Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #200
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Date: 7/8/2007 7:04 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 200
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: Collection OTR shows              [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]
      Collecting in the early days          [ Chargous@[removed] ]
      The Untouchables                      [ "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed]; ]
      Untouchables Announcer                [ "Arthur Funk" <Art-Funk@[removed]; ]
      Body of water = records?              [ Stephen Davies <SDavies@[removed]; ]
      1939 Theme song: "Just the Way You L  [ Claireruth75@[removed] ]
      July 8th births/deaths                [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Re: [removed]                    [ "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 10:54:26 -0400
    From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Collection OTR shows

    I'm probably the last to chime in on this subject. We have a couple
    of clients that need several thousand CDs duplicated and I'm just now
    getting caught up on reading my non- business email.

    As most of you know from my older posts, I started collecting radio
    programs in 1952, when my parents bought me a tape recorder for my
    Bar Mitzvah. When you are 13 and tape cost $[removed] per reel wholesale,
    and you main income is an allowance, you become very picky on what you record.

    I remember that I use to record the Lone Ranger every Monday,
    Wednesday and Friday. And then when the tape was filled up, I'd
    record over it with new LR shows. I think I was able to purchase
    about a dozen reels of that between June of 1952 and December of that
    year, because those are the dates on my first 12 reels.

    I also discovered cheaper tape at Lafayette Radio. I think a 1200 ft.
    reel cost $[removed] or something very close to that. I ordered a lot of
    Lafayette's tape in those early years.

    It was not until the early 1970's that I discovered other collectors.
    I think being a collector of one item causes you to save other items.
    Because in addition to collecting the radio shows, I also saved every
    letter and catalog I ever received for every collector I traded with.

    A while back I went digging into one of my filing cabinets that held
    all this correspondence and grabbed a handful of folders. Below are
    the name of some of the people I traded with.

    In no particular order, I just picked up what was on top and it
    turned out to be Supplement No. 9 of Pat McCoy's catalog, HOW WELL I
    REMEMBER.  Right under looks like his complete catalog with a typed
    note attached. It reads,

    Dear Mr. Berney: Am interested in trading with you. Just as soon as I
    finish cross indexing my supplement 10 I will get back to you with a
    want list. Sincerely, Pat McCoy.

    There is a letter dated February 7, 1978 to Ward Erwin of Lakeland,
    Florida. I was writing him to remind him that we had traded about 5
    years earlier when I lived in Miami and that I had some new Bob and
    Ray material that he might be interested in.

    Steven Darnall  of Lagrange, IL, wrote to me in March of 1979, asking
    if I'd like to trade with him. He saw an ad I had placed in National
    Radio Trader. My want list from him included a number of Jack Benny
    shows with Orson Welles, Blondie and Boston Blackie.

    Jim Hanners of Louisville, KY, also saw my add in NRT and responded
    with his own listing of shows.

    Other letters includes those either from or to: Jim Daley of New
    Eagle, PA,  Andy Blatt, who lived in Staten Island, NY at the time.
    I've got a Winter 1977 supplement of Radio Reruns of Redmond WA.

    This is interesting, I've got a short note from Chuck Seeley of
    OTRCOB of Kenmore, NY. It seems I was mentioned in the September 1978
    issue of The Illustrated Press, the newsletter of the Old Time Radio
    Club of Buffalo. Somebody like the quality of my tapes and the
    promptness of my service.

    There are a lot more letters and catalogs, I just grabbed a few. But
    in looking through them, I realized that Andy Blatt and I did a lot
    of trading in those early days. I remember that traded with about 12
    people. We traded a lot during a 10 or 15 year period. One person
    lived in Mexico and other in Canada and Ron Barnett at the time was
    in the service so all I had was an APO address for him.

    At the time, it felt like a small community of collectors, but we had
    this common interest and I always considered them friends, even
    though I had never actually met any of them until I moved to the
    Washington DC area in the 80's.

    Well, my wife want me to get going so we can do some shopping, so
    this will have to be continued another time.

    Fred

    Fred
    Check us out for old time radio & TV shows & Movie Serials
    [removed]

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    Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 11:54:27 -0400
    From: Chargous@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Collecting in the early days

    To be truthful, I wasn't alive in the 60s, but as I understand it, it was a
    great time for a few collectors, mostly the disc ones, as it was easy and
    cheap to pick up transcriptions.

    The bad part, even for them, technology wasn't what it was now, the
    archiving media was open reel or worse yet, cassette, and a lot of people
    had to make do with ancient 40s vintage transcrtiption turntables, and a
    lot of bad transfers were turned out.

    As far as technology, I'm glad I live in this eara - technology like CEDAR
    and CEDAR-like programs give the opportunity to restore shows and
    state-of-the-art transcripton turntables like the Rondine 3 give a better
    dub of the shows.  The archival media is digital now - no more generation
    loss, the files are much easier to work with, and even share.

    [removed]  I do look for reels from Radio Yesteryear, though - they're generally
    of decent quality and sometimes there's some offbeat stuff.  Anybody have any?

    Travis

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    Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 11:54:46 -0400
    From: "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Untouchables

    Google is an amazing thing. I put in "The Untouchables Announcer"
    and came up with a link to [removed] and under the cast listing was
    "Les Lampson  -  Announcer (opening titles and credits)" ... so a
    gold star goes to the right Mr. Wright for his earlier answer.
    Click on Lampson's name and you get no biographical information,
    but it shows that he was an actor on the Jack Benny TV program of
    Feb. 4, 1962.

    Bob Cockrum

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    Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 14:28:26 -0400
    From: "Arthur Funk" <Art-Funk@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Untouchables Announcer

    According to [removed] the announcer on the series was Les Lampson.

    [removed];om_clk=tabssh&tag=tabs;cast

    In doing a little googling I discovered that Les Lampson had been an
    announcer on a Tulsa radio station in the 1950s (which establishes an OTR
    connection), did some voice-over work, did some cartoon voice work and made
    at least one appearance on Jack Benny's TV show.  I found a uncorroborated
    report that he died about 1990.

    Regards to all,
    Art Funk

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    Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 16:40:02 -0400
    From: Stephen Davies <SDavies@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Body of water = records?

    John M reminisced:

>     the albums by some record company I can't recall; think the corporate name
>     had something to do with a body of water.

    Sandyhook?  There was an importer in Ontario who circulated a catalogue
    made up of Sandyhook Radiola and George Garabedian records.  I think the
    enticing "Themes like old times" albums were by Snuff Garrett.

    Stephen D
    Calary

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    Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 19:38:06 -0400
    From: Claireruth75@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  1939 Theme song: "Just the Way You Look Tonight"?

    My brother called me last night to see if I could tell him which radio show
    used "Just the Way You Look Tonight" as its theme song. This would have been
    in
    1939, when he was 10 years old. The show played on Sundays (in Philadelphia).

    He suspects that it was Jimmie Fidler's show, and thinks the sponsor was
    Jergens Lotion.

    I don't remember a show with that theme. However, I've done a little Web
    research, and found that Jergens sponsored Walter Winchell. Jimmie Fidler had
    a
    show on NBC's Red Network from 1937 to 1939 which was sponsored by Special
    Drene
    Shampoo. "Just the Way You Look Tonight" would make sense as a theme song,
    because Fred Astaire sang it to Ginger Rogers while she was shampooing her
    hair.

    I'd like to know for sure that this information is correct, so I can keep my
    brother believing that I have an excellent memory!

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    Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 23:39:40 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  July 8th births/deaths

    July 8th births

    07-08-1882 - Percy Grainger - Melbourne, Australia - d. 2-20-1961
    composer: "Prudential Family Hour"; "The Pause that Refreshes."
    07-08-1885- John Brinkley - Jackson County, NC - d. 5-26-1942
    the "goat gland doctor"
    07-08-1889 - Eugene Pallette - Winfield, KS - d. 9-3-1954
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    07-08-1898 - Melville Ruick - Boise, ID - d. 12-24-1972
    actor, announcer: "Cavalcade of America"; "Quiet Please"; "Suspense"
    07-08-1908 - Nelson Rockefeller - Bar Harbor, ME - d. 1-26-1979
    vice president: Helped fund "Hello Americans" with Orson Welles
    07-08-1910 - Jack Rubin - New York - d. 10-10-1952
    writer: "Hallmark Hall of Fame"; "The Hardy Family"; "Hilltop House";
    "The O'Neills"
    07-08-1911 - Gertrude Niesen - Mid-Atlantic Ocean - d. 3-27-1975
    singer: "Songs by Gertrude Niesen"; "Good News of 1939"
    07-08-1912 - Donna Dameral - Chicago, IL - d. 2-15-1941
    actor: Marge Mintere "Myrt and Marge"
    07-08-1913 - Ann Thomas - Newport, RI - d. 4-28-1989
    actor: Sharon O'Shaughnessy "Bob Burns Show"; Barbara Weeks "We Love
    and Learn"
    07-08-1913 - Bill Thompson - Terre Haute, IN - d. 7-15-1971
    actor: Wallace Wimple, Horatio K Boomer and others "Fibber McGee and
    Molly"
    07-08-1914 - Billy Eckstine - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-8-1993
    jazz vocalist: "Yessiree . . .It's Mr. B!"; "ABCs of Music";
    "Julilee"; "Big Show"
    07-08-1917 - Faye Emerson - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 3-9-1983
    actor: "My Silent Partner"
    07-08-1917 - Glenn Langan - Denver, CO - d. 1-19-1991
    actor: "Chuck Morgan "Stand By For Crime"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-08-1917 - Pamela Brown - London, England - d. 9-18-1975
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Theatre On the Air"
    07-08-1918 - Craig Stevens - Liberty, MO - d. 5-10-2000
    actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
    07-08-1928 - Royce Baerg - d. 9-22-2002
    disk jockey: KNEX McPherson, Kansas
    07-08-1931 - Louis Wayne Ballard - Miami, OK
    singer: "Tulsa University Radio Choir"
    07-08-1932 - Jerry Vale - NYC
    singer: "Peter Lind Hayes Show"
    07-08-1934 - Marty Feldman - East London, England - d. 12-3-1982
    comedian, writer: "Round the Horne"; "We're In Business"
    07-08-1935 - Steve Lawrence - Brooklyn, NY
    singer: "Roadshow"
    07-08-1940 - Marcia Rodd - Lyons, KS
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    July 8th deaths

    02-09-1921 - Gene Lyons - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 7-8-1974
    actor: Freelance
    03-04-1914 - Ward Kimball - Minneapolis, MN - d. 7-8-2002
    disney animator: "Here's to Veterans"
    03-29-1914 - Phil Foster - NYC - d. 7-8-1985
    actor: "What's With Hubert"; "Baseball Round Table"; "Big Show"
    04-03-1924 - Peter Hawkins - London, England - d. 7-8-2006
    actor: Frankie Mouse "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
    08-03-1917 - Charlie Shavers - NYC - d. 7-8-1971
    jazz trumpeter: "Jump Time"; "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Tommy Dorsey Show"
    08-04-1792 - Percy Shelley - Field Place, England - d. 7-8-1822
    poet: "Moon River"
    08-24-1913 - Howard Duff - Bremerton, WA - d. 7-8-1990
    actor: Sam Spade "Advs. of Sam Spade"; Mike McCoy "McCoy"; Josh
    Chandler "Dear John"
    10-07-1917 - June Allyson - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-8-2006
    actor: "Hallmark Playhouse"; "NBC Star Playhouse"; "Harold Lloyd
    Comedy Theatre"
    10-15-1918 - Robert Lee - Elyria, OH - d. 7-8-1994
    writer: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
    10-25-1914 - John Reed King - Wilmington, DE - d. 7-8-1979
    announcer, actor:"Columbia Workshop"; Schuyler 'Sky' King " "Sky King"
    12-25-1904 - Gladys Swarthout - Deepwater, MO - d. 7-8-1969
    singer: "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"; "Prudential Family Hour";
    "Voice of Firestone"
    xx-xx-1887 - May Day - Isle of Jersey - d. 7-8-1945
    Gave beauty talks on KF0X Long Beach, California
    xx-xx-1921 - Wayne Howell - d. 7-8-1993
    announcer, disc jockey: "Chamber Music Chamber Society of Lower Basin
    Street"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 08:52:31 -0400
    From: "Glenn P.," <C128User@[removed];
    To: Old-Time Radio Mailing List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: [removed]

    Well, that may explain the Paramount logo on the Harveytoon, but I'm still
    not happy. Even if it's properly there, it's definitely NOT the way I recall
    seeing it on [removed]! I have fond memories of that TV-set-as-jack-in-the-box,
    with the big stylized "H" on it, and with "jack" springing out to spread
    his arms and spread a folded-paper-doll-style "H A R V E Y" across the
    screen, with that theme music in my ears, including the harmonious chimes
    at the end.

    Those were the days!

    As long as I have someone knowledgeable about old cartoons available --
    do you mind if I pick your brain for a moment? Dost happen to remember
    a series of cartoons where the main characters were a very naive and
    talkative mouse (who I'm pretty sure wore a cap) with a (non-speaking)
    worm companion, who always seemed to be meeting up with a hungry owl or
    similar predator? What cartoon chaaracters were they, and where might
    I obtain them? I haven't seen them in [removed]

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