9/25/2009 5:35:03 AM

Hi Gregg... Programs are getting better... and better. love them all... It's so nice to get new ones .You rock!!

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9/25/2009 6:15:07 AM

Hey Folks - sorry been awol lately.. this week seems to be really great show wise. really enjoying it. I do love the episode with Edmund Gwynne...
Anyone here going to the FOTR convention in October? I'm starting to get pretty excited and looking forward to it. Just wondering if anyone else is going from our little group here.
Hope the end of your week is great!

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9/25/2009 6:46:24 AM

Greg: I realize that you're having availability problem with "The Long Ranger", but I haven't heard any from "The Saint" in a while. Just wondering.....

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9/25/2009 7:46:19 AM

As my companion to work and home, at least 2 hours of my life each workday, I think the Abbot and Costello this week were some of the best I have heard. Maybe they were later but the audio was like listening to a real broadcast. Long live Sam Shovel. Bravo to Classic Radio on XM/Sirius. PS the Photo of Deborah Kerr in the swim suit is great. Was this from "From Here To Eternity" ?

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9/25/2009 6:39:56 PM

Love the pic of William Conrad, both the publicity shot and the cast pic. Pix of Deborah Kerr are pretty, also. She was a very classy lady. Oh, and I love the 2-hour police block - Dragnet, of course, but also, "The Line-Up" and "Calling All Cars." Nice touch, Greg.
More later...gotta hear what's happening on CAC ("Calling All Cars.")

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9/26/2009 2:57:32 AM

I would like for you to acquire the episodes of Hopp Harrigan . Terry and the Pirates and Sky King are two others. More of Lum and Abner. I hope that you enjoyed your well-deserved vacation. I have had my 3 XM radios since 2005 and I cannot remember you ever taking a vacation. Your guest hosts did a very fine job. Thanks for all the work you do for us. It shows!!!

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9/26/2009 3:12:11 AM

Hi, Gang and Greg! Can anyone help me verify something? If you read the book "Raised on Radio" by Gerald Nachman, can you tell me if you recall him mentioning anything about John Dehner? I didn't see any mention of one of my 3 favorite radio actors in this book and I was shocked! Mr. Nachman devoted an entire chapter on the actors and actresses who were work horses on radio - those who played any part possible, maybe even the animals, but there was NO mention of the aformentioned John Dehner. If this is true, I find it appalling - Mr. Dehner did do practically every role possible and he was excellent in everything he did. According to IMDB, he was never married - I can see why --- he probably was never home! My favorite works of his are "Have Gun, Will Travel," "Frontier Gentleman" and "Earth Abides." I even sent an Email to Mr. Nachman, asking him about this; it really bothers me. It seems terribly unjust and unfair. Of course, he did mention William Conrad, Orson (the GREAT), Virginia Gregg and Peggy Webber but NO JD! NOT FAIR! The reason I ask is because I'm looking for biographical information on John Dehner (and William Conrad, too) but, aside from IMDB, there doesn't seem to be any. I'll do a Google and see if I can find their obituaries Because they were celebrities, there may be lengthy obituaries.

Rosemary

9/26/2009 7:36:03 AM

Greg ,why were there so many Vintage Ads warning people not to be hostile toward those of different races and creeds ( anti-hate ads ) ? Were they worried that people would be hostile or violent toward German-Americans or Japanese-Americans because of WW2 ?

Rick

9/26/2009 4:49:25 PM

Finishing up another great week, thanks Greg. Getting new schedule now. Had a thought the other day.

Around noon one day, was traveling in my vehicle and listening to "Dragnet". I thought about what Jack Webb (or any of the others) might think if back then he realized that his one time broadcast with them all standing (or sitting) in front of a microphone and reading lines, what they might someday turn into. The broadcast would be going onto a computer (what's that), flashed hundreds of miles into the sky to a satellite (yeah, right), sent back down to earth into something similar to, but not exactly, a radio receiver. There it is broadcast in stereo (what's that) to potentially millions who can listen day and night, even record on cassette tape (what's that) or computer.

Really makes you think, doesn't it.

Sevenshooter

9/26/2009 10:16:43 PM

Doesn't Parley Baer look bigger than his voice in that photo, sitting next to William Conrad? Listening to him say, "Yes, sir, Mr. Dillon," I picture someone smaller than Parley.

I think William Conrad is on a very short list of the finest voice actors we hear on Greg's shows. Jimmy Stewart and Orson Welles are there, too, for me. Happy Birthday, Mr. Dillon.

David

9/26/2009 10:26:10 PM

For Rick who asked about public service ads on tolerance, if those came from the 1940s, during the war, there was some anti-German violence in the US but more violence directed toward Japanese people. This became part of the excuse for interring them. However, there weren't a lot of people speaking out against anti-Japanese-American violence, so I'm not sure the ads were directed to increase tolerance there. Even on the early 1940s radio programming, you'll hear a lot of unflattering references in the shows to the enemy, and I'd imagine there's other stuff that Greg wouldn't even play today.

Racial strife between blacks and whites was also increasing during the war. Many blue collar jobs began to be assumed by Afro Americans and this didn't sit too well with some whites. In many places, managers would try and keep workers segregated, but that would lead to hard feelings too where, for instance, whites had nicer bathrooms or lunchrooms or the pay was unequal. There were clashes across religious lines, too, as Catholics and Jews were often the target of discrimination. And all this continued right into the 1950s when the civil rights movement began gathering momentum.

David

9/27/2009 1:31:35 AM

To ROSEMARY and other JOHN DEHNER fans:

I found a respectful obituary of this great actor in the
Los Angeles Times of Feb. 7, 1992, on his passing at the
age of 76. Here are some key details from it:

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John Dehner, whose long career helped define the phrase
"working actor," died Tuesday in Santa Barbara.

He was J. B. Kendall, the archetypal Brit dealing with the American West in "Frontier Gentleman," considered one of the few rivals of "Gunsmoke" in radio legend. (Dehner was also a featured player on "Gunsmoke.") He was Paladin in "Have Gun Will Travel" when that show -- in an odd switch -- was spun off from Richard Boone's TV antihero to radio. And he was a regular on the experimental, highly praised "CBS Radio Workshop."

He segued to television as Commodore Cecil Wyntoon in "The Baileys of Balboa," as Cy Bennett on "The Doris Day Show," Jim Duke Williams on "The Roaring Twenties," and the humorless, businesslike Marshal Edge Troy on "Young Maverick," a short-lived spoof of the classic Western series of the 1950s. He also was Adm. Ernest King in the 1988 miniseries "War and Remembrance."

But his dozens of radio and TV credits paled alongside his more than 100 films. They ranged from a credit as the animator in Walt Disney's "The Reluctant Dragon" in 1941 to an acting role in the "Jagged Edge" in 1985. In between were featured, supporting and cameo appearances in such movies as "Boys From Brazil," "Cheyenne Social Club," "State Fair," "Scaramouche," "The Corn Is Green," "Golden Earrings" and a string of forgettable, low-budget features such as "The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters."

The son of an artist, he was educated in Paris, where he became a champion fencer.

Back in his native New York City, the multifaceted performer got his first dramatic exposure on the stage where he acted and directed. He came to California and found work as an animator for Disney on "Fantasia," "Bambi" and most of the studio's cartoon characters.

After World War II service as a publicist trailing Gen. George Patton through Africa and Europe, he joined the staff of Los Angeles radio station KFWB, where he shared in the Peabody Award the staff won for coverage of the first United Nations conference.

Survivors include his wife, Evelyn, two daughters, four stepchildren and several grandchildren."

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This background and rich life experience gave Mr. Dehner
the deep understanding and insights he brought to each role.

Jim in San Diego

9/27/2009 4:39:34 AM

Fabulous schedule again! Doing a great job! Keep those gems coming!

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9/27/2009 3:39:35 PM

Thank you, Jim in San Diego, for that great information on John Dehner. I'm glad to know he was married; I hate to think of men being alone, especially as they age. Gang, I hope y'all read this obit info on John Dehner. And we can start now to prepare for his birthday - it's Nov. 23. He was born in 1915, the same year as my Uncle Harold (who is still very much alive and turned 94 Sept. 14).
And we all should give Greg a great big SMILE (I was gonna say KISS but that might not work too well) for his efforts on behalf of William Conrad's birthday. I can't wait to listen all next week, in between doing this, that and ... training for my new job. Happy Listening, everyone.

Rosemary

9/27/2009 10:06:54 PM

Interesting about John Dehner. One of my all time favorite movies is "Scaramouche" and Dehner's character trains Stewart Granger to be an expert swordsman in order to avenge his brother. Guess Dehner didn't have to do much acting in the movie.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Sevenshooter

9/28/2009 2:28:55 AM

It sure is a different experience to turn on XM 164 and hear the voices of Fibber and Molly calling each other Wilbur and Jessy! Love the story, and tributes to their radio show woven throughout the story...especially when Wilbur opened his hall closet! Fibber McGee and Molly is my all time favorite comedy show on XM, and its a tie for second between The Jack Benny Show and The Phil Harris and Alice Faye Show.

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9/29/2009 8:32:22 PM

Boy I tell you. I've been listening to Boston Blackie and Inspector Farraday sure didn't like Boston Blackie. Was there ever a show where Inspector Farraday DIDN'T accuse Blackie of murder?

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9/30/2009 1:21:02 PM

Farraday not accusing Blackie of murder is like Marlowe, Regan, Diamond, Blackie and the rest not getting hit over the head with something at least once per episode. I do love it...

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9/30/2009 2:26:17 PM

When I saw there were going to be 3 Abbot and Costello's this week I was tempted to take a few aspirin, but then..... The Undecided Molecule came on, which is one of my favorite of all radio programs. Glad I didn't miss it trying to avoid A&C!!!

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10/3/2009 5:45:07 PM

Hey, Greg - if you're still reading this week's blogs - thanks for the fascinating tidbit on John Dehner --- that he played an uncredited hog caller in one of my favorite movies, "State Fair." That movie features another one of my favorite radio/movie actors - Dana Andrews - and one of my all-time favorite singers, Dick Haymes. I also love Jeanne Crain - she was so young and so pretty in this movie.

Rosemary

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In a post from last week, Rosemary mentioned the book "Raised on Radio" by Gerald Nachman. I got it from the library and although I only started it today, it looks like a great read. Does anyone else have any book recommendations? I have read Joe Julian's "This Was Radio: A Personal Memoir" which I found very interesting, especially his stories about being in Europe during, and Japan after, WWII. Also, "Terror on the Air: Horror Radio in America" by Richard J Hand was a good read because I love that genre. It was a little academic and probably his doctoral dissertation, but still fun to read. Richard is actually a Professor of Theatre and Media Drama at the University of Glamorgan in Wales, who fell in love with American radio dramas. Any others you can recommend?

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