Subject: [removed] Digest V2001 #305
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 9/16/2001 4:11 PM

To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2001 : Issue 305
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: OTR Memorabilia                   [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
      Re: God Bless Americca Again          [ Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]
      Broadcast news                        [ "welsa" <welsa@[removed]; ]
      Re: Favorite OTR Memorabilia          [ Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]
      Buster Brown show                     [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]
      Re: Lovecraft                         [ Ga6string@[removed] ]
      My Favorite Radio Memorabilium        [ John Francis MacEachern <johnfmac@m ]
      Top Five                              [ Ehutchison@[removed] ]
      Favorites                             [ otrbuff@[removed] ]
      Lum and Abner MP3s                    [ "[removed]" <swells@[removed]; ]
      America in Crisis                     [ badaxley@[removed] ]
      Radio vs. TV coverage                 [ Alan Bell <bella@[removed]; ]
      5 favs                                [ Joe Salerno <salernoj@[removed]; ]
      discontinued brands                   [ "Roby McHone" <otr_alaska@[removed] ]
      Cassette Storage                      [ lynn wagar <philcolynn@[removed]; ]
      Re: LIVE MUSIC & BROADCASTS           [ Thomas Rednour <trednour@earthlink. ]
      Raymond Edward Johnson                [ Bhob <bhob2@[removed]; ]
      Raymond Johnson Obituary              [ "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@worldn ]
      Re: Live music on OTR                 [ Kenneth Clarke <kclarke5@[removed]; ]
      Raymond Edward Johnson                [ StevenL751@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:10:00 -0400
    From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: OTR Memorabilia

    Lynn Wagar wonders,

>     I would like to hear from others about thier favorite
>     piece of otr memorabilia.  Where you
>     got it at. When you got it and how much paid (if you
>     don't mind sharing that Info).

    There are several items that come to [removed]

    *An copy of the 1929 "All About Amos 'n' Andy" book which I got on eBay a
    couple of years ago for an embarassingly small sum ($20 or so) --
    especially since it was neatly autographed by Correll and Gosden using
    their real names. (Most of the autographed A&A items I've seen were
    signed simply by "Amos" and "Andy.") I have a lot of A&A memorabilia
    scattered around my office, but this is my favorite piece -- while the
    book itself is basically a quickie exploitation bio, it contains useful
    information on the performers' working methods which has been cheerfully
    plagiarized by various latter-day nostalgia writers.

    *A copy of "Vagabond Dreams Come True," Rudy Vallee's 1930 autobiography,
    autographed by Rudy and presented to one "Norris W. Crosby in honor of
    his 47th Place Finish in the National Cross Country Run at Van Cortland
    Park, New York, 11/18/30." I got this for $12 at a local second hand
    bookstore. Mr. Crosby had added a handwritten note on the flyleaf --
    "Guest of Rudy Vallee at Villa Vallee. This book autographed and
    presented by him." There was also a 1940s-vintage clipping inside
    declaring that Mr. Crosby had just gotten a job as a draftsman with
    General Electric, accompanied by a photo depicting him as a sad-eyed,
    balding little man in a tight collar and glasses. I get the distinct
    impression that meeting Rudy Vallee and finishing 47th in that race may
    have been the single most exciting moment of poor Norris W. Crosby's
    life, and for that reason, this item is one of my favorites.  Plus it's
    an enjoyable book -- Vallee without question wrote every word of it
    himself, because no one could possibly fake that style.

    *A 1929 Music Box Theatre program for "The Little Show," the Broadway
    revue which was Fred Allen's biggest success on the stage. No autograph,
    but it's still a neat item -- making me wish I could have actually seen
    the show all the more. This was another eBay find, for about $10.

    *The one OTR item I find most *practical,* however, is a Western Electric
    618-A microphone (the so-called "FDR Mike") made in 1933. This mike
    belonged to my late grandfather-in-law, who "liberated" it from the New
    York station where he had worked for fifty years, and had used it in his
    ham radio station. It's a heavy, brass-cased dynamic mike, fitted to an
    equally heavy desk stand, and it still works like the day it was built.
    (In fact, I use it regularly myself to record live sound effects which we
    occasionally use in the "Sound*Bytes" radio program!)

    Elizabeth
    (I started to add something about the events of this week, but I can't do
    it -- the whole thing is just too much to comprehend, much less to write
    about with any degree of clarity. I will say though that as fashionable
    as it is to bash television news, one must give the networks credit for
    an exceptional job of coverage. I've been watching -- and taping --
    NBC-TV continuously for three days, and I'm very impressed with how the
    reporters are holding up under what must be unbearable tension.)

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    Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:10:56 -0400
    From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
    To: OTR DIGEST <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re:  God Bless Americca Again

    From: "Mike Kerezman" <philipmarlowe@[removed];

>     I just have to mention that my local Talk radio Affiliate KTOK 1000
>     [removed] (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) which normally carries Talk radio
>     likes of Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura, etc has been playing Kate Smith's
>     rendition of God Bless America on a almost hourly basis. Its nice
>     to hear on a general outlet.  Mike Kerezman

    It is good to know that some broadcaster remembers Kate Smith's
    rendition of this song.  After she introduced it, she sang it on almost
    every program--no matter how many times we heard it, we had to hear it
    again.  This week we've heard it being sung on the steps of the Capitol
    building by Congress and by several citizens groups in spontaneous
    gatherings.  One reporter called it one of America's oldest songs--not
    knowing that it only dates from 1939 (although Irving Berlin was said to
    have written it during WW I but put it away because he thought it was
    too corny).  But Kate Smith had a way with that song that was always
    dramatic and thrilling.

    Late in her life, when she could barely walk but was not yet in a wheel
    chair, she appeared in a gala all-star TV program broadcast from some
    place like Carnegie Hall or Radio City Music Hall.  They had her sing
    from one side of the stage so she didn't have to walk all the way to the
    center of the stage when she was introduced.  She looked oh so frail.
    She started to sing "God Bless America" all the way from the beginning,
    starting with the long verse about storm clouds gathering far across the
    sea.  She sang the whole chorus, beautifully as usual, and then, also as
    usual, the tempo slowed as she repeated the second half of the chorus
    starting at "From the mountains . . ."  She was going to sing it in her
    usual dramatic way, the way she had sung it since 1939--but now she
    could bearly stand, how could she do it?  She got thru the first
    rendition of the last line "God bless America, my home sweet home."  She
    could have ended it there--most other singers do.  But then she started
    her dramatic repeat of that last line: "God Bless America . . ."  Now
    comes the ever so slow high notes of the last four words--but could she
    sing that last high note??   "My home . . ."  and the trumpets sounded,
    then a pause.  ". . . Sweet . . ."  My goodness she IS going to end on
    that high note, she HAS raised the pitch of this word, not lowered it.
    Another long pause as the trumpets sound again.  You could sense the
    entire gala audience leaning forward, holding their breath as I was,
    wondering, hoping, could this frail old trouper actually sing that
    enormously high note??
    ". . . H O O O O O O M E ! ! !"   She DID it!  And held it strong and
    clear throughout the entire closing orchestral finish!  The audience
    went wild.  She had sung it as well, if not better, than she did in
    1939.  It was one of the most thrilling performances I have ever seen.

    I don't know what that show was although I know I was audiotaping it.
    About ten years later I know I saw it again and I am sure I was
    videotaping it.  Does anybody recognize what it might have been so I
    might try to dig it up.  I recall seeing her later on a program in a
    wheelchair, perhaps the CBS 50th Anniv show or A Night of 100 Stars, and
    it wasn't a show where she was in a wheelchair because she didn't sing
    in it.  From what I've heard, after that the last years of her life were
    not happy.  After she was in the wheelchair she was forced to live with
    some relative who reportedly did not treat her well.  I don't think she
    left any archive.  Anybody know the details?

    Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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    Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:11:33 -0400
    From: "welsa" <welsa@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Broadcast news

    I dislike being a wet blanket here, but I think the TV news coverage of this
    past week has been awful.  But then, I have never cared for TV news.

    It is one thing to report  news.  It is quite something to report suspicion,
    hearsay, rumors and speculation as if it was news.  And I do not like all
    those analysts telling me what I should think about this and that turn of
    events.  Just report the news and let me analyze it myself.

    This past week, all the TV networks went way beyond the parameters of good
    judgment and good news reporting.

    And no, I did not spend hours watching it.  I occasionally checked at
    regular news times to get updates.   Even that was a chore.

    NPR did a better job, but even they went overboard on analysts.

    Sorry to vent this--but I have had this problem with TV news for many, many
    years.  And don't get me started on TV weather men!

    Ted

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    Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:12:02 -0400
    From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Favorite OTR Memorabilia

    One of the most interesting pieces of OTR memorabilia I've seen and held
    is a section of the frame of the Hindenburg.  Someone brought it in to
    the 1997 FOTR where I was on a panel about the Hindenburg broadcast.
    But it's not mine!

    But of the things I have--not mentioning things that are research
    oriented like pieces of equipment, books, magazines, brochures,
    [removed] item I think is most unusual are my three empty WOR brand
    cigar boxes.  They are each slightly different, so I gotta keep all
    three.  There are embossed golden lightning bolts spreading out from the
    black and gold WOR letters, and the labels indicate "Cigars Made
    Especially for L. Bamberger & Co., One of America's Great Stores,
    Newark."

    They were from Tampa, made in factory 102 Coll District, although one of
    the boxes says "Guaranteed Long Havana Filler".  They are Bon Ton and
    Bon Ton De Luxe, and the bottom of the box is marked "Colorado Claro"
    (Perhaps a cigar smoker here knows what that means.) They each have a
    blue tax stamp, and burned into the wood box bottom is the Seal of the
    City of Tampa, Fla. with the signature of Jno. M. Henderson, City
    Clerk.  And there is a notice that the cigars were made to retail for
    more than Five cents each but not more than eight cents each.

    I have a feeling that these were NOT the good five cent cigar that the
    country needed!  I also have a feeling that there WAS spit in these
    cigars.  I would think these date from the 20s but am not sure--perhaps
    a Florida historian can date them by the name of the City Clerk.  I
    wonder if they were advertised on WOR.  Perhaps during John B.
    Gambling's morning exercise program. :-)  Another interesting thing is
    that the side labels which sealed the box are marked as having been
    printed in Germany by Schott Ltd, Rhevdt.

    I probably paid about five bucks for the group of three boxes--I don't
    remember where or when I got them.  I've got them sitting with the only
    other cigar box I have, Lord Clinton brand.  I got that box last year at
    an antique store here in my town for only $1, and the proprietor had no
    idea why we were laughing so hard when we found the box.

    Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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    Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:12:21 -0400
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Buster Brown show

>     Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 00:16:26 -0400
>     From: "Merv" <merv@[removed];

>     I am not sure, but didn't they have episodes of a story about an
>     elephant boy (like Sabu)  on there?  I think so.  My memory is vague on it.

    I don't know about the radio show, but on the TV show, they had an
    elephant boy named "Gunga Ram."  He had a sidekick, but I don't
    remember his name.

     A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     15 Court Square, Suite 210          lawyer@[removed]
     Boston, MA 02108-2503           [removed]

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    Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:12:32 -0400
    From: Ga6string@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Lovecraft

    On the topic of [removed] Lovecraft, I live in Atlanta and have in the past been
    acquainted with the Atlanta Radio Theater Company, which has done some very
    convincing recordings and live performances of Lovecraft works. I don't know
    exactly where to find them on the Web, but I think at least one of the
    members participates in this [removed]
    Bryan Powell

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    Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:13:30 -0400
    From: John Francis MacEachern <johnfmac@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  My Favorite Radio Memorabilium

    Hi All,

    It is a very sad time for all of us, my thoughts and prayers
    are with all who are struggling to cope with this horrible
    tragedy.  We will get through this.

    I seldom contribute to the digest, I don't usually have
    anything to offer.  Tonight, I do.  Writing to you all is
    putting a little bit of normalcy back into my life;  I hope,
    while reading the digest, you too can have a break from the
    sadness.

    When I was a kid in the mid seventies, I first became
    interested in OTR because of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater.
    There is a hardware store in Harvard Square, Cambridge that
    then had a replica of a Philco Cathedral Radio in their
    store window;  it was made to commemorate the 80th
    anniversary of Philco-Ford, it might be one of the first
    replicas ever made of the many kinds that are now available
    everywhere.  Well, when I first saw it I went in to ask the
    price, the owner told me that it has been in the window for
    a few years and that it was not for sale, it was only window
    dressing.  I passed that window many times and thought it
    would be so cool to listen to the CBSRMT on it, that I
    frequently went in to change his mind about making a sale.
    I remember telling him that he didn't even have it plugged
    in, but that I would actually listen to it.  My teenage
    persistence worked;  more likely, I was being such a pain
    that he finally said he would sell it to me for $50.

    The next day I came back with the money and got my radio.  I
    was very happy and carrying it home on the bus proved that I
    had made a good purchase, for it was quite the topic of
    conversation among my fellow riders.  I put it over my desk
    and got to listened to the CBSRMT through it all during my
    high school and college years.   Neither me nor that radio
    are old enough to have heard OTR the first time around but
    I've listened to most of my OTR through it ever since and it
    still has a special place in my living room. For all the
    pleasure it has given me, it was the best $50. I ever spent
    and my most favorite piece of OTR memorablium.

    In those the same years, I also wrote the only fan letter of
    my life, it was to Jim Jordan.  I told him how much I enjoy
    Fibber McGee and Molly and could I please have his autograph
    ( or autogiraffe as teeney would say).  I didn't have his
    address, so I sent it to NBC, not knowing if I would every
    get a response.  Months went by, then I received a nice note
    from him along with a personalized autographed picture.

    Well, I don't have much, but these are my two favorite
    pieces of OTR memorabilia.

    'til [removed]

    John Mac

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    Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:13:41 -0400
    From: Ehutchison@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Top Five

    My top five OTR programs would be:

    1. Lum and Abner
    2. Amos 'n Andy
    3. Duffy's Tavern
    4. Phil Harris and Alice Faye Show
    5. (tie) Jack Benny and Our Miss Brooks

    Honorable Mention:  Mysterious Traveler, Gildersleeve, Edgar Bergen, The
    Whistler, Sherlock Holmes, Burns and Allen, I love a Mystery, and Fibber
    McGee.

    Funniest single episode:  A Dennis Day program in which Dennis accidentally
    rents a room to a lunatic.

    Most underrated series:  Lum and Abner.  If you haven't heard the 15 minute
    serial episodes, you have missed some great humor.  Not being topical, their
    brand of comedy stands up amazingly well.  They were essentially commenting
    upon human nature and that hasn't changed.

    Gee, this has been a difficult task--so many great classics!!

    Edward Hutchison
    Jackson, MS

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    Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:14:13 -0400
    From: otrbuff@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Favorites

    Having been stranded this week during a change of planes enroute home
    from vacation, and after spending a day-and-a-half as the guest of an
    airline in downtown podunk, although treated supremely well while there,
    I was stir crazy with nothing for entertainment but about 28 channels of
    the same thing to watch, and more than a little anxious to leave.  As one
    of the more fortunate, I was finally able to get a call through to
    Greyhound which got me aboard a 20-hour odyssey from there home.  I was
    never so thankful to see my hometown!

    Grateful and proud to be an American, and thankful to God for so many
    undeserved blessings, I was still a bit amused that the "five favorites"
    thread continued to run, just as it had been more than two weeks ago.  I
    never listed mine so here goes, in order:

    1. Perry Mason ( radio version)
    2. Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons
    3. The Lone Ranger
    4. Fibber McGee & Molly
    5. The FBI in Peace & War

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:14:53 -0400
    From: "[removed]" <swells@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Lum and Abner MP3s

    Greg Wrote:

>     I have only been able to find approximately the first half of the Lum and
>     Abner series on a set of three CDs, up to about 1943 and the sound quality
>     is not good on many of them as I have heard others also say.  I, for one,
>     would be very grateful to anyone who did the work of getting the rest
>     encoded and distributed.  It is by far my favorite show.  I just wish there
>     was some way I could help get it done.

    Greg:
    Not to worry, slowly but with determination I will have them completed. It
    takes some time, and I will have to "re-record" about 10-20 episodes as it
    is due to the age and poor quality of a few of the tapes in my collection.
    The good news is that the ones that are not up to quality standards are not
    the difficult ones to find. I have just finished up to the 1946 season, and
    there is still quite a few left to go.
    As for my favorite piece of radio memorbilia; well ,they all have to do with
    Lum & Abner.  I have the complete set of the Horlick's Malted Milk Almanacs
    (1936, '37, '38, '39) The Original autographed 1935 Lum & Abner photo, a
    1946 blue network photo, and the 1933 Pine Ridge News. I have no idea what
    they would be worth today, but that doesn't matter, they are priceless to
    me.
    Shawn

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    Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:15:24 -0400
    From: badaxley@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  America in Crisis

    One of the events covered by the television was the
    spontaneous singing of "God Bless America" by members of
    Congress.  The only thing close that I can remember
    during WWII was the singing of "My Country Tis of Thee"
    by the audience following the Fibber McGee and Molly
    program of 7/9/41.
    I was just 3 years old at the time of Pearl Harbor, but
    can remember my first "blackout" experience in about
    1942 sometime.  I was scared and sitting in my mother's
    lap listening to the Bob Hope Show with the lid of the
    old Victrola down of course to cover up the dial light.
    I guess that is why Bob Hope means so much to me today.
    Operation Desert Storm really got people's patriotism up
    for a while, but it did eventually die down after the
    troops came home from an apparent easy victory.
    However, I believe these despicable acts have really
    aroused America's ire.  I hope and pray that America is
    really united to withstand the sacrifices that may be
    required of us in the near future.  God bless America!
    Bob Axley

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    Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:17:41 -0400
    From: Alan Bell <bella@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Radio vs. TV coverage

    My first inkling of the terrorist attack came as I was teaching a
    class in studio TV production and a colleague came in and told me to
    stop what we were doing and turn on the cable news feed. The class
    watched in horror as the second tower came down before our eyes.

    Later that afternoon I listened to coverage on NPR and found it more
    satisfying, not, I think, because the reportage was necessarily any
    better, but because of the nature of the two media. I think it's just
    that TV, by nature, has to have people ON camera to talk and radio
    obviously does not. Because it's more complicated to either get
    people to the studios to be interviewed or get the cameras to them,
    there's more chatter between TV reporters while they fill time to get
    more hard information or informed commentary. Once they have someone
    on camera, then tendency seems to keep them on longer than warranted.

    Radio, on the other hand, just needs a telephone. They can get people
    on more simply and let them talk only as long as they have something
    to say. They can then get to someone else who might have another
    perspective. While radio reporters did converse with each other, as
    they did on television, I thought the substance was of a somewhat
    higher calibre, largely because they didn't have to fill time as
    much. That means less uninformed speculation. Again, though I have
    great respect for NPR reporters, I think it's more due to the needs
    of the different media than superiority of the reporters themselves.

    TV is also more emotionally involving. It's one thing for someone to
    describe the devastation, no matter how sensitively and skillfully.
    It's another to SEE it. Sometimes television can't be beat. But after
    you've seen it a few times, there's little more that TV can do that
    radio can't, and, to my mind, can't do better. I think a little
    emotional distance can be a good thing.

    I still check in on the television coverage from time to time, but,
    for me, the radio is still the superior news medium of the two.

    Having said all that, I can only stand in awe at the heroic job all
    reporters have done in the midst of an utterly unprecedented
    catastrophe. In a sense, they are our emotional lifeline.
    --
    Alan Bell
    Grandville, MI
    bella@[removed]

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    Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:17:57 -0400
    From: Joe Salerno <salernoj@[removed];
    To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5 favs

    1 Lone Ranger, my fav TV show as a child and my introduction to OTR

    2 Amos & Andy

    3 Gunsmoke

    4 Edger Bergen & Charlie McCarthy

    5 OK so there's only 4

    Joe Salerno

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    Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:18:08 -0400
    From: "Roby McHone" <otr_alaska@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  discontinued brands

    I am just catching up on the digests I missed while on vacation.  On the
    thread of disontinued brands you might want to add a lot of automobiles that
    are no longer made; such as Nash, Studebaker, DeSoto, Plymouth etc.
    Johnson's wax is still around.  I have a big yellow can of Johnson's paste
    wax at home that I bought about six months ago.  It looks the same and
    smells the same but is made in Mexico.
    When I was in the Army (mid 60s) one of the guys in my section found that if
    you put Johnson's Glo Coat on your clean shoes and boots they would shine
    just as well as a two hour spit shine.  Later we used it on the barracks
    floor instead of spending hours waxing and buffing it, and it looked just as
    good.  We kept this secret ingredent to ourselves to look better than the
    other sections.

    Roby McHone

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    Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 23:27:17 -0400
    From: lynn wagar <philcolynn@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Cassette Storage

    With regards to cassette storage.  When I buy most of
    my cassettes they come in a flat box of 100.  As I use
    the blank cassettes I put my recorded cassettes in its
    place.  The hight of the box is about the same height
    as the cassettes so I get a maximum amount of
    cassettes in minimum of space.  I too have been
    looking for some kind of plastic box to keep cassettes
    in because card board soaks in and keeps all kinds of
    smells and after time they are no longer very strong.
    I have yet to find a plastic container that is any
    where near the size of these boxes!  So it's card
    board untill some invents something better!

    By the way the box size is 3" X 10 1/2" x 17".
    How do you store your cassettes?

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    Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 10:17:46 -0400
    From: Thomas Rednour <trednour@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: LIVE MUSIC & BROADCASTS

    Al Goodman:...........Fred Allen
    Phil Harris:..........Jack Benny
    Meredith Willson:.....Burns & Allen
    Freddy Martin:........Jack Carson
    Axel Stordahl:........Frank Sinatra
    Axel was most often used (Songs By Sinatra, Your Hit Parade, other
    shows). Others used by Sinatra include Raymond Scott, Skitch Henderson,
    Jeff Alexander

    --
    Rgds--Tom
    ===========================
    Songs By Sinatra:
    [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 10:18:15 -0400
    From: Bhob <bhob2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Raymond Edward Johnson

    The NEW YORK TIMES finally came through with an obituary for Raymond
    Edward Johnson on 9/16:
    [removed]

    "Mr. Johnson was a familiar presence in the radio serials of the 1940's
    and won acclaim playing Thomas Jefferson in Sidney Kingsley's 1943
    Broadway play "The Patriots." But he was best known as Raymond, the
    original host for the gothic tales of "Inner Sanctum," which made its
    debut in January 1941 and ran for 11 years, on NBC, CBS and ABC."

    Richard Goldstein, who wrote this obituary, also authored AMERICA AT
    D-DAY and edited MINE EYES HAVE SEEN, a collection of eyewitness
    accounts of 20th-century events.

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    Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 10:34:56 -0400
    From: "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Raymond Johnson Obituary

    The New York Times has an obituary on Raymond Johnson today.  It focuses and
    his work on Inner Sanctum and mentions Friends on Old-Time Radio.  The URL
    is

    [removed]

    Signing off for now,

    Stewart

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    Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 14:58:20 -0400
    From: Kenneth Clarke <kclarke5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Live music on OTR

    Owen, I hate to disagree with you, but the "Fibber McGee
    and Molly Show" had its music supplied by Billy Mills, not
    Billie Mays as you listed in your last entry in the mailing
    list.  I have  several tapes of this program and Billy Mills
    and his orchestra were always  given credit for the music.

    Who provided the music for the "Burns and Allen Show"?

    Kenneth

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    Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:10:37 -0400
    From: StevenL751@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Raymond Edward Johnson

    In the "better late than never" category, the New York Times today (Sunday)
    had a very nice obituary of Raymond Edward Johnson, complete with a picture.
    They also mention, in passing, the Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention.  See
    page 44 of the "World/Nation" section.  It should also be available online at
    [removed], though I don't have the exact link handy.

    Steve Lewis

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