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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2004 : Issue 285
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Old MP3 Player [ "Vince Long" <vlongbsh@[removed]; ]
Re: Winamp [ Timothy Clough <timothy@[removed]; ]
Re: A Recommendation, For Fred Berne [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]
Skitch Henderson [ seandd@[removed] ]
new Lucy DVD [ chris chandler <chrischandler84@yah ]
Speaking of Chester [ "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed] ]
RICHARD CRENNA [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
8-31 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Celebrity Meetings [ "Jay Ranellucci" <otrfan3@[removed] ]
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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:38:52 -0400
From: "Vince Long" <vlongbsh@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Old MP3 Player
Since we are into old stuff around here and I don't remember the original
poster stating what his computer requirements were, if anyone wants a really
old MP3 player, I have a few on my site. DOSAmp is for pre-Windows
computers and WinPlay is for Windows [removed]
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Yes, I know, it's like talking about playing OTR off an 8-track.
Vince
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 01:01:44 -0400
From: Timothy Clough <timothy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Winamp
Thanks to all of you who have (or have yet to) replied to my inquiry
about software MP3 players for legacy equipment, especially for links to
older versions of Winamp. Its good to see that these older versions are
still around (not everyone can afford a new computer every other year).
Thanks also to all of the offers to email me older versions of Winamp,
but I won't be needing any of them, as I've already downloaded from one
of the links provided to me. (Of course, I won't be able to tell if it
actually downloaded correctly and works until I try it on their
computer, as I use Linux on my machine. :-)
Timothy Clough
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 01:02:10 -0400
From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: A Recommendation, For Fred Berney!
Jim, thank you for the kind words. As you suggested, my web site is
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I just got back in town after being away for the weekend, so I just got to
read you posting. This was an exciting weekend for me. I got to visit with
two collectors of film and radio shows. One person has been sending me his
collection of films for about two years now and I've been transferring them
to DVD. The second is a person who I haven't seen in about 30 years. We
(Ellen and I) got together for a day about two months ago and we just
finished spending a most enjoyable evening with him on Saturday.
He is a big radio show collector and also has a very large collection of
films. I just got about 30 some films of the Amos and Andy show to put onto
DVD. He thinks that one or two of these titles might be on the rare missing
list of shows. I am going to be very busy between now and October getting
all these items ready for the FOTR convention in NJ.
This is in addition to transferring a very large amount of transcription
discs that Andy Blatt and I bought a while back. (No Andy, I haven't given
up on getting these done. We just keep getting a lot of non-OTR business in
when I don't expect it.) To help get these radio shows done faster, I've
purchased another computer so I can do OTR work on one while I do the day
to day stuff that allows me to eat on another.
So, when you come to FOTR this year, be sure to see Andy Blatt and myself
for a lot of new radio shows.
Fred
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:23:57 -0400
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Skitch Henderson
This interview/profile of OTR bandleader Skitch Henderson notes that an
exhibit on his music is currently going on in New Milford, CT.
Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:58:20 -0400
From: chris chandler <chrischandler84@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: new Lucy DVD
Hey while we are discussing [removed] anybody else
checked out the new "Here's Lucy" DVD set? I can't
recommend it highly enough--it is loaded with tons of
extras, far more than you usually get in the release
of a second-rate TV series like this one.
Even if you're not a Lucy fan, there are plenty of old
radio hands as guest stars, including a considerabler
amount of material faeturing Jack Benny--and it's not
every day you get a chance to see Benny exclaim
"G*ddamn!", as he does here in an obvious tiff with
the star during a filmed rehearsal. And Lucy scholars
finally get a chance to see, undeniably, that at least
some of the tales of her later-life bitchiness are
true. She's seen clearly irritating Elizabeth Taylor,
ignoring or loudly second-guessing directors'
instructions, and more--all while she obviously knows
she is being filmed. It's a far cry from the somewhat
hesitant, even timid performer who held forth on "My
Favorite Husband" thirty years earlier.
I'd be curious to see what some others who've seen
this stuff think of it.
chris
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:46:44 -0400
From: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Speaking of Chester
I was listening to an episode of Gunsmoke a week ago (Mesuggah [sp?],
broadcast on WAMU's Big Broadcast). The show ends violently, with Matt,
Chester, and a third man bursting into a Saloon with guns blazing, in an
attempt to gun down all the members of the gang holed up in there - a gang
which significantly outnumbers them.
Needless to say, our heroes save the day, but it doesn't explicitly say who
shot who. All you hear is (a lot of) gunshots and screams/moans of agony.
One has to assume the Matt didn't shoot everyone, therefore Chester
undoubtedly plugged a few of them. This got me thinking. I can't think of
another episode where Chester kills a man. I'm not sure I can remember one
where he wounds a man - unless you count brawling and dropping a chamber pot
on a man's head.
Did Chester ever kill anyone else, or even shoot anyone? Thanks.
-chris holm
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:58:31 -0400
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: RICHARD CRENNA
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In a message dated 8/29/2004 9:38:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:
Was Dick Crenna similarly irked by an identification with Walter Denton?
Having worked with Richard Crenna several times I can assure you the man
was incapable of being irked by anything.
I did not bring up the wonder of the radio days though, in hindsight I
wish I had but of course I was busy being 'someone else' which was my job at
the time.
Idle chitchat is not always an option on some sets.
I have only the fondest memories of the man.
We even killed each other in two separate shows many years apart.
"Thief" in 1971 where I surprised him and "Police Story" in 1987 where
to his delight, or so he said as we waited in the parking lot of a seedy motel
near LAX, he had waited all those years to get me back.
A delightful man and nary an unkind word said about him by anyone in a
town rife with verbal abuse.
Not a bad thing to say about a man.
Michael C. Gwynne
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:58:46 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 8-31 births/deaths
August 31st births
08-31-1897 - Fredric March - Racine, WI - d. 4-14-1975
actor: "Suspense"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Campbell Playhouse"
08-31-1900 - Cedric Foster - Hartford, CT - d. 3-12-1975
commentator: "News and Commentary"
08-31-1903 - Arthur Godfrey - NYC - d. 3-16-1983
emcee: (The Old Redhead) "Arthur Godfrey Time"; "Arthur Godfrey's Talent
Scouts"
08-31-1905 - Dory Schary - Newark, NJ - d. 7-7-1980
writer: "America Calling"; "The Eternal Light"; "Hallmark Hall of Fame"
08-31-1905 - Larry Elliott - Washington, [removed] - d. 7-27-1957
announcer: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "American Melody Hour"; "Barry Cameron"
08-31-1906 - Ruth Weston - Boston, MA - d. 11-5-1955
actress: Maude Kellogg "Life Can Be Beauatiful"
08-31-1907 - Winifred Cecil - Staten Island, NY - d. 9-13-1985
singer: "Show Boat"
08-31-1908 - William Saroyan - Fresno, CA - d. 5-18-1981
writer: "Columbia Workshop"; "The Free Company"; "Biography in Sound"
08-31-1914 - Richard Basehart - Zanesville, OH - d. 9-17-1984
actor: "Document A/777"; "Hollywood Star Preview"
08-31-1917 - Burleigh Robbins Downey, Jr. - d. 3-1-2000
news director: "You are the Jury"
08-31-1918 - Alan Jay Lerner - NYC - d. 6-14-1986
writer: "Victor Borge"; "Raleigh Room"; "Philco Hall of Fame"
August 31st deaths
02-01-1895 - John Ford - Cape Elizabeth, ME - d. 8-31-1973
director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
03-28-1913 - Lucille Fletcher - NYC - d. 8-31-2000
dramatist: "Columbia Workshop"; "Suspense"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Inner
Sanctum"
03-29-1908 - Dennis O'Keefe - Fort Madison, IA - d. 8-31-1968
actor: Treasure Agent Larsen "T-Man"
04-20-1908 - Lionel Hampton - Louisville, KY - d. 8-31-2002
vibraphone artist: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"; "Lionel Hampton and His
Orchestra"
04-28-1908 - Michael Fitzmaurice - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1967
actor: Clark Kent/Superman "Advs. of Superman"; Dick Grosvenor "Stella Dallas"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:49:56 -0400
From: "Jay Ranellucci" <otrfan3@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Celebrity Meetings
Michael Gwynne's post the other day reminded me of the story Stan Freberg
tells on himself.
One day while waiting for his flight at an airport Stan sees a couple of
young teenage girls looking at him and talking to each other. Finally they
come up to Stan and say, "Are you somebody?" To which Stan replies, "Of
course I'm somebdy" Then the girl asks, "Well who are you?" "Why I'm Stan
Freberg!" With that the one girl pokes the other girl and says, "See I told
you he wasn't anybody.
Maybe someone should try this on Mickey
Jay
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