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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 435

Table Of Contents: 

	 Buying blank tapes
	 Karloff and kids
	 Re: Sci-Fi Radio Log
	 Re: Boris Karloff's Children's records
	 ILAM
	 H. Brown today (well, last [removed])
	 Re: Doc on Gunsmoke
	 OTR Nostalgia?
	 SPERDVAC Convention
	 Radio Program!

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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 11:53:35 -0800
From: Jim Votisek <votisek@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Buying blank tapes
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To all,

I am just getting involved in OTR again after a year dry spell.  I just 
had too many things that were taking presedence over my hobby.  I am glad 
to be reentering the Old Radio trading arena.  I am looking for some 
names and addresses/phone numbers for a good deal on blank tapes.  I am 
trying to find the best deal on BULK tapes.  Looking to buy 100 at a 
time.  I would like to find tapes with case, "j"cards, and 60 minute 
tapes.  I am currently using 60 minute TDK's.  Something comparable would 
be nice.  Thanks.  Please post all answers or e-mail me at 
votisek@[removed]

Thanks.

"Well were a little late [removed] Folks!


Matt Votisek

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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 03:39:03 -0500 (EST)
From: joe <wmackey@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Karloff and kids
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> Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 17:20:06 -0500 (EST)
> From: "John R. Pellatt" <bs206@[removed]>
> Subject: BORIS KARLOFF FOR KIDS
> 
> According to the book I mentioned last posting, KARLOFF--THE LIFE OF 
> BORIS KARLOFF by Peter Underwood, BK did quite a bit of radio for kids. 

John, I read a bio of BK a few years back which told when he lived in the 
Dakota apartments at Hallowe'en he would have all sorts of treats for the 
we kiddies but they never came by his apartment because "Frankenstein 
lives there".  He was always disappointed that they stayed away.

Joe

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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 04:30:42 -0500 (EST)
From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Re: Sci-Fi Radio Log
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>
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	I have recently reviewed portions of the first dozen or so episodes
of the series (this is the trade that led to my views on the unsuitability 
of VCR recording as a viable medium of exchange).  The set I was sent had 
a similar line-up to the listing shown, the difference being that my set 
did have the missing episode. I wonder if the reported missing chapter 
four is in error resulting from a common collector's malady: amassing shows
without really ever getting around to listening to them!  The episode listed 
as missing (Ballad of the Lost C'mell part one) actually begins on the 
episode listed as #3 (Dark Benediction pt 2). The conclusion of that 
story only lasts about 10 minutes, followed by the beginning of "[removed]"
I can't account for the discrepancy in the dates, although this could be 
the result of bad original information.  Once again we're talking about a 
syndicated show that could have aired on many different dates depending 
on the market.  I have briefly looked at Gordon Payton's listings, not in 
any great depth, because it's more than I can print out or get through 
on-line, but enough to note other misiformation and/or mistakes.
Perhaps other sources are needed to verify some of his "facts", 
especially if his is the only reference used.  I'm not trying to be harsh 
or hypercritical here, because he has amassed a large listing of science-
fiction and related radio material, but if his is the only source of 
information, and it is not correct, misinformation will be taken as 
gospel, and spread as such.  I know that I may make certain conclusions
on some series (probable dates or some other unknown about an episode or 
show) based on whatever other information is on hand and my own knowledge,
and sometimes you guess wrong.
If Gordon is on-line with us (although if he were, I guess we would have 
heard from him by now), let me offer one correction right here: Bride of 
the ESP, as well as other companion pieces The Istambul Express and one 
other whose title escapes me at this moment (an Indiana Jones/old dark 
castle-type spoof), which were part of a limited series called Compendium 
Cliche Productions, were produced in the mid-sixties right here at WBAI-NY, 
not the CBC.  I actually must get a print copy of his catalog, as I'm 
sure it has many series I'd be interested in, especially all the one-shot
shows and foreign series.
 

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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 07:59:27 -0500 (EST)
From: MAX SCHMID <mschmid@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Re: Boris Karloff's Children's records
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	The mention of BK's kids records brought to mind the fact the the 
current location of WBAI (505 8th Avenue at 35th Street, near Penn 
Station and Madison Square Garden) is the former home of Caedmon Records, 
where he recorded those stories.  We still have a few painted figures of 
elves on a glass partition that were part of the record company, and until 
last December when the station was revamped, we had a facility called "The 
Meat Locker".  This was a sound-proof booth about 6 feet by 8 feet, with 
a plunger-type latch opening to seal and unseal the door (hence the name).  
This was the booth that Karloff, Rathbone, and many others sat in while 
recording.  The booth is gone, but the nickname for the studio is still 
widely used by the staff.

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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 09:21:13 -0800
From: Frank Mallory <frankm@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: ILAM
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> From: [removed]@[removed]
> To: otr@[removed]
> Subject: I love a Mystery
> Message-Id: <[removed]@pcl1>
>=20
> I was a kid in the 40's and still a kid at 60. I listened to I Love a
> Mystery toward the end of WWII at 10:30 PM when I was supposed to be as=
leep.
> I had removed the speaker from the table radio and removed the pilot li=
ght
> to make it appear off and by adding wire I was listening to the radio w=
ith
> the speaker under the pillow. Mom would check in on me to see that the
> radio was off and I was sleeping. In the morning I would put the speake=
r back inside the
> cabinet. The cabinet was a brown phenolic as I remember it and the back=
 cover had
> some venting but it didn't reveal the tube filament glow. This OTR Web =
site
> has been the only connection to the classics of radio and I wonder if t=
here
> is a web site for radio as the [removed] Internet Movies Data Base. Most
> radio personalities were also in films and I have found biographies on
> most of them. But who was Doc and some of the other characters that too=
k
> into the bat infested Mayan ruins or was that Aztec???? I have been a f=
an
> of Stan Freberg since I was a teenager =87(1949-1955) and loved his unu=
sual
> wit and his music. The Yellow Rose of Texas was my favorite. Did he eve=
r
> slaughter that one. :) Stan Freberg's OTR episodes are broadcast Sat. a=
nd
> Sunday nights. He hasn't had a ILAM on it yet. I found him on Seattle's
> KIRO AM and earlier Jim French does a pair of mysterie just before Mr.
> Freberg's show.  If you have a source of a database on old radio charac=
ters
> that is on the Internet, I would love to know. I am medically retired f=
or
> the last =85=88 years now and somewhat new to the WWW. I have Ham Radio=
 and I
> post technical stuff to Fido on BBS's as well as some Internet electron=
ic
> oriented sites.  Thanks for any responce. Gene

Check the old time radio web site at [removed] The ILAM log will=20
answer your question about the actors.

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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 96 08:33 CST
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: H. Brown today (well, last [removed])
Message-Id: <m0vMxQs-000k60C@[removed]>

Himan Brown's comments, while certainly worthy of mulling over (considering
the source), pushed the same buttons on me that it seems to have pushed on
most of us.  I would, however, make this addendum to what Andrew Green
said:

>> "The handful of people that are going to live with you in the '30s, God 
>> bless them. Let them stay there. But I want to know, what are these 
>> people doing for radio tomorrow?"
>
>Tomorrow? What are you doing for it today?

Well, when he can, he's working, or at least he was until relatively
recently.  In the 1987/88 season, NPR syndicated a new [removed] production
called "We the People," a series of dramas having to do with the birth of
the [removed] and the conception of the Constitution, in honor of the latter's
200th anniversary.  It was narrated by Richard Widmark.  I personally
thought it was very good - but I may have been in the minority, since our
local NPR station suspended broadcast of it only halfway through the
series.  Perhaps, despite his efforts, Mr. Brown's show came across as
dated.  Don't know.
The fact that NPR carried it makes me wonder about just how fair Mr.
Brown's comments was.  NPR stations carried a fair amount of radio drama,
both old and new, in the 1980s; that sort of thing has mostly disappeared
from this market, and I think that's because the radio dramas got the
poorest audience response during fund raising weeks.  That's playing to
your audience, not a lack of care.

John Henley
jhenley@[removed]
ph  (512) 495-4112
fax (512) 495-4296

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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 10:32:45 -0500
From: LBohall@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
cc: LBohall@[removed]
Subject: Re: Doc on Gunsmoke
Message-ID: <961111103244_1450964015@[removed]>

I was listening to Gunsmoke yesterday on the Radio Entertainment Network, and
thought the voice of Doc sounded a lot like Floyd the Barber on the Andy
Griffith Show. I didn't recognize the actor's [removed] anyone know if they
are the same? Thanks! --Larry D. Bohall <><

"I do not want to be a doctor and live by men's diseases, nor a lawyer and
live by their quarrels. So, I don't see that there is anything left for me
but to be an author." Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 11:36:43 -0500
From: c holm <cbholm@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: OTR Nostalgia?
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In response to the H. Brown thing, I have to disagree that enjoying OTR is
all nostalgia and living in the past.  I'm 22, my childhood memories are
from the 80's and include episodes like the birth of MTV, not listening to
the Lone Ranger after school.  So how can I be living in the past?

Besides, when you didn't listen to OTR the first time around, its all new
anyway.  If I didn't hear it the first time, it isn't a re-run to me!

I'd like to see more New Time Radio dramas, who wouldn't?  But that doesn't
mean that OTR isn't still great.  Many of the old shows are timeless and I'm
proof that young audiences can enjoy them just as much as old ones.  

Sorry for the rant, but I have strong opinions about OTR.

Chris Holm
VA Tech - Industrial and Systems Engineering
cbholm@[removed]

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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 12:29:18 -0500
From: JRayb71827@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: SPERDVAC Convention
Message-ID: <961111122917_1082149560@[removed]>

   The annual OTR convention staged by SPERDVAC at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in
[removed] was held over this past weekend and was a resounding success.  Among the
many features were:  a panel concerning OTR on the Internet and Jack Mann's
listings here on the Digest were of tremendous assistance and a big plug was
given that may bring new subscribers.  There was an "Aldrich Family"
re-creation Friday afternoon with some excellent performances, especially
from SPERDVAC members Bobb Lynes and Stuart Lubin as Henry and Homer.  In the
evening, Parley Baer and Peg Lynch were sensational, as usual, as "Ethel and
Albert."  The room rocked with laughter.  Three great sound effects
specialists - Bob Mott, Ray Erlenborn and Barney Beck did a great SFX
demonstration.  I thought I was a big "hambone" until I saw those three in
action!  Then, Friday evening there was a "Cavalcade of America" re-creation
of "Citizen Mama" that originally aired April 4, 1949.  What a cast!  It
included Rosemary Rice (who was on the original), Jeanne Bates, Dick Beals,
Elliot Reid, Bill Zuckert, Gladys Holland and Alice Backes.  Herb Ellis
directed and it was a heart-warming rendition.
  Saturday brought a bit on unique opens and closes of radio shows that I got
to do.  After lunch came a superb "Suspense" with another truly outstanding
cast.  Herb Ellis again directed and he couldn't miss with the likes of Larry
Dobkin, Parley Baer, Sam Edwards, Bill Zuckert, Gil Stratton, Frank Thomas,
Dick Beals and Eleanor Tannin.  Saturday night's feature was "Command
Performance," the terrific AFRS variety program.  Frank Bresee, who has had
an OTR show on Armed Forces Radio for eons, put it together and it included
such sketches as another "Ethel and Albert";  "Baby Snooks" (it was a thrill
for me to get to do Hanley Stafford's "Daddy" opposite "Snooks" by Sandra
Gould, who did a great job (Fanny reincarnated); "Dragnet" (a funny, funny
parody, with Herb Ellis taking the Jack Webb part with announcing great Art
Gilmore as the foil) and a full "Alan Young Show" with Alan, Jean Gillespie
(who played his girlfriend on the original) and Lina Romay, possibly the only
Xavier Cugat singer he didn't marry.  The only sad note here was that Peter
Leeds, who wanted to attend, couldn't be there.  He was hospitalized, has an
inoperable tumor and the prognosis is dire.  Wonderful voice specialist June
Foray, who did much work with Peter on the Stan Freberg shows, hadn't heard
the latest and was devastated when she found out.
   The convention wrap-up at Sunday brunch was a "One Man's Family" reunion
produced by Mike Sprague of the Radio Enthusiasts of Puget Sound and
historical help from Ed Titus of that group.  It was done in the style of
TV's "This Is Your Life" with the cast responding in character as to how
their characters may have evolved into the present.  Then, they all
participated as themselves to talk about the show, Carlton E. Morse, and some
great stories about it all.  In attendance was Carlton's widow, Millie. but
she insisted she was too shy to participate and just wanted to watch and
listen.  The "Family" stirred up memories and was warmly received.
   Again, for those of you who have never had an opportunity to attend one of
the OTR conventions, I hope you can some time.  I don't have all the dates
right now, but someone can fill in that info I'm sure.  The next scheduled
ones are the Old Time Radio and Nostalgia Convention in Cincinnati in April;
The REPS convention in Seattle and the Lum and Abner get-together in Mena,
Arkansas, both in June;  the Friends of Old Time Radio in Newark in October
and SPERDVAC in L. A. in November.  I don't want to overlook the activity in
Brockton, MA but my notes are missing.  Someone else will fill it in, along
with any others that should be mentioned.
          John Rayburn  

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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 12:06:13 EST
From: jdeff@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Radio Program!
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Has anyone ever heard of a radio Broadcast called "DateLine Eternity"
1963-66,  That is all I know about it at this time.  I can try to see if
I could come up with some details.

Here is one more although it is a [removed] Broadcast, I though someone here
might be able to help me.  It is an interview done on NBC television with
Dr. Walter Martin following the Jonestown tragedy.   Not sure of exact
date.

E-mail: Jdeff@[removed]

	Jeff



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