Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #240
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Date: 8/9/2005 4:18 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 240
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Doc Adams                             [ "Scott Rogers" <srogerssprint5@eart ]
  Doc Adams birth name                  [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
  Time In Thy Flight                    [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@j ]
  Oughts                                [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Piece of Cake quiz                    [ "WILLIS G Saunders" <saunders8@veri ]
  party lines                           [ Mark Reesor <mrees@[removed]; ]
  Radio Studio 2005                     [ jjljackson@[removed] ]
  8-9 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Don Mc Neill's Breaskfast [removed]   [ "Tim Lones" <tlones@[removed]; ]
  Allan Sherman                         [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
  RE: Party Lines (OT???)               [ "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed] ]
  Lum and Abner - History of Party Lin  [ ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed]; ]
  Re: Chappell Christmas                [ Brent Pellegrini <brentpl@rocketmai ]

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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 18:26:06 -0400
From: "Scott Rogers" <srogerssprint5@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Doc Adams
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Doc Adams of Gunsmoke name was Galen Adams. Here is another one: What was
Festus' mules name?
-Scott

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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 18:30:27 -0400
From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Doc Adams birth name

on 8/8/05 5:01 PM, Ron Sayles asks:

This should be a no brainer for this list, but what was  Gunsmoke's Doc Adams
birth name?

Charles ... on the radio show.  The character was named Doctor Charles
Adams" by William Conrad himself, because of the character's macabre glee
(in early episodes) in profiting financially from Matt's gunfights via
autopsies, etc.

The Doc Adams of the TV show was renamed Dr. Galen Adams, while Chester was
Chester Wesley Proudfoot on the radio show and Chester Goode on television.
I've often wondered if this was done for legal reasons because these
characters were given their full names by radio cast members who were passed
up for the TV series. --Anthony Tollin

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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 21:27:32 -0400
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Time In Thy Flight

Rob (erest@[removed]) notes,

I was a little disappointed when no one starting saying the date with
Twenty-ought-oneas we entered the new century.

Maybe that's due to the presence of an OTR science-fiction show called
Two Thousand Plus.  :-)

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 21:27:46 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Oughts

   Rob wrote --

I was a little disappointed when no one starting saying the date with
Twenty-ought-oneas we entered the new century.  Always got a smile when
some one would says "Hasn't been this cold since 19 ought four"

   Well, I for one do.  When talking about something in the last few
years I'll say something like, "Well, let's see, it was in ought [removed]"
   "Ought" is used verbally.  I don't recall its usuage in writing,
which would be "'02" (oh-two), unless its in a story or script form.
   Joe  (Of course I could be [removed])

--
Visit my home page:  [removed]~[removed]

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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 22:51:37 -0400
From: "WILLIS G Saunders" <saunders8@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Piece of Cake quiz

Hi,

Here's my answer to the question asked by Mr. Sayles.  Dr. Adams' first name
was Charles.

Just to have a little more fun, here's my piece of cake question:  For whom
was Dr. Adams named, and who originally suggested his first name?

Buck Saunders

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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 08:20:03 -0400
From: Mark Reesor <mrees@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  party lines

Here in the wilds of Canada - I'm just a couple miles from the Toronto
border actually, but in a rural area - we had a two party line well into
the 1990s. Bell called it "semi-private," and the advantage was that you
didn't hear the other ring. Before that we had a regular party line -
our ring was two longs. I used to hook a speaker and small amp on to the
line when using my computer online, so I could hear the click when the
other party picked up (you weren't supposed to use modems on party
lines); I came to enjoy hearing the modem squeal! I'm still waiting
impatiently for Ma Bell to upgrade the wiring so I can get DSL!

Mark Reesor

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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 08:20:57 -0400
From: jjljackson@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Radio Studio 2005
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Hi guys

I am a little late with this posting, but better late than never.

American Radio Theater finally has a web-site up   [removed]
and a page set aside to talk about the Radio Studio event, happening on Sept
9,10,11, 2005
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Radio Studio 2005 has a combination of old-time recreations and a new
original drama, featuring some of the great OTR performers, like
Ivan Cury   (Bobby Benson)
Barbara Fuller  (One Man's Family)
Dave Parker    (Lone Ranger)
Cliff Carpenter   (Terry and the Pirates)
Jean Rouverol    (One Man's Family)
Kevin O'Morrison   (playwright, Charlie Wild)
Esther McVey   (Storyteller)

We will have some interviews, as well as sharing stories thoughout the
weekend.  For something a little different, we will be having our rehearsals
for the shows on Friday and Saturday nights--which are open to all
participants--whether they want to just watch or be a part of the action.

The shows we are planning on recording:
Bobby Benson
FBI in Peace and War
Escape--One Eighth Apache
Bickersons
Great Gildersleeve #28  Victory Book Drive
I Love A Mystery--Chapter 2  Tropics Don't Call It Murder
My Friend Irma
Easy Aces

Several of them are scripts that are without recordings, something that ART
wants to give a voice to.

The original drama is a story based on the letters of a young soldier in the
first year of the Civil War. It's called Alonzo's Watch, and is written by
his great grand-nephew, Mike Wheeler, and Joy Jackson.  If you think along
the lines of a LUX Radio Theatre, that's the scope of this play. It follows
the year of Alfred Wheeler's enlistment, from the mustering in, to just
before Antietam. We are going to have our OTR guests bring the main
characters to life.  We might even have some Civil War Re-enactors at the
performance, in their uniforms.

For information please check the website [removed]
For reservations, please email  AmerRadioTheater@[removed]

We are going to have a grand time!

Joy Jackson
producer, American Radio Theater
JJLjackson@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 08:21:08 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  8-9 births/deaths

60th anniversary of Nagasaki bombing

August 9th births

08-09-1892 - Joe Emerson - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 9-30-1969
gospel singer: "Hymns of All Churches"; "Hymn Time"
08-09-1894 - Kathleen Lockhart - Southsea, England - d. 2-18-1978
actress: "The Nebbs"; "Abroad with the Lockharts"
08-09-1901 - Charles Farrell - Onset Bay, Cape Cod, MA - d. 5-6-1990
actor: Verne Albright "My Little Margie"
08-09-1902 - Zino Francescatti - Marseilles, France - d. 9-17-1991
violinist: "Encores from the Bell Telephone Hour"; "Concert Hall Program"
08-09-1903 - Don Bernard
director: "Blondie"; "Life of Riley"; "Meet Mr. Meek"
08-09-1903 - Maurice Wells - Nebraska - d. 6-25-1978
actor: Donald Putnam "Your Family and Mine"; Warren Biggers "Lawyer Tucker"
08-09-1905 - Leo Genn - London, England - d. 1-26-1978
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-09-1910 - Snag Werris - New York City, NY - d. 2-27-1987
writer: "The Comedy Writers Show"; "Quixie Doodles"

August 9th deaths

01-19-1866 - Harry Davenport - New York City, NY - d. 8-9-1949
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Family Theatre"
04-18-1918 - Tony Mottola - Kearney, NJ - d. 8-9-2004
jazz guitarist: "Gordon MacRae Gulf Spray Show"; "Burl Ives Sings"
08-24-1900 - Jimmy Fidler - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-9-1988
commentator: "Jimmy Fidler"
09-20-1899 - Elliot Nugent - Dover, OH - d. 8-9-1980
actor: "Best Plays"; "United States Steel Hour"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-25-1906 - Dimitri Shostakovich - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 8-9-1975
composer: "Four for the Fifth"
10-02-1897 - Jess Kirkpatrick - Illinois - d. 8-9-1976
actor: Harry Henderson "Beulah"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:53:22 -0400
From: "Tim Lones" <tlones@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Don Mc Neill's Breaskfast [removed] AM,
 Canton Ohio 1955

Hello:
There was an Article in yesterday's Canton,Repository about Canton's 150th
anniversary which included a special visit by Don McNeill's Breakfast Club
at Canton Memorial Auditorium which was broadcast live over Canton's ABC
radio affiliate WHBC 1480 AM on August 19, 1955.  I know this is a shot in
the dark but would this show have survived in some [removed] think I read on
the list that "Breakfast Club" is one of the harder shows to find.  I think
it would be neat to hear a live broadcat from my hometown in the 1950's.
Any help would be greatly [removed]

Tim Lones

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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:54:15 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Allan Sherman
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In the on-going thread about "On Top of Spaghetti," my pal Chris Werner
mentioned:

<snip>
and I only knew the version from the 60's (Alan Sherman version
I think).

Chris, stick to your area of [removed]"Boston Blackie."

The Allan Shermanversion goes:
 "On top of Ol' Smokey, all covered with hair,
Of, course, I'm referring to Smokey, the Bear."

Yours in the New Jesrey ether (where pizza is a way of life),

Derek Tague

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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:24:47 -0400
From: "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE: Party Lines (OT???)

I seem to remember, when I was a kid, just about every comedy show on the
radio, at one time or another, had some kind of joke about a party line. The
possibilities were endless, with all sorts of situations regarding mistaken
identity. I still wonder if "Sorry, Wrong Number" was as effective as it was
just because the listeners at the time were well aware of the frailties and
the weird situations that developed in real life because of party lines.

I grew up in Chicago, always living in a private line situation for one
reason or another. My parents owned a candy store with a public coin
telephone as our personal telephone. In those days, I guess it wasn't unusual
for ma and pa stores to have such a deal with the phone company. Just about
all public telephones were indoors, in stores, shops, whatever. I didn't know
that our family was weird in the sense that every month we received a check
from the phone company instead of a bill.

In 1970, I moved to Pullman, Washington, to begin graduate studies at
Washington State U. There I was introduced to the "General Telephone Company
of the Northwest." (If anyone is wondering where Pullman is, I'm not sure I
can answer, except to note that to get there, one traveled to the end of the
world, then just before falling off the edge, make a left turn and go another
75 miles.) All that was available then and there were two party lines. I
usually managed to deal with the situation easily. If I picked up the phone
and heard a voice instead of a dial tone, I'd just hang up and wait a while,
then try again. One year my party line neighbor was apparently a foreign
student who was unfamiliar with the concept and, while I was on the phone
engaged in conversation, I'd hear the click of a pickup, then hear a voice
speaking in a foreign language; the voice would get less loud, as though the
individual were talking to someone else in the same room, then another voice
would come on, as though the person had passed the phone to someone else to
try to figure out what was going on. I remember the first time this happened,
that my mind drifted back to the OTR days and I felt like I had been
transported to a situation in some old radio comedy show. Sadly, after a few
additional incidents with the same individual, the joke wore rather thin. I
couldn't communicate with him to explain what party lines were all about and
I don't know if he ever learned what to expect and how to properly react. I'm
not sure because it is all so long ago, but I believe I never got a private
line as long as I lived there, and I moved away after Thanksgiving, 1979.

 B. Ray

   W9KEE (ex W7KVW)

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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:37:36 -0400
From: ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Lum and Abner - History of Party Lines

I grew up on a farm.  As a child there were only party lines because the
telephone company was owned by a group of local farmers and each was
responsible for the poles and wire on his farm.  It was the wall mounted
type of phone with a crank on the side to ring and batteries to maintain
the current for a call.  There were about 10 families on our line and our
ring was 3 long rings, just as it was on Lum and Abner at their store.  To
call off the line one did one long ring for the operater and a request was
made for another line and the connection made manually with wires and
plugs, just as you have seen in movies.

In the 60's a large company bought the local companies and replaced the
wall phone with one that looked like the old rotary dial desk top model but
which still had a crank on the side and no dial and big batteries on the
floor.  Later rotary phones were installed but party lines were maintained
but one didn't here another's phone being rung. However, being a party line
if one picked up the phone to make a call you listened first to see if
another call was in progress before dialing.  Just as with the old crank
phones, a click could be heard when another's phone was picked up so you
knew someone else was on the line.  If you didn't hear the hangup click you
could ask them to do so without knowing who it was.

There was pressure over time to do away with party lines as the
subscription cost was less then single lines.  My parents refused until
over time they were the only phone left on the old party line and had a
single phone by default and in time the phone company just made it a single
line at no additional cost.

                               XB
                                IC|XC

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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:56:21 -0400
From: Brent Pellegrini <brentpl@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Chappell Christmas

I have this somewhere.

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