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	    [removed]   Volume 95 : Issue 469


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 12 hour OTR extravaganza
	 Gildy on TV w/Waterman as Water Man
	 CBS Radio Mystery Theater Log
	 "That's What I Like About the South"
	 "I hope, I hope, I [removed]"
	 I hope, I hope, I hope
	 New show
	 Seasons best
	 The Lone Ranger - One more time
	 I Hope, I Hope, I Hope
	 The Red and the Blue

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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 02:11:15 -0800
From: rnovak@[removed] (Richard Novak)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: 12 hour OTR extravaganza
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

If you live in Southern California, and can receive KPPC from Pasadena 
([removed] on your FM dial) then you will not want to miss John and Larry 
Gassman's annual Christmas OTR program.
Starts Sunday evening at 6PM and ends Monday morning at 6AM. Twelve 
hours of Christmas shows, Jack Benny, Phil Harris, and on and on.

Richard Novak

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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 09:16:50 -0500
From: stevecap@[removed] (Steven Capsuto)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Gildy on TV w/Waterman as Water Man
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Richard M. Weil wrote:

>The Museum of TV and Radio in NYC has two television episodes of The Great
>Gildersleeve in their archives. I didn't know Gildy made it to TV, so it

I noticed this week that the Shokus Video catalogue has an episode of this
on their tape #250, along with episodes of two other sitcoms that originated
on radio: MY FAVORITE HUSBAND and THE GOLDBERGS (the other show on the tape
is MR. PEEPERS, not a radio transfer).
 
>This is a museum that should not be missed when in NYC, but I must say that
>their collection of radio shows is less than outstanding.

Their TV collection is certainly better, but they have some great OTR shows.
Still, the first time I went there (ca. 1985) they had still processed and
made available no FIBBER McGEE shows, certainly a major gap in any radio
collection!

On my last visit to the Museum, I enjoyed watching several OUR MISS BROOKS
video episodes, with basically the same cast as the radio series.  It was
fun, but Richard Crenna and Gloria McMillan were a bit mature to play
teenagers on TV by the mid 1950s; ah, the magic of radio!
___
Steven Capsuto, Philadelphia
stevecap@[removed]
WEB page: [removed]~[removed]

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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 09:23:49 -0500
From: stevecap@[removed] (Steven Capsuto)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: CBS Radio Mystery Theater Log
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

>Does anyone have a log for the CBS Mystery Theatre?

I have an old "Memories of Radio" Catalogue from Dick Judge in Rochester
(anyone know if Dick's still around and in business?)  The catalogue
includes all CBS RMT's including original airdate, title and stars.  It's
the only full log I've ever seen for the series.
___
Steven Capsuto, Philadelphia
stevecap@[removed]
WEB page: [removed]~[removed]

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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 09:40:09 -0500
From: stevecap@[removed] (Steven Capsuto)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "That's What I Like About the South"
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

>Does anyone happen to have a full set of lyrics for "That's What I Like 
>About the South", Phil Harris's signature tune? I've always wanted to 
>hear it. The closest I came was hearing Jack Benny analysing it once with 

Not surprisingly, Harris performed the song on several broadcasts of THE
PHIL HARRIS - ALICE FAYE SHOW, a series near the top of my "must have" list.
(My favorite episode -- though I don't remember what song Harris sings on it
-- is the one where Frankie spills paint on the sponsor's dog.  The sponsor,
as always, is played by Gale Gordon; the dog's barking and whimpering are by
Stan Freberg.)

Your request put me in mind of satirist Tom Lehrer's takeoff on "That's What
I Like About the South."

  Won't you come with me to Alabammy
  Back to the arms of my dear ole mammy?
  Her cookin's lousy and her hands're clammy,
  But what the hell?  It's home.
___
Steven Capsuto, Philadelphia
stevecap@[removed]
WEB page: [removed]~[removed]

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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 09:40:39 -0500
From: stevecap@[removed] (Steven Capsuto)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "I hope, I hope, I [removed]"
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

>An Indian Chief in an unremembered title: "I hope, I hope, I [removed]" I also
>don't know where the phrase came from.

That originated on radio with Al Pearce, who starred in what is (based on
the two episodes I've heard) perhaps one of the unfunniest comedy series
ever.  (Surely funny in its day, but it doesn't hold up.)  In weekly skits,
he played a shy salesman who would say things like "Nobody home today, I
hope, I hope, I hope."
___
Steven Capsuto, Philadelphia
stevecap@[removed]
WEB page: [removed]~[removed]

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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 11:19:00 -0500
From: JRayb71827@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: I hope, I hope, I hope
Message-ID: <951224111858_22902682@[removed]>

  Dixon Chandler wondered about an Indian chief saying, I hope, I hope, I
hope," and wondering about the origin of that.
  It came from a show called, "Al Pearce and his Gang."  It was a show that
did a lot of local-type broadcasting until it made the Blue Network in 1934.
 Al played the part of a reluctant, kind of bashful, door-to-door salesman
named Elmer Blurt.  It was originally "Blurp," but Pearce could say "Blurt"
easier so it was changed.  He'd knock on the door and then sort of mumble,
"Nobody home, I hope, I hope, I hope."
  One of the features on the show was a character named "Tizzie Lish," who
gave out a bunch of nonsensical recipes.  "She" was played by a guy, Bill
Comstock.  Tizzie's opening was always, "Hello, folksies."
   Incidentally, one of the best and funniest sound effects men around, Ray
Erlenborn, was the effects man on this show.  Ray, of course, has earned vast
numbers of additional friends through his countless appearances at various
OTR conventions (Newark, SPERDVAC, Seattle).

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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 14:12:37 -0500
From: Radio41@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: New show
Message-ID: <951224141236_22989459@[removed]>

Hello,
Just found out about you.  We are The Radio Theater Hour, and we have a
one-hour, daily, full-cast, dramatized radio show going on the air,
nationwide, starting Jan. 15.  It will be on the WaxWorks Radio Network.
We have 65 shows on this first series, hosted by George Rittenberg (The
Devil's Henchmen) and Gary Owens. The show is broken down into 4 segments.  A
3 hour novel, played in 25 minutes installments, an interactive soap opera
(listeners can E-mail us for plot changes) a segment of Short and Tall Tales
and a block called Something Different (short skits).  We have been around 3
years and our material is available in 10,000 bookstores and
book-of-the-month clubs. It's going to be very exciting.  Radio Entertainment
is Back!
Thanks,
Jan Hodges

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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 14:03:56 -0700 (MST)
From: Bill Miles <bmiles@[removed]>
To: Oldtime Radio Net <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Seasons best
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hi, just a quick note from a very interested purveyor of the OTR Net.  
May all who read this receive the outpouring of God's peace through the 
reminder of what Christmas is all about.  May Jesus be your everlasting 
friend not just as a baby at Christmas, but as your Savior 
everyday throughout your lives.

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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 17:17:03 -0500
From: ALFLOR@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Lone Ranger - One more time
Message-ID: <951224171703_23088350@[removed]>

Okay, I understand that Tonto was played by John Todd  -  a native
Irish-American.  Good type casting.  John Todd also played the Lone Ranger.
 Can anyone tell us when that was and if he ever played both roles in the
same broadcast?

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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 14:35:15 -0800 (PST)
From: roy547@[removed] (Roy Trumbull)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: I Hope, I Hope, I Hope
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I believe the line was:
"Nobody home today, I hope, I hope, I hope."
It was uttered by a comic whose character was a timid inept
door to door salesman. I never heard the original but I
saw it done as a charater in cartoons.
Perhaps that will jog someone elses memory. My random
access brain says Joe Morgan was the comic but I have
just pulled that name out of the blue.

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Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1995 01:55:13 GMT
From: bilj@[removed] (Bill Jaker)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Red and the Blue
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

        How do you do, ladies and gentlemen of the reading audience.
        NBC's Red and Blue Networks did indeed follow the colored lines on 
an AT&T map.  Those broadcast wires were being strung across the country for 
several years and in 1926 the National Broadcasting Company was formed to 
make permanent what had been temporary.  AT&T's station WEAF in New York had 
originated some of the earliest chain hookups as early as 1923.  RCA's WJZ 
also did some network programs prior to the founding of NBC, and in 1924 
both RCA and AT&T chains covered the political conventions and the 
inauguration of President Coolidge.  When RCA bought WEAF in 1926 it was 
with the intent of creating two broadcast services.  I believe the Red 
Network was to be the "popular" service while the Blue would provide more 
"highbrow" programming.  So the "WEAF network" and the "WJZ network" (as 
they were called at the time) were on their way to becoming national 
institutions.  The Red's first program was on 15 November 1926 and the Blue 
premiered on New Year's Day, 1927.
        It's true that the Red Network was the stronger of the two, and this 
was one of the contributing factors to the breakup of the NBC duopoly in 
1943.  However, the Blue had its share of winners: Amos & Andy, Lowell 
Thomas and the News, "Little Orphan Annie", "Death Valley Days" and "Coast 
to Coast on a Bus".  A few shows, such as "Vic and Sade", ran alternately on 
both the Red and the Blue although NBC only combined the two for a few 
special broadcasts.
        I don't know too much about the Orange Network.  I think it was 
squeezed in later.
        This is NBC, the Night Before Christmas.  

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