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Date: 11/16/2004 10:09 AM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2004 : Issue 366
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Saints preserve us! 18 years!         [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  SPERDVAC                              [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  Unique Radio Voices                   [ "RBB" <oldradio@[removed]; ]
  Sexy Voices                           [ Al Girard <24agirard24@[removed] ]
  Radio Voices                          [ Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed] ]
  11-16 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Unique voices                         [ JimBourg@[removed] ]
  Great Radio Voices                    [ "James Yellen" <clifengr3@[removed] ]
  Budd Hulick/Voices                    [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
  Re: I Pod vs. Nomad Jukebox-Recordin  [ Brent Pellegrini <brentpl@rocketmai ]
  B&A lights out show                   [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Satellite Radio (XM) OTR              [ Mikeandzachary@[removed] ]
  Rochester                             [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]
  Space Patrol                          [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]
  Gunsmoke reruns                       [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]

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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:00:15 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Saints preserve us!  18 years!

The 20 year-10 month run featuring The Shadow as detective hero is longer
than MR. KEEN's 17 year-6 month [removed];

My distinguished colleague, Anthony Tollin, simply forgot that my newest
release reveals--for the very first time in OTR volumes--that Mr. Keen was
an 18-year-long radio feature and NOT confined to the ending date John
Dunning and other authors mistakenly designate.  I'm sure.  I photocopied
the scripts.

The new book is "Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons:   Complete History and
Episode Log of Radio's Most Durable Detective," available from McFarland &
Co., [removed] or 1-800-253-2187.  It will take a long while for
the new ending date of Sept. 26, 1955 to get into our collective
consciousness, no doubt.

Jim Cox

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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:01:11 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  SPERDVAC

Just returning from the SPERDVAC convention in Los Angeles, I felt it
compared favorably with similar events around the country.  The program
re-creations were superb and panels and other features were informative.  A
lot of good people attend this conclave every year and the experience of
resonating with them while swapping stories is definitely one of the pluses
of the meetings.

I had not been to a SPERDVAC gathering since the era of the legendary
Gassman brothers (1980s, 1990s) who put on programs of stupendous
proportions, so I was curious to see how things were running now.  It went
very well and much of the credit goes to coordinator Bobb Lynes and a
hard-working bunch of cohorts who seemed to have their fingers on the pulse
of what was desired and needed.  Particularly praiseworthy was Bobb's style
of keeping things moving without allowing sessions to run overtime and
endlessly into the night as has happened on some occasions.  He is an
affable presider and eager to help folks have a good time.

If I had any feeling of disappointment it was that more were unable to avail
themselves of that opportunity.  I don't know the registration tally but
some daytime sessions appeared to draw 100-150 people although the evening
banquets were filled with another hundred folks or so, primarily guests
(including some hallowed names from earlier epochs in Hollywood
radio-TV-film).  Considering where we are now and where we were a decade ago
at these conventions, I can't help but wonder where we might be in the year
2014.  Will there be enough who remember "the good old days" without an
overarching pall of sadness due to dwindling numbers?  Meanwhile, I take
nothing away from the SPERDVAC programmers.  They did their jobs well and
those who were privileged to attend surely came away even more
enthusiastically about this intriguing hobby.

Jim Cox

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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:01:41 -0500
From: "RBB" <oldradio@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Unique Radio Voices

[removed] most "unique" voice actor of them all, of course, was the
marvelously,
creative and versitile Mel Blanc.  Has anyone else done more variety?  From
Si, Sy, Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, Sylvester Pussycat and Tweety Bird, Woody
Woodpecker, Daffy Duck and Yosemite Sam to starting Mr. Benny's "Maxwell"
and his Train Announcer taking us to [removed] more.

There's a link to Mel's voice work in films at
[removed]  as well as to the "Voice
Actor Page" listing others by name.

(Thanks for the really funny characters, [removed] you are!)

Russ Butler  oldradio@[removed]

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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:01:49 -0500
From: Al Girard <24agirard24@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Sexy Voices

My vote goes for Mary Anne Croft in Honest Harold
and Shirley Mitchell as Alice Darling in Fibber
McGee and Molly.

Al Girard

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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:40:54 -0500
From: Conrad Binyon <conradab@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Radio Voices

Ben Ohmart

Perusing the Digest and seeing mentioned "Here's
Morgan" brought to memory the voice of Arnold Stang,
who did a lot Morgans, plus was the voice of "Top
Cat."

I worked a few times with Arnold and noticed how
unassuming a gentleman he was.

His image can be seen at Doug MacCaulay's website
about Arnold:

[removed]
&actor_last=Stang

Conrad Binyon

--
conradab@[removed] (Conrad A. Binyon)
Encino, CA
Home of the Stars who loved Ranches and Farms

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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:46:44 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-16 births/deaths

November 16th births

11-16-1873 - W. C. Handy - Florence, AL - d. 3-28-1958
jazz trumpeter, composer: "Cavalcade of Music";"Freedom's People"
11-16-1889 - George S. Kaufman - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-2-1961
panelist: "Information, Please"; "This Is Broadway"; "Who Said That?"
11-16-1894 - Ruth Cornell Woodman - d. 4-22-1970
creator, writer: "Death Valley Days"; "Cavalcade of America"
11-16-1896 - Jim Jordan - Peoria, IL - d. 4-1-1988
comedian: Mickey Donavan, "Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten"; "Fibber McGee "Fibber
McGee and Molly"
11-16-1896 - Lawrence Tibbett - Bakersfield, CA - d. 7-15-1960
singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Golden Voices"
11-16-1899 - Mary Margaret McBride - Paris, MO - d. 4-7-1976
commentator: "Mary Margaret McBride"
11-16-1905 - Eddie Condon - Goodland, IN - d. 8-4-1973
guitarist, host: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"
11-16-1909 - Burgess Meredith - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-9-1997
actor: "Red Adams/Red Davis "Red Adams/Red Davis" (the precursor to "Pepper
Young's Family")
11-16-1912 - George O. Petrie - New Haven, CT - d. 11-16-1997
actor: Michael Waring "The Falcon"; John J. Malone "Amazing Mr. Malone"
11-16-1916 - Daws Butler - Toledo, OH - d. 5-19-1988
actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"; "Stan Freberg Show"; "That's Rich"
11-16-1916 - Jack "Smiling Jack" Smith - Fort Ward, Bainbridge Island, WA
singer: "Breezing Along"; "Prudential Family Hour"; "Jack Smith Show"

November 16th deaths

02-01-1901 - Clark Gable - Cadiz, OH - d. 11-16-1960
actor: "So Proudly We Hail"; "Silver Theatre"
04-12-1899 - Boake Carter - Baku, Russia - d. 11-16-1944
news commentator: "Night newscast for CBS"
05-07-1906 - Jack Johnstone - d. 11-16-1991
writer, producer, director: "Buck Rogers"; "CBS Radio Workshop"; "Six Shooter"
05-24-1916 - Tony Barrett - NYC - d. 11-16-1974
actor: Charlie Dyer "This Life is Mine"; Biff Bradley "Pepper Young's Family"
06-06-1900 - Arthur Askey - Liverpool, England - d. 11-16-1982
comedian: "Band Waggon"
08-04-1905 - Frank Luther - Lakin, KS - d. 11-16-1980
singer: "Luther-Layman Singer"; "Frank Luther Show"; "Happy Wonder Bakers Trio"
09-27-1885 - Harry Blackstone - Chicago, IL - d. 11-16-1965
magician: "Harry Blackstone, the Magic Detective" based on him.
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:23:29 -0500
From: JimBourg@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Unique voices
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I don't believe anyone has mentioned John  Dehner, Paladin, of "Have Gun,
Will Travel" as well as many character roles on  OTR.

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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:23:39 -0500
From: "James Yellen" <clifengr3@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Great Radio Voices

How about Frank Lovejoy.
I've been listening to Nightbeat recently and am enjoying it alot.
I know that he has a distinctive voice, because just last week I was
watching "Stratigic Air Command" starring Jimmy Stewart, and when the
commanding general got off the plane and spoke, I immediately knew it was
Frank Lovejoy even though I had no idea what he looked like. His voice was
an instant giveaway.

Jim Yellen

WISTFUL RADIO CHRONICLES
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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 01:08:30 -0500
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Budd Hulick/Voices
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adf3 asked if Wilbur "Budd" Hulick was still alive.

Being a tremendous Stoopnagle & Budd fan, I'd also would like to know. For
fans of this vastly underrated comedy team,
I recommend: 1) a "Betty Boop" cartoon called STOOPNOCRACY c. 1932, which
features a live-action segment of
S&B including Budd doing an impersonation of Bing Crosby singing "Please"
(accompanied by the venerable "Bouncing Ball,"
so that we, the audience, can also sing along); 2) an episode of, I believe,
"Columbia Workshop," titled MAN WITH A PLATFORM featuring Mr. Hulick
delivering an opinionated monologue [directed by Norman Corwin--query?].

Re: distinctive radio voices, allow me add Walter Tetley, Howard McNear, and
Richard LeGrand. Having such a list without
"Mr. Peavey"  himself thereupon?...."Well, now, I wouldn't say that!"

Yours in the ether,

Derek Tague

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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 01:12:51 -0500
From: Brent Pellegrini <brentpl@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: I Pod vs. Nomad Jukebox-Recording
 software??

I recently bought 40 gigabyte Nomad Jukebox, Zen XTra. An amazing unit.
Probably a good $100 cheaper than the I Pod. I bought it for $250 but
it can probably be found for $200 on ebay or on sale. It has a bookmark
function as someone previously said the IPod didn't. It took me a while to
figure out the computer interface but once I figured it out it works like
a charm. Navigating the unit itself is great too. I can't think of any way to
improve on it.
I wish I'd had this thing in the 1980s. I was fishing in Alaska, Washington
and California and sailing the South Pacific, the Pacific, the Atlantic, the
Caribean etc etc and I always bought along cassette tapes of OTR. I'd 4 track
the
tapes so I could put 180 minutes on a 90 minute tape. But I'd be gone for long
periods of time so I really had to ration my listening. Due to space on the
boats
I couldn't bring too many tapes. This jukebox would have been ideal for those
long
solitary watches at sea. Now at 58, I've had my first kid, married for the
first time
and I'm trying to figure out how to listen to all these shows. Driving around
Seattle is about the only time now I can find to listen.

RECORDING OTR FROM TAPES TO COMPUTER?
I'm in the process of getting rid of all my reel to reel tapes and getting
them on mp3. Does any one know of any software that can record from the reel
player to the computer that will recognize when a show ends and create a new
track for the next show? Otherwise everything is on one track. I find it hard
to believe that whoever put all the Suspense shows on DVD actually sat there
and
manually created a new track for each show. I've taken to buying mp3
collections
but i have a lot of stuff that I can't buy that I'd like to record. I'm
trying to
donate the reels now to REPS in Seattle. Otherwise it's in the garbage I guess.

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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 01:13:04 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  B&A lights out show

   Last week I saw Say Goodnight Gracie, starring Jamie Farr.  During
the show he mentioned a time the lights went out in the studio and being
unable to read the script and time to fill, he asked Gracie, "so, how's
your brother?" and she filled out the rest of the time.
   My question is this.  Does anyone know the date of that show and does
it exist anywhere?
   TIA
   Joe

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Visit my homepage: [removed]~[removed]

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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 01:13:41 -0500
From: Mikeandzachary@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Satellite Radio (XM) OTR
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M Kinsler wrote:

Though the shows are trimmed for contemporary advertisements and edited for
audio clarity, they are listenable, fascinating, entertaining and available.
This is precisely what is needed to maintain and renew interest as older
devotees die off.

As an XM subscriber, I agree. While I wouldn't tape any of the truncated
shows to add to my collection, they are fun to listen to and do keep OTR in
the
public eye. Hearing an edited show that was particularly good might make me
hunt
out a complete version. As an XM subscriber, I can't speak for the quality of
Sirius' OTR (which I understand is from the same provider). XM's OTR channel
does have a pretty good variety of shows.

Disclaimer: I have no financial interest in XM Radio. I'm just a happy
subscriber to what they call XM Nation.

Mike Murphy

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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:43:33 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Rochester

From: Dixonhayes@[removed]

I wonder if that's the one where Eddie Anderson had an on-set heart
attack during rehearsal.  I just bought a 1958 Life magazine that shows
Anderson being hauled into an ambulance

I believe the show aired on Jack's birthday, 14 February 1958, so
please check the date on the magazine and let us know.  I only
remember Jack saying that Rochester was sick.  I don't remember if he
said what the nature of the illness was.

--
 A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                             [removed]
 15 Court Square, Suite 210            lawyer@[removed]
 Boston,MA 02108-2503              [removed]

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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:15:35 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Space Patrol

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 07:46:09 -0500
From: "RBB" <oldradio@[removed];

Ed Kemmer has died at age 84.  He played the heroic "Buzz Corry" on
the popular 1950's children's science-fiction program "Space Patrol."
It was on the ABC radio network as well as on TV as a 15-minute show
that debuted on the new visual medium, March 9, 1950.  The show
expanded to a half-hour and ran until 1959.

The show ended in 1955, not 1959, at least on the network.  I once
heard it said that Space Patrol continued locally in Los Angeles
after that, but I don't know if there's any truth to it.

The show began as a daily 15-minute show running locally.  It
expanded by adding a half-hour weekly network TV show and a half-hour
weekly network radio show.  I believe the 15-minute local show
continued, at least for a time.

[ADMINISTRIVIA: A little simple research shows that "Space Patrol" stopped
production in 1955, and the 30-minute TV show is listed on the TV Tome
website as having been syndicated between 1957 and 1959 (likely where the
obit author got his information). See:

[removed]

...for details. Note that according to the Solar Guard website, at:

[removed]

...it was being syndicated into the late 1960's. This article appears to be
much more authoritative, although it contains rather annoying gramatical and
spelling errors.  --cfs3]

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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:05:07 -0500
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Gunsmoke reruns

I have been away at a Film Festival the past week so if my postings seem a
little out of place by a few days, my apologies.

Stewart Wright commented:

    Over the prime-time run of GUNSMOKE, there were No Prime-Time Repeats or
Re-Runs!  All of these so called Repeats or Re-Runs episodes were actually
new productions of previously used scripts.

Stewart is right - in a way.  Most logs are listing "Rerun" or "Repeat" in
their logs.  Whenever a script was performed twice, the repeat was a new
production featuring the similar cast but both performances were different.
However, CBS did air reruns at different time slots.  The program was often
heard on Saturday and Sunday evenings (early afternoons depending on the
time zone you live in), but CBS did on occassion play reruns of previously
broadcasted recordings around noon and one [removed] Saturday and Sunday
afternoons, besides the newest production in the later afternoon/early
evening.  Anyone who faintly recalls hearing GUNSMOKE on CBS Radio twice in
the same day isn't having vague memories.  To date, CBS did feature at least
20 reruns during the noon - 1 [removed] time slot in the mid-to-late fifties.
Martin Grams, Jr.

[removed]  There is a complete book about radio's GUNSMOKE coming out within the
next year (authorized according to my sources) that deals primarily with the
radio series (and only the radio series) which reveals a definitive episode
guide (at least twice the length and much more detail than the Barabas book
that lacked much along the lines of their radio log).

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