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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2001 : Issue 265
A Part of the [removed]!
ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Grandma Moses [ "laurie1125" <lauriep@[removed]; ]
Re: I Can Hear It Now [ Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]
Recreations [ dabac@[removed] ]
free mp3 cd [ "JOSEPH ANDOLINA, JR." <nostalgic@p ]
Re: Australian otr & Shadow thread [ dabac@[removed] ]
Hear It Now [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
Old And New News [ "Harold Zeigler" <hzeigler@charter- ]
Mollie Mystery [ khovard@[removed] ]
Re: Mt Lee [ Jerry Lewine <radiojer@[removed] ]
Daewoo DVD player [ Bob Noble <bobnoble@[removed]; ]
Mount Lee [ Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed] ]
An Ian Grive "fix" [ hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed]; ]
OTR syndications and slightly OT [ "Bob Watson" <crw912@[removed]; ]
Obituary [ "Welsa" <welsa@[removed]; ]
New York Radio [ Kubelski@[removed] ]
Raymond Edward Johnson [ JayHick@[removed] ]
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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:47:25 -0400
From: "laurie1125" <lauriep@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Grandma Moses
I am reading up on Grandma Moses, and was wondering, was she ever
interviewed on the radio? And if she was, what show was she on.
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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:47:03 -0400
From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
To: Old-Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: I Can Hear It Now
From: "schickedanz" <schickedanz@[removed];
Anyone know the date, at least the year, of Ed Murrow's "I Can
Hear It Now"? My database doesn't sort well with unknown [removed]
Tbanks. Norm Schickedanz Elmhurst, IL
Remember, of course, that these were phonograph records, not
broadcasts. Volume 1, 1933-1945 was issued in 1948, Volume 2, 1945-1948
was done in 1949, Volume 3, 1919-1933 was done in 1950, and Volume 4,
1949-1957 still remains in the CBS archive unissued. Murrow and
Friendly held back on issuing it in 1958 because they were afraid that
the lengthy segment on McCarthy would seem like piling-on so close to
his death. I've heard it and it seems a very fair treatment, but the
tacked-on section about Sputnik--which was launched the week editing was
completed--sounds very tacked-on, not fully integrated. Friendly
allowed the master to be played for a group of archivists to get their
reaction about releasing it, but although we were all enthusiastic
nothing was ever done. I hope that if they ever decide to issue the set
on CD that they will included that 4th volume.
Actually there was an issued Volume 4. The Winston Churchill album was
numbered as Vol. 4 on the first printing. Two other albums were issued
in the series in 1956, one being an interview with Nassar of Egypt, and
the other Ben Gurian of Israel. In the 1960s Columbia combined the
three issued documentary albums into a 3 disc box set and renumbered the
volumes in chronological order. Thus Volume 3 became Volume 1, 1 became
2, and 2 became 3--ever after requiring us to refer to them as "the
original vol 1" etc. And just like the World Wars, Volume 1 was not
called Volume 1 until there was a Volume 2! So the first copies of the
first album does not give a volume number.
Michael Biel mbiel@[removed]
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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:47:01 -0400
From: dabac@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Recreations
Frequently mention is made in the digest concerning radio
re-enactments, and I would be very interested in knowing which of those
available, others might recommend as being particularly well done?
D. Bacca
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 01:29:00 -0400
From: "JOSEPH ANDOLINA, JR." <nostalgic@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: free mp3 cd
Hey all,
I have something as a first come first served giveaway. It's a CD of mp3's
of BBC drama productions converted from livestream broadcasts in addition to
mp3's that were downloaded from a certain site. Reason I'm giving it away,
is because one of the files is out of order on the disc, so I had redone the
disc for my collection. Other than that, the lucky person will get many
hours of listening pleasure if he or she is into drama from the BBC. The
quality is very good considering the source where most of the material
originated from.
So, whoever emails me first, I will let you know what's on the CD, and if
still wanting it, will then mail the disc as a gift. If the first person
decides thay're not interested then, I will pick the second person who
emailed me, [removed]
If anybody else doesn't here back from me individually within 7 days, then
just figure the disc was sucessfully give away. Email me at:
nostalgic@[removed]
Joe
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:04:29 -0400
From: dabac@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Australian otr & Shadow thread
I found Ian Grieve`s information about australian otr was very helpful
and enlightening, I had been largely unaware of the extent of otr in his
country. He also mentioned the possibility of missing shows in the
archives, hopefully this will turn out to be the case. I`d like to wish
him good luck with any future research. I`ve also enjoyed the recent
shadow thread, I find threads of this sort very helpful in determining
what the best shows of a particular series were. While there are lots of
worthwhile otr shows around, one likes to discover and have the
opportunity to listen to the best of whats available if they can.
Dan Bacca
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:04:27 -0400
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Hear It Now
Several contributors mentioned that the original set was a 5-disk 78RPM
album, released in 1948. The LP version came out about the same time. I
know this because this was the same time that LP records came into our
home.
My parents had a huge collection of 78RPM records, mostly symphonic and
Broadway shows. When LPs first came out, my father resisted buying a new
console radio because of his great investment in 78s. [Logically, this
made no sense, because even the earliest of the changers were 3-speed
units, so his investment wasn't threatened.] But one day we were in the
local Sears (he was stationed in San Antonio at the time), and in what we
now would call the electronics section, I spotted an inexpensive
table-model 3-speed radio-phonograph. I asked whether I could get the
unit, and when my father mentioned his large number of 78s, I pointed out
that I didn't have many records of my own, so there should be no problem.
My father bought the little unit (the turntable -- not changer -- was
built into the top of the unit, with the AM radio controls on the front).
He also bought two 12-inch LPs: South Pacific and I Can Hear It Now,
neither of which would have been my first choice at age 11. The little
radio-phonograph was set up in our dining room so that we could all hear
the records, and as they played, we all were fascinated on how slowly the
records rotated.
The small unit stayed in the dining room for a week, after which a
brand-new Am-FM radio-phonograph console was delivered one day, and the
little set was able to be moved to my bedroom, where I used it as much or
more to listen to Captain Midnight, Tom Mix, The Lone Ranger, and Quiet,
Please, as it was used to play records.
If memory serves, that was in late 1948, which would mean that the I Can
Hear It Now LP was issued in 1948, too.
Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:04:41 -0400
From: "Harold Zeigler" <hzeigler@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Old And New News
Hi Anybody,
I read mags alot and mostly old mags and from a Oct.,1936 issue of RADIO
MIRROR I read this item in a feature called "Reflections In The Radio
Mirror", by Fred R. Sammis "The Kreuger musical Toast program , because of
the two singers and orchestra it presents, Jerry Cooper,SALLEY SINGER,and Ray
Block weave a very pleasant pattern of popular melodies both old and new and
the voices are so refreshing because of their youthful vitality".
Could this be the same SALLEY SINGER who is one of our faithful writers
in this listing ?
And in a new mag , this week's 'TV GUIDE" , in next Tuesday's Aug. 21
listing , a movie which I read in this digest features another one of our
steady writers, JIM FRENCH in a movie entitled "Pecker" which will air on
The Comedy Channel at 07:00 [removed] (Central Time) .I hope everyone in Granite
City,Il. will be watching as Jim used to live here many moons ago. I wonder
what part he'll play in the "Pecker"?
Til Next Time, Harold
[removed] See you in Newark Jim.
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:04:48 -0400
From: khovard@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Mollie Mystery
An actor's widow is trying to locate a copy of "Mollie Mystery" -
Starring Canada Lee - WNBC, 2/13/48 -- Can anybody help? She is willing
to pay for a copy.
Thanks
Howard
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:04:52 -0400
From: Jerry Lewine <radiojer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Mt Lee
If that's the tower I'm thinking of (just above Mullhulland Dr) it's got
nothing but government two-way communications gear on it now. I have an
old post card showing that site as the location of W6XAO, Don Lee's
television station before it became channel two and moved up to Wilson. It
was also the first location of K45LA (on 45 MHz - before the current FM
band was established) which was an experimental FM station, the lineage of
which can be traced to what is now KRTH.
Jerry
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:42:37 -0400
From: Bob Noble <bobnoble@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Daewoo DVD player
Paulurbahn@[removed] asks:
Maybe a DVD player owner of one of these models will tell me, Can you
play MP3 disks woithout having a TV set attached? In other words are
there enough buttons to do it. At these prices I am thinking of
replacing the CD player in
my stereo with one. That way I don't have to play MP3s on the computer.
Yes, Paul, you can do it probably with any of them. I listened to some
OTR MP3s in Sam's Club before buying the Daewoo model, though you will
NOT know which program you are listening to. The machine will play them
in order, 1-2-3, etc, but you won't know which episode is which. That's
where the TV screen comes in ... to allow you to go to a particular
episode.
I hooked mine up with a stereo A/B switch on the audio output, so I
could, for example, listen to regular CDs or MP3s without turning on the
TV, and the switch could send the sound to my amplifier. The video line
goes to the tv all the time, so if I want to see what program I'm
playing, I just turn on the set, but I don't have to do that. If I
wanted the sound to come out of the tv speakers, I just throw the switch
to 'tv' and that's how it works.
The problem is that they did not make the digital display comprehensive
enough in any of the machines to allow them to function fully
independently. I suspect the reason is simple: they are primarily, first
and foremost, a DVD player (which just happens to be able to play these
other formats) so since most of the time they will be used to display
pictures, that's why the designers skimped a bit on the digital
display).
--Hope this helps.
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:01:26 -0400
From: Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Mount Lee
Perhaps this matter has already been discussed, but isn't Mount Lee where
the famous HOLLYWOOD sign is located (originally HOLLYWOODLAND)? I guess I
thought the locals always called the mountain, Mount Cahuenga, which is
really nothing more than a dusty, cactus-covered hill. I think Cahuenga
Boulevard got its name after the mountain.
When the sign was restored, I understand that Gene Autry sponsored the
second "L." I know I read that somewhere, or perhaps heard it in a trivia
contest.
Dennis Crow
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:25:03 -0400
From: hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: An Ian Grive "fix"
Ian Grieve, my Aussie friend, wrote a very interesting piece about OTR "Down
Under". But since he signed it as follows, I can't disappoint him, and would
not want him him be unfulfilled. So I can only address one sentence from his
interesting dissertation
George Edwards (who lived about 30 minutes away from me and is/was related by
marriage on two different lines of my family, anyone would think I was
Tasmanian).
The "devil" you say! (An American expression) Honest!
Ian Grieve
Missing Hal Stone
Ian, cut that out. People will begin to talk. Besides, your married!
Hal(Harlan)Stone
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:44:53 -0400
From: "Bob Watson" <crw912@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OTR syndications and slightly OT
I was listening to an episode of OUR MISS BROOKS earlier today and suddenly
remembered that my mother once told me that her mother, my grandmother, used
to listen to OUR MISS BROOKS every day on the radio and usually ironed
during the time the show was on. She told me this when I was quite young
when I was watching a TV episode, but I distinctly remember that she was
talking about gramdmother listening to the show on the radio. Being a child
of TV, I was used to old shows being syndicated to individual stations and
broadcast every weekday afternoon, and not only dismissed the statement, but
almost completely forgot until my memory was jarred this morning. In my
years of collecting though, I don't believe I have come across any
indications that radio shows were syndicated in this manner to individual
radio stations back in the 50's. Since most shows were broadcast live, I
was wondering if she could have been mistaken, or I misunderstood, or my
memory is playing tricks on me. My mother now suffers from memory loss and
doesn't remember things like that now, so I can no longer ask her. I was
wondering if anyone here might be able to give me a little more information
on the topic.
Also, a little OT here, but I was wondering if any company replacing putting
newspapers on microfilm and putting them on CD-Rom instead. I would love to
purchase some old local-regional newspapers and have them on hand to check
the time schedules for radio stations in the area and check to see when a
show was on. And also to read the old funny papers. LOL
Thanks,
Bob
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:46:21 -0400
From: "Welsa" <welsa@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Obituary
The following article appeared in the Thursday, August 16, 2001 edition of
the Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, WI.
~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tony Parrish dies at 83; played radio villains
Parrish hailed from the Greenbush neighborhood and returned to the area
after a career in radio drama.
By George Hesselberg
Wisconsin State Journal
Tony Parrish, 83, a Madison native. who pretended to die, loudly and often,
when he played villains on popular radio dramas broadcast to the nation from
Chicago in the 1940s, then returned to his hometown to sing in his own Park
Street night club, died Tuesday at a nursing home in Fort Myers, FL.
Parrish, born Paratore, of a well-known Madison Italian family from the
Greenbush neighborhood, ran the Villa Night Club, at 2302 [removed] Street in
the 1950's and 1960's. He also ran TP's Liquor Mart, at 2430 Park St, into
the 1970's.
Parrish - a name he adopted when he started singing professionally - went
from reading the farm news on Madison radio to an announcing career in New
York City and Washington, [removed]; before heading to Chicago to work as a
freelance actor and announcer and nightclub singer.
A 1962 Madison newspaper article noted Parrish in the 1940's was heard
regularly on "Today's Children," "The Tom Mix (Ralston Straight- Shooters)
Show," "Terry and the Pirates," and "Jack Armstrong, the All American Boy."
Joe Cerniglia, unofficial historian for the Greenbush neighborhood and its
families, was a buddy of [removed]
"He was on all those radio serials out of Chicago, when Chicago was the
national headquarters for radio shows. He almost always played the villain.
And the villain usually got killed in the last episode. One year he got
killed 13 times.
"On the Tom Mix program, he once played the villain Cesar Ciani. When his
character was killed he was so popular they had to resurrect the character
the next season," recalled Cerniglia.
Parrish was in and out of the news in the 1960's and 1970's, once in a "hat
box" case, where he was charged and acquitted of failing to report and pay
taxes on $24,000 cash. He claimed that $14,200 of the amount was money found
in a hat box, which had been left in a closet by his late mother-in-law. The
other $10,000 came from cash he used to pay entertainers at his nightclub.
Cerniglia noted Parrish suffered from the same eye disease as his brother
and their father. All three went slowly blind due to a disease of the
retina. Though blind, "he would always say when he met someone, 'you're
looking good,' "Cerniglia said.
Frank Bucaida, a friend of Parrish, said a memorial service will be set in
September.
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:27:47 -0400
From: Kubelski@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: New York Radio
This article on New York Radio and its history appeared in the local weekly
tabloid New York Press this week. It's unkind to Gambling, but does give
some more background on WEVD.
Sean Dougherty
Kubelski@[removed]
[removed]
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 17:08:00 -0400
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Raymond Edward Johnson
Our good friend, Raymond Edward Johnson, died yesterday, August 15, at the
age of 90. Raymond was confined to a wheelchair for many years and those who
have come to our conventions know that his voice was not stilled until now.
His address is 167 Grieb Rd., Wallingford, CT 06492. Although he lived
alone, you may remember Theresa, his caretaker, and her family who always
brought him to our conventions. Theresa will be remaining in the house for
at least a couple months to take care of things. Ray attended our first
convention in 1976. When she called me a few minutes ago, she did not
mention a charity to send money. AS most of you know, Raymond had multiple
sclerosis for many years. I know many of you will mention on the Digest,
some of your personal and professional memories of Ray.
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