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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2007 : Issue 87
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Meatier biographies [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
Another Title Needed [ "RyanO" <rosentowski@[removed]; ]
My Old-time Radio Show on the Intern [ "RyanO" <rosentowski@[removed]; ]
Inner Sanctum [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
Re: Betty Hutton [ Steve Salaba <dangerdanger@sbcgloba ]
Tinny sound [ Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed]; ]
One Man's Family [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed] ]
3-18 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
why mp3 or even wave [ "EDWARD CARR" <edcarr@[removed]; ]
Truth or Consequences [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
Jack Benny Program in Scranton, PA [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:01:55 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Meatier biographies
You'll likely not find extensive profiles for the following personalities
beyond pithy mentions when you look for them, and certainly not all in one
place:
Pierre Andre
H. R. Baukhage
Jackson Beck
Truman Bradley
Donald Briggs
Norman Brokenshire
Winston Burdett
Ned Calmer
Nelson Case
Jack Costello
Bill Cullen
John Charles Daly
Kenny Delmar
Galen Drake
Douglas Edwards
Fielden Farrington
George Fenneman
Pauline Frederick
Frank Gallop
Joe Garagiola
Art Gilmore
Sheilah Graham
Ben Grauer
Richard C. Harkness
Gabriel Heatter
Hedda Hopper
Chet Huntley
H. V. Kaltenborn
Alan Kent
Dorothy Kilgallen
John Reed King
Durward Kirby
Frank Knight
Harry Kramer
Charles Kuralt
Jack Lescoulie
Larry Lesueur
Fulton Lewis Jr.
John Lund
Franklyn MacCormack
Tony Marvin
Mary Margaret McBride
Graham McNamee
Marvin Miller
Henry Morgan
Jack Narz
Frank Nelson
Johnny Olsen
Santos Ortega
Charles Osgood
Bert Parks
Louella Parsons
Drew Pearson
George Putnam
Alan Reed (Teddy Bergman)
Phil Rizzuto
Ken Roberts
Daniel Schorr
Eric Sevareid
Dan Seymour
Del Sharbutt
Howard K. Smith
Richard Stark
John Cameron Swayze
Harry Von Zell
Dwight Weist
Walter Winchell
Now there's a way to find them all in one convenient spot, and with meatier
biographies on those figures plus more than 500 others. They're all in
"Radio Speakers: Narrators, News Junkies, Sports Jockeys, Tattletales,
Tipsters, Toastmasters and Coffee Klatch Couples Who Verbalized the Jargon
of the Aural Ether from the 1920s to the 1980s--A Biographical Dictionary"
by Jim Cox, with investigative support by Claire Connelly, Derek Tague and
Jim Widner.
It's a thoroughly researched collection, just released, that you'll not
simply reach for once but refer to again and again in the years ahead. This
360-page hardbound volume identifies another 600 obscure radio voices and a
28-page three-column index helps you find whatever you're seeking quickly.
The amount of information you'll discover is a "find" for a compilation of
this nature. More than mere facts, there's an extraordinary number of
anecdotes about the personal lives of the people represented within its
pages.
You may order "Radio Speakers" now at $55 from [removed] or call
800-253-2187 (M-F, daytime). It's a treasure chest you'll learn from now
and continue to enjoy forever.
Jim Cox
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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:27:26 -0400
From: "RyanO" <rosentowski@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Another Title Needed
Hi all. Though I didn't find out about the Night Beat episode, many were
very helpful to me in finding the Inner Sanctum show I was looking for.
Now, I'd like to test the metal of the group again. I'm looking for an
episode of Have Gun, Will Travel. I don't remember a lot of the details;
Paladin goes after a killer played, of course, by Larry Dobkin. He catches
him and is bringing him back, when Paladin has some kind of accident and the
killer helps him out. The two of them kind of bond over this, but the killer
won't let himself be taken in for hanging, so the two end up having a
gunfight outside the killer's home. I remember the gunfight because Paladin
and the killer waited for a drop of water to drip off of the well pump as
their cue to shoot. There's no question, of course, who wins.
Any help would be appreciated.
RyanO
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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:27:41 -0400
From: "RyanO" <rosentowski@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: My Old-time Radio Show on the Internet
Hello all. I wanted to spread the word about my new old-time radio program.
Turn your browsers to
[removed]
On Sunday evenings from 11:00 PM to 3:00 AM EST. I play the best in old
radio drama from the likes of The Shadow, Gunsmoke, Dragnet, X-Minus One,
The Lone Ranger, Johnny Dollar, The Whistler and much more.
The site is easy to navigate and listening requires only a click of a link.
Hope you'll join me on Sundays.
RyanO
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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:28:16 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Inner Sanctum
Someone asked about:
On the set is an AFRS version of the Judas Clock. The announcer states that
the story is the Judas Clock, but in the body of the story, the clock is
referred to as Cleopatra's Clock. As in the April 17th version of the Judas
Clock, the story stars Berry Kruger. I couldn't find the episode in any
logs, though I may have been overlooking it. I was wondering what the date
of the broadcast was? Thanks in advance.
The Cleopatra Clock was an episode recorded specifically for the AFRS with a
similar cast, and using the same script. Why the title of the script was
retitled is not certain (though Himan Brown did reuse scripts more than once
on that series and did often retitle some of them) but it was recorded for
AFRS rebroadcast and never aired in the [removed] which is why you cannot find it
listed in any episode guides, on-line or published.
Martin
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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:29:20 -0400
From: Steve Salaba <dangerdanger@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Betty Hutton
Martin Grams, Jr. writes:
For anyone attending the Cincinnati OTR Convention, Friday morning there
will be an hour-long film showing of OTR-related short films and one of them
is COMMAND [removed] Among the guests you will see Betty Hutton singing
and dancing.
Is this her performance of "Murder, He Says"? I love that bit! This
is probably one of those films that is not available on video - darn
it!
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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:05:41 -0400
From: Ken Greenwald <radio@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Tinny sound
Hello!
Travis asked me on the Digest:
Ken, what kind of phone lines would a small Mutual station have
used? Take
the '52 ILAMs in circulation, for example - they're pretty tinny.
Would
that have been a CCC?
To the best of my knowledge (and anyone can correct me if I am wrong)
this would be my answer:
Almost all small radio stations had at least one A line. Some
additionally had a B line. But an A line
would at least give the station decent sound up to 10,000 cycles. I
am not talking about broadcasting
here, just having an A line to record ETs. Engineers, back then as
well as now, are always conscious
of wanting the best fidelity they can obtain, at least within the
stations budget.
Which brings us to the 52 circulating ILAM radio shows. Yes, they are
pretty tinny sounding, but not
because they were recorded with CCC lines. No, the original ETs
recorded by Mutual, and the
additional ETs that may have been recorded by individual stations
would be in full fidelity. That
means at least an A line. Nothing less.
Someone had to dub the ILAM shows onto tape from the original ETs.
Then a copy of that was
made. Then a copy from that copy. Then another copy of the copy of
the copy ---- you get the
picture. The copies of the ILAM shows that are circulating are far
from the original ETs.
Everyone who makes a copy from a copy hears sound a little bit
differently. That "hearing
sound" has more to do with the speakers and amplifiers than with
human hearing. So, along
with just copying from a copy, some copies were made with equalizers,
based on the "sound"
of the speakers. Most people don't technically equalize the speakers
for their environment.
Most people purchase speakers because "it sure sounds good to me."
Thus, in copying a radio
show from a radio show copy, the average person (that's you and me)
doesn't bother to "adjust"
the sound of the new copy to take into consideration tape hiss, loss
of high end, low end and
overemphasis of midrange. Because of this, many shows that we listen
to are far from the high
fidelity that can be obtained directly from the original ETs.
That, I suspect, is the reason so many copies of radio shows sound
tinny, muffled, bassy and
just plain bad. I believe that accounts for the "tinny" sound of the
ILAM shows.
However, Travis, I have yet to see (in my presence) an original ILAM
ET or even see an original
ILAM ET in someone else's hands. Every copy of ILAM I have ever heard
is many generations
away from the original ETS. And every copy I have heard leaves a lot
to be desired.
(As an aside, I know much of the story behind the ILAM ETs. I'll be
glad to tell about it in an upcoming
issue of the OTR Digest.)
Hope this helps, Travis!
Any other opinions on this? Anything to add? I'd love to learn more
from others.
Ken Greenwald
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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:16:27 -0400
From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: One Man's Family
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Does anyone know when Book 90, Chapter 25 aired? There is not a good log for
this show available on the internet.
Thanks.
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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:16:37 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 3-18 births/deaths
March 18th births
03-18-1860 - William Jennings Bryan - Salem, IL - d. 7-26-1925
lawyer: Scopes Monkey trial
03-18-1869 - Neville Chamberlain - Birmingham, England - d. 11-9-1940
inept british prime minister: "peace for our time"
03-18-1886 - Edward Everett Horton - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-30-1970
actor, host: "Shell Chateau"; "Kraft Music Hall"
03-18-1889 - Gene Byrnes - NYC - d. 7-26-1974
comic strip cartoonist: "Reg'lar Fellers" based on his comic strip
03-18-1893 - George Olsen - Portland, OR - d. 3-18-1971
bandleader: "Jack Benny Program"; "Royal Gelatin Revue"
03-18-1902 - Doris Dalton - Sharon, MA - d. 9-16-1984
actor: Voice of Romance "Romance"; "One Foot in Heaven"
03-18-1905 - Robert Donat - Manchester, England - d. 6-9-1958
actor, poetry reader: "Justice"; "Monte Carlo"; "Reader of Poetry";
[removed] Steel Hour"
03-18-1911 - Audrey Marsh - NYC
actor: Esther " Harve and Esther"
03-18-1911 - Deane Kincaide - Houston, TX - d. 8-14-1992
saxophonist: "The Bob Crosby Show"
03-18-1911 - Rex Koury - London, England
orgainst, composere: "Gunsmoke"; "Abbott and Costello's Kid Show"
03-18-1911 - Smiley Burnette - Summum, IL - d. 2-16-1967
host, comedian: "Smiley Burnette Show"; "Hollywood Hotel"
03-18-1912 - Art Gilmore - Tacoma, WA
announcer: "Dr. Christian"; "Amos 'n' Andy"
03-18-1914 - Ben Gage - Chicago, IL - d. 4-28-1978
actor: Jimmy Gale "Modern Cinderella"
03-18-1916 - Jody Gilbert - Fort Worth, TX - d. 2-3-1979
actor: Rosa "Life with Luigi"
03-18-1926 - Peter Graves -Minneapolis, MN
actor: "Arthur Hopkins Presents"
03-18-1940 - Phil Harper - Raised in Chicago, IL - d. 10-11-2004
actor: Harry Nile "The Adventures of Harry Nile"
March 18th deaths
01-14-1917 - Billy Butterfield - Middleton, OH - d. 3-18-1988
bandleader: "The Dixieland Music Shop"; "Eddie Condon"s Jazz Concert"
02-09-1892 - Peggy Wood - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-18-1978
actor: "NBC Present Eugene O'Neill"; "Great Scenes from Great Plays"; "
02-14-1904 - Jessica Dragonette - Calcutta, India - d. 3-18-1980
singer: (Queen of Radio) "Philco Hour Theatre of Memories"
03-18-1893 - George Olsen - Portland, OR - d. 3-18-1971
bandleader: "Jack Benny Program"; "Royal Gelatin Revue"
03-20-1890 - Lauritz Melchior - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 3-18-1973
singer: "Magic Key"; "Metropolitan Opera"; "Voice of Firestone"
07-04-1901 - Adelaide Klein - NYC - d. 3-18-1983
actor: Mrs. S. Kent Wentworth "Life Can Be Beautiful"; Dragon Lady
"Terry and the Pirates"
08-06-1925 - Barbara Bates - Denver, CO - d. 3-18-1969
writer: "Just Plain Bill"; "Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons"
09-04-1895 - Jack Miller - Dorchester, MA - d. 3-18-1985
conductor: "Kate Smith and Her Swanee Music"; "Aldrich Family"
10-01-1893 - Faith Baldwin - d. 3-18-1978
novelist: Guest on "The Second Mrs. Burton"
11-02-1906 - Peggy Conklin - Dobbs Ferry, NY - d. 3-18-2003
actor: Kitty Archer "McGarry and His Mouse"; Barbara 'Babs' Riley
"Life of Riley"
11-10-1918 - Jack McCoy - Akron, OH - d. 3-18-1991
announcer: "Steve Allen Show"; "Dinah Shore Show"
12-17-1930 - Bill Beutel - Cleveland, OH - d. 3-18-2006
news reporter: "New York 1960"
12-26-1924- Jimmy Blaine - Greenville, TX - d. 3-18-1967
announcer: "Lannie Ross Show"; "Ladies Be Seated"
12-27-1896 - Louis Bromfield - Mansfield, OH - d. 3-18-1956
author: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
Ron Sayles
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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:59:07 -0400
From: "EDWARD CARR" <edcarr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: why mp3 or even wave
good evening
i know it was brought up once before,but i can't help
but bring it up again, with cd as low as 10cents ea
i just bought 500 awhile back, imations, not a bad
cd, what is the reason for mp3 anyway?
don't you get your self in to trouble cramming?
for my self i prefer 60min straight audio 2-30min
4-15min or 1-60min, even shows done in wave
form it's a pain in the --- to convert just one more
step, remember this is my personell liking.
edcarr@[removed]
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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:55:46 -0400
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Truth or Consequences
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:01:31 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
1940 - Truth or Consequences was first heard on radio. The Ralph
Edwards-produced program was hosted by Mr. Edwards. The show was
originally heard on only four CBS stations. Later, NBC picked up the
show where it eventually became the most popular of all radio quiz
shows.
Truth or Consequences was never really a quiz show, it was a stunt
show, more like People are Funny. The gimmick was that the
"contestants" had to answer a question, and if they failed to answer
it correctly, they had to pay the consequences. But the question
wasn't the kind of factual question that you would expect in a quiz
show, it was a dumb riddle. Here are a couple of examples that I
remember:
Q. What is the similarity between an elephant and a clam?
A. Neither can ride a bicycle.
Q. What do a a man filling out his tax return and a girl preparing to
go to the beach have in common?
A. They both take off as much as the law will allow.
I even remember one show (on TV in the mid-1950s, when Bob Barker was
the host), where the contestant actually answered the question
correctly. He didn't win a prize, Bob Barker said he got a signal
from the control room that he had asked the wrong question and asked
another.
The consequence was so certain that often the host (Jack Bailey, when
I first saw the show, and later Bob Barker) would let the audience in
on what the contestant wasn't going to be told about his or her
consequence even before the contestant came onstage to be asked a
question.
--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed] [removed]
15 Court Square, Suite 210 Fax [removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2503 [removed]
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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:56:09 -0400
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Jack Benny Program in Scranton, PA
The Old Forge High School Class of 1940 in Scranton, PA is including an
"hour long" Jack Benny radio show as part of its upcoming reunion.
Did Jack ever do hour-long shows on the radio? Or do we think they are
playing two shows together?
Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]
[removed];BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=416046&rfi=6
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