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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2012 : Issue 186
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
  12-2 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  12-3 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 19:41:04 -0500
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

Hi Friends,

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 Theatre," John and Larry Gassman's "Same Time Station," Duane
Keilstrup's "Classics and Curios," Charlie St George's "Make Believe
Ballroom Time" and my own "Old Time Radio Classics."  Streamed in
high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at
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Check out our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
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New Updates In our Transcription Disc scans at:
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OLD TIME RADIO CLASSICS

*Tribute to Fred Waring*

IF I COULD LIVE IT OVER
Episode 1 5-2-39 Robert Carl And John Ellers
Transamarican Syndicated Production. Gruen Watch
Host: Walter B. Pitkin
Announcer: Andre Baruch

SO YOU THINK IT'S NEW
Episode 1 5-11-39 "Antiques, Building Rackets"
Narrator: Dr. Wilfred J. Funk (Funk and Wagnalls Dictionary)
Announcer: Andre Baruch
Syndicated by Transamerican. Gruen Watch Company

FRED WARING SHOW
Episode 72 12-27-34 Guests: Kay Thompson and The Girls Choir
Stars: Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians
Features: Rosemary Lane, Priscilla Lane, Tom Waring, Babs And Her Brothers
Announcer: Andre Baruch
CBS Ford Thursdays 9:30-10:00 pm

FRED WARING SHOW
Episode 12 3-21-35 "16th Anniversary Of The Group"
Stars: Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians
Features Kay Thompson and the Girls Choir, Rosemary Lane, Priscilla
Lane, Tom Waring, Stuart Churchill, Roy Atwell.
Announcer: Andre Baruch
CBS Ford Thursdays 9:30-10:30pm
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE

THE NBC UNIVERSITY THEATRE
(NBC) 12/26/48 "Alice In Wonderland" Starring Dinah Shore. A great
full-hour radio adaptation of Lewis Carroll's famed tale.

GABRIEL HEATTER and the NEWS
(MBS) 5/8/45 Mr. Heatter announces V-E Day.
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION

ADVENTURES OF THE ABBOTTS
from 01/23/55 Episode (17) The Royal Purple Scooter.

Next our only Christmas program for this week:
THE JIMMY DURANTE PROGRAM
from 12/24/48 With Alan Young as his partner

We need a little music to balance out the program. So who better than to
provide the extra spark than GINNY SIMMS
We'll hear her from 02/01/46 Episode (19) First Song who's Sorry Now.
Her guest is Red Skelton.

Several weeks ago, Jim Taylor requested many shows from both Suspense
and Escape. We'll hear one of his requests this week.
ESCAPE
from 03/22/53 Episode (175) Pressure.
It stars both Bill Conrad and Hy Averback.
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CLASSICS & CURIOS

"Echoes of Songs and Laughter"

Episode 56

"BUTTON UP YOUR OVERCOAT" -- CLASSIC SONGS OF WINTER

Well it's almost the Christmas season and time for classic winter songs
of cold weather, snow, and keeping warm. A few of my favorites include
1950's "Looks Like a Cold, Cold Winter" by Bing Crosby, "Button Up Your
Overcoat" by Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest, "The Skater's Waltz (in
Swingtime)" by Bob Crosby (originally on a V-Disc recording), and "Happy
Holiday" by Bing Crosby from the wonderful 1942 film "Holiday Inn." I
especially love songs like "Baby It's Cold Outside" by Margaret Whiting
and Johnny Mercer, "Snow" by Bing, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and
Vera Ellen from the 1954 movie "White Christmas," and "Sleigh Ride" by
Jo Stafford and The Pied Pipers. More great snow songs are "Winter
Wonderland" by Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers (on a radio broadcast),
"Let It Snow" by Frank Sinatra and The Pied Pipers, 1959's "I've Got My
Love to Keep Me Warm," by Dean Martin, and "Frosty the Snowman" by Gene
Autry. And Gene and Rosemary Clooney also bring cute snow song curios
like "What If It Doesn't Snow on Christmas" and "Suzy Snowflake,"
respectfully. Les Brown provides our opening and closing theme with his
famous 1946 instrumental version of "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm."

Back in my early teens in Nebraska my parents often took me to Omaha's
Orpheum Theater to enjoy stage shows that featured great bands, such as
those of Sammy Kaye, Gene Krupa, Horace Heidt, and others, Frankie Carle
among them. Frankie was known as "The Wizard of the Keyboard" and became
very well known while with Horace Heidt's band and even became co-leader
of that orchestra. He later formed his own band in 1947 and his daughter
Marjorie Hughes became the lead female vocalist. I can still hear the
band at the Orpheum playing Frankie's theme "Sunrise Serenade," one of
his several big hits in the 1940's and 1950's including "Oh, What It
Seemed to Be." Frankie's delightful winter song on this show is "Little
Jack Frost Get Lost" sung by Marjorie.

Several stars on our show have a history of performing together: Dick
Haymes with Helen Forrest on recordings and on their CBS radio show from
1944 to 1947 and Margaret Whiting with long time friend and mentor
Johnny Mercer. Then come wonderful The Pied Pipers: Frank Sinatra with
Jo Stafford and The Pied Pipers and Johnny Mercer with The Pipers.
Sinatra harmonized well with The Pipers after his experience at the
start of his career with The Hoboken Four in 1935. Jo was part of the
original 8 member group which, after reducing their number to 4 when
Tommy Dorsey could only afford that many, became famous with Dorsey and
later on Capitol records. Band leader Paul Weston observed that The
Pipers were ahead of their time. He said that "Their vocal arrangements
were like those for a sax section and a brass section, and they would
interweave, singing unison or sometimes sing against each other's parts.
It was revolutionary and we'd never heard anything like it." That
comment led Tommy Dorsey to hire the group to sing on the Raleigh Kool
cigarettes program. All in all the group had some 13 charted hits with
Dorsey, 9 of them with Sinatra. When Johnny Mercer's Capitol records
signed The Pipers in 1945, 12 more hits resulted. Interestingly, that
Capitol connection came about indirectly because Tommy's temper led him
to fire one of the group for giving him wrong directions at a train
station in Portland, Oregon. That in turn led The Pipers to quit the
Dorsey band together in a display of unity.

Spring may still be in our hearts, but the season is winter, and winter
is the reason to sing on this episode. Winter's gentle snowflakes signal
the advent of the Christmas season and its reason: the birth of Jesus
Christ, when "the mountains and hills will break forth with shouts of
joy ... and all of the trees of the field will clap their hands." (Is.
56) Time to toss some logs on the fire, turn on the old phonograph to
spin some golden records, and rejoice in the beauty of the Lord's wintry
musical majesty as we set the scene for Christmas.
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Make Believe Ballroom Time

Episode 5

In December 1946 Tommy Dorsey was one of eight big band leaders who shut
down their bands for good. They believed the big band era had come to a
close. Two tears later, Tommy Dorsey began a come-back aimed at "the
kids of America who deserved a chance to dance to the big bands again".
This program starts with the Dorsey band of 1946 with Tommy broadcasting
from Los Angeles with his special [removed] Ellington. The program
goes on to 1953 with the Dorsey band "alive and well" in New York City
broadcasting from The Stattler Hotel on NBC. You'll find all this with
facts about Tommy and stats about the year [removed] you know the
microwave oven was introduced at that time? Check us out on " It's Make
Believe Ballroom Time"
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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, 2 Dec 2012 19:42:00 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  12-2 births/deaths

December 2nd births

12-02-1880 - Fred A. Sullivan - Zionsville, IN - d. 1-2-1951
actor: Kirby Willoughby "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"; Mitchell Frazier
"Story of Mary Marlin"
12-02-1889 - Paul Althouse - d. 2-15-1954
tenor: WEAF New York, New York
12-02-1893 - William Gaxton - San Franciso, CA - d. 2-2-1963
actor, singer: "Broadway Showtime"
12-02-1895 - Jesse Crawford - Woodland, CA - d. 5-27-1962
organist: "Paramount Publix Hour"; "Counterspy"
12-02-1895 - Warren William - Aitkin, MN - d. 9-24-1948
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-02-1898 - Peter Goo Chong - Miu, China - d. 1-15-1985
actor: "Collier's Hour"; "Eddie Cantor Show"; "This Day Is Ours"
12-02-1899 - John Barbirolli - London, England - d. 7-29-1970
conductor: "New York Philharmonic"
12-02-1900 - Joe Rosenfield - Tennessee - d. 11-22-1987
talkshow host: "Happiness Exchange"
12-02-1902 - Howard Koch - NYC - d. 8-17-1995
writer: "War of the Worlds"
12-02-1906 - Donald Woods - Brandon, Manitoba, Canada - d. 3-5-1998
actor: Leslie Foster "Those We Love"; "Woolworth Hour"
12-02-1908 - Hy Gardner - NYC - d. 6-17-1989
columnist, author, host: Celebrity Interviews
12-02-1910 - Robert Paige - Indianapolis, IN - d. 12-21-1987
actor: "Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Lux
Radio Theatre"
12-02-1910 - Sidney Marshall - d. 12-15-1977
writer: "Man Called X"; "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
12-02-1913 - Jerry Sohl - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-4-2002
author: "X Minus One"
12-02-1913 - Morton Wishengrad - d. 2-12-1963
writer: "The Cavalcade of America"; "The Eternal Light"
12-02-1914 - Ray Walston - New Orleans, LA - d. 1-1-2001
actor: "The Woolworth Hour"
12-02-1914 - Tracy Roberts - Little Falls, NY - d. 2-8-2002
actor: "Suspense"; "Have Gun, Will Travel"
12-02-1915 - Adolph Green - NYC - d. 10-23-2002
songwriter: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
12-02-1915 - Paul Mann - Toronto, Canada - d. 9-24-1985
actor: George Kirby "Advs of Topper"; Perry "Quiz" Quisinberry
"Passport for Adams"
12-02-1916 - Charlie Ventura - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-17-1992
tenor sazophonist: "Spotlight Bands"; "Gene Krupa and His Orchestra"
12-02-1916 - John Bentley - Birmingham, England - d. 8-13-2009
singer, announcer: Radio Luxembourg
12-02-1917 - Sylvia Syms - NYC - d. 5-10-1992
actor: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Broadway Is My Beat"; "Suspense"
12-02-1918 - Ezra Stone - New Bedford, MA - d. 3-3-1994
actor: Henry Aldrich "Aldrich Family"
12-02-1918 - Milton Delugg - Los Angeles, CA
orchestra leader: "Music Depreciation"
12-02-1921 - Rita Lynn - Louisiana - d. 1-21-1996
actor: "Dimension X"
12-02-1923 - Danny Stiles - Newark, NJ - d. 3-11-2011
disk jockey: WNYC, WNSW, WJDM, WPAT
12-02-1923 - Maria Callas - NYC - d. 9-16-1977
opera singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"
12-02-1924 - Margaret Fuller - Lisbon, Portugal - d. 11-28-2006
actor: "The Guiding Light"
12-02-1925 - Julie Harris - Grosse Pointe Park MI
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

December 2nd deaths

01-06-1911 - Joey Adams - Brooklyn, NY - d. 12-2-1999
host: "Rate Your Mate"
01-17-1908 - Marjorie Anderson - Spokane, WA - d. 12-2-1945
actor: Margo Lane "The Shadow"
01-27-1924 - Sabu - Mysore, India - d. 12-2-1963
actor: "Confidential Close-Ups"
02-02-1908 - Cal Tinney - Pontotoc County, OK - d. 12-2-1993
actor: Binnacle Barnes "Robinson Crusoe, Jr."
02-21-1889 - Russell Bankson - d. 12-2-1975
news commentator: KHQ Spokane, Washington
02-24-1916 - Willie Gilbert - Cleveland, OH - d. 12-2-1980
writer: "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
02-25-1940 - Ron Santo - Seattle, WA - d. 12-2-2010
color commentator for the Chicago Cubs
03-02-1917 - Desi Arnaz - Santiago, Cuba - d. 12-2-1986
actor, bandleader: Ricky Ricardo "I Love Lucy"; "Bob Hope Show"
04-16-1904 - Fifi D'Orsay - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - d. 12-2-1983
singer: "Folies De Paris"; "This Is Your Life"
05-08-1901 - Katherine Raht - Chattanooga, TN - d. 12-2-1983
actor: Alice Aldrich "Aldrich Family"; Margaret Allen "Against the
Storm"
05-09-1953 - Richard Vernon - Memphis, TN - d. 12-2-2006
opera singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"
06-29-1903 - John Stanley - London, England - d. 12-2-1982
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes" Jeff Brady "Romance
of Helen Trent"
08-19-1918 - Giles Cooper - Carrickmines, Ireland - d. 12-2-1966
writer: "Thieves Rush In"
08-28-1929 - Roxie Roker - Miami, FL - d. 12-2-1995
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
11-14-1900 - Aaron Copland - NYC - d. 12-2-1990
composer: "Document A/777"
12-01-1910 - Alicia Markova - London, England - d. 12-2-2004
ballerina: BBC Interview
12-05-1903 - Fred Van Deventer - Tipton, IN - d. 12-2-1971
newscaster, panelist: "Vandeventer and the News"; "Twenty Questions"
12-13-1887 - Alvin York - Pall Mall, TN - d. 12-2-1964
world war I hero: "We the People"; "What Are We Fighting For?"
12-31-1930 - Odetta - Birmingham, AL - d. 12-2-2008
singer: "Voices of Vista"

Ron

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Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 19:42:06 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  12-3 births/deaths

December 3rd births

12-03-1857 - Joseph Conrad - Kiev, Russian Empire - d. 8-3-1924
author: Some of his works were adapted for radio
12-03-1873 - Atwater Kent - Burlington, VT - d. 3-4-1949
inventer and radio manufacturer: Maker of Atwater Kent radios
12-03-1889 - Ferdinand Munier - San Diego, CA - d. 5-27-1945
actor: Rene Michon "Count of Monte Cristo"
12-03-1897 - George Riley - Rochester, NY - d. 5-30-1972
comedian: "Furlough Fun"
12-03-1897 - Reed Brown, Jr. - Texas - d. 7-26-1962
actor: Capt. Gordon Wright "Roses and Drums"
12-03-1900 - Lester Matthews - Nottingham, England - d. 6-6-1975
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-03-1902 - Bill Slater - Parkersburg, WV - d. 1-25-1965
emcee: ""Uncle Jim's Question Bee"; "Twenty Questions"; "Dunninger Show"
12-03-1902 - Bob Beaupre - d. 12-xx-1985
newscaster: WJOY Burlington, Vermont
12-03-1904 - Roberto Marinho - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - d. 8-6-2003
Owner of Brazil's Organizaces Globo radio
12-03-1905 - Rosaline Greene - Hempstead, NY - d. 12-17-1987
host, singer: "The Hour of Charm"; "Show Boat
12-03-1907 - Connee Boswell - Kansas City, MO - d. 10-11-1976
singer: (The Boswell Sisters) "Kraft Music Hall"; "Chesterfield Supper
Club"
12-03-1908 - Anna Sten - Kiev, the Ukraine - d. 11-12-1993
actor: "March of Time"; "Stagedoor Canteen"
12-03-1909 - Dana Suesse - Kansas City, MO - d. 10-16-1987
composer: "Good News of 1938"
12-03-1913 - Bill Green - Massachusetts - d. 3-13-2005
pianist: "Matinee with Bob and Ray"; "Stumpus"
12-03-1915 - Robert H. Forward - San Diego, CA - d. 1-30-2001
director: "And Sudden Death"; "Special All-Star Revue"
12-03-1916 - Rabon Delmore - Elkmont, AL - d. 12-4-1952
guitar, singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
12-03-1916 - Whitfield Connor - Rathdowney, Ireland - d. 7-16-1988
actor: Harry Davis "When a Girl Marries"
12-03-1917 - Kermit Slobb - d. 2-21-2004
writer: "Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy"
12-03-1923 - Frank Guarrera - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-23-2007
operatic baritone: "Metropolitan Opera Audition of the Air"
12-03-1923 - Moyra Fraser - Sydney, Australia - d. 12-13-2009
actor: "As Time Goes By"
12-03-1925 - Dick Noel - NYC - d. 10-xx-1991
announcer, "Lowell Thomas"
12-03-1925 - Ferlin Husky - Flat River, MO - d. 3-17-2011
country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Country Hoedown"
12-03-1927 - Andy Williams - Wall Lake, IA - d. 9-25-2012
singer: "Andy Williams Sings"; "Bing Crosby Show"
12-03-1927 - Isabelle Lucas - Toronto, Canada - d. 2-24-1997
guest panelist: "Quote-Unquote"
12-03-1927 - Lloyd Barry - NYC
actor: "Big Town"; "The Shadow"; "When A Girl Marries"
12-03-1943 - Jennifer Harmon - Pasadena, CA
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
12-03-1944 - Malcolm Brodrick - NYC
actor: Peter Marriott "The Marriage"

December 3rd deaths

03-13-1914 - Bob Haggart - NYC - d. 12-3-1998
bass: "The Bob Crosby Show"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
03-17-1906 - Michael O'Shea - Hartford, CT - d. 12-3-1973
actor: "Textron Theatre"; "Radio Reader's Digest"; "Philip Morris
Playhouse"
03-21-1915 - Hank D'Amico - Rochester, NY - d. 12-3-1965
clairinetist: "Rumpus Room"; "Saturday Senior Swing"
06-11-1919 - Richard Todd - Dublin, Ireland - d. 12-3-2009
singer: "Rinso-Spry Vaudeville Theatre"; "Your Hit Parade"
06-22-1925 - Basil Beardsley - d. 12-3-1991
disk jockey: WJER Dover, Ohio
06-30-1913 - Harry Wismer - Port Huron, MI - d. 12-3-1967
sportscaster: "Harry Wismer Sports Show"; "Champion Roll Call"
07-08-1934 - Marty Feldman - East London, England - d. 12-3-1982
comedian, writer: "Round the Horne"; "We're In Business"
07-29-1876 - Maria Ouspenskaya - Tula, Russia - d. 12-3-1949
actor: "Towards the Century of the Common Man"; "Treasury Star Parade"
07-29-1922 - Johnny Barricks - d. 12-3-2005
disk jockey: WKAY Glasgow, Kentucky
08-07-1902 - Charles Cornell - Budapest, Hungary - d. 12-3-1993
composer: "Boston Blackie"; "Date with Judy"
08-08-1917 - Ann Francine - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-3-1999
singer: "Hour of Charm"
08-16-1904 - Wesley Beans - d. 12-3-1992
baritone: KFSG Los Angeles, California
08-23-1902 - Carl Hohengarten - St. Louis, MO - d. 12-3-1968
orchestra leader: "Double Everything"; "Knickerbocker Playhouse"
08-30-1926 - Jeff Brown - NYC - d. 12-3-2003
actor: "Little Blue Playhouse"
11-13-1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson - Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 12-3-1894
author: Several of his works adapted for radio
12-05-1918 - Ralph Blizard - Kingsport, TN - d. 12-3-2004
fiddler: At age 12 formed "The Southern Ramblers"; Appeared on many
Tri-cities radio stations

Ron

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