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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 118
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  5-8 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Something special about "The Lost Sp  [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
  War of the Worlds Performance In Tea  [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
  WOTW Performance in NJ                [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
  Fw: afn collector                     [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
  Sold on Radio                         [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  OTR Reel-to-reel collection for sale  [ Bryan Wright <bryan@[removed]; ]

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Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 23:22:06 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  5-8 births/deaths

May 8th births

05-08-1884 - Harry S Truman - Lamar, MO - d. 12-26-1972
[removed] president: "Milestones on the Road to Peace"; "World Food Crisis"
05-08-1895 - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen - El Paso, IL - d. 12-10-1979
preacher: "Catholic Hour"
05-08-1897 - Philip La Follette - Madison, WI - d. 8-18-1965
governor of wisconsin: "Wake Up America"
05-08-1899 - Arthur Q. Bryan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-30-1959
actor: George 'Doc' Gamble "Fibber McGee and Molly"
05-08-1901 - Katherine Raht - Chattanooga, TN - d. 12-2-1983
actor: Alice Aldrich "Aldrich Family"; Margaret Allen "Against the
Storm"
05-08-1905 - Red Nichols - Ogden, UT - d. 6-28-1965
music: (Red Nichols and His Five Pennies) "Bob Hope Show"; "Ipana
Troubadors"
05-08-1908 - Cecil Broadhurst - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 12-16-1981
actor, singer, writer: "The Vanishing Island"
05-08-1908 - Ted Corday - d. 7-23-1966
director: "A Brighter Tomorrow"; "The Brighter Day"
05-08-1909 - Gustavo Agrait - d. 10-18-1998
sportscaster: WIPR San Juan, Puerto Rico
05-08-1910 - Mary Lou Williams - Atlanta, GA - d. 5-28-1981
jazz pianist, composer: "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Andy Kirk and His
Clouds of Joy"
05-08-1910 - Nathan Van Cleave - Bayfield, WI - d. 7-2-1970
music: "The Man Behind the Gun"; "This Is Your FBI"
05-08-1913 - Sid James - Newcastle, Natal, South Africa - d. 4-26-1976
comedian: "Hancock's Half Hour"
05-08-1914 - Carmen Matthews - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-31-1995
actor: "There Is No Light"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
05-08-1915 - John Archer (Ralph Bowman) - Lincoln, NE - d. 12-5-1999
actor: Lamont Cranston/Shadow "The Shadow"; "Gateway to Hollywood"
05-08-1915 - Nan Wynn - Wheeling, WV - d. 3-21-1971
singer: "Ceiling Unlimited"
05-08-1919 - Lex Barker - Rye, NY - d. 5-11-1973
actor: "MGM Theatre of the Air"
05-08-1921 - Sy Shaffer - d. 12-1-2005
trombonist: "Arthur Godfrey time"
05-08-1922 - Lew Anderson - Kirkman, IA - d. 5-14-2006
musician: (The Honey Dreamers) "Airtime"; "The Bobby Doyle Show"
05-08-1926 - Don Rickles - NYC
announcer: "NBC University Theatre of the Air"
05-08-1928 - Benny Martin - Sparta, TN - d. 3-12-2001
country singer: "Country Music Time"
05-08-1928 - John Bennett - London, England - d. 4-11-2005
actor: "John Bennett Programme"
05-08-1929 - Miyoshi Umeki - Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan - d. 8-28-2007
singer: "Arthur Godfrey and His Friends"
05-08-1929 - Wendy Drew
actor: Ellen Brown "Young Widder Brown"
05-08-1934 - Ron Lackman - NYC
actor: Bud "Pepper Young's Family"
05-08-1940 - Ricky Nelson - Teaneck, NJ - d. 12-31-1985
actor: "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"

May 8th deaths

03-24-1928 - Sue Bennett - Indianapolis, IN - d. 5-8-2001
vocalist: "Your Hit Parade"
03-28-1903 - Rudolf Serkin - Eger, Bohemia - d. 5-8-1991
pianist: "Concert Hall"; "New York Philharmonic"
03-28-1921 - Dirk Bogarde - London, England - d. 5-8-1999
actor: "A Christmas Carol"
04-15-1909 - Dave Driscoll - Maplewood, NJ - d. 5-8-1981
news and sport commentator for the mutual network
06-15-1918 - Richard Derr - Norristown, PA - d. 5-8-1992
actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
06-26-1945 - Steven Keats - The Bronx - d. 5-8-1994
actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"
07-06-1915 - Laverne Andrews - Minneapolis, MN - d. 5-8-1967
singer: (The Andrews Sisters) "Andrews Sisters Revue:
07-07-1907 - Robert Heinlein - Butler, MO - d. 5-8-1988
science fiction writer: "Beyond Tomorrow"; "Dimension X"; "X Minus One"
08-16-1897 - Margery Barnard - Ashfield, Australia - d. 5-8-1987
writer: "The Watch on the Headland"
09-05-1912 - Sally Payne - Chicago, IL - d. 5-8-1999
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-19-1910 - Margaret Lindsay - Dubuque, IA - d. 5-8-1981
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Silver Theatre"
09-28-1892 - Elmer Rice - NYC - d. 5-8-1967
writer: "The Free Company"
10-01-1926 - George Peppard - Detroit, MI - d. 5-8-1994
actor: "MGM Air View"
10-09-1918 - Skip Farrell - Illinois - d. 5-8-1962
actor, singer: "National Barn Dance"
11-16-1927 - Barbara Payton - Cloquet, MN - d. 5-8-1967
actor: "Pepsodent Show starring Bob Hope"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 10:06:55 -0400
From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Something special about "The Lost Special"

SPOILER ALERT

I've been listening closely to "The Lost Special" and it seems to me
that not only did Conan Doyle pointedly include his most notorious
fictional character in the short story but Welles cleverly sneaked his
own most notorious fictional creation into the radio version. In fact,
at one point, it sounds like Welles nearly speaks the character's name.

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Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 10:08:36 -0400
From: Rentingnow@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  War of the Worlds Performance In Teaneck NJ

"Performances run Fridays and Saturdays @ 8 PM  and Sundays @ 3 PM from
October
17 through November 2.  Tickets: $15,  $12 for students and seniors, $10 for
theatre parties of 10 or  more."

Grover's Mill residents are admitted free I assume.

Larry  Moore

favorites at AOL Food.

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Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 12:17:57 -0400
From: Rentingnow@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  WOTW Performance in NJ

Tickets: $15, $12 for students and seniors, $10 for theatre parties
of 10 or more.

Grover's Mills residents are free I assume.

Larry Moore

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Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 12:20:13 -0400
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Fw: afn collector
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   Hi Folks.

   Hope this link works. You might find it interesting.

   Cheers !  Graeme

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Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 16:12:54 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Sold on Radio

In a short while, possibly during May, McFarland & Co. will release my
newest tome:  "Sold on Radio:  Advertisers in the Golden Age of
Broadcasting."

It's a different kind of book for me and for vintage radio, filling a niche
that has been given little more than a nod previously.  It begins with a
six-chapter treatment of how broadcast advertising evolved out of a widening
tradition of proffering goods, services and ideas.  I think you'll be
intrigued by this framework that still affects commercial broadcasting
today.  That opening is followed by an investigative examination of 24 of
radio's most profound advertising and marketing enterprises -- the folks who
paid the bills in radio's heyday, and what has become of their organizations
in the intervening years.  There are sample commercials and manifests of the
series that these concerns sponsored on radio.  In addition to the 24, there
are briefer entries on 100 additional underwriters of golden age radio that
supply insights you might not find elsewhere.  There's also an abstract of
myriad variants that affect the broadcast commercial, some truly revealing
behind-the-scenes news.

Among other things, readers of "Sold on Radio" will discover which product
now on retail shelves was the first featured in an ethereal jingle, they'll
learn who was the world's first disc jockey, what broadcast earned an
audience rating of [removed], read the name of the executive of two of radio's
biggest vendors who served dual behemoth corporations simultaneously as
chairman, find how the Hooperatings heavily contributed to the collapse of
network radio (a fact fairly hidden till now), know how Freeman Gosden named
Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup, learn which capitalist became so convinced
of the value of brand names he was first to place an identifying moniker on
his bars of soap before wrapping them for sale, and so many more delightful
bits of trivia -- including, as I revealed on this forum several months
ago -- what happened to Peet (of Colgate-Palmolive fame).

This 332-page hardcover edition with photos, glossary, appendices, notes,
bibliography and index sells for $55.  It may be ordered now, today, at
[removed] or 800-253-2187 or fax 336-246-4403.  You can be the
first kid on your street -- and maybe in your whole town -- to get one by
ordering now.  Books will be shipped as soon as they are available.  Ask for
"Sold on Radio."

Jim Cox

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Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 22:52:05 -0400
From: Bryan Wright <bryan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR Reel-to-reel collection for sale

I'm moving soon to a new apartment and won't have space for my
collection of approximately 1,000 quarter-track 7-inch open reel OTR
tapes. The reels were all purchased from OTR dealers and contain
mostly adventure serials, detective, horror, science fiction, and
mystery programs, but there are westerns, comedies, soap operas, and
all kinds of other programs as well. Lots of Suspense, Escape,
Superman, CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Sherlock Holmes, Hop Harrigan,
Cavalcade of America, BBC programs, Pat Novak, Richard Diamond --
really just about everything. There are several hundred reels of more
obscure programs as well. 90% of the reels are recorded on good
quality Ampex 671 tape and come in plain white boxes with typewritten
inserts identifying the contents. Audio quality varies: there's the
occasional poorly-recorded reel with muddy or distorted sound, but
most are very good and a number of them sound like they could have
been recorded directly from the transcription discs. Many of the 15-
minute serials are recorded at [removed] ips and sound great. These might
make good source material for anyone interested in converting them to
MP3.

I'm asking $300 for the whole collection and even have a few crates
of OTR cassettes (about 150-200 cassettes) that I'll throw in. It
really isn't feasible to ship them, so you must arrange to pick them
up. I'm located in Pittsburgh, PA.

Please e-mail me if you are interested.

Thanks!
Bryan Wright
bryan@[removed]

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