Several people said they didnt get this issue, su here it is.  If you
got it, I apologize for the duplicate.

Bill

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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 250


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 All Things Benny ... 8)
	 Radio/Recorder/Timer
	 Re: Radio/Recorder/Timer
	 Classic Radio, WFUV-FM
	 modification to Lum'n'Abner history
	 re Kenny Baker & Dennis Day
	 DAT Timer
	 Jack Benny:  the last word on nostalgia
	 Brand names, superman, and ken's tape
	 Re: Heresy
	 Jackson Beck

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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 04:19:36 -0400
From: JackBenny@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: All Things Benny ... 8)
Message-ID: <960715041935_237859873@[removed]>

Kubelski:  As for dating the Jell-O Program with Jack in New York, I'd guess
it was 12-15-40 (listed in my log as "Jack in New York plugging movie".
12-11-38 is noted as "Christmas shopping in New York", but I imagine you
would have mentioned it if it was a shopping show.  Would be interested if
this is correct.

Alan:  (Thanks for your kind [removed]'re a sweetie)  Kenny Baker's last
appearance on Jack's program was 6-25-39.  Irving Fein recounted the
departure thusly:  "By 1938 Kenny Baker had become the brightest star of the
Benny [removed] was adored by the teenagers and mothered by the older
women, and everyone was thrilled by his beautiful tenor voice.  At the end of
the season, when Jack's agent went to renegotiate Baker's contract, which had
run out, they discovered that he had signed with Fred Allen for the following
season, having created the impression with Allen that Kenny and Jack had
agreed to end their business relationship.  When the news was announced, a
deluge of letters poured in, decrying disaster for the program, and again the
smart showmen predicted that without Kenny Baker the Benny show would drop
from the number one spot."

As for Dennis' arrival, here's an excerpt of how he told it to me:
"...Jack and his agents were looking for a new [removed] somebody
suggested I send [my aircheck] over to his [removed] sent the record over
thinking that nothing would ever happen, and by good fortune--God rest
her--Mary [removed] to be in the agent's office one day
listening to a lot of audition records, and she heard mine and she was the
one.  She liked it, she went to Jack, and she persuaded him to audition me in
[removed] then went to the audition the following [removed] I sang for
about fifteen minutes, then I heard a voice say, 'Dennis, take a break,' so I
took a break for about a few minutes and I was talking to my accompanist and
my back was turned to the control booth, and I was talking about what songs
we were going to sing next and everything [removed] I heard a loudspeaker
say, 'Oh, Dennis!' and I turned and said, 'Yes, please?'  That was the thing
that Jack Benny told me months and months [removed]'You know, that helped me
decide that I kind of liked you.'"

--Laura Lee
International Jack Benny Fan Club

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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 07:39:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: joe <wmackey@[removed]>
Cc: otr@[removed]
Subject: Radio/Recorder/Timer
Message-id: <[removed]@[removed]>

> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 96 02:15:18 UT
> From: "KENNETH LANZA" <DRJOHNWATSON@[removed]>
> Subject: Radio/Recorder/Timer

> a company called Reel-Talk has a radio/recorder/timer
> on the market.  it says that "you just set Reel Talk's timer

What I use is a Casio CP-590 "boombox" radio/cassette.  This has a 
"alarm clock" feature where I can set the time for WRW to automatically 
turn on, tape and turn off.  This way I am able to tape the show whenever 
I am not able to do it "live".  In addition, I can set it and be doing 
other things and listen to the the show later.  I use two tapes.  One is 
a Universal 100 minute and the other is a TDK SA-X100 55 minute.  Since 
WRW doesn't really start until after a couple minutes of commericals, I 
set my timer for [removed] [removed] and tape till [removed] [removed]  (This way I make sure 
the tape has gone all the way through before stopping.)  I have had no 
problems with this system, other than sometimes forgetting to push down 
the record button.  :)

Joe Mackey
Huntington, WV

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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 07:51:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: joe <wmackey@[removed]>
Cc: otr@[removed]
Subject: Re: Radio/Recorder/Timer
Message-id: <[removed]@[removed]>

> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 96 02:15:18 UT
> From: "KENNETH LANZA" <DRJOHNWATSON@[removed]>
> Subject: Radio/Recorder/Timer

> a company called Reel-Talk has a radio/recorder/timer
> on the market.  it says that "you just set Reel Talk's timer

I use a Casio CP-590 which is a radio/clock/cassette "boombox".  I am 
able to set the timer for a few minute after WRW comes on, thus cutting 
out the first couple of commericals.

I also use a Universal 100 minute and a TDK SA-X100 55 minute cassettes 
and give it a few extra minutes at the end to make sure the tapes runs 
all the way through.  

I set my timer and push the record button and later I listen to the 
show.  This gets the entire show on one tape which I can then add to my 
collection or whatever.

This model retails for around $70 and a good investment.  I've never had 
any trouble, other than forgetting to press the record button.  :)

Joe Mackey
Huntington, WV

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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:53:26 -0400
From: acosentini@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Classic Radio, WFUV-FM
Message-ID: <1ea4ddb0@[removed]>

     Last Saturdays edition of Classic Radio on 
     WFUV-FM rebroadcast The Jack Benny Show of 
     December 15, 1940. Thanks for listening. It's 
     always a good idea to let me know that you're 
     out there and give me a clue on what you 
     would like me to feature. It's also a real 
     good idea to let station management know 
     you're listening. Hey it maybe public 
     broadcasting but ratings are still important. 
     WFUV has a web page and in it you can find 
     Classic Radio's monthly listings. You can 
     pick up the link on Lou's OTR web page.
     
     
     NEW TOPIC
     
     
     Just a quick comment on the reaction to Ken's 
     demo tape. I'm happy to see that someone out 
     there besides myself has proved that old 
     recordings can sound great, or at least darn 
     good. It's good to see that OTR and old 
     recordings in general are finally getting 
     some respect.
     
     Adrian Cosentini
     Chief Audio Engineer
     Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives
     acosentini@[removed]

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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:21:42 -0500
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed], rwright@[removed]
Subject: modification to Lum'n'Abner history
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Per Richard Wright:

>Info from John Dunning _Tune in Yesterday_ and Buxton & Owen _The Big
>Broadcast_
>
>Lum and Abner began April 1931 on Station KTHS, Hot Springs, AK
>
>April or July 1931 moved to Chicago on NBC--sponsor Quaker Oats
>
>By 1935 on Blue Network for Horlick's Malted Milk

As of fall 1933 they were doing a daily for Ford Motor Co.  I know of 2
episodes existing, one of them incomplete.  Don't know why they don't show
up in so many accounts.  The date is confirmed by the commercial in the
first episode, which describes a road test of the new vehicle and is dated
(so says the announcer) July 1933.
John Henley
jhenley@[removed]
ph  (512) 495-4112
fax (512) 495-4296

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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:44:33 -0500
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed], dabell@[removed]
Subject: re Kenny Baker & Dennis Day
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Alan Bell asked,
>Under what circumstances did Kenny Baker leave the Jack
>Benny Program and Dennis Day (playing essentially the same type of
>character) arrive?

If I'm not mistaken, Fred Allen hired Kenny away for more money.  That was
the impetus for the hiring of Dennis.  
(Also if I'm not mistaken, there's a late '40s JB in which Jack is having
his house remodeled, and is told he has a room that no one's opened for
years but it sounds like someone's in there - now, I may be all wrong about
the setup, but I sure remember the punch line - Mary asks,
"[removed] happened to Kenny Baker?")
As to what really happened to Baker, he only stayed with Allen a couple of
seasons, had his own program, toured with Frances Langford, appeared on
Broadway in "One Touch of Venus," appeared in Judy Garland's movie "The
Harvey Girls."  In the 1950s, he became a Christian Scientist (as did Kay
Kyser) and made religious records.  He was also said to have a short-lived
program on MBS.  He died 8/10/85 at the age of 72.
For those who didn't know, Kenny Baker plays the "romantic lead" in the
Marx Brothers' "At the Circus" (1939).  He's none too persuasive.  But -
blasphemy? - as a singer, I prefer Kenny to Dennis.

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

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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:58:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: roy547@[removed] (Roy Trumbull)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: DAT Timer
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

A major problem began when remote controls went infra-red. There
no longer were wired ports for remote control such as timers. But
at least one DAT machine (Panasonic) has a nice feature. You can
load a tape in record pause, slide a front panel switch into timer
position, and interupt the power with an ordinary wall plug timer
such as you might use for a lamp. There are now digital versions
of those timers.
My wife is devoted to "Whatdayah Know?" which runs for two hours
and I record it on DAT using the 32k rate. When we are gone the
timer handles it fine.
There have been a number of posts about using a VCR to record
because of the built in timer system so I won't rehash that topic.

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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:09:34 -0500 (CDT)
From: Karen Warton <kwarton@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
cc: otr@[removed]
Subject: Jack Benny:  the last word on nostalgia
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

I have a CD recording of an interview with Mr. Benny, in which he 
generally rejects nostalgia.  At the end he closes by saying,

"The hell with the past.  As long as I'm still working."

'Nuff said.


Karen Joy Warton
Capital Campaign
Southern Methodist University

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Date: 15 Jul 1996 13:17:30 CST
From: [removed]@[removed]
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Brand names, superman, and ken's tape
Message-Id: <m0ufs39-000YFQC@[removed]>

Hi, all, Well I too was the proud receiver of one of ken's demos and 2
shows to go aloung with it. I must agree with everyone  else who has
heard his work. I don't know how he does it but it is fantastic.
On another subject, does anyone know whet did "Pep" taste like and how
loung were Fatema Cigarettes in business?
On another Superman related item, When did Superman start having more of
the si-fi related encounters? The early ones on radio seem to have your
more traditional villans. When did the crooks find out that Superman
became weak whenever there was "kriptonite" around? I had a hunch that a
lot of that stuff happened when Superman went to Cartoons. One last
thing and I will shut up for awhile, The Voice over announcer who does
the pizza adds is not the voice of Tony the Tiger in the Sugar Frosted
Flakes adds.

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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 16:26:52 -0500
From: "Andrew C. Green" <acg@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Cc: kirk@[removed]
Subject: Re: Heresy
Message-Id: <[removed]@dlogics>

Robert Kirk <kirk@[removed]> writes:
>[removed] What I've heard so far has sent me to the thesaurus,  and the 
>words that pop out are like: pompous, preachy, stuffy, predictable, 
>and above all, boring. [...] The show last week on the magic of New 
>York City was embarrassingly cutesy.
[...]
>I think you're supposed to like his plays because they're intellectual
>and not merely entertaining like My Friend Irma or Jack Benny.

Carl Amari played these on his weekend program in Chicago last Saturday
and Sunday, and I have to admit that I felt the same way. I had been
looking forward to hearing his "On a Note of Triumph" for some time as
it is frequently mentioned, and Mr. Corwin himself made for a lively
interview subject that evening.

There is no shortage of patriotism in "On a Note of Triumph"; after about
fifteen minutes I was ready to dig up Mr. Hitler and shoot him again, but
at around the thirty-minute mark I was starting to wonder whether the 
dialogue was ever going to lighten its dark shade of purple, and the
deep blasts of Important Music that kept tromping through were starting
to give an air of self-parody to the whole thing. The New York program
had the same eye-rolling effect, and I admit I gave up shortly thereafter.

Now, this is not a flame at Mr. Corwin; I'm glad to see that he's as
lively and active as always. But I wonder whether the type of program
exemplified by "On a Note of Triumph" belongs to another time and place,
one which has not followed us into the present.

Andrew C. Green
Datalogics, Inc.
441 W. Huron               Internet: acg@[removed]
Chicago, IL  60610-3498

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Date: 15 Jul 96 14:42:06 EDT
From: mweisbe@[removed] (Weisberg, Mitch D)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Jackson Beck
Message-Id: <20D4AC7101E73A7C@-SMF->

No.  Andy Blatt is wrong.  Jackson Beck was not "the voice" in Redford's 
1970's movie.  He was in a 1980's movie with Richard Gere.  I cannot 
remember the title offhand -  something like "The Pollster" or something. 
 But definitely NOT "The Candidate".  The movie was about a company that 
performed PR for politicians.  Jackson Beck was the voice over for 
political ads.  He dressed in outlandishly loud clothes.

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