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	    [removed]   Volume 95 : Issue 431


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Sherlock Holmes
	 Special Events Radio: What a Treat
	 Paul Harvey
	 Christmas programs
	 Crom Crock Comes Back!
	 Perry Como
	 Superadio II vs. III
	 When radio was stations
	 Blacklisted Tapes
	 Who Really Invented Radio?
	 Sears Radio Theatre

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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 05:12:36 -0600 (CST)
From: Bruce Toews <bruce@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Sherlock Holmes
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

I know that around fifty or so episodes of the Sherlock Homes radio 
series, most of which starring Rathbone and Bruce, were released 
commercially. The quality, I might add, is usually astoundingly good. 
These are typically from 1944-1946. Did any other Rathbone/Bruce episodes 
survive not included in this series, and where can I get them? Whom other 
than Petri Wine sponsored these shows?

Bruce

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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 06:40:13 -0600 (CST)
From: Bruce Toews <bruce@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Special Events Radio: What a Treat
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

We have a temporary special-events radio station set up here in Winnipeg. 
It's on until Wednesday, and they've been around for close to a month. 
The station uses veteran announcers, and wow it's a treat. You can tell 
by listening how many memories these guys have, and it really makes me 
wish for the days when it was people like these who made up the 
announcing business. As a definite plus, the station broadcasts 2 hours 
of OTR every day, seven days a week. But it sure is a treat listening to 
the announcers talk about the past, sometimes remembering when they 
actually played some of the OTR on the air themselves back when it wasn't 
old-time radio. One thing which they played which I found fascinating was 
a dress-rehearsal for an episode of Gun Smoke.

Of course, not everything they played met my taste, particularly some of 
the music, but that's okay, it's a neat station and I wish we had more of it.

Bruce

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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 08:42:14 -0600 (CST)
From: Bruce Toews <bruce@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Paul Harvey
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

One more question for this digest - I hope I don't get accused of flooding.

Does anyone know of any information on the Web regarding Paul Harvey, 
Paul Harvey News or the Rest of the Story? I tried starting a Paul Harvey 
mailing list once, but due to a variety of things, not the least of which 
was a lack of cooperation by the people supplying me with use of their 
Majordomo software, I had to let it go. If someone were to give me a free 
mailing list, I'd set it up again. Anyway, if anyone knows of any Paul 
Harvey information on the Web, please let me know.

Bruce

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Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 09:47:05 EST
From: "Wagner, Mahlon W" <xwagner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Christmas programs
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Many people have been asking for sources of Christmas programs.
	Please, I don't mean for the following to be a commercial, or an
endorsement, but one source I have found to provide quality programs at
very reasonable prices is:
	Dean Wentworth
	Box 2523
	Vancouver WA 98668
I have dealt with him for about 8 years.  I know he has a Christmas list.
I've suggested that he join the computer generation and get in on the fun. 
I've also had a great deal of success with others such as Ed Carr who is
most patient and kind when I give him whacky requests.
	I hope this posting is acceptable to the list.  cheers,  Mahl
Wagner

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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 14:59:08 GMT
From: bilj@[removed] (Bill Jaker)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Crom Crock Comes Back!
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

        We were recently polled about what we thought was the scariest 
program that ever issued from the theatre of the mind.  There were the 
expected nominations for radio dramas in which humans are conquered by 
Martians or munched to death by insects or rats, but I passed by those 
classics to vote for an obscure show that simply scared me more than any 
other I'd ever heard.  When I was about ten years old I was permanently 
petrified by "The Idol of Crom Crock" coming out of my Emerson.  I couldn't 
recall the date, or even which series it was on.  All I remember was that I 
was afraid to go to sleep with the lights out for the next twenty-six years 
(unless I was listening to "Lights Out", of course).
        Thanks to a couple of experts reading the OTR Digest I learned that 
it was on the Mutual series "Hall of Fantasy" and  was able to find it 
listed in a couple of catalogues.  I considered working up enough courage to 
perhaps obtain a copy.
        And then, a few days ago, the latest batch of round-robin tapes 
arrived from the ORCATs*, and there filling out a reel of mystery shows was 
(eeeek!!!) "The Idol of Crom Crock".  It had come back!  How did it know?
        The story was written by Richard Thorne.  It begins at a remote 
hunting lodge somewhere in the Appalachians where a group of normal people 
-- two men and a woman -- suddenly hear screaming out in the dark and stormy 
night and discover someone in ancient garb lying dead.  He holds a hollow 
clay figure with a map inside, and it leads them to a valley where they 
discover Druids dancing around the huge golden idol of Crom Crock.  This 
cult has been living in isolation since the 17th century and is now 
preparing for a human sacrifice, and guess who they want.  Well, the good 
guys escape by tossing bullets into the pyre and continue with their fishing 
trip.
        Listening again after lo! these many years I can sense why I was so 
scared.  It couldn't have been the story.  The "Hall of Fantasy" was simply 
overloaded with thunderclaps, unexplained screams, etherial sounds (I 
believe a theremin was played) and Druids with odd accents who ought to be 
dead. It was meant to impress the impressionable, and it sure did it.        
        I'd like to change my vote for the scariest show in the history of 
Old Time Radio except that I have no idea why "The Idol of Crom Crock" would 
suddenly show up just at this [removed]  Is that tape beginning to roll on its 
own?

*The ORCATs are the Old Time Radio Collectors and Traders Society. We're ham 
radio operators who are on 7238kHz in the 40-meter band every Sunday morning 
at 8:00 Eastern Time.  Net control is Ken Piletic, W9ZMR.  Anyone is welcome 
to tune in, and join in if you can.  None of us is a Druid.

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Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 08:43:59 -0700
From: Jim Clark <jclark@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Perry Como
Message-id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Ah, the holiday season is upon us.  As a child, my home was
always filled with the sound of Perry Como at Christmas.
Yesterday I was listening to KOY (an oldies station, but not
OTR), and they broadcast a two hour show entitled "Perry Como's
Christmas Special 1995" - a couple of times an announcement was
made that the show was available on tape for $[removed]  The
company was in Fort Lee, NJ, and the name of the outfit was
something along the lines of Melcor Network.  Can someone help
me out with the proper name and address of this company?  I sure
would like to order this tape.  Thanks.

Jim Clark
e-mail: jclark@[removed]

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Date: Mon, 04 Dec 95 09:11:53 PST
From: jcreid@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Superadio II vs. III
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I just picked up a GE Superadio II from my uncle's estate.  The radio is just 
drenched in nicotine, but has a phenomenal sound.  I haven't tried any DX'ing 
with it yet, but does anyone know how it stacks up against the Superadio III?

-Jim Reid
jcreid@[removed]

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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 13:40:05 -0500
From: RadioJoe5@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: When radio was stations
Message-ID: <951204134004_124574506@[removed]>

When I was keeping an on-air log a couple of years ago I tried to get all the
stations for Michelson and for When Radio Was and both were afraid that, if I
publisehd such a list, the other would use it to get theri clients away from
them.

I thought they would want to build an audience.

Silly me.

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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 15:42:32 -0500 (EST)
From: "Daniel A. Gediman" <danged@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
cc: otr@[removed]
Subject: Blacklisted Tapes
Message-ID: <[removed]@iglou2>

Regarding Blacklisted tapes - call 617-646-5649 or email :
ABKABK@[removed] on oredring info.  This is the producer's #/email address.


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* Dan Gediman                                  *
* Milestone Productions                        *
* [removed] Box 4962                                *
* Louisville, KY 40204                         *
* (502)451-1514/(fax)451-1860                  *
* "danged@[removed]"                            *
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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 07:28:38 +0900
From: vk8tk@[removed] (Tony Kekalos)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Who Really Invented Radio?
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

G'day,

Just thought I'd pass on to subscribers of this list that there is an
article in the December issue of "Audio" magazine entitled "Who Really
Invented Radio" by  B. Eric Rhoads.  It mentions KDKA in 1920, but also
lists stations broadcasting before this date.  I found it interesting
reading.  TK

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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 95 22:05 EST
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Sears Radio Theatre
Message-Id: <m0tMngw-000JeRC@[removed]>

>I heard several episodes of the Sears Radio Theater when they were first
>broadcast (late 1970's), and I thought they were so poorly done as to be
>embarrassing.  Amateurish writing and atrocious "acting"; grossly inferior
>to the CBS Mystery Theater, which was running about the same time.  Did I
>just catch a few clunkers?  A lot of people are praising the Sears program 
>quality here, and I can't believe we were listening to the same broadcasts. 
> 

There used to be somebody on this digest, I believe, who was a writer for
the series when it became the Mutual Radio Theatre.  I can't recall who he
was and I doubt he would stand up given the above comment, but I believe
a number of the writers were professionals in the field and not newbies.

I had mixed feelings about the series sort of feeling it was cashing in on
the otr craze at the time, while at the same time thankful for any radio
drama being broadcast.  I had just begun collecting in the early seventies
and was always looking for drama being broadcast.

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Dayton, OH                      WWW: [removed]
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