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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2007 : Issue 146
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Free Fibber MP3 CDs [ Richard Carpenter <newsduck@[removed] ]
Obscure old radio shows [ Ivan Watson <watsoni@[removed]; ]
bob on dat [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
5-17 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
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Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 19:47:40 -0400
From: Richard Carpenter <newsduck@[removed];
To: Old Radio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Free Fibber MP3 CDs
Hello. Having upgraded my Fibber McGee collection, I
find myself with an extra set of six MP3 CDs, each
containing about 100 "Fibber McGee and Molly" shows.
Sport that I am, I will send them free (and postage
paid) to the FIRST (and only the first) Fibber fan who
e-mails me. The quality is generally good, except for
a few of the earliest shows. All I ask is that you are
a true fan of the show and intend to listen to the
programs. These are MP3 CDs, meaning you need to
listen on a computer, an MP3-enabled CD player or a
portable device such as an iPod.
-- RC
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Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 19:48:20 -0400
From: Ivan Watson <watsoni@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Obscure old radio shows
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I've recently been listening to some very obscure old radio shows lately.
Does anyone have any information on the following:
- Weekend Live or Weekend Lodge?? from 1936, with host Marty May,
announcers Dan Seymour and Ernest Chappell, singing star Dick Todd, comedians
Kemper and Mack, Four Barrels and D'artega and his orchestra (Rinso-Spry)
- Tell Us Your Story from 1937, dramatised stories from real life
incidents in listener's lives presented three times a week, hosted by [removed]
Ford (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday (sponsor, Wine-dot cleanser? - 15 minutes)
- Saturday Morning Vaudeville Theatre with host Jim Ameche from
1941 on NBC Red.
- Musical Steeplechase from 1938 with the Smoothies vocal group
- Art Green program (local DJ show from 1940) - WHN New York,
sponsored by Mission Bell Wine
I had never heard of these shows before and would appreciate any
information anyone had on the shows or performers.
Cheers,
Ivan
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Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 21:46:41 -0400
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: bob on dat
... But they requested all the radio shows be
transferred to DAT tape. Of course, knowing the flaws of recording to
DAT, we explained what some of the problems would be in the future.
We not only covered temperature control and storage, but we explained
that if one ZERO or one ONE is dropped by accident due to poor
recording or stretched or shrinking tape, then there will be either
large gaps of lost show or, from the point of the dropped 01s the
rest of the tape would be [removed]
Oh well, I hope the Bob Hope DAT tapes are stored properly and that
they have kept the original ETs.
I'm surprised that digital audio tape (DAT) would be so precarious.
Most of the digital tape formats are quite redundant, incorporating
algorithms for error detection and correction as well as arrangements
that'll help reconstruct noise bursts and framing errors. Certainly CD's
are quite robust, and I'm surprised that DAT cassettes (if indeed this is
the medium Bob Hope's archivists used) aren't similarly formatted.
Lemme look up DAT in Wikipedia and see what they have to say about error
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...which is nothing (I left a gripe on the DAT talk page.)
And so I wonder: have DAT cassettes proven unreliable? I agree that I'm
more comfortable with analog archiving unless there's an overwhelming reason
for the use of digital, but this has more to do with the possibility that
the secret keys to decoding one format or another can be lost in a
generation or so. I suspect that the tapes themselves are fairly robust and
that the software can reconstruct most errors.
However, I don't know this, and I'd be exceedingly interested to know what
the record (cough) of DAT's has been.
I, too, hope they kept the originals, and I imagine that they have.
M Kinsler
512 E Mulberry St. Lancaster, Ohio USA 43130 740-687-6368 740-503-1973
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Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 21:53:17 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 5-17 births/deaths
May 17th births
05-17-1878 - Conway Tearle - NYC - d. 10-01-1939
announcer: "Streamlined Shakespeare"
05-17-1883 - Ethel Intropidi - NYC - d. 12-18-1946
actor: Phyllis Welby "Pretty Kitty Kelly"
05-17-1889 - Harriett Gustin - d. 4-xx-1975
co-host of a children's amateur hour on WEEI, Boston, Massachusetts
05-17-1890 - Philip James - Jersey City, NJ - d. 11-1-1975
conductor, composer: "Bamberger Little Symphony"; "Wellsprings of Music"
05-17-1895 - Gayelord Hauser - Tubingen, Germany - d. 12-26-1984
nutritionist: "Look Younger and Live Longer"
05-17-1902 - Fausto Cleva - Trieste, Italy - d. 8-6-1971
conductor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "Metropolitan Opera Auditions"
05-17-1903 - Artie Auerbach - NYC - d. 10-3-1957
actor: Mr. Kitzel "Jack Benny Program"
05-17-1905 - John Patrick - Louisville, KY - d. 11-7-1995
writer: "Theatre Guild On the Air";"Lux Radio Theatre"
05-17-1906 - Carl McIntire - Ypsilanti, MI - d. 03-19-2002
evangelist: "Twentieth Century Reformation Hour"
05-17-1906 - John Cannon - Chicago, IL - d. 6-22-2001
announcer, actor: "City Hospital"; "Jack Armstrong, the All-American
Boy"
05-17-1907 - Horace McMahon - South Norwalk, CT - d. 8-17-1971
actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
05-17-1907 - Jack Petruzzi - Cleveland, OH - d. 3-1-1967
actor: "Ann Worth, Housewife"; "The Lone Ranger"; "Joe Palooka"
05-17-1908 - Joe Grant - NYC - d. 5-6-2005
writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-17-1911 - Maureen O'Sullivan - Boyle, Ireland - d. 6-23-1998
actor: "Dreft Star Playhouse"; "Family Theatre"
05-17-1912 - Grant Turner - Abilene, TX - d. 10-19-1991
announcer: "Grand Ole Opry"
05-17-1918 - Birgit Nilsson - Vastra Karup, Skane Ian, Sweden - d.
12-25-2005
singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"
05-17-1919 - Louisa Vass - Greenville, SC
singer: (The Vass Family) "The Lady Next Door"; "Kraft Phenix Program"
05-17-1920 - Harriet Van Horne - Syracuse, NY - d. 1-15-1998
newspaper columnist: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"
05-17-1923 - Alice Backes - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 3-15-2007
actor: "This Is Your FBI"; "The Whistler"; "Family Theatre"
May 17th deaths
01-08-1903 - Roger Bower - NYC - d. 5-17-1979
announcer, emcee: "Can You Top This?"; "Stop Me If You Heard This One"
01-09-1886 - Arthur "Bugs" Baer - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-17-1969
writer: "The Eveready Hour"
01-12-1920 - Theodor Uppman - San Jose, CA - d. 5-17-2005
operatic baritone: "Bell Telephone Hour"
01-15-1911 - Cy Feuer - NYC - d. 5-17-2006
music: "Escape"; "Ford Sunday Evening Hour"; "Shorty Bell"
01-15-1922 - Thelma Carpenter - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-17-1997
singer: "Eddie Cantor Show"
02-26-1920 - Tony Randall - Tulsa, OK - d. 5-17-2004
actor: Reggie York "I Love A Mystery"
03-11-1903 - Lawrence Welk - Strasburg, ND - d. 5-17-1992
bandleader: "Lawrence Welk Orchestra"
03-15-1877 - Montague Love - Portsmouth, England - d. 5-17-1943
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Suspense"
05-29-1897 - F. Hugh Herbert - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-17-1958
writer: "Meet Corliss Archer"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-30-1900 - Frank Gallop - Boston, MA - d. 5-17-1988
announcer: "Milton Berle Show"; "Gangbusters"; "Stella Dallas"
07-06-1910 - Alexander Kendrick - d. 5-17-1991
correspondent: "Years In Crisis"; "As Europe Sees the Marshall Plan"
07-10-1877 - Caroline Crockett Ellis - d. 5-17-1963
actor: Mary Ward "Travels of Mary Ward"; "Caroline's Golden Store"
07-26-1921 - John de Lancie, Sr. - Berkeley, CA - d. 5-17-2002
principle oboist: "Phildelphia Symphony Orchestra"
12-06-1898 - Gunnar Myrdal - Gustafs, Sweden - d. 5-17-1987
1974 nobel prize winner in economics: "United Nations Today"
12-18-1910 - Abe Burrows - Brooklyn, NY - d. 5-17-1985
writer: "Abe Burrows Show"; "Danny Kaye Show"; "Duffy's Tavern"
xx-xx-1916 - Gary Stevens - d. 5-17-2004
broadcast executive: Produced 20 Questions
Ron Sayles
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