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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2003 : Issue 399
A Part of the [removed]!
ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Lagniappe [ JimBourg@[removed] ]
tapes - baked [ tomhood <thood@[removed]; ]
Baking tapes [ mbiel@[removed] ]
audio tapes that squeak [ "ellsworth o johnson" <eojohnsonww2 ]
Re: CBS 75th [ mbiel@[removed] ]
CBS Inc. [ "Brian Johnson" <chyronop@sbcglobal ]
Fwd: SENT TO KNX-1070 [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
11-4-births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
baking tape [ "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@earthli ]
Navajo Code on TV [ zbob@[removed] ]
Craig Wichman is in The Twilight Zon [ Wich2@[removed] ]
re: Henry and Homer [ NORMAN FLAGG <nflagg@[removed]; ]
RE: Looking For An Episode of Myster [ Troubadourfilms@[removed] ]
Re: CBS at 75 [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
baking tapes [ "Jay Ranellucci" <otrfan3@[removed] ]
"Hullabaloo" [ [removed]@[removed] ]
Big Band MP3's [ Pete <pappleyard_ca@[removed]; ]
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 12:04:58 -0500
From: JimBourg@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Lagniappe
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In a message dated 11/2/2003 12:58:51 PM Central Standard Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:
There were some lagniappes along the way,
This is a word I have seldom heard outside of Louisiana. Wondered where you
may have picked up it's use. For the curious it means "something extra."
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 13:04:54 -0500
From: tomhood <thood@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: tapes - baked
Hi all
The idea of putting my treasures in an oven worried me so I built a wooden
box 3'x1'x1' with a door & installed a 150 watt light bulb. I placed a
squeeking tape on top of a tin can,turned on the light & left it overnight.
In the morning the tape was squeek free. I cannot take credit for the idea
one of the engineers at CBC Vancouver thought it up. It works!
Tom Hood
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:29:04 -0500
From: mbiel@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Baking tapes
Fred Berney found this somewhere on the internet and copied it for the digest:
The sticky-tape / -powder problem can be temporarily relieved by baking
the tape for at least eight hours at 550C (1300F), and an extreme case
may require 18 to 24 hours.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!
IF YOU DO THIS YOU WILL HAVE A GOOEY BLOB. The recipie is more like
125 to 150 degrees F for 2 or 3 hours. The site I'm about to mention says
130 for 2 hours.
A convection oven is recommended for this procedure. This heating process
makes the tape usable for a few weeks and can be repeated many times.
This part of that posting was correct. But I can't believe someone put in that
high temperature recommendation, YIKES! Could it have been a typo????
There are a number of good places of info, and one of the more inventive ones
is titled "If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked A Tape!" by Eddie Ciletti
at [removed] He shows an
alternate
device to a convection oven, a "Stackmaster." (No this is not a bust enhancer
advertised by Suzanne Somers al-la Thighmaster!) He mentions not to bake tape
and
food together. Others have recommended to not use an oven for tape if it has
ever
been used for food because there might be residual greases etc. that would be
driven
into the tape.
Michael Biel mbiel@[removed]
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:29:24 -0500
From: "ellsworth o johnson" <eojohnsonww2@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: audio tapes that squeak
I spent many years selling tape and equipment from the day one of tape.
Sounds to me like the tape has picked up moisture from being stored where
the humidity was considerable.
I would think the squeak noise would be mechanical---therefor I would try
feeding the tape recorder signal into some other recorder or mode of
recording---such as a CD on a computer. Don't listen to it at that time but
later listen to the CD or whatever you copied to. The mechanical noise would
not transfer if that was what it was.
If it is moisture absorbed into the base material of the tape it would be
best to try drying it out over a period of time. I have placed some
tapes with a moisture problem in my basement during heating season in the
vicinity of my furnace and left them there for maybe 30 days and then give
them another try.
Someone posted here today about baking at a tempature of 1300 degrees . I
hope you didn't try that because if you did I am sure you have melted
everything including the reels.
Ellsworth Johnson
Spokane, Wa
formerly CEO of [removed] Johnson Electronics Inc.
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:30:04 -0500
From: mbiel@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: CBS 75th
Fred Berney noted:
This
is always a shame since in my opinion the best of television was back in
the 1950's and most of those shows were not in color.
Ahhh. But did you notice the COLOR BURNS AND ALLEN??!!!!!!!!!!!
Michael Biel mbiel@[removed]
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:34:27 -0500
From: "Brian Johnson" <chyronop@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: CBS Inc.
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I'm sure if CBS wanted to revive the Columbia name for any reason they would
have little legal problem in doing so. I believe our resident lawyer, Mr.
Ross. might have a better explanation, but its like the law of association.
For example, the Los Angeles Dodgers sued a NY eatery called the Brooklyn
Dodger for copyright infringement some years back claiming that "Brooklyn" and
any derivative of the word "Dodger" would be associated with their ball club,
no matter how many years had past since the team abandoned Flatbush. Its also
the way the leagues and the NCAA muscle in on fan phenomena. Even though it
was started by the fans and not the team, once the "Kardiac Kids" and the
"Dawg Pound" became associated with the Cleveland Browns, the NFL took total
control and forced the fans who popularized the phrases to cease production of
their own T-shirts and other merchandise.
If one were to start a radio net called "Columbia" (even if it didn't contain
the words "Broadcasting" or "System") I'm sure Mel Karzamin and Sumner
Redstone would have more than a few objections.
Brj
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:39:25 -0500
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Fwd: SENT TO KNX-1070
The following letter was sent by a friend of mine to KNX. I couldn't have
said it better:
"I was greatly saddened to learn that KNX-1070 AM has decided to discontinue
the popular "KNX Drama Hour." The reason given in their website makes little
sense to me:
"Based on KNX's role in serving the public we have decided to end the
broadcast of the Drama Hour and remain a 24/7 full-service news operation.
The Drama
Hour has had a long, great run on KNX but our news listeners should always
be
our number one concern.
"Obviously, prior to discontinuing the Drama Hour, news listeners were also
KNX's "number one concern." KNX has always been a full-service news station,
providing a well-rounded mix of news, traffic, weather, business updates,
sports,
technology reports, health information, cooking tips, commentary, and yes,
the Drama Hour. None of these ancillary pieces detracted from KNX's ability
to
provide full news coverage.
"What's next? Is KNX going to discontinue the Business/Technology hour? Tom
Hatten? Sam Rubin? Charles Osgood? Dave Ross? Stardate? The Wall Street
Journal?
I can't imagine why such a popular feature as the Drama Hour was singled
out.
"KNX-1070 has attracted a large listening audience and has received many
awards because it distinguished itself in a marketplace populated by
"also-rans."
The Drama Hour was a shining example of what made KNX unique, and it played
a
key role in keeping KNX on top. Could it be that the decision to discontinue
the Drama Hour is the first step on the road to "conformity" for KNX? If KNX
starts to resemble the vast sea other radio news stations in its program
offerings, then the glory days of being Number One are behind it.
"I strongly request KNX to reconsider its ill-advised decision to terminate
the Drama Hour."
John Kramer, KNX listener for over 20 years
Irvine, CA
email: ujprojects@[removed]
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 15:26:57 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 11-4-births/deaths
November 4th births
11-04-1879 - Will Rogers, Sr. - Oolagah, Oklahoma Territory - d. 8-15-1935
humorist: (America"s Greatest Humorist) "Gulf Headliners"
11-04-1906 - Bob Considine - Washington D. C. - d. 9-25-1975
announcer: "Fred Waring Show"; "Sports Broadcasts"
11-04-1916 - Walter Cronkite - St. Joseph, MO
newscaster, sportscaster: KCMO, Kansas City; WKY, Oklahoma City
11-04-1918 - Art Carney - Mount Vernon, NY
actor: Billy Oldham "Joe and Ethel Turp"; General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Living 1948"
11-04-1918 - Cameron Mitchell - Dallastown, PA - d. 7-6-1994
actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-04-1919 - Martin Balsam - NYC - d. 2-13-1996
actor: "Cloak and Dagger"
11-04-1919 - Shirley Mitchell - Toledo, OH
actress: Alice Darling "Fibber McGee and Molly"; Leila Ranson "Great
Gildersleeve"
November 4th death
12-01-1913 - Mary Martin - Weatherford, TX - d. 11-4-1990
singer: "Lifebouy Health Soap Program"; "Good News of 1940"; "Kraft Music Hall"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 19:17:24 -0500
From: "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@[removed];
To: "OTR List" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: baking tape
In our previous episode:
The sticky-tape / -powder problem can be temporarily relieved by baking
the tape for at least eight hours at 550C (1300F), and an extreme case may
require 18 to 24 hours.
Yes, this will definitely solve the problem, and you won't have to worry
about transferring the tape either.
Try 125-130 degrees F for anywhere up to 10 hours. You will like the results
better.
Joe Salerno
Video Works! Is it working for you?
PO Box 273405 - Houston TX 77277-3405 [removed]
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 19:17:38 -0500
From: zbob@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Navajo Code on TV
Appropriate to the recent discussions on codes, etc., I see that my local
(SF) PBS station is running a program entitled " True Whispers; The Story of
the Navajo Code Talkers" on Monday Nov 10. (Veterans Day) at 8 PM. That's
KTEH, Channel 54 in the Bay Area.
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 19:18:26 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Craig Wichman is in The Twilight [removed]
(There will now be a pause, while many of you say to yourself, "So what else
is new?")
Folks-
As some of you know, I was blessed this summer with the opportunity to act
the words of Rod Serling - an honor I put up there with the words of Dickens,
Doyle, & Shelley - a notch below Shakespeare.
The first of the two episodes I taped is being Webcast & Broadcast this
weekend:
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Radio Dramas:"The Dummy"
Starring Bruno Kirby;Host, Stacy Keach
with Craig Wichman, and a great Chicago-actors supporting cast
Directed by Carl Amari / Adapted by Dennis Etchison / Engineered by Roger
Wolski
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8th at 6pm (EST); Webcast on:
[removed]
( Also broadcast on many radio stations, check here for stations & times:
[removed] )
Thanks to all you folks who have supported Quicksilver Radio Theater's shows
- and, to the ones who were kind to me last week, saying I held my own at the
mic with the Old Pros at FOTR! I think you'll enjoy this a visit to this
ZONE. It's faithful to the original series, excellently produced, & even uses
the classic music scores.
Best,
Craig
[removed] I'll also be on YesterdayUSA's new "Bill Bragg Show", live this
Thursday the 6th at 10am EST, talking about this show, Quicksilver, Friends
of Old Time Radio, & this List!
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 19:19:10 -0500
From: NORMAN FLAGG <nflagg@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: re: Henry and Homer
Richard Carpenter asks:
1952. Henry was no longer being played by Ezra Stone and Homer was no
longer Jackie Kelk. Just wondering why those two left the show. Was it
voluntary?
A follow-up question; why pick two actors with such
similar voices? Lots of times you can't tell one from
the other. Give me Stone and Kelk any day.
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 19:19:23 -0500
From: Troubadourfilms@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: RE: Looking For An Episode of Mystery Theater
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In a message dated 11/3/03 1:34:54 AM Pacific Standard Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:
Mike Kerezman Jr asked:
I've been trying to find an episode I heard a few years ago on CBSRMT. I
heard it on Himan Brown's 1998 revival late one night. I don't remember the
title or the star but I remember toward the end it concerned Priest or
someone
going to a crypt or mausoleum and performing an exorcism to cast out or away a
demon. Thats not much to go on but its all I can remember and it was
definitely heard on 1998 revival with Himan Brown as host.
This sounds like the episode titled: "Shadows From The Grave". I listened to
this show on Halloween myself and recorded it off air during the 1998 CBSRMT
run.
It shouldn't be hard to locate.
I am looking for an episode of the CBSRMT myself. The plot concerns a
handwriting expert named Al Aimsley who is going to testify at a forgery
trial. He
somehow switches places with an American Indian named running beaver. Mason
Adams is featured in the story: Running Beaver, don't you know me? It's me
your
bloodbrother Eagle Wing!"
I would appreciate any her with a title you could give me.
Rob Hindman
Kneeland, Ca.
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 19:20:11 -0500
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: CBS at 75
As usual in these television specials, the shows that were in color had the
longest clips and the shows in black and white had the shortest clips. This
is always a shame since in my opinion the best of television was back in
the 1950's and most of those shows were not in color.
They did a much better job with the black and white clips and for that
matter, the OTR audio than the NBC/ABC specials from the last year or so. If
the NBC folks had gotten hold of the CBS special, we very likely wouldn't
have seen the "Our Miss Brooks" clip or possibly even the ones with Sgt.
Bilko, Burns & Allen or Jack Benny. The live drama tribute also showed they
weren't so terrified of B&W like their counterparts at the other networks.
On the other hand, the color Burns and Allen clip was a very pleasant
surprise to me, I heard about those eps but have never seen any.
Dixon
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 19:20:54 -0500
From: "Jay Ranellucci" <otrfan3@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: baking tapes
Here at Capitol Records we bake our tapes in a convection oven at 51 degrees
centigrade (Approx. 126 degrees farenheit) for six hours for 1/4" tapes. Up
to 12 hours for 2" tapes. At this temperture it will not harm the tapes or
the plastic reels they maybe on. This was the recommendations I got from
Ampex years ago. Also the desired oven is a convection oven.
These are the ones with a built in fan to force the moisture out of the
binders in the tape formulations. By all means transfer your tapes to
another tape or other medium. The baking is usually good for about 30 days
before they have to be rebaked. And they can be baked many times.
If you do not have a convection oven you should crack open the oven door an
inch or so and be sure you have an accurate oven theremometer. Remember you
don't want to cremate your tapes. Keep the temperture no higher than 130
degrees F. And remember to check the thermometer frequently, because the
thermostat could go out on the convection oven, and if it does it could burn
up your tape, Jay R.
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 20:02:54 -0500
From: [removed]@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "Hullabaloo"
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I found the film listed in [removed] with no synopsis, but !Eonline, at
[removed],60,53729,[removed] says,
A professional golfer who has become a businessman
for his fiancee helps a vagrant get a job and ends up
losing his own.
However, [removed] says:
Hullabaloo (1940)
Comedy 0 hrs. 47 min.
Frank Morgan, Virginia Grey, Dan Dailey
It is perhaps unnecessary to point out that the MGM programmer
Hullabaloo bears no relation to the 1960s rock-and-roll series of the
same name. Frank Morgan plays Frank Merriweather, an old-time actor who
tries to revive his fading career on radio (just as John Barrymore
was then doing in real life). His first attempt at radio success
culminates in a Welles-like "Invasion of Mars" scare, which loses him his
job. Merriweather manages to redeem himself in the last scenes by
trotting his talented youngsters (Virginia Grey, Virginia O'Brien and Leni
Lynn) before the microphones. The film's funniest scene finds
Merriweather offering a re-enactment of the recent MGM feature Boom Town,
delivering astonishingly accurate imitations of Clark Gable, Claudette
Colbert, Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr-a bit of cinematic ledgerdemain
accomplished by dubbing the Boom Town soundtrack over Frank Morgan's lip
movements. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Check out: [removed]
If you want to do a 'Google' search, try 'Hullabaloo (1940)' to exclude
references to porn sites, a TV series, and many other references to the
word.
Good searching.
Thanx,
B. Ray
bray@[removed] bray2729@[removed] [removed]@[removed]
W9KEE (ex W7KVW)
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Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 01:37:34 -0500
From: Pete <pappleyard_ca@[removed];
To: submit item <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Big Band MP3's
Does anyone know where I might be able to purchase
some Big Band Music ( Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman,
Artie Shaw, Les Brown etc ) on MP3's
If so please contact me off digest at
pappleyard_ca.@[removed]
Thankyou
Pete
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