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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2005 : Issue 188
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
American broadcasts in Australia? [ Lee Munsick <damyankeeinva@earthlin ]
OTR themed bookmarks for a prison li [ Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed] ]
US shows in Australia [ Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@erols ]
URL for Famous Authors website [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
WEB SITE [ Cric9883@[removed] ]
Scariest Shows [ ilamfan@[removed] (S Jansen) ]
Re: A&A scheduling [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
Lone Ranger Pedometer [ Stephen A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed] ]
Wilde's Canterville Ghost [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]
Re: help with transfers [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]
6-20 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
"War of the Worlds": Behind the 1938 [ ".dan." <ddunfee@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 22:24:06 +0000
From: Lee Munsick <damyankeeinva@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: American broadcasts in Australia?
I recently purchased a 45 rpm record of two Arthur Godfrey American
Columbia-recorded songs, put out "down under" on the Australian Coronet
label (not the American of the same name). The paper sleeve was very plain
and generic with the artist and titles overprinted. In that sense 'though
not in design, somewhat reminiscent of the old Columbia "Tombstone" Lp
covers in several colors, which were used for numerous and sundry artists
and types of music until fancier artwork became the vogue. The titles on
the Australian record are from the height of Mr. Godfrey's popularity in
the early 1950s.
I was surprised that Mr. Godfrey had been known in Australia, and asked the
seller there if she knew how. I suspect she is quite young, and has no
idea. She could offer no such information. Dr. Frank Stanton told me that
CBS had its own stations in Canada on which our friends to the north could
hear Mr. Godfrey and other CBS offerings, and now I'm wondering about other
destination countries, presumably in the English-speaking world.
With the recent postings about various American radio exports to Australia
in various forms, can anyone give me some ideas about how Arthur Godfrey
would have been known there? I have also spoken to persons who swear they
heard Mr. Godfrey in the UK and/or Europe on the BBC and that they were
positive it was not over AFRS. BBC archives has no record of him being
aired on Brit stations.
BTW - re the "Buddy Records" discussion, I confess that that recent thread
is the very first time I ever heard of any such recordings. I apologize
for the early part of my discussion about 12" LP recordings as
"transcriptions", which was sincere but obviously the result of such
ignorance. The rest of what I wrote in that vein I hope still is of interest.
Bestus, Lee Munsick That Godfrey Guy
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Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 22:24:15 +0000
From: Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OTR themed bookmarks for a prison library
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A friend of mine is recently employed as a prison librarian. At present my
offer to
donate OTR in various formats has not been approved, but for now I am
allowed to make
bookmarks. I'd like to have some with simple basic facts/information and a
picture if
that doesn't break any copyright laws. Average reading level is probably
around 8th
grade. URLS to websites will not be included as there is no interet access.
If anyone knows of any attempts to share OTR with prison libraries or has
any sug-
gestions for this project, I'd be glad to hear them.
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Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 22:24:24 +0000
From: Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: US shows in Australia
John Ruklick asks:
> Does anyone know of a [removed] or radio show that
> was done in the USA and also done in England or Australia? Or the reverse;
> shows that were done over seas, then done in the [removed];/blockquote>
There have been dozens of [removed] series that were also done in Australia.
Here's three off the top of my head: "It's A Crime, Mr. Collins" (a
take-off on Abbott Mysteries) was first on Mutual and later in Australia,
with their cast and writers. (In fact most of episodes traded in US today
are the Australian version.) "Charlie Chan", originally a US series, has
migrated to a number of countries, including Australia. A kids juvenile
series, syndicated in the 30s in the US, "Adventures of Howie Wing", was
also broadcast in Australia and Canada.
Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 22:24:52 +0000
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: URL for Famous Authors website
Someone on this OTR Digest asked to know about adaptations for radio of
Oscar Wilde's plays. The URL for the Famous Authors website is below. You
can search this website by author or title. It includes novels, short
stories, plays, poetry, etc.
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Ted Kneebone. OTR website: [removed]
Democrats: [removed]
1528 S. Grant St., Aberdeen, SD 57401 / Phone: 605-226-3344
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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:46:19 +0000
From: Cric9883@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: WEB SITE
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i just found this web site
_[removed] ([removed])
i love it
great shows
all day and night
charles
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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:46:36 +0000
From: ilamfan@[removed] (S Jansen)
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Scariest Shows
Okay, we've all probably got different "scariest shows", here's mine:
"Lights Out - Mr Maggs (aka The Chest)"...My dad had recorded this on tape
during the 1970's rebroadcasts (probably the "Devil & Mr O" run), and saved
it for me to listen to later. Looking at it today, it's not the best
written show, but the voice work is just great, with long gaps of silence
to build the tension. For the longest time, I thought that the vocals were
just done too quiet, now I realize that it was a device to draw the
listener in even closer. The protagonist, Mr Maggs buys a locked chest at
auction, and strange frightening things start happening once it is
delivered to his home. He ends up absolutely terrified and almost
paralysed with fear, listening very hard for noises from [removed], the
listeners, end up doing the same thing; very good job, Mr Oboler! If
anyone out there is going to give the episode a listen, try to get the
"Devil & Mr O" version, it's in much better audio quality than the original
1930's "Lights Out" version.
Also, an episode of "Nightfall" (1980's CBC Canada) titled "Repossesion"
gave me some reall chills, the entire series is/was great.
And of course, Willis Cooper's "Quiet Please": the episode "The Thing On
The Fourble Board" is always a favorite. It gives me the heebie-jeebies
every time I listen to it - the sound of the creature gives me goosebumps,
and the twist ending(s) still make me shudder. The episode "Northern
Lights" is also very good, with an utterly alien, otherworldly weirdness to
[removed] caterpillars, indeed!
For full effect, listen to these shows ALONE and IN THE DARK.
[removed]
Stephen Jansen
Old Time Radio never dies - it just changes formats!
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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:46:46 +0000
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: A&A scheduling
On 6/19/05 10:34 PM [removed]@[removed] wrote:
>Can somebody tell me exactly what day of the week Amos and Andy show ran the
>longest on the radio? Was it a Friday or Tuesday?
A&A ran fifteen years as a nightly serial -- five nights a week from
3/19/28 to 4/30/28, six nights a week from 5/3/28 thru 11/8/32, and five
nights a week from 11/10/32 to 2/19/43 (minus a six week vacation in the
summer of 1934). Once the program was turned into a weekly sitcom, it ran
for two seasons (1943-45) on Fridays, three seasons (1945-48) on
Tuesdays, and seven seasons (1948-55) on Sundays.
Elizabeth
"The Original Amos 'n' Andy" -- Coming in Spring 2005 from McFarland & Co.
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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:47:03 +0000
From: Stephen A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Lone Ranger Pedometer
Richard Rieve asks,
> I got copies of LR shows dated Feb 18, 20, 23 & 25, 1948, all which
> featured the Pedometer as part of the plot. Much to my surprise, the
> show did not offer the pedometer to the listener. There was no "send in
> a dime and a boxtop" promotion. Does anyone know how this item was first
> offered? Was the offer on a cereal box?
Well, I recall sending for one. It came with an instruction sheet,
telling where best to wear it, how to use the proper scale to determine
actual distance walked, etc. It might be that it was advertised on the
box, or/and in the comics section of Sunday newspaper.
While on this thread, a number of "radio" premiums were advertised in the
Sunday Comics. Those I recall offhand include the Captain Midnight
Spy-Scope, the Kix Atomic Bomb Ring, The Captain Midnight Shake-Up Mug,
the Tom Mix Magnet Ring, and the Tom Mix Signature Ring. There were also
Tom Mix baby turtles offered via the newspapers.
The Lone Ranger pedometer was basically the same as the Jack Armstrong
Hike-O-Meter.
Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:47:23 +0000
From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Wilde's Canterville Ghost
In digest 187, [removed] King said something like this:
> The Lux Radio Theatre 6-18-45 "The Canterville Ghost" 1 hour. I don't
> know how accurate it is but there is a transcript of this version
> online at [removed]
I can tell you that the transcript is as accurate as I could make it. You
see, I typed that script myself by listening to the recording of the show.
It was then double-checked by someone else.
The bigger question is: How faithful was the original show to the Wilde
story. The answer, alas, is that it had many flaws. Except for the ghost
and the locale, very little was the same. For one thing, Wilde's story was
not set during WWII. The Lux version was. And so on.
Still it is a fun show to listen to and read -- and perform if you have a
bent to such things.
Ted
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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:47:48 +0000
From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: help with transfers
At 10:34 PM 6/19/2005, you wrote:
> Does anybody know how to get these shows onto cd in wave (i assume) format?
Your computer probably has a sound card. Look at the back and find what are
called mini jacks. They use symbols that mean speaker output, mike input
and line input. The manual that came with your computer should tell you
which jack is which or try and figure out the symbols.
The go to your local Radio Shack or any store that sells audio cables. You
want to get a cable that has a stereo mini plug on one end and two RCA
plugs on the other. The RCA jacks will plug into your cassette player and
the mini plug will got into the line input of your sound card.
Double click on the small speaker icon in your task bar of your computer
which is located near the time and date information. This should bring up a
menu of volume controls. Go to preferences and select RECORD. Find the
volume control that is marked Line In. Either select it or un-mute it. Some
systems do it one way and some do it another.
You'll need a recording software program. If you have a CD or DVD burner,
it more than likely came with software that has such a program. Look for
it. Or do a search for such a program at places like [removed]
I have used Cool Edit which you use to be able to download. But it has been
bought by Adobe and is now called Audition. It is a good program but a
little over kill for what you want to do.
As far as recording techniques, books have been written on this subject, so
I'm not going to get into that right here. Email me with you questions and
I'll try and talk you through it.
Fred
Check us out for old time radio & TV shows & Movie Serials
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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:48:01 +0000
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 6-20 births/deaths
June 20th births
06-20-1890 - Effie Palmer - Albany, NY - d. 8-19-1942
actress: Jean Evans "Lonely Woman"; Dodie Black "Scattergood Baines"
06-20-1893 - Edwin Wolfe - d. 9-23-1983
actor: Curt Bradley "Pepper Young's Family"
06-20-1897 - Bob Howard - W. Newton, MA - d. 12-4-1986
pianist-singer: "Calsodent Presents Bob Howard"; "Sing It Again"
06-20-1899 - Helen Traubel - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-28-1972
singer: "Metropolitan Opera"; "Telephone Hour"; "Jimmy Durante Show"
06-20-1904 - Matt Crowley - d. 3-10-1983
actor: Mark Trail "Mark Trail"; Buck Rogers "Buck Rogers"
06-20-1905 - Lillian Hellman - New Orleans, LA - d. 6-30-1984
author: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
06-20-1909 - Errol Flynn - Hobart, Tasmania - d. 10-14-1959
actor: Christopher Casanova "Modern Adventures of Casanova"; "Lux Radio
Theatre"
06-20-1911 - Gail Patrick - Birmingham, AL - d. 7-6-1980
actress: "The Dreft Star Playhouse"
06-20-1924 - Audie Murphy - Kingston, TX - d. 5-28-1971
world war II hero, actor: "Cavalcade of America"
06-20-1924 - Chet Atkins - Luttrell, TN - d. 6-30-2001
guitarist: "Boone County Neighbors"; "Grand Ole Opry"
06-20-1931 - Martin Landau - Brooklyn, NY
actor: "No Love Lost"
June 20th deaths
01-24-1883 - Estelle Winwood - Lee, Kent, England - d. 6-20-1984
actress: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
03-04-1907 - Edgar Barrier - NYC - d. 6-20-1964
actor: Simon Templar "The Saint"
04-05-1911 - Gordon Jones - Alden, IA - d. 6-20-1963
actor: Pete Thompson "Meet Mr. McNutley"
04-20-1898 - Sidney Lanfield - Chicago, IL - d. 6-20-1972
film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
05-12-1901 - Whitey "Duke" Ford - De Soto, MO - d. 6-20-1986
comedian: (Duke of Paducah) "Grand Ole Opry"; "Plantation Party"
05-15-1904 - Clifton Fadiman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-20-1999
emcee: "Information, Please"; "Conversation"; "RCA Magic Key"
08-10-1902 - Louise Massey - Midland, TX - d. 6-20-1983
singer: (Louise Massey and the Westerners) "National Barn Dance"; "Show Boat"
08-19-1870 - Bernard Baruch - Camden, SC - d. 6-20-1965
guest: "Tex and Jinx"
08-22-1906 - James Meighan - NYC - d. 6-20-1970
actor: Michael Waring "The Falcon"; Peter Carver "Lora Lawton"
10-09-1896 - Robert Armbruster - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-20-1994
conductor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Cousin Willie"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:59:30 +0000
From: ".dan."
<ddunfee@[removed];
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: "War of the Worlds": Behind the 1938
Radio Show Panic
National Geographic has a look at the effects the broadcast had:
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