Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #388
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 12/18/2005 2:43 PM

To: [removed]@[removed]

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 388
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: A&A and Ray Kroc                  [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
      12-18 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Burns & Allen help                    [ Rob Chatlin <rchatlin@[removed] ]
      All Roads Lead to [removed]            [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
      Grant County Indiana Shouts Out to L  [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
      Amos and Andy in "King Kong"          [ "Charles P. Adams" <charlesadams1@b ]
      Re: FOTR Convention DVDs and Tapes    [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 17:06:13 -0500
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: A&A and Ray Kroc

    On 12/17/05 4:18 PM [removed]@[removed] wrote:

>     It was Ray Kroc.

>     Elizabeth, is this a, er, crock?!

    Kroc himself was fond of telling this story, and it appears in his
    autobiography. However, it doesn't hold up under investigation -- while
    he did work briefly as a pianist at WEBH, the station where Correll and
    Gosden got their first real break in radio, he had nothing to do with
    auditioning talent. Correll and Gosden were actually hired in the spring
    of 1925 by Robert Boniel, who was the WEBH station manager, and their
    skill with song and patter were impressive enough to land them a
    better-paying job a few months later at WGN. So while it's a cute story,
    I'm afraid it's another case of a famous man embroidering the facts to
    make his own legend a bit more compelling.

    I do like the hamburgers, though. A fatal weakness, in fact.

    Elizabeth

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    Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 17:06:38 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-18 births/deaths

    December 18th births

    12-18-1864 - S. Parkes Cadman - Wellington, Shropshire, England - d.
    7-12-1936
    preacher: "National Radio Pulpit"
    12-18-1885 - J. Anthony Smythe - San Francisco, CA - d. 3-20-1966
    actor: "Carefree Carnival"; Henry Barbour "One Man's Family"
    12-18-1886 - Ty Cobb - Narrows, GA - d. 7-17-1961
    baseball great: "Coca Cola Top Notchers"; "Baseball: An Action History"
    12-18-1888 - Gladys Cooper - Lewisham, England - d. 11-17-1971
    actress: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
    12-18-1890 - Edwin H. Armstrong - New York, NY - d. 1-31-1954
    inventor: FM radio
    12-18-1897 - Fletcher Henderson - Cuthbert, GA - d. 12-29-1952
    jazz orchestra leader: "Jubilee"; "Magic Carpet"
    12-18-1908 - Celia Johnson - Ellerker Gate, Richmond, England - d.
    4-26-1982
    actress: "Desert Island Disks"; Read poetry and short stories during
    WWII
    12-18-1910 - Abe Burrows - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-17-1985
    writer: "Abe Burrows Show"; "Danny Kaye Show"; "Duffy's Tavern"
    12-18-1913 - Alfred Bester - New York, NY - d. 9-30-1987
    writer: "Charlie Chan"; "Nick Carter, Master Detective"; "The Shadow"
    12-18-1913 - Lynn Bari - Roanoke,  VA - d. 11-20-1989
    actress: "Dan Carson"
    12-18-1915 - Bill Zuckert - New York, NY - d. 1-23-1997
    actor: Detective. Lieutenant. Parker "Crime and Peter Chambers"
    12-18-1916 - Betty Grable - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-2-1973
    actress: "Hollywood Showcase"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "So You Want
    to Lead a Band"
    12-18-1917 - Ossie Davis - Cogdell, GA - d. 2-4-2005
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Story Hour"
    12-18-1918 - Danny Simon - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-26-2005
    writer: (Brother of Neil)  "The Milton Berle Show"
    12-18-1918 - Hal Kanter - Savannah, GA
    writer: "The Beulah Show"
    12-18-1919 - Ralph Levy - Phildelphia, PA - d. 10-15-2001
    director: "Burns and Allen"

    December 18th deaths

    01-14-1915 - Mark Goodson - Sacramento, CA - d. 12-18-1992
    producer, director: "Portia Faces Life"; "Stop the Music"
    03-15-1910 - Nick Stewart - New York, NY - d. 12-18-2000
    actor: "Hollywood Newsreel of the Air"
    05-09-1923 - Connie Russell - New York, NY - d. 12-18-1990
    vocalist: "The Dave Garroway Show"
    06-14-1919 - Sam Wanamaker - Chicago, IL - d. 12-18-1993
    actor: Ellis Smith "The Guiding Light"; "Lone Journey"
    06-25-1903 - Anne Revere - New York, NY - d. 12-18-1990
    actress: "Cavalcade of America"
    10-07-1926 - Diana Lynn - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-18-1971
    actress: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    10-11-1897 - Leo Reisman - Boston, MA - d. 12-18-1961
    conductor: "Sheaffer Revue"; "Johnny Presents"; "Your Hit Parade"
    12-01-1898 - Cyril Ritchard - Syndey, Australia - d. 12-18-1977
    actor: "Best Plays"; "United States Steel Hour"; "NBC Star Playhouse"
    xx-xx-xxxx - Ethel Intropidi - d. 12-18-1946
    actress: Phyllis Welby "Pretty Kitty Kelly"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:11:55 -0500
    From: Rob Chatlin <rchatlin@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Burns & Allen help

    Hi gang,
    I'm looking for the title/air date of an episode of Burns and Allen
    with a Texas oilman who goes about bragging about the "bigger and
    betterness" of Texas.
    I'm pretty sure the episode culminates at a cocktail party.

    thanks,

    rob

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    Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 22:22:42 -0500
    From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  All Roads Lead to [removed]

    I can remember seeing Benny Bell, as a VERY old man, doing the "Shaving
    Cream" song, on THE UNCLE FLOYD SHOW (the subject here, periodically, of
    some conversation)--

    In the early 1980s!

    (Almost as odd, as seeing the Coney Island strong man, of the '30s, on
    THE JOE FRANKLIN SHOW, in the late '70s, or a few years [removed])

    I may be thinking of a Professor Irwin Corey apprearance, but I think
    the FLOYD SHOW had to bleep the song!

    And, to keep this on topic--

    :-)

    Did the Professor, Irwin Corey, ever appear on radio?

    Best, Jim Burns

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    Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 23:58:44 -0500
    From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Grant County Indiana Shouts Out to Laura Leff

    Another "boo" to the post office for snubbing Jack on this year's stamp
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    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 02:13:23 -0500
    From: "Charles P. Adams" <charlesadams1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Amos and Andy in "King Kong"

    Having just seen the new Peter Jackson remake of "King Kong" I noticed a
    Times Square billboard advertising "Amos and Andy" sponsored by Pepsodent
    and I was just wondering if any of the A&A experts here can tell me if they
    got this right or not? I know that Rinso detergent was the sponsor most
    associated with the show on radio but perhaps since this takes place earlier
    in the Depression maybe Pepsodent was in fact an earlier sponsor.

    Seems like a controversial sponsor to pick (if it wasn't an actual
    historical sponsor) with Amos and Andy given the stereotype of blacks having
    bright white teeth in those days.

    Given Jackson's obsession with detail though I suspect he wouldn't go to all
    the trouble of sticking something like this in without having a point behind
    it. It goes by so quickly most people wouldn't even notice it either way.

    I also enjoyed the little inside joke of the movie producer trying to get
    "Fay" to do his little safari picture but she's already doing a film for
    "Cooper over at RKO"  (Fay, of course, referring to Fay Wray from the
    original "King Kong" directed by Cooper at RKO).

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    Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 16:42:12 -0500
    From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: FOTR Convention DVDs and Tapes

    I just finished editing the FOTR Convention DVDs. Orders started
    shipping on Saturday and the balance will go out Monday and Tuesday.

    If anyone has not ordered and is interested in DVD from this past
    years convention or from any of the conventions since 2002, you can
    find an order form on our web site.
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    On the main home page near the top, you will find a link to the order
    forms. There is also an order form for the Anniversary DVD.

    Our regular production business has just been very busy since October
    and it has taken me a little longer to get them finished than I
    planned. But now that the master are made, I can get orders out in a
    day from the time they are received.

    For those of you that already order and were wondering where the DVDs
    were, I apologize for the delay, but everyone should get their order
    by the end of this week unless the mails slow things down.

    Fred
    Check us out for old time radio & TV shows & Movie Serials
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