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	    [removed]   Volume 96 : Issue 186


Articles in this issue of [removed]:

	 I Love A Mystery
	 Mighty (cheap) Mouse
	 Re: I love a mystery
	 Radio Luxembourg
	 Flair Remembered
	 Re: I Love A Mystery
	 Cimmeron Rolls
	 beer and smokes
	 Mystery in the Air 
	 Transcriptions
	 Re: Jack Benny Cartoon - title
	 Ted in [removed]
	 Black Museum/Whitehall 1212

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Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 19:36:00 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: I Love A Mystery
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

On Wed, 22 May 1996 20:18:12 +0200 (MET DST)
Marcus Antonsson <marc-a@[removed]> wrote:
>
>Hi gang,
>I've just discovered ILAM and I've gone nearly crazy about it. I've
>found a few serials in commercial catalogues and private libraries,
>but not "stairway to the sun". SPERDVAC has it but I'm not a member
>and even if I was I couldn't rent it, as they don't rent outside the
>USA. If someone could sell or trade me that series I'll be grateful
>forever.
>

Look for my new page addition. I will be running the Temple of Vampires at
my web site beginning this weekend. It replaces the completed Johnny Dollar.

[removed]

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Jim Widner                      INTERNET: jwidner@[removed]
Dayton, OH                      WWW: [removed]
COMPUSERVE: 74566,3041          
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Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 20:14:16 -0600
From: bigsteve@[removed] (Steve Darnall)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Mighty (cheap) Mouse
Message-Id: <v01530500adcacad26822@[[removed]]>

Re: David Van Nostrand's query: I know this may seem to be an odd question,
but does anybody outthere know
what the Warner Bros. cartoon is titled that stars Jack, Mary, Don &
Rochester as mice?

David, it's called "The Mouse that Jack Built." Produced by Warner Brothers
in 1959, I believe it was one of that studio's last cartoon shorts. Another
funny one from years earlier is "Malibu Beach Party"  (1940) in which a
bevy of Hollywood stars gather at the house of actor Jack Bunny,
culminating in a room-clearing violin solo.

Steve

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Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 22:28:19 -0400
From: stevecap@[removed] (Steven Capsuto)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: I love a mystery
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

>I've just discovered ILAM and I've gone nearly crazy about it. 

As well you might!  It's a fine show.

>I've
>found a few serials in commercial catalogues and private libraries,
>but not "stairway to the sun". SPERDVAC has it but I'm not a member

What SPERDVAC has is the scripts to STAIRWAY TO THE SUN.  To my knowledge,
the original broadcast recordings do not survive.
___
Steven Capsuto, Philadelphia
stevecap@[removed]
WEB page: [removed]~[removed]

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Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 22:42:33 -0400
From: stevecap@[removed] (Steven Capsuto)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Radio Luxembourg
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

>End of quote. Thus British audiences heard shows such as THE BLACK MUSEUM 
>on Luxembourg, not on the BBC.

Judging from the few British OTR books I've read, RL seems to have been a
major network.  Was it actually in Luxembourg, or was it the fanciful name
of a UK outlet?  For some reason, it stuck in my head that Radio Luxembourg
aired the British adaptation of MA PERKINS.

On a vaguely related topic, I remember reading that Peter Sellers starred in
a British radio comedy based on CBS's DUFFY'S TAVERN.  Does anyone know what
it was called and if recordings survive?
___
Steven Capsuto, Philadelphia
stevecap@[removed]
WEB page: [removed]~[removed]

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Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 21:50:17 -0600 (CST)
From: Joe Oliver <joliver@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Flair Remembered
Message-id: <[removed]@[removed]>

        [removed]  I've given enough time for someone else to answer an inquiry
about the show called Flair, hosted by Dick Van Dyke.  I remember it because
as a local [removed] type during the period of the show, I use to
tape bits of it off the air and incorporate it in my own show, which I
called "Weekend."

        Flair was a one-hour, Monday through Friday show during the 1959-60
or -61 period; it was feed down the ABC radio network to affiliates during
afternoons.  It consisted on short (3-4 minute) bits done by a variety of
personalities--some of the pieces were lightly humorous, some informative,
some downright unexplainable.

        Van Dyke obviously taped his short opening and then somebody patched
together bits by people like Bonnie Pruden, Milt Kamen and others.  It
really was not very good:  there was no flair there. 

        If memory serves it was later reworked to be short, stand-alone bits
called "Flair Reports," with emphasis on information; a young Ted Koppel was
one of three regular contributors to this.  

        How does all this fit into otr?  Not very neatly, except that Flair
illustrates how the traditional radio nets during the 1960s were struggling
to hold on to their affiliate clearance times which they had during previous
decades. Then, just as right now, the networks were struggling to compete
successfully with newer technologies; they painfully, earnestly were seeking
almost anything that appeared to have enough _flair_ to  hold a fickle
audience.  

                                                 Joe Oliver
W. Joseph Oliver
Department of Communication
Stephen F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches, TX  75962

   (409-468-4001)   

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Date: 23 May 96 23:02:07 EDT
From: Steve Lewis <[removed]@[removed]>
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Cc: Marcus Antonsson <marc-a@[removed]>
Subject: Re: I Love A Mystery
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Marcus Antonsson wrote asking about borrowing the ILAM serial "Stairway to the
Sun" from the SPERDVAC library.  Sorry, Marcus, but "Stairway" is one of the
"lost" ILAM serials.  SPERDVAC has the scripts available for members to borrow,
but no recordings of that particular storyline are available from any source in
circulation.  The only complete (or somewhat complete) ILAM storylines out there
are:

The Thing That Cried At Night  ("Faith, Hope, and Charity")
The Million Dollar Curse
The Battle of the Century
The Temple of Vampires
The Hermit of San Felipe Atavapo (the sequal to "Stairway to the Sun")
Bury Your Dead, Arizona

Other tantalizing episodes exists from several other storylines, but no more
than 3 or 4 from any one story.

If you like ILAM, you might want to check out I LOVE ADVENTURE, which are
complete-in-one 30-minute adventures with Jack, Doc, and Reggie.  All 13
episodes of this series exists.  

And you might also enjoy ADVENTURES BY MORSE, which is 5 10-episode and 5
3-episode serials featuring the character Captain Friday.  That whole series is
also available.

Steve Lewis 

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Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 01:00:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: "'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@[removed]>
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Cimmeron Rolls
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

> Date: 21 May 96 22:19:27 EDT
> From: "Norman G. Cox" <[removed]@[removed]>
> To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
> Subject: Radio History Essay

> Does anyone remember the Jack Benny episode with Mel Blanc where he played a
> delivery man trying to deliver some Cimmonon Rolls and everyone kept correcting
> him, telling him that they were Cinnamon Rolls only to find out at the end that
> the man who baked the rolls was named, you guessed it, Cimmonon. Spelling is
> important only if it's going to Mr. Murray, my old high school English teacher.

I have it on a record.  It was Cimmeron Roles, not Cimmonon.  The gag 
continued in later shows.  There's even an episode in which Jack Benny 
visits Mars and asks a Martian what Martians eat.  After listing various 
alien items, the Martian (Mel Blanc, of course) says, "... and cimmeron 
roles."

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                                      617/367-0468
15 Court Square                                   lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2573                    [removed]~lawyer/
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Date: 24 May 96 03:23:21 EDT
From: MICHAEL BERGER <[removed]@[removed]>
To: otr <otr@[removed]>
Subject: beer and smokes
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

Two trivia "ads" on Pabst Blue Ribbon and smoking commercials.

Pabst was the second major sponsor (after Gillette) for boxing on radio and TV,
on CBS, in the 1950s. That's where announcers like Steve Ellis and Jack Drees
got their first big time exposure.

Another beer company that was very big on sports sponsorships, both radio and
TV, in that era was Falstaff. Its commercials featuring the late comedian Eddie
Mayehoff (sp?) remain classics.

Listening to radio broadcasts of the 1950s underscores how little the public
knew about the dangers of smoking in those days. I have a 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers
game broadcast in which Roy Campanella hits a home run, and announcer Al Helfer
proudly announces that "Roy's homer means that we're sending another case of
Lucky Strikes to the Veteran's Hospital in (forgot the name of the location)."

Every inning, there were jingles or spoken commercials pushing "the best tasting
cigarette you ever smoked."

Al Helfer, if I remember correctly, died of lung cancer.

Michael Berger

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Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 03:33:38 -0400
From: ErikS74342@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Mystery in the Air 
Message-ID: <960524033336_308839195@[removed]>

In a message dated 96-05-23 20:14:59 EDT, Randy Minnehan writes:

> Erik, I guess love truely IS in the eye of the [removed] you
>mentioned that "Mask Of The Medusa" on MYSTERY IN THE AIR was really
>horrible. I must totally disagree with [removed] it was (is) one of my
>favorite episodes!

Umm, actually, when I said "The Mask of Medusa" was a really horrible show, I
meant it in a different sense. You see, Mystery in the Air was a horror show,
and -- oh, never mind.

Erik Smith
Kennewick, Wash.

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Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 01:26:00 -0700
From: Jack Mann <jmann@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed]
Subject: Transcriptions
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

My 'ol daddy told my there "Twarnt no sech thing as a dumb question," so
here goes: What are "transcriptions"? Doesn't "transcribed" just mean
"recorded"? Thanks in advance for straightening me out.

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Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 08:33:01 -0500
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed]>
To: otr@[removed], davetv5@[removed]
Subject: Re: Jack Benny Cartoon - title
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

David Van Nostrand asked:
>I know this may seem to be an odd question, but does anybody outthere know
>what the Warner Bros. cartoon is titled that stars Jack, Mary, Don &
>Rochester as mice?  

It's called "The Mouse That Jack Built".
John Henley
jhenley@[removed]
ph  (512) 495-4112
fax (512) 495-4296

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Date: Fri, 24 May 96 08:53:37 -0400
From: rickh@[removed] (RICK HARTNETT)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Ted in [removed]
Message-Id: <[removed]@[removed]>

Ted,  You are not alone being unable to get OTR in [removed]  It is the same way
in Indianapolis - the radio waste land.  Chicago, 150 miles away, directs
their signals away from us so that they don't bump into Cinncinati.  
PLAN #1 The only good solution - a dish.  Its simple.  First go to
"[removed]~roberts/scrounge" and download that file.  It will
tell you how to get a dish cheap!  Next buy one copy of Orbit, TV Sat News,
or any other sat. magizine that has the Clarke belt positioning for the
sats.  Go to either WGN or Outdoor Channel and adjust the audio to YUSA.
You'll get OTR 24 hours a day.  Now if you want to get fancy buy an FM10A
from Ramsey and connect it to your dish receiver.  Now you transmit the YUSA
signal on the FM broadcast band and can receive OTR  on any FM radio in your
house or in your yard.  
PLAN #B If you can live by your computer you can get YUSA with Real Audio,
your computer and AudioNet.  Use Yahoo or something else to find AudioNet
and follow the instructions.  I have not tried to hook an FM10A into my
computer, but it appears feasable.
Don't do Plan #1 if you don't tinker.  Its not complicated or difficult if
you tinker.  If your primary repair tools are the phone and the yellow pages
go with Plan #B.
If you have any specific questions, give me an email and I'll try to help

Rick Hartnett

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Date: 24 May 96 12:17:43 EDT
From: Alan Chapman <[removed]@[removed]>
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed]>
Subject: Black Museum/Whitehall 1212
Message-ID: <[removed]@[removed]>

>Randy Minnehan noted that
>Vincent Terrace's RADIO'S GOLDEN YEARS says
>THE BLACK MUSEUM was originally titled WHITEHALL 1212 which aired in 1951

Here's some clarification:  
THE BLACK MUSEUM was not simply a renaming of  WHITEHALL 1212.  Both shows were
produced by Harry Alan Towers in London and both dealt with Scotland Yard cases,
however they were separate productions.   WHITEHALL 1212 was wrapped up in favor
of  THE BLACK MUSEUM, with Welles, which had much more market potential,
particularly in the [removed] 

Side note:  Anything you read in Vincent Terrace's book is suspect.  FACT:  His
books (radio and TV) are poorly researched and rife with omissions and errors.

OPINION:  I remain amazed that Terrace continues to find publishers for his
shoddy work.

NEW SUBJECT:  Cigarette commercials

The other day I was listening to a 1953 Martin Kane, Private Detective program
sponsored by SANO,  a nicotine-free cigarette which never really caught on.  In
the commercial, a woman asks if it's really possible to remove nicotine from
tobacco; the announcer says "certainly" and then goes on to explain SANO's
washing process which removes 99% of nicotine from the tobacco and explains the
health benefits to removing the nicotine.

Seems the Philip Morris (et al) executives, who have been testifying before
Congress that they didn't know how to remove nicotine back then, just didn't
listen to the radio enough.  

Alan Chapman

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