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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2002 : Issue 230
A Part of the [removed]!
ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Adventure Into Fear [ Osborneam@[removed] ]
Re Radio Spirits [ "Thomas Mason" <batz34@[removed] ]
Speedy Rides Again! [ Kubelski@[removed] ]
Re Wonder Women & Toys [ "Thomas Mason" <batz34@[removed] ]
Remember WENN [ "ron potter" <repo4958@[removed] ]
"Yesterday" [ Roo61@[removed] (Randy Watts) ]
Selma Diamond [ Kenneth Clarke <kclarke5@[removed]; ]
Re: Zen and the art of laying tile [ Ga6string@[removed] ]
Lon Chaney [ "Nathan Hutchins" <NathanOTR@hotmai ]
More About Censorship [ "Ed Ellers" <ed_ellers@[removed]; ]
For the love of Aldrich [ Mleannah@[removed] ]
Lon Chaney, Jr. on OTR [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
Captain Thunder [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
"Yesterday" [ littlejc2@[removed] ]
Thanks and one more question [ Kelli Stanley <ks4color@[removed] ]
Price of Fear [ "Arte" <arte@[removed]; ]
Captain Midnight & Icky Mudd [ "Arte" <arte@[removed]; ]
Keystone Broadcasting System?? [ Eric J Cooper <ejcooper2002@[removed] ]
Today in radio history [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Yesterday over White Xmas? [ Jer51473@[removed] ]
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:00:16 -0400
From: Osborneam@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Adventure Into Fear
In OTR digest #227, <[removed]@[removed]; asks:
Does anyone have any information about the following titles:
Adventure Into Fear
Strange Tales From Down Under
Slightly Out To Lunch (this would be 'NTR' dated 4/22/84
Strange Stories Of The Sea
Strange Last Words
The Naked Vicar Show
Here is what I can offer (only information on the first series):
Adventure Into Fear (Australian)
An Australian version of the Mysterious Traveler with the same scripts and
opening dialogue. All fifty-two shows exist but are currently not all in
circulation (it appears only #1, #2, #5 and #6 are at this point). Titles of
those available are:
Adventure Into Fear (Australian)
An Australian version of the Mysterious Traveler with the same scripts and
opening dialogue. All fifty-two shows exist but are currently not all in
circulation (it appears only #1, #2, #5 and #6 are at this point).
#01 Two of a Kind (11/16/56)
#02 The Big Brain (11/23/56)
#05 The Ghost Makers (12/14/56)
#06 They Won't Escape Me (12/21/45)
Hope that helps.
Arlene Osborne
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:00:35 -0400
From: "Thomas Mason" <batz34@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re Radio Spirits
Mr. Amari certainly did all he could to "protect" the rights he felt were
his. Many OTR collectors hated him and refused to buy his product as they
felt it was overpriced. They gladly would accept OTR shows of lesser quality
just to avoid dealing with him.
Reflective of the current state of Radio Spirits is the appearance of many
of their expensive collections showing up at warehouse stores like Costco at
a fraction of their list price.
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:01:23 -0400
From: Kubelski@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Speedy Rides Again!
You can't keep a good Mel Blanc character down - thanks in part to lobbying
by Hispanic Groups, Speedy Gonzales is back on the Cartoon network,
potentially inviting new generations of young Americans to sample Blanc's
radio work.
The report from Fox (not mouse) News follows:
[removed],2933,55675,[removed]
Sean Dougherty
Kubelski@[removed]
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:01:31 -0400
From: "Thomas Mason" <batz34@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re Wonder Women & Toys
When superheroes were in a decline before the advent of the Silver Age, the
only thing that kept Wonder Woman going was merchandising. Lunch pails and
their ilk saved her. Her comics have never been big sellers.
The point about boys and their toys is well [removed] companies
believe that young boys will not play with girl dolls, so that the release
of female superheroes has been limited and are always short shipped in
assortments. We see the occasional Wonder Woman and Batgirl figures, but in
relationship to how many others of Superman, Batman and their fellow males,
they are mainly unrepresented.
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:11:00 -0400
From: "ron potter" <repo4958@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Remember WENN
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Hi Folks,
I have been reading this list for a few months now but being new to this whole
experience of otr I have had nothing substantial to contribute. However, I
found the following today that follows one of the threads recently started &
thought some of you might be interested.
Thanks for all the knowledge you have provided here. I learn something almost
everyday & that makes for allot of good days,
Ron in Orlando
Holmes Readies WENN for the Stage
NEW YORK ([removed]) -- Tony Award-winning composer and librettist Rupert
Holmes is turning his acclaimed television show Remember WENN into a stage
musical. The tuner will premiere at the Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center in
Nyack, New York in March. Remember WENN follows the goings on at a Pittsburgh
radio station in the late 1930s. Holmes created and penned 56 episodes of the
much-heralded AMC series. Not only did he write the scripts, he also composed
the underscore for every show and wrote the original songs featured on the
program. Despite an enthusiastic fan base, Remember WENN lasted only four
seasons, from January 1996 to September 1998. Holmes won two 1986 Tony Awards
for The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Since then his only theatrical credits have
been plays (one of which, Say Goodnight, Gracie, is scheduled to open at
Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre on October 10). He did write the book for the
long-awaited tuner Marty, premiering at the Huntington Theatre Company this
fall, but the score for that project was done by composer Charles Strouse and
lyricist Lee Adams. Remember WENN will be the second of his shows to premiere
at the Helen Hayes. Last season, Thumbs, starring Kathie Lee Gifford and Diana
Canova, opened there. A revised version of that play, with the same stars,
will run at the Cape Playhouse next month.
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:35:45 -0400
From: Roo61@[removed] (Randy Watts)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "Yesterday"
Beware Jay, there were TWO songs called"Yesterday" and the biggest hit before
the 1964 Beatles tune, was the one written in the 30's or 40's and was made
huge by Billie Holiday as well as others.
Actually, the tune Holiday recorded, by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach, is
titled "Yesterdays," not "Yesterday."
Randy
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:41:26 -0400
From: Kenneth Clarke <kclarke5@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Selma Diamond
OTR Friends, I've been seeing quite a bit of the
'children of OTR performers' replies in the past.
I think it's very interesting, but think we should
expand it a bit to include 'any relatives of OTR
performers'. What do you think? This would
include parents, siblings, and secondary relations
(aunt's & uncles) as well.
What about Selma Diamond, who used to play the
bailiff on TV's "Night Court"? Seems to me she had
a brother somewhere who was a performer. She
might have been old enough to have performed on
OTR. Who knows?
Not to 'beat the snowballed dead horse', but wasn't Mae
West banned from radio by censors for something she
said on the infamous "Adam and Eve" sketch in which
she costarred with Don Ameche on an "Edgar Bergen/
Charlie McCarthy Show"? I heard she was banned from
ever appearing on [removed] station, any [removed] that
all other radio performers were cautioned never to speak
her name on the air for fear of some retribution from
censors. How long was the length of the ban? What would
have happened if another performer actually DID speak
her name on the air? Was this ALL true to begin with?
Was this the worst punishment ever handed down by
censors? There have been so many different versions of
this story told that it's difficult to know which one to believe.
Kenneth Clarke
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:55:28 -0400
From: Ga6string@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Zen and the art of laying tile
Hal, aka Jughead, writes:
...I get more impact and pleasure looking at my beautiful new tile floor
every time I walk on it, and more self satisfaction at my tile laying
prowess, than I ever did following my performance on a radio show.
But Hal, the beauty of an entertainment medium or product is that many, many
people can share your performance, your work, over a long period of time
(decades, in this case!), whereas your floor can only be appreciated by those
who enter your home.
So, what's for supper?
Sincerely,
Bryan Powell
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:55:33 -0400
From: "Nathan Hutchins" <NathanOTR@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Lon Chaney
Wasn't Lon Chaney on Abbot & Costello once, or am I thinking of someone
else?
Nathan
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:21:34 -0400
From: "Ed Ellers" <ed_ellers@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: More About Censorship
Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed]; wrote:
Networks had their own rules and restrictions -- and these evolved
gradually over time. By 1939, NBC strictly prohibited any use of the Deity's
name except in a religious program or "when used reverently or as part of a
standard classic work." Hell and Damn were specifically prohibited in the
wake of the "Beyond the Horizon" matter, and a few of the most familiar
racial and ethnic slurs had been specifically banned by the Vice President
in Charge of Programming in 1935.
Some of these rules were being enforced in almost ridiculous ways even in
the early 1970s -- when Jesus Christ Superstar was playing on Broadway, and
WABC(AM) was giving away tickets, ABC still didn't allow "Jesus Christ" to
be used on air in that context, so the play could only be referred to as
"Superstar." (And let's not forget Milton Berle's comment about flying over
Boulder Darn in a heckicopter. :-)
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:52:12 -0400
From: Mleannah@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: For the love of Aldrich
To Jerry Bechtel, who wondered if others still enjoy The Aldrich Family
shows. I've been collecting radio shows since the 1980s and have many of the
shows in my collection. Recently my 11-year-old daughter has discovered them
and she is hooked. I need to find her more of them, as she keeps listening to
the same ones over and over. It does seem to be true that there aren't a
large number available. There aren't a whole lot available through SPERDVAC.
Does anyone have information on this show?
Mike Leannah
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:52:56 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Lon Chaney, Jr. on OTR
Doug Berryhill asked if Lon Chaney, Jr. was on radio.
I only know of two appearances. Chaney did make a guest appearance on the
Abbott and Costello radio show (I don't have the date in hand, I misplaced
the info I had but I know someone did an A&C log).
The only other radio appearance I know of is INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES.
And this was his ONLY appearance on the horror program, yes for the purpose
of publicity for the IS movies. (Which Himan Brown was paid a reported
$10,000 for selling the screen rights.)
EPISODE #118 ìTHE RING OF DOOMî Broadcast on April 4, 1943
Starring: Lon Chaney, Jr.
Written by xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Produced and directed by Himan Brown.
Hosted by Raymond Edward Johnson.
Story: Again cast as a character named Lennie (a role he
immortalized in
the screenplay Of Mice and Men in 1939), Chaney finds himself taken up with
a circus siren named Lara. Lara is known as one of the most beautiful
nightclub snake dancers, and captivates the tough New York gangster, Lennie.
The ill-fated alliance brings death to the charmer, but not before she has
contrived Lennieís doom as well. From then on it becomes a free-for-all
beyond the great divide.
I would imagine (my assumption) that Chaney didn't appear on radio because
he was known for having a "hic" drinking problem. Actors with drinking
problems didn't usually receive many offers for radio shows (like John
Carradine getting inebrhiated between an East Coast and West Coast broadcast
of a Norman Corwin drama in the forties).
For anyone who hasn't seen the six Inner Sanctum mysteries, they are not
bad. They were meant to be low-budget mystery stories but the last two, THE
FROZEN GHOST and WEIRD WOMAN lean more towards horror than mystery. I have
all six on VHS and they are worth watching (though there isn't any squeaking
[removed]).
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 22:05:28 -0400
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Captain Thunder
Jim Amash, speaking of Captain Marvel, noted,
Captain Marvel (orignally named Captain Thunder, though that name never
appeared in print) was originally supposed to be a rip off of Superman.
Believe it or not, there was a Superman comic where the Man of Steel
fought ... Captain Thunder, believe it or not. Very similar uniform to
Captain Marvel, but not with a lightning bolt (it had a sunburst
instead).
Back to [removed]
Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 22:37:10 -0400
From: littlejc2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "Yesterday"
Bet there will be a lot of responses to this one. The
Lennon-McCartney song is titled YESTERDAY while the old
Broadway song (1933), written by Otto Harbach and Jerome
Kern, is titled YESTERDAYS.
Chester Littlejohn
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 23:43:52 -0400
From: Kelli Stanley <ks4color@[removed];
To: OldRadio Mailing Lists <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Thanks and one more question
Thanks very much to Elizabeth, once again, and to Howard for responding
to my censorship curiosity--I'm planning to order Howard's book ASAP,
and can't wait to read further about the about-face in regards to
expressions of hostility toward the Axis.
And Elizabeth's comments about Wertham were fascinating--used, as I am,
to thinking of the man from purely a comic book history perspective, I
had no idea that he had actually accomplished genuinely good
works--however misbegotten his analysis of superheroes.
Just one more question, and then I'll go on to something new :). I'd
be interested to know, in the experts' opinions, whether any of the
major networks were more lenient than others--I'm sure NBC was the most
zealous overseer, at least in Fred Allen's opinion.
Thanks, as always!
Kelli Stanley
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 00:09:44 -0400
From: "Arte" <arte@[removed];
To: "OldRadio Mailing List" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Price of Fear
I recently came accross a recording of a program called "The
Price of Fear" starring Vincent Price.
It is dated 5/1/39.
I've never heard of this show. Was it on long or was this
just an audition?
There's no mention of it in two sourcebooks I have. (Dunning
& Buxton/Owen)
Anyone know about this show? Are there any other recordings
available? Where can I get them?
I've always liked Vincent Price. Now THERE's a distinctive
voice.
Arte
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 00:10:00 -0400
From: "Arte" <arte@[removed];
To: "OldRadio Mailing List" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Captain Midnight & Icky Mudd
I must be the slowest mind since molasses. As a kid I
watched Captain Midnight and Ichabod Mudd ("with two D's"),
and they called him "Ikky" for short. But I never got the
joke. It wasn't till years later that I realized he was
"Ikky Mudd."
Arte
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:23:13 -0400
From: Eric J Cooper <ejcooper2002@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Keystone Broadcasting System??
There are references in radio annuals etc of the late 40s/early 50s to a
Keystone Broadcasting System. Was this an actual network or transcription
service, or was it more of a rep chain designed to coordinate the sale of
advertising?
Eric Cooper
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:23:18 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-net <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Today in radio history
From Those Were The Days --
1954 - NBC presented the final broadcast of The Railroad Hour, hosted by
Gordon MacRae. The program had been on the air for 16 years.
Joe
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:42:50 -0400
From: Jer51473@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Yesterday over White Xmas?
I could be wrong and it certainly wouldnt be the first or hopefully the last
time(i should hope i live long enough), but i find it hard to believe that
any song could rival "white xmas" in the number times recorded or by the
number of artists recording it. In fact is there even an artist out there
since the fifties that didnt or hasnt recorded "white xmas"? I think i have
read this about "yesterday" also, so im certainly not saying the poster is
wrong, its just that i dont believe it. I read for years, in the geniuss(sp)
book i think, that "stardust" was the most recorded and this i could accept a
lot easier than "yesterday" even though i find that hard to believe also.
Think about it, everybody does a xmax album and unless its all religious its
got to have "white xmas" and "silent night" on it. Many things are written
and too many of us, me included, take the information as fact just because it
is in print. Btw, does anyone out there know what is the most "sung" song of
all time? Again, this is "so they say", and how anyone would know for sure
amazes me.
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