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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2004 : Issue 203
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Australian OTR Website [ "Austotr" <austotr@[removed]; ]
HGWT - pilot [ Pete <pappleyard_ca@[removed]; ]
Performers that went into politics [ "D. Fisher" <dfisher@[removed]; ]
Bowes and Mary Lee Taylor [ vigor16@[removed] ]
Re: MP-3 Plyer [ "barry" <barry@[removed]; ]
6-15 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
FDR funeral/Arthur Godfrey [ chris chandler <chrischandler84@yah ]
Cassette racks and GREEN HORNET comi [ SanctumOTR@[removed] ]
Entertainers who went into politics [ "Lois Culver" <lois@[removed]; ]
Nuremberg Radio [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
Pizza roll commercial [ "Harry R. Keller" <hrkeller@earthli ]
Looking for King Kong [ "Steve Cottle, Jr" <ilovecomix@yaho ]
Hi Yo Pizza Roll! [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
The Lone Ranger -- on other programs [ "Frederick S. Hillman" <fshillman@6 ]
Performers in Politics [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]
Re: MP3 Player [ Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@sbcglo ]
Burnable discs [ Richard Carpenter <sinatra@ragingbu ]
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:22:41 -0400
From: "Austotr" <austotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Australian OTR Website
G'Day Folks,
The Australian Old Time Radio Group of collectors and researchers are proud
to announce the launch of [removed]
The site will operate along a magazine style and the articles will be
changed regularly as well as new material being constantly added.
The site brings you our live database in which we add information as we
discover it. You can search for Series, Production houses as well as
people. We have databased over 3,158 different Australian series and
serials. You can email us via the site and ask questions or to add
information. In the case of questions, we will do our best to find the
information you are after.
We have come a long way in the last couple of years, in documenting
Australian OTR and to supply that information to interested people. I hope
you enjoy the use of the site. Please supply feedback as well as
information and questions.
Ian Grieve
Moderator
Australian Old Time Radio Group (AOTRG)
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:23:02 -0400
From: Pete <pappleyard_ca@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: HGWT - pilot
Does anyone have the November 12th, 1958 Pilot show
from Have Gun Will Travel on cassette and would be
willing to sell it to my father-in-law. His e-mail
address is gcoppen@[removed]
Thanks again
Pete
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:57:55 -0400
From: "D. Fisher" <dfisher@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Performers that went into politics
George Murphy, song & dance man & actor, on radio & in the movies, became a
Senator from California.
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:35:16 -0400
From: vigor16@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Bowes and Mary Lee Taylor
Hi all,
I was listening to FM&M Pet milk programs the other day and heard ads for
the Mary Lee Taylor program. I did a Google search and found the recipes
and cookbooks still acquirable. My question has always been, since I
have been a big FM&M fan is, are any of those programs they promo in
circulation? For those who don't know, on FM&M at the end of the
broadcast, Harlo gives a brief synopsis of the up-in-coming Saturday
norning ep of MLT sponsored by Pet Milk.
question 2: Being a long time lover of Amateur programs, I wonder how
many Major Bowes or any other amateur shows are in circulation. I have
only 1, I believe the 1939 broadcast featuring the hew line of cars in
Detroit. I was told that there are few and most of them are bad
quality. Any of you collectors know better than my source? Thanks for
your time and any help is appreciated.
Deric
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:35:44 -0400
From: "barry" <barry@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: MP-3 Plyer
Check out Durabrand Model Cd-208 at Wall Mart.
Will it resume? When you turn it off will it restart where you left off?
Barry
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:35:51 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 6-15 births/deaths
June 15th births
06-15-1861 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink - Prague, Czechoslovkia - d. 11-17-1936
singer: "Enna Jettick Melodies"; "Hoover Sentinels Serenade"
06-15-1894 - Leo Cleary - MA - d. 4-11-1955
actor: Bailiff "His Honor, the Barber"
06-15-1909 - Joe De Santis - NYC - d. 8-30-1989
actor: Jim Scott "Under Arrest"
06-15-1909 - Joseph Desantis - NYC - d. 8-30-1989
actor: Jim Scott "Under Arrest"; "This Is Nora Drake"
06-15-1910 - David Rose - London, England - d. 8-23-1990
conductor: "Red Skelton Show"; "David Rose Show"; "Bold Venture"
06-15-1921 - Erroll Garner - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-2-1977
jazz muscian: "Jubilee"; "Command Performance"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
06-15-1929 - Lucille Norman - Lincoln, NE
singer: "Time, the Place and the Tune"; "Railroad Hour"
June 15th deaths
04-25-1918 - Ella Fitzgerald - Newport News, VA - d. 6-15-1996
singer: "Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm"; "Jubilee"
05-18-1902 - Meredith Willson - Mason City, IA - d. 6-15-1984
conductor, composer: "Maxwell House Coffee Time"; "Meredith Willson/Music Room"
05-25-1917 - Steve Cochran - Eureka, CA - d. 6-15-1965
actor: "Voice of the Army"; "Unexpected"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
06-12-1884 - William Austin - Georgetown, British Guiana - d. 6-15-1975
actor: Professor of the English Department "Jack Oakie's College"
07-18-1911 - Hume Cronyn - London, Ontario, Canada - d. 6-15-2003
actor: Ben Marriott "Marriage"
--
Ron Sayles
For a complete list:
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:38:51 -0400
From: chris chandler <chrischandler84@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: FDR funeral/Arthur Godfrey
Reading about Arthur Godfrey's famous FDR cortege
broadcast, I wondered if there's any evidence this
legendary, oft-heard clip is any more authentic than
any of the other news material on the "I Can Hear It
Now" album.
I don't mean to imply the incident didn't happen. But
as we know, all the main ICHIN 'news items' were
actually re-creations, even when the original source
material did exist. And Godfrey died long before this
was common knowledge, and before some of the 'guilty'
parties (like Bob Trout) confessed the truth. So
anybody know for sure?
-----
Also, in response to the other questions about FDR
death coverage, a good bit of it was preserved, both
in the National Archives and through various other
sources. I suspect the LOC has at least some NBC
material (anybody know?); clips from it were used in
the 1976 "First Fabulous Fifty" anniversary
retrospective.
FDR's death was the first time the radio networks
abandoned regular programs--and commercials--for
several days running. The early hours were frenzied
(you can hear obvious pandemonium in the newsroom
behind the NBC announcer, and the Mutual net's early
effort is just an unmitigated, big old mess), but the
nets prevented total chaos by putting into effect the
elaborate plans they'd been quietly making to cover
the approaching German surrender.
Lee M. mentioned the somber, generally positive tone
of the Reagan coverage. This, too, was on display in
1945, though here it sometimes seemed less a matter of
good taste than simple hero-worship. One Mutual
commentator referred to Roosevelt as "the greatest man
who ever lived", and a critical listener searched in
vain that first night for the barest mention of the
Yalta concessions (which were already controversial,
make no mistake), or the Supreme Court "packing"
episode, or Roosevelt's surprisingly narrow
popular-vote win in 1944. Fulton Lewis, Jr. seemed to
strike just the right tone, coming right out and
saying hey, not everybody voted for this guy, but this
is still a moment of great national mourning. It rang
truer than praising every breath the man had ever
taken, especially in Lewis' case; I was reminded of
this during the past week, while watching some of the
previously, perenially-critical network anchors now
heaping unqualified praise on Reagan. It just didn't
quite seem credible coming from some of them; they
chould have taken a lesson from Fulton Lewis!
The other similarity came in the coverage of the
funeral cortege--it sounded exactly as you'd imagine a
radio version of this past weeks' events would sound:
drums, soldiers marching, [removed] by
commentators who at times struggled to keep their
composure. Arthur Godfrey's wasn't the only
near-meltdown that day; one Mutual commentator
sudddenly broke into a spontaneous, full-voice
recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance!
Biggest difference in the coverage of Reagan and
Roosevelt: while Lee correctly points out that each
era's broadcasters put the full depth and maturity of
their capablities on display, it's also true that
radio was still a slightly-poorer media stepchild even
as late as 1945. No broadcasts were allowed of Harry
Truman's swearing-in; or of the private funeral
service; no live remotes were allowed even from the
White House press room the night of FDR's death.
Mutual's Walter Compton ran afoul of this prohibition,
only to be yelled at, live on the air, by a
burly-sounding White House flunky--"I TOLD you there
ain't NO broadcastin' from this WHITE House tonight!".
Several on-air apologies for this incident are
offered later ("you may be reading about this in the
paper [removed]"), and poor Compton, on what should
have been the biggest night of his career, is still so
flustered hours later that he refers to Roosevelt as
"Mr. White House!" Such are the perils of live
[removed]
chris
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:49:33 -0400
From: SanctumOTR@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Cassette racks and GREEN HORNET comic book
Does anybody have a copy of the golden age GREEN HORNET #43? I need to get
some interior scans from it.
Also, could the nice folks who shipped me the wooden cassette racks contact
me? I lost your address when my laptop died.
In either case, please contact me offlist. --Anthony Tollin
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:13:49 -0400
From: "Lois Culver" <lois@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Entertainers who went into politics
Since the San Fernando Valley is made up of numerous small "towns", but few
are municipalities of their own, they often had well-known personages
elected as mayors and other officials. It was an honorary position.
Actor Howard Culver was voted in as Mayor of Sun Valley, California, and
appeared at Sun Valley functions, etc. much as a "regular" mayor of a city
would do. Politics had nothing to do with it. The Sonny Bono case was
different, I believe, and he was actually the mayor.
Lois Culver
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:34:49 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Nuremberg Radio
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From Bernard Wichert in Germany - his comments:
Re: Nuremberg Radio
Hallo Pete,
if you find anything of what you are looking for, let me know in any
case. Not one recording of what you are looking for has survived the
war- if there has been any at all !
Station Nuremberg depended on Reichs Station Munich and was a more or
less local broadcasting station. It only wnet Germany-wide when it was
combined with lots of other Reichs Stations during the Nuremberg
rallys.
The Nuremberg trials were broadcast by radio Munich as an Allied
Station
(American), just like Radio Hamburg (British).
The Reichsrundfunk-Gesellschaft (Reichs Broadcasting Co) as head of
all
stations collected the most interesting discs (shellac, decelith
foils,
tapes in later years), yet about 80-90% of all recordings have not
survived the end of the war. (air raids, looting, V-booty etc). You
should knock on the Library of Congress' , National Archives' doors or
in Moscow. Maybe you find there what you are searching.
Best
Bernard Wichert, Germany
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:34:57 -0400
From: "Harry R. Keller" <hrkeller@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Pizza roll commercial
Wasn't OTR regular Barny Phillips the cigarette company guy on the commercial?
Bob Keller
Waukesha, Wisc.
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:35:18 -0400
From: "Steve Cottle, Jr" <ilovecomix@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Looking for King Kong
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Does anyone have old King Kong shows, I am looking for a few , Though and
i am mainly looking for
King Kong 02/10/1933 NBC [ad for movie] 30 minutes
Thanks in advance
please send anything you have to my [removed] account. my id is lilreader
thank you so much
"I Love Old Comix & OTR" - Steve Cottle, Jr
<[removed];[removed]
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:21:05 -0400
From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Hi Yo Pizza Roll!
At least one of the Jeno's Pizza Roll commercials
Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels did can be seen
(along with other commercials for other products) on
"The Lone Ranger: The Lost episodes" videotape by
Goodtimes (by now, there's probably a DVD version,
too).
The tape also includes two TV episodes with original
commercials, highlights of the Lee Powell serial, and
other picture postcards.
Rick
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:26:35 -0400
From: "Frederick S. Hillman" <fshillman@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: The Lone Ranger -- on other programs
I'm trying to locate a couple of programs which featured Brace Beemer as
a guest on other shows. In one, Beemer appeared on Duffy's Tavern. I
believe the date was Feb. 2, 1943. In another, a television show,
Beemer appeared as the myster guest on "I've Got a Secret." I believe
it was Jim Nixon who pointed out this appearance in a post about a year
ago.
Also -- and I posted this a few years ago -- I believe there was a
television show broadcast in the Detroit area about 25 years ago. It
was on the history of "The Lone Ranger" program and featured interviews
with cast members. It MAY have been on PBS, but I am not certain. Any
leads?
Does anyone have copies of these which I could beg, buy or trade for?
Contact me off-line. Thanks very much.
Fred Hillman
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:59:34 -0400
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Performers in Politics
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 15:50:55 -0400
From: wilditralian@[removed]
Doug Berryhill mentioned that Bud Abbott become mayor of a town in
California, and wondered if there were any other media performers who had
similar success after their careers had faded.
Well, how many of you remember that Andy Devine was mayor of Van Nuys,
California during his tenure as a semi-regular on The Jack Benny Program?
I've heard that some performers were made "honorary mayor" of some place or other, and I'm
wondering if that's what was really going on here. It's hard to see how Bud Abbott or Andy
Devine could have the time to be both mayor of a community and performer.
Some politicians have made guest appearances on one show or other -- Boston Mayor Ray
Flynn and House Speaker Tip O'Neill both appeared on "Cheers" and Governor Dukakis
appeared on "St. Elsewhere." There was also a sitcom in the late 60s called "The Governor
and JJ" about the governor of an unspecified state and his grown daughter. Almost every
episode of that show featured some real-life governor dropping by.
Governor Ronald Reagan made at least one appearance on a Jack Benny special, and it
wouldn't surprise me if he made others.
--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed] [removed]
15 Court Square, Suite 210
lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2503
[removed]
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:32:18 -0400
From: Don Shenbarger
<donslistmail@[removed];
To:
[removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: MP3 Player
On 6/14/2004, Bernie wrote:
For anyone interested in an inexpensive MP-3 Player. Check out Durabrand Model
Cd-208 at Wall Mart. $[removed] It has played every MP-3 have tried. Even low bit
rates.
The CD-208 is a table radio with CD/MP3 player. It has an AM/FM radio, but
no cassette player.
I have been living with mine for about three weeks now. There are several
CD's it will not play or starts to play and hits a snag on one of the
programs. I have not made any sense out of these problem CDs other than to
confirm it happens every time in the same place. It does work and you can
leave it in pause mode indefinitely so there is a kind of erzots resume
mode. Also Bernie is correct in that it seems to play all bit rates with
the exception that some things don't play as mentioned above.
Also, it plays programs in either the MS-DOS short filename alpha order or
the order they were burned on the CD, which is not always the same as the
long filename alpha order.
The price is right though and I do like it overall.
Don Shenbarger
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:32:40 -0400
From: Richard Carpenter <sinatra@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Burnable discs
For those who are concerned about how long CDs and
DVDs that they have burned will last, I recommend an
article found at:
[removed],aid,116473,[removed]
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