11/12/2009 6:45:46 PM

Quick OTR fans, though this has nothing to do with our classic radio shows, who can guess what iconic cartoon character Alan Young has voiced since the 1970s or 80s and continues whenever this character appears in a cartoon today?

Matt Pelc

11/13/2009 1:36:04 AM

Don't ask me how I know this but I believe he was the voice of Scrooge McDuck!!!
P.S. Love the old photos, people were so suave back in the day

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Thanks
Martin

Texas Green Blog

11/13/2009 3:35:11 AM

Matt,

I know too and I guess I'll spill it...Scrooge McDuck I think should be the correct answer....

Michael

11/13/2009 12:19:52 PM

Yes! Everyone is so smart. I wasn't sure if Greg had mentioned it before or not.

One of my favorite cartoons as a kid in the 80s was Duck Tales and I even found the complete series on a site online so I share it with my kids now.

Happy Birthday Alan and good guess everyone!

Matt Pelc

11/14/2009 12:55:41 AM

Greg,
We absolutely love RadioClassics. Is there any way we can get the channel added to the on-line line up? Any contact person to try and influence? Place to send brownies? In the meantime, please keep up the good work and god bless.

Steve & Carol

11/14/2009 1:36:53 AM

I'll take the brownies but the content providers are the ones who nix the on-line issues...am I correct Greg?

What evil lurks in the hearts of content providers? I wish the shadow knew...

Michael

11/14/2009 3:44:09 AM

Duck Tales was the great cartoon ever! Matt Pelc, I wish I knew what site you got the complete series from, I would love to let my kids watch it as well... looks like I'm back on the Google hunt again.

Registry Cleaners

11/14/2009 1:18:20 PM

SUPER pix and sked for next week, Greg! I never knew Judy Canova until I started listening to Classic Radio (almost 2 years now!). LOVE the pic of Joan Crawford and Jeff Chandler! Lucky Joan! As for "Mr. Ed" - it's like "The Brady Bunch" and closer to "My Mother the Car" as some of the worst television ever made yet it's a show (as with the others) you still watch AND for which you know the jingle (don't know MMTC's jingle - if it even had one, but I do know Mr. Ed's and TBB).
If you play something I really enjoy, such as last week's "Miracle in the Rain," I note it on my sked. I have the skeds for nearly the last 18 months so I knew MITR was coming up; you played it last November. Thanks also for playing "The Good Die Young." Now THERE was a truly EVIL child. (If you haven't heard this one, be sure to hear it when it comes next year. It's a real pip!).

Rosemary

11/15/2009 12:48:40 AM

Registry, I'll see if I can come across it for you. Let me know what you email is or you can email it to me at jlabanners@yahoo.com

Matt Pelc

11/15/2009 2:52:36 AM

I with you Steve & Carol, I wish they would put it on-line too, it use to be on sirius satelite, but since the merge it's not on there anymore. So it looks like they are keeping it seperate. But would be nice, I wish greg will let us know why, I left an e-mail for him about it, but never got a responce back. Oh well, guess I am going to have to buy a portable xm radio so i can take it with me. Would be nice to hear on my i-phone but probably another reason why it's not on there.

Rick Boll

11/15/2009 9:15:53 AM

LOL, wow, am watching Have Gun Will Travel on TV, and John Dehner is on playing the bad guy. It is almost surreal!!!

Pam D.

11/15/2009 11:01:47 AM

Happy Birthday to James "Fibber McGee" Jordon. Born November 16, 1896, in Peoria, Illinois. 112 years old on Monday. Were thinking of you.

Bob Irish

11/15/2009 12:09:01 PM

Back to Scrooge McDuck...Disney has two registered tartans, both of which are McDuck.

Don

11/15/2009 1:42:05 PM

Hi Greg,

Oops, I guess I should have read Michael's note before writing here and responding back to you. And yes everybody, Greg does respond back to e-mails But still wish the content providers would allow xm to add this wonderful channel to the internet line up would be nice. Again, Greg sorry about the misunderstanding.

Rick Boll

11/15/2009 4:37:51 PM

I'm an overseas subscriber to Sirius and can only listen online to sirius/xm.I love old time radio and really enjoyed radioclassics while it was on line by accident roughly ten months ago.I feel sorry for Greg on this issue because he would love to see his station reach a larger audience.I cannot ever see the day when the channel goes online,however I search and search for a chink of light in this cold dark radioclassicsless online tunnel.

Billy Bonner

11/16/2009 8:32:59 AM

When I was a kiddie I saw Judy Canova movies in the theater and remember them being just as cornball as the radio show. Lots of singin' and laughin'.

Don

11/16/2009 6:14:45 PM

You can watch the Have Gun Will Travel TV shows on CBS.com or was it NBC.com...one or the other. I watched a few and I did see John Dehner. I wonder what the time frame was for that episode?

Michael

11/16/2009 9:30:20 PM

late last night I was watching an episode of Peter Gunn on TV. It was the exact same plot as one of the old radio detective stories Greg has played, but obviously not the same detective. I am thinking it was a Richard Diamond episode. The plot in a nutshell was the police lieutenant was kidnapped and going to be killed if the kidnapper's brother was executed. The detective went to see a blind horn player who gave him a tip by playing a tune on the horn and then was killed. As Blake Edwards wrote the Peter Gunn show I am wondering if he just recycled a plot from his radio days. Any guesses?

Pam D.

11/16/2009 11:58:26 PM

Pam, you are right--that is definitely a Richard Diamond episode! I don't think the horn player was blind in the radio episode, but otherwise, it's identical. Good spot!

G

11/17/2009 2:08:38 AM

G ... thanks. I wonder if that happened often with radio to televsion scripts.I guess if Ricahrd Diamond and Peter Gunn were both Blake Edwards intellectual properties, he could do with them as he pleased.

Pam D.

11/17/2009 5:35:52 PM

I thought there was a Richard Diamond TV series in the 50's too. David Jansen I think?

How about it Greg? Do you know?

Michael

11/17/2009 6:35:05 PM

Michael, yes there also was a Richard Diamond TV series. Maybe the story line was used there too, who knows!!! LOL

Pam D.

11/18/2009 3:41:38 AM

Michael and Pam:

David Jansen was superb as Richard Diamond, his first big network TV starring role. His approach was more serious
and blue collar than Dick Powell, though he could be witty
as well.

Jansen's co-star was a sultry-voiced woman who relayed phone messages to him from an office switchboard. Viewers NEVER
saw her face, just her feet and legs as she shifted them under the old-style 'plug and play' phone board. In another series we finally saw her face: Mary Tyler Moore.

Jim in San Diego

11/18/2009 5:36:19 AM

I'm so grateful for the Jack Benny parody of "The Women" this week. My favorite Classic Radio show doing my favorite movie...priceless.

Kim in TX

11/18/2009 7:01:47 AM

The music of jazz and classical pianist, Hazel Scott will be heard on an interesting episode of The Mysterious Traveler known as Murder In Jazztime.

Bissel

11/18/2009 2:55:55 PM

Okay...Let's go back to the Richard Diamond episode with the trumpet player. I have been banging my head against the wall for the nickname of the character for the trumpet player....

Someone help....there are too many dents in my plaster to explain away....

Michael

11/18/2009 4:16:26 PM

I love the radio version of Richard Diamond. I never saw the TV version. Did he sing on the TV episodes too??

I also wonder when James Stewart was known and referred to as Jimmy Stewart. James Stewart just doesn't sound right.

Lana

11/20/2009 2:10:48 AM

Say...did they ever make a comedy version of Meet the Meeks?

Don