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Date: 1/14/2002 9:03 AM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2002 : Issue 14
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Converting tapes into digital files   [ "Peter H. Vollmann" <vollmann@hawai ]
  Re: The Cherry Sisters                [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
  Looney Tunes                          [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
  OTR Postage Stamps                    [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  Howard Cuver                          [ "Lois Culver" <lois@[removed]; ]
  Howard Culver                         [ "Lois Culver" <lois@[removed]; ]
  Molle Mystery Theater                 [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
  Detectives from RS Greatest Detectiv  [ joseph <josephm@[removed]; ]
  Today in Radio History                [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 04:02:16 -0500
From: "Peter H. Vollmann" <vollmann@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Converting tapes into digital files

My new computer can burn CDs (Compaq Presario 5000 series). I was hoping to
be able to convert my tape collection of old raio shows to MP3 or a similar
space saving format on CD.
Can anyone of the more technically wise folks out there tell me how to go
about it? Do I need special equipment?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, either within the digest (I presume
there must be some interest in converting tapes to a digital medium) or
directly to my e-mail vollmann@[removed]

Peter from Hawaii

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Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 04:03:33 -0500
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: The Cherry Sisters

George Tirebiter wrote:

So the Cherry Sisters date back to at least 1910.

The Cherry Sisters were indeed a real act, beginning in 1893 -- Effie,
Jessie and Addie Cherry, three girls from Iowa who were also known as
"The Vegetable Trio," because their act was so excruciatingly bad that
their mere appearance on stage was the signal for produce to fly. They
picked up a reputation for being "the worst act ever to appear in
vaudeville," and one critic declared that "they had voices like the
rattle of an empty coal scuttle." The act involved a strange melange of
tear-jerking sentimentality, hawkish ultrapatriotism, and Bible-belt
religion that had to be seen to be believed. Their singing was reportedly
crass, tuneless, and could drown out the loudest pit band.

The act was the vaudeville equivalent of an Ed Wood film festival -- and
theatre managers encouraged audiences to play along with a self-conscious
"so bad it's good" attitude. (No, smirking irony wasn't invented in the
1970s.) In many theatres, when the Sisters were introduced, stagehands
would ceremoniously raise a net in front of the stage in order to catch
the heads of rotten cabbage, soggy tomatoes, putrid eggs, and other
refuse the patrons would bring along in anticipation of Effie, Jessie and
Addie's performance. The Sisters rode this image to a successful career
that lasted nearly forty years, and in all that time, they never once
broke character to suggest that they were in on the joke.

In early 20th Century show-business slang, likening an act to the Cherry
Sisters was to indicate an extreme lack of quality. This was, no doubt,
the meaning which Arthur Godfrey and/or Archie Bleyer intended to evoke
in naming their novelty trio.

Elizabeth

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Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 04:05:45 -0500
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Looney Tunes

What a coincidence!  Martin Grams, Jr. wrote:

...there is a book that got published in 1989 and I believe it is still in 
print.  It's entitled LOONEY TUNES and MERRIE MELODIES: A Complete
Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons by Jerry Beck & Will Friedwald.
The publishing company was >Henry Holt and Company. ...I believe [removed] or
a local bookstore might have it available for sale (my copy says $[removed] on
the back cover) and it's about 400 pages thick.

I just got this book from my niece for Christmas!!!  (She knows I'm a huge 
Bugs Bunny fan.) My copy is the 9th printing of the first edition.  The 
price is higher now than Martin's copy.  Being a present, the price is 
mostly scratched out but the first number is either a "2" or a "3".  But 
it's AVAILABLE!

Barbara

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Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 04:03:05 -0500
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OTR Postage Stamps

Russ Butler wrote:

In 1991, the [removed] Postal Service issued a set of Al Hershfeld drawings of 
several radio personalities (Jack Benny, Baby Snooks, Abbott and Costello,
etc.) as 29 cent postage stamps.  All excellent!!
(...but, ya had ta lick 'em ta stick!)

I'm sure everyone who has very large mailing lists appreciates the Post 
Office switching to the self-adhesive [removed]
but you have to give the post office [removed]
it's the only place one can go to lick Marilyn Monroe for 34 cents.

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Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 04:03:52 -0500
From: "Lois Culver" <lois@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Howard Cuver

I just watched a movie on the Western Channel called THE BLACK WHIP. Howard
Culver had a role in the movie. Is anyone out there familiar with the movie
and know what part he played?

Yes, Howard did play in THE BLACK WHIP, but I cant remember his role there.
If you can email me privately and give me the names of the stars of that
show, perhaps I can track down which one it was.  I believe this is one
where the name changed after the show was filmed, and I dont know what the
original name [removed] is the way I have them listed.

Lois Culver
KWLK Radio (Mutual) Longview, WA 1941-44
KFI Radio (NBC) Los Angeles CA 1945-47, 50-53
Widow of Howard Culver, actor

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Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 04:04:15 -0500
From: "Lois Culver" <lois@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Howard Culver

[removed] found the listing for Howard Culver in THE BLACK WHIP (aka The
Man with the Whip).  He played the part of Doctor Gillette.

Lois Culver
KWLK Radio (Mutual) Longview, WA 1941-44
KFI Radio (NBC) Los Angeles CA 1945-47, 50-53
Widow of Howard Culver, actor

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Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 04:06:03 -0500
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Molle Mystery Theater

Of all the shows I've heard in this series none can top "Triangle of Death".
  And the neat thing is that I can listen to this over and over again, after
a suitable interval, because I NEVER remember which of the two men is trying
to kill her, the husband or the old boyfriend.  It is really well written to
keep you in suspense until the very end.  Does anyone else have a favorite
show from this series?

Barbara

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Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 09:23:06 -0500
From: joseph <josephm@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Detectives from RS Greatest Detectives

As I am listening to this I thought I would make some comments on the programs.

Philip Marlowe
"Crime is a suckers road"

While this show is nothing like Chandler's Marlowe. I did like the
stories as produced by Norman McDonnell. My favorite story was when
Marlowe meets the odd family after crashing in the snow blizzard. At
least the family wasn't like the Gunsmoke where Dillon in a blizzard
comes to a house with a bunch of western psychos.

Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator

Didn't like these much. The stories dragged on and on and on. William
Gargan was a so-so audio actor.

Boston Blackie
"A friend to those need a friend, an enemy to those who make him an enemy."

While I can enjoy Boston Blackie in a compilation. I wouldn't
actively collect the program. I think there was a change in post war
detective series. They grew more cynical, tougher and violent like a
lot of the media of the times. The war and pre war detectives were
pretty much like Blackie light stories of gentleman adventurers.
Though I like Chester Morris's delivery. Sort of toungue in cheek.

Broadway's My Beat

This is the first Elliot Lewis production I have heard. And it is
pretty good.  The acting is excellent. The sound effect are good.
While I do find the narration just a little over ripe. It still
conveys the story well.

The one thing that the post war stories deliver is a lot of homicidal
women. In film of the period woman in noir films tended toward the
violent, but the production code rode herd so that violence was
rarely used as a plot device. Post war decective shows, like tv shows
of the late fifties and early sixties seems to use violence as a way
of moving the story along. Sometimes violence as an easy plot
solution.

More later.

These are my opinions. Alway willing to debate.

Joseph McGuire

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Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 09:23:14 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-net <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Today in Radio History

  From Those Were The Days --

1906 - Hugh Gernsback of the Electro Importing Company advertised radio
receivers for sale for the low, low price of just $[removed] in Scientific
American magazine. The first ad selling the gizmos guaranteed reception
of about one mile.

1910 - Enrico Caruso and Emmy Destinn were heard via a telephone
transmitter; rigged by DeForest Radio-Telephone Company to broadcast
from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City

  From a long time subscriber --

January 13, 1933 - The Tydol Jubilee comes to a close, airing it's final
broadcast over the CBS network, featuring the Three X Sisters and the
Paul Specht Orchestra.

  Joe

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