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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2013 : Issue 56
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      "Lum and Abner" comic completes year  [ Donald Pitchford <donniepitchford@s ]
      Doo Wah Ditty revealed                [ "Nicholas Kierniesky" <nkierniesky@ ]
      Nostalgia Expo                        [ Mike Wheeler <mike05@[removed]; ]
      "Peter Fugitive" from 1960's Chicago  [ Steve Salaba <dangerdanger@sbcgloba ]
      Looking for "Let's Go To Town" radio  [ Midwest Today magazine <midtod@iowa ]

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    Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 03:14:45 -0400
    From: Donald Pitchford <donniepitchford@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  "Lum and Abner" comic completes year two

    The "Lum and Abner" comic strip is at this address:
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    You're invited to join us as we wrap up our second year of the "Lum and
    Abner" comic strip. A commemorative page will be published Sunday, May 26, as
    both a visible comic strip and an audio adaptation.

    Negotiations for a third year were successful, and that will begin on June 2
    (at a new home site to be announced soon).

    The current story is entitled "Abner Cadabra, and details Abner's attempts at
    becoming a magician. Previous weeks are available for viewing and listening.

    Thank you so much!

    Donnie Pitchford,
    "Lum and Abner" Cartoonist
    Carthage, Texas

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    Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 03:15:27 -0400
    From: "Nicholas Kierniesky" <nkierniesky@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Doo Wah Ditty revealed

    Great!  Rochester's aunt from Doo Wah Ditty was coming to visit him.  Check
    the episode on 2/29/1948 episode.

    Thanks for the three additional contributions posted about Doo Wah Ditty.
    There always seems to be more to every story, and more to uncover!  Phil
    Harris' attempt to legally own someone else's song by changing a few things
    doesn't speak much about Harris' character.  Also, Doo Wah Ditty, finds its
    way into a couple of pop tunes. Finally (?) Phil Harris reveals on TV to
    Jack that Doo Wah Ditty is where he goes on weekends to hide from his wife.
    Secretly leaving Alice Faye on weekends is a hard joke to believe!

    -Nik Kierniesky
    Gettysburg

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    Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 03:15:34 -0400
    From: Mike Wheeler <mike05@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Nostalgia Expo

    Jack French's post regarding Bobby Benson gives me the perfect
    opportunity to plug the upcoming Nostalgia Expo to be held in Cincinnati
    at the Crowne Plaza Blue Ash on May 31 and June 1.

    Ivan Cury will be one of our special guests this year - his first time
    for an OTR convention in Cincinnati - and he will be directed in a
    recreation of a Bobby Benson episode - Grandma Wales - by the very same
    Don Ramlow who located the McKnight obituary.  Don will be directing
    four other shows as well, plus we'll have a show by The Chicago Players
    Group directed by Randy Larson and one by American Radio Theater
    directed by Joy Jackson.  That's a total of seven recreations in just
    two days.

    Fan favorite, Bob Hastings, will be with us again and we'll have
    presentations on Johnny Dollar by John Abbott, the Career of Ted Malone
    by Ryan Ellett and Duffy's Tavern by Martin Grams.  We'll also be
    screening Dave Parker's video documentary Remembering Radio.

    A complete schedule of events has been added to the website:
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    It's a clickable link right below the logo at the top of the page.

    I might also mention that our venerable listmaster, Charlie Summers and
    his lovely daughter Katie (Thank heaven she got her mother's looks!)
    will be doing Summers Time Live interviewing both Ivan and Bob on Friday
    afternoon.

    It promises to be a great time and at $12/day you would be hard pressed
    to find a better entertainment deal.

    So, if you've been sitting on the fence about attending now is the time
    to jump off.  We'd love to have you j0in us.

         Mike Wheeler

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    Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 03:15:43 -0400
    From: Steve Salaba <dangerdanger@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  "Peter Fugitive" from 1960's Chicago radio
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    This is perhaps under the topic of "NTR" instead of "OTR" but I'll ask it
    anyway. I found a brief tidbit on the web about this show (below) but I wonder
    if anyone remembers it and may have recordings.

>     DJ Art Roberts featured a radio serial entitled "The Wild Adventures of

    Peter Fugitive" featuring WLS Production Director Ray Van Steen.

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    Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 03:16:53 -0400
    From: Midwest Today magazine <midtod@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Looking for "Let's Go To Town" radio series
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    I've always been a fan of Rosemary Clooney but until recently didn't
    know she had made a number of appearances on a radio series by the
    National Guard called "Let's Go To Town." I discovered this quite by
    accident while browsing YouTube and found a couple of songs there.
    The sound quality was fairly decent but a bit raspy, probably from
    having been played so much.

    There is a second YouTube poster that seems to have a lot more
    Rosemary/National Guard material but inexplicably, instead of just
    posting audio derived directly from his tape or disk copies, he first
    plays it through his home stereo (which he proudly displays in the
    video) with his big speakers, but places the microphone so far away
    in the room he has created an echo effect that ruins the performances.

    Next I checked  and found some of the National Guard disks had
    recently sold so my hunch is they are generally circulating.

    I'm interested in finding anybody in the OTR community who
    specifically has a good copy of "Let's Go To Town" #145/46, and any
    others of that series that contain Rosemary. When I say "good copy" I
    do not mean something that has been played to death such that there
    is incredible surface noise, pops and clicks that are impossible to
    clean, or a foggy sound from having been copied multiple times by
    cheap tape recorders running at an improper speed or down sampled so
    the file size is tiny!

    I'm just amazed that so many collectors who supposedly appreciate old
    radio shows so mishandle the audio and degrade it in the process.

    Anyway, enough of my rant. I'd love to have copies of these shows if
    anybody has some good copies. I appreciate it very much!

    Larry

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