Subject: [removed] Digest V2005 #63
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 2/26/2005 8:37 AM
To: [removed]@[removed]

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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 63
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Peeling Transcription Discs           [ Randy Collins <rlcollins1@adelphia. ]
  Walden Hughes Feb 25, 26, 27          [ BryanH362@[removed] ]
  Re: Popeye and spinach                [ "Rodney W Bowcock" <[removed]@ ]
  Two Great Guys (make that Three)      [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  Multiple Springfields                 [ "James Yellen" <clifengr3@[removed] ]
  The Life of Arthur Godfrey            [ "Arthur Funk" <Art-Funk@[removed]; ]
  OTR Baseball Broadcasts               [ "rogers" <edrog@[removed]; ]
  Vic Hardy and the SBI                 [ skallisjr@[removed] ]
  2-26 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Stan Freeberg                         [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
  Mel Allen vs Jim Britt                [ "John Southard" <jsouthard@[removed] ]
  Springfield redux                     [ Richard Carpenter <newsduck@[removed] ]

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:36:10 -0500
From: Randy Collins <rlcollins1@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Peeling Transcription Discs

There's an informative article in the current (March issue) of Reader's
Digest concerning audio preservation efforts by two scientists at the [removed]
Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory. Seems as if
these scientists have successfully tested their "mapping" techniques on
Library of Congress Edison cylinders and rare 78's. They plan to use their
methods this year to digitally map one forty-plus year old Dictabelt
recording of JFK's assassination from the National Archives to hunt for the
final word on the number of gunshots fired that day. The Dallas police
department's Dictabelt recording made from a motorcycle patrolman's open
microphone during those fateful minutes was determined to be virtually
unplayable again by normal analog equipment due to deterioration of the
media. The possibilities of rare audio material being available digitally in
the future seem endless. Randy Collins

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:36:40 -0500
From: BryanH362@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Walden Hughes Feb 25, 26, 27

Heard live via the internet at [removed] at  7:30 Pacific Time
Fri, Sat and Sun.

Friday 2-25-05

A.  Frank  Bresee interviews  the two producers of a new radio series Captain
Hudson.
The tell about the show and offer some sound clips.  You can go to their  web
site and
here sound clips at [removed]

B.  Classic Interview:  Frank's interview  with Edgar Bergen

Saturday 2-26-05

A.  Walden interviews  Bruce Forsberg about his new log on Abbott and
Costello .

C.  Sunday 2-27-05

A.  Laura Leff presents  Jack Benny for 2-18-45

B.  Mike Biel

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:58:15 -0500
From: "Rodney W Bowcock" <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Popeye and spinach

But the real shocker is
the absence of Spinach.

If one is to find some of the (rather expensive unfortunatly) volumes of
Thimble Theater strips that were published several years back by
Fantagraphic Press, they would read only one storyline in which Popeye gets
strength from spinach.  Other than that, he's just strong all the time.

Such as the Wheatina thing was tossed in by those involved the the radio
show, the Fleisher brothers (probably Dave to be specific) capitalized on
the spinach angle when they started making the wildly successful Popeye
cartoons.  I'm sure that spinach farmers everywhere rejoiced as children
stopped scorning the leafy vegetable so much in hopes that they too would
have disproportioned, python like forearms just like Popeye.  [removed] was
enough for me to try it!  :-)

Rodney Bowcock
[removed]

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:58:44 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Two Great Guys (make that Three)

From: Rentingnow@[removed]
Subject:  Springfield Illinois
Lincoln.  Need I say more?<

Larry-
You beat me to it! But if Charlie will let me say ONE more Lincoln-related
word: "[removed]" Go there, for one more chance this President's Week to hear
a Lincoln play. (As well as regular OTR broadcasts, & a nice mix of Easy
Listening, if that be your cup a' tea.)

From: Hal Stone
Subject:  Re: Lets Pretend<

I'd second Hal's opine, that Arthur Anderson is a Prince among OTR Men (Hal
should Know, being one [removed]) Also, that Arthur's book is a gem - as is
Hal's.

Anent LET'S PRETEND: I do have a hazy memory of Arthur remarking that the
show was indeed correctly called "NILA MACK's Let's Pretend," at least in
some [removed]

Best,
-Craig Wichman

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:18:25 -0500
From: "James Yellen" <clifengr3@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Multiple Springfields

I don't know the answer about how the post office distinguished between
towns with the same [removed] I'll put my two cents in anyway.

Just because there's a town or village is shown on a map, doesn't mean that
there's a post office there. I always thought that my grandfather's farm was
in Saratoga Springs, New York because that's how their mail was addressed.
It wasn't until I was 16 that I discovered that they actually lived in a
town named Wilton that didn't have it's own post office. All mail went
through Saratoga Springs. That was 40 years ago, and although Wilton now has
an interstate and an Old Navy, not to mention Sears, Target, Lowes and alot
others, it still doesn't have a post office.

I believe there are many towns around this vast country that suffer from the
"identity crisis" of not having a post office with their name on it.

Jim Yellen

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:20:20 -0500
From: "Arthur Funk" <Art-Funk@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The Life of Arthur Godfrey

Lee Munsick's comments on Arthur Godfrey are always of great interest to me
because as a lad I was a big Godfrey fan.  There are a couple of things that
Lee mentioned in Digest #62 to which I'd like to respond.

To each visitor, sub-teen Mike said something like,
"Nice to meet you, Sir" as he had obviously been raised to address adults.
Then Arthur Godfrey asked Mike to do something, and Mike routinely answered,
"Yes, sir".  Julius looked into the camera and with great emphasis said,
"His own son?"   A perfectly understandable situation blown out of
proportion by Julie, and then further by its strategic inclusion in the
video.

"Sir" and "M'am" were forms of address that were formerly used in the South
(and elsewhere) by children to adults in particular and between adults as
well.  That's the way I *always* addressed my parents.  LaRosa's reaction to
to young Mike's use of the form is perhaps understandable if he came from a
different American sub-culture.  However, the emphasis on the incident in
the video seems exploitative.

And the seminal role which Mr. Godfrey played in the creation of the
Strategic Air Command (SAC), as told to me by its commander, Gen. Curtis
Lemay, who subsequently retired as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff.

General Lemay, who is a folk hero to some old time Air Force veterans and
not so revered by others, was not Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.  He became
Air Force Vice Chief of Staff during 1957  and Air Force Chief of Staff in
1961.

I'd be very interested to hear more from Lee regarding Arthur Godfrey's role
in the development of Strategic Air Command.

Regards to all,
Art Funk

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:21:40 -0500
From: "rogers" <edrog@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OTR Baseball Broadcasts
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An oft untold secret is that many of the early BB broadcasts were, in fact,
recreations. The announcer was in a studio in the home town with a sound
effect man and a ticker tape. During an away game a ticker tape account would
be sent and it was up to the local announcer to interpret and color the game.
I have read some really funny accounts of these recreations and how the
announcer had to make up for dead time, incomplete information on the ticker,
et. al. One announcer even tells of the sudden rain shower heard over the mike
when he could not hold back any longer and had to use the nearby wastebasket
for a toilet. Would love to hear more about those broadcasts.

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:26:46 -0500
From: skallisjr@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Vic Hardy and the SBI

Joe Mackey's query about Vic Hardy reminds me about the evolution of the
Jack Armstrong program.  As Jim Harmon noted in his book, The Great Radio
Heroes, Jack Armstrong was perfect.  He was the pluperfect teen -- smart,
correct in judgement, brave, and incredibly skilled.  No matter where he
went, his values prevailed.  Of the few radio shows preserved  -- the
Sulu Sea adventure being the best example -- he was always on the right
side of every issue.  A couple of his radio adventures were captured in
Whitman Better Little Books, Jack Armstrong and the Ivory Treasure, and
Jack Armstrong and the Mystery of the Iron Key.  In all three adventures,
he and his friends, Billy and Betty Fairfield, accompanied Uncle Jim
Fairfield, a wealthy industrialist, as he coped with various doings
across the globe.

All these adventures were presented while the show was in its 15-minute,
serial, format.  However, as the 1940s approached the end of the decade,
and television started to spread, a number of radio shows transformed
themselves from serial format to half-hour complete shows.  One of them
was Jack Armstrong.   For all the decades of its serial run, Jack was a
highschool student who never aged.  But in its last phases, Jack left
school and joined Vic Hardy's Scientific Bureau of Investigation, and the
show became Armstrong of the SBI.

This was not an improvement.  In the serials, Jack and his cohorts were
exposed to exotic lands, and like a travelogue,  the listeners "went
along," finding out minutae of different cultures and the local flora and
fauna, usually at the expense of advancing the plot.  But it was *fun* to
visit far-flung corners of the planet.  All of that had to be boiled out
of the complete half-hour adventures in order to complete the story
within the time slot.

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:26:54 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  2-26 births/deaths

February 26th births

02-26-1887 - William Frawley - Burlington, IA - d. 3-3-1966
comedian: Fred Mertz "I Love Lucy", "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Hollywood
Hotel"
02-26-1891 - Josef Bonime - Vilna, Poland - d. 11-8-1959
conductor: "Death Valley Days"; "Echoes of New York"
02-26-1900 - Jean Negulesco - Craiova, Rumaina - d. 7-18-1993
film director, screenwriter: "Screen Director's Playhouse"; "Lux Radio
Theatre"
02-26-1906 - Madeleine Carroll - West Bromwich, England - d. 10-2-1987

actress: "The Circle"; "NBC Radio Theatre"; "Stage Door Canteen"
02-26-1914 - Robert Alda - NYC - d. 5-3-1986
singer: "Rudy Vallee Presents the Drene Show"
02-26-1916 - Jackie Gleason - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-24-1987
comedian: "Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne Show"
02-26-1918 - Theodore Sturgeon - Staten Island, NY - d. 5-12-1985
science fiction writer: "Beyond Tomorrow"; "X Minus One"; "Future
Tense"
02-26-1919 - Mason Adams - NYC
actor: Larry 'Pepper' Young "Pepper Young's Family" Ned Scott "Jones
and I"
02-26-1920 - Tony Randall - Tulsa, OK - d. 5-17-2004
actor: Reggie York "I Love A Mystery"
02-26-1921 - Betty Hutton - Battle Creek, MI
singer: "Radio Almanac"; "Radio Hall of Fame"; "[removed] Steel Hour"
02-26-1922 - Margaret Leighton - Barnt Green, England - d. 1-13-1976
actress: "Variety Playhouse"; "Pocket Theatre"
02-26-1926 - David Frankham - London, England
actor: Andy Barbour "One Man's Family"
02-26-1928 - Fats Domino - New Orleans, LA
singer: "Guest Star"
02-26-1932 - Johnny Cash - Kingsland, AR - d. 9-12-2003
singer: "Louisiana Hayride"
02-26-1933 - Godfrey Cambridge - NYC - d. 11-29-1976
actor: "Voices of Vista"

February 26th deaths

03-15-1919 - Lawrence Tierney - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-26-2002
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-29-1896 - Harry McNaughton - Surbiton, England - d. 2-26-1967
actor, panelist: Higgins "It's Higgins. Sir"; "It Pays to Be Ignorant"

08-28-1908 - Genevieve Rowe - Freemont, OH - d. 2-26-1995
singer: "Gay Nineties Revue"; "Songs America Loves"; "An Evening with
Romberg"
10-28-1896 - Howard Hanson - Wahoo, NE - d. 2-26-1981
conductor, composer: "New York Philharmonic"; "ASCAP World's Fair
Concert"
11-29-1913 - Harry Bartell - New Orleans, LA - d. 2-26-2004
actor: Archie Goodwin "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; "Adv of Sherlock Holmes";
"Gunsmoke"
12-10-1889 - Arthur Vinton - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-26-1963
actor: Killer Kane "Buck Rogers"; Commissioner Weston "The Shadow"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:27:14 -0500
From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Stan Freeberg

Hi Everybody,

Frank Bresee is going to produce a birthday special on Stan Freeberg and he
would like to find material for the special that Rhino, or Radio Spirit has
not put out.  Frank is planning to give Stan a copy of this special and he
want Stan to be surprise of the material Frank can come up with.  Does any
one have such items?  EI does any will have That Rich show Stan first series
as the lead?  I have part of the Jack Benny show where Stan was the Camel in
January of 1944 that ran away.  Does any one have the complete show?  I
believe Stan did a special for CBS in 1950s on Satire.  Any thing would be
helpful.  Take care,

Walden Hughes

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:32:47 -0500
From: "John Southard" <jsouthard@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Mel Allen vs Jim Britt

I am amused by the Mel vs. Red posts. As a Boston Red Sox fan as i was
growing up in Northampton, MA., Mel Allen was the enemy, the [removed] Yankee
announcer. The Red Sox announcer was Jim Britt (sp). I remember he and Mel
went at it hammer and tongs over who was the best hitter, Ted Williams or
Joe Dimaggio. Britt had the annoying practice of calling easy fly outs as
home runs. For example, "There it goes, going, going, caught by the
centerfielder."  Britt's death led to the hiring of Curt Gowdy, a better
known announcer. I believe Gowdy was an assistant to Mel Allen before being
hired by the Red Sox.
John Southard

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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:29:48 -0500
From: Richard Carpenter <newsduck@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Springfield redux

All right, I'll grant you that the Andersons of
"Father Knows Best" may have lived in Springfield,
Ill., or, as Dunning says, some Springfield in the
Midwest. But I still think TV's "The Simpsons" are
from Massachusetts. Last week's show was about gay
marriage, which is legal in Massachusetts. Not only
that, one of the show's former writers, late-night
host Conan O'Brien, is from the Boston area. And the
clincher, I think, is that the mayor of the Simpsons'
Springfield speaks with a Kennedyesque accent. So there.

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