Subject: [removed] Digest V01 #35
From: <[removed]@[removed]>
Date: 2/1/2001 8:04 AM

To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                          The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                             Volume 01 : Issue 35
                        A Part of the [removed]!

                               Today's Topics:

     Band [removed]                      [William L Murtough <k2mfi@[removed];]
     Harpo Marx                           ["Welsa" <welsa@[removed];        ]
     Lone Ranger                          [JayHick@[removed]                    ]
     TOOK FLIGHT ON THIS DAY [removed]        [Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];  ]
     re Gummo, and, Harpo speaks - really [John Henley <jhenley@[removed]]
     Jimmy Stewart on OTR                 ["Bruce Wilson" <[removed]@[removed];]
     Tonto's First Horse ...              [Duane Keilstrup <duanek9@[removed]; ]
     Re: Marx Brothers On Radio           [Wboenig@[removed]                    ]
     Sorry wrong number Film vs Suspense  ["James Lewis" <jimlew2@[removed]]
     Radio Ads                            ["Schickedanz" <schickedanz@[removed];]
     Early radio experiences              [nicoll <nicoll@[removed];       ]
     Today in Radio History               [Joe Mackey <wmackey@[removed]]
     Canadian Old Time Radio              ["Jeff G" <jeffg@[removed];     ]
     Harpo Speaks!                        [GEORGE WAGNER <gwagneroldtimeradio@]
     ages and an [removed]   ["Rodney w bowcock jr." <rodney-self]
     George Garabedian remembered         ["J. Randolph Cox" <cox@[removed]]
     Re: Harpo Marx                       [RadioHour@[removed]                  ]
     Re: Superman                         [Fred Berney <berney@[removed];      ]
     Re: WQAM                             [Fred Berney <berney@[removed];      ]
     33, 45, 78                           [Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed];    ]
     Joe Penner; Radio's First "Super Sta ["Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed]; ]
     The Marx Brothers                    ["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed].]
     Help with OTR in MP3 format          ["kenwyn:First kenwyn:Last" <kenwyn@]
     Early OTR recollections              ["Tony Baechler" <tony@[removed];]

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    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:08:25 -0500
    From: William L Murtough <k2mfi@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Band [removed]

    A few days ago someone commented on my posting about band remotes. They
    said that they had a recording  of a sound track of a jazz program that
    was broacast from a movie studio. This piqued my curiosity as it would be
    unusual for a radio station to do a dance remote from a film studio for
    several reasons which I will not dwell on at this moment. Then the next
    evening I was watching a two hour program on jazz aired on a local PBS
    television station and they mentioned that some of their material came
    from a movie studio. As it was with pictures it was obvious that it was a
    film documentary which had been produced by one of the motion picture
    companies, which explained the deal.

    Our band remotes could be anywhere from three pieces to fifteen or more.
    Dick Kuhn's band from the Firenze Restaurant was three pieces as I
    recall. Woody Herman had ten or more when I picked him up from Roseland
    Ballroom for his first broadcast with his new band, an offshoot from
    Isham Jones. Band remotes were my favorite broadcasts.

    During the twenties all dance music was referred to as "jazz". Possibly
    it was due to the "charleston" and the "lindy". Remember the "lindy
    hoppers"?

    I have no idea how many band remotes I engineered, probably at least a
    thousand or more. I have broadcast bands from Cleveland, New York,
    Hartford, Hollywood, Palm Springs, Santa Catalina Island. Some were
    "Mickey Mouse" bands. Others were ten or fifteen pieces.

    It was a great life!

    Bill Murtough

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    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:08:28 -0500
    From: "Welsa" <welsa@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Harpo Marx

    Yes, Harpo could speak.  In fact, his autobiogrphy was entitled "Harpo
    Speaks".  If you can find it anywhere, it is an entertaining read.

    Bob Fells was right in that Harpo's on-stage muteness limited his perfomance
    horizons.  Radio being one of them.  He would have been as interesting on
    radio as, say, dancing.  Although I think he did make some radio shows as
    horn blower and harpist.

    Harpo was quite a practical joker.  A friend of his was appearing on
    Broadway and living in a hotel during the run.  Harpo sent him a small
    painted turtle in a glass terrarium in order to keep him company.
    Unbeknownst to his friend, Harpo also bought several more turtles, each
    larger than the other, and had them painted the same way.  He paid the hotel
    maid to exchange the turtle every few days.  When the turtle got to be quite
    a big size, the exchange continued, but this time until the turtle "shrank"
    to it's original size.

    Ted Meland

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    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:09:29 -0500
    From: JayHick@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lone Ranger

    Terry Salomonson's Log and my Ultimate History has the Lone Ranger starting
    on Jan 31, 1933.  Information in the Digest and elsewhere suggests it started
    Jan 30, 1933.  Which is correct?

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    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:05:33 -0500
    From: Sandy Singer <sinatradj@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  TOOK FLIGHT ON THIS DAY [removed]

    1936: "The Green Hornet" Aired

    WXYZ Radio in Detroit, Michigan aired the first episode of a new
    superhero show called "The Green Hornet."  The main character, Brit
    Reid, who in his other identity was the crime-fighting Green
    Hornet, was the great nephew of John Reid, also known as the Lone
    Ranger, who first aired from the same radio station.

                Sandy Singer

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    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:28:03 -0500
    From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  re Gummo, and, Harpo speaks - really!

    The usually reliable Stephen Kallis stated,

>     The three most famous were Groucho, Harpo, and [removed]
>     The fifth, Gummo, wasn't a **stage**, radio, or screen presence.

    I suppose it depends upon your definition of "presence," but
    in the interests of accuracy, Gummo was the first Brother to
    begin a stage career, playing a ventriloquist's dummy to his
    uncle Julius, per Marx lore; he was a member of the
    Marx Brothers in their earliest incarnation as a vocal
    group ("The Three Nightingales"); and he was with them when
    they became a comedy act ("Fun in Hi Skool"/"Home Again"/
    "Mr. Green's Reception"),  finally leaving (with relief) to
    join the Army when the [removed] entered World War I.

    Here's some gravy for Marx fans:
    In quickly verifying when Gummo "retired," I found my way
    to [removed], and on the home page
    found a link to a 30-second recording of Harpo,
    _telling a story_!  All unawares, a long-time wish
    of mine got fulfilled.  Never expected that when I got
    up this morning.
    Harpo speaks to the public!

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

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    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:12:51 -0500
    From: "Bruce Wilson" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Jimmy Stewart on OTR

>     >From Suspense, all appearances:

    Consequence 21 Feb 1946 and 19 Mar 1949
    Mission Completed (or Mission Accomplished) 1 Dec 1949
    The Rescue 19 Apr 1951

    Visit [removed] and select the
    appropriate years to listen to or download the shows.

    Bruce Wilson
    [removed]

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    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:12:49 -0500
    From: Duane Keilstrup <duanek9@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Tonto's First Horse ...

    A Dallas radio station mentioned in a trivia quiz that Tonto's first horse
    on The Lone Ranger was named "Whitie Fella" and not until later changed to
    "Scout." Is this true?

    One correction:  In OTR Digest 01, 34 I mentioned that Harry Babbit's
    interview was Feb. 6 when actually the correct date is Feb. 4.  But the
    weekday was and is correct:  Sunday night after 7:30 Eastern on The Bill
    Bragg Show on The Yesterday USA Radio Networks at [removed]

    Thanks.
    Duane Keilstrup

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    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:46:51 -0500
    From: Wboenig@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Marx Brothers On Radio

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr. writes:

    << Groucho and Chico worked best on OTR; there are a few recordings of the
    Marx Brothers on the air, but not many. >>

    Since this is somewhat of an area of specialization for me, I thought I would
    take a quick count of how many episodes of various shows (not including
    episodes of "You Bet Your Life") that I have in my collection with
    appearances by at least one of the Marx Brothers.  Unofficially, here is the
    tally:

    Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel - one complete episode plus two episode
    fragments (Groucho and Chico)
    The Circle - 1 (Groucho and Chico)
    Rudy Vallee Sealtest Show - 1 (Groucho)
    Information Please - 1 (Groucho)
    Command Performance - 4 complete shows plus a skit from a fifth (Groucho [removed],
    Harpo 1, Chico 1)
    Mail Call - 5 (Groucho 4, Harpo 1)
    Fitch Bandwagon - 1 (Chico)
    The Marx Brothers Show (unaired episode with Groucho and Chico)
    Pabst Blue Ribbon Town - 5 (Groucho)
    Eddie Cantor Show - 1 (Groucho)
    Radio Almanac - 1 (Groucho)
    Jack Benny - 2 (Groucho)
    Philco Radio Hall Of Fame - 2 (Groucho)
    Birdseye Open House (Dinah Shore Show) - 13 (all Groucho)
    Chase & Sanborn Show - 1 (Groucho)
    Columbia Presents Corwin - 2 (Groucho)
    [removed] Journal - 1 (Groucho)
    Burns & Allen - 1 (Harpo)
    Philco Radio Time (Bing Crosby) - 4 (all Groucho)
    Kraft Music Hall - 5 (all Groucho)
    Railroad Hour - 1 (Groucho)
    Bing Crosby Chesterfield Show - 1 (Groucho)
    Saturday At The Shamrock - 1 (Chico and Harpo)
    Steve Allen Show - 1 (Groucho)
    The Big Show - 4 (all Groucho)
    The Little Matchmaker - 1 (Chico)
    Special Broadcasts (1 each) -- "America Calling/Salute To A Greek Nation",
    "Democratic National Committee Program", and "Hollywood Fights Back"

    Two other broadcasts that are noteworthy:  in October 1963 NBC Monitor
    broadcast a one-hour birthday tribute to Groucho on which A) Gummo's voice
    was heard (a rarity), and B) Ann Miller admitted to being only 14 years old
    when she appeared in the Marx Brothers movie "Room Service".  Also, within
    the past 2-3 months there was a documentary broadcast on BBC which included a
    30-second recording of Harpo's voice; it was made around 1960 when he was
    recording his memoirs for his biographer ("Harpo Speaks" by Rowland Barber,
    1961)

    Now that I'm on this subject, I would like to put out a search request for
    shows that I believe exist but are not in my collection.  Does anyone have
    any of the following, which they would be able to provide to me in a trade:

    * Kraft Music Hall 04/07/49
    * Phico Radio Hall Of Fame 03/18/45
    * Command Performance episodes #141, 246, 289, 307, 335, 404
    * Mail Call episodes #67, 86, 251, 267, 293
    * [removed] Journal #64
    * Birdseye Open House 01/04/45; 03/01/45; 10/11/45; 12/06/45; 01/31/46;
    04/04/46; and 04/18/46

    Anybody who would like to dig further into the radio careers of Minnie's Boys
    may e-mail me personally.

    Wayne Boenig
    (age 38, if we're still taking the survey ... age 29 if not!)

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    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:44:39 -0500
    From: "James Lewis" <jimlew2@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Sorry wrong number Film vs Suspense version

>     This in turn reminds me of the lackluster film version of "Sorry Wrong
>     Number" (starring Barbara Stanwyck) as compared to Agnes Moorehead's
>     performances of it on Suspense.

    Shiffy,
        Enjoyed your post but would have to respectfully disagree with your
    assessment of the film version of "Sorry ,wrong number".I found it to be a
    most entertaining [removed] just caught it a couple of weeks ago and still
    like the [removed] version is enjoyable , but  doesn't tell the story
    surrounding bedridden woman and why she is so frantic and where is Burt
    Lancaster?Keep on posting!
    JL

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    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:58:15 -0500
    From: "Schickedanz" <schickedanz@[removed];
    To: "Old-Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Radio Ads

    Hi.

    It's not OTR shows, but it's related: 997 print advertisements for old
    radios and similar products, from 1922 to 1956, plus thousands for other
    categories, word-searchable, including ads with Bob Hope, Eddie Cantor,
    Jimmy Durante, Alice Faye, and Rita Hayworth (non-radio but in color, with
    red [removed]), at [removed]

    Norm Schickedanz, 54
    Elmhurst, IL

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    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:34:21 -0500
    From: nicoll <nicoll@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Early radio experiences

    "Three score and five years ago my Mother brought forth, upon this
    [removed]" - there, that takes care of the age thing.

    I was raised in University City (a suburb of St. Louis).  Our grade school
    had a "radio station" beamed to all the class rooms. The call letters were
    W-O-R-K.  Each year there would be auditions and we voted in one boy and
    one girl from the 6th grade to be the announcers.  One of my older sisters
    was selected for the 1944/45 school year.  Every  morning the "station" put
    on some kind of little [removed], stories, recording, etc.

    Unfortunately, when I got to the 6th grade I wasn't selected, however, a
    friend and I got the opportunity to put on a radio show.  We called it "A
    Quiz of Two Classes" patterned after a local radio show "A Quiz of Two
    Cities."  It was a show matching teams from the two chosen classrooms.  We
    broadcast the show from the auditorium with the children from the two class
    rooms there as the audience.  We tried to make it [removed] had
    "applause" signs.  Great fun!

    Will Nicoll

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    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 18:33:18 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <wmackey@[removed];
    To: otr-otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Today in Radio History

      From TLK Headlines, AP --

       1936: "The Green Hornet" Aired

       WXYZ Radio in Detroit, Michigan aired the first episode of a new
    superhero show called "The Green Hornet." The main character, Brit Reid,
    who in his other identity was the crime-fighting Green Hornet, was the
    great nephew of John Reid, also known as the Lone Ranger, who first
    aired from the same radio station.

       Joe

    --
    Visit my home page:
    [removed]~[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:13:21 -0500
    From: "Jeff G" <jeffg@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Canadian Old Time Radio

    Hi All!

    I'm just letting anyone that's interested know that there are clips from
    three Canadian Old Time Radio Shows on my new website for you to "tune in"
    to.  The shows are THE HAPPY GANG, HARMONY HOUSE and SHARE THE WEALTH.
    I hope you enjoy them!

    [removed]

    jeff

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    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:21:59 -0500
    From: GEORGE WAGNER <gwagneroldtimeradio@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Harpo Speaks!

         It's always been my understanding that Harpo had
    the quickest comedy comebacks of the entire bunch, but
    his ad libs were usually so sexually explicit that
    Groucho, Chico, Gummo and Zeppo demanded that he
    remain mute or become a sort of ex-brother and leave
    the act.

    GWAGNEROLDTIMERADIO@[removed]

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    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:30:56 -0500
    From: "Rodney w bowcock jr." <rodney-selfhelpbikeco@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  ages and an [removed]

    I just joined this list, and I had wanted to send an introduction and
    tell people about myself when I discovered that you were in the midst of
    a discussion about ages an early OTR experiences.  This seems like a
    great time to introduce myself, so here [removed]

    I'm 22 years old, have been a casual OTR fan since I was about 7, but
    I've been seriously collecting shows for about a year now.  My first
    exposure came from one of my mother's friends, who loaned me a couple
    tapes.  I think they were The Bickersons and The Abbott and Costello
    show.  Being fascinated with everything old, (movies, Disney comic books,
    Warner Bros cartoons) I loved these shows and soon began listening to a
    local radio station's broadcasts from 11:00am-12:00pm   (The shows are
    still broadcast at this time M-F, on [removed] in Cincinnati)  My favorite
    was, and still is The Jack Benny Program, though the shows I was hearing
    had the commercials and songs edited out of them.  I could never
    understand why the audience would always burst out in applause whenever
    The Sportsmen came out and said "HMMMMMM" then we never heard from The
    Sportsmen again, and why Dennis was said to be such a great tenor, when I
    never actually heard him get around to singing anything.  Then I forgot
    about it for awhile, getting out my old cassette tapes of shows that I
    had taped off the radio once in a great moon, but that was it.

    Then I guess at the right time I got out my tapes again, and the magic of
    the great shows seemed to come back.  I went to the library and got some
    books, got online and got some catalogs, and that's been that.  Now I
    have amassed about 600 shows (about 200 of which are The Jack Benny
    Program), and I can't wait to go to this year's OTR convention in
    Cincinnati.

    I do have a question though, nearly all of my shows I've bought from
    Radio Spirits.  I've seen things online about other companies but have
    never ordered from any of them.  As far as the quality of shows is
    concerned I'm fairly satisfied with Radio Spirits.  I have been
    disapointed once or twice to find shows edited or of really bad quality.
    How do other companies stand up to Radio Spirits?  Maybe I'm buying from
    the worst of the bunch and just don't know [removed]

    Thanks again!  I can see I'm going to learn alot!

    Rodney Bowcock

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    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 20:04:39 -0500
    From: "J. Randolph Cox" <cox@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  George Garabedian remembered

    A number of years ago, I came upon a record store that had a many of the
    George Garabedian Mark 56 records when I was doing research in the Library
    at Syracuse University. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven to find
    samples of so many of my old favorite shows in this format. I bought all I
    could afford and wished I could have bought them all!

    Randy Cox

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    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 23:07:02 -0500
    From: RadioHour@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Harpo Marx

    Hello All,
    For those who are interested in Harpo Marx, I highly recommend his
    autobiography "Harpo Speaks."  It is probably the best book of its kind that
    I've ever had the pleasure of reading.  I read it for the first time when I
    was 15 years old.  Over twenty years later I decided to read it again to see
    if It was really as good as I remembered it to be, and it was.  In fact, I
    enjoyed it even more as an adult.
    It is available at most local book stores, and at [removed] as well.

    Greg Kopelow

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    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 23:07:00 -0500
    From: Fred Berney <berney@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Superman

    My wife had our TV on this morning tuned to CBS. I missed the beginning,
    but caught the end of an interview with Jack Larkin and Noel Nell. (Jimmy
    Olson and Lois Lane from TV).

    It made we start to think that it might be nice to have them at one of the
    OTR conventions. Although they are of TV fame, their program started on
    radio. And the number of OTR performers is sadly getting smaller.

    I for one would enjoy meeting some of the stars of early TV.

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    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 23:06:58 -0500
    From: Fred Berney <berney@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: WQAM

    Art,

    What years were you an attendee at the Sunday Funnies? I was 10 years old
    when I first started going to the show. That would have been in 1949. I
    remember that I use to visit Kerby Brooks on Saturday mornings.

    I think he was getting fed up with me coming down every week, so one time
    he suggested that I come in on Sunday when they had a show for kids. I
    can't remember why, maybe it was because I was older that many of the kids,
    but instead of sitting on the floor, Gordon Shaw had me sit at the table
    with him.

    I think I was a regular till I turned 13. And then I still came down
    because that is how I met Big Jon. So, I must have kept coming until I was
    14 or 15.

    I use to get to the station at 6 AM Sunday morning. This was back in the
    days when they actually had station sign offs and sign ons. The engineer
    would arrive around 6 and we would ride up in the elevator together.

    Then he would turn the station on and I was allowed to cue up records.

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    Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 23:29:14 -0500
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    From: Dan Hughes <danhughes@[removed];
    Subject:  33, 45, 78

    Okay, first there were 78 rpm records, then 33, then 45.  Is it just a
    coincidence that 33 plus 45 equals 78?  Or did choosing speeds that added
    cleanly make it easier to engineer 3-speed record players?

    ---Dan

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    Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 00:34:35 -0500
    From: "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Joe Penner; Radio's First "Super Star"

         Joe Penner, who;s lisp was so identifible to the radio ear,had a sudden
    rise to radio stardom overnight.  His catch phrase, "wanna buy a duck?"
    became a household word and was uttered by nearly every kid on the block,
    including this writer.

         His rise was so great, that he was signed to a luctrive three-year
    contrat by CBS in 1935.  He was the acnowledged leader of the crop of young
    new comics coming to radio from Broadway and Vaudeville at this time.  Songs
    were written around his comic utterances and his achievements were
    impressive because his rise was due to program merit alone and not the
    then-popular agent ballyhoo.  As I mentioned above, he developed a
    trememdous juvenile following.  We all wanted to be Joe Penner!

         Although he had the distinction of having his own show - Sundays at 8
    PM, opposite Eddie Cantor - his sponsor, Standard Brands saw fit during one
    week of programming, to place him on their other two programs - The Chase
    and Sandborn Hour and Rudy Vallee's Flieschmann Hour as a guest star.

    (Excerpt from the book, "Sounds Like Yesterday, The Magic and Power Of
    Radio" written by this writer)

      Owens L. Pomeroy

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    Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:47:51 -0500
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Marx Brothers

>     Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 17:07:25 -0500
>     From: "David H. Buswell" <dbuswell@[removed];

>     Harpo was one of the original five Marx Brothers: Leonard (Chico); Adolph
>     (Harpo); Julius (Groucho); Herbert (Zeppo); and the youngest, Milton Gummo).

    Zeppo was the youngest, not Gummo.  Gummo performed with the brothers for
    awhile in Vaudeville until he went into the service in World War I.   When
    he returned from the service, he decided to go into business, instead of
    back into the act.  When he left the act, he was replaced by Zeppo.

    Harpo's name was originally Adolph, but he changed it to Arthur during
    either World War I or II.

    There are a number of stories of how it came about that Harpo didn't
    speak.  One that Groucho told was that, after a particularly bad
    experience with a theater manager, as the brothers were leaving town,
    Harpo looked back and wished the theater to burn to the ground.  When they
    got to the next town, they learned that it had.  So they decided it was
    dangerous for Harpo to speak.

    Another story is that Vaudeville star Al Shean, who was the Marx Brothers'
    uncle and wrote some of their Vaudeville material, forgot, in one act, to
    write any dialog for Harpo.

     A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                        [removed]
     15 Court Square                     lawyer@[removed]
     Boston, MA 02108-2503      [removed]~lawyer/

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    Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:47:52 -0500
    From: "kenwyn:First kenwyn:Last" <kenwyn@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Help with OTR in MP3 format

    My son got me a Memorex MP3 player for Christmas so I could listen to OTR
    CDs away from the computer.  The problem is I can't get it to work.  I need
    to change them to 44Khz in order for the player to play them.  My question
    is:  How do I do that?  Any help will be greatly appreciated.

    Ken Kay

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    Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:47:54 -0500
    From: "Tony Baechler" <tony@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Early OTR recollections

    Hello all.  I was not planning on giving my age and recollections of finding
    OTR, but I read so many interesting accounts I finally decided to do so.  I
    have never really introduced myself to the list, so here goes.

    I am 21 years old, and have spent about half of my life around OTR shows.
    Obviously I did not grow up listening to it live, and I did not even know of
    CBS RMT until a few years ago.  Anyway, around 1990 or so I found a show
    called "When Radio Was," which ran for an hour, five days a week on a local
    station.  I remember, even then, lamenting that it was not on seven days a
    week and wishing it was longer.  I used to look forward to The Shadow on
    Friday with Bill Johnstone.  I liked the Welles era scripts better, but I
    think my favorite Shadow actor was Johnstone.  I also remember Nick Carter
    and The Life of Riley.  This was when they still had trivia questions and
    before they split the comedies into two parts, so I was exposed to 15 minute
    shows as well, like Tarzan and The Easy Aces.  They really did not play
    shows like Suspense that I remember.

    The first actual shows I got on tape were either The Cinnamon Bear or The
    Shadow.  I cannot remember which.  The first show I really wanted, though,
    and always made a point to listen to was The Cinnamon Bear.  I was still
    growing up and could appreciate it from that standpoint.  Finally, around
    1992 or so, I happened to turn on the radio in time to hear a Burns and
    Allen program.  That was on KNX, and I listened to that Drama Hour for a
    long time.  I would even make it a point to listen on Saturday and recorded
    many of the Benny, Texas Rangers, and other shows they played.  Often I
    would start recording at 9:00 PM, do my homework, and listen the next day
    after school.  Also, at the same time, my local station quit playing WRW,
    but for awhile I would listen to the Lone Ranger on KNX every Wednesday,
    switch to WRW and listen to half of another Lone Ranger program.  Finally,
    though, the station dropped WRW so I had to switch exclusively to KNX, but
    they had a lot less commercials.

    I finally got too busy in school to regularly listen to OTR, so the only
    time I did was during the holidays.  My collection of tapes grew every year,
    but very slowly.  I did not become a "serious" OTR collector until January
    of 1998 when my grandmother died.  The only connection I can see is that she
    was trying to introduce me to some people named "George Burns," and "Orson
    Welles," but was just too young to appreciate them.  Now Welles is one of my
    favorite personalities, but my very favorite actor is Eliott Lewis.  I then
    moved and got into mp3.  I do not take mp3 seriously as an archiving format,
    but that is another discussion.  I finally moved back in 1999 and joined
    SPERDVAC in April of 1999.  I highly recommend them.  I borrowed many tapes
    from their library, but have not been active recently.  I now do audio
    proofing for the First Generation Radio Archives and very highly recommend
    them also.  If you have the time and concentration, it is very enjoyable.
    They are at:

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    If anyone wants to know anything else about my OTR listening, feel free to
    write.  Oh, I attempted to play radio as well, but it did not really work.

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