Subject: [removed] Digest V2004 #150
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Date: 4/30/2004 10:18 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2004 : Issue 150
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Lobotomobile Parked Near Gasoline Al  [ Bhob <bhob2@[removed]; ]
      4-30 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      radio                                 [ "Nicoll" <Nicoll@[removed]; ]
      1941 World Series                     [ Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@yahoo. ]
      laser record-playing techniques       [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
      TV Land Moguls                        [ william kelley <hopeless_ness@yahoo ]
      filmed radio broadcasts               [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
      dvd                                   [ edcarr@[removed] ]
      Re: Archie Baby Theme                 [ "Joe C" <packers2003@[removed]; ]
      authors                               [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
      Re: Lucy on radio                     [ OldTix@[removed] ]

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    Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:55:52 -0400
    From: Bhob <bhob2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lobotomobile Parked Near Gasoline Alley

    Re the death of Walt Wallet this past week in GASOLINE ALLEY, here are
    various links to hear one of the GASOLINE ALLEY radio shows and connect
    to early Frank King strips, Craig Yoe's Uncle Walt/Baby Skeezix
    sculpture, a GASOLINE ALLEY chronology and current strips leading to
    Walt's death:
    [removed]

    The strip that made Walt's death official was last Monday (4/26). Strips
    setting up his death go back to the middle of April, but Ucomics/Tribune
    Media only archive the previous 14 days for non-subscribers.

    As I recall, when the Blondie movie series ended with BEWARE OF BLONDIE
    (1950), Columbia Pictures announced they were replacing it with their
    new series which began with GASOLINE ALLEY (1951). But none followed
    after CORKY OF GASOLINE ALLEY (1951). BLONDIE director Edward Bernds was
    also the GASOLINE ALLEY director.

    This week's AMERICAN MASTERS (PBS) about Luce, TIME and LIFE had a
    well-done (but too brief) segment combining an excerpt from the MARCH OF
    TIME radio program with still photos of actors on that series:
    [removed]

    Tom Waits: "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal
    lobotomy."

    A new movie playing this weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival is A HOLE
    IN ONE, the story of a small-town woman (Michelle Williams) who wants a
    lobotomy to escape the emotional pain caused by her gangster boyfriend
    (Meat Loaf). The film is based on the real neurologist, Dr. Walter
    Freeman, who drove around the country in his Lobotomobile camper van
    promoting transorbital lobotomies (the "ice-pick lobotomy") during the
    1940s and 1950s. The soundtrack of this movie includes recordings of
    mental-health public-service radio plays made by the federal government
    in the 1950s, including one narrated by Ralph Bellamy.

    Does anyone have titles and dates of this mental-health radio series?

    Bhob Stewart

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    Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:54:37 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-30 births/deaths

    April 30th births

    04-30-1903 - Fulton Lewis, Jr. - Washington, [removed] - d. 8-21-1966
    commentator: "News and Comments"
    04-30-1909 - Bud Linn - Indianapolis, IN - d. 7-31-1968
    singer: (The King's Men) "Kraft Music Hall"; "Fibber McGee and Molly"
    04-30-1910 - Al Lewis - NYC
    director-writer: "Our Miss Brooks"
    04-30-1912 - Eve Arden - Mill Valley, CA - d. 11-12-1990
    actress: Connie Brooks "Our Miss Brooks"; Libby Collins "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-30-1917 - Bea Wain - The Bronx, NY
    singer: (The Reverie Girl) "Your Hit Parade"; "Your All-Time Hit Parade"
    04-30-1919 - Jack Haskell - Akron, OH - d. 9-26-1998
    singer: "Dave Garroway Show"; "Music from the Heart of America"
    04-30-1926 - Cloris Leachman - Des Moines, IA
    actress: Local radio as a teenager
    04-30-1948 - Perry King - Alliance, OH
    actor: Han Solo "Star Wars"

    April 30th deaths

    03-02-1918 - Elmira Roessler - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-30-1975
    actress, singer: Jennifer Davis "Backstage Wife"; Tweetsie Herringbone "Ma
    Perkins"
    06-06-1918 - Peter Donald - Bristol, England - d. 4-30-1979
    actor, emcee: Ajax Cassidy "Fred Allen Show"; "Can You Top This?"
    12-06-1906 - Agnes Moorehead - Clinton, MA - d. 4-30-1974
    actress: Margo Lane "The Shadow";  Marilly "Mayor of the Town"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    For a complete list:
    [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:30:35 -0400
    From: "Nicoll" <Nicoll@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  radio

    My daughter came up with this one.   What is origin of the word "radio" and
    when did start to be used.
    Will Nicoll

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    Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:35:18 -0400
    From: Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  1941 World Series

    This question goes back to a reference from about a month ago! (I
    really got behind, obviously) Anyway, one of the recordings selected
    for the National Registry was Game Four of the 1941 World Series with
    Red Barber and others. I may feel silly when I get the answer, but
    what was particularly notable about this one?
    Alan
    --
    _______________
    Alan/Linda Bell
    Grand Rapids, MI

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    Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:36:04 -0400
    From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  laser record-playing  techniques

>     There is a news story today stating that particle physicists at the
>     Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California are using sensor
>     light to scan the grooves of old recordings to digitally reconstruct the
>     sound.  According to the story, this technique is "non-contact" and does
>     not use a stylus (needle).  As a result, not only are clicks and pops
>     eliminated as can be done currently with the CEDAR process, but
>     background noise is also eliminated.  Best of all, cracked or even
>     broken discs that are unplayable can be digitally reassembled.

>     I don't what sort of audiophiles these scientists are because the story
>     also suggests that the reconstructed soundtracks can then be copied onto
>     mp3 discs for playback!  Huh?

    I haven't seen the story, but it doesn't sound entirely self-consistent.
    First of all, there is at least one turntable that reads records with a
    laser.  See [removed] for one example.  The thing costs about two
    thousand dollars.

    Heck, there have even been moderately-successful attempts to optically
    _scan_ records on a fine-pitch document scanner and use signal-processing
    software to extract the audio.  I may have read about that in this digest;
    the work having been described by the experimenter as sort of a casual
    exercise that he wasn't planning to pursue much further.

    Now, particle physicists _do_ spend a lot of time observing patterns of
    reflected light and reflected particles.  They shoot electrons or protons at
    some sort of target and watch what gets reflected back to them.  Since
    particle beams are also used to implant ions into microscopic areas of
    integrated circuits, measurement must be exceedingly accurate.  Thus, if a
    damaged recording could be metallized such that it became reflective, it's
    possible that it could be read with a particle beam.  I don't know that this
    would be much better than a laser, but it's possible.

    Something else I didn't know about record disks is that they can sometimes
    be repaired.  Turns out that the lacquer masters on LP recordings
    occasionally have flaws, and these can be repaired by what the old Popular
    Science article I read termed 'microsurgery.'

    It should also be possible to digitally restore the continuity of a
    recording over which the stylus skips in a random pattern: if the whole
    record gets played through at least once, the various portions should be
    spliceable with an audio processing program.

    Mark Kinsler

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    Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:39:15 -0400
    From: william kelley <hopeless_ness@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  TV Land Moguls

    Has anyone been watching the TV Land series "TV Land
    Moguls"?  They have contained many radio references,
    particularly in last Wednesday's program about the
    1960's.  Included was a profile of Jack Webb,
    including interview snippets with Webb and Herb Ellis.
     There was also a profile of Paul Henning, which
    mentioned his importance as a writer for Burns and
    Allan.  Following each Wednesday's program are a few
    episodes representative of that nights topic.
    Wednesday's was followed by an early black and white
    episode of Dragnet, followed by an episode of Webb's
    1-ADAM-12 (which featured none other than Mr. Howard
    Culver).  Anyone interested should check the schedule
    for reruns.

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    Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:39:36 -0400
    From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  filmed radio broadcasts

    I don't know if this has been discussed before, but there have been several
    mentions of radio shows which were filmed during their broadcasts, or
    perhaps rehearsals.  I was wondering why this would have been done.  I can
    think of several reasons, none of which is particularly satisfying:

    * The movie gave the advertising agencies something to show the sponsor,
    though why a film would have been better than just an audio disk is not
    obvious.

    * The films were used for educational purposes.  I've seen schools for
    aspirants to TV soap opera acting, so there must have been the same thing
    for those interested in radio.

    *  The movie might make an interesting movie 'short subject'; though I never
    saw anything of this nature at movies or on TV starting in the early '50's.

    Early TV showed _everything_ that could be lifted out of a film
    can--including, once, an Army VD training film.  Hal Stone probably knows if
    this really happened.

    Though it's clear that OTR executives weren't concerned with the purity of
    their medium, a film of a broadcast would seem to lift the magic curtain
    that made radio as cool as it was.

    M Kinsler

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    Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:39:47 -0400
    From: edcarr@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  dvd

    hi
    here is a quick note, i came across dvds of radio related
    tv shows, if interested let me know and i will email
    particulars, but hurry i am just about out, mailed out 50
    today.
    to give you an idea
    seregnt preston 3-1/2 hr 1 dvd
    jack benny
    burns and allen
    sherlock holmes
    edcarr@[removed]

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    Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:42:41 -0400
    From: "Joe C" <packers2003@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Archie Baby Theme

> >     I am trying to put together a list of radio programs that is a baby
> >     theme episode, such as episodes with babies or expecting a baby,

>     We did at least one like that on "Archie Andrews". As a matter of fact, I
>     think I have a copy. (Archie & Jughead got stuck Baby sitting (I think).
>     Hal(Harlan)Stone

    After posting 3 Baby Themed Shows the other day I happened to listen
    by accident to the episode you mention in you responce. Your memory as
    always is great.

    The title I have is:  Riverdale Formal Dance 5/27/51
    Archie needs a tuxedo to take Veronica to the country club dance. To
    earn the money to rent the tuxedo he with the help of Jughead mind a
    neighbors (Mrs. Jenkins) baby and ofcourse the baby disappears while
    Jughead is watching it while Archie goes to rent the tux.

    Hal, Bob Hastings sings a lullaby to help the baby fall asleep. Did he
    sing in other episodes. Did you ever sing in any?

    Joe Caramella
    Warwick, New York

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    Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 21:05:41 -0400
    From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  authors

    Hi Everybody,

    I am trying to find the two authors Ahrgus Juilliard and Burt Andrews who
    wrote the book on Amos and Andy in order to invite them as a guest at frank
    Bresee studio to tape an interview.  Does any one know how I can find them?
    Take care,

    Walden

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    Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:21:42 -0400
    From: OldTix@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Lucy on radio
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    Following up on the listings of Lucille Ball radio appearances, I have one
    which may or may not be valid.  I have a CBS ticket for the 1/3/45 broadcast
    of
    WHICH IS WHICH, a program which featured voice impressionists and real
    celebrities.  Ken Murray was the host, and Old Gold Cigarettes sponsored the
    show.
    The ticket for this particular program lists as guests: Lucille Ball, Lana
    Turner, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Charles Laughton, and Bill
    [removed]"or
    reasonable facsimiles thereof".  The program originated from Columbia Square
    Playhouse in Hollywood.  So, was she or wasn't she?

    Rick Payne
    oldtix@[removed]

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