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Date: 3/9/2005 10:18 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2005 : Issue 76
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Transplanted Castle                   [ "Jim Harmon" <jimharmonotr@charter. ]
      Destination Freedom tapes donated     [ Art Chimes <achimes@[removed]; ]
      Wilbur Hatch                          [ "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@juno. ]
      3-9 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Songs By Morton Downey                [ <cooldown3@[removed]; ]
      Re: radio comedian documentary        [ "Rodney W Bowcock" <[removed]@ ]
      Listening as a kid / XM               [ "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed] ]
      Ed Bonner                             [ Zharold138@[removed] ]
      listening to OTR                      [ Michael Berger <intercom1@attglobal ]
      my mom was on,about1930?              [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
      I Love a Mystery: Thanks!             [ "Michael Leannah" <mleannah@charter ]
      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      OTR on the Twilight Zone              [ John Mayer <mayer@[removed]; ]
      "Excelsior!"                          [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
      satellite merger?                     [ "Louie Johnson" <ljohnson@[removed]; ]
      XM Radio                              [ StuartLubin@[removed] (Stuart Lubin ]

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    Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:54:25 -0500
    From: "Jim Harmon" <jimharmonotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Transplanted Castle
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    Hello -- The I Love a Mystery story of the "Transplanted Castle" is also known
    as
    "The Fear that Creeps like a Cat".   Under that title, yours truly produced a
    1990s cassette album of three 90 min. cassettes with all twenty quarter hour
    episodes for $[removed]  It starred original ILAM cast members, Les Tremayne as
    Jack and Frank Bresee as Reggie, with talented new-comer Tony Clay as Doc.
    (All the comments I received said Tony sounded like the perfect blend of
    Barton Yarborough and Jim Boles.)  Les played a number of parts on the
    original shows, including the villain in the Mutual version of this same
    story.  Frank played small boys in the Hollywood series, and I like to think
    he may have been the telegraph delivery boy in this story in its initial
    airing.  Also on board were Jack Lester "Sky King" in Les' old role of villain
    Cooper,
    Art Hern, former "Ikky" on Captain Midnight, and Lone Ranger narrator, Fred
    Foy, as our announcer.  My rights to sell these albums have run out, per
    agreement with the Carlton E. Morse estate, but Frank Bresee bought up a
    number of them and can resell his personal property.
    I can tell you where to contact Frank if you don't know.
        About listening to radio -- when I was a boy I could listen to the radio
    and do something else at the same time.   I could read a comic book or even a
    real book like a Sherlock Holmes and follow both the radio episode of the Lone
    Ranger or Mr. Keen and the material I was reading.  I'm not sure I could do
    that today.   Of course, you could also listen to the radio and do work, like
    cleaning up your room or washing dishes.  I still do that.   I often put on a
    tape or an MP3 and listen while I clean up after breakfast for my wife,
    Barbara.   Lately, I have been going through a huge collection of Sergeant
    Preston I bought on MP3.  Barbara used to laugh at the show, finding King a
    bit too smart for a dog to be believable.  But the other day she listened to
    several episodes as she did the taxes.  She said the stories did not engage
    her intellectual faculties enough to keep her from doing the math, but did
    provide some mild diversion.   I think that was the way it was back in the old
    days too.
        I am currently editing the third volume of "It's That Time Again -- New
    Stories of Old Time Radio" for BearManor.   The deadline is April 30, and I am
    hoping all the writers get their stories in on time.
        -- Jim Harmon

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    Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:55:21 -0500
    From: Art Chimes <achimes@[removed];
    To: otr <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Destination Freedom tapes donated

    Note this news release from The Museum of Broadcast Communications in
    Chicago. "Destination Freedom" was an extraordinary series, if the
    handful of episodes I've heard are any indication.

    It was the most notably - maybe the only - high-profile OTR series
    devoted to serious issues of concern to African Americans at that time.
    Even more unusual is that the program actually used black employees on
    both sides of the microphone.

    John Dunning's novel "Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime," centers in part
    around the production of a similar program at a New Jersey radion
    station. Dunning acknowledges in an author's note that he was inspired by
    "Destination Freedom."
    _ ______________________

    Historic African-American Radio Collection Donated to
    The Museum of Broadcast Communications

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    March 4, 2005

    Chicago -- Destination Freedom, a groundbreaking radio drama series
    depicting the struggle for civil rights in America, has been donated to
    The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC). The series created by
    pioneer radio writer Richard Durham was heard on WMAQ Radio from June 27,
    1948 to August of 1950, and was sponsored initially by the Chicago
    Defender and then by the Chicago Urban League.

    The series pre-dated the high profile struggle for civil rights in
    America. "Richard Durham was a very talented writer who worked at a major
    market radio station at a time when few blacks could be found on station
    payrolls," said Bruce DuMont, founder and president of the MBC. "Durham’s
    programs stand the test of time and the MBC will now digitize these
    programs and create online lesson plans that will introduce Durham to a
    wider audience and a new generation." DuMont added.

    The donation of ninety-one program tapes was made my Clarice Durham, the
    late Mr. Durham’s wife of 42 years. "My son, Mark and I commend The
    Museum of Broadcast Communications for recognizing the groundbreaking
    importance of the Destination Freedom radio dramas," Durham said. "My
    husband's aim was to tell real life stories of African Americans that
    would show their heroic strength and dignity and counteract the
    stereotypical portrayals commonly presented on the radio at that time,"
    Durham added. Richard Durham died on April 27, 1984.

    The full text of this press release is at
    [removed]]

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    Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:01:45 -0500
    From: "kclarke5@[removed]" <kclarke5@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Wilbur Hatch

         Thanks for all your feedback on composer Wilbur
    Hatch.  I was a bit mistaken however.  I meant to
    say that I heard his name listed in the credits of
    "The Whistler" programs I listed to and not "Yours
    Truly, Johnny Dollar".  That's what comes of listening
    to two separate OTR programs in one night--one after
    the other!  LOL

         What was the name again of the PBS series about
    OTR?

    Another OTR Fan,

    Kenneth Clarke

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    Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:10:32 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  3-9 births/deaths

    March 9th births

    03-09-1893 - Ara Gerald - Sydney, Australia - d. 4-2-1957
    actress: Countess Florenza "Our Gal Sunday"
    03-09-1902 - Robert St. John - Chicago, IL - d. 2-6-2003
    newscaster: 1943-46, NBC, weekdays at 10 [removed]
    03-09-1902 - Will Geer - Franfort, IN - d. 4-22-1978
    actor: Penny "Bright Horizon"
    03-09-1914 - Fred Clark - Lincoln, CA - d. 12-5-1968
    actor: "This Is Your FBI"; "Amos 'n' Andy Show"
    03-09-1918 - Marguerite Chapman - Chatham, NY - d. 8-30-1999
    actress: "Family Theatre"; "Silver Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
    03-09-1926 - Irene Pappas - Chiliomodion, Greece
    actress: Greek Radio
    03-09-1934 - Joyce Van Patten - Queens, NY
    actress: Daisy "Reg'lar Fellers"
    03-09-1935 - Keely Smith - Norfolk, VA
    singer: "Guard Session"; "Here's to Veterans"

    March 9th deaths

    01-07-1913 - Shirley Ross - Omaha, NE - d. 3-9-1975
    actress, singer: "Raleigh and Kool Cigarette Program with Tommy
    Dorsey"; "Bob Burns Show"
    01-20-1896 - George Burns - NYC - d. 3-9-1996
    comedian: "The Adventures of Gracie"; "The George Burns and Gracie
    Allen Show"
    03-15-1883 - Ernie Hare - Norfolk, VA - d. 3-9-1939
    singer: (The Happiness Boys)
    04-28-1892 - Joseph Dunninger - NYC - d. 3-9-1975
    mentalist: (Master Mind of Mental Mystery) "Dunninger Show"
    06-11-1900 - Lawrence Spivak - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-9-1994
    moderator, panelist: "Meet the Press"
    07-08-1917 - Faye Emerson - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 3-9-1983
    actress: "My Silent Partner"
    07-16-1907 - Ned Calmer - Chicago, IL - d. 3-9-1986
    news analyst: "World News Roundup"
    08-23-1913 - Bob Crosby - Spokane, WA - d. 3-9-1993
    bandleader, singer: "Camel Caravan"; "Bob Crosby Show"; "Jack Benny
    Program"
    10-09-1915 - Edward Andrews - Griffin, GA - d. 3-9-1985
    actor: Nat "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
    11-17-1918 - Paul Crabtree - Pulaski, VA - d. 3-9-1979
    actor: David Naughton "Claudia and David"
    --
    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:50:15 -0500
    From: <cooldown3@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Songs By Morton Downey

    Hi All,
    While speaking about music shows which played music from earlier timers one
    might look at "Music By Morton Downey" I have 4 eps of it and all of the
    music seems to be early americana.

    By The way, was Morton Downey related to Sheridan Downey who ran for office
    in California?
    Cheers,
    PAtrick

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    Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:53:32 -0500
    From: "Rodney W Bowcock" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: radio comedian documentary

    Hi there,

    I'd be interested in getting a copy of this documentary.  I can offer a
    copy of the "Good Old Days Of Radio" dinner show, or cash.

    Thanks!

    Rodney Bowcock

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    Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:39:59 -0500
    From: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Listening as a kid / XM

    --Listening to OTR

      Like many of you, I grew up listening to OTR - but I'm only 30.  I grew up
    in the DC area, and my family listened to the Big Broadcast on WAMU every
    Sunday night (thanks to streaming audio, I still listen even though I'm stuck
    here in Mid-Michigan).  The 7:00pm broadcast would usually be starting around
    the time we finished dinner, so we would have it on while we prepared for the
    new week - for me that would include finishing any last minute homework and
    getting my stuff ready for school.  It would still be on when I went to bed
    and I would get to listen as I fell asleep.

    --XM radio

      I love XM radio because the radio around here is so terrible.  All of it is
    seriously corporate (aside from the public radio outlets).  I'm young and
    like a lot of the new rock/rap/electronic music that's being produced today,
    but I don't even get to hear that.  If it's not top-40 pop or country, it's
    not on.

      Even when I was a kid, radio sounded different.  When we would travel to
    the beach or to Montana, the radio stations sounded really different than
    they did at home.  Now, when I travel, the dial sounds the same no matter
    where I am in the country, there is no more regional difference.  So I might
    as well go satellite and get to hear music I like any where in the country.

      The OTR channel isn't great - the shows are mangled to fit with modern
    commercial slots - but it isn't terrible either.  You'll get to hear the more
    popular shows (for example: Gunsmoke or Lone Ranger), but you rarely get to
    hear some of the less popular ones (for example: Fort Laramie).  It's ok if
    you're traveling, but to be honest, I don't listen to it that much.

      I love the music channels, including the modern rock, punk, rap, blues,
    bluegrass, 1940s, and electronic.  Like Charlie, I like the BBC world
    service, but am at work way too early to catch Bob Edwards on XMPR.  One of
    the comedy channels does play Bob & Ray fairly often, so I'll check in there,
    plus the 'left' political channel picks up a lot of Air America Programming.

    -chris holm
    [disclaimer: I'm an employee of Delphi, which manufactures consumer radios
    for XM & Automobile OEM hardware for XM and Sirius.  Not at my plant though,
    we make steering components.]

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    Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:51:01 -0500
    From: Zharold138@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Ed Bonner
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    Hi Anybody,
    I'm looking for any information on a St. Louis D. J. from the fifty's era  by
    the name of Ed Bonner who was , I believe, on KXOK. He also had a son who was
     in the radio business. I would like to get any information on the late Ed
    Bonner  or his son.
        Till Next Time,Harold  Zeigler

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    Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:29:37 -0500
    From: Michael Berger <intercom1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  listening to OTR

    There's a marvelous Stan Freberg skit that's still
    bouncing around on CDs or Mp3 files in which an old
    lady is asked by a young girl [actually Stan's
    daughter] to describe listening to radio.

    Well, she said, we used to sit around the living room
    and look at the furniture, or just stare off into
    [removed]

    Wow, says the little girl, talk about your radical
    ideas!

    Well, says I, that's exactly what I did as a kid
    listening in my room to my daily diet of Terry & the
    Pirates, Captain Midnight and Tom Mix. Wondering what
    it would be like to see it on TV - actors standing on
    a stage, or real scenes like the movies, or what?

    My parents never forbade me to listen to any show,
    just put a 9pm deadline, and I remember hearing one
    Gangbusters in which they 'reported' criminals still
    at large followed by the squad car sirens, gunshots,
    etc. Didn't sleep much that night.

    What little religious learning I got came from the
    Sunday program The Eternal Light; classical music from
    the Met and occasional San Francisco Symphony
    broadcasts, and drama from the US Steel Hour. We also
    enjoyed many local shows never heard elsewhere - Max
    Baer's Sunday brunch interviews from the Cliff House,
    Dean Maddox and his often amusing streetside
    interviews and the local equivalent of Don McNeil -
    the KFRC Breakfast Gang.

    Michael Berger

    PS - Our one inside giggle was listening occasionally
    to One Man's Family [located in our home city, San
    Francisco]. The Barber family lived in a well to do
    neighborhood called Sea Cliff, but on the show, I
    never heard fog horns - which was a constant
    background sound to our daily lives, especially from
    June through August.

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    Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:47:22 -0500
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  my mom was on,about1930?

       Received this request for help this evening; although it's likely this
    program doesn't exist, if anyone can [removed]

    From: WAYOUNT552@[removed]
    Subject: my mom was on,about1930?
    To: webmaster@[removed]

        I'm trying to find a soundtrack of my mom ,when she was very  young she
    was on a radio show in Benton, Arkansas,in about the 1930''s,she  played the
    [removed] passed away in 1995,and I really need this info,if anyone  can help
    me ??????????????????????????????????????????I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE
    [removed]
                            THANK  YOU.

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    Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 23:36:51 -0500
    From: "Michael Leannah" <mleannah@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  I Love a Mystery: Thanks!

        Thanks to James Herman and John L. Woodruff for providing me with the
    answer to my question about I Love a Mystery. How sad that no tape of "The
    Case of the Transplanted Castle" exists.
        Still, I am very grateful for the information. Thanks to both of you for
    taking the time to write.

    Mike Leannah

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    Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:29:43 -0500
    From: charlie@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

    A weekly [removed]

    For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
    Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
    and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
    over six years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
    of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
    real-time OTR talk!

    Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
    others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
    range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
    it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
    it's always a good time!

    For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
    week and every week!

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    Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:30:16 -0500
    From: John Mayer <mayer@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR on the Twilight Zone

    "We take things for granted today that we called impossible just a
    few years ago," says a fellow resident of the boarding house where Ed
    Lindsey (Dean Jagger) lives, as portrayed in an old Twilight Zone
    show tonight on the Sci-Fi Channel. Ed has found an antique radio
    that magically picks up all the old radio shows, already fading bits
    of nostalgia when this episode was made in the 60's. Unfortunately
    for the other tenants, and for their view of Ed's sanity, the old
    console plays Old Time Radio only for him.

    How unlikely it seemed to us in the 60's that we'd ever be able to
    hear those shows again, as Rod Serling comments at the end,
    "...through a strange and wonderful machine called a radio." We
    couldn't have imagined that most of those wistfully remembered shows
    - and ones we'd missed the first time around - would someday be
    available to us once again by way of a strange and wonderful machine
    called a  computer. How do you like living in the Twilight Zone?

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    Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:42:00 -0500
    From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  "Excelsior!"
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    Nik Kierniesky
    Gettysburg  writes about the new book "Excelsior, You Fathead!: The Art
    and Enigma of Jean Shepherd":

>     "Excelsior, You Fathead," finally came out and I just received my copy from
>     Amazon a few days ago.
>     <snip>
>       Those interested in him will find this a good
>     read.  I have no vested interest in this book except to justify my misspent
>     youth listening to him late a night in lieu of homework and sleep.

    I, too, am enjoying my copy, which I just bought last week for half-price at
    NYC's venerable Strand Book Store. My copy came with paperwork that
    said that the official release date is sometime later this month (either
    March 25th or 28th--I don;t have the book in front of me) from its
    publisher, Applause Books. I'm sure it has already surfaced in better
    bookstores.

    My question about Shep is this: was he solely heard over powerhouse
    WOR-AM out of NYC, or was he simulcast on other stations? It's
    amazing how he acquired such a loyal fan base and later cult following
    if, indeed, he was only heard exclusively un the New York metroplitan
    area.

    "Flick Lives!"

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:44:31 -0500
    From: "Louie Johnson" <ljohnson@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  satellite merger?

    Jim Widner wrote:

>     it will be like what is happening in cable
>     television and radio with corporate entities such as Clear Channel.

    Corporate entities such as Clear Channel already own large blocks of stock
    in XM; they leave their fingerprints everywhere.

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    Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:14:27 -0500
    From: StuartLubin@[removed] (Stuart Lubin)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  XM Radio

    To add my two cents to the comments about XM Radio, I first have to tell
    you that I am neither associated with it or subscribed to it.  But I am
    a fervent fan of a contemporary group who performs radio drama on XM,
    "New Frequency".  I do not have XM because I can see this group perform
    monthly before a live audience in the Los Angeles area.

    The group primarily writes its own new radio drama, but from time to
    time, they perform re-creations of OTR.  And they do a credible,
    professional, and talented job. It is amazing that they do radio so
    well, since they are primarily young people who were not around during
    the golden age of radio. Under the energetic  leadership of
    creator-producer-director Matt Johnson, the group has performed OTR
    re-creations at the past two SPERDVAC conventions. They also have given
    live performances, at the midnight hour, on the only OTR radio program
    currently broadcasting regularly in Southern California, Barbara and
    Bobb's  "Don't Touch That Dial" (heard streaming on the net:
    [removed]).  If the time ever comes that I cannot see "New Frequency"
    perform live, I will subscribe to XM Radio.

    Stuart Lubin

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