Subject: [removed] Digest V2004 #123
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Date: 4/5/2004 4:18 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2004 : Issue 123
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Mister Ed                             [ Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed]; ]
  Re: Lum and Abner finale              [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
  Re: Blackhawk Radio Info              [ "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed]; ]
  Elevators and HDTV                    [ JackBenny@[removed] ]
  Me and the April Fools                [ "Austotr" <austotr@[removed]; ]
  Re: Mr. Ed                            [ Ga6string@[removed] ]
  April 1 obit                          [ "Alain Altounian" <[removed]@[removed] ]
  April's Fools                         [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  Elevator Operators                    [ "RBB" <oldradio@[removed]; ]
  Jughead                               [ "Jody Davis" <baroygis@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 19:55:31 -0400
From: Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Mister Ed

Incidentally, Jay Hickerson's ULTIMATE GUIDE book
lists a radio episode of Mister Ed.  Though I suspect
it's nothing more than an audio recording of a TV
episode, does anyone have this audio recording so I
can check it out?

Martin Grams, Jr.

While MISTER ED was on the air, Colpix Records
released an LP drawn from the soundtracks of a couple
of episodes of the series, "Ed the Songwriter" and
"Mister Ed's Blues."  That LP is very likely the
source of the "radio episode" listed in Hickerson.

Randy

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Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 21:45:16 -0400
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Lum and Abner finale
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In a message dated 4/4/04 11:18:48 AM Central Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:

LUM AND ABNER
ABC    5-15-53    "The Last Show of the Series
Stars Norris Goff and Chet Lauk - their last show after 22 years on network
radio


Since I don't get "Heritage Radio Theatre" where I live, can someone describe
this one for me?  Was there a sponsor? A goodbye message at the end or other
announcement?  What was the plot?

Dixon

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Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 21:46:59 -0400
From: "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Blackhawk Radio Info

Here's a place to start: an interview with the man most associated with the
Blackhawk characters in its Quality and early (pre-Chaykin) DC runs, Chuck
Cuidera -- an article which appeared in Comic Book Marketplace (#66, May
1999) and is summarized by one website (found via Googling "blackhawk radio
series") thusly:

"A side bar explores the interesting connection between Blackhawk and
Superman. Most Blackhawk fans know that it was a very successful title in the
early '40s, outselling every other comic book except Superman. It even
outsold Batman. But this article reveals that the Blackhawk radio series
(that premiered on ABC on September 20, 1950, and aired every Wednesday at
5:30 until January 3, 1951) alternated with the Superman radio series, in its
last season in 1950-51. The parts of Superman and Blackhawk were played by
the same actor, a former Universal contract player named Michael Fizmaurice.
Curiously, the next year Kirk Alyn, who had played Superman in two serials,
was cast in the role of Blackhawk."

(Source: [removed])

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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 00:42:16 -0400
From: JackBenny@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Elevators and HDTV

Mark Kinsler writes:

who, like every kid of his generation, always wanted to be an elevator
operator.  They got to wear cool uniforms and sit on that little stool that
folded down from the wall.

This is totally off-topic, but that you've mentioned it, I did that once sans
the uniform and with a regular chair.  I was volunteering for a senior
citizen informational fair at the local library when I was in high school,
and some
bright bulb decided that a person needed to be an elevator operator to move
the seniors between the first and second floor.  I think I was stationed there
for four hours, just going back and forth between the first and second floor.
I don't know what it was, but after about three hours, I started to get
lightheaded.  Somehow I ended up outside with one of the women in charge.
She saw
me going green around the gills, turned me over the bushes, and let's just say
that nature took its course.

But a very memorable moment before that was when a small crowd of people came
into the elevator around a senior lady who was crying and in hysterics.  They
tried to get her to talk, and she sobbed that she had been at the booth to
have her eyes checked, and the doctor had told her something.  After a great
deal of coaxing, she finally wailed, "HE TOLD ME I WAS PREGNANT!"

(How I caught her morning sickness, I have no idea.)

I wonder if there are stars who won't quite make it into HDTV?  Mr Hal
Stone,
who knows radio, TV, and probably HDTV (TV commercials have used it for a
while) might wish to comment.

I think you're right, Mark.  Hal Stone probably won't quite make it to HDTV.
;)

--LL

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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 09:09:50 -0400
From: "Austotr" <austotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Me and the April Fools

In issue 122 Elizabeth revisited the fallout of her brilliantly executed
April Fool joke of 2003.  Elizabeth I still smile when I think of that joke,
there are those of us with a sense of humour who appreciated the style and
delivery.

I am sorry to hear about the health issues and wish you and yours a better
2004.

Just be aware there's some real nut cases out there in The
Vast World-Wide Collecting Community, and you don't want to get on their
bad side.

I guess people who deliberately paste incorrect intros on episodes and
deliberately misname and misrepresent episodes for their own gratification,
or to discredit mp3, are capable of anything.  Fortunately the thousands of
honest and hardworking people involved in the hobby far outweigh them.

I have learnt a lot from you and from the other knowledgeable people here
who are generous with their time and information.

On the other hand, I am worried about Hal who disappears from the list
regularly and takes on another persona of Dorothy.  Not that I am judging
him, I think as Dorothy he makes some great posts to the list.  But I am
concerned he is spending more time as Dorothy.

Ian Grieve

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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 09:10:30 -0400
From: Ga6string@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Mr. Ed
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In a message dated 4/4/2004 12:18:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
[removed]@[removed] writes:

Jay Hickerson's ULTIMATE GUIDE book lists a radio episode of Mister Ed.  
Though I suspect it's nothing more than an audio recording of a TV episode, does 
anyone have this audio recording so I can check it out?

Not here, but I do have a great old 45 of the Mr. Ed theme song, b/w "The 
Pretty Little Filly With the Pony Tail." Every time I heard it, I feel like I'm 8 
years old again!
Bryan

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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 10:02:19 -0400
From: "Alain Altounian" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "Old. Time. Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  April 1 obit

A few years on the "net" has been a practical reminder to me that virtually
everything is "IMHO" [removed]

Still, i was surprised that someone read that post

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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 10:20:44 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  April's Fools

From: "HARLAN ZINCK" <zharlan@[removed];

Dixon wrote:

Could that be because it's April Fools???  Guess Elizabeth took this year
[removed] ;-)

Considering the almost complete and utter reaming Ms. McLeod suffered due
to last year's fairly innocuous prank, who the hell can blame her?!?

I'd have to second Harlan here; the vicious over-reaction to Elizabeth's
quite elegant jest was very disheartening. Of course, it was a direct result
of the "mouth-watering"
quotient of what she claimed had been unearthed (having once worn one of Wm.
Gillette's "Holmes" dressing gowns for a moment, my own drool was [removed])

I take this opportunity to mention the only prank that I know of in the same
league, which happened just last week.

On the Universal Monster Army weblist, someone posted a note that a "Photo of
Bela Lugosi's FRANKENSTEIN Make-up Test Has Been Found!"(For those who don't
know, Bela did indeed test for - then drop, in derision - the role that made
Boris Karloff a star).

When you raced to the site, what you saw was a beatifully faked pic of the
actor sitting deep in thought at a schoolroom desk, before a blackboard
covered with questions about Mary Shelley's [removed]

Truly, Bela Lugosi, taking a make-up test, on the subject of Frankenstein!

Best,
Craig

[removed] - Prayers & best wishes for your health battles, Elizabeth; & congrats
on the publishing deal for what is sure to be a landmark A & A tome!

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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 14:48:16 -0400
From: "RBB" <oldradio@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Elevator Operators

<<Mark Kinsler posted reminisces about the elevator dispatcher>>>

Growing up in Boston, every downtown department store (Jordan Marsh, [removed]
White's, Filene's, Raymond's) had elevator operators who greeted you with
"Step back, please, floors please" upon entering, and "Watch your step,
please" when exiting the elevator.  They were very polite (men and women)
who sat in the little drop-down seat from the elevator wall.  They wore
white cotton gloves while turning the power handle from left to right of
center, sometimes stopping with a quick up-and-down to level the elevator
floor with the opening level floor (so ya don't trip!)

The "dispatcher," however, was usually a tad brusque, quickly walking from
elevator door to door with his white gloved hand directing the herding
patrons into the next open chamber.

I remember there was a "clicker" in his/her hand that went "[removed]" to
signal the operator to close first the door, then the gate.  If there was
not a fast enough response closing the door, you'd hear several "clicker"
snaps as a hurry up alert to the operator.

Tieing this post into a radio subject:  there was always soothing, elevator
music to hum along from a broadcaster's music service, (...remember Musak?
Well, they are still around [removed] )

By the way, Filene's famous "Bargain Basement Store" (with Automatic
Markdown tags) was always a madhouse of shoppers who boarded the
Up-elevators with armfulls of packaged and bagged goods that literally took
over the small elevator.

Why is it that we all quietly watch the ascending and decending numbers
light up as the elevator passes each floor?  Wouldn't that be a great place
for advertising signage or crawling lighted letters selling us stuff?

=Russ Butler  oldradio@[removed]
Everything that is [removed] new again!

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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 14:48:24 -0400
From: "Jody Davis" <baroygis@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Jughead

Just a quick note to offer a king-sized personal thank-you (and a lifetime
supply of Swift's Premium Franks) to Hal Stone for his participation in the
Elmira (NY) Little Theater's "Another Visit to the Golden Age of Radio" this
past weekend. And a queen-sized thanks to producer/director Gary Yoggy.

Our three performances of four OTR shows (that makes 12, I think) went over
very well with our audiences. For those of you who haven't had the benefit
of hearing Hal reprise the Jughead [removed] he's as squeaky at age 39+ as he
was as a teenager. He also did a nice job stepping out of his comedy
straitjacket and into the lead for an episode of "Escape" (and told me he
enjoyed it thoroughly). Outside of the performances, Hal regaled this fellow
veteran of the television wars with some great stories of life in the early
days of TV news. If you have an opportunity to see Hal at a convention or
[removed] And say hi to the delightful Dorothy Stone while you're at
it.

It was an honor to share the stage with you, Jug.

Sincerely,

Jody Davis
TV News Director, OTR Collector, Thespian-For-A-Weekend

[ADMINISTRIVIA: As far as I can tell, the "squeaky" voice is his natural one.
Any others he uses are the result of his voice-acting abilities.  --cfs3]

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