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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2016 : Issue 8
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  July 19,1952                          [ "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@ ]
  Web-based MP3 software                [ Vince Long <vlongbsh@[removed]; ]
  Aldrich Family syndication            [ Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@yahoo. ]
  This week in radio history 31 Januar  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Robbing the Dead                      [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  Remember WENN                         [ Richard Carpenter <newsduck@[removed] ]
  February 2016 issue of RADIO RECALL   [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  Copy closing [removed]                  [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]
  Copy closing [removed]                  [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]

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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:46:21 -0400
From: "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  July 19,1952

Fellow Collectors,

I'm looking for programs or information about programs that aired on the
referenced date. Thanks Charlie for the inspiration!

I know of Gunsmoke, the ep about Doc Holiday. That leaves about 70 more
hours.
--
Joe Salerno

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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:46:50 -0400
From: Vince Long <vlongbsh@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Web-based MP3 software

David Kindred asks about web-based software for playing OTR.

I also had an interest in such a thing and couldn't find something that acted
both as a cataloging tool and a player with the features I desired so I wrote
my own.  It is a work in progress, written in PHP, but quite functional at
this point.  It runs on both desktop machine (running XAMPP for web and
database servers) or on my Raspberry Pi (with mysql and nginx) and allows
search capabilities, playlist building, and plays over my wifi network.  All
the data and shows are on a single external hard drive.

It has been extremely time consuming to enter all the show, about 80,000,
into the database with show name, title, date, genre, play time, and other
fields but worth the effort.  One feature I wrote in that is extremely
helpful is the ability to build lists of shows to burn on CD.  For example, I
wanted to give a collection of westerns to a local western history club and I
searched for "westerns" by genre.  From the resulting list I click off check
boxes for shows I want to export and when the counter hits 700 megs I can
export those shows to a temporary directory, ready to burn.  No more
shuffling through stacks of discs, copy content file at a time.

I do have a demo of what I have done on my web site.  I don't have many of
the shows there but the software runs as if they are.  Search for
Gildersleeve to see how the player works as a few of those shows are there.
Ignore the login when you get there.

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On that first page you'll see a graph that I found interesting.  I wrote a
script that counted the shows in the database by year.  It seems I have more
shows from 1949 than other years and the graph, not surprisingly, is a bell.

Vince

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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:47:55 -0400
From: Rodney Bowcock <pasttense_78@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Aldrich Family syndication
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 Looking for information regarding the syndication of The Aldrich Family (in
the 70's, I assume).
List of shows that were part of the package etc would be appreciated.
Attempting to put together a log of existing shows with the hopes of weeding
out the many episodes that exist in both undated and edited and dated and
complete versions.
Thank you!
Rodney

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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:48:00 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 31 January to 6
 February

1/31

1936   The Green Hornet was introduced by its famous theme song, The
Flight of the Bumble Bee. The radio show was first heard on WXYZ in
Detroit, MI on this day. The show stayed on the air for 16 years. The
Green Hornet originated from the same radio station where The Lone
Ranger was performed. You may remember that the title character in The
Green Hornet was really named Britt Reid. He was, in fact, supposed to
be the great nephew of John Reid, the Lone Ranger. Both popular series
were created by George Trendle and Fran Striker.

2/2

1946   The Mutual Broadcasting System presented Twenty Questions for the
first time. Bill Slater was the master of ceremonies.

2/5

1931   Eddie Cantor's long radio career got underway as he appeared on
Rudy Vallee's The Fleischmann Hour.

1940   Amanda of Honeymoon Hill debuted. Joy Hathaway starred as 'the
beauty of flaming red hair'. The program stayed for six years on NBC.

2/6

1950   NBC first broadcast Dangerous Assignment. The show starred Brian
Donlevy in the role of soldier of fortune, Steve Mitchell.

Joe

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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:48:06 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Robbing the Dead

JIm Snyder sent me a recent Associate Press release which reflects that Himan
Brown's body may be mouldering in the grave, but his $ 100 million estate is
being gleefully spent by his last attorney.

Brown, one of radio's best known directors and producers, died in 2010 at the
age of 99, leaving an estate north of $ 100 million. In his original will, he
left the bulk of that enormous sum to an organization he founded in 1984 to
promote radio theater called Radio Drama Network, Inc. Several members of his
surviving families serve on its Board of Directors.

Alas, there was a second will, engineered by Brown's longtime lawyer, Richard
L. Kay. This created a new Himan Brown Charitable Trust and the bulk of the
estate went to this new organization. Guess who is the sole trustee of that
new group?  You're right:  Richard L. Kay.

Since Brown's death, Kay has given millions to organizations which are close
to him, but have no relation to Brown or radio. These include $ 3 million to
the 92nd St. YMCA, where Kay is on the Board of Directors. Over $ 1 million
went to Cornell University and another large sum to University of Michigan
Law School, both of which Kay graduated from which Brown had no connection.
To top it off, Kay forwarded a large sum to the Montessori School that his
grandchild attends.

Brown's relatives have filed a law suit charging that Kay got a very ill and
confused Brown to sign this new will and it should be revoked.

Stay tuned for further [removed]

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:48:25 -0400
From: Richard Carpenter <newsduck@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Remember WENN
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Remember "Remember WENN"? The New York Times does.

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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:48:32 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  February 2016 issue of RADIO RECALL

The PDF full-color version of RADIO RECALL just went out to subscribers on
Feb 1st. The hard-copy B & W version will be snail-mailed to the rest of the
MWOTRC subscriber base on or about Feb 13th.

Karl Schadow, our resident expert on the obscure, leads off with a history of
Bill Robson's (real) first series, "Conquerors of the Sky" which debuted back
in 1933. As the title would suggest, this radio program was all about airmen
of that era.

Another cherished OTR myth is destroyed by Dr. Donna L. Halper, who
conclusively proves that KDKA, despite Westinghouse's extensive publicity
campaign, was not the first radio station in the [removed]  Yes, we know that
every OTR reference book says it was, but repeating a lie doesn't make it so,
now does it?

We all know the story(ies) about how the Lone Ranger found Silver. In a nice
companion piece, Frank Morgan (no, not the Wizard of Oz, just a guy with the
same name) dips into WXYZ history, and with the help of Terry Salomonson,
tells us how Tonto found "Scout." Morgan includes portions of the original
radio script of this historic event.

John Abbott turns his writing table over to "Bulldog Drummond" and gives us
the complete history of that radio series, starting with the first story in
the Strand Magazine and the motion pictures that preceded it. John even has
some excerpts from the recorded disk that was played to potential advertisers
in the [removed]

Did you ever hear the words to the theme song of "Bobby Benson and the
B-Bar-B Riders"? Well, they have been uncovered and appear in this issue,
even though they were never actually used on the air. Jack Fox composed the
song in 1951 for this series, but his offer was never accepted. Now you can
see the words to the song, for the first time in print.

A "Easy---Not So Easy" Quiz also is in this issue, where the odd-numbered
questions (What radio series is the source of the expression, 'Comin' on like
Gang Busters'?) are easy as pie, while the even-numbered ones will have most
of you scratching your head (Which plane in Doolittle's squadron on the raid
on Japan in 1942 was named after a radio hero?)

Among the brief items, most of us recall "The Happiness Boys" but there were
many other two-somes singing and telling jokes on the radio in the 30s. How
about The Raybestos Twins, The Smith Brothers, and The Quaker Early Birds?

All this, plus Letters to the Editor, complete details on upcoming OTR
conventions, and the Editor discussing the February conclave in [removed] on Radio
Preservation, co-sponsored by Library of [removed] and open to the
public.

If you're worried about what you're missing, and want to sample articles from
past issues, or obtain membership information on MWOTRC, point your mouse at
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Jack French
Editor

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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:54:40 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Copy closing [removed]

Folks;

   Copy, the file-sharing system where I placed files for subscribers of the
Digest, is closing down May first. Other than being a little annoyed, I'm
also losing a chung of free storage space based in the [removed]

   I am looking for alternatives that don't involve reading Simplified
Chinese (I have terabytes of space on Chinese cloud storage systems like
Tencent, 360, etc., but it might be uncomfortable for some of our subscribers
to access) - if you have any suggestions of cloud storage places with more
than 2G of available space, feel free to drop me a line. I have created
accounts on many places and will be playing around with them to find
something simple for everyone to use, while being robust and hopefully not
closing their doors next year.  ;)

   Meantime, the programs (radio, television, etc.) are still there; if you
need help accessing the shared Copy folder while it's still alive for the
next few months, just drop me a note and I'll send directions.

         Charlie

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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:55:24 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Copy closing [removed]

Folks;

   Copy, the file-sharing system where I placed files for subscribers of the
Digest, is closing down May first. Other than being a little annoyed, I'm
also losing a chunk of free storage space based in the [removed]

   I am looking for alternatives that don't involve reading Simplified
Chinese (I have terabytes of space on Chinese cloud storage systems like
Tencent, 360, etc., but it might be uncomfortable for some of our subscribers
to access) - if you have any suggestions of cloud storage places with more
than 2G of available space, feel free to drop me a line. I have created
accounts on many places and will be playing around with them to find
something simple for everyone to use, while being robust and hopefully not
closing their doors next year.  ;)

   Meantime, the programs (radio, television, etc.) are still there; if you
need help accessing the shared Copy folder while it's still alive for the
next few months, just drop me a note and I'll send directions.

         Charlie

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