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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 01 : Issue 42
A Part of the [removed]!
Today's Topics:
TRIBUTE TO OTR ["Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed]; ]
Re: Forgotten Speed(s) [Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]
The corpse turned round and round . [Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]
Believe it or not---NOT! [Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]
Blue Beetle [JimInks@[removed] ]
The Lone Ranger's Real Name ["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed].]
16 rpm records ["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed].]
16 RPM and the Big Bands [George Aust <austhaus1@[removed]]
Childhood Memory of Lucky Strike A [GEORGE WAGNER <gwagneroldtimeradio@]
Your Hit Parade & Baseball ["Art Shifrin" <goldens2@[removed]]
Re: SUSTAINING SHOWS [Fred Berney <berney@[removed]; ]
Premium perspectives ["Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@]
RE: The Land is Bright [Weisberg Mitchell D DLVA <WeisbergM]
Sponsors/Commercials ["Richard Pratz" <[removed]@home]
The Blue Beetle Serial [Trinapreston3@[removed] ]
BIG BAND REVIVAL IN THE 70'S ["Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 23:47:43 -0500
From: "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: TRIBUTE TO OTR
TRIBUTE
Give me again, those golden years, of radio at its best,
Let me hear just one more time, Drama, and all the rest.
Escape, The Shadow, and Reilly, too,
Now they are gone, those shows that we knew.
Remember Mollie, and Fibber McGee?
And an Aldrich, named Henry, we all laughed with glee.
Oh, where did they go, where did they hide?
TV, that ogre, cast them aside
But listen, what's that? Why they're back once again!
Uniting us all, neighbor, and kin.
Forget the TV, gi back to the "dial,"
For now we remember - if just for awhile.
Skelton is there, Cantor and Pearl,
Orson too, and his War Of The Worlds.
Frankie, Tommy, Glenn and Hal,
MacIntyre, Miller, Dorsey and Carle.
Duffy, Luigi, keep counting the score,
Into our life, they've come once more.
Never to leave us, always to reign,
'Cause we knew all along. . . that radio was King!
By Owens L. Pomeroy
(Written in commemoration of the 10th. Anniversary, Golden Radio Buffs of
MD, Inc. 2/12/'82)
NOTE: If anyone wants an autographed copy of this Tribute To OTR, on
parchment, email me at the above address
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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 01:53:36 -0500
From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Forgotten Speed(s)
These speeds are so forgotten that George has forgotten quite what they
really were. :-)
George Wagner wrote:
Similar reel-to-reel speeds were 1 3/4 IPS and 11/16 IPS. The latter
speed was terrible for music, but just okay for things like baseball
games and speech.
During the 1950s and early 1960s, as I recall, early radio talk
shows were recorded on 8-rpm discs, later switching over to 11/16 IPS
tape.
The slow tape speeds are 3 3/4, 1 7/8, 15/16, and 15/32 inches per
second.
The slow record speeds are 16 2/3 and 8 1/3 revolutions per minute.
I have a few WLWO (WLW-Overseas) transcriptions from circa August
1942, which were recorded at 8 rpm.
It would be interesting to actually confirm this speed on these discs
becuase it would be unusual for them to have skipped over the 16 2/3
speed and record these at one-quarter the usual speed. If it turns out
that these discs are flexible celluloid discs, they actually are
recorded at a variable rotational speed. There was a system for
long-time logging which embossed a groove in a 16-inch floppy disc as
early as 1936 or 37. The National Archives has some that old, although
the ones I've run across date from the 1950s. At the inner grooves they
ran at 33 1/3 RPM but gradually slowed down as the recording continued
outwards. It is possible that they were as slow as 8 1/3 by the outer
edge. They are very difficult to play becuase they used a stylus even
finer than the LP stylus.
The Library of Congress Talking Books for the Blind have been mentioned
in several of the postings. When this program was started in the
mid-30s, most of the books were recorded at 33 1/3 using the standard
large groove size. I have a copy of the demonstration record that came
with the first machines. The instructions of how to use the machine was
recorded by announcer Alwyn Bach, the winner of the American Academy of
Arts and Letter's Gold Medal for Good Diction on the Radio in 1929. The
British had started distributing talking books at about the same time,
but they did not use the 33 1/3 speed at first. I have a player that
includes their speed but I forget whether it is faster or slower than
33. I'll try to find that machine and look. When the LP was
introduced, making this speed commen in the late 40s, LC switched down
to 16 2/3 rpm using microgroove. I believe that they continued to use
this speed on vinyl pressings for books, but periodicals distributed on
floppy Eva-tone SoundSheets were often at 8 1/3.
There were very few companies which sold 16 2/3 records to the public.
Vox Records had a series of 12-inch classical and semi-classical
records. I have three of them. Several companies made talking books on
7-inch discs, and Columbia's Peter Goldmark developed an automobile
player for Chrystler called "HiWay HiFi" which used 7-inch 16 2/3 rpm
discs. There is a web site for car restorers which gives a lot of
details on this system.
With the exception of the recordings for the blind, the 16 2/3 speed
died out even before the 78 RPM speed was completely eliminated from the
industry! But 4-speed turntables continued to be built thru the
mid-60s.
One of the companies made an adapter that could fit on a regular
turntable and would reduce the speed on an upper turntable by one-half.
This would enable you to play a 16 2/3 disc on a 33 1/3 turntable, but
if you had a 16 2/3 turntable this would enable you to play an 8 1/3 RPM
record. That's what I used it for before I found an LC machine with
that speed.
The special players for the blind were LOANED by the Library of
Congress to those who could demonstrate either a visual handicap or some
reason why they couldn't hold or handle a book. They were supposed to
be returned if the person died or (it's a MIRACLE!!) they regained their
sight. Thus they are rare. The one's I've found weren't accepted on
return because they were obsolete. The oldest one I have which includes
the British speed is even spring-wound but has an electrical pick-up
head that could drive a headphone without using an amplifier!
Michael Biel mbiel@[removed]
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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 01:53:39 -0500
From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The corpse turned round and round . . .
Bill Murtough remembered "first hearing Clyde McCoy's recording of
"Music Goes Round and Round" on the sound equipment of a hearse." It
probably wasn't Clyde McCoy because I don't see any recording of this
song in his discography. His most famous hit was "Sugar Blues."
Although others did record "The Music Goes Round and Round", the song
was written by Mike Riley and Ed Farley, and their Riley-Farley Orch.
first recorded it and had the big hit with it in 1936. This was
probably the record you heard. On a HEARSE??!! That IS a wonderful
story! (I'm not sure if I really want to know the DETAILS, though!)
Michael Biel mbiel@[removed]
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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 01:55:58 -0500
To: [removed]@[removed]
From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
Subject: Believe it or not---NOT!
Several weeks ago in digest 20 we had a posting by Richard Pratz
describing the broadcasts of Bill Stern:
Stern was probably the most controversial sports broadcaster in
the radio years because he was known to have often stretched the
truth in flamboyantly relating his endless string of stories and
anecdotes about sports and historical figures. Never allowing the
facts to get in the way of a good story, even he admitted his
tales were more about entertainment than sports.
This has come to mind when reading some of the entertaining postings of
"facts" that occasionally should be taken only with a grain of salt,
such as the Orson Welles prune story which has been disected by many
experts already. But Owens posted another story at the same time:
From: "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed];
... with the engineer cuing a closing commercial. The newsman had
no way of knowing what the contents of the commercial would be -
only the notation in the script; "30 second commercial,"
Here then is what happened when an item back-fired on a newsman in a
small station ion Winston-Salem NC, in the Forties:. . . 19 DOGS -
HIS ENTIRE DAY'S CATCH' LEAPED OUT AND. . . . DISAPPEARED THROUGH
THE TOBACCO FIELD." (CUE: COMMERCIAL: 30 SEC.)
COMMERCIAL:, , , "FRIENDS,. ,. DIES YOUR CIGARETTE TASTE DIFFERENT, LATELY?"
(Excerpt from the book, "Sounds Like Yesterday; The magic and Power
Of Radio" written by this writer) Owens Pomeroy
It has long been established that perhaps 95% of the recordings on
Kermit Shaffer's copyrighted "Pardon My Blooper" records are fakes.
Some of them had originated in print form in his copyrighted books "Your
Slip Is Showing" and the many sequels. Many are only legends, few are
confirmed. There is absolutely no assurance that the broadcast on the
recording you quoted verbatum ever happened at all. Even if this
juxtoposition really did happen somewhere, sometime, this script is
entirely made up. Indeed, the way it appears on the record, the
advertisement is read by the same newscaster right after he finishes the
story. The original joke was that the newscaster DID know what would
follow the story! (By the way, Dick Clark owns the copyrights
of all of Schaffer's Blooper books and records. He would not appreciate
these things being quoted in somebody else's book without
permission--and he has been pretty careful not to distribute the phony
material in recent years.)
From: Owens Pomeroy <george_arlis@[removed];
Subject: RADIO FACTS; EUROPEAN VERSIONS OF AMERICAN SHOWS
Did you know that 3 very popular American-produced radio series,
also have European versions with entirely different casts.
The shows are:
The Fat Man (South African)
One Man's Family (Australia)
Sherlock Holmes (Australia)
REAL Radio Fact: Neither South Africa nor Australia are in Europe. Not
even close to Europe. (I know--these places are loooooooonnnnnggggg
plane rides away.) :-)
I know that these digests are not primarily meant as outlets for
scholarly research, but when when stories are labeled as absolute facts
rather than as questions, memories, opinions, or things heard in
passing, we should have some assurance that there is some substance to
them. I sometimes feel that Bill Stern still lives!
Michael Biel mbiel@[removed]
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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 02:11:10 -0500
From: JimInks@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Blue Beetle
The Blue Beetle radio show lasted for 40 episodes. The first few were
half-hour shows and then it was 15 minutes each for the rest of it's brief
run. Frank Lovejoy played the Blue Beetle. I have 38 of the shows but the
sound quality is very bad (as was most everything I bought from this
particular dealer, the dirty so and so).
The Blue Beetle started as a comic book, published by Fox Comics and also had
a brief run in the newspapers, much of which was drawn by comic book legend,
Jack Kirby (the co-creator of many of Marvel's superheroes in the 1960's and
did the same for many other companies, too).
Personally, the radio series is not very good. It's written down to a kid's
audience and the comic book wasn't much better. DC Comics now owns the
character.
-Jim Amash
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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 02:11:17 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Lone Ranger's Real Name
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 21:33:26 -0500
From: TIZZ EYE! <cien@[removed];
his real name is Sid Luigi Ranger
he is the son of a Jewish tailor and an Italian female pasta
salesperson.
This reminds me of some other obscure information or rumors about
fictional characters. It is said that Batman and Superman also are
Jewish. In the case of Batman, his name was originally Baruch Waynstein.
As for Superman, his adoptive parents' real name was Kantrowitz. They
changed their name to Kent and moved to Smallville after the incident
where they tried to hold a briss for their baby. It is also said that
Superman eventually was circumcized, using Madras kryptonite. But they
had trouble stopping the bleeding.
A. Joseph Ross, [removed] [removed]
15 Court Square lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2503 [removed]~lawyer/
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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 02:11:15 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: 16 rpm records
All this talk about 16 rpm records made me curious. I went into my living
room and looked at the turntable in my stereo system. Sure enough, it's a
4-speed changer, capable of playing those fershluginner records if I ever
come across one.
A. Joseph Ross, [removed] [removed]
15 Court Square lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2503 [removed]~lawyer/
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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 02:11:12 -0500
From: George Aust <austhaus1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: 16 RPM and the Big Bands
Fred Berney asked if anybody remembers 16 2/3 rpm records used for
talking books, and a lot of people apparently do. But does anybody
remember that Chrysler Corp. had music recorded at this speed for their
short lived record players in automobiles?
Also I remember having a 12" lp of music recorded at 16 rpm. I'm not
sure but I think a small record company was trying to promote this idea.
It was pleasant enough sounding but was "not" Hi Fi. I also remember
that the disc was amber or gold translucent vinyl and that the music
recorded on it was about as bland as the sound.
I have been fortunate to see (and dance) to many of the big bands, even
though I was to young to have seen them during the swinging years. Among
those I have seen are Artie Shaw, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Les Brown,
Ray Anthony, Duke Ellington, Buddy Rich, Terry Gibbs, and a lot of
lesser known bands. Also some "ghost bands" Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey,
Jimmy Dorsey, and Russ Morgan.
I'm sure that I've left some out. We had tickets to see Harry James but
he died just before the event. I love big band Music. Oh yeah I also
saw Stan Kenton.
George Aust
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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 02:11:13 -0500
From: GEORGE WAGNER <gwagneroldtimeradio@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Childhood Memory of Lucky Strike Auctioneer
Back in 1946, when I was four or five years old,
I was fascinated by L. A. "Speed" Riggs, the Lucky
Strike tobacco auctioneer.
I didn't then know his name, of course. And I had
no real idea of what he was saying or doing.
So I was certain that the speaker was an
inhabitant of some weirdly exotic South Pacific island
paradise, speaking his obscure native language. (In
fact, I thought it was the same strange dialect that
opened TERRY AND THE PIRATES!)
The last line always served as "proof" to me that
this was indeed a foreign dialect. You see, I didn't
hear the tag line as "Sold, American!" I thought it
was "Sold [to the] American!"
GWAGNEROLDTIMERADIO@[removed] (George Wagner)
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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:11:50 -0500
From: "Art Shifrin" <goldens2@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Your Hit Parade & Baseball
Hi Gang,
Add to the list of talent on YHP the orchestra leaders Axle Stordahl and
Mark Warnow. Mark was Raymond Scott's older brother. Mark died young of a
heart attack (I think) and as a result of conducting a memorial bdcst for
his brother, Raymond wound up doing the series on NBC TV. Not commonly
known is that Raymond, being an extreme perfectionist (which most of his
professional and personal relationships) insisted upon pre-recording the
orchestra. During the TV broadcasts, the orchestral performances (not
vocals because the imprecise synchronization would have been obvious) were
played back from 15 ips audio tapes.
About baseball: there are many such recordings in the collection of the
Baseball Hall Of Fame at Cooperstown, NY. At least up to a few days ago,
there was a wire recorder being offered on ebay with at least one wire of an
off-the-air baseball recording.
And, I can think of two fine shows about baseball, both on The Columbia
Workshop:
"Baseball Eyes The Cockeyed Wonder" (about a reluctant player who's a
virtually perfect player because he sees in slow motion) This I think, was
the radio debut (1940) by Ed Gardner of the character that evolved into
Archie of Duffy's [removed] wonderful show, whether or not you love or
care about baseball. The other cast members include Richard Widmark &
William Bendix.
and
"The Day Baseball Died" (about someone having developed a repeateable
perfect pitch which once learned, means no more hits in any game)
Best,
Shiffy
check out my website: [removed]
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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:11:52 -0500
From: Fred Berney <berney@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: SUSTAINING SHOWS
Sustaining shows were those programs that had no sponsor. The Network would
pay to have them on the air.
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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:11:54 -0500
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Premium perspectives
Charlie Northway, speaking of OTR-related memories, observes,
Those were great times. Kids today could never know the excitement of
opening that package and find that gleaming new glow in the dark [removed];<
Since not everybody who reads these postings is old enough to have lived
through the period, it's worth expanding on those radio-premium-gathering
days. There were basically two types of premiums: those that were
written into the show, and those that weren't.
The first type can be exemplified by the Dragon's Eye Ring on the 1940
Jack Armstrong adventure that ended in the Sulu Sea. The story starts
with Billy Fairfield discovering that someone had ransacked his Uncle
Jim's offices. He called Jack Armstrong in, and the two of them (and
Betty Fairfield, billy's sister) go to Uncle Jim's other offices and
confront someone with a foreign accent in the middle of searching the
place. A scuffle (which Jack wins) and the man is gone. Then, they go
to the airport where an airplane lands; on it is a small package
addressed to Uncle Jim. After foiling an attempt to make off with the
package, they deliver it to Uncle Jim. When the box is finally opened,
the listener learns that it contains a ring. Not just any ring, but one
that glows in the dark, and is a key means to help recover a lost
shipment of Uranium-235. [Yes, in 1940. By that time, the less stable
isotope of Uranium was known to be important in scientific research,
though the leap to atomic weapons wasn't public discussion, outside of
those who read Astounding Science Fiction magazine.] possibly, there was
an unconscious link between the Uranium and the fact that the ring glowed
in the dark. After the ring was revealed for what it was -- it could
gain the cooperation of natives in the Sulu Sea region -- there were
other attempts to steal it. Naturally, Uncle Jim, being a
multimillionaire industrialist, mounts an expedition to the Sulu Sea,
bringing along Jack, Billy, and Betty, to recover the Uranium. After the
several attempts to steal it, its value as a way to recover a valuable
treasure, and the fact that it seemed to have near-magical qualities of
glowing in the dark, would it be any wonder that kids would be excited to
get a replica of the ring? So when Wheaties made the offer, naturally,
boxtops were mailed in to Wheaties in droves.
The other type of premium stood independent of the show. For that kind
of premium, at the start of a show, the announcer would usually go
through a standard commercial, then say something on the order of, "Stand
by for an important announcement at the end of today's program." At the
close of the show, the announcer would make a pitch for the latest item
-- a Sky King Spy-Detecto Writer or Buck Rogers Ring of Saturn -- and
then describe its virtues. Since there was no connection to the show
(save by association), the spiel would have to concentrate on the
premium's neat features, etc.
Either way, the boxtop, label, or seal is sent off, along with any
postage & handling funds, and the listener sat back and waited. For
about a week, a kid would understand that it took a while for mail to be
delivered. However, by about the second week, said kid would start
checking the mail when delivered, And over the course of the next week
or so, the anxiety would increase. Finally, of course, the item would
appear, almost invariably in a small brown envelope. After all that
waiting, opening that little envelope was as exciting -- or more -- than
opening Christmas presents.
Retrospectively, virtually every premium I ever sent for didn't
disappoint me. Each delivered exactly as advertised. Most still do.
Admittedly, the radioactive element in the Lone Ranger Atom Bomb ring has
gone inert, so the sparkles from the alpha particles has been stilled.
The flints needed for the Lone Ranger Six-Gun ring are unavailable and
difficult to fabricate, so creating sparks by "fanning" the gun is almost
impossible to do today. Yet the magnifier and luminous plastic on the
Sky King Magni-Glo Writing Ring still function as when first received in
the mail. The Tom Mix Six-Gun Decoder badge still works as designed.
I wish my car, my household appliances, and other gadgets would work as
well as those premiums, all of which are better than 50 years old.
Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:12:29 -0500
From: Weisberg Mitchell D DLVA <WeisbergMD@[removed];
To: "'Old-Time Radio Newsletter'" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: RE: The Land is Bright
Can someone, anyone please shed some light on this program.
Anything at all will help.
----
Someone told me he was on a radio show called "The Land is Bright" on CBS
in 1944.
----
I can't find any references for this show. Can anyone help?
Thank you,
Mitch Weisberg
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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:19:03 -0500
From: "Richard Pratz" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "OTR (Plain Text Only)" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Sponsors/Commercials
With all the recent talk of sponsors and commercials and how the bills were
paid, it reminded me of a radio program I used to listen to as a kid, but
only have vague memories of. I'm not sure if the program was local or
network. In fact, I apologize because I can't furnish many details at all.
But maybe from my brief description, someone will recall hearing it and can
tell me more about it.
I was a Pageboy at CBS Chicago (WBBM) from where the show originated. I used
to sit outside the studio from which it was aired and listen to it on the
hall speaker, following along with a script I'd picked up or copied from
somewhere. At age 17, I thought it was the funniest and most clever show I'd
heard in some time. I believe the program was 15-minutes in length and aired
around 1954. It may have been broadcast long before or after that date. Not
exactly OTR, but all you "radio detectives" might be able to identify it.
The program involved several announcers/actors telling a "dramatic" story
(most often humorous or satiric).....but the dialogue was interspersed with
many pre-recorded commercials!! Therefore, the entire show was nothing more
than a series of jingles and commercials strung together with "live"
dialogue. ie: "Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow. In
fact, her sheep were - - - - (jingle plays here) - - - - 'Rinso White with
Solium gets your clothes etc. etc." Or, "The entire crew of the ship would
have perished on the rocky coast had it not been for the familiar sounds
of - - - (jingle plays here) - - - (the fog horn sound of the Lifebuoy
commercial) Beeee-Ohhhh!" Remember that commercial? The live script was
embelished with lots of sound effects; some on transcription and some
manufactured right there. It was all very silly but done masterfully. I
have no idea how many commercials they fit into that 15-minute script, but
it was a lot. And it made the commercials entertaining because they were
part of the story being told. So come on Chicagoans and others from the
50's. Help out an old guy's memory!!
Rich
[removed] anyone here recall hearing a program like that? Maybe it was
only heard locally in the Chicago area, or maybe it was on the CBS Network.
I'm not sure.
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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:19:05 -0500
From: Trinapreston3@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Blue Beetle Serial
Charlie I think I can help you find information not the Blue Beetle serial.
I found
last wee a site devoted to The Blue Beetle. The Website address is:
[removed] You also can buy audio
tapes
of the serial from Vintage Audio/Video their E-Mail address is:
Thomasmartin2@[removed] There you can request a free catalog,which
list The Beetle Serial. I hope this information is helpful.
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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:49:47 -0500
From: "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: BIG BAND REVIVAL IN THE 70'S
THE BIG BAND CAVALCADE TOUR
The phenominal demand in the 70's for the music of the 30's &
40's, was the inspiration for the appearance in June, 1972 at the Painter's
Mill Music Fair for "The Big Band Cavalcade;" the Columbia Artists
Theatricls production that starred Freddie Martin, Bob Crosby, Frsnkie Carle
and Margaret Whiting. I was one of the fortunate peiople thast evening to
see this extravaganza.
This Cavalcade productionn was inspired by Freddie Martin. He
suggested thatb the then-current interest in recordings iof the 30's & 40's
dictated in-person performances of the Big Bands as well. Columbia aggreed,
and the choice of the 4 stars would offer a comprehensive view of the styles
of the period.
Such memiorable sounds that evening as Martin's "Tonight We Love,"
Crosby's "Big Noise From Winnetka," Carle's "Sunfise Seranade" and Miss
Whiting;s "Moonlight In Vermont" highlighted the nostalgic mood of the show.
The stars were supported bymusicians recruited fromthe ranks of their
original bands. Each leder would take his turn conducting this aggregation
through a generous sampling of his own modern classics. They also played
hits of other Big Band leasders as Goodman, Miller, Dorsey, James and
Lombardo, while M/s Whiting sang a selection of her Million
seller Gold Record Hits.
It has been estimated that in 1940 there were some 200 bands in the
[removed] touring the country, Only a handful of that number who gained fame
were still practicing their special art in occasional concert and dance
dates in the 70's.
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