Subject: [removed] Digest V2003 #53
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 2/3/2003 12:35 PM
To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2003 : Issue 53
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  RE: dubbing from Windows to tape      [ "Jan Krzok" <jkrzok@[removed]; ]
  Re: THE ADVENTURES OF TOPPER on radi  [ SanctumOTR@[removed] ]
  The New [removed] or bad??      [ "Bob Watson" <crw912@[removed]; ]
  Johnny Dollar theme (again!)          [ Mike Wheeler <mike@[removed]; ]
  Re: Paul Harvey                       [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
  Re: Topper                            [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
  Re: Topper                            [ John Mayer <mayer@[removed]; ]
  Jack Webb                             [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]
  Mr. Kitzel                            [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]
  Australian Transcriptions             [ "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed]. ]

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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:36:50 -0500
From: "Jan Krzok" <jkrzok@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE: dubbing from Windows to tape

Mike Murphy writes:

Some months ago, I found -- I think on Jack French's site -- a
wonderfully
concise explanation of how to dub Windows Media Player shows off of a
disk
and onto cassette.  Can anyone direct me to that site or give me a very
beginning-stage
explanation of how to accomplish this?

It's just a question of the cable. At one end you need a 1/8" plug. This
will plug into your computers sound card (where your computers speakers are
plugged in) or if you have a headphone jack on your speakers it can go
there. The other end depends on the tape recorder. If it's full size you
will most likely need RCA jacks at the end. This wire will split in two with
one end being red, and the other white. If it's a compact (Walkman size)
tape deck the ends of the cable will both be 1/8" plugs. You really can't go
wrong by going to Radio Shack and telling them what you're doing.

Once you're hooked up, it will work just like recording a CD or album to
tape.

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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:06:59 -0500
From: SanctumOTR@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: THE ADVENTURES OF TOPPER on radio

In a message dated 2/2/03 9:12:26 PM, [removed]@[removed]
writes:

You asked about a comedy show in which a ghost would appear.  I don't
know if this was ever on radio, but on the 50's TV sit-com "Topper", Leo
G. Carroll played the part of a ghost who would appear and disappear
occasionally throughout the program.  There was a young couple and a dog
in the program.  I believe the woman was Ann Jeffreys.

***Actually, Cosmo Topper (Leo G. Carroll) was not a ghost himself.  He was a
henpecked banker who was the only person who could see the three ghosts
haunting his home, George and Marian Kerby (Robert Sterling and Ann Jeffreys)
and their St. Bernard, Neil.  THE ADVENTURES OF TOPPER also aired as a 1945
NBC-Radio summer series with Roland Young reprising his famous screen role,
with Tony Barratt and Frances Chaney as the Kerbys (who were portrayed by
Cary Grant and Constance Bennett in the original 1937 movie).  The Topper
movies and radio & TV series were, of course, based on the novels by Thorne
Smith.  The 09/06/45 episode is included in
Radio Spirits' WALTER CRONKITE SELECTS THE 60 GREATEST OLD-TIME RADIO SHOWS
THAT TRANSITIONED TO TV, along with a historical booklet by -- Anthony
Tollin***

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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:07:01 -0500
From: "Bob Watson" <crw912@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The New [removed] or bad??

I just finished watching the New Dragnet on ABC.  I must admit that I am not
a diehard devotee to the original radio series, but this new version wasn't
as bad as I was expecting.  Maybe it wasn't as good as it could be either.
But it had just enough of a contemporary spin to it to keep me on the edge
of my chair towards the end.  That may seem kind of silly, but, you see, I
don't watch much network television anymore.  Since I am "out of the loop',
so to speak, I was a little bit surprised by the frankness of the language.
And the references to sexual preference and sexual dysfunction were a bit
too "in your face" for my tastes.  But then, it is a 10 pm show, and it is a
new millenium.  Different tastes for different eras, I suppose.   I didn't
live in the 50's, but I would imagine the original Dragnet could have been
considered "frank" for its time.

Ed O'Neil, while no Jack Webb, wasn't that bad, I didn't think.  And the
show seemed to have the "old" Dragnet flow to it of showing how the law
tries to go about solving a crime.

But enough of my thoughts, I want to know the opinions of anyone else on the
Digest who watched the show.

Bob Watson

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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:07:04 -0500
From: Mike Wheeler <mike@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Johnny Dollar theme (again!)

	I know this has come up repeatedly before so my apologies in advance
for beating a dead horse.  The last time the Johnny Dollar theme music
was thrashed about on this digest I think I recall someone identifying
the production music package that it came from.  If someone knows who
produced the package, what the specific themes may have been called,
which reels or disks within the package they were found on, etc. would
that person be kind enough to share that information once again with the
group?  Bonus points if you can point me to a source where the package
may be purchased.
	Thanks in advance.  Now returning to lurk mode.
		Mike

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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:07:10 -0500
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Paul Harvey

I have seen the name Paul
Harvey bounced around. Are news broadcasters OTR??  I
dont read about other old news broadcasters being
talked about. What makes him so special??

I've only been here a short time and Paul Harvey is not the only newscaster
I've seen discussed.  I saw Walter Winchell's name come up once and a lengthy
(and riviting) discussion about Mutual's Pearl Harbor coverage.  Personally
if I started talking about Edward R. Murrow I would probably never stop; I
wrote no less than four term papers about him in college.

Harvey *was* on the air (on the network, in fact) during what we define as
OTR; I have a 1952 fan magazine that profiles that era's news commentators,
and Paul is right there alongside Murrow, Drew Pearson and Raymond Gram Swing.

Dixon

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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:07:12 -0500
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Topper

It sticks in the back of my mind that that had also been a
radio
program, but I can't swear to it.

Go ahead and swear.  There was, indeed a program on NBC in 1945, featuring
Topper and the ghosts.  "The Adventures of Topper" was based on the 1930s
movie, and starred Roland Young in the title role.  It was sponsored by Post
Toasties and Maxwell House Coffee, and may have just been a summer
replacement or warm up for "Burns and Allen."

Dixon

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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:07:15 -0500
From: John Mayer <mayer@[removed];
To: OldRadio Mailing Lists <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Topper

Jim Arva  wilditralian@[removed] offered:
know if this was ever on radio, but on the 50's TV sit-com "Topper", Leo G.
 Carroll played the part of a ghost who would appear and disappear
occasionally
 throughout the program.  There was a young couple and a dog in the
program. It
 sticks in the back of my mind that that had also been a radio [removed]

Right you are, but it was actually the young couple and the dog who
were the ghosts. Happily, I have acquired so many mp3's through the
miracle of the internet that it is now easier to do a "Find" on my
Mac than to get up and pull down Dunning's magnum opus. I remembered
the tv version but not the radio, the reason for that possibly
suggested by the fact that the single episode I have aired the month
of my birth which was (well, I'll tell you later, after I subtract 39
from 2003).

It starred Roland Young as Cosmo Topper, unhappily married to the
un-winsome Malvina. His best friends were the flippant and
flirtatious George and Marian (I don't remember the dog's name, but
it was a St. Bernard on tv). The show was a comedy, but I always felt
(regarding the tv version) that there was a very melancholy undertone
in that Cosmo's best friends were dead and he seemed to have more
affection for a deceased married woman and she for him than existed
in his loveless marriage. The couple, if I remember correctly, and
that's far from certain as my family did not own a tv when the show
aired and I only saw it at a friend's house, had been killed in an
avalanche. Possibly the St. Bernard was a rescue dog who died in a
rescue attempt, I don't remember. The couple had been a little too
naughty to enter heaven, but not quite bad enough to go to hell. The
series were based on books by Thorne Smith and sponsored by Post
Toasties.

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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:16:15 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Jack Webb

Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 17:33:53 -0500
From: Rob Chatlin <rchatlin@[removed];

He may not have played it on "Dragnet," but when Webb did the Copper
Clapper spoof on Johnny Carson, it was one of the funniest things I've
ever heard, and it was extremely well done.  Webb definitely had the
timing skills necessary for comedy, and he certainly held his own along
side Carson. 

I have a tape of Jack Webb appearing on Milton Berle's show.  It's strange to see him doing 
comedy, when we are so used to him in the deadpan Joe Friday role.  I also remember 
seeing him in a military training film doing the same Joe Friday deadpan style.  But in that 
particular Berle show, he's actually SMILING!

-- A. Joseph Ross, [removed] [removed] 15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@[removed] Boston, MA 02108-2503 [removed] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:17:02 -0500 From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed]; To: [removed]@[removed] Subject: Mr. Kitzel
Who played Mr. Kitzell?  I keep thinking it was Mel Blanc.   I love that
man's voice; my brother and I say hello using his accent.

Mr. Kitzell was played by Artie Auerbach.  He apparently also appeared as
the same character on some other comedy shows, besides Jack Benny.

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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:17:12 -0500
From: "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Australian Transcriptions

I have been meaning to write about this for months, but have been very busy.
The impetus to pass on this information was a comment made to me that no
mp3er ever made a substantial  transcription discovery.

I am aware of other mp3er discoveries, so I guess it is a matter of the
finds not being 'broadcast' in the right places.  Here I will attempt to
show that mp3er how much I appreciated his efforts.

I was on the #otradio chat at [removed]  in August last year as usual, when
a person joined the chat and asked if I was the Australian OTR collector
from the mp3 groups.  I replied that I was (nics aren't used in the groups,
so the G'Day gave me away) he introduced himself as an otr mp3 collector
from one of the share groups I belong to and had been looking for me.  He
asked me if I would be interested in buying some Australian transcriptions
and I replied that I certainly would be.  He told me how an antique shop in
Nova Scotia that had a coffee shop he visited, had some Australian
transcriptions.  When I asked him how many transcriptions there were, he
floored me by saying 158.  Those who know how hard it is to find Australian
Transcriptions, would appreciate that I had my doubts.  I mean 1 or 2 no
problem but 158?

My new best friend then put me in touch with the seller who confirmed that
there were indeed 158 Australian transcriptions and she sent me a listing of
them.  To cut a long story short, I bought them.  There was a last minute
counter bid, but I was successful.

I received a lot of advice, offers of help etc, from other Australian
Collectors and other mp3ers and the transcriptions have now been returned to
Australia and are undergoing cleaning and digital copying.

The next amazing thing was that the bulk of the transcriptions were 3 x 104
episode series and two of them were complete.  Two Complete 104 episode
Australian series, absolutely amazing.

The third is missing 6 episodes or 3 transcriptions and more on that another
time.

In the time that I have been waiting for these transcriptions to arrive back
in Australia I have been researching them with the assistance of the
Australian OTR Group.  The two complete series, Undercover Carson and Grey
Goose, had been broadcast in Australia prior to 3DDB Melbourne exporting
them to Canada, but very little was known about them and virtually no
documentation existed, and no other known copies exist.

The incomplete series, Atom 1970 is still a mystery, but as you will see in
a future Digest, I do have a little detail.

With Charlie's patience I will post the details of Undercover Carson today
and Grey Goose tomorrow and Atom 1970 and the stragglers the next day.

UNDERCOVER CARSON

Written by Michael Noonan 1953 104 1/4 hour episodes Broadcast 1954

Producer - Walter Pym

Undercover Carson follows the adventures of a British Secret Service Agent
posted to South America to track down escaped German Nazi Scientists who had
developed a highly lethal & destructive death ray.  An extremely powerful
laser before its time.

CAST:

Bruce Carson - played by Barry Cookson

Sir Giles Daverport - played by James Mills

Fay Carelli - played by Audrey Teesdale

BIO:

MICHAEL NOONAN:

Radio, Television, Stage and Film writer, Author

Radio:

The Man who changed the Wind
Lady Under a cloud
My Hearts a broken Music-box
Jackie Jones
The Smouldering Island
A Dog's Life
Flying Doctor In Africa
Brand of Justice 312eps- Starring Ray Barrett
Space Patrol 156eps - starring Rod Taylor
Twilight Ranger 208eps
Undercover Carson 104eps

Adapted from [removed] Scripts

Superman, then wrote new scripts
Tom Corbett - Space Cadet

Books:

In the land of the Talking Trees - 1946
The Golden Forest - 1947
The Patchwork Hero - 1958
The Pink Beach - 1969
Flying Doctor - 1961
Flying Doctor on the Barrier Reef - 1962
Flying Doctor and the Secret of the Pearls - 1962
Flying Doctor Shadows the Mob - 1964
Flying Doctor Hits the Headlines - 1965
Flying Doctor Under the Desert - 1969
The December Boys - 1963
Air taxi - 1967
The Sun is God - 1973
The Invincible Mr Az - 1978
Bird of strange Plumage - 1979
Magwitch - 1982
A Different Drummer - 1983
McKenzies Boots - 1987

Television Plays and Series:

The Angry Flower
The Violent Stranger
Boy on the Telephone
Winds of Green Monday
The Patchwork Hero
Flying Doctor
Riptide

Stage and Film:

A Voyage of Discovery
The Magic Kennel
Song of Australia
A Different Drummer
Down in the Forest
The Reef

WALTER PYM:

The Enemy Within - Actor
Strike up the Band - Compere
Lux, The Count of Monty Cristo - Lead role
Thumbs Up - Compere
Prisoner At the Bar - Series - Lead role in many of them
First Light Fraser - Tony Borden
Commonwealth Loans Quiz - Compere
The Burtons of Banner Street - Leading role
Always this Yesterday - Produced
Tarzan - Directed
Boldness Be my Friend - Produced
Caltex Theatre - Producer

Television:

Matlock Police - Actor
Homicide - Actor

Film:

Mouth to Mouth - Actor

BARRY COOKSON:

15/01/1953 Philip Marlow Investigates ep1 Lady in the Lake
11/03/1953 General Motors Hour ep86 It Never Rains
19/04/1953 Caltex Theatre ep181 Royal Highness
15/06/1953 Rola Show, The ep148 Morning Calm
24/07/1953 Famous Fortunes ep3 Blanc
03/08/1953 Mantrap ep37 Man In The Rough
07/09/1953 Mantrap ep41 Man With The Scar
18/09/1953 Famous Fortunes ep10 Bonnet
21/09/1953 Mantrap ep43 Murder Is In Fashion
21/09/1953 Famous Trials ep11 Sammy the Actor
28/09/1953 Mantrap ep45 Sudden Death
17/10/1953 Night Beat ep89 The Same Again
25/10/1953 Caltex Theatre ep158 Pitfall
04/01/1954 Famous Trials ep25 Justice For Barbara Corey
27/01/1954 General Motors Hour ep108 Walk East On Beacon
15/02/1954 Famous Trials ep31 The Euston Sqaure Mystery
10/03/1954 General Motors Hour ep114 Bitter Heritage
21/03/1954 Caltex Theatre ep202 The Unexpected
05/04/1954 Famous Trials ep39 Portrait Of A Traitor
05/05/1954 General Motors Hour ep122 A Gentleman's Daughter
13/05/1954 Thirty Minutes to Go ep7 Death Train
22/05/1954 Night Beat ep113 Pippa Passes On
13/06/1954 Caltex Theatre ep214 A Question of Time
24/06/1954 Thirty Minutes to Go ep13 A Trip To Alcatraz
01/07/1954 Thirty Minutes to Go ep14 Death At A Wedding
25/08/1954 General Motors Hour ep138 Goodbye Your Majesty

Radio Series:

Danger in Paradise
Dark Destiny
Franchise Affair, The
Strange Stories of the Sea
Undercover Carson - Bruce Carson

JAMES MILLS:

31/05/1953 Caltex Theatre ep186 The English Family
03/01/1954 Caltex Theatre ep191 Lord athur Savile's Crime
04/04/1954 Caltex Theatre ep204 Henrietta [removed]
01/08/1954 Caltex Theatre ep221 Journey's End
07/06/1954 Famous Trials ep48 Saga Of Captain Kidd
17/09/1954 Famous Trials ep56 Widows Are Wonderful
19/11/1954 Famous Trials ep65 The Countess Disappears
17/12/1954 Famous Trials ep69 The Man Who Broke The
05/08/1953 General Motors Hour ep29 Strangers Road
04/11/1953 General Motors Hour ep41 We the Living
30/12/1953 General Motors Hour ep48 The Advancement of Mr
03/02/1954 General Motors Hour ep109 The Devil's General
24/03/1954 General Motors Hour ep116 Plain Murder
12/05/1954 General Motors Hour ep123 The Enemey In The House
04/08/1954 General Motors Hour ep135 The Man In The White Suit
15/09/1954 General Motors Hour ep141 A Chance of Happiness
29/12/1954 General Motors Hour ep154 The Queen Of Calabash Island
12/07/1954 Rola Show, The ep178 The Musicians

Radio Series:

Air Adventures of Biggles - Biggles (2nd)
Fallen Angel
Undercover Carson - Sir Giles Daverport
Grey Goose

AUDREY TEESDALE:

08/10/1954 Adventures Of Ellery Queen ep13 The Hollywood Mystery
03/01/1954 Caltex Theatre ep191 Lord athur Savile's Crime
11/04/1954 Caltex Theatre ep205 Appointment In London
03/12/1952 General Motors Hour ep72 The Valley And The Peak
11/03/1953 General Motors Hour ep86 It Never Rains
03/06/1953 General Motors Hour ep99 Henry V
28/04/1954 General Motors Hour ep121 The Happy Time
09/06/1954 General Motors Hour ep127 Laburnum Grove
28/07/1954 General Motors Hour ep134 Assignment Paris
13/10/1954 General Motors Hour ep145 Murder Story
10/11/1954 General Motors Hour ep149 Sounds Of Thunder
03/08/1953 Mantrap ep37 Man In The Rough
07/09/1953 Mantrap ep41 Man With The Scar
12/07/1954 Rola Show, The ep178 The Musicians
13/05/1954 Thirty Minutes to Go ep7 Death Train

Radio Series:

Out of the Shadows
Undercover Carson - Fay Carelli

Well thats it for Undercover Carson.  As you will see from the quality and
experience of the people involved in the series, this is quite a find and I
am very grateful for the assistance in locating it.  I am happy to trade for
other audio copies of Australian shows if anyone is interested.  The mp3
version will be in circulation as soon as time allows.

Ian Grieve

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