Subject: [removed] Digest V2002 #333
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Date: 8/23/2002 7:52 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2002 : Issue 333
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Another Petrillo joke                 [ Lanny Gilbert <morsefan1@[removed]; ]
      re: Walter [removed] Happened?     [ bloodbleeds@[removed] ]
      Michael Gwynne's postings             [ Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed] ]
      Beemer announces                      [ "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@earthli ]
      Sound Effects and the Like            [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
      RCA Logo, and ...                     [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]
      Car sound effects                     [ leemunsick@[removed] ]
      Announcer BRACE BEEMER                [ SanctumOTR@[removed] ]
      Brace Beemer as Lone Ranger announce  [ Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed]; ]
      Mighty Memory Mobile?                 [ dltnkt@[removed] (Dennis/Nancy Town ]
      Big Broadcast (s)                     [ zbob@[removed] ]
      Picture of "Nipper"                   [ "jay ranellucci" <jayran33@hotmail. ]
      I love to singa -Owl Jolson Cartton   [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Jack Benny Question                   [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      I'll repeat the question              [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
      "My, My!"                             [ Derek Tague <derek@[removed]; ]
      Fibber & Molly Commercials            [ "welsa" <welsa@[removed]; ]
      Wings of Destiny                      [ Jerry <xfyles@[removed]; ]
      Harry Mackenzie                       [ "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@earthli ]

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    Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:25:48 -0400
    From: Lanny Gilbert <morsefan1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Another Petrillo joke

    I was listening to a Lum and Abner program from November 1946. In this
    program, Lum, Abner, Cedric and Dr. Ben Withers were singing a
    commercial over the party line for Lum's new Meadowlark restaurant.
    The song itself was hilarious, but what followed was even better.

    After a few seconds, the phone rang and Abner answered it. Abner said
    "Lum it's for you." Lum said "Who is it?". Abner said "Do you know some
    guy named Petrillo?" Great stuff.

    Thanks to this mailing list for educating me on Mr. Petrillo. I
    wouldn't have had the slightest idea what that joke was about
    otherwise.

    Y'all are the greatest!

    Lanny G.

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    Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:52:14 -0400
    From: bloodbleeds@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  re: Walter [removed] Happened?

    It's indeed true that Tetley had an accident on a motorcycle which put him in pain for the rest
    of his life. I've been working on a book on Tetley for a year now, and believe it or not, his last
    years are obscure. I can find no friends to speak with, except for Stan Freberg, and it seems
    he did die broke in a motel he was living at. He refused a lot of work in his last years, but
    why is uncertain. Perhaps he was just too depressed.

    Ben

    The Bickersons Scripts book
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    Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 12:40:42 -0400
    From: Dennis W Crow <DCrow3@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Michael Gwynne's postings

    May I say, for the record, how much I appreciate  actor and writer Michael
    Gwynne's postings in the Digest. They are poetic, profound, poignant, and
    to me, immensely interesting.  The highly personal anecdotes he shares
    bring the actors I have admired to life in a totally new way.  Whether he
    writes of Raymond Edward Johnson, Mantan Moreland,  or Jeff Corey,  the
    reader acquires insight into folks that most of us only know through their
    work.  The additional information makes reading the Digest a much richer,
    deeper experience.

    Thank you, Michael, for so sensitively and kindly sharing your memories.
    You are  a joy to read!

    Dennis Crow

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    Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 12:41:06 -0400
    From: "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@[removed];
    To: "OTR List" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Beemer announces

    In our previous episode:

>     At what point was Brace Beemer the ANNOUNCER on The Lone [removed] do any
>     episodes still exist where he fillls that role?

    Seems there are a number of them in circulation, from broadcasts prior to
    Graser's death. I have some in my collection somewhere.

    Just out of curiosity, how many LR eps survive in total? All of them that
    were recorded?

    Joe Salerno

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    Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 12:45:12 -0400
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Sound Effects and the Like

    Chris Holm noted, commenting on my observation of recorded sound effects
    on OTR,

>     I've always wondered about this sound effect.  It seems like I keep
>     hearing the same sequence over and over again.  Not just a car driving,
>     but the exact same recording.  I first noticed it while listening to a
>     sequence of Green Hornets back to back.  The non-black beauty cars always
>     sounded the same.

    When I was in college, which was in New York City, I found an area just
    South of the Times Square area that sold all kinds of records, including
    some designed for professional uses only.  One of these were generic
    musical numbers that could be used in TV soundtracks for bridges, fights,
    chases, and the like.  A few years later, I'd be watching one or another
    of the TV adventure shows and I'd hear some of the music that was on the
    record.  (Later, when I was making occasional industrial information
    films, I had a different record of such music -- one I was licensed to
    use -- for the same purpose.)  Such records were fairly common.

    I suspect that back in the heyday of OTR, there were equivalent
    sound-effects records.  It would be far easier to buy "generic sound
    effects" on records than to have to develop them individually, show by
    show.  Even where a show did have unique sound effects on records,
    though, they would naturally "sound the same" on different episodes,
    because even the most dedicated program would be unlikely to have
    different sounds of the same activity.

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 12:42:19 -0400
    From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  RCA Logo, and ...

    With the discussion of the "RCA Dog," Nipper, in the last few Digests, I
    thought I'd share.  The other day, I saw an RCA ad on television for the
    corporate spread of TV products, there was Nipper, and with him was a
    puppy of the same breed.  So after all these decades upon decades, I
    guess Nipper finally produced a family.  Probably "take your pup to work
    day."  :-)

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 12:52:26 -0400
    From: leemunsick@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Car sound effects

    Way back in the lost annals of time in a galaxy far, far [removed]

    A sound effects artiste was the first one to ponder, "How do I indicate
    that an automobile is coming to a stop?"

    The answer came like a bolt from the blue:  "Screeching tires and
    brakes!  Of course!"

    As a result, radio programs, movies, television programs, made-for-TV
    movies, it doesn't matter what, as long as they are sound - all use this
    same sound effect today.

    The driver may be in a panic stop situation.  He may be coming to a slow,
    hopefully quiet stop in a Lover's Lane so as not to bother the other
    residents.  He may be on pavement, mud and mire, loose gravel, sand,
    rain-slick asphalt, dirt road, for all I know riding into a foot of water
    on a flooded road.

    Yet there's still that screeching stop!  Amazing!

    Lee Munsick

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    Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:11:46 -0400
    From: SanctumOTR@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Announcer BRACE BEEMER

    In a message dated 8/22/02 10:04:28 AM, Matt Cherry asks:

>     At what point was Brace Beemer the ANNOUNCER on The Lone [removed] do any
>     episodes still exist where he fillls that role?

    ***Brace Beemer was announcing THE LONE RANGER immediately prior to Earle
    Graser's death and appears in a number of episodes in early 1941 including
    04/04/41  #1279/ 496  "Landgrabbers Loss."  However, Brace apparently took a
    Monday off and Charles Wood announced Graser's final show (04/07/41  #1280/
    497  "Sixty Days For Life").  --Anthony Tollin***

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    Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 16:56:40 -0400
    From: Rick Keating <pkeating89@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Brace Beemer as Lone Ranger announcer

    Matt Cherry asks: "At what point was Brace Beemer the
    ANNOUNCER on The Lone [removed]
    do any
    episodes still exist where he fills that role?"

    Brace Beemer was an announcer during at least a
    portion of Earle Graser's tenure as the Ranger (May
    16, 1933- April 7, 1941 according to Dunning). I don't
    have time to check all these episodes, but I believe
    Beemer was the announcer for all of the 18 1938 Graser
    episodes collected in Radio Spirits' "Lone Ranger Vol.
    4" collection. He was the announcer for the first
    episode in the collection (The Apache Kid 3/2/38).
    That he was also the announcer for two 1939 Graser
    episodes in the "Lone Ranger Vol. 3" collection
    (Trouble on the Railroad (1/27/39) and Trouble in New
    London (1/30/39)) tends to reinforce that he announced
    through 1938.

    What I'm not sure of is when Brace Beemer started as
    the Lone Ranger announcer. According to Dunning, he
    was the second LR announcer, coming after Harold True.
    However, he doesn't say when the one succeeded the
    other.

    Rick

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    Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 16:56:50 -0400
    From: dltnkt@[removed] (Dennis/Nancy Townsend)
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Mighty Memory Mobile?

    I have been listening to the program The Mighty Memory Mobile which
    featured old radio clips along with banter from Bob Maxwell and Garry
    Moore. I wondered if any one listened to it when it was out originally
    and knows anything about the program? It appears to have come out of
    NewYork City and may have been local or syndicated and from comments by
    Moore it was early to mid 70's. I have exausted the source where I got
    these and wonder where more might be found. A very entertaining program.
    Thanks in advance. Dennis

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    Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 20:35:03 -0400
    From: zbob@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Big Broadcast  (s)

    John Henley discusses plot lines, etc., in the Big
    Broadcast of 193x series.    Reviewing Maltin's Guide,
    he indicates that only the 1938 version is available on
    videocasette (so far).        Bob

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    Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 22:16:45 -0400
    From: "jay ranellucci" <jayran33@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Picture of "Nipper"

    Hi all,
    Yes Nipper is on the "E" floor of the Capitol Tower in Hollywood just as you
    exit the elevator.  According to the people who were in the tower in the mid
    50's there were four paintings done, one is at EMI in England, one at
    Capitol and I don't remember where the other two were supposed to be.  BTW
    "E" floor stands for executive and is a nice way of not saying
    the 13th floor.
                            Jay

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    Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 23:56:50 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  I love to singa -Owl Jolson Cartton Video

    The following person e-mailed me today, since I originally placed their
    request on the Digest, I am reposting it for them.

    - ---------
          I know you don't have this video, but a few months back someone
    located an associate that has the "I love to Singa" by Owl
    Jolson Cartoon Video.  I had made contact with this individual back then,
    however, after making arrangements for the video, I unfortunately lost the
    email and regular mailing address so that i could send the money order for
    the videos.  If in any way possible you remember this
    request and the party i was referred to, I would appreciate you forwarding
    their name and email address back to me.  thank you for your kind
    assistance.
      <psyphen@[removed];

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    Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 23:57:12 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jack Benny Question

    Cheryl Morris in Harrisburg is looking to verify a specific Peter Lorre
    appearance on The Jack Benny Program, cause she does not have any March 1946
    episodes in her collection.  She is a die-hard Lorre fan, and wishes to have
    a Jack Benny fan contact her.

    She could easily research Lorre's appearance on the web, but as usual, there
    are tons of Jack Benny logs on the web and they are all conflicting.  Steve
    Kelez generously helped her narrow a date or two, but she's asked me to find
    a Jack Benny fan who could supply her the March 1946 episodes.  Can anyone
    help her?
    Cmorris781@[removed]

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    Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:16:57 -0400
    From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  I'll repeat the question

    Lest you all know the answers and assumed that someone else supplied them to
    me off-list, let me dispel that notion. I haven't heard from anyone. Are
    these questions to which no one knows the answers? I'll try again:

    Does anyone know who played Sgt. King in the two 15-minute audition shows of
    KING OF THE ROYAL MOUNTED?  And what is the date of the half hour show
    starring Richard Dix? Do you have any other information on this series?

    Thanks,
    Barbara

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    Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:17:31 -0400
    From: Derek Tague <derek@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  "My, My!"

    Hi Gang:

       I really like the song & dance number called "My, My!" that Eddie
    "Rochester" Anderson  performed in one of the Jack Benny  movies  ("The
    Meanest Man in the World"? I can't exactly place it). Does anybody out there
    in the ether happen to know if Rochester's performance of this song is
    available on CD?
       Please allow me to thank everybody in advance for any assistance offered.

    [removed],

    Derek Tague

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    Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:17:51 -0400
    From: "welsa" <welsa@[removed];
    To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Fibber & Molly Commercials

    The middle commercial for Johnson's Wax was usually very clever and often
    fit into the theme of the show.  What I have long wondered is this:  Did
    Donn Quinn and/or Phil Leslie write those commercials?  Or did Johnson's ad
    agency have someone with the talent to integrate the ad into the show?

    I suspect the opening and closing ads might have been supplied by the
    agency.  Its just that middle one I am wondering about.

    Ted

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    Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:18:12 -0400
    From: Jerry <xfyles@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Wings of Destiny

    I have one of those porcilen reproduction metal signs for Wings "Kings"
    Cigarettes. It features images of those plane cards mentioned in a previous
    digest. The sign also advertises a radio show, "Tune in 'Wings of Destiny'
    Friday Night NBC Network". Anyone have info of this show? Are any in
    circulation? tia

    Jerry

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    Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:51:39 -0400
    From: "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@[removed];
    To: "OTR List" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Harry Mackenzie

    Does anyone know how to reach Harry, the author of the Greenwood Press
    volume on the AFRS program series? I have had no response from Greenwood.

    Harry, are you on this list?

    Joe Salerno
    Video Works! Is it working for you?
    PO Box 273405 - Houston TX 77277-3405 [removed]

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