Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #25
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Date: 1/22/2007 9:10 AM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 25
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Greatest OTR Loss                     [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  1-22 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  "Quiet Please," Walter Tetley         [ crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow) ]
  digitizing turntables                 [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]
  The 70th anniversary                  [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  re: OTR on vinyl                      [ Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed]; ]
  A bit more on Arthur Godfrey          [ Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed]; ]
  lost OTR                              [ John Ruklick <ruklick55@[removed]; ]
  Here's another on Phil and Alice.     [ Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed]; ]
  Greatest Loss                         [ "JLF" <jlf@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:16:48 -0500
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Greatest OTR Loss

On Saturday, January 20, 2007, at 04:56 PM, Ryan wrote:

I'm wondering what readers of this Digest feel has
been the greatest loss to today's OTR fans in regards
to an entire series or large block of a series.

I've been reading the many responses to Ryan's opening thread and most
of them are along the lines of: "Gosh, there are only a hundred
surviving audio copies of such-and-such a series: I sure wish we had
all 20 years of this great series."

I lament for a great series of which there are NO surviving
[removed] audios, no scripts, nada, nothing. It was probably Arlene
Francis' finest dramatic series, but we may never know, since nothing
tangible has survived of her "Affairs of Ann Scotland." This half-hour
female crime-solver show aired on ABC Wednesday nights in prime time
from Oct 1946 to October 1947.

As I pointed out in my book, "Private Eyelashes: Radio's Lady
Detectives" this series was unique in radio history since it was the
only crime show whose driving force was three women: Arlene as the
star, Helen Mack as the director, and Barbara Owens as the script
writer.

Last September, Jim Cox put me in touch with Peter Gabel, Arlene's son
and executor of her estate. Mr. Gabel was very cordial to me, but like
all the other sources I've checked with, Arlene's family has no audio
copies, no scripts, no [removed] "Affairs of Ann Scotland."

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
<[removed]>

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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:17:04 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-22 births/deaths

January 22nd births

01-22-1872 - Beatrice Fairfax - Washington, [removed] - d. 11-28-1945
writer: "Advice to the Lovelorn"
01-22-1875 - D. W. Griffith - La Grange, KY - d. 7-23-1948
movie producer-director: "Brooklyn Mark Strand Stage and Studio Program"
01-22-1878 - Constance Collier - Windsor, Berkshire, England - d.
4-25-1955
actor: Jessie Atwood "Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy"
01-22-1893 - Conrad Veidt - Potsdam, Germany - d. 4-3-1943
actor: "Free World Theatre"
01-22-1893 - Fulton Oursler - Baltimore, MD - d. 5-24-1952
writer: "The Greatest Story Ever Told"; "Thatcher Colt Mysteries"
01-22-1894 - Rosa Ponselle - Meriden, CT - d. 5-25-1981
opera soprano: "Atwater Kent Hour"; "Metropolitan Opera"
01-22-1895 - Ethel (Everett) Remey - d. 2-xx-1979
actor: Kathleen Norris "By Kathleen Norris"
01-22-1897- Linda Carlon - Stuttgart, Germany - d. 6-xx-1985
actor: Mary Sothern "Life of Mary Sothern"
01-22-1899 - Anne Elstner - Lake Charles, LA - d. 1-29-1981
actor: Stella Dallas "Stella Dallas"; Mary Weston "Wilderness Road"
01-22-1907 - Douglas 'Wrong-Way' Corrigan - Galveston, TX - d. 12-9-1995
intrepid pilot: "Believe It or Not"
01-22-1909 - Ann Sothern - Valley City, ND - d. 3-15-2001
actor: Maisie Revere "Maisie"
01-22-1911 - Arnold Robertson - Chicago, IL - d. 7-xx-1969
comedian: Ed Potts "Scattergood Baines"; Dr. Jensen "This Is Nora Drake"
01-22-1914 - Joy Hodges - Des Moines, IA - d. 1-19-2003
vocalist; "The Joe Penner Show"
01-22-1916 - Howard Teichmann - Chicago, IL - d. 7-7-1987
writer: "Road of Life"; "Theatre USA"; "Valiant Lady"
01-22-1920 - William Warfield - West Helena, AR - d. 8-25-2002
bass-baritone singer: "Edgar Bergen Show"; "Beyond Victory"
01-22-1924 - J. J. Johnson - d. 2-4-2001
jazz trombonist: "Arthur Godfrey Show"; "One Night Stand"
01-22-1932 - Piper Laurie - Detroit, MI
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "NBC Radio Theatre"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
01-22-1934 - Bill Bixby - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-21-1993
actor: "We Hold These Truths"
01-22-1935 - Dave Holland - Raleigh, NC - d. 11-14-2005
author: "From Out of the Past: A Pictorial History of the Lone Ranger"

January 22nd deaths

01-21-1922 - Telly Savalas - Garden City, NY - d. 1-22-1994
actor: "[removed] Story"
01-29-1913 - Daniel Taradash - Louisville, KY - d. 1-22-2003
film writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
02-10-1892 - Alan Hale, Sr. - Washington, [removed] - d. 1-22-1950
actor:"Lux Radio Theatre"
03-02-1905 - Marc Blitzstein - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-22-1964
author: "Mercury Theatre On the Air"
03-03-1911 - Henry Gladstone - Boston, MA - d. 1-22-1995
announcer: "White Owl Reporter"
04-10-1911 - Victor Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 1-22-1994
musician: (Guy Lombardo's Orchestra) "Lady Esther Serenade"
04-12-1919 - Ann Miller - Chireno, TX - d. 1-22-2004
dancer, actor: "Forecast"; "Hollywood Hotel"
05-23-1890 - Herbert Marshall - London, England - d. 1-22-1966
actor: Ken Thurston "Man Called X"
06-23-1895 - Pick Malone - nr. Dallas, TX - d. 1-22-1962
comedian:"Show Boat"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
07-21-1901 - Allyn Joslyn - Milford, PA - d. 1-22-1981
actor: "Island Boat Club"; "Page of Romance"; "Show Boat"
08-21-1916 - Consuelo Velazquez - Ciudad Guzman, Mexico - d. 1-22-2005
songwriter: (Besame Mucho) Oversaw classical music programs for
station XEQ
08-27-1908 - Lyndon Baines Johnson - nr. Stonewall, TX - d. 1-22-1973
[removed] president: "Meet the Press"; "World's Fair Holiday"
09-10-1879 - Jess Pugh - Andersonville, IN - d. 1-22-1962
actor: Scattergood Baines, "Scattergood Baines"
10-22-1891 - Parker Fennelly - Northeast Harbor, ME - d. 1-22-1988
actor: Titus Moody, "Fred Allen Show"; Dan Tucker, "Lawyer Dan Tucker"
10-28-1908 - David LeWinter - NYC - d. 1-22-1976
orchestra leader: Late night dance band remotes
11-05-1933 - Donald Madden - NYC - d. 1-22-1983
actor: "Let's Pretend"
11-10-1916 - Billy May - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-22-2004
orchestra leader: "Music Depreciation"; "Stan Freberg Show"
12-07-1920 - Frances Gifford - Long Beach, CA - d. 1-22-1994
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"

Ron Sayles

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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:33:40 -0500
From: crow8164@[removed] (Dennis Crow)
To: [removed]@[removed] (Old Time Radio Digest)
Subject:  "Quiet Please," Walter Tetley

I'd like to address two subjects if I may.

First, I would like to thank the several people who wrote so eloquently about
"The Thing on the Fourble Board," a QUIET PLEASE episode I had never fully
appreciated.  I listened anew to  the show, finding more premonitory shudders
than I discovered originally, including a truly terrifying narrative.  I have
concluded that what distracted me  was the early, detailed discussion of oil
drilling and its related paraphernalia. I then absorbed only scattered images
of what followed, not ever completely seeing the story in a comprehensible,
linear manner.  In short, I had stopped listening after about the first ten
minutes of "The Thing on the Fourble Board."   I am glad the intelligent
responses caused me to reconsider the episode.

Secondly, Wikipedia continues to suggest Walter Tetley as the voice actor who
created the character of "Jimmy Barton" in THE CINNAMON BEAR.   I have never
taken that information  seriously because there is no evidence to support it.
However, I am wondering if Digest posters would like to weigh in on this
matter.  Tetley didn't come to Hollywood, according to Wikipedia, until 1938
and CB was recorded in 1937.  Tetley was very busy at the time, and would
have been skilled enough at portraying Jimmy.  I haven't read Ben Ohmart's
book on Walter Tetley, but it evidently includes a list of the  actor's
known radio work.

If you Tetley fans have  any thoughts on the subject,  I'd love to have you
share them.

Dennis Crow

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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:34:24 -0500
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  digitizing turntables

[removed];en=bd2752241b74b5f3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Thank you for this.

I found it interesting that the audiophile remains undaunted still:

"We couldn't tell for sure which was the LP and which was the CD, although 
many experts probably could. "Any digitization process imposes limits on 
quality," said Mark Schubin, a media technology consultant in Manhattan. "Be 
prepared: it won't sound the same as you heard it through your analog system 
when you were playing back the record.""

Limits on quality, indeed, like you're going to hear 128-bit resolution.  
The technology is just amazing.

M Kinsler

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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:38:30 -0500
From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

Hi Friends,

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Episode 25    5-19-51    "Salute To Boston"
Honoring Tom Heathwood's home town
NBC/WMAQ SUSTAINING
MUSIC: Joseph Gallicchio and the NBC ORCHESTRA Announcer: Henry Cook

THE JOHNSON'S WAX PROGRAM
Episode 1    6-30-42    "Introductions"
NBC JOHNSON'S WAX
Featuring: Meredith Wilson, John Nesbit, Connie Haines, Bob Carroll

THAT'S MY POP
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==================================

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THE ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF THE AIR
CBS    2/29/36
One of a few of the Second series of the show Starring: James Melton and
Fanny Brice.

THE CHALLENGE OF THE YUKON
Michigan Radio Network Pre-ABC/MBS runs. Mid-40's Probably 7/10/45 - Jay
Michael in "Caught By a Button"

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THE GLOWING DIAL

 Fibber McGee and Molly - "Gildersleeve's Diary"
originally aired October 22, 1940 on NBC
Starring: Jim and Marian Jordan, Harold Peary, Isabel Randolph, Bill
Thompson, Harlow Wilcox announcing.
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

Fibber McGee and Molly - "Enter Beulah"
originally aired January 25, 1944 on NBC
Starring: Jim and Marian Jordan, Marlin Hurt, Arthur Q. Bryan, Shirley
Mitchell, Ransom Sherman, Harlow Wilcox announcing.
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

Fibber McGee and Molly - "Off To Hollywood"
originally aired June 24, 1941 on NBC
Starring: Jim and Marian Jordan, Harold Peary, Isabel Randolph, Bill
Thompson, Gale Gordon, Harlow Wilcox announcing.
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

Screen Guild Theater - "Heavenly Days"
originally aired February 10, 1947 on NBC
Starring: Jim and Marian Jordan, Bill Johnstone, John Brown, Truman Bradley
announcing.
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==================================

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     The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:38:57 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The 70th anniversary

It turns out there is an observance of The Guiding Light's 70th anniversary
planned.  Beginning Jan. 22 and supposedly continuing for a year, the show
will commemorate the milestone in various ways, including a week-long assist
by cast members this week in Biloxi, Miss. helping Katrina victims.  I'm
indebted to John Leasure for passing along the information.  See
[removed] for more.

Jim Cox

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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:39:35 -0500
From: Joseph Webb <drjoewebb@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  re: OTR on vinyl

I have the Ion turntable as mentioned in the NY Times article and was quite
surprised with how easy it was to use and how well it works.

If recording multi-song LP sides, you can record @ 45rpm and have Audacity
convert it to 33-1/3, which saves some time. You then have to select each
song and and make separate MP3 or whatever format files you want. So it helps
to be familiar with sound processing software before you get one. Audacity
comes with it, along with one of those stripped-down CD-making software
packages.

I got mine through [removed] The unit is pretty popular, and prices can be
as much as $30 more here or there, so you might want to use [removed]
to find the best deal for the day.

Regards to all
Joe Webb

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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:40:11 -0500
From: Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  A bit more on Arthur Godfrey

Andrew Godfrey writes in the OTR Digest for January 20th, 2007:

  Another loss is the very few Arthur Godfrey shows that still are
available
for listening. After being on the air for 27 years only a little
over 50
exist and think some of those are the Talent Scout shows.
  Andrew Godfrey

Well, Andrew, all is not lost. There are over 100 Arthur Godfrey
shows stored at the UCLA radio archives.
Back in the 1980s, I helped the UCLA Archives to catalog the shows.
All of them were CBS original network
discs. OK, now comes the sad part. The UCLA Radio Archives has been
shut down now for about 7 years.
Part of the reason has to do with some "intrigue" and thievery with
the archivist at the time. In order to get
rid of the archivist, UCLA had to find some way to "displace" him
(read get-rid-of) and that meant
shutting down the archives to do it. It is possible, if you get to
Los Angeles, to visit the radio archives and see
if they will at least allow you to make a list of show dates and even
listen to a few of the Godfrey shows.

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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:40:36 -0500
From: John Ruklick <ruklick55@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  lost OTR
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Wow. EVERYBODY had GREAT answers. There were shows mentioned I had forgot
about (the early Shadow where he was a narrator) or did not even know about
(Old Gold on Broadway, Dodge victory Hour, [removed])
     This is just so sad.
      The ones that we all would truely love to hear were all mentioned: Oh
man, how I would LOVE to hear the early run of Lights Out by Willis Reed. I
would literally cut off my left arm. NO JOKE.
  Mr, Chamelian! ABSOLUTELY!
  The Sea Hound (EXCELLENT writing)
  Doc Savage! (TRUE Entertainment)
  The Thin Man (One of my ALL TIME FAVORITES!!!!!!)
  early (or any lost) Lights Out.
  Fred Allen (what a GENIUSS)
      I think those of us in this group who have and appreciate what is left
of old time radio can see what GARBAGE is produced for television today.
There are a few good shows on HBO and Showtime, but wasn't "cable [removed]"
supposed to be commercial free? I know, topic for another [removed]
      Let me end this email by listing a few shows that we are BLESSED to
have and that did [removed] on 100 years:
  Jack benny (my first episode is from 1932. We are BLESSED!)
  Boston Blacky (ok, so it wasn't the best written show, but we have a ton
and they succeed in entertaining)
  Suspence (had this one not survived, it would be on the top of EVERYONE's
list of 'wish it would have survived. We're BLESSED)
  Inner sanctum (were missing maybe 80%, but to have 150 shows is a BLESSING)
  Phillip Marlow (even tho NOT actually written by R. Chandler, I'd bet we
would miss them if wer didn't have them)
  Escape
      and finally, a few more shows I would cut my other arm off to have:
  Mysterious Traveler
  Death Valley Days
  EARLY Falcone
  EARLY Nero Wolf
  Mr. District
Attorney******************!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
   Do we have ALL the Haunting Hour's? A VERY underrated show
  The Clock
  Finally, WAY TOO bad that James Stewart chose not to do another season of
the 6 Shooter, though I completely understand his reasoning. What a STAND UP
GUY! One of the top 5 greatest actors, EVER!

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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:41:40 -0500
From: Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Here's another on Phil and Alice.

Wow! I'm running a little behind reading the OTR Digest. Here's a bit
more info on Phil Harris and
Alice Faye. I mention this because John Ruklick wrote:

 the Phil &
Alice show. Hundreds of those are long lost and (especially the
early ones)
it also had some of the great writing and timing that the Benny
show had.

I have to correct this--- When Phil Harris and Alice Faye were doing
their radio show (The Fitch
Bandwagon and The Phil Harris/Alice Faye show) Alice had copies of
every show recorded and
she had them stored weekly at their agents office. So, even though
there are not that many
Harris/Faye shows available, there are 100s stored away someplace. I
wish I knew who their
show business agent is. Since the show was dropped back in the 50s,
it would be hard to track down the agent,
if he's still alive. I should take the time to research this out, but
I'm very busy working on
some projects at present. Perhaps others could track this down and
see if (through begging,
borrowing or you know what) the shows could be released. If they are
obtainable, I would be more
that happy to record the discs to CDs. Been doing dubbing since 1970
and have a rep for getting
full fidelity/little to no noise out of discs.
One other point: One time, on Nostalgia Night at PPB, we had as
guests Ray Singer and Dick Chevillat,
the writers of the show. Singer commented that the character Phil
played on Jack Benny's show was a
boozer/jokester type. However, when the Phil Harris/Alice Faye show
was spun off of Jack Benny's show,
the sponsor and the network felt that Phil should drop the boozer
character -- especially since Phil and
Alice had their children on the show. Well, not wishing to loose the
fun that could be obtained by milking
the boozey jokes, it was decided to switch all that from Phil to
Frankie Remley. The sponsor and the
network approved of the switch. And that's how Phil became more
"respectable" but still funny on his own
show.

Ken Greenwald

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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:32:01 -0500
From: "JLF" <jlf@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Greatest Loss

I concur with "The Fat Man" and would add the Ovaltine run of
"capptaaaainnnn Middddniiiiigghhhtttt" - late 40's. I've heard that someone
in the Puget Sound area has the transcriptions (Seattle was kind of the end
of the line for the mailing of transcriptions). Get out your 1948 [removed]
6 - 18 - 10 etc!!!!!!!!

JLF

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