Subject: [removed] Digest V2002 #99
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2002 : Issue 99
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Betty Johnson                         [ "glen schroeder" <gschroeder10@char ]
  Lone Ranger premium                   [ "Philip Chavin" <philchav@[removed] ]
  Shuffler-iii-r4                       [ Henry Howard <hhoward@[removed] ]
  The Big Story                         [ "Edward Loyer" <Edward_Loyer@umich. ]
  Archie Andrews and Library of Congre  [ gad4@[removed] ]
  Encoding OTR.                         [ gad4@[removed] ]
  Decoders                              [ "Irene Heinstein" <[removed] ]
  Re:parochial OTR traders              [ Puppetmaster6789@[removed] ]
  John Cobb                             [ "Rodney w bowcock jr." <rodney-self ]
  $64 or $64,000                        [ Grbmd@[removed] ]
  Re: mp3CD players                     [ norman flagg <nflagg@[removed]; ]
  Hayden Huddleston                     [ Tsunami1000@[removed] ]
  Fulton Lewis Jr.                      [ WCDSFD@[removed] ]
  RE: The Big Story                     [ "D. Fisher" <dfisher@[removed]; ]
  dates for BBC series                  [ "Robert Angus" <rangus02@[removed]; ]
  Leiningen !!!                         [ Rfmalone@[removed] ]
  The Big Story                         [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  RE: The Shadow "Knows"                [ ""Cynthia \"ChibiBarako\""" < ]

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:15:12 -0500
From: "glen schroeder" <gschroeder10@[removed];
To: "otr" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Betty Johnson

Hi list.

The hit song that I remember by Betty Johnson that was out in 1956 or so,
when I was nine years old I think, is Little Blue Man. It was a cute song
about some little space creature. The chorus was:

I wove you  I wove you
Said the little blue man
I wove you I wove you to bits
I wove you  He loved me
Said the little blue man
And scared me right out of my wits.

They don't write songs like that any more. Huh.

Love this list

Glen Schroeder

Madison WI

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:15:30 -0500
From: "Philip Chavin" <philchav@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Lone Ranger premium

    Re: Joseph Onorato's memory of a glow-in-the-dark premium from the early
'40s possibly being a Lone Ranger premium and made of thick paper, maybe
including a belt:
    Stephen K. responded with two suggestions, one being the 1942 LR
Blackout Kit, "primarily sheets of luminous paper".  That Blackout Kit also
included the following items, which may or may not ring bells for Joseph:
    A hatband/headband (with pics of "six-shooters", a saddle, and cowboy
boots/spurs on it); a cord to tie it; a round emblem with "V" and the Lone
Ranger's head on it; and a square with the Pledge To The Flag printed on it.
  All were colored red, white, and blue.

    Would anyone know if a Lone Ranger broadcast aircheck exists which
includes the Blackout Kit offer?
    Would anyone know if the Blackout Kit was re-offered in 1944 or 1945 (on
broadcasts, on Kix cereal boxes, or otherwise)?

    -- Phil Chavin

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:16:12 -0500
From: Henry Howard <hhoward@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Shuffler-iii-r4

Windows software: [removed]

Can be downloaded here
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Can be downloaded at [removed]
(very slow service when I checked.)

Neither of these use:    [removed]

  Henry Howard - moderator of  radiodrama@[removed]
770 923 7955                   [removed]

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:16:19 -0500
From: "Edward Loyer" <Edward_Loyer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Big Story

I clearly remember The Big Story sponsored by Pall Mall cigarettes as a
television show broadcast circa 1952-53, but I don't remember as a radio show
at
all.

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:16:42 -0500
From: gad4@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Archie Andrews and Library of Congress.

Ken asks:

I am also looking for the run of Archie [removed]  I've posted 2 weeks ago,
but haven't recieved one reply.  Do they exist ?

There were a bunch posted in the newsgroups about a week ago. If you have a
reliable newserver or know someone who does, they can help you there.

I know that over a hundred episodes exists in the Library of Congress,
(According  to Elizabeth) but a fat lot of luck that does for anybody other
than "researchers".  :)

Hal(Harlan)Stone
Jughead

This is [removed] I'm glad to know that many of this fine series exists.
With the permission of one of the actors (Hal), and with the help of a
researcher (maybe Elizabeth or some other fine person here) is there any
chance of the Library of Congress releasing them?

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:16:52 -0500
From: gad4@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Encoding OTR.

I would like to talk to and work with any who encode otr. Please email me if
you do. Thanks in Advance.

George

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:17:13 -0500
From: "Irene Heinstein" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "OTR" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Decoders

David asked:

Was a decoding Ring mentioned in Woody Allen's movie "Radio Days"?

Don't know but a Captain Midnight decoder ring was mentioned in an episode
of the BBC scifi TV program Doctor Who.

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:17:31 -0500
From: Puppetmaster6789@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re:parochial OTR traders

I live in the UK and access to OTR programmes is very restricted.
Unfortunately some traders e. g Gary Mercer refuse to ship outside
of the USA.
It's taken me twenty years to acquire a miserly collection of 200
programmes. Only one US dealer has been prepared to sell to me
on MP3. Other dealers using other formats appear equally reluctant.
Can anyone tell me why?
Hungry OTR fan.

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:18:17 -0500
From: "Rodney w bowcock jr." <rodney-selfhelpbikeco@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: John Cobb

I'm trying to find some information about a man named John Cobb.  From
what I understand he was a comedian in the 50's-60's who had a program
called The John Cobb Comedy Hour.  It may have been a local program.

If anyone has *any* information about this man, I'd greatly appreciate
it.

rodney.

Past Tense Productions
Carrying Old Radio related films, and Hal Roach shorts, for $7 per tape.

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:18:31 -0500
From: Grbmd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: $64 or $64,000

Andy wrote:

We also listened to the "$64 Dollar Question" sponsored by Eversharp
fountain
 pens.
...............
 We were just as excited about these less than $100 quiz shows and contests
as
  people are today with the Million Dollar shows.

For many years people said, when talking about some puzzler, "That's the $64
question."

Years later there was (is?) a TV show, "The 64,000 Question."  It amuses me
when someone younger than I says,  "That's the $64,000 question."

I think that's one clue that distinguishes the older from the younger
generation.  Do they say $64 or do they say $64,000?

Spence

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:38:00 -0500
From: norman flagg <nflagg@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: mp3CD players

Glenn Alexander asks about an MP3CD player for OTR. If you're talking
mini,the best I've found is the Sony R700DPC; plays all speeds, will burn up
to 320 minutes on one mini-CD  and is PC and Mac compatable (important to
me). I got mine at Circuit City and couldn't be happier.

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:38:22 -0500
From: Tsunami1000@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Hayden Huddleston
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Does anyone recall Hayden Huddleston of Roanoke, Virginia?  He produced many
radio presentations but the one most noteworthy was in the mid 1970s about
old time radio, GOLDEN DAYS OF RADIO.  I used to listen to this program
weekly on WPTF, Raleigh, and later, I learned it was nationally syndicated. I
am sure Mr. Huddleston is deceased after all this time, but I am wondering if
anyone in your old time radio audience preserved any of his weekly
broadcasts.  Also, does anyone know for sure if Mr. Huddleston is still
living? I am a person very  wanting to obtain copies of his weekly shows.
Did anyone preserve them?  Any takers?  JIM F

James Faulkner

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:38:43 -0500
From: WCDSFD@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Fulton Lewis Jr.

I am a regular reader of the Digest and appreciate the knowledge and fun
shared by the contributors. I especially want to thank Steven Kallis, Jr. for
bringing Captain Midnight to life again for me and Elizabeth for her
knowledge in seemingly all areas of OTR. Thanks too to both Harlans for
information and laughs and William Murtough and Ted Kneebone and all the
rest. Perhaps one or some of you can help me.

I want to find cassettes of Fulton Lewis, Jr. and the News programs. I'll buy
or trade if anyone has them.

Thanks again to all of you,
Walt Davis

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:38:52 -0500
From: "D. Fisher" <dfisher@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: RE: The Big Story

No, it is not a fignewton of your imagination. It really did exist from
4/27/47 to 3/16/55 on NBC. I have 14 episodes.

Don Fisher

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:39:15 -0500
From: "Robert Angus" <rangus02@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: dates for BBC series

While cleaning up the attic, I came across a number of OTR cassettes sent to
me by a collector in New Zealand in the 1970s.  These include a number of
BBC series taped off the air at that time, but soundiong like transcribed
series that are somewhat older.  Can anybody help me with original dates for
the following series:
    Accused in the Box and Advocate Impeccable, both based on famous British
trials and narrated by Edgar Lustgarten.  If I had to guess I'd put these at
late 1940s or early 1950s.
    Jus' Perfick, a comedy series featuring Bernard Miles
    Frank Muir Goes [removed], a comedy series
Sound quality on all of these, incidentally, is excellent.

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:39:29 -0500
From: Rfmalone@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Leiningen !!!

Leiningen versus the Ants was an Escape episode. I have no dates but I`m sure
it is readily available from one of the OTR dealers. Maybe someone else can
come up with more Infro.
                                              Richard

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:40:08 -0500
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Big Story

Lee mentioned:
To answer Bill Rockhold's question:  "The Big Story" ran on NBC 10 [removed]
Wednesday nights 1947 to 1951, during which year it moved up to 9:30 and
continued to 1954.  I found information in Ron Lackmann's "The Encyclopedia
of American Radio - An A-Z Guide to Radio from Jack Benny to Howard Stern".
If you try to find the book, be sure you use the last part of the title and
Ron's name, as there is an older book with the first part as its title.
Both are indispensable to OTR researchers.

I just finished a broadcast log on the series, complete with EVERY title and
airdate and episode number, thanks to a collection of scripts all hardbound
at a college library.  Does anyone have any information about the series
itself other than the encyclopedias?  Reason being, I'd like to include a
little history of the series along with the log, in an up-coming magazine
article for an OTR magazine.  Or if someone has composed or can compose a
short article about the series I can attatch to the log for joint [removed]
Martin

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:56:17 -0500
From: ""Cynthia \"ChibiBarako\""" <cvc@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: RE: The Shadow "Knows"

Regarding the (im)propriety of Cranston and Lane traveling together:  It
should be noted that in the shows that I've heard, when Lamont and Margo
were traveling together they ALWAYS had separate rooms, whether in hotel
or chateau.  Quite apart from the Hays Office considerations, it gave
more dramatic tension if Margo should suddenly scream in the middle of
the night ...

I always had the sense of an quasi-family, almost-sibling relationship
between Lamont and Margo ... but I could be wrong, I thought the same
thing about Perry Mason and his secretary! (Hey, I was only 10 ...)

Cynthia

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