Subject: [removed] Digest V2002 #19
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 1/19/2002 9:03 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2002 : Issue 19
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Godfrey, Tea and Kazan                [ Bhob <bhob2@[removed]; ]
      Re: Bob and Ray and NPR               [ "Dave Walter" <fredallenfan@hotmail ]
      Godfrey and McNeil                    [ "Dave Walter" <fredallenfan@hotmail ]
      The Spider-Master of Men              [ Les Rayburn <les@[removed]; ]
      Vintage Microphones                   [ Les Rayburn <les@[removed]; ]
      Re: Wait'll you taste that layer cak  [ "Garry D. Lewis" <glewis@[removed] ]
      Re: The Other Woman in the Photograp  [ Gerry Wright <gdwright@[removed]; ]
      MP3 Files                             [ "daveclea" <daveclea@[removed]; ]
      William Conrad son                    [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
      Re: Barbara Bates                     [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
      Phil Harris CDs                       [ Roo61@[removed] (Randy Watts) ]
      Re: Arthur Godfrey                    [ Jer51473@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:09:58 -0500
    From: Bhob <bhob2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Godfrey, Tea and Kazan

    The Lipton's Tea/Godfrey connection to Elia Kazan and A FACE IN THE
    CROWD (1957) is not generally known. I wrote an article about this a few
    years ago: [removed]

    In fact, while gathering material for that article, I only found a
    single interview in which Kazan discussed the research he and Budd
    Schulberg made at the ad agency handling Lipton's Tea. (One wonders if
    Godfrey ever knew about Kazan's research at the time.)

    Bhob @ FUSEBOX @ [removed]

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    Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:41:08 -0500
    From: "Dave Walter" <fredallenfan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Re: Bob and Ray and NPR

    "Russ Butler" <oldradio@[removed]; writes:

>     Jeff Blanken posted a message the he listened to Bob and Ray on NPR, asking
>     about "Mr. Science" comedy sketches, and I understood him to say he
>     [removed]!   B&R were doing a show on NPR years ago (they also
>     did
>     sketches on NBC's "Monitor") - so are there reruns being aired on NPR
>     again?
>     And, if so, on *what* NPR program?

    I have two potentials on this one.

    First, Jeff may be hearing "Weekend Radio," which is a production of WCLV
    Cleveland and is heard in some parts of the [removed] on public radio stations.
    When that program was run on WNIB/WNIZ Chicago (prior to those stations'
    demise last year), it frequently contained old "Bob & Ray" and "Goon Show"
    clips.

    The other possibility is that Jeff is actually hearing "Ask Dr. Science," a
    satirical featurette produced by the comedy group Duck's Breath Mystery
    Theatre and distributed (last time I checked, anyway) by Public Radio
    International.

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    Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:37:33 -0500
    From: "Dave Walter" <fredallenfan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Godfrey and McNeil

    leemunsick@[removed] writes:

>     The end of his final broadcast segment concluded several weeks of
>     reminiscing about his more than four decades of broadcasting.  It signalled
>     the conclusion of the very last regular network entertainment program.  The
>     penultimate program to leave the air weeks before was Don McNeill's
>     Breakfast Club on ABC.

    Actually, there was a few years' gap between the final McNeil broadcast
    (December 1968) and Godfrey's (I don't have the exact date in front of me,
    but I believe it was January 1972). And, while Godfrey's was certainly the
    last entertainment program to date from the "golden age" on CBS, both "CBS
    Radio Mystery Theatre" and NBC's "Monitor" (which was a mixture of news and
    entertainment) lasted a few years past Godfrey's show ended. Steve Allen
    also had a short-lived revival of his radio show over NBC in the mid-'80s.

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    Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:37:50 -0500
    From: Les Rayburn <les@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: The Spider-Master of Men

    Recently, another pulp-OTR fan introduced me to the adventures of The Spider.
    Been reading pulps and reprints of this thrilling character ever since.

    Just wondering if there was ever a Spider pilot OTR program? I don't recall
    ever hearing of a series, but I thought a pilot episode might exist.

    Les Rayburn, director
    High Noon Film & Interactive

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    Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:38:27 -0500
    From: Les Rayburn <les@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Vintage Microphones

    I'm interested in getting a classic microphone of the type used on the air
    in the golden days for use with my amateur (ham) radio transceiver.
    Something like one of the old RCA 74B's or something of that ilk.

    I'll likely replace the capsule with a modern one, so it's not critical that
    it be working. Does someone on the list have an extra one in their
    collection they'd be willing to part with?

    73,

    Les Rayburn, N1LF

    Les Rayburn, director
    High Noon Film & Interactive

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    Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:00:04 -0500
    From: "Garry D. Lewis" <glewis@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Re: Wait'll you taste that layer [removed]

    I did a search on Amazon. com and got back lots of cds they sell of
    Phil Harris-

    His Original & Greatest Hits [IMPORT]
    The Thing About Phil Harris
    My Kind of Country
    ....ect.

    			yours Philed up,

    				Garry D. Lewis
     --
    got my Lone Ranger Cheerios last night at Albertsons.

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    Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:00:40 -0500
    From: Gerry Wright <gdwright@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Re: The Other Woman in the Photograph

    Dennis Crow who added much information to the Louella Parsons "Hollywood
    Hotel" photograph and suggested that the "other" woman in the photo
    might be Mayo Methot, Bogart's future wife.

    I checked the photographs of Mayo in the film "Marked Woman" and also
    from this time period and she has a very much shorter nose, and has a
    few more pounds than the women in the photograph.

    I also checked the Internet Movie Database for photographs of the
    principle players in the film and found these images of Jane Bryan at:

    <[removed],+Jane&source=mptv>

    The actors, in Marked Women as listed in credits order were Bette Davis,
    Humphrey Bogart, Jane Bryan, and Eduardo Ciannelli, so I assume that the
    "other" women is Jane Brayn.

    Gerry Wright
    ZoneZebra Productions
    San Francisco

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    Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:00:51 -0500
    From: "daveclea" <daveclea@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject: MP3 Files

    At the suggestion of our ListMaster I located the Newsgroup
    "[removed]" and found a number of apparent MP3 files
    which display as "corrupted" text.  I cannot find a way to access these
    files with my "Real Audio" MP3 player.
    Any ideas?

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    Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:48:35 -0500
    From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject: William Conrad son

    William Conrad son Christopher will be heard this Sunday on YUSA.  This is a
    CD play back rather than live interview.  Take care,

    Walden

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    Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:49:03 -0500
    From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject: Re: Barbara Bates

    Hello, again --
    I was watching Mickey Rooney in QUICKSAND the other night and was attracted
    to his "sometime" girl friend played by Barbara Bates. I became more
    interested in her when I learned that she had only a very few years as an
    ingenue -- her best remembered scene is near the end of ALL ABOUT EVE, when
    she makes a brief appearance as the ambitious admirer of actress Anne Baxter
    in the same way as Anne had played the fan of Bette Davis throughout the
    rest of the movie --- and that she later killed herself (carbon monocide
    poisoning) at the age of 43 shortly after her husband died.
    Which, at long last, brings me to my question:
    Does anyone know of any radio appearances that Barbara Bates made during her
    short career? The internet yielded nothing, but perhaps I wasn't going about
    looking her name up the right way.
    In appreciation for any leads anyone can give me --
    Jan Bach

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    Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:14:18 -0500
    From: Roo61@[removed] (Randy Watts)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Phil Harris CDs

>     Anyone out there know of a CD of Phil Harris songs that are availabe? I've been
>     listening to lots of Harris-Faye shows lately, and I really enjoy his songs.

    [removed] has a couple of Harris CDs.  One contains
    1930s-era radio recordings featuring his big band.  The other is drawn
    from his late 1940s-early 1950s RCA Victor catalogue.

    Randy

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    Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:36:37 -0500
    From: Jer51473@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject: Re: Arthur Godfrey

     I cant believe the comments of how hated he was. The hate must have been by
    the people in the industry and not the public. If eighty million people were
    tuning in, not many were left that hated him as im sure they wouldnt tune in.
    Children, of course, wouldnt be expected to listen or watch. I personally
    cannot recall anyone in my area speaking ill of him, everyone, or most
    everyone, seemed to admire him.  Question-- what was the name of his favorite
    horse that appeared with him several times on tv? He raise4d horses and had
    many.

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