Subject: [removed] Digest V2003 #282
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Date: 7/22/2003 9:50 AM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2003 : Issue 282
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Bob and Ray                           [ Bob <hoban_2001@[removed]; ]
  Bob Hope set at Sam,s                 [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
  Phil Harris-Alice Faye show question  [ "Ivan G. Shreve, Jr." <iscreve@comc ]
  re: Radio Spirits                     [ Jack Harris <jack@[removed] ]
  Nightbeat                             [ William Harker <wharker@[removed] ]
  'Goldbergs' article in Sunday NYT     [ chris chandler <chrischandler84@yah ]
  call letters/replacement shows        [ "Bob & Lois Reynolds" <boblo1@allte ]
  Jack Armstrong                        [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Miss Hush                             [ otrbuff@[removed] ]
  Only a few 1935 Jack Benny shows?     [ "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@run ]
  bela lugosi                           [ eddieo396@[removed] ]
  Soldiers of the Press                 [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]

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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:12:26 -0400
From: Bob <hoban_2001@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Bob and Ray

OK, Robert W. Paine;
Edna, once unabed, was found in absurd places, of
course.
"As we find [removed] on the piano with an
unpotted palm as Lower Warrant Officer Barclay, 2nd
Class, arrives."

Edna: "Oh it's you, Lower Warrant Officer Barclay, 2nd
Class. You got here just in the nick of time. The air
is thin up here."

Barclay: "Let me help you down, Miss Edna.  I thought
you gave up trying to plant trees on the ceiling."

Edna: "Don't be silly, Lower Warrant Officer Barclay,
2nd Class. When I saw the evidence, I grabbed the
first weapon I could and leapt high in the air.  I
forgot the piano was in the music room. Daddy always
kept it in the smoke house."

Barclay: "Well, Miss Edna, your father was always
considered pretty much an imbecile."

Edna: "But of the highest order. (Pause) Now be
careful and don't burn your feet on those little
cigars.  Those little people must have dropped them as
they were casing the joint."

Barclay: "Miss Edna, are you referring to the little
brown things on the floor?"

Edna: "Indeed I am.  I know cigars when I see them.
Daddy always smoked a couple stogies with his rotgut.
He said it made the piano sound so much sweeter."

Barclay: "Ah, Miss Edna, these aren't cigars.  They're
little candy bars, probably left over from Halloween."

Edna: "But I haven't given out Halloween candy for
over forty years."

Barclay: "That would explain the fumes you mistook for
fire."

Edna: "But little people always smoke cigars, and this
house is surrounded by them. Look outside. Why,
they've even opened a bar on the sidewalk where I'll
wager they're plotting some nefarious crime before
they go back to the circus."

Barclay: "Those aren't little people, Miss Edna.
They're children with a lemonade stand."

Edna: "Oh my stars I do believe you're right, Lower
Warrant Officer Barclay, 2nd Class."

Barclay: "But I guess you didn't call me way over here
just to point out some kiddies, even though they're
breaking every health code violation in the book."

Edna: "I can't tell you what a load this is off my
mind. It no longer feels as if I'm standing [removed]
(sounds of script pages turning)...[removed] [removed]
.The Gathering.

Barclay: "Dusk".

Edna: "What?...oh [removed]"

This is WOR, Bob and Radio, New York.

Bob Hoban

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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:12:43 -0400
From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Bob Hope set at Sam,s

Hi everybody,

I am looking for a copy of the Bob Hope 12 CD set that was in Sam,s.  Beryl
Davis would like to have the show she sang on that is in that set.  I
believe that was the 1947 show starring Van Johnson.  Does any one know if
any of the Sam,s in the USA are still caring that 12 CD Bob Hope set?  Take
care,

Walden Hughes

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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:13:01 -0400
From: "Ivan G. Shreve, Jr." <iscreve@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Phil Harris-Alice Faye show question

Does episode number 8, "Health Food Diet" (11-21-48), actually exist?  I
have ordered this program from at least two OTR dealers and the show appears
to be number 10, "Frankie Borrows the Kids" (12-05-48), instead.  If anybody
has this episode available on CD (no mp3's, please) please contact me off
list, because I'm interested in obtaining a copy.

Thanks ever so,
Ivan

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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:13:30 -0400
From: Jack Harris <jack@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  re: Radio Spirits

I have to agree with the comments by the reader that had problems.  I
bought the Gunsmoke cassette set from Sam's.  One of the cassettes was bad
but Sam's no longer had any.  I was told by RS to take it back to
Sam's.  But Sam's no longer has them I said.  Well neither do we was the
comment. Then about February or so RS ran an ad selling them.  I
called.  Oh we put those ads in ahead of time but we are out.
Now the latest offer here in July they are again featuring them for
sale!!  Come on RS you place those ads SEVEN MONTHS ahead of time.  I just
love being lied to.

I have also noticed their quality going down hill.  And now someone says
they are using Jerry as a source of their [removed]  Any truth in
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for dive videos and computers
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:13:44 -0400
From: William Harker <wharker@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Nightbeat

I have about 40 Nightbeat shows that I am currently transferring from
cassette tape to CD.  None of these have commercials, station announcements
or any of the announcer's dialogue.

I just saw a mention on a web site that Don Rickles was the announcer.  Is
this correct?

Also, there was an Australian version of Nightbeat, as well as
Gunsmoke.  Are any of these shows available on tape or CD?

Bill Harker
wharker@[removed]

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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:14:40 -0400
From: chris chandler <chrischandler84@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  'Goldbergs' article in Sunday NYT

Anybody catch this missive on 'The Goldbergs' in the
New York Times yeterday?

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I love how writers who've never had much exposure to
early radio or TV always manage to imbue their
'discoveries' with a condescending tone of
pseudo-enlightened 'Who knew about THIS?'

In any event, while she makes a couple of good points,
the author obviously has no idea the TV incarnation of
'The Goldbergs' bore little to no resemblance to the
long-running, very different, much more successful
radio version.  She does manage to compare the radio
series to 'Amos and Andy', but then misses the
screamingly obvious point of the comparison--that the
earlier radio version was infinitely more
character-based and less paint-by-numbers manufactured
than the late-era sitcom model, which was an offshoot
of the 'Goldbergs' stage play in 1948, and which was
gradually demoted from the 'big' networks down to
Dumont and then syndication.  In short, the thing had
long since run its course, yet the NYT author seems to
think it was a wild runaway hit.

Favorite quote:  "as (Berg) grew more
popular"--talking about the run of the TV series--as
if all those years on radio counted for nothing, and
REAL fame could only POSSIBLY have come once Ms. Berg
hit TV.  As Molly herself might say, oy vey!!!

One question:  the article says 'The Goldbergs'
"rivalled" A&A in popularity in the 1930s.
This quote may be either lifted, shared with, or
'insipred by' the exact same wording on the Gertrude
Berg bio on the Chicago Broadcasting Museum website.
But is it really true?

chris

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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:08:37 -0400
From: "Bob & Lois Reynolds" <boblo1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  call letters/replacement shows
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I would like to throw out a couple of questions.  !.  Has anyone  done
research of  what some of the early radio stations call letters stand for?
2. Is there a list of summer replacement  shows that became so popular that
they were put on "prime time slots"  Many thanks  Bob  Reynolds
boblo1@[removed]

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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:28:21 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Jack Armstrong

Does anyone out there have any Jack Armstrong programs from middle 1939? I am
looking for some work done by Frank Behrens and he played Jack Armstrong in
1939. Appreciate anything that you can do for me.
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Hometown of [removed] Kaltenborn and Jay Jostyn

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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 16:48:28 -0400
From: otrbuff@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Miss Hush

Russ Butler asks who played "Miss Hush" in Ralph Edwards' "Truth or
Consequences."  Here's the answer, along with other participants in that
long-playing gag . . . .

Mr. Hush - Jack Dempsey, prizefighter
Mrs. Hush - Clara Bow, movie actress
Miss Hush - Martha Graham, dancer
The Walking Man - Jack Benny, comedian
The Whispering Woman - Jeanette MacDonald, vocalist
Mr. Heartbeat - Edgar A. Guest, poet
Mr. and Mrs. Hush - Moss Hart, composer, and wife Kitty Carlisle,
vocalist
Papa and Mama Hush - Yolanda and Velez, dancers

Fuller details may be found in my tome "The Great Radio Audience
Participation Shows" (McFarland, 2001, pp. 181-184).

Jim Cox

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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 21:07:04 -0400
From: "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Only a few 1935 Jack Benny shows?

Hello, just looked at my mp3 list of Jack Benny shows, and there's a huge
gap, because there are only three shows in there from 1935. Are they just
not encoded, or not a lot of them survived from that whole year?
Thanks a lot.
Matthew

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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 21:07:14 -0400
From: eddieo396@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  bela lugosi

hi i am a big otr and bela lugosi fan does anybody know if mr lugosi appreaed
in any radio shows. thanks

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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 09:41:47 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Soldiers of the Press

Folks;

   Heard an audio essay last night on All Things Considered by Walter
Cronkite; he talked about the radio show, "Soldiers of the Air," written and
apparently produced by United Press International where UPI reporters were
portrayed by actors. (If you missed the show, see
[removed] - and unfortunately, you'll need
to turn Javascript ON since NPR unnecessarily uses js to handle it's
RealMedia links.) Since this list has the most knowledgable folks around when
it comes to OTR, I have a few questions:

   1) Does anyone have more information they can share about the series?

   2) Do any of the dealers here carry this series?

   3) Is anyone here able to recognize the voice of the "New York actor" who
portrayed Cronkite in his episode of the series?

         Charlie

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