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                          Last Updated 10-28-96

[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 469

Table Of Contents: 

	 Cassette Decks
	 Re: Commercials on OTR Tapes
	 OTR Stations on air today, and other answers
	 Ignorance about radio's roots (was Re: Peter Leeds)
	 I saw Chester Riley
	 Introduction
	 OTR Chat
	 Sheldon again, finally
	 Phillip Marlowe Reviews

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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 96 12:37:09 EST
From: packerm@[removed] (MICHAEL PACKER)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Cassette Decks
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

          Someone was seeking cassette deck [removed]

          I highly recommend the Nakamichi [removed]

          Michael Packer
          packerm@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 13:02:35 -0800
From: "Donald S. Browne" <absee@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Cc: absee@[removed]
Subject: Re: Commercials on OTR Tapes
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Bruce Toews(toews@[removed])wrote, in part, on 26 Oct 1996:
>Which brings me to a question. There was a whole series of Jack Benny
>episodes surrounding Jack's firing of the Sportsmen. How did the AFRS 
>people handle this series of shows, since a lot of it centered around 
>either the sponsor ordering Jack to rehire, or cast members taking 
>light-hearted jabs at the sponsor ("I've been smokin' Luckies for neigh 
>on three thousand years" and so on). In a series such as that one, the 
>commercials were a very central theme. How did AFRS handle such a 
>situation? 

The policy was, and still is, that if you have to edit "content", don't 
carry the entire program.  Simply stated: "All or None."
Donald S. Browne, absee@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 18:25:13 GMT
From: lgenco@[removed] (Lou Genco)
To: otr@[removed]
Cc: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <bratcher@[removed]>
Subject: OTR Stations on air today, and other answers
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"Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <bratcher@[removed]>  recently left
some questions about stations currently broadcasting OTR, as well as
requesting info on OTR dealers.

Answers to both are at my site, just a few mouse clicks away.  New OTR
Digest readers are invited to download the official OTR FAQ to see
even more Frequently Asked Questions and their answers.


Lou
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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 13:40:24 -0600
From: "Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!" <mached16@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Ignorance about radio's roots (was Re: Peter Leeds)
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Bob Cockrum <bcockrum@[removed]> wrote:

> I share the sadness at the loss of
> one of those great "workhorse" talents of radio ... and the sadness
> about the popular press' lack of recognition of Leeds et al., but if
> there's no one at the news agencies who remembers or attaches any
> signficance to radio then it's easy to see how some thngs never get
> mentioned.
> To the newer breed, it's like if it ain't got pictures, it never
> existed. Reminds me of when William Conrad died ... what did CBS radio
> use for its obit on the hourly newscast? -- a sound clip from TV's
> "Canon." Come on! Doesn't anybody over 45 or with a sense of historical
> perspective work at these places any more ... or know what's in their
> own archives?

...Interestingly, on Tom Snyder's CNBC cable talk show a few years ago, 
TS and Harlan Ellison were similarly marvelling at Snyder's odd 
experience when Lowell Thomas [removed] turned out (as I recall Snyder 
telling it, anyway) that nobody working on the crew of Snyder's WABC-TV 
New York newscast that night knew who Thomas was!...[removed] even 
more bizarre than that will be the day 25 years from now when I comment 
to one of my grandchildren on what I myself listened to as a kid, and 
they'll look up at me and ask, "Who was Wolfman Jack?"...

paix au naturel.
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** MACHED16@[removed], ultimajock@[removed]
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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 19:56:59 -0600
From: Joe Mackey <wmackey@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: I saw Chester Riley
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Jell-0 everyone.
  My current career as a temp worker has me in the ticket office of the
local university here (Marshall), selling tickets to the Southern
Conference football play-offs we are hosting.  While in this position I
have run into several well-known local people and celebrities, who would
mean nothing to y'all I imagine.
  Anyway, this morning at work I was at my window with a few spare
moments and at the window beside mine a man walked up announcing his
name, to get his tickets.  Turns out the man's name was Chester Riley. 
I shot a glance in his direction but he looked nothing like William
Bendix.  :)
  BTW, I went to school with George Burns.  No, not _the_ George Burns,
but another one.  :)
  Joe
  Huntington, WV

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Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 13:01:47 -0800
From: Jess Oliver <joliver2@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Introduction
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Hello OTR Group

I have been lurking here for quite a long time and have finally decided 
to give a formal introduction of myself.  My name is Jess Oliver and live 
in Columbus, Ohio.  I am married and have a daughter.  I am by trade a 
computer analyst (I program IBM AS/400’s).  My hobbies are my family, 
listening(and collecting) OTR, collecting autographs, and listening to 
music.

I am in my late thirties so I do not remember the radio shows live (or 
first time through) but I do remember listening to some of the CBS 
Mystery Theater shows and some of the replay shows.  I started collecting 
about 15 years ago for about 2 or 3 years but stopped (to many other 
things got in the way, mostly lack of funds).  I started collecting again 
about a year ago and am trying to get about 50+ shows per month.  I have 
currently in my OTR collection about 2,000 shows which I am in the 
process of compiling to a database (slow process).  I have all types of 
shows, comedy, mystery, horror, western, [removed]  I would be interested in 
doing some trading after the first of the year if anyone is interested.  
I would possibly even be interested in purchasing a set and doing a round 
robin if there is an interest there.

I have enjoyed the digest for quite some time and love getting all of the 
OTR information.  I do not know how much information that I can give but 
know that I have a little free time maybe I can get more active in the 
group.

Well I think I have been windy enough for a first message.  Thanks for 
all of the great info and as Digger O’Dell would say  “I think I should 
be shoveling off”.

Thanks for reading my rambling.  Happy listening.
Jess Oliver

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Date: Tue, 3 Dec 96 20:51 PST
From: lois@[removed] (Lois Culver)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OTR Chat
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                                OTR CHAT
                             
                            Thursdays 8 PM EST
                               Channel #OTR
                          Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
                                [removed]

West Coasters, come in whenever you can, if this is early for you -- we'll
probably be there. Exchange tapes, talk about shows, talent, WWW sites, meet
people who worked in radio during the "golden days"....whatever is your
interest!

If  you dont know how to reach IRC, contact  your provider - it should be a
part of your full internet service, but some providers "cheat" a bit.  When
you reach IRC, type in:  /server <servername>

Some [removed] servers are:
[removed] Port 6667
[removed] Port 6667
[removed] Port 6667
[removed] Port 6667
[removed] Port 6667

Port 6667 (the default port) works for most of them.
After you reach the server, type  /join #OTR and you are there!

Lois Culver

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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 00:47:33 -0500
From: vintage@[removed] (Andy Blatt)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Sheldon again, finally
Message-Id: <v01540b02aecac016a660@[[removed]]>
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I am aware I mis-stated when I said Sheldon Leonard played the taxi driver in
"It's a Wonderful Life"...I stand corrected.  Also, although he's probably
close to 80 years old (or in his mid 70's, at least), Sheldon Leonard is
very much alive and well.  When show-business people are very evident to us
(high profile) and then either retire or their life takes a different
direction, we tend to forget about them.  I did not mean to imply that Mr.
Lwonard was no longer with us.

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Date: 04 Dec 96 00:40:53 EST
From: "Norman G. Cox" <[removed]@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Phillip Marlowe Reviews
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Phillip Marlowe, Adventures of.  Review #12 of 15
Starring Gerald Mohr.  From the cassette lending library of North American Radio
Archives (NARA)

NARA Cassette 7225 Side A, 9/29/50.  The Big Book

While wrapping up a case with Lt. Matthews, Marlowe decides to ride along with
him to answer a police call about an apparent suicide of a former actress.  Her
scrapbook leads the two of them to the office of the biggest theatrical agent in
LA and a case of blackmail.  John Dehner has a choice part playing an ageing
character actor handing out generous slices of ham everywhere he goes.  Between
this episode on side A and the next episode on side B of this cassette, the two
remaining capable writers, Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt, leave the show and
we pick up a new writer.

NARA Cassette 7225, Side B, 7/7/51.   A Seaside Sabbatical

I hope they swept out the studio for Phillip because tonight he's taking over
this time slot for 10 weeks as a replacement for the vacationing Hopalong
Cassidy and his horse Topper.  The credits give the name of the new writer as
Kathryn Hite.  I can't find her in The Big Broadcast or Dunning's Tune In
Yesterday.  She does bring a different, more deliberate pace to the show.  A
prospective client asks Phillip to meet him in Long Beach but when he arrives he
finds out he is no longer needed.  He collects $[removed] for his trouble and starts
home but a voice out of the fog calls him to a new adventure where he has to
deal with an informer, a priest and a Sister Superior.

That's 30 for tonight
NGC 
Norman Cox



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