1995
    announcer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    10-27-1907 - Mignon Schreiber - Chicago, IL - d. 4-18-1965
    actor: Jennie Fox "Foxes of Flatbush", Mrs. Kransky "Guiding Light"
    10-27-1908 - DeWitt "Snuffy" Jenkins - Harris, NC - d. 4-30-1990
    strings: (Jenkins String Band) "Crazy Water Crystals Barn Dance"
    10-27-1908 - Josephine Antoine - Boulder, CO - d. 10-30-1971
    singer: "Contented Hour"
    10-27-1910 - Jack Carson - Carmen, Canada - d. 1-2-1963
    comedian: "Jack Carson Show"; "New Sealtest Village Store"
    10-27-1911 - Charles R. Callender - Phrae, Thailand - d. 7-26-1987
    sang and played piano on radio
    10-27-1911 - Leif Erickson - Alameda, CA - d. 1-29-1986
    actor: Richard Rhinelander III "My Friend Irma"
    10-27-1914 - Dylan Thomas - Uplands, Swansea, Wales - d. 11-9-1953
    writer: "Life of the Modern Poet"; "Modern Muse"
    10-27-1915 - Albert Albinger - d. 11-29-1982
    newscaster: WKWK Wheeling, West Virginia
    10-27-1918 - Bill Ballance - Peoria, IL - d. 9-23-2004
    talk show host: "Feminine Forum"; "Bill Ballance Show"
    10-27-1918 - Teresa Wright - NYC - d. 3-6-2005
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-27-1920 - Nanette Fabray - San Diego, CA
    singer, actor: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
    10-27-1923 - Peter Bryant - London, England - d. 5-19-2006
    announcer, script editor for BBC Radio
    10-27-1924 - Bonnie Blue - Talawanda, IN
    Singer: "Midwestern Hayride"
    10-27-1924 - Ruby Dee - Cleveland, OH
    actor: "Story of Ruby Valentine"; "Story Hour"
    10-27-1927 - Charles Mullen - d. 4-14-2002
    actor: "The Blue Playhouse"; "Advs. of Archie Andrews"
    10-27-1933 - Floyd Cramer - Campti, LA - d. 12-31-1997
    country pianist: "Country Music Time"; "Country Style [removed]"
    10-27-1939 - John Cleese - Weston-Super-Mare, England
    comedian: Basil Fawlty "Fawlty Towers"

    October 27th deaths

    01-01-1900 - Xavier Cugat - Tirona, Spain - d. 10-27-1990
    bandleader: (King of the Rhumba) "Camel Caravan"
    01-12-1894 - Georges Carpentier - Lens, France - d. 10-27-1975
    boxer: Dempsey vs. Carpentier first boxing match broadcast
    02-13-1917 - Clara Antonetti - d. 10-27-1995
    broadcaster on WTSA Brattleboro, Vermont
    03-05-1900 - Sam Hearn - Jersey City, NJ - d. 10-27-1964
    comedian: Schlepperman "Jack Benny Program, Glamour Manor"
    03-18-1932 - Frank Nagai - Tokyo, Japan - d. 10-27-2008
    singer: "Kohaku Uta Gassen"
    03-21-1919 - Lois Collier - Salley, SC - d. 10-27-1999
    actor: Carol Chandler "Dear John"
    04-22-1921 - Vivian Dandridge - Cleveland, OH - d. 10-27-1991
    writer: "The Beulah Show"
    05-11-1884 - Alma Gluck - Lasil, Romania - d. 10-27-1938
    opera singer: made one radio appearance in 1929
    05-26-1910 - Larry Rhine - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-27-2000
    writer: "Duffy's Tavern"
    05-29-1923 - Winifred Wolfe - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-27-1981
    writer: "Cloak and Dagger"
    06-08-1909 - Leland Frederick Cooley - Oakland, CA - d. 10-27-1998
    writer, emcee: "Andre Kostelanetz Program"; "The Shadow"
    08-26-1907 - Lester Lanin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-27-2004
    bandleader: "Lester Lanin and His Orchestra"; "Here's to Veterans"
    09-20-1911 - Frank De Vol - Moundsville, WV - d. 10-27-1999
    conductor: "Rudy Vallee Drene Show"; "Sealtest Village Store"; "Dinah
    Shore Show"
    09-23-1910 - Elliott Roosevelt - NYC - d. 10-27-1990
    commentary for the Mutual Network (Son of FDR) "Information Please"
    09-24-1929 - Alfred Hudgins - d. 10-27-2004
    disc jockey: "Blues in the Night"
    10-25-1891 - Father Charles Coughlin - Hamilton, Canada - d. 10-27-1979
    commentator, preacher: (The Radio Priest)
    10-29-1910 - Lew Parker - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-27-1972
    actor: John Bickerson "The Bickersons" "Mennen Shave Time with Lew
    Parker"
    11-30-1914 - Charles Hawtrey - Hounslow, Middlesex, England - d.
    10-27-1988
    actor, comedian: Hubert Lane "Just William"
    12-01-1886 - Rex Stout - Noblesville, IN - d. 10-27-1975
    author: (Creator of Nero Wolfe) Debunker of Axis Propaganda "Our
    Secret Weapon"
    12-01-1911 - Randy Merriman - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-27-2005
    actor: "Doctor [removed]"
    12-13-1912 - Herb Sheldon - Connecticut - d. 10-27-1964
    announcer, host: "Honeymoon in New York"; "Luncheon at the Latin
    Quarter"

    Ron

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