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	    [removed]   Volume 95 : Issue 350


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Jack Benny Questions - Glad you [removed] 8)
	 Need info on Fieldon Farrington
	 Way Over The Top.
	 Introduction
	 Sportcasters 
	 APOLOGY
	 Canadian $
	 Reel-To-Reel
	 real-to-real tape
	 Three quick questions

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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 01:45:15 -0500 (EST)
From: JACKBENNY@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Jack Benny Questions - Glad you [removed] 8)
Message-id: <01HX5EX8M5MA985VZ2@[removed]>

The last show of the Jack Benny Program regular radio series was May 22, 1955.
On this show, a running gag is the over-enthusiastic sound man, Twombley
continually inserting sound effects and comments (played by Mel Blanc).  The
regular main characters on this show were of course Jack, Rochester, Dennis
Day, Bob Crosby, and Don Wilson.  "Mary Livingstone" is mentioned at the head
of the show, but the role is played by another actress.

Phil Harris joined the program on 10/4/36, and left it on 6/1/52.

Jack's sponsors through the years:
The Canada Dry Ginger Ale Program
CBS, Thursday and ?, 8:00
Biweekly, 78 shows
May 2, 1932 - January 26,1933

The Chevrolet Program
NBC, Sunday, 10:00
Weekly, 43 shows
March 3, 1933 - June 23, 1933
October 1, 1933 - April 1, 1934

The General Tire Program
NBC
Weekly, 26 shows
April 6, 1934 - September 28, 1934

The Jell-O Program
NBC Blue, Sunday, 7:00
Weekly, 301 shows
October 14, 1934 - July 14, 1935
September 29, 1935 - June 21, 1936

NBC, Sunday, 7:00
October 4, 1936 - June 27, 1937
October 3, 1937 - June 26, 1938
October 2, 1938 - June 25, 1939
October 8, 1939 - June 16, 1940
October 6, 1940 - June 1, 1941
October 5, 1941 - May 31, 1942

The Grape Nuts Program
NBC, Sunday, 7:00
Weekly, 70 shows
October 4, 1942 - May 30, 1943
October 10, 1943 - June 4, 1944

The Lucky Strike Program or The Jack Benny Program
Weekly, 406 shows
October 1, 1944 - May 27, 1945
September 30, 1945 - May 26, 1946
September 29, 1946 - May 25, 1947
October 5, 1947 - June 27, 1948
October 3, 1948 - December 26, 1948

CBS, Sunday, 7:00
January 2, 1949 - May 29, 1949
September 11, 1949 - May 28, 1950
September 10, 1950 - June 3, 1951
September 16, 1951 - June 1, 1952
September 14, 1952 - June 7, 1953
September 13, 1953 - June 6, 1954
September 26, 1954 - May 22, 1955
nobody

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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 12:38:35 +0000 (GMT)
From: STONE BRADLEY S NONLILLY <STONE_BRADLEY_S_NONLILLY@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Need info on Fieldon Farrington
Message-id: <6435380702111995/A81781/CORP02/119B11D72B00*@MHS>

I would appreciate any information/tapes dealing with my late uncle,
Fieldon Farrington, who passed away in 1979.
 
Fieldon's career in radio started in the 1930's sweeping studio floors.
He later became an announcer for the Helen Trent and Our Gal Sunday
programs.  He wrote scripts for many programs, including CBS Radio
Mystery Theatre and General Hospital, as well as several notable books
which were later adapted for radio/TV.
 
I only have two OTR recordings of his work, and both are CBSRMT.  They
are the very eerie "The Sleepy Village" and "The Fatal Connection." I
requested from Randy Minneham any info he may have on Fieldon's CBSRMT
works; however, I have no representative samples of Helen Trent or
Our Gal Sunday.
 
Fieldon worked for CBS in New York for many years, and his son Mark
has followed in his footsteps. Thelma (Farrington) Stone, his older
sister, passed away last Wednesday at age 93.
 
What I have on Fieldon Farrington I will make available to OTR fans
for their research.  Many thanks!
			Bradley Stone
			Route 1 Box 19
			Morgantown, IN  46160
			Email: stoneb@[removed]
			home phone: 812-597-2151

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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 07:40:38 -0500
From: Dreammac@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
cc: Dreammac@[removed]
Subject: Way Over The Top.
Message-ID: <951102074038_80146040@[removed]>

Chutzpah, Chauvinism and the proud man's contumely.

Mr. Rudisill writes;
>Mr. MacMurray I deeply resent being labeled an "ass or >and ignoramous".

>It's quite obvious your core is saturated with
>bias and prejudice. Against white people. 

>You're reason for avoiding jury duty is about the feeblest
>I've ever heard. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Mr. Bruce Rudisill;
You should be ashamed of yourself. This level of paranoia is truly alarming.
I don't remember anything that you've written and can with all honesty say
that I didn't know of your existence before I answered Mr. Bell's thoughtful
commentary. I welcome the way that you so irrationally and absurdly
demonstrated your predisposition to rush to judgement, with so much erroneous
baggage and ridiculous assumptions that are in no way meritorious, but to the
contrary, laughable. You have made an excellent  a posteriori case for why I
refuse to sit on juries and sure as hell hope that you will not do the
disservice to our citizens in or out of the jury box, by treating them in the
same fashion that you have treated myself.

Mr. Bell wrote;
> I can't help but observe that
virtually all the anti-PC backlash originates from white >folks.

I responded;
It always seems to be the guilty party, the ass or the ignoramus who
invariably doth protest too much.

This last line was written as a corolary to what Mr. Bell wrote concerning PC
above. By the way you have personally taken these terms wrongly to heart, it
is impossible to escape the deserved opprobrium of your enormous
misconceptions. For you have surely qualified as one who doth protest too
much.

Peace, David MacMurray

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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 07:59:20 -0500
From: VDonnelly@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Introduction
Message-ID: <951102075916_80149356@[removed]>

Have been enjoying the digest for a while now, and thought I would introduce
myself I have spend most of my working life,working in the motion picture and
video business and live on Staten Island, New York, My interest in radio has
been long standing, and I still love the ability that radio gives to
stimulate the imagination. I do have a question, I recently had an
opportunity to see the GE SuperRadio at K-Mart, and find it a little out of
style. does anyone out there know if other models are available?

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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 08:48:52 -0500
From: PaulRask@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Sportcasters 
Message-ID: <951102084852_10593680@[removed]>

When radio was king, no broadcasts showed the versatility and immediacy of
radio so well as sports broadcasts. In the days before TV, the men who sat
behind the mikes and called the plays, who added the color,  who made the
game a vivid, living thing in the minds and imaginations of the listeners
developed their craft into an art form. 

In those days, it was sheer ecstasy for the folks  to  gather around their
Philco's and Zeniths to listen to Ted Husing or Harry Wismer call a Notre
Dame football game on a Saturday afternoon. School room classes came to a
standstill  and table model radios were brought in so that the kids in class
could join the nation to hear Mel Allen or Red Barber give play-by- play
descriptions of World Series games. And who did not have goose bumps as they
 listened to the incomparable Bill Stern add high drama and spine-tingling
excitement to the pre-war Michigan State football games?  Or whose heart beat
did not quicken as Bill Corum's rat-a-tat-tat account of a Joe Louis
championship fight made sports and  radio history? And one did not have to be
a horse racing fan to thrill to the Clem McCarthy whose voice sounded like
gravel pouring down a sheet metal chute as he growled, " . . . Aaaand here
they come, around the bend . . . " 

High art from these radio artists  -- the men who made radio great and
gratified the nation. Join me in a toast to them -- to these sports
broadcasters who were known from coast-to- coast and to every other
lesser-known,  local sportscaster from Peoria to Portland, who made their
hometown teams give spirit to their communities.

Regards to all,
Paul Rask
Portland, Oregon




nobody

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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 11:40:52 -0500
From: celtic@[removed] (Stuart Joseph)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: APOLOGY
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

>------------------------------
>
>Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 08:56:02 -0500
>From: JRayb71827@[removed]
>To: otr@[removed]
>Subject: Misplaced Celtic Cultures
>Message-ID: <951101085602_9626468@[removed]>
>
>I am of Scottish ancestry and quite proud of [removed] traveled extensively
>in Scotland and have many warm memories.  I preface my comments that way
>because I can't for the life of me see what the ad for "Celtic Cultures" has
>to do with old time radio.  Please, can't we stick to the subject matter on
>this digest?
>
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My apologies to all for including my normal signature file.
I respond to a lot of e-mail inquires and sending my sig. saves a lot of time.
Unfortunately, I don't always remember to refrain from using it, especially
when there is a lot of stuff going on at once, which is no excuse but just
an explanation.
I will refrain from doing so in the future.
Stuart Joseph
celtic@[removed] 

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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 12:10:06 -0500
From: celtic@[removed] (Stuart Joseph)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Canadian $
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

>
>Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:30:17 -0500
>From: aa993@[removed] (Christopher L. Tumber)
>To: [removed]@[removed]
>Subject: RHAC, SPERDVAC and those unwelcome "forrenners"
>Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>
 As a Canadian, I fully expected to pay slightly more for shipping due
>to the higher costs of sending packages accross the boarder. Sure enough, 
>the catalog indicates a surcharge of $1 per reel/casette set for Canadians.
> 
>While I would quibble about the amount of the surchage as I think it's a 
>little high, I have no real argument with it other than it would have been 
>nice to be informed from the outset. Particularly since whoever mailed me the 
>application form in the first place could hardly miss that it was going to 
>Canada.
"Note: Canadian membership is an extra $[removed] annually 
>and library loan fees are more because of the additional postage costs."
> 
>Huh?
> 
>First of all, how about stating the original fees, not to mention the 
>Canadian fees? Obviously you've just aknowledged that they exist and that 
>they are different, why not come clean and list them?
> 
>Second, what's with $5 surcharge? While $5 may not be a tonne of money, the 
>surcharge means new Canadian memberships cost 20% more than American ones, 
>and renewals cost 33% more. Why? What possible extra administrative work is 
>generated by Canadians to warrant this? 
************************************************************
I can understand your concern, but I don't think the groups are trying to
discourage "foreigners." Have you considered the exchange rate between the
Canadian and US dollar? It is about 20% and if you travel the NY State
Thruway, they discount the Canadian dollar 30%.
I would also like to point out, that shipping charges to Canada *are*
substantially more expensive than shipping overseas, and I say this from
experience as someone who does ship to Canada. I do not know how the clubs
ship in the US, but they may ship book rate, which is very cheap, and book
rate might not be available to Canada.

Remember that the clubs are not in it to make money and they are providing a
valuable service to their members, as a consequence, they can't afford to
lose money either, and overseas memebrs are more expensive than domestic
members.

The Internet does make the world smaller and friendlier as like-minded
people contact each other (don't tell me this sounds liek a dating
service!<g>), but all factors should be taken into consideration, before
casting aspersions.
Stuart Joseph
(who is trying hard to not send his sig. file)

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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 12:17:04 -0500
From: Tom Kleinschmidt <tomkle@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Reel-To-Reel
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

        I'm glad to see that several people have come to the defense of the
reel-to-reel format for OTR collecting and storage. I have a good number of
cassettes, but the majority of my collection is on open reel in both 1/4
track and 1/2 track. The only real disadvantage I find in the format as
discussed several months back is the portability of the format.
        In the last issue there was a comment about the difficulty in
finding reel-to-reel equipment. I live in the Trenton area now and 18 months
ago lived in Cleveland, in both cities there were and are several used
stereo equipment dealers where an older reel-to-reel machine can be
purchased from $100 - $300 typically depending on brand and model of
machine. A local shop here a month ago had two available. An AKAI for $239
and an older SONY for $129. All are guaranteed to be in working order. Of
course the selection is never guaranteed and at any time these shops may
have one machine or ten, and sometimes none at all. Still I recommend people
look for similar shops in their areas for older bargain machines which are
great for playing your reels. I should state that I don't use these machines
for recording, although they are capable. I have a 2 year old TEAC X300R
that I bought brand new and use for recording OTR. When I purchased this
machine TEAC was making 2 consumer grade machines which had street prices of
about $800 and $1000. I don't know what is available now.
        Repairs are always a problem with older machines. I have been very
lucky in recent years and have had no problems. When I lived in Cleveland
and needed repairs I was lucky again to have a repair shop in the area with
an owner who was very knowledgable. He stocked many parts and his prices
were reasonable. If I ever need another repair, I'll probably ship it back
to him in Cleveland.
        Anyway, this is a solution that works for me. We can't all afford a
$3500 OTARI machine to use for our OTR hobby, but there are alternatives
available to us.


Tom

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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 95 10:37:44 MST
From: dpk@[removed] (David P. Kilcrease)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: real-to-real tape
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hi, well I do have a good real-to-real machine but am finding it
difficult to get good blank tape in town (radio shack has some
unknown brand of unknown quality). Does any one know a good mail
order place (address please)? And what brand do you real-to-real
pros recoment. My machine is a Pioneer 1/4 inch rack mount from
the late `70`s in excellent shape.


						Many thanks'
						Dave Kilcrease
						dpk@[removed]

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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 95 10:01:37 PST
From: "Bates, Robert" <rbates@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Three quick questions
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Three quick questions:

1. Someone mentioned OTR publications. I would be interested in subscribing to 
one or two. Does anyone have any favorites?  How can get in touch with them?

2. In listening to tapes of Jean Shepherd recently (which I got ahold of 
because of this list -- thank you very much) he mentioned that a big influence 
for him was a guy named Randall Sherman - a Midwestern comedian who never 
really made the bigtime.  I looked his name up in "Tune In Yesterday" and it 
basically corroborates that description. Has anyone heard any shows with this 
man? Are they still funny?  Are they available anywhere?

3. This was sent with a post that I believe didn't go through:   This is 
somewhat off the subject, so forgive me. But someone mentioned  a 
mailing list for 50s and 60s TV. Is there one for 70s TV, especially  70s 
sitcoms, which I am very much in to. 

Rob

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