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	    [removed]   Volume 95 : Issue 356


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 Ransom Sherman
	 Peter Pan
	 Shipping costs
	 WTB WHOLESALE
	 Re: OTR on the farm in Wyoming
	 Radiogram and Cyberspace
	 Re: [removed] Digest V95 #352
	 Dad's crystal set

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Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 10:35:28 -0500
From: JRayb71827@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Ransom Sherman
Message-ID: <951104103528_97781576@[removed]>

Some follow-up notes concerning talk about Ransom Sherman.  He was first host
of "Club Matinee."  In April, 1939, Garry Moore, then working on KWK, St.
Louis, was a guest on Sherman's program.  This led to KWK eventually letting
him have Fridays and Saturdays off so he could fill in for Sherman.  Moore,
later took over the show.  It was here he first made connection with Durward
Kirby, who stayed with him right on in to TV.  Sherman played Uncle Dennis on
"Fibber McGee and Molly."  He had a little-known show with Russell Pratt
called "Laugh Doctors," and appeared on the zany "Mirth and Madness" with
Jack Kirkwood (NBC, 1943).  He even had his own program, "The Ransom Sherman
Show," (NBC, 1939), that featured Bill Thompson (The Old Timer, Wallace
Wimple, Horatio K. Boomer and others on "Fibber McGee" and also Fran Allison
(Aunt Fanny on Don McNeill's "Breakfast Club," and later part of TV's "Kukla,
Fran and Ollie").  Sherman also worked on a sort of man-on-the-street-type
quiz show called, "Quicksilver," and played the lead on "Hap Hazard," where
he was the proprietor of Crestfallen Manor, a run-down hotel.  Just thought
I'd do a little filling in, just the kind of thing we like to do in our OTR
newsletter.  For a free sample copy, just send a #10 SASE to Thrilling Days
of Yesteryear, [removed] Box 36106, Denver, CO 80236.

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Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 09:34:42 -0800 (PST)
From: roy547@[removed] (Roy Trumbull)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Peter Pan
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

One thing which vanished from radio stations 40
years ago was the local children's programs which
consisted of story tellers, the reading of the
newspaper comic strips, and records made for children.
Some of you may have heard the recently mentioned 
Sparky recordings on just such a show.
One recording I purchased after hearing it on radio was a
version of Peter Pan that had been done on Broadway.
It wasn't the Mary Martin version either. As my
kids were growing up I looked for it but couldn't
find it.
It was around 1974, when I was working for CBS, that
I dropped a note to Goddard Lieberson at Columbia 
Records mentioning we had a friend in common. In a
later letter I asked if he'd ever heard of the Peter
Pan recording I was looking for. Foolish question;
It was one of his earliest productions. He sent me
a copy.
The cast consisted of Jean Arthur as Peter and Boris
Karloff in the dual role of father/Capt. Hook. While 
not a musical, it did have a few songs with music and
lyrics by Leonard Bernstein. The incidental music was
by Alec Wilder. This revival was done in 1950 and
the recording made the same year. Goddard kept it and
other gems available in a Collector's Series. Assuming
Sony hasn't made sushi out of the masters, it may still
be available.

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Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 09:40:09 -0800
From: dabell@[removed] (Alan Bell)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Shipping costs
Message-Id: <v01520d01acc0bff2f6b1@[[removed]]>

aa993@[removed] (Christopher L. Tumber) wrote:

>if we assume even shipping book rate that they're paying $2
>to ship within the US.

It costs RHAC $[removed] to ship (4th class book rate) a box of 5 RR tapes from
Denver to me in Northern California.  It varies by distance, of course.

_____________________________________________________________________
ALAN BELL  3768 Sonoma Avenue  Santa Rosa, CA 95405  dabell@[removed]
=============================707-546-6988============================

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Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 14:04:53 -0500
From: celtic@[removed] (Stuart Joseph)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: WTB WHOLESALE
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Hello, All!
I have decided to add OTR and TV items to my business, so I am looking for
suppliers.
If you are interested in working out an arrangement, please contact me by
e-mail (this way I keep my "Commercial" Sig. off the list :-0).
Thanks,
Stuart

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Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 21:53:34 EST
From: VULM45A@[removed] ( ROBERT W PAINE)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Re: OTR on the farm in Wyoming
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

-- [ From: Robert Paine * [removed] #[removed] ] --

 Item 1: NBC and CBS had shortwave stations in the old 47-meter band. 
(Variety Radio Directory, 1940-1941). 
 
 Item 2: Military personnel at Pearl Harbor would likely have listened
to network radio via KGU (NBC Hawaiian Service, available for use with
NBC Pacific Coast Red or Blue) and KGMB (CBS, Mutual; also KHBC, Hilo,
sold in comination with KGMB), or on shortwave (see Item 1) if the
signal reached the Islands.
  AFRS did not come into being until 1942. According to Dr. Eric 
Barnouw, the first inkling the War Department had that it had a station
was in 1942. Personnel at a base in Alaska built a low-power station
and, when they had exhausted the supply of records and local talent,
they wrote to performers in Hollywood to request recordings of
programs. The stars inquired of the War Department for instructions for
sending the recordings to the base. That's when the military learned it
had a radio station. Bottom line is that official channels were
developed and the result was the Armed Forces Radio Service. 
 This is a simplification of the events and surely there's a lot more
to the story but time and space constraints require that I be
uncharacteristically brief. Maybe other readers will have more
information on Items 1 and 2 and be willing to share it with us. 
 I'd like to again ask for recollections of wartime radio from both
listeners and former broadcasters; news, local programming, events like
Pearl Harbor and D-Day, etc.    

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Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 20:11:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: WMACKEY@[removed]
To: otr <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Radiogram and Cyberspace
Message-id: <[removed]@[removed]>

I hope this isn't late getting in and someone hasn't beaten me to it.  
Been busy and all that.

In the November-December issue of the SPERDVAC Radiogram is an article 
about "OTR in Cyberspace" by Walter J. Beaupre.  Basically Mr Beaupre 
mentions the resources and various web pages, but says nothing about this 
group.  Apparently he is unaware we exist.
  
He did mention Jim Widner, Lou Genco (which he spelled as "Lew", Marvin, 
Laura Lee and several others.

Overall the article was interesting, but I was, as I said, disappointed 
this group wasn't mentioned.

Joe Mackey  (I must be shoveling [removed])

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Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 11:43:24 +0000
From: "Ryan Brewster" <[removed]@[removed][impulse@[removed]]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: [removed] Digest V95 #352
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

>      1.   Should digitized OTR be made available on the Internet?

Absolutely!

>      2.   If "yes", how much would you be willing to pay for a show
> (equivalent to half of a C-60 tape)

60 minutes? Depends on the show, of course.  I'd probably be willing 
to spend between $1 and $5 a show.

>      3.   If "yes", how large a selection would you expect to be maintained
> at the provider's source.

Obviously a lot.  Like, say, 10 hours of the better comedies, a few 
hours each of the old action shows (like Shadow, Superman, Whisper, 
Sam Spade).  

>      4.   If "yes", what format do you think would be best?  WAV, AU, or other.

.ram (RealAudio).

Sure it's not the best sound quality, but neither were old [removed]

>      5.   If "yes" would you subscribe to a service similar to a "tape of
> the month club", but with a limited selection?

[removed] as long as it's less than $20 a year.
Best,

--Ry
Editor
The Comic Book Net E-Mag
[removed]~[removed]

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Date: 3 Nov 95 10:32:00 -0500
From: amo@[removed] (Arlene M Osborne +1 +1 508 960 6273)
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Dad's crystal set
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Read with fascination the report from the Radio Hall of Fame
and especially the part that read:

>Try to imagine a bigger "scoop" than this:
>May 29th, 1927---radio newsman Lowell Thomas rushes to a microphone and
>reads this bulletin:

>[DIGICART: Lowell Thomas Lindbergh bulletin

>Lowell Thomas: This is Lowell Thomas in New York. He made it! Charles A.
>Lindbergh---'Lucky Lindy' as they call him---landed at Le Bourget Airport,
>Paris, at 5:24 this afternoon---thus becoming the first person to fly New
>York to Paris non-stop.]

You see, my dad (born in 1908) had built a crystal set in a Quaker
Oats box and his friends still talk about sitting around that set
at his house and hearing that Lindy made it.  Kinda put it in perspective
for me to realize how young dad was at the time.

Arlene Osborne amo@[removed]

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