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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 407

Table Of Contents: 

	 Amos & Andy
	 Cincy/SPERDVAC conventions
	 Re: 16in trans/reel to reel tape
	 [removed]
	 reel tape
	       YUSA
	 Re: SHADOW BOOK/GALE GORDON
	 Re: VCR recording and speed
	 Another OTR Film

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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 20:30:07 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Amos & Andy
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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Andrew Green writes
>I've heard that the reason for its demise was the offensive stereotyping,
>and I understand, but I must say I've heard what I've thought to be 
>equally bad stereotyping on other programs. Besides, aren't we able to 
>listen to this as adults and recognize it as a historical item? Can't we
>broadcast even one episode, with all the appropriate disclaimers up front?
>I can't believe I'm the only one out here who's never heard a single 
>rebroadcast episode of this show.
>

I really think you are forgetting that racial sterotypes are perhaps the
most sensitive in our culture today and no radio station would want to
touch the show for that reason. 

I do not find it offensive, though I can understand, given today's culture
how some can. It goes to heart of whites doing the stereotyping versus
African Americans (or to be less politically correct - blacks).  I could
see the television show becoming available some day simply for the reason
that the actors are black.

I do find it a shame that such a funny show, inherently funny, not because
of some fears that it makes fun of a particular race, but for the human
comedy. I find Jack Benny equally funny and sometimes it would make fun of
the caucasian race. One simply has to remember that these are more
sensitive times and no amount excuses will ever allow shows such as A&A to
be easily broadcast.


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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 20:30:14 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Cincy/SPERDVAC conventions
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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Kathy O'Connell asks:
>Now, my appetite has been whetted.  I'm giving some serious thought to 
>attending Cincinnati and even SPERDVAC one of these years.  Could someone 
>give me an idea of dates?  An outline of what to expect?  I've let my 
>SPERDVAC membership lapse, so if anyone has that information as well, 
>please pass it along!
>

The Cincy convention is held approximately the third week of April. Guests
this year will be the same as last year: Someone help me out on this, as I
had a dealer table and did not get to see much of anything - one was Peg
Lynch, I think another was Parley Baer.

SPERDVAC is coming up this November: 8, 9, 10. Guests include Alan Young,
Peg Lynch, Parley Baer, Jean Gillespie, Dick Van Patten, Rosemary Rice and
many others. 

SPERDVAC is all entertainment - no dealer tables. Cincy is smaller than
FOTR with Dealer tables and re-creations.


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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 22:21:39 4
From: "edcarr" <edcarr@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: 16in trans/reel to reel tape
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

1st off,to the person who found a transcription disc good for 
you, it;s yours do what you what you want with it, if a show is 
rare enough then you can 1-sell the show or 2-trade for other 
material, the problem is do other collectors want what you 
have? because someone says it's a rare show only means that one 
or two shows are around from that series, it could also mean 
you found a missing show from the series, but there might be a 
a little lee way between rare and missing.
if you find a place for reels (blank) please be sure you know 
what your getting, edge damage is a major factor in older tapes 
of course this depends on how they were stored, i bought 2000 
reels of used and threw many of them away. i only use new tape 
now. i'am sure someone can give you the name of a place to buy, 
i don't happen to have that info at my finger tips, later if 
not posted here e-mail me.
hey fred and [removed] any better? no capitals yet though.
                                      ed
                              

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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 22:05:38 +0600
From: cbholm@[removed] (c holm)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: [removed]
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

>WOW!  (just a note--my first post--I've been lurking for some time now!)
>I heard episodes of Amos & Andy broadcast quite a few times on Bob 
>Burnham's now-extinct Radio Vault program!  Although I must admit it 
>wasn't/isn't my favorite show, I did enjoy it purely for its 
>entertainment value and for its reflections of its era.  And now that you 
>bring up the point, I haven't heard it broadcast anywhere else.  But it 
>HAS been or the radio (which is my only exposure to this particular 
>program).  [removed], and, yes, I do "recognize it as a historical 
>item" and I'm *hardly* an adult! (college freshman, yes!  I'm probably 
>one of the youngest people on this [removed])
>
>  Cheryl Williams 
>

This may be heresy, but I'm not really a big fan of A&A.  Of course, I
haven't heard many of the shows (because they are hardly ever aired) and I
think that the only A&A in my collection is a Christmas episode.  But what I
have heard I didn't think was great, amusing maybe, but not great.  (and
lines like "well I be a'thinkin the same thought too there Andy" make me
cringe).  

However, A&A is definitely a product of the times.  It *was* incredibly
popular, and I think an accurate portrayal of the standards of the day.  A&A
definitely has historic worth.

>Pardon the question but, I have heard so much about the Jack Benny
>Christmas cassette collection and I don't know what vendor is offering it.
>I must have missed a catalog somewhere along the line.  Can someone help?
>
>Neal Ellis

Well, you have to start with the lost 'shoe-laces' episode.  You've
undoubtedly heard some of the Jack Benny Christmas shows where Jack is
shopping for Don, Mary, and the rest of the gang.  Well in first episode of
this series, Jack spends quite some time picking out just the right
shoelaces to give Don for Christmas.  This episode has been 'lost' for about
50 years until now, when Adventures In Cassettes found someone who actually
had a copy.  AIC has bundled the lost episode with the rest of the Christmas
series into a collection.  AIC can give you all the details, they
participate quite regularly on the digest.  (and I personally think they're
a good company to deal with and just nice folks as well, and don't let
certain other people here tell you otherwise)


Chris
  -- Who isn't a college freshman, but instead is a fifth year senior and
therefore doesn't have a chance of being the youngest member of the digest.
Oh, Cheryl, you don't have a chance either, this summer there was a 15 year
old posting.  

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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 19:10:16 -0700
From: Mutz@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: reel tape
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

i can get one pass bulk earsed 1800' and 2400' reel tape real cheap!
if interested email me at mutz@[removed]
thanks,
mike

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Date:          Wed, 23 Oct 1996 22:25:08 4
From: "Ronald F. Apgar" <apgar@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
CC: bill@[removed]
Subject:       YUSA
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I don't understand how some of you folks can start
bashing Bill Bragg without hearing his side of the story.
Let's get back to old-time-radio.  As far as I am concerned,
I don't need to know anything that doesn't concern me.
 .   
Ronald F. Apgar
apgar@[removed]
 
"As cold waters to a thirsty soul,
 so is good news from a far country."
                      -Proverbs 25:25
 
[removed]~hawkmtn/
  
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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 23:21:20 -0400
From: SanctumOTR@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: SHADOW BOOK/GALE GORDON
Message-ID: <961023232119_1213635976@[removed]>

Thomas asks for the title of the new SHADOW book.  It's called THE SHADOW:
THE MAKING OF A LEGEND and it's by yours truly, Anthony Tollin.  You won't be
able to find it under that title at your bookstore, though, since it's just
one part of THE SHADOW CHRONICLES, a five CD/cassette collection from GAA
that also includes the hour long documentary, VOICES FROM THE SHADOWS and
eight episodes of the radio series.  It's available from APR's WIRELESS
catalog, at Waldenbooks or through me (autographed on request) for $[removed]
cassette or $[removed] for CD (PLUS $[removed] postage and insurance).
     Gale Gordon also co-starred on MY FAVORITE HUSBAND (with Lucille Ball --
he was the first choice to play Fred Mertz on the I LOVE LUCY television
series but his OUR MISS BROOKS contract prevented it), PARTY AT PICKFAIR,
played the title role on the FLASH GORDON radio series, and was the first
voice of THE WHISTLER (on the audition broadcast). 

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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 07:29:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: VCR recording and speed
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

On Tue, 22 Oct 1996 Joseph M wrote:

> 
> VCR playback is very critical about speed. If you use the slowest (ep or
> slp) speed you do not get Hi [removed] 

	This is not the case.  The benefit of hi-fi at the slowest speed
is one of the reasons that the "middle" speed is no longer a recording
option - the mid-speed was a compromise for sound quality, which suffered
at the slowest speed on non-hifi machines (worse than a standard cassette
without Dolby noise-reduction).  

> As in all recording the faster the better. In any recording for video 
> or audio archiving and playback on other machines use Standard Play (SP), 
> two hour speed.
	This is certainly the best option for VHS.  The drawback is that 
the savings in tape cost is lost and the you need 3 times more storage 
space.  There go all of the advantages of the VHS format, at least for OTR!

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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 00:55:24 -0400
From: Bigkids@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Another OTR Film
Message-ID: <961024005512_1079505734@[removed]>

Also showing from time to time on AMC is a film called "The Great Man." I had
confused this with "A Face in the Crowd," in which Andy Griffith plays a sort
of Arthur Godfrey/Herb Shriner gosh-folks country-boy comedian, gets too big
for his britches and destroys himself.

Turns out, that's not the movie at all. (Although "A Face in the Crowd" is
worth seeing in its own right.)

"The Great Man" concerns a popular Godfrey/Shriner radio personality -- but
he dies *before* the story begins! Jose Ferrer plays a newsman/producer who
is assigned to put together a memorial show for the deceased personality. The
whole picture is about his work in gathering information and learning about
the dead broadcaster.

Keenan Wynn plays a nasty personal manager, and Keenan's dad, Ed Wynn, does a
positively brilliant turn as the co-owner and general manager of a little
mom'n'pop radio station.

It's a powerful movie. It has a few funny moments, but is mostly pretty
downbeat and dark. Sort of like, what WENN would *really* have been like
(except this is a big-city station, and the action takes place ten years
after "Remember WENN").

Dick Lupoff




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