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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 418

Table Of Contents: 

	       Radio wants
	 Amsterdam error
	 OTR Show themes
	 Parkyakarkas
	 Re: Visit to Ohio
	 Morey Amsterdam
	 Novak tape
	 "Big Joe" Rosenfield
	 Milton Berle Radio Show

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Date:          Tue, 29 Oct 1996 10:58:43 DST
From: "Pat premo" <PPREMO@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:       Radio wants
Message-Id: <DCB73B826E3@[removed]>

Hello,
I am new to this group and am interested in obtaining copies of some 
old radio shows on audio cassette.  Before I post my wants, I want to 
make sure I am in the right group and that I am not violating any 
rules.
Thank you.
Patrick Premo  ppremo@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 96 10:13 CST
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Amsterdam error
Message-Id: <m0vIGnF-000k4cC@[removed]>

Vincent Damiano passed this on:
>Rose Marie met Amsterdam when she was 11 during the musical variety show
>the "Alice Pearce Show."  They remained friends.

Now I know for sure this error is in the wire story, and was not just in
our local paper here.
As many of us surely know, Rose and Morey met on the "Al Pearce Show," not
the Alice Pearce Show.  

John Henley
jhenley@[removed]
ph  (512) 495-4112
fax (512) 495-4296

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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:07:30 -0500 (EST)
From: "Henry A. Campbell-Ickes" <hacickes@[removed]>
To: OTR mailer <otr@[removed]>
Subject: OTR Show themes
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

Here's one I haven't seen discussed since I've been on (roughly 4 
months, so please allow me, if it was on earlier than that) --

Where could I locate recordings/album collections of OTR show themes?  If 
they're the originals, great, but if those aren't available, then 
re-recordings are okay.  (Please?)

Thanks!

Hank C-I

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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:40:09 -0500
From: JACoffeen@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Parkyakarkas
Message-ID: <961029134009_1746562525@[removed]>

 I remember that on some program, maybe Jack Benny's, there was a character
"Parkyakarkas", who showed up every week.  Another weekly event was someone,
maybe Parkyakarkas, leaning against a building and claiming to be holding it
up.  He'd be talked out of that foolishness, and would walk away, whereupon
the  building would collapse.  

 Does anyone remember, or have access to, the facts behind my dim memory?

Thanks,

Jim Coffeen

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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 15:17:17 -0500
From: Udmacon@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Visit to Ohio
Message-ID: <961029151716_1515485275@[removed]>

Am just back from a week's visit to the Buckeye State, and, during a visit to
Cincinnati I stopped in at the Public Broadcasting Station, WCET, and visited
a fascinating collection of old radio equipment on display in the station's
lobby and corridors. The mikes, radio receivers, etc. belonged to a retired
engineer who worked at WLW during its heyday. 
It was once housed in a small museum in Mason, Ohio, still the site of the
breath-taking 65 year old WLW transmitter tower.

The eyeopener was the metal plaque from RCA that once adorned the 500,000
(sic)
watt transmitter WLW ran as an experiment in the 1930s. Its serial number is
"1". 

WCET/WGUC is in downtown Cincinnati, in back of the Music Hall, once the home
of John Lair's Renfro Valley Barndance.

BILL KNOWLTON: "BLUEGRASS RAMBLE", WCNY-FM, SYRACUSE NY 

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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:59:57 -0500 (EST)
From: lev@[removed] (S or A Levene)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Morey Amsterdam
Message-Id: <v01530500ae9beac08893@[[removed]]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Morey Amsterdam was also a songwriter and had a big hit in 1945 with "Rum
and Coca Cola", recorded by the Andrews Sisters, Vaughn Monroe and others.
Sam Levene

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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:38:52 -0800
From: "JACK MANN" <jmann@[removed]>
To: <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Novak tape
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hi Digesters: 
A very nice gentleman by the name of Marty Dzik sent
me a Pat Novak tape with "Go Away Dixie" on it after
I had mentioned that my tape was incomplete. He said
that his original had a lot of tape hiss and was bassy, 
and that he had tried to compensate for this with his EQ.
Well, the tape sounds fantastic, much better than my copy, 
and I wanted to thank Marty for sending it (lost your Email
address, Marty), but I also wanted to know if anyone else
has had experience in "fixing" tapes like this. Maybe Marty
will explain how he did it. I myself have quite a few tapes
that could use some help.

Jack

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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 19:47:07 -0500
From: Udmacon@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "Big Joe" Rosenfield
Message-ID: <961029194706_1214284144@[removed]>

To Max Schmid: "Big Joe" Rosenfield (Rosenfeld?) conducted his nightly
"Happiness Exchange" on, I think, WOR, New York. He and wife "Choo Choo"
listened to horror stories from the down and out, in the studio and over the
phone (one way--you could not hear the caller in those days) and had some
sort of fund to dole out money for rents, food, clothes, etc. I think the
money came from his listeners. 

It was real human interest on the down side of life in New York, and, as a
child and teenager living in Jackson Heights, Queens (home to many pioneer
radio stars at one time), I listened in with interest too. 

BILL KNOWLTON, "BLUEGRASS RAMBLE", WCNY-FM, SYRACUSE NY (since 1973)

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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:01:22 -0500
From: Udmacon@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Milton Berle Radio Show
Message-ID: <961029230121_1780201478@[removed]>

I've asked this before, but got no answer. There was a regular character on
the Berle Radio show, an anemic simpering weakling named Mr. Featherfield.
Anybody know who portrayed him?

My take on Amos & Andy, particularly Demond Wilson's opinion on its alledged
racism? I find that amazing, in that "Sanford & Son" stole many bits from A &
A. The aunt, for instance, was a total ripoff of the A & A mother in law
character. One more thing: Sam & Henry skits were issued by, I think, Victor,
on 78s.

BILL KNOWLTON



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