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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:33:30 +0000
From: "alanladdsr"
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To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Cliff Johnson
Bill Murtough, in writing about KFWB, mentions his announcer Cliff Johnson
and his later days in Oak Park, Illinois with a morning chat/breakfast show.
I remember the show and have a 20m excerpt (later time in 60's) and recall
listening to it and enjoying the fluffs his kids would make. One time one of
the girls (Pam, I think her name was) said "I hate Broadcast Brand Cornbeef
Hash (sponsor) it burns my tongue!" I thought I was the only person who even
knew who Cliff Johnson [removed], Mr Murtough.
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:34:24 +0000
From: Bob Fells
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To:
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Subject: Re: The Eddie Cantor Story
Regarding Richard Pratz's comments on the film, The Eddie Cantor Story,
Mr. Cantor continued to make radio appearances almost up to his death in
1964. In his last years, he taped a series a five minute segments in his
home that were broadcasts a few times a week. Apparently, he discussed
important news issues of the day and I believe his grandson, Brian Gari,
has possession of these tapes now.
Sadly, one of Mr. Cantor's five daughters died in 1959 and is entombed
with him and his wife Ida. Keefe Brasselle, the actor who played Mr.
Cantor in the film, later became a novelist. Although he resembled
Montgomery Clift, the Cantor film seemed to end his budding film
career. I recall an appearance by Mr. Brasselle on The Joe Franklin
Show on WOR-TV in New York around the mid 1960s. He came on the show to
promote his new book but Mr. Franklin was much more interested in asking
him about Eddie Cantor. Mr. Brasselle made it clear that he preferred
not to discuss Mr. Cantor or the film but Joe Franklin persisted and
acted as though it were the high point of his career.
Personally, I prefer to watch the films made by Eddie Cantor himself
rather than these Hollywoodized film bios. I should say the same for Al
Jolson and The Jolson Story. Ironically, Mr. Jolson's double, Larry
Parks, also suffered career setbacks not unlike Keefe Brasselle, but for
different reasons. Perhaps imitating a famous star in films is
dangerous!
Bob Fells
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:34:13 +0000
From: Albert Fields
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To:
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Subject: McFarland books
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There have been questions about McFarlands books. I just purchased
"Beginning of Broadcast Regulations', "Radio Live, Television Live", and
Sies' "Encyclopedia" from The Scholar's Bookshelf in Cranbury NJ for
$[removed] total. I have also purchased other books from them on OTR at great
prices. I am not associated with them. I am a serious student and
lecturer on OTR.
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:34:34 +0000
From: "Ed Ellers"
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To:
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Subject: Apology
That post I made about color video tape at NBC was an error -- it was
supposed to go to another mailing list. In the process of changing the
address (so it would go to that list rather than only to Joe) I somehow got
this list's address rather than the one I meant to use. So if anybody's
wondering what that had to do with OTR, now you know how it got here.
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:35:11 +0000
From: Harry Bartell
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To:
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Subject: Eddie Cantor
Richard Pratz asks
> And did any of the actors on this list ever work with old banjo
> eyes?
I did one show with Cantor . I remember that Jimmy Wallington was the
announcer and we did the broadcast from a military hospital in San Fernando
Valley during WW II. I did not find Cantor particularly charming.
He did play very large to the audience-- lots of mugging and lots of brave
flag waving.
Harry Bartell
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:35:44 +0000
From: Sandy Singer
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To:
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Subject: NOT THURL
> ...the voice does sound the same on both sounds of This Old House, and
> Dance With Me, Henry.
Thurl did This Old House, but a member of David Carroll's orchestra was
heard on the Gibbs recording of Dance With Me, Henry, who's history goes
back to a hit record, Work With Me, Annie, sung by The Midnighters --
lyrics filled with sexual innuendos. Re-written, Etta James', Roll With
Me, Henry, became a #2 hit on the rock & roll charts in 1955. This was
'covered' by Georgia Gibbs' re-named, Dance With Me, Henry, with still
further watered-down lyrics, that reached #1 on the pop [removed]
Sandy, the DJ
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:36:09 +0000
From: "Scott Eberbach"
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To:
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Subject: RSI Shadow Set
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Hi All!
Has anyone bought the Shadow 40 episode collection that Radio Spirits has just
put out? I'm just wondering how good it is. With other collections put out by
GAA I have seen incorrect titles, inconsistent openings and [removed]
Morrison openings on an Orson Welles and/or Bill Johnstone episode. Do all
the episodes in the collection have the original organ music or do they have a
number of them with the stock orchestration music that Charles Michaelson had
inserted when he broght them out for air-play back in the 1960s? I have most
of the extant episodes; however, I'm always on the lookout to improve the
sound quality, find ones without the stock orchestration music, and episodes
that have the correct openings and closings. Thanks in advance!
Scott
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:37:28 +0000
From: "JPlummer"
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To:
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Subject: Bob Hope &The Shadow
I picked up the Radio Spirits sets of Bob Hope and The Shadow at Sam's Club
today for $[removed] ea. The packaging is cheaper than the catalog but the
cassettes fall out anyway! They carry both cassettes and cds at the same
price
Jim Plummer
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:36:31 +0000
From: "Holm, Chris "
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To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Telephone exchanges, lunch, and Archie
I checked out the website that Chris Dandrea mentioned in Digest #415
(
[removed]), and looked up my exchange.
I live in Saginaw, MI and the first two digits of my phone number are
79. Well, the database on this website says that the historical
exchange in Saginaw for 79 is SWift.
And guess what that immediately made me think of. Boy, I sure wish I
had a Swift hot dog right now. I'm not sure I'd want to listen to
Archie Andrews at the same time, but the hotdog would be good!
-Chris Holm
...who is just kidding, I'd much rather be listening to OTR right how.
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:37:43 +0000
From: "Chuck Case"
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To:
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Subject: halloween listening
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Hi all,
Just a question from a newbie. In your opinion, What are the three best
Halloween ( scariest) radio shows? My two favorite are Suspense : House in
Cyprus Canyon, and of course Mercury Theater: War of the Worlds. Being new I
haven't listened enough to actually have a third one, but with Halloween just
around the corner I was hoping for some suggestions for some Fright Night
listening fun.
Thanks
Chuck
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:38:00 +0000
From: John Henley
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To:
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Subject: re The Eddie Cantor Story
With regard to Richard Pratz' posting on the Cantor Story
film:
I wondered how Eddie Cantor (1892-1964) could ever have let his name be
connected with such a debacle.
If I recall correctly how it's told in Herbert Goldman's
Cantor biography, Cantor was quite positive, overall,
about the project while it was in production; he envisioned
having the same big success as "The Jolson Story" of several
years earlier. More than a little desire to match or best Jolson
at that game was in play there, of course.
But as the film was unreeled, it was obvious to everyone what
a debacle it had turned out to be, and though I don't recall what his
immediate public reaction was said to be, Cantor was deeply
disappointed.
...whatever became of Keefe Brasselle?.....
In 1963, he was the star of the heavily-promoted-in-advance
variety tv show, "The Keefe Brasselle Show." It's funny to me
that all these years later, I can sort of remember those spots.
Because I never got to see the show - it was an even bigger bomb
than that same year's "The Jerry Lewis Show," and was gone
within a handful of episodes.
Mr. Brasselle next distinguished himself as the author of a
1968 novel titled "The Cannibals." The plot involves a nightclub
entertainer who is insulted during his act by an elderly
"ad-lib king" comic in the audience; the hero then takes
his revenge by seducing the comic's much-younger wife.
This information comes from Hector Arce's biography of
Groucho Marx - make your own inferrals.
And lastly, he has the director credit for, and appeared in,
a 1970s movie called "If You Don't Stop [removed]'ll Go Blind,"
which was one of several low-budget cash-ins on Woody Allen's
"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex."
Brasselle died in 1981.
.....does anyone know
whatever became of the five Cantor girls?
Marjorie died in the late 1950s, a blow from which Eddie
and Ida did not fully recover.
For the status of Eddie's youngest daugher Janet, go right
here: [removed]
and for lots of other nifty info and links, there is of course:
[removed]
Not affilliated, just glad it's there.
Cheers,
John Henley
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:39:11 +0000
From: Tony Baechler <tony@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Making OTR books accessible
Hello all. This post is mostly for authors and publishers, but hopefully
this will be of interest to others on the list or upcoming authors. If you
self-publish OTR books or have written any (or many, as the case may be) I
ask you to please read. If you miss this request or need reminders, I will
post again in a week or two, after the conventions are over.
As some of you might know, there are very few books about OTR available in
Braille or other formats accessible to the blind. The only book I am aware
of which primarily deals with OTR in an accessible form is Dunning's
encyclopedia. That is only available on cassette, which can be a problem
when trying to find page 557 and being unsure which of the 16 cassettes it
is on. It can be done if one wants to take the time to read the table of
contents, which in itself takes a lot of one cassette. There are some
other books on radio which mention OTR, but not in as much detail.
I myself am blind and have enjoyed posts from many very knowledgable people
here. I know that some of them have written books, but many are not widely
available and are usually somewhat expensive. I would like to see more
books become accessible, preferably from the authors themselves. I
understand that most authors are already losing money on their books or are
not making very much, and I do not want to take away from what little they
already get. However, it is not reasonable to expect a blind person to pay
upwards of $30-35 for a book which they cannot read without scanning
first. In other words, besides paying more than usual for a book, they
must scan it as well which takes a minimum of a day and usually introduces
errors in the text. Therefore, it is doubtful that authors are going to
lose royalties to blind people since most often they will not spend that
much on a printed book anyway.
What can be done to make books more accessible? There is a fee-based
service called [removed] It has recently won a prize in the StockHolm
Challenge in education. I am a member and can very highly recommend them
to anyone who is blind. However, even they have no OTR books which I could
find, although they do have a Dunning novel. All I am asking of authors
and publishers is to go to [removed] at:
[removed]
and click on the "for authors and publishers" link. Please read their page
and consider letting them at least borrow copies of your books to
scan. They are volunteer-based but are backed by Benetech, Inc. of
California. I am not asking you to give away your work or to go through
additional expense to make it available. Please read their information and
consider helping out. Thank you very much. I and others will appreciate
your kindness and generocity.
There are other volunteering opportunities for the sighted public, but I do
not have details on that. Please look at the above link and read the
volunteering pages if interested.
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:36:59 +0000
From: Ronald Staley <mrvintageradio@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Norman Brokenshire
The United States steel Hour, or "Theatre Guild on The Air" as it was
often called had Norman Brokenshire in the early 1950's.
Brokenshire had done Hollywood Star Playhouse and the Bromo Seltzer
commercials a little earlier. His alcohol problem nearly got him banned
from radio, but he prevailed after recovery.
Larry Thor had a similar problem. He also recovered.
Lots of our greats in OTR had to battle some sort of addiction including
Bill Stern, on of my sport announcer heroes.
Just goes to show you, we are all human--subject to frailties and addictions.
I used to love to hear the voice of Brokenshire announcing the Theatre
Guild, though I was quite small. His imperial tones gave me comfort that
there would always be a Sunday, so long as Theatre Guild was at hand.
Ron Staley
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:45:37 +0000
From: michael berger <intercom1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: old phone exchanges
In San Francisco, at least, you could tell the district
a person lived in by the phone exchange. Ours was
SKyline which was in the Richmond District; so was
EVergreen, while OVerland was in the Sunset, MIssion in
the Mission, of course; SUtter and PRospect were
downtown, etc.
Michael Berger
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:45:49 +0000
From: Eric J Cooper <ejcooper2002@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re:Eddie Cantor on Film
A much better film vehicle for Mr. Cantor was "Thank Your Lucky Stars",
circa 1943, in which he got to play a dual role. Also featured in that
film were Spike Jones and His City Slickers, Dinah Shore and Edward
Everett Horton.
Eric Cooper
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