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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 300

Table Of Contents: 

	 Tapes
	 Radio Station Slogans
	 New E-Mail Address
	 Jimmy Durante - The Day I Read a Book
	 Re: BIG JON AND SPARKY/NO SCHOOL TODAY
	 Radio drama is dead?
	 Houseman (again!), WENN
	 Uri's Play

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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:30:59 +0900 (JST)
From: ROY WAITE <rwaite@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Tapes
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Andy Blatt wrote:
>A quick question to all who would care to [removed]'s the year 2010 and
>the scientists were wrong; there's actually life much like ours on Mars.

I would have to take five Easy Aces tapes, and the rest made up of  Jack
Benny, Great Guildersleeve, Fibber & Molly and at least one Arthur Godfrey,
ending with one Paul Gibson.  

Roy

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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 22:00:37 -0400
From: RaLf Smith <rsmith@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Radio Station Slogans
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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>>I'm fairly sure this line of chat has been on Oldtime Radio before I signed
on, but can we do it again? Like WSM means "We Shield Millions", WLS"
"World's Largest Store", WNEW: Newyork Ed Wynn; WSB: 'Welcome South Brother",
WIOD: 'Wonderful Isle of Dreams", WGN: "World's Greatest Newspaper", WMCA:
"(Hotel) Mc Alpin", WOR: "World of Radio", WTIC: "Travelers' Insurance
Company", WLAC: Life And Casualty, WFBL (Syracuse): "First Broadcast
License", WEVD: "Eugene V. Debbs", WGY: G: "General Electric"; Y:
"Schenectady", etc.

But did KFI mean anything; WJZ? WEAF? WMC? WHN? WBT? WBZ? KDKA? (WHAM,
Rochester means "wham.")

BILL KNOWLTON<<

Here are some of the above calls; you'll see that not all station slogans
matched their call letters.
They're all really evocative though, and all very OTR.

KFI  - The Radio-Central Super-Station. A National Institution
WEAF - The Voice of the Millions
WMC  - Memphis, Down in Dixie
WHN  - The Station of the Great White Way
WBT  - Queen City of the South
WBZ  - The Broadcasting Station of New England
KDKA - Pioneer Broadcasting Station of the World

And here are some others; some of them _do_ match their call letters:

WAIT - Taunton, Mass - We Are in Taunton
WCBQ - We Can't Be Quiet
WQAN - Scranton, Penn - The Voice of the Anthracite
KPRC - Kotton Port Rail Center
WEBR - We Extend Buffalo's Regards
WIS  - Wonderful Iodine State
WKBI - We Kill Blues Instantly

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Ralph

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Date: 25 Aug 96 20:36:51 EDT
From: "The Bruun's" <[removed]@[removed]>
To: "Robert L. Bruun" <[removed]@[removed]>
Cc: Bill & Laura Damm <[removed]@[removed]>,
        "[removed] digest" <[removed]@[removed]>,
        PETER F GODDARD <[removed]@[removed]>,
        Leo & Janet <kurkoski@[removed]>,
        Al at Kitsap <akurkosk@[removed]>,
        Timothy Kurkoski <tkurk@[removed]>,
        Brian & Jen Kurkoski <jjwright@[removed]>,
        Dan Kurkoski <loftsgor@[removed]>,
        Patrick Kurkoski <pjk@[removed]>,
        DENNIS G RENFROE <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: New E-Mail Address
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hi,
This is just a short note to let you know that we are moving our E-Mail account.
Please send mail to 

jgb@[removed]

We are closing our Compuserve Account today.

John & Theresa

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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 23:23:56 -0400
From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed], MicaHill@[removed], BensmanM@[removed]
Subject: Jimmy Durante - The Day I Read a Book
Message-ID: <960825232013_268629875@[removed]>

Hi Gang -                   Sunday - August 25, 1996 -- 10 PM cdt 

In issue 299, Marvin Bensman copied a message from England 
written by Mica Hill.  Mica inquired about a Jimmy Durante song,
"I read a book [removed] I liked it so much I might do it again 
sometime".  

I believe the song Mica is looking for is:
"The Day I Read A Book" (and one of these days I'm gonna do it again).
If this is the song, it is on an album:
THE VERY BEST OF DURANTE - MGM # SE-4207.

I have this LP in my collection and I will be happy to copy the song
or the entire album to cassette if you can't find the disc.  

I am sending copies of this posting to MicaHill and Marvin Bensman
via direct e-mail.   The reason I'm posting it here to benefit other 
readers of the otrdigest who may also be interested in Jimmy Durante
material.

I found this album, and several others, at an auction of a STORAGE 
LOCKER firm.  These storage lockers have become quite popular in 
the suburbs of Chicago where people have apartments, condominiums, 
duplexes, and soforth, with no storage.  Apparently when someone rents
a storage locker and fails to pay the rent for a certain amount of time,
and cannot be contacted, or refuses to pay, the locker owner has the
right to auction off the contents of said locker.  I was fortunate to 
get a few LP discs from one such auction.  There were four Jimmy Durante
discs among them.    

If you're looking for obscure old stuff, you might visit your local 
locker facility and see if they have auctions. 

Happy Taping -- Ken Piletic, Streamwood, Illinois 
kenpiletic@[removed]





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Date: Mon, Aug 26 1996 00:38:42 EDT
From: Thomas Heathwood <theathwo@[removed]>
To: <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Re: BIG JON AND SPARKY/NO SCHOOL TODAY
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Unable to reach reader [removed] Hendricks at tshdm@[removed] re: No School
Today show. If anyone knows his correct address, please forward. Thanks!
<<TOM HEATHWOOD/HERITAGE RADIO CLASSICS/YESTERDAY-USA RADIO NETWORK>>9/26.

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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 00:47:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Radio drama is dead?
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 15:04:51 -0400
> From: Bigkids@[removed]
> To: [removed]@[removed]
> Subject: The Back Seat of Our '47 Hudson
> Message-ID: <960824150450_186813636@[removed]>
> 
> I think that OTR is dead, alas, and will never come back as something that
> people sit in the living room and listen to after dinner. It's part of the
> Norman Rockwell/SEP cover world that never quite existed as portrayed, but
> that approached it as a kind of Platonic ideal of what the American home of
> its era was *supposed* to be like.
 
Actually, this is only so in the United States.  Radio drama is still
heard on the CBC and on the BBC and probably elsewhere in the world.  It
even makes it onto PBS now and then.  I suspect it has to do with the
commercialism of American radio.

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 02:06:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: "John R. Pellatt" <bs206@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Houseman (again!), WENN
Message-ID: <[removed]@queen>
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Hi [removed]
     Still wondering if anybody knows ANYTHING about the big split 
between John Houseman and Orson Welles. Welles wouldn't talk about 
Houseman in any interviews I ever read. Obviously a big blowup after 
their triumph on radio and CITIZEN KANE but I've never seen anybody 
discuss the details.
     NEW TOPIC: For those of us far away from its cable source, is there 
any source for videos of WENN? I've read enough on this list to whet my 
appetite! I'd love to see some episodes but nobody up here in Canada is 
playing it (as far as I can tell).
     Thanks to Alan for updating me on Henry B's new e mail address.
     JOHN PELLATT

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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 12:07:11 -0700
From: [removed]@[removed] (Donald Dortmund)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Uri's Play
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  This may not be OTR but here goes,
  A friend on mine who is blind said he heard a play by URI RESOLVSKI , the 
  drama centered around a couple with Altzheimers Disease. This would have 
  been broadcast about a year ago , on WBEZ (Chicago) or the network for 
  the blind, so I think it may not OTR. 
   Can anyone suggest where I might find this play, to give to my friend?
  Thanks
  DON




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