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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 471

Table Of Contents: 

	 Sheldon's age
	 CULTURAL IGNORANCE
	 Phillip Marlowe Reviews
	 "It Pays To Be Ignorant"
	 Who's on first? Unforgettable!
	 Lowell Thomas
	 Looking for two Jack Benny Episodes
	 Favorite Show

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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 96 15:07 CST
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed]>
To: vintage@[removed], otr@[removed]
Subject: Sheldon's age
Message-Id: <m0vVOX7-000kFgC@[removed]>

Dear Andy Blatt and fellow listeners:
Andy said,
>although he's probably
>close to 80 years old (or in his mid 70's, at least), Sheldon Leonard is
>very much alive and well.  

The Library of Congress official record for Mr. Leonard's book has him as
"Leonard, Sheldon, 1907- ."  

That makes him 89 years old this year.

And more power to him!

John Henley
jhenley@[removed]
ph  (512) 495-4112
fax (512) 495-4296

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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 14:02:55 -0800 (PST)
From: BURT WILSON <futurecon@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: CULTURAL IGNORANCE
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Reading the stories about people who didn't know who Lowell Thomas, Adele
Astair or whatever, reminds me of my favorite OTR joke.

Jimmy Durante has on Al Jolson and they're singing "What a thrill when a
real piano player sits down at the keys" and in one place Jimmy does a
descending credenza at the end of which he remarks, "And you'll notice, Mr.
Jolson, I don't need Larry Parks to play the black keys!"

Try THAT on the boomers!

"....sing, Dennis."
Burt Wilson

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Date: 04 Dec 96 20:19:13 EST
From: "Norman G. Cox" <[removed]@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Phillip Marlowe Reviews
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Phillip Marlowe, Adventures of.  Review #13 of 15
Starring Gerald Mohr.  From the cassette lending library of North American Radio
Archives (NARA)

NARA Cassette 7226, Side A, 7/14/51.  Dear Dead Days

Phillip is looking forward to a quiet Saturday with a good book, a comfortable
chair and a fresh pack of cigarettes but a telephone call from an ageing dowager
(Verna Felton) gets him involved with a missing jade collection.

NARA Cassette 7226, Side B, 7/21/51.  Life Can Be Murder

Our hero stops off to wet his whistler at a pseudo English style pub just off
Hollywood Blvd. with the then unusual feature of a lady bartender.  Although he
may disagree with me, Phillip is picked up by a beautiful redhead with green
eyes.  (Sounds like a traffic signal)  Again we find a different pace to the
show with the new writer, Kathryn Hite.

That's 30 for tonight
NGC
Norman Cox 

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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 20:33:55 -0500
From: Udmacon@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: "It Pays To Be Ignorant"
Message-ID: <961204203355_1985991843@[removed]>

Come on, gang; it's holiday time. Let's share a few laughs, like the great
lines from "It Pays To be Ignorant"! Sample:

Harry McNaughton: "I like your dress, Miss McConnell"

Lulu McConnell: "You do? I wear this dress to teas!"

Tom Howard: "At YOUR age, who do you TEASE?!"

BILL KNOWLTON

("Uh HAH! Uh HAH! uh HAH!--I don't Get it!"--Harry McNaughton)

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Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 20:42:33 -0600
From: Steven Lewis <lewis@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Who's on first? Unforgettable!
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Songwriter Irving Gordon, who wrote
``Unforgettable'' and won a Grammy for it four decades later after
Natalie Cole recorded it as a duet with her late father, died Sunday of
cancer. He was 81. 

Gordon also worked as a contract writer for Abbott and Costello, and
wrote the famous ``Who's On First,'' comedy sketch, his son, William
Gordon, said Tuesday. 

Gordon, whose songs were recorded by such greats as Duke Ellington,
Billie Holiday and Patti Page, provided Nat King Cole with a hit in
``Unforgettable'' in 1951. 

Cole died in 1965, but his daughter gave the song a whole new life in
1992 with a new duet version that merged her voice with her late
father's recording. The Grammy for Song of the Year, a writer's prize,
went to Gordon. 

Gordon also wrote ``Prelude to a Kiss'' and gave the title and lyrics to
Ellington while on a New York subway in the late 1930s. Decades later,
the title of the song became the title of a play and a 1992 motion
picture starring Meg Ryan and Alec Baldwin. 

His other songs include ``What Can I Tell My Heart?'' recorded by Bing
Crosby; ``Me, Myself and I,'' recorded by Holiday; ``Throw Momma From
the Train,'' recorded by Patti Page, a song that provided the title of
the 1987 Danny De Vito comedy; and ``Mr. and Mrs. Mississippi.'' 

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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 23:39:48 -0500
From: Neubacher@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Lowell Thomas
Message-ID: <961204233947_573142126@[removed]>

     Although I seldom listened to him on the radio, I know who Lowell Thomas
was.  Back in the early/mid 50's he came to our high school and presented a
Travelogue about Tibet for the "Round the World Adventures" series.  It's a
little fuzzy, but I believe that he was one of the first westerners that went
into that country.

Bill Neubacher
NEUBACHER@[removed]

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Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 01:59:38 -0600 ()
From: Bruce Toews <toews@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Looking for two Jack Benny Episodes
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Hi. I'm looking for two Jack Benny episodes. Truth be known, I'm looking
for all the Benny I can get my hands on, but particularly these:

1. Jack's first show with Lucky Strike (I can find an AFRS version of
this, but it seems to me that would defeat the purpose).

2. Jack's first show with the Sportsmen.

Does anyone have any info on this?

Also, someone asked a while back why Mary wouldn't appear on the last
episode of the JAck Benny radio show. As faras I can tell, the answer is
simply that at the time they didn't know it would be the last show. They
gave every indication of fully intending to come back the next fall. And,
I must say, CBS did a marvelous job of dubbing Mary's voice into the
broadcast for airing. I have both the uncut version with whomever and the
cut version with Mary.

Bruce

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Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:20:40 -0800
From: "JACK MANN" <jmann@[removed]>
To: <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Favorite Show
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Hello Digesters:

Like all otr collectors, I have shows I like a lot, some not
so much, some not at all, and some I really love. Among
these last, most of us can single out one show that we like
the best of all. Mine is "The Nick Shurn Matter", a Yours
Truly, Johnny Dollar 5-parter from 12/19/55.
I'm very interested to hear other people's favorites, as I
think it may be a good way to improve my collection with
first-class shows.
I'd like to take this opportunity to wish all my otr friends
the very best of holidays, and a wonderful, happy, very
merry Christmas.
Also, there are some new otr web pages on my URL list
(created and maintained by Monte Bateman). The address
is below.

Happy Holidays, Everyone!!

Jack



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