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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 73
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Art is long, and Time is fleeting     [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  Radio Drama                           [ Mark Higgins <paul_frees_fan@amerit ]
  3-21 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  NATIONAL LAMPOON [removed]             [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
  Korean War and radio                  [ karl tiedemann <karltiedemann@hotma ]
  OTR Listening on the WEB              [ "Dave Amaral" <lnesbitt@[removed] ]

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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:32:14 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Art is long, and Time is fleeting

the widely-held
perception that the art died when the medium changed is the most
frustrating misconception the modern audio theatre industry,
particularly here in the US, has to deal with

I appreciate what Richard Fish is trying to tell us.  If I had an investment
in a hobby as expansive as his, I would defend that point as he does.

But I don't.  Unlike some who subscribe to this list, I'm not involved in
contemporary dramas -- even reproductions of those from the past, although I
enjoy seeing them occasionally.  My passion is for an epoch that reached a
denouement and faded from the scene by the early 1960s.  While it resurfaced
briefly in the 1970s and early 1980s on the very chains bearing call letters
that many of us remember, it was "gone" as in "over and done with" when the
Golden Age ended.  And it has never returned in any miniscule exhibition
compared to what America was treated with in its halcyon days.

In "A Psalm of Life," Henry W. Longfellow projected:  "Art is long, and Time
is fleeting."

The art didn't die, as Richard rightly points out.  I believe many of us
understand that.  In this observer's estimate, the environment surrounding
it is as dead as a door nail and will never return, except "by
transcription," computers and other devices.  If I'm wallowing in a bygone
era, I'm still loving it, without intending to perform a disservice to more
modern exponents of time-worn methods.

Jim Cox

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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:29:36 -0400
From: Mark Higgins <paul_frees_fan@[removed];
To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Radio Drama

     To echo Craig Wichman's comments regarding radio
drama, I agree that the preservation of radio drama,
old, new or otherwise is the main point.  Until
relatively recently, the only place to find quality
radio drama, BBC 4 from England, and RTE Radio 1 from
Ireland, were the places to go (I have both bookmarked
on my PC).  I especially enjoy Crazy Dog Radio
Theater.
     Now, however, we are also able to enjoy domestic
product.  My brother recently pointed me toward the
Radio Drama Revival website, and for the Ides of
March, they presented the Quicksilver production of
"The Tragedy of Julius Caesar", which I listened to
and thoroughly enjoyed.  Well done, Craig.

Mark Higgins

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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:29:43 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  3-21 births/deaths

March 21st births

03-21-1867 - Florenz Ziegfeld - Chicago, IL - d. 7-22-1932
showman: "Ed Sullivan Show"; "Ziegfeld Follies of the Air"
03-21-1869 - Vivia Ogden - Ohio - d. 12-22-1952
actor: Mrs. Manners "John's Other Wife"; Annie "Orphans of Divorce"
03-21-1893 - Aileen Stanley - d. 3-24-1982
vocalist: (The Victrola Girl) "RCA Thesaurus Music Hall Varieties"
03-21-1893 - Sidney Franklin - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-18-1972
film producer, director: "Academy Awards Program"; "Screen Guild
Theatre"
03-21-1903 - Mark Hellinger - NYC - d. 12-21-1947
broadway, hollywood producer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Post Toasties Time"
03-21-1903 - Nan Boardman - NYC - d. 9-9-1984
actor: "The Modern Adventures of Casanova"
03-21-1908 - Vincent Pelletier - Minneapolis, MN - d. 2-25-1994
actor: Victor Powell "This is Life"; Robin "Calling All Detectives"
03-21-1911 - Henny Backus - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-9-2004
actor: "Romance"
03-21-1912 - Henry Gibson - NYC - d. 5-29-2003
director, writer: "Burns and Allen"; "Junior Miss"
03-21-1912 - Suzanne Kaaren - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-27-2004
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-21-1915 - Hank D'Amico - Rochester, NY - d. 12-3-1965
clairinetist: "Rumpus Room"; "Saturday Senior Swing"
03-21-1918 - Cliff Norton - Chicago, IL - d. 1-25-2003
actor: Connie the coolie "Terry and the Pirates"; "American Novels"
03-21-1919 - Lois Collier - Salley, SC - d. 10-27-1999
actor: Carol Chandler "Dear John"
03-21-1926 - Virginia Weidler - Eagle Rock, CA - d. 7-1-1968
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
03-21-1932 - Tommy Bernard - Los Angeles, CA
actor: David Nelson "Ozzie and Harriet Show"
03-21-1943 - Vivian Stanshall - Shillingford, England - d. 3-5-1995
pop musician: "Viv Stanshall's Radio Flashes"
03-21-1959 - Tobsha Learner - England
writer: "Lionheart"

March 21st deaths

01-30-1914 - John Ireland - Vancouver, Canada - d. 3-21-1992
actor: "MGM Theatre of the Air"; "[removed] Steel Hour"
03-15-1913 - Macdonald Carey - Sioux City, IA - d. 3-21-1994
actor: Jonathan Hillary "Just Plain Bill "; Lee Markham "Woman in White"
03-20-1908 - Michael Redgrave - Bristol, England - d. 3-21-1985
actor: Horatio Hornblower "Horatio Hornblower"
03-28-1871 - Willem Mengelberg - Utrecht, Netherlands - d. 3-21-1951
composer, conductor: "The New York Philharmonic Orchestra"
03-28-1917 - Randy Brooks - Sandford, ME - d. 3-21-1967
bandleader: "One Night Stand"; "The Kate Smith Hour"
05-08-1915 - Nan Wynn - Wheeling, WV - d. 3-21-1971
singer: "Ceiling Unlimited"
05-22-1903 - Ward Wilson -Trenton, NJ - d. 3-21-1966
actor, announcer: Mr. DeHaven "Aldrich Family"; Beetle "Phil Baker Show"
05-27-1904 - Marlin Hurt - Du Quoin, IL - d. 3-21-1946
actor: Beulah "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Bill Jackson "Beulah"
06-08-1918 - Robert Preston - Newton Highlands, MA - d. 3-21-1987
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Eternal Light"; "Medicine USA"; "Silver
Theatre"
07-18-1891 - Gene Lockhart - Ontario, Canada - d. 3-21-1957
actor: "Nebbs"; "Doctor Fights"; "Abroad with the Lockharts"
08-17-1903 - Bob Evans - California - d. 3-21-1961
actor: "Sing It Again"
09-15-1924 - Bobby Short - Danville, IL - d. 3-21-2005
singer: Sang on Chicago radio at beginning of his career
10-05-1902 - Robert Ballin - d. 3-21-1977
pianist: (Race and Ballin) WOR Newark, New Jersey
11-27-1925 - Ernie Wise - Leeds, England - d. 3-21-1999
comedian: "The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Radio Show"; "Bandwagon"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:30:07 -0400
From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  NATIONAL LAMPOON [removed]

To say that  the NATIONAL LAMPOON radio series was a clone of SATURDAY
NIGHT LIVE is an inversion of history!

;-)

Since, NAT. LAMP. preceded SNL by, roughly, a couple of years.

As with the Lampoon's Off Broadway review, LEMMINGS (sp), the radio
series WAS where some of the SNL folk did their earliest work:  Chevy
Chase, John Belushi, Bill [removed]
Christopher Guest was also involved.

Matty Simmons and Len Mogel, the money and publishers behind the mag,
had gone to the vast expense of BUILDING THEIR OWN rado studio on a
floor of the LAMPOON's Manhattan headquarters/building.  As I recall,
the radio program started out gangbusters, until some of its
controversial material caused it to lose sponsors.  First, the show was
cut back to half-an-hour, and then interest from the staff, just kind of
[removed]

Incidentally, Bill Murray has another radio credit from roughly that
era:

Playing Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, in the mid-70s syndicated
FANTASTIC FOUR radio serial.

Jim Burns

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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:44:00 -0400
From: karl tiedemann <karltiedemann@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Korean War and radio
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5. I'm looking for examples of shows with "shout outs" to, or prayers for,
the troops in Korea. Are there any specific programs I should look for
recordings of to find some of these?---------

Slightly different, but possibly helpful:  the episode of DIMENSION X that
was
being broadcast on the day the war started (don't recall the title) is-- as I
recall--
interrupted by news of the beginning of the war.

Also, Tallulah Bankhead would close THE BIG SHOW with a greeting to our armed
forces;
I believe she sometimes mentioned Korea specifically.

Karl Tiedemann

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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:04:54 -0400
From: "Dave Amaral" <lnesbitt@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OTR Listening on the WEB

In case there are some OTR listeners that are not aware of one of the better
web sources to listen to OTR, may I suggest you check out SHOUTCAST.  A free
internet Radio site. Just type in OTR in the Shoutcast search window and
choose from the list that is streaming audio 24 hours.   A good choice to
start with would be "Antioch otr" featuring many Whistler shows in good
sound.  You should have a DSL connection to use this free site.
      Anyone else have a favorite Internet Radio Site that you would like to
share?..
                Lloyd    lnesbitt@[removed]

[ADMINISTRIVIA: Shoutcast places varoius cookies and insecure javascript on
your computer designed to track and monitor your usage for marketing
purposes, so exercise caution when visiting the website. There are many safer
alternatives for streaming OTR, podcasts out the wazoo, and of course the
usual suspects for downloading OTR for playback at your convenience.  --cfs3]

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