tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30822368194154586492024-03-19T18:58:02.219+10:00Know Old Time RadioThis is an online encyclopedia of personalities of Old Time Radio. It is designed for educational and entertainment purposes.LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-65646881958806069282012-03-05T11:30:00.002+10:002012-03-05T12:46:48.416+10:00The Kingfish Gets a Job on Guam!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyTgtvdhkFAzV2pgXXauEnnTe-CCyf3m9zxX2EViK41uafF-wFLH68w-pARM8k85yP_QgdNVSzksn4gFf2OWdHTA6PVqwDGe8C8MyJbsviHgaCFfGy49bDRgumz1Q9VgZEB-W-aK0PR9o/s1600/guam.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 160px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyTgtvdhkFAzV2pgXXauEnnTe-CCyf3m9zxX2EViK41uafF-wFLH68w-pARM8k85yP_QgdNVSzksn4gFf2OWdHTA6PVqwDGe8C8MyJbsviHgaCFfGy49bDRgumz1Q9VgZEB-W-aK0PR9o/s200/guam.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716237148267036146" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><div style="text-align: justify;">As March 5, 2012, marks one year after I moved here on the island of Guam, I thought about OTR shows that had something to do with this lovely Tropical paradise.<span style="text-align: left; "> </span></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; ">Guam was the only U.S. jurisdiction that was completely occupied by an Axis power during World War II. Our liberation from the Japanese forces by the U.S. Navy, Marines, and Army in 1943 had numerous remote news broadcasts from the island. One interview of Marine Corps private named Staff was quite monumental and poignant.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; ">Most OTR fans know about these audio documentaries. Even Guam public school teachers, who are required to take a course in Guam history at the University of Guam, MUST listen to those broadcasts by the NBC, CBS, Mutual, and Blue networks of the liberation.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; ">So I had to do something different: </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span style="text-align: left; ">One thing where Guam really gets shortchanged is in entertainment. I don’t mean we lack in it… Oh, no. We have NBC, CBS, ABC, and Fox local TV affiliates. We lost our CW affiliate last year and we never had MyTV. We have all the cable stations.</span>We have three cinemas showing the latest films from Hollywood and Manila. We see movies from Hollywood almost one day before anyone else on the U.S. mainland, since we are two time zones west of the International Dateline.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; ">We only have three AM radio stations but we get a constant dose of radio drama. One of those stations even airs complete OTR shows with unedited original commercials…</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; ">No… The problem is what the entertainment industry thinks of Guam.</p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNh0WGISkyG50fzPeAHM1Dz-Oxv0PK3j_0zufS256LBGGRqWoWDc4VhuuyQzxqEcLJMh8cOpwv9SrsJE9nPJj9uyksJ8ZNgS8EEcdtHSvS8MQq5FOckDd0S6MqcFJqS0KYXh0rwSC0jw8/s1600/book.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="text-align: justify;float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 238px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNh0WGISkyG50fzPeAHM1Dz-Oxv0PK3j_0zufS256LBGGRqWoWDc4VhuuyQzxqEcLJMh8cOpwv9SrsJE9nPJj9uyksJ8ZNgS8EEcdtHSvS8MQq5FOckDd0S6MqcFJqS0KYXh0rwSC0jw8/s400/book.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716231833871685138" /></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; ">In the early 1961, a movie was made about a locally popular hero, George Tweed, a U.S. Navy radio man who got stuck here after the Japanese took over in December 1941. His story is told in a book which is available at all Guam bookstores (also check online sources) is called <b>Robinson Crusoe, USN</b>. The movie starred Jeffrey Hunter as Petty Officer Tweed. The problem was that at this time it was impossible to make any movies on the island since the entire place was considered a naval installation (including Andersen Air Force Base). Even to take a pleasure trip to the island require a base pass from the Department of the Navy. So this movie, <b>No Man is an Island</b>, was filmed in the Philippines. The locals in the movie were Filipinos, living their culture and speaking Tagalog. Guam’s culture is much different and the indigenous language is Chamorro. So Guam didn’t really get noticed.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; ">In <b>Good Morning, Vietnam</b>, the harassing Army sergeant major was punished for being so mean to Adrian Cronauer by being sent from Saigon to Guam because, “Nothing ever happens in Guam.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; ">In <b>Look Who’s Talking</b>, children were admonished not to play on the airport conveyor belts as their parents told them, “You might end up going to Guam!”</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; ">And in <b>Matilda</b>, as the little girl’s parents tried to flee from police and FBI agents, her mother shouts, “We’re going to Guam!” As if Guam lacks law enforcement. Ha, ha! We have the Guam Police Department, the Border Patrol, and the FBI. They wouldn’t get far. (They probably wouldn’t make it through Won Pat International Airport!)</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; ">David Letterman was a little nicer about Guam on <b>The Late Show</b>. The question was asked, “What do you know about Guam?” Nobody knew anything. Hey Dave! We watch your show here!</p><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh43ESL9ATQ6eF_HXzw9lSRv1NyGsAr8eIYqGIZDLInY_OiipfmtNifOxcJyXV_LwcvczyIZHVUxBxSaOgMGnZ6mEbl8H4HYIhHg4fqpyEhukIu5lPRhuWBbf5safMrr9VmVUQnVanTqv4/s1600/rexall.jpg"><img style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 218px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh43ESL9ATQ6eF_HXzw9lSRv1NyGsAr8eIYqGIZDLInY_OiipfmtNifOxcJyXV_LwcvczyIZHVUxBxSaOgMGnZ6mEbl8H4HYIhHg4fqpyEhukIu5lPRhuWBbf5safMrr9VmVUQnVanTqv4/s400/rexall.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716232933047874402" /></a></div><div style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; "><div style="text-align: center;"><span><u>Guam still has a Rexall drug store, although it's actually a part of the Good Neighbor Pharmacy chain.</u></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; ">So, we go back 6 ½ decades to <b>Amos ‘n’ Andy</b> on the radio. On March 21, 1954, CBS aired an episode of the popular show in which George “Kingfish” Stevens was unemployed and seemed to be enjoying his freedom. His wife Sapphire did everything she could to find work for her husband. And Sapphire’s mother, who lived with the couple, was a thorn in the Kingfish’s side.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: justify; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span style="text-align: left; ">Well, Sapphire found the perfect job for George. It was as a construction foreman with a government subcontractor on the island of Guam. Sapphire really did her home work. She knew to say “on Guam” instead of “in Guam,” because that’s underground. The job offered a substantial salary, free housing, and both his wife and her mother could come as dependents.</span>Sapphire went o<span style="font-size: 100%; ">n to describe Guam as the largest and southernmost of the Marianas chain. (To which Kingfish made a pun about the A&P chain.) She sighed, “It’s a lovely Tropical paradise.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; ">To be honest, there is one teeny tiny island to the south of Guam, not far from the village of Merizo and it belongs to Guam. It’s Cocos Island and today it’s a theme park for Japanese tourists which is a good place to spend a fortune quickly. Most locals have never been there.</p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp94KAL6sqggDDXCcxHlqNUI5RJQ0bBalDN7mbzt79mSGA3SGnNyHgkmAKq-72UTlaCUrq1-Hnhz6PS76R9eKrAKUYIMPeeOID4Om_t5MW_1BcuELwm5nHXtRe2rJMptllGnOCIRI8OSU/s1600/gosden+correll.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 168px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp94KAL6sqggDDXCcxHlqNUI5RJQ0bBalDN7mbzt79mSGA3SGnNyHgkmAKq-72UTlaCUrq1-Hnhz6PS76R9eKrAKUYIMPeeOID4Om_t5MW_1BcuELwm5nHXtRe2rJMptllGnOCIRI8OSU/s200/gosden+correll.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716234082298676962" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: arial; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp94KAL6sqggDDXCcxHlqNUI5RJQ0bBalDN7mbzt79mSGA3SGnNyHgkmAKq-72UTlaCUrq1-Hnhz6PS76R9eKrAKUYIMPeeOID4Om_t5MW_1BcuELwm5nHXtRe2rJMptllGnOCIRI8OSU/s1600/gosden+correll.jpg"><br /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/AmosAndy286Epspg2Of2/Aa1954-03-21378ConstructionJobInGuam.mp3"> <span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; ">The story is a lot of fun. I’m not going to spoil it and give away the end so here is a link </span> to download and MP3 file of the program. (Click on the radio below to download the show.)</span></a></div></span><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/AmosAndy286Epspg2Of2/Aa1954-03-21378ConstructionJobInGuam.mp3" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 368px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGHGafd0wbWvqvAJ9XUDy4chHh9nDWN2Ne2jabgPHkQywMHbSzPr4okBmMrbWgJjr6bKNZ9BwDJB7oVmEw1KEnYbVYdkJZh1Flzwk_rECfh7mTeSAjeIrMNLhV-hfZmY14ZUiAXp6YBUQ/s400/radio.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716229627053434114" /></a><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left; ">Now for some personal comments: The characters in this story were black and the series has been much maligned by the NAACP for being racist (the actors who played Amos, Andy, and the Kingfish, only two guys—not three, were not black but white). This episode has very little to do with race. These people could be anyone. And, in 1954, it could have been possible for a government subcontractor on Guam to hire a black construction foreman.</span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjng05u0qYbQPeV7JEoflSwudUv7tGKdy1x9JdYhqwO9hUjQWTLYILIuYXpnTfB0nl1H_kNW2VW7I_tqa35gq960AKPLH-wqlkwNW42W-aBTa5YTaiW7jGMQwNGAr3hYaIK81o15Kbyn2s/s1600/guam.gif" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 307px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjng05u0qYbQPeV7JEoflSwudUv7tGKdy1x9JdYhqwO9hUjQWTLYILIuYXpnTfB0nl1H_kNW2VW7I_tqa35gq960AKPLH-wqlkwNW42W-aBTa5YTaiW7jGMQwNGAr3hYaIK81o15Kbyn2s/s400/guam.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716227977342560114" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%;">Actually, Guam’s racism wouldn’t show for another 50 years after this show. Because we are closer to Asia than America, many American store chains on Guam work from cultures in Asia where race, age, sex, and religion are legally discriminated against.</span></span><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left; ">For example, when some black U.S. Air Force personnel tried to get a job as night workers for the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, they were not hired—management even openly bragged about the fact that they weren’t hiring any “niggers.” (Yes, as offensive as that is, they actually said it.) Consequently, we lost 7-Eleven. Maybe they’ll come back someday. We miss Slurpees. Those frozen Cokes and Icees aren’t quite the same thing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; ">By the way, I’m always looking for more entertainment trivia about Guam. I’m not looking for stupidity, like the Congressman who thinks the island is going to tip over because most of us are on one side of it. We are, in fact, almost the same identical size as Singapore. We have 5% of Singapore’s population. If Singapore isn’t sinking, we won’t tip over. Don’t kid us about that. It’s no laughing matter…</span></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; ">You can tease us that our highest speed limit is only 35 miles per hour (and we even have one highway which is partially considered a freeway!) Children riding in the back of a pickup truck must wear safety straps attached to the bed. Those under 12 years of age, who are 4’8” or shorter must ride in a safety seat in the rear of a car (not in the front seat). My fiancée is 4’7”. Fortunately, she is an adult and can ride up front with me. But motorcyclists are not required helmets. And bicyclists can ride in any direction they want on the sidewalk. Tease us about those laws. But not the tipping thing.</p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; ">Because of the time difference, as I finish writing this post, it’s 11:30 AM, March 5, here on Guam, but it’s 5:30 PM, March 4, in California. It was this time five years ago, March 4, 2007, that my dad died peacefully in his sleep at home in Rialto, California. A happy anniversary. And a sad one. </p>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-15667793722004780012012-03-01T10:31:00.006+10:002012-03-05T11:40:14.498+10:00Adventures in Odyssey<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%; ">Welcome me back after a long hiatus! I'm not really sure I can post as regularly as I did over the years. I still have so much to share with everyone. I need to get back to some of the questions on my guest book. If you want something answered quickly, contact me at my </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/loyaltubist" style="font-size: 100%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Facebook page</span>.</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-weight: normal; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">I mentioned that the longest running radio drama was (and still is) <b>Unshackled!</b>, which has been heard throughout the world continually since 1950 (thats over 61 years!) The longest running news program is the <b>CBS World News Round-Up</b> which has been running since the late 1930s and is still heard. And the oldest running radio music show is <b>Music and the Spoken Word</b>, also on CBS, which has been broadcast by station KSL in Salt Lake City (from the Mormon Tabernacle) since 1929. I will write about it later.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div a="" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0WglvjuSrHsBErTT1W8O1BXyyJR5xaiPsPUsVkMFTCNcVn715FJoe56XtQaELFCqeMRcbDcb1-rr726WAtqULfTZGJqOp4ylWLT58yBRRppLzYbohEf9Cfg6kclVeAo3NMEVSRuE21g8/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0WglvjuSrHsBErTT1W8O1BXyyJR5xaiPsPUsVkMFTCNcVn715FJoe56XtQaELFCqeMRcbDcb1-rr726WAtqULfTZGJqOp4ylWLT58yBRRppLzYbohEf9Cfg6kclVeAo3NMEVSRuE21g8/s400/1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714731317183413426" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%; ">The longest running comedy show isn't from Old Time Radio. It was first broadcast on November 21, 1987, which means my older daughter was a year old when it first came on. It's </span><a href="http://www.whitsend.org/" style="font-size: 100%; "><b>Adventures in Odyssey</b></a><span style="font-size: 100%; ">. Sponsored by </span><a href="http://focusonthefamily.com/" style="font-size: 100%; "><b>Focus on the Family</b></a><span style="font-size: 100%; ">, the sitcom is a combination of Old Time Radio, modern technology, old fashioned values, and old time religion, as well as Saturday morning cartoons. Its opening music by John Campbell is reminiscent of Frank Comstock's theme for </span><b style="font-size: 100%; "><a href="http://www.toonopedia.com/rockbull.htm">Rocky and His Friends</a></b><span style="font-size: 100%; ">.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The premise of the show is very simple: Odyssey is a small town in an undisclosed location. We know it isn't near Chicago, Iowa, California, or Colorado. John Avery Whitaker is an entrepreneur who owns an educational book publishing house near Chicago. He also owns a soda fountain in Odyssey called "Whit's End," as everyone calls him Whit. He's very politically conservative and a very interesting and resourceful person. Whit's End has video games and virtual reality exhibits giving the place sort of a science fiction feel, but you know it could happen in the present day.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Whit's main job at the soda fountain is counseling with people of all ages. He's good at it. His wife died a few years ago and he has nothing but time. Whit has two employees: Connie is a high school senior who is 17 going on 35. She's sweet and helpful. But she isn't as competent as she wants to be and she knows it. Eugene is a techie who began working for Whit in college and couldn't seem to quit to find a job in his field after graduation. He did some of the work on the virtual reality stuff in the store. Eugene is a new believer in Christ who sometimes gets a little confused about all kinds of stuff. He's a good friend to all.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The program is enjoyed not only by Christians but also by agnostics and atheists alike. It isn't really that blatantly Evangelical that the unbelievers are turned away. But some of those have actually become Christians by the show. </div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Now one of the interesting parts of the show is that most of the kids, who are played by kids, age and develop as they should. The main roles, such as that of Connie Kendall, who is played by an actress who was born the day before my late sister, never get any older. Actually, I like that. That shows a consistency.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">It should be pointed out that one of the actors presently performing on the show is a veteran of Old Time Radio: <b>Alan Young</b> (born 1919) plays the part of Jack Allen, the antique dealer. I hope to put his biography up here someday. You know, he's going to be 93 this November... I saw him at a concert at the Music Center in Los Angeles about ten years ago and he looked great.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Also, <b>Dave Madden </b>(born 1931), who was in the cast of <b>Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In</b>, plays the part of the window washer and handyman. </div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">PRESENT CAST</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">John Avery Whittaker ..................... Andre Stojko</div><div style="text-align: center;">Connie Kendall .................... Katie Leigh</div><div style="text-align: center;">Eugene Meltsner .................... Will Ryan</div><div style="text-align: center;">Katrina Shanks-Meltsner .................... Pamela Hayden </div><div style="text-align: center;">Bernard Walton .................... Dave Madden</div><div style="text-align: center;">Wooton Bassett .................... Jess Harnell</div><div style="text-align: center;">Jack Allen .................... Alan Young</div><div style="text-align: center;">Announcer .................... Chris Landsdowne-Anthony</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Although the show functions as a ministry of Focus on the Family, there have been some commercial tie-ins with the <b>Chick Fil-A </b>chain.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here is the link for the <b><a href="http://aio-blog.blogspot.com/">Adventures in Odyssey</a></b> 'Blog. There are also cartoons and video games of the series.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4bTBcZ6L0pJ530kG4y4G7r7nwMuErfHak3TPQU4dh9ZwTD-vu7kDbBI-SiohGxv9FKs9_xrpFQOUWVNC3DoQY0aGuOhYXUufMbHzVFoKs7npAsW-5NRVoS4LpOsZz26xg9YbWfFnHe5M/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4bTBcZ6L0pJ530kG4y4G7r7nwMuErfHak3TPQU4dh9ZwTD-vu7kDbBI-SiohGxv9FKs9_xrpFQOUWVNC3DoQY0aGuOhYXUufMbHzVFoKs7npAsW-5NRVoS4LpOsZz26xg9YbWfFnHe5M/s400/2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714753038169403170" /></a><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this picture we see Connie, Eugene, and Whit. (Of course, they're better if you just imagine them.)</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-3170443784839911982010-10-01T19:08:00.003+10:002010-10-01T19:58:27.582+10:00Dudley Manlove (1914-96)<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS60N11SxdV-99rkNuU2dqqkJQcE5DhvuG4qJccMapeIAJJdyYca3jC2a5fVq_iJRKB0EVLC6Kry4DTP5pP8CeeKeHlOhZlIorCe54wJeLmun8HzQK3MeKQZXC1gV2hxx09Gw6uyDm38Y/s1600/DudleyManlove.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 356px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS60N11SxdV-99rkNuU2dqqkJQcE5DhvuG4qJccMapeIAJJdyYca3jC2a5fVq_iJRKB0EVLC6Kry4DTP5pP8CeeKeHlOhZlIorCe54wJeLmun8HzQK3MeKQZXC1gV2hxx09Gw6uyDm38Y/s400/DudleyManlove.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523004519287755682" border="0" /></a>Dudley Devere Manlove (yes, it was his real name!) was born June 11, 1914, in Oakland, California, into a family that worked part of the year in vaudeville. Not a very wealthy family, but hard working, he was able to get singing, dancing, and piano lessons from colleagues of his parents. He worked on the vaudeville circuit himself through his mid 20s, when he got a position of staff announcer at radio station KPO in San Francisco.<br /><br />Most OTR aficionados remember Dudley Manlove as the announcer on the NBC West Coast detective series, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Candy Matson</span>.<br /><br />After Candy Matson went off the air, Manlove moved to Los Angeles to try his hand at motion pictures. Through his association with Monty Masters of the Candy Matson show, he befriended Jack Webb, who used Manlove for several of his radio shows and for the Dragnet TV show, as well as other work in television. He was also famous for his Lux soap commercials.<br /><br />He also met Edward D. Wood, Jr., said to be the worst Hollywood film director/producer/writer of all time. Manlove did four of Wood's projects, including <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Plan IX from Outer Space</span> (where the picture attached to this entry came from), in which he played the alien Eros.<br /><br />Manlove was a staff announcer at the old NBC Radio City at Sunset and Vine in Hollywood. He retired before that building was razed in the mid 1960s. He died on April 17, 1996, at the age of 81, in San Bernardino, ironically, the city that was attacked in Plan IX from Outer Space.<br /></div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-54184127031128080252010-08-13T12:21:00.004+10:002010-08-13T13:13:30.062+10:00Duncan Hines (1880-1959)<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIjtPAj-QToRIIbL-z7KX4Au-sE1UYQd-8UX9S6j1a3grAFAUMlYrGA1DeKEP6nmDKFMUXQLSnZYmyWhyrsd-fQFE9Lf_XeZHDuTMfDfk6LeJso5lLP4_aZQCtQV2I4xbWwwX4MgAJ0jk/s400/duncan+hines.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 297px; height: 400px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504720467487293282" /><div style="text-align: justify;">Duncan Hines was born March 26, 1880, in Bowling Green, Kentucky. As a young man he traveled around the country as a traveling salesman. Not being able to cook meant that he had to eat in restaurants (I know the feeling). In 1935, with his wife, Clara, he wrote a book called <span style="font-weight:bold;">Adventures in Good Eating</span>. He then wrote sever</div><div style="text-align: justify;">al other books about traveling. He was the guest on many radio shows, however, none of these exist anymore. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">During the 1930s and 1940s, Hines went around the country rating the food in restaurants.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqb8NXU5C6MwHIwG9ir2j1wR_V_FKgGl26ABgbpZqyteJzcgQE4e21OIMqsk0eG98bTCOVc_1bBBcQDBOyMeMc36ocvNlokax7w4vC2dQbrng1iw0yEvx26FG_vBJ_oy5DT7_3tkkY2bs/s400/book.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 370px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504726791882062626" /><div style="text-align: justify;">In 1949, his wife died and he started a food company with Roy Park, Hines-Park Foods. Its most popular line was ice cream. Park took it over completely in 1953. It was sold to Procter and Gamble in 1957. P&G sold it to Aurora Foods in 1998. Aurora sold it to Pinnacle Foods in 2004. The brand lives on. When P&G took the company, it concentrated on cake mixes, frosting mixes, and other home baked goods. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Duncan Hines died a few days before his 79th birthday on March 15, 1959. Sadly, since all of his radio appearances have been lost, the only recorded broadcast of Mr. Hines is an episode of the TV game show, To Tell the Truth, in 1957. Duncan Hines is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Bowling Green. A three mile stretch of US 31-W north of the city is named for him.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-10047485569360404412010-06-20T19:00:00.000+10:002010-06-20T20:58:42.684+10:00George Fenneman (1919-97)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpUPIpMoNg7bzqrSMbfcq1-8u4G25H_It381C3UaXo06MUuFdMhY_u_gPB-MzIJ6xXD2312s0wUUlCDEjNwQ9KsH1fKNhh1X79EeTUhZCTNscXYyBRNJD76vDSNfpGxegNHcZzjOOY6fw/s1600/GeorgeFenneman.gif"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpUPIpMoNg7bzqrSMbfcq1-8u4G25H_It381C3UaXo06MUuFdMhY_u_gPB-MzIJ6xXD2312s0wUUlCDEjNwQ9KsH1fKNhh1X79EeTUhZCTNscXYyBRNJD76vDSNfpGxegNHcZzjOOY6fw/s400/GeorgeFenneman.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484792153537494930" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">George Watt Fenneman was born November 10, 1919, in Beijing, China. (It was known as <b><i>Peking</i></b> in those days.) His father was an international banker. Before he could start school, his family moved to San Francisco, California, where he grew up. He graduated from San Francisco State College (now University) and went to work for the Blue Network as a war correspondent during World War II.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He married British character actress Peggy Ann Clifford on May 29, 1943. They would have three children. She died in 1984.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Returning to California and moving to Hollywood, George's first radio show was a comedy show starring Bob Sweeney and Hal March. The <b><i>Sweeney and March Show</i></b> would only be heard for one season. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Next, they said it was an experiment, but it ended up being the program which most people think of when they think of George Fenneman, <b><i>You Bet Your Life</i></b>, "the comedy quiz show from Hollywood." Groucho Marx was the moderator who basically just talked to guests as if they were visiting him at his house. George would have announced a "secret word" and if anyone said that word, they won a heap of money. Although the show was scripted, Groucho never let that bother him. A thirty minute show could take two hours to record. The tough part was getting the best thirty minutes to go on the air. George was the perfect straight man. You Bet Your Life aired on ABC first, then moved to CBS, for a couple of years, then to NBC, where it was also seen on television. The show lasted on radio until 1954. Many of the TV episodes would be broadcast on radio. The last TV episode aired in 1961.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Other shows George announced were <b><i>Abbott and Costello</i></b>, <b><i>Pat Novak for Hire</i></b>, <b><i>I Fly Anything</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">, and</span><i> Gunsmoke. </i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Two more big jobs he had were <b><i>Dragnet</i></b> and the <b><i>Martin and Lewis Show</i></b>, both for Chesterfield cigarettes. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On Dragnet, he was first heard in the beginning of 1951. Two announcers were used: George was one and the other was Hal Gibney. George would do the same on television... in the 1950s with Hal and in the 1960s with John Stephenson (1923- ), best known as the voice of <i>Mr. Slate</i> on the <b><i>Flintstones</i></b> cartoon series.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On Martin and Lewis, he introduced Dean Martin and read lots of commercials. Occasionally, he did introduce Jerry Lewis.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">George appeared in one movie in 1951, The Thing from Another World, in which he played the part of Dr. Redding, a scientist. The part was offered to him as its director, Christopher Nyby, was his next door neighbor. He also appeared in a serial on the <b><i>Mickey Mouse Club</i></b>, but aside from that he was only seen as himself, the genial announcer.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWf01bkm5MfCyuWDWnEGtZMvkGcz0awgIESM6F4pWQ0lfJUiEKOu1fO7n6aAuCo8aJdLuOlYwK_I4_-1sQtq6K-jG9MZIwBpcYoOA2aLspeYzmdQX66cEIPcRCCLuvgAaWpnVnLnpkczo/s1600/sunsetvine.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWf01bkm5MfCyuWDWnEGtZMvkGcz0awgIESM6F4pWQ0lfJUiEKOu1fO7n6aAuCo8aJdLuOlYwK_I4_-1sQtq6K-jG9MZIwBpcYoOA2aLspeYzmdQX66cEIPcRCCLuvgAaWpnVnLnpkczo/s320/sunsetvine.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484806058761263442" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He hosted two game shows, <b><i>Anybody Can Play</i></b> (1958, CBS) and <b><i>Your Surprise Package</i></b> (1961, syndicated). Incidentally, the latter featured Carol Merrill, the lovely model who would later gain notoriety on <b><i>Let's Make a Deal</i></b>, hosted by Monty Hall.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After the death of veteran radio announcer, <b><i>Harry Von Zell</i></b> (1906-81), George took his place as the commercial spokesman for <b><i>Home Savings and Loan</i></b>. (The picture at the left is the old Sunset and Vine branch of that bank in Hollywood. It was the former site of NBC's Hollywood studio which was razed in the mid 1960s.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">George Fenneman died on May 29, 1997, after a long bout with emphysema at his home in Los Angeles. He was 77 years old.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-80818999446721122152010-05-05T16:50:00.008+10:002010-05-05T21:43:14.627+10:00Herbert Morrison (1905-89)<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128);font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;">"It's crashing. It's crashing terrible. Oh, my...get out of the way, please. It's bursting into flames! And it's falling on the mooring mast. All the folks agree this is terrible, one of the worst catastrophes on the world. Oh, the flames, four or five hundred feet in the sky! It's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. The smoke and the flames now and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast. Oh, the humanity and all the passengers..."</span><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj9LEFAmxdxJFpB95V2ocy4JZaUCuYYnrCu5Ns3p6bmr3pglim5o62O7Q1am9CcAdmdtHBH3lDXBV_oEVIjkBSsG2MsS8-S9Ah039lY5AmKZdG_w7kIlKLP2NMX6p3h6j1lQkkXZBN8-c/s1600/12(hmorrison).jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 157px; height: 259px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj9LEFAmxdxJFpB95V2ocy4JZaUCuYYnrCu5Ns3p6bmr3pglim5o62O7Q1am9CcAdmdtHBH3lDXBV_oEVIjkBSsG2MsS8-S9Ah039lY5AmKZdG_w7kIlKLP2NMX6p3h6j1lQkkXZBN8-c/s400/12(hmorrison).jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467681739509703330" border="0" /></a>Herbert Morrison was born May 14, 1905, in Scottdale, Pennsylvania, 49 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. He was a career broadcaster.<br /><br />At WLS in Chicago, Herb was a music announcer, a job that was later called a disc jockey. He was also the man who announced yacht races on Lake Michigan (once or twice), dished out the celebrity gossip (unwillingly), and did all the mundane duties that no one else wanted to do. And they were going to resume airship traffic between Germany and the United States the first week in May. Guess who was chosen to cover it?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMGR9Qou9zqsJ2rBT11BF9sUkj8JcNXauUJ-yODhUO5bWMm9NJr76lTocu8HKgrv0c0ZGQc1UCSYhdvZx_O9Yj0wuSjvi6CTfmUEy0V30m9tBs-d2lDktD0LSLpYZEHTp9jy_7-deNOhs/s1600/13.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 369px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMGR9Qou9zqsJ2rBT11BF9sUkj8JcNXauUJ-yODhUO5bWMm9NJr76lTocu8HKgrv0c0ZGQc1UCSYhdvZx_O9Yj0wuSjvi6CTfmUEy0V30m9tBs-d2lDktD0LSLpYZEHTp9jy_7-deNOhs/s400/13.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467697686185558610" border="0" /></a>This job in New Jersey given to Herb was a dream assignment. All he would have to do is describe what he saw. The German Consulate-General of Chicago gave him a brochure that had explained everything. And he carefully memorized the parts of the airship. He learned the difference between a blimp and a dirigible. A blimp does not have a frame. A dirigible has one. This was Herb's first air flight--he flew from Chicago (Midway) directly to Lakehurst on American Airlines special flights for Hindenburg passengers), then stayed at a hotel in Toms River, New Jersey.<br /><br />His companion for the trip was sound engineer Charles Nehlson. Their luggage was one simple overnight bag for each of the men, who didn't share a room, and a complicated transcription disc recorder. This rather complicated contraption made almost instantaneous 16-2/3 RPM records. These could be played over the air immediately. The plan was to record the landing and give the record to a man from the NBC network in New York, who would be waiting after the pomp and ceremony were all over.<br /><br />Although Herb was away from his beloved wife Mary Jane, he was happy to have an easy job for a change. He didn't like the takeoff from Midway Field and had told Nehlson he was thinking about taking the train back to Chicago. After all, it was Thursday and they didn't have to be back work until Saturday (it was a two day trip, and the train would get in Friday afternoon). Nehlson, whom Herb always called Charley, was a friendly professional who understood what Herb felt. Neither one of them really wanted to go up in the sky again after they saw what happened to the Hindenburg.<br /><br />At the time of the explosion, the word about it did not go out immediately. It was actually a phone call from the man that Herb and Charley met from NBC who called station WEAF that let the folks know in New York that something was wrong. News crews from New York did their best to get to the Lakehurst Naval Air Station (an interesting fact is that both the German and U.S. terminals of the route of the Hindenburg were naval bases). The word went out to WOR, WJZ (which, even though located in the same building, had a different news crew), WABC, WINS, WNEW, WHN, and WMCA (maybe others). They used their own personal vehicles to get to the base. Troopers from the New Jersey State Police had a 10 mile perimeter around Lakehurst sealed off limits from the public. Sabotage was suspected.<br /><br />As soon as Morrison and Nehlson had what they needed for the report, they tried to look for the man from WEAF to give him the record. They called a taxi to take them back to Philadelphia, put their bags into the trunk, then realized they were being followed by two SS agents. This thwarted their plans of taking the train back to Chicago. They took the first airplane out and arrived home that evening.<br /><br />They had made two recordings, one for NBC and a second which would air on Saturday afternoon. The SS agents were after whatever they had. They would take great pleasure in destroying their transcription disc recorder!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOpkphq0tXshVsQoex9rgPoE3ser_eAqc_z-r_CHDK0oLG8BkqNXL1L2hxtZAPrEUwfL7L533qKyV48-wz_uBh3Ok_ts6DjFf2pWSxAbanF-Dg0m-Wp16yVLNCUkKYBmzGRqJ9aFnF0pQ/s1600/14.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOpkphq0tXshVsQoex9rgPoE3ser_eAqc_z-r_CHDK0oLG8BkqNXL1L2hxtZAPrEUwfL7L533qKyV48-wz_uBh3Ok_ts6DjFf2pWSxAbanF-Dg0m-Wp16yVLNCUkKYBmzGRqJ9aFnF0pQ/s400/14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467716777531873682" border="0" /></a>Anyway, they arrived home safe and sound. Even after they took the disc to the station the next day, the paranoia didn't leave them for weeks.<br /><br />Herbert Morrison left WLS in 1939 to take a news position with the Mutual network at radio station WOR in New York. During World War II he served in the Army Air Forces. He was the first news director at WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh after having a similar position at radio station KQV in the same city.<br /><br />Charley Nehlson retired from WLS in the early 1960s. Both he and Herb received gold watches for their work they did with the Hindenburg report shortly after it aired.<br /><br />Retiring near Morgantown, West Virginia, Herb often gave lectures and speeches to school and news organizations. Herbert Morrison died at a convalescent home in Morgantown at the age of 83. He was survived by his wife Mary Jane. Herb is buried in the Scottdale Cemetery.<br /><br /><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128);font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-57801094857881872742010-05-03T11:45:00.000+10:002010-05-03T12:37:29.481+10:00Axel Stordahl (1913-63)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirJnxZBTs0LyDUta-h8Z4Kb6eqRee1Fyut3IX0KmwOftFpJn3oDDPMO48TXxKZIB4cBH0gRKLM_ShRQVhe8CXezRxmHYoKaEX4HfX6n_-XvbDexALvLa334jNWB_BrUMyL90xpcm9L6Bc/s1600/frank-odd.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 275px; height: 348px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirJnxZBTs0LyDUta-h8Z4Kb6eqRee1Fyut3IX0KmwOftFpJn3oDDPMO48TXxKZIB4cBH0gRKLM_ShRQVhe8CXezRxmHYoKaEX4HfX6n_-XvbDexALvLa334jNWB_BrUMyL90xpcm9L6Bc/s400/frank-odd.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466856558832344098" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirJnxZBTs0LyDUta-h8Z4Kb6eqRee1Fyut3IX0KmwOftFpJn3oDDPMO48TXxKZIB4cBH0gRKLM_ShRQVhe8CXezRxmHYoKaEX4HfX6n_-XvbDexALvLa334jNWB_BrUMyL90xpcm9L6Bc/s1600/frank-odd.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><div style="text-align: justify; "><div style="text-align: justify; "><div style="text-align: justify; ">Odd Axel Stordahl was born August 8, 1913, in Staten Island, New York, to immigrants from Norway. He learned to play the trumpet in public school and became an ace arranger. Most people in school and professional life called him by his middle name, Axel. However, as an arranger, Odd became more than a name; it became his trademark.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">He played trumpet for many name bands in New York in the 1920s and '30s. Tommy Dorsey hired him away from his main job in the 1930s of arranging music for Bert Block. At the same time Dorsey hired another trumpeter, Joe Bauer, and vocalist Jack Leonard. The trio became the Three Esquires. While with Dorsey, he worked with Paul Weston as co-arrangers. They hired singer Jo Stafford who later became Mrs. Paul Weston.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra had a short working relationship which was passed on to Axel Stordahl in the early 1940s. Stordahl was the bandleader on the radio series Your Hit Parade, which also often featured Sinatra. Because this show was sponsored by a tobacco program, it's interesting to point out that Stordahl was often photographed leading his groups while smoking a pipe. In the 1945 movie musical Anchors Aweigh (which starred Sinatra and Gene Kelly), Stordahl wrote the orchestrations. He worked with Sinatra (at Columbia Records) from 1942 to 1951, when Sinatra signed up with Capitol Records.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div></div></div></span></span></u></span></div></div><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 253px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcUZVXnlfqySTEXPvOKSxi52X-tAPFoTNyLkQEqvR0QyRFl0wTIxMjghqMUrJeL7YNOM8ytdgK6VvLX8qe6_cg6uPbGoptEkTneEXtcOejxZ7F-oQ8Xaq-VRSTrFV5MX4ujsn2BQuVpQ0/s400/odd+grave.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466860457782548514" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Stordahl married June Hutton, who was a singer with the Pied Pipers in 1951. During the 1950s, he worked with many of the popular singers of the time (Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Dinah Shore, Doris Day, Eddie Fisher, and Bing Crosby). He did some work on television on the show, Startime.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the early 1960s, he worked on Sinatra's two last albums for Capitol Records. Diagnosed with cancer, he stayed at home for his remaining months of life and composed the theme music for the situation comedy, McHale's Navy. He died on August 30, 1963, at age 50, in his home in the Encino district of Los Angeles, California. He was buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California. His wife died in 1973 at the age of 52. She is buried next to him.</div></div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-8386130062768766612010-04-25T15:15:00.002+10:002010-04-25T15:15:00.669+10:00Stoopnagle and Budd<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3GoyBvDfPRnVlZIbh__jiLZV0h7Re5miqJLKG3il5cms_vVpT9hCeMWpevh_6-azCgPBURU1Va-B9tIVoK456AXcVWm2kCYvI-RjDFsJJCygtXeocxA-aiZ9EwjOFM43U7qX5cKxZKOs/s1600/1.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 261px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3GoyBvDfPRnVlZIbh__jiLZV0h7Re5miqJLKG3il5cms_vVpT9hCeMWpevh_6-azCgPBURU1Va-B9tIVoK456AXcVWm2kCYvI-RjDFsJJCygtXeocxA-aiZ9EwjOFM43U7qX5cKxZKOs/s400/1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463656813288466194" border="0" /></a>The biggest stars of Old Time Radio sometimes had very short careers. Take one team, Stoopnagle and Budd. They were a household word in the mid 1930s, yet, when the decade was out, it was all over... for the team.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >F. Chase Taylor (1897-1950)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvePSyt-su94djVESYX5TP5lWyrRcShaR1ODnfmteaBo6-zXZq84QVjAxk4YMcnlfiVbyNDLU73n0oDpGkT84EexLTOBWk7ZDxSAE0KQ-WteE2Ukw0-anZm31UXxAoQBwLTjX4L0179mE/s1600/7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvePSyt-su94djVESYX5TP5lWyrRcShaR1ODnfmteaBo6-zXZq84QVjAxk4YMcnlfiVbyNDLU73n0oDpGkT84EexLTOBWk7ZDxSAE0KQ-WteE2Ukw0-anZm31UXxAoQBwLTjX4L0179mE/s320/7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463663876106919858" border="0" /></a>Frederick Chase Taylor was born October 4, 1897, in Buffalo, New York. His father, Luther Chase, ran a lumber business. He attended the University of Rochester, his father's alma mater, but quit to enlist in the U.S. Navy during World War I. It was in the Navy that Chase became interested in radio.<br /><br />Upon completion of naval service, he returned to Buffalo and worked as a salesman for the family firm. He married Lois DeRidder. They soon had a son, F. Chase Taylor Jr. (1921-2007), their only child. In 1927, his mother, Sara Chase Taylor died. Chase left the wood company and went to work as a stock broker. Two years later the great Stock Market Crash took place and he began writing for radio programs at radio station WGR. He also worked at WMAK.<br /><br />In 1930, Chase began working on the air with a man named Wilbur Budd Hulick, who hailed from New Jersey. They had 15 minutes each week they could do anything. Chase started calling himself Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle and was a master of spoonerisms. (A spoonerism is a phrase in which certain elements are twisted around.) The program, now on station WKBR, soon became known as the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Ask for Mail Show</span>.<br /><br />Five months later, it was known as the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Gloom Chasers</span> and was intensely popular. It aired Monday through Thursday from 8:45 to 9:00 P.M., originating from WABC in New York City and heard over the Columbia Broadcasting System.<br /><br />They were in movies: <span style="font-weight: bold;">International House</span> (1933), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Stoopnocracy</span> (1933), and <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Inventors </span>(1934). Chase was divorced from his wife in 1936 and things started falling apart for Stoopnagle and Budd.<br /><br />In 1937, the two men broke up. No explanation was ever given, though Budd probably got tired of just agreeing with the Colonel. Chase would continue as Colonel Stoopnagle for the rest of his life.<br /><br />He died May 29, 1950, of heart disease, at the age of 52, in Boston, Massachusetts. His friend, the news commentator, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lowell Thomas</span>, gave his eulogy.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_sXjmiKTgR__Q2FFYnWba9aMNqg_MZWYw87AfWhBmB_0B_-q7MSFsYvPybV8-tTfSKMCcfVt0od-BuPIZP8Mai1WOBh_CoFlPmeAYnZMTsak-5MpO8qXsC_x5UYJHrZWU3D1riVrvDIg/s1600/8.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 151px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_sXjmiKTgR__Q2FFYnWba9aMNqg_MZWYw87AfWhBmB_0B_-q7MSFsYvPybV8-tTfSKMCcfVt0od-BuPIZP8Mai1WOBh_CoFlPmeAYnZMTsak-5MpO8qXsC_x5UYJHrZWU3D1riVrvDIg/s400/8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463672026153870914" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Wilbur Budd Hulick (1905-61)</span><br /><br />Wilbur Budd Hulick (it was his real name) was born November 14, 1905, in Asbury Park, New Jersey. He worked as a musician until fate brought him together with F. Chase Taylor in 1930. They worked as Stoopnagle and Budd for six years. After their breakup in 1936, Budd became a general announcer in New York City. For the last decade of his life, he was a disc jockey in Florida. He was married three times (to Helen Welch, Ruth Wanda Hart, and Elizabeth V. Sahner).<br /><br />Budd died March 22, 1961, in Riviera Beach, Florida, at the age of 55.<br /><br /></div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-6437844890670151942010-04-25T10:30:00.001+10:002010-04-25T10:30:00.338+10:00Gene Autry (1907-98)<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9lJp_KAdhdbURfrJdn8M0xlZubFDmUi9MvneULwJsuHnDbTCYf2HoMQzmCbQ9bVumeVh7UH9Lhopi658cOi90p1puTv5EH8TZFTdAZwSBkQjGit4AZiEkuuKIPvRaTV68UYL1UJPUAiE/s1600-h/i-pol-6.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9lJp_KAdhdbURfrJdn8M0xlZubFDmUi9MvneULwJsuHnDbTCYf2HoMQzmCbQ9bVumeVh7UH9Lhopi658cOi90p1puTv5EH8TZFTdAZwSBkQjGit4AZiEkuuKIPvRaTV68UYL1UJPUAiE/s400/i-pol-6.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204159514041458946" border="0" /></a>Orvon Gene Autry was born September 29, 1907, in Tioga, Texas. As a child, he moved to Ravia, Oklahoma. After finishing high school in Ravia, Gene worked as a telegraph operator for the St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad (Frisco).<br /><br />In 1928, Gene entered an amateur music contest on a local radio station. He got the opportunity to meet <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Will Rogers</span>. Later that year, he was given the nickname, "Oklahoma's Singing Cowboy." The following year, 1929, he got a recording contract with Columbia Records and moved to Chicago where he performed on a number of shows over station WLS. These included the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">National Barn Dance</span>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjONpBxV2boMVJdB4aeoXryWkWvyn77htryjcGwz_bEfbXcDiqMkQoB2InM5QGTgoaaegIwgxhAnsR8hPvQD6cI9c_gIP-N1EO0hi75FuNsrL9lE1G3ioJS3-KScT6mzFwEKax3kCuFYLc/s1600-h/FriscoMap3.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjONpBxV2boMVJdB4aeoXryWkWvyn77htryjcGwz_bEfbXcDiqMkQoB2InM5QGTgoaaegIwgxhAnsR8hPvQD6cI9c_gIP-N1EO0hi75FuNsrL9lE1G3ioJS3-KScT6mzFwEKax3kCuFYLc/s200/FriscoMap3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204171969446617362" border="0" /></a>In 1932, he began recording some records which would be forever remembered: "That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine" (with fellow former Frisco railroadman Jimmy Long), "Back in the Saddle Again" (it was first a hit record for Ray Whiteley), and many others.<br /><br />He began making motion picures in 1934. Toward the end of the decade, he did more work on radio, mostly for the Columbia Broadcasting System.<br /><br />He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942, staying in until 1946. Gene was a flight instructor for the U.S. Army Air Force.<br /><br />Upon his honorable discharge, Gene made a few movies and returned to radio. Gene retired from entertainment and concentrated on investing his money in real estate, broadcasting (Golden West Broadcasters, which included KTLA, channel 5, and KMPC, AM radio 710, both located on the former site of the Warner Brothers Hollywood studios), and the California Angels.<br /><br />Married twice, to Ina Mae Spivy (niece of Jimmy Long) in 1930 (who died in 1980) and to banker Jacqueline Ellam in 1981, he had no children from either marriage. Gene died October 2, 1998, in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles from lymphoma.<br /><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-72819578923594743872010-04-24T14:30:00.004+10:002010-04-24T20:16:11.332+10:00Tony Hancock (1924-68)<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB_rhN1bvg4P-HGOwaMnO8eG-XSAVTR3Im9AoDewiK6pQb6JmdaXUixu4Qu5YkfPCAdWuitG94vtLBEgc1cEH7ECVP-_oxaOPDYnXypggPHEbYinOB5ejZLuLkTkjlgJ79vPfMt0R7yLM/s1600/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 251px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB_rhN1bvg4P-HGOwaMnO8eG-XSAVTR3Im9AoDewiK6pQb6JmdaXUixu4Qu5YkfPCAdWuitG94vtLBEgc1cEH7ECVP-_oxaOPDYnXypggPHEbYinOB5ejZLuLkTkjlgJ79vPfMt0R7yLM/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463558179464596882" border="0" /></a>Anthony John Hancock was born May 12, 1924, in Birmingham, England. He grew up in Bournemouth, where his father, John Hancock, ran the Railway Hotel and provided entertainment to guests as a comedian. After John died in 1934 Tony's mother and step-father took their sons to move to Durlston, Swanage, where they also lived in a hotel. Tony attended Durlston Park Preparatory School, a boarding school. He attended high school at Bradfield College in Reading, Berkshire, but quit at the age of 15.<br /><br />During World War II, Tony served with the RAF Regiment as a member of the ground crew on the homefront. He tried out for the Entertainments National Service Association but failed at the audition. He ended up as resident comedian at the Windmill Theatre in London and performed on such radio series as<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Workers' Playtime </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Variety Bandbox</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLGX3Vk7iJgPNbCgUZbxRL4fjHbjzVPUNj41c6CrhE509Hwqb3xwOdx1B3teNYMWnu-76eLL24WOEzmCV_5n4ORLnZcZC7FaqhS3HX1EeVpuoERROFIxRz3HjeJH-aunqz-cnvKf3SH5I/s1600/6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 209px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLGX3Vk7iJgPNbCgUZbxRL4fjHbjzVPUNj41c6CrhE509Hwqb3xwOdx1B3teNYMWnu-76eLL24WOEzmCV_5n4ORLnZcZC7FaqhS3HX1EeVpuoERROFIxRz3HjeJH-aunqz-cnvKf3SH5I/s400/6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463563688197524146" border="0" /></a>In 1954, he was given his own program, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Hancock's Half-Hour</span>. That was on until 1960 and was later a television series. Tony appeared in movies.<br /><br />The Tony Hancock on <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Hancock's Half-Hour</span> was a totally different person than the real Tony Hancock. Tony made that character likable. The radio character's name was Anthony Aloysius St. John Hancock. He didn't drink very much. He was cocky. He was very proud. The real Tony Hancock was lonely and shy. He used alcohol to "lubricate" both work and personal relationships. And he could get outright mean and nasty.<br /><br />He had a tremendous ego and was very difficult to work with, said colleagues Spike Mulligan and others. He was often drunk and abusive. When things got really bad in the U.K., he headed south to Australia where he had started a television series,<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Hancock Down Under</span>. Only six episodes were filmed before he committed suicide of a sleeping pill overdose (with a vodka chaser) on June 25, 1968, in Sydney, New South Wales. He was 44. His body was cremated and his ashes were returned to the U.K. by the multi-talented <span style="font-weight: bold;">Willie Rushton</span> (1937-96). He flew first class for the first time in his life. His ashes are interred with his mother's grave, who died a year later, at St. Dunstan Church in Cranford near London.<br /><br />He was married twice. His first wife was the model <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cicely J.E. Romanis </span>(d. 1969). They divorced in 1965. He married his pubicist <span style="font-weight: bold;">Freddie Ross</span> (1930- ), but they divorced, too. Upon his divorce from Freddie, Tony struck up a relationship with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joan Le Mesurier,</span> who was the wife of <span style="font-weight: bold;">John Le Mesurier</span> (1912-83) of the radio series <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Dad's Army</span>. Tony and Joan's affair began after the first six months of her marriage to John. One year after Tony's suicide, his first wife died from a fall.<br /></div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-4596723096836132992010-04-24T13:45:00.001+10:002010-04-24T14:26:19.535+10:00Jimmy Clitheroe (1921-73)<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRQl6vDzJ3ywIVOlqFJG9GrlVpak5kAwsteRM16B4__12yKujtYtkm71pWBohImCD0_jajFl1bwzLDyqFcGTcK7sbHvDoH6-8ZPD8a5E34UjvS0bTUfjHplNijILn313ScCYCW0NvyX_Q/s1600/3.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 391px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRQl6vDzJ3ywIVOlqFJG9GrlVpak5kAwsteRM16B4__12yKujtYtkm71pWBohImCD0_jajFl1bwzLDyqFcGTcK7sbHvDoH6-8ZPD8a5E34UjvS0bTUfjHplNijILn313ScCYCW0NvyX_Q/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463547198307940146" border="0" /></a>James Robinson Clitheroe was born December 24, 1921, in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England. His parents were James Robert Clitheroe and the former Emma Pye. He was named after his mother's brother, James Robinson Pye.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Jimmy never grew past 4'9" (130 cm) tall. He could easily pass as an 11 year old boy. As a young adult, with a dry wit, he was a star in <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Variety</span>, as a boy in an all-girl stage troupe. He later worked with such comics as <span style="font-weight: bold;">George Formby Jnr</span> (1904-61), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jimmy Jewel</span> (1909-95), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ben Warriss</span> (1909-93), and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Frank Randle</span> (1901-57) in several movies in the 1940s.<br /><br />Also an excellent pantomimist (like the late <span style="font-weight: bold;">Marcel Marceau</span>), he worked in this field from 1938 through 1971.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRtZ8pN3ouLZYl1gGj5-Br3UMRy2lM0_4MhPCLTseM6cpASI71cstn86ppDLkhyphenhyphenaBYaipaTws0nnSqKEBtFt1VQtzdabBkoFz0LIWgLxaNKGyJ5BxIaXKuywrZeHE99OYcp3vkTC39zVI/s1600/4.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRtZ8pN3ouLZYl1gGj5-Br3UMRy2lM0_4MhPCLTseM6cpASI71cstn86ppDLkhyphenhyphenaBYaipaTws0nnSqKEBtFt1VQtzdabBkoFz0LIWgLxaNKGyJ5BxIaXKuywrZeHE99OYcp3vkTC39zVI/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463555354714449778" border="0" /></a>Although he worked in movies and television, his biggest appeal came in radio. His first performance on radio (BBC Home Service) was on Jimmy James' (real name James Casey, 1892-1965) program, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Mayor's Parlour</span>. Soon after this he had his own show (variety), <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Call Boy</span>.<br /><br />His best known series was <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Clitheroe Kid</span>, which ran from 1957 through 1973. It aired on the BBC Light Programme and BBC Radio 2. With over 300 episodes, it was the longest running radio series in British radio.<br /><br />There were TV shows in the 1960s (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">That's My Boy</span> and<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Just Jimmy</span>) as well as his best remembered movie, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Rocket to the Moon</span> (1967), an American film. Jimmy played the part of General Tom Thumb, P.T. Barnum's featured attraction (Barnum was played by Burl Ives).<br /><br />When Jimmy's mother died in 1973, he was inconsolable. His doctor had prescribed a sleeping medication. He accidentally took an overdose and died during his mother's funeral on June 6, 1973, at the age of 51. He was cremated at the Carleton Crematorium located partly in Blackpool. Jimmy's ashes are under Memorial Tree Number 3, which also bears a memorial plaque (and a hastily painted numeral 3).<br /><br /></div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-25726299237461208112010-04-23T18:45:00.006+10:002010-04-23T19:44:57.024+10:00Mike Wallace (1918- )<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3jwZtBFP-F9hV0o6S3GeNMHyN6E40y7oPVRjbW9bfMtekMjbQHy7bnKthFBxCR74jM7ab-yCUAK7sdcARihIuRcDEaNRbgBKdNDvloCd8IIyWb-E4uuRF1X0H0LWof-YwGFetWg_kQKA/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3jwZtBFP-F9hV0o6S3GeNMHyN6E40y7oPVRjbW9bfMtekMjbQHy7bnKthFBxCR74jM7ab-yCUAK7sdcARihIuRcDEaNRbgBKdNDvloCd8IIyWb-E4uuRF1X0H0LWof-YwGFetWg_kQKA/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463258742676443922" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Myron Leon Wallace</span> was born May 9, 1918, in Brookline, Massachusetts. His father, Friedan Wallick, was born with the last name, Wallechinsky. As a traveling salesman, he changed his name legally to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Frank Wallace</span>. Myron graduated from Brookline High School in 1935. He attended the University of Michigan and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1939. At Michigan he was a reporter for the daily school newspaper (Michigan Daily) and active in the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Myron's first broadcast performance was as a panelist (player) on the <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Information Please</span> on February 7, 1939, three months before his graduation from the university. After graduation, he was an announcer at radio station <span style="font-weight: bold;">WOOD</span> in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Two years later he was at <span style="font-weight: bold;">WXYZ</span> in Detroit, home of the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Lone Ranger</span>, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Challenge of the Yukon</span>, and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Green Hornet</span>. Some people say they remember hearing him on the Lone Ranger, but he says he was never on that show. He does claim to working on<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Ned Jordan</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sky King</span>, and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Green Hornet</span>.<br /><br />Two years later, he went to Chicago as a freelance announcer. This was quite successful. He joined the United States Navy in 1943 and was stationed in Alaska, Australia, and the Philippines (Subic Bay), but saw no action. Discharged in 1946, he returned to Chicago. His "bread and butter" was announcing wrestling matches in Chicago (for Tavern Pale Beer.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkXC7xKwrQV7BUUEcotulCsG_l26EYiEVVbsCLd6lH8Mm4NbmJTbucfazdGp21VbZmWWncEnN4d_q_WKzNMnOSqlTDdxzthPUI-lQ4peifYTGoo-oUd3YivAs34IYe2y0wqLttgvykIh4/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 379px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkXC7xKwrQV7BUUEcotulCsG_l26EYiEVVbsCLd6lH8Mm4NbmJTbucfazdGp21VbZmWWncEnN4d_q_WKzNMnOSqlTDdxzthPUI-lQ4peifYTGoo-oUd3YivAs34IYe2y0wqLttgvykIh4/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463259810586401506" border="0" /></a>He joined CBS as a staff announcer in the late 1940s. In that he moved to Los Angeles. He worked on Groucho Marx's <span style="font-weight: bold;">You Bet Your Life</span> quiz show as the voice over for Gruen watches. When the show moved to NBC, Myron, who soon became known as <span style="font-style: italic;">Mike</span>, would have his own game shows on CBS. And, on CBS television, he was the voice of Golden Fluffo shortening (as well as other Procter and Gamble products.) He also announce Spike Jones' radio show in 1949.<br /><br />Game shows he did at CBS included <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Big Surprise</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Who's the Boss?</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Who Pays?</span>, and a pilot called <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Nothing But the Truth</span>. That show would change names to <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">To Tell the Truth</span> and forever linked with Bud Collyer.<br /><br />In the mid 1950s he began doing news and documentary features for the Dumont and ABC television networks. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Mike Wallace Interview</span> was very popular.<br /><br />His older son was killed falling from a mountain in Greece in 1961 he decided to concentrate on news and public affairs programs for CBS.<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> 60 Minutes</span> was his main program and he remained on that show until his retirement in 2007. He is now the Correspondent Emeritus.<br /><br />Family: Mike has been married four times and had four children (and a step-son). His first wife was Norma Kaphan. They had two sons,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Peter</span>, who was killed in Greece, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chris</span>, who became a reporter in his own right. (Mike and Norma were married in 1940, divorced in 1948.) Second wife was actress Patrizia "Buff" Cobb. The two had a radio talk show in Chicago and a TV talk show in New York (<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Mike and Buff</span>.) The show on CBS could not be viewed on black and white TV. It had to use a special set that the network was experimenting with. They divorced in 1954. The following year, Mike married Lorraine Perigord, which lasted until 1986. His present wife is Mary Yates, whom he married shortly after his divorce from his third wife.<br /></div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-4586518567996844652010-04-11T22:45:00.002+10:002012-02-27T12:29:23.232+10:00Cliffie Stone (1917-98)<img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRmC9nGtqn5YjD2hXbmLa7taP148QmIXbgpa9xcDBgc-tLuKCv5Abao4t24kpxsvYQM6P24zlNgokElDB_6I9ufLUFgQcJawpEmuCf_OcMZTgpWhVFLzdnaUlDa8YXusklWUfo1fp_-kx1/s400/klac_hometown3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458850246059873906" border="0" /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvjJY9ArwMquxPHwbFZ7adUdxrnY42rngH_DbXnqIq61QBYVzku3zF94BTQ_pH2dV4fHSjFCoSFv749GGDwnRz52i2MlfYZ22ZkZcb_7T7A0JVAzxGF4OenLU-1skp4powNGx0OW3ekD3m/s1600/cliffie_stone1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvjJY9ArwMquxPHwbFZ7adUdxrnY42rngH_DbXnqIq61QBYVzku3zF94BTQ_pH2dV4fHSjFCoSFv749GGDwnRz52i2MlfYZ22ZkZcb_7T7A0JVAzxGF4OenLU-1skp4powNGx0OW3ekD3m/s400/cliffie_stone1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458840832661642082" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Clifford Gilpin Snyder</span> was born March 1, 1917, in Stockton, California (according to his widow), and grew up in Burbank (most sources state that he was born in Burbank). At the age of 16, he became the bass player for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Stuart Hamblen </span><span>(1908-89)</span>, a country musician who wrote a number of songs usually sung in Evangelical church services today.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Cliffie grew up in a musical family. His father, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Clifford Herman Snyder </span>(1884-1964)<span style="font-weight: bold;">,</span> went by the stage name of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Herman the Hermit</span>, renowned banjo playing comedian. Cliffie originally called himself <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cliffie Stonehead</span>, which was later shortened to Stone. This was so he could become a musician on his own merit and not riding on his dad's coattails.<br /><br />After playing with Stuart Hamblen, Cliffie played with some of the first big bands (swing style) in the early 1930s, namely <span style="font-weight: bold;">Anson Weeks </span>(1896-1969), and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Freddie Slack</span> (1910-65). Cliffie was a disc jockey on a couple of Los Angeles area stations. He began working in radio hosting a show called <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dinner Bell Roundup</span> and heard on KPAS in Pasadena in 1945. That radio station became KXLA a couple of years later. In the late 1950s it became KRLA.<br /><br />In 1946, in addition to working on the radio, he became the <span style="font-weight: bold;">A&R</span> (artists and repertoire) man at <span style="font-weight: bold;">Capitol Records</span> in Hollywood. Some of the people he signed up included Tennessee Ernie Ford, Merle Travis, Molly Bee, Hank Thompson, Les Paul, and Stan Freberg. He would later become Tennessee Ernie's manager.<br /><br />Dinner Bell Roundup was heard between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. for many years before it moved to Saturday night and became <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hometown Jamboree</span>. That moved to KLAC-TV (today KCOP) on TV. Later it moved to KTLA.<br /><br />Cliffie was also a songwriter. He wrote books about songwriting. The man, whom some people who watched him and wondered how come he didn't do anything except announce, was one of the most truly talented men in entertainment.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR0cI4dJ1mWRRXrtVtKodskxebGEFxTfiVUjeUQmmk3cYgxQ1pKZw4o06c2WmwusaTEmLVk6DKCfs-76NmXpDwF-767hyphenhyphen_xjIQ0qohYtv61GfETrxs85KmBtVyUeabl2gof8CFjem23M80/s1600/tombstone.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 229px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR0cI4dJ1mWRRXrtVtKodskxebGEFxTfiVUjeUQmmk3cYgxQ1pKZw4o06c2WmwusaTEmLVk6DKCfs-76NmXpDwF-767hyphenhyphen_xjIQ0qohYtv61GfETrxs85KmBtVyUeabl2gof8CFjem23M80/s400/tombstone.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458858509446699826" border="0" /></a>He married his first wife, Dorothy Darling, in 1939. They were married for 50 years until her death in 1989. They had four children: <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stephen, Linda, Curtis and Jonathan. Shortly after this, Cliffie married Joan Carol, an accomplished songwriter in her own right.<br /><br />Cliffie Stone died January 16, 1998, at his home in Santa Clarita, California, of a heart attack. He is buried at the Eternal Valley Memorial Park in the Newhall section of Santa Clarita. According to his tombstone, he was always Cliffie Snyder, not Cliffie Stone. He never legally changed his name.<br /><br />In 1999 he was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">In the picture below, Cliffie is the next to the last person in Stuart Hamblen's band. He is listed as Cliffie Stonehead.</span></span><br /></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWD56E8Cftjw3CU9JgmaAc-xxv4Ew6UOwcXIRnRYSSgo4YKDFfGOJ81DGB-f2BcUlQJRgSSpQmaCACu5HI3FMZZHaiQ58YXyG66pAKsfyvRrB10f8Zw_rZAQkhw4Jn4YDxb-s82VLPOPFD/s1600/STUART+HAMBLEN%27S+BAND.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 296px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWD56E8Cftjw3CU9JgmaAc-xxv4Ew6UOwcXIRnRYSSgo4YKDFfGOJ81DGB-f2BcUlQJRgSSpQmaCACu5HI3FMZZHaiQ58YXyG66pAKsfyvRrB10f8Zw_rZAQkhw4Jn4YDxb-s82VLPOPFD/s400/STUART+HAMBLEN%27S+BAND.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458857892865449682" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-7233689718097096652010-03-08T19:00:00.005+10:002010-03-08T19:20:57.958+10:00Unshackled!<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv8VJ1aSNRwiwVSj3ko9lX4gW3C0a5CahDX-xbSsXW8paprw48IRPz7dus2nX-dUR9jTBi4JyJ6tChqXxl9jmimRoxVW2r1Q-ivWeREkZG_z8m5gk6ZZUJoQpcdOOKJgif2NfLGOxD-pg/s1600-h/HarryS.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 323px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv8VJ1aSNRwiwVSj3ko9lX4gW3C0a5CahDX-xbSsXW8paprw48IRPz7dus2nX-dUR9jTBi4JyJ6tChqXxl9jmimRoxVW2r1Q-ivWeREkZG_z8m5gk6ZZUJoQpcdOOKJgif2NfLGOxD-pg/s400/HarryS.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446166701740527826" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Unshackled!</span> actually began in the 1940s as an inspirational sermon show given by rescue mission superintendent <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rev. Harry Saulnier </span>(1902-90), an electrical engineer from New York City who went to Chicago to work for the Consolidated Edison power company in 1923. He became active with the downtown rescue mission, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pacific Garden Mission</span>, so named by evangelist <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dwight L. Moody</span> for a bar called the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pacific Beer Garden</span>. The Pacific Garden Mission used the Pacific Beer Garden's second building at 386 South Clark Street for its original location. Moody's idea was to let the drunks know that they were in the right place.<br /><br />Pacific Garden Mission's first superintendent was <span style="font-weight: bold;">Colonel George Clarke</span>. He married his wife Sarah in 1873 and they started their rescue mission in 1877. It wasn't one of the first rescue missions but it is one of the oldest missions today. The original location was what is now 67 East Van Buren Street and had a capacity of 40 people. The bar became available in 1880 and it was at this time that Pacific Garden Mission was born.<br /><br />Other superintendents included <span style="font-weight: bold;">Harry Monroe</span>, a mission convert, who took over when Col. Clarke died in 1892. Sarah Clarke continued working at the mission until her death. Monroe had come from Detroit after serving a prison term for counterfeiting. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mel Trotter </span>converted to Christianity under Harry Monroe's leadership. Trotter was an infamous hopeless drunk on Michigan Avenue who later became a Presbyterian minister in 1905. He helped to start over 65 rescue missions around the country. When Harry Monroe died in 1912, Mel Trotter took over as superintendent, where he served until 1918.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwPuYS4HmcDahuOzRgVKlx8AnkBspMvCX8s_AiSaIK_efqKwxde8HIKAmBfk9w4BvjyuiL37RPc4TVyo3MZYpyW0yIWJNlQDREn-R0Y_NPQH5wSNh5BZykO4X3FLX8le8KbZhBF8xmOnw/s1600-h/BillySunday.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 153px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwPuYS4HmcDahuOzRgVKlx8AnkBspMvCX8s_AiSaIK_efqKwxde8HIKAmBfk9w4BvjyuiL37RPc4TVyo3MZYpyW0yIWJNlQDREn-R0Y_NPQH5wSNh5BZykO4X3FLX8le8KbZhBF8xmOnw/s200/BillySunday.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446173610055342738" border="0" /></a>In 1886, baseball player <span style="font-weight: bold;">Billy Sunday</span> (1862-1935) became a Christian at the mission. He was a popular outfielder for the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chicago White Stockings</span> (today the Cubs). After an illustrious baseball career, he volunteered at the mission until his death. He was widely known as an evangelist in revival meetings.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Walter and Ethelwyn Taylor</span>, known as "Ma" and "Pa," came to the mission in 1918. Ma was known as the hymnist who wrote "Calvary Covers It All."<br /><br />The mission moved to its famous location at 646 South State Street, where it remained until 2007. This was never considered a prime location. The building was a brothel, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">White House</span>. After moving in, the stretch of State was known as "Murderers Row." After the Taylors retired in 1936, <span style="font-weight: bold;">T. Donald Gately</span> became the superintendent.<br /><br />Harry Saulnier became the superintendent in 1940. He had a radio program in 1945 called <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Doorway to Heaven</span> over station WAIT. WMBI (the radio station of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Moody Bible Institute</span>) got interested in airing some kind of radio dramatic series in 1950. <span style="font-weight: bold;">John Gillies</span> (of the Institute) wrote a pilot script and WGN, a Chicago 50,000 watt powerhouse agreed to air the show. But a title was missing. A sailor at the mission, who had been in the U.S. Navy for many years, suggested the title <span style="font-weight: bold;">Unshackled!</span> It stuck.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj_KpOQRYcLDRIvhK8oatwhd166xrBWU8f15heyVvGhaEIgd5uyIcrzQHCf2w8tIgXspE6iMWmljRROhgsoWvMRS0sLIWxLFlDs_YiLvZq2bACVa3KiTVPkXp9FSQOVhMtWHUF2ZKBzfk/s1600-h/genie1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 305px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj_KpOQRYcLDRIvhK8oatwhd166xrBWU8f15heyVvGhaEIgd5uyIcrzQHCf2w8tIgXspE6iMWmljRROhgsoWvMRS0sLIWxLFlDs_YiLvZq2bACVa3KiTVPkXp9FSQOVhMtWHUF2ZKBzfk/s400/genie1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446179608494736146" border="0" /></a>The first show was a biography of Billy Sunday and was written by John Gillies. Later scripts were written by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Eugenia Price</span> (1916-96), a novelist who also wrote radio scripts in a previous life (as well as books about Christian subjects), wrote the first scripts. She was a new Christian herself (1949).<br /><br />In time, Unshackled! received its "voice" in the person of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jack Odell</span> (1915-91). A veteran radio actor in Chicago, his lifestyle had ruined his life until he gave his life to Jesus in the early 1950s. Jack and Unshackled! were linked together until his death.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5zXklj6kiJv6zG_VEvgVv3uKcUMx7kNa24rZ6Z2xCHxu3NcDAM7mRedRqYtAFNfijkfPxKxl6pPu1MfJTjfsloTaaPyXVqQelMPqSRokUl1YJ8PoYgcFNU6T2c6q-bVrAsEa9xiKPoNs/s1600-h/jack_odell.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 143px; height: 196px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5zXklj6kiJv6zG_VEvgVv3uKcUMx7kNa24rZ6Z2xCHxu3NcDAM7mRedRqYtAFNfijkfPxKxl6pPu1MfJTjfsloTaaPyXVqQelMPqSRokUl1YJ8PoYgcFNU6T2c6q-bVrAsEa9xiKPoNs/s400/jack_odell.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446185242604273394" border="0" /></a>The program became extremely famous over the years. Its phone number in Chicago (until 2007), in Jack's words, <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Area 3-1-2, 9-2-2, 1-4-6-2,"</span> was politely made fun of by both Christians and nonbelievers alike. The original phone number was <span style="font-weight: bold;">WAbash 2-1463</span>. It didn't have quite the rhythmic bounce of the second number <span style="font-weight: bold;">[(312) 922-1462]</span>, so it was the Mission that called the phone company to change the last digit of the phone number to a 2. They granted the request. The present phone number, <span style="font-weight: bold;">(312) 492-4910</span>, also isn't as nice sounding, but this is an era of computers and cell phones. No one cares what a phone number <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">sounds</span> like.<br /><br />Most of the programs on Unshackled! have been true biographies. For holidays, "special" programs are often written.<br /><br />Harry Saulnier worked at the mission until his son <span style="font-weight: bold;">David</span> (b. 1940) took over as superintendent. Today, <span style="font-weight: bold;">David McCarrell</span> is superintendent. And after a few years of being the host of Unshackled!, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Russ Reed</span>, an OTR veteran in Chicago, retired and now these responsibilities are shared by guests and mission personnel.<br /><br />Unshackled! is the longest running radio program in history. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Guiding Light </span>moved to television in the 1950s and it didn't air on the radio consistently. The same could be said about other shows. While it was probably more popular in previous years, the show will not leave the air...<br /><br /></div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-52670302068309414802009-12-14T18:00:00.015+10:002009-12-14T19:27:14.224+10:00The Cinnamon Bear - - Part II<div style="text-align: justify;">I noticed some of you all were looking for pictures of some of the actors on the Bear. Unfortunately, I can't get any that were taken during production. And some of the folks, well, it's difficult to find pictures of them. Here are the ones I could find:</div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaGPvu_8Qte2OaKajbNZPSmUWpd4IzPn8sDqeqPEf2Cue0ktWq4RDSmMA71Tqzxyu9GU_Ss6MsUV6ozujerleDSn0ebpzD-4FSs0z6T-SY8YcRwcoLwG3AVSYA1RvEcNilq8mDtZ5uK3E/s1600-h/allman.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 317px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaGPvu_8Qte2OaKajbNZPSmUWpd4IzPn8sDqeqPEf2Cue0ktWq4RDSmMA71Tqzxyu9GU_Ss6MsUV6ozujerleDSn0ebpzD-4FSs0z6T-SY8YcRwcoLwG3AVSYA1RvEcNilq8mDtZ5uK3E/s400/allman.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415017709046843938" /></a><div><b>Elvia Allman</b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Penelope the Penguin</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQgoH1pdJslR6UWZZc2oh7xbOzV1P4cgJASFjmpyLRVbgpNOeZjFlvgS31I4RwWOnxcgmMGtCuDuOUpwklKWafyihAvIefs69mBKSd_4t0vqLrMh2AgxTtQau8jvRS_lYSJVOHobfKVkE/s1600-h/felton.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 239px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQgoH1pdJslR6UWZZc2oh7xbOzV1P4cgJASFjmpyLRVbgpNOeZjFlvgS31I4RwWOnxcgmMGtCuDuOUpwklKWafyihAvIefs69mBKSd_4t0vqLrMh2AgxTtQau8jvRS_lYSJVOHobfKVkE/s400/felton.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415017406620550418" /></a><b>Verna Felton</b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Mother</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></b><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgawV5d_fyhyphenhyphenxjuP-9Gn2-mCHi1AZvGkHXjpFHkjors7rE1j4SFqbrrSTtePg7UNyWHbTLGwjVHUbmnTDfJDstwefOdXtesxAIN2Jv2ke1NbVdaL5MkixpNVKHD2EMEtfgxVd1dksckyPo/s1600-h/gordon.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 373px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgawV5d_fyhyphenhyphenxjuP-9Gn2-mCHi1AZvGkHXjpFHkjors7rE1j4SFqbrrSTtePg7UNyWHbTLGwjVHUbmnTDfJDstwefOdXtesxAIN2Jv2ke1NbVdaL5MkixpNVKHD2EMEtfgxVd1dksckyPo/s400/gordon.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415016681697025186" /></a><b>Gale Gordon</b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Weary Willie</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Oliver Ostrich<br /></span></b><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl3f_2BlBnAb9LRXUE3b8tn6ABr_0k8VPNM-gFEcCya1PH3ws81cYOeBNrDqvBqe0F_zoP7xYDrK3pCbcH5AjlaH7OtJlzzuCOD_McsVpy1zsTUvzRQG6KgCyOtMfSYpAqdKPkmTB1z48/s1600-h/kearns.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl3f_2BlBnAb9LRXUE3b8tn6ABr_0k8VPNM-gFEcCya1PH3ws81cYOeBNrDqvBqe0F_zoP7xYDrK3pCbcH5AjlaH7OtJlzzuCOD_McsVpy1zsTUvzRQG6KgCyOtMfSYpAqdKPkmTB1z48/s400/kearns.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415016259287070338" /></a><b><br /></b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Joe Kearns</span></div></div></div></div><b><div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Crazy Quilt Dragon</span><br /></b><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2J_MrOKBwPF9svxNTd5iUY5zoRonRilLe3263eSX4FiNl5mv7kIBSl-t_8hzZQknGferyMcfd6OmIVKJ8tQIjdb5tdC4OoI_K6xshhplPdcnmp6i7asYfdZCBrirT3kLmJQRlbFVFTmE/s1600-h/kendall.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 287px; height: 334px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2J_MrOKBwPF9svxNTd5iUY5zoRonRilLe3263eSX4FiNl5mv7kIBSl-t_8hzZQknGferyMcfd6OmIVKJ8tQIjdb5tdC4OoI_K6xshhplPdcnmp6i7asYfdZCBrirT3kLmJQRlbFVFTmE/s400/kendall.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415015723373747266" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Cy Kendall</span></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Captain Taffy</div><div><br /></div><div>Indian Chief</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFR0JfQhl9lu7o7McB_tk3UBjq1qghoE3tjuFECnkUHdy0N2l35cEUN0QqeJg3R_dFTjsf9KxBKZXjVS3edO3AeUkl8bluCVRFvtXzmPunrZ6bWmPx7m12a_JLsbkQFKmYsfApP42bsj0/s1600-h/lewis.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 260px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFR0JfQhl9lu7o7McB_tk3UBjq1qghoE3tjuFECnkUHdy0N2l35cEUN0QqeJg3R_dFTjsf9KxBKZXjVS3edO3AeUkl8bluCVRFvtXzmPunrZ6bWmPx7m12a_JLsbkQFKmYsfApP42bsj0/s400/lewis.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415015371546136562" /></a><b>Elliott Lewis</b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Mr. Presto</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmaxPkurikLo_QCvVklCxkx_bw2kFybC9XObHbFTD-zsvU3aJAT38fr5UGVXbKBAWUyeWCIh68RmXFavbqIu2Nk5JQaoho0kDmM0yJfjXf6vPstk4-0ouZjSoIrD0gsvDJpX3o6nL8hLc/s1600-h/mcnear.gif" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmaxPkurikLo_QCvVklCxkx_bw2kFybC9XObHbFTD-zsvU3aJAT38fr5UGVXbKBAWUyeWCIh68RmXFavbqIu2Nk5JQaoho0kDmM0yJfjXf6vPstk4-0ouZjSoIrD0gsvDJpX3o6nL8hLc/s400/mcnear.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415014634969939906" /></a><div><div><b>Howard McNear</b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Samuel the Seal</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Slim the Cowboy<br /></span></b><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCtVvfKtoVmcc-Q-vsclIgAUxqS3ZlDkVRLD0o64Z45VuPjgxQYlR-_LGD_SB-YglPWwA4tvr2hXIHVi_thyfQl18zFmNa8swP1ISYB3DOpTCL42w5S7n20ppjxL7XYkJq1uL1LNTSAw4/s1600-h/nelson.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 175px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCtVvfKtoVmcc-Q-vsclIgAUxqS3ZlDkVRLD0o64Z45VuPjgxQYlR-_LGD_SB-YglPWwA4tvr2hXIHVi_thyfQl18zFmNa8swP1ISYB3DOpTCL42w5S7n20ppjxL7XYkJq1uL1LNTSAw4/s400/nelson.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415014356247281394" /></a><br /><div><b>Frank Nelson</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Captain Tintop</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_NeukGNt-x8ylvW3fWinn4UuUrm4m_MS4itmhHY_nvWlvSOrTgjGMgEm7SuQfFEkndo9PPOcwwYJ-c5eADvGOT8H48CI5Z_TY5dtrpeLXy2S4kTv9oosOYPkQUxNqhooEAwVQQAcwagk/s1600-h/osborne.png"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 217px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_NeukGNt-x8ylvW3fWinn4UuUrm4m_MS4itmhHY_nvWlvSOrTgjGMgEm7SuQfFEkndo9PPOcwwYJ-c5eADvGOT8H48CI5Z_TY5dtrpeLXy2S4kTv9oosOYPkQUxNqhooEAwVQQAcwagk/s400/osborne.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415013900092494466" /></a><br /><div><b>Ted Osborne</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>King Blotto</div><div><br /></div><div>Professor Whiz</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMV8GWaZTEXSLaN81CsO4OCQRyy-lKY2YmBdjYP4P_Nm105EkY_GdD0zmE40D1qnI0aLgHK7a8zrTY5BvnSmTymG3dugp2urGV4WPK5fd5HDvBIjvsyYYHFKuGBDn99Fy1InEFdu5kJE0/s1600-h/stafford.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMV8GWaZTEXSLaN81CsO4OCQRyy-lKY2YmBdjYP4P_Nm105EkY_GdD0zmE40D1qnI0aLgHK7a8zrTY5BvnSmTymG3dugp2urGV4WPK5fd5HDvBIjvsyYYHFKuGBDn99Fy1InEFdu5kJE0/s400/stafford.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415013343942163298" /></a><b>Hanley Stafford </b>(with Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks)<div><br /></div><div>Snapper Snick Crocodile<br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kWqqOoVqmrG4QaGPN1y-y-1Cp3S5vIYlpNT-l5p7sH3vCr5O5OUPcUOEcaiZJD3mjArkzlhPZ6GjYbHgwMBQ_opxUqxNsQDBUim4Cd3EzIfBaFwUA54zyizCO_8EZWwWxQh5UD4LnWk/s1600-h/Tetley.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 230px; height: 357px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kWqqOoVqmrG4QaGPN1y-y-1Cp3S5vIYlpNT-l5p7sH3vCr5O5OUPcUOEcaiZJD3mjArkzlhPZ6GjYbHgwMBQ_opxUqxNsQDBUim4Cd3EzIfBaFwUA54zyizCO_8EZWwWxQh5UD4LnWk/s400/Tetley.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415012905272811938" /></a><b>Walter Tetley</b><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Jimmy</span><br /></b><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8IYuycur4eZRmMEc-DXaJMWDEj_RDkNKzSasEFvyW7kx56xVhvgf6UuAuiDS4x0l1hkFuCIfp7-PQ7QiTRaTlfiRTYpyaReylcZDoerRDTQ1aiJvXAAXmAYN0lg03vUJLK1Pfc2ex2JA/s1600-h/thompson.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 279px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8IYuycur4eZRmMEc-DXaJMWDEj_RDkNKzSasEFvyW7kx56xVhvgf6UuAuiDS4x0l1hkFuCIfp7-PQ7QiTRaTlfiRTYpyaReylcZDoerRDTQ1aiJvXAAXmAYN0lg03vUJLK1Pfc2ex2JA/s320/thompson.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415012486244626626" /></a><b>Bill Thompson</b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Snowman</span><br /></b><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdCsDZPaVhmsaZ3Yy3RbLO7cNVyfB5pfsOepg2xgLwqxWRRJhc6Ze31h7af5XCfyxSemErhgppD-JqsZiJaPUXZG-8DYQFa-BC1wRAZyFTLD7Ojgn2hjRG8VKTE_WKmKGPkxQIHMFAZfg/s1600-h/wentworth.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 212px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdCsDZPaVhmsaZ3Yy3RbLO7cNVyfB5pfsOepg2xgLwqxWRRJhc6Ze31h7af5XCfyxSemErhgppD-JqsZiJaPUXZG-8DYQFa-BC1wRAZyFTLD7Ojgn2hjRG8VKTE_WKmKGPkxQIHMFAZfg/s400/wentworth.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415011884550413522" /></a><b>Martha Wentworth</b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Wintergreen Witch</div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuNroiw-hpDhUr8lKUaEfo-vCRYyF9ev78ADTuhJEM9w_MaTLenBrdTIhSaSkUDhpbLz1i4gyoq49vwVCTDfnfB6c2AggAJv3LuC5dzu1oFTJyooRvVD2tCWboJt4rOvB0P8CrgWH60-E/s1600-h/wong.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 328px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuNroiw-hpDhUr8lKUaEfo-vCRYyF9ev78ADTuhJEM9w_MaTLenBrdTIhSaSkUDhpbLz1i4gyoq49vwVCTDfnfB6c2AggAJv3LuC5dzu1oFTJyooRvVD2tCWboJt4rOvB0P8CrgWH60-E/s400/wong.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415011606601973298" /></a><br /><b>Barbara Jean Wong</b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Judy </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Remember that the Bear was done purposely anonymously. Someone way back in 1937 knew that some armchair historians (like this tuba playing English teacher living in Mindanao) would be trying to figure out who all the cast was. These might all be wrong.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></b></div><b></b>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-19129430761160105672009-12-12T21:00:00.003+10:002009-12-30T17:28:22.472+10:00The Cinnamon Bear [Orinially heard November through December 1937]<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOUM3YvRcVPnAl95cR0I1tYQK8tKDfQzKZX8d6YKBxK6M4QHvxWEzLDOfcdBA4gznokMs9bEvyPbx26VxU-1WObjBkWNPge6R4imnbCmeiHYA_roAk4kx2Y8OHNOCoKKNvlzJ26A31NqY/s1600-h/cb2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 215px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOUM3YvRcVPnAl95cR0I1tYQK8tKDfQzKZX8d6YKBxK6M4QHvxWEzLDOfcdBA4gznokMs9bEvyPbx26VxU-1WObjBkWNPge6R4imnbCmeiHYA_roAk4kx2Y8OHNOCoKKNvlzJ26A31NqY/s400/cb2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414327764226313042" border="0" /></a>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cinnamon Bear</span> was a popular show for kids that played every night between the Sunday after Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. It was the imaginary adventures of twins Judy and Jimmy Barton. Many children and adults have listened to this program through the years. I played the show here in the Philippines for some of my adult students and they love it.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Here are some details about the performers:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Paddy O'Cinnamon (Cinnamon Bear)</span>--Bud Duncan (1883-1960)<br />He was a popular actor in silent films and was heard on many radio shows in the 1930s. He retired in 1943.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mother</span>--Verna Felton (1890-1966)<br />A native Californian, she was famous on radio for portraying the mothers of Dennis Day, Harriet Nelson, and Red Skelton. She was heard in almost every major Disney animated feature between<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Dumbo</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Jungle Book</span>. Years after she died, her picture was used for the portrayal of the wife of Colonel Sherman T. Potter on the TV series, <span style="font-weight: bold;">M*A*S*H</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Judy</span>--Barbara Jean Wong (1924-99)<br />Her biography is mentioned <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://knowotr.blogspot.com/2008/05/barbara-jean-wong-1924-99.html">elsewhere here</a>. This was one of her first programs. Famous for portraying children of all races and ages, she was 13 here.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jimmy</span>--Unknown<br />For as big a part as this young actor had, no one remembers who he was. Some people believe that Jimmy was played by <i>Walter Tetley</i> (1915-75), who was 22 years old when the Bear was recorded in early November 1937. Walter had some condition (only he and his girlfriends knew exactly what it was) in which his body development and voice remained pre-pubescent. He always played children on the radio. On the <b>Bullwinkle</b> show in the 1960s (a cartoon series on TV), he was the voice of Mr. Peabody's boy, Sherman.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Crazy Quilt Dragon</span>--Joe Kearns (1907-62)<br />Mentioned <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://knowotr.blogspot.com/2008/03/joseph-kearns-1907-62.html">here</a>. This was one of his first radio acting gigs. He was 30.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Snapper Snick Crocodile</span>--Hanley Stafford (1899-1968)<br />Born Alfred Austin, he is mentioned <a href="http://knowotr.blogspot.com/2008/04/hanley-stafford-1899-1968.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">here</span></a>. He was one of the busiest radio actors of all time.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Samuel the Seal/Slim the Cowboy</span>--Howard McNear (1905-69)<br />Native Angeleno McNear was best known on TV as Floyd the Barber on the Andy Griffith Show and on radio as Doc Adams on Gunsmoke. He was another active radio performer.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Penelope the Penguin</span>--Elvia Allman--(1904-92)<br />Busy with radio, movies and TV, she first made her mark in Hollywood as the voice of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Clarbelle the Cow</span> in 1933 for Walt Disney.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mr. Presto</span>--Elliott Lewis (1917-90)<br />This was one of Elliott's first radio acting gigs. The recordings for the shows were done in early November. His twentieth birthday wasn't until November 28.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Santa Claus</span>--Lou Merrill (1912-1963)<br />This Canadian actor was a master of various accents. He was on many shows. Died one week after his 51st birthday.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Captain Tintop</span>--Frank Nelson (1911-86)<br />Very distinctive voice ("Yay-yuss!") Lifelong friend of Hanley Stafford. When Hanley died, his widow married Frank. Hanley's mother, Hanley, Frank, and Veola Vonn, the wife, are all interred together in the same mausoleum crypt at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Captain Taffy/Indian Chief</span>--Cy Kendall (1898-1953)<br />Heavyset actor known for chomping a cigar and acting very nervous (and nasty) in movies. The parts he played on the Bear were a change of pace.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Weary Willie/Oliver Ostrich</span>--Gale Gordon (1906-95)<br />Charles T. Aldrich, Jr., is written about <a href="http://knowotr.blogspot.com/2008/07/gale-gordon-1906-95.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">here.</span></a> This man was on the radio almost every night of the week at this time. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">King Blotto/Professor Whiz</span>--Ted Osborne (1905-87)<br />Ted was also a very prolific radio performer. He was on mostly horror and science fiction shows. In 1939, he was <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dr. Fu Manchu</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fe Fo</span>--Joe Duval (1906-66)<br />Joe only did radio until the 1950s, when radio died. He was seen in a handful of movies.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wintergreen Witch</span>--Martha Wentworth (1889-1974)<br />Known as the Woman of a Thousand Voices. She could do any character, any age.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fraidy Cat</span>--Dorothy Scott<br />She was a voice actress for Disney. Her last film was <span style="font-weight: bold;">My Bodyguard </span>(1980).<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Assistant Blotto Executioner/Mudley</span>--Ed Max (1909-80)<br />Edwin Max originally acted under the stage name of Ed Miller (in the movies). He always used his real name for radio.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Narrator</span>--John Hiestand (1907-87)<br />Often listed as "Bud." He announced many radio shows in Hollywood (1930s-1950s) and later on TV.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Snowman</span>--Bill Thompson (1913-71)<br />Defined by two characters--Wallace Wimple (on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fibber McGee and Molly</span>) and Droopy the Dog (in MGM cartoons).<br /><br />Background:<br />Script: Glanville Heisch (d. 1989) [a manager at station KFI in Los Angeles] and Elizabeth Heisch (1908-2003) [his wife--uncredited]<br /><span style="font-family:arial,Arial,Helvetica;"><span>Director: Lindsay MacHarrie</span></span> [was a voice actor in his own right]<br />Composer: Don Honrath [Broadway stage performer in the 1930s]<br />Orchestra Conductor: Felix Mills (1901-87) [Worked for many years at CBS in Hollywood]<br /><br /><br />You can download the entire show and other fun stuff at <a href="http://cinnamonbear.co.uk/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">the official Cinnamon Bear website</span></a>.<br /><br /></div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-42075918513174075972009-08-28T17:00:00.004+10:002009-12-11T13:36:35.176+10:00Manila Broadcasting Company<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGmNI9FS5M5jSHpH0UsysGj4YenDpkSU7k2ryGe765fN0Um33IZ1hXEgm0EKtvUi08LWTxn5ffHaadVu685vnUmxvhzQ0YsJOo4yWPN7S3cw6PttweSWLM3uQBB3giv8iMyAqc414Wu74/s1600-h/dzrhlogo.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 119px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGmNI9FS5M5jSHpH0UsysGj4YenDpkSU7k2ryGe765fN0Um33IZ1hXEgm0EKtvUi08LWTxn5ffHaadVu685vnUmxvhzQ0YsJOo4yWPN7S3cw6PttweSWLM3uQBB3giv8iMyAqc414Wu74/s400/dzrhlogo.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374913615336466082" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Hello. It's been a while. Last week I got the flu. It wasn't the flu that everyone has been so afraid of lately... in fact it was worse! Which is why they didn't quarantine the hotel where I stay... Hmmm!<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I listened to a little bit of local radio last week. In the Philippines there are very few truly local radio stations. (On TV the local stations would be called LPTV in the United States.) Anyway, I was tuning the FM band. Everything is the same Top-40. I used to wonder why Top-40 was dropped as a radio genre in America. Living here, I now know. It gets old listening to the same songs over and over and over and over and over again. Ugh!<br /><br />So I went to the AM band. There isn't much music there, mostly talk (and mostly in a Pilipino language, which I still don't understand). I found a great station at <span style="font-weight: bold;">DXKH</span> (972 kHz) here in Cagayan de Oro (CDO).<br /><br />It sounded like a television program. My radio picks up TV signals (something you can't do in the United States in most locations, since the advent of Digital TV) so I thought maybe my radio was set to the wrong band. But no, it was honest to goodness radio comedy. After that, there was a romantic soap opera followed by a 19th century superhero adventure, much in the spirit of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Zorro</span>. At the hour and half-hour it gave station IDs from both <span style="font-weight: bold;">DZRH</span> (the mother station in Manila, which just happens to be the oldest radio station in the Philippines, having gone on the air June 15, 1939, as <span style="font-weight: bold;">KZRH</span>, as the Philippines was a US commonwealth then, the Ks would be dropped ten years later and substituted with Ds, thus the Philppines is one of the few countries in the world that identifies radio stations by call letters) and <span style="font-weight: bold;">DXKH</span> in CDO.<br /><br />It's just too bad I don't speak Tagalog. There was enough English and Spanish (Spanish in the adventure program) that I could follow the stories. It is nice to know that radio variety is alive and well in the Philippines. Now my job is to learn Tagalog! (Even though I live in a place where most people speak Cebuano/Bisayan.)<br /></div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-72700775089800178282008-11-02T23:10:00.003+10:002008-12-03T00:05:01.433+10:00Abe Lincoln (1907-2000)<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgla4w6HTtl4rzqcgqsjE9Len5n-hdP8frnVgt5Mt6N2ej7vLZYk9BYqCRFPKtRDhkrJVIIiX_84MaXPO1P5rMnu_2bsWioU8CVyJIbGbNqCdsBZlQpdminYtrcbYM0RdVWSLKbNXs7mUQ/s1600-h/abe1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 232px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgla4w6HTtl4rzqcgqsjE9Len5n-hdP8frnVgt5Mt6N2ej7vLZYk9BYqCRFPKtRDhkrJVIIiX_84MaXPO1P5rMnu_2bsWioU8CVyJIbGbNqCdsBZlQpdminYtrcbYM0RdVWSLKbNXs7mUQ/s400/abe1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274809285574670498" border="0" /></a>Abram Lincoln was born March 29, 1907, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He began studying cornet with his father at the age of five. His dad never let him go to bed at night until he played all major and minor scales. Eventually, Abe settled on the trombone as his instrument. In 1921, he became the solo trombonist with his dad's band, the Bud Lincoln Orchestra, which was also known as the Brunswick Orchestra.<br /><br />In time, Abe became friends with many of the great hot jazz musicians of the time, including the Dorsey Brothers. After Tommy Dorsey joined the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, Abe took his place with the California Ramblers.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUJkid6Jfml-nqsKx7u-9DEPVl4bxVzcy8DrYFLooSbGDDFusjJ6zCI3pJMENZbqAGiy_7CdqfLFKKyNVQz7bkqthozauVFzR25V1sypvIZ3hCDIpsTzlg1ud0W7wzuFUZzw3DdgMJtzo/s1600-h/Bud.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUJkid6Jfml-nqsKx7u-9DEPVl4bxVzcy8DrYFLooSbGDDFusjJ6zCI3pJMENZbqAGiy_7CdqfLFKKyNVQz7bkqthozauVFzR25V1sypvIZ3hCDIpsTzlg1ud0W7wzuFUZzw3DdgMJtzo/s400/Bud.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274810789859687042" border="0" /></a>In time, Abe was a member of several of the best known bands of the 1920s and 1930s.<br /><br />He joined the Ozzie Nelson Orchestra in 1934. If a listener pays attention on Ripley's Believe It or Not, one can hear some of the most unusual trombone playing. He became notorious for making animal sounds with his trombone.<br /><br />Abe was heard on many of the best know and loved radio programs of the Golden Years of Radio. Although his real love was jazz, he was one of the most innovative trombonists of all time. When Universal Pictures created Woody Woodpecker cartoons, his trombone was often the sound of the little red bird.<br /><br />He was married in 1921 and had a son, Abe Lincoln, Jr.<br /><br />Abe Lincoln died June 8, 2000, at the age of 93 in Los Angeles.<br /><br />____________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK6OEM6Dp3N_74to6WGkAH4zf8sBoyHdp__k2IealO3161LYVEcc31hMs9qFJ4K246Bn_FtO8KPule4oVOGn3-g8iUKbFyaPw0Ft9rJDIYlZP9fXh0pySWmNa7zbhoBIivXBTk7oqRu7U/s1600-h/RTL.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 305px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK6OEM6Dp3N_74to6WGkAH4zf8sBoyHdp__k2IealO3161LYVEcc31hMs9qFJ4K246Bn_FtO8KPule4oVOGn3-g8iUKbFyaPw0Ft9rJDIYlZP9fXh0pySWmNa7zbhoBIivXBTk7oqRu7U/s400/RTL.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275179307795214738" border="0" /></a>Speaking of Lincolns, Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926) was the only one of President Abraham Lincoln's four sons who lived past puberty. By the time his father was inaugurated President, the eldest son was already out of the house (as a student at Harvard University). In 1865 he left school to join the Union Army. He rose to the rank of captain and was present at Appomattox when General Robert E. Lee surrendered.<br /><br />He had a distant relationship with his father. He was present at Ford's Theater when actor John Wilkes Booth shot his father and was one of the few who stayed around to see him die. He openly wept.<br /><br />After the Civil War was over he enrolled at the University of Chicago (not the same as the present University of Chicago) and finished his studies in law. He was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1867. The following year, he married Mary Eunice Harlan (1846-1937). They had two daughters and a son (the son, Abraham Lincoln, II, called "Jack," died of blood poisoning at the age of 16 in London, England).<br /><br />One of the terrible trivial tidbits about Robert Todd Lincoln was that whenever there was a Presidential assassination he was there.<br />-Abraham Lincoln (Ford's Theater, Washington, DC)<br />-James Abram Garfield (Sixth Street Train Station, Washington, DC)<br />-William McKinley (Pan American Exposition, Buffalo, NY)<br /><br />After a political/service career, Robert Todd Lincoln took over for George Pullman in 1898 when he died, Lincoln served as president of the Pullman Company until 1911, after which time he served as Chairman of the Board.<br /><br />Robert Todd Lincoln died July 26, 1926, in Manchester, Vermont, at the age of 83.<br /><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-9828326782598567662008-11-02T00:00:00.005+10:002008-12-01T23:05:32.895+10:00Danny Kaye (1913-87)<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidtTB1GkkACEeOjFQusc7wxa1zPZpuvJz05YoXpismHow7_m5ixghJrD3E7FOIWIGaKfH7cG_M6WJG9_K8eZpkorxGCWtJPVsUkefraMuloh4c9q2OdjM3z_mC0nBt39RShDMdbbW-I30/s1600-h/Danny+Kaye.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 305px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidtTB1GkkACEeOjFQusc7wxa1zPZpuvJz05YoXpismHow7_m5ixghJrD3E7FOIWIGaKfH7cG_M6WJG9_K8eZpkorxGCWtJPVsUkefraMuloh4c9q2OdjM3z_mC0nBt39RShDMdbbW-I30/s400/Danny+Kaye.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274797746315705458" border="0" /></a>David Daniel Kaminski was born January 18, 1913, in Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of Jacob Kaminsky (yes, the spelling was different) and his wife, the former Clara Nemerov. With their sons, Mack and Larry, they emigrated from the Ukraine to the United States in 1910. For school, he attended P.S. 149 in Brooklyn before going on to Thomas Jefferson High School also in Brooklyn, but he never even finished the first year, leaving at the age of 13.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWlCHMktDKr5pqcnxabKKfZmstH55D8c5ily7d4E87k95YRV3hzEssu2XGLo5P5Zm1DIjSGTsB0JM33ZI0nI7EzZ0ukQnCAU8i0Sew5y5S_pBItUmOB580jeqL44lEReKHRMfYdMv5ibE/s1600-h/Dan+Kaye+Kolbin.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 263px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWlCHMktDKr5pqcnxabKKfZmstH55D8c5ily7d4E87k95YRV3hzEssu2XGLo5P5Zm1DIjSGTsB0JM33ZI0nI7EzZ0ukQnCAU8i0Sew5y5S_pBItUmOB580jeqL44lEReKHRMfYdMv5ibE/s400/Dan+Kaye+Kolbin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274799108672014130" border="0" /></a>At that time, Danny became a <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">tummler</span>, which is Yiddish for master of ceremonies at Jewish resorts in the Katskill Mountains of Pennsylvania. Danny would do many other things and, as it can be seen from the program on the right, he experimented with different names. He did many other jobs that had nothing to do with entertainment.<br /><br />In 1935 he acted in some shorts for Educational Films, usually as a Russian musician acting with future stars June Allyson and Imogene Coca (his contract actually began in 1936). Sadly that division of 20th Century-Fox shut down in 1938 which meant the end of Danny's film career, at least for six years.<br /><br />Danny premiered on Broadway in 1941 in a show called, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lady in the Dark</span>. He stopped the show with a tongue twisting song called <span style="font-style: italic;">Tchaikovsky</span>. It was written by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgG0nk0p8qq0VXEDkKvSjuxn7SBGWeWc6RzTvSboqwQSPykTS1bv9jAcaetKr0LVRMy5lhPIR4GEZO3PnlHtwLwIsvOdqD9BNZwQAS8vPFnE6w8-Z1ROv2UGTHbiCFKLHT56QpnMp074A/s1600-h/tubby.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 293px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgG0nk0p8qq0VXEDkKvSjuxn7SBGWeWc6RzTvSboqwQSPykTS1bv9jAcaetKr0LVRMy5lhPIR4GEZO3PnlHtwLwIsvOdqD9BNZwQAS8vPFnE6w8-Z1ROv2UGTHbiCFKLHT56QpnMp074A/s400/tubby.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274805866158973586" border="0" /></a>He began doing some experimental radio programs in 1940. He starred in his own program beginning in 1945, about a year after his "big break" in motion pictures. Also in 1940, he married a young pianist by the name of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sylvia Fine</span> (1913-91). They remained married until his death in 1987. They had a daughter, named Dena who was born in 1946.<br /><br />Danny is best known for his movie career which included such films at <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Court Jester</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Inspector General</span>, and started out with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Up in Arms</span>.<br /><br />In the 1950s, he wrote for Mad Magazine. In the 1960s he had his own variety show. Toward the end of his life, he appeared in a number of comedy shows and was lauded for a dramatic film called<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Skokie</span>.<br />He was a life long Democrat and active with UNICEF and also owned a baseball team in Seattle.<br /><br />Danny Kaye died March 3, 1987, at the age of 74 in Los Angeles of hepatitis.<br /></div></div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-43788008533587719512008-10-03T04:44:00.005+10:002010-04-24T22:27:54.997+10:00Lorne Greene (1915-87)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPmTMhgVABu4zBFOEKY04Qhk6_zk76m8z6s43Fws-GJ5f0j1ZREJC4K6z41pFUZZTpF1Rdx7swqHRjXcW3rID2XRsw088BNi9h8PQoltrrcEAsZg7pw0c6oLlylW0iUOWhDPxkGAQH_x4/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPmTMhgVABu4zBFOEKY04Qhk6_zk76m8z6s43Fws-GJ5f0j1ZREJC4K6z41pFUZZTpF1Rdx7swqHRjXcW3rID2XRsw088BNi9h8PQoltrrcEAsZg7pw0c6oLlylW0iUOWhDPxkGAQH_x4/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252629679829620882" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Lyon Chaim Green was born February 12, 1915, in Ottawa, Ontario. His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants to Canada, Daniel and Dora Green. He attended Lisgar Collegiate Institute (a public high school), where he earned his diploma in 1932. He then attended Queens University in Kingston, where he majored in chemical engineering. He was also involved drama and worked at the school radio station, CFRC. An excellent student, his professors had the idea that the young man was going to be a wonderful chemical engineer. But he changed majors in the middle of his college career and took a degree in languages so he could spend more time with drama activities.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">When he graduated from Queens in 1937, rather than go into engineering, he went in for broadcasting, he spent some time in New York City to get some honest to goodness<br />drama training. Unfortunately, being at the deepest depths of the Depression, there were no jobs and he was not a US citizen. So he went back to Canada. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8_vrBh2s2-5d5K8r-H6qh0J87K9IFbMmyItwnG8kt_HuA1zm_UHrPzqa_RtaN7WHwAKRfdt2VPbAudVBCOTJczRi_5HqZJ0eSx_TlVFe3bb5NN_OIObusxqVmdTu7Z7dfRWVBfr_woEc/s400/7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252760584382339506" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;" border="0" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">He walked into the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) studios in Ottawa and was hired on the spot, thanks to his, low booming voice, even as a young adult. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">In 1938 he married Rita Hands; they would have two children, twins born in 1945 named Susan and Charles.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjsdvm0E03BNktoUWlqd7thixCce_QYHxvHQn7d68vWGgnP5wZmZFI5wDEOCL3OfInrhdnUtGPQxOQ4O42MOXccFRoKaHq1_f1OlbdBHOwM2qHGxlRlshfDB1YJQVsvjbOPKuDhw0Tbj0/s1600-h/8.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjsdvm0E03BNktoUWlqd7thixCce_QYHxvHQn7d68vWGgnP5wZmZFI5wDEOCL3OfInrhdnUtGPQxOQ4O42MOXccFRoKaHq1_f1OlbdBHOwM2qHGxlRlshfDB1YJQVsvjbOPKuDhw0Tbj0/s400/8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252765825448696994" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">In 1939, he became the principal newsreader for CBC's national evening news broadcasts. It was also this time he became known as Lorne Greene, which was based on his birth name. Having an unusual deep, rich voice, when they heard his voice, they said they had to have him. The Canadian Broadcasting Company billed him as the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Voice of Canada</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">. To most Canadians listening to the radio in 1939-42, he became known as the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">Voice of Doom</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">, because when they heard his voice, it was normally tragic news about the war in Europe.He also narrated a number of documentary films for schools.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRQW7SkxzK_s_PumpadAwcHhvwXc2Wl0ajx56S_BnHRLE8E4sv7jRQTGY0P-rCV-uFBK5e6z9mQKEPN72TprOuzMVbINuEHfHxpwPDeShsty3FGwHFc_DVzJWu4rdL0knT5mhdhcbkN14/s400/6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252636591941832578" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;" border="0" /><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:'lucida grande';" >From late 1942 to early 1945 Lorne served as a flying officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force.When he returned from military service he went in more for acting. He began acting on the radio and worked in television as soon as it became available. Lorne helped establish the Academy of Radio Arts (founded as the Lorne Greene School of Broadcasting) and the Jupiter Theatre (1951). </span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">In 1953, he made the move to California to try his luck at Hollywood acting. He got a lot of acting work on television and his booming voice also helped him to get work as narrator for more of those school documentary films,when times were lean.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkOOdVduCObv6hIFgPgsZcJP8c795sSZnR4PKCOoDg_Rbjl1esQj2DO1zbV8ZcqWUMkiXSvhF0Cq54P5IRTcWhRqdx9cwmoJFa_1MjpBsW12CkLh0tTB0KLu4t94TNCw7ENYzKY9XWgYQ/s1600/9.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkOOdVduCObv6hIFgPgsZcJP8c795sSZnR4PKCOoDg_Rbjl1esQj2DO1zbV8ZcqWUMkiXSvhF0Cq54P5IRTcWhRqdx9cwmoJFa_1MjpBsW12CkLh0tTB0KLu4t94TNCw7ENYzKY9XWgYQ/s400/9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463679565824682946" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';">The biggest break in his life was when he was cast as Ben Cartwright in the dramatic western series, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Bonanza</span>. Debuting in 1959 on NBC, it would be the defining role of his life. Lorne would go on to do animal shows and dog food commercials, but he would always be Ben Cartwright, the owner of the Ponderosa Ranch for those of us who watched him every week through September 1973. This was one of the greatest family television shows of all time.<br /><br />Lorne Greene died September 11, 1987, following heart surgery in Santa Monica, California. He was 72 years old. Married twice, first to Rita Hands (1938-60) and then to Nancy Deale (1961-87), he was the father of three children. Green is buried at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California.<br /></span></div></span></span>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-42966898374605950642008-10-02T16:58:00.009+10:002008-10-02T23:02:15.812+10:00Liberace (1919-87)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWEdvlBAtQS96_TgKIrb4BtrjHvRnffjZGGmWdirg9wsrtc3GUGIQ6iijZYjo0f-fiidk50TDgL1lPJwJm8B2MwaGUEWRTP3OfEdLT7uxVVDuwSRDwq6ll6Gf7XcKg7aVU6Oj98eXIaaI/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWEdvlBAtQS96_TgKIrb4BtrjHvRnffjZGGmWdirg9wsrtc3GUGIQ6iijZYjo0f-fiidk50TDgL1lPJwJm8B2MwaGUEWRTP3OfEdLT7uxVVDuwSRDwq6ll6Gf7XcKg7aVU6Oj98eXIaaI/s400/4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252452703127909730" /></a>Wladziu Valentino Liberace was born May 16, 1919, in West Aldis, Wisconsin. His family was quite musical. His father, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Salvatore Liberace</span> (1885-1977) played the (French) horn with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. His mother, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Frances Zuchowsky</span> (1891-1990), was a pianist. By the time young "Walter" was four, he could play anything on the piano by ear. He learned both from listening to his mother and from experimentation. Because of his parents' connections, he was able to earn money as a piano player when he was in his early teens. But his father did not want his children involved in music.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV-FShw3rno-niKPLMSVZSuzbcMSiDZIq2d_6NWMVGdBDuHNYXXfOvwfNdlknenHSAtnJKlCkVWsQcShnne_-HLZv1zsR9H7WS6zh3246wCT3Ib6nv69jZxKxlbw-oy5sbCqFS14hLsxc/s400/3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252463345997510306" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; " /></span><div>Walter had three siblings, brothers <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">George</span> (1911-83) and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Rudolph</span> (1931-67), and a sister, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Angelina</span> (1914-96). They were all musicians. </div><div><br /></div><div>Walter made his <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">big time</span></span> piano debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 14. He didn't just play the classics. He had a dance combo ("The Mixers") at the same time and later played piano in nightclubs as a student at the University of Wisconsin. He used the pseudonym <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Walter Busterkey</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">s<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> for those gigs. </span></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>After graduating from college, he moved to California to try his hand at some kind of stardom. He was not against doing any kind of work. The first movie that he was in where he could be seen (even though unbilled) was <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Best Foot Forward</span> (1943), in which he appeared as a piano player (what else?)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBIZ7yHmq-EYCXSVdMG9JFTKa1XyZM3A5Zy1ORqP5CsMDb2rpOpdAS8DeDn4wRzXYj6IE_CivMPWgjjjWLp1WdIQumfgYr4ZAHtCTFCMxQzDXYObBHJr07RSXIdHXSuZAfDU9IivFdZts/s400/1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252504018009624066" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; " /></span><div>It was after this time that Liberace began his radio career. (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Don't blink too fast or you might miss it!</span>) He wasn't only a piano soloist at this time, so he played in the orchestra for a number of radio programs that aired between 1941 and 1950, originating from Los Angeles. As a soloist, he played for the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Texaco Star Theater</span> (starring James Melton) and a number of Armed Forces Radio Service shows.</div><div><br /></div><div>After 1950, he began working in television. His local TV show on channel 13 in Los Angeles was often poked fun at in Warner Brothers cartoons.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now something should be said about his music. He was what most people would call a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">classical</span></span> musician. He played Chopin, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and all those other guys. But he liked everything. He was Elvis Presley's friend. He had friends who worked in country and western music.</div><div><br /></div><div>Probably the most controversial aspect of Liberace's life was his sexuality. His homosexuality was rumored as early as 1945, when he began to make a name for himself in radio. Fortunately, the world was a much more innocent place during the time between the 1930s and the 1960s. Liberace's sexuality was something most people really didn't care about. He was a heck of a piano player. He had a nice personality. He was respectful. </div><div><br /></div><div>But there was a homosexual episode that happened in England that got coverage in several magazines. Because it was a defamation to his character (and, while what he did was probably immoral, but it wasn't illegal) he successfully sued a British publication for the equivalent of $110,000 in 1957. That was the setting for his one joke, "I cried all the way to the bank." With his settlement money, he was able to make some shrewd investments. From that he had a second joke: "You know the bank where I went crying to? I bought it!"</div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2UHM5EK5RiLboYQyXSI39sIH5ECq-pBhOfZQryO16KNQmZCSPPt9UMNYrbImuD-Ssy7HfIAuWyC7zxI-pVuscvKGehuVymoVfgmdaVCtBzQatr62-AXfZAY7yHy8UKx70pwTRKpf11Kk/s400/2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252506471384789778" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; " /></span><div>His career took a nosedive in the early 1960s as the world was going through some changes which made us all a little less innocent. Paul Harvey would tell of the story how Liberace had a performance one November and he couldn't get one of his suits cleaned. So he had some chemicals in his hotel room and cleaned the clothes in his room of the hotel where he was staying. But the room wasn't well ventilated and he breathed in too much of the noxious chemicals. He tried to yell for help, but the dry cleaning chemicals made it so he couldmake no sounds and he began to pass out. </div><div><br /></div><div>The radio was on. The President of the United States was spending the day in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. And suddenly there was a commotion. Liberace almost completely passed out. But he listened intently to the radio. He prayed, not for himself, but for the country. He was scared of what might happen. And Liberace clung to his life as he worried about the President's life. </div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrOJOja1Gqdn68zk0TAKVDeCmMUFYfjN8fqqoBJ4-03w0lrQS8XmAMmN81jJnPeqrq9ks_mloDyEP80IhI0jzpH9iloDH4gdwxx0X02koVMQU2b2ecrrugcwgdGlOT61SQijuIzAHw-y8/s400/1+jpeg2+jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252535700702033442" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; " /></span><div>A maintenance man was doing some work in the all of the hotel. He lingered near Liberace's room and listened to the radio. It concerned him, too. He knocked on the door to ask if the radio could be turned up. Liberace tried to say something, but nothing came from his mouth. The maintenance man heard this and opened the door with his master key. Seeing Liberace lying on the floor, he called an ambulance. As the medical personnel came to pick him up, it was announced on the radio that President John F. Kennedy was pronounced dead.</div><div><br /></div><div>But after this, his career really took off. He had been working in the motion picture industry for some time since 1950. But by the mid 1960s he was doing everything. He was even a guest villain on the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Batman</span> series!</div><div><br /></div><div>That lasted into the 1970s. Then he began making public appearances. Most of his fans were middle aged women. Most of them were married. They didn't care about the gossip about his sexuality. Liberace was an A1 entertainer and he was a gentleman. And such a great pianist!</div><div><br /></div><div>Liberace died on February 4, 1987, in Palm Springs, California. Because so many aspects about his life were kept secret, there were thousands of reporters at the Riverside County Administration Center in Riverside (Palm Springs is in Riverside County). When the Riverside coroner announced that he died from AIDS, itwas big news. He is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Hollywood Hills, in Los Angeles, in a large white crypt with his mother and older brother.</div><div><br /></div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-73576449979380171292008-09-30T17:35:00.012+10:002008-10-01T04:56:48.347+10:00Milton Cross (1897-1975)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLceDZAgEyEOfictYS7p9fWkLxSpAJL26GB0iNbx-GFlwNIYLyRaxZ9i6q7Z0R_tJu3NmCROTU-gf-IAxQmMPlTuOnlS_nvzgDVRQfNqi-AskZSh1t5p9K1o4RiuJjI1Ef3pBzCq1LLVE/s1600-h/4.JPG"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWjzuoe1rj2B9736d5hLabwdfoNmsuM5DnmotHBClBaorElbRKkL5fac1-DiPwEHt0yjSu4TAnyRqsVnjc0lEef8Vim_5tIYWWvRqb4FISmD94SAZFxYZQ19MxrixY5sxkBav4Plo5BnQ/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWjzuoe1rj2B9736d5hLabwdfoNmsuM5DnmotHBClBaorElbRKkL5fac1-DiPwEHt0yjSu4TAnyRqsVnjc0lEef8Vim_5tIYWWvRqb4FISmD94SAZFxYZQ19MxrixY5sxkBav4Plo5BnQ/s400/1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251720306141576754" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Milton John Cross was born March 16, 1897, in New York, New York. In 1910, at the age of 13, he saw his first performance of the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Metropolitan Opera</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> in New York. He was a trained serious singer, a tenor. For about five years, he had a distinguished singing career. In 1923, he became the pioneer announcer of radio station WJZ in Newark, New Jersey, during the days of radio's infancy. He also announced part of the inauguration of President Herbert Hoover in 1929. WJZ eventually moved to New York City, where it became the flagship station of the Blue Network of NBC, sharing facilities with WEAF. WJZ is known as WABC today. WEAF became WNBC and is known as WFAN today. WJZ moved from 30 Rockefeller Plaza in 1946 when the Blue Network, which had already broken from NBC in 1942, became known as ABC.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">On December 24, 1931, NBC began to broadcast the concerts of the Metropolitan Opera and Milton Cross became the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Voice of the Metropolitan</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">. Since opera broadcasts don't happen every day, Mr. Cross announced other programs on NBC. He announced game shows, gothic dramas, and mostly musical shows. OTR fans know him best as the narrator for This is Your FBI. He narrated the program and helped sell some darned good life insurance. It's difficult for most fans of Old Time Radio hear his voice and not think of him saying, "... the Equitable Life Assurance Society." </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2EQHaBHus7rLYm-yIUrqHZx9uOr96i0bgb5OcSzfmGTSlepTczY5bE1S_X9REcMtzdqVpJWZaO1Ctxmi-I-cXurP4EkDjmdkCc70RoC3j1wHIXPV7liRW5T9hmgIqoZIBLRwGDHK5eGU/s400/2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251741215478469442" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; ">He continued broadcasting the Metropolitan Opera for exactly 43 years. He only missed two broadcasts for all those years. The first time was in 1933, when his eight year old daughter, Lillian Gale died. The second time was 40 years later in 1973 when his wife, also named Lillian, died. Incidentally, the tombstone for Lillian Gale originally intended for her alone. But it ended up also marking the grave of her parents, who are buried on top of her.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">His movie career only consists of four pictures: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Historic Greece</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> (a 1941 school documentary);</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> Gaslight Follies</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> (a documentary from 1945 in four parts about entertainment of the past--he narrates the first part; the other narrators are </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Ben Grauer</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">John B. Kennedy</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">, and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Ethel Owen</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">); </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Fifty Years Before Your Eyes</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> (a 1950 documentary about the twentieth century); and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Grounds for Marriage</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> (a 1951 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">comedy</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">, in which Mr. Cross narrates a dream scene from George Bizet's opera </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Carmen</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkP0n-DbCun1Y5GSugMZN8JZTy6D1_WKeDIP38x5RQ2KqbLmPWee7g8FoEN2FQFsvRLMDqc2OpaEtXLLpP0Ls5CyfV_Kjx4G-pOv-PNU1Job2nhyphenhyphen793xCZTOeex3MnhIoZLmYKFqTR2kM/s400/3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251839663233346178" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; " /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Old Time Radio fans remember Milton Cross as the narrator of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">This is Your FBI</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">, as stated previously. But he only narrated 18 episodes of that series. He did much more work on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Information Please</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">, the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Chamber Society of Lower Basin Street</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">, and the soap opera </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Betty and Bob</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxTIFIUbXZGuU20wxPono-Xzd2UYYINQn1aDRErnX8VvTkaw2QK9xPtgiIL1CsWDLV5wq3ZTf-aFgH4LbSzazIH-MJ1iYO4u7RBLc89L_ZjxlkKtBU5Wm0Z9tejSEHFb3BBv0MYIZYcBI/s1600-h/1.png"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxTIFIUbXZGuU20wxPono-Xzd2UYYINQn1aDRErnX8VvTkaw2QK9xPtgiIL1CsWDLV5wq3ZTf-aFgH4LbSzazIH-MJ1iYO4u7RBLc89L_ZjxlkKtBU5Wm0Z9tejSEHFb3BBv0MYIZYcBI/s400/1.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251859950701209298" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; " /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Book lovers know Milton Cross from the musical reference books he authored, edited, or co-authored. While, because of their popular appeal, they have never been widely accepted as textbooks for serious musical study, because of their simplicity, many postgraduate students of music have relied on his material to help them study for their final written comprehensive examinations (including your loyal 'Blogger!) These books are written in the form of novels. They lack cross referencing, which is what college textbooks should have. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJDVWf3uuZD05dMtkNlpmX5vsuUZVeWINCi_LHXa92sRzvNzgEMgFMcqQAohfF48zpX0mFLOY_uMMapom1SeTork0hJE9uZCThAtkmyURCHJjXb7m9YUfehK0lipajvi239OXzc1tHGGE/s400/1.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251873760601960962" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; " /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Here are some of the books Milton Cross authored, edited or co-wrote:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Complete Stories of the Great Operas</span><br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">More Stories of the Great Operas </span><br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music</span> [two volumes] (with David Ewen)<br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Milton Cross' Favorite Arias from the Great Operas</span><br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">From the Beauty of Embers: A Musical Aftermath</span> (with Gordon M. Eby)</span></li></ul></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLceDZAgEyEOfictYS7p9fWkLxSpAJL26GB0iNbx-GFlwNIYLyRaxZ9i6q7Z0R_tJu3NmCROTU-gf-IAxQmMPlTuOnlS_nvzgDVRQfNqi-AskZSh1t5p9K1o4RiuJjI1Ef3pBzCq1LLVE/s1600-h/4.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLceDZAgEyEOfictYS7p9fWkLxSpAJL26GB0iNbx-GFlwNIYLyRaxZ9i6q7Z0R_tJu3NmCROTU-gf-IAxQmMPlTuOnlS_nvzgDVRQfNqi-AskZSh1t5p9K1o4RiuJjI1Ef3pBzCq1LLVE/s400/4.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251879094649580450" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; " /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Cross never retired. He died suddenly at the age of 77, of a heart attack, at his home in New York City on January 2, 1975. He was getting ready for his next broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">____________________________________________________________________</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Texaco</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> (later </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Chevron/Texaco</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">) was the sole sponsor of the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Metropolitan Opera</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> broadcasts 1940-2004. Originally, the Met was sponsored by a pool of advertisers, as most commercial broadcasts are sponsored today. These sponsors included </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Lucky Strike</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> cigarettes,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> Listerine</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> toothpaste and mouthwash, and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> RCA</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> electronics. Today the sponsor is </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Toll Brothers</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> house contractors.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-52635008784172851722008-09-30T12:21:00.005+10:002008-09-30T17:35:25.825+10:00Raymond Knight (1899-1953)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhnbp_bmuyQJRHS6zpBG2EXLjsHwm7X82RASaIpEXQP9r1FHUihKaar-yC85JuG4qwy5LOyZ_VyDR8QDMougyhTFVvps2eBmdXbp2inKW6q4GBa6FaBA9dZI3B5tuXmNkNes4Y0GFJE6s/s1600-h/Raymondknight.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhnbp_bmuyQJRHS6zpBG2EXLjsHwm7X82RASaIpEXQP9r1FHUihKaar-yC85JuG4qwy5LOyZ_VyDR8QDMougyhTFVvps2eBmdXbp2inKW6q4GBa6FaBA9dZI3B5tuXmNkNes4Y0GFJE6s/s400/Raymondknight.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251637825731479474" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Raymond Knight was born February 12, 1899, in Salem, Massachusetts. A scholar, Ray graduated from Boston University with undergraduate and law degrees and passed the Massachusetts Bar examination. But rather than go into law, he went in for more education and attended Harvard University's 47 Workshop, where he studied drama and writing. Ray then began studying drama at Yale University. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 1927, he made his debut on Broadway in the musical revue, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">The Manhatters, </span>which ran from August through October of that year<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">.</span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ray earned most of his living from writing. He was a very versatile performer who was witty, charming, and mostly satirical. In 1929 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Bertha "Betty" Brainard</span> (1890-1956), who was the programmer for NBC in New York, told Ray, who was writing several shows and commercials at the time, to come up with something <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">cuckoo<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> for the Blue Network</span></span>.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What he came up with was the most popular radio comedy program of the 1930s: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">The KUKU Hour</span>. This show was the forerunner to most of what America thought was funny afterwards. Ray, unlike most of the other radio personalities at the time, didn't have a background in vaudeville. He did all of his work within a short distance from home. Consequently, Ray had a good grasp on what people did when they were at home. Nothing was safe from Ray Knight's sarcasm. It wasn't meant to be rude or upsetting. But the KUKU Hour was so different from anything that was going on at the time. He would bounce back and forth between networks. The show started on NBC and was there for a few years before moving to Mutual. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The KUKU Hour did not always have the same characters but it would have the same elements in each show. One of these was a segment called the "Firing Squad." In this, Ray would make comments about a person, a group, or an idea, and then have everyone in the studio shoot at it with toy guns (paper cap guns were provided for members of the studio audience and even the technical people got involved in this!)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ray also worked on the children's series <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Wheatenaville Sketches</span>, in which he played Billy Batchelor, the publisher of the town newspaper. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Ladies Love Hats</span> was Ray's one motion picture appearance. This 18 minute film premiered at movie theaters on November 1, 1935.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 1938, Ray wrote a comedy play for Broadway, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Run Sheep Run</span>. It started on November 3 and ran for 12 days, closing on November 15. Two of the cast members were William Bendix and Dick Van Patten (who was quite young at the time)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ray created a soap opera called<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> A House in the Country</span>. It was the story of Joan and Bruce and their trials and tribulations. Ray played the part of shopkeeper on the show, which aired from October 1941 to October 1942. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">During World War II, after ABC (the Blue Network) broke off from NBC, Ray was the network's national program manager (roughly the same job that Betty Brainard had at NBC). </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He wrote articles of all kinds for many magazines. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ray's last job was writing for the radio comedy team of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Bob and Ray</span> (Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding) on CBS from about 1949.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ray Knight died on his 54th birthday, February 12, 1953, in New York City. His widow, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Lee</span>, married Bob Elliott in 1954. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-20994688949348737052008-09-24T20:00:00.013+10:002008-09-26T00:31:43.516+10:00Did Anyone Say Cereal?<a style="font-family: courier new;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimA8Ldjo7kSNV4BlkaEUQiQpfZdyyO5r-1qrwT5eQPPOtPYkIqo9YcbTqBKr8gC4ts7rPw8cqF50s81AGkkv-24A-yGFLpOnZXkA5adyD3qr7QkoQjyYfTH3zh3mM78deeuMnCvtbVzJ4/s1600-h/brenemanad.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimA8Ldjo7kSNV4BlkaEUQiQpfZdyyO5r-1qrwT5eQPPOtPYkIqo9YcbTqBKr8gC4ts7rPw8cqF50s81AGkkv-24A-yGFLpOnZXkA5adyD3qr7QkoQjyYfTH3zh3mM78deeuMnCvtbVzJ4/s400/brenemanad.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249846870167432850" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Kellogg's Pep</span> </span>- - Kellogg's introduced this cereal in 1923, it was whole wheat flakes. Radio programs sponsored by Pep included <span style="font-weight: bold;">Superman</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Breakfast in Hollywood</span>, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tom Corbett - - Space Cadet</span>. It wasn't the first cereal to have mail-in offers for boxtops, but it was one of the first to put the things other cereal companies required boxtops for. Pep had such premiums as badges, balsa wood airplanes, trading cards, and cars.<br /><br />Pep cereal ceased production in 1979.<br /><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: courier new;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3MPq0IaQDtOQp9-08bvnhCKFlnzQ6M-YYLbpCMIOmaYOFwxqiWg54hjE1ZO9V83w6AxSGhe31Hq92uXRmlVnXFoN6gG3GadzlSAa3d1SeMt04wmq7jB3FTSPMDjhhUXdX6asjzkDU5F8/s1600-h/QuakerPuffedWheat.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3MPq0IaQDtOQp9-08bvnhCKFlnzQ6M-YYLbpCMIOmaYOFwxqiWg54hjE1ZO9V83w6AxSGhe31Hq92uXRmlVnXFoN6gG3GadzlSAa3d1SeMt04wmq7jB3FTSPMDjhhUXdX6asjzkDU5F8/s400/QuakerPuffedWheat.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249853131924695202" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Quaker Puffed Wheat (Sparkies) and Quaker Puffed Rice (Sparkies)</span> </span>- - Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice were the first cold cereals made by Quaker Oats. The slogan that these are <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">shot from guns</span> was not just hype.Early in the twentieth century, the company devised a machine that takes kernels of wheat and rice and expands them eight times their original size. It's a long tube that actually shoots them into a large container.The Dick Tracy program in the 1930s often had recorded sounds of this machine in action.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0wmF6qtcYIkSZ_sCPGsP3Tb_V3Y95WQ5f8UdKPEnxZBnaXUQGrFYk5v8zdffmD7fTjTngSW3xN2yDqTuZ2jN1uQheESw_HOXGYfn06MLMuuU-xCU8mVErTB-vueNRwTWm6W08DTI-6Bg/s1600-h/sparkies.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0wmF6qtcYIkSZ_sCPGsP3Tb_V3Y95WQ5f8UdKPEnxZBnaXUQGrFYk5v8zdffmD7fTjTngSW3xN2yDqTuZ2jN1uQheESw_HOXGYfn06MLMuuU-xCU8mVErTB-vueNRwTWm6W08DTI-6Bg/s400/sparkies.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249858646261805266" border="0" /></a>Radio programs which were sponsored by Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice included Babe Ruth (1935), Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, Roy Rogers, and Gene Autry.<br /><br />The name of the cereal was changed to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sparkies</span> in 1939 as the company thought the names "Puffed Wheat" and "Puffed Rice" sounded too generic as other companies were making the same cereals. They went back to their original name in 1950.<br /><br />Although they aren't listed on the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://quakeroats.com/qfb_OurBrands/BrandGroup.cfm?BrandGroupID=1">Quaker Oats website</a>, these cereals are still being produced.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmRzCY31JWMqx_Nd3aOK-J3hmqGwK7gXVkVmUPKOloMJyOgk_w5shhRykzyL6KPgav7o9jVFIJoDW4kZRoqOpX4ZPlpi94L-oBtTMS-6tl_96HlJpg7E7IdxUUpwcMWOAgSFI719K50Sk/s1600-h/huskys.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmRzCY31JWMqx_Nd3aOK-J3hmqGwK7gXVkVmUPKOloMJyOgk_w5shhRykzyL6KPgav7o9jVFIJoDW4kZRoqOpX4ZPlpi94L-oBtTMS-6tl_96HlJpg7E7IdxUUpwcMWOAgSFI719K50Sk/s400/huskys.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249864491512900594" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Post Huskies</span> - - Lou Gehrig said it was the only cereal he would eat... <span style="font-style: italic;">"...and I've eaten them all!"</span> Huskies was a whole wheat flake. In fact, this was the original wheat flake, whose history went back to 1912, 11 years before Kellogg's Pep, and 13 years before Wheaties.<br /><br />In the 1930s, Huskies was the sponsor of many of the most popular shows including <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ripley's Believe It or Not</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joe Penner</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Young Dr. Malone</span>, and many athletic contests.<br /><br />Huskies went out of production prior to World War II.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg9gLJe4zlZNi1Bc38yk6dRH5R_FXOEwJvMRi5HYhL3IqpLKu5YzUZqh-sEV_wEM6sq9t4TCDyk6kG_Rjq-WyUConpgHi39zRSX5fj1lvzBlGVa0y45GqIdO_WJajiaRvmS_QRvZpfUDk/s1600-h/Ralston.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg9gLJe4zlZNi1Bc38yk6dRH5R_FXOEwJvMRi5HYhL3IqpLKu5YzUZqh-sEV_wEM6sq9t4TCDyk6kG_Rjq-WyUConpgHi39zRSX5fj1lvzBlGVa0y45GqIdO_WJajiaRvmS_QRvZpfUDk/s400/Ralston.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249874457409104978" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Shredded Ralston</span> - - This was the cold cereal that Tom Mix ate (there were <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">two</span> Tom Mixes). However this isn't the one that can be purchased now. That is the <a href="http://www.hotralston.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">hot</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> cereal</span></a>. The cold version was introduced in the 1920s. It was similar to shredded wheat, only coarser and harder. Even though it wasn't the same cereal, when Ralston-Purina introduced <span style="font-weight: bold;">Wheat Chex</span>, Shredded Ralston was discontinued. This was about the same time the Tom Mix radio program finally went off the air (ten years after the real Tom Mix was killed in a car accident in Arizona.)<br /><br />Shredded Ralston had its own jingle:<br /><br />Shredded Ralston for your breakfast<br />Starts the day off shining bright;<br />Gives you lots of cowboy energy<br />With a flavor that's just right!<br />It's delicious and nutritious,<br />Bite sized, and ready to eat<br />Take a tip from Tom:<br />Go and tell your mom:<br />"Shredded Ralston can't be beat!"<br /><br />Shredded Ralston was manufactured by the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ralston-Purina Company</span> at Checkerboard Square in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1998, the cereal division of that company was sold to <span style="font-weight: bold;">General Mills</span>, except for the pet food and private label cereal divisions. The pet food division was sold to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nestle</span>. The company that was left became <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ralcorp</span>. In August 2008, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Post</span> division of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kraft Foods</span> (formerly of <span style="font-weight: bold;">General Foods</span>)was sold to Ralcorp.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9zWuQbXTd03xgGlByBekEJJWBqbvMJvD6UwA2kE-8AzGwoQ3vyCtcCaaSbU806QMnSXPyDWkiLBNZFmUu4SWypc6e0f8W38o71B3I3FEPwE4Vctr4biPDVdGF0gXvPNRvfz6696NHKEY/s1600-h/Wheaties.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9zWuQbXTd03xgGlByBekEJJWBqbvMJvD6UwA2kE-8AzGwoQ3vyCtcCaaSbU806QMnSXPyDWkiLBNZFmUu4SWypc6e0f8W38o71B3I3FEPwE4Vctr4biPDVdGF0gXvPNRvfz6696NHKEY/s400/Wheaties.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249885501335719778" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Wheaties</span> - - Wheaties was said to have been created by accident in 1922 when some batter for a cooking experiment was dropped on a hot stove at the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Washburn Crosby Company</span> in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After going through several tests, it was sold as a cold cereal in 1924. Washburn Crosby became General Mills (with the acquisition of 27 grain mills) in 1928.<br /><br />The slogan for the cereal, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Breakfast of Champions</span>, was coined in 1926. This was the same year the jingle was written...<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Have you tried Wheaties?</span> <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />They're whole wheat with all of the bran.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Won't you try Wheaties?</span> <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />For wheat is the best food for man.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrMGiH6mqnEVX4Zbvz2sazR7sh1OuNegYpi8s6agmdPu2YrI9-TkUC_Sn6l3Uvz2i3UKjOehVsxD7_x27eNikytHLg9Lg6iTf4CJvBm5C-xIDdfmuKB67HqsluXY_Ev_YycPNO8O5O-os/s1600-h/gehrig.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrMGiH6mqnEVX4Zbvz2sazR7sh1OuNegYpi8s6agmdPu2YrI9-TkUC_Sn6l3Uvz2i3UKjOehVsxD7_x27eNikytHLg9Lg6iTf4CJvBm5C-xIDdfmuKB67HqsluXY_Ev_YycPNO8O5O-os/s400/gehrig.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249890001013597698" border="0" /></a>Written to the tune of a popular song at the time, <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Jazz Baby</span>, the commercial jingle first aired on December 24, 1926.<br /><br />The first person who had his picture on a box of Wheaties was <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lou Gehrig</span> in 1934. He was a spokesman for Post Huskies, an almost identical product. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Babe Ruth</span> also appeared on the Wheaties box and he had a contract with Quaker Oats at the time. Until 1958, all the athletes pictures were on the back of the box. Gehrig and Ruth had pictures which could be clipped as trading cards.<br /><br />On Old Time Radio, Wheaties first sponsored baseball and football games. It then became the sole sponsor for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jack Armstrong, the All American Boy</span>. The jingle was expanded to include something about Jack Armstrong eating them. The 15 minute daily soap opera was actually, more or less, a long commercial for Wheaties. The story seemed to take second place. However,the program was so popular. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jim Ameche</span> (1915-83), who played Jack said that grocery stores were often out of Wheaties for weeks.The company had to work extra hard to put out more and more cereal, especially if there was a special mail in offer for a toy or a piece of athletic equipment. Wheaties also sponsored the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lone Ranger</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Night Beat</span>, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tales of the Texas Rangers</span>.<br /><br />The first man who had his picture on the <span style="font-style: italic;">front</span> of a box of Wheaties was the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rev. Bob Richards</span> (b. 1926), USA Olympic champion of the 1956 games at Melbourne, Australia, who had also competed in the games at London (1948) and Helsinki (1952). He was the main spokesman for the cereal for the next ten years.<br /><br />Wheaties now come in different flavors.<br /><br /><br /></div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082236819415458649.post-30938959973050882262008-09-21T09:30:00.005+10:002008-09-21T20:53:32.230+10:00Graham McNamee (1888-1942)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwLi_CJcfYVMWpxNozh-X85i3bK13R0Tnai_lPwRXJbfrDyPDaRdx5SGhAQa0XoMS4WKFF9NQxXX-UFyLMcbGem7hDOoNQBGb_qN90MdjQ9htCgqBFd4P-A38xBPFUG5Lga6_10cKbB1g/s1600-h/TimeCover.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwLi_CJcfYVMWpxNozh-X85i3bK13R0Tnai_lPwRXJbfrDyPDaRdx5SGhAQa0XoMS4WKFF9NQxXX-UFyLMcbGem7hDOoNQBGb_qN90MdjQ9htCgqBFd4P-A38xBPFUG5Lga6_10cKbB1g/s400/TimeCover.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248318734232032818" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Graham McNamee was born July 10, 1888, in Washington, DC. He grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. After completing his postsecondary studies, in 1912 he moved to New York where he became a serious singer (some people would say "opera singer".) He had a very active career in his area, singing in choirs and small groups, as well as solo work. He was a baritone.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One afternoon in 1923, after serving jury duty, he wandered into the AT&T Building to the studios of station <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">WEAF</span>. He asked the staff how he could get a job as an announcer. They auditioned him and he was hired then.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Within days, he became the first baseball announcer in history, as he broadcast a preseason game between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees at the Polo Grounds. The folks in Chicago heard about this and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">WMAQ</span> became the second station to broadcast Major League baseball games.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJMd3wDnJENPqoEMzfHyB2SG1SYQ65P2GT-tfSO9IdndgVRYZUQf_ivf10TFHb92YF0sARfU07ASO91fru5tasWN8oQrIt6x-Eqci0LzJ6fBljjd3_yBnWLeHymmAo0Woue_f1IQ5OpUI/" try=""><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRgF0YjjN6rOAfe_RF8_b0tBinXRWRLcUhOuTcWsKbrxCGXYwqjVtZ7lgWPo5-ChMBOQdVplXw5k6DyMoEubAlnNgeVvHKHZKB0cgoWt4gxjgjacpNXX-4XixTojsEY-p4yNEDyHeb8WI/s400/Image7.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248411047101595506" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; " /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Graham McNamee became the voice of everything... from horse racing to boxing to football to the National Marble Championships. He was the announcer for the 1924 Republican National Convention (in Cleveland, Ohio), the first political rally EVER broadcast. He was the announcer for the first coast to coast broadcast of the Rose Bowl football game (the University of Alabama tied Leland Stanford, Jr., University 7-7) in Pasadena, California. He was on hand when Charles A. Lindbergh returned to America from his transatlantic flight. McNamee was ringside on September 22, 1927, in a fight known as the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Battle of the Long Count</span>, between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney (won by Tunney). And he announced everything that could be announced concerning baseball at the time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">OTR aficionados know him best as being <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Ed Wynn's</span> straight man. He could be also heard on <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Rudy Vallee's</span> program and many other shows originating from New York.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUsfGt0Zlsb1jNVnsAyiNfYdBuiiGc70ohahECORN1pl0OO3Hxxe9RbjsAtzPjf0nttS4gIBvEyZPQj4T-lV0bPpwL_Fwr9pAV-oGmjHBPXg2WpT_cVX7UwWcAg4Tzu4wPYQ-gbKMC65M/s400/welles-newsreel.JPEG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248423668756901026" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; " /></span><div style="text-align: justify;">His voice was also familiar to moviehouse attenders in the late 1930s as he was the voice that announced the Universal Pictures Newsreel every week. Although he was connected with NBC, he did make the report about the infamous Marian broadcast on Orson Welles' Mercury Theater on October 30, 1938. The newsreel was out the second week in November.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6fT9ab4bumsBJ_mLEAxYLDwYZqH0hyAGxOhBx4ROIpi6HOOan3Q7xl8Znh01u6AWi1q4GBs8XGTQMM7ubcGHhSkqUSUrk0Dhyz85ODDIUOw0pPMdhRv5pyfrPZ80vNvPyEDUlNTdWYv8/s1600-h/mcnamee.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6fT9ab4bumsBJ_mLEAxYLDwYZqH0hyAGxOhBx4ROIpi6HOOan3Q7xl8Znh01u6AWi1q4GBs8XGTQMM7ubcGHhSkqUSUrk0Dhyz85ODDIUOw0pPMdhRv5pyfrPZ80vNvPyEDUlNTdWYv8/s400/mcnamee.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248425542620146930" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; " /></a><div style="text-align: justify; ">Graham McNamee died May 9, 1942, in New York City. He was survived by his wife, Josephine Garrett, a fellow serious singer who continued her career during their marriage. McNamee was 53 years old. He is buried at Mount Calvary Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Mc Namee had such a friendly way of ending his broadcasts: "This is Graham McNamee speaking, good night, all."</div><br /></div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com1