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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2003 : Issue 21
A Part of the [removed]!
ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
WWVA [ "Bob & Carol Taylor" <qth4@[removed] ]
Wayne Rainey [ "Bob & Carol Taylor" <qth4@[removed] ]
39 Forever, Jack Benny festival [ Janine Preston <jpreston@makingwavs ]
Lonesome Gal [ "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed] ]
The Ravages of Time [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
The Long Wait [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
forbidden words [ "Roby McHone" <otr_alaska@[removed] ]
Saturday live on Yesterday USA [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
OTR on AM/FM radio [ "Jim Widner" <widnerj@[removed]; ]
Wayne Raney, may he rest in peaces [ EdHowell@[removed] ]
WCKY and Wayne Raney [ claudianross@[removed] (John Ross ]
Today in radio history [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Movies dealing with radio [ Fred Berney <berney@[removed]; ]
Re: radio oddities [ "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed]; ]
Bill Nadel in The Wall Street Journa [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:25:18 -0500
From: "Bob & Carol Taylor" <qth4@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: WWVA
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I'm wondering if anyone has any recordings of Lee Moore on wwva?
He was a good friend and I spent many hours listening to him as a kid.
Another artist I would like to get some material of is Dick Curless. Dick had
a show very early in his career on WARE in Ware M
A.
Bob
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:25:22 -0500
From: "Bob & Carol Taylor" <qth4@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Wayne Rainey
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Wayne Rainey was on several radio stations, But WCKY was the original.
Another guy who sold records by mail order was Jimmy Skinner. Jimmy and
Ernest Tubb were probably the first in havingmail order recordshops.
The first time I remember hearing Wayne Rainey was on KXEL, Waterloo Iowa.
The station wasn't coming in very clear but he was selling a harmonica course.
Another guy who sold a instrument course on the radio was Doc Williams. Doc
was on the Wheeling jamboree from WWVA for many years. I don't think Doc is
working any more. His wife Chicky had a stroke a couple of years ago and is
in a nursing home.
If anyone has any old country music shows that they might want to share they
can write me at
qth4@[removed]
Bob Taylor
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:26:04 -0500
From: Janine Preston <jpreston@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: 39 Forever, Jack Benny festival
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39 Forever, the Jack Benny festival in LA Valentine's weekend, will be
extra special this year for quite a few reasons. Several people who
worked with Jack will attend as he is posthumously inducted into the
National Comedy Hall of Fame, something I suspect hasn't happened to
many radio-born [removed]
Actress Kay Linaker, almost ninety and still teaching film at Keene
State College, will also be attending the festival. She worked with
Jack in Man About Town in 1939 and Buck Benny Rides Again in 1940. She
is prepared to share several stories about her work with Jack and Phil
Harris. After Hollywood and the War, Kay moved to NYC and wrote for NBC
and CBS radio and television shows as Kate Phillips, the writer of The
Blob.
Information about 39 Forever is available at [removed] I am
working on a documentary about Jack Benny, particularly his work in
radio, for WKNH Radio Theatre and will be attending the festival with
Kay. If you have a short story to share for the audio documentary,
please find me in LA!
Janine Preston
wknhradiotheatre@[removed]
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:26:16 -0500
From: "Andrew Godfrey" <niteowl049@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Lonesome Gal
Was wondering how many remember a show called Lonesome Gal. I heard some
excerpts from a Studio 360 program featuring Lonesome Gal clips.
Her show ran from 1947 till the mid 50's. It was a 15 minute show and
Lonesome Gal would introduce each song with a sultry voice and made each
listener feel like she was talking to them.
Andrew Godfrey
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:28:57 -0500
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Ravages of Time
Ben Ohmart, noting that a recording he was listening to was difficult to
hear some of, asks,
I've often wondered if things I can't hear now were easier to hear on
older sets. Or did everyone always have that trouble?
Unfortunately, the older we get, the more difficult it becomes for some
of us. When I got my first Code-O-Graph in the mail (the elegant
Mirro-Flash 1946 model), the numbers on the rotor scale were easy to see.
My vision, in those days, was 20/10 in both eyes. Now, even with
corrective glasses, I may need additional optical assistance for some
items, including smaller Code-O-Graph scales.
As far as hearing goes, many people start losing the ability to hear some
frequencies during the aging process. This may make it more difficult
to understand the speech of some people.
If this situation gets too bad, an audiometric test may see if there are
any corrective measures that can help. ([removed]: This doesn't necessarily
mean a hearing aid. It might be nothing more than a booster in a
component audio system for the frequencies that are deteriorating.)
If someone hears better on an older audio system, it just might be that
the weaker frequencies were those boosted in that system.
Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:29:30 -0500
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Long Wait
Ed Loyer notes,
My definition of "eternity" is an eight year old in 1946 waiting for
the postal delivery of a radio or comic book premium. After all these
years I still get a little twinge if there is a small box or manila
envelope addressed to me waiting in the post box.
When, in the 1970s, I first found out that I could recapture some of my
youth by bidding on radio premiums by participating in auctions. (Yes,
there were auctions by mail decades before eBay.) To my delighted
surprise, many of my winnings came in small boxes or manila envelopes.
Those little flames burn forever, don't they?
Indeed they do; and sometimes something fans the flames a little. :-)
Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:29:56 -0500
From: "Roby McHone" <otr_alaska@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: forbidden words
Recently we were discussing censorship and forbidden words on radio. Last
night I was listening to a Jack Benny Program from 10-30-1949, they were
celebrating Don Wilson's 25th anniversary on radio. Near the start of the
show Mary presented Don with a cake. Mary reads the writing on the cake,
she says "this cake is topped with chocolate creme, the middle is filled
with jelly but if you eat it all at once you will get a pain in your
stomach". Jack says "but Mary stomach doesn't rhyme with jelly". Mary says
"Jack, go argue with the censors". A little later, Mary asked Dennis Day
what song he is going to sing, he answers "Stomach Hai". Jack says,
"Dennis, that's Bali Hai". Dennis answers, "go argue with the censors".
Seems pretty silly to make words like 'belly' forbidden on radio, but good
writers could certainly get laughs out of it.
Roby McHone
Fairbanks, Alaska
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:30:13 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Saturday live on Yesterday USA
Hi Everybody, I would like to promote any OTR club, conventions, or news
letter on Yesterday USA. If you know how I can reach any spoke person for
any of these group please contact me off list. I would like to do the
interviews either live on a Saturday evening or I can record them off air
and play them back on a future Saturday night show. Our very own list
master is joining me this Saturday night, Duane Keilstrip wanted to let
people know he is feature OTR songs on his show this Saturday night at 6 PM
West Coast time. Take care,
Walden Hughes
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:50:08 -0500
From: "Jim Widner" <widnerj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OTR on AM/FM radio
Walden Hughes asked:
I am interested what area of the USA has the most OTR playing
on there local AM or FM radio stations.
Here in Southwestern Ohio (Cincinnati/Dayton) as well as other stations
on their network, we get one hour a day of Old Time Radio via WVXU,
Cincinnati ([removed]) and then CBS Radio Mystery Theater every week night
in the evenings. On Saturday we get 3 hours of OTR in the evening in
their "Big Broadcast" and on Sunday Radio Mystery Theater again in the
late evening.
You can check out both their schedule as well as listen via streaming
Internet at [removed]
Jim Widner
jwidner@[removed]
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:50:26 -0500
From: EdHowell@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Wayne Raney, may he rest in peaces
I think my first of many disappointments in life was when I, as a teen ager,
entered a Wayne Raney contest to find that it was either rigged or something
wasn't kosher. The contest was to end on a Friday and the winner announced on
the Friday night show. Lo and behold, I tuned in the Wednesday night before
the Friday night announcement .......and apparently someone put on the wrong
transcription because they played the show naming the contest winner, a
transcription that was scheduled to play two nights later. I don't enter
contests anymore.
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 15:23:52 -0500
From: claudianross@[removed] (John Ross Weber)
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: WCKY and Wayne Raney
...and who will ever forget the immortal "We Need a Whole Lot More of
Jesus and a Lot Less Rock and Roll"?
John Ross Weber
Munich
Germany
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:33:06 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-net <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Today in radio history
>From Those Were The Days --
1/16
1939 - The shrill siren call of radio's I Love a Mystery was heard for
the first time as the show debuted on NBC's West-Coast outlets.
1/17
1938 - Francis X. Bushman was the star of the program, Stepmother, which
debuted on CBS. The show continued on the air for the next four years.
Joe
--
Visit my home page:
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:57:14 -0500
From: Fred Berney <berney@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Movies dealing with radio
I think I hit the mother load. As many of you know, I've been getting 16mm
files of old television shows and transferring them to DVD. Up until now,
most of the shows have been the ones that were on during the 50's and the 60's.
Well just last week I found a bunch of short films that were made in the
1930's. I'm guessing that these were short subjects that ran at theaters.
Here are some examples. Phil Harris in Harris in the Spring, Lena Horn in
Boogie Woogie Dream, Buster Keaton in The Silent Partner, Bessie Smith in
St Louis Blues, Little Jack Little Revue with a 1934 date.
The next stack contained Bob Crosby and his Orchestra - 1938, Gene Krupa
and his Orchestra, Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho - 1934, and Rhapsody in Black
and Blue with Louis Armstrong. A very young Louis Armstrong.
Then another stack that reminded me of the hit parade. Song Hits on Parade
with Freddie Rich - 1937 and the list goes on and on. Many of these films
are shot with the performers standing in what is made to look like a radio
station in front of a microphone.
One film even had a disc jockey playing a record. The camera moves in on
the record and with a circle wipe we are looking at the performer.
I had no idea these films still existed or for that matter even existed.
The collector who owns these has keep them in excellent condition. The very
last box I just opened really runs the gamut from the Rudoff Valentino
Story to Bing Crosby to The Lone Ranger.
What I need now is a tremendous snow storm that just keeps everyone away
from my door and only leaves me time to transfer these films and the tons
of transcriptions discs that are now sitting in the middle of my studio.
Fred
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 23:12:49 -0500
From: "MICHAEL BIEL" <mbiel@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: radio oddities
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
Came across some radio oddities in an old 1943 newspaper, thought
it'd make great conversations on the Digest: ... Not sure if any of these
oddities are 100% accurate, but interesting, aren't they?
Grrr. It infuriates me that I am 59 years too late to write a letter to
the editor of that newspaper and put them straight. :-)
The first broadcasts of recorded music were made from a radio transmitter
atop the Eiffel Tower in Paris in 1909, and was heard 300 miles away.
No, Reginald Fessenden had done it several years earlier, December 24 and
31, 1906, and it had been heard at even greater distances. His broadcasts
also included live music, live speech, recorded speech, and the first known
case of mic fright.
The first radio receiving set in this country was made in 1916. it was
called the "Radio Musix Box" and was the brain child of David Saroff.
Sarnoff just wrote a memo, and did not actually make the receiver.
Michael Biel mbiel@[removed]
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 23:14:32 -0500
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Bill Nadel in The Wall Street Journal
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The Gotham Radio Player's own Broadway Bill Nadel was mentioned in a Wall
Street Journal article on the Sherlock Holmes Society in today's (January
16th) edition. His scholarship on Sherlock Holmes radio programs was cited as
an example of a Holmes enthusiast who has made something of a living out of
the hobby.
Bill is a long time scholar of old time radio and a stalwart
actor/director/limo coordinator for the Friends of Old Time Radio Convention
in Newark.
Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]
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