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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2013 : Issue 76
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Re: You Know You're an OTR Fan When. [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
OTR [removed] [ "danhughes@[removed]" <danhughes@jun ]
Movie re-dos of old-time radio shows [ Andy Blatt <asajb2000@[removed]; ]
You know you're an OTR fan when ... [ "tate_elliott@[removed]" <tate_ellio ]
Rare programs available [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history 14-20 Jul [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Another Lone Ranger Review [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
A few quick [removed] [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:02:14 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: You Know You're an OTR Fan [removed]
Michael Leannah wrote --
> ...you watch the movie Niagara not to see Marilyn Monroe, but to
catch a glimpse of Don Wilson.
Not to forget Lurene Tuttle as well. :)
Joe
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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:03:51 -0400
From: "danhughes@[removed]" <danhughes@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OTR [removed]
Michael said,
You know you're really a lover of Old Time Radio [removed]
For your 39th birthday, you throw a Jack Benny party.
My daughter (Karen Hughes) bakes a birthday cake for Jack every Valentine's
Day (Jack's
birthday), and we all sing Happy [removed] (I think we've done this since
Karen was 5,
and she's 28 now).
[removed] The second week in February is Jack Benny Week in Karen's class (she's
a teacher),
and virtually all assignments are Jack Benny related. And they listen to old
Jack Benny
shows.
---Dan
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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:03:57 -0400
From: Andy Blatt <asajb2000@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Movie re-dos of old-time radio shows
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First, I hope no one is surprised about the quality of the new Lone Ranger
movie. After all, it was meant (or the big push was)
to showcase Johnny Depp
playing a second-banana. And was it politically correct? Probably not.
Remember "The Shadow"
with Alec Baldwin and "The Green Hornet" with Seth
Rogen? Maybe some of these producers should do a little research or consult
some (any!) of the hundreds of people on this list and off who would know
better. I'll bet the Lone Ranger movie loses money.
Johnny Depp is one of
those $20-million actors and maybe the promotional budget will likely put it
way in the red.
As far as "you know you are an old-time radio [removed]" Not
only do most people figure I am ancient (or as my kids say, "older than dirt")
because I know of and know the stars of 1960's and 1970's TV shows, I also
know the past history and careers of the stars in the TV shows.
For instance,
the 1960's TV shows have lots of former radio stars who found themselves
suddenly and almost-immediately out of work as
TV encroached on the formerly
radio-dominated entertainment landscape. This is why you will find big radio
stars in such shows as
The Twilight Zone, TV Gunsmoke, Adam 12 and others. I
recognize them of course, by their voices because who knows what they looked
like?
One example in particular, Art Gilmore playing a squad commander in Adam
12 and as soon as I saw the end credits and saw the name, I knew.
It's fun to
see how many people populated the TV landscape but it is probably only because
they needed work and with radio being transformed,
TV was the new employer.
Alfred Hitchcock's one-hour and half-hour TV shows (1958+) also had bunches
of stars, either just starting out and
people newly unemployed or
underemployed because of radio jobs fading.
Andy B
(Vintage Broadcasts)
The Comedy Hour, Thursdays, 12n (eastern) [removed]
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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:04:09 -0400
From: "tate_elliott@[removed]" <tate_elliott@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: You know you're an OTR fan when ...
You watch the movie Malibu Bikini Shop just to see Frank Nelson.
"Yyyeeeesssss?" (It's on Youtube.)
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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:04:17 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Rare programs available
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I have added a new feature to my web site - Radio Days
([removed])- which is in its 18th year. I am beginning to
digitize my nearly 40 year old collection of various old time radio
programs that I have collected and am finding some items that don't
appear to be in general circulation. And so I am making these available
via my web site. This time I am offering two features: A One Night
Stand with Tommy Dorsey from September 30, 1945 in excellent quality. I
could not find it listed on the Internet as available.
The second feature is an aircheck from KHJ Los Angeles from 1936 of the
Joe Louis - Jack Sharkey fight followed by the March of Time. The
aircheck includes time signals and local commercials and is also in
excellent condition.
While I am maintaining these in uncompressed formats, I am only offering
high quality compressed mp3 files of these on the web site.
You can find them at [removed]
As I find new items, I will be circulating these out though with what
regularity I cannot say since I have a lot of reels and am finding these
as I continue to digitize what parts of the collection I find of
interest to myself.
Jim Widner
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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:04:27 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 14-20 July
From Those Were The Days
7/14
1957 Funnyman Stan Freberg debuted a new weekly comedy program on CBS.
The Freberg show only lasted a short time and that newfangled
contraption, t--------n, was blamed for the show's quick demise.
7/16
1934 NBC Red network premiered the musical drama, Dreams Come True. It
was a show about baritone singer Barry McKinley and his novelist
sweetheart.
7/18
1936 The critically acclaimed, experimental theatre of the air, The
Columbia Workshop, debuted on CBS.
7/19
1942 The Seventh Symphony, by Shastakovich, was performed for the
first time in the United States by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony
Orchestra.
1948 Our Miss Brooks, starring Eve Arden and Gale Gordon, debuted on
CBS this day.
7/20
1935 NBC debuted G men. The show was later renamed Gangbusters.
Joe
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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:04:42 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Another Lone Ranger Review
Our local Fairfax Times in VA just reprinted the Chicago Tribune review
written by Michael Phillips of the new Lone Ranger movie. He condemns it with
numerous examples of its hubris, errant revisionism, perverse violence, and
inane scripting. Phillips recommends a title change to either "Tonto's
Revenge" or "Tonto and the Dweeb."
He declares lawman "John" Reid is only slightly more comfortable in the Old
West than Bob Hope was in "Paleface" while Depp plays Tonto as if it were his
fifth "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie. Rabid attack-rabbits are more scary
than the railroad worker screaming from a bullet in the back while another's
speech drones on. Egregiously, Butch Cavendish not only kills the Lone
Ranger's brother, but also cuts out his heart and eats it. In general the
actors are not the problem, sez Phillips, but everything else is. It's akin
to a Sam Peckinpah splatter-fest complete with period-accurate locomotives
from Disney.
In one scene where hundreds of Native Americans are being slaughtered with
Gatling guns, we find the Lone Ranger and Tonto, like a couple of
comic-relief ninnies, screwing around aimlessly for laughs on a rail handcar.
At one point, the masked man gets his head dragged through manure. Watching
this film, promises Phillips, you'll know that feeling.
Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:12:33 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: A few quick [removed]
(NOT administrivia, this is from just me, not the listmaster.)
1) Was watching an episode of the 1960's b/w series "Men Into Space"
(which I don't remember seeing back then, surprising considering my interest
in science fiction) and was delighted to see Gerald Mohr, OTR's own Philip
Marlowe.
2) Does anyone have videotaped copies of AMC's series, "Remember WENN"
sitting around their basement? I was able to find the first few episodes
(which blissfully included the episode guest-starring the voice of Arthur
Dent and long-time friend of the Friends of Old-Time Radio, Simon Jones!),
but am interested in finding the rest.
3) If you have a Copy account (whether through my referral link or any
other way), drop me a note with the email address you use in Copy at
copy_share@[removed] - I'll invite you to a shared folder I'm putting
together. Nothing tremendous, understand, just shows I'm listening to at the
time or other old-time radio-related stuff I come across. It'll be a web-only
share, so you will NOT be forced to receive the files to your "normal" Copy
folder (you can choose what to download, what to stream, and what to ignore);
but you _will_ need to have a Copy account linked to the email address if I
understand how these private web-shares work.
And if you don't have a copy account, feel free to check it out at:
[removed]
You get 15G of off-site backup and sharing space right off the bat, but if
you use that referral link and install the app, you'll get an extra 5G for a
total of 20G! (Dropbox [removed] 2G of space?) Check it [removed]
think you'll find it really useful. And if I'm wrong and you don't, it only
takes a moment to uninstall.
Charlie
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