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	    [removed]   Volume 95 : Issue 379


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Escape episodes
	 Reg. Cohen on the telephone
	 RE: Escape question
	 Looking for program listings
	 What your scariest show?
	 OTR Music
	 Re: Escape question

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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 95 20:30 EST
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Cc: passage@[removed]
Subject: Escape episodes
Message-Id: <m0tE4mJ-000JcDC@[removed]>

>I got a question on my Escape list that I can't answer. Anyone out
>there know if ESCAPE show #22, "The 2nd Passenger", is the same as 
>show #84, "Second Class Passenger"? I double-checked the titles, but
>I don't have these shows, so can't verify the show content. Thanks.
>

These are two different episodes.  Here is a bit of the casting:

Episode #22:
Ronald Dawson: Morgan Farley
Marlene: Jeanette Nolan

Episode #84:
Ronald Dawson: Parley Baer
Marlene: Georgia Ellis

NOW to really complicate things: There were East Coast/West Coast versions
of Episode #22 (usually numbered 22 & 23). Also two different cast members.
In the East coast version the cast is as above. In the west coast version,
the roles were as follows:
Ronald Dawson: Harry Bartell
Marlene: Jeanette Nolan

The west coast version was always done with Organ music played by Eddie
Dunstetter (as I recall), while the east coast version was always
orchestral.  This was only during a twelve episode run around this time. If
you want more info, let me know.

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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 21:08:00 -0600 (CST)
From: Betty Jean Davis <betdav@[removed]>
To: Old Time Radio <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Reg. Cohen on the telephone
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

When I was a kid I had one of the old acousical Victor records which on 
one side has "Mrs. Rastus Johnson at the Wedding" -- of course done in 
Negro dialect of the time.  The "flip" side was a Cohen telephone act - I 
don't recall the exact title.

My recollection from 50+ years ago was that Cohen was calling to his 
store, the "Cohen Emporium Store" and wanted to speak to his son Izzie.
The dialogue was something like this:
I want to speak to Izzie, my [removed], not Dizzy, you bumhead, I want 
to speak, to IZZIE.  O is that you, Izzie? This is your father's voice 
spoking. Don't you re-COG-nize my voice?

He went on to explain that he had been "pinched for speed-ink --- NO - 
not spitting on de sidewalk, I vas in da motacah and I was pinched for 
speedink!"  He wanted Izzie to bail him out of jail --

"NO - NO - we don't need da bucket to bail [removed]!"
 And so it went.  As a 7-yr-old I had trouble understanding the 
conversation and the dialogue.  

He ended the recording saying, "Tomorrow I'm going down to da store and 
TEAR de telephone OUT BY DA ROOTS!"

I wish I had kept that [removed]


Walter W. Davis
Corpus Christi Tx

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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 22:16:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Randy Minnehan <rminneha@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: RE: Escape question
Message-ID: <[removed]@acme>

[removed] ESCAPE show #22 is titled
"Second Class Passenger" aired on 01-07-48.  This was the first of three
broadcasts of this script.  The second broadcast of this script (but a
different cast from show #22) was show #23 aired on 01-10-48.  The third 
broadcast (by yet another cast) was show #84, aired on 07-28-49.

   All three were the same script written by Percival Gibbon, and takes
place in Mozambique (Portuguese East Africa).

   Hope this helps.

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|Randy Minnehan - rminneha@[removed]|
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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 22:14:03 EST
From: VULM45A@[removed] ( ROBERT W PAINE)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Looking for program listings
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

-- [ From: Robert Paine * [removed] #[removed] ] --

 I'm looking for radio program listings for Baltimore-Washington DC and
New England - particularly CT (Hartford, New London, New Britain and
New Haven-Bridgeport), Massachusetts, Maine and Rhode Island -from the
20's to around 1960. Newspapers, radio guides, station program logs -
anything with program schedules will be helpful. 
 Keeping in mind the prices of old radio guides, if the information can
be photocopied I'll pay the cost of copying and mailing. 
 I'll send on request a list of stations I'm particularly interest in.
 Also - does anyone have information on the Continental FM/ Ameri- can
FM Network, operated by Major Armstrong from W2XMN, [removed]
KE3XCC, Alpine NJ, until his death in 1954. A friend did a program of
pipe organ music from WASH-FM, Wahington DC, which was carried over the
network. There were stations from Alpine south to DC and north through
New England, and I'd like to compile a list of the affiliates and other
pertinent information. 73 and thanks, Bob KA3ZCI 

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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 22:27:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Randy Minnehan <rminneha@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: What your scariest show?
Message-ID: <[removed]@acme>

Hello again [removed]

   A few weeks back someone asked what stories were good for [removed]
well, I'd like to take the question one step [removed] what is YOUR most
favorite "scare you death", most scary individual otr show you've heard? I
mean the type that glues you to the story line and sends chills down to
your toes?  The sort that feels so real that you swear it's really
happening and you are there!

   Everyone loves this sort of story once in a [removed] what's your favorite?

   One of the shows that fits this category that I recently heard was from
THE [removed] a story titled "Hitchhiker" (not to be confused with the
classsic SUSPENSE! show "The Hitchhiker" with Orson Welles, which is
excellent too). There are several from SUSPENSE! that would fit in this
category, but what are some of the more obscure really scary shows that
perhaps only a veteran otr collector would know about? Come [removed] think
hard and share your favorites with us!

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|Randy Minnehan - rminneha@[removed]|
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 01:27:49 -0500
From: "Robert M. Connelly" <rush@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OTR Music
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I have done some limited posting on OTR and have done an awful lot of lurking
and one of the things I have noticed is that there seems to be some sort of
bias or aversion to some of the music programming on OTR. I have reference to
those great Big Band remotes of the thirties and forties that used to come on
after the 15 minute 11:00 pm news and if we were lucky, our local network
affiliate would be on the air until 1 am with them first from New York til
midnight and then from Chicago or New Orleans or St. Louis the last hour.

Then there have been those magnificent Saturday afternoon broadcasts of the
Metropolitan Opera beginning Christmas Day 1931 and is now the longest single
                                                                      ^running
sponsor program ever to hit the airwaves. And of course the New York
Philharmonic-Symphony broadcasts beginning in the late twenties on a sporadic
basis and every Sunday afternoon beginning in 1932 or 1933, the NBC Symphony
(usually Saturday nights) and Longine-Wittnauer Hour preceding the
Philharmonic and those wonderful short-wave broadcasts from the famous
European music festivals in the middle of the afternoon.

As a music lover - not a performer "rank" amateur or any other kind (SOMEone
has to buy the tickets :) ) - with a wide variety of musical interests, I
wonder why these are not discussed and/or traded more. I have gotten some air
checks from some of the tape suppliers, but no one dealer has a lot of
material. Or if they do, they do not advertise it. And some I have bought this
way have had really quite excellent sound. 

There were many other broadcasts in days gone by. I remember the thrill in the
middle thirties of the principal of my grade school turning on WTAM, Cleveland
on Friday afternoons on the school radio and piping it to all the classrooms
for the NBC Music Appreciation Hour with that wonderful old gentleman but not
that great a conductor Walter Damrosch and his German accented (in spite of 5o
years living in the US and having been very young when brought here by his
conductor father) "Gut ahftornoon, my dehr childrun" and proceeding to tell us
about the music he was about to conduct and then those glorious melodies
pouring forth. Even those kids in my class who would not admit on a dare that
they liked classical music, would sit quietly and listen with rapt attention.
Any of those programs exist? 

So, I guess, what i am saying after all of this is let's discuss the pros and
cons of this very major part of OTR and maybe some will be interested in doing
so trading/buying/selling.

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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 02:08:50 -0500
From: ErikS74342@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Escape question
Message-ID: <951111020850_103694358@[removed]>

In a message dated 95-11-10 18:20:11 EST, Frank Passage writes:

>Hi All,
> 
>I got a question on my Escape list that I can't answer. Anyone out
>there know if ESCAPE show #22, "The 2nd Passenger", is the same as 
>show #84, "Second Class Passenger"? I double-checked the titles, but
>I don't have these shows, so can't verify the show content. Thanks.
> 
>Frank
> 
While I can't be sure about the program order without studying my own program
listings, I think I can at least answer part of the question. I have two
copies of "The Second Class Passenger"... and years ago, when I compared
them, I had to conclude they just don't sound the same. Which leads me to
think that they are two different performances of the same script. I'm not
sure which is the earlier version, but one includes local station
announcements.  I've never heard of a program titled "The Second Passenger"
... and believe me, I've pored through the catalogs looking for every episode
of Escape I can find. 
Just be sure it's not confused with "The Fourth Man" and "The Seventh Truck."


And by the way, in a very public way, I'd like to thank Mr. Passage for the
terriffic work he is doing with radio broadcast logs. It has helped me to
identify many of the shows I am missing, and to assign dates to many of those
that I have. I've been collecting, really, for about 10 years, and five years
ago, without any real contact with an organized collector community, I
started trying to do the same thing myself. I found that the microfilm
newspapers available at Pacific Northwest libraries simply did not provide
information about individual radio program titles. (This was a pretty
backward part of the country during the radio era -- and in many respects,
still is.)

I hope Mr. Passage's logs become part of the archive available through the
OTR  Web page. And I think anybody who is willing to do this kind of tedious
bibliographic work deserves a hearty commendation.

Cheers,

Erik Smith
Kennewick, Wash. 

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