Subject: [removed] Digest V2001 #404
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 12/20/2001 9:03 AM
To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2001 : Issue 404
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  reel to reel tape machines            [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ lois@[removed] ]
  BBC limitation                        [ John Henley <jhenley@[removed] ]
  Re: Carlton Brickert                  [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
  Re: BBC comedy favorite               [ StevenL751@[removed] ]
  Vaughn DeLeath                        [ "Russ Butler" <oldradio@[removed] ]
  why Canada, UK and Australia, but NO  [ "Eric Cooper" <ejcooper2001@[removed] ]
  Re: Crisis                            [ Richard Novak <rnovak@[removed]; ]
  Perry Como for Johnson's Wax          [ "Eric Cooper" <ejcooper2001@[removed] ]
  Today in Radio: A tragic loss         [ "Michael Hayde" <mmeajv@[removed]; ]
  Joel Grey                             [ William L Murtough <k2mfi@[removed]; ]
  DVD/MP3 question                      [ "[removed]" <swells@[removed]; ]
  Re:Favorite OTR Christmas programs    [ Kenneth Clarke <kclarke5@[removed]; ]
  Crisis: Jim, not Jack                 [ Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@erols ]
  Perry Como in Rock History            [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
  George Bruns                          [ Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed] ]
  Some Answer's for Martin's "Quiz"     [ GEORGE WAGNER <gwagneroldtimeradio@ ]
  Re: First singer on radio             [ Bill Jaker <bilj@[removed]; ]
  OTR fictional historical influences   [ AandG4jc@[removed] ]
  Otr Clip Art                          [ lynn wagar <philcolynn@[removed]; ]
  SAME SHOW - 2 DIFFERENT CASTS         [ "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed]; ]
  Announcers                            [ "tas richardson" <tasrichardson@spr ]
  Jeeves and Wooster                    [ "Michael J. Laurino" <mlaurino@[removed] ]

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:21:59 -0500
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: reel to reel tape machines

What sorts of things do you think need to be 'set up' on your reel-to-reel
tape machines?  Do they work at all?

In general, there isn't a heck of a lot to set on most tape machines.
There's generally a potentiometer to set the bias correctly, and there are a
couple to set the audio levels into and/or out of the preamp connected to
the heads.  These controls stay stable on most machines if nobody has tried
to improve things.

A few things to check:

Clean the heads.  They may well be clean already: eventually the
manufacturers of tape and of tape heads got together and made their stuff
out of compatible materials.  There are a lot of mystery solutions for tape
head cleaning, but I've found that 70% rubbing alcohol from the drugstore
works well and doesn't hurt anything.  Wrap your finger in a handkerchief,
wet same with alcohol, and scrub away.  I have never figured out why the
hell anyone uses Q-Tips.

Check the condition of the rubber idler roller.  It should spin freely on
its shaft.  If not, pull it off, clean shaft and hole with alcohol on the
aforementioned handkerchief, put a smear of heavy oil or light grease on the
shaft, and see if it spins well.  If not, repeat the process until it does.

Clean the capstan.  You might have to scrape the accumulated crud off of
this metal shaft, in which case it's safest to use a piece of plastic or
aluminum so you don't gouge the shaft.  Then finish it off with a piece of
very fine sandpaper--#400 or finer.  If it's clean to begin with, however,
leave it alone.

Also scrub off the outside of the rubber idler roller.  Again, alcohol +
finger + handkerchief.  Clean the tape guides, too: they tend to fill up
with brown gunk, too.

Connect the machine up to an amplifier and to power.  Turn on the power.
Make sure that the motor is running and that the appropriate spindles move.
If there's no motion, make sure that the tape-break switch, which is
generally a microswitch with a piece of springy wire attached, is being held
back as it would when a tape is in the machine.

If nothing happens, you've either got a bad switch or the motor is seized.
Pull the machine out of the case and check the motor bearings.  If the motor
won't spin at all when you turn the shaft by hand, you'll need to free the
bearings.  The motor comes apart fairly easy unless you've got a European
machine.  Not usually a big deal.

If the motor smells burned, it's presumably been burned out already from
having been seized.  Good luck.  This generally doesn't happen often.

Then listen to the audio.  Flip the play-record switch.  If you're greeted
with a cacaphony of noise, you'll have to clean the play-record switch
inside the machine.  Use TV tuner cleaner or just a contact spray.  The
rotary switches are easy to spray, but the long, thin slide switches are
tough.  You'll need to spray these several times.  There are usually two for
stereo.  Spray out the volume or level controls while you're in there.

If the machine isn't a three-motor job and the spindles don't turn properly,
you'll need to dissect the thing to get at all those lousy little belts and
rollers.  The top deck has to be removed, and the procedure varies with the
machine.

If you're dealing with a tube-type machine that's got a power amplifier
inside, either be _very_ careful with it or just don't bother.  Tube-type
tape recorders get very hot and just burn up their own motors and power
transformers.  The tubes are very expensive, difficult to obtain, and can't
be tested comprehensively.  There was much cheering amongst the
tape-machine-repair crowd when tubes finally disappeared.

M Kinsler
512 E Mulberry St. Lancaster, Ohio USA 740 687 6368
[removed]~kinsler

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:22:31 -0500
From: lois@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

A weekly [removed]

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KFI Los Angeles (NBC) 1944 - 1950
and widow of actor Howard Culver

(For more info, contact lois@[removed])

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:23:15 -0500
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: BBC limitation

In Digest 402, S Skuse wrote
The BBC shop in London is the one that deals with OTR shows. It's on line at

[removed];shop=bbc&mscssid=75F3KAUKWA
SR2N880002U40F6E1C83C9

Unfortunately, after spending considerable time shopping
at the above web address, I discovered in the checkout process
that the UK shop will not ship products outside of the European
Union.
And the BBCAmerica shop carries only a tiny, tiny fraction of
what the UK shop offers.  It's kind of sad.
Thwarted again,
 --
John Henley
jhenley@[removed]

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 12:10:25 -0500
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Carlton Brickert

On 12/19/01 11:06 AM OldRadio Mailing Lists wrote:

Another question?  Can anyone tell me more about Carlton Brickert?  sounds
to me like a genuine Santa Clause type; jollly and plump.  Did he have any
other career beside announcing for Lum and Abner?

Brickert was as a busy character actor as well as an announcer, and
appeared on numerous Chicago-based soaps and dramatic series during the
1930s, notably "The Story of Mary Marlin," where he played a character
named David Post. He was also the jolly "Captain Barney" on the Avalon
Show Boat program in 1940-41, an attempt to revive the old Show Boat
format three years after Maxwell House gave up on it. And, he was one of
the announcer-narrators of a long running local Chicago musical program
called "The Northerners," sponsored by the Northern Bank and Trust
Company.

Brickert announced L&A for its entire Horlicks' run, except for a brief
period in 1937 when he was replaced by Bill Hay (of "Amos 'n' Andy"
fame.) When Lauck and Goff moved to Hollywood in 1938, Brickert chose to
remain in Chicago, and was therefore replaced by the equally-jolly Lou
Crosby

Elizabeth

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 12:09:47 -0500
From: StevenL751@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: BBC comedy favorite

the series of Jeeves&Wooster stories by [removed]
Wodehouse, made I think in the sixties and starring
Michael Hordern and Richard Briers.  These were
rebroadcast by NPR Playhouse during the 80s; I taped
half that series, and I still listen to it each
year.  (And have been on the lookout for the
remaining titles ever since.)

I definitely agree with you, Hordern and Briers are perfect in the roles and
the scripts really capture the flavor of Wodehouse.

Now if you enjoy these BBC Wodehouse series then you will probably also like
their adaptions of some of Wodehouse's "Blandings" novels, featuring Richard
Vernon as Lord Elmsworth.  They were probably done around the same time, and
have the same great writing and wonderful character performances.

The BBC has released both the Jeeves and Blandings radio series commercially
on cassette.  They don't seem to sell them directly in this country but I was
able to purchase them about a year ago through [removed]'s UK store, which
will ship to the [removed]

Steve Lewis

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 12:19:49 -0500
From: "Russ Butler" <oldradio@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Vaughn DeLeath

Bill Jaker and Joe Mackey posts were regarding the first woman on the radio:

"The Original Radio Girl" was Vaughn DeLeath
because she sang on Lee DeForest's experimental radio demonstrations in
January, 1920 and later
had her own program.  Theme song was "Red Sails In The Sunset."

Happy Holidays to the list members!!  Thanks for all of the great
conversations online this past year.

Russ Butler  oldradio@[removed]

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:27:09 -0500
From: "Eric Cooper" <ejcooper2001@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: why Canada, UK and Australia, but NOT USA

I hope that Charlie will indulge me in a little discussion of "New Time
Radio", but I feel that something needs to be put in perspective here. A
revived discussion has come up concerning why Canada, Britain and Australia
have thriving radio comedy/drama but not us. Many assume when they hear that
this countries still have  what we have to call "OTR", that those countries'
radio audiences and lifestyles must be pretty close to ours of the 1940's in
which the whole family gathered round the radio every night. NOT TRUE.

 First of all, let's take a look at what they do have and what audience
there is for it. The BBC currently programs 3 stations out of 5 which offer
at least some radio comedy/drama every day or in some cases once a week. But
the audience for these programs is about the same as the audience for
Imagination Theater, A Prairie Home Companion or Whad'ya Know. A few million
at best. To assume that  many millions of Britons tune in to this stuff
every day  is a sad mistake. I have friends over there and I have point
blank asked them about this. They are aware of these programs being around
(aware meaning they have listened to a little bit of it once or twice and
have seen it listed in the paper), BUT they don't listen on a regular basis
and they are not interested in listening to these shows. They watch TV, just
like most folks do here. The few audience surveys that I have seen in the
British newspapers indicates that about 10 percent or less of the British
radio audience tunes in to this stuff on a regular basis. If they are
listening to the radio over there, it's largely to commercial pop/rock music
stations, just like in the USA

Canada produces two weekly plays and one or two comedy shows  on their
non-commercial network, which is mostly an NPR style news and talk network.
Australia does the same. And the audience, like in Britain, is miniscule.

The most important ecomnomic consderation is that ALL of these shows air on
non-commercial networks which are subsidized by their respective
governments. Imagination Theater, in fact is about the only commercial radio
drama series left ANYWHERE on this planet.

The good news is that at least someone somewhere is still doing something.

Eric Cooper

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:27:37 -0500
From: Richard Novak <rnovak@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Crisis

On Wednesday 19 December 2001 10:09, OldRadio Mailing Lists wrote:
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:41:49 -0500
From: "John edwards" <jcebigjohn41@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Crisis

I'm interested in a series call CRISIS. This series was from the mid 1970s
and apparently most were done by Jack French.  I have some in my collection
but for some reason thought the series only ran 40 or 50 shows.  I found
out it ran some 153 episodes with all but one available.  My question is
does anyone have the majority of the shows? I would like to get more as I
now find (after finally listening to them) that it was a great series. I'm
behind the times and only have reel to reel & cassettes.  

Crisis (and its current version Imagination Theater) are written and produced
by JIM French out of Seattle. It is still being broadcast and just recently,
December 16,   broadcast its 300th episode.
The entire run (which is under copyright) has been posted to
[removed] several times. But again, take note that
the series is copyrighted. You can get CDs directly from IT monthly on a
subscriptuion basis.

And I agree, it is some of the best modern radio drama I have heard,
especially the Harry Nile stories. Much better series IMO than CBSRMT.

[removed]

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:27:16 -0500
From: "Eric Cooper" <ejcooper2001@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Perry Como for Johnson's Wax

Did someone forget to mention or recall that Ted Weems and Perry Como were
regulars on Fibber McGee and Molly in the late 30s (for a short time)?

Eric Cooper

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 16:03:34 -0500
From: "Michael Hayde" <mmeajv@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Today in Radio: A tragic loss

Fifty years ago today, Barton Yarborough succumbed to a massive heart
attack.  He was a mere 51 years old.  Yarborough was best know for his
outstanding portrayal of Clifford Barbour on "One Man's Family," a role he
played from day one of the show in 1932.  ILAM fans remember him as Doc
Long, which he played in movies as well as on the air.  And, of course, he
was Joe Friday's first partner, Sgt. Ben Romero, on "Dragnet."  In fact,
Yarborough's TV debut as Romero had aired only three days before his death.
His second, and final, TV "Dragnet" would air posthumously on January 3,
1952; Jack Webb dedicated the episode to him that night.

Michael

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 16:03:56 -0500
From: William L Murtough <k2mfi@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Joel Grey

Yes, Joel Grey was the son of Mickey Katz. Who was Mickey Katz? He played
clarinet with Doc Whipple's orchestra in Cleveland. Who was Doc Whipple?
He was the organist for a lifetime on the Howdy Doody kid show.

During the early thirties, Doc had a dance band in Cleveland playing at a
Chinese Restaurant in the Playhouse Square area downtown Cleveland. Radio
station WTAM (NBC O & O) had a line in there and would broadcast the band
at noontime. Clarinetist Micky Katz would tell a fractured fairy tale
(like Peter and the Wolf) using a comedy Yiddish accent. About the
funniest act I have ever heard!

By the way, Doc was also a fine organist. When I returned to Cleveland
the summer of 1937 during a layoff at WHN, besides my job running a sound
system at an amusement park I also did name dance band remotes for Mutual
from the Great Lakes Exposition. Doc was the staff organist there. In the
fall I returned to New York and WHN. On the first day I walked into a
studio control room to start a  two week session recording a serialized
kid show, The Adventures of Tommy Thatcher". There was my friend Doc at
the organ console. I don't know which of us was the most surprised. Our
paths crossed many times durubg many years. A fine gentleman and a great
organist. Great memories!

Bill Murtough

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 16:02:58 -0500
From: "[removed]" <swells@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: DVD/MP3 question

Arlene asks:
He is wondering if there is any DVD player which plays mp3
files and also can display jpgs onscreen?

There is a model I noticed while on my trip to "Best Buy" that I forgot to
mention on the digest an episode or two ago. Believe it or not it was a
"lower end" model, Samsung or something, that will play all that. DVD -
CD/mp3's - Picture CD's , and maybe a broken 45rpm record ;-) . Anyway, what
I would do is take a couple of CD's along to give it a "test run" just to be
sure. I am very disappointed in my Toshiba dual-deck DVD player I have. That
thing will play DVD's fine but that is about it. I paid the "big bucks" for
it , and the thing has no fancy features at all. I really didn't get my
money's worth that time.
Shawn


[ADMINISTRIVIA: I believe Mr. Wells is refering to PhotoCD (when he said,
"Picture CD"), which is a Kodak propriatary format which requires a KODAK PCD
Imaging Workstation and cannot be burned at home - it's considerably
different from simply displaying JPEGs.  --cfs3]

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 16:04:15 -0500
From: Kenneth Clarke <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re:Favorite OTR Christmas programs

I've probably heard all of the Christmas stories
there are out by now, and I'm sure all of you have
as well.  There are the classics ("It's a Wonderful Life",
"Miracle on 34th Street", "A Christmas Carol", "White
Christmas", etc.)  All of these are considered classics
now, but many of them opened to less than enthusiastic
reviews when they debuted.  Some of them were actually
broadcast on OTR on shows like "Lux Radio Theatre" and
"Mercury Theatre on the Air".

One of the OTR Christmas programs which stands out in my
memory, was an "Amos n' Andy" Christmas program in which
Andy works as a department store Santa Claus in order  to get
Amos' daughter Arbodella a doll.   Part of the program dealt
with Amos' explanation of  The Lord's Prayer to Arbodella.  I heard
this on the radio last year as I returned home from my Grandmother's
house.  It was great!!!!!!!!  If you haven't heard it before, you need
to.
It has everything a Christmas story should have (IMHO): sincerity,
humor, love, naivete', and a positive message.

Has anyone else heard it before?  What are your favorite OTR Christmas
programs?

Kenneth Clarke

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:19:56 -0500
From: Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Crisis: Jim, not Jack

John Edwards writes:

I'm interested in a series called CRISIS. This series was from the mid
1970s
and apparently most were done by Jack [removed]

This is the forty-third time I've been mistaken for Jim French in OTR
circles. Jim, no relation, is a modern-day OTR writer and producer of
many series, including captioned one. I've done a bundle of OTR writing
and research, but never a radio script. Jim's in Washington state and
I'm near Washington,  DC so that may add to the confusion.

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 18:25:07 -0500
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Perry Como in Rock History

Yup: Perry Como recorded a rock record.  In fact, it was the first that RCA
ever released  Look up "Ko-ko-mo (I love you so)"  It was recorded in 1954,
I think, and featured the Ray Charles Singers.  Definitely not recorded at
Sun Records, but not bad.

M Kinsler

who found out that you can get WONE, Dayton between Lancaster and Columbus.
Worth listening to for authentic geezer music.

512 E Mulberry St. Lancaster, Ohio USA 740 687 6368
[removed]~kinsler

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 20:17:12 -0500
From: Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: George Bruns

For many years, George Bruns was Walt Disney's musical director and wrote
background music for dozens of movies (among his memorable songs was "Davy
Crockett").

For a short time, George was the musical director for KEX in Portland,
Oregon.  He played with Sterling Young's band, as well as the bands of Paul
Pendarvis, Harry Owens, Jack Teagarden, and Tennessee Ernie Ford.  He
retired to Sandy, Oregon, where his sisters lived, and composed Sandy,
Oregon's centennial song, "It's Dandy in Sandy." He died of diabetes in
1983.

In reading about Bruns recently, I came across information that another
Oregon native,  "Doc" Severinson, started playing trumpet as a teeager and
was actually in a band that Bruns directed. Too bad recordings of this
early band don't exist.

Dennis Crow

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 20:17:29 -0500
From: GEORGE WAGNER <gwagneroldtimeradio@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Some Answer's for Martin's "Quiz"

    Leonard Carlton. Radio director.
    C. Barrie. This is PROBABLY radio baritone Clyde
Barrie.
    Abe Lyman. Radio and recording bandleader (as
mentioned in a previous post).
    Lady Hardwick. So help me, this was a RACE HORSE!
    E. Deutsch. Probably Emery Deutsch, radio and
recording bandleader (as mentioned in a previous
post).
    Kay Lorraine. Radio and recording vocalist.
    J. ShEttlesworth. I suspect this is John
ShUttlesworth (note difference in spelling!), editor
of TRUE DETECTIVE MYSTERIES and host (starting 1929)
of the radio program of the same name.

    George Wagner
    GWAGNEROLDTIMERADIO@[removed]

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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:02:41 -0500
From: Bill Jaker <bilj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: First singer on radio

Joe Mackey wrote:
   Bill Jaker wrote, qouting me [that is, Joe] --

 From Those Were The Days --
1907 - Eugene H. Farrar became the first singer to broadcast on
radio.

It wasn't Boy George, but it wasn't boy Eugene either.  The singer was

Madame Eugenia Ferrer, a very popular and notably female concert
performer

 I seem to recall a woman being a early singer on an experimental
station.  The name escapes me at the moment but she eventually had her
own radio show from the mid-20s to the mid-30s and died around 1942.

Since the question seemed to be directed my way (though many may answer
this): It sounds like you're recalling Vaughn DeLeath.  The so-called
"First Lady of Radio" began her air career in the early 20s and was
manager of station WDT in New York.  She's hailed as the first singer to
cozy up close to the microphone and "croon", weaving a sense of intimacy
which has been perpetuated ever since.  She really did have a wonderful
singing voice and style as well as a natural spoken delivery that could
probably get her an announcing job today.  She died in 1943 at the age
of 42.

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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:03:06 -0500
From: AandG4jc@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OTR fictional historical influences

    I was wondering what were some of the influences of radio back in the
days when it was popular. I know that Lum & Abner was so popular that the
state of Arkansas renamed one of its small town to the name of the boys once
fictional town "Pine Ridge." ( I wonder if the towns people know that it came
from the comedy series) And I also know that Dodge City, Kansas renamed one
of their Avenues to "Gunsmoke Ave." Also, The Adventures of Superman was so
popular that they had a Superman Day in New York City.
Were there any more historical influences that should be mentioned.
Allen

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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:03:13 -0500
From: lynn wagar <philcolynn@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Otr Clip Art

Hello Everyone-

   I was wondering if anyone knows of a source for
clip art of radios and microphones, on or off line
would be ok.  My thanks in advance!!

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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:36:08 -0500
From: "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: SAME SHOW - 2 DIFFERENT CASTS

I was visiting the IAM web site tonight and noticed that the show had two
different casts.  One was when it was broadcast from NY and the other when
it moved to California.

The New York Cast 1939 - 1944 (CBS)

Jack:  Michael Rafetto
Reggie:  ?        ?
Doc:  Barton Yarlborough

The California Cast: 1949 - 1953 (Mutual)

jack:  Russell Thorson
Reggie:  Tony Randall
Doc:  Jim Boles

By the dates of the two different series, the show must have had a 5 year
hiatus, as no explanation was available.  Does anyonae on the Digest know of
any other show that had a new cast when it moved from NY to CA?

Owens <[removed]; (Check out our website)

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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 01:20:08 -0500
From: "tas richardson" <tasrichardson@[removed];
To: "Oldtime Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Announcers

This is not the season, but I got to thinking recently of when I was a kid
in the late 40's, on Vancouver Island, and baseball mad.  I would listen on
my table model cathedral set to Seattle Rainier games in the Pacific Coast
League.  The man who did the play-by-play was very descriptive, and would
put the listener right in the ball park.  The  name Leo Shantz drifts up out
of the cobwebs of my memory files, but I could be wrong.  My question is:
does anyone else in the group remember listening to these games which were
probably broadcast over KIRO or KING.  I would also listen to the major
league "Game Of The Day" on short-wave.  Because of the crowd noise
and crack of the bat, I thought it was being broadcast live, but learned
later
it was a re-creation, and the fact that it always lasted an hour no matter
how long the game actually was, should have tipped me off, but hey, I was
only 13 or so.  I don't recall the announcer's name there.
Happy Holidays to all!

Tas in Alberta, home of the Cannons, and the Trappers, in Triple-A ball.

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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 06:57:39 -0500
From: "Michael J. Laurino" <mlaurino@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Jeeves and Wooster

John Henley declared the Hordern/Briers "Jeeves" shows to be his favorite
BBC comedies and added:

These were rebroadcast by NPR Playhouse during
the 80s; I taped half that series, and I still listen to it each year.
(And have been on the lookout for the remaining titles ever since.)

I don't know whether they are ALL of the titles, but at least some of these
productions are available on tape as part of the "BBC Radio Collection".
 They might be found in [removed] bookstores, but I haven't seen them there.
 I've bought several of them from The Internet Talking Bookshop
([removed] -- the Jeeves tapes are
listed under "Comedy Audiobooks").

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