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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2002 : Issue 402
A Part of the [removed]!
ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Gildy Uncirculated? [ Harlan Zinck <buster@[removed]; ]
Microphone [ SeptSev@[removed] ]
KFAR [ "Roby McHone" <otr_alaska@[removed] ]
NPR [ FKELLY <fkelly@[removed]; ]
GODFREY SPONSORS [ Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed]; ]
PC49 [ "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed]. ]
The Upper Room [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
RE:Gene Twombley [ "Jerry Reed" <jerry@[removed]; ]
Re: WOTW Competition [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK SCHEDULE for [ HERITAGE4@[removed] ]
Elizabeth's radio broadcasts [ "Phil Watson" <philwats@[removed] ]
Subject: [Approved: ctrn4eeWlc] Jane [ Herb Harrison <herbop@[removed] ]
1939 royal visit to Canada [ "Ed Ellers" <ed_ellers@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 20:30:15 +0000
From: Harlan Zinck <buster@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Gildy Uncirculated?
The Archives has just released a new 20-CD Round Robin collection and, in
it, we have what we believe to be an uncirculated episode of "The Great
Gildersleeve" from March 26, 1944. It's the AFRS version, unfortunately,
but apparently Gildy wasn't considered very controversial by the AFRS so
the show is intact, sans only commercials. It's a very fun show, in which
Eve Goodwin (Bea Benadaret) suggests that Gildy should lose a few pounds
before getting his official Mayoral campaign photo taken.
The problem is that, unlike most AFRS releases, the 16" vinyl disk didn't
have date information in the run-out portion so we're uncertain of the
exact date of the show. I've searched various logs for the series and found
that this AFRS version is most likely taken from the March 26 network
broadcast, but may also be from March 12 or April 2. My question is, does
anyone out there have access to any scripts from this series or know of any
other way to authenticate the broadcast date? Any assistance would be much
appreciated! If it helps, here's a link to scans of the disk labels:
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If you'd like to rent or purchase this show or any others from the Archives
collection, stop by our website and request a free subscription to our
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Thanks for your help!
Harlan
Harlan Zinck
First Generation Radio Archives
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Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 20:30:54 +0000
From: SeptSev@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Microphone
This is OT:
I know we have an NPR audio engineer on the list. I wonder If I might ask
him to contact me offlist. I'm looking for a new microphone for voice work,
like the NPR sound and would appreciate sufggestions.
Thom Bray
septsev@[removed]
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Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 20:31:33 +0000
From: "Roby McHone" <otr_alaska@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: KFAR
> Our local "unauthorized" low wattage station, KFAR in Knoxville, broadcasts
> everything from hip-hop to music of the 20's and 30's to, yes, old radio
dramas
Just thought I would mention that there is a real radio station KFAR at 660
on your [removed] you happen to be in Fairbanks Alaska. They also
broadcast OTR for 2 hours per day.
Roby McHone
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Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 20:31:56 +0000
From: FKELLY <fkelly@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: NPR
It's true that NPR is producing a lot of talk these days, but there's
still classical music (Performance Today and Symphony Cast). PRI also
feeds quite a bit of classical music including a weekly Pittsburgh
Symphony concert. In Pittsburgh we're lucky enough to have three NPR
stations, including All Classical WQED at [removed], WDUQ at [removed] playing
jazz, and we can also receive West Virginia Public Radio, whose music is
classical. Some cities are luckier than others.
--
Frank Kelly
Email: fkelly@[removed]
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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:28:47 +0000
From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: GODFREY SPONSORS
I submitted this list to Lee:
Wildroot [not Prell, Russ]
Nabisco
Glass Wax
Chesterfield -- we all know that [removed]
Sandy
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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:29:18 +0000
From: "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: PC49
In issue 401 Don Frey asks about PC49.
Although the series is British and not Australian I have collected 4 of the
books and have some eps in Quality Audio as well as mp3, they are two
stories of 5 parts. Coincidently I burnt 2 copies this morning as I had a
request from a [removed] collector.
Let me know if you are interested Don and I will send you a copy on CD or
other method that may suit you.
Ian Grieve
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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:29:05 +0000
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: The Upper Room
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I am looking for episodes of an obscure radio program entitled The Upper
Room, a religious show that according to Jay Hickerson's Ultimate Guide
book, 24 episodes exist and are available. They were short, 15-minute
features with actors Peggy Webber, John McIntire, Eddie Firestone and
Jeanette Nolan. I will buy or trade. I think I have airdates for them
but without episode titles and descriptions, I can't add one plus one.
Anyone who has some or all can contact me off the digest.
Martin
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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:30:22 +0000
From: "Jerry Reed" <jerry@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: RE:Gene Twombley
Thanks to all who answered my query on Gene Twombley. I appreciate the
information. Today I received a nice letter of reply from Frank Buxton who
told me of Gene's work with Frank and Bill Cosby on the Bill Cosby Radio
Program in 1968. That must have been one of the last major projects that
Gene worked on before he died. Gene did effects for the program and
developed the unique sound effect of The White Beauty, The Brown Hornet's
Car. The Brown Hornet was a weekly Friday feature of the Bill Cosby Radio
Program.
Jerry Reed
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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:30:06 +0000
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: WOTW Competition
On 10/12/02 8:50 PM OldRadio Mailing Lists wrote:
>I know this was brought up one or two years ago on the OTR Digest, but I
>have forgotten the answer. What were MBS and NBC Blue airing at 8pm EST
>on October 30th, 1938?
Those Mutual stations that hadn't sold the time period locally had the
option of carrying a sustaining musical program presented by the WOR
Symphony under the direction of Alfred Wallerstien. A major chunk of
Mutual did not carry this broadcast -- the Colonial Network in New
England carried Father Coughlin's paid program instead.
Blue stations were offered another sustaining program, "Out of the West,"
a musical feature from San Francisco with Ernest Gill and his Orchestra,
which they could carry if they hadn't sold the time locally.
Given that the Chase & Sanborn Hour was, according to Hooper, the most
popular program on the air during the fall of 1938, it's not surprising
that the Sunday-night-at-8 timeslot was essentially a throwaway period
for the other networks -- or, in the case of CBS, a chance to turn
unsalable time into a public-relations writeoff by positioning itself as
a "Patron of the Arts." An hour-long drama series based primarily on
public-domain works, cast with actors working for scale, was a low-budget
way for the network to eat a timeslot no one wanted, and the fact that
Welles happened at that time to be the darling of the New York
Intellectual crowd enabled CBS to look good while doing it. Of course, no
one was counting on the sort of publicity they ended up [removed]
Elizabeth
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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:31:40 +0000
From: HERITAGE4@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK SCHEDULE for
Weeks starting: 10/13/02
New shows in hi-end audio start every week at: The Olde Tyme Radio Network:
[removed] (anytime - 24/7)
Below are the shows starting, for one week, on October 13th:
SAME TIME, SAME STATION with Jerry Haendiges
1. ARTHUR GODFREY - TALENT SCOUTS 4/18/49 - Winner: Lenny Bruce
2. THE ADVENTURES of FRANK RACE 8/5/49 "The Vanishing President"
3. HEDDA HOPPER'S HOLLYWOOD 4/15/51 Guests are Abbott & Costello
and Dorothy McGuire.
4. COUNTERSPY (aka DAVID HARDING, COUNTERSPY) 8/15/50
"The Case of the Foolish Father." Don McLaughhlin/Mandell Cramer.
HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE with Tom Heathwood
1. 2000-PLUS MBS 1950-51 "The Green Thing" with Lon Clark.
2. GANGBUSTERS (Replay from 40's in 1973) "The Case of the Cincinnati
Narcotic Ring."
3. THE COLGATE SPORTS NEWSREEL with BILL STERN NBC Pgm#505
6/17/49 - Special, Connie Mack, the "Grand Old Man of Baseball."
Enjoy - Tom & Jerry
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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:34:28 +0000
From: "Phil Watson" <philwats@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Elizabeth's radio broadcasts
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Kenneth Clarke asked about our Royal Family. The present queen is Elizabeth II
(the first was in the 16th century or thereabouts).
Elizabeth II's mother was also Elizabeth, and was queen because she was
married to the King, the Monarch, unlike her daughter who is Queen, the
Monarch, under the rules of succession. The present Queen's husband is not a
king, but her consort. Complicated !
Queen Mary was the present queen's grandmother. And following Queen Elizabeth
The Queen Mother's death at 100 earlier this year there is no present Queen
Mother.
Kenneth asked about a teenage Princess Elizabeth making radio broadcasts
during the war. These were filmed for the cinema newsreels and excerpts have
been screened on TV this year, her 50th Anniversary year. I would imagine
sound recordings are available either from the BBC Radio Collection or among
the collections of US OTR suppliers, many of whom subscribe to this Digest.
I'm always amazed at what they carry relating to WWII.
Phil
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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:33:29 +0000
From: Herb Harrison <herbop@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Subject: [Approved: ctrn4eeWlc] Jane
Powell
Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed]; wrote:
> Did you catch forties and fifties MGM musical star, Jane Powell , in LAW
> AND ORDER:SVU last night? She had the featured role of an abuzed
> Alzheimers' patient.
I saw the show. I didn't recognize the actress, but I was impressed by her
performance. I remember thinking that it's good that there are still some
TV shows that take advantage of the acting skills of older actors.
I have the impression that, in OTR, actors' *real* ages didn't affect their
suitability for various roles as much as their ability to play their
characters' *perceived* ages on radio.
I'm thinking that many OTR actors could change their voices to make
themselves sound like 17-year-old characters one week, and 70-year-old
geezers the next [removed] in the same program.
This is impossible with a visual medium like TV.
Am I wrong?
Comments welcome on-list.
Herb Harrison
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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:35:47 +0000
From: "Ed Ellers" <ed_ellers@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 1939 royal visit to Canada
Someone wrote:
> CBC Radio One's_This Morning_used the current royal visit by Queen
> Elizabeth II and Prince Philip as an opportunity to review radio coverage of
> the royal visit by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (no number, but
> eventually the Queen Mum) in 1939.
No number because she wasn't the reigning monarch. Queen Elizabeth I
reigned from 1558-1603.
Kenneth Clarke <kclarke5@[removed]; wrote:
> I was always under the impression that the present Queen Mother's name was
> Mary. That's what I was told, at least. The information could be
> incorrect.
It is; her name was Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
> On a recent PBS documentary about Queen Elizabeth II, it was mentioned that
> she went on the radio to speak to citizens of England about WW II. She
> looked like she was in her mid teens at the time. Are recordings of these
> announcements available?
She was born in 1926, so, yes, she was in her teens during the war. I
haven't heard of any complete recordings, though snippets have been released
on some BBC compilations.
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