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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2007 : Issue 206
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Re: Fictitious Slogans [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
Do you still buy OTR? [ "Dave Adams" <dave@[removed]; ]
re: fictitious products [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
Fictional Mottoes [ Brightstar2761@[removed] ]
Serutan spelled frontwards! [ <SS01002@[removed]; ]
Re: Radio Spirits [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:03:21 -0400
From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Fictitious Slogans
Jim Cox <otrbuff@[removed]; wrote:
I'm wondering: does anybody recall any catchphrases for other
fabled enterprises that existed in Never Never Land?
At one point on Jack Benny (late 40s?), they had a running gag wherein
every time Jack turned on the radio, he'd hear an ad for Yhtapmys
Soothing Tea. Their jingle went something like, "Yht-Yht-Yhtapmys,
Yht-Yht-Yhtapmys, Yht-Yht-Yhtapmys, sooth your cares away," and would
end with an announcer (often Frank Nelson if I recall) saying "And
remember, Yhtapmys is Sympathy spelled backwards."
Kermyt
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:04:06 -0400
From: "Dave Adams" <dave@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Do you still buy OTR?
From: David Siegel <otrdsiegel@[removed];
Subject: MediaBay to Cease Operations
In light of this news I am curious; How many of you still buy OTR?
I don't advocate downloading copyrighted works but there is so much in the
public domain that it's feasible that no one ever need buy OTR to have a
remarkable collection. I'm buried in the OTR I own now and could never
possibly listen to it all. I am unable to stop collecting however.
-Dave Adams
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:04:14 -0400
From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: re: fictitious products
Another one just sprang to mind. On Bob and Ray, "Lawrence
Fectenburger, Interstellar Officer Candidate" (how I wish I'd asked
Frankie Thomas what he'd thought of that when I met him at FOTR a few
years back) was always sponsored by "Chocolate Cookies with White Stuff
in the Middle."
Kermyt
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:16:38 -0400
From: Brightstar2761@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Fictional Mottoes
Frank McGurn Wrote
Jim Cox is looking mythical mottoes. Does the following help?
Maybe it not a motto but Jack Benny was always bugged by "SARUTAN,
that's Natures spelled Backwards" Or SYMPATHY SOOTHING POWDER" I
think Frank Nelson was the guy selling it, and there was a jingle for some
product that I don't remember "YIP, YIP, YOUTAPIMUS"
Hope that I have awakened some memories that are better tham mine.
Indeed he [removed] I forget the specific episode, but I do recall a time
when Jack is listening to the radio and hears the Yhtapmys commercial
and right before the jingle he pompously states "Or for a Dollar
Ninety-Five will have it piped right to your house" Of course there
is the April14, 1946 episode where you hear Mr & Mrs Ronald Coleman
singing the [removed]
Michael
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:23:15 -0400
From: <SS01002@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Serutan spelled frontwards!
"Jim Cox is looking mythical mottoes. Does the following help?
Maybe it not a motto but Jack Benny was always bugged by 'SARUTAN,
that's Natures spelled Backwards'"
[removed] (natures spelled backwards, and, of course, a
"vegetable hydrogel") was a real product notoriously spoofed by
one A. Godfrey who commented that Archie Bleyer had been drinking
Serutan since it was spelled frontward. Serutan was a laxative for
"those over 35" (Helen Trent, take notice!).
Among other shows, Serutan sponsored Drew Pearson and Robert S.
Allen's "Predictions of Things to Come" newscast/commentary
show on NBC/Blue -- an early Keith Olbermann-like prodding of the powers
that were.
Serutan eventually disappeared, giving way to the laxatives we know and
love today. [removed] Aren't most of us over 35!?
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:23:47 -0400
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Radio Spirits
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In a message dated 7/12/07 9:17:43 PM Central Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:
Publishers Weekly is reporting that Media Bay, parent company of Radio
Spirits, etc., is shutting down.
Didn't they buy Dave Goldin's collection? If so, I hope it falls into good
hands and we hear more of it. There was a lot of great stuff in Dave's
collection I never saw Radio Spirits release, like the 15 minute "Here's
Morgan"
shows where Henry needled his sponsors so much.
Dixon
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