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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2005 : Issue 193
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Paul Winchell, [removed] [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
Hooper Ratings 1943/1944 [ "Bob Pedersen" <bobbyp@[removed]; ]
Re: people turned inside out [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
Re: Hooper Ratings 1943/1944 [ Ken Dahl <kdahl@[removed]; ]
All Gas and Gaiters [ Jandpgardner@[removed] ]
6-25 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Cassette gourmands [ wilditralian@[removed] ]
pinch roller cleaner [ "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@earthli ]
Arlene Francis [ Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@erols ]
Vic and Sade Data collection [ "Louie Johnson" <ljohnson@[removed]; ]
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:34:39 +0000
From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Paul Winchell, [removed]
One of the heroes, and delights, of my childhood.
And a genius.
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:34:49 +0000
From: "Bob Pedersen" <bobbyp@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Hooper Ratings 1943/1944
> Does anyone know of a source for obtaining the Hooper Ratings for radio
> shows of 1943 and 1944?
Joe:
They are available at
[removed]'[removed]
Bob Pedersen
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:35:00 +0000
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: people turned inside out
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About the sound effect of a man being turned inside out, Bob Pedersen writes:
> Arch Oboler apparently made the sounds by crushing
> a berry basket while simultaneously turning a wet rubber glove inside out.
I once heard some other story about a sound created by hot water bottles full
of jelly or Jell-O and Popsicle sticks being turned inside out via some
wire/pulley device. Was that the same story at another time or some other
show/story?
Dixon
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:35:09 +0000
From: Ken Dahl <kdahl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Hooper Ratings 1943/1944
Hooper Ratings for the 1930's, 40's and 50's can be found at this
site [removed]'[removed]
Regards,
Ken Dahl
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 07:01:26 -0400
From: Jandpgardner@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: All Gas and Gaiters
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Regarding Mike's further query, the word 'gas' is used in the title of this
series in the sense of talking a lot of hot air (empty talk). The combination
of the 2 nouns in the title just means 'nonsense' and, indeed, that is
exactly how 'The Chambers Dictionary' defines the phrase.
John.
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:58:31 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 6-25 births/deaths
June 25th births
06-25-1887 - George Abbott - Forestville, NY - d. 1-31-1995
broadway producer: "Stagestruck"
06-25-1891 - Cliff Soubier - d. 9-xx-1984
host: Howard B. Thurston "Thurston the Magician"; Dwight Twentysixer "Vic
and Sade"
06-25-1893 - Charlotte Greenwood - South Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-18-1978
comedienne: "Life with Charlotte Greenwood"; "Charlotte Greenwood Show"
06-25-1895 - Donald Gallagher - Quincy, IL - d. 8-14-1961
actor: P. Wallace Carver "Houseboat Hannah"; Humble Dickinson "Joan and Kermit"
06-25-1897 - Wilkie Mahoney - d. 7-1-1976
writer: "The Bob Hope Show:
06-25-1898 - Jack Roth - d. 2-12-1980
drummer: (Memphis Five) "The Jimmy Durante Show"
06-25-1899 - Arthur Tracy - Kaminetz-Podolski, Russia - d. 10-5-1997
singer: (The Street Singer) "Street Singer"; "Music That Satisfies"
06-25-1903 - Anne Revere - NYC - d. 12-18-1990
actress: "Cavalcade of America"
06-25-1903 - Earl Ebi - Hollister, CA - d. 1-24-1973
director: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Vic
and Sade"
06-25-1908 - Larry Berns - Philadelphia, PA
producer: "Jack Carson Show"; "Our Miss Brooks"; "Lum and Abner"
06-25-1911 - Martin Gosch - d. 10-20-1973
producer, creator, writer: "Abbott and Costello Show"; "Amazing Mr. Smith"
06-25-1911 - Reed Hadley - Petrolia, TX - d. 12-11-1974
actor: Red Ryder "Red Ryder"; Chad Remington "Frontier Town"
06-25-1913 - John Pickard - Lascossas, TN - d. 8-4-1993
actor: Grant Thursday "Pretty Kitty Kelly"; Bruce Barrett "My Son and I"
06-25-1915 - Peter Lind Hayes - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-21-1998
actor: "Jack Benny Program"; "Texaco Town"; "Ford Show"; "Lum and Abner"
06-25-1918 - Ken Mayer - California - d. 1-30-1985
actor: Robbie Robertson "Space Patrol"
06-25-1919 - Bill Manhoff - Newark, NJ - d. 6-xx-1974
writer: "Duffy's Tavern"; "Hollywood Showcase"
06-25-1924 - Phil Nowlan - d. 4-20-2002
writer: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century based on Nowlan"s comic strip
06-25-1924 - Sidney Lumet - Philadelphia, PA
actor: "Let's Pretend"
06-25-1925 - June Lockhart - NYC
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"
06-25-1925 - Virginia Welles - Wausau, WI
actress: Cosette (Older) "Les Miserables"
06-25-1966 - Bogus Wednesday Sayles - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-11-1980
whippett dog: From whom my ID comes from
June 25th deaths
05-12-1924 - Tony Hancock - Birmingham, England - d. 6-25-1968
comedian: "Hancock's Half Hour"; "tutor to ventriloquist's dummy Archie
Andrews "Archie Andrews"
05-26-1914 - Ziggy Elman - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-25-1968
trumpet: "Benny Goodman Orchestra", "The Tommy Dorsey Show"
08-09-1903 - Maurice Wells - Nebraska - d. 6-25-1978
actor: Donald Putnam "Your Family and Mine"; Warren Biggers "Lawyer Tucker"
11-10-1891 - Sidney Breckner - Illinois - d. 6-25-1945
sound effects: "The Hermit's Cave"
11-18-1909 - Johnny Mercer - Savannah, GA - d. 6-25-1976
singer: "Camel Caravan"; "Johnny Mercer's Music Shop"; "Dinah Shore Show"
11-29-1900 - Mildred "Axis Sally" Gillars - Portland, ME - d. 6-25-1988
propagandist: Radio Berlin
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:58:43 -0400
From:
wilditralian@[removed]
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Cassette gourmands
04-25-05
Much has been said lately about a dirty pinchroller causing a cassette
machine to begin eating tapes until the transport function finally slows
to a stop, and the last sounds from the recorded program appropriately
resemble burps, indicating that the machine has -- to its ample
satisfaction -- ingested your precious old-time radio tape. Everything
so far has been true, but one primary cause has been missed. It involves
the mechanisms that drive the supply and take-up reels.
Because the tape is pulled past the play/record head at a constant speed
(1-7/8 inches per second), the supply reel is moving its slowest rpm when
full at the beginning of the program, and at its fastest at the end of
the program when it is almost empty. Every second, 1-7/8" are pulled off
of it, which represents many more revolutions on an almost empty reel
than it does on a full one. The take-up reel, by the same logic, starts
out fast and ends up going slowly.
Since the motor that drives these, through a series of belts and pulleys,
is running at a constant speed, each of the reels is driven by a
felt-surfaced clutch that is always slipping. If a machine tends to eat
tapes toward the end of the program -- when the take-up reel is full --
and rarely at the beginning, the problem likely lies not with a dirty
pinchroller but with the take-up reel clutch having inadequate friction
(caused either by improper tension adjustment or a worn friction surface
or oil invasion from somewhere). When the take-up reel is full (at the
end of a program), its rpm is very low, therefore there is much more
slippage in the clutch., at a time when it has the least mechanical
advantage.
If the problem
*is* in the take-up reel clutch, you are living a charmed
life, indeed, if you can find someone who knows how to fix it. If you
*do* find someone like that, he's probably so old that his eyesight isn't
good enough to do it any more. If you can find someone who knows how to
do it,
*can* do it, and doesn't charge three times the price of a new
machine, you are certainly blessed. At this point, the only people who
know how to fix these things are 55 and older, and by the time they're 65
their eyes aren't good enough to do it. Today you have a 10-year window
... which is getting narrower as we speak.
Incidentally -- when you clean that pinchroller, don't forget to clean
that piece that it pinches the tape against, [removed], the capstan. That's a
little revolving post about the diameter of the skinny end of a Cross
ball-point pen refill. Be very careful when cleaning
*this*, however,
because at its base is a permanently lubricated bearing, and if any of
your cleaning solvent gets down in there it can wash out the lubricatant.
The bearing is sealed well enough to keep a liquid with the high
viscosity of an oil from seeping through, but not necessarily well enough
to prevent a liquid of much thinner viscosity (like alcohol) from
penetrating in.
Here's an unrelated tip. Don't use the PAUSE control for long periods of
time. On most machines, all it does is electrically disconnect the
transport motor. It does not mechanically disengage the
capstan-tape-pinchroller pinching effect, and the capstan is sitting
there making its impression upon a stationary (therefore, highly
impressionable) pinchroller, (through the thickness of the flexible tape.
If this impression upon the pinchroller becomes permanent, everything
you play will have a quality called "flutter", and all your OTR actors
will sound like Kathryn Hepburn in her later years. (I won't say her
"declining" years -- that magnificent woman never declined; the switch
just turned off.)
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:58:53 -0400
From:
"joe@[removed]" <sergei01@[removed];
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: pinch roller cleaner
TASCAM makes a product called "Rubber Cleaner Conditioner" for rejuvenating
rubber rollers in tape decks.
Hold your nose when you use [removed]
joe salerno
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:43:12 -0400
From: Jack & Cathy French
<otrpiano@[removed];
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Arlene Francis
Tom Kleinschmidt asks:
> Can anyone recommend a dealer who has OTR shows
> featuring Arlene Francis? Fred Berney's found John Daly news stuff, but
almost
> nothing with Arlene Francis.
I've been looking for audio copies of Arlene's "Affairs of Ann Scotland"
for many years, but this series probably has no surviving copies. (About
now I'd settle for copies of the scripts.)
But Tom, I do have a nice copy of the 15 minute episode of the soap,"Betty
and Bob" in which Arlene and Carl Frank were the leads. Since this episode
was the first on of the season, only 10 minutes was devoted to the drama
while the last 5 minutes consisted of Arlene interviewing her fellow radio
cast members and talking "off-script" about the series.
Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:47:15 -0400
From: "Louie Johnson"
<ljohnson@[removed];
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Vic and Sade Data collection
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There are a lot of Vic and Sade fans out there, and Barry Walters and
I invite you to join us in our efforts to preserve this series and all
its delicious intricacies for future generations. We are building a
huge database of purely Vic and Sade data, which we hope to turn into
a website in the future. We are getting lots of help from Friends of
Vic and Sade, without whom this gem might have been forgotten long
ago. For details or just to join in the half-wit discussions, visit
(and bookmark) the Vic and Sade Phorum:
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We look forward to having you join us.
Louie Johnson
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