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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 29
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  William H. Cosby, Jr. is a Bad Perso  [ "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed] ]
  Re: CBS television sets               [ Cnorth6311@[removed] ]
  Commercials                           [ "William Halbe" <[removed]@veri ]
  Godfrey shows on Usenet               [ Michael Berger <makiju@[removed]; ]
  Re: radio to television               [ Grams46@[removed] ]
  1-25 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Sorry, I meant Ken                    [ "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed] ]
  OTR folk on Perry Mason               [ "karl tiedemann" <karltiedemann@hot ]
  West Coast Radio Stations             [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  BBC acetate discs found               [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
  Hall of Fantasy 1952                  [ KENPILETIC@[removed] ]
  20 lashes with brickmush?             [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]
  Re: Harold Peary Show                 [ Cnorth6311@[removed] ]
  CBS TV Sets                           [ "Michael Paraniuk" <bourdase@webtv. ]

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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:13:34 -0500
From: "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  William H. Cosby, Jr. is a Bad Person
 (UNCLASSIFIED)

Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

The other night, I finally had an opportunity to hear the original 15-minute
"Lights Out" broadcast of "Chicken Heart." I remember how scary all the
"Lights Out" shows were when I was a kid, and I was looking forward to being
scared to death and hiding under the blankets all night.

Instead, all I could think of was young Bill spreading Jello all over the
floor and his father slipping on the floor and breaking his arm. Instead of
being scared, I laughed my head off while the narrater of the show was being
consumed by the chicken heart.

It's all Cosby's fault. Shame on him.

[removed]
Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:44:38 -0500
From: Cnorth6311@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: CBS television sets

A while back, someone mentioned having a CBS television set, and how it was
supposed to have had special components in it that made it better than other
sets. I'm sure a loot of that was merely advertising hype.

However. It  got me thinking. Our first TV set---which was bought in the mid
50's---was a CBS  set, and I recall my dad telling me it had among other
things, an  "aluminized" picture tube that was supposed to make the picture
sharper, and  brighter, besides making the tube last longer. Does anyone know
how
much of that  was hype, and how much was truth? Or, if my memory is playing
tricks on  me?

I was going through some old pictures the other day, and lo and behold,
there it was. I know this much. It lasted all through us kids school years
with
not a single repair that I( recall, and was still working when I left for the
service.

Charlie

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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:55:43 -0500
From: "William Halbe" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Commercials

Ron Sayles asked if any programs worked their commercials into the program.
On of the best I've heard was on the Frances Langford show which was
sponsored by Maxwell House Coffee.  Miss Langford would sing several verses
of a song and then the announcer would show how adding various sections of
the orchestra would sound and compare with the blending of coffee. As the
commercial finished Miss Langford would sing the last verse.

Bill Halbe

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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:57:03 -0500
From: Michael Berger <makiju@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Godfrey shows on Usenet
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Several Arthur Godfrey shows have been posted recently on Usenet.

The dates
include shows from 1946, '47, '49, '52 and '53, and one is a Godfrey morning
show on WCBS in 1948.

You can find them with a search of your Usenet reader
at this location:

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For those of
you unfamiliar with Usenet, you can get full info at this link:
[removed]

Michael Berger

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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:06:41 -0500
From: Grams46@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: radio to television

Jay Sweet writes:

What  television shows  based on OTR do you think did a good job?

"my favorite husband" was  the original "i love lucy".   if you count that,
i'd say they hit  a grand slam home run.
peace from kathy
support our troops; end the  war
john 3:16

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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:06:49 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-25 births/deaths

January 25th births

01-25-1874 - Somerset Maughan - Paris, France - d. 12-16-1965
writer: " Somerset Maughan Theatre"
01-25-1878 - Ernest Alexanderson - Uppsala, Sweden - d. 5-14-1975
engineer: Possibly first voice ever heard on radio Dec. 24, 1906
01-25-1901 - Mildred Dunnock - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-5-1991
actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
01-25-1910 - Portland Hoffa - Portland, OR - d. 12-25-1990
comedienne: (Wife of Fred Allen) "Fred Allen Show"
01-25-1916 - Les Crutchfield - d. 10-6-1966
writer: "Escape"; "Fort Laramie"; "Gunsmoke"
01-25-1920 - Fred Pinkard - d. 8-3-2004
actor: "Destination Freedom"; "Hello, Sucker"
01-25-1920 - Roy Rowan - d. 5-10-1998
announcer: "Escape"; "Gunsmoke"; "Rogers of the Gazette"; "Young Love"
01-25-1923 - Rusty Draper - d. 3-28-2003
country singer: "Dude Martin's Radio Ranch"
01-25-1924 - Speedy West - Springfield, MO - d. 11-15-2003
steel guitarist: "Grand Old Opry"; "Tennessee Ernie FordShow"

January 25th deaths

02-06-1878 - Walter B. Pitkin - Ypsilanti, MI - d. 1-25-1953
author: "The Clearing House of Hope"; "We Americans"
03-03-1921 - Diana Barrymore - NYC - d. 1-25-1960
actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
03-21-1918 - Cliff Norton - Chicago, IL - d. 1-25-2003
actor: Connie the coolie "Terry and the Pirates"; "American Novels"
03-24-1867 - Harry Neville - Launceston, Tasmania - d. 1-25-1945
actor: "Sherlock Holmes"; "John's Other Wife"
04-07-1893 - Irene Castle - New Rochelle, NY - d. 1-25-1969
actor: Best Dressed Woman "Life of Irene Castle"; "Twenty Questions"
04-30-1916 - Robert Shaw - Red Bluff, CA - d. 1-25-1999
choral director: "Radio Hall of Fame"; "American School of the Air"
05-31-1904 - Jeanne Juvelier - NYC - d. 1-25-1981
actor: Madame Babette "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"
06-03-1924 - Ted Mallie - d. 1-25-1999
announcer: "The Shadow"
08-19-1902 - Colleen Moore - Port Huron, MI - d. 1-25-1988
actor: "Whatever Became of . . . ."
09-10-1898 - Adele Astaire - Omaha, NE - d. 1-25-1981
dancer, actor: (Fred's Sister) "Magic Key"; "Savings Bond Campaign"
10-15-1921 - Robert Rockwell - Chicago, IL - d. 1-25-2003
actor: Philip Boynton "Our Miss Brooks"
10-30-1906 - Paul J. Smith - Calumet, MI - d. 1-25-1985
music: "The Eddie Bracken Show"
12-03-1902 - Bill Slater - Parkersburg, WV - d. 1-25-1965
emcee: ""Uncle Jim's Question Bee"; "Twenty Questions"; "Dunninger Show"
12-24-1922 - Ava Gardner - Grabtown, NC - d. 1-25-1990
actor: "So Proudly We Hail"; "Prudential Family Hour of Stars"

Ron Sayles

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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:15:13 -0500
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Sorry, I meant Ken

I said Kermit and I meant to say Ken Greenwald in reference to the Biography
in Sound programs.
Ted Kneebone / 1528 S. Grant St. / Aberdeen, SD 57401
[removed]~stmarkch/

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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:15:43 -0500
From: "karl tiedemann" <karltiedemann@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR folk on Perry Mason

Those who want to see what some of the best radio character actors looked
like could do worse than to get hold of the new DVD release of the first
season (1957-58) of PERRY [removed]  Quite apart from the high quality of
the shows themselves (all but a few of these early episodes were based on
the original Mason novels, and it shows) you get to see, amongst others:
Betty Lou Gerson, Virginia Gregg, Olan Soule, Luis Van Rooten (menacing a
very young and dewy Angie Dickinson), Russell Thorson, Paula Winslowe, Eve
McVeagh, Herb Vigran and the peerless Lurene ("Effie") Tuttle-- some of them
in very prominent roles.  (In addition, several episodes are directed by
Anton M. Leader.)  Quite a nice bonus.

Karl Tiedemann

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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:48:56 -0500
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  West Coast Radio Stations

I recently read a radios script for a radio broadcast not known to exist in
recorded form and one of the characters tells a police officer that they
went to the wrong station.  They tell him, "I told you not the radio station
at Taylor and O'Farrell."

My question is, was there a radio station at such an address?

Martin

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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:16:40 -0500
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  BBC acetate discs found
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On a visit earlier this week to BBC Sound Archives in London I was told about
some acetate discs that were recently discovered from the 1943 - 1945 period.
Some of the discs featured a February 1945 BBC broadcast by the Chicago
Servicemen's Band . This isn't a band that myself or anyone in BBC Archives
is familiar with. If anyone can give me any details on personnel etc of this
band please get in touch with me off list.

  Graeme Stevenson, Tune into Yesterday newsletter, Old Time Radio Show
Collectors Association, UK

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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:06:40 -0500
From: KENPILETIC@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Hall of Fantasy 1952
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Hi Gang -

In  issue 26, Lenny Price wrote:

... Hall of Fantasy--the 1949/1952 series from which no shows exist  ...

This is not exactly correct.  I recorded the HOF broadcast of
"The Cask of Amontillado" off the air in either 1951 or 1952.
I put copies of this recording into general circulation  in the mid 1960s.

It is possible that better quality versions are also in circulation, but
there
is a good chance that "my" recording is still being heard today.

Happy Taping --
Ken Piletic -- Streamwood, Illinois & Alma,  Arkansas

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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:39:30 -0500
From: "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  20 lashes with brickmush?

I recently received a catalog from Radio Spirits.  They are offering Bill
Idelson's book on Vic and Sade.  I wonder, though, about the blurb they
printed.  At the end it says, "...the perfect book for all you Vic and
Sadists out there!"

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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:39:42 -0500
From: Cnorth6311@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Harold Peary Show

I have been listening to The Harold Peary show  recently, and must confess, I
like it. The writing is funny, and crisp, and  thoroughly entertaining. The
characters are not as strong as they were on  Gildersleeve, but tolerable.
It's
to bad the show happened at a time when radio  was falling out of favor. In
my humble opinion, if it had been five years  earlier it may have had a larger
audience, and more than just 28 episodes.

Now, a question. In listening to the shows, I noticed they were for the  most
part sustaining shows with the exception of one show, which was sponsored  by
Plymouth. Before, and after that particular episode, there were no sponsors.
Can anyone think of another show that had a sponsor for only one episode?

Thanks

Charlie

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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:10:17 -0500
From: "Michael Paraniuk" <bourdase@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  CBS TV Sets
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Hi Chuck. The Columbia Broadcasting System did have a division called
CBS-Columbia which manufactured radio and TV receivers. I currently own 6 CBS-
Columbia TV receivers (1952-1955) and around 30 CBS radio receivers. I am
amazed at the picture clarity of my CBS televisions. I own the very first CBS
TV set made after they bought Air King in 1951. My 1952 CBS television is
featured in the 1952 CBS stock holder report to investors. Sadly, CBS
televisions were only made from 1952 to 1957. According to their 1958 stock
report, CBS-Columbia made picture tubes but not complete TV sets. CBS just
could not compete with the giant of TV manufacturing - RCA. CBS completed the
sale of all CBS-Columbia assests by 1960. Throughout the 1960's Columbia and
Masterwork radios were manufactured by German and Japanese companies.
[removed] Mike Paraniuk, pastor St. Mary Catholic Church in Hillsboro,
Ohio.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++The sufferings in the world are compensated.
Do not be [removed] is one who watches over [removed] LUGOSI

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