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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 249


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 WFUV Classic Radio
	 Eb & Zeb
	 Kenny Baker & Dennis Day
	 Radio/Recorder/Timer
	 TOMART'S Radio Premiums and Silver
	 Great Gildersleeve
	 What Was That?  Freberg!
	 Re: Good(?) news from KPFK

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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 08:16:09 -0400
From: Kubelski@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: WFUV Classic Radio
Message-ID: <960714081608_433846358@[removed]>

I caught WFUV-FM, New York's broadcast of OTR last night featuring the Jack
Benny Program and The March of Time.

The Benny program was one I was pleasantly surprised to not have in my
collection already, but the host failed to provide a broadcast date.

Jack was in New York, staying at the Sherry Netherland Hotel (so it wasn't
the same season as the Dorothy Kirsten/Acme Plaza bits).  As usual, he was
trying to track down Rochester in Harlem and was calling several places
"where Rochester had just been before he left for somewhere else."

Also, Jack had a wimpy bodyguard named Killer Hogan (to protect him from Fred
Allen) who was being assaulted by the rest of his cast -- including Mary who
hits him with a blackjack.

Can anyone out there date this program.  It was #11 in the current Jello
series, if that's any help to anyone.

The second half of the broadcast was the February 10, 1938 broadcast of "The
March of Time."  I had never heard this show before, but it was pretty much
what I expected.

I was pleasantly surprised that the broadcast quoted some of Roosevelts
critics, including a forum of "little businessmen" who had come to Washington
for a conference.  Then as now, Senators were arguing over the proper size of
our armed forces and trying to tie us to treaties that our eventual enemies
were violating wholesale.   Unfortunately, the Third Reich didn't turn out to
be the paper tiger that the Soviet Union did.  An admiral was quoted about
how the [removed] had to build more ships to defend against future Japanese
expansionism.  If they were expecting a war, how come they weren't read for
it, I wonder.

Oh well.  Thanks to WFUV for giving us a second weekly dose of OTR in the New
York-metro area.

Best, Sean Dougherty
KlepperPR@[removed]

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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 10:14:19 -0500 (EST)
From: SAH@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Eb & Zeb
Message-id: <01I725B4KQZS8ZOZJY@[removed]>

   Had a question from an acquaintence that swears there was a show
   similar to Lum & Abner out in the early '40s called Eb and Zeb.
   Has anybody ever heard of this show?

   Another memory was about an early audience participation show where
   the host would guess a person's origin by listening to a word or 
   two they were asked to speak.  Any bells go off?

   |                                                                  |

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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 09:12:28 -0700
From: dabell@[removed] (Alan Bell)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Kenny Baker & Dennis Day
Message-Id: <v01520d01ae0d9f38adff@[[removed]]>

I suppose this question could have gone directly to the authority on
all-things-Benny (Laura Lee) but perhaps the answer would be of interest to
others as well. Under what circumstances did Kenny Baker leave the Jack
Benny Program and Dennis Day (playing essentially the same type of
character) arrive? Actually, it wasn't until a few months ago that I even
became aware of Kenny Baker. I happened to acquire an episode in which he
is introduced for the first time. So what happened to him?

_____________________________________________________________________
ALAN BELL  3768 Sonoma Avenue  Santa Rosa, CA 95405  dabell@[removed]
=============================707-546-6988============================

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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 96 02:15:18 UT
From: "KENNETH LANZA" <DRJOHNWATSON@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Radio/Recorder/Timer
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

FYI:

First the good news:
a company called Reel-Talk has a radio/recorder/timer
on the market.  it says that "you just set Reel Talk's timer
and the AM/FM tuner to your favorite program and you can 
capture it for later playback."

Now the bad news:
It has a specially engineered tape drive that runs at 1:4 speed, 
letting you fit up to 4 hours of programming on a single side of a standard
c-120 cassette, but plays back only on this particular machine!

It's featured in Herrington's (3 Symmes Dr. Londonderry, NH 03053
800-903-2878) Summer 96 catalog, page 29. Price: $[removed]  
 
I have no personal financial interest in the sale of these machines.

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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 96 21:00 EDT
From: Michael Molloy <mmolloy@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: TOMART'S Radio Premiums and Silver
Message-Id: <m0ufc1j-0000HaC@[removed]>

  I finally found a copy of "TOMART'S PRICE GUIDE TO RADIO PREMIUM AND
CEREAL BOX COLLECTIBLES" by Tom Tumbusch.  I found this at MEDIA PLAY for 30
percent off!  [Have I mentioned how I got "TUNE IN YESTERDAY" for a buck at
a library book sale!!]

     I am only 34 but these pictures of radio premiums make my mouth
[removed] Orphan Annie shake-up mugs, Shadow blue coal glow-in-the-dark
ring or Vic & Sade map.  I'm ordering the Capt. Midnight decoder badges
mentioned here on the list, for my 7 year old son (and myself).

     On page 18 of the Tomart's book there is a Kix cereal ad that has the
Lone Ranger and Silver on it.  It [removed]"HI-YO Silver has a son!  Name him
and win this colt or $1,000 in cash."  1,050 added prizes.  The other prizes
included Schwinn bikes, Underwood typewriters or flashlights.  Here are my
questions . . . What did they name this son of Silver?  Who was the mom of
this heir of Silver?
--
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Michael Molloy                     mmolloy@[removed]
[removed] Box 91
Attica, NY 14011-0091

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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 14:13:53 -0700
From: Jack Mann <jmann@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
CC: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Great Gildersleeve
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hi: I've been reading with interest the discussion on the Great
Gildersleeve. I also enjoy this show. I think Edgar's theory about
the tapes after 6/2/54 being reused is probably correct. My main
reason for writing, however, is to inform all you Gildy fans that
the complete run of available shows is available on 154 90 minute
cassettes for $[removed], less than $2 a tape. Individual tapes are also 
available, of course. You can write Tom Martin at Vintage Audio, 461 
Maple Ave, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 for info or Email at 
[removed]@[removed]  Tom also has a catalog for $10
($5 refunded on first $25 order) which is well worth the price.
Happy Listening,
Jack 
[removed] I want to thank all of you who responded to my note for info
on Speed Gibson. It seems there is already a log for Speed, and
I'll get more info to you soon.

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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 16:46:01 -0500
From: Joe Oliver <joliver@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: What Was That?  Freberg!
Message-id: <[removed]@[removed]>

    I had the good fortune this weekend to find and purchase a copy of the
combined set of Freberg's United States of America, Parts I and II ( The
Middle Years).  I don't know who was more surprised in the record store:
me, at finding the set in stock, or the retail clerk, at encountering
someone actually asking for it. As a longtime Freberg fan who's waited three
decades for this work, I'm happy to have it.  It is not an embarrassment to
Freberg or his fans.

        Is it up to the original?  Probably not, but I simply won't pick it
apart and I hope no one else will.  In fairness, we should ask ourselves who
among us could pause within a creative burst for 35 years without showing
some signs of time passing?  Moreover, the fans who experience a little
"anticipointment" should probably check themselves to see if they've changed
more than Freberg.  In truth, the new work is amazingly close to the
original in style and tone.  Some will say too close.  

      It was probably an impossible task to live up to the acclaim of the
original.  After all, what wowed us in '61 doesn't cause our hearts to
pitty-pat the same way in '96.  But sometimes fans just want to revisit old
haunts and try to recapture old feelings; sometimes we buy a work out of
respect for past performances and anticipation of future ones.  Certainly if
there's going to be a Part III, Part II will have to reach some measure of
financial success. 

     Many OTR fans think Freberg is one of the most underappreciated radio
artists of our time.  Buying the disc is one way to show appreciation for
all his works.

                                                   Joe Oliver
W. Joseph Oliver
Department of Communication
Stephen F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches, TX  75962

     (409-468-4001)

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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 02:33:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
cc: Bigkids@[removed]
Subject: Re: Good(?) news from KPFK
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

On Sat, 13 Jul 1996 Dick Lupoff wrote:
> 
> I am delighted to report that I was mistaken about there being no OTR
> material on KPFA any longer. The grand Old Radio Theater that used to run on
> Saturday mornings is long gone, alas, but the Supper Club show, each Sunday
> at 7:30 PM, runs OTR.
	The bad news is that this program is only 28 minutes a week and is
excerpts of music and comedy bits, very well produced, though (thanks to 
Norman G Cox for sending me the first show).    

	The rest of this post is way off topic, but I must respond to the 
following, as it affects a large part of my life, and possibly the future 
of OTR on WBAI (at least from me):

> Couple other items:
> 
> This morning's Oakland Tribune (July 12) has a long article about a group of
> disgruntled Berkeley radicals demanding that the US government cut off KPFA
> funding until the station reverts to its former revolutionary/radical
> political attitude.
> 
> The more I think about this, the funnier it gets.
	It might be funny if the article, and your summary of it, was not 
a gross distortion of the truth.
	Dick, this is not intended as a flame, but maybe you should pay a 
little more attention to the innner workings of the station from which you 
broadcast, and the policies of it's leaders. Besides being an unpaid producer 
at WBAI, the Pacifica station in NYC, I am also on the Paid Staff of the WBAI
operations department, and a shop steward in the union.  Pacifica management 
is attempting to dismantle the unions at the three major stations, and have 
employed ACG, a mangagement consulting group that prides itself in sabotaging 
organized labor.  Despite the denials of Pat Scott, the executive director of 
Pacifica, this union-busting is a fact.  I have to testify next week at the 
National Labor Relations Board because the WBAI lawyer ([removed] "management") 
has filed with them to remove 90% of the membership from the bargaining unit 
- the Unpaid Staff who produce most of the "product" of the radio station - 
the programming. 
	Those "disgruntled Berkeley radicals" you cite are calling for the 
federally mandated openness in the meetings of a publicly funded institution.
They are calling for locally originated programming that is responsive to the 
communities they serve, which is one of the founding principles of Pacifica.
	Dick, in the long run, when centralized satellite strip programming 
is fed throughout the network, do you think there will be a place for your 
show, or mine, in that schedule?  Especially when the provisions of the 
charter that call for tapping the creative energies of the community have
been ignored lately in favor of a political agenda?
	If anyone in the NYC, LA, Berkeley, Houston, or Washington DC 
listening areas of Pacifica radio want more information, e-mail me for more
than you want to know about the situation.  In NYC, call 212-INKSLOB for 
the hotline. 
> Also, it's very, very weird. 
	Isn't it!
		Max H Schmid- Shop Steward UE Local 404, WBAI-NY
		still (so far) Producer - Golden Age of Radio

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