Subject: [removed] Digest V2001 #290
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 9/5/2001 8:03 AM
To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2001 : Issue 290
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  RE: Favorite OTR Shows                [ Harlan Zinck <buster@[removed]; ]
  Broadcasting in Chicago               [ Harlan Zinck <buster@[removed]; ]
  Re: Abbott and Costello (again!)      [ "Rodney w bowcock jr." <rodney-self ]
  Bold Venture                          [ "Jimidene Murphey" <jimimark@[removed] ]
  Coke                                  [ "jay ranellucci" <jayran33@hotmail. ]
  Eastern Columbia                      [ "jay ranellucci" <jayran33@hotmail. ]
  Re: "Music By Gershwin"               [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
  Top Five                              [ Kubelski@[removed] ]
  Jack Kirkwood.                        [ "jay ranellucci" <jayran33@hotmail. ]
  castor oil correction                 [ Jer51473@[removed] ]
  Top 5                                 [ Richard Carpenter <sinatra@ragingbu ]
  5 favorite radio shows                [ lynn wagar <philcolynn@[removed]; ]
  Re: Five Favorites (plus One)         [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
  Re: The Monkey Trial                  [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
  Internet radio listening              [ ChibiBarako <cvc@[removed]; ]
  Re: Favorite shows                    [ StevenL751@[removed] ]
  My 5 favorite OTR shows               [ Susan Flewelling <kmm@[removed] ]
  5 Favorite Radio Shows                [ "John and Reuel" <drevesrj@[removed]; ]
  Age & Faves & Thanks                  [ "stephen jansen" <stephenjansen@ema ]
  Whizzzzz & Cod Liver Oil              [ KENPILETIC@[removed] ]
  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ lois@[removed] ]
  brief Copyright note                  [ "J. Alec West" <Alec@[removed]; ]
  Bob Bailey photo                      [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
  Top 5 OTR faves                       [ "igsjr@[removed]" <igsjr@[removed]; ]
  Scopes Trial On Radio                 [ Udmacon@[removed] ]
  a thank [removed]                        [ "JOSEPH ANDOLINA, JR." <nostalgic@p ]
  Luster Creme Shampoo                  [ George Aust <austhaus1@[removed] ]
  Demographics                          [ TripWig@[removed] ]
  Memories of Riley Lott                [ "mutineer" <mutineer@[removed]; ]

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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 21:03:31 -0400
From: Harlan Zinck <buster@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  RE: Favorite OTR Shows

<Jer51473@[removed]; writes:

It would be interesting to hear everyones top 5 in order of preference.
<snip> Here goes--- >Phil Harris-Alice Faye, Jack Benny, Amos n Andy,
Fibber Magee n Molly, and the Aldrich
Family (sorry Harlan).

[removed] are you sorry, my friend? Were you to substitute "Our Miss
Brooks" for "Amos 'n' Andy" and any of Fred Allen's programs for "The
Aldrich Family," we'd be in complete agreement!

Harlan

Harlan Zinck
First Generation Radio Archives
[removed]

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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 21:03:52 -0400
From: Harlan Zinck <buster@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Broadcasting in Chicago

Rich Samuels/WTTW Television writes:

[BTW: my "Broadcasting in Chicago: 1921-1989" website has moved to
[removed]. My previous webhost suddenly bit the dust]

And if you haven't visited this site yet, you're in for a tremendous treat.
Mr. Samuels has put together a tremendous amount of information, including
some of the most interesting radio and television related photos I've ever
seen. Like the best museums, you can easily spend an entire day there and
still not see it all.

I have no connection with Mr. Samuels - just a very satisfied visitor!

Harlan

Harlan Zinck
First Generation Radio Archives
[removed]

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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 21:05:49 -0400
From: "Rodney w bowcock jr." <rodney-selfhelpbikeco@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Abbott and Costello (again!)

It's so nice for people to ask questions that I actually know a bit
about!

I recently saw a movie which covered their career starting
with stand up routines and continuing throughout their
career on radio.  Near the end of the movie, it was noted
that Bud and Lou had some trouble with the IRS and were
in debt.  I'd be interested to hear more about this.

Yep, the boys were very much in debt through the 50's.  That may very
well be why they continued to perform together even though they rarely
associated with each other outside of "work".  As I recall, Bud had to
sell his house and move into a smaller one, and at the time of his death,
was on a very fixed income.  Quite a shame really.
Speaking of their inability to get [removed]

Someone at work suggested that  Abbott and Costello had
creative differences (arguments) which led to the dissolution
of their act.  Other accounts of their work as a comedy team
and personal lives paint quite a different picture, however.
Were they as close off stage as they were on stage?

For a time, yes.  One could point to several factors for Bud and Lou's
differences.  It's really all speculation, what we know is that from
around 1946 on, Bud and Lou rarely spoke to each other off stage, often
using their long time gag writer John Grant as a middle-man.  You could
point to Lou's adlibbing and inability to stick to a script, Bud's
increasing drinking problem, or many other things too.  The whole
relationship ended in 1957 when they were playing an engagement in Las
Vegas.  There were 2 shows that day, and after the first, Bud met some
friends who offered him a drink, then another, then another and so
[removed] the time the second show came around, Bud was too drunk
to follow Lou through the "Who's On First" routine, and furious, Lou
stormed off the stage, and that was that.

In regards to the rheumatic fever bout, the one that killed Lou in 1959
was obviously not the one that he had in 1943.  No wonder they called him
"Hard Luck Lou".

Rodney Bowcock

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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 21:04:32 -0400
From: "Jimidene Murphey" <jimimark@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Bold Venture

Can anybody tell me anything about Bogie and Bacall's Bold Venture being on
TV?  A friend of mine says he remembers it. I have several of the radio
tapes, but never heard of it being on TV.

Jimidene Murphey
"Keepin' It Alive"

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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 22:07:56 -0400
From: "jay ranellucci" <jayran33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Coke

Hi All,
Got to thinking after the post about Coke and I remember Spike Jones
was sponsored by Coke and I always thought, Gee, that's a really
great theme.  Is it an original composition for Coke? Does it have a
title and was it ever recorded commercially? IMO it's every bit as
enduring as Rhapsody In Blue which I also think is great.  If anybody
has any information I'd love to hear about it.
Thanks,  Jay






tha

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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 22:08:16 -0400
From: "jay ranellucci" <jayran33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Eastern Columbia

Hi again,
Eastern Columbia was a department store which was located in downtown
Los Angeles at Broadway and Ninth.  I believe advertised almost the same
as Bulova or Gruen. Usually following the station break with their little
jingle.
I don't remember ever hearing  any copy for sales or merchandise.  But I
do remember the howls of laughter whenever it was mentioned on the
comedy shows.  Maybe some local [removed] historians will have some insight.
Love radio when it WAS RADIO    Jay

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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 22:09:06 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: "Music By Gershwin"

Frank Kelly wonders:

A book I'm reading says that George Gershwin hosted a radio series in
1934 on which he spoke and played.  Do any recordings of this exist?
Any other information?

"Music By Gershwin" was a fifteen-minute Blue network show sponsored by
Feen-a-Mint, the Chewing Gum Laxative (and yes, Gershwin had to put up
with lots of wisecracks from friends wondering when he was going to
compose the "Feen-a-Mint Movement.") Two programs in the series,
including the premiere, were released on an LP in the 1970s, and have
been floating around the OTR world ever since. Gershwin speaks in a
rather stilted, script-reading manner and performs some of his
better-known compositions, to the accompaniment of Lou Katzman's
Orchestra. The series is also notable for the fact that Don Wilson is the
announcer, one of the first coast-to-coast shows he worked on after
moving to New York.

Elizabeth

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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 22:20:21 -0400
From: Kubelski@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Top Five

My top five favorite shows:

1. Jack Benny
2. Gunsmoke
3. Dragnet
4. Fred Allen
5. Burns & Allen

Of course, except for the top position, this list rotates based on what I've
heard lately.  Voyage of the Scarlet Queen, Sam Spade, Fibber McGee and
Molly, the whole Peg Lynch catelogue, Pat Novak for Hire, Superman, Escape,
Phil Harris/Alice Faye and Yours Truly Johnny Dollar would all make it in
there from time to time.

I've recently acquired a sizeable stack of Dragnets and that has me moving
them way up the list, for example.

There were a lot of good shows.  The list above reflects my preference for
consistency, good writing and a long run.

As previously noted, I'm 34 and have been collecting OTR since junior high
school thanks to exposure to Jack Benny in television reruns.

Sean Dougherty
Kubelski@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 22:20:58 -0400
From: "jay ranellucci" <jayran33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Jack Kirkwood.

Hello again,
The long weekend has kept me away, so I'm just getting caught up
on all the posts.  The mention of Jack Kirkwood brings back memories
when I was in the army in Korea at "Vagabond" in Seoul.  We operated a
radio station for AFRS out of a trailer.  Our transmitter was in an old
two story button factory about fifty yards away from our"studio".  We
aired the show around noon so no one was at the transmitter at
lunch time.  Now our transmitter was the type that if you played anything
too loud the automatic limiter would shut the transmitter down.  Kirkwood
would usually open his show by saying, "Nobody's going to sleep while this
show is on".  And there'd be a very shrill & loud slide whistle or siren,
and
no matter how low I kept the level down, it would blow us off the air and
I would race up to the transmitter to put us back on the air. It was a great
show though and I still love it.
Til next time,   Jay

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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 22:21:09 -0400
From: Jer51473@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  castor oil correction

  I typed caster oil, but I meant CASTOR oil.  Anyway, there has never been
anything like it and believe me it WOULD "clean your liver"!

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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 22:21:31 -0400
From: Richard Carpenter <sinatra@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Top 5

    My top five programs, in no particular order, are "Suspense," "Amos 'n'
Andy," "The Great Gildersleeve," "The Jack Benny Show," and "Gunsmoke."

    I'm 60 years old. I have no idea how that happened!

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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 22:21:48 -0400
From: lynn wagar <philcolynn@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  5 favorite radio shows

Here are my favorite 5 shows
1. Jack Benny
2. Our Miss Brooks
3. Fibber & Molly
4. Burns & Allen
5. Life of Riley/The Great Gildy  Tied

Comedy is my first love but i also have alot of
mystery
and drama,  I especially like CBS Radio Mystery Theater!!!!

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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 23:36:43 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Five Favorites (plus One)

Jer51473 wrote:

It would be interesting to hear everyones top 5 in order of preference

I have to put the original pre-1943 15-minute "Amos 'n' Andy" in a class
by itself, since for the most part it only survives as scripts. But even
in that reduced form it stands out by far as the program I've found most
rewarding to study: even after all this time, there are still surprising
bits of character nuance to discover.  I cling to the hope that someday a
long-lost cache of recordings will turn [removed]

But until they do, I'd have to go with (in no particular order, because I
like them all equally)

Pre-1942 Fred Allen series - by far Allen's most exciting work. When he
succeeds there's no one better, and even when his material falls flat
it's fascinating to pick it apart and see what he was trying to [removed]

Fleischmann's Yeast/Royal Gelatin Hour -- The best of vaudeville and the
legitimate theatre, along with some of the worst. Plus I'm one of the few
people who will admit to actually enjoying Vallee.

Easy Aces -- The more you hear this program the more it grows on you.
Jane is presented as the one absolute innocent left in a world full of
frauds, fakes and hypocrites, but she always seems to win.

Vic and Sade -- Some people just don't get them, but if you *do* get
them, they never get old.

Lum and Abner -- Loopy nonsense done with an utterly straight face. Best
absorbed one episode at a time.

Elizabeth

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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 23:37:28 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: The Monkey Trial

Vince Long wrote:

I was reading that the Scopes "Monkey" trial was the first court case
broadcast live on radio.  Do any recordings exist?

Rumors have floated around for years about this -- the stories vary in
details depending on who's telling them, and usually stating that WGN in
Chicago had recorded portions of the broadcast on acoustic equipment. If
they did, no pressings are known to have survived, nor does any
documentation.

Speaking in general terms, it's safe to say that if an event was
broadcast before about 1932, the odds of a recording of that broadcast
having been made are very slim, and the odds of such a recording
*surviving* are even slimmer.

Elizabeth

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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 23:38:07 -0400
From: ChibiBarako <cvc@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Internet radio listening

It made me think of a recent comment made on another mail
list I subscribe to--not an OTR list--which was critical of
downloading old radio programs because it slowed down the
global Internet system and made transmission difficult. In
effect, said the letter(I am paraphrasing here), OTR people
are non-tekkie piggies who are ruining things for everyone.

I'm no computer expert, but . . . You've got to be kidding!!!
OTR takes up too much bandwidth??? When people are downloading entire
television episodes (audio and video) and for that matter entire movies
off the Internet?  Not hardly . . . Now, mind you, I'll respect an
opinion that says OTR takes up space better used by TV and movies (I'll
disagree strenuously, but I'll defend to the death their right to be
wrong *grin*), but to say that dl OTR is harder on the Net than dl
anything else??

Computer hell -- waiting forever while that stupid little hourglass
flips over . . . and over . . . and over . . . and over . . .

Cynthia

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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 23:38:14 -0400
From: StevenL751@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Favorite shows

At the moment my top 5 shows are:

1) Jack Benny
2) I Love a Mystery
3) One Man's Family
4) Ethel & Albert
5) Lum 'n Abner (the 15 minute shows)

I'm 37 and have been collecting since I was about 16.  My collection now
numbers 9100+ shows.  The first shows I remember hearing that got me hooked
on OTR were Burns & Allen (with guest Jack Benny), The Lone Ranger, The Green
Hornet, Charlie McCarthy, Fibber McGee & Molly, and The Shadow.

Steve Lewis

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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 23:38:20 -0400
From: Susan Flewelling <kmm@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  My 5 favorite OTR shows

The earliest OTR program that I can remember listening to is the Lone
Ranger back around 1950 give or take a year.   Our radio was operated by a
huge battery and I have a vivid memory of my brother and I with our ears
right on the radio straining to hear the Lone Ranger as it was barely audible.

My 5 favorites (today) -

1.	The Shadow - for lots of supense and great story lines
2.	The Aldrich Family - good clean fun with lots of humor
3.	Hancock's Half Hour - great British humor
4.	Bold Venture - for the atmosphere
5.	Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - like the format and the story lines are
always interesting.

I've left out all kinds of favorites - Our Miss Brooks, the Great
Gildersleeve, Jack Benny, the Mysterious Traveller - the list goes on -
keeping it down to 5 was hard work! <g>

Susan Flewelling
Alberta, Canada

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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 00:08:50 -0400
From: "John and Reuel" <drevesrj@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  5 Favorite Radio Shows

Subject:  5 favorite OTR shows

Iím 64 and still love OTR.  Can anyone tell me what time ëThe Lone Rangerí
was on in the Central time zone (Chicago) and what days of the week?  I was
thinking it was 6:30 pm, Tuesday and Thursday after I got through with my
paper route.  Also, does anyone know what time Jack Benny, Fred Allen and
Duffyís Tavern was on?  Iím thinking it was Sunday, starting at 6:00 pm.

My five favorites were:


1. 'The Lone Ranger'
2. 'The Jack Benny Program'
3. 'Fred Allen'
4. 'Duffyís Tavern'
5. 'The Shadow'

John

drevesrj@[removed]

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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:08:35 -0400
From: "stephen jansen" <stephenjansen@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Age & Faves & Thanks

     I'm 37 years old, and have been listening to OTR rabidly for about 10
years now, although I first heard it in reruns in the late 1970's (along
with new CBSRMT stuff).  I've got about 18,000 shows, and I'm STILL
COLLECTING.  I do listen every day though, so I am taking little chips out
of the huge OTR block I have accumulated.
     Boy, it's hard to pick just 5 top shows!  More than a dozen came to
mind right away, then as I was whittling those choices down, more shows
popped into my head.  Anyway, my (painfully short) list of OTR favorites is:
[removed] Love A Mystery  [removed](1980's CBC series)  [removed] And Ray  [removed]
Novak For Hire  [removed](1970's series - Jim French)
     Lastly, a big "Thank You" to James Herman, who was gracious enough to
send me a copy of an OTR fanzine I was interested in.  Thanks, James, I
really appreciate it!  Cool stuff!
     Remember, Old Time Radio never dies, it just changes formats!
                  Stephen Jansen

[removed] Whatever happened to that OTR survey from about a year ago, on this
list?  Were the results ever tallied/posted?  Maybe I missed it.

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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:19:54 -0400
From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Whizzzzz & Cod Liver Oil

Hi Gang -    Wednesday, September 5.  It was cool in [removed]

I was reading issue 289 of the otrdigest when I saw the posting by
Jer51473.   Whizzz.

 ... this as I remember it: Whizzz, best nickle candy
bar there izzz!  Im not sure if they said "best candy bar"
or "best nickle candy bar"...

As I recall, they said it both ways.   They started with "best candy
bar", then later changed it to "best nickle candy bar".  Apparently
there must have been a more expensive candy bar that was better.

---  New Topic -- Cod Liver Oil  ---

When I was in grade school in the 1940's I questioned the benefits
of Cod Liver Oil.  I was told that the cod fish ate a certain leaf that
grows under water.  This leaf contained healthful nutrients that
somehow wound up in the liver of the fish.  When the fish was
caught, the oil from the liver was extracted, bottled and sold at
pharmacies.  We kids were forced to drink a teaspoon full of this
stuff now and then.   True?  Beneficial ?  I don't know.

I always wondered why someone didn't simply harvest these
leaves and sell them.  I'm sure the leaves would have tasted
better than oil from the fish's liver.  Yik !

See you in Newark.

Ken Piletic
kenpiletic@[removed]

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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:18:23 -0400
From: lois@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

A weekly [removed]

For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
over four years, same time, same channel!

Our numerous "regulars" include one of the busiest "golden years" actors in
Hollywood; a sound man from the same era who worked many of the top
Hollywood shows; a New York actor famed for his roles in "Let's Pretend" and
"Archie Andrews;" owners of some of the best OTR sites on the Web;
maintainer of the best-known OTR Digest (we all know who he is)..........

and Me

Lois Culver
KWLK Longview Washington (Mutual) 1941-1944)
KFI Los Angeles (NBC) 1944 - 1950
and widow of actor Howard Culver

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

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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:18:36 -0400
From: "J. Alec West" <Alec@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  brief Copyright note

I just read a scholarly article written on the purpose of Copyright by the
Assistant Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark College (Northwestern School of
Law).  If Copyright concerns are in your interest, it's well worth the read:

	[removed]

Regards,
J. Alec West

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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:17:58 -0400
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Bob Bailey photo

If you'd like to see a photo of Bob Bailey, go to KNX's website,
[removed]

There are other photos, too, and a detailed schedule of radio shows
broadcast on the KNX Drama Hour.

Barbara

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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:20:52 -0400
From: "igsjr@[removed]" <igsjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Top 5 OTR faves

In no particular [removed]

1) Fred Allen
2) Gunsmoke
3) Jack Benny
4) Dragnet
5) Phil Harris & Alice Faye

Ivan

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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:28:39 -0400
From: Udmacon@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Scopes Trial On Radio

I" was reading that the Scopes "Monkey" trial was the first court case
broadcast live on radio.  Do any recordings exist"?

The Scopes Trial was recorded in sound by newsreel cameras and you can spot
the ever-present WGN microphone in front of the testifiers.

I't's interesting that a station from so far away, rather than Nashville's
WSM, broadcast the trial.

Bill Knowlton, "BLUEGRASS RAMBLE," WCNY-FM: Syracuse, Utica, Watertown NY
(since Jan. 1973). Sundays, 9 pm est: [removed]

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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:18:07 -0400
From: "JOSEPH  ANDOLINA, JR." <nostalgic@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  a thank [removed]

I was going to get back individually to each of the people who responded to
my search for mp3's of Six Shooters for Pat French.  I managed to get back
to a few people before I opened a wonderful virus that was sent to me via
email. Crashed my whole system. While I managed to get it back running after
using the system discs, I as you would imagine lost
anything and everything, including email addresses. (and all those
wonderful mp3's of old and new drama that I didn't manage to get to cd). So
I wanted to email the list and say thanks to all that offered and
gave suggestions as to where to find the programs since I no longer have the
individual email addresses. And someone will be sending me a cd of
the 40 shows of Six Shooter, bless his heart. Now that I'm starting all
over with my computer, I have 12 gigs of glorious memory to work on filling
with otr and such!. and may the person who designed the virus they sent me
go to computer hell.

Joe

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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:16:50 -0400
From: George Aust <austhaus1@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Luster Creme Shampoo

Lynn Wager has heard the Luster Creme Shampoo commercial on "Our Miss
Brooks" and ask---- what did it look like?

I'll try to handle this one, although once again this is by memories
that are 55 yrs old.
Luster Creme came in small white glass jars maybe 3'' in diameter and
maybe 2" or 2  1/2" deep. Each jar did not hold very much . My mother
used this shampoo in the 1940's and I sometimes used it. The fascinating
thing about it to me as a kid was that it came in several different
colors, which I thought of as flavors. I really can't remember now if
each color had a different fruit fragrance or if it was just the color
that made me think of it that way. I remember peach ,strawberry and
lemon. The consistency was something akin to sour cream and you just
dipped your fingers into the jar to remove what you wanted to use. Also
it was not quite a solid color but slightly pearlescent (for want of a
better word).

Also the tune for the commercial was Victor Herbert's " Toyland". I
always liked this melody and it was a while before I discovered the real
source of the melody.

Also I might as well add my five favorite OTR shows. Hmmm then or now? I
guess the list really wouldn't be that much different.  Jack Benny,
Fibber Mcgee and Molly,  Charlie McCarthy (and Edgar Bergen too), Kraft
Music Hall  (When Bing Crosby was the star), The Great Gildersleeve, The
Life of Riley, Our Miss Brooks, The Aldrige Family, Ozzie and Harriet,
[removed] [removed] whoops thats [removed] sue me!

George Aust

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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:19:20 -0400
From: TripWig@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Demographics

I'm 47.  Began listening to OTR in college in Seattle on KVI 570 in the 70s.
They played the old shows every night followed by the CBSRMT and later the
Sears Mystery Theater, and Jim French wrote and directed new shows using the
station members.  Some great ones.  Alas KVI changed formats and fired all of
their talent!  Now I listen to the Big Broadcast on WAMU in [removed]  Favorites:
Gunsmoke, Phil Harris, Nightbeat, Stan Freeburg, and ROMA wines' favorite
(and Autolite)...Suspense.

Trip Wiggins
a lurker in Virginia

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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:17:42 -0400
From: "mutineer" <mutineer@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Memories of Riley Lott

As for age, I am 55. But my radio memories go back to somewhere around the
early 1950's. My parents were young and busy then, trying to make a living,
so they left me with an old blind man who was like a second family. Riley
"Dick" Lott(And I never have figured out how they got Dick out of Riley).
 Anyway, I can remember both Arthur Godfrey and The Breakfast Club. Were
they on at the same time?  Dick's favorite was always the Breakfast Club.
That is where I first heard Fran Allison. . I believe it was out of Chicago,
but I may be wrong.
 Night shows I can't remember well, but Inner Sanctum must have still been
on, because I can still remember how scared I was of creaking doors. That
show could traumatize a little kid.
 My favorite five today as an older man:
  1. Amos and Andy  They still make me laugh my fool head off.
  2. Fred Allen Show
  3. Henry Morgan Show
  [removed] Benny Show
  5. A total toss-up between way to many

          Jim  the Mutineer

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