Subject: [removed] Digest V01 #75
From: <[removed]@[removed]>
Date: 3/6/2001 6:34 PM
To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                      The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                         Volume 01 : Issue 75
                   A Part of the [removed]!
                           ISSN: 1533-9289


                           Today's Topics:

 Re: Culture                          [Walt Appel <Waltman@[removed];     ]
 Streaming OTR                        ["Mary Anne Burkhalter" <characterst]
 Big Inch Land Co.                    ["Jerry Williams" <mrj@[removed];  ]
 Shocking Coincidence                 ["H. K. Hinkley" <hkhinkley@[removed]]
 benny and the shark                  [eddie ginsburg <eddieg100@[removed]]
 Re:OTR & future generations          [Sam Levene <srl@[removed];      ]
 Smith Ballew and Nick Lucas          [Rob Spencer <rspencer@[removed];]
 OTR Still On the Air                 [Udmacon@[removed]                    ]
 Little people in the radio           ["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed].]
 Unshackled                           ["Read G. Burgan" <rgb@[removed]]
 RADIO/TV: A COMPARISON               ["Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed]; ]
 Scarlet Queen -- the lost episodes?  ["Doug Leary" <dleary@[removed];    ]
 Goldbergs Cylinder Recording         [joseph <joseph@[removed];            ]
 ... That's the way it was ...        ["Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@]
 Re: Death and the media              [LBohall@[removed]                    ]
 OTR VERSUS TV                        ["stephen jansen" <stephenjansen@ema]
 New classification?                  ["Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@]
 [removed] Fields on Bergen/McCarthy       ["Robert Fells" <rfells@[removed];   ]
 People in the radio                  ["Frank Phillips" <frankphi@hotmail.]
 Jumping the Media                    ["Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@]
 Big Band 24-hours a day in the Bay A [Duane Wadsworth <dwadsworth@wadswor]
 More old stye radio still on the air ["Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed]]
 Snacks                               [Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed]]

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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 22:33:08 -0500
From: Walt Appel <Waltman@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Culture

You know, I wonder if, many years ago, people were disgruntled with
another entertainment medium that was done away with by a modern
innovation.

Radio may not have killed Vaudeville but it sure had a lot to do with
the demise.  Think about it, just about every single community had a
theater and every single one of them did business, the size of it
depending on the circuit.  People needed entertainment and all they had
to do was buy a ticket and see just about every act imaginable and on
top of that the bill changed on a regular basis!  (Well, I'm sure some
of the acts were seen several times in the course of a year).  The
advent of film didn't hurt the medium either.  Films were just
incorporated into the show.  Now you could see Fink's Mules, Jack Benny,
Jim and Marian Jordan in person and Tom Mix on a screen.  (Tom Mix was
played by Bruce Willis, right?)

Now imagine a new medium coming to life in the entertainment world.  A
medium where actors don't have to travel from town to town, can settle
down in one spot and make regular wages, not based on an audience but
from sponsorship.  Of course they are going to flock to it.  And, of
course, certain acts are going to fade away, Fink and his mules now work
for Hal Roach, pulling an ice truck that the Little Rascals use for
their big parade.

An entertainment medium dies, fades away completely.  The acts that
cannot acclimate find themselves relegated to Burlesque and those that
do basically turn their act into comedy, and pretty sleazy comedy at
that.   (Look! there's  Phil Silvers!  Holy Cow!  Look at her!)  People
who used to spend money on a regular basis for their entertainment now
pay a one-time fee for a radio and the radio almost lasts forever with a
much greater range of programing than the usual weekly change.  There is
a different show every day/night.  Even the shows that are played daily
change daily.

I'll bet there were those who could not believe that people would
actually want to sit in their own home, listening to a ventriloquist and
his dummy and staring at a box when they could have gone down to Main
Street, or Broadway, or whatever, and watched the same act with the
additional attraction of watching people dancing on roller skates and,
of course, Fink's Mules.

Change happens.  I'd love to be able to see Vaudeville today, oh yeah,
there are the old acts that still exist, they cropped up on the Tonight
Show sometime back and there was the PBS special also but 'real live'
[removed]  We'll never really ever see it, will we?  We are lucky
with OTR.  We still have it, a good bit of it.  We even have a lot of
the real obscure stuff like a couple of episodes of "Smackout" (which
may or may not be  "rebroadcast" but what the heck).  Now there are even
changes in the OTR community, stuff once available only on LP and tape
is now available as MP3 and readily available for free, much to the
consternation of a certain individual intent on collecting all of the
money to be spent on OTR forever and ever.  I'm sure that person harkens
back to the days when he had the market in inexpensive cassettes and
computers were just word processors and game systems.

Rather than bemoan the fact that television took over where radio left
off I think we should do as much as possible to nurture the existence of
what remains from that era.
This way, the younger folks, the teenagers,  the ten year olds, mine
included, and the young adults (I was eighteen when I heard my first OTR
show and I'm forty five now)  who still seem to find their way to this
medium can discover what a wonderful world existed long before they were
born.

Finally, I've noticed over the past months that the stock of VHS tapes
are getting smaller and smaller while the stock of DVD gets larger and
larger, at a larger price I might add.  Like I said, change happens.

Hey!  Where did this soap box come from?  Rinso!?!  Oh well, at least
its on [removed]

Walt

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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 22:33:07 -0500
From: "Mary Anne Burkhalter" <characterstogo@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Streaming OTR

Since I'm new to the list, I don't know if anyone has mentioned all the
streaming OTR on [removed]  Some programs are even updated daily

Mary Anne

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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 22:33:05 -0500
From: "Jerry Williams" <mrj@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Big Inch Land Co.

Greetings All
Last Sept. while in Dawson City I began inquiring about where the property
was,most people that I talked with were familiar with it but did not know
where it was [removed] to Whitehorse got me a plot number and back to
the mining office for a [removed] was located south of Dawson City on the
Yukon [removed] out and took some pictures and staked my claim plus dug
up a few square inches of the land to bring back with [removed] the way back
stop at Whitehorse and got copies of the deed when the "Klondike Big Inch
Land Co." bought the property for $200 dollars on [removed],[removed] anyone
would like to see a picture of the land e-mail me and I will be happy to
send it to [removed]
Best to you all
Jerry Williams

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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 22:46:15 -0500
From: "H. K. Hinkley" <hkhinkley@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Shocking Coincidence

Al Girard wrote:

I thought I'd pass on a story that my mother used to tell about a time
when
I was a youngster. Apparently I was about three or four years old at the
time, and as I turned the radio on, my mother cautioned me "be careful,
you
might break something". As soon as she finished saying that, the tubes
had
warmed up and a man's voice said "yes, and I'm not going to fix it for
you,
either!"

Which reminds me of the time a few years ago when a neighbor gave me an
old console radio.  I cleaned off the cobwebs, plugged it in, turned it
on, waited for the warmup, and heard an OTR program, I've forgotten what.
 Obviously I'd stumbled onto a rebroadcast, but for a moment I thought
I'd suffered a timewarp!  What a moment.

Stay tuned,   HK

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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 23:54:29 -0500
From: eddie ginsburg <eddieg100@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  benny and the shark

JB was definitely NOT over the hill in the Lucky Strike series excpet for
maybe the final year or 2
Jack's [removed] you say I beg your pardon, is a series of shows that never
fails to tickle my funnybone
the series of shows where Frank Fontaine plays his later-classic Crazy
Guggenheim schtick never fails to elicit a chuckle.
I arrived late to the discussion can someone send me the URL for this Jumping
the shark site
thanks,
ed ginsburg

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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 23:54:27 -0500
From: Sam Levene <srl@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re:OTR & future generations

The post about the youngster listening happily to The Shadow and Suspense
in the car reminds me that last summer I lent a set of the multi-episode
BBC radio production of The Lord of the Rings to a boy of about 9 who not
only didn't know about OTR but was from another country and just learning
English.  He was absolutely rivetted, enchanted by the programs and we
ended  by getting him his own set of the tapes so he could hear it over and
over again - 26 half hours.
Sam Levene.

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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 23:55:06 -0500
From: Rob Spencer <rspencer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Smith Ballew and Nick Lucas

Dear List-mates,

I know that both Nick Lucas and Smith Ballew were very active on radio in
the early-to-mid-Thirties, Ballew taking over the Shell Chateau show for a
time after Jolson left.  I realize that not a lot is available from this
era, but I would very much like to acquire whatever is available featuring
these two singers.

How can I find out what exists, and where might I acquire it?


Cordially,

Rob Spencer

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 00:04:48 -0500
From: Udmacon@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR Still On the Air

     "The Nashville show actually started at 6 pm to midnight, but the
network only carried it from 8 to 10 pm. est"

Sorry, Owens; the Grand Ole Opry was only on for 30 minutes over NBC,
sponsored by Prince Albert Tobacco. It was also on some regional networks for
30 minutes, sponsored by Purina.

WSM, in addition to the Grand Ole Opry, has aired Ernest Tubb's Midnight
Jamboree" since 1947.

The Wheeling WV "Jamboree USA" is still aired over WWVA on Saturday nights as
it has been since about 1933, and the Renfro Valley Gatherin' is still
syndicated; it started on CBS in the early 40s.

BILL KNOWLTON, "BLUEGRASS RAMBLE," WCNY-FM: Syracuse, Utica, Watertown NY
(since 1973) Sundays, 9 pm est: [removed]

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 00:03:29 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Little people in the radio

Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 01:03:19 -0500
From: "Harry Machin, Jr." <harbev5@[removed];

David Phaneuf (OTR #71) is the first person I've ever come across who
remembers searching, as I did, for those little people inside radios who
talked and played music.

I never looked for the little people inside the radio.  Or the phonograph.
I realized, somehow, that they weren't there.  But the first time I heard
my father's voice on the telephone, I remember looking inside the receiver
to see if my father was in there, somehow.

I guess I know how Nipper felt.


 A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                        [removed]
 15 Court Square                     lawyer@[removed]
 Boston, MA 02108-2503      [removed]~lawyer/

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 08:57:39 -0500
From: "Read G. Burgan" <rgb@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Unshackled

Owens Pomery stated that "Unshackled" has been on the air since the 1930's.
Actually, the first "Unshackled" program was broadcast over a single station
(WGN) in the fall of 1950 with a program on the life of one of Pacific
Garden Mission's most famous converts:  Billy Sunday -- a baseball player
who became a world famous evangelist.  That program, along with more than
1,000 others, are still available on cassette from Pacific Garden Mission.

Read Burgan

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 08:57:37 -0500
From: "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  RADIO/TV: A COMPARISON

       I agree with Cris in the last Digest about the difference in Radio
and TV. Radio has been so beautifully referred to as "The Theater Of The
Mind":  Case in point:  Some years ago, I was on a panel with other OTR
artists and technicians fielding questions from students at Broadcasting
Institute Of Maryland. The topic was:  "How was it possible for the OTR
programs to survive so long?"  When it came to my turn to answer I told the
students I was going to play an excerpt from WOTW, and asked them to close
their eyes and listen carefully to the tape, then tell me what they "saw" in
their "mind's eye".
(I played the segment where the Martians are coming out of the space ship.)
There must have been a least 20 students in that classroom, and as I went to
each one to tell me what they saw, no two persons described the same
scenario. I explained that with radio, you had to use your imagination -
something you do not need when watching TV.  The picture is there for the
time it is on, and then . . . gone! from your theater of the mind, never
more to return(except in reruns).

  I also told them if you asked me what the TV plot was for Lucy the week
before, I could not tell them - but - if you asked me what happened on the
Phil Harris show where Jack Benny plays Santa for Phil's kids, I would give
you the plot from beginning to end - even though the show aired more that 45
years or so ago, because it is planted forever in my "theater of the mind!"

   The generation that was raised during the 60's and 70's was often
referred to as the "boob tube" generation and did not have the opportunity
to really use their imagination and explore the "theater of the mind," as so
many of us on this digest list did. With "the magic and power" of OTR, we
could be whomever we wanted to be, travel wherever we wanted to go all in
"our mind's eye," thanks to those wonderful radio programs.

    Do any of you share this enthusiasm and love affair I had with the
medium?

                             -  30  -

Owens Pomeroy
"Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: We find the PRESENT TENSE and the past
PERFECT!"

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 09:25:45 -0500
From: "Doug Leary" <dleary@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Scarlet Queen -- the lost episodes?

Recently I read on the OTR Trading Post [removed] that episodes
7 and 10 of Voyage of the Scarlet Queen ("Street of the Woodling Woman" and
"Phil Masbaste") are not available. Does anybody know if this is true or
not, and is there an interesting story about why only these 2 episodes out
of 34 are missing?

By the way, I find the Scarlet Queen episodes amusing for their campy-ness,
but also stirring and riveting for their atmosphere and detail. When the
Queen leaves port I can really feel the excitement of the wind and the open
sea, and in one episode specific Honolulu streets are not only real but in
the right part of town.

Doug Leary

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 09:14:58 -0500
From: joseph <joseph@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Goldbergs Cylinder Recording

In our local museum there an Edison "console" cylinder player. There
was an Cylinder called Goldbergs: Telephoning the Auto Repair Shop.
Was this the Goldbergs as in the Rise of the Goldbergs or just a
jewish ethnic comedy sketch?

On modern audio theater. As a hobby I produce audio theater. I
believe there are people who would listen to it if I could get it to
them. Well the internet may become the purveyor. I have put some of
my work on [removed] the streaming mp3 web server. And I
am going to put more on. That is the way, we who like to produce it,
can let other people hear it. And for those who are interested in
producing programming I think they should and put it on the net.

I also agree with a previous poster that a mix is the important
thing. Good OTR, television, movies, books and etc keep the mind
sharp. Obsession on one thing always dulls the mind.

Joseph

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 09:14:59 -0500
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  ... That's the way it was ...

OTRChris notes,

I cannot envision people just sitting in front of their radios for
seven hours a day doing absolutely nothing else. Was it ever that way ?"

No.  Usually, people were doing something while listening to OTR.  My
grandmother crocheted.  My father did things like crosswords and
acrostics.  When growing up, I played with electric trains and the like.


Don't forget that the early soap operas were developed so that while the
housewives of the time were doing dull, lengthy chores like washing and
ironing, they'd have something to listen to that would occupy their
minds.

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 09:25:46 -0500
From: LBohall@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Death and the media

Brian Johnson noted yesterday that "even death can be funny if you handle it
right"...and I'd like to point out that radio was handling death in some
absolutely hysterical ways on The Life of Riley. My kids and I howl whenever
Digby O'Dell, your Friendly Undertaker, shovels along. The writers milked
that entire concept for every bit of humor it was worth~and it was worth a
LOT. Jack Benny had some funny skits about death and the after-life, too.

I think it's almost simplistic to say that the media doesn't or didn't deal
with death. They have actually been "ahead of the curve" society-wise with
the topic (anyone remember Archie Bunker's episode about funerals?). It's
just that some shows have done a better job with it than [removed]

Larry Bohall

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 09:14:55 -0500
From: "stephen jansen" <stephenjansen@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OTR VERSUS TV

     It's good to see that several others out there agree with me at least a
little about the evils of television, and the sad state of Imagination these
days.  It's good to see good arguments against my views, too.
     I wholeheartedly agree with a previous post that stated we must do what
we can to keep OTR/audio drama alive and active.  I head a group called,
ironically, "The Theatre of the Mindless".  We get out and do live shows in
1940's costumes, with period microphones, full sound effects tables, live
organ music, some actual antique radios - the whole enchilada.  After the
shows, there are always some audience members who hang around.  Some older
folks who remember the good old days of radio, who seem awfully glad that it
hasn't been forgotten.  Some middler-aged folks who let us know how "unique"
and "unusual" this seems to them, glad that they can enjoy a show which is
appropriate for the entire family.  And LOTS of kids, who have tried skits
like this in shool, who do it at home for their own enjoyment, who just
think it's cool.
     I have written some audio drama, and am currently producing/recording
some which I hope will end up on the air one way or another.
     I just keep in mind the saying that "everything old is new again".  All
it will take is for one new song or one new TV show to feature OTR at the
right time in the right way, and it will catch hold with the younger
generations.  With the internet and mp3 format, OTR is more accessable than
ever before.  There's too much going for OTR for it to die out.
     We've just got to keep introducing people to it - make up a tape of
your absolute favorites and keep it in the glove compartment of your car.
Sooner or later, you'll find yourself talking to someone who has maybe a
little more than a passing interest in OTR.  GIVE THEM THE TAPE.  It's
simple, it's cheap, and it works.
     Hey, anybody else notice that the "Best [removed]" compilations sold out in
the real world never really are the BEST?  Radio's Best Detectives/Radio's
Best [removed] could pick better "Bests" with my eyes closed.  Er, ears
plugged.  Oh, I guess it's all terribly subjective, so it's probably silly
to bring it up.  But I would prefer that a novice would get introduced to
OTR via one of my own "Best Of" tapes, than a commercially available one.

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 09:15:01 -0500
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  New classification?

David Phaneuf asks,

... MTV (that's "Modern" TV -- not "Music" TV -- say, do you think we
can coin MTV as an appropriate designation like OTR or OSR?) ...<<

Why not MOTV, so as to minimize confusion with the current MTV?  In the
mid 1950s, the Defense department started speculating about guided
missiles that could be shot for thousands of miles, and started calling
them Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles -- abbreviated "IBMs" -- until a
certain typewriter-and-calculator manufacturer in upstate New York
objected, and the abbreviation was changed to "ICBMs."

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 09:15:03 -0500
From: "Robert Fells" <rfells@[removed];
To: "old time radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  [removed] Fields on Bergen/McCarthy

Steve McGuffin asked about the availability of [removed] Fields appearances on
the Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy show.  I still have a couple of old LPs
from the 1970s that excerpted their exchanges from various broadcasts,
though these are undated.  At least one must be from wartime because of
Fields' remark that wood pulp is on the priority list.  I also know of an
AFRS broadcast with Fields.

Edgar Bergen appeared on the Merv Griffin TV show back in the 70s. I recall
he was the only guest on an hour or 90 minute show.  Griffin asked Mr.
Bergen a number of questions about working with Fields and his answers were
most interesting.  According to Mr. Bergen, Fields would review the script
and change his own dialogue -  but not anybody elses.  Mr. Bergen
acknowledged that [removed] usually came up with better punch lines than the
staff writers but cautioned that with Fields, he never knew what he was
going to say on the air.

This claim seems to be documented by listening to some of the exchanges.  At
times, Fields seems to go far afield - no pun intened - in spinning some
yarn and Edgar Bergen has his hands full in steering him back to the script.
In one wayward exchange with Don Ameche, Fields seems annoyed and says,
"Don't prompt me."

Radio work became scarce for Fields by the early 1940s and one of his
biographies contains letters from Fields complaining that nobody would hire
him for radio.  Mr. Bergen touched on that in his Merv Griffin appearance
saying that he eventually became the only person in radio who would use
Fields, a statement that seems correct.  Bergen said that he trusted Fields
and that Fields never let him down.

Bob Fells

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:01:08 -0500
From: "Frank Phillips" <frankphi@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  People in the radio

As a child of TV in its infancy, my mother and I once visited my grandfather
in Winamac, Ind.

He had no TV, but a very nice tabletop radio set on a small table near the
door.

Evidently, he was listening to Gunsmoke or Have Gun Will Travel or another
OTR show that survived into the 1950s. (This would have been around 1955.)

After listening a few minutes I asked, "Where is the picture?"



Frank Phillips
[removed]
[removed]

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:33:56 -0500
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Jumping the Media

Owens Pomeroy, speaking of Fred Allen's quote about not being able to
"fit into" Tv screens, observes,

    Of course, Fred was speaking for himself, and a few others who had
doubts about the success of radio shows to TV - but - you know, he did
speak the truth in a way, because for the exception of a few shows that
did successfully make the change, a lot of the radio series only lasted
one or two seasons on [removed];<

Well, they were different media with different perspectives, after all.
I cannot how a Pat Novak For Hire could have worked on TV, and am glad
nobody ever tried.

Here's a quandary:  The Captain Midnight TV show lasted at least six
years, but it wasn't a continuation of the OTR show!  So, though it had a
decent run, you really couldn't say the show "made the jump" from radio.
(The OTR version lasted more than a decade.)

The only show I can recall that went seamlessly from OTR to OTV was Sky
KIng.

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 11:43:29 -0500
From: Duane Wadsworth <dwadsworth@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Big Band 24-hours a day in the Bay Area - KCEA,
 [removed] MHz

Thanks to Jim Terra for mentioning that Menlo Atherton High School's radio
station is beaming great big band sounds 24-hours a day, commercial free,
at [removed]  Yes, the station is low-powered BUT they've recently moved the
transmitter to San Carlos on a hill and it can now be heard around the San
Francisco Bay.  This is no school-kid programming.  After Jonathan
Schwartz's WNYC, New York  Saturday and Sunday shows, this is the best
programming I've heard of this great music.

Contributions are needed and should be send to:
Radio Station KCEA
Menlo Atherton High School
555 Middlefield Road
Atherton, CA   94027
Tel: 650 306-8823

If only they had enough money to afford streaming audio on the [removed]

-DUANE-

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 15:36:04 -0500
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  More old stye radio still on the [removed]

Owens Pomeroy noted three shows that are still broadcasting in the old
style.  I can add a few more to his Grand Ol' Opry, Met Opera, and
Unshackled, which is a neat weekly radio drama, with a message.  Unshackled
is broadcast on the Worship Radio Network, not available in this part of
South Dakota.
    1.  Paul Harvey news and comment, and Rest of the story
    2.  Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Music and the spoken word
    Unfortunately, the MTC is only available on some kind of satellite
hookup, no longer broadcast on AM or FM stations thruout the US.  I guess
there are a few stations in the west that carry the program.

Ted Kneebone / 1528 S. Grant St. / Aberdeen, SD 57401 / 605-226-3344
tkneebone1@[removed] | OTR:  [removed]
[removed]  |
[removed] || Kids of the New Century:
[removed]

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 19:44:55 -0500
From: Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Snacks

A ritual I have witnessed with many folks -- watching television while
eating dinner,  or snacking while enjoying a televised event, seems not to
apply to radio listening, ...or does it?

I remember well the golden days of radio and I don't recall ever listening
to a radio program while eating  dinner.  Nor do I remember having snacks
when we adjourned to the radio room, after dinner, to listen to our
favorite programs. My parents would not permit it and certainly wouldn't
do it themselves. Listening was more of a solitary activity, requiring full
concentration and little distraction.

Was this your experience as a listener in the golden age? Did you snack and
listen?

Dennis Crow

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