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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 443

Table Of Contents: 

	 Subj:Schickele Mix
	 Radio Shows and WWII
	 Jack Benny for US Healthcare
	 Remember WENN
	 WW2 In Radio
	 Jack Benny Lives?
	 Remember WENN
	 Maltese Falcon an Lux
	 OTR on SW
	 Re: Maltese Falcon on Radio
	 The Cinnimon Bear
	 e-mail address
	 Phillip Marlowe Reviews

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Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 23:31:39 -0500
From: JanBach@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Subj:Schickele Mix
Message-ID: <961116233139_738362499@[removed]>

Hello again --
While this is somewhat off the subject of Old Time Radio, I can't help but
wonder if there are any kind subscribers out there who have discovered and
recorded Peter Schickele's (AKA P. D. Q. Bach) show on Public Radio
International, SCHICKELE MIX, an hour-long feast of music from Baroque to Bop
(and beyond) sharing a common theme: music with unusual time signatures,
music for clarinets, mistakes musicians have made in recordings, etc. I lack
only these programs: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 16, 17, 19, 21, 28, 29,
40, 43, 44, 47, 76, 89, 123, 125 (my tape recorder malfunctioned just tonight
with this last one!) If any kind soul would like to contact me privately by
e-mail I would appreciate it: I have all the other episodes, and would gladly
share them for those I still need to complete this on-going series. 
Hope to hear from you!
Jan Bach (you can also contact me at JanBach@[removed])

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 00:01:30 -0500 (EST)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Radio Shows and WWII
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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And, of course, there was the show where Jack Benny donated his Maxwell to
a scrap-metal drive.  

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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: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 00:08:26 -0500 (EST)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Jack Benny for US Healthcare
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 20:30:39 -0500
> From: Michael Carraher <michaelcarraher@[removed]>
> To: [removed]@[removed]
> Subject: Re: Jack Benny lives, apparently.
> Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
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> Several court decisions have held that celebrities cannot be imitated or
> charactered for commercial purposes without their consent (or the
> consent of the estates).  If [removed] Healthcare's lawyers did not get
> clearance from the Benny estate, there will be even more money in his
> vault sometime soon.  Use of deceased celebraties in commercials is not
> uncommon (Chaplin-IBM, Boggie and Cagney-Diet Coke) but [removed] Healthcare
> is the first hommage to OTR in some time.

Of course, they may have the clearance.  I don't think that the version
I've heard contained any mention of Jack's name or of Rochester.  It was
just a familiar voice, strongly hinting that it was Jack Benny.

Using the new computer technology by which Forest Gump met President
Kennedy, there have been a number of TV commercials using some characters
from old movies.  I've noticed Jack Webb and Lucille Ball in recent
commercials.

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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: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 00:14:58 -0500 (EST)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Remember WENN
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 08:09:33 -0800
> From: Jan Bach <JanBach@[removed]>
> To: [removed]@[removed]
> Subject: Re: Remember WENN
> Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
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> Its fans will be happy to know that the second season
> finally starts tonight, with an episode that puts the WENN staff
> directly into the path of the Second World War. So, as I mentioned in
> another note last spring, my information that the show was not frozen in
> time but would trace a lot of broadcast history appears to have been
> correct; I assume we will be seeing the advent of the network, the
> coast-to-coast hookup, the addition of a laughing audience to live
> comedy shows and a lot of other changes (will Mr. Foley be replaced by
> taped sound effects?) as well as the addition (and loss) of various
> radio players on the show. Sorry I didn't have this information to share
> with you earlier.
> Jan Bach

I wish they'd be a little more careful of their history.  The sling that
Jeff had his arm in looked more like a 1990s model than like what they'd
have been using in the 1930s.  

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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: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 01:31:59 -0500
From: Ann A Davenport <[removed]@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <otr@[removed]>
Subject: WW2 In Radio
Message-ID: <199611170133_MC1-C01-F74@[removed]>

Well, I have been lurking in the reading mode for the past few days. 
Nobody has mentioned COMMAND PERFORMANCE which was dedicated to war
propaganda.  All of the stars performed for Free as their contribution.  As
a result, you can hear almost every popular star of the time on these
shows.  They are terrific!
One had Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Jimmy Durante, Frank
Morgan. Judy Garland, and Bob Hope.  That was for one show!  They tried to
carry it on after the war ended, but the spark was gone.  If you really
want a feel for the war I would suggest trying the CBS network feed of
D-Day.  It gives everything that came over the CBS network on June 6 & 7,
1944.  I thought it was wonderful.

Someone also asked how the JACK BENNY shoelaces episode was that AIC is
offering.  It is odd for one dealer to praise another, but here goes.  I
have had a chance to talk to them and how they put their packages together.
 I was very impressed on the amount of attention that goes toward sound
quality.  They are doing EVERYTHING to insure that the customer gets the
very best sound quality.  My hat goes off to you, ADVENTURES IN CASSETTES. 
Ted Davenport (Radio Memories)

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Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 23:52:58 -0500 (EST)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Jack Benny Lives?
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 19:55:36 -0500 (EST)
> From: Mark Kinsler <kinsler@[removed]>
> To: [removed]@[removed]
> Subject: Jack Benny lives, apparently.
> Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
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> 
> Someone is doing a rather good impression of Jack Benny in a radio ad 
> I've been hearing in Pittsburgh lately.  I believe that it's for a health 
> maintenance organization.  It occurs to me that whoever holds the 
> copyrights to Jack Benny's shows can't be pleased, but Mr. Benny's name 
> is mentioned nowhere in the ad.  It seems to be an interesting legal 
> point: does a famous person have a legal right to his distinctive radio 
> voice and style?  Anyway, who's doing the voices in this ad?  It is 
> presumably aimed at people who are old enough to remember Jack Benny.
> There is a woman in it who sounds much like the woman in the Culligan 
> water softener advertisements.  

The ad is also running in Boston.  It's for some king of health plan for
senior citizens - an audience that will not only remember Jack but will
probably enjoy an ad that invokes him.

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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: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 23:58:00 -0500 (EST)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Remember WENN
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 09:00:07 -0500
> From: Shawn Whalen <swhalen@[removed]>
> To: [removed]@[removed]
> Subject: Remember WENN show
> Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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> 
> There is a great show on the American Movie Channel called "Remember WENN,"
> a light hearted drama/comedy about and taking place in a radio station/sound
> studio in the 1940's. They enact various fictitious shows. The interplay
> between the actors, station people/sales, etc. is fun to watch. Not sure
> when it on, but I believe it's aired on multiple occasions each week.

Yes, we've discussed it around here before.  It's been in reruns, but the
second season of new episodes starts this week.  It's on Saturday evening,
repeated Wednesday evening. 

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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: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 02:29:42 -0700
From: joseph@[removed] (joseph)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Maltese Falcon an Lux
Message-Id: <v01530504aeb48876e176@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Being a film buff as well as a OTR buff I'd have to say that the reason
that Lux used different actors for Casablanca it was just another movie
adaptation. Not a version of a "beloved" movie.

I think Lux just grabbed actors that were available.

On the Maltese Falcon -- I heard on "When Radio Was" a Lux version of MF
with Edward G Robinson. Was that all wrong. I din't finish it, but Laird
Cregar was playing Caspar Gutman.

One more thing in the Bogie radio version of MF, being it was only a
half-hour, I thought there some interesting short cuts taken to make the
story fit. Where the Falcon was hidden was pretty humorous.

Joseph

"Lox Radio Theater" ... "the only soap that swims up tub" The Stan Freberg Show.

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 08:45:44 -0800
From: Frank Mallory <frankm@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: OTR on SW
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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I caught an hour of McCarthy & Bergen on _Golden Age of Radio Theater_ 
last night (actually, Sunday morning at 0200 EST). It's on 3210KC.

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 08:57:12 -0500
From: JanBach@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Maltese Falcon on Radio
Message-ID: <961117085712_1317861043@[removed]>

Hello again --
Dick Lupoff was wondering about radio dramatizations of The Maltese Falcon,
and subsequent appearances of Steve Dunn on the lighter series, Adventures of
Sam Spade:
I have three dramatizations of The Maltese Falcon in my library. The first is
an interesting study in casting: it is the Lux Radio Theater of 2/8/43,
starring Edward G. Robinson and Laird Kreger, a full-hour show. The other two
are half-hour shows: Academy Award from 7/13/46 with Bogart, Greenstreet, and
Aster; and Screen Guild Players from 9/20/43, including Peter Lorre with the
three stars mentioned above. Apparently 1943 was a big year for radio
dramatizations of this popular *film noir.*
There was also an interesting and humorous series of two-minute advertising
vignettes of MF on Chuck Schaden's Saturday afternoon radio show of OTR,
Those Were The Days, about six or seven years ago. "The Mighty Metro Art
Players" (actually radio announcer Ken Alexander taking all the roles -- and
playing them to a tee) had Sam and the others looking for the Maltese Falcon,
only to discover its replica at Metro Golden Memories, Chuck's nostalgia
shop. Very funny -- and a virtuoso performance by Alexander.
The only Sam Spade Adventure I have with Steve Dunn is "The Dog Bed Caper"
from 12/1/50, rather late in the series.

Jan Bach

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 10:22:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Fred Berney <berney@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Cinnimon Bear
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

I've got the Cinnamon Bear available on audio cassette. Four cassettes
nicely packaged in a vinyl album. Cost is $[removed] plus $[removed] shipping.

Satellite Broadcasting
P. O. Box 638
Walkersville, MD 21793
(800) 747-0856

                        Fred

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 10:56:43 -0500
From: vintage@[removed] (Andy Blatt)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: e-mail address
Message-Id: <v01540b00aeb4e5992661@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Richard Weil:

Tried to reply to your e-mail regarding the Christmas cassettes list, but
your server bounces it back to me.  Are there any problems with you server?

If you want, just e-mail your address and/or fax number and in the meantime
I will snail-mail it you (or fax it)...

Thanks.
Andy Blatt
Vintage Broadcasts

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Date: 17 Nov 96 12:22:43 EST
From: "Norman G. Cox" <[removed]@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Phillip Marlowe Reviews
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Phillip Marlowe, Adventures of. Review #2 of 15
Starring Gerald Mohr.  From the cassette lending library or North American Radio
Archives (NARA)

NARA Cassette 7229 Side A, 5/21/49.  Night Tide

It's high tide at the San Pedro waterfront and a hot tempered kid has murder on
his mind.  A knife is held at Phillip's [removed] corpse will be found on the
beach before the tide goes out [removed] parolee is out for revenge and a new
client is looking for some protection.  This time we find ourselves following
our fearless PI around the docks, offices and cafes of San Pedro.  The three
writers of these shows always deliver an exciting script with good sound
pictures of the people and places our hero runs into while solving his cases.
"CBS will be making random calls around the nation tonight asking you to
identify the Phantom Voice.  If you can solve the riddle and identify him you
can win $50,[removed]"

NARA Cassette 7229 Side B, 5/28/49.  The Ebony Link

Vicious blackmail mushrooms into murder and this is all because of a wild artist
on a hilltop, a man in a wheelchair and a red headed manicurist.  One of
Marlowe's friends doesn't want it noised around that his wife spent some time in
jail and an anonymous blackmailer is asking for $50,[removed] to keep it quiet.  A
small ebony cuff link is found and starts our PI's search for the villain.
Tonight the prize for the Phantom Voice is up to $52,[removed]

That's 30 for tonight
NGC
Norman Cox   



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