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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2004 : Issue 94
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Rod Serling                           [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
  Old Disks                             [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
  Re: Have Gun, Will Travel and Bonanz  [ "Michael J. Hayde" <michaelhayde@ea ]
  King for a day                        [ "Glen Schroeder" <gschroeder10@char ]
  Thanks for reply's:                   [ "Bob and Carol Taylor" <shadowcole@ ]
  bergen and mccarthy                   [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
  Satellite Radio                       [ "Penne Yingling" <bp_ying@[removed] ]
  Re: AM Radio Tuners                   [ Shenbarger@[removed] ]
  King for a Date                       [ JackBenny@[removed] ]
  Confused About An Earlier Post        [ "Kris Stone" <anaheim47@[removed] ]
  Question about a MYSTERY PLAYHOUSE b  [ Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed]; ]
  Script Pages?                         [ "larry" <larrybieza1@[removed]; ]
  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed] ]
  3-14 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  LS/MFT                                [ "awfulE" <emba@[removed]; ]
  WAMU tribute to Harry Bartell         [ Art Chimes <achimes@[removed]; ]
  Re: Cincinnati convention hotel       [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history            [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Johnny Dollar questions               [ "John Abbott" <mraastro@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 18:38:04 -0500
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Rod Serling

There is a biographical article on radio writer Rod Serling and his Twilight
Zone tv series in today's Toronto Star.

[removed];c=Article&cid=1079003229419&call_pageid=968867495754&col=969483191630

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:45:25 -0500
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Old Disks

Bob Taylor asks,

When shows were recorded for later broadcast on the network were they
recorded on 33 and 2thrds or 78 and 1thrd on 12 inch?

As many others will speak in more detail than I, they were recorded at 78
(no fractions) RPM on records greater than 12 inches.  In 1947, I was
living in Tacoma, Washington, and one of  my schoolmates showed me a
record of a network show that had been supplied to some one of his
relatives' radio station.  It was one that had a show less than a week
old that I had heard on the air.  He played a bit of it for me, and it
was just like listening to the radio.  To a ten-years-old's eyes, the
disk looked gigantic.

At that age, I was impressed at the novelty of it, and of its apparent
"Show Business" quality.  Those were much simpler times.

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:46:27 -0500
From: "Michael J. Hayde" <michaelhayde@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Have Gun, Will Travel and Bonanza

William Brooks inquired as to whether the "Hop Sing" of San Francisco, cited
in "Have Gun, Will Travel" was the same character who became the Cartwright's
cook in "Bonanza."  Mr. Brooks noted:

In one episode of Have Gun, Hey Boy is the victim
of an assault by Hop Sing. Then we hear in a later episode that Hop
Sing has left San Francisco and moved to Virginia City. The series
Have Gun, Will Travel takes place in 1875.

The Bonanza show was set in and around Virginia City, and the time
frame appears to be about 1875. Any connection?

This veers dangerously off-topic, but the question was asked.  "Bonanza," at
least during its debut season (and Hop Sing is present from episode one on)
takes place in about 1862.  Two first season episodes set this timeframe:
"Enter Mark Twain," which deals with Samuel Clemens' early days as a reporter
for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise; and "A House Divided," in which
brothers Adam and Little Joe find themselves with opposing political views of
the encroaching Civil War.

With that in mind, the two Hop Sing's can't be one and the same - but it's a
heckuva coincidence.

Michael

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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 22:01:54 -0500
From: "Glen Schroeder" <gschroeder10@[removed];
To: "otr" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  King for a day

Hi Derek and list.

I have the song you are talking about on a record by Ted Lewis.  The first
line is exactly as you say.  The other side of the record is Sing You
Sinners.

I remember the rocket radio that Jim Harmon talked about.  I had one when I
was about ten or eleven years old in the late fifties.  I could get two
Milwaukee stations on it.

Love Dis List

Glen Schroeder

Madison WI

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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 22:02:14 -0500
From: "Bob and Carol Taylor" <shadowcole@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Thanks for reply's:
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I want to thank all of you for replying to me via my mailbox.  I was glad so
many folks answered my question.

Now here is another.

When I was in the school for the blind in CT.  I found a 10 inch record
recorded at wccc.  The record was commercials about the school for the blind.
It was recorded on what I gather was a home disk recorded at the station.
However it was recorded with the start of the disk being at the inside of the
record where the run off track usually is.  What was the reason for this?

Bob Taylor

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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 23:08:00 -0500
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  bergen and mccarthy

Candace Bergen once remarked that people thought she was Charlie McCarthy's
sister.

M Kinsler

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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 23:08:34 -0500
From: "Penne Yingling" <bp_ying@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Satellite Radio

I went onto a site (can't remember which one) that lists radio stations that
play OTR.  I'm trying to find one in my area.  I, at one time, could pick up
an AM  station from  Philadelphia late at night(Philly is about three hours
from me), but can no longer.  I assume the OTR shows are no longer broadcast
from there.  At any rate, the site listed "XM Satellite Radio and Sirius
Satellite Radio".  I hate to admit that I never heard of it (satellite
radio).    Can anyone enlighten me?  (I hope I'm not the only one who has
never heard [removed]) (Feeling sort of stupefied right now).    Thanks in
advance.

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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 23:25:54 -0500
From: Shenbarger@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: AM Radio Tuners
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In a message dated 3/13/2004 Mark Kinsler wrote:

Monaural component-built hi-fi sets of the 1950's generally consisted of a
speaker, an amplifier, a pre-amplifier, a turntable, and an FM-only tuner.
My father had one of these setups.  For whatever reason, high-grade AM
tuners weren't readily available then.
I have the feeling early component Hi-Fi people thought adding AM might
suggest a less than high quality sound system. Call it "snob appeal" to leave
it
out.

One point worth mentioning is that we're talking the tube era, and it would
add at least three tubes, and increase chassis size, transformer filament
winding current and heat to include an AM section. I built the first AM-FM
(mono)
tuner used in our home about 1960. It was a Heathkit and has fourteen tubes
(including two "magic eye" tuning tubes). The AM section has six tubes
including
its magic eye tube.

Another view from the early to mid 60's early stereo (but still tube) era was
an AM section could be added to an otherwise high quality FM tuner for about
$50 at retail, but the quality of the AM section would not be good compared to
the FM section. High quality AM tuners were only available in commercial
broadcaster's gear grades and prices and these did not match FM's sonic
quality.
So manufacturers tended to leave them out of component tuners, but might
include an AM section in at least one of their mid-to-upper range receiver
components for customers who wanted it. Rural listeners were left high and
dry when it
came to early component Hi-Fi gear as they were often out of range of any FM
station.

My present FM tuner is twenty years old and although costly, has no AM
section, neither does my first stereo receiver, a tube type Fisher unit now
about
forty years old. I bought a Kenwood high-tech tuner in Asia thirty-five years
ago that has an excellent AM section, so they were available at some point.
The
first high quality Hi-Fi system that was familiar to me (in the late 50's) was
put together by a blind couple on a cost-no-object basis and had no AM
section in the tuner, exactly as the system Mark describes above. It had an
enormous
Electrovoice speaker, easily the size of a modern 50" rear projection TV and
at the time I thought it sounded great.

Don Shenbarger

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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 00:15:28 -0500
From: JackBenny@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  King for a Date

Ruk77  writes:

Does anyone know the actual date of the Fred Allen show where Jack Benny's
Pants were supposed to have been torn off and the logo LSMFT were to have
been
Printet on Jacks drawers??? I would LOVE to hear that one? thanks to
anyone!!!

That was broadcast on May 26, 1946.  It is available from the IJBFC audio
library.  And I have a few orders awaiting processing, so apologies to anyone
on
this list that's currently waiting.  I've been very focused on my forthcoming
Benny volume.

--Laura Leff
President, IJBFC
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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 00:18:51 -0500
From: "Kris Stone" <anaheim47@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Confused About An Earlier Post

Not to beat a dead horse, but Martin Grahams was kind enough to reference an
article in Issue No. 26 of Filmfax magazine (April/ May 1991) featuring an
interview with Clarence "Ducky" Nash - The Voice of Donald Duck for over 50
years, as his source for the fact that Walt Disney substituted for Clarence
when he was ill, for the voice of Donald.

I just happened to pull out my copy of this magazine over the weekend and
reread it.  The interview conducted by Gregory [removed] Catsos which spans from
pages 36-39 and 94-95 made no mention of this fact.  Instead, the article
opened with the statement that, "For over 50 years, Nash was the one and
only voice of Donald Duck."

Additionally, the article mentioned that "Although Donald's voice seemed to
come quite naturally to Nash, he recalled that once, in the late 1930, he
did run into a [removed] day I recorded so much that I went home hoarse.
After dinner, I tried doing Donald's voice and couldn't do it! When I got
up in the morning the first thing I did was see if the duck voice was still
there. It was, and I never worried again."

Martin, did we read the same article - or are you thinking of another one
where you read that Walt Disney filled in for Nash?  I'm very interested as
a devoted Disney fan. Thanks!

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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 01:47:30 -0500
From: Randy Watts <rew1014@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Question about a MYSTERY PLAYHOUSE broadcast

Among some AFRS MYSTERY PLAYHOUSE shows I have, there
is one otherwise unidentified and I was curious to see
if anyone here might know more about it.  The play is
titled "The Web," and stars Jose Ferrer.  This
particular broadcast was MYSTERY PLAYHOUSE #24.
Surrounding [removed] program numbers are all from 1944, so
presumably, "The Web" is from that year, also.  I just
haven't been able to figure out what series the play
originated from.  It used organ music, whatever it
was.

This might be a long shot, but if no one knows
anything, I have lost nothing.

Thanks,
Randy

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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 01:47:59 -0500
From: "larry" <larrybieza1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Script Pages?
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Hi, I've written a play that takes place at a Network radio station in the
later 1930's.  I want to be as accurate as I can, and have a question:  My
understanding is that when the shows were performed, the script pages were
loose, and when completed were dropped on the floor by the actors so there was
no page folding noises near the microphone.  True?  Thanks.  Larry Bieza

PS: have some sound effects that I need to recreate an am not sure how they
were done.  If someone out there can help me with this please email.

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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 11:21:28 -0500
From: "Jerry Haendiges" <Jerry@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

Hi friends,

Here is this week's line-up for the week of 3-14-04 on my Olde Tyme Radio
[removed] Featuring Tom Heathwood's "Heritage Radio Theatre," Big John
Matthews and Steve Urbaniak's "The Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same
Station" broadcasts, being broadcast on demand 24/7 in high quality
streaming RealAudio at [removed]

Past archived broadcasts are also available there.

We look forward to having you join us!

	Jerry

Here's this week's lineup:

SAME TIME, SAME STATION with Jerry Haendiges

St. Patrick's Day Special (encore)

LITTLE OLD HOLLYWOOD
Episode 15  3-11-40  Guests: Priscilla Lane, Al Levy
Host: Ben Alexander
With Gogo Delys, Robert L. Red's "Two Happy People" and Gordon Jenkin's
Orchestra

QUIZ KIDS
Episode 560  3-11-51  "St. Patrick's Day Diamond"
Quizmaster: Joe Kelly

LUX RADIO THEATER
Episode 783  3-17-52  "Top O' the Morning"
Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, Anne Blyth and Dennis Day
=======================================

HERITAGE RADIO THEATRE with Tom Heathwood

THE SHADOW
MBS    4-8-45   "The Little Man Who Wasn't There
Stars: John Archer as The Shadow

THE GREEN HORNET
MBS    5-2-39    "The Ghost Who Talked Too Much"
Stars: Al Hodge

BLACKSTONE - THE MAGIC DETECTIVE
MBS    10-3-48    "The Ghost That Trapped a Killer"
Stars Ed Jerome
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THE GLOWING DIAL with Big John Matthews and Steve Urbaniak

Escape
CBS    6/30/50    "Blood Bath"

Gangbusters
"Case Of The Red Hot Readers"

Mr. President
ABC    1/23/49    "Woodrow Wilson"

The Fat Man
ABC    10/3/47    "A Window For Murder"

Vic And Sade
1/24/44    "Vic Is Sleeping On The Couch"

Little Orphan Annie
?/?/1936    # 1164
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Please feel free to contact me with any questions or requests for upcoming
shows.

            Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; 562-696-4387

  [removed]  The Vintage Radio Place
  Largest source of OTR Logs, Articles and programs on the Net

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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 11:21:39 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  3-14 births/deaths

White Day (Japan)

March 14th births

03-14-1912 - Les Brown - Reinerton, PA - d. 1-4-2001
bandleader: (Les Brown and His Band of Renown) "Bob Hope Show"; "Fitch
Bandwagon"
03-14-1933 - Michael Caine - London, England
actor: "Wednesday Night" CBC

March 14th deaths

06-30-1919 - Susan Hayward - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-14-1975
actress: "Radio Almanac"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-21-1906 - Carlton Kadell - Danville, IL - d. 3-14-1975
announcer, actor: Tarzan "Tarzan"; Red Ryder "Red Ryder"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 11:21:51 -0500
From: "awfulE" <emba@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  LS/MFT
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[removed]@[removed]

LS/MFT     Lucky Strike/Means Fine Tobacco

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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 11:58:22 -0500
From: Art Chimes <achimes@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  WAMU tribute to Harry Bartell

Washington NPR affiliate WAMU features a two-part tribute to the late Harry
Bartell on its weekly OTR showcase, The Big Broadcast.

The first part airs tonight (Sunday, March 14) for those in the DC
listening area.

For further details, see [removed]. The Real Audio
version will be placed online after the show airs.

Regards,
Art

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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 12:28:44 -0500
From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Cincinnati convention hotel

Regarding the advice to call the local number for the
hotel, rather than the 800 number, I did-- twice-- and
was still told the hotel was full. And I did mention
the convention when I tried to book the room.

So, I'll be staying somewhere else and will drive to
the convention from there. I would have preferred to
have stayed at the Westin, but even if there are still
rooms available there, I'm not going to cancel my
reservations at the other place and try to get a room
there. Not only is the hassle not worth it, but the
first time I called, I was told there were no rooms
and was disconnected very abruptly. And when I called
right back, I received only a half-hearted apology,
and an equally half-hearted effort to check on the
block of rooms for the convention.

I don't know why the woman I spoke to told me no rooms
were available if there were, but she did. Perhaps the
Westin people will have their act together next year.
In the meantime, they'll just have to contend with the
fact that money that would've gone to them is now
going to a competitor.

Rick

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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 15:41:36 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history

 From Those Were The Days --

3/14

1937 - Fred Allen and Jack Benny met in one of the biggest publicity
gags ever. It was called, "The Battle of the Century."  The two
comedians locked horns in the ballroom of the Hotel Pierre, exchanging
torrid insults that were heard by the second largest audience in the
history of radio. The 'feud', incidentally, lasted for the next 12 years.

3/17

1933 - Comedian Phil Baker was heard on network radio for the first time
when The Armour Jester was heard on the Blue network. Baker rapidly rose
to the top of the radio ratings.

3/18

1940 - Light of the World was first heard on NBC. The soap opera was
unique in that it featured the Bible as the center of the story line.

Joe

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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 16:51:08 -0500
From: "John Abbott" <mraastro@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Johnny Dollar questions

I have a "Yours Truly Johnny Dollar" question that is driving me to drink!

During the Bob Bailey run, there were two programs with similar titles:

03/31/57 - "The Moonshine Murder Matter"

and

03/06/60 - "The Moonshine Matter"

According to all the information I can find, the first program was to be
followed by a program which was prempted.

I have four copies of these programs, each purporting to be a set of the two
programs, and each one previews the next program as "The Deep Down Matter".
How ever all of them are copies of the same program, as John Wall is the
announcer on all four and Dan Cubberly should have been the announcer on two
of them.)

So, my questions to the experts are these:

1.  Is there a verifiable copy of the 03/31/57 program available anywhere?
2.  Is it the same program that was broadcast on 3/6/60?
3.  Is it possible that, since the original program to be broadcast after
the program of 3/31/57 was not aired, that the 1957 program was rerun as a
lead into the Deep Down Matter?

Thanks for any help y'all can provide.

x----------------------------------------x

The Johnny Dollar Quiz question #2:

Recently the final episode of "The SeaLegs Matter was announced in this
newsletter.

I am sure that everyone went back and listened to the story, so the trivia
question for this month is:

In the story, Oscar Patrick Vladimir Poscaro does not have one, but Johnny
Dollar does.

One what?

If you think you have an answer, drop me a line.

John C. Abbott

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