Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #238
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 8/7/2005 4:18 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 238
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Chase And Sanborn Program             [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed] ]
  Lum & Abner                           [ <cooldown3@[removed]; ]
  A third network?                      [ BH <radiobill@[removed]; ]
  OTR [removed]                  [ "randy story" <hopharrigan@centuryt ]
  8-7 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  defending eddie guest                 [ Clif Martin <martbart@[removed]; ]
  Hybrid CD-MP3 Player                  [ Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@sbcglo ]
  Lum and Abner                         [ "Jed Dolnick" <jdolnick@[removed] ]
  Re: Library                           [ "Paul Adomites" <padomites@ccyberne ]

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Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 20:06:14 -0400
From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Chase And Sanborn Program
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The show I have starts off with 'Sunny Side of The Street'
so according to Jerry Haendiges it is the August 12 show.

The confusing thing to me is Frances Langford says at 2:48 in the program:
"The boys here as well as all other air stations are looking forward
to Wednesday August first, that's the 38th anniversary of the
Army Air Forces which began in nineteen hundred and seven with one
airplane, one captain, and two enlisted men."

Does anyone know why she would say this on August 12th?

Does anyone Ken Carpenter's wedding anniversary date?

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Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 20:28:53 -0400
From: <cooldown3@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Lum & Abner

Hi All

,Lum and Abner is still on a local station here at 5:15 Am. I am sure it is
reruns but it still has a local following to.

PAtrick
Bowling Green, Ky

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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 03:21:01 -0400
From: BH <radiobill@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  A third network?

Kenneth Clarke asked:

    I read that there was a third network besides the
NBC Blue and NBC Red networks. It was known as NBC
Orange, and dealt with the Pacific coast programs.

In 1928, the Pacific coast network consisted of KFI-Los Angeles, KPO,
KGO-San Franscisco, KGW-Potland, KFOA-Settle, and KHQ-Spokane. By 1929,
KOA Denver,  KSL, Salt Lake City and San Franscisco were linked to make
the NBC network coast-to-coast. The netwok consisted of a total of
14,800 circuit miles.

Didn't NBC Blue become the ABC radio network?

Yes. The reason that NBC had to sell the Blue network was because of the
Chain Broadcasting investigation which began by the FCC in 1938 and
concluded in 1941. The FCC claimed that the owning of two networks by
NBC constituted a monoply and NBC was using the Blue network to suppress
competition against the Red network. Since the FCC powers concerned the
licensing of stations, not networks a new rule came about to get around
this. The new FCC ruling was, "No license shall be issued to a standard
broadcast station affilated with a network organization which maintains
more than one network". In 1942, the Justice Department filed antitrust
suits against NBC/RCA and CBS. NBC and CBS called the new ruling illegal
and appealed to the [removed] Supreme Court. The Court made it's decision on
May 10, 1943 and upheld by a vote of 5-to-2 the FCC's chain broadcasting
[removed] put the Blue network up for sale and it was sold to Edward J.
Noble, who made his fortune in Life Savers candy for $8 million. The
Blue network became ABC in 1945.

Bill H.

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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 03:21:26 -0400
From: "randy story" <hopharrigan@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OTR [removed]
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Hello, OTR fans.
I am preparing my annual Christmas show for our local theater and I have
decided to adapt several radio show scritps to the stage. I was wondering if
anyone had access to, or could point me toward, copies of OTR scripts for
shows of: MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET(especially this one), BELLS OF ST. MARY,
GOING MY WAY, or any other Christmas themed show? Please let me know if you
have copies and I will be glad to pay for copying, shipping, [removed] I need them
as soon as possible and I do not have the time to transcribe the show by hand
as has been suggested. I have checked online sources already, but some of the
holiday shows are not easily found.
Please help out if you can. Contact me off list or on and you may contact me
via phone at 417/256-9439.
Thanks so much,
Randy Story
West Plains, MO

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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 09:38:17 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  8-7 births/deaths

August 7th births

08-07-1883 - Reinald Werrenrath - New York City, NY - d. 9-12-1953
baaritone: "Old Company Program"
08-07-1904 - Dr. Ralph Bunche - Detroit, MI - d. 12-7-1971
activist: "The Big Show"
08-07-1906 - Ernestine Wade - Mississippi - d. 4-14-1983
actress: Sapphire Stevens "Amos 'n' Andy"
08-07-1909 - Sheldon Stark - New York, NY - d. 2-6-1997
writer: "The Columbia Workshop"; "Straight Arrow"
08-07-1910 - Freddie Slack - Westby, WI - d. 8-10-1965
pianist, bandleader: "Kraft Music Hall"
08-07-1911 - Nicholas Ray - Galesville, WI - d. 6-16-1979
director: Free lance
08-07-1914 - Clifford Thorsness - d. 6-14-2002
sound effects: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
08-07-1914 - June Travis - Chicago, IL
actress: Stormy Curtis/Wilson "Girl Alone"; Bernice Farraday "Arnold Grimm's
Daughter"
08-07-1921 - Poni (Jane) Adams - San Antonio, TX
contestant escort: "Darts  for Dough"
08-07-1926 - Stan Freberg - Los Angeles, CA
comedian: "That's Rich"; "Stan Freberg Show"
08-07-1942 - Garrison Keillor - Anoka, MN
vocalist, storyteller: "A Prarie Home Companion"

August 7th deaths

01-18-1892 - Oliver Hardy - Harlem, GA - d. 8-7-1957
comedian: "Laurel and Hardy Show" Pilot, never broadcast
01-28-1914 - Tom Neal - Evanston, IL - d. 8-7-1972
actor: "I Am An American"; "The Unexpected"
02-09-1901 - Walter Preston - Quincy, IL - d. 8-7-1982
singer: "Philco Hour"
03-10-1903 - Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke - Davenport, IA - d. 8-7-1931
jazz musician: "Band Remotes"
05-18-1900 - Raymond Paige - Wausau, WI (R; Los Angeles, CA)- d. 8-7-1965
conductor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Musical Americana"; "Stage Door Canteen"
05-30-1912 - Jerry D. Lewis - d. 8-7-1996
writer: "This Is Your FBI"
07-15-1900 - Helen Shields - Champaign, IL - d. 8-7-1963
actress: Linda Dale "I Love Linda Dale"; Sylvia Meadows "Amanda of Honeymoon
Hill"
07-27-1920 - Henry "Homer" Haynes - d. 8-7-1971
comedian: (Homer and Jethro) "Town and Country Time"
10-20-1922 - John Anderson - Clayton, IL - d. 8-7-1992
actor: William Clark "Horizons West"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 11:21:54 -0400
From: Clif Martin <martbart@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  defending eddie guest

Hey Derek, it takesa heap o effort to type w/ one hand after surgery and
somebody said it couldn't be [removed] ready for more on behalf of Michigan's
beloved poet of the people  when   I get my hand back

Clif Martin

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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 14:42:19 -0400
From: Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Hybrid CD-MP3 Player

Walmart has another hybrid MP3 player in their stores. This one is superior
to the short-lived unit offered a couple of years ago. It sounds good and
has played the MP3 programs I have given it the last two weeks.

It does not remember where it was stopped, although I have been leaving it
in pause mode indefinitely. It plays titles in MS-DOS order, which is often
not the alphabetical long filename order. It has a bright backlit LCD
display that I have been covering at night. There is no remote control. I
have not tried using batteries. The old model went through 6 D-cells in 15
hours, this one uses 8 D-cells.

It has a tone selector for "pop, classic, jazz, etc." but not custom
setting position. It has a good amp and speakers and will play loudly
without distorting if necessary. It's a basic, but strange looking, table
radio with AM and FM bands but no tape. The manual says it will play WMA
files, but I have not tried those.

Model - Durabrand CD-2086 made by Lenoxx for Walmart. Price $30. You can
see the radio at the [removed] web site.

Don Shenbarger

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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 14:42:40 -0400
From: "Jed Dolnick" <jdolnick@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Lum and Abner
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Here in Wisconsin, where "ya sure" and "ach ya" are often heard, I never had a
problem enjoying Lum and Abner, regardless of their own speech patterns. One
of my favorites was when Lum was going to be a "famous French chef" and make
"creepy Suzie-ettes", which were "little pancakes that you pour coal oil over
and light 'em on fire".

As for party lines, back in 1977 my girlfriend still had one at her parents'
farm.

Jed

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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 16:10:29 -0400
From: "Paul Adomites" <padomites@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Library

A few years ago I organized a survey for the Society for American Baseball
Research on "The Essential Baseball Library." I contacted about 30 people I
knew had read a lot of baseball books and compiled the stuff I received into
a article which appeared in one of our journals. I'd like to do the same
thing for this website, if you folks will help me out. Just send me your
suggestions and comments, if you like, for "The Essential OTR Library,"
offlist and I'll put them all together and come up with something we all can
share. (Besides I want to make sure my library has all the right stuff.)
Thanks,
Paul Adomites

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