Subject: [removed] Digest V2003 #53
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 2/3/2003 12:35 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2003 : Issue 53
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      RE: dubbing from Windows to tape      [ "Jan Krzok" <jkrzok@[removed]; ]
      Re: THE ADVENTURES OF TOPPER on radi  [ SanctumOTR@[removed] ]
      The New [removed] or bad??      [ "Bob Watson" <crw912@[removed]; ]
      Johnny Dollar theme (again!)          [ Mike Wheeler <mike@[removed]; ]
      Re: Paul Harvey                       [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
      Re: Topper                            [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
      Re: Topper                            [ John Mayer <mayer@[removed]; ]
      Jack Webb                             [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]
      Mr. Kitzel                            [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]
      Australian Transcriptions             [ "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed]. ]

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    Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:36:50 -0500
    From: "Jan Krzok" <jkrzok@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  RE: dubbing from Windows to tape

    Mike Murphy writes:

>     Some months ago, I found -- I think on Jack French's site -- a
>     wonderfully
>     concise explanation of how to dub Windows Media Player shows off of a
>     disk
>     and onto cassette.  Can anyone direct me to that site or give me a very
>     beginning-stage
>     explanation of how to accomplish this?

    It's just a question of the cable. At one end you need a 1/8" plug. This
    will plug into your computers sound card (where your computers speakers are
    plugged in) or if you have a headphone jack on your speakers it can go
    there. The other end depends on the tape recorder. If it's full size you
    will most likely need RCA jacks at the end. This wire will split in two with
    one end being red, and the other white. If it's a compact (Walkman size)
    tape deck the ends of the cable will both be 1/8" plugs. You really can't go
    wrong by going to Radio Shack and telling them what you're doing.

    Once you're hooked up, it will work just like recording a CD or album to
    tape.

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    Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:06:59 -0500
    From: SanctumOTR@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: THE ADVENTURES OF TOPPER on radio

    In a message dated 2/2/03 9:12:26 PM, [removed]@[removed]
    writes:

>     You asked about a comedy show in which a ghost would appear.  I don't
>     know if this was ever on radio, but on the 50's TV sit-com "Topper", Leo
>     G. Carroll played the part of a ghost who would appear and disappear
>     occasionally throughout the program.  There was a young couple and a dog
>     in the program.  I believe the woman was Ann Jeffreys.

    ***Actually, Cosmo Topper (Leo G. Carroll) was not a ghost himself.  He was a
    henpecked banker who was the only person who could see the three ghosts
    haunting his home, George and Marian Kerby (Robert Sterling and Ann Jeffreys)
    and their St. Bernard, Neil.  THE ADVENTURES OF TOPPER also aired as a 1945
    NBC-Radio summer series with Roland Young reprising his famous screen role,
    with Tony Barratt and Frances Chaney as the Kerbys (who were portrayed by
    Cary Grant and Constance Bennett in the original 1937 movie).  The Topper
    movies and radio & TV series were, of course, based on the novels by Thorne
    Smith.  The 09/06/45 episode is included in
    Radio Spirits' WALTER CRONKITE SELECTS THE 60 GREATEST OLD-TIME RADIO SHOWS
    THAT TRANSITIONED TO TV, along with a historical booklet by -- Anthony
    Tollin***

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    Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:07:01 -0500
    From: "Bob Watson" <crw912@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The New [removed] or bad??

    I just finished watching the New Dragnet on ABC.  I must admit that I am not
    a diehard devotee to the original radio series, but this new version wasn't
    as bad as I was expecting.  Maybe it wasn't as good as it could be either.
    But it had just enough of a contemporary spin to it to keep me on the edge
    of my chair towards the end.  That may seem kind of silly, but, you see, I
    don't watch much network television anymore.  Since I am "out of the loop',
    so to speak, I was a little bit surprised by the frankness of the language.
    And the references to sexual preference and sexual dysfunction were a bit
    too "in your face" for my tastes.  But then, it is a 10 pm show, and it is a
    new millenium.  Different tastes for different eras, I suppose.   I didn't
    live in the 50's, but I would imagine the original Dragnet could have been
    considered "frank" for its time.

    Ed O'Neil, while no Jack Webb, wasn't that bad, I didn't think.  And the
    show seemed to have the "old" Dragnet flow to it of showing how the law
    tries to go about solving a crime.

    But enough of my thoughts, I want to know the opinions of anyone else on the
    Digest who watched the show.

    Bob Watson

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    Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:07:04 -0500
    From: Mike Wheeler <mike@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Johnny Dollar theme (again!)

    	I know this has come up repeatedly before so my apologies in advance
    for beating a dead horse.  The last time the Johnny Dollar theme music
    was thrashed about on this digest I think I recall someone identifying
    the production music package that it came from.  If someone knows who
    produced the package, what the specific themes may have been called,
    which reels or disks within the package they were found on, etc. would
    that person be kind enough to share that information once again with the
    group?  Bonus points if you can point me to a source where the package
    may be purchased.
    	Thanks in advance.  Now returning to lurk mode.
    		Mike

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    Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:07:10 -0500
    From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Paul Harvey

>     I have seen the name Paul
>     Harvey bounced around. Are news broadcasters OTR??  I
>     dont read about other old news broadcasters being
>     talked about. What makes him so special??

    I've only been here a short time and Paul Harvey is not the only newscaster
    I've seen discussed.  I saw Walter Winchell's name come up once and a lengthy
    (and riviting) discussion about Mutual's Pearl Harbor coverage.  Personally
    if I started talking about Edward R. Murrow I would probably never stop; I
    wrote no less than four term papers about him in college.

    Harvey *was* on the air (on the network, in fact) during what we define as
    OTR; I have a 1952 fan magazine that profiles that era's news commentators,
    and Paul is right there alongside Murrow, Drew Pearson and Raymond Gram Swing.

    Dixon

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    Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:07:12 -0500
    From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Topper

>     It sticks in the back of my mind that that had also been a
>     radio
>     program, but I can't swear to it.

    Go ahead and swear.  There was, indeed a program on NBC in 1945, featuring
    Topper and the ghosts.  "The Adventures of Topper" was based on the 1930s
    movie, and starred Roland Young in the title role.  It was sponsored by Post
    Toasties and Maxwell House Coffee, and may have just been a summer
    replacement or warm up for "Burns and Allen."

    Dixon

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    Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:07:15 -0500
    From: John Mayer <mayer@[removed];
    To: OldRadio Mailing Lists <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: Topper

    Jim Arva  wilditralian@[removed] offered:

>     know if this was ever on radio, but on the 50's TV sit-com "Topper", Leo G.
>      Carroll played the part of a ghost who would appear and disappear
>     occasionally
>      throughout the program.  There was a young couple and a dog in the
>     program. It
>      sticks in the back of my mind that that had also been a radio [removed]

    Right you are, but it was actually the young couple and the dog who
    were the ghosts. Happily, I have acquired so many mp3's through the
    miracle of the internet that it is now easier to do a "Find" on my
    Mac than to get up and pull down Dunning's magnum opus. I remembered
    the tv version but not the radio, the reason for that possibly
    suggested by the fact that the single episode I have aired the month
    of my birth which was (well, I'll tell you later, after I subtract 39
    from 2003).

    It starred Roland Young as Cosmo Topper, unhappily married to the
    un-winsome Malvina. His best friends were the flippant and
    flirtatious George and Marian (I don't remember the dog's name, but
    it was a St. Bernard on tv). The show was a comedy, but I always felt
    (regarding the tv version) that there was a very melancholy undertone
    in that Cosmo's best friends were dead and he seemed to have more
    affection for a deceased married woman and she for him than existed
    in his loveless marriage. The couple, if I remember correctly, and
    that's far from certain as my family did not own a tv when the show
    aired and I only saw it at a friend's house, had been killed in an
    avalanche. Possibly the St. Bernard was a rescue dog who died in a
    rescue attempt, I don't remember. The couple had been a little too
    naughty to enter heaven, but not quite bad enough to go to hell. The
    series were based on books by Thorne Smith and sponsored by Post
    Toasties.

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    Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:16:15 -0500
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Webb

>     Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 17:33:53 -0500
>     From: Rob Chatlin <rchatlin@[removed];

>     He may not have played it on "Dragnet," but when Webb did the Copper
>     Clapper spoof on Johnny Carson, it was one of the funniest things I've
>     ever heard, and it was extremely well done.  Webb definitely had the
>     timing skills necessary for comedy, and he certainly held his own along
>     side Carson.

    I have a tape of Jack Webb appearing on Milton Berle's show.  It's strange to see him doing
    comedy, when we are so used to him in the deadpan Joe Friday role.  I also remember
    seeing him in a military training film doing the same Joe Friday deadpan style.  But in that
    particular Berle show, he's actually SMILING!

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
     15 Court Square, Suite 210                 lawyer@[removed]
    Boston, MA 02108-2503           	         [removed]

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    Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:17:02 -0500
    From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Mr. Kitzel

>     Who played Mr. Kitzell?  I keep thinking it was Mel Blanc.   I love that
>     man's voice; my brother and I say hello using his accent.

    Mr. Kitzell was played by Artie Auerbach.  He apparently also appeared as
    the same character on some other comedy shows, besides Jack Benny.

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    Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:17:12 -0500
    From: "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Australian Transcriptions

    I have been meaning to write about this for months, but have been very busy.
    The impetus to pass on this information was a comment made to me that no
    mp3er ever made a substantial  transcription discovery.

    I am aware of other mp3er discoveries, so I guess it is a matter of the
    finds not being 'broadcast' in the right places.  Here I will attempt to
    show that mp3er how much I appreciated his efforts.

    I was on the #otradio chat at [removed]  in August last year as usual, when
    a person joined the chat and asked if I was the Australian OTR collector
    from the mp3 groups.  I replied that I was (nics aren't used in the groups,
    so the G'Day gave me away) he introduced himself as an otr mp3 collector
    from one of the share groups I belong to and had been looking for me.  He
    asked me if I would be interested in buying some Australian transcriptions
    and I replied that I certainly would be.  He told me how an antique shop in
    Nova Scotia that had a coffee shop he visited, had some Australian
    transcriptions.  When I asked him how many transcriptions there were, he
    floored me by saying 158.  Those who know how hard it is to find Australian
    Transcriptions, would appreciate that I had my doubts.  I mean 1 or 2 no
    problem but 158?

    My new best friend then put me in touch with the seller who confirmed that
    there were indeed 158 Australian transcriptions and she sent me a listing of
    them.  To cut a long story short, I bought them.  There was a last minute
    counter bid, but I was successful.

    I received a lot of advice, offers of help etc, from other Australian
    Collectors and other mp3ers and the transcriptions have now been returned to
    Australia and are undergoing cleaning and digital copying.

    The next amazing thing was that the bulk of the transcriptions were 3 x 104
    episode series and two of them were complete.  Two Complete 104 episode
    Australian series, absolutely amazing.

    The third is missing 6 episodes or 3 transcriptions and more on that another
    time.

    In the time that I have been waiting for these transcriptions to arrive back
    in Australia I have been researching them with the assistance of the
    Australian OTR Group.  The two complete series, Undercover Carson and Grey
    Goose, had been broadcast in Australia prior to 3DDB Melbourne exporting
    them to Canada, but very little was known about them and virtually no
    documentation existed, and no other known copies exist.

    The incomplete series, Atom 1970 is still a mystery, but as you will see in
    a future Digest, I do have a little detail.

    With Charlie's patience I will post the details of Undercover Carson today
    and Grey Goose tomorrow and Atom 1970 and the stragglers the next day.

    UNDERCOVER CARSON

    Written by Michael Noonan 1953 104 1/4 hour episodes Broadcast 1954

    Producer - Walter Pym

    Undercover Carson follows the adventures of a British Secret Service Agent
    posted to South America to track down escaped German Nazi Scientists who had
    developed a highly lethal & destructive death ray.  An extremely powerful
    laser before its time.

    CAST:

    Bruce Carson - played by Barry Cookson

    Sir Giles Daverport - played by James Mills

    Fay Carelli - played by Audrey Teesdale

    BIO:

    MICHAEL NOONAN:

    Radio, Television, Stage and Film writer, Author

    Radio:

    The Man who changed the Wind
    Lady Under a cloud
    My Hearts a broken Music-box
    Jackie Jones
    The Smouldering Island
    A Dog's Life
    Flying Doctor In Africa
    Brand of Justice 312eps- Starring Ray Barrett
    Space Patrol 156eps - starring Rod Taylor
    Twilight Ranger 208eps
    Undercover Carson 104eps

    Adapted from [removed] Scripts

    Superman, then wrote new scripts
    Tom Corbett - Space Cadet

    Books:

    In the land of the Talking Trees - 1946
    The Golden Forest - 1947
    The Patchwork Hero - 1958
    The Pink Beach - 1969
    Flying Doctor - 1961
    Flying Doctor on the Barrier Reef - 1962
    Flying Doctor and the Secret of the Pearls - 1962
    Flying Doctor Shadows the Mob - 1964
    Flying Doctor Hits the Headlines - 1965
    Flying Doctor Under the Desert - 1969
    The December Boys - 1963
    Air taxi - 1967
    The Sun is God - 1973
    The Invincible Mr Az - 1978
    Bird of strange Plumage - 1979
    Magwitch - 1982
    A Different Drummer - 1983
    McKenzies Boots - 1987

    Television Plays and Series:

    The Angry Flower
    The Violent Stranger
    Boy on the Telephone
    Winds of Green Monday
    The Patchwork Hero
    Flying Doctor
    Riptide

    Stage and Film:

    A Voyage of Discovery
    The Magic Kennel
    Song of Australia
    A Different Drummer
    Down in the Forest
    The Reef

    WALTER PYM:

    The Enemy Within - Actor
    Strike up the Band - Compere
    Lux, The Count of Monty Cristo - Lead role
    Thumbs Up - Compere
    Prisoner At the Bar - Series - Lead role in many of them
    First Light Fraser - Tony Borden
    Commonwealth Loans Quiz - Compere
    The Burtons of Banner Street - Leading role
    Always this Yesterday - Produced
    Tarzan - Directed
    Boldness Be my Friend - Produced
    Caltex Theatre - Producer

    Television:

    Matlock Police - Actor
    Homicide - Actor

    Film:

    Mouth to Mouth - Actor

    BARRY COOKSON:

    15/01/1953 Philip Marlow Investigates ep1 Lady in the Lake
    11/03/1953 General Motors Hour ep86 It Never Rains
    19/04/1953 Caltex Theatre ep181 Royal Highness
    15/06/1953 Rola Show, The ep148 Morning Calm
    24/07/1953 Famous Fortunes ep3 Blanc
    03/08/1953 Mantrap ep37 Man In The Rough
    07/09/1953 Mantrap ep41 Man With The Scar
    18/09/1953 Famous Fortunes ep10 Bonnet
    21/09/1953 Mantrap ep43 Murder Is In Fashion
    21/09/1953 Famous Trials ep11 Sammy the Actor
    28/09/1953 Mantrap ep45 Sudden Death
    17/10/1953 Night Beat ep89 The Same Again
    25/10/1953 Caltex Theatre ep158 Pitfall
    04/01/1954 Famous Trials ep25 Justice For Barbara Corey
    27/01/1954 General Motors Hour ep108 Walk East On Beacon
    15/02/1954 Famous Trials ep31 The Euston Sqaure Mystery
    10/03/1954 General Motors Hour ep114 Bitter Heritage
    21/03/1954 Caltex Theatre ep202 The Unexpected
    05/04/1954 Famous Trials ep39 Portrait Of A Traitor
    05/05/1954 General Motors Hour ep122 A Gentleman's Daughter
    13/05/1954 Thirty Minutes to Go ep7 Death Train
    22/05/1954 Night Beat ep113 Pippa Passes On
    13/06/1954 Caltex Theatre ep214 A Question of Time
    24/06/1954 Thirty Minutes to Go ep13 A Trip To Alcatraz
    01/07/1954 Thirty Minutes to Go ep14 Death At A Wedding
    25/08/1954 General Motors Hour ep138 Goodbye Your Majesty

    Radio Series:

    Danger in Paradise
    Dark Destiny
    Franchise Affair, The
    Strange Stories of the Sea
    Undercover Carson - Bruce Carson

    JAMES MILLS:

    31/05/1953 Caltex Theatre ep186 The English Family
    03/01/1954 Caltex Theatre ep191 Lord athur Savile's Crime
    04/04/1954 Caltex Theatre ep204 Henrietta [removed]
    01/08/1954 Caltex Theatre ep221 Journey's End
    07/06/1954 Famous Trials ep48 Saga Of Captain Kidd
    17/09/1954 Famous Trials ep56 Widows Are Wonderful
    19/11/1954 Famous Trials ep65 The Countess Disappears
    17/12/1954 Famous Trials ep69 The Man Who Broke The
    05/08/1953 General Motors Hour ep29 Strangers Road
    04/11/1953 General Motors Hour ep41 We the Living
    30/12/1953 General Motors Hour ep48 The Advancement of Mr
    03/02/1954 General Motors Hour ep109 The Devil's General
    24/03/1954 General Motors Hour ep116 Plain Murder
    12/05/1954 General Motors Hour ep123 The Enemey In The House
    04/08/1954 General Motors Hour ep135 The Man In The White Suit
    15/09/1954 General Motors Hour ep141 A Chance of Happiness
    29/12/1954 General Motors Hour ep154 The Queen Of Calabash Island
    12/07/1954 Rola Show, The ep178 The Musicians

    Radio Series:

    Air Adventures of Biggles - Biggles (2nd)
    Fallen Angel
    Undercover Carson - Sir Giles Daverport
    Grey Goose

    AUDREY TEESDALE:

    08/10/1954 Adventures Of Ellery Queen ep13 The Hollywood Mystery
    03/01/1954 Caltex Theatre ep191 Lord athur Savile's Crime
    11/04/1954 Caltex Theatre ep205 Appointment In London
    03/12/1952 General Motors Hour ep72 The Valley And The Peak
    11/03/1953 General Motors Hour ep86 It Never Rains
    03/06/1953 General Motors Hour ep99 Henry V
    28/04/1954 General Motors Hour ep121 The Happy Time
    09/06/1954 General Motors Hour ep127 Laburnum Grove
    28/07/1954 General Motors Hour ep134 Assignment Paris
    13/10/1954 General Motors Hour ep145 Murder Story
    10/11/1954 General Motors Hour ep149 Sounds Of Thunder
    03/08/1953 Mantrap ep37 Man In The Rough
    07/09/1953 Mantrap ep41 Man With The Scar
    12/07/1954 Rola Show, The ep178 The Musicians
    13/05/1954 Thirty Minutes to Go ep7 Death Train

    Radio Series:

    Out of the Shadows
    Undercover Carson - Fay Carelli

    Well thats it for Undercover Carson.  As you will see from the quality and
    experience of the people involved in the series, this is quite a find and I
    am very grateful for the assistance in locating it.  I am happy to trade for
    other audio copies of Australian shows if anyone is interested.  The mp3
    version will be in circulation as soon as time allows.

    Ian Grieve

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